Grey's Anatomy, Episode 2

Grey’s Anatomy

Season 9, Episode 2 (Remember the Time)

So they finally (in the second episode) revealed how they all rescued and how they reacted to being back with their family and friends. Sloan did live for a time as he told his girlfriend that he didn’t love her, but that he loved Lexie (RIP). The look on his girlfriends face almost made me hurt for her. How could she not have picked up on it every time that Lexie and Mark were in the same room? Apparently Mark was unstable for a time and kept having to be shocked back to life and had a thing the docs called a ‘surge.’ It’s something that terminally ill patients have right before they die. They know that their time is almost over and then rebound for a short time. I cried when Webber called his rebound and then have to watch him deteriorate into what we saw during the first episode of the season.

The show is broken up into sections. It shows Meredith being rescued and how she reacts to being in the hospital. She seemingly forgets that Lexie is gone and then about Derek. Once Bailey and Webber bring in Zola she calms down.

Cristina doesn’t take well to being back at home. She is restrained and not talking. Before the episode ends she reveals that as everyone slept, she stayed awake. She fought the animals for Lexie’s body. Kept the bugs away from Arizona’s leg; she kept Sloan alive. Cristina even mentions having to drink her own urine because they’d run out of water.

Arizona begs them not to take her leg because she wants to see what Callie wants to do. They wait to see how her body reacts to the antibiotics, but as Callie is repairing Derek’s hand Alex rushes in and tells her that Arizona is dying. Callie makes the heartbreaking decision to remove her wife’s leg.

Derek, at first, is told that he’ll only get back 80% use of his arm. He said he doesn’t mind teaching. Callie tells him that she can fix him and he says okay, as long as she does the surgery.

Meredith seems to be the better adjusted of the survivors; while Cristina seems to be the worst. She even takes to running off to Minnesota before she knows how Mark is doing.

Kepner tries to talk to Jackson, but he has to get Mark and Callie’s daughter and he doesn’t make their rendezvous at Joe’s. Kepner gets on a plane and heads home.

The episode ends with Meredith telling Cristina that while being in Seattle hasn’t been the easiest thing: her mother dying, Derek getting shot, her sister dying, and the plane crash. It did bring her the love of her life, her best friend; introduce her to her sister, and her daughter. That’s what she chooses to focus on and that’s why she stayed in Seattle instead of going to Boston.

Alex has put off going to John Hopkins to keep Peds on track for Arizona. When he appears at her room, she thinks that it should have been him and tells him so. She isn’t grateful to him, but he still stays to help her. He is there for her as her body begins to die, but I doubt she will be grateful to him once she finds out that he’s the one who cut off her leg.

This episode answered some questions, but I do wonder if the animals got all of Lexie. I know it’s morbid, but was there enough for a funeral? Will the other members of the Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital get a chance to say their final goodbyes? Will they even show it?

I also have to wonder how in the world Meredith when from being such a happy go lucky person to the person we see in the opening episode who ends up with the nickname Medusa?

There is so much that they haven’t said yet, of course, it’s only the second episode of the season. Shonda Rhimes has promised an unforgettable season this year and I certainly hopes she delivers. I won’t stop watching, I’ve put in too much time with this show. Every time I try to pull away they show a promo for something that pulls me back in.

I will remain a fan until long after the show is over. Like any good fan.