Last week, Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) stepped into the spotlight, saving a co-worker's legs and life. This week, it's up to Arizona Robbins (Jessica Capshaw) to test both her ethics and her surgical skills in the night's central medical case.
Her patient, age 10, happens to have parents who happen to have millions to donate to the hospital. Could Arizona personally bring Seattle Grace out of economic turmoil?
Jessica Capshaw sat down with TV Guide to talk about the challenges her character will face, upcoming speed bumps for Arizona and Callie and all things Grey's Anatomy ...
Q: What can you tell us about the Arizona-centric episode?
Jessica: I have a patient who I fight very hard for. Everybody feels strongly about it and it's a very high-stakes episode. It's life or death. The episode speaks to the whole idea that money runs the hospital. The chief [James Pickens, Jr.] is having a hard time figuring out how to make the hospital ascend the ranks of the numbers game, [and] money helps make that happen.
This week, Arizona's case happens to involve a set of very wealthy parents who have the ability to give or not give in a very consequential way.

Q: Arizona seems to have a pretty straight moral compass. How will she feel in making these decisions based on money?
Jessica: Yeah, she's a little perfect that way [Laughs]. This episode has all of that in mind, but at the same time, we are all only human and we can all only ever do the best that we can.
Sometimes the best we can, in her case, leaves her a little more vulnerable to the elements and to the story and what's happening. She has to make choices that are hard as a surgeon, but also as a pre-eminent doctor in a hospital that is part of the reason people are giving money or not.
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