5 Most romantic moments from Grey’s Anatomy Season 15, Episode 12
By Mads Lennon
This season of Grey’s Anatomy is all about love, so it’s only fitting to have a Valentine’s Day episode, and it focuses on everyone’s favorite couples.
“Girlfriend in a Coma” is a unique episode of Grey’s Anatomy in that it takes place over the span of several months. I, like many fans (according to the lively Twitter hashtag) was confused as to why the show was deciding to air a Christmas episode in February, but it became obvious as the episode continued.
The theme this week is time and how to get the most of it with the people you love. So it makes sense to mark the time, not only of a coma patient, but in the progression of the show’s most important relationships. It doesn’t hurt to spend an hour basking in the romantic moments for a change either.
The treehouse
Ben and Bailey finally get their marriage back on track. Now that Bailey has started receiving treatment for her anxiety, she has begun to feel more like herself and she misses having Ben in her life.
Not just because she’s lonely and needs the fence fixed, but because her reaction to him before wasn’t his fault. The desire to push Ben away came from a combination of fear and her medications. Though the fault was not entirely her own, Ben admits he could have been more supportive of what she was going through. I think that is exactly what Bailey needed to hear.
In an incredibly sweet gesture, Ben begins building a treehouse for her and Tuck, planning to surprise her with it and the two reconcile. Finally!
#Merluca shares a kiss
The cat and mouse game between Meredith and Andrew reaches a head. After flirting with Andrew for months, standing him up at the Karev’s New Years party, and asking Link on a date in retaliation for his petty comments about her life, at long last, Meredith and Deluca get their big kiss.
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Of course, poor Link winds up stuck in the lurch as Mer managed to stand up both of them in the span of one episode. And I have to say, I wasn’t fond Andrew’s immature side rearing its ugly head again. But he made it up for it by the end when he brought Meredith to the roof for a Valentine’s surprise and the