This week, on another thrilling episode of Grey’s Anatomy, we find out what happened to all of those patients from last week [mb]. The fate of the five little quintfants and Old Yeller are revealed, and for good measure we pick up two brand new cases. George gets a new age hiker who needs an old timey cure and Sandra Oh delves into the finer points of compassion for the incarcerated. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s all of the fallout from Alex’s infidelity and more of that unrequited (and otherwise) puppy love that we’ve come to expect. After the jump, the long format recap is yours for the reading!

It’s another week of Grey’s Anatomy [abc] and as usual, the voiceover tells us everything that we need to know. This time, the characters will work extra hard to pound it through our thick little skulls, so pay attention: Forty years ago, the beatles asked the world a simple question. They wanted to know where all the lonely people came from. My latest theory is that a great many of the lonely people come from hospitals. More precisely, the surgical wing of hospitals.”

After the now-required shot of a Washington State Ferry pulling into pretty Seattle by night, we get right back to the hospital to see what’s up with the quintuplets from last week. Five babies, five interns, you know the drill. Of course, they’re competitive. Each thinks that his or her quintuplet is the pick of the litter.

The wounds of seeing Alex making sweet love to SyphiliNurse are still fresh for Isabel. He comes in to check on his quint, and tries to talk to Isabel. She snaps at him (about his being too busy screwing nurses to talk), chasing him out of the incubatorium. As he leaves, she claims to be glad never to have slept with him even though she’s mind-blowingly good in bed. Although they tell her that she dodged a bullet (by way of a horny lonely nurse), and that sleeping with a snake is a recipe for getting bit, none of her friends are particularly sympathetic. This only compounds Dr. Model’s already high levels of anger. Bailey breaks up the quintfant love and sends everyone but Isabel (who’s on call) home to get some sleep.

The voiceover continues, as the interns toss and turn to get a little sleep: “As surgeons we ignore our own needs so we can meet our patients’ needs. We ignore our friends, and families so we can save other people’s friends and families. Which means, at the end of the day all we really have is ourselves. And nothing in this world can make you feel more alone than that.” [[ self-delusional much, Meredith? ]]

Cut to the interns all doing their best to sleep. When morning shines it’s harsh light on Seattle, we find Sandra Oh at Chief Wannabe #2’s apartment, apparently getting less freakishly clean with her recent cohabitation. She scrambles to get dressed so that she can make it to the hospital early. Her desire for good cases on rounds is so strong that she’s willing to skip the lovely breakfast that her boyfriend cooked for her. She does consent to taking the cup of coffee that he brewed, but instead of sitting down to drink with him, she tosses it into a stainless steel travel mug and hist the road.

At the hospital again, George starts to ask Meredith to hang out at Joe’s, but their conversation is broken up by Patrick McDempsey and AddiSatan arguing about life in the trailer park. For what it’s worth, today’s caffeine sponsor appears to be the beloved red cups of Starbucks. She’s angry about leaving a Central Park brownstone for the silver camper of love. He doesn’t want to give up life on twenty acres in the most beautiful part of Seattle. Local viewers scratch their heads trying to think about the hilarity of the 20 most beautiful acres “in Seattle” not being developed, not being already claimed as park land, and requiring frequent ferry trips to get to and from this magical country to the hospital. But we digress. George and Meredith find their way to the locker room, where Sandra Oh is eating junk food. There’s a bit of banter between Oh and Grey about how they might be better off without men (her gripe: Burke’s breakfast harassment) and how they’d be better off with dogs. George reminds them that a dog is not a replacement for a human being. Ah, the awkward non-sequitur foreshadowing. The scene ends with Sandra Oh happily kicking Isabel out of her morning nap. Unsurprisingly, the awakening is not a happy one. True to form, Oh prefers the pissed off version of Isabel because it makes her seem more like a “normal person”. I guess normal is a matter of perspective, isn’t it?

Case numero uno is George’s. He tells us all about the patient and explains all of the freakish discolorations: they’re the result of multiple skin melanomas followed by reconstructive surgery. Although the spots are spots are purple, in honor of the prominent nose splotch and the impending xmas season we’ll call him Rudolph. The optimal treatment for all of these all of this purplish discolorations (which also include his index finger and ear) resulting from slow capillary flow? A little biotherapeutic better known as leeches! It was only a matter of time before this one surfaced. The patient isn’t freaked out by the prospect of having nature’s finest bloodsuckers attached to his face. To the contrary, he’s a 40 year hiker who has yet to find a part of Mother Nature not to love. In fact, all of the great outdoors is what caused the melanomas. This, coupled with the impending leechery, is one of the finer endorsements for staying far far away from nature at all times.

