BWW Recap: Misery Loves Company and Surgeries on GREYS

Within the halls of Grey Sloane Memorial Hospital, everyone is miserable; the patients, the staff, and probably the visitors. They may not start out unhappy, but gosh darn it, the writers aim to pull a Picard and make it so. Thursday night's episode gave everyone an opposing force to either wreck their good or augment their bad mood.

Jo/Meredith
Meredith continued to maintain her status as one of the most self-absorbed people on the planet by invading Alex's morning shower so she could rant about how Maggie thought she was her half-sister. Jo (Camilla Luddington), concerned girlfriend that she is, stood with her ear pressed to the bathroom door, hissing to Stephanie (Jerrika Hinton) about how inappropriate it all was. What kind of schedule did these people have? Why were none of them at work? Stephanie told her to assert herself by taking her rightful place in the shower with Alex. Jo explained that she was a DOCTOR and that she didn't have to stoop to such antics. Eavesdropping though, that was okay. That was an adult way to handle an awkward situation. It was revealed that everyone is afraid of Meredith Grey. Seems fitting as everyone was probably afraid of her mother, and if you're going to inherit Alzheimer's, you should be able to inherit the essence of Fear, too.

Shepherd/Shepherd
Derek couldn't deal with the fact that bowing out of the DC job in the name of family meant giving up being BFFs with POTUS, so he decided to declare his awesomeness all over the hospital. He and his fellow neurosurgeon-whiz sister got into it when he Bogarted one of her patients. The way Derek saw it, there was really no room for debate. Sure, she was talented, but he had everything on his side (not his wife, but he didn't acknowledge that). He was better than her and she should just soak it all in. His sister Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) wasn't standing for that. She called him out for trying to mark his territory. She said it sucked that he had to give up DC, but to suck it up. He didn't just get to give up positions in favor of other positions, then give up those positions for former positions. After all, even the sentence becomes confusing. Derek then revealed an inner resentment for Meredith that we all felt long ago.

Also, I don't know if anyone else noticed it, but his hair was doing something unpleasant by the end of the episode. I'm not sure if this was carelessness or a clue to how disheveled his life would soon become. I hope it's the latter, because if you're going to mess around with a head of hair that lush, it should be for a purpose.

Callie/Owen
Owen tried to emotionally manipulate Callie into using a new robotic limb project on wounded soldiers. As a Veteran himself, Owen was sensitive to their plight. He's also prone to wicked bouts of PTSD that only Yang seemed to cure. YANG! Initially Callie said she was already stretched too thin, but GUILT, and so she agreed to test the leg on one of the soldiers. When the nerves in that soldier's leg wouldn't communicate with the robotic leg, Owen demanded that she figure it out. He accused her of getting people's hopes up and dashing them. Callie was having none of it. There was a hallway screaming match where Callie kindly informed him that although he was her boss in the hospital, her lab was her world and needed to deal with that.

Jackson/The Hospital
Jackson runs the board because he's an Avery and that's the sort of things that Averys do. However, Jackson hates it. He hates having to play referee for doctors who scream at each other in the hallways, and dealing with meetings and paperwork. He's brilliant. He can figure out how to make nerves talk to robotic limbs. He's bored with the Board. Ha! It was an idea he had that allowed the aforementioned wounded soldier's nerves to eventually speak to the robotic leg, thus clearing up the Callie/Owen debacle. Jackson also mends fences.

Callie/Arizona
So they wanted a second baby, weren't sure they had time for a 2nd baby, weren't sure who would/could carry the baby, realized Callie couldn't carry and Arizona didn't want to carry a baby, decided that they would get a baby and an off handed remark by Arizona lead to Callie flipping out and accusing her of not wanting to have a baby at all.

Meredith/Maggie
Although they shared no scenes together in this episode, Meredith was livid that Maggie thought she could create this fantasy where she was the long lost child of Ellis Grey. She and Alex illegally tapped into Maggie's personnel records for her DOB and Meredith realized that the time in which she would've been pregnant, Ellis had tried to kill herself. The drama. She confronted the one man who would know if Ellis had been with child - Richard Webber - which leads to our next match up:

Meredith/Richard
Meredith could not believe that Richard had known that Maggie was really his and Ellis' child for all of a week. How could he have kept that from them? She started to chastise him and Richard got rightfully defensive. In a beautiful exchange, he pointed out that he would have loved to have been a father, but that Ellis had stolen that opportunity from him. It had not been his choice to be out of Maggie's life for 30 years, telling her that he was her father was going to be difficult, and Meredith could just shut the hell up.

Maggie/Richard
When Richard finally gets the nerve to follow through with an attempt to reveal his identity to Maggie, it does not go well. Maggie erupts into a speech about how she had considered that he might have been her father, but when he never said anything about it for days, she decided it couldn't be true. After all, what kind of a man would refrain from revealing such a thing? It was a weird speech that sounded sort of pleasant but was blatantly passive aggressive. It was pure Grey. She said that the only type of man who wouldn't tell his long lost adult daughter who he was, was a man who never wanted that child to begin with. Leap to conclusions much? The pain in Richard's face was palpable. I suppose in this frame of reality, people should never be nervous about revealing who they are, even when they've only just found out themselves.

Alex/Bailey
As he and Bailey are both up for the only open seat on the Board, Alex had been preparing a presentation to present to the members. This was in between the time he had to play Yang to Meredith. For the most part Bailey seemed unfazed by Alex. She was confident she'd get the seat because she was, you know, Bailey. Stephanie spent a chunk of the episode trying to remind her that she was fallible, Alex did actually have a chance, and that if she wanted to ensure her seat, she needed to prepare accordingly. After they had both presented to the Board and were waiting outside for an answer, Alex looked visibly nervous. It was not until Alex was called back in that Bailey face broke.However, it was Bailey who was awarded the seat and Alex who was bathed in rejection.

So basically everyone kind of hates everyone right now, and the next episode promises to be surging with more drama.

Side note: Everyone misses Yang. She just keeps coming up. I miss Yang. YOU WROTE HER OFF, RHIMES, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO LET THE HEALING BEGIN? In this case, I mean mine. Her character was such a great part of the show's dynamic and I wonder if I'm just distraught (read: bitter) about her departure, or if it's suffering because of it. Granted, a show cannot succeed on the back of one character/actor. Sigh, we all have to say goodbye sometime.

Which "match-up" was the best tonight? Are you still missing Yang? Let us know in the comments below.

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