My Saving Grace

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My Saving Grace

Directed by Michael Spiller Written by Janae Bakken Air Date - January 13, 2009 on Transcript - Images Watch this episode! DVD • Blu-ray iTunes • Syndication

Season Eight Episodes : My Jerks My Last Words My Saving Grace My Happy Place My ABC's My Cookie Pants My New Role My Lawyer's in Love My Absence My Comedy Show My Nah Nah Nah Their Story II My Full Moon My Soul on Fire, Part 1 My Soul on Fire, Part 2 My Cuz My Chief Concern My Finale    Episodes: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 w • 9

“How're we going to get rid of Maddox? Would you [Janitor] like to go first to get your ridiculous ideas out of the way?”— Dr. Cox

Contents 1 Synopsis 1.1 Plot Points 2 Recurring Themes 2.1 Fantasies 2.2 Janitor story 3 Guest Stars 4 Music 5 Quotes 6 Trivia 7 Images

[edit] Synopsis

The staff of Sacred Heart are continually burdened by Dr. Maddox watching over their shoulders to make sure they are working efficiently and not cheating any insurance systems, other than ways that get the hospital more money. J.D. and Elliot get a patient, Pat Rosel, who is admitted with multiple sclerosis. He is showing the typical signs - shaking hands, colorblindness - so the doctors bring him medications. When they instruct him to take the red pill, J.D. notices he is not really colorblind. When they confront him, Elliot notices that his daughter, Christine Rosel is showing the signs of MS, and they reveal that she doesn't have insurance. Later, when they return with the meds, they find that Maddox has kicked them out of the hospital.

Meanwhile, Dr. Cox has had enough of Dr. Maddox making it impossible for him to help his patients. He asks Janitor and Dr. Kelso for help to get rid of her, but Kelso only wants to hear from Perry's lips that he misses Kelso as Chief of Medicine. After failing to find anything to fire her with after breaking into her office, Maddox reveals that she doesn't care if they don't like her style. Eventually, Dr. Cox tells Dr. Kelso that he thought he showed decency from time to time and was burdened by the job, and Dr. Kelso uses dirt he has on the board members to get Maddox fired. When she leaves, she informs the doctors that her replacement will be just like her.

Carla notices that Katie is taking credit for other people's work. She sits her down in the cafeteria to school her on how to behave, but Katie does not care enough to listen. Katie tries to make Carla feel bad by telling a sob story, but Carla replys that she has heard enough sob stories to last a lifetime. She then tells the intern that by making all the other doctors and nurses at the hospital hate her will only hurt her in the long run, and that they want to accept her as a family if she is down to earth.

In the end, Katie asks Elliot to help her learn the procedure she never learned, and Christine gets her MS medications through her father's insurance.

[edit] Plot Points

• J.D. and Elliot attempt to cheat the system to get a patient medications.
• Dr. Cox and Janitor work to get Dr. Maddox fired, but need the help of Dr. Kelso.
• Carla and Katie have a serious talk in the cafeteria.

[edit] Recurring Themes

[edit] Fantasies

• Dr. Maddox appears everywhere, including inside a patient during surgery.
• J.D. tells Dr. Maddox he loves her and she steps in front of an ambulence.

[edit] Janitor story

Carla tells J.D. that Janitor had been fired, and J.D. doesn't respond with any emotion. Janitor replys that he had just cause to do all of the tricks he pulled, including:

• Locking J.D. in a water tower (His Story III) because he drew on the wall (My White Whale).
• Destroying Sasha. (My Way Home)
• Haunting J.D.'s pediatric patients (My Turf War) because J.D. wouldn't wear the shorts "his imaginary wife" made for him (My Drama Queen).

As Janitor mopes with Dr. Kelso at Coffee Bucks, Dr. Cox enlists his help to break into Maddox's office to get her fired. In the office, Janitor shows off another personality he created who is afraid of getting caught and going back to prison, because breaking & entering has become too mundane for him. He also shares his ideas on ways to get rid of her, most including beating her.

[edit] Guest Stars

• Betsy Beutler as Katie
• Frank Cameron as Dr. Mickhead
• Courteney Cox as Dr. Maddox
• Marcus Folmar as Mr. Tillman
• Jennifer Jostyn as Veronica Simmons
• Annie Little as Christine Rosel
• Frank Novak as Pat Rosel

[edit] Music

Music from Season:

1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9

• "Lookin' Over My Shoulder" by The Basics
• "Healed" by Matt Ryd

[edit] Quotes

“Alright Dr. Cox, ridiculous name by the way...”— Dr. Maddox

“You have never pictured me as an organism that has sex.”— Janitor

“No we have not.”— Dr. Cox

“I love playing the bad guy. I'd even wear black scrubs if they made 'em!”— Dr. Maddox

“Heard it! Me? Dead mom. J.D? Dead dad. Elliot? Emotionally abusive parents. Dr. Cox? Emotionally and physically abusive dead parents that he might have killed, no one's quite sure.”— Carla

[edit] Trivia

• Donald Faison does not appear in this episode.

[edit] Images

Dr. Maddox watches over a surgery.

J.D. tells Dr. Maddox he loves her before she steps in front of an ambulance.