Grey’s Anatomy said goodbye to a fan favorite during Thursday’s midseason premiere, but a new teaser for next week’s episode promised return of Patrick Dempsey’s Derek Shepherd.
The aftermath of Andrew DeLuca’s unexpected (and we’ll say it, devastating) death following a fatal stab wound is bound to have a long-lasting, life-changing impact on his sister, Carina, and his fellow doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. In the new promo promoting the following hour, appropriately titled “It’s All Too Much,” Webber does his best to keep the doctors from spiraling even more.
“Grey Sloan is a family and Andrew DeLuca was a member of that family,” Webber rallies the troops, as Owen picks up DeLuca’s badge.
Owen assures Teddy that they did all they could to save him, but she’s still feeling the guilt for not being able to be his savior. “And he’s still dead,” Teddy says as she walks away.
Carina, understandably, is burdened with imaginable grief. “I want to scream until my throat hurts!” she tells Station 19’s Maya in a moment of desperation.
“We owe it to everyone we lost to live the lives they can’t,” Maggie declares, as Hayes asks a still-comatose Meredith “to fight.”
Cut to the beach, or Meredith’s “happy place,” and she spots a familiar figure just down the shore. It’s her late husband, Derek, happily fishing: “It’s you again!”
If we had to say farewell to DeLuca, at least we’ll have another Meredith and Derek reunion.
