Grey’s Anatomy 5.14 “Beat Your Heart Out” Recap

The storyline for the Grey’s Anatomy/Private Practice crossover was set in motion at the end of Grey’s Anatomy, but both shows remained pretty independent of each other. It looks like the real crossover will begin next week.

Here’s what happened during last night’s Grey’s Anatomy episode “Beat Your Heart Out”:

“Beat Your Heart Out”

Original airdate: 02/05/09

Denny seems to have officially walked into the light (hopefully for good?) and Izzie is left trying to figure out what might be wrong with her. At the beginning of the episode she’s seen trying to draw her own blood. She’s interrupted by the arrival of her interns.

Meanwhile, Cristina walks into the on-call room to find Owen sleeping and he jumps and she jumps and they both try to ignore the sexual tension while simultaneously adding to it. Owen tells Cristina that she should wear her hair up more often because he likes the back of her neck.

Meredith and Cristina have patched things up (yay!!) and they’re walking together. So happy that whole fight is over! Meredith asks Cristina to read her mom’s journal because it might be a little too X-rated for her own eyes. It deals with her mom’s affair with the Chief. Cristina seems intrigued.

Lexie enthusiastically approaches Callie to talk about Mark, but Callie cuts her off and tells her she doesn’t want to hear about it. Poor Callie seems like she’s falling apart.

Mark and Derek discuss the engagement and the pending proposal. Derek says he needs to be cautious and “fire at the right time” because Meredith is spooked easily.

Meredith and Lexie stand outside waiting for the ambulance. It pulls up. Inside is a wife (Jen) who accidentally ran over her husband (Rob). She’s pregnant and really worried about him.

Derek and Meredith talk about how the couple will have cute babies, but Meredith says the babies won’t be as cute as theirs. Derek gets a glint in his eye as he looks at Meredith.

Bailey pops into the Chief’s office. She’s apparently been on vacation since the whole Jackson thing and she’s worried that the Chief is concerned about her work backing up. She starts to assure him that she’ll get on top of things but he tells her that he asked her in to tell her that he’s recommending her for a promotion. As soon as she’s done with ther residency. Bailey is thrilled.

Elsewhere, Cristina is preparing a patient’s parents to face Dr. Dixon. The patient is a kid and Bailey has been assigned to it as well. She’s not happy when she sees that it’s another kid.

In another part of the hospital, a couple stands around trying to find the right doctor to talk to about their particular situation. Alex tries to attend to them but the couple prefers talking to the Chief. It turns out that the couple decided to get sexually adventurous by following some ideas found in a magazine. End result: the husband now has something stuck in his butt. Oops…

Lexie and Meredith watch over Jen and the husband. Jen is pregnant and they want to keep her calm for the baby’s sake. The husband gets taken to the OR.

Bailey meanwhile is stressing out about her new patient. She tells Cristina that if the girl so much as looks like she’s going to die, she’s out of there. But all the same, she bonds with the girl, explaining in simple terms what Dixon is explaining to her parents.

Derek and Cristina run into each other and the proposal comes up. Cristina advices him not to do anything too romantic because Meredith will hate that.

Meredith approaches them and Derek wanders off. Cristina and Meredith talk about Mer’s mom’s journal, which Cristina reveals sounds more like a victorian romance, full of loaded glances but nothing too sexually explicit.

Owen pops into the frame and he and Cristina look at each other all meaningfully. There’s music. And slow motion!

Derek catches up with Mark and tells him that Meredith is ready. They start talking about the proposal as the Chief walks up. Mark wastes no time telling the Chief that Derek is going to propose. Then Owen walks up, same thing.

Meredith has an uncanny ability to sense when anyone’s talking about the proposal during the entire episode and randomly appears. Thankfully, the guys spot her and change the subject just in time to save the secret.

At the clinic, the interns are having a giggle over the patient with the um… anal …issue. The Chief scolds them for their immaturity.

