- Callie's career is on the line when she is being sued for negligence after an operation on a star athlete goes horribly wrong.
- Callie is looking for regular pantyhose and going off on the clerk at the store about not having them. She apologizes and says she's "under a lot of pressure." During this exchange, we flash to some of the more challenging moments in Callie's recent past, particularly some with Arizona, and are suddenly whisked back to one month earlier as Voiceover Callie says, "No apology in the world matters now."
One month ago: Derek and Callie are doing a demonstration about their brain mapping project when Callie is served with a subpoena and told she's being sued.
Four months ago: Travis Reed, a famous snowboarder, needs a new hip and Cristina, who repaired Travis' heart before he became a gold medalist, recommended Callie. Meanwhile, at Meredith's baby shower, Arizona tells Callie they should have a baby. Callie is giddy.
Callie meets Travis and he says he wants "the Peterson hip," and hands her some information about a hip construction method she's never tried before. He encourages her to try it anyway. She says she'll do some research but won't make any promises.
We next see Callie in a board room telling a lawyer that she isn't settling a lawsuit. He asks her to look as professional and relatable as possible, in a skirt with pantyhose (which she says she needs to buy), and with her wedding ring back on.
The next morning, Arizona comes to take Sofia while Callie is getting ready for her hearing. Arizona notices the ring and Callie says "they" told her to wear it.
Callie gets to the courthouse and is swarmed by reporters. Hunt walks in next to her, surprising her with his presence, and says the doctors are taking shifts being there with her and he had to fight Bailey for the first shift. She's annoyed hen she notices a run in her pantyhose. The jury notices when Travis Reed comes into the courtroom, in a wheelchair, with no legs.
Travis' lawyer focuses in his opening statement that Callie agreed to do a procedure she didn't understand and cost Travis his legs "because of one careless mistake made in surgery."
We cut back into the surgery and Travis' heart rate decreases and Callie closes him up even though a nurse was warning that the sponge count was off and there was a sponge possibly still inside Travis.
Jo, on the witness stand, is pressed into acknowledging that Callie "knowingly" left a sponge inside Travis. He moves on to several days later when Travis had developed an infection.
Back at the hospital, Callie told Jo to book an O.R. and went in to clean up the infection, ultimately taking out the whole new hip for the time being.
Callie changes her pantyhose in the restroom during a break and Arizona walks in. Callie is upset and Arizona hands her a picture that Sofia drew, telling Callie she should look at it in court whenever she's upset by what's being said. Then they share a laugh over the fact that Callie put a pair of pantyhose on with rhinestone butterflies on them.
We next see Callie and Arizona giddily (and drunkenly) looking through sperm donor profiles four months earlier. Callie is now alone, apparently after the first day of court, pouring herself wine and her dad shows up to surprise her.
Callie's dad is excited to see his granddaughter and Callie explains that she isn't there. She reveals that they split up and he's upset that Callie didn't tell her.
Again, back in time, Callie comes home to find Arizona holding a positive pregnancy test. Back, again, to another time apparently since the break up, Callie tells the board that the hospital should settle on its part of the lawsuit. Callie leaves and Jackson and Cristina agree the hospital should settle. Cristina says she saw the whole surgery and thinks Travis has a case.
We're back at the hospital again and Callie is showing Cristina what the infection has done to Travis' heart. Jo then comes over and shows Callie the severely infected leg. Callie says she has to do an embolectomy on Travis' leg right away, but Cristina thinks he needs heart surgery first. Callie did her surgery to try to save Travis' leg -- despite what Cristina says in court was "a professional difference of opinion."
Cristina says she eventually agreed with Callie and the lawyer asks if she was "bullied."
Back, again, at the hospital and Callie is saying the embolectomy couldn't have gone better. But she, Cristina and Jo get to Travis' room to find him panicked and showing them severely blackened legs.
