When last we heard from network television’s arguably most adorable couple – albeit there are not many – Grey’s Anatomy’s Callie and Arizona, they were no more thanks to Arizona callously dumping Callie at the airport prior to zooming around the world to help the ‘tiny humans’ of Malawi.
Upon getting kicked to the curb Callie (Sara Ramirez) licked the wounds of the break up with a couple of old standards – booze and Mark Sloane (Eric Dane). But just as Mark as sorbet -- Shonda Rhimes’ latest euphemism for sex – began to sour, and he went back to Lexie, Arizona turned up on Callie’s doorstep, contrite and begging Callie back. That’s when Callie shut the door in her face and Grey’s took a month-long holiday reprieve.
But it’s the new year and Grey’s came back with a bang this Thursday with a more-than-usual gut wrenching story that had this viewer choking back tears within the first few minutes – but I’m easy. So here’s the Callie and Arizona storyline from Thursday’s episode entitled ‘Disarm.’
SPOILER ALERT!!!!
Fast forward to the beginning of January our time but to the next morning Callie and Arizona time. Following Meredith’s (Ellen Pompeo) earnestly sagacious voiceover intro for the show we cut to Callie opening her door to find Arizona still there from the night before…or so it seems.
Befuddled by the appearance of this adorable blonde on her doorstep first thing in the morning – talk about a welcomed wake-up call for most-- Callie asks Arizona if she’s been there all night, but alas, Arizona cops to having snuck back to a hotel to freshen up and take a disco nap before returning to Callie’s stoop. Whatever Arizona’s strategy, Callie is not buying it. ‘Go back to Malawi,’ she says to the sound of collective lesbian hearts invested in the storyline breaking.
The next time we see Arizona, she’s double stepping next to Chief Webber (James Pickens Jr.) asking for her job at Seattle Grace back. She tells him she’s got the details of fulfilling her grant work while working at Seattle Grace – and wooing Callie back—all worked out. But this is Arizona’s morning to be rejected, and the chief says he’s got no room for her on the staff – as he’s filled her spot with the hardened, obdurate Dr. Stark (Peter MacNicol).
“I can’t have a job here?” Arizona asks gob-smacked. Then she says, "Tell me about this new peds guy.” And it looks as though Arizona is prepped to throw down a gauntlet to win back Callie and her job.
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Meanwhile, in the other world of Grey’s – that of the actual treating people and performing surgery -- the hospital is overwhelmed with college students as a result of a mass shooting. With the Seattle Grace mass shooting fresh on the docs’ minds it’s an emotional harrowing day at the hospital for all.
Shut out of her job, Arizona takes to the gallery above the O.R. where Karev (Justin Chambers) and Stark are operating on a 15-year-old victim with a gunshot to her femur. Stark insists the girl must lose her leg while Karev implores him to allow Callie to try to save it. As the implacable Stark would rather saw of a leg than determine the options Karev shouts to Arizona in the gallery for help.
‘Body block him Karev!’ Arizona shouts back. ‘Don’t let him near that leg.’ Next up she’s off to the chief to beg him to let her take over. “Dr. Incompetence is about to hack of a kid’s leg,” she says.
Next up, it’s Super Doc Arizona to the rescue, running for scrubs as she’s all business in telling Callie she’s needed to help save a leg. But this pissing match isn’t over until Arizona and Callie tag-team him out of the O.R. Karev, a former wrestler has been holding Stark off, despite the saw Stark’s been wielding.
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“This is my patient now,” Arizona tells Stark as she assumes her rightful place in the pediatric O.R. And she and Callie exchange a ‘we make a great team” look over their surgical masks.
Before long though Arizona starts to get personal, which causes one to wonder… has Seattle Grace ever considered fraternization policies? I mean, there are no fewer than four inter-office relationships happening there at any one time.
“I understand why you’re mad at me…” Arizona says. But before she gets to far. Callie stops her saying she won’t allow Arizona to hold her hostage and force her to listen. Frankly, I’d let Arizona hold me hostage and do just about anything, so this is eluding me.
“I’m rebuilding the leg of a kid whose been shot. That’s why I am here. That’s the only reason… No talking now,” Callie declares. And then Arizona shoots her look over the surgical mask, making me wonder if actors on medical shows go to acting classes that deal in the equivalent of Tyra Banks’ ‘smizing,’ or how to convey emotion only with the eyes…
Of course the dynamic duo that should absolutely be together saved the girl’s leg, proving that, at least professionally, they are a fantastic team, which Arizona points out to Callie. But still, Callie is not biting. Just as it looks as though Callie’s made her final exit of the episode Arizona engages in the old use-the-full-name trick. “Calliope,” she says. “I am so deeply, deeply, deeply sorry for hurting you so much because I am so in love with you.” If that weren’t enough to set hearts aflutter she adds, “I will spend the rest of my life telling you that. I will apologize to you every day if that’s what you need.”
That Callie must have some healthy resolve, because if one little Dr. Robbins were begging like that with me I’d have taken her back on the front stoop the night before.
“Please don’t walk away again," Arizona begs. “I came across the world to be with you. I love you.”
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A visibly unfettered Callie says, “You flew a world away without looking back. You came back today but I didn’t. That hasn’t changed.” And Callie makes her exit.
The last time we see the broken lovebirds they are in the gallery with the rest of the staff as Teddy (Kim Raver) and Christina (Sandra Oh) save the shooter meaning that there wasn’t a single casualty that came out of the tragedy. As the staff collectively cries until they laugh, Stark exits saying he hates the place. But that’s not the last we will see of him.
The chief informs Arizona she can have a job but she’ll have to work under Stark. And here’s predicting that’ll be enough penance for Callie to eventually forgive Arizona.
But what happens when Arizona discovers Callie – although they were broken up -- hopped back on the Mark merry-go-round while Arizona was saving ‘Tiny Humans?’
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