Grey's: "Don't ever tell him what to do, just tell him how you feel"

I owe you a recap of last week's Grey's Anatomy episode as well as this week's, so both follow.

- A lot of what happened in this episode had to do with Owen and in turn Teddy. There was even flashbacks of their time in Iraq. From the very beginning of this episode we see that Owen is having a difficult time sleeping. Then, when Teddy asks for a consult on a case where a cancer patient wants Teddy to help her die in what is called physician assisted suicide, Owen doesn't want to help because he believes every day is worth living and that you should never give up. So we start seeing flashbacks of him in the war and we see that he was in a truck that was hit by a roadside bomb. One of his friends was seriously hurt and the friend asked Owen to give up on him, thus allowing him to die. After disobeying for a while, Owen finally takes away the pressure that has been keeping the friend from bleeding to death and he dies. Seconds later a helicopter with help lands nearby. Owen feels guilty that he did not hold on a little longer because then his friend might not have died.
- Mark and Teddy are dating and getting to know one another. They both seem to be enjoying themselves, and at the end of the episode they finally have sex.
- Callie is freaking, mostly to Mark, about Arizona's confession that she does not want to have kids. After much persuasion, Callie finally tells Arizona that she wants to have kids, but the show ends before we hear Arizona's response.
- Richard is having a hard time fitting in with the rest of the staff now that he is no longer the chief. On the opposite hand we have Derek who misses surgery so badly that he steals Meredith's surgery just so he can spend some time in the OR. At the end of the episode, Richard goes to Derek and gives him some advice; among other things he should have someone forge his signature on unimportant forms, eat lunch with someone so he looks busy and is not approached with random problems during lunchtime, schedule one surgery a day, etc.

And, now onto last night's episode, where everyone seems to be considering having children.

- The episode opens with Derek announcing that he wants to start having kids with Meredith, which obviously sets her into a minor frenzy. We find out she does not want to have kids because she is worried she would be an awful mom, especially since her mom was so awful. But by the end of the episode, and with a little help from Alex, Meredith realizes she would make a pretty good mom so she agrees to have a baby with Derek, but not right now. At least it is in their future.
- Arizona is ignoring Callie's confession that she wants to have kids and is talking about anything but that topic. This is annoying Callie and, in a moving scene between her and Bailey, Miranda gives a speech about how there is no right time to have kids. So when Callie brings up the topic again, Arizona agrees that they must discuss it.
- During a surgery with Owen overseeing, Cristina blurts out that she does not want kids. Things between them were already shaky, with him on edge and blowing up on her after she makes a mistake in surgery, so this news set him off. Cristina wants to help him, but she does not know how. At the end of the episode, instead of having the discussion he wants to have about kids, he realizes he needs to go back to therapy because Cristina is beginning to be afraid of him again.
- Teddy and Mark both thought their sex was mind blowing, which seems like a good thing, but Teddy later confesses that she wants to settle down and start a family, something she probably does not realize Mark wants also. Just as she was about to open up to him though, Sloan appears at Mark's door and is in labor.
- During this episode we learned a lot about Alex, mostly second hand after Alex's younger brother shows up and needs a surgery, which Bailey agrees to do pro bono. We learn that Alex hasn't seen his family in seven years; Alex grew up in foster care because both of his parents were on drugs; Alex spent time in juvie after getting caught stealing food to feed his two younger siblings; his family feels like he walked out on them when he was really only trying to make a life for himself instead of staying home and drowning with them. In the end, Alex's brother's surgery goes well and he heads back home, but we saw, for the first time, why Alex can at times seem so heartless when we know deep down he is actually a good guy. Oh, and in other Alex news, Izzie has filed divorce paper.