[Warning: The following contains spoilers for the Thursday, Nov. 19 episode of Grey’s Anatomy. Read at your own risk!]
Those that have been searching for an epic reunion between Derek (Patrick Dempsey) and Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) might have been dissatisfied by Thursday’s episode of Gray’s Anatomy. The overwhelming majority of the episode repeated footage from the two-hour premiere, with Meredith yelling “I miss you,” to her useless husband who was a number of hundred ft away down a abandoned seaside, and Derek calling again, “I do know.” Meredith did finally go to sleep lengthy sufficient within the residing world for the dream model of herself to take a run on the departed love of her life, however she collapsed within the sand earlier than the 2 of them might embrace.
“I will be right here if you’re prepared,” Derek mentioned with fun, implying it wasn’t Meredith’s time to affix him on the opposite aspect simply but. The preview for the following episode of Gray’s, which airs in two weeks, mentioned that Meredith is not carried out spending time on her dreamy seaside although. As COVID-positive Meredith falls right into a coma when the present returns, seaside Meredith will encounter “one other acquainted face,” and we have already got some concepts about who the particular person could possibly be.
On the prime of the checklist is Ellis Gray, since that was who the people in charge first scripted to have meet Meredith on the beach in the premiere. It has been some time for the reason that estranged mom and daughter have had a second. It would be good to know that Ellis feels a way of delight that Meredith achieved a lot surgical success, whereas additionally discovering love and elevating a household, balancing so many issues that Ellis could not. Nevertheless, the predictable alternative may not be the most effective one.
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For our cash, the individual that could be finest for Meredith to see once more is George (T.R. Knight), who died within the Season 5 finale after being hit by a bus. Meredith was the one to appreciate her pal was the John Doe within the hospital mattress, unable to speak however drew the numbers 007 — his nickname — on her palm so she might inform the remainder of the workers it was him earlier than he succumbed to his accidents. Earlier than George died, he was the intern in Meredith’s class that taught all of them learn how to care about their sufferers slightly than merely competing for the most effective surgical procedures or the best jobs. Regardless that George wasn’t in a position to survive whereas everybody labored tirelessly to avoid wasting his life, the constructive affect he had on her life would make him the precise one to present Meredith the additional emotional power she must struggle off the virus.
After all, that is Gray’s, so there’s at all times a necessity for backups. If the one that returns to Meredith on the dream seaside needs to be useless, Lexie (Chyler Leigh) additionally makes a superb candidate. Meredith hasn’t seen her youthful half-sister since she died within the aircraft crash on the finish of Season 8. The one factor making Lexie much less seemingly is that Leigh is a sequence common on Supergirl now, which movies in Vancouver. The actress was required to quarantine up north for 2 weeks earlier than Supergirl started filming in October, which makes it questionable that she would have had time to movie a seaside scene with Pompeo in mid to late September for Gray’s Anatomy.
So George nonetheless makes essentially the most sense if Meredith is being visited by the ghosts of her previous. Nevertheless, if that is actually a dream as an alternative of a purgatory scenario, and Meredith can think about anybody she desires…nicely, the clearly the most effective particular person to come back give Meredith one other “you are the solar,” pep speak is Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh). With Oh’s present present Killing Eve nonetheless not in manufacturing for Season 4, Oh might have had the time to hang around on a Los Angeles seaside along with her former TV bestie. Would not some tequila and dancing it out sound good proper about now?
After all, that is all wishful considering till we will verify who additionally exhibits up on Meredith’s seaside in two weeks.
Gray’s Anatomy continues Thursdays at 9/8c on ABC.