Richard compliments Hunt on his speech but since Hunt's panties are permanently wadded up these days, his response is to ask Richard if he wants anything. Hunt is about to meet with the hospital's attorneys and Richard wants to make sure he's ready; Hunt seems almost insulted at the idea he might not be. He tells Richard that he's just going to tell them what happened, as if he's about to go have coffee with a friend to hash out a simple misunderstanding. Richard just lightly warns Owen that the hospital is a business and in a situation like this, Owen should be careful that they don't back him into a corner. Owen is confident that he'll be fine and pulls so much attitude that Richard immediately backs off and agrees, telling Owen to just ignore him. He was only Chief for years and might have valuable insight into this type of situation, after all.
Owen walks in to the meeting and there are three attorneys, the apparently leader being a relatively young, smarmy guy. There's also a woman and then another man who never says a word. As they get started, another woman walks into the room and takes a seat against the wall to observe. Her eventual introduction is a little weird since Owen gestures to her a lot throughout his interview so I'll introduce her now as Roberta Thompson, the newest hospital Board member. The first thing they do is hand Owen a confidentiality agreement to sign which he does with only the quickest of glances. The conference room is like a really unfun Vegas: what happens there, stays there. They make a point of reminding him that this means he can't discuss things with Cristina and he tersely tells them that it's fine. They then ask why the docs were on the plane in the first place and he says that Boise requested their help since the Seattle docs had performed a similar conjoined twin separation surgery a few months earlier.
Bailey and the gang are in Graham's room and go over his issues which include end-stage lung disease and valvular heart disease. Graham is so positive and charming that I can only watch his scenes with a feeling of dread about his chances. Due to medical hoo-ha he has to have the liver transplant and the heart surgery at the same time as he would not have made it through each of them individually with how they are related. As they talk, Hank very sweetly fusses around Graham and puts a knit blanket on his bed so we know that they are in luuuurve. Cristina is pleasantly surprised to find that Stephanie seems smart, and Bailey is pleasantly surprised to see Cristina's pleasure. Graham has been here before and Hank wants reassurance that this time he will really get the liver and the doctors tell him that this should be it.













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