Before we get started, two things I noticed about the episode itself.
Number 1: The episode's called These Ties That Bind. The fifth (or third, however you see it) episode of the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica is called The Ties That Bind.
Number 2: The director of the episode is Eric Stoltz, who plays Daniel Graystone, one of the main characters in the Battlestar Galactica prequel, Caprica.
HERE WE GO.
FYI, Mary plays the new cardiac surgeon, Virginia Dixon.
Alex: Hey, what do you know about a heart guy named Dixon?
Cristina: Dixon? Uh, no, not a guy. I've heard of Virginia Dixon. She's got an incredible record, really low morta-- wait, is she coming here?
Alex: Yeah, today. Piggyback heart transplant. I'm on the case.
Cristina: What, what, what? Why am I not on the case?
Chief: [to Bailey] You hire when you're number 1, not number 12. But I need you to be my ambassador today. Show Dr. Dixon what Seattle Grace is all about. I threw in a lot of money, a big title and a lot of research dollars at her. But...
Bailey: But what?
Chief: She's a little different. She's a little off... So we're wooing today, Bailey.
Bailey: [to herself] I can woo with the best, darling.
Alex: So uh, Dixon's a nutjob?
Bailey: Excuse me?
Alex: Just saying. I already have my quota of crazy for the year.
Bailey: Hey. I've had my off days. Wanna judge me? You've never even met the woman, Karev, and you heard the Chief. Our job is to impress Dr. Dixon today. So be impressive!
Izzie: I've got the chart for Dr. Dixon. I'm ready to work. I'm excited.
Alex: [to Izzie] Don't be, she's off.
Bailey: Karev...
Alex: [to Izzie, who just saw Denny's ghost] You okay?
Izzie: Yeah.
Chief: Heads up. Here she comes.
Bailey: Uh, Dr. Dixon! Hi! Welcome to uh, Seattle Grace. We're very happy to have-- [Dixon extends her arm for a handshake] you here. I'm Dr. Bailey--
Dixon: I-I brought my own lab coat. I'm here to perform a heart transplant today. I do hearts. A procedure invented by Christiaan Barnard in the 1967. I do hearts.
Chief: Uh, I-I'm Dr. Richard Webber, we spoke on the phone. [to Alex] Karev, would you give Dr. Dixon the latest labs... [to Izzie] Stevens, prep the patient, please.
[after Dixon has left]
Bailey: Okay then. She's a little... off.
Bailey: Our cardiac wing is extensive, and well-equipped with all--
Dixon: *The first successful heart transplant was performed on September 7, 1896, by Dr. Ludwig Rehn, Frankfurt, Germany.
Bailey: ... Okay.
Alex: [to Bailey] Uh, excuse me, I don't mean to interrupt.
Bailey: Please, inter-- Uh, I mean, just... Uh, please update Dr. Dixon on the patient.
Alex: [to Dixon] Uh, Dr. Stevens is prepping your transplant patient for surgery. They scheduled a uh, transplant six years ago, but the heart was too small, so they doubled up and added a donor heart to help his own heart function. They did a piggyback--
Dixon: Heterotopic... transplant. Piggyback, is the colloquial name for the procedure. Don't do that. [whispers] Don't do that.
[awkward silence]
Bailey: How about we take you to meet the patient?
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forensic_angel got the right info.
Clay Bedonie: They tell me my heart belonged to a girl who was hit by a car when she was hitch-hiking. Now when I'm driving I see hitch-hikers all the time. Always up ahead, just up ahead... When I get up ahead, they're gone.
Denny's ghost: You're not buying this, are you?
Clay: I should not have gotten the heart.
Izzie: I don't understand how the heart--
Clay: We don't even touch the dead. We don't touch their bodies or belongings because their spirit clings there. So having part of a dead body sewed into my chest is... My friends followed the old ways, begged me not to do it. I should have listened.
Izzie: I'm sorry I don't understand. You think you're haunted by your transplanted heart, but you're here, for a new transplant.
Clay: No! That's what I'm trying to tell you I don't want it! I don't want the new one, I just want you to take the old one out!
Denny's ghost: Now that's just plain stupid! Take the heart, man, take the heart if they offer it!
[Dixon, Bailey and Alex walks in]
Dixon: Did he just say he doesn't want the donor heart?
Izzie: Yes, ma'am.
Dixon: [to patient] Clay Bedonie. Are you aware that without a new heart, you'll live a short life attached to a machine before dying a sudden and agonizing death?
Denny's ghost: [pointing at Dixon] See that? That's what I'm talking about.
Clay: I appreciate you trying to advise me to do what you think is best.
Dixon: These are facts, not opinions.
Clay: What I'm saying, is--
Izzie: He's trying to say he would rather live a shorter life that's unhaunted than a longer one that is. [silence] I'm not saying I'm agreeing, just... I'm just gonna stand over here.
Denny's ghost: That's a good idea.
Clay: The heart that you take out of me... what happens to it?
Dixon: Goes from the OR to Pathology to medical waste.
