Mercy 1:7
Posted by dorolerium on Friday, November 27th, 2009
What a shock, this show made me cry again. Seriously, if you want to just get upset and cry for a bit, watch Mercy. If it doesn’t make you cry, you are made of stone.
Chris, aka Dr. Sands, is apparently over Veronica. Or something. Because he sleeps with one of the other doctors at the beginning of this episode. He kind of moved on fast, in my opinion. I don’t expect him to stay into Veronica forever, but he shares dinner with this lady once and they are in bed? He’s so not devoted!
Despite the fact that, as mentioned above, the episode upset me, there were some pretty funny lines. One of the patients on the episode is a girl that Veronica and Sonia went to high school with, I think her name was Dana, but she was played by Erika Christensen. And unrelated, but am I the only person who can’t keep Erika Christensen and Julia Stiles separate? I confuse them regularly.
Okay, so Erika Christensen was the Homecoming Queen at their high school, beating out Sonia, who is kind of upset about it still. Veronica is totally shocked by how great Erika still looks and says, “She’s totally rockin’ that hospital gown, I feel like such a nerd!”
Turns out that even though Erika is married to some rich dude and is still pretty, her husband is a domestic abuser. Sonia discovers a bunch of previous fractures aside from the broken arm Erika’s in the hospital for, and tries to convince Erika to report her husband and leave him. I shouldn’t laugh at any of these lines, because domestic abuse is a serious issue that I take to heart, but Erika was funny so I’ll give her credit. She apparently is still holding a grudge against Sonia too, so she gets all nasty: “You’re tacky – nice nurse shoes.“ And then she collapses. For the record, Sonia called her “tacky” first, but in a medical way.
I dunno who carries a grudge this long, it’s kind of silly, but ultimately Erika stabs her husband in the neck with a card holder. You know, the kind that comes with flowers. She’s gonna get in trouble for assault, but Sonia comes to her rescue and says she witnessed the altercation and that Erika was just defending herself. So they get over their grudges I guess.
In the meantime, Veronica’s dad had collapsed at a party, so he’s in the hospital and they discover he has Alzheimer’s. This is the part that upset me, it’s just so hard to see people aging when you can tell they are really too young for the kind of fate they now have. Mike also comes to the hospital to see Veronica’s dad, and ends up getting in a fight with Chris. Pretty much the whole Flanagan clan gets into it, and Veronica’s dad says my favorite quote of the episode:
You know, it never really hit me until this moment, but we’re basically white trash
At least he can see it!
Mike also seems to have decided he doesn’t want to work on the marriage anymore, and essentially proposes a divorce to Veronica, who is not into it. It’s interesting to me that he felt his indiscretions weren’t so bad, and wouldn’t leave Veronica alone when she wanted to end things, but doesn’t extend her the same courtesy. Granted, I’m sure it hurts to be cheated on, but if you’re guilty as well and your partner was forgiving, don’t you at least owe an explanation?
Chloe continued her sort of relationship with Fireman Petey, who we learn has a wife. But Chloe doesn’t know this yet, and is undoubtedly in for a world of hurt.
In the end, I’m left wondering what’s going to happen in the next episode. And crossing my fingers that I won’t cry.
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