IMDB Link: Click Here IMDB Rating: 7.2 Premiere Date: 2009-09-24 Views: 14501 Plot: Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series. It follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital (formally Seattle Grace Hospital) in Seattle, Washington. The pilot episode, "A Hard Day's Night" premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC. Since then, five seasons have aired, and the sixth season began on September 24, 2009. It has been confirmed through a tweet on the authentic Shonda Rhimes Twitter account that the cast of Grey's Anatomy has signed on through at least eight seasons, which would keep the show on the air until at least Spring 2012.
The show has attained commercial success and critical acclaim. Initially airing as a Midseason replacement for the legal drama Boston Legal it gained high viewership, with the first episode watched by 16.25 million viewers, and the first season finale attracting 22.22 million viewers. Winner of two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, the show is one of the most watched prime time television series
How do you come back from one of the most gripping, harrowing, unsettling Grey’s Anatomy season finales ever? Well, you call in a psychiatrist. Yes, most of our favorite docs must be evaluated and cleared before they can return to surgery. Makes sense. They are all dealing with varying degrees of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder following the mass murder at the hospital. Things are different now and more change is headed our way.
After recovering from near fatal gunshot wounds, Derek Shepherd is back! He’s greeted by applause coming from all those in his charge. Derek launches into a by-the-book “it’s great to be back” speech then abruptly quits his position as top dog at Seattle Grace. Looks like Richard, who was serving as interim Chief, has his old job back fulltime. Told ya change was coming.
Cristina and Owen are getting married! But the bride will not be wearing white. Cristina says it’s “sexist and vaguely racist.” There will also be no chicken dance or conga line at the reception. Bummer. Owen asks Derek to be his best man. The groom-to-be feels this is a logical choice since he’s married to the other twisted sister. You do know we mean Meredith, right?
Owen is well-prepared for Cristina’s predictable panic attack on this their first morning of married life. He gives her a granola bar followed by some soapy sex in the shower. Owen even washes her hair. He’s always wanted to do that. Not sure why. The one other thing Owen thinks his new wife needs is the chance to get a little blood on her hands. So, Owen and Teddy convince the Chief that Cristina is ready to scrub in for surgery.
Dr. Perkins sees right through Meredith’s fake tears and will NOT clear her for surgery. Meredith is avoiding Derek. It’s not because she still hasn’t told him she was pregnant and miscarried. No, she’s steering clear because he’s ticked she left him in jail after another reckless speeding adventure. Plus, he smells like pee.
Is that Dr. Shepherd we see walking down the hospital halls? It certainly is. But this Dr. Shepherd happens to be Dr. Amelia Shepherd. This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Addison has been pushing Amelia to leave the land of Private Practice to go see her big brother, who’s been ignoring her calls forever. She even brought him a present: a guy with a brain tumor. Think there’s a gift receipt?
As for Derek, he asks that Cristina be put on his rotation even though nobody thinks she’s ready to get back in the surgical game—including Cristina! Nevertheless, Cristina assists Derek as they operate on the tumor guy Amelia so generously provided. Complications arise and Cristina can’t handle it. Amelia steps in to help save the patient. But when she starts criticizing Cristina’s abilities, Derek boots her out of the OR.
Meredith has a hostile uterus. It’s what caused her miscarriage. Derek tries to cheer her up by reminding her that there’s a treatment. But Meredith is hung up on the label that’s been attached to her…you know. She says, “How would you feel if she called your penis angry or snide?” Good point.
Meredith treats a woman who has as fatal genetic condition. The case has her thinking about her own mortality. She asks Cristina to take some blood so she can get tested for the Alzheimer’s gene. It’s time she knew one way or the other. Derek and Meredith know that whatever happens be it hostile uteruses…. Alzheimer’s… or maybe even a new baby; they’ll get through it together.
For one day only, some of our favorite docs will don the prestigious navy scrubs—better known as “attending scrubs.” The Chief has a million dollar surplus that he’s going to award to one department. He’s throwing down the gauntlet. Only the most impressive doc will win the day, except for Lexie. This temporary promotion only applies to fourth-year residents. That means little Grey is stuck wearing her usual light blue scrubs. Bummer.
Callie plays more than a few mind games on her colleagues to make them nervous about their five minute pitch with the Chief. Teddy begins with note cards but ends in a rant against Derek. Owen wants to use the cash to train every hospital doc for trauma and disaster. As for Arizona, Callie has her worried that she may cry during her pitch, which she does. Yes, Dr. Torres shows no mercy.
Mark pitches an expansion of the burn unit. He makes a good case until Callie’s psyche out strategy kicks in. Soon Mark is babbling about having the strength of 10 men because he’s not currently sleeping with anyone. Next! Later, the Chief isn’t all that inspired by Callie’s pitch. So, she decides to try her mind games on him, too. It doesn’t work.
