Who's Zoomin' Who?

"Secrets can't hide in science. Medicine has a way of exposing the lies. Within the walls of the hospital, the truth is stripped bare. How we keep our secrets outside the hospital – well, that’s a little different. One thing is certain, whatever it is we're trying to hide; we're never ready for that moment when the truth gets naked. That's the problem with secrets – like misery, they love company. They pile up and up until they take over everything, until you don't have room for anything else, until you're so full of secrets you feel like you're going to burst. The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free. Whether good or bad, at least they're out in the open, like it or not. And once your secrets are out in the open, you don't have to hide behind them anymore. The problem with secrets is even when you think you're in control, you're not."

- Meredith Grey

'''Burke operates on his friend. George gets syphillis from Olivia, Izzie and Cristina become body snatchers, Meredith finds it harder to look after her mother and Derek operates on Richard's brain while someone from his past crops up.'''

Full Summary


George is sitting on the edge of the bath naked, reading a book about rashes when Izzie knock, telling him to hurry up. She asks what hes doing but when he replies that it is private, she laughs and says she'll wait.In her room, Meredith quietly talks to a nurse at her mothers nursing home but hangs up as Derek turns around in his sleep and wakes up. George emerges from the bathroom and Izzie tells him there is no need to be ashamed (presuming he was masturbating). Meredith walks out wondering why they are arguing and Izzie explains she caught George playing with Jimmy and the twins. They all walk away and Derek emerges with his ringing phone but he ignores it.

Cristina talks to a doctor about her scheduled abortion on the 16th but hangs up as Burke comes around the corner.

Burke asks her why she didn't answer her page the previous night and she considers telling him about the pregnancy but walks off instead. The chief walks past her, swaying slightly and rubbing his head. George talks quietly to Olivia in a corner as the chief passes asking if she feels ok. He starts to tell her he feels a bit itchy but Izzie interupts. George and Olivia leave and Izzie realises that George wan't playing with Jimmy and the twins. She looks confused, wondering what he was doing. George talks to Alex in the locker room and asks him to inspect his rash because he can't get close enough to be sure what it is. Alex kneels down, inspects his penis, pats him on the shoulder, tells him its syphilis and walks off.

Burke, Alex and George treat a patient snaking a camera up his mojo. Bill is a friend of Burke's and Burke tells them only to worry about the baby in her uterus. They finish up and schedule a CT. In another OR, Meredith looks up worriedly at Derek in the gallery while she helps the chief and Bailey. Miranda and Meredith look worriedly at Webber as he compains about the lighting but they continue with the surgery. Cristina and Izzie look at a patient with an abnormally large abdomen and he explains it has been growing for a while.

George asks for the bloodwork of George O'Malley and Izzie plucks it out of his hands asking who has syphilis and if it isn't surgical why does he have the bloodwork. He pulls her into a room and draws the shades. Izzie makes fun of George but tries to calm him saying a few doses of penicillen will get rid of it. In surgery, the chief drops a surgical instrument and blinks rapidly. He steps back and allows Bailey to finish.



After getting the CT results and discussing George's penis, Alex and George leave to get Burke. Cristina and Izzie walk into Franklin's room and tells him he has ascites. He and his wife look worried but their daughter looks dis-interested, saying it is beacause he drinks a lot. While looking at the results, Alex and Burke debate over what something looks like and Alex jokes that it looks like an ovary. When George walks in and hands Burke other results, he is surprised to learn that it is an ovary. Cristina and Izzie update Bailey on Mr.Franklin, after testing them, she tells them they can do a paracentesis. As she walks off, Cristina and Izzie celebrate.

Alex and George walk down a flight of stairs, George and Olivia kiss and after a moment or so of being ignored, Alex leaves. As they kiss, George breaks apart and as he starts to talk to her she worriedly ask if he is breaking up. He insists that he isn't. After an awkward few minutes of trying to tel her, he eventually blurts out that he has syphilis. Shocked, she walks away quickly.

