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Can We Talk About The "Private Practice" Season Finale?

Posted by Lindy Parker

 

Yes?  Good, because it was crazy...

In case you're not a regular watcher of the PP, let us get you up to speed: 

Addison's this close to having an affair with the husband of a patient. 

Sam (played by Remote Island boyfriend Taye Diggs) and ex-wife Naomi (Audra McDonald) are divorced-but-still-in-love co-founders of the practice.  Naomi recently implanted embryos for two separate women.  Unfortunately, she accidently switched them and now both women are carrying each other's babies.

Dr. Violet Turner, the practice's psychiatrist, is nine months pregnant with the baby of either natural healer Pete Wilder (played by Tim Daly) or rival psychiatrist Sheldon.  Sheldon, who -- let's face it -- is just not as sexy as Tim Daly, proposed to Violet last week even though he still doesn't know if the baby she's carrying is his.  Violet said she had to think about it, but really, we suspect she's just waiting for Pete to make his move...

Come on!  Tell us that wasn't a good time.  We knew Violet would come around, which she eventually did.  All was well...

  Then, a mental patient -- who last week, miscarried her baby and refused to believe it had happened -- showed up at Violet's door (around 2:09)...

 

We swear, when we saw Megan, the patient (whose name is actually "Katie" on PP, but for some reason, we can't stop calling by her character's name on Felicity) roll out those medieval torture tools, we nearly had a heart attack.  Violet tries to stall the renegade C-section by asking Katie therapy questions, which results in Katie punching pregnant Violet repeatedly in the face until her nose is broken and she's bleeding all over the floor.  At one point, roommate Cooper starts to put his key in the lock (Katie stuffs a rag in Violet's mouth to keep her from calling for help), but Cooper's waylaid by a phone call and goes back to his car.  When Violet realizes the inevitability Katie's horror film mission, she throws in the towel and decides to talk her through the procedure in a way that will ensure the baby's survival.  Kate lifts the scapel to make the first cut, and the screen goes dark -- to be continued next season.

Our theory:  Cooper comes back from the car to get something and finds Katie about to cut into Violet's pregnant stomach.  She can't possibly go through with it, right?


Comments

Ashli said:

I think it'll be Pete who comes back and finds Violet bleeding out because the woman actually did go through with the operation and has the baby.

May 30, 2009 8:10 PM

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Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She now writes for nerve.com's TV blog, "The Remote Island." She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.

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