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Well, this was a mixed bag of an episode that felt a bit lukewarm overall. As usual, medical curiosities were intermingled with sexy times for some of the surgeons and the connections felt a bit overwrought. Predictably some additional geometry was introduced for Owen, Amelia, Teddy, Tom, and Leo and it became difficult to keep up with all of the anvils that were dropping out of the sky.

Owen seemed to have some residual resentment against Teddy's recent getaway with Tom, which she tried to bluff off as only an old friend who knows your triggers and how to defuse them can do. He kept at it, talking about his frustrations even in front of patients, which felt out of character for Owen, even with his own emotional spiral of a break up with Amelia and trying to parent Leo by himself. The next anvil showed up via their patients turning out to be a married couple in which the wife was currently pregnant and bleeding internally. Owen's solicitousness over Teddy's feelings as a pregnant woman treating an injured pregnant woman was laid on a little too thick and felt paternal rather than friendly.

In the background we saw Amelia attending a conference on alternative healing where she happened to run into Link. It felt ridiculous that these people who work in the same surgical department had no idea they were going to the same conference, and then they kept running into each other all the time. One would think the writers were trying to throw them together - oh yes, except that's exactly what they were doing. Word vomit and embarrassed flirting on both sides turned into a roll between the sheets that they each claimed meant nothing. Um, yeah right.

Back at the hospital, Teddy and Carina had to navigate Papa DeLuca as he tried to convince Teddy's patients to let their endangered baby be his first human external womb research subject. When all of that blew up in everyone's faces, Teddy had to face the challenge of explaining to her patients why an emergency hysterectomy seemed her only remaining treatment option. Owen hovered and told Teddy he'd take over the surgery so she didn't have to be the one to unravel their patient's burgeoning family, but she held strong long enough to complete surgery. The natural result of this heavy-handed plot was that by the time Teddy broke down in tears, of course Tom walked in on Owen hugging her.

Elsewhere in the hospital: Jackson used tilapia skin as a breathable bandage for a burn patient; Maggie became a resource for Jo in finding the courage to search out her birth family; Miranda and Alex somewhat buried the hatchet; Andrew pulled back from Meredith after his father's emotional implosion; Alex helped his mother travel back home; and Richard hosted a fish fry for the staff on the hospital's roof.

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While last week's Grey's set us up to believe Owen and Amelia would be enmeshed in a long court battle over Leo's guardianship, we instead saw them joining together with Betty/Britney's parents around whether or not she would survive a run in with some deadly drug for sale in a nearby park. Yes, this was another Yikes! kind of week.

The somber mood at their home at the episode's beginning centered around handing Leo over to his grandparents. Owen held Leo tightly as Amelia tried to stave off tears while packing up the baby's belongings. They both tried to find appropriate words so as to impart best wishes for Leo before handing him over to Betty/Britney's parents. As if that didn't tug our proverbial heart strings enough, Teddy's romantic bantering to Miranda about her newfound romance with Tom was summarily interrupted by the hospital becoming overrun by drug users who had OD'd in a nearby park.

Good thing Owen put Teddy in charge of the trauma department as she quickly arranged her staff and her resources to handle a mass trauma as patients in varying states of consciousness poured into Grey Sloan Memorial. Things grew bad enough that Owen too was pressed into service, a seeming welcome relief as he attempted to stifle his feelings over Leo's departure. Viewers likely weren't surprised to see Betty/Britney and her rehab boyfriend show up at the hospital for treatment, which brought the whole rest of the family to the hospital as well.

Teddy quickly sensed how difficult it would be to save Betty/Britney once she lapsed into unconsciousness after complaining of chest pain and trouble breathing, and called in Maggie to apprise her of the situation. Amelia's other sister Meredith was in an OR in the process of breaking the hospital's surgical time record by operating for almost an entire day on the same patient, so it was up to Maggie to bring the familial juju for Amelia given Betty/Britney's collapsing health. Afraid to sit with her feelings for too long, Amelia latched onto what she might do instead of medicine after hearing Link postulate about moving to Barbados and starting over. (Oh please Grey's Writers, don't put Link into this romance geometry that currently houses Owen, Amelia, Teddy, and Tom. I beg you, don't do it.)

