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THE W-WORD You may think Teddy (Kim Raver) is happy, but she's just one good bathroom cry away from accepting her grief.

Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater. As juvenile as it may be, that was supposed to be my motto this week. I was ready to dig deep into the pure dysfunction that is Cristina and Owens marriage, especially in the aftermath of his confession. I was ready to hear Owen explain it away and to watch Cristina silently stare the crap out of him.

Well, our friends over at Seattle Grace werent into that motto because we barely see Owen and Cristina interact in this episode. No diving in the deep end of their relationship just yet. Yes, they do get enough communal screen time to let us know Cristina is giving him the silent treatment. Yes, we learned that eating cereal has never been more dangerous when Cristina throws her bowl of cereal in his face, daring him to say anything. But apart from that, they manage to avoid each other this week.

Theres definitely enough avoidance to go around. Lets begin with Meredith, who doesnt start out dodging Owens pleas to help him fix things with Cristina. In fact, she even offers up this nugget of advice: You cant force Cristina to open up; you have to let her come to you. Sound advice. See the Cristina-loses-herself-and-quits-medicine-then-finds-herself plotline for proof.

But a nugget just isnt enough for Owen. As they scrub in to save a women who gets mauled by her pet lion, he makes a second attempt to get Merediths help. All he wants is for her to let Cristina know how sorry he is. Simple request, right? Not so much, especially when he tells her, It was just sex. Meredith visibly flinches and so do I. Its insulting to think he would believe thats all it takes to justify his infidelity. It was just sex probably makes it worse.All this talk of cheating inspires Meredith to let Derek know that if he ever cheats on her, shell kill him. I believe her.

Elsewhere in avoidance island, Alex Karev has just realized it might be time to start putting a little distance between him and Intern Morgan. Morgan, dont you know you only bring out the puppy eyes after the wooing is over? Thats how you scare them off. And scared, he is. Karev tells Arizona he wants off her service because those puppy dog eyes can only mean one thing: His intern wants him. After a little back and forth, Arizona is willing to oblige but only if he's off the case for good. He thinks he is -- but not if Morganhas anything to do with it. She spends most of this episode texting him. The best way Karev can tell her to stop is to evade her completely.

Oh, the irony. Old Karev would have taken a puppy-eyed intern straight to the bedroom and not given it a second thought. Now, when he needs to pull out his not-so-inner a--hole, hes struggling.

NEXT: Karev finally comes clean with Morganwhen she's at her lowest

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