Grey's Anatomy, we so desperately missed you! We've gone a whole two weeks without any hospital drama due to a Halloween special of It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, but it was definitely worth the wait. Family tensions are heating up and a patient who was car jacked has a story that relates to not only one, but two of our surgeons. Here's what happened this week.
The episode starts off as most of the episodes do, with Meredith Grey’s voice-over talking about how trauma is messy and chaotic. Messy is definitely an understatement when a patient named Melissa is rolled in as a victim of a car jacking and the doctor’s are forced to cut her open right in the middle of the ER, resulting in a mass amount of blood being gushed from her stomach.
Melissa gets into surgery, and the doctor’s learn she’s a veteran based on one of her tattoos. Once she awakens, she tells Owen, Jo, and Callie her entire story. She is actually homeless, and her life savings, clothes, and everything she owned was in the car that was stolen. The story hits a little too close to home for both Owen and Jo because of Owen’s army past and Jo’s own homelessness history.
Owen tries to tell Melissa about all the benefits there are for homeless veterans, but she refuses to receive any sort of benefits, claiming she doesn’t deserve it because she fixed computers in Iraq and wasn’t in battle like everyone else. Owen convinces her to finally get the help she deserves to get her back on her feet. Meanwhile, Jo begins to wonder about the state of her living arrangements. She doesn’t have a place of her own because she unofficially moved in with Alex now that they’re more serious. But what happens if they break up? She shares her fears with Alex and he reassures her he’s not going anywhere.
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[New page = Motherly Love]
April gets a surprise when Jackson informs her that he picked up her mother and brought her to Grey Sloan Memorial to say hello and help out with the new parents-to-be. Jackson looks like he’s genuinely happy to go baby shopping with his mother-in-law while April looks like she’d rather be doing anything else.
When April gets home after a full day of work, she finds her mom and Jackson working together to build the Kepner crib, which has been passed down for four generations. Momma Kepner offers to “whip up” some dinner, and April finally blows up, yelling at her and saying she doesn’t really need any help with all this baby stuff. Well it was never April who needed help, it was Jackson. Jackson tells her he was the one who called her mother because he has no idea how to be a father and wants to learn.
April finds her mother and ends up apologizing for wigging out, asking her mother if she can be counted on for all of her baby questions. Of course, Momma Kepner assures her she can.
[New page = Awkward family dinner]
While Meredith and Maggie are now on semi-cordial terms thanks to their mother’s medical journals they’ve been sharing, Derek wants things to progress, so he convinces Meredith to ask Maggie to come over dinner. Meredith agrees before she finds out that Derek also invited Webber behind her back. She thinks the dinner isn’t going to go well because Maggie isn’t too fond of Webber, and when Derek brings up the fact that family was one of the reasons she decided to stay in Seattle instead of moving with him to D.C., Meredith is infuriated. She’s tired of him bringing that up in their arguments, so he agrees and apologizes, saying he has a big family and only wants that for her as well. After he claims “Zola needs more black people in the family because I’m running out of ways to braid her hair and Bailey won’t show me anymore”, with his famous McDreamy smirk, the two proceed to have very hot and steamy shower sex. Pun intended.
While the two are having their shower alone time, Maggie and Webber appear at their doorstep at the same time, leaving them stuck outside awkwardly. Webber ends up apologizing and says he wants to be a good father, but Maggie insists she already has a father. She says Webber is nothing more than her “genetic history” and he is in the past. All she wanted was honesty, and he didn’t give that to her, so now she wants nothing to do with them. She leaves their house just as Derek walks out to greet Webber.
[New page = Dr. Herman’s Secret]
Arizona is having a rough time in every way possible, as her marriage to Callie is completely broken and she is now sleeping at the hospital. Callie tells her she didn’t kick her out, but Arizona insists she needs to be around for her fellowship anyway, so it’s not a big deal.
Herman gives Arizona a book of her personal notes on fetal surgeries and orders her to read and remember them to prepare for a surgery the next day. Alex decides to watch their surgery, and after Dr. Herman scolds Arizona for only knowing the “gist” of her notes and not reciting them word for word, Alex stands up for Arizona and tells Herman to back off.
Well Arizona finally has enough. After the surgery is over, she confronts Herman and tells her she refuses to be treated like she’s being hazed. She says she can’t take a year of it, when Herman tells her they won’t be working together a year – because she has a brain tumor and she’ll be dead in six months.
Uh. Whoa.
She tells Arizona fetal surgery is so new that she’s one of the few surgeons who are “making this up as we go along” because there aren’t any textbooks to teach it. She insists that’s why it’s so important for Arizona to learn exactly as Dr. Herman teaches. So now we know why she’s really freaking rude.
Next week’s episode shows tensions rising between Derek and his sister Amelia. What did he do to get her so riled up? Check out the promo below and tune in next week to find out!