17. A bus crashes in the parking lot.
It’s full of people who were taking refuge from the storm in a church when the church’s roof collapsed. These sorts of disasters used to be something that would take up a whole episode, if not a two-parter. But by the end of Season 9, the Grey’s Anatomy writers are, like, Eh, we’ll take care of it in 15 minutes.
18. Jackson (Jesse Williams) goes into the bus, even though that is crazy.
It is crazy because it’s going to explode.
19. Meredith is having the C-section.
20. The nameless boy baby is born.
21. Meredith is happy-crying.
Not for long, though, because the baby’s “stats are low.” These are unnamed “stats,” I think, that are purely designed to separate Meredith and Derek so he’s not there when things go wrong with her. (This is when I start crying, by the way.)
22. Arizona confesses her cheating ways to Karev.
They’re looking for batteries (there are no batteries). She tells him that she cheated. Karev (Justin Chambers) bursts out with a very Grey’s speech: “I’m in love with that intern out there but I won’t tell her. I keep saying to myself that I won’t tell her because everyone I love turns out to be crazy or mean or cancer-y. Or leaves. But the thing all those women have in common is me. They were all fine before they met me. I’m damaged goods or something. So you’re not the worst person in this closet.”
23. Speaking of speeches, the chief gives another good one.
Cristina is freaking out because she can’t find the problem with the heart. The chief tells everyone to turn out the lights. “Yang — listen for it. You know what a healthy heart sounds like.”
24. Of course it works.
25. The ER is overrun from the bus crash.
But Bailey still can’t get it together to help, and keeps doing mundane tasks.
26. Meredith is bleeding internally from having fallen in the previous episode.
And the OB had to go deal with another emergency. Ross (Gaius Charles), who is Meredith’s student, has to take over. She tries to instruct him. “Do not let me bleed out on this table!” He is not happy.
27. Neither are the parents in the NICU.
They’ve figured out that all the ventilators are failing.
28. Jo (Camilla Luddington) instructs the parents how to bag their own babies.
29. Karev really loves Jo.
30. It’s Meredith’s spleen that’s bleeding.
Meredith tells Ross she’s going to pass out. She tells Ross he can do it. And “if I arrest for more than nine minutes, you’ve got to let me go.” He doesn’t answer. “Dr. Ross, your superior is asking you to respond!” He agrees. “Tell Derek I know the baby’s name. It’s —” And she passes out. (Crying hard here — me, that is.)
31. “You made me a better doctor tonight, Dr. Webber. Thank you.”
32. An intern tells Bailey that Meredith is in bad shape.
If Bailey is going to recover, it has to be now.
33. Jackson finds a scared little girl on the bus.
I wish I cared about this bus, but I don’t really.
34. Ross tells Bailey he can’t control Meredith’s bleeding.
Bailey steps up to the operating table.
35. The bus explodes.
Kepner is freaking out, in front of her fiancé, thinking that Jackson is dead. I love Grey’s Anatomy so much. I feel like more than any other show of its serialized sort, it has not only kept up its greatness, but gotten better from some low points mid-run. I hope it goes on forever. With that said, I can’t stand the character of April Kepner. Does anyone? She’s the show’s one big weak spot to me.
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