The title of this week’s Grey’s Anatomy, “Crazy Love,” does not do the case of the week justice. Find out why in our recap!
Case of the week: A wife chops off a very sensitive part of her husband after she discovers he is cheating on her, a junior golfer suffers from a misaligned spine.
Love gives you superpowers. It literally changes the way your brain functions. For Derek, those powers include endless rounds of sex with his wife. Love can also act as your kryptonite, especially when your Chief of Surgery drops you off to a house full of your family and coworkers. Derek is off to DC to turn in his phone and his resignation. But all that assurance that he will be back before Meredith knows it casts a dark cloud over his return.
Elsewhere across Seattle, many, many, people are letting another part of their body decide their course of action. Alex may be there for Meredith, but something about his stern exterior makes him the target for another doctor’s troubles. Maggie’s radiologist did not make a move after their date and is not exactly looking to share an elevator any time soon. So what will she do? As long as it does not involve Alex, he does not care.
Amelia’s appearance in the kitchen with Owen close behind that morning sent Meredith into a bit of a Mama Bear mode. When Cristina left, Meredith promised to keep an eye on Owen. Amelia may not be the most stable person in the world and Owen is not well equipped to deal with another flight risk.
Edwards is still trying to find her groove and she believes it may be in neuro. But now that Herman’s surgery is over, Edwards is finding it hard to get back into the good graces of Amelia and on her service. Luckily, a man with a severed penis lies in agony down in the pit. As it is hard to come up with clever euphemisms to describe this guy’s penis, it is equally as hard for Edwards to keep from making everything sound dirty. Edwards acts quickly to take the appendage from a take out container to sterile repair at the hands of one Avery, while April salvages the pelvis and calls on the other Avery.
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Webber gets his wise elder on as he explains the moment general surgery chose him. Edwards may know which specialty choose her, but it is not as PG as a bowel in her hands. And in the OR, Catherine Avery adds her support saying that the urology field is looking for women.
Ben, Callie, and Amelia all consult on a case of teenage girl whose only ambition in life is to play golf. She is excellent, and she is not shy about admitting it. But her misaligned spine is making it difficult to play. She argues that if soccer or football were the sport in question, doctors would not bat an eye at working for a solution. Callie and Amelia push their heads together, but rather than coming up with a cohesive solution they end up butting heads. Owen finds his way into the room and sides with Amelia’s approach to the surgery.
Thomas Archibald, owner of an exclusive restaurant in Seattle, explains that his wife is not to be charged for assaulting him. But his sous chef thinks that Marsha Archibald should be committed. However, when she shows up after his surgery, the wife turns out to be the least of his worries. In recovery, another woman he scorned returns and rips his penis off one more time. Guy cannot catch a break.
But Edwards can! As she chases down the man’s penis for the second time in one day, Catherine Avery offers her a shot at taking her specialty to the next level in Boston under the guidance of the leader herself.
Catherine Avery is the Queen of Putting People in Their Place and we must all pay homage. As she arrives to reattach one man’s fallace, it occurs to her that another man’s manhood is also in jeopardy. She and Richard have quite a cold encounter where she reminds him that when a man’s pride is affected, he becomes a fragile, shell of a man.
While Catherine Avery is having none of it, neither is April. She called her mother in law, who is the best doctor for her patient, and regardless of Richard’s feelings, she will not let it compromise her patient. Richard does believe his problem lies with powerful women, but with the prospect of extending his future with a powerful woman. No more running from the fire, instead he runs into the Avery flames.
Amelia’s pride does not get the best of her, but she is willing to admit that she is wrong when her patient’s surgery begins to head south. Fetching Callie from the gallery, Ben walks into the battle between two other hot heads. Risking scut duty for the week, he tells them to figure it out and pick a plan of action. Instead of paralyzing the patient, they flip her over and go at it a different way. Lose the swing, but gain the ability to fight back for life.
In the end it is clear that not everyone has experienced the moment where they run into what they want. Edwards is not looking to be in the urology business, Amelia and Callie are still waiting for their new lives to begin. Amelia does know that she does not want Meredith judging her choices, nor does she want Owen compromising her professional career because he favors her outside of the OR.
That dark cloud comes back at the end of the episode when a call comes in for Derek from the White House. He never made the meeting.
Watch Grey’s Anatomy season 11, episode 20, “One Flight Down,” Thursday, April 16 at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC.
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