Greys Anatomy Season 19 Episode 18: An Ex-Surgeon Is Rehired (RECAP)
) and Maggie for their partial heart transplant.
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Caterina Scorsone
) tries congratulating Winston, but he gives her the cold shoulder again.
Winston does accept Richards congratulations, though, and he confides to Richard that itll be awkward to see Maggie at the ceremony in Boston.
Nick, meanwhile, says hes not attending the ceremony. He claims he doesnt believe in ranking medical achievements, but Richard has a hunch Nick is just avoiding seeing Meredith, whos living in Beantown now. And Richard is pissed. He tells Nick that not attending the ceremony would be an insult to Grey Sloan and to Richards wife, the namesake of the award. And by the episode, Nick relents and tells Richard hell go. He has interns looking up to him, after all.
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Adelaide Kane
), her friend and roomie, talks her way onto Maxs case. But when Max collapses in the bathroom, suffering a brain bleed and a fractured rib, Bailey gives Millin the boot. So by the end of the episode, Millin can only watch and worry from the sidelines.
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And the new patient is Ray (Lincoln A. Castellanos), a 29-year-old with a high risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm. Teddy is rarin to get in there and fix Rays aorta, but Ray flees the hospital, freaked out about the risks of the surgery. Those consent forms say I could die a dozen different ways, he tells Teddy.
Adams (
Niko Terho
) chases after Ray and proposes that they just go for a walk and talk. So he and Ray take a stroll through a park, and Ray explains that he dreamt that his grandfather in heaven said theyd be together for their 30th birthday. Adams eventually persuades Ray to consent to the surgery.
So Adams is understandably devastated when Rays aorta ruptures in the scan room and he dies, despite Teddys best efforts to save his life.
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Later, Nick tells Adams that one aspect of them both having ADHD is that theyre prone to fixating on negative surgical outcomes, so they have remember to spend as much time celebrating the positive ones.
And in nonmedical developments, Griffith (
) if she has a plus one. But Yasuda doesnt yet.
As it happens, Helm (
Jaicy Elliot
) is back at Grey Sloan that day to talk to Richard about getting her old job back. And Yasuda tells her shes mad at her for complaining to the senior staff on Yasudas behalf. But after Helm offers to give Yasuda some space, Griffith tells Yasuda shes picking up on the chemistry between the two of them. (Whos your plus one again? she coyly asks.)
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Jake Borelli
) finds Richard in the hallway and tells him to bring Helm back and give her whatever she wants. And it seems like Richard does just that. That night at the bar, Helm informs Levi that shes coming back. And not only that, but shell join him as co-chief resident. She breaks the news tentatively, thinking that Levi might not want his job split. But hes relieved. Thats the best news ever, he says, wrapping her in a hug. (But then he finds out that she got eight weeks of vacation per year!)
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Then Yasuda finds Helm at the bar and asks her to be her plus one to Griffiths wedding. I like you like you, she says.
And Helm realizes and then side-steps a potential wrinkle. Yasuda, Im about to be your boss, she says. But if the wedding is this weekend, then our date would predate my employment.
But will there even be a wedding? At the end of the episode, Adams tells Griffith not to get married. Trey doesnt see you, or maybe he sees an old version of you, he reasons, referring to her fianc. But I see you, and I love every single thing that I see.
Hey, its better he said something now, instead of pulling a Jackson and stopping a wedding mid-ceremony, right? Well see what Griffith decides to do next week during the double-length Season 19 finale!
Greys Anatomy, 2-Hour Season 19 Finale, Thursday, May 18, 9/8c, ABC
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