Grey's Anatomy: Sophia Bush Returns, a Big Loss Brings New Perspective and 1 Doctor's Life Hangs in the Balance

Warning: This post contains spoilers from the November 21st episode Grey’s Anatomy.

Autumn finale Grey’s Anatomy he concluded that the life of Lucas Adams (Niko Terho) hangs in the balance.

As temperatures in Seattle soar and the hospital runs out of ice, he and Jo Wilson (Camilla Luddington) go to the store to get some more. However, their quick trip doesn’t go as planned as the cashier is robbed at gunpoint and the thief points a gun at Jo and Lucas when he sees them hiding.

“Okay, no one moves unless you want to die,” said the robber.

During the hostage situation, Lucas found out that Jo was pregnant when she thought she was bleeding.

After the cashier tried to hit the robber with a baseball bat, Lucas stepped in to take his gun and protect Jo. However, the pair got into a fight and Lucas was eventually killed.

Read on to learn more about the fall finale Grey’s Anatomy.

Niko Terho about ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.

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Coping with loss

Six weeks after the death of her sister Chloe (Julia Rose), Mika Yasuda (Midori Francis) was still reeling from the loss as she tried to return to work at Gray Sloan Memorial.

Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) warned her to be “patient” with herself, but she insisted she was “ready to get back to work.”

When Bailey tried to save a patient who was having a heart attack, Mika panicked saying, “He’s dying. You let him die. You just can’t let her die like that” before she began talking about the loss of her sister. She pleaded, “Just, please, save her.”

Bailey decided it was time to put her on the bench and give her time to grieve.

From left: Adelaide Kane and Midori Francis on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.

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Meanwhile, Mika has told Jules Millin (Adelaide Kane) that she just “wants to feel normal” before the pair hook up in the emergency room.

After freaking out in front of a patient, Mika apologizes to Bailey, but realizes she can no longer practice medicine at Gray Sloan.

“I’m either whole or I’m all I need to find my way forward, but I can’t do that if everything around me reminds me of her,” Bailey said, referring to Chloe. Bailey understood and told her that it would make her a “stronger” surgeon later in life.

After sharing one last kiss, Jules confronted Bailey, who defended his support for Mika’s decision to leave, saying: “I told her to make the best decision for herself and her family.” However, Jules responded that Bailey made Mika feel like she “didn’t mean anything”.

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Bringing warmth

A heat dome in Seattle has caused chaos at the hospital, so all non-emergency operations have been suspended, and former firefighter Ben Warren (Jason George) is put in charge of “overflow management”, much to his chagrin.

Later, Ben took control when Gray Sloan ran out of room for patients and went against Teddy’s orders to keep the hospital open. His decision later landed him in hot water with his boss, who told her he was still thinking like a firefighter and closed the hospital to new trauma patients.

Cass Beckman (Sophia Bush) has also arrived at the hospital to help treat the influx of patients.

Kevin McKidd on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.

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Cass later addressed the elephant in the room – namely the kiss with Teddy. She told Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd): “I’m sorry about what happened with Teddy… I don’t usually go around kissing other people’s wives. We were just having a good time, and it was a misunderstanding, and it was my misunderstanding.”

“No apology needed. I trust my wife. She told me it was nothing and I believe her – he answered.

Cass and Teddy shared a bonding moment in the elevator, which was interrupted when the doors opened and Owen was there. When Owen left them, he found his old friend Nora (Floriana Lima) outside the hospital and offered her a ride home.

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Old flames and new beginnings

Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone) enlists Winston Ndugu (Anthony Hill) to help her with a patient who had a brain aneurysm. But he was surprised to learn that the patient’s mother, Sky, was a woman he had been seeing after meeting on a dating app.

Winston later tracked down Sky to explain why he hadn’t heard from them after their date, saying, “My divorce was more amicable than most, but it was still hard, so I’ve been trying to get back in there, and right now I’m not ready for anything serious, I’m you should have said after our date.”

She insisted she didn’t mind, but wanted him to stay focused on her daughter’s needs.

The aneurysm was worse than Amelia had expected and she was forced to put it on a bypass, with Winston’s help, to complete the operation. Eventually, Amelia was able to clip the aneurysm, but Winston was unable to restart her heart after bypass surgery.

From left: Alexis Floyd and Harry Shum Jr.

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Meanwhile, Benson “Blue” Kwan’s (Harry Shum Jr.) ex-fiancée Molly (Dianne Doan) has returned to Gray Sloan and informs her that her boyfriend proposed to her because “I just couldn’t get you out of my head” since their kiss.

He later told Simone Griffin (Alexis Floyd) that “too much” had happened between them, adding, “It would be impossible to make it work now.”

However, the couple later kissed, and he admitted: “I couldn’t get you out of my head either. I wanted this for so long.”

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Grey’s Anatomy airs Thursdays at 10pm ET on ABC.

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