Carolyn and Roy Register have always been active in helping charity events, but they have a special love for the Boys & Girls Homes of North Carolina Golf Tournament.

“Carolyn called me about doing a benefit golf tournament for the Boys & Girls Homes in Lake Waccamaw,” recalls Ron Jones, who serves as the tournament chairman.

And, as they say, the rest is history.

It was almost nine years ago when Carolyn Register made that phone call. Since then there have been seven tournaments held on Pinehurst Resort’s renowned No. 8 Centennial Course. And the Boys & Girls Homes have received more than $180,000 from the event, which will celebrate its eighth playing March 5.

There was a very special reason Register made that memorable call. She and Roy had lost their 47-year-old son, Courtney, in 2001 and were searching for a suitable memorial. Roy, an avid golfer, suggested a golf tournament.

And that’s when Carolyn, who was serving on the Boys & Girls Homes board, called Ron Jones.

“Carolyn had gotten my name from the Boys & Girls Homes, where I had been connected through Optimists International,” Jones said. “The Optimists have a cottage for the kids there, and I have been strongly supporting and keeping up the cottage and all its services for temporarily displaced, neglected and abused children.”

Jones is retired from the North Carolina Department of Corrections, has been an Optimist member for 22 years, and is currently a member of the Sandhills Optimist Club.

“Tommy Albin, who was publishing The Golf Record then, let us use his office to meet and helped us get organized,” Carolyn Register said. “We also have a ladies’ luncheon that raises money, and we had almost 200 people there last year. We always have a great guest speaker and a special attraction, such as a fashion show.

“This event has a very special meaning for us, and I love being on the board. Seeing these children who come there after not having been taken care of is a wonderful experience. And it’s special after they leave the homes and come back to tell us how their lives were changed and what it meant to them.”

The homes, which consist of cottages built by various civic clubs from across the state, provide children with a home-like environment, a sound basic education and higher education opportunities and spiritual development.

Asked how much time he spends on meetings and organizational projects, Jones says, “A lot. We have 17 volunteer members who are from a variety of backgrounds, and we all work very hard for a year ahead of the tournament, planning, getting donated food, prizes, grants and golfers.

“I’m also on the trustee board of the BGHNC, and the homes were recently accredited by the Council on Accreditation, an international, independent not for-profit child-and-family-services and behavioral accreditation organization that has more widely validated the credibility of the homes.”

The work creates a bond among the committee members, according to Jones.

“Interacting with each other and all we go through to locate golfers, sponsors, venues, etc., bonds this group together with a common purpose,” he said. “We all have our own talent and contacts, and we use them to their fullest. We supplement the budget for the homes with our one tournament at about $30,000 annually.”

The civic clubs that provide and maintain the cottages don’t quit with helping raise funds, though.

“There’s a statewide Cleanup Day each year,” Jones said, “where Optimists and other civic organizations pour onto the campus and wash windows, paint, clean grounds, etc. We have a chance to work alongside the kids and talk with them. Their attitude and lifestyle changes are remarkable and gratifying.

“Listening to the private and public testimonies of the residents makes us feel the work of the tournament and donations of time and resources are worth it all.

“The current president of the homes, Gary Faircloth, is a former resident, and his story is extremely inspirational.”

The tournament, which uses the Pinehurst scramble format, will have a noon shotgun start. The entry fee is $200 per player or $750 per team and includes cart fees, prizes, range balls, snacks, coffee and Danish provided by Starbucks, a bag lunch from Golden Corral and dinner.

A hole-in-one on the eighth hole offers a prize of a two-year lease on a new Ford or Mazda automobile, and an ace on the 15th is worth $1,000 in cash, also provided by Bill Smith Ford-Mazda.

Golfers registering before Feb. 13 will be entered in an “early bird drawing” for free golf for a foursome at an area golf club.

For more information, call Jones at (910) 295-1819 or (910) 638-9965, or register at (910) 295-2352.

