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Grey's is back! And in 2011's emotional first episode, the survivors of the Seattle Grace shooting faced a potential setback to their healing process when a gunman opened fire on students and faculty at nearby Pacific College, flooding the ER with gunshot victims.
"Our own trauma is fresh and we're going to have feelings today, and there's no shame in that," the Chief told his staff as they waited on the ambulances. "What we went through six months ago, they are going through right now ... which makes them our brothers and sisters ... so to the very best of our ability we are going to do our work first and you're going to have your feelings later."
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'Tis the season for the final fresh episode of Grey's Anatomy in 2010. Thankfully, there were plenty of twists in Thursday's installment to keep fans buzzing well into the New Year.
• Scott Foley is so the new Denny Duquette. As a seriously ill but oh-so-charming patient, the former Felicity star first encountered Izzie – er, Teddy – in the elevator, where he announced that he planned to propose to his girlfriend. The next time the two met, though, Henry admitted that he'd only (unsuccessfully) popped the question because he desperately needed health insurance. Rather than spend another day blaming herself for Cristina's decision to quit the surgical program, Teddy threw herself into trying to convince the Chief, and then the hospital board, that the tumor-afflicted patient deserved pro bono surgery. And when that ultimately failed, Teddy made an impulsive proposal of her own. "I have great medical insurance," she said. "I'll marry you." Will this union of convenience evolve into something more? And considering how things turned out the last time a doctor got engaged to a patient (RIP, Denny), do Teddy and Henry have a shot at a healthier prognosis?
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Never fear, Grey's fans – Your favorite show isn't jumping the Broadway shark.
ABC may have announced that the long-running medical drama plans to shoot an episode devoted to music, but according to one star, don't expect this to turn into Glee's Anatomy.
"Everyone keeps calling this a 'musical episode,' but really it's about the music of Grey's Anatomy," Chandra Wilson told PEOPLE at the Hollywood premiere of Frankie and Alice. "We're basically taking iconic songs from the show, songs that everyone knows, or has heard, and we're going to bring them to life through the characters on the show."
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Cristina's decision to quit her promising surgical career rocked the hospital on this week's Grey's Anatomy.
While confusion and sorrow filled the halls of Seattle Grace-Mercy West, Derek was downright mad – not at Cristina, but Teddy, whom he felt put too much pressure on Cristina by leaving her in charge of last week's complication-riddled lung-transplant patient.
But Teddy had more pressing matters to deal with when a car-crash victim arrived on a gurney, and she and Owen were charged with saving his life.
The rumor quickly spread that the VIP patient was U2's frontman Bono, but the heavy security detail turned out to be for a peace-loving politician from the Middle East. When it was discovered that the dying man not only had a tear in his heart but a cerebral aneurysm, Derek was also recruited for the case, leading to a double surgery and a war of words in the OR.
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"It'll be an easy day." That's what Owen promised wife Cristina early in Thursday's Grey's Anatomy, which naturally, meant the day would turn out to be anything but. Stormy, life-altering – those would've been more appropriate descriptions. By the time the episode ended, one couple had broken up, two friends were at odds and a doctor had decided to quit the hospital.
From the start, Callie seemed to be having second thoughts about her decision to accompany Arizona to Africa. She bristled when Arizona tried to give away their kitchen appliances to Sloan and seemed unsettled by the Chief's declaration that he'd had "big plans" for her before she opted to check out of Seattle Grace. And there was definitely no hiding her disappointment over the pitiful turnout to the couple's going-away party. Preparing to say goodbye to his closest friend, Sloan finally pointed out the obvious in a way that only the playboy plastic surgeon could: "You sound an awful lot like someone who's getting double Ds just because her girlfriend likes a big rack. And by big rack, I mean Africa."
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A film crew took up residence at Seattle Grace-Mercy West on Thursday, resulting in an unconventional, though emotionally stirring, episode of Grey's Anatomy.
Presented as a documentary called Seattle Medical – Road to Recovery, the installment explored, from the point of view of the filmmakers, the effects of the shooting spree on the hospital's doctors and patients six months after the tragedy. There were shaky handheld camera shots, bleeped-out swear words, reality TV-style confessionals and "coming up next" teasers before commercial breaks – all of which was a bit jarring but ultimately led to new insight into familiar, beloved characters.
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Who else prepared themselves for the worst when the Chief put the residents in charge on last night's Grey's Anatomy? "Pray, people," he said, shortly after informing Meredith and company they were taking over Seattle Grace's surgeries for the next 24 hours. "We want God in the building today." Amen!
Thankfully, for the most part, the Grey's gang proved they deserved to wear the navy scrubs of an attending. Alex successfully performed a breast reduction on a 13-year-old boy, saving him a lifetime of embarrassment. Meredith lost out to Avery on a surgery but, while he choked in the OR, forcing Derek to take over, she pulled off an emergency craniotomy.
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An impromptu family visit turned out to be the perfect prescription for drama on Thursday's Grey's Anatomy.
When Derek's sister Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) blew into Seattle, eager to see how her big brother was doing after surviving a bullet to the chest, he was hardly thrilled to see her. Granted, he had his reasons: Amelia had once crashed his Mustang while high on pain pills. And she'd stolen his prescription pad in order to feed her habit – then nearly died from an overdose until he saved her.
But the one-time wild child was now a responsible adult. Sort of. A whip-smart neurosurgeon like her big brother, Amelia showed up to the hospital with a patient in tow – a fellow passenger on her plane, whom she'd diagnosed as having a brain tumor during their hook-up in the airplane bathroom.
She pestered Der to let her help fix Hook-Up Guy in the OR, and he finally relented, until she made the mistake of bad-mouthing Cristina when she once again panicked during surgery.
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The season premiere of Grey's Anatomy proved there will be no easy cure for what ails the doctors of Seattle Grace.
Still haunted by the horrific shooting rampage at the hospital, the staffers struggled to rebuild their lives, and flashback-filled sessions with trauma counselor Andrew Perkins (James Tupper) – a requirement before returning to surgical duty – revealed just how much one day irrevocably changed everything.
Derek survived a bullet to the chest and became a seize-the-day adrenaline junkie, racing his car down the Seattle freeways like Mario Andretti (which frequently landed him in jail) and impulsively resigning as chief in order to try and save a teen from a massive, life-threatening tumor.
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After surviving the shooter rampage that claimed the lives of two doctors at Seattle Grace Hospital on the season finale of Grey's Anatomy, Cristina (Sandra Oh) and Owen (Kevin McKidd) realize that life is too precious – and will tie the knot during the show's Sept. 23 premiere on ABC.
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