After last week's successful surgery, Webber is feeling his oats, and when Hunt gets a patient with a presumably inoperable tumor, he asks for a chance to see if he could figure out how to operate. Hunt hands over the chart but Cristina, master game player, realizes what Webber is playing at and warns Hunt that he's trying to steal some possible glory. The two fight over the case until Derek decides they should both present their solution to him, and he will choose who gets to do the surgery. Cristina joins Webber's team to act as a spy for Hunt but Webber knows just what she is doing, and bribes her to come back to his team. Unfortunately for them, Derek winds up awarding the surgery to Hunt, but once in said surgery Hunt gets stuck and calls for Richard to help him out. Together, they manage to beat the odds and save their patient's life. Honestly, they should just stop calling them "inoperable" now with the sheer number of inoperable tumors that we have seen successfully removed on this show. It's less of a surprise now when they succeed.
Mark, meanwhile, is less consumed with work and more consumed with how much he wants to keep banging drug reps and nurses. He whines to Callie about it, who advises him to try actually going on a date with someone with whom he might eventually want to settle down. When Teddy asks him to consult on a case Callie has the bright idea that she could be the perfect woman and pushes him to go for it. Arizona, though, has told Teddy that Mark might be the perfect palate cleanser -- a bit of fun to get her mind off Hunt, no more, no less. Mark asks Teddy to dinner but she only wants a drink in anticipation of what might come next, and each winds up kind of freaked out that the other isn't expecting what they assumed. He still helps her out on her case, though, and finally invites her to lunch to get to know her, and she accepts. Alex witnesses this and reports back to Lexie, who finally loses her "it's all fun and games and no feelings" cool and breaks completely down at the thought of Mark actually moving on.
Bailey also seeks Callie's advice as her date #3 with Dr. Warren is coming up, and he's going to make her dinner at his place. Callie tells her this means he thinks it is a sex date, and Bailey gets overwhelmed when Callie advises her on hair removal and condoms. She's so freaked out that when she finally is on the date, she launches into a lecture about what he might expect. Because he is hot and amazing and awesome, however, he tells her that this can be a conversation rather than a lecture. Once they actually talk, she learns that he's not expecting sex just yet, and he learns that she has only ever slept with her ex-husband and so when it does come, it will be a big step. Once that is on the table, they do some incredibly hot making out and I find myself wishing I had a sexy anesthesiologist to cook me dinner.
Callie, who has spent the day holed up in a lab doing testing when not doling out advice, is pretty proud of her Dear Abby skillz and is bragging to Arizona about it that evening. She mentions her vision of them ten years in the future, with a big house and lots of kids, but Arizona tells her that she hopes she is kidding about the kids as she absolutely doesn't want her own (though she'll take the big house). Callie figures she must be kidding since Arizona is a pediatric surgeon, but Arizona is absolutely serious and Callie realizes her relationship might not be in as perfect shape as she thought. Another relationship that might not be as perfect as everyone previously thought is (quite unfortunately) Hunt and Cristina, though Cristina doesn't know that yet. After spending the day working with Hunt on the tumor, Mere sees his reaction to Mark asking out Teddy, and calls him on being jealous about it. With a big sweet grin, she warns him that Cristina is her number one and that if he does anything to hurt her now that she's finally happy, she'll kill him. I paraphrase, but you get the idea -- if this keeps up, his balls/life/general happiness and well-being could be in danger.
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What better way to kick off an episode than with a shirtless Mark doing pushups? As he pushes away, Meredith VOs, "Surgeons aren't complacent people. We don't put our feet up, we don't sit still. Whatever the game is, we like to win. And once we win, we get a new game." Mark is clearly trying to be positive as he goes through making his morning coffee, but eventually his face falls (as he seems to have trouble operating a coffee maker). Callie then walks in all optimistic that today is the day she's going to invent "cartilage in a bottle," but Mark barely notices and flops dramatically to the couch while complaining that because Callie and Derek told him to stop sleeping with nurses and drug reps, that's now all he can think about. He admits to being lonely and unhappy and not knowing what to do about it, clearly hoping that Callie is going to change her mind and say that screwing his way through the hospital staff will totally help. Instead, she tells him to find a grown woman who wants what he wants and then date her. She insists this is how grown-ups do it but he whines that he doesn't know what being a grown-up means. I was about to say, "It means not whining and dramatically flopping on the couch in a funk," but then I have to admit that I've totally done that and I know my friends have too -- sometimes a good, wallowing flop is what you need. However, once you've done that it's a good idea to try and snap yourself out of it, and Mark doesn't seem willing or able to do that yet.
Hunt meets his Patient Of The Week, a woman named Audrey who has been through every cancer treatment in the book, except for surgery, because she is convinced it won't work. Her husband Don, clearly having had this conversation before, assures Hunt that they want to hear all of the options. Richard is walking by and overhears as Audrey reminds everyone that she has a tumor the size of a football wrapped around her organs, and that trying to cut it out will kill her.
Mere continues, "We push ourselves. Residents, attendings -- it doesn't matter how much we achieve. If you're a climber, there's always another mountain." Hunt comes out of the room to find Cristina working at a desk there and Richard looking at the scans. He remarks totally casually about the tumor, and Cristina's ears perk up while an oblivious Hunt says they probably won't be operating. With wide-eyed innocence, Richard asks if he could take a stab at it, adding that he probably won't be doing this for many more years and so he might not have many more chances to look at football-sized tumors. Hunt hands her right over but Cristina starts whispering and shaking her head at him; Richard notices and pointedly asks if she has work to do. Hunt hands over the chart, and Cristina drops her head in her hands, dismayed. Once Richard has walked away she explains to Hunt that this is a huge case and that Richard just totally played him to steal it for himself. Hunt realizes this is true and goes tearing after a smiling, satisfied Richard.
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