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Misleading. MISLEADING! They are so very good at convincing us that these ‘two-part nonsenses’ or ‘crossovers with Station 19‘ are a thing. This was not a two-part ANYTHING. It was a regular episode of ‘pick-it-up-next-week’ though it was a shocker-style cliffhanger ending with the car slamming into the doctors, but we’ll get there. (Guess they couldn’t buy out the Alaska Daily block to run a proper two-part/two-hour event.)
We start the episode with the new residents living in Grey House, as you do … with Yoshida in the shower (I feel like every person except Bailey, Richard, and maybe Teddy has seen the inside of that shower at least once.) And Simone on the phone with her fiance, making plans. When the hot water goes out. Apparently Lucas didn’t pay the gas bill … because Mer skipped town with the code to the gas account (but not the electric somehow … Seattle is weird with its utilities like that) and it becomes a whole distraction/self-doubting saga for Lucas this episode, largely because he’s working with Maggie.
Nick made a reappearance … on the patient that Lucas and Maggie are working on … girl with failing lungs whose boyfriend is doing a directed donation … but he’s running late. Because … you guessed it … car crash while trying to get to the hospital. Sort of like how Tucker’s father got wiped out rushing to get to Seattle Grace when Bailey was giving birth to Lil Tuck?
That segues to Winston and Hunt having to stitch his busted lung back together in a superhero-move that will make him still able to donate that lung down the road. The result of which, is success, but is also Hunt basically telling Winston that people will lose their lives if he starts all over as an OR student in the vascular fellowship. Perfect time for him to reconsider, of course, since it’s been announced that Kelly McCreary is leaving Grey’s. (We’re all thinking/wondering if it will be a massive cardiac death incident …) So Winston will stay in cardio. Probably.
The bigger, more pressing takeaway is the Doctors, who have come in from the Medieval states (those flat-out banning abortion now) to receive training in OBGYN practices — including abortion care. Spearheaded by Addison Montgomery (welcome back for the like tenth time now, Kate Walsh, and keep it coming!) who is running all around the country trying to keep reproductive health and abortion care alive. She had a striking and tragically beautiful breakdown moment in one of the supply closets where the harsh reality is that because she’s standing up for reproductive rights she’s been doxed and her family’s been put in danger and while she would never not do what she’s doing because it is so important, she just doesn’t know how to be inspiring in that moment to all those young doctors who came to train with her that day. It’s a very honest and touching moment.
Meanwhile the protesters outside the clinic have turned violent; sending an alliteratively grafittied brick through the window, ‘Montgomery Murders’, and it busts Kwan in the head (he ends up being fine) but it’s scary and the clinic is put on lockdown.
Teddy has to control the panic first day out the gate (she definitely does not have an easy task as chief … none of them ever did) and basically chucks the crisis-protocol-manuals, which Webber fully admits were written before the Supreme Court lost their damn minds and started allowing assbackwards states to start banning abortions, and takes charge of the situation, superbly. The protesters blocked patients — who were coming for STD screenings, pap smears, breast cancer checks, and other necessary reproductive health care procedures and tests — from getting into the clinic so Teddy rounded up Schmidt, Webber, and Link and put them to work on making sure those patients were still treated.
A woman who was quite close to full-term, who had come to the clinic with her six-week-pregnant friend who was seeking a medical abortion (as support for the friend) ends up going into labor during the clinic lockdown and Bailey corrals the women into singing ‘In The Jungle’ to help calm her into a safer labor. It’s a beautiful moment because it effectively drowns out the chorus and chants from the protesters.
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It’s the ending that strikes. And strikes hard. Seattle PD arrests and clears off the protesters, finally making it safe for Bailey, Jo, the interns, the traveling doctors, and Addison to leave the clinic. And as they’re leaving, they’re all talking — one of the doctors from a visiting state … who believes she is the reason they tracked Addison to Seattle (she made some sort of FB post, thinking that Seattle wouldn’t have crazy people who oppose reproductive rights the way her assbackwards state did) …
And this doctor drops her papers/folder into the little street-way in front of the clinic. And it’s in slow-motion. Bailey sees it. Screams it out — and then Addison sees it — and tries to get them both out of the way but this car PLOWS THEM OVER, with the other doctor taking a bounce and tumble off the hood and Addison getting bashed from the side.
Next week’s promo shows them both in surgery with someone (hopefully not Addison) flatlining and the insanity that people think murdering the unborn is wrong but are perfectly okay with murdering OBGYNs who practice abortion care. That’s the part two …that we get next week.
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