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The Feb. 2 installment of “Grey's Anatomy” — the “If/Then” alternate reality episode — welcomed back a few familiar faces and dearly departed friends, but it also gave the giant middle finger to a few others.

In an episode where anything was possible (Meredith wearing pink! Addison pregnant!), the only thing scoffed at more than George O'Malley (a.k.a. “007″ license to kill) was “crazy” Izzie, their old pal who lost her job for sleeping with a patient and stealing a heart for him. Sound familiar?

When I visited the “Grey's Anatomy” set recently while they filmed their upcoming “Private Practice” crossover, Ellen Pompeo was very frank about who, if anyone, she'd welcome back to the show with open arms. And even with Katherine Heigl's constant media pleas lately to return to the show, her name never came up.

If you could have any one character back on the show, alive or dead, who would you like to return?
“Well, I have to say, I do love Kate Burton. She's a tremendous actress, and any minute I get to work with her is fun. I love having Kate. I was so sad when our relationship on the show ended — when she died and I couldn't have her anymore — because I thought that was such an interesting dynamic, and it's so fun to play. So I was glad to have a second crack at that.”

Yes, it could be that Pompeo name-dropped the one woman who did come back for that very special episode — Kate Burton as Meredith's mom Ellis Grey — because it was fresh on her brain. Or it could be that the cast of “Grey's” is sending Heigl a message: You had your chance. Thanks, but no thanks.

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INDIANAPOLIS — He was always being compared to someone. That’s what happens when you’re the youngest son of a great quarterback and the baby brother of an even better one. It wasn’t until he compared himself to Tom Brady, though, that people began taking Eli Manning seriously.

That was in August, when Manning was asked whether he considered himself an “elite” quarterback like Brady. Manning said simply that he belonged “in that class.” But in New York, where blowing things out of proportion is practically a civic duty, even most Giants fans regarded it as heresy at the time. By Sunday night, it could be fact.

So ready or not, it’s time for the “other” Manning vs. Brady, Part II. Both are back in Sunday’s Super Bowl, four years after they first clashed, each with plenty still to prove.

“It’s not my job to list quarterbacks,” Manning said this week. “He’s obviously a future Hall of Famer.”

Yet Brady has looked like anything but that in his last 11 postseason games, posting a 6-5 mark, including a 2008 Super Bowl loss to Manning and the Giants. For most of those, he’s been knocked around a lot, picked off more than usual and tagged with a quarterback rating that wouldn’t qualify as a low-grade fever. Measured against the nearly impossible standard that Brady set at the start of his career — 10 straight postseason wins and three Super Bowl titles — merely average would be a more accurate description.

Perception still lags behind that reality, in no small part because everything else about Brady still screams “winner.” Now 34, he is still boyishly handsome, still as charming as ever, still the most sought-after endorser and the one athlete even his peers would kill to be. He returns home every night with two sons to look after — and a supermodel wife.

Yet those who know Brady have long marveled at how well he hides a competitive streak even Michael Jordan would admire. And despite outward appearances, they wonder how Brady is managing it now, coming up short of his ultimate goal every season since 2005, after winning three in four years. Patriots backup quarterback Brian Hoyer ticked off a laundry list of things he’s been studying in the three seasons he’s sat behind Brady: mechanics, poise and attention to detail, even the tone of voice he uses to command respect in a huddle.

But the one thing Hoyer worries will never rub off is Brady’s raw desire.

“At the end of just about every practice, I run out there and try to get the last few reps with the first team,” Hoyer said.

“And just about every practice, whether it’s a steamy day in training camp or a short walk-through after watching film, he runs out there, grabs me and says something like, ‘Get the hell out of here!’ — only it’s not always even that nice. …

“Everybody outside this team looks at him and thinks ‘pretty-boy QB.’ But Tom doesn’t try hiding it from us,” Hoyer said. “He’s a killer.”

