Jockeying for Position on GREY'S

Last's weeks episode set each character off in a new direction. This week, they're each jockeying for their place in that new strata in which they find themselves.

While Izzy has both glowing memories and mixed emotions about the previous night's hook-up with George, George wakes with no memory of what happened at all. He knows he got rip-roarin' drunk and figures he passed out at his former house. Concerned about how worried and mad Callie would be since he did not call her before he "passed out.", he races to the hospital. Once there, he learns Callie was concerned but not angry (if only she knew), apologetic about their fight earlier and she has news. "Sober up, George. And take a shower, my father is in town and he's meeting us for lunch."

Dad, played by the wonderful Hector Elizondo, is none too pleased that his "hija" went off and got married, a rather significant event, and did not involve her family in any way. They didn't even know she was seeing someone. Dad is concerned that George is after her for her money. George, despite his pounding head, stands up to dad, telling him point blank that he had no idea she had money and that he would refuse to accept any money, home, or whatever dad planned to provide. Callie is VERY impressed that her man stood up to Dad, and Dad seems impressed as well.

In the midst of the conversation with Dad, memories of the previous night with Izzy flash back to George. He is devastated. After leaving dad and Callie with the lunch, he finds Izzy and they go into the supply closet for a chat. While it looks for a minute like they might kiss again (Izzy sure wants to!), George pushes her away. Later, they discuss their "mistake". Izzy wants to figure out a way to tell Callie, but George says he will never tell her. It will only hurt her and only serve to clear his conscience. It was a mistake and it will never happen again. While Izzy verbally agrees to this, her heart does not. Clearly she doesn't feel this was a mistake. She told Addison that while it was wrong to hook up with a married guy, it "felt like things were finally falling into place." Given the look on George's face at the episode's close, he's probably wrestling with similar feelings. Good luck keeping the lid on this kettle...

The arrival of Colin Marlow threw wrenches into the works of both the race for Chief and Cristina and Burke's engagement. Cristina thinks that she'll be able to "rewind" their relationship to where it was before the proposal. Burke, however, is adamant that he wants to move forward. He feels he's not the same guy he was when they started up (and when the Chief hand-picked him to succeed him in his position..) and he doesn't want to be. He wants to move forward. Cristina finally decides to move forward with him, agreeing to a small, non-religious wedding. (Something tells me that will change....)

This day, in the race for Chief, the contestants are presenting themselves, and their ideas for the future of the hospital, to the Hospital Board. Everyone thinks it will just be like a typical job interview, until Marlow arrives with binders full of ideas for his "ten year plan." As each attending tries to figure out how to compete with that, Sloan asks Bailey, "What changes would you like to see at SGH?" Bailey puts off his questions, saying she has patients RIGHT NOW who need treatment, so she doesn't have a future plan. She has a RIGHT NOW plan. The board comes out of the meeting room glowing at Sloan and raving about the "Right Now" plan he presented... as Bailey scowls... I expect (and look forward to) the impending showdown.

In other character news, Meredith drowns her grief about mom... in work... a "like mother, like daughter" action that would make dead mommy proud. And Alex helps Jane Doe pick the new face Sloan will construct for her. Good thing, since I suspect he'll be looking at that new face a lot in the future.

No new Grey's this week... and a check of the official Grey's/ABC website doesn't say when the next new one will be. Rest assured, we won't go too far into April without a new Grey's... and there will be new ones throughout May sweeps including the two-hour episode that everyone is talking about that will launch Addison's spin-off show.