Clay: I'm gonna need that heart back. For a ritual.
Dixon: We have laws... there are rules. Rules are rules.
Bailey: Maybe there's a compromise to be made here. We could, I don't know, give him back the old heart to do the ritual, then give him a chance to live by still putting the new heart in.
Clay & Dixon: No.
Izzie: It doesn't work that way.
Clay: I would still be haunted. Just by a new ghost.
Dixon: There are rules! We have laws and there are... Rules are rules, and laws are laws. Nope. [Dixon walks out]
Bailey: Uhm, I need the hospital rules to specify the fact that we must respect all religious and spiritual beliefs of our patients.
Chief: The rules.
Bailey: Yeah, I'm asking you to declare a rule of our department.
Chief: That we respect the beliefs of our patients?
Bailey: Yes.
Chief: Isn't that just common courtesy?
Bailey: Yes.
Chief: Then why am I declaring it?
Bailey: Uhm, Dr. Dixon doesn't do common courtesy, but she understands rules. So, if it's a rule it's golden, if not we have a pissed off patient, an apoplectic surgeon and none of those things makes for a successful procedure on a faulty heart. Not to mention the failure to 'woo'.
Chief: You want me to announce it as a rule.
Bailey: Uh, I'm here as a witness, you can raise your right hand, put your left one on the physician's desk reference...
Chief: [declares] It's a rule!
Bailey: Thank you.
Cristina: Dr. Dixon? I'm Cristina Yang. I'm a resident here and I've been uh, focused on cardiac since I began my internship. I'm certainly looking forward to anything you might need.
Dixon: Are the other ones taken off my case?
Cristina: Oh oh, what other ones?
Dixon: The black woman, the male and the woman with yellow hair.
Cristina: Not that I'm aware of...
Dixon: Then why are you talking to me?
Bailey: Dr. Dixon, there is a rule regarding giving medical waste to the patient. Dr. Dixon?
Dixon: Huh... What?
Bailey: Uh, I was just saying there's a rule. An official, very very specific rule that in the event a patient asks for their organ or body part back for any reason related to or involving their cultural beliefs, we must respect that patient's wishes and return that organ to the patient. That is the rule I forgot to tell you about.
Dixon: If I went down to Pathology right now would they know about the rule?
Bailey: Oh, the Chief would know. It's his rule. He declared it. Rule's a rule.
Dixon: Dr. Karev, make sure that we follow the Chief's rule and return the heart to the patient after the surgery. I'm... going back to work now.
Dixon: Next up is the old heart.
[The old heart starts beating on its own]
Bailey: Wha-what is that?
Dixon: That's not right, that can't be, how can it...
Alex: His heart's beating. How is his heart beating on its own?
Dixon: It can't be happening. It shouldn't be happening. The heart is beating... the heart is beating... it shouldn't be beating... it shouldn't be beating.
Clay: So my heart...
Bailey: It started beating by itself.
Alex: If it continues to function, you wouldn't need any other kind of machinery.
Bailey: It's wonderful news.
Dixon: It's very atypical.
Clay: Not for me. I'm finally free, I'm not haunted anymore.
Dixon: Your heart had six years to rest which is... probably enough time for it to repair itself, that's why it started beating again. I've never seen this before. I've read about it but I've never seen it before.
Clay: You have your beliefs, I have mine.
Dixon: I don't have beliefs, I have science.
Clay: Science is a belief. You believe in only what you can see, and touch. I believe in more.
Bailey: Excellent job, today, Dr. Dixon. Excellent... rule followed.
[They enter the elevator]
Dixon: I only have one area of interest- the human heart. I love it. I like its regularity- I know everything there is to know about it. I like its predictability- it has rules, every chamber has its function, every function has a movement. I like the colour. It's comforting. Are you familiar with Asperger's Syndrome, Dr. Bailey?
Bailey: Uhm, of course. Significant impairment during social situations...
Dixon: I'm not good at cues like sacarsm or condescension but I do know when I'm being manipulated and I know when I'm being made fun of... [to herself] I don't think I like this hospital very much. [to Bailey] I don't think I like this hospital at all.
Just because it's my picspam, and therefore I can add this.
[Cristina runs after Owen]
Cristina: Hey!
[Owen reacts violently]
Cristina: I'm sorry we lost him. The patient. I'm sorry.
Owen: I don't need you to be sorry.
Cristina: Okay.
Owen: I don't need you to be sorry. I don't need--
Cristina: Okay!
Owen: I don't need. I don't need you--
Cristina: Okay, alright.
[Owen backs Cristina against the wall and kisses her for about 10 seconds]
[Cristina just walks away after the kiss]
Caps from
freakyx.Transcript by me, so there will definitely be mistakes.
AND IT'S DONE. Personally, I thought that it was an alright episode. Mary was fantastic (duh), and I'm neutral with Melissa George/Sadie. I'm not a fan of the Izzie/Denny storyline, because really, cheating on Alex with a ghost that only you can see? That's... sad. Although I liked Denny's quips throughout the episode.
MORE MARY, PLZ, KTHX.
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