Meredith was getting a lesson in things that matter outside of herself, too, by tending to the paramedics still trapped in their ambulance — and, harder still, fetching Stan's wife so she could be there for his last moments. ''In her story, that's who I am,'' Meredith said to the chief. ''That's who I'll always be.'' What, other people are allowed to have stories? Shocking. Karev was reaping what he'd sown, meanwhile, after letting surprise visitor Ava (doesn't this woman ever call ahead?) watch from the gallery as he helped on the Hahn surgery. Yes, of course, Lexie sat down right next to her and they chatted. And it may have come up that Ava was there to see her kinda beau, who happened to be one and the same as Lexie's kinda beau. ''I'm sure what you're talking about is endlessly fascinating, Dr. Karev,'' Hahn said while he and Izzie whispered about his little drama. ''But I have my heart set on saving a life today.''
Lives were saved elsewhere, too: Stan ended up spotting a piece of ambulance jammed in Ray's back just before he himself died, and Bailey skipped lunch with her husband to perform surgery on the (literal) Nazi. ''I'm rising above,'' she told George when he resisted being the token white in the room for the operation. ''And I do not want to be crossed while I am rising.'' Side note: Beautiful camera shot of her cutting through the swastika tattoo — one of the few times I've been happy to see blood on this show. Bailey gave the whole affair the perfect coda, too: ''No one better ever call me Nazi again.''
And finally, back to that precarious Seth Green situation for a pretty great coda on this entire episode. All the gallery drama sent Lexie running to Seth (he must have had a character name, but I never noticed), and I have to say I like her with him. Maybe it's just because she hasn't foisted her family crap on him just yet, but at any rate she's much more pleasant that way. Before she can go out on a proper date with him and make Alex jealous, though, she's going to have to fix that whole carotid-artery thing — because it did that exploding thing just when their little flirtation was finally going his way. Gosh these Grey girls are tragic. Maybe there's a reason they're so darn self-involved after all.
What do you think? Is there any future for Lexie and Seth? How about her and Karev? How long till Izzie and George stick a fork in it? And didn't the computer crash in Derek's OR make your tech-support issues seem a little trivial?
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