Episode Guide
Change is in the air at Oceanside Wellness ... Pacific Wellcare ... whatever they wanna be called this week.
Everybody is pushed to their limits, as the episode title implies, but more important than anyone's personal drama is that of a little boy whose mom is a 15-year-old homeless girl.
Cooper, Addison, and Sam meet her at a shelter where they are doing pro bono work and when they realize the boy has serious heart problems, they bring him in.
Sam wants to operate on him for free, knowing no one else will do it, but Addison tells him he can't just jump back into surgery.
Addison opts to call the girl's mom instead.
That turns out to be a disaster, sending the girl and her boy back out onto the street, where the boy's condition worsens.
Fortunately, Cooper and Addison find them, Sam operates, and then the young mom makes peace with her own mother.
In Violet's world, there are no such happy endings.
She's back at work, but is clearly not up for it, as her efforts to help a married couple after the wife's been raped hit too close to home. Especially when we learn she's pregnant and the rapist is the biological father.
Her husband storms out when he hears she wants to keep it, since she's been trying to conceive for so long. Still reeling from her own violent attack that involved her child, Violet talks her into an abortion and goes way over the line, calling the fetus inside of her a reminder of the most awful thing that ever happened.
Violet realizes she shouldn't tell patients to do things like this, so she calls them both in to sort out what they really want, instead of making it all about herself.
We don't know what they chose to do, but at least it will be about them, and not Violet.
Meanwhile, Violet's ignoring Lucas and Pete. Pete ultimately decides to take a job working for Naomi so that she doesn't have to look at him every day.
At the same time, Sheldon's claiming turf in his attempts to get over losing his girlfriend and baby to Pete in the span of a week.
Addison and Sam decide not to replace Naomi, and instead want each doctor to pony up $50,000 to buy her shares.
Everyone writes a check except Cooper, who's broke.
Charlotte's home moping and remodeling his bathroom and billing him for it, so he finally caves and tells her he's broke.
This leads to her giving Addison and Sam $50,000 for Cooper and a blank check for her. She's joining the practice!
Oh, and Dell's back, for a change, worried about Betsey being in school, and dealing with a panicky mom-to-be.
October 22nd, 2009 10:29 PM
Could somebody please tell me the name of the girl who played Danielle the teenage mom in this episode??? Or at least something else she has been in?? She looks soooo familiar!
Thanks!
October 22nd, 2009 11:09 PM
her name is lucy hale she played on the sisterhood of the traveling pants 2 as lenas little sis and she also plays on a new movie called sorority wars
October 22nd, 2009 11:21 PM
Could someone please tell me who played Danielle's mom Mrs Palmer on this episode?
October 23rd, 2009 10:44 AM
Amanda, from Wikipedia:
Hale also appeared in NBC's short-lived re-imagining of the Bionic Woman as Becca Sommers, younger sister to title character Jaime Sommers (played by Michelle Ryan).
This is why I recognised her. :)
October 23rd, 2009 12:16 PM
I don't think that was Lucy Hale last night on Private Practice. I looked on IMDb and she did not star in any episode of Private Practice and that is updated to show what they are currently in. She did star in Sisters of the Traveling Pants 2 and also in Soroity Wars last wk but I'm almost positive that was not here last night.
October 23rd, 2009 1:15 PM
I'm so sorry I was wrong, that was Lucy Hale. It was not on the IMDb site which is very odd. They are usually current to the minutes with appearances but TV.com said it was her. I apologize. Now if anyone can tell me who played her mom it's driving me crazy. I can't find her name anywhere. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
October 23rd, 2009 1:18 PM
10/21 Pvt Practice episode "Pushing the Limits" at minute 54 when Cooper explains to Charlotte that he doesn't have any money, does he say "I like porn and I've spent way too much money in my life on porn"??? Please tell me I heard incorrectly!
October 23rd, 2009 1:52 PM
Could someone tell me who played Collette, the woman who was raped and now pregnant? I can't seem to find the names of the guest stars.
October 23rd, 2009 2:15 PM
ScA - she is from Cold Case Tracy Thoms
October 23rd, 2009 4:18 PM
Thank you soooooo much! I Googled everywhere and couldn't figure out where I had seen her before.
Much appreciated!