- The survivors receive a final verdict about the plane crash. Meanwhile, Derek continues to undergo rehabilitation on his hand, Cristina and Owen enjoy their new relationship with each other and Richard tried to avoid Catherine's advances.
- The survivors receive a final verdict about the plane crash which will change their lives, and the hospital, forever. Meanwhile, Derek continues to undergo rehabilitation on his hand, Cristina and Owen enjoy their new relationship with each other and Richard tries to avoid Catherine's advances.—Nadia Nassar
- It's the last day of Meredith's first trimester, and it's also a potentially big day in the plane crash suit. Derek wants Meredith to try to relax.
Meanwhile, Hunt sneaks up and grabs Jo from behind in Alex's house, thinking she was Cristina. Hunt tells Cristina, who thinks it's hilarious. Jo is humiliated and tells Alex that being his friend "is basically ruining my life."
At the hospital, Jackson brings Webber some cookies sent by his mother. She sends a note saying she's left Webber several messages and wants to make sure he's OK. Webber says it's a nice gesture but makes up something about "trying to avoid sweets," clearly trying to avoid contact with Jackson's mother Catherine.
Hunt rushes to catch Derek in the elevator and mentions that there might be a judgment that day. Hunt says he hopes it works out for Derek and the others, but Derek says Hunt can't really want it to go well for Derek and the others because it would mean the hospital was negligent and he did something wrong. Hunt says he's glad Derek got that out in the open, but assures Derek he's serious about wanting it to go well for them.
In the break room, Alex and Cristina talk about Jo. Alex says he doesn't think of Jo as a potential sexual partner, saying it'd be like him and Cristina hooking up. Alex then asks Cristina about how her "husband" tried to cop a feel on Jo, and Cristina tells Alex that Hunt is not her husband, which is why he was sneaking around that early.
The rest of the interns are teasing Jo about Hunt's feel. Jackson comes around to the group of interns and Stephanie says she's available to help with his case. He pretends it's "fine" for her to help, but we see they're just acting indifferent to each other because they don't want anyone to know they're hooking up.
Callie sets up Derek's first "real" day back, but it's not what anyone thinks it'll be. She's having him play ping pong for eight hours to simulate the hand movements he'd be doing in surgery. Shane, the intern, is being assigned to play with him.
Bailey gets a husband and wife couple injured in a stripper pole accident.
Cristina comes to talk to Meredith and says she doesn't know if she and Hunt are a thing again, but it's fun to be having sex with a man who used to be her husband.
Phones start ringing and all the doctors from the crash are being asked to go to the courthouse. They get there and learn that they've won. Callie gets there and hears the news: The judge is giving the doctors $15 million each.
The hospital's insurance company will be issuing each of them "a big check," their lawyer tells them. They all get up to go back to work. Callie stops them and wonders whether they should have dinner together to commemorate it.
Bailey's patient tells her she was doing a "sexy flexy" on the stripper pole when she fell on her husband. Bailey goes to April to have her check on Mr. Olson.
In an elevator, Meredith, Cristina and Derek talk about the houses and football teams they could buy with their money. Alex is in the elevator getting annoyed and says he "should've been on that damn plane."
Jackson shows Leah and Stephanie their patient: James, who was born with Crouzon syndrome. Sloan had operated on James five times to "try to make me less weird looking," James says. Jackson explains that Sloan's plan called for one last operation, but Jackson has a new plan that could be more complicated. Arizona shows up and hears about the new plan. She pulls Jackson into the hall and questions his choice to do something new, but Jackson says he isn't going to argue with her about it.
Meredith and the rest of the doctors are about to leave when Heather asks Meredith to check on a 19-year-old college student who's nauseated with an distended stomach and claiming she isn't pregnant. Meredith goes to check. Cristina overhears this and after Meredith leaves Cristina turns to Derek and says she knows Meredith is pregnant. She explains that Meredith hasn't told her "but she knows I know." Cristina says Meredith will tell her when she's ready to be happy about it.
Heather goes to check on the 19-year-old, who is named Taylor. She has an overbearing mother who is answering all of Heather's questions and not letting her daughter speak for herself. Meredith gently ushers the mother out of the room and Taylor tells Heather, "That was awesome." Meredith comes back in tells Heather she needs to let the patient speak, not the mother, and that if she keeps interrupting she needs to stop the mother from talking.
Derek is playing ping pong and talking to Jackson about James, the patient Sloan had been working on for years. Derek recommends sticking with Sloan's plan.