Alex runs point on a rather strange breast reduction case. The patient is a teenage boy. The mom freaks out and cancels the surgery. It’s up to Alex to reel her back in. Too bad she’ll only talk with Mark and Arizona. Eventually, Alex lets loose on the mom on why she should let her son make his own decision in this particular instance. His rant impresses Mark and Arizona, as well as the boy’s mother.
With everyone in attending scrubs, Lexie is left running around the hospital doing resident duty solo. She’s seeing gobs and gobs of patients, but handles everything with extreme efficiency. The only problem patient is a woman who had knee surgery, but is suddenly hit with vision issues and tingling in her body.
Derek sets up a little competition between Meredith and Jackson. Winner gets to do a brain shunt insertion on a female patient. The woman’s partner isn’t thrilled with the idea of a resident operating, but Derek assures her that he’ll be there every step of the way. Surprise, surprise. Jackson wins the war and gets the surgery gig. That means Meredith must pinch hit for Derek when Lexie asks for a consult on her case.
Meredith realizes knee surgery woman has a bleed in her brain and needs to be cut open pronto. But when Jackson runs into trouble, Derek has to save the day. That means he can’t deal with Lexie’s patient. It’s up to Meredith. By the time Derek arrives, it’s already too late. And by that we mean Meredith has already saved the patient all on her own. Woo hoo!
When Cristina is indecisive as to whether an old man should have a lung transplant, April steps up to say they should convene a panel to approve the procedure. Teddy is concerned by Cristina’s lack of initiative. Her “I don’t know” attitude simply won’t fly at Seattle Grace and it just gets worse as the day marches on. A pep talk from Owen seems to snap Cristina back to reality.
Cristina knows Teddy doesn’t believe their plucky patient is a good transplant candidate. She also knows that without surgery, the guy will die. Based on what Cristina said about Teddy’s perspective, April flip-flops on her initial notion that the patient would be a good candidate. Cristina agrees that the guy’s a borderline case, but the patient is a fighter. That actually makes him the perfect candidate. The panel agrees.
Derek wants to use the surplus money for a clinical study to find a cure for Alzheimer’s. He says, “Today I watched Meredith perform an emergency craniotomy by herself. She was perfect. She’s got her mother’s talent. She’s got her mother’s looks, Richard. What if she has her mother’s disease?”
Bailey says a million bucks isn’t enough for them to change the face of medicine. But it could help fix the real problems that currently plague the hospital. When all is said and done, Owen gets his trauma training wish granted. Bailey also suggests that the Chief doesn’t really have a million dollars. He responds, “Well, things may be a little different around here in the next few weeks.” Hmm.
After a terrible hotel fire, we bite our nails as the staff is interrogated about their part in caring for a woman who died, although she was admitted with only minor burns. Everyone was to blame, in some way, as we see that Mrs. Becker was handed off from doctor to doctor, each one busy with more critical patients.
We watch in horror knowing that poor Mrs. Becker will be dead at the end of the hour. She tells the doctors she feels fine, and her injuries certainly can't compete with a teen who is screaming in pain from third-degree burns or a firefighter with an ax stuck in his chest!
We're on a roller-coaster ride this week as Derek and Richard go from BFFs to mortal enemies! Things have been tense between the two ever since the merger, now Richard is so obsessed with cost-cutting that when Derek wants to do a high-risk surgery on Isaac, a fellow doctor with an inoperable tumor, Richard emphatically says no. We know there'll be big trouble when Derek decides to go ahead with it anyway, behind the Chief's back. He's helped by the new computer-generated surgery assignment system. Without the board, Richard has to take it on faith that surgeries are being done as assigned.
Derek spends 10 hours in the OR and doesn't make a single cut! He just can't decide where to begin. Richard discovers the deception and orders him to close. Derek does and tells Isaac that the tumor really is inoperable. Isaac tells him to sleep on it, confidently telling him. "You'll try again tomorrow." Sure enough, that night Derek has a brainstorm and figures out how and where to begin cutting.
Arizona tells the attendings under her rotation: "These children believe in magic. In peds, we have miracles and magic. Anything is possible." She's been taking care of 10-year-old Wallace, who has "short gut syndrome" and has been in the hospital for seven months. His parents are so grateful, they decide to donate $25 million to Seattle Grace! Richard is peeved that it's because of Arizona's work, not his, but of course he'll take the money! So when the father requests another surgery to buy their son more time, Richard talks Arizona into doing it against her better judgment. Of course, we know Arizona was right: the boy dies of septic shock and we wipe away tears as, together in the morgue, she and his mother perform the usual bad-dream-chasing ritual for Wallace. The father says they'll still make the donation, not because of Richard's ass-kissing, but because of Arizona.