The second case, is a follow-up from last episode. Dempsey is behind the curtain, examining him, but things don’t look good. Meredith reminds us about Old Yeller, how he came in with the angry delusional dizzies, turned out to have a cyst in his brain, and oh yeah Alex messed up an order and dehydrated his brain, causing him to fall into a hopeless coma. Alex is obviously embarrassed and feeling guilty about his mistake. He begs to be put back on the case, and Dempsey angrily grants his wish even though there’s nothing left to do.

Back at Quint City ground zero, the interns meet up with Addison to tell Quintseminator and the increasingly post-partum depressed mother about the status of their five tiny premature girls. After Bailey reminds Sandra Oh to stop speaking in surgeon talk, she reports that they were only able to stuff some of the organs back into the baby’s abdomen, but that things look good for another surgery in a couple days. George says that the brain shunted baby is doing well. Isabel tells her that they’re on track for a surgery to reconstruct the baby’s heart. Meredith says that they have a special mask on her quint to help the underdeveloped lungs with breathing. Alex is the only one with fairly decent news. His charge is completely healthy and is doing well. The Quintcubator mom takes this all in, and dejectedly wheels herself back to her room.

Climbing the stairs, Bailey tells Meredith to keep an eye on the mother to make sure hormones don’t get the best of her. Isabel wants MomWatch duty, but the Nazi won’t budge because she has the upcoming heart surgery to worry about. Putting Isabel in her place, Bailey shares a bit of her worldview: “These are premies people — they were supposed to spend another eight weeks in the womn. Just like interns, they’re not ready for the real world.”

With the line of the week out of the way, Bailey gets paged to “the Pit” and takes Sandra Oh along for the ride. Yes, Virginia, there’s going to be another case to keep up with on this episode. An ambulance arrives to deposit a maniacally-laughing woman at the hospital gates. The patient swallowed some razors, not in an attempt to kill herself, but as a means of making a prison break. She’d been in solitary confinement at the local prison for a triple murder.

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We start back up with Jailbreak. Bailey hopes that she at least taped up the razors before swallowing them. The patient is very demanding — this is her vacation, after all — and orders some tasty hospital pudding to help move things along. Despite her objections, Sandra Oh gets assigned to crazywatch and is asked to get a portable x-ray to assess the razorblade suitcase that is Jailbreak’s stomach. This is partially an excuse for Bailey to get more one-on-one time with one of the quintuplets.

Back with Rudolph the (soon-to-be) Leech Nosed patient, George catches up with SyphiliNurse. Like clockwork, the people with the most awkwardness get paired on this show. The nurse can’t get the leeches to bite, claiming squeamishness. George turns the lights down low to set the mood for bloodsucking, successfully applies the leech to Rudy’s nose, and takes the opportunity to liken her Alex sexcapades to an endorsement of leeches.

In the Elevator of Doom, SyphiliNurse boards a car with only Isabel aboard. Rather than keeping her mouth shut to let the uncomfortable situation simmer for three floors, Syphie monologues about how she didn’t know that Isabel and Alex were a couple. She was having a bad day, and it felt good to have some sweet loving from Alex, who, by the way is both a good person and incredibly good in bed, which she’s sure that Isabel knows. [[Ouch]]. Isabel just keeps her mouth shut and her face glowering until it’s time to get off and leave chatty cathy behind.

In the Quint Den, Patrick Dempsey enters and Meredith gazes fondly at her quint. George pauses outside to listen in on their conversation about Meredith’s concerns regarding Dempsey’s potential trailer abandonment. Despsey worries that Addison is telling people that the trailer is a thing of the past. Meredith never would have pegged him as the sort of guy who would leave behind the shiny trailer life for one of marble bathtubs, private pools, and gated communities. He further refute her accusation of shedding his street, er abandoned lot, cred by saying that she can’t peg him — he’s not peggable. Once again, the writers did their homework with a Savage Love shout out [thestranger]. Before we can think about the double entendre, the machines on the weak-lunged baby start making the danger sounds. George, Meredith, and Dempsey spring into action to decollapse the infant’s lung. Things are fixed up in short order. With the crisis averted, Dempsey reasserts his trailer-keeping prerogative.

