Grey’s Recap: Mika’s Fate Revealed — Plus, Not One But Two More Exits?
After falling asleep at the wheel in the November 7 episode of Grey’s Anatomy (recapped here), Mika along with sister Chloe was wheeled into Grey Sloan Thursday. And, given that we knew Midori Francis was leaving the show, we couldn’t be too optimistic that Yasuda would ever be wheeled back out. In other developments, Levi, having accepted a peds research position in Texas, had a big ask of new boo James. Would the chaplain be exiting stage left along with his significant other? Read on…
‘IS YOUR HAND BROKEN?’ | As “If You Leave” began, Simone and Blue noticed that nobody had slept in Mika’s bed. At that very moment, she and Chloe were being extricated from Mika’s van by EMTs. Levi and James were bracing for Schmitt’s last day and trying to accept the fact that time together was about to become extremely scarce. At Grey Sloan, Teddy tried to make peace with Owen, but she might as well have been talking to a brick wall. Lucas attempted to generate support for a resurrection of the hospital softball team. And then came the exclamation points: Mika and Chloe arrived via ambulance.
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Though Yasuda had suffered blunt trauma to the abdomen, she still found the strength to tell Skywalker to go take care of Chloe, whose legs were hurting a lot. (No wonder — they looked like meat that had been tenderized.) When Simone, Blue and Jules arrived, Bailey was saying that Mika was bleeding in the abdomen. “She’s coding,” Winston hollered, at which point poor Millin totally lost it and had to be pulled away. (How, how, how are Jules and Mika not Grey’s next supercouple?!?) Yasuda’s liver had herniated into her chest, Hunt said. Not sure what that meant, but that couldn’t be good. Chloe’s situation was dire, too; she’d just gone through her first round of chemo, and now this?!?
‘YOU’RE A TERRIBLE ROOMMATE’ | Alone with Simone and Blue, Jules recalled that she’d switched with Mika to let her scrub in with Winston the night before. If she hadn’t, maybe Yasuda wouldn’t have fallen asleep at the wheel. “Maybe that doesn’t matter to your stone heart,” Millin told Blue, “but it does to me.” Before operating on Mika, Teddy had the shakes, remembering as she did how she’d once barked at her. “I’m sorry about Cass,” Altman said. “Don’t think about that right now,” Hunt replied. “We can do this.” But could they? The way everybody was sharing their memories of Yasuda, it felt almost like we were watching a pre-eulogy. When Simone tracked down Jules, she confessed that she and Mika were more than friends. In that case, “you’re gonna need something stronger than Gummy Bears,” Griffith suddenly understood. Her solution? Making Jules look at babies and sit in a comfy chair.
In the O.R., Bailey, Winston, Owen and Teddy argued over whether or not to remove Mika’s liver. “You got a better plan?” Hunt asked. “Let her stabilize for a few hours” while the docs plotted out a miracle, Miranda said, adding that anyone who disagreed could scrub all the way out, thanks. Sitting with an unconscious Mika, Blue joked that she’d messed up the laundry again. “But I tell ya what, you pull through this, and I’ll do your laundry for as long as we live together.” On the treadmill, Bailey came up with an idea: something super complicated having to do with using Mika’s spleen to help save her liver. With Simone, Jules shared that she’d never had a relationship that felt as easy and electric as the one she has with Mika. “She’s not going down without a fight,” Griffith reassured her, “especially if she has you to fight for.”
‘I DIDN’T LIKE HER WHEN I FIRST MET HER’ | While in one O.R., it was starting to look like Chloe might lose a leg, in another, Bailey & Co. got back to work trying to save Mika. Seeing Yasuda on the table when he called for Teddy to assist Link, Ben and Richard next door, Lucas was so wrecked that he upchucked in the hall. When all was said and done, it appeared that not only had Chloe’s leg been saved, but Mika had pulled through. Somehow, while Jules was reminiscing about her first meeting with Yasuda, it came out that Millin had slept with Link. “She’s stable,” Bailey told the residents. “Now we wait and see.”
‘SHUT UP, I AM NOT CRYING BEFORE LUNCH’ | While Levi tried to psych himself to move to Texas, leaving behind James, Jo and his whole life, he also admitted to Wilson that long-distance was already feeling harder than he expected. Soon, he was distracted by baby Ruby, who was turning blue. The tot was fine, but would Levi be? He got all sentimental with Jo, who, hormonal or not, refused to get misty-eyed that early in the day. While performing a procedure on Ruby, Levi sang “You Are My Sunshine” to her. “You’ve come a long way” from dropping your glasses in a patient, Jo noted. She then offered advice: If he was committed to making long-distance work, despite how awful it is, it would work.
Later, Levi stopped by James’ office to ask… if he’d move to Texas with him. “You’ve lived all over the world, why not San Antonio?” Schmitt said, adding that he was falling in love with the chaplain. At the end of the day, James was a no-show meeting Levi in the lobby. Schmitt figured he’d scared him off. “Getting drunk and sleeping with you was the best mistake I ever made,” Jo said by way of cheering him up. “Will you be my babies’ godfather?” He would love to, he replied. Let the Star Wars tutorials begin!
‘GUESS THIS IS ONE WAY TO GET OUT OF CHARTING’ | As the hour drew to a close, Owen admitted to Teddy that he had overreacted to her and Cass’ kiss. A code blue was called in Chloe’s room. The residents leapt into action, but despite their best efforts, she died. Somehow Link and Ben didn’t show up until the interns had been performing CPR for 40 minutes in the surgical ICU. Horrified, Jules didn’t want to give up performing CPR even after Chloe was pronounced dead. “Crush injuries on top of chemo was too much for her to handle,” Ben told Bailey, who was going to sleep at the hospital to watch over Yasuda. “You make something good happen,” Miranda told her husband. “I need something good to happen.” Meanwhile, Lucas was beating himself up because Mika had told him to take care of her sister. “She’ll understand,” Simone insisted. But he wasn’t too sure.
Before bicycling away from the hospital, Levi (and we) saw his life there flash before his eyes. We’ll miss you, Schmitt. Just then, James came running up — he’d missed their rendezvous because he’d been in admin resigning from his job. “You still want me to go to Texas with you, right?” Aww, a happy ending… sorta. If Mika ever awakened, devastating news still awaited her. Days passed, then at last, Yasuda opened her eyes. “Welcome back,” said Bailey. “You’re gonna be OK.” Mika’s first word: “Chloe?” Miranda shook her head no and held Yasuda’s hand as she wept. OK, so not a happy-happy ending. But at least Mika survived!
Your reaction to “If You Leave”? Levi’s exit? Chloe’s death? Mika’s tragic awakening? Questions? Comments? Let loose below.
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