Owen brings in a former Army colleague, Teddy Altman, as the new cardio attending, as a "gift" for Cristina. But Cristina is unimpressed with Teddy's credentials and dubs her "Desert Storm Barbie." But when Teddy diagnoses a boy as having cardio asthma, and lets Cristina call most of the shots during the surgery, Cristina is won over. We see trouble for Owen and Cristina, however: Teddy confesses she always had feelings for him and we can see he's giving the idea some thought! And we also know that Jackson is waiting in the wings for Cristina.
We spend three momentous holidays—Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Eve—with the staff of Seattle Grace.
Mark—and we—are stunned when a beautiful blonde walks into the ER and tells him, "I'm pretty sure you're my dad!" Turns out, she's right, the product of a youthful affair that Mark would rather forget. Mark feels so guilty, he lets 18-year-old Sloan (yes, her mother named her after him!) stay with him and Lexie indefinitely. Lexie is a champ—even if she cuts off part of her finger at the news that Sloan is moving in—but finally gives Mark an ultimatum: "No more sex until you talk to her." Sloan says she knows she's overstayed her welcome, but confesses she's pregnant and has nowhere else to go. Mark hugs her and lets her stay.
Cristina is thrilled when Teddy assigns her her first solo cardio surgery, a heart-valve replacement. "I am a living, breathing cardio-thoracic surgeon as of now," she boasts. The patient throws Cristina for a loop, however, when she decides against the mechanical valve for one from a pig, which is an entirely different surgery. Cristina preps for the new surgery, and then the patient decides she wants a cow valve instead. Cristina presents her with both valves and forces her to choose. But there's a problem during surgery when the patient starts to bleed out. Cristina is faced with two choices of how to solve the problem and can't decide which to do. We get more than a little alarmed when Teddy refuses to step in, and also dissuades Owen, who's just entered the O.R., to take over. "She's not going to let her die. She's going to save this patient," Teddy insists, and we're relieved to see that she's right. Cristina makes the right call and the patient is fine, but Owen asks Teddy, "So nothing else was going on in that room?"
Cristina tells Teddy she didn't mean it when she said she'd give up Owen for her and Teddy suggests they both forget about it.
When Meredith goes to tell Alex that Izzie is coming home, she finds him in bed with Lexie! She orders them to keep their mouths shut. "No one needs to know," Meredith says.
Tensions run high as word gets out that Derek is the new Chief. Lexie assures other staffers that Derek is "loyal and fair." "Yeah, tell that to Webber," Alex points out.
Derek and Larry Jennings, the chairman of the hospital board, present Richard with two options: Retirement or rehab. "Sober up, you get out, you have your job waiting," Derek promises him, but Richard takes his time making the decision.
Callie and Arizona decide to play Cupid on Valentine's Day for Ben and Miranda, which Miranda resists. Finally, she admits she's interested. "I can't talk to you, you make me nervous," she stutters to Ben. "I just go stupid," but we grin that she's agreed to dinner.
Mark is so excited about Sloan's baby that Callie doesn't recognize the new, responsible Mark. He shows he's the same guy when he goes to hit on a new blonde. We have to laugh when the blonde turns out to be Lexie, who's dyed her hair! "You didn't know it was me and you were hitting on me. You are hypocritical and slutty," she tells him. He replies that she can't "pull off" being a blonde.
When Callie finds out that Sloan wants to put the baby up for adoption, she forces her to tell Mark the truth: "I'm not a mom. I'm not ready," Sloan says. Mark is stunned, but we're even more stunned when he offers to raise the baby! And when Callie says she'll help!
Richard has completed rehab but he won't get his job back until the board approves. In the meantime, Derek offers him a spot as a "general attending surgeon," and he refuses. But he does take Derek up on his offer to be part of the lecture series.
Miranda starts off the series with a case from 2003. We flashback to when she was an intern with long braided hair and called herself "Mandy!" Her resident couldn't stand her, since Miranda was clearly better at diagnosing. Richard notices the animosity and tells her, "Surgery is a shark tank. Make sure you're a shark too, not a minnow."
After Cristina recounts an amazing surgery she did with Teddy, Owen is surprised they're really friends. "Be her friend," Cristina tells him. "I never asked you not to be." After a successful surgery the next day, Owen asks Teddy out for a celebratory beer, but she tells him she's got plans: Girls night out, instigated by Arizona, who's noticed Teddy pining over Owen.
Lexie's plan to surprise Alex by waiting for him, naked, in his bed, goes disastrously wrong when Derek walks in instead! Meredith warns her that Alex will only hurt her. Lexie assures her it's just sex and Meredith chides her, "Your heart lives in your vagina!"
