''Grey's Anatomy'': Fantasy Love

''I forgive you for treating me like crap, and I forgive you for letting your friend treat me like crap. I don't know how you get up in the morning. I honestly don't. Our dad abandoned you, and your mom by all accounts was the meanest person ever. And you can't let Derek love you, and it all really, really sucks.''

Lexie made the case for Meredith's winning the who's-dark-and-twistier contest while trying to connect with her sister. She succeeded in making the case; she failed in connecting.

''Doesn't one of you have science on your side?''

Sloan asked Izzie why the heck Ava was running around thinking she was pregnant when two Izzie-administered pregnancy tests said otherwise. In fairness, Ava (or whatever her name is now) did clearly have morning sickness and seemed pretty convinced she was carrying Alex's child. Mark theorized that she had ''acute stress disorder'' after that whole losing identity/getting reconstructive surgery/regaining identity ordeal. Aha! I love when Sloan actually gets to be a smart doctor. ''I'm so sorry I lost our baby,'' Ava cried to Alex once she was finally convinced she wasn't pregnant. And Alex actually manned up for once, taking her home with him so he could watch over her in her clear state of delusion. I sense some character development a-comin'.

''He was never there? How can he not be real?''

Greta, the patient with the imaginary boyfriend, was understandably crushed to be told the love of her life probably existed only in her mind. So she finally went under the knife (or, I guess, the virus-injection-thingy), and though the virus part went okay, her brain was too damaged by the tumor for her to recover. But who should show up but, yes, the boyfriend. Real after all. Beautiful reveal. Perfectly timed. Brilliantly sappy and shocking all at once. Quintessential Grey's Anatomy. And then the kicker, right there for all of us Hallmark-vulnerable fools: ''It's been a fairy tale from the start,'' the prince said. ''They always wake up.'' Of course, she didn't.

''Dr. Bailey and I are in love, and we'll be heading to Vegas just as soon as my divorce from Callie is final.''

This was how George responded, in deadpan perfection, when the Chief asked him why he was carrying Bailey's baby around. (He was, in fact, looking after that adorable little thing while Miranda tried to work things out with her husband.) George and the Chief, incidentally, are becoming my new favorite hospital odd couple.

''We don't need that fairy-tale thing right now. We just need a little happy.''

Derek used this one to talk Rose into sticking with him even though he didn't call her the day after they had sex for the first time. It worked. Meanwhile, the Sloan-Callie-Hahn threesome wrapped things up with more three-way dirty talk in the elevator, sealed with a kiss between Hahn and Callie that was played as a joke but clearly had some lasting effect. Meredith marched into her shrink's office, revealed that her mother tried to commit suicide when she was a kid, then said, ''Fix me.''

And, well, they all lived unhappily ever after.

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