Travi's girl-friend testifies that Travis' legs were cut off that night and adds that if Callie was worried about anything it was about her own reputation. She says she heard Callie in the hallway saying, "I can't be the doctor who turns an Olympic athlete into a door stop."
Back at another point in time, Arizona is excitedly looking at a new house while Callie is distractedly looking at her phone. She's trying to get info on the Peterson hip joint research being done in Germany.
Travis takes the stand in court. Travis recounts his conversation with Callie, saying she said she'd done research and "was confident" despite having never done the surgery.
Back at the hospital, Travis doesn't want to see or talk to Callie after his legs were amputated. Back in court, he says he knows someone losing their legs isn't the end of the world, "but it's the end of my world." He says, "Not it's gone," then, looking straight at Callie, adds, "and it's Dr. Torres' fault."
He then says Callie came into his room and apologized. He adds that "she said if there was anyone to blame, it was her" and that it never should have happened.
Back at Callie's apartment, Callie's dad gives Arizona the evil eye while she is there to pick up Sofia. After Arizona leaves, he says Arizona is abandoning her family, but Callie says she kicked Arizona out.
In court, Callie testifies that the surgery went fine but his heart rate went up. She says she would leave the sponge again because "it was the right call."
Back at the hospital, Callie tells Jo she wants X-rays so she can find the sponge. Jo leaves and Arizona comes in and tells Callie that they lost the baby. In court, Callie says she remembers the day clearly and "wasn't distracted."
Her lawyer asks Callie about the disagreement she and Cristina had over whether to do the embolectomy or the heart surgery first, and Callie takes the opportunity to get the jury to relate by comparing the potential heart infection to a kitchen grease fire. She asks whether if a grease fire jumps to your curtains, you would put out the curtains or try to put out the grease fire first. She explains she was just trying to figure out which disaster to tackle first.
Back at the hospital on that day, Callie and Arizona talks about having lost the baby and Arizona says she "can't take another loss" because "it's too hard." She suggests that she can't have another baby. Callie leaves to check on Travis.
We next see Callie in Travis' room when he was refusing to speak to her, and yelling at his girlfriend about why she isn't forcing Callie to leave. Callie tells his girlfriend to leave and when she's gone Callie tells Travis not to take his anger out on Whitney. She tells him if he wants to blame someone to blame Callie. Then she apologizes and said it shouldn't have happened. Callie again apologizes, this time in court, and says that the apology doesn't make her negligent, it makes her "human." She says that if she can't apologize to her patients without being sued, then she'll keep getting sued, "because that's who I am -- I won't apologize for that."
Callie and Meredith come back to Callie's apartment and Callie finds a letter than had apparently fallen and jammed itself behind her entry table. It's from the German researchers and says they have stopped the trials using the Peterson joint because five cases have resulted in severe infections. The letter was postmarked three weeks before Travis' surgery.
Meredith tells Callie not to reveal the letter, but Callie thinks she has to. Meredith tells Callie that she did nothing wrong.
"Yes, I did," Callie says. She gets a call that a verdict has been reached.
We see Callie walk into court, dropping the letter from the researchers into a trash can.
Inside, the foreman reads the verdict, and we see him mouth, "Not guilty." Callie freezes in the moment while the doctors behind her rejoice, but she's stunned and her expression doesn't change as she glances over and sees a disappointed Travis.
Callie's dad tries to talk to her into giving Arizona another chance.
"She cheated on me," Callie says.
"I cheated on your mother," he replies, saying he was young and stupid and his wife was willing to forgive one mistake. He says he's glad she did, because otherwise he wouldn't have Callie.
Callie goes and knocks on Arizona's hotel room door and says she can understand that Arizona made "one mistake," because she (Callie) had done the same that day. Arizona asks if they need to get into this now, but Callie continues talking. Callie says she's like to know if Arizona will come home, and leaves to give her some time to think about it. Arizona closes the door, goes back and lays on her hotel bed, then tells Leah -- who we hadn't seen in the room yet -- that she should get dressed now, and leave.
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