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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.

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This week's episode of Grey's Anatomy brought out some stories that have been teased out over the season, including the distance that's grown between Owen and Amelia. The literal distance was highlighted at a post-plane-surgical-rescue press conference in which Meredith and Nathan's actions to save two seriously injured patients were lauded by Miranda and a host of reporters. We saw both Owen and Amelia in the audience - Amelia chatted with Richard on one side of the room while Owen escorted Catherine to her seat in the front row on the opposite side of the room. An old story for Owen seemed to be getting older by the second, especially as it took us almost the whole rest of the episode to see him again.

And to keep the pressure high on their storyline, naturally anytime there's a pregnant patient in the hospital either Owen or Amelia, or maybe both of them, treat that patient - as we once again saw this week. A pregnant cancer patient, previously treated by Alex, was again in the ER with back pain and tingling in her legs. After an exam we saw both Amelia and Arizona enter the picture so as to prep for a C-section even though the baby wasn't yet at term. Since their patient's cancer had metastasized time was, as they say, of the essence.

During the surgery their patient threw a clot, which anyone could have predicted when she asked to sign a Do Not Resuscitate order before the surgery commenced. While Arizona handled the not so complex C-section that left Amelia to provide supportive care once their patient refused surgery for the clot. Their patient's sorrowful speech about how she regretted having put barriers in the way of being with the man she has loved, who loved her too, but also happened to be her best friend, and the father of her son, left everyone in the room teary-eyed.

We saw no easy resolution for Owen and Amelia in this episode, even after the elevator doors opened in front of Owen to show us a crying Amelia standing inside. While she tried to pull herself together and he tried to give her the space to do so, that processing lasted for only a second before he stepped into the elevator, wrapped his arms around her, and let her cry it out. Once they reached the next floor Owen stepped back, took a deep breath while Amelia again pulled herself together and they went their separate ways. This not talking about the elephant(s) in the room has left them both stuck in their stalemate mode, not surprising since there are only two more episodes before a said to be explosive season finale. Hey, at least they got the almost plane crash out of the way early this season.

Elsewhere in the hospital: A press conference outed Meredith and Nathan's relationship to Maggie; Alex continued being Meredith's fill-in person in Cristina's absence; Richard and Catherine continued to feud and Miranda couldn't help trying to fix it and pulled April into her plan; April, Richard, Stephanie, and Andrew ended up treating a patient with abdominal worms; Maggie blocked Meredith's attempts to explain what happened between her and Nathan; Maggie drowned her sorrows in surgery with Jackson; Richard and Catherine began the road back to each other; and Maggie grudgingly agreed to go out on the town with Meredith and Amelia - presumably dancing it out ensued

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Another hour of Grey's Anatomy aired this week that focused on telling a singular story in a singular location from beginning to end, though this one, maybe, included another beginning too. I'm not sure I'm digging this trend of taking doctors outside of the hospital to lay bare all their issues, even as this one put Meredith Grey and Nathan Riggs on an airplane with enough turbulence to injure several of their fellow passengers.

Meredith's initial dread at seeing Nathan as she was boarding the plane turned quickly to the two of them joining the Mile High Club, to the surprise of probably exactly no one. Turbulence rained on their parade and created injuries throughout the plane, some severe and some that allowed for cute bonding with a child with a forehead laceration that brought out Meredith's mommy side. Naturally there were other hints of romance, as a flight attendant made an attempt at a little flirtatious bonding while Nathan reset and wrapped her wrist, while the pediatric dentist also on board the flight tried to carve out some quiet time with Meredith.

We also got some Grey's gallows humor as Meredith invoked the plane crash that ended Season 8 and took both Lexie and Mark from the cast roster. (I still miss them both, btw.) We got some forward emotional story for Meredith as in this telling of the story, it was deceptively easy for her to admit loving her kid sister. Things got intense, though, when Nathan pushed Meredith's buttons about how she's overextended herself to take care of Maggie while backing away from what she wants with him. Astoundingly, she blurted out that she still considered herself married, and then all the Merder shippers gasped aloud. And that's when their more severely injured patient with a potential brain bleed starting throwing up back in the cabin. Uh oh.