Manning, too, shares that trait and has been honing it for nearly as long. Like Brady, he was the baby of the family and quickly learned he could get his way by being demanding one moment and wheedling the next. Like his father, Archie, the longtime Saints quarterback, and older brother Peyton, who almost single-handedly vaulted the Colts to the top of the NFL heap, Eli burned to win all the time, too. But he wasn’t above playing the trump card — his mother, Olivia.

“He would pin me down,” Eli, now 31, recalled growing up with Peyton, “and take his knuckles and knock on my chest and make me name the 12 schools in the SEC. I didn’t know them all at the time, but I quickly learned them. … I don’t suggest anyone else try it out, but it definitely made me learn the schools of the SEC. Once I figured those out, he moved on.

“There were 28 teams in the NFL at that point, so all teams in the NFL. I had to get my studying on for that. Then once I figured that out, the one I never got was the 10 brands of cigarettes. When he really wanted to torture me and knew I had no shot of ever getting it,” he added, “that’s when I just started screaming for my mom or dad to come save me.”

Contrast that with the story Brady told about growing up with three older sisters.

“I didn’t have to share clothes. I didn’t have to fight over the bathroom. They were pretty easy on me. They dressed me up a few times in their clothes and painted my nails once, but it was nice,” Brady said without a shred of embarrassment. “They’d bring all of their girlfriends over to the house. It was pretty cool.”

Manning was drafted No. 1 overall in 2004 by the Chargers. They promptly traded him to the Giants for quarterback Philip Rivers, the No. 4 pick, a swap that rumor had it was engineered by Archie. Either way, Manning arrived to much fanfare and not a little resentment.

Kurt Warner, a Super Bowl winner in St. Louis a few years earlier, was New York’s starter at the time, but even he didn’t envy Manning the situation he walked into.

“He’s got the name to live up to, the way he wound up there, and he’s in New York, where you can be the best thing since sliced bread the first quarter, and the worst thing to ever walk the earth by the second,” said Warner, who started that season 5-4 before giving way to Manning.

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I don’t think it’d be inaccurate to say that last night’s alternate reality episode of Grey’s Anatomy was a strong effort.

There was enough activity that paralleled our normal reality to make it feel familiar (Callie had eyes for Arizona, Meredith and Derek were oddly connected), yet enough deviation to make it feel exciting, new, and just a little funny. (Meredith was engaged to ALEX?!) And who wouldn’t appreciate the macabre humor that hung over the hour? (Percy: “Someone shoot me now.” HA!)

Still, when compared to some of the great alternate reality episodes ever produced, where, exactly, does it rank, readers?

I guess the answer depends on what you seek from alternate reality episodes.

Immediately, I found myself comparing last night’s episode to that one episode of Smallville (Don’t look at me that way. I’m a CW girl; what can I say?) that showed what life would be like if Superman didn’t exist. The lessons in that one were a bit more overt than those in Grey’s. But I appreciated the value put in the idea — it was the one thing I felt that was missing from the Grey’s episode. Even after watching it, I’m not sure why we had to bring it up at all. (Some might say it was to lighten the air after the intense episode that came before the one we just watched, but I don’t think that’s excuse enough to remove us so drastically from the story.)

That small gripe aside, I enjoyed it, and would award it a strong B and a smiley face sticker. But a gold star? Probably not.

Such distinctions and awards are saved for alt-reality episodes produced by the likes of Friends. (Monica would appreciate the gold star I just mentioned in either reality — that I know.) Other strong performers in my book? Community, Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The O.C. (I don’t count Fringe because that’s basically an alt-world SHOW. So it actually rules all the other alt-episodes in my TV kingdom.) I’d also give high marks to the Boy Meets World episode where Cory and Shawn imagined what it’d be like if they were never friends — but that’s mostly because I’ve referenced “Plays with Squirrels” so many times in my life that I’d feel like a fraud not to acknowledge it.

That’s just my take, readers. I want to know yours. Where would you rank the alt-reality episode of Grey’s? And which ones do you think top them all?

