‘Gray’s Anatomy’ Recap: Season 19, Episode 11 — Does [Spoiler] Die?

As if there was ever a boring second on Grey’s Anatomy! In Thursday’s Kim Raver-directed episode, as Addison and Bailey welcomed their new OB/GYN trainees to the hospital, storm clouds gathered exterior within the type of protesters against the work of the reproductive-rights clinic. And to register their displeasure, the anti-abortion contingent was prepared to go to just about any excessive. How dire a state of affairs did the primary hour of the two-parter depart us in? Learn on…

‘I’VE SEEN THE DESPERATION, I’VE SEEN THE PAIN, I’VE SEEN THE LIVES LOST’ | As “Coaching Day” started, Bailey coaxed Pru to brush her enamel (with “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”), Trey FaceTimed Simone to make marriage ceremony plans (no, Griffith; simply no), and Owen reveled in the truth that he might as soon as once more play physician with out supervision. Losing no time, he ordered every part in trauma reverted again to his m.o., not Winston’s (although Winston had purchased everybody lunch on Fridays). In the meantime, the residents groused about the truth that Lucas had forgotten to pay the fuel invoice — no scorching water at Mer’s former home; painful. After Addison arrived on the scene, newly further (in)well-known after a Chicago Tribune article, she, Bailey and Jo welcomed their out-of-state advocacy fellows. On the identical time, Maggie urged a younger lady named Jessica to simply accept a lung transplant over a two-lung transplant that wasn’t out there, owing to the truth that she’d been ready for 2 years to breathe straightforward. All of the whereas, protesters grew louder and rowdier exterior the hospital’s doorways.

Put up-first industrial break, a man named Ryan was ambulanced in with blunt drive trauma to the chest. (Welcome again, Hunt.) Turned out, Ryan was Jessica’s boyfriend and imagined to donate that much-needed lung to her. On the price that his situation was declining, although, he would possibly quickly have two out there, it appeared. Oh expensive — it was his lungs that had been injured. Scratch that, then. Alone with Maggie, Nick admitted that he had informed Mer that he beloved her and she or he’d pretended that she hadn’t heard him. “She’s difficult,” Pierce mentioned. Mm, that’s one technique to put it. Whereas Maggie rode Lucas laborious over his prioritizing family points, Amelia provided him no assist. Scrubbing in for surgical procedure, Jules invited Simone to bathe at her place. Within the O.R., Winston threw a Hail Mary to avoid wasting Ryan’s lung for later transplant; all of the affected person needed to do was, uh, stay. Outdoors, Lucas confided in Nick how misplaced he was since Mer had left. He needed to assume that he was there due to his personal deserves, however… erm. In response, Nick reassured Shep that Mer wouldn’t have accepted him to this system out of sentimentality.

‘YOU MADE ME A PLAYLIST… FOR MY ABORTION?’ | Because of the protesters, safety needed to shut the clinic. “Keep open, name for backup,” Teddy informed Bailey and Addison. Close by, Mika and Blue handled a younger lady who had are available for an abortion. Together with her: her BFF, who was additionally pregnant and needed to be. As Addison marveled on the excellence of the OB/GYN trainees, Bailey inspired her to come back again for month-to-month periods. Simply then, a brick got here flying by the window and knocked Blue to the bottom, bleeding! (“Montgomery murders” was written on it.) Whereas Mika was treating Blue, one of many trainees admitted that she’d posted on social media about her plans for the day. She was mortified that she had by chance directed protesters to Addison and the clinic. Seeing the course during which the day was going, Bailey defined to the younger medical doctors that the clinic was named after her mother and, like her mother had, that they had to assist one another up. Simply then, the younger lady having an abortion introduced that her pal’s water had damaged.

Shortly, Bailey discovered Addison crying in a provide closet. “I received a bulletproof vest,” Montgomery admitted. “Clinics are being set on fireplace… ” Acid is being thrown at medical doctors. Addison’s cellphone quantity has been put on-line. Her household has been terrorized. However “I’m not gonna give up,” Addison assured Miranda. How she was going to go on, nonetheless, remained an enormous query mark. Understandably, she was not doing nicely. Teddy was massive and in cost, nonetheless. As clinic sufferers flooded the hospital since they have been unable to get into the clinic, she mentioned that no, they weren’t closing the ER. Because the protesters grew ever louder, the girl in labor grew to become ever extra panicked. Bailey calmed her by singing “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” (What doesn’t that work for? It quickly grew to become a full-on sing-along!) Overhearing from the availability closet, Addison seemed to be buoyed. A lot in order that she pitched in to ship the child, who was momentarily caught.

‘CAN YOU PLEASE QUIET YOUR VOICES SO I CAN HEAR THE ONE IN MY HEAD?’ | Because the hour drew to a detailed, Jessica requested Lucas if she might stick round post-discharge in order that she might see Ryan when he got here out of surgical procedure. Not solely might she, she recalled aloud to him their first kiss. “You modified my life right away,” she informed him. (How awkward for Simone standing there with Lucas.) Richard congratulated Teddy on making it by a difficult day. Lucas shared a brainstorm with Nick that may assist Jessica. In flip, Marsh revealed that he had wanted assist to change into an excellent physician, too. He even confirmed Lucas the way to current a case to Maggie in a greater means. Between surgical procedures, Simone informed Trey that she needed to get married asap — like subsequent month, in order that her grandma might attend. Owen inspired Winston to not change specialties after seeing what he pulled off within the O.R. that day. Lastly, because the hospital employees was led out by safety, the pregnant OB/GYN trainee and Addison have been struck by a protester’s automotive as they talked.

What did you consider “Coaching Day”? It’s positive to perturb at the least some viewers, however hasn’t the present all the time mirrored actual points in the actual world? And shouldn’t it mirror actual points in the actual world?