Grey’s Anatomy – S12xEp18 – ‘There’s a Fine, Fine Line’

Episode 18 begins with concern over a missing child at the hospital. Alex is insistent that Bailey call a Code Pink, but the hospital’s head of security is hesitant. He thinks the kid is probably hiding in the hospital somewhere, and explains that if they call a Code Pink the automatic doors and elevators will be locked, which is a potential risk for all the other patients. Alex appeals to the mother in Bailey, asking what she would do if it were her child. After being asked this it doesn’t take Bailey long to announce that they need to call the Code Pink. The sounding alarm and locked doors create a bit of chaos at the hospital, but Alex manages to find the boy hiding under the stairs.

Bailey gets a message that makes her run through the hospital to find Ben and De Luca, who are trying to save a patient. Ben is holding a newborn baby, while De Luca is pumping at the woman’s chest to try to get a pulse. And there is blood EVERYWHERE.They were performing an emergency C-section on a car crash victim in the middle of the hallway.

It’s now up to chief Bailey, not wife Bailey, to get to the bottom of why exactly her husband pulled a baby out of a patient so close to a vending machine. Various attendings confirm that the patient was stable the last time they saw her, but it’s assumed Warren must have had no other choice with the hospital on lockdown and no way to get to an ER. Still, this is the same guy who sliced open a patient with part of a clipboard in the psych ward.

Though conditions were about as far from optimal as imaginable, Warren had gone ahead and performed the operation right then and there rather than risk losing both the mother and child. Unfortunately, in spite of what Ben would see as his heroism and Richard would see as his recklessness, neither Gretchen nor her baby made it. In the aftermath, security footage revealed that an open elevator door would have allowed the surgical resident to leave the hall with the patient — meaning that he’d had an option, he just hadn’t taken it.