Derek walks into the chiefs office and asks him to explain his behaviour. The chief says that a few weeks ago he was operating and the vision in his right eye became blurry. After a few hours, it was fine but the problem came back again. He lets Derek run some tests but insists that he keeps them secret. Alex and walk oudoors withn their trays, past Olivia's table who is apparently ignoring George. They sit down with Cristina Izzie and Meredith, George is shocked to discover that all three of them know about his syphilis but Alex convinces him trhat all the women will think he is a "player" now.



Burke enters Bill's room and explains that the mass was not a tumour but an ovary. Initially Bill is shocked but Burke tells him they can remove it and it won't make a difference to anything, he is still a man. In another room, George is bent over a gurney while Alex prepares to give him some penicillen. Meredith complains that Alex is doing it wrong so he hands the needle to Meredith and leaves. Izzie and Cristina quickly follow and after Meredith is finished, George leaves angrily.

While Meredith quietly talks to one of her mother's nurses. Derek and the chief walk down a corridoor and Derek tells Webber he has an MRI scheduled. As Derek leaves Patricia appears and tells the chief they have a situation.

The chief has many doctors in front of him, he complains that three interns, four residents and six nurses on the surgical floor were diagnosed with syphilis. Olivia and George look at each other from opposite ends of the room. After a stern lecture, Webber gets Patricia to perform a safe sex demonstration with a condom and banana. Derek slips into the room at quitely asks the chief to come down for the MRI.

Cristina waits in a line when Burke sees her and asks why she is avoiding him. She says she isn't, she is just waiting in the syph line, he tells her she doesn't have to be there and he then asks if he should. She says no and they both get out of the line and head in opposite directions. Izzie joins her and they go to Mr.Franklin's room, they inject him with an anesthetic and tell them that for now, all they have to do is wait.



Derek and Richard examine his MRI scans ans see a tuomour on his optic nerve, Derek schedules a secret surgery for that night, the chief leaves as Meredith enters for Derek to let her in on the secret. In Mr.Franklin's room, Izzie and Cristina notice he seems to have a lot of fluids, Izzie checks his pulse and discovers he has none. Cristina hits the code button while Izzie starts CPR, the code team runs in a moment later but it is too late. Cristina and Izzie leave, Izzie scared that it was there fault and they missed something but Bailey reassures them that they did everything they could have and should have. Cristina asks when the autopsy will happen but Bailey tells her there won't be one because the family didn't want one. Cristina gets annoyed, complaining she wanted to know what the cause was.

Derek runs up to Bailey and Meredith in the hall. Bailey asks him to tell the chief she will be there for his surgery and when she leaves, Meredith asks Derek if she should get tested because technically, they never had any rules. He assured her she doesn't have to and that they are practically a condom ad anyway, as they wak away, Derek's phone rings again but he ignores it.

In the O.R, Burke operates on Bill. Dr.Knox tells Burke that she just has to sew up the perforation on the bladder wall but stops, she then tells Burke that although Bill's wife is pregnant, Bill is sterile and the baby can't be his. Izzie and Cristina sit down with Mr.Franklin's wife and daughter and try and convince them to give consent for an autopsy. The mother considers it but her daughter, Alice, says no. In an unused corridoor, Izzie tells Cristina that unless she wants to be known as the new 007 they should do the autopsy, his wife clearly wanted it. Despite Meredith's warning, she caves and agrees with Izzie. Meredith gives up but tells them that Bailey will be busy from around 7 t0 11, she then runs off.



Derek walks into his O.R to see the Chief and Bailey prepping for his surgery. In another room, Izzie worries about being a body snatcher having illegaly stolen ,r.Franklin's body while Cristina props open a textbook and begins to cut him open. Derek, Bailey and Meredith finish up the chief's surgery, Bailey tells her that it went well but if they did make a mistake he will be blind forever. Bailey asks Meredith to page Cristina and Izzie but as Meredith tries to cover for them, Bailey realises she is lying, asks another doctor to finish up and leaves to find them.

Outside Bill's room, Burke argues with Holly, she tells him that although the baby isn't his and she cheated on him, they are happy and if he is Bill's friend, he won't tell him. Burke then says that as a friend he won't tell Bill but as a doctor, he has to.

