Grey’s Anatomy takes you down a different path of marital woe tonight, as Callie and Arizona fight their way through, season 11, episode 5, “Bend and Break.”

Tonight’s Grey’s Anatomy tells the tale of the Callie and Arizona trial separation from both sides.

How does that make you feel? In a series of failed therapy appointments, Callie and Arizona sprint through a montage of outfit changes and every issue to creep into their happiness over the past five years. Callie becoming pregnant with Mark’s baby, Arizona going to Africa, the leg (oh, the leg!), right down to speaking too much and not listening enough.

Callie feels that she is always giving, a house here, looking the other way at an affair there, so why can’t Arizona give her another child? In the end though, the reset button offers them a shot at survival. For 30 days they will share the same space, custody of Sophia, but there will be no communication with each other.

Arizona is fully committed, refusing to even look in Callie’s direction. Callie in turn, places her gaze on the bottle.

The Failures:

Arizona and Callie are not only facing their personal demons, but they are working through their case load as well.

Arizona passes off her infant with a gap in his esophagus to Alex after instructing the parents of the surgery she elects for him to perform. Alex and Jo complete the surgery and place the child in a coma, but the surgery is not smooth sailing.

Off in her new specialty training, Arizona is being upstaged by another fellow named Graham. He has been spending hours in the lab practicing and consistently kissing ass. Though acknowledged, his confidence does not waver in the face of a challenge. Unlike Arizona, Graham does not have his life crumbling beneath him. April assists Arizona with her prep by making Jell-O molds with grapes inside to replicate the fetus in utero. Practice makes perfect.

Graham continues to have large strides, but Arizona bounces back after suggesting that she not take over a procedure since she is not confident, the sign of an experienced surgeon. However, that card will not work in her favor for long.

When Callie does not come home for the night, Arizona breaks the rules and confronts Callie about her whereabouts. When it turns out that she was working and enjoying a night out with Meredith Grey, Arizona’s jealously shines through. But is it healthy for her to assume she is cheating? Probably not.

The Triumphs:

Callie has two patients that test her resolve. One 33 year old male, free from thyroid cancer, is admitted with pain in his hip that turns out to be cancerous. A total hip removal is necessary, but his replacement does not work out as planned. Meredith assists on the case and in another area of Callie’s life.

A night at Joe’s offers the humor for the night and allows Callie and Meredith to bond over the silence in their marriages. Callie’s bisexuality and Meredith’s “Person” are similar road blocks in their communication issues with their significant others. While Cristina kept Meredith on track, Callie’s bisexuality gave her the only love in her life, Sophia. But the 15 shots of tequila that came with the talking do nothing more than provide the liquid courage for Callie to kiss her estranged wife. Nothing further happens, but they did break the rules with only 10 days under their belt.

Another dinner proves to be more fruitful as Callie and Meredith split a cheeseburger and figure out a way to reconstruct her patient’s hip.

It takes another Grey to seal the deal for Callie’s final triumph of the episode. Callie’s second patient caught her arm in a grinder and the pain does not cease once the surgery is complete. Apparently, Callie’s performance in the OR was on target; it was an underlying issue she never had a reason to look for that was the solution to her patient’s problem. Derek finds nerve damage and repairs the seizures that were masking themselves as pain. Meanwhile, Callie realizes that the masked pain in her own life is disguised as trying to fix her marriage.

And on the 30th day…

There was sex and there was surgeries. In Callie’s surgeries, her patients recovered. In Arizona’s cases, Alex’s surgery proved superior to her own and she failed to step up for the second time in the fetal OR. Arizona is walking a thin line in her career, but feels confident walking back into her marriage.

Callie also walks into the meeting confident as ever. For the first time she feels alive in her life. During the break, though she lusted after Arizona, she did not lust after their marriage. She laughed, she had breakthroughs, she felt whole. Callie walks out of therapy and out of their marriage.

No new Grey’s Anatomy next week, so we’ll be back with new recaps in November!

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Watch Grey’s Anatomy season 11, episode 6, “Don’t Let’s Start,” Thursday, November 6 at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC.