Intervening events (the Winter Olympics (or rather, my roommate’s obsession with the Winter Olympics), schoolwork, and my own upcoming trip to Amsterdam (to visit Josh, who I am supposed to be filling in for)) are delaying the extensive recap, for which I sincerely apologize. A thorough recap is coming soon! Cross my heart, and hope not to turn into “pink mist” [see last week's episode [#]]. After the jump a quick and dirty–very quick and dirty–recap of this week’s episode, The End of the World As We Know It (Part II).

Following a quick recap of what happened last episode (though our readers certainly don’t need that!) we find Meredith with Christina (aka the annoying twins) and Burke, and the bomb squad guy. Meredith repeats her monologue from last week, but it has a whole different meaning now. Burke tells Christina to get out–he can’t concentrate with her in the room. She tells him not to be a hero.

[Really, I wish I could remember more/better]
Basically:
Izzy and Alex take yet another trip to the linen closet because she’s freaking out. She was jealous of Meredith with the cool surgery. She and Alex . . . uh . . . this is a family website so, you know, have to get dressed again. Alex seems kind of sweet, maybe? Performance issues definitely cured now that he’s passed his boards. Later, they help the Chief through what appeared to be a heart attack but was actually an anxiety attack.

Bailey wants to go home and give birth tomorrow, but her contractions are 45 seconds apart. Addy doesn’t know what to do and yells at George when he wants to do something, anything. In the end, he tells Bailey to suck it up, then helps with the birth. In the best line of the show, she tells George to stop looking at her “va-jay-jay.” She gives birth to a healthy boy, middle name, “George.”

Meredith, her finger on the bomb, freaks out, but eventually gets it together to move, with the finger on the bomb inside Patient Explodes-alot, down the hall. The OR they were in is right over the main oxygen line for the hospital, and if they blow up there, the entire place could go–not to mention Dr. NeuroDreamy next door, operating on Bailey’s husband. Christina finds Meredith mid-move, and tells her that Burke said “I love you” the night before when he thought she was sleeping. She seems upset that he might die, a real leap forward for their relationship.

Christina rushes into Dr. NeuroDreamy’s OR, needing to do something while her boyfriend and her best friend are possibly exploding in an OR far away. She finally does tell him that Meredith is “the girl with the bomb” and at that moment Bailey’s husband flatlines. Never fear, however–NeuroDreamy brings him back with a big punch to the chest. Good to know about that trick! In the end he’s okay, talking and holding his new son (see above).

Meredith does manage to extract the bomb (keeping it level) and hands it off to the bomb squad guy, who, with rubber gloves, takes it out of the OR so that Burke can save the unfortunate victim/idiot from bleeding out. Meredith stands stunned for a moment, then goes into the hallway, just in time to see two bomb squad men blow up (turn into pink mist–not as funny in action). She is hurt in the explosion, but not badly–just some cuts and a lot of dirt.

Oh, and George finds Hannah/Christina Ricci, the paramedic who ran out of the OR. He tells her it’s not her fault that she ran, and later the Chief tells Patient-Explodes-alot’s wife that she has Hannah to thank for saving her husband.

After the successful surgeries, Burke and Shephard become Preston and “Derek”. Aw. Shephard comes rushing out looking for Meredith, asking “where is she?” The Chief sees Addison and says “here she is!” She’s clearly been very worried about him. But it’s rather obvious–including to the Chief’s wife–that this is the wrong “she.”

There’s also a nice wrap up with George seeing Izzy and Christina taking care of Meredith, showering off the bomb (ew, human?) residue, although one thinks more immediate medical attention might have been good? Hard to say though–she looks totally emotionally wrecked.

In the end, Christina tells Burke that she loves him, although he may be asleep, and “Derek” comes over to see Meredith, apparently to say “you almost died today.” He says that and turns to go, but she says that she can’t remember the last time they kissed. He can–it was Thursday, it happened like this, she was wearing this particular shirt (Dartmouth, maybe?) with a whole in the back, he was late for a surgery, she kept reading the paper).
[This Meredith/"Derek" storyline is getting too infuriating--I realize this is a television drama and we can't have people being happy all the time--it would get pretty boring. But if "Derek" really loves Meredith this much, and not his wife, well, one would think he's start thinking about a separation. I'm all for commiting to your marriage, but god--this is just torture. And by "torture," I mean fictional characters that are becoming annoying.]

Next episode: Some guy shows up who seems to both ask out Meredith (or maybe just ask if she ever dates her coworkers?) and be in love with Addy. Is this “Derek”‘s former best friend, or someone else?

Okay, really, I promise a real recap is coming soon. I’d like to point out, however, that in the time it took me to type this, I watched an American speed skater win the gold, a Russian skating couple who have recovered from a terrible injury win the gold, and a Chinese skating couple suffer a terrible (and very painful looking) fall and then win the silver. Talk about drama.

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