Grey’s Recap: Sister’s Doing It for Her Health — Plus, Surprise, Jo and Link!
Every week, it seems that Grey’s Anatomy is making us miss Midori Francis and Jake Borelli more as their exits as Mika and Levi grow nearer. Thursday’s episode was no exception. While Schmitt grew a lot closer to cute chaplain James, Yasuda did everything in her power — and her colleagues’ power — to keep cancer from claiming the life of her kid sister, Chloe. Read on, and we’ll go over all the details.
‘YOU WANNA USE ONE OF OUR OTHER THREE BATHROOMS TO VOMIT?’ | As “This One’s for the Girls” began, Bailey prepped Ben for his first day back at work. But he wasn’t worried; after all, he’d been a resident before. Miranda insisted to the other interns that no, her husband wouldn’t be getting special treatment. Despite this, Blue immediately viewed Warren as competition. And perhaps rightly so: Owen suggested that Kwan could assist Ben. But it turned out that Blue actually knew more at this point than fourth-year “boss” Warren did.
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While that was going on, Bailey asked Simone to check on “things” in the pit and quietly report back. It wasn’t going great for Ben, who was lapped by Kwan at every turn. But Warren leapt into action when he saw that Judith, who had taken a fall on her recently lifted butt, had developed a soft tissue infection. And just when she was saying how empowered she’d felt after the cosmetic surgery, too! In the O.R., Owen favored Ben over Blue, but that gave Warren a chance to invite Kwan in. (This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.)
‘HER FUTURE SHOULD BE WIDE OPEN, NOT LIMITED BY AN AWFUL DISEASE’ | Upon Chloe’s arrival at Grey Sloan, Yasuda’s pals could immediately see why she was her sister’s “Mini Mika.” Shortly thereafter, Richard took on the unenviable task of telling the siblings that the younger woman’s cancer had likely advanced to stage 3B. As Webber explained the possible complications of treatment, Mika fidgeted as if on the verge of a panic attack. Later, Yasuda filled in Jules on the fact that her sister had to start treatment immediately — no time to protect her fertility. Millin tried to be comforting, but Mika was so stressed out that she just snapped at her.
Off that upset, Mika was inspired by Richard to try to find a way to protect Chloe’s fertility — and, by extension, countless other female cancer patients’. Yasuda’s first move? Recruit Jo and her inventive brain. Good move. Soon, Wilson had thought of a procedure that had up to an 80 percent chance of allowing Chloe to get radiation and someday have children. Since Mika couldn’t scrub in, Jules sweetly did so for her; she wanted to make sure Chloe felt surrounded by people who cared. Mika, as you’d imagine, was deeply touched.
‘THE MILLENNIUM FALCON CAN GO FASTER THAN LIGHT!’ | Freshly back from France, Taryn immediately sensed the chemistry between Levi and James. It was also evident on a walk that the twosome took to get coffee, during which the chaplain explained that he’d only found his faith again because his parents had died. Before we knew it, the fellas’ coffee date had extended into lunch. Debating the merits of the Enterprise and the Millennium Falcon got Levi and James so hot that they ran back to the chaplain’s place to get busy. Post-sex, they agreed that they felt a strong connection. Cue the other shoe dropping in three, two…
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‘THE PRETTIER PERSON ALWAYS GETS AHEAD’ | In other developments, Owen and Teddy mildly clashed over his insistence that he understood what her position as chief entailed. It was very different, she said, than the job that it was a decade ago when he’d done it. He later made the mistake of asking why a patient would get a butt lift. In response, Teddy schooled him on the way that the world treats women and downplays their talent in favor of their looks. Finally, Hunt challenged his wife to notice that since they had reclaimed their jobs, they’d stopped connecting. What was up with that? Meanwhile, treating Darren, a high-school band director recovering from pneumonia, Winston warned Simone that the patient wasn’t doing so hot. Like, beyond just recovering-from-pneumonia not so hot. Clearly, Darren’s chances of getting sprung that day as he hoped were slim to none.
Needless to say, when the patient required observation the most, Simone was busy checking on Ben for Bailey. So Griffith was in some scaldingly hot water with Winston. Luckily, Miranda intervened on her behalf with Ndugu. (Not that that was gonna help Darren, who might never breathe on his own again.) Reluctantly, Bailey confessed to Winston that she’d wanted to keep an eye on Ben. Let him be his own person, Maggie’s ex advised — strongly. Anyway, it appeared that Warren still knew his way around a patient in need; he convinced Judith that, even without the lift, she still had “big butt energy.” He also reassured Bailey that they were going to be fine with her being his boss. In the hour’s final moments, Mika’s fellow residents revealed that they’d taken all her shifts for the next week so she could spend time with Chloe. Levi discovered a wedding album — James had been married. Or was he still? And as Link performed an ultrasound on Jo, the parents-to-be learned that they were having twins!
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