All You Need Is Love - Recap

The scene opens and, Meredith and Derek will never have sex again seems like, with the baby and baby stuff strewn all over the house, they try every place from the bathroom to their car, but to no avail. Having a baby, it turns out can have this kind of an effect on couples. So can a lack of companionship as far as Lexie is concerned, that is why she very graciously offers to babysit, so that Meredith and Derek can spend some quality time together; although there is a hint of self pity in her voice and words. Cristina is also sleeping alone lately, and is visibly sad and forlorn. Miranda though has plans which are worth looking forward to. The whole hospital is shown discussing just one thing, Valentine’s Day, with some looking forward to it, while others who are without a date or without a partner left feeling lonely and possibly even depressed; especially on hearing the plans of the fortunate ones. Meanwhile, Meredith is discussing with Cristina how her sex life is getting affected by the baby; but Christina has relationship issues which are much more serious, she describes them to Meredith.

Later, Meredith treats a woman who has been having blinding headaches; the patient’s husband is visibly worried by his wife’s suffering. The patient’s pain is shown to be so much that, she just shuts down while talking; in fact she is having seizures. Later Derek tells the husband that his wife is at a risk of suffering severe brain damage, and thus convinces the patient's loving husband to put his wife into a medically-induced coma while they figure out what's wrong; because every seizure she has causes a bit of brain damage. Hearing all this, the husband agrees. Meredith is trying to figure out the reason for the patient’s seizures, she discusses it with Miranda; they finally figure out the reason. They explain her ailment to the husband; and that an operation should do the trick; the husband reminisces about his life with his wife, and tells Meredith how much he loves his wife. Meredith and Bailey remove something called a teratoma from the patient's lung. Bailey is then shown looking forward to her Valentine plans.

Unfortunately, there may or may not be another one on her ovaries; Bailey is informed by Meredith. The only way to be sure is to remove them; that is the conclusion the two doctors arrive at, after brainstorming. The gamble to remove the woman's ovaries pays off. This procedure will prohibit her from having children, but she'll now be able to enjoy a long life with the man she loves. Their story reminds us of the hardships Meredith and Derek endured before Zola came along. Oh, and the good news is they do manage to have sex again. It's a Valentine's Day miracle! Cristina learns that she's back on Teddy's service. Then…CRASH! A van comes barreling through the hospital doors. Owen pushes his wife out of the line of fire, but steps away once he's sure Cristina is unhurt, she is visibly hurt by his behavior; but is too shocked by all that has happened to react. The flower delivery driver who fell asleep at the wheel isn't so lucky; he is a really bad shape and doesn’t remember anything that happened.

Teddy, Owen and Cristina repair his heart in a tension-filled OR, with Teddy the harbinger of gloom; thanks to all that she had to endure recently. Later, Owen tells Cristina that he's moving out. It's devastating news for two people in a lot of pain. Things get worse for Owen when he asks Teddy if they could be friends again. Her answer is an astonishing, venom-filled tirade about how much she hates him, thanks to all that has happened in the past. It's truly brutal. Owen looks completely lost until Cristina approaches him, and offers some amount of consolation. She asks her husband not to hate her, for having taken the decisions that she has. Judging by the way he looks in her eyes and caresses her arm, we're pretty sure that's not the case at all. A man is hit by a car after chasing after his angry girlfriend. She ran off after he gave her a necklace for Valentine's Day. The frustrated lady was hoping to get an engagement ring instead of just a necklace; even when he is on his way to being operated the woman keeps telling him how she was expecting a proposal. She is shown to be extremely vocal about it; and is thus escorted out of the room so that, the patient can have some peace.

The woman does regret her behavior, but is frustrated at having to wait so long to be proposed to, by her boyfriend. When the patient takes a turn for the worse though, the woman doesn't care about the ring anymore. She just wants her boyfriend to be okay, she is extremely worried, and talks of how she had already made plans for their engagement, but how none of it matters more than him. Sadly, he passes away due to forming complications, despite the best efforts of the doctors present; his girlfriend is inconsolable and collapses on the floor crying. Lexie later learns that the necklace he gave her had a message inside. It read "Will you marry me?" Mark loses a game of Rock, Paper, and Scissors to Arizona to babysit Sofia, and is visible frustrated at losing. His plans with Julia got squashed by an emergency surgery anyway.

Mark won't be without adult companionship though. Jackson pops by to cook him dinner in exchange for some study help to prep for his boards. Lexie also pops by with Zola for a play date. Actually, she was hoping to have a heart-to-heart with Mark. That's not likely to happen now. Alex treats a 10-year-old little girl named Clementine, who has an allergic reaction to the chocolates she received from her sweetheart. 10-year-old, Nico, says his girl Clem can squeeze his hand as hard as she wants while she gets a shot. When the girl needs to spend the night in the hospital, Alex promises to deliver Nico's heartfelt message to his true love. He lets Clementine know that she picked a pretty good first boyfriend. Arizona believes that Callie is taking her camping for Valentine's Day. That's too bad. Arizona hates camping.

That's why she's pretty darn crestfallen when Callie leads her to Derek's trailer. It's not really a camping trip though. The inside of the trailer is done up with dozens of candles to set the mood for a romantic evening miles away from anyone else. Bailey and Ben have dinner reservations at an eloquent restaurant. The events of the day kept pushing the dining time more and more. Richard offers to take another late surgery off her hands. He's free on his anniversary because Adele doesn't really recognize him at the moment. At 11:23 p.m., Bailey still has time to save Valentine's Day. Actually, Ben's the one who does the saving. He planned a private dinner right there in the hospital weeks ago. Ben's pretty good at the romance thing. The episode ends.

Written By David Sibert

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