Turned out Nathan and Meredith made a pretty good trauma surgeon team as they discovered they would have to relieve the inter-cranial pressure for their patient as it wasn't yet safe to land the plane and get him to a hospital. And naturally, their shared stories about working in the field from earlier in the episode were brought to life as Meredith closed her eyes and waited for the right time to plunge a syringe into their patient's brain so as to draw out the blood that was pooling inside.

Another patient with pulmonary hypertension lost consciousness and when Nathan couldn't find a pulse, a defibrillator and chest compressions required him to stay with his patient while more turbulence complicated Meredith's steady-as-she-goes approach to her patient's brain bleed. But heck, it wouldn't be Grey's Anatomy if there weren't multiple terrifying medical emergencies happening at the same time. An attempt at finally landing the plane saw a stressed Meredith flashing back to that plane crash she survived and got us some scenes of those missing family and friends - Lexie, Mark, Cristina, and Derek. (Although Cristina's still alive in the Grey's lexicon so here's hoping we see her again sometime in more than a flashback.)

Nathan's whoop of delight when they eventually landed wasn't quite mirrored by Meredith, though she did seem plenty relieved. Witty banter ensued as Nathan chattered on about the Sioux Falls hotel they would have to stay at rather than continue onto the medical conference both were scheduled to attend. Cue some more flashbacks of Merder's history as an easy explanation of what Meredith was trying to move past, before they both sauntered off to the hotel together.

Of course, we got no Owen Hunt this week, though the season is rapidly coming to a close so we'll have to catch up on the emotional and verbal cone of silence between him and Amelia sometime soon. I hope so as it's getting pretty wearying for viewers at this point.

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Viewers found out something new in this week's episode of Grey's Anatomy. Owen Hunt - wait for it -  has friends and they don't work at Grey Sloan Memorial! Of course, to twist the knife in typical Grey's fashion, these friends were both ideally placed to bring up Owen's history and vulnerabilities via being veterans he met at the VA Hospital who also happen to be married to each other and were expecting their first child. They also bantered cutely with both Owen and Nathan and asked about Owen's marriage and whether he and his wife were pregnant yet. Yup - Grey's writers went there.

Meanwhile, Maggie's first day back to work after her mother's death had her in the spirit to poach surgeries, starting with the one Nathan and Arizona had planned to fix a severely scary sounding and highly technical problem with the baby's heart - which put the most potentially vulnerable surgeon in the hospital right on Owen's radar. In front of the patients he was all business, but when he followed Arizona out of the room to ask why a doctor who hasn't spent a lot of time prepping for this very surgery was now in charge of it, the answer seemed very important to him. And of course, the father, who followed him into the hall, overheard the question and was seriously interested in the answer too. Did this have train wreck written all over it? Or was it a writer feint? Turned out to be some of both.

Although we did also get some bonding between Owen and Meredith, a reminder of their friendship in the wake of Cristina's departure from Seattle, it got a little strange once Jackson and Amelia joined in. They discussed forms of grieving and whether or not Maggie was ready for this surgery as though they were banal subjects. And then Amelia put it together that the patients involved were Owen's friends, people she knew. He kindly encouraged her to visit them because they'd asked about her. Other than a slightly reflective expression on Amelia's face, we were given no clues about how she felt. 

All eyes were on Maggie in the OR which meant that Owen and Meredith, Nathan and Amelia, along with pretty much every other featured surgeon on the show was in the gallery watching this unique surgery. We were treated to more storyline mirroring as we heard Amelia share the story of their friends tumultuous road to being together and to having this baby. As Amelia spoke, the camera alternated between her face and Owen's yet viewers would have gotten the parallels either way. What remained to be seen was how many more allusions to their friends' story it would take for Amelia to open her mouth and speak. Turned out we'd have to wait some more, as Amelia simply pushed him aside at the end of the day, calling them 'Owen's friends,' before she went home to Meredith's house.