They explain the situation to the Quintparents, telling them that although a collapsed lung sounds scary, it’s fairly common and now there’s a nice little tube in there to help her breathe. QuintDad gets a phone call summoning him home to take care of his triplet sons. Who have the flu. Which makes us wonder about whether it might be better for him not to act as a vector to drag influenza virus between his home and his fragile quintuplets. Who knows, maybe he was vaccinated. In any case, he’s out leaving Meredith to keep an eye on his wife. Grey tells QuintMom that she’s not at fault for her daughters’ problems. Quintcubator disagrees, since she now has one baby who can’t breathe, another with half a heart. If she’d listened to the doctors and her agreeable husband maybe she’d have three healthy babies instead of four who might not survive the day. She cant think of anyone else to blame.

Prepping for surgery, Chief Wannabe #2 quizzes isabel about the impending procedure and compliments her for knowing her stuff. Although he is impressed by her knowledge, he promises that no amount of homework will have prepared her for seeing a heart this small. Conveniently, Alex is standing outside the scrub room window, setting up a nice little sight gag as Isabel bets that she has.

Back in the QuintDen, we find Bailey completely shedding her Nazi cred by baby-talking to one of the quints about her own gestating little baby boy. Sandra Oh uncomfortably clears her throat at all of this gooiness. Bailey snaps back into form by saying that pregnancy hasn’t softened her because she doesn’t go soft. The interruption was more than just a reason to stop the weirdness, Sandra Oh came bearing an x-ray. The image shows that Jailbreak actually swallowed four razor blades. The hospital is full of overachievers, it seems.

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Speaking of Jailbreak, we get back from the commercials to find her stomping her feet, tugging at her handcuffs, and harassing the nearest nurse. For her, the hospital is a spa getaway and she wants some goddamn ice cream. Mint chocolate, not Rocky Road. Triple murder be damned, we’re completely on her side on this point. , the nurse informs her that she’s on a no food order. Calling the Nazi “Mama Bear” doesn’t help her case either. Despite the patient’s starved claims of an Eighth Amendment [house] violation, the doctors tell her that hunger pangs are necessary since she’s about to go into major surgery. For some reason, Jailbreak didn’t realize that swallowing four razors was a one-way ticket into the O.R. She’s extra disappointed that the recovery period will be short, but still has high hopes for post-operative ice cream.

In the QuintDen, Meredith brings Quintcubator back to visit with the kids. It’s meant to be an antidote to all of the medical talk and worst-case scenarios, but Mom isn’t very receptive. She doesn’t see the point, and feels like it’s time to face reality. But Grey is awfully chipper, and encourages her to touch her healthiest daughter. The plan for cheering up the patient sort of backfires when one of the quints stops breathing. Meredith pages Addison . . .

. . . who’s in the O.R. with Chief Wannabe #2 and Isabel operating on broken hearted quintfant. Addison disappointedly says that they didn’t see “this” on the echo, and Burke explains that it’s hard to get an exact measurement, but that the aorta is too narrow for the operation. Isabel is still in the dark, as the other doctors decide to close up without doing the surgery. There’s nothing left to do but a first-stage Norwood; so Isabel claims to be fine and leaves.

Addison also exits the O.R. to lend a hand in the QuintDen. Charlotte, the collapsed lung baby, still isn’t breathing on her own. As they eventually get her fixed up, but Addison warns Grey against irrational exuberance. With RDS cases, just when you think things are getting better, they slip right back. It’s only after the baby is breathing normally again that Meredith notices that the Quintcubator has fled the scene, leaving an empty wheelchair behind.

In the O.R., Bailey and Sandra Oh are working on removing the razorblades from Jailbreak’s guts. Oh can’t understand who would do such an unbelievable thing. How quickly they forget the even more bizarre case of the guy who swallowed all of those dollheads. Anyway, Bailey explains the facts of life. Their patient wasn’t just in jail, she was in solitary. She asks Oh to imagine not being able to talk to anyone. In a close competition with herself for Line of the Episode, she finishes: “Try having no one to make your snarky comments to for an entire month. You’d probably swallow the whole razor.” It’s only then that we, like Sandra Oh, start to understand. A month without snark is no life at all.

As we’re left to ponder the koan of whether an snarky comment that falls in the forest is really a snark at all if there’s no one around to hear it, George checks in on Rudolph and the leeches. The leeches are getting good and plump and gross, as he picks them off of the patient. Just like the Quintcubator had pre-named all of her womb-inhabiting daughters, Rudolph has named his little family of bloodsuckers (the one on his nose is called O’Malley, quite an honor, these naming rights). Now that the leeches are all fat with blood and his skin is depurpled, George says that the critters have no use left except as medical waste. But being a true nature boy, Rudy asks if he can keep them.

