How ‘Gray’s’ Mentioned Goodbye to Meredith — What Did You Assume?

After greater than 400 episodes, Gray’s Anatomy is dealing with a future with out Meredith Gray. The ABC medical drama’s namesake character left Seattle within the February 23 episode — Season 19, Episode 7, “I’ll Observe the Solar” — in what Ellen Pompeo known as her “closing episode for some time.”

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 number 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), nonetheless, 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. However Mer reminds him that when she advised him she liked him, he “didn’t say it again.”

On high of that frustration, Mer additionally loses her closing affected person at Gray Sloan, the youngsters’s e book writer Tessa Hobbes (Patricia Richardson). However Tessa had a thumb drive together with her closing manuscript on it, so at the 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 stunned to search out all of her colleagues gathered within the surgical foyer, able to toast her with champagne. “As soon as upon a time, you had been the bane of my existence,” Bailey (Chandra Wilson) tells her. “You grew as much as develop into certainly one of my best factors of delight.”

And Richard (James Pickens Jr.) provides, “This place received’t be the identical with out you.”

In the meantime, the previous Dr. Helm (Juicy Elliot) — in her newest function as bartender at Joe’s — offers Nick a talking-to about what he’s giving up. “She’s Meredith Gray,” Helm says. “She’s unattainable, and he or she’s good, and he or she’s sensible and he or she cares. … For some silly purpose, she’s into males, so she by no means fell in love with me, however she fell in love with you. And also you’re right here? How silly are you?”

And with that reprimand, Nick rushes off to the airport to intercept Mer. He realizes he received’t make it in time, so he calls Mer, who has already boarded her flight, to say that he has liked her from the day they met and every single day since.

Mer, nonetheless, 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 technology of Gray Sloan interns shifting into the empty Gray 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.

In the meantime, on their flight to Boston, Mer reads the manuscript of Teresa’s closing e book to her three children. “So long as the solar rises in your life, there will likely be new dragons to slay,” she reads. “So the top of my story isn’t any type of ever after as a result of I’m nonetheless alive. I’m nonetheless right here. And the solar nonetheless rises on my life.”

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