‘Grey’s Anatomy’ recap: ‘What’s your emergency?’
I’d like to start a slow clap for theGrey’s Anatomywriters for teeing up an impressive season finale.
This episode had all the makings of an award-winning drama.
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It’s important to set the stage before we dive into the dramatics.
They’ve already been introduced to DeLuca.
There’s no way Amelia is going to inaugurate Link into this modern-day family.
I personally think Meredith’s offspring could handle it.
Grey Sloan Memorial is buzzing with activity.
Most notably, Alex found some golden blood for Gus and is waiting on her plane to land.
DeLuca entertains Gabby, the little girl with abdominal pain whose paperwork reads “Ellis Grey.”
He’s showing her how the CT scanner works using her stuffed kitty.
Catherine and Bailey are in a secret meeting with strangers.
And Teddy is picking out cribs.
Are we all caught up?
The first emergency is the golden blood donor.
Her name is Frances and she suffers from agoraphobia.
Schmitt has been bestowed the honor of driving the golden blood from the airport to the hospital.
It’s her safe song.
It calms her down.
Alex breaks the news to Gus' parents and his mom, understandably, snaps.
In an angry fit, she smashes Gus' Lego tower, spilling the pieces everywhere.
It’s not funny.
This is clearly another random emergency.
Okay, it’s a little funny.
He’s placed on his stomach and rolled off on a gurney to have surgery.
On his broken butt.
Not a good day for this guy.
Owen is sent to the airplane hanger to help talk Frances into saving the day.
And Jackson and Maggie are still camping.
Maggie is reading in a tent.
Remember when DeLuca professed his love and Meredith walked away?
Not her finest moment.
Which is exactly Meredith’s point.
She’s messed up.
Everyone is messed up.
There’s nothing Jo could say that would make Meredith flinch.
And both sets of parents royally screwed them up.
She lovingly welcomes Jo to the Dysfunctional Family Club.
Jo whips around and stares Meredith in the eyes.
Then she asks her, “Was your mother raped?
Raped by your father?
Is that why you exist?
Do you look like a rapist?
Do you wear his face?
You don’t get this.
Jo opens up a tiny little bit, recalling a memory she had as a foster child.
She was on a playground and a little girl fell coming down the slide.
Jo always thought if she ever found her own mother, she would do the same.
Instead, she believes that the pain she’s endured her entire life is her birthright.
Meredith assures Jo that she survived the violence.
She has an enormous will and an extreme capacity for survival.
Jo’s superpower is taking dark experiences and making them light again.
She chose to stop.
And her friends brought her back into the light.
The people she loves didn’t give up on her.
She asks Jo a simple question: “Are you telling me you want to stop?
Or just need a few days under the covers?”
Jo doesn’t want to stop.
So Meredith makes her get up so they can talk to both Alex and Bailey.
Also, she needs to take a shower because homegirl is ripe.
She’s afraid he will stab her incorrectly or she will get a hideous infection.
Owen offers to give her a sedative, but she refuses.
What she doesn’t know is at that exact same time, Gus is suffering from a heart attack.
Frances won’t take a sedative because she’s not in a hospital.
She won’t leave the airplane because she’s scared.
She apologizes for the inconvenience and Schmitt rips her a new one.
Just like the butt guy.
She can’t go through with it.
And although it sounds ludicrous, that’s the voice she listens to.
She wants to help, but can’t.
Owen goes for broke and FaceTimes with Alex, knowing he will be right there beside Gus.
Gus' mom graciously informs Frances that Gus “can’t talk right now.”
Alex pans the phone to the little boy who is out conscious, recovering from a heart attack.
Gus' mom explains that his heart stopped because he doesn’t have enough blood in his body.
As Frances cries, Owen sweetly promises her that he will help her do what she needs to do.
If he has to, he will lift her up and carry her.
He will protect her.
Owen literally puts a blanket over Frances' head and carries her to the limo.
Then they get stuck in traffic.
Gus isn’t getting any better.
The kid is suffering from heart failure and his doctor is out getting bug bites and twisting her ankle.
Camping is fun, right Maggie?
Here comes emergency number four.
Kari’s CT came back questionable and Teddy has to remove a lobe of her lung.
Toby is there (Kari is their mom) and pitches a fit.
The stem cells should be working.
Isn’t surgery going to hurt more than it would help?
Kari forces Toby to listen and remember that THEY are the reason she lives bravely.
When Toby came home and announced, “I’m not a woman.
I’m not a man.
I’m both,” Kari knew that she no longer wanted to live in fear.
Kari tells Toby that she lives because of Toby.
Kari is all in this life and wants Toby to know it.
Toby cries a little and proudly declares that they are all in, too.
We are flooded with a flurry of new information in the next moments.
Leo has a cold so Amelia offers to take him “home.”
Link wants to know where “home” is located.
Meredith’s or Owen’s?
Leo’s home is at Owen’s and that’s where she will be.
Link calls her out, asking if this thing they have is still pain management?
She needs to tell him what she wants so he can decide what he wants.
Meredith tells Jo to stay with DeLuca and wait on Bailey to get out of the meeting.
She runs to find Alex.
Jo looks at DeLuca and asks, “Do you love her?”
DeLuca responds, “Who wouldn’t?”
He obeys and is immediately questioned if he treated Gabby the week before.
Looking around the table, Catherine explains that the strangers are from the United Medical Program.
These are the folks who provide insurance for doctors.
PS: This is both fraud and a felony and DeLuca needs to spill the beans.
In a nutshell, Teddy realized today that she loves Owen.
Because her water just broke.
Speaking of timing, Meredith found Alex and is sitting in the hyperbaric chamber with him and Gus.
He apologizes for lying to her and wants to set the record straight.
The guy is taking a bullet for the women he loves.
What he did wasn’t fair to her or her kids.
The kids who need their mother.
It’s hit over and over and over again.
Will DeLuca go to jail for Meredith?
Will Kari regain feeling in her arms?
Will Maggie ever camp again?
Will Amelia have to deliver Teddy’s baby in Leo’s house?
And more importantly, will the golden blood ever get to Gray Sloan Memorial?