When George goes to the supply room to find a good home for the leeches he runs into SyphiliNurse, who’s angry about the way that he treated her during the leechification scene. George says she hurt his friend, but Syphie explains that she didn’t know that Alex was seeing Isabel. Anyway, she knows that’s not why he’s upset. George is confident that she has no idea why he’s upset, and he can’t figure our why she’d sleep with Alex (again). Her excuse: people get lonely. Hey — maybe she can hear the voiceovers, too!

Outside the Quintcubator’s room, Meredith calls the Quintseminator to see if maybe he could bring the kids around for a visit to cheer up depressed ol’ Mom. She agrees that bring flu-infected kids to the hospital might not be the brightest idea; so it looks like Mom will be visitor-less for the afternoon. Grey retires to the QuintDen, were she finds Alex furiously scribbling away at a pad of paper. She notes that he’s been laying low and he says that it’s easy since no one is talking to him. Although Meredith admits that she’s willing to talk to him in short monosyllabic sentences laced with disdain and conempt, Alex expects that according to girl rules she’s obligated to hate him. Meredith doesn’t hate him. Actually, there’s a bright side to her mother having Alzheimer’s. Without it, she’d probably be him. You see, before Mother Grey’s memory started slipping away, Meredith used to be a big time party girl, the black sheep of family gatherings who stayed out way too late to keep a job [[at least she keeps it real, with her graduation to tequila-fueled one-night-stands]]. Alex is more than a little offended to hear that this is how she thinks of him. He’s down in the dumps because he almost killed a guy and is looking for anything that might help. Grey is willing to have a mini-studybreak to cheer up Alex. But before they can hit the books to find a cure for Old Yeller, Isabel walks in looking furious that Meredith is fraternizing with the enemy. Grey chases after her, along the hallway she explains that she and Alex are sort of friends. This definitely isn’t the right answer. Isabel goes off on her, surprised at this news and angrily telling her that she can do whatever she wants including sleeping with Alex. Meredith says that obviously won’t happen. But Isabel isn’t so sure, since Meredith has slept with everyone else. Ouch. This stops Grey in her tracks, and as she stands there blinking we’re left to wonder whether she’s taking mental inventory to assess the validity of Isabel’s accusation.

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Sandra Oh finds Jailbreak to tell her that the de-razoring surgery went well. They’ll be watching for her next bowel movement (how exciting!), which is expected in the next 36 hours. Once the bowels start moving, it will be time to ship the patient back to solitary confinement, which Jailbreak finds very disappointing. She asks her to stick around and chat, since she doesn’t even have a roommate to annoy. Sandra Oh concedes to the request, but goes straight to the heart of the matter, asking her patient what’s up with the triple murder. Then it’s time for the episode’s theme to rear its ugly head. It turns out that Jailbreak was a meth addict whose boyfriend came up with a brilliant bank robbery scheme. He said that he’d ditch her if she didn’t lend a hand, and without him she would have been all alone. Sympathy not being her strong suit, Sandra Oh leaves saying that there are clearly benefits to being alone. Another lesson: people who need people are the most murderous people in the world.

Back at the Leech motel, George has been paged by SyphiliNurse. She’s having trouble with the leeches. Rudolph, a keen observer of the human condition, encourages the “lovebirds” to kiss and make up. Although George insists that they aren’t a couple, Rudy senses some sort of love connection. Syphie admits that there was something between them until George dumped her for a girl who doesn’t even know he’s alive. George says the she does know that he’s alive [obviously, he does pay rent.], but the Syph says that it’s never going to happen between him and Meredith Grey. George is shocked to learn that people have seen through his deep cover, but SyphiliNurse says that everyone who’s paying attention knows, except Meredith, which should tell him something. So there! She rushes out of the room, apologizing to Rudolph on the way. George explains that the nurse gave him Syphilis. Don’t worry George, we’ll never forget.

In the Chief’s office, Addison is hatching a plan. She asks him if he remembers “what he did” to her when she was an intern. He does (she didn’t speak to him for almost a year, but she learned). She’s thinks that she might need to do “that” to Izzie. Like AddiSatan, he thinks that Isabel is smart, hard-working, and gets too involved with her patients. Addison recalls that it took her a long time to recover from “that.” The Chief agrees, but reminds her that “it” made her a better surgeon and wonders if Isabel is talented enough for the price of “the lesson”. Addison says that she is (the best in years), but is disappointed that she and Isabel can’t just be pals. The Chief, also in on today’s theme, says that she’s not here to make friends and being a teacher can be a lonely business.

