Steve Sandvoss

With his marriage in trouble, the chief turns to his fellow male surgeons for a "gentleman's evening." Cristina and Izzie heatedly compete for the same surgeries. The doctors treat two injured finalists from a promotional competition.

Sean learns the truth about Nikki's past and questions his feelings for her; Christian contacts the mother of a Down syndrome patient; Quentin shows interest in Julia.

Vera's high school sweetheart asks the team to reopen the case of the death of her older sister. Ruled as an accident in the late 1990s, the woman's death was forgotten until a man recounts seeing her that fateful night. The detectives learn that her downward spiral into alcoholism had left the young lady compromised.