Also at the clinic, Sadie is having trouble drawing a patient’s blood. Izzie has Sadie practice on her first and then tells Sadie to go ahead and run her blood too. Seems Izzie has discovered a way to get the tests done without drawing too much attention. She tells the other interns not to run any more tests without consulting her first.

In the OR, Callie and Mark are working on Rob. Mark reveals that he’s thinking of breaking up with Lexie. Callie starts to protest but she’s inconveniently interrupted by the patient crashing.

Jen – Rob’s wife – is concerned about her husband and stressing out about him. Lexie calls the OR to get bad news, but she hides it in order to keep the wife from freaking out. Then the wife has a seizure.

Bailey gets a beep and doesn’t look happy about it. She hesitantly makes her way to her patient’s room to find that the girl is crashing. Thankfully, Bailey knows just what to do.

They page Arizona, who confirms Bailey’s diagnosis. Dixon tells Bailey she wants her to scrub in, but Bailey tells Arizona that she’ll have to take her place because she can’t handle watching another kid slip away. Arizona gives Bailey a pep talk, telling her that kids are resilient and that even Jackson pulled through. And that more than likely they’d be opening the girl up to fix something simple and she’d get to return the girl safe and sound to her parents. Bailey seems comforted by this.

Back in Callie’s OR, Rob starts to stabalize. Callie picks up where they left off and calls Mark an idiot. She tells him to let himself be happy before he finds himself alone.

Izzie continues her mission to try and figure out what’s wrong with her under the guise of training the interns.

The Chief seems concerned by Derek’s proposal plans and tells him that he has to go big. Nothing – not even sky writing! – is too much.

Meredith’s wedding spider senses tingle and she appears magically to interrupt the conversation. She asks Derek for a consultation.

Derek goes to check on Jen and she sees the wedding ring in his pocket. She starts to comment on it but he interrupts her and makes up an excuse to get Meredith out of the room. He then shows both Lexie and Jen the ring. They discuss the proposal. Jen tells him that her husband proposed at a supermarket between the cat food and the tampons. “Romantic,” Derek says. Jen says it was.

In the OR, Bailey is riding high on Arizona’s optimism. Unfortunately, Dixon quickly bursts the bubble by stating that the girl is going to need a heart and lung transplant. Oh noes. Not this again. Bailey can’t take it and leaves.

Dixon gives the girl’s parents the bad news: the girl will have to remain bed-ridden until she receives the transplants. This could mean years.

Meanwhile, Bailey has disappeared into the daycare to spend some time with her son. While there, she gets an idea.

Izzie is “training” the interns on how to read an MRI. Then this guy that looks sort of familiar appears. What’s his name again? Oh yeah… GEORGE. He appears randomly and out of nowhere to tease and warn Izzie that maybe using hospital property in this manner is … oh, say … not a good idea. And then he vanishes into the place where characters disappear to when they no longer have any lines.

Meredith, Cristina and Lexie walk together while pushing Jen’s wheelchair. Meredith raises concerns over Derek, saying that she thinks she freaked him out with the baby talk from earlier. That perhaps he doesn’t want her babies because they might get Alzheimer’s or be suicidal or … (God forbid) get split ends.

Jen tells Derek that he should probably propose soon because Meredith is “freaking out.”

Over in the cafeteria, Sadie is looking through the magazine with all the sexual positions (?) and she’s stating all her favorite ones (which is all of them), while everyone sits around enjoying a good laugh. Izzie pipes in and says she wouldn’t mind doing number 16 and Alex takes that as his cue. They leave oh so smoothly.

Cristina and Hunt exchange meaningful glances across the cafeteria and Cristina finally walks up and asks him if he’s on-call. He says yes. She says she is too. And then she pulls up her hair. Hubba hubba.

Dixon is sparing no horrific scenario in telling the girl’s parents the severity of the situation. But in comes Bailey with exciting news! The girl doesn’t need to remain in bed. She just needs a backpack with a little machine that will administer the medicine she needs. There is much bouncing and hopping and cheering and hugging … and Dixon freaks out and leaves the room.