Elsewhere in the hospital: Nathan saw Arizona and Eliza turn up at work together which turned into Arizona and Nathan bonding over moving on romantically; Maggie had the support of her sisters Meredith and Amelia as she grieved her mother, went back to work, and danced it out; Alex took on a teaching opportunity which we never actually got to see; Meredith and Nathan continued to dance around each other; Stephanie and Andrew treated one of the interns and both misdiagnosed him; Richard and Miranda worked together, and bickered together again; and Jackson helped Maggie mourn her mother which made this viewer think he should be made an honorary Grey/Pierce/Shepherd sibling.

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This week's episode of Grey's Anatomy took us right into the fight to save Maggie's mother's life and right into the hands of first-time director, Ellen Pompeo. Much of the hour's action centered around this very personal medical story and got us some amazing acting as well. This was one singularly focused episode that worked more seamlessly than others we've already seen this season because the action took place in familiar environments and showed us how blurred the lines between professional and personal are for these fictional Seattle surgeons in their homes and home hospital.

We saw Maggie pressing forward toward the next surgery and the next one after that in a frenzied effort to cure her mother Diane. Many of her fellow surgeons cycled through to give their expert opinions and to support their coworker / friend / sister and her mother. The emotional dynamic between the two women was challenging to witness after having watched them fuss and fight with each other for a couple of previous episodes. Maggie's rapid-fire responses seemed all about compartmentalizing the daughter in her so as to bring forward the doctor in her so as to find a way to increase her mother's chances for survival. We were also reminded that Meredith is Maggie's sister and Richard is her biological father as we saw both people trying to talk compassionate sense to Maggie about her mother's course of treatment.

What started as breast cancer began spiking elsewhere in her body, first in some cells around her original incision which put Nathan in the operating room and in contact with Meredith. The romantic tension continued between them even as both were exhausted by trying the very personal medical case in front of them. When the cancer moved into Diane's liver, Meredith voiced objections to rushing into the next surgery. Soon after Diane, with Maggie's urging her on, fired Meredith, though it was probably for the best given that Meredith and Maggie seemed to learn something about themselves and each other from interacting as strictly sisters for most of this hour.

We soon saw Maggie concocting a surgical dream team: Jackson, Diane's original Seattle surgeon, as well as Richard and Miranda. Yep - the trouble twins who have been on the outs since Miranda brought Eliza to the hospital to shape up the surgical residency program which put Richard out of a job. As any viewer would expect, Richard and Miranda had an aversion to working together to get Diane into an aggressive clinical trial even as they shared a similar point of view on her best medical chances.

It soon became evident that Maggie was letting her concern for her mother, and her guilt over fighting with her while she was unaware of her mother's condition, shoot her into overdrive as a way to fix this very scary problem going on in her family. She maintained a stiff smile on her face at all times, trying to convince herself, her mother, and everyone else that there was no way to go except forward at 100 miles per hour. Diane tried to keep up, though she looked ever more exhausted as each hurdle presented itself.

Miranda kindly and firmly explained all of the possible side effects of the trial to Diane and then we saw them all become reality in a montage which showed the rest of the surgeons, including Owen, taking turns treating Diane, both at home and at the hospital. We got a rare moment of lightness as she insisted Maggie learn how to make her lasagna, including noodles from scratch. The resulting dinner party brought back some of Grey's history as Diane asked if she could pay respects to Ellis - Maggie's biological mother, considering she was staying in her house with her daughter's family. A moment of hilarity ensued as they all laughed at the absurdity of Ellis's final resting place - the scrub sink in OR 2 - which was, as Meredith pointed out, her favorite operating room. The moment turned grey as Diane laughter turned to coughing up blood, which we soon learned was caused by an esophageal tear.

As the next surgery loomed we got further scenes of conflict - Meredith urged care in Diane's surgical plan and Maggie blew up at her before running from the room. A rare moment of vulnerability swept across Meredith's face which she carefully brushed aside in the face of Nathan's concern for her well being. We next saw Richard trying to coax Diane to be honest with him about whether she was up to the next round of treatment. In this scene between two of Maggie's parents we learned a bit more about Diane's concerns for her daughter, that she will need to know she did everything she could for her mother before she dies.