Outside, it’s getting dark, but Isabel, George, and Sandra Oh are gathered around a table on the patio. Dr. Model claims that Grey was all over Alex, but the others continue in their sympathy failure mode. Oh jokes about the humor of Alex mounting Meredith with all of the babies watching and George says that breaking the “not talking to the bastards who cheat on their girlfriends rule” is not such a big deal since she wasn’t officially Alex’s girlfriend. George non-sequiturs about how she doesn’t see him getting all emotional over people that he’s not dating. Isabel correctly guesses that no, he doesn’t want to go there. She just wants to have her angry moment, and the lack of support is really upsetting her. Sandra Oh checks to make sure that she isn’t going to have a nervous breakdown and kill herself or others. This chases angry Isabel away, and gives Oh and George a good laugh.

In the Quint Den, Meredith is whispering sweet nothings in the ear of her designated quint. Her lungs are not good, she realizes that the whole early womb eviction is tough, and is open to suggestions. IN the background, we (and Grey) see Addison breaking some bad news to QuintMom, who crumples in sadness. Outside, sharper viewers probably guess “the lesson” as Addision finds Isabel. She assigns her to another sleepless night on call saying that she’s optimistic about a second chance for the heart surgery if they can keep the baby alive for another ten hours. Telling her that she’s already told the mother, Addison puts the infant in Isabel’s care and that she’d better be alive in the morning. After the next scene, the music video segment of this episode begins with Isabel and a different nurse starting their long impossible task of keeping the baby alive through the night. Meredith stops by to apologize, but Isabel won’t hear it. She’s always been there for her friends, but the one time she needed them they weren’t there.

Alex catches Patrick Dempsey on his way out of the hospital with a hare-brained scheme to save Old Yeller. Dempsey, however, isn’t optimistic. He’s also teaching a lesson. But the lesson is that the patient’s brain is fried, and Alex needs to deal with having killed him.

Elsewhere, Jailbreak is having a really gross seizure. Sandra Oh in son the case, and picks out some lightbulb shards from her mouth. It’s really gross; so it’s a relief when the scene cuts away for commercials.

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When we get back, Jailbreak is still seizing and Sandra Oh is working on getting her an airway. They have a little face-to-face moment where the crossed-out “L-O-V-E” knuckle tattoos seems to have a sympathetic effect on usually stone-cold Sandra Oh. She can’t intubate, and is about to do an emergency crike when Chief Wannabe #2 arrives to save the day, wheeling Jailbreak off to another surgery.

In the QuintDen, Isabel’s twin isn’t doing well, but she’s still worriedly doing her best to keep the baby alive.

Down the hall, Meredith finds the Quintcubator packing her bags. She is going home because she can’t stay to watch them die. Meredith says that they’re trying to live. She has three sons at home who need her, and the girls are too sick. Meredith says that it would [will?] be horrible when the baby dies, but it will be even worse if she dies alone, without her QuintMom there. She still doesn’t see the point, she can’t even hold the babies. But Grey tells her that she sit and talk to them to let them know that they aren’t alone in this world. That’s all they need. That’s all anyone needs. And it’s epiphany time. Meredith and Quintcubator are off to the Quint Den, Meredith wondering why she didn’t think of “this” sooner. If only she’d listened to her own voiceover! Anyway, Grey’s bright idea is to put two of the babies together. She explains that it’s called cobedding and sometimes babies get stressed in the ICU and that this way there’s someone to be there with them.

In the house of saved leeches, George notes that the patients onetime purple blotches are doing well. Rudolph likes his new nose. George assumes that his wife will like it too, but isn’t so sure about how she’ll respond to the leeches as housepets. Rudy reveals that he isn’t going to keep the leeches, he’s just going to set them free (swim leechy, swim!) on his favorite hiking trail. He also tells George that he doesn’t have a wife, he just hasn’t been able to part with the wedding ring since his divorce. George also apologizes for the scene with SyphiliNurse. Rudolph is the sort to get personal with everything; so it’s time for a heart-to-heart with his doctor. He puts a hand on George’s shoulder and asks him if the things that she said about Meredith are true. George says that he doesn’t think it’s any of Rudolph’s business if he actually does like Meredith. But after a short pause, Nature Man’s touchy-feely powers take hold and Geroge admits that Meredith is O.K.. That he likes her O.K.. Like the leeches, Rudolph’s touch has the power to draw out the true feelings, and George finally admits that he does love her. Telling George not to be embarrassed about his declaration of unrequited love, Rudolph admits that he loves his wife, but that sometimes they just don’t love you back. Get this guy on the psychic friends network as he continues to say that living with a woman who can’t love you back is way lonelier than being alone. All of the characters are really on the same page this episode, aren’t they?

