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“Grey’s Anatomy” recap (11.24): Loud. Scary. Free. Content

The Grey’s Anatomy finale picks up right were we left off last week, with April standing on a flatbed tow truck like a boss alongside her patient, Keith. Keith is still trapped in the car, but April couldn’t bare to give up on the guy, so she brought the whole damn crushed car to Grey Sloan. The doctors all rush out to see and their reactions are everything from awe inspired to skeptical. Keith, of course, wants to know how Joan (played by out actress Heather Matarazzo) and the baby are.

It turns out Joan’s doing okay, even if they are still holding her head on for her. Arizona notices that Joan is suffering from uterine atony, causing her to bleed heavily. Arizona and Callie will have to work together to save Joan from not only paralysis, but bleeding out. They give Steph the baby, and tell her to find Alex right away. On her way, she finds Jo, upset and so mono-focused about her fight with Alex that she doesn’t even notice that Steph has other things she needs to deal with. LIKE BABIES!

While an upset Maggie is on the phone with her dad, Amelia confronts Meredith again about the house. She lives there, too, so she wants to know when she will be getting the boot. Meredith hasn’t made any decisions yet, and things are still tense between the sister-in-laws.

Back in the parking lot, the firefighters are prepping to cut the top part of the car off, and Meredith tries to comfort Keith. He tells her about his initial fears about fatherhood and commitment, but how he grew to want it more than anything. As the jaws of life are prepped, Meredith warns Keith it’s about to get loud and scary but soon he’ll be free.

As Amelia and Callie consult one another about Joan’s case, Steph starts to scrub in. That is until a very angry Callie bans her from the OR and blames her for letting the interns mess with Joan’s neck.

As Catherine and Bailey watch April be large and in charge, they comment on how much she’s changed. Bailey wasn’t so crazy about the old, chipper, neurotic April, but she likes this new crazy and fierce one. Richard rushes in and puts Bailey in charge of the scene, to get her used to being chiefly. However, that just starts a fight with Catherine, one that gets so loud that everyone can hear it even over the electric saws and machinery. Catherine takes off her ring and shoves it back at Richard. Welp, looks like the wedding is off again.

Arizona, Amelia and Callie all team up to operate on Joan. Before she goes under, Jo comes in to tell her that Keith is alive and nearby. This makes Joan smile, but then she starts to crash. The lady docs need to get to work fast.

With the roof off the car, it’s time to use the jaws to cut the metal that’s impaling Keith. When they attempt it, Keith screams out in pain. April points out that this will only succeed in tearing Keith apart, so they have to come up with another game plan. They will start operating on Keith in the field, which is hella risky, but the only chance he has at survival. Basically, once the metal is removed, the docs will have to run like hell to get Keith inside and upstairs before he bleeds out.

In Lady Doc Central, Arizona is done with her part of Joan’s surgery and talk turns to the hot new intern. No not Eager Beaver-Andrew, the intern who failed to mention he was one. After some talk about boning Andrew, which is kind of awkward to go off about in front of your ex-wife, Amelia amps up the awkwardness by lamenting getting sweaty with Owen. Lady Doc Central just turned into a real drag.

Bailey finds Ben getting supplies for Keith’s surgery, and tells him about her becoming the next chief. He stops to kiss and swing his wife around because he’s the proudest and I love them together.

As they get closer to getting Keith out of the car, Keith starts to worry he’s not going to make it. He asks Meredith to tell Joan that he loves her, but she refuses to entertain it. DON’T DIE ON US, KEITH! Meredith steps away and asks if she can take a minute before they put Keith under. She and Alex take the elevator together, where she asks if Jo’s ok with her and the kids moving in. Oh, and can Amelia move in, too? Being Meredith’s person ain’t easy.

Alex tells her that he and Jo aren’t speaking to each other at the moment. Meredith is not exactly sensitive about their possible break up, but that’s kind of how she rolls. The next thing we see is Meredith cradling Joan and Keith’s baby boy, and bringing him down to see his father. This, of course, gives Keith the jolt her needs, and makes him want to fight to survive. Meredith couldn’t save Derek, but she’s going to do her damndest to save Keith.

Alex and Jo finally take a moment to talk, and they both apologize for being assholes. Alex breaks the news about Meredith moving in, and Jo is exasperated. She can’t be the meanie who turned away a “sad widow” and her kids. Alex has once again put her in an impossible situation.

It’s time for the parking lot surgery and there are so many big lighting rigs, it’s like Friday Night Lights up in here. Jackson leads the interns through the logistics of moving Keith. If anyone messes up, it could kill the guy. The docs set the clock for five minutes, which is pretty much all the time they have before Keith dies on them. The poor guy is currently being held together with a million clamps, so let’s get this party started. Eager Beaver intern is tasked with holding the elevator, which of course she fucks up. She manages to catch in again just in time for April and the docs to rush Keith down the hall and into it. By the time they get Keith on the table, he’s a total mess and coding.

At the nurses’ station, Amelia and Owen congratulate each other on not managing to kill their patients yet. She mentions Meredith is selling the house, and doesn’t that mean Owen has to leave too? Isn’t his trailer on the property? Anyhoo, she says something about wanting it to work out, which he thinks means their relationship, but realizes quickly he was incorrect. Oh Owen, you poor goober, you.

