Despite the episode title, there's no kung fu to be had this week. But there is a skydiver whose parachute didn't open, which I think is exciting enough to make up for it. The only thing is, he turns out to have no injuries, and the only surgery he needs is an appendectomy. As luck would have it, he had on a helmet cam that filmed the whole accident, so the residents gather to watch and realize that he's in love with his skydiving instructor. Meredith feels a particular kinship with him due to her own near-death experience and warns him that the feelings of clarity will leave, and so he'd better tell her that he loves her while he still has the guts. She herself finally realizes that she can't bring herself to stop having breakup sex with Derek because the few moments afterward is her own little bit of clarity, but who knows if this will actually carry over into her moving forward to a more functional relationship with him.

Cristina's been awesome trying to help her out while she tries to figure out why she's an emotional mess, but even she doesn't have the answers for Mere. She does, however, have a solution to a problem facing Hahn and Izzie, namely that their patient needs heart surgery and is allergic to anesthesia. She researches a method that can be used to do the surgery on him while he's awake, but despite the fact that Hahn thinks it's a great idea and uses it, she still has Izzie scrub in instead of Cristina. This leaves Cristina to watch the surgery from the gallery, miming the procedure as she watches.

Izzie is rather freaked out about the whole thing, especially since she's gotten to know the patient and knows how terrified he is. With some encouraging words from George to be herself (as opposed to trying to be Cristina), she ends up making the surgery as comfortable as possible for the patient, and then calms him down and talks him through the procedure when he starts to freak out. The bonus to all this is that she's too tired that night to have the perfect (barf) awesome (retch) sex that she and George had planned.

George himself had an interesting day in which he had to hold on to a wedding dress for hours. Two women were brought in having beaten the crap out of each other to win a dream wedding, and the last one holding the dress wins. Mark, who out of loyalty to Callie wants to give George a hard time, offers George to be the stand-in so that one bride can go have her shoulder put back in its socket. While George is there he ends up bonding with the other bride, who ends up collapsing from internal injuries. She turns out to be sweet and awesome, and George had to let go first to catch her when she passed out, so she wins the wedding over the heinous, bitchy girl. After watching this gross display, Callie decides it's time to just let go, and she and George have a nice moment where they actually talk like the people they were months and months ago before their Wedding of Doom. The mostly warm and fuzzy day comes to a close with Richard, Mark, Derek, and Hahn bonding over a game of Monopoly out at the trailers (Richard has pulled up his own next to Derek's for the time being), and finally with Alex and Lexie having some supposedly-no-strings-attached sex back at the house. Unfortunately, Meredith walks out of her bedroom to both her and Lexie's horror, setting up all sorts of sisterly angst for the next week.