Grey's Anatomy recap: Don't flame out on me

It didn't end there. Amy insisted on joining the surgery. Derek refused. She questioned him further on how he felt when he got shot. "I feel pain," he quipped, "Only because you won't stop talking." Oh snap! He told Cristina to book an OR 'cause she was scrubbing in. Cristina tried to worm her way out of it but Derek was having none of it. He was determined to help her regain her mojo. He posed some questions to Cristina about the surgery and all she could managed was "I don't know" and tried to push the surgery to Amy. Derek flatly refused and she walked out, presumably to book the OR.

Amy looked on, increasingly perplexed, and when Derek still refused to let her in, she said, "That's my patient. And you're going to let what's-her-face with the learning disability scrub in? Why don't you just shoot the guy?" Oh, crap. Big mistake. "Don't talk about shooting people in this building," he growled, "Don't criticise my surgeons."

Being the annoying person that she is, she then bounced up to Meredith and requested if she could put herself in Derek's surgery. But alas, her plan failed as Derek walked in on them. What impeccable timing! See? He knew you were up to something. He told her, "You think I'm going to let you do to him what you did to my Mustang? I don't think so." And she walked away, looking really pissed. And for the first time, I really felt sad for her. As much as I love to see her getting put down, maybe she was getting too much.

Meredith was all like "She's your sister" and "We all make mistakes" but Derek explained to her that she was high on pain pills when she crashed his car and she stole their mum's prescription pad to feed her addiction. She put their mum through so much pain after their dad died. Ok, so is he just angry with her? Or is there something else?

Predictably, Amy scrubbed in anyway and luckily she did, for Cristina broke down at a critical moment and she quickly took over and saved the guy. When the Shepherds were done, Cristina said the most un-Cristina line ever in the history of the chronicles of Grey's Anatomy. "So you're done, I can go?" she asked nonchalantly. Amy told Derek she was a dud and wondered how she ever passed her intern exam. "Cristina Yang saved my life. She saved my life. I owe her everything. Get out. Get the hell out!" he shot back.

Cristina paged Owen to the on-call room and asked him to tell Derek to back off. "Would you love me if I wasn't a surgeon?" she asked. "I would love you if you were a plumber," he said. "But would you love you if you weren't a surgeon?" She replied, "I don't know. Maybe."

Derek wasn't finished with Cristina. He was hell bent on helping her find her footing. He found her in the residents' lounge playing Solitaire and started his Derek speech. Apparently, he wouldn't pick her to be a part of his life. Professionally, yes but personally, no. But now they're family and he cares about her. "You're flaming out," he told her, "and as someone who cares about you, it's not okay." She explained that she could only remember bits of pieces of the surgery and it always comes back at very inconvenient times. So end of story. Really?

Apparently not. Derek took her to the morgue, I presume, and made her re-enact the surgery on a cadaver, step by step. She said it was stupid. He said it wasn't. "What's the worse that could happen? You'll kill him?" he joked. And she took her first cut.

Derek tried to make things right with his sister. Apparently, their tension go way back. Right to when their father was shot when they were kids. “How am I supposed to call you up and tell you I’ve been shot?” he said. “I can’t tell you about my pain. I don’t want you to know that pain exists.”