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03.03 Sometimes a Fantasy

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"Sometimes a Fantasy"


Episode Number: 3

Season: 3

Original Air Date: October 5, 2006

Writer: Debora Cahn

Director: Adam Arkin

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Synopsis
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Cristina agrees to keep secret the fact that Burke has been suffering from hand tremors since his surgery. Izzie pays a visit to the hospital for the first time since she walked out. Alex is perplexed by his latest patient, a foster child named Megan who seems unfazed by her many injuries. Another patient's wife vents her wrath at her husband over his repeated surgeries. Addison has a tense, terse meeting with Mark. And George insists that Callie find somewhere else to live.






Recap of Events:

Meredith dreams about a threesome with Finn and Derek before being awoken by George complaining about Callie's belongings are blocking the hallway. George is becoming frustrated that a week-long temporary stay by Callie has become longer, and she is using his stuff. When he complains that Callie is wearing his towel, she removes it, standing naked in the hallway and hands it to George. At the hospital, Callie requests George to perform surgery on an athlete who has had repeated orthopedic surgeries already. George convinces the patient to not have the surgery. When Callie learns what George did, she confronts him, and he admits he doesn't want to live with her anymore. She storms off and at the end of the episode is seen booking into a hotel.
First Derek and then Finn arrange dates with Meredith on the same day. The first date is lunch with Finn at the hospital, but Derek interrupts saying that he would like Meredith to help perform a corpus colostomy. Then on the date with Derek, as they approach Meredith's door at the end, Finn appears with strawberry ice-cream. Meredith complains that neither seem to be noticing her, instead the two men are just competing with each other.
Cristina is becoming frustrated that Preston is depressed after his surgery. She is even more angry when he gets an open-ended leave of absence from the hospital without telling her first. In the end, she sees that she must help him, so gets him chicken carcasses to practice his surgery skills on and to get back his dexterity.
Alex treats a young girl, who has a long history of injuries. She claims to be a superhero and to feel no pain, proving this by beating Alex at an ice-water pain test. When she says that she got another child to hit her in the stomach with a baseball bat, Alex is concerned, and a MRI scan confirms she has a large amount of internal bleeding. The lack of pain is diagnosed as congenital insensitivity to pain.
Addison returns to work, but then receives a phone call from Mark, whom she meets at Joe's bar. She thought he was returning to New York, but he missed his flight on purpose, and the professes his love for her. She tries to tell him that she can't have a relationship with him. He ignores what she says, and moves into kiss her. Addison does the same, but then slaps him and leaves.
Izzie attempts to return to the hospital, but can get no further than standing outside. Several people try to convince her to come inside, but she cannot bring herself to.

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Opening Statement/Quote:

Surgeons usually fantasize about wild and improbable surgeries. Someone collapses in a restaurant, you splice them open with a butter knife, replace a valve with a hollowed out stick of carrot-- but every now and then some other kind of fantasy slips in. Most of our fantasies resolve when we wake, vanished to the back of our mind, but sometimes we're sure if we try hard enough-- we can live the dream.

Ending Statement/Quote:

The fantasy is simple. Pleasure is good, and twice as much pleasure is better. That pain is bad, and no pain is better. But the reality is different. The reality is that pain is there to tell us something, and there's only so much pleasure we can take without getting a stomach ache. And maybe that's okay. Maybe some fantasies are only supposed to live in our dreams.


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This episode's title refers to a song by Billy Joel.


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