We later saw Owen and Amelia cluster with Betty/Britney's parents in the waiting room as they all expressed their despair and helplessness to each other while Teddy and Richard battled to save the young woman at the center of this story. Fortunately, even though an aortic dissection sounded pretty scary, we saw Betty/Britney open her eyes post-op only to find herself surrounded by her guardians and her family. Too bad they would also have to give her the news that while her boyfriend, with whom she ran away from rehab, didn't succumb to the drugs they bought, he did not survive the drugs he stole from the hospital and injected while waiting for news of her condition.

Elsewhere in the hospital: Meredith collapsed after her day-long surgery; Miranda and Ben pondered the beauty of life even amidst the day's trauma; Jackson treated a homeless man who brought in a toddler left behind in the park; Maggie wasn't forced to go camping with Jackson after all; Jo commiserated with Alex about having been left behind by his own parents when they were using substances during his childhood; Andrew lovingly wheeled an exhausted Meredith into a patient room and covered her with a blanket; and Levi and Nico grew closer while bonding over ortho and surgery.

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Viewers were transported to Scotland this week and actor/director Kevin McKidd's handprints were all over it! Family drama, relationship drama, and scarily impressive medical cases abounded alongside a plot line that was a pretty good PSA for gun control leavened by a soundtrack heavy on the bagpipes.

Right out of the gate we got combined family and relationship drama for Owen and Amelia with the news that Betty/Brittany had absconded from rehab. The second punch swiftly followed as Amelia heard her name called out, only to find complete strangers trying to get her attention. Turned out, Betty/Brittany's parents had arrived as someone at rehab gave them Amelia's name as a contact. This awkward connection of parents and guardian quickly got uncomfortable as Amelia dropped Leo's name into the conversation and she realized these parents had no idea they were also grandparents. Yikes!

Owen took in the arrival of Leo's grandparents with few words but a heck of a doomsday stress expression on his face. The reunion of one family could lead to the splintering of the one he had lovingly created with Leo at the center of it. Rather than leaning on Amelia, to whom he declared himself recommitted just a couple of short weeks ago, Owen pulled inward and turned to saving a family via his kickass trauma skills. A teenager was brought to the hospital following an accidental shooting at a parade. His father, toting a set of bagpipes and rocking a kilt, refused to leave his side - a luxury Owen clearly wished he had as well with Leo.

Surgery beckoned to remove the bullet and also save their patients hand, so Owen enlisted Jackson and Alex to help. As always happens on Grey's, the surgery got scary before it got better and their patent made it out with an encouraging prognosis. His concerned father made an impact on Owen as he talked of his despair over the seeming endless access to guns in this country and how to protect his son from all the unexpected dangers of the world. This conversation got to Jackson too, which we saw on his face and Owen's as they picked up their kids from daycare.

We saw a bit more of Owen and Teddy's friendship return as she saw him reacting brusquely and challenged him to tell her what was going on. He blurted out his greatest fear - that Leo's grandparents were in the hospital and that he felt destined to lose his foster son. Weirdly here, where there should have been baggage as there has been in previous episodes, it just fell away as Teddy quickly gave him a hug and comforting words without any vaguely romantic tension at all.

Meanwhile, Amelia spent some quietly awkward time with Betty/Brittany's mom Carol in daycare getting to know the family history a little better. As the two women shared their concerns for the young girl they'd both cared for, Amelia interjected a bit about her own path to sobriety and how she did eventually mend her relationship with her mother. Unfortunately, this news gave the family ammunition around taking over Leo's care immediately lest he be tainted by another addict's impact on his life. Owen went all Army Major and declared himself Leo's guardian until a judge says otherwise before turning on Amelia for sinking their ship with her loose lips in conversation with Carol. Another yikes!

At least we got some levity via the other two characters in this love rectangle as Teddy and Tom got closer to figuring out what they were to each other - friends or something more. After their weirdly effecting Valentine's mani/pedi date, we saw their banter become more comfortable and flirty as they further bonded over Teddy's pregnancy cravings for bacon and danish at the hotel breakfast bar. Turned out they are staying at the same hotel, which made Teddy's end of day visit to Tom's room all the more convenient, even as they took an emotionally circuitous route to it.