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Grey's Anatomy's alt-reality episode truly is a love letter to the fans.

In this new reality, Ellis Grey was never diagnosed with Alzheimer's, which leads to a very different upbringing for Meredith, the least of which: Her last name is now Webber. That is just one of the nice surprises in the alt-reality. Let's check out the rest:

Music nostalgia: The episode opens on Rilo Kiley's “Portions for Foxes,” which was the first song played in the Grey's pilot. Throughout the episode, we also heard songs featured in the first season, including Róisín Murphy's “Ruby Blue” and Inara George's “Fools in Love.”

Meredith Webber: Meredith still lives in her mother's house, but so does her mother, Ellis, and her husband Richard! Ellis is now the Chief at Seattle Grace, and is being awarded her third Harper Avery award. Meredith is desperate to please her mother, and while she says she doesn't want special treatment, she isn't afraid to use her status to get in on Yang's surgery. Meredith later realizes her mom makes everyone feel ordinary so she can feel extraordinary. A nice nod to the two-part episode where Ellis died.

Poor Derek: Not only is Addison still married to Derek, but she's pregnant, too. However, their marriage leads to a miserable existence for both of them. They live in the trailer since Derek never built the McMansion, and he doesn't even seem to want the baby that's on the way. “It's a beautiful day to save lives,” Addison throws in Derek's face at one point, the line he used to say before each surgery. Derek is also not the hot shot doc anymore, and when a fight between Addison and Derek seems to indicate she'll leave Seattle Grace, Ellis threatens that she'll fire Derek over Addison quitting. (One good thing: It's nice to see Callie and Addison reunited. I always loved their banter.)

Callie's conflicting feelings: Though Callie has kids with Owen, it's clear that it's not a happy marriage. When Arizona excitedly hugs Callie, the look on Callie's face spells a sudden attraction to her co-worker. Plus: Owen still has PTSD, and it seems that unfortunately Callie was the one whom he once choked in reaction to a PTSD flashback. That's OK, he's getting help from his war buddy Teddy, whom Callie thinks is a man. Of course, it's not much help since he later punches through a glass window. Cristina helps him clean up his hand, and it's clear there's an attraction there as well.

The real Nazi: It's not Bailey, that's for sure. She's back to being the timid doctor once called Mandy, one of the few characters that we've already seen before. She's extremely nervous around Ellis and can't stand up for herself, which eventually leads to Ellis firing her. (The elevator scene with Alex at the end did show a stronger Mandy, who may be turning into Bailey.)

A scary Yang: Cristina is a heartless, hard-core cardio doc who has absolutely no bedside manner. She's not even Meredith's person anymore, April is. It turns out, Yang has no friends because she was ostracized for sleeping with an attending, Dr. Burke.

Fallen comrades: Izzie actually got kicked out of Seattle Grace — and possibly shot up the place? — after Meredith ratted her out for sleeping with a patient (Denny) and stealing a heart for him. George, on the other hand, failed his intern exams, like he did in the regular universe. However, he just never showed his face again.

Meredith's new beau: Meredith is actually engaged to dorky Alex, and they're quite the perfect couple… sort of. He's actually hooking up with April on the side, which Yang discovers and reveals to Meredith in front of everyone. Upon learning this, Dr. Percy ironically says, “Just shoot me now.”

Lexie the cokehead: Though she still has photographic memory, Lexie is not the smart doc we know and love. Instead, she's a strung-out addict who overdoses and is brought to Seattle Grace. Both her parents have died — her mother of stomach issues, and her father killed himself — but she knows about her half sister at the hospital (aka Meredith). While Jackson suggests her ODing is a sign to turn things around, Lexie secretly steals his keycard so she can raid the drug cabinet. She's later brought back into Seattle Grace by… Mark!

Mark's baby: After Mark brings Lexie in to Seattle Grace, he seeks out the mother of his unborn child… Addison. That's right, Addison's baby is not Derek's.

