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Cut to:
Tina, Helena, Dylan and Danny coming out of the meeting.
Dylan suddenly realizes she left her jacket behind and goes back into the
office to get it.
Helena tells Tina she'll catch her up and goes back to the office to find
Dylan.
When she does, she says she needs to talk to her.
She asks Dylan why she's acting like they don't even know each other, to
which Dylan replies that they don't, really.
Dylan explains that the other day when they kissed (rather passionately
whilst watching Dylan's work) was because she was caught up in the moment
and that it wont happen again. (Which, in TV talk, means it probably will -
yippee! hehe!)
She's straight and with Danny. She asks if that will affect the way Helena
deals with the project but Helena says no, it wont affect her decisions,
even though we can see she is profoundly affected by what happened between
her and Dylan.
Okay, so, I GET that Helena has changed from last seasons uberbitch to this
seasons Ms Nice Girl - for heavens sake they have even got her wearing hair
bands and walking around carrying a folder in front of her like a
schoolgirl! - but this sudden transformation has never really been
explained.
NOT that I'm complaining mind you. I like this new, more accessible, less
bitchy Helena Peabody.
We'll just have to see how long it lasts before Ms Bitchy comes back into
play I guess.
Gods help me, but I even want to give Helena a hug as she stands there
clutching her folder while Dylan leaves.
Next thing you know I'll be fancying Jenny and finding Moira's wardrobe
adorable or something.......
Pass me the smelling salts mother!
Cut to:
Lara, in the waiting room, as the surgeon comes out to tell her how the op
went.
Lara asks if Dana's ok, but Dr Shapiro tells her he can't share that info
with her.
Lara doesn't understand, but the Dr says that technically Lara isn't Dana's
family.
BLOODY HELL.
HOW cold can someone be!
COULDN'T he have told them about this situation BEFORE the operation so that
Dana could give her consent or whatever to details of her health being told
to Lara????!!!
What a bastard!
"I'm her PARTNER!
SHE told YOU that!" Lara points out, angrily.
"Unfortunately I'm only LEGALLY allowed to release medical information to
family" explains the Doc, weaselling himself out of it using the law.
Bastard bastard bastard.
We see Dana lying recovering, all hooked up to monitors and machines, tubes
running in and out of her body.
She needs Lara to BE THERE, and she cant be.
What a cruel twist.
Cut to:
Alice talking on her cell phone to Uta about what they're gonna do that
evening.
They joke about "who's gonna drive" and stuff and then Alice gets another
call so asks Uta to hold on.
She looks at the number, sees it's Lara and so says she'll call Uta back in
a minute.
On the other end of the phone, and upset Lara tells Alice that Dana is
really sick and that she didn't tell her friends the whole truth about going
in for the lumpectomy.
Cut to:
Lara, waiting anxiously in a hospital corridor.
She paces and walks past the ever-so-helpful Dr Shapiro who still says
nothing about Dana.
Then Dana's mother and father come round the corner, (turns out Lara got
Alice to call them as she didn't have the number. Which is weird, cause,
y'know, if I was going into hospital for something that big, I'D call my
folks to let them know....) so Lara introduces them to Dana's doctor and
they question him on how Dana is and why she's even there etc.
The Doc leads them away and Mrs Fairbanks says dismissively of Lara, "You
can go home now dear, we'll take over from here!"
Leaving poor Lara alone in the corridor with no one to lean on and no hope
of getting in to see the woman she loves when the woman she loves needs her
the most.
Cut to:
Dana's hospital room, where Dana groggily greets her parents.
She asks where Lara is and her father simply tells her Lara has gone home.
Dana asks why she would do that and her mother tells her that THEY are her
family, which is all rather peachy except for it's DANA who has cancer and
DANA who should get to say who gets to stay at her bedside and NOT her
homophobic parents.
Dr Shapiro tells Dana that the cancer was more progressed than they thought
initially and it's spread to the lymph nodes.
i.e. the prognosis is NOT good.
When cancer spreads to the lymphatic system in a body it's very hard to get
rid of and can basically go anywhere rather quickly.
The Doc says they had to remove "a great deal of the muscle and tissue" and
Dana just lies there trying to take it all in.
Cut to:
Alice in her car.
She's on the phone to Uta telling her that she'll have to cancel their plans
for that night.
She's obviously driving to the hospital to be with Dana. |