Alex, unhappy about how they left thing, opens his heart to Jo. “Sad widow is my best friend,” he tells her, but he wants a life with Jo. She’s who he wants to put down roots with. He didn’t think she needed to hear that before, but it would have been nice. Instead of jumping into his arms and all that, Jo tells him that she needs to think about what she wants. Jo, you may have had a super shitty storyline this season, but I am all for you figuring it out.

In the OR while working on Keith, Maggie asks Jackson what the damn deal is with Richard and Catherine. Jackson is like, it’s simple-they are two geniuses with egos the size of the Space Needle. They love each other but can’t stop trying to best the other. This makes Maggie cry because they are throwing their beautiful love away and now they will never be on the cover of AARP as sexy, older power doctors.

Meredith finds Amelia in the hallway and hands her a gift. It’s her old phone with a voicemail from Derek on it. She tells Amelia to listen to it when she’s alone.

Steph, who has been banned from seeing Joan, brings the interns to visit her in recovery. As soon as she does, though, Joan complains that she can’t breathe, and Steph has to intubate her and release some blood that’s trapped in…frankly, I don’t understand where, and it gushes everywhere. Steph yells to the interns to page Amelia and Callie. Joan is of course rushed back into surgery, and Steph watches angrily from the theatre above. She yells at her interns to shut up when they ask questions, and Bailey points out that Steph is failing them as a teacher. This is a teaching hospital after all, and how will they learn if she treats them like a burden. “Raise your ducklings,” Bailey instructs her.

When Richard and Catherine act icily towards one another in the lounge, Meredith has had enough. She basically tells that that her husband is dead and here they are, wasting their time to be together by being dicks. Meredith drops so much truth, there’s a crater in the floor beneath her. Richard walked away from Ellis, Adele is gone, surely Catherine has lost someone, too-but now it’s time to get over it. Meredith would love to have even one more day with Derek, and the reasons Catherine and Richard fight aren’t important enough to get in the way of their happiness. It strikes a chord with the couple.

Outside April and Jackson are cleaning up, and April is chomping at the bit to tell Jackson something. She wants to got back for another tour. She feels called to do this type of work and Jackson gets it. It gives her life, and he loves that. However, he can’t handle another separation, and if she chooses to do this, he’s choosing to end things. April is shocked, but after the hellish year Jackson had, he’s trying to do a little self preservation. He points out that April was so focused on her own healing, she never even asked what he was going through.

In happier news, Joan comes out of her second surgery just fine and she has a new hospital room roomie. It’s Keith! They both made it, and have a life to look forward to together with their son.

Catherine and Richard set some ground rules and decide to salvage their relationship. Shop talk is off limits in the bedroom, but fair game anywhere else. Richard still fights her on Bailey being chief, but agrees to allow Catherine to bring in an outside candidate to apply as well. Richard tells Catherine that he will be her safe harbor, and her soft place to land. Next thing you know, the wedding is back on and they get married in the hospital chapel. Good thing everyone still had their nice clothes to change into. It looks like everyone is crammed into the space, so who the hell is watching the patients?

Meredith holds the reception at the MerDer mansion, but April hasn’t shown up yet. Richard has to tell Bailey about the other candidate, but she’s okay with it. She’s going to crush whoever it is, so no big deal. That’s my Bailey. When Jo arrives, she asks Alex to come with her and takes him to a rusty ass old loft that looks like a tetanus shot waiting to happen. She took all her savings put an offer in on the place, and wants it to be a home for her and Alex together. She suggests selling Meredith back the house, so they can have this as their fresh start. When she finally tells Alex she loves him, they kiss and he agrees to it.

As Steph and the interns talk through the day’s events, a super depressing cover of “How to Save a Life” plays in the background. April is still in the chapel, sobbing her eyes out as her bestie Arizona comforts her. God knows Arizona knows what this feels like. Amelia sits alone in Meredith’s bedroom, unable to listen yet to the voicemail from Derek. Owen comes in and sits beside her, and pushes play. Amelia gasps at hearing Derek’s voice again. The voicemail is just Derek, on an ordinary day, gushing about the beauty of a ferry ride. It makes Amelia smile and is, perhaps, the goodbye she really needed.

Outside, Meredith finds Maggie crying. She finally admits that she’s upset because her parents are getting a divorce. Her mother’s been having an affair for 11 years and her parents were only staying together until Maggie moved away. She feels like her happy childhood has been a lie. Meh, we’ve all been there. When Meredith asks why she didn’t tell her sooner, Maggie says she didn’t want to burden her sister with this considering all the hell she’s been through the past year. Meredith assures her that she can come to her with anything, and knowing that these two are getting closer does leave this season with some hope. Amelia joins them, and the three sisters head inside to dance it out together.

This eleventh season has been filled with a lot of highs (Meredith’s new bundle, Arizona’s friendship with Dr. Herman) and some of the show’s lowest lows (Calzona breaking up, Derek’s death). The season started out as one of the strongest in years, but for me, it kind of ended on a flat note. I’m usually a puddle of tears near the end of a Grey’s season, but I felt kind of tapped out this time around. What are your thoughts on this episode and the season as a whole?

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