Inevitably, Diane's health began to deteriorate to the point at which she asked Maggie to let her go. Maggie tried to support her mother, but spun out once she was out of the room. She allowed Nathan to comfort her with a listening ear and a kind hug before she was ready to sit with her sisters - Meredith and Amelia - and accept that she had to make the absolute most of the time that remained for her with her mother. At least Diane got in some good motherly advice about taking a bite out of life rather than living inside the lines before we had to say goodbye to this vibrant character.

One win we got out of this tumultuous hour of television was a full circle moment for Richard as Miranda found him sitting quietly in an OR gallery after Diane's death. He'd bowed out after bring Maggie's father to town to help her figure out how to mourn her mother. As Miranda slid into the seat next to Richard we heard him seemingly let go of Ellis, the woman he loved who never forgave him. It did this viewer's heart good to hear him tell Miranda that he didn't want to make the same sort of mistake in his friendship / mentorship with her. Unfortunately, we also got a loss as Meredith put yet another barrier in the way of moving forward with a relationship with Nathan, citing the loss that Maggie had suffered and how she would need to be there for her. It remained unclear whether or not Nathan was indeed as understanding as he seemed to be in assuring Meredith he heard what she was saying. And okay, we got another win as we saw Meredith have a sort of full circle moment with Ellis too. It was very simple and not fussy as we heard Meredith's voice say 'Goodbye mom' over a scene of her and Amelia joining Maggie to eat the last of the pan of her mom's lasagna.

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Romantic workplace tension filled the first few minutes of Grey's this week, which meant most characters and their shipper groups were in for a bumpy ride. Leading the charge was Meredith who was musing aloud about Nathan's declared interest in her. (She also, by the way, shouldn't talk so loud about how great the sex was with Nathan while her sister Maggie was within earshot.) Next on the scene was Owen, looking intense and brooding in the ambulance bay. Guess who showed up for another neuro consult on one of his patients - yep, Amelia. Who, when he asked how she was, said it was great to be back at work. Ouch and cue another sad face for Owen as he tried unsuccessfully to hide his hurt reaction in front of his coworkers and their patient.

In another Kevin McKidd directed episode, we saw more of Owen than we have in weeks. Owen remained decisive about his feelings on the state of his marriage with Amelia, cornering her for a conversation in which his need for answers was obvious, as was her inability to give him any. This Owen has learned to identify his feelings and to verbalize them, as we saw him ask her if she was going to continue running away from home or if she would ever be willing to face him.  As Grey's writers do, the medical story of the week was the mirror to their very different approaches to their relationship, as we saw two former surgeons arrive at Grey Sloan Memorial, one of whom had fallen while hiking and turned out to have a risky to repair brain bleed.

Aside from some brilliant stunt casting with the inimitable Hal Holbrook, we saw his wife searching for her own path through her tragic injuries while her husband wanted to have some control over what was happening to them. Naturally enough, Owen alternately consoled the husband while castigating Amelia for taking on a risky surgery without much chance of a positive outcome. Amelia stayed rooted in her work, wanting the space to pursue her patient's requested surgical option. Oh, and then there were the anvils about their patient wanting both more time with her husband and also wanting to use that time to help him figure out how to be alone before she died.

While Owen received sage words of wisdom from Holbrook's character about there being no secret to a long marriage, Amelia remained certain she was doing right by her patient. Her certainty put her in the hall fighting it out with Owen soon after, where we saw her holding no punches. She even brought up Cristina, Owen's first wife, with whom he also struggled to deal with her not wanting the family he craved. This was the one piece of unexpected conversation we saw between these two characters who rushed into their marriage only to be brought up short by their approaches to whether or not to have a family and how to communicate with each other. (Although yay for invoking Cristina, who remains my favorite former character.)

