Grey’s Anatomy
Season four ofGrey ’s Anatomysees a lot of change . Most notably , the season kicks off with Dr. Burke nowhere to be found . Isaiah Washington was written off the show at the end of season three after he admittedly used homophobic language mention to co - star T.R. Knight , while on set .
The hearing also got to meet a few new characters in season four , with Dr. Mark Sloane , work by Eric Dane , becoming a series regular , and Lexie Grey , played by Chyler Leigh , start her internship at Seattle Grace and giving Meredith a lot of new dramatic play to face . We also get to see Meredith and the doc she started her internship with as residents now , with their own mathematical group of interns to stamp around . With all that in mind , some episodes were better than others according to IMDb .
The Heart Of The Matter (8.1)
George has just separate Callie that he slept with Izzie , despite being married to Callie . Callie forgives George , but settle to face up Izzie in a way that makes everyone think Callie wants to fight Izzie . On the other close of the hospital , Meredith is boss around her new interns , including Norma , a much older medical intern act as by the late Edward Hermann .
Cristina has her own set of houseman now too , which she has number , and call up them by those numbers . One of Cristina ’s interns , Lexie Grey , or number three , is Meredith ’s half - sister , and Meredith spends most of her covert time with Lexie prove to ignore and forefend her .
Forever Young (8.1)
Seattle Grace revisits in high spirits school in this installment after a bus crashes , and the emergency elbow room is deluge with teen . In increase to the wound child , a chaperone also stop up in the emergency elbow room . The chaperon ’s name is Marcus , and Dr. Miranda Bailey had a grownup crunch on him when they were in schooltime together .
Miranda get down tunnel imagination for her sometime friend and decides to help him , despite take more vital case coming into the ER . In accession to serve him , Miranda begin to flirt a picayune number , which is ironic , considering Miranda drop the first part of this installment give her resident physician a speech on her professional prospect now that she is the Chief Resident .
Where The Wild Things Are (8.1)
At this point in the season , Meredith and Derek have formally ended thing and Derek has moved on , dating Rose , a nurse at Seattle Grace . Markspends most of this episode trying to break up Derek and Rose , while the eternal rest of the occupant compete in a surgical competition orchestrated by Dr. Bailey , where the winner cause a sparkly pager with the power to slip surgeries from the other occupant for the next three months .
In this instalment , we also get to see the kinship between the now unmarried , Callie , and the new head of cardiothoracics , Dr. Erica Hahn , bloom .
Losing My Mind (8.1)
Meredith and Derek have been working together on a clinical trial helping affected role with aggressive brain tumor . In this sequence , they are dealing with a patient who is about to undergo surgery , but asks to wait for her boyfriend to arrive before going in for the surgical operation , the only problem is , her sister is claiming she does n’t have a boyfriend .
Meanwhile , Cristina starts clean her and Callie ’s flat , which is a big red flag for Callie and Izzie is face up Alex ’s new girlfriend and old patient , Rebecca , who take she is pregnant , but Izzie suspect she ’s lying .
Let The Truth Sting (8.2)
early on on in season four , the new residents are getting used to experience novel interns , andGeorgeis getting used to being held back in the internship program while all of his friends have moved on to being residents .
George has n’t secernate his fellow interns that he ’s been held back and has already been through the plan , so his new friends think he is brainy and are in veneration of his skills as an interne . Meredith is adjusting to having her half - sister at work with her and has to help her intubate a patient under pressure when Lexie fails , and the patient dies , Meredith is half - heartedly there for her babe .
Piece Of My Heart (8.3)
Addison returns to Seattle Grace to perform a surgery on a patient and gets to reconnect with all of her former friends and conscientious objector - workers . Izzie endeavor to teach her interns right bedside manners in the clinic , which falls on deaf ears when she realise they are all hungover because George hold a political party the night before .
Meredith and Derek are getting quick to treat their first patient through their new clinical trial and Rebecca comes to the hospital to tell Alex that she ’s fraught , but does n’t get the reaction from Alex that she was hoping for .
Crash Into Me: Part 1 (8.4)
Meredith , Cristina , and Izzie are outside retrieving a affected role from an ambulance as another ambulance issue forth cannonball along through . Meredithsees it coming in time to get her and the other doctor out of the way of life , but the runaway ambulance crashes into another one , causing extreme combat injury to the paramedical deep down .
The squad plunge in to assist the injured paramedics , some of whom are worse off than the others . One of the paramedical , who seems less injured than the others , poses more issues when he refuses to allow Dr. Bailey or Dr. Webber probe him because they are contraband , and he is racist .
Crash Into Me: Part 2 (8.4)
This episode piece up right where part one will off , with the doctors endeavor to save the lives of the paramedical who were in a unfit accident when one ambulance ran at full speed into another ambulance . In another infirmary room , Lexie has been tend to a flirtatious patient , Nick , act by Seth Green , whose carotid arteria volley puke pedigree all over her .
Lexie has to hold pressure on the open wound to prevent Nick from bleed out , causing Nick ’s life to literally be in her hands . This is also the instalment where we see Dr. Bailey ’s marriage deteriorate under the pressure of her new job title of respect at Seattle Grace .
Freedom: Part 1 (8.4)
The Doctor at Seattle Grace face one of the brainsick cases they ’ve ever faced when a teenage son comes into the hospital encased in cement . Callie interviews the child that came in with the patient , and they tell her they are n’t friend with the kid who stuck himself in cementum , and they waited a while before calling 9 - 1 - 1 , which only summate to the male child ’s injuries .
At the same time , Derek and Meredith are getting quick to see the last two patients for their clinical trial , a young young lady named Beth , and her fellow , Jeremy . Derek and Meredith help Beth and Jeremy find some concealment to be together for the first time , powerful before they both go into surgery .
Freedom: Part 2 (8.7)
In the first part of the time of year close , Jeremy , Beth ’s boyfriend , and Derek and Meredith ’s 13th affected role perish on the tabular array during the doctors ' clinical trial . The outcome of Jeremy ’s surgical process does n’t deter Beth from doing it . Beth ’s parent examine to mouth her out of it , but she wo n’t hear , and she ’s sure she will be the patient who live because of the trial .
Beth ’s surgery is a success , giving Derek and Meredith a reason to fete . The episode ends with the iconic shot of Meredith standing in a house made of candles telling Derek she ’s in honey with him .
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