Cristina and Meredith, the couple that was always meant to be: Though Yang undermines Mer in surgery, the two team up to save Lexie's life. They end up going tequila shots at the bar, bringing things full circle to Season 1. (Nearly their whole bar conversation is exact dialogue previously used in the pilot.)

MerDer: After Cristina leaves the bar, Derek begins chatting with Meredith, asking what people around the hospital call him. It's McDreary. But he's not McDreary tonight. He's just a guy in a bar, and Mer's just a girl in a bar. (Another nod to the pilot, as well as Lexie's first appearance on Grey's.)

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All-Powerful Ellis: Remember that time Meredith wore a really creepy high ponytail to impress Derek's mom? Well, this episode was a little like that. Familiar but with a slightly crazed smile. Ellis Grey (Kate Burton) is such a powerful figure, even in death, so it only makes sense that in life she is positively stifling. That's not to say we are happy she's dead. OK, maybe it is better for the pecking order at Seattle Grace.

McDepressing: We admit it, initially we were allured by this shiny happy well-run Seattle Grace, but very soon, the happy facade start crumbling and the truth comes out. Alex is a jerk in any universe. Izzie, Burke, and George would still be M.I.A. And our favorite couples would be miserable without their soul mates. Funny how that all works out.

A Strange Sister: In our universe, Lexie (Chyler Leigh) had the perfect childhood, but here, Lexie is tattooed junkie orphan—yet that often-present love triangle still exists. Or given another few alt-episodes to brew, it could. We are so weak, one little pep talk about family and hearts and med school from Jackson (Jesse Williams) and we are toast. (Why did they break up again?) But then, in comes Mark rescuing an overdosing Lexie, and we are pulled under. (Why aren't they back together yet?) Seriously, how does Shonda Rhimes do this to us even in this crazy alternate reality? We are hopeless.

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BIZARRO? BIZARRO! In the Seattle Grace of a different future, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) was engaged to a much more upbeat (and horn-rimmed) Karev (Justin Chambers)

The previews for “If/Then” — Grey's Anatomy’s new episode last night — looked like one egregious, what-if gag after another: Karev looks like Clark Kent! Meredith has stick-straight hair! Cristina is a bigger bitch than she normally is! Bailey is a soft-spoken nerd with dreadlocks! Ellis Grey is alive and working it hardcore at Seattle Grace! The episode was touted as a look at what would have happened if things had been different for our favorite television doctors — what I'm dubbing Bizarro Seattle Grace — but initially, it looked simply like it should have instead been titled “If The Doctors Had Bad Stylists/Then They’d Look Like This.”

Admittedly, there was a focus on changing the looks of some of the doctors — I'm not exactly sure why that was so supremely necessary, other than to drive home the point that these were different versions of the beloved characters we know — but, just a minute or two in, it became clear that this episode was about more than just how the medical professionals styled their hair. If you didn’t pick it up by the end of the hour, “If/Then” was about destiny and how — no matter the windy, horrible path you're on — you may still arrive at the same place the universe had intended all along.

Trusty voice-over master Meredith Grey guided us into the odd — and, I’m just going to say it brutally here, somewhat pointless — premise. “What if one little thing I said or did could have made it all fall apart? What if I’d chosen another life for myself? Or another person? We might never have found each other,” she began at the top of the episode. “What if I’d been raised different? What if my mother had never been sick? What if I’d actually had a good father? What if? What if? What if?…” What if, indeed! Let the dream begin!

Her hallucination or dream — whatever you want to call it — encompassed changes for most of the Seattle Grace crew: A sulky Derek was still with a pregnant Addison (Kate Walsh returns yet again! What if she hadn’t gotten a spin-off?), although they were unhappy together. Ellis Grey was the chief at Seattle Grace and happily married to a rather submissive Richard Webber, who had helped raise a seemingly well-adjusted Meredith Webber. (Yes, you read that right — Meredith Webber.) Callie was married to Owen, who was dealing with post-Iraq issues. (Teddy was nothing but a mention in passing, by Callie, who thought she was a male friend helping him through his stress via Skype.) Cristina was a loner — shocking! — and a stealth surgeon who everyone hated because of her surly demeanor and the fact that she slept with Dr. Burke, who had apparently left the state after their affair. (There were lots of winks like this — mostly to departed characters — throughout the episode.)

