Michelle N. Carter

The interns take their first-year medical exams; the residents attend to three injured mountain-climbers; Callie's suspicions of George and Izzie grow; Cristina struggles to write her wedding vows.

Zoe is determined to win BlueBell's gumbo contest and prove to everyone that she is a part of the community...and hopefully land some patients. Lavon develops a crush on Brick and Zoe's new receptionist, Didi, but things get a little messy after Lemon catches wind of the news. Zoe and Brick find themselves having to work together to perform a life-saving surgery.

While the residents of BlueBell prepare for their annual Planksgiving celebration, Zoe anxiously counts the days until her return home to New York for Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, getting out of town may be a bit trickier than Zoe anticipated due to the fact that she has to meet her 30 percent quota of patients by midnight or lose her share of the practice to Brick. Meanwhile, Lavon encourages Wade to be honest about his feelings for Zoe, and George's father offers him an opportunity to join his law firm in Montgomery, which isn't exactly music to Lemon's ears.

When a high school principal is shot while trying to turn his school around in the midst of a scandal, Brenda and her detectives soon realize their case overlaps with an existing FBI investigation. The situation leaves Fritz and Brenda sparring over whose murder case it should be.

After Bonnie's relapse, the women from her AA meeting rally around to help her through withdrawal from painkillers, but Christy wants no part of it.