Hunt is talking to Cristina when he sees Jo coming toward them and he gets nervous. Cristina tells him to relax, but when Jo comes to talk to Cristina, Hunt stammers to Jo about how her hair looks similar to Cristina's. Jo leaves and Cristina mocks him a bit before they go into an on-call room to get it on. Before they get to it, Hunt says he's "relieved" because he heard about the judgment. Cristina asks him to come to the dinner with her. Hunt says that Derek wouldn't want him there because Derek blames him. Cristina tells him not to be a martyr.
Meredith finds Webber in what he calls his "hall of horrors." He's cataloging all kinds of weird things that have been taken out of patients. Meredith invites him to scrub in on a surgery, but he says he wants to be left alone.
Jackson comes to Arizona, upset that she called Derek in on his surgery plan for James. Callie interrupts to talk about babysitting options for their dinner that night. After Callie leaves, Arizona tells Jackson that he's like the new babysitter on Sloan's patient and that he "doesn't even know where we keep the wipes." Jackson, insulted again, tells Arizona he just wanted to let her know that he's going to proceed with the surgery Sloan recommended.
Bailey tells Mrs. Olson that her husband's ribs punctured his diaphragm when she landed on him. She's headed off to radiology for an X-ray and asks whether it's OK that she's "vag-azzled" her vagina. She's put sparkles on it.
Derek is worried that Shane is letting him win their ping pong games. Shane admits he's "a smart man" and he is letting Derek win. Derek tells Shane that he's got a surgery the next day and Shane can assist if he beats him in their next game. Shane serves before Derek can even finish, saying, "1-Love."
Catherine shows up at the hospital to see Webber. He says he's been busy and tries to walk away. Catherine tells him she's worried about him. Webber angrily tells Catherine she's not his wife.
"My wife died," he tells her, "while I was carrying on with another woman." He tells her that he hasn't returned her calls because he doesn't want her there. He leaves to join Meredith on her surgery.
Jo asks Alex what his plan is for the house because she's sick of sitting on the floor. He says he's waiting on Cristina because she'll wear down and furnish the whole house. They're watching through the window as Derek and Shane go at it at ping pong. Callie comes to remind Derek about the dinner and that he should seem excited about it, but he asks, "What if I'm not?"
Cristina comes over and Jo congratulates her on winning the settlement. She asks Cristina if she's going to spend some of the money furnishing the house and Cristina asks, "Why should I? It's not my house." Jo turns to mock Alex, sarcastically calling him a "genius."
Cristina goes into the room and takes Shane's paddle, taking his place in the ping pong game. She tells Derek he has to forgive Hunt and stop holding a grudge. Derek says she's making it sound "like he stole my lunch from the refrigerator." She tells him they won and he needs to move on, and let Hunt move on.
"He put us on that plane," Derek says. Cristina reminds Derek that he was chief once and made budget decisions based on what he knew at the time.
"It's not that easy," Derek says.
"I know," Cristina says. "Forgive him anyway."
Jackson comes to James' room and sees his hot girlfriend sitting on James' bed and kissing him goodbye. After she leaves, James tells Jackson he knows he's wondering how he got a hot girlfriend. James explains that Sloan taught him everything he knew and told James he was "weird looking." James says Sloan wasn't being a jerk, he was just realistic about surgery only getting him so far, "so I was going to have to develop some moves to get the women." Jackson remembers that "getting women was kind of his specialty." But James says Sloan's moves wouldn't have worked for him, he just uses his personality.
Bailey is operating on Mr. Olson and wondering when plain-old getting naked became too boring.
Meredith and Webber are in Taylor's surgery and Meredith pulls out a giant hairball from Taylor's stomach.
Shane and Derek are still going at it, and the crowd is growing larger. Alex and Jo have been betting on the outcome, and they're now up to $1,000. Jo wins the bet when Shane wins the match. Derek asks for one more game.
Meredith brings the hairball to Webber's "hall of horrors." Webber tells her he sees in that "hall of horror" all the things that made him miss his possible good times with Adele. He changes the subject and asks Meredith what she'll do with the settlement money. She calls it "blood money," and says her sister is still dead. Webber encourages her to realize it's a good thing.
Bailey tells Mrs. Olson she's going to be fine and her husband will be alright, as well. Bailey tells her to "stay off the pole," but Mrs. Olson says Bailey just got back from her honeymoon, but she's made it through 45 years of marriage and having kids. She's humiliated because her husband looked embarrassed for her when it all happened.