Meredith holds a conversation with Ms. Henry apologizing for not coming but Ms.Henry just tells her that her mother remembered her that day, asking when she got off work. Derek walks up to her so Meredith quickly hangs up. All of a sudden, Meredith cracks. She tells Derek that her mother is not travelling or writing a book, she has extremely advanced Alzheimer's. Derek kisses her and smoothes her hair, inside his room the chief sees them and doesn't look happy.

Bailey storms in on Cristina and Izzie telling them that they completely disregarded the patient's fmily's wishes and also were technically commiting assault. She asks if they have anything to say to her and Izzie hold s up a giant heart weighing 600 grams, grudgingly Bailey lets them run some tests. Meredith walks into the chief's room and is happy to discover he can still see but he warns her to stay away from Derek and that she is making a mistake but she insists that she isn't.



Izzie, Cristina and Bailey sit with Alice and Rebecca Franklin, Alice threatens to sue but Cristina interrupts, telling her that Mr.Franklin died from a genetic disease, not from drinking. Worried that Alice might have it, they ask for a blood test to see if Alice has it so it can be cured quickly and Izzie complies but slyly hands out the autopsy form from Jordan Franklin for her to sign first.

George sees Burke talk to Bill.

Olivia enters the locker room and tells George that before they got together she was seeing Alex but broke it off after realizing how much she liked him. Crazed, George turns around and punches Alex, screaming "YOU GAVE ME SYPHILLIS?!!!".

Meredith enters the lobby where Derek waits for her. They debate on what to do for the night.



Derek turns around to see a red-haired woman, he apologizes to Meredith as the woman walks towards them. She asks Derek why he was avoiding her call and then introduces herself to Meredith, ''Hi. I'm Addison Shepherd. And you must be the woman who's been screwing my husband.''

Music

 * "Big as the Sky" - .M. Sixty 
 * "End of the World Party" - Medeski, Martin & Wood 
 * "The Dog Song" - Nellie McKay 
 * "Naked as We Came" - Iron & Wine 
 * "Whatever Gets You Through Today" - The Radio

This episode's title originated from the song Who's Zoomin' Who, originally sung by Aretha Franklin.

Quotes

 * George: I seem to be having this skin thing going on, like a rash, really. And I think I know what it is, but I can't get close enough to tell for sure.
 * Alex: Let's see it.
 * George: It's kinda located in an, um, you know, private...
 * Alex: You're a doctor, George. It's called a penis. You have a rash on your penis?
 * George: I think I can describe it. Um, it's k...red.
 * Alex: Look, just come on. Just show me your junk so we can get this over with.


 * Cristina: Hey Syph-boy!
 * George: You told her?
 * Izzie: Just Cristina.
 * Alex: Syph-boy. It's got a nice ring to it; kind of like Super-boy, only diseased.


 * Addison Shepherd: Hi. I'm Addison Shepherd. And you must be the woman who's been screwing my husband.

Main Cast

 * Ellen Pompeo as Dr. Meredith Grey
 * Sandra Oh as Dr. Cristina Yang
 * Katherine Heigl as Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens
 * Justin Chambers as Dr. Alex Karev
 * T.R. Knight as Dr. George O'Malley
 * Chandra Wilson as Dr. Miranda Bailey
 * James Pickens Jr. as Dr. Richard Webber
 * Isaiah Washington as Dr. Preston Burke
 * Patrick Dempsey as Dr. Derek Shepherd

Guest Stars

 * Kate Walsh as Dr. Addison Montgomery-Shepherd
 * Lauren Bowles as Alice Franklin
 * Wendy Davis as Holly Adams
 * Wayne Wilderson as Bill Adams

Co-Starring

 * Catherine Dao as Dr. Knox
 * Joyce Guy as Ms. Henry
 * Patty McCormack as Rebecca Franklin
 * Jack Merrill as Lab Tech
 * Robin Pearson Rose as Patricia
 * Jack Shearer as Jordan Franklin
 * Sarah Utterback as Nurse Olivia Harper