- Sam and Naomi come up with a counter-proposal when the rest of the Practice forces them to kiss and make up. Cooper finds the need to vocalize his feelings when it comes to Charlotte, but his patient doesn't want to listen to a word he has to say about her potentially autistic son when she realizes that Cooper has advertised himself on an adult dating site. Addison tries to come up with her own counter-proposal when her policeman boyfriend invites her for a getaway weekend.—Moviedude1
- "Private Practice" - "Past Tense" - Oct. 29, 2008
Addison comes home from a run and chats with Pete by phone complaining about how she's alone all the time. She says she wants her friend back. Pete says she shouldn't have sandbagged Naomi then. Addison says maybe Sam and Naomi can work together and conferences in Violet to talk over this concept. Add reminds them of the good old days of practice harmony, before Add worked there. Violet loves this idea and conferences in Cooper. Cooper is in with the peace treaty plan.
They all hang up and SWAT guy (who will always be Christopher from "Gilmore Girls" to me) shows up with take out and action movies to Add's house.
The next day in the conference room Add and Violet talk about setting up "sex rules." Not for the practice but Add's relationship with SWAT guy. They haven't slept together yet. Violet says she needs to see a therapist just as Pete enters and says therapist's are overrated. Dell arrives with the news that Sam and Naomi have arrived together but aren't talking. Everyone, including Cooper, welcomes Dell back.
Sam and Naomi arrive and the gang tries their intervention which Sam and Naomi immediately put the kibosh on. Add says too bad they have to work it out and get the practice back to the family way it was before and not to come out until they're done.
A woman brings her mute son to see Cooper. She's been to five doctors and she's heard that Cooper is amazing. She doesn't want to hear autism, she's tried all the therapies. She's frustrated but he says it's one of those disorders that is very misunderstood. She wonders if she knows him from somewhere. He's not sure. He promises to do what he can with Braeden, her boy.
The gang watches Sam and Naomi talk and they think it's working. They come out and say they're putting it to a vote. The group will vote for Sam or Naomi and they will abide by the vote. They promise to campaign cleanly. Add thinks this will tear the practice apart and is a bad idea.
Dell says he wants to start shadowing Naomi and he promises her his vote if she lets him. She's unsure.
Add meets with an young Afghan girl, Sharbat(?), her father heard Add was the very best doctor for ladies.
The mother of the boy with autism remembers where she knows Cooper from, the naked pics on the Internet. She is aghast. He says his personal life doesn't affect the care of his patients. She is unconvinced and, as she collects her son, says he should not be a doctor. Cooper is chagrined.
Sharbat says she's been feeling discomfort but is reticent to talk about it. Her mother volunteers she was attacked by a man. They didn't report it and don't want to talk about it. She has come to Addison to make her a virgin again. The mother knows it's possible. Add says hymenoplasty is a real surgery with real potential complications. Sharbat is engaged to a man in Afghanistan who will take care of her family and her virginity is something that will be checked and if she doesn't have a hymen it will disgrace the family.
Sam tries to campaign with everyone, Cooper, Violet, and Pete aren't taking his business. Sam thinks he can coax Dell to his side if he reminds him how bad it got between him and Naomi.
Cooper goes to see Charlotte at the hospital. She's busy and not in the mood. Cooper says he doesn't feel like having sex ever again. She wonders why he's there then. To talk. He asks if she thinks he's a pervert. She throws up her hands. He doesn't understand why, since they're both in the middle of a tough time, that they can't discuss it. She doesn't want to discuss it, she wants to get through it. He explains about the patient and the website. She calls it absurd and mentions she took hers down. He admits he's still up on "10-ish" sites. Charlotte says his patient might be right, he shouldn't be a doctor. He says he is a good one and wants to help this patient.
In the kitchen Add is telling Pete, Violet, Dell, Sam, and Naomi about the revirginization. They argue about the whole concept. Add and Naomi think the whole thing is chauvinist and evil, Violet thinks she should talk to someone, Pete and Dell think they should be doing what the patient wants not what they want and that it's her choice. Jayne Brook shows up at the door and is all "choice" pshaw, she's going back to a country where she could be stoned for listening to Madonna. Pete is happy to see her- apparently her name is Meg- and they make out, in front of everybody.
Pete and Meg depart. Everyone wonders who she is. Add opens a file and looks concerned and walks out.
She meets with Sharbat and tells her the labs tell her that she's still got sperm in her system and wants to know if someone is still hurting her. Turns out Sharbat's got a non-Afghan boyfriend her parents don't know about. She told her mother she was raped in the hopes that it meant she wouldn't have to marry the Afghan man she's never met. But then her mother found out about the hymenoplasty possibility and how they could all be happy if it worked. Her parents came to the U.S. but they are lonely and miserable and working below their station. The arranged marriage groom could hook them up. She wants her parents to be happy.
Sam comes to stump for Cooper's vote. Cooper ignores this and asks Sam what he knows about autism. Cooper thinks maybe the boy is having seizures in his sleep. Sam says he's a good doctor. Cooper thinks he's still sucking up for votes, but Sam says he's not.
Meg comments on Pete's swanky digs. She's in town for a medical conference. She asks Pete what's wrong, his energy is apparently bad. He says the practice is going through a rough patch. She says so is he and that he needs a change. She invites him to jet off to Africa to help with malaria stuff. He hesitates. She is surprised at both this hesitation and the fact that he didn't ravish her on his desk the moment she walked in. He gets to the ravishing.
