After greater than 400 episodes, Grey’s Anatomy is dealing with a future with out Meredith Grey. The ABC medical drama’s namesake character left Seattle within the February 23 episode — Season 19, Episode 7, “I’ll Follow the Sun” — in what Ellen Pompeo known as her “final episode for a while.”
So, how did Mer exit the image?
[Warning: The below contains major spoilers for Grey’s Anatomy Season 19, Episode 7, “I’ll Follow the Sun.”]
The episode picks up a couple of weeks after the final installment, and Mer continues to be recovering from a home fireplace whereas on the point of transfer her household throughout Boston, the place daughter Zola (Aniela Gumbs) discovered her dream college.
Nick (Scott Speedman), nevertheless, is offended that he moved from Minnesota for her, and now she’s making a cross-country transfer of her personal and didn’t even speak to him about it. But Mer reminds him that when she instructed him she cherished him, he “didn’t say it back.”
On prime of that frustration, Mer additionally loses her closing affected person at Grey Sloan, the youngsters’s guide writer Tessa Hobbes (Patricia Richardson). But Tessa had a thumb drive together with her closing manuscript on it, so at the very least her work will reside on.
And within the scrub room after the surgical procedure, Mer tells Nick she needs him in her life however she’s not going to beg.
Later, Mer is shocked to search out all of her colleagues gathered within the surgical foyer, able to toast her with champagne. “Once upon a time, you were the bane of my existence,” Bailey (Chandra Wilson) tells her. “You grew up to become one of my greatest points of pride.”
And Richard (James Pickens Jr.) provides, “This place won’t be the same without you.”
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Meanwhile, the previous Dr. Helm (Juicy Elliot) — in her newest position as bartender at Joe’s — provides Nick a talking-to about what he’s giving up. “She’s Meredith Grey,” Helm says. “She’s impossible, and she’s perfect, and she’s brilliant and she cares. … For some stupid reason, she’s into men, so she never fell in love with me, but she fell in love with you. And you’re here? How stupid are you?”
And with that reprimand, Nick rushes off to the airport to intercept Mer. He realizes he gained’t make it in time, so he calls Mer, who has already boarded her flight, to say that he has cherished her from the day they met and day by day since.
Mer, nevertheless, pretends she will be able to’t hear him and says she’ll name him as soon as she and her children are settled in Boston. (Sorry, buddy.)
And the episode ends with one other era of Grey Sloan interns transferring into the empty Grey home: Mer, Maggie (Kelly McCreary), and Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) gave their home keys to Griffith (Alexis Floyd), Yasuda (Midori Francis), and Adams (Niko Terho), respectively.
Meanwhile, on their flight to Boston, Mer reads the manuscript of Teresa’s closing guide to her three children. “As long as the sun rises on your life, there will be new dragons to slay,” she reads. “So the end of my story is not any kind of ever after because I’m still alive. I’m still here. And the sun still rises on my life.”
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