How best to describe this week's episode? Well, most of it made me want to stab myself with a finely sharpened toothbrush.

That is exactly what has happened to Eric Stoltz, a death row prisoner who has been brought in after being beaten in a prison fight. Mere and Cristina are not happy that both of them are assigned to the same case, on account of them still not speaking to each other. Things are even more awkward because the two attendings on the case are Shepherd and Hunt. Meredith wants to make the guy more comfortable but Cristina and Derek want him to only get the amount of care he needs to survive and kind of relish him being in pain. When the girls are in the room with him alone Cristina asks what he did and he tells them serenely about how he slit the throats of five women in three days and really enjoyed doing it.

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