Things get personal when Richard and Owen vie for a complex surgery. Owen calls Richard's approach, "old school," and Richard retorts, "I've been dissecting tumors since you were in diapers." Derek asks them both to present their cases and he'll decide. Cristina volunteers to help Richard, so she can spy on him to help Owen. Richard is onto her, though. He offers her surgeries if she'll be spy on Owen. Derek calls Richard's presentation "impressive," but chooses Owen. Richard is angry, saying, "He doesn't have a plan, he has an attitude." But when Owen's seat-of-the-pants approach gets him in trouble, Richard graciously jumps in to help out.
Miranda freaks out when Callie tells her that since Ben asked her over for dinner, he'll expect sex. "Third date's the sex date,' Callie tells her. "And he's cooking for you. At his home. Where he keeps his bed."
Callie tells Mark how Arizona's stance on children has upset her. "She doesn't want kids, in her womb, in her house, ever." He urges her to tell Arizona how important it is to her.
Even though Richard is no longer the Chief, no one quite knows how to treat him. Their "I'd hit that," conversations dry up when he comes around and no one wants to sit with him at the cafeteria. When Richard complains, "I'm not a coach anymore, I'm a player," Mark tells him, " It's a sign of respect." Meanwhile, Derek can't eat in the cafeteria at all because he's besieged by people asking for favors. He's also missing the rush of surgery, so when Meredith tells him about a tumor she diagnosed, he steals the surgery from her! Richard advises him to schedule at least one surgery a day so he can keep his hand in. And to eat with someone so people will leave him alone. "You can eat with me," Richard says and Derek thanks him for the offer and the much-needed advice.
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Meredith is thrown when Derek suggests it's time to have a baby. She asks Alex's advice, saying, "I had the worst mother in the world. I would be the worst mother in the world."
Alex's brother Aaron—the one no one ever knew he had—shows up unexpectedly, saying that Alex hasn't been home in seven years. Oh, and Aaron has a bizarre growth on his belly button. It's an umbilical hernia and he needs immediate surgery, but he doesn't have any insurance. Fortunately, Alex gets Miranda to do the surgery pro bono.
Callie and Arizona continue to argue about having a baby, but they're interrupted by Mark, who's banging down the door: He needs their help with Sloan's baby. When they get back to the apartment, Teddy's already delivered the baby safely.
Mark is ecstatic to be a grandfather and Sloan reconsiders giving up her child. "Maybe we should keep him," she says. Arizona thinks it's a terrible idea, since Sloan has no idea what she's doing, and she and Callie butt heads over the best thing to do. "This baby needs parents, not an 18-year-old child and a father she met five minutes ago." Mark tells her, "This is my grandson. I'm not just going to turn him over to some strangers when I might have a chance at a family." Sloan's freakout when left alone with the baby helps make Arizona's case. Callie tells Mark, "She's a baby herself." Mark and Sloan finally decide that giving the baby up is the best thing, but we can see how hard it is for Mark.
Lexie is surprised to hear that Izzie has sent Alex divorce papers. Alex insists that what he and have Lexie have isn't a "thing" but Meredith tells him, "You should make it a thing or put a stop to it."
Miranda puts the team through sensitivity training prior to admitting a 700-pound patient with stomach problems. Miranda orders Cristina and Jackson off the case, so they end up with a mother who didn't realize she was having a heart attack. Cristina, who usually can't stand children, stays with the woman's little girl and we realize it reminds her of when she lost her own father at a young age.
Teddy catches Mark in bed with Reed and we have to laugh at how Mark handles it: He suggests a threesome! Meanwhile, Lexie asks Alex, "Are we a couple? He kisses her and says, "Yeah, we're together. We're a thing."
Owen asks Cristina to move in with him and she plans on saying yes, until Meredith suggests that there's something going on between Teddy and Owen. Cristina demands to know what Meredith knows, but since her information comes from Derek, she can't. Derek warns her, "You can't tell Cristina." Instead, Meredith confronts Owen, telling him, "I know you tried to have Teddy fired and I believe it's because you're in love with her. You will tell Cristina, if you're actually the good guy that she thinks you are."
Meredith takes a pregnancy test and it's positive! She tells Cristina immediately, but decides to tell Derek later that night.
Gary Clark, the man who blames Derek for his wife's death, arrives at the hospital. He asks where he can find the chief of surgery, but no one has time to help him. He corners Reed in a supply cabinet and when she brushes him off, we gasp as he shoots her in the head! And then he shoots Alex, who's just walking by. Alex manages to crawl to the elevator, even though he's bleeding severely.
