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Its not a flashback or special effects.

That was Patrick Dempsey on a beach.
We dont see him for very long but could someone report back on how his hair is doing?
Even in the afterlife, you know Derek is keeping things right and tight.
That someone is Derek.
Hes so happy to see her.
Thankfully, well get at least a little more time with him in that dream next week.
In short: Everything has changed.
This is not the Grey Sloan Memorial Dr. Webber left a few months prior.
board is blank since only emergency surgeries are allowed, and the COVID-19 wing is a complete hellscape.
Itll be interesting to see how the season progresses.
It is all death, all the time.
They force Grey Sloan to take it, which means Meredith gets to go into an O.R.
and save a life.
finds her asleep at the nurses station he forces her to go home and get some sleep.
Hell tag in for her.
Well have to wait until next week to find out whats up with Mer.
Three of those stories took precedence over the rest, so lets talk about them.
Since the episode marks Richards first day, well start with him.
Suffice it to say, Richard was not having it.
When he returns to Grey Sloan he and Catherine are either avoiding each other or making snide remarks.
Theyre both extremely stubborn people.
I hate that everyone is dying!
I hate that I cant fix it!
And then Catherine gets quiet: I hate that my husband hasnt come back to me, she says.
At the end of the episode, Catherine pages both Richard and Tom Koracick to come see her.
Everyone can see it.
Richards response, rather than just saying he accepts, is to ask for some COVID-19 tests.
Friends, I applauded.
Richard and Catherine are back on.
Decidedly less sexy than that is all the shenanigans going on with Teddy and Owen.
Its just a whole lot of yikes over in that corner of Grey Sloan.
and almost everyone is Team Owen here.
In the present, Teddy and Owen are barely speaking.
We get some flashbacks to right after Owen got the voicemail and postponed the wedding.
Owen is pretty much begging Teddy to be honest with him.
He gives her several chances to come clean.
She continues to lie to his face so he whips out his phone and plays the voicemail for her.
Owen is a petty drama queen and I do not hate it.
Jo tells her she needs to try harder with him.
She finds him in the parking lot and makes a huge declaration of love and begs for forgiveness.
He drives away, leaving her in tears.
How do they come back from this?
And then theres Andrew DeLuca.
But it wasnt an easy road to get to that place.
DeLucaraised holy hell over a patient named Cindy, believing her to be a human trafficking case.
Heres the thing: DeLuca was right.
They have an intervention.
Bailey even brings up her OCD and tells DeLuca theres no shame in dealing with your mental health issues.
But DeLuca loses it.
His sister, also sobbing, comes and sits next to him on the floor, followed by Meredith.
They want him to fight as hard for [himself] as [he does] for everyone else.
Finally, he agrees to get help.
It is a weeper of a scene and Im tearing up just thinking about it.
The O.R.
Board
Maggie Pierce is in love and it is about time!
He sends her a glamping tent so she can see her nieces and nephews at the house safely.
Its not real camping, its comfortable, sexy camping.
Winston needs to move to Seattle ASAP.
Okay, how do I put this?
She needs to get Alex out of her system so she can start to move forward.
Jackson agrees with very little persuasion.
Once they start making out, she just starts sobbing.
She is in no way ready for sex with someone else.
After some hostility born from Jos humiliation, they agree to be friends again and forget it ever happened.
So theyll definitely be hooking up in the near future.
So, that happened.
It is a lot.
He is also on board with a pandemic birthday that consists of sex and doughnuts.
Okay, I understand him again.
Whatever gets you through the day!