These two characters seemed on a tricky path as they too treated a medical case that mirrored their own lives, a female patient surrounded by both her husband and her best friend. While the two men took turns fussing over the patient and she flirted with them both, Teddy obliquely pondered her complicated friendship with Owen. Tom took umbrage at feeling Teddy viewed him as an accessory to helping her figure out her life while Owen got on with his own with Amelia, and stalked from the room. Fortunately, he was willing to share his club sandwich, with extra bacon no less, after Teddy eventually word vomited that her friendship with Owen is important but that she and Tom are something else, something more and yet to be determined. While it seemed their relationship might stay undefined for now, their connection through food allowed them to ignore the subtext and get to more bantering and smooching. Fair enough!

Elsewhere in the hospital: Meredith and Andrew got the greenlight on their relationship from Maggie; Jo helped Meredith and Maggie rock a seemingly impossible surgery on Maggie's hated former med school classmate; Miranda unsuccessfully tried to grab bag the Chief position while Alex held on tight; Richard continued to mentor Miranda; and Meredith and Andrew headed out on their first official date.

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​In an evening of crossover events, Grey's Anatomy surgeons and fans were introduced to Andy Herrera, the new female badass firefighter who showed up at Grey Sloan Memorial with her hand inside a patient's chest cavity. (The ads for her show, Station 19, made it clear this behavior was just how Andy's wired.) So, pretty much a regular day at this Seattle hospital. Former surgeon, now emergency responder Ben Warren was in tow as a way to connect the two shows even further while allowing him to keep a watchful eye on wife Miranda who was just returning to work after her vacation, ahem, make that heart attack recuperation.

While the hour showed a few allusions to the mysterious surgical contest occurring at the hospital, writers spent much of the episode introducing Andy, a thrill-seeker fire fighter with a decent side helping of earnest.  She was  fascinated by Meredith's surgery on their critically injured pediatric patient, enough so that Andy covered for her when the fancy Madrid doctor called to discuss the patent on the polymer Meredith needs for her research. She also convinced him to meet with Meredith on an upcoming visit to Seattle.

Having bowed out of the contest in the interest of retrenching himself in his beloved trauma department, Owen found himself working with one of the new interns to save another child pulled from the fire, older brother to the child Andy and Meredith were doing their best to save in another operating room. His mentorship skills were in high gear when Owen's intern used her hijab to stem the flow of blood from their young patient's femoral artery in a rushed pre-surgery moment. Owen's kind words to her after their patient pulled through gave this previously somewhat hapless intern a shot of confidence in her abilities.

Speaking of quick thinking, badass women, we saw Miranda step firmly back into the OR while shutting down both Richard and Ben's attempts to babysit her. Of course, Ben's need to linger at the hospital also showed us his realization that he now missed surgery even as he was stepping into an exciting new career, one Miranda had finally made peace with in a previous episode. Out of this part of the plot we got a bit of additional bonding for Miranda and Maggie, who operated on her and and then cleared her boss to return to work.

Additional bonding occurred, though somewhat at cross purposes, between Jackson and Arizona when he approached her to discuss his concern over April's actions after finding out the interns were calling her Dr. Party. While Arizona assured Jackson April was simply kicking up her heels outside her former relationship with him, Japril fans were heartened when he followed through on his gentlemanly urges to defend April's honor to the interns, albeit in a slightly caveman kind of way. By episode's end, it seemed Arizona was sharing Jackson's concerns over April as she watched her friend raucously pour shots for the interns while urging them all to chug them down. Oh April, seems you're on the Grey's writers' path to self-knowledge these days.

Viewers also got another shot of bonding between the Grey's sisters - Meredith, Amelia, and Maggie - as the three talked surgery while corralling the kids in the morning. Unfortunately, Alex found himself caught in the middle at work as Amelia invited her former mentor to help them brainstorm their research into how to save their pediatric cancer patient. Tom seemed more interested in catching up where he and Amelia left off, since the two slept together in an on-call room during his last appearance on the show. This time they bantered, argued, and flirted while Alex grew ever more irritated until they finally figured out a new approach to their young patient's insidious brain tumor. One good thing to come out of this messy story was watching Alex continue to steadfastly advocate for their patient, even while singing badly with her, and it gave Sam and Andrew something more to do than argue and flirt with each other. Here's hoping their scientific breakthrough will leave them with a way to salvage their winsome young patient's life in upcoming episodes.

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A return to our favorite fictional Seattle hospital found Owen in the middle of two continuing medical stories we saw the beginnings of last week in Grey's Anatomy's two-hour premiere: Megan, returned from the presumed dead sister, pushing through recovery after surgery to repair / replace her abdominal wall, and Amelia, estranged and running scared wife, who had sworn Andrew to secrecy about her grapefruit sized tumor in her frontal lobe. Nope, nothing painful here for Owen to go through.

