Re: MAC + PEYTON #new kid on the block#
I posted this in the Peyton thread too.
We now know that Peyton has 8 years training and 8 years experience. According to early info release about Peyton, she started in the ME's office and was there for 2 years, working with Sheldon and frequently with Mac. There was chemistry between the 2 but nothing else.
So, if Peyton was starting her career in the ME's office 8 years ago, that would make it pre 9-11, so Mac's wife would have still been alive. Maybe that's why nothing happened between the two of them then and maybe Peyton knew Claire. Not well, but maybe they had at least met? And when Mac and Peyton had their "chance encounter" a year or so ago, after years apart and four(?) years of grief, the chemistry kicked in again.