Lucy and Alex get off to a bad start and have a rather bitter ending. When Alex first meets the ob-gyn attending, he calls her patient a turnip. She then softens up to him after Meredith puts in a good word about him and they learn about their mutual love of college basketball. Their relationship ends, however, when Lucy takes a job in Africa that Arizona initially recommended to Alex. When she asks him to tell her a reason not to go to Africa, Alex tells her to go to hell. Well, it's fine because he'll meet the love of his life (knock on wood) two seasons later!