So, to recap via the recap, Megan remained determined to return as soon as possible to Iraq to reunite with her adopted son while Owen plead, mostly silently, for her to slow down and get well first. Meanwhile, things weren't going Amelia's way either as her former neurology professor, guest star Greg Germann, told her unequivocally that she should switch into patient mode given the size and placement of her tumor. In other words, neither woman in Owen's life turned out to be a very good patient.

In a melodramatic turn, Amelia sought out surgical service administration to share her medical status while remaining thoroughly unwilling to share her situation with either Owen or her sisters Meredith and Maggie. To ameliorate the drama level, at least we got to see more of Megan and Owen's sibling bond as they played cards and lamented their current personal situations. While I wish I believed Megan was really as all right as she seemed after ten years held captive in Iraq, at least we're getting to know more about Owen's family and history. Oh, and also that while she still loved Nathan she thought he still loved Meredith who, in a parallel scene, told her former (maybe still?) psychiatrist that she was done with love triangles. Guess she forgot to tell Grey's writing staff.

Meanwhile, as Amelia's testing continued it seemed to grow ever more impossible she could keep a rabbit this big in the hat. She finally seemed thoughtful on that topic after accepting Richard's help in evaluating the care she'd provided for her patients while her tumor grew. He managed to penetrate her mania with kind words about how while she helped her patients she was now hurting her family and friends by not letting them be in her current medical fight alongside her. So, while Owen and Megan agreed their lives needed fixing - Megan's approach to her health and Owen's marriage - we saw Amelia sharing her tumor news with weepy sister Maggie. Heck, at least her tumor, sizable though it may be, turned out to be benign.

​And, at last, we saw Amelia page Owen to the tech room so that he could find out the brains scans she'd been obsessively reviewing had her own name attached, while Maggie quietly broke the news to Meredith.

Elsewhere in the hospital: Miranda stressed out over Harper Avery's visit to the hospital; guest Bill Smitrovich, who played Meredith's psychiatrist in S.12, continued to treat her in an, albeit unconventional, way; Maggie and Jackson continue to be awkward with each other; Andrew, bound by HIPPA, got creative in trying to share Amelia's test results without actually sharing them; Alex and Jo's reunion seemed real; Arizona assigned Ben to spend the day monitoring a pregnant patient; Harper Avery, who was a real boor, died while in meetings at Grey Sloan Memorial; Carina and Arizona continued to see each other but disagreed about patient care; April continued to work through her decision to move out of Jackson's apartment; and Meredith told Nathan to fight for his dream to be back with Megan.

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Grey's Anatomy returned in a big way this week with two hours that picked up right where the previous season set us down. Not only will Owen Hunt fans be pleased with the high-profile storyline at which he's the center - his long-thought deceased sister returned from being held hostage in Iraq - but we also got to see more of Kevin McKidd's directorial flair in the season opener's second hour.

We met Megan and saw that she's smart and funny and prepared to prank her brother Owen practically before she was off the helicopter used to transport her to McChord AFB near Seattle. And since she's inadvertently stepped into a Grey's triangle, it seemed a good plan that she was also willing to take baby steps when it came to reacquainting herself with Nathan. And, of course, while both men took leave from work to be fully involved in Megan's care, Amelia seemed freaked out by all the potential Hunt family bonding that was to come and retreated into surgeon mode. Meanwhile, Meredith became Megan's surgeon and all around favorite person, even though she was bound to find out that Meredith was also the 'significant' person Nathan has been seeing. And if that weren't enough family drama, it seemed Megan planned to return to Iraq as soon as possible because, wait for it, she planned to go back for the child she adopted while being held hostage. Yep, it's complicated.

Once Meredith began the testing required to take Megan into surgery, Owen found himself on the wrong end of his sister's questioning about Nathan's relationship status. Both he and Meredith wisely kept their mouths shut and focused on the medicine. Nathan meanwhile, expressed his concerns to Meredith about her role in Megan's care. Meredith, a la Amelia, assured him she was fine thank you and that he should let her do her job. Oh, and speaking of romantic entanglements, when Megan asked why Meredith was on a first name basis with her mom, she learned the surprising information that Owen had been married twice during his time in Seattle. But at least this time relationship gossip got us to Megan telling Owen to put his guilt at not searching harder for her in his back pocket and to get on with the work of living instead.

