Cristina is stalking around the halls of Seattle Grace like a zombie, following one particular nurse, played by geek-boy dreamgirl Summer Glau. Meredith runs up to her all buzzing with the knowledge she's been gleaning from Callie's Super-Method tutoring sessions. Cristina pays her the minimum attention possible while keeping her eyes trained on Summer.

Elsewhere, a waaaaay too happy Lexie runs up to Alex and informs him she's on Peds duty today. She must still be buzzing from having saved Rayanne Graff's life last week on Private Practice. She's also jazzed to be off of Derek's rotation, since working the brain-surgery beat has her dealing with a lot of dead patients. Alex is all, "Yeah, well, not so fast," as they'll be dealing with the preemie ward today, meaning babies with low birth weights and slim chances for survival. Like the 14 oz. baby that Intern Morgan gave birth to last week. She's wheeled in by her boyfriend, who looks cute and disheveled and, of the two of them, decidedly pessimistic about their baby's chances for survival. Lexie introduces herself to the boyfriend, Chris, and makes note that they haven't picked out a name for the kid yet. Chris says they should maybe wait until they're out of the woods. The kid's weight is up to 14.3 ounces today, but as Chris plugs those numbers into some program that predicts the chances of preemie survival, it's still only at a 13% survival rate. Arizona shows up and says the weight gain means they're "headed in right direction" BUT there's also a problem with the baby's bowels, so they're going to have to operate. It's a surgery with a 50% mortality rate, Chris frets, but as Alex reminds them, this one's a no-brainer. They don't operate and the kid dies. So it is.

Derek arrives at the Seattle Grace daycare facility and runs into Dr. Bailey. They do some small talk about surgeries, but Bailey finds herself distracted by the sight of little Zola in Derek's arms. The plinky/goofy Grey's comedy music means this isn't something dire, but something is definitely amiss. After Bailey makes a hasty retreat, another woman, blonde and fake-tanned, passes by Derek and Zola and shoots him A Look. Derek is troubled.

Dr. Altman is making a presentation to the Seattle Grace Hospital Board (because I guess Mitch Pileggi had a day off and could use a paycheck). She's got this proposal for a project where she uses stem cells to grow a heart. Too bad she doesn't have her shit together and can't find the right slides on her presentation. Oh, Teddy. Girl, call up Jennifer Garner and Keri Russell and have them tell you it shouldn't be taking you this long to get over Scott Foley, okay? Finally, Pileggi gets impatient and is like, "We have your proposal in writing, we will look it over." Altman reminds them that the procedure could save tens of thousands of lives, and to consider it carefully, but from the "bitch crazy" eyes Pileggi is shooting at her, she knows she kinda blew it.

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