As Owen shared his side of the conversation, we heard his familiar refrain about wanting, what he called, a normal life, while Amelia reminded him that having a child doesn't ensure your life will be what you hope it will be. She reminded him that she was already a mother once and it turned out to be wonderful and heartbreaking, as her son died soon after he was born. Owen remained silent when she asked him if he was ready for that kind of a roll of the dice when it came to the family he envisioned.

And if that wasn't enough, of course their patient survived surgery only to die a short while later, leaving her husband fumbling for how to move forward on his own. Viewers were left wondering where Owen and Amelia might go next as both were visibly shattered by their public argument at the hospital and the fractured marriage at the center of their medical story. A weighted look between them in the ER left us with little guidance except leaving it clear much distance remained between them.

Elsewhere in the hospital: Maggie's mom received bad news from her oncologist; Maggie and her mom remained in conflict, even once Maggie knew about the cancer diagnosis; Richard froze out both Miranda and Arizona; nosy Jo worked on Jackson's service and got opinionated on Maggie's mom keeping secrets from her daughter about her health; sisterly bonding between Meredith, Maggie, and Amelia was filled with subtext about their romantic relationships; Nathan kept joking his way around Meredith's insistence he step up if he wanted to be with her until he finally ponied up with some sappy reasons that won her heart; Ben and Miranda bonded;  Stephanie seemed triggered by their patient's death, though her emotional response got Andrew to admit to being, maybe, in love with Jo; and Richard told Arizona he had to work through his feelings before he'd feel confident in their friendship again.

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This week's episode of Grey's Anatomy took place not in Seattle, but in Montana and got us some pretty heavy duty backstory on Jackson Avery. He traveled to one of the Avery Foundation hospitals to treat a patient along with April, a last minute substitute for Meredith. What followed was Grey's ubiquitous tense medical case filled with anvils aplenty. As usual in these sort of stunt episodes, very few other characters were seen which meant lots of stories didn't move forward this week. However, we did get more capable directing from Kevin McKidd.

The bickering between Jackson and April continued as they stepped into the Avery family plane and were offered champagne by a flight attendant. While Jackson put his nose into patient files and acted unimpressed by the luxury around him, April teased him while also sticking up for Catherine, pressing Jackson's buttons all the way. The mood shifted rapidly when they arrived at the Montana hospital to do a throat transplant from one child to another when they realized the dying child's father still held out hope his son would wake up. Jackson shared his own heartbreak at losing the son they both still mourn, shocking April into silence, and convincing the father to authorize surgery.

When Jackson next used his experience as a father to charm the mothers of their transplant patient, April confronted him. His response was to stalk away to a diner in which we later find him soused as April picked up the pieces of their exploded surgery when the donor was found to no longer be an option. In some stunt casting we found Eric Roberts tending bar and acting all sorts of folksy, offering Jackson a standard free beer for new customers. The plot thickened when April sought out a now drunken Jackson only for him to storm moodily out of the bar. A brief introduction to the bartender gave us the next plot cannonball - he's none other than Robert Avery, a former surgeon and, wait for it, Jackson's missing in action father. Now all Jackson's talk of fatherly concerns slipped eerily into place.

Once a less optimal surgery option was all they had to offer, their patient's mothers decided to take her out of state which was risky given her deteriorating condition. Jackson, headstrong and self-assured, promised them an idea to fix their daughter's condition which he later admitted to April he made up on the spot to give himself time to think. She accused him of only being in Montana to see his father, a quest she told him was putting their patient at risk. Our normally eloquent Jackson found himself at a decided loss for words before he stalked away from her once again. This at least temporarily put a halt to their bickering as April patiently heard Jackson's amalgam of feelings around being face to face with a father who didn't recognize him.