Add tells Violet Sharbat's new story. Violet tells her not to do the surgery: she lied and slept around and in Violet's book you don't lie about rape, ever. She gets very worked up about it.
Post-coital in Pete's now messy office he notices a red mark on Meg's lower back. She tells him not to worry about it, that it's a sandfly bite. He looks worried. She leaves. Add and Violet follow her to the ladies room where she's looking at the mark on her back. They interrogate her: Meg and Pete were residents together and then did Doctors Without Borders for a few years together, about 15 years ago. He was supposed to take a short break but met someone, got married, settled down. Back then Pete was not shy and he was an amazing doctor. She tells them about treating children in Bosnia together and an act of heroism he performed staying with a group of kids under mortar fire. Also, to Meg, he was always Peter.
Naomi comes to stump for Pete's vote. Meg returns and he introduces them. Naomi leaves.
SWAT guy comes to visit Add. He wants to take Add to Cabo San Lucas this weekend for a getaway. She says it's too much. She says it's been great so far but that she has these rules. He doesn't know what she's talking about because she's stammering and being vague. She explains she's got sex rules and that she's waiting until it feels right. He says okay, that he can wait.
Cooper goes to Bradens' mom who tries to turn him away. He yells that he doesn't think it's autism and explains about the other disease (Landau-Plether Syndrome?) and its potential for night seizures and the impact on the brain and communication and synapses. (Oh my!) Now she's listening. He hands her a file with three referrals and all his research. She takes it and shuts the door. To the closed door he points out that she had to be on the website to find him so that makes her the pot calling the kettle pervert.
Dell is packing up and Naomi offers him a different assisting option. He takes it. She stumps for his vote. Then Sam shows up and does the same. They begin to fight in front of him but really with each other. Dell walks off. They actually fight with each other as Add, Pete, and Meg look on.
Cooper and Violet talk about lies and sins of omission and the different ways people in the practice are lying.
Braden's mom has come to see if Cooper can really help. He says he might be able to.
In the kitchen Naomi and Violet grill Pete about his past. He says it was a long time ago but they discern that he really likes her.
Add tells Sharbat that she thinks she wants this but that she needs to figure out what's right for her and to tell her mother about the boy so her future isn't based on a lie.
Sam is examining Meg's "bite" and asks her about symptoms: fatigue, joint pain. On and off planes all the time she chalks those symptoms up to the nature of her life. He digs something out of her back and shows it to her. It's the remnants of a tick. If it had gone any longer it could've given her cardiac problems or encephalitis. He tells her to thank "Peter" for the save.
Add tells Pete she decided to counsel Sharbat to tell the truth and then inquires after the truth about his past. He says it's in the past. Add says Meg seems like a good part of his past. He says she's just here now and she will leave. Add says he should find a way to make her stay. He accuses her of being a romantic and what she really wants is Sam and Naomi back together as a couple and her and Naomi as friends. She wonders what's wrong with that.
Sharbat comes from telling her mother the truth. Add goes in and the mother says she knew but didn't want her daughter to feel shame for breaking her parent's trust. They still both want the surgery. Sharbat says if she doesn't bury her past her family will have no future.
Naomi and Sam are still arguing, this time in the conference room. She's accusing him of getting her out of the marriage and now trying to get her out of the practice so he and Addison can run it. The gang enters. Addison says it's all her fault, trying to recapture the past. What they need now to do is bury the past and figure out what they want going forward: focusing on patients and making money and Sam and Naomi working together. She says the vote is a bad idea, from which they might never recover and they should sit down and figure it out as a group. Sam says they're sticking with the vote.
Add is about to do the hymenoplasty and checks in with Sharbat one more time. She says the boy is just that a boy, with college ahead of him and he's not her future. She wants to do the surgery. Add acquiesces.
Braden comes in and speaks to Cooper, saying "doctor, thank you for the truck." The mother, in tears, calls him a wonderful doctor.
Post-surgery Add comes in to the conference room. The group writes out it votes. Add says she's not voting, she won't be part of it. Dell counts the vote. One for Sam, one for Naomi, four for Addison. Sam and Naomi get up mad as Add tries to turn it down. (So Sam and Naomi voted for themselves and everyone else voted for Addison). Add asks Violet what she's supposed to do now. Violet tells her to figure out the future. Add asks about what happened in her office, when she got so upset about the rape lie, Violet says she doesn't want to talk about it.
Sam comes to visit Naomi in her office. He apologizes for how he treated her. Sincerely. She takes his hand and kisses him as Pete and Add watch from the hall.
Pete lies in bed with a smoking Meg who thanks him for worrying about her. She tries to entice him to Ghana again by trying to remind him about how good it was. He says he likes it here. And that he likes her here too. She asks if it's an invitation. It is if she quits smoking he says. She says she doesn't change for anyone.
Cooper sits on his bed with his laptop as the bathroom door opens to reveal Charlotte in a dog collar and skin tight leather outfit wielding a belt. She tries to threaten him into sex but he says no, that he wants to talk and to get to know each other and be like normal people. He starts to tell her about himself: Akron, adopted, never sought out birth parents, spent summers at camp in Indiana where he discovered his love for children which led him to pediatrics, his favorite color is chartreuse because he likes the way it sounds coming out of his mouth. She repeats chartreuse and agrees it's a good word. He says it's her turn and we get: from Monroeville, Alabama home of Harper Lee who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" which is her favorite book.
SWAT guy shows up at Addison's. She smiles at him and they kiss and start to undress each other and have sex on the floor.
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