Grey's Anatomy: Season 3 (2006 - 2007)

As season three of Grey's Anatomy begins with Izzy still in her prom dress and inconsolable following the loss of Denny. At the behest of Christina, Meredith attempts to comfort Izzy as Miranda prepares to hand over Denny's body to the employees from the funeral home. As Denny's body is being wheeled away, Miranda informs the folks from the funeral home that there will be no funeral due to a request from Denny's family. Meanwhile, Meredith confesses to Christina that she ditched the prom in order to sleep with Derek, and Adele gives Richard an ultimatum: either retire or risk spending the rest of his golden years alone. Back in the E.R., a quarantine is ordered after Omar and Giselle arrive showing signs of the flu and staff discovers that the pair has actually been exposed to bubonic plague.

Surprisingly, it is Bailey (Chandra Wilson) who is the loudest voice as the staffers try to persuade Izzie (Katherine Heigl) not to give up medicine. Meanwhile, Mark Sloan (Eric Dane) scores again, and Addison (Kate Walsh) is once more the prize; Cristina (Sandra Oh) has an uncomfortable meeting with the parents (Richard Roundtree, Diahann Carroll) of the convalescing Burke (Isaiah Washington); Meredith remains torn between Derek (Patrick Dempsey) and Finn (Chris O'Donnell); and Webber (James Pickens Jr.) confronts Callie (Sara Ramirez) over her quirky behavior, just as George (T.R. Knight) walks in. And on the "patient roster" front, a lung cancer victim (Roxanne Hart) decides to throw caution to the winds, with wide-ranging results.

Cristina (Sandra Oh) agrees to keep secret the fact that Burke (Isaiah Washington) has been suffering from hand tremors since his surgery. Izzie (Katherine Heigl) pays a visit to the hospital for the first time since she walked out. Alex (Justin Chambers) is perplexed by his latest patient, a foster child named Megan (Abigail Breslin) who seems unfazed by her many injuries. Another patient's wife (Lanai Chapman) vents her wrath at her husband (Gabriel Casseus) over his repeated surgeries. Addison has a tense, terse meeting with Mark (Eric Dane). And George (T.R. Knight) insists that Callie (Sara Ramirez) find somewhere else to live (guess where!)

Addison (Kate Walsh) is not happy when Sloan (Eric Dane) joins the staff, and in consequence suffers a severe attack of self-doubt just when her patient, a pregnant woman (Tina Holmes), needs her most. Cristina (Sandra Oh) wants Burke (Isaiah Washington) to continue his rehab, but he is anxious to prove that he's a capable a surgeon as ever, hand tremors or no hand tremors. Still unsettled in matters of the heart, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) is ill-prepared for a medical emergency. And Izzie (Katherine Heigl) receives an astonishing "reward" from the father (Fred Ward) of the late Denny Duquette. Weaving through all this intrigue is the story of ailing car salesman Shawn Sullivan (Alan Blumenfield).

Dr. Bailey (Chandra Wilson) again shows her (usually well-concealed!) tender side as she counsels a young breast-cancer victim (Justina Machado) suffering from depression. Later on, Bailey receives some strong moral support as she stands before an M&M board, defending herself from charges that she was responsible for the death of Denny Duquette. Elsewhere, It is revealed that the talented Dr. Sloan (Eric Dane) has not only been dallying with Addison (Kate Walsh), but also with Callie (Sara Ramirez); Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) decides to call it quits with Finn, and later teams with Addison to separate a divorced couple (Arye Gross, Faith Prince) who have become embarrassingly "stuck on each other"; and Izzie (Katherine Heigl) is still recovering from the news that Denny has left her $8.7 million.

Derek's sister Nancy (Embeth Davidtz) pays a visit for the express purpose of giving him Hell about the "slutty" Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), all the while blissfully ignorant of Addison's infidelity. Cristina (Sandra Oh) inspires envy when she helps perform a rare cardiac autotransplantation (aka the Humpty Dumpty procedure), but her actions just before surgery serve only to arouse suspicions about Burke (Isaiah Washington). Addison (Kate Walsh) and George's (T.R. Knight) pregnant patient Noelle (Liza Lapira) is in a strange predicament: she has two uteruses, and one of her babies is growing faster than the other, indicating that she's been unfaithful to at least one of the fathers. And finally, Alex (Katherine Heigl) toys with the idea of retiring as a doctor and using her multi-million-dollar inheritance to start another business.

The male staffers at Seattle Grace go on a camping trip in the mountains, which culminates in a "slap fight" (so to speak) between George (T.R. Knight) and Alex (Justin Chambers). Addison (Kate Walsh) and Callie (Sara Ramirez) have a lot to talk over as they team up on a medical case. Bailey (Chandra Wilson) tears into Cristina (Sandra Oh) concerning her strange actions vis-à-vis Burke (Isaiah Washington). And Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) enters unchartered territory (for her) as she assists Sloan (Eric Dane) with a very delicate "corrective" procedure (Hint: the patient is named Donna, but she used to be Daniel). This episode earned a special award from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

George (T.R. Knight) has trouble explaining to his somewhat thick-eared siblings that their father Harold (George Dzundza) must have heart surgery. When Burke (Isaiah Washington) is chosen to perform the operation, he wonders if he's up to it--and so, after a while, is George. Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) is profoundly affected by her young patient Mia (Brooke Bryan), who seems to prefer her allegedly abusive nanny to her mother. After calling a truce with Addison (Kate Walsh), Derek (Patrick Dempsey) shares a few words (and a bath!) with Meredith. And two other couples face an uphill climb in search of common ground.

The ER is kept hopping by a spectacular traffic accident, which the wife of the driver blames on an "insane" car. Meanwhile, the burden of keeping Burke's hand tremors a secret is taking its toll on Cristina (Sandra Oh). Also, despite being on probation, Izzie (Katherine Heigl) cannot help but meddle in the matter of George's heart-patient father. And as for George (T.R. Knight), he has gotten on Burke's bad side by calling in Dr. Erica Hahn (Brooke Smith) as surgical consultant--the same Erica Hahn who made life miserable for Burke in med school, and who seems poised to do the same all over again at Seattle Grace.