In the QuintDen, Isabel continues her Sisyphusean task, trying to keep the hopeless baby alive. The nurse tells Isabel that all of her plans to keep her alive have bad consequences, yet refuses to call Addison. This is really a sick little game / “lesson”.

We cut to the rising sun, and then to Meredith and Dempsey in front of the big windows. She says that she can’t believe he’d consider leaving his trailer, especially with it’s’ lovely view. As they stare off toward the California hills, he says something about the mist rising off the lake in the morning. This further adds to the mystery of where this trailer is meant to be located. If anyone wants to piece together the clues with a google map, that would be swell. When he says that he’s not moving, she asks if he’s still him. He confirms his identity, as George spends yet another scene looking at the two of them from across the room.

We pan over to a sleeping Isabel. She wakes up in a panic to see the empty incubator in front of her. She asks what happened to the baby and why they didn’t wake her. The nurse says that they took her away. Addison told them to let her sleep and. by the way, the baby died a half hour ago. We cut to commercial before we can ponder the believability of Isabel sleeping through all of the scary monitor sounds.

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Another pretty pink sunrise over Seattle takes us back to the hospital where Isabel observes Addison observing the Quintcubator cradling her dead baby. Addison steps out of the room to give the grieving parents some time alone and tells Isabel that it wasn’t her fault. After opening her chest and seeing the tiny aorta they knew that she didn’t have a chance. Isabel is confused and angry, saying that she stayed up all night working her ass off. Addison responds with the ancient surgical lesson, “you have to learn distance” promising that she’ll be a better doctor for it.

For a bit of happier news and less mindfuckery, we return to the QuintDen where Bailey compliments Meredith’s handiwork. She heard that Grey worked a miracle last night with the co-bedding. Meredith agrees, saying that the improvements were so dramatic that she suspected monitor mailfuncitons. Bailey congratulates her again with a “way to go” (which Meredith revels in), telling her that she can go home now.

In the locker room, Grey, Oh, and O’Malley surround the dejected looking Isabel, who tells them that her baby died. They seem generally nicer about this than the Alex thing, and Meredith takes Isabel by the hand with her second big idea of the episode.

Alex, however, is still watching comatose Old Yeller. Patrick Dempsey arrives and joins the staredown before telling Alex that he still remembers the first person that he killed back when he was a second-year resident. He encourages Alex to go home since there’s nothing left to be done. But Alex refuses, saying that nobody should die alone. I guess he missed Grandma Death’s line in Donnie Darko about every living creature on Earth dying alone . . .

In that spirit, it’s time for the closing voiceover to remind us what we’ve learned this week. That is, aside from the dangers of nature. “Four hundred years ago, another well known English guy had an opinion about being alone. John Dunne. He thought we were never alone. Of course, it was fancier when he said it.”
(Sandra Oh visits Jailbreak, who’s waking up for surgery number two. She says that her windpipe is repaired and that she should be fine. Although she refuses to take her patient’s hand, there’s a bit of sympathy even in old Oh. Seeing the cops at the door, she extends the recover period / time off from prison from 10 days to 2 weeks. What a softie! Jailbreak smiles.)
“No man is an island entire onto himself”

(Meredith and Izzie pace in front of a fence and pick out an offscreen puppy; Addison sits down next to Dempsey, overlooking an empty O.R. to tell him that she’s lonely)
“Boil down that island talk and he just meant that all anyone needs is someone to step in.”
(Sandra Oh returns to Chief Wannabe #2’s apartment. He’s eating dinner and doing paperwork. She sits down, and surprises him by taking a bite of some of the food at the table.)

“. . .and let us know we’re not alone. ”

(Cut back to the Grey House, where Isabel and Meredith are playing Keep Away with a very enthusiastic dog. They toss the toy to George and the dog chases him out of the room.)

“And who’s to say that someone can’t have four legs. Someone to play with or run around with.”
(The co-bedded quints sleep peacefully.)
“. . . or just hang out.”

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