Jackson is about to begin James' surgery and Arizona comes in. They have another verbal confrontation about Jackson's plan. He's changed back to his own plan, but Arizona again makes a case for Sloan's plan. Jackson reminds her that Sloan isn't there and he's going to do what he thinks is best for his question.
Callie teases Bailey about the older couple being sexually adventurous. Bailey goes on to explain that she had sex once on her honeymoon, because Ben wanted to have sex on the beach their first night in the Bahamas. They did, and she got sand in her "cookie" (using Mrs. Olson's word from earlier), and she got an infection and sand flea bits on her "boo-tock," as the Bahamian doctor put it. And it itched. So she's not a fan of anything but conventional methods of sex.
At dinner, everyone is eating in silence. Derek asks Arizona how James' surgery went. She tells him about Jackson's change of plans. Callie wants to make a toast to Arizona standing for five hours in surgery and to Derek's ping pong. Cristina gets a text from Hunt and she's replying. They start teasing her about "sexting." Callie says Sloan would've loved that they're all having sex, or at least trying. She starts rambling a little about trying to move on, then becomes emotional as she talks about how she misses Sloan and Lexie, but she's also grateful. She demands a toast and insists that everyone drink champagne. Meredith says she can't. Callie insists that she try, and Meredith announces that she can't because she's pregnant.
"And I'm happy, so let's celebrate," she says. All smiling, they clink their glasses.
Webber shows up at a bar and finds Catherine sitting alone. He tells her that he should've been there with Adele. He says he failed her when she needed him the most. He tells her he feels like he can't breathe. She tells him he is breathing, so he might as well not do it alone. She asks if she can just hold his hand. He reaches out for her hand and they touch.
Jackson tells James and his parents that his surgery went well and he's "just going to be another pretty face" now. He tells James' parents that Sloan did most of the work and he just got them into the end zone. Stephanie and Leah are watching through a window and Stephanie starts referring to Dr. Avery as "Jackson." Leah starts to mock Stephanie about it and pretends she knows that Stephanie is sleeping with Jackson.
"How did you know?" Stephanie asks.
"I didn't," Leah says. "But I do now!"
Heather tells Taylor that she's going to have to start standing up to her mother. Taylor's mother comes in and Heather explains to her that Taylor has a condition that causes her to want to eat her own hair. She says Taylor will need to see a therapist. Taylor's mother snaps back that Taylor will "just stop," like she did when she wanted to stop eating carbs. Taylor stands up for herself and says it's not the same kind of thing, it's a real medical condition and demands that her mother take her to see a therapist.
Jackson finds April and tells her that he's "kind of sleeping with Stephanie." He tells her he was hoping she wouldn't find out at all, but "it's probably going to get out" and he wanted to make sure she didn't hear it from anyone else. April says OK, but starts crying. She tells him she misses him and thought they could still be friends. He says they can still be friends, but she says she's just thinking about kissing him. She says she's not ready to be his friend. He asks if she's sure and she says yes. She thanks him for telling her and walks to Mr. Olson's room.
She reports to him that his wife is fine, and then she goes on to tell him that his wife is horny. She asks him if "the equipment" is working. He says it is, so April tells him to "use it."
"If I was married, I'd be using it all the time," she says, looking back out the room window to where Jackson is standing.
At Alex's house, Jo unveils the new couch she bought him with the ping pong money she won from him. He says it's a "girlfriend thing" to do, and tells her that's not happening between them. She says that would be like sleeping with her own brother, and insists that they just hang out and drink together. They sit on the couch and crack open a couple of beers. Alex says it's weird because he's never had a friend who was a girl and didn't want to do it "except Mere and she probably wanted me at some point." Jo tells him he really is a douche.
From the restaurant, Derek calls Hunt and encourages him to join them and have a drink. Hunt says he can't. Derek passes the phone to Cristina and asks her to get Hunt to join them. She tries to woo Hunt on the phone but he says nothing. Cristina passes the phone back to Derek, who tries once more but Hunt insists he'll join them "another time."
Hunt is at the hospital outside the conference room. After getting off the phone, Hunt goes back into the conference room. The hospital's lawyer says the insurance company found a loophole: No more than two attending are allowed on a medi-plane, so when Arizona took Alex's place on the flight, that happened. The insurance company says it isn't going to pay.
"So, who pays?" Hunt asks.
"We do," the lawyer tells him. "The hospital."
"We don't have that kind of reserve," Hunt says.
The lawyer says it means "we go bankrupt the hospital closes its doors."
Back at the hospital, the group of survivors are blissfuly celebrating and posing for a photo taken by their server.
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