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“It's a great fantasy and device for the writers to turn characters on their head and for fans to be amused,” guest star Kate Walsh says of Thursday's big “alternate universe” episode of Grey's Anatomy. In the hour, Meredith ponders what life could have been like had she grown up with a normal mother and made a series of different choices.

“As things start to unfold, we in the writers' room kept coming up with more and more things if Meredith had been a shiny, happy person,” Grey's creator Shonda Rhimes tells The Hollywood Reporter, noting that Derek would have remained unhappily married to Addison (Kate Walsh).

Here's a character-by-character breakdown of who's up to what in the bizarro world.

Ellis (Kate Burton): She's happy, Alzheimer's free and chief at Seattle Grace and married — to Richard! — and runs a very tight ship while still being in control of Meredith, who still lives at home. “She's pushing her daughter to be better, to be more,” Sara Ramirez tells THR. Talk about too much family time.

Richard (James Pickens Jr.): He's the nice guy to Ellis' fierce hand at the helm of the hospital, often the quiet confidant to others at the hospital, including Bailey. He also seems quiet content to be the family man and let Ellis take center stage at the hospital, despite not always agreeing with her choices.

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Meredith (Ellen Pompeo): She's happy, peppy, perky and clad in pink. Plus engaged to Alex, who after some initial grousing has Ellis' blessing. Oh, and she's no longer Dr. Grey, instead going by Dr. Webber. “To me a happy Meredith, a chirpy girl who wears pink is a horror story to me. That girl is sort of horrifying,” Rhimes says.

Derek (Patrick Dempsey): Kate Walsh tells THR that Derek “isn't at his best” in this world and isn't the top doc at Seattle Grace, with Ellis often picking on him. “I call him McDreary but he's not the happiest on the planet,” the Private Practice star says with a laugh. And there's clearly no Mer-Der. Says Rhimes: “[In this world, Meredith] never would have been a girl in a bar, meeting a boy in a bar and that never would have happened. So if she'd never been in the bar, she never would have ended up with him. Which means when Addison showed up to get her husband back, she would have just gotten him back.”

Addison (Kate Walsh): Walsh says Addison is pregnant with her and husband Derek's first child and that on the surface they seem to be the hospital's power couple. “Addison is pretty established in her career at this point and she's seven months pregnant and probably thinking more about family and her personal life more at this point,” she says. In addition, she's very tight with Ellis and is sort of like a “class pet” for her. “It's great thing for fans who have fantasized about Addison and Derek staying together and what would have happened. It's a great fantasy and device for the writers to turn characters on their head and for fans to be amused.”

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Alex (Justin Chambers): Rhimes says Alex is “both horrifying and hilarious” in the alternate universe — have you seen those glasses and that happy-go-lucky attitude? Understatement! Despite slipping a ring on Meredith's finger, the couple keeps their relationship private at the hospital even though Ellis has signed off on the union.

Callie (Sara Ramirez): Married. Three kids. Owen. And have you seen her kiss him? Ramirez says there are no matter what page you turn to, “at some point in your life, your destiny catches up with you and finds you no matter what.” Without having ever met Erica Hahn, Rhimes says Callie never discovered she might have feelings for a woman. “She's pining for a woman and doesn't know why and she's sort of wistful but she's trapped,” the showrunner says. “It's this really lovely moment. The part of the episode that I think is really magical is, can they all find their way back to who they should really be. That's sort of what you're watching. I think it's really delightful.” Beyond her marriage and motherhood, Ramirez says Ellis has taken a particular interest the cardio surgeon and serves as a mentor to her.

