Grey's Anatomy: Season 5
Episode 3

Title: Brave New World
Episode: 5.04
First Air Date: October 16, 2008
DVD: Grey's Anatomy: Season 5
Blu-ray: Grey's Anatomy: Season 5
Writer: Debora Cahn
Director: Eric Stoltz
DVD: Not yet available
Guest Stars:
Amy Aquino as Marianne
Larry Brandenburg as Arnie
Bre Blair as Lauren
John Sloan as David
Steven W. Bailey as Joe
Kathleen Early as Dr. Daisy Pepman
Max Burkholder as Duncan

Music:
Grey's Anatomy Theme: Cosy in the Rocket by Psapp

TITLE: Altogether Now
PERFORMER: Patrick & Eugene
LABEL: Tummy Touch
Derek takes money from Alex and gives it to Izzie so she can buy a pizza. Callie and Cristina move in. Erica asks Callie out on a date.

TITLE: My Love
PERFORMER: The Bird & The Bee
LABEL: Blue Note
George calls Meredith a liar. Erica stares at Callie. Bailey clocks this.

TITLE: Big Jumps
PERFORMER: Emiliana Torrini
LABEL: Rough Trade
Bailey reluctantly gives Callie sex advice. George finds Cristina, Izzie, and Meredith completely enthralled by the Dermotology vibe.

TITLE: Done With You
PERFORMER: The Whitest Boy Alive
LABEL: Bubbles
Cristina and Lexie stabilize Mrs. Borsokowski. Alex insults Izzie. Derek refuses to give the surgery back to Alex. Bailey places Cristina on Mrs. Borsokowski's Dermatology case. Mark and Derek begin Arnie's surgery.

TITLE: One Of Those Days
PERFORMER: Josh Radin
LABEL: Mom & Pop
George prepares Duncan to enter the OR. George enters the wrong OR and Duncan sees Arnie with his face removed. George carries Duncan down the hall. Duncan observes Hahn's surgery.

TITLE: Ain't Gonna Lose You
PERFORMER: Brett Dennen
LABEL: Downtown
Izzie comforts Marianne who is upset that she doubted her husband. Cristina, Meredith and Izzie decide to leave Dermatology. George passes his test!

TITLE: Love to Me
PERFORMER: Bernadette Moley
LABEL: Global Creative Group
Izzie, Meredith and Cristina celebrate George's test results. Lexie sits alone. Derek scolds Alex and Izzie. Alex apologizes to Izzie.

TITLE: My Heart With You
PERFORMER: The Rescues
LABEL: Red Wind
Callie and Erica set rules for dating. Meredith gives the office back to Derek. He has an idea Meredith reads her mother's diary to Cristina.

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Synopsis:

Derek finds Meredith's mother's old diary; Callie anxiously prepares for her first real date with Erica; Cristina stumbles into a part of the hospital that she and the other residents haven't seen before.

(From ABC)
Meredith freaks out when Derek discovers her mother's old diary in the house, Callie frets as she prepares for her first official date with Erica, and Cristina stumbles into a part of the hospital that neither she nor her fellow residents have seen before.


(Recap From ABC)
Richard reminds the residents that they can no longer specialize. Cristina is upset about being assigned to the clinic, but shares her best cardio tips with Meredith, including how to perform a complicated procedure she's never done before. Erica lets Meredith do the procedure but advises her, "If you lie to me again, the next heart you'll see will be your own as I cut it out of your chest with a steak knife!"

Callie is nervous about her first date with Erica, and confides her nerves to Miranda, who suggests she regard it as a trip to a foreign country. At dinner, Erica promises Callie there's "lots of undiscovered territory above the belt."

Izzie is mad at Alex for stealing a case that she diagnosed, but Mark tells her, "Surgery is like the Wild West. Karev's a cowboy, you're not," and that she's out of luck. Derek won't help either, so Izzie goes back to her patient and tells him that Alex has been "off his game." The ploy works: the patient asks for her to be reassigned to his case. When Alex protests, she tells him she's done "wiping up your snot and covering your ass." Derek reminds them both that he's not their roommate when they're at work. "You two ever pull that crap again on one of my cases, I will have you thrown out of the program," he warns.

A patient with a rash brings Cristina to the dermatology department. When she sees the special privileges that the department gets, including massages, she can't believe it's the same hospital. Meredith, Izzie and George all marvel at how relaxed and civil the department is, with no fighting over surgeries. At the end of the day, however, they admit how bored they'd be without life and death cases.

George passes his intern exam -- and Lexie is anxious to celebrate but is crushed when he goes to tell Izzie and Meredith first. At Joes, instead of sitting at George's table, Lexie drinks at the bar by herself.

Derek starts clearing out the home office that used to belong to Meredith's mother and comes across an old diary of hers. Meredith is not happy that he's been "snooping" and Derek offers to move out. After thinking it over, Meredith insists he should stay. "I may not always be so graceful about it, but I want you here." Meredith takes the diary and reads it aloud with Cristina.

Alex finally apologizes to Izzie for how he's treated her since his breakup with Ava. "I know I'm being an ass. But you can't be pissed off at a chick for losing her mind, so there's nobody else to be pissed at but you," and all her resentment seems to melt away.