Bailey follows her and asks what she can do to help. Dixon says she needs to hold her tightly. It will calm her down. Cristina also comes in to see how she can help and gets pulled into the group hug. This is all sorts of sweet and awkward and hilarious.

Elsewhere, Jen gets the bad news that she has an aneurysm.

The Chief, Alex and Intern Ryan work to remove the object stuck in the patient’s … well, butt. The patient is mortified by the situation and the Chief tries to offer up a silver lining, which unfortunately includes the phrase “bend over backwards” … much hilarity follows. Though thankfully not in front of the patient. They are professionals, you know.

Cristina and Bailey seem to have warmed up to the group hug and are looking mighty comfy by the time Dixon tells them they can let go. I think the hug was theraputic for all three of them.

Sadie walks up to Izzie with the test results and tells Izzie she’s anemic. The real patient, however, isn’t getting such good news.

Lexie confronts Mark and tells him that she’s tired of keeping their relationship a secret. That either they can be honest about their relationship or they can’t be in a relationship at all.

In the hallway, Cristina and Hunt catch each other’s eyes and move toward each other in slow motion with romantic (cheesy?) music playing …….. and then Owen spots a familiar face and freaks out.

Cristina, thankfully, has some new methods that she picked up earlier in the day and manages to calm Hunt down by holding on to him really tightly. This seems to work.

In the OR, Dixon and Bailey are back to operating on the little girl. Bailey apologizes for not consulting Dixon first before bursting in with the cheerful good news about the backpack option. Dixon tells her she’s used to Pediatric surgeons breaking protocol. Bailey tells her that she’s not a Pediatric surgeon, but Dixon gives her a list of reasons why she is meant for Pediatrics. Arizona watches on with interest and a bit of amusement. Bailey just seems perplexed.

Meredith catches up to Derek and tells him that if he doesn’t want her babies with her crappy DNA to just tell her instead of avoiding her. Derek smiles and kisses her and assures her that he wants her crappy babies.

The surgery was a success and Bailey watches as the girl plays with her new and sparkly backpack. The parents look happy. Arizona approaches and tells Bailey that Dixon was right in suggesting that Bailey was meant for Pediatrics.

Bailey tells Arizona about how helpless she felt when her own son was dying and how she couldn’t bear the thought of ever feeling like that again, which is why she feels she has no business in Pediatrics. Arizona tells her that that makes her uniquely qualified. Bailey looks thoughtful.

At the bar, Lexie sits down next to Callie and asks if Callie thinks Mark will tell Derek. Callie tells her that he will if he’s not an idiot. And then she starts to tear up and walks off. Passing by Arizona.

Meredith, still at the hospital, drops into the on-call room. Cristina is there with Hunt cuddled up around her, sleeping. Cristina is comfy, reading the journal. Cristina seems to want to tell Meredith about Derek proposing but tells her instead that the Chief was supposed to propose to Mer’s mom, but never did.

In the bathroom at the bar, Callie is crying. Arizona walks in and introduces herself and tells Callie that she’s seen her. And that she knows things about Callie because people at their hospital like to talk (a lot!) Callie seems bummed further by the idea, but Arizona rushes to say that there’s a lot of people that care about her and like her a lot. And that once Callie’s finished with being depressed, she’s certain there will be a line of people waiting for her. Callie laughs in disbelief and asks Arizona to give her some names. Arizona answers by kissing her. She says, “I think you’ll know.”

That definitely cheered Callie up!

Over at the house, Derek and Mark have set up what looks like a 1-800-Flowers shop in the bedroom. There’s roses and teddy bears and Derek calls himself a cliche. Mark seems to want to tell Derek about Lexie but chickens out and then leaves.

Cue the phone call from Addison!

When Meredith walks into the bedroom later, Derek is gone and so are all the flowers. However, she finds a rose petal beneath her pillow. Curious!

And that was the end.

Private Practice starts with Addison’s phone call to Derek telling him that she needs him. However, the episode then goes back 15 hours. So we’ve got the storyline in place, but the actual crossover will be starting next week.