Mark's man-whore ways have finally bitten him in the ass, as the nurses all refuse to work with him. They've called in a union rep and someone from human resources to talk about what's going on before someone actually sues for sexual harassment, and the rep is none other than Adele! Oh, how I missed her. She's all awesome and employed and sassy and her life seems to have changed for the better. The Chief tries to prove that he's changed as well, though we all know he hasn't really. Due to the Mark/nurses shenanigans, the hospital institutes a "date-and-tell" policy so that everyone has to fill out a form and report all of the other hospital employees that they have slept with. To show that he can delegate, the Chief tells George he wants him to be his "Chief Intern," which involves going around and making sure that everyone has filled out their forms. Rose realizes she doesn't have to fill one out, since she hasn't slept with Derek, Alex actually forgets -- to her face -- that he slept with Lexie, and Cristina just avoids doing it. She's had a rough day when an article is posted about Burke winning an extremely prestigious award. She actually volunteers to work in the morgue harvesting hearts for Hahn rather than participate in a crazy heart transplant later that day, and once there sings "Like A Virgin" to herself and ignores Lexie. Once Meredith finds out that she's singing, she realizes that things must be horrible and runs off to talk to Cristina, admitting that she's in therapy. Cristina is finally called in front of Richard, Adele, and the HR guy to fill out her form and she gives a speech about how unbearable it is to see Burke get an award and not even mention her considering she was his right hand during all of his tremors, and about how awful it is now not even have the chance to participate in procedures because of Hahn's dislike of her.
While he's doling out forms, George tells Bailey that she's the one person in the hospital who is exempt from filling one out. This pisses her off, but not so much that she can't see that Mark is having a hard time. After having lots and lots of sex with Callie he's suddenly not in the mood because a surgery of his was cancelled. He begs Rose to talk to the nurses on his behalf and she won't, so he blows up at her for withholding sex with Derek because she thinks she'll lose him if she gives it up. She then rethinks everything and requests a form from George after all. Bailey ends up smacking Mark upside the head and then gets an audience with the nurses, where she awesomely reminds them that every one of them knew what they were doing when they hooked up with Mark in the first place, and that even though he's a giant whore he's a good doctor and so they should work with him. It's the scene that saves the whole episode. She then goes and gives the Chief hell for not treating her like the single woman she's been for weeks, and he's appropriately embarrassed, in front of Adele, no less. But she seems to like what she's seen since they end up doing the horizontal tango after work.
Alex tells Izzie that he and Ava are going to move in together and then gets mightily ticked when she's not happy about it. She manages to keep her giant trap shut and not give up the fact that Ava isn't actually pregnant, though she takes a lot of abuse from Alex who thinks she just has no faith in him. He has a moment with the heart transplant patient where he has to quickly do a procedure to save her life, and he has to deal with her panicked husband and two little girls who won't leave the room. He handles it really well and maybe he might be an OK dad to his imaginary baby after all. And finally Derek and Meredith are working on their fifth trial patient, Santiago from Friday Night Lights. He's a secretly gay Iraq vet and when his dad walks in on him making out with his soldier boyfriend, he flips out. He turns the boyfriend away because he can't deal with his dad, and won't even see him before he goes into surgery. The surgery seems to go well, and Derek and Meredith have sexy intense eye contact throughout. He then offers to stay with her to monitor Santiago, but she sends him home with Rose where they actually Do It. Santiago dies, and Derek gives a big speech about how they're really going to be successful one day -- it couldn't have been more clunky and obvious. Meredith has a session with Dr. Amy afterward where Dr. Amy finally calls her on all of her crap and basically tells her the only reason she's not with Derek (who admitted to Mark that the whole time with Rose he could only think of Mere) is because she's a big old coward.
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Who's the cutest baby in the world? Tuck, that's who. Bailey's helping him "walk" down the corridor as Meredith VO's: "There's this person in my head. She is brilliant, capable, she can do chest tubes and craniotomies, she can run a code without freaking out, she's a really good surgeon. Maybe even a great surgeon. She's me. Only SO much better." Bailey picks up Tuck and goes to see what the Chief has posted up on the bulletin board -- whatever it is, he says it's great for the hospital, but then sighs and asks if Cristina's going to have a problem with it. Bailey confirms this.
Mere's still in therapy and leads off with the line we saw in a million promos: "Every time Derek walks into a room, all I can think about is his tongue. In my mouth." Dr. Amy reiterates that she thinks about kissing Derek and Mere adds, "It's making surgery very difficult." Matter-of-factly she informs Dr. Amy that she needs "therapy tools" so that she can move on, but Dr. Amy just asks if she's sure she wants to move on. She claims she does, but her motivation is another clinical trial surgery that day that needs her attention, as opposed to her wanting to be over him just to be over him. Their fifth patient is coming in and she explains that they've learned a lot from the first four, but they haven't saved anyone yet. Dr. Amy tells her that the only way to stop fantasizing about Derek is to remind herself of the reality of the situation: He's with Rose. "Powerful stuff, reality," Dr. Amy adds smarmily. Seems even Meredith's own therapist thinks it's dumb for them not to be together.
Pausing to chant, "He's with Rose, he's with Rose," to herself, Meredith makes it into the room to meet her patient, Santiago from Friday Night Lights. Okay, so his name is Darren here, but FNL is a show I hold very dear so it's hard to separate and easier to just keep up with that name. As evidenced by the presence of an army doctor, Santiago is a soldier. Santiago's father is there too. The docs explain everything to them, and Derek mentions the risk. At this, another soldier arrives at the door to say that Santiago survived two tours of Afghanistan, so he knows risk. He salutes the army doctor and Santiago's father, but Santiago seems thrown for a loop and tries to keep his composure. His friend, Todd, explains that Santiago's dad called him. (Todd, incidentally, is played by David Giuntoli who, it appears, was on Road Rules.)
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