With April's encouragement Jackson once again approached his father, but found his bumbling description of how the status and expectations of the Avery name just wasn't 'his thing' to be less than what he'd hoped for in a response. The clueless look on his father's face paired alongside the heartbreak on Jackson's face was mesmerizing. Once again Jackson stalked away from the encounter rather than face his pain in front of April, which made this week yet another episode in which the patient's story was almost beside the point to the resulting impact on the doctors' personal lives. And boy was it ever personal as Jackson and April's bickering turned to empathizing which turned to surgical breakthrough, oh yeah, and turned to smut as we saw Jackson and April, high on surgical adrenaline, back in each other's arms. The culmination of the story came when Jackson found it in himself to make peace with his biological father's absence from his life which allowed him to also seemingly make peace with his force of nature mother Catherine. Be ready for the next stop on the rollercoaster Japril fans, will this detente stick for them or not?

While we missed seeing most of our favorite make believe Seattle surgical team in this episode, based on the preview for next week the shipper rollercoaster will arrive at the station for two more groups of fans very, very soon. Hold onto your hats!

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In this week's episode of Grey's Anatomy we saw a return of more storylines outside of the reorganization of the resident teaching program and more than our recently standard one-scene appearance by Owen Hunt. (Of course, this viewer wished we would see him on our screens for his own story as opposed to only when it's linked to the whereabouts of his bride.) It was also an episode that lived up to its name as it seemed everyone was fighting with someone - both staff and patients - throughout the hour.

The opening montage revolved around relationships among staff in the hospital; Meredith's return to the hospital putting her in conflict with potential paramour Nathan and her friend Alex who's recently returned to work himself; followed by Catherine waking up alone at home while Richard woke up in an on-call room at the hospital; and we also saw Owen awake and alone on the couch in his new house while Maggie was waking up a drowsing Amelia who was still crashing on Meredith's couch. Maggie cooked up a plan to get Amelia, who swore she was still on leave, back into the operating room to clip a brain aneurysm on Maggie's patient who also needed heart surgery. Even as Maggie assured her she'd shield her from Owen while she was at the hospital, didn't we all know that would be one promise Grey's writers would be sure  Maggie couldn't keep? Especially when we saw Amelia had completed Maggie's requested surgery before the second commercial break?

Maggie continued her sisterly butting-in by encouraging Amelia to realize how good it felt to be back at work. A nervous Amelia agreed but then asked Maggie to check the hallway to make sure it was all clear for her to exit the OR. Soon after Stephanie gleefully greeted Amelia trying to sneak out of the hospital, which got Amelia to the Emergency Room where Owen's trauma department resides. And wouldn't you know it - Owen's patient needed a neuro consult which Amelia jumped in to provide. Was this a sign she was going to be ready to join the fighting that most other characters were involved in during this week's episode? Of course she was, but only to a point.

While Amelia remained all business while scrubbing in, Owen had a tough time keeping his emotions in check. As we heard her say that she was going to try to repair their patient's neuro injuries even though he may be a 'lost cause' we saw the anguish in Owen's eyes flare as he turned to look at her. When he asked if she'd planned on seeing him at all that day and she replied she hadn't, Owen suggested she get another trauma surgeon to assist her. This may be the first time we've seen Owen's emotional reaction push him to consider stepping out of the operating room - so at least we're getting more of his ability to use words and actions to express himself rather than keeping it all inside as he has usually done.

Naturally enough, the surgery wasn't the point other than to get them in close proximity to one another. After their patient died Owen asked about talking to the family and quickly segued into asking Amelia if she wanted to be married to him. While she said that she did, Amelia also said she wasn't ready for the fight to come over their differing feelings about whether or not to have children. While this seemed like an old argument and storyline for Owen, at least he's a more vocal participant this time around.

Elsewhere in the hospital: Alex and Andrew worked on a pediatric cardiac case with Nathan and much bickering ensued; Arizona continued to stand up for Richard which was complicated by him walking in on her with Eliza in the surgeon's lounge; Jackson and Catherine fought and fought and fought; April and Meredith bickered about the general surgery department; Jackson, Richard, April, and Catherine all ended up on the same medical case and spent much of the time hollering at each other; Jo sought out Andrew who still seemed hung up on her; Alex told Meredith what he thought of Nathan; Catherine and April continued to bond; and Meredith approached Nathan to talk which went poorly but lead to him giving her an ultimatum.