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This was one of those rare weeks in our favorite fictional  Seattle hospital in which we caught sight of Owen Hunt  again, albeit in a painfully complicated story directed by Kevin McKidd himself. But this is  Grey's Anatomy so what other kind of story is there in  that universe? Considering we're almost to the end of  the season, Owen's fans should count themselves lucky that he wasn't in the hospital when a vengeful patient set himself on fire while trying to escape, causing a large explosion. Okay, let's go back to the beginning of the  hour so that y'all know how we got here.

The main focus of Owen's reappearance seemed to be a step forward in the storyline of his Missing In Action  ister Megan disguised as a further test to his marriage  with Amelia. Unfortunately, we had to wait a while to hear  what message was delivered by the two army personnel who  showed up on Owen's doorstep as he got ready for work.  Considering one of them was a chaplain, we knew it  wasn't going to be any kind of good news. Viewers were  meant to be inside Owen's shock, as instead of hearing  the news as it was delivered in that opening scene, we heard him walk through the hospital  shrouded in a static-laden buzz that seemed to indicate  Owen's shattered attempt at processing what had  happened.

Owen's abrupt behavior surprised April as she attempted to treat a choking infant in the Emergency Room. His hard  slaps on the infant's back dislodged the coin on which  she'd choked and got us to, of course, Amelia performing the neurological consult he gruffly recommended before  stepping away. This gave her a perfect excuse to find Owen, clearly freaked out, in an exam room to deliver the parents' request to speak to him further. In another stalemate move on the Owen and Amelia chess board, rather  than investigate why he seemed so off his game, she simply  got irritated and left the room after delivering the  message.

When he caught up to the baby's parents and the mother  thanked him with a tearful hug for saving her child's  life, Owen fled from the emotional closeness and hid out in  another empty exam room. This time Amelia followed him and  asked what was going on. Oh, and just in case this story  wasn't complicated enough, this was just after she  finished encouraging Meredith again to move forward with  Nathan. Owen finally choked out that he had news about  Megan, and, wait for it...she's alive! While I'm  grateful Owen has a storyline and that, perhaps, he and  Amelia might, just might, remember how to talk to each other, it's distressing how his story looped us back to  Meredith's story in a typical Grey's house of cards.  Are we destined to see Meredith on the dark and twisty road  again? Let's hope not, but since this is Grey's,  that might be a vain hope.

Soon we saw Amelia take charge as Owen began to crumble  under the weight of the situation. While the two of them were at Meredith's house trying to track down information on whether or not it was indeed Megan who was being transported to an Army hospital in Germany, we soon saw allusions to Owen's past, parts of which were news  to Amelia. After Teddy, former Seattle surgeon who served  overseas with Owen, Megan, and Nathan, confirmed that Owen's sister had been found, Amelia set about having  her transferred to Seattle. She was also smart enough to  call in the leading expert in PTSD to help Owen deal with  the guilt he soon showed us at having moved on with his life  while his sister had been held hostage for nearly 10  years.

Once Meredith arrived home with the kids the rest of the  story was set into motion as Amelia related the truth of  Megan's reappearance. Meredith then took it upon herself to  return to the hospital so as to share this news with  Nathan. And wouldn't you know it, just as Meredith got out of her car a fiery explosion shook the hospital. Guess  next week must be the season finale, huh?

Elsewhere in the hospital: Meredith and Nathan woke up together and Maggie noticed their coziness at work; Alex tracked down Jo's husband, a fellow doctor, with likely to be disastrous results given his imaginings of what might happen when he confronted him; Richard approved  Stephanie's return to work after a short round of  therapy; Arizona and Eliza woke up together so they seemed  to be going strong; two patients of the week came in  unconscious and partially disrobed after a car crash;  Jackson and Maggie continued to bond; Eliza put Stephanie on  scut duty monitoring the male patient in the car accident who grew creepy and combative as it came to light he'd  tried to rape the woman in the car; the hospital went into lockdown as they tried to find him after he took Stephanie  hostage in an attempt to escape; and that's where that  explosion came from as he tried to set a fire to get the  doors to unlock again and, with Stephanie's assistance,  ended up setting himself aflame.