Grey's Anatomy 8x22 Let the bad times roll. Recap.

In this episode the residents take their boards. Apparently they all have a really bad time. The boards have three parts of 30 minutes with breaks of 10 minutes between them

Meredith has stomach flu so during the exam she’s answering the questions she’s trying not to throw up in front of the examiners. At the end of each round Meredith goes to the restroom to throw up but at the final round she can’t make it and she throws up in front of the examiners.

Cristina answers everything correctly but her examiner, an old doctor, thinks that her procedures are too risky. Then Cristina argues with him because he prefers old procedures while Cristina chooses others more innovative and less invasive.

Jackson has to deal with the fact that his mother has slept with Webber, yes his mother who is at the next room laughing out loud and distracting Jackson.

April is very nervous and she’s really worried because she has broken her promise to God.  But apparently it doesn’t stop her for having sex with Jackson again during one of the breaks. She begins to sweat and she makes a fool of herself.

Alex, in the last episode we are left to wonder if Alex would have arrived in time to the exam. Well he gets to the exam but he misses the first round so he has to do perfect at the others. At the last one the examiner makes him a tricky question and he answers it wrong but he realizes of it and changes the answer, but the examiner doesn’t take as a good answer.

Meanwhile at the Seattle Grace Hospital Callie and Arizona have a new patient, an old friend of Arizona. This man has cancer which turns out to be inoperable, then Arizona gets very angry with him because he hadn’t told her about the cancer for six years. 

Mark’s girlfriend asks him to have a baby together but Mark is speechless. Mark ask Derek for advice but he doesn’t know how to give a good piece of advice. Then Lexie finds out about it and she starts freaking out. Derek ask Bailey to help him at advising and she recommend him using metaphors. Derek isn’t very sure about it but when Meredith called him with an exam crisis he just says: “the exam is a mirror”. Finally, at the end of the episode there is a beautiful scene; Lexie tells Mark she loves him. We don’t know Mark’s reaction because his girlfriend appears at the last moment. I wish Lexie and Mark will be back together, they are so perfect together. 

Here is the scene:

At the end of the episode we finally see who has failed the board. And who is it? April Kepner.