Arizona (Jessica Capshaw): Capshaw tells THR that Arizona's sexuality “is not discussed” in the hour and that her relationship with Callie starts off on the wrong foot and progresses from there. “There is a growth — there's the beginning where they lock heads over a medical situation and then there's the growth to an understanding and an affinity,” she says. “But I don't think it's clear that there's something between them that's outside of that.” Beyond Callie, Capshaw says viewers will see a different, “sexier, more sophisticated” Arizona in this world, who doesn't have a partner and is really just on her own.

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Owen (Kevin McKidd): He finally has the family that he's always wanted — Ramirez says Owen is a “great dad” — but he's still not happy. “[Callie and Owen] have no business being together: he's pining for somebody else, she's having all these unexplained feelings for Arizona,” Rhimes says.

Teddy (Kim Raver): With Owen still suffering from PTSD, still Skypes with his “buddies” in Iraq — including, as Callie believes, a guy named Teddy.

Bailey (Chandra Wilson): “Without Richard to spend the time mentoring her, Mandy Bailey might have stayed Mandy Bailey and never gotten to be the Nazi,” Rhimes says. Indeed: She's incredibly timid and allows Ellis to snake a high-profile surgery right out from under her.

Cristina (Sandra Oh): In this world, Cristina is completely ostracized, with Callie never really getting her. “You're going to see Cristina struggle with a few things,” Ramirez warns. “She's smart through and through but maybe her personality has been a little bit affected by making different choices.”

April (Sarah Drew): Still single and, apparently accepting that her “person” — Meredith — is now engaged to her former crush, Alex, April now carries a torch for Charles (Robert Baker) who is still alive since the hospital shooting that claimed his life in the typical Grey's world never happened.

Jackson (Jesse Williams): So far, little has been revealed about Jackson's alternate universe persona, other than that he winds up treating a very different Lexie.

Lexie (Chyler Leigh): Little Grey, it turns out, appears to be the dark and twisty one, having come into Seattle Grace covered in tattoos and piercings as a patient suffering from an overdose of cocaine.            

Mark (Eric Dane): Mark never winds up coming to Seattle Grace, Rhimes says.

Izzie (Katherine Heigl) and George (T.R. Knight): Ramirez says the duo are mentioned briefly, while Rhimes teases that viewers will “understand where they went in this new world.” Don't bet on seeing either.

Hit the comments with whose story line are you most excited to see in the alternate universe. Grey's Anatomy airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on ABC.

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'Grey's Anatomy'

The long-running medical drama explores alternative universes by imagining the world of Seattle Grace if Meredith's mother (the wonderful Kate Burton) hadn't succumbed to Alzheimer's. Can you say, “McFlashback?” 9 p.m. Thursday on ABC (seattletimes.com/tvlistings).

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Also on Thursday

“The Vampire Diaries,” 8 p.m. (CW): Alaric and Elena receive disturbing news from Sheriff Forbes about a recent murder; Damon asks an old acquaintance for help with an elaborate plan; Caroline is unable to stop a tragedy from occurring.

“Parks and Recreation,” 8:30 p.m. (NBC): Leslie tries to find Ann a date for Valentine's Day; Ben asks Ron to help with the scavenger hunt Leslie sent him on; Chris is upset about his love life.

“The Finder,” 9 p.m. (Fox): Walter tries to help when Isabel's new boyfriend, a baseball star, is robbed; Leo and Walter bring Willa in on the case in hope of earning her trust.

“Project Runway All Stars,” 9 p.m. (Lifetime): The contestants must ask strangers for their clothing; the designers must use the clothing gathered on the street to create new outfits.

“The Mentalist,” 10 p.m. (CBS): The team investigates the murder of a disgraced fashion designer who was on the verge of a comeback; Agent Darcy looks for Red John.

“Independent Lens,” 10 p.m. (KCTS): “Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock”: Civil rights activist Daisy Bates supports nine black students who register to attend an all-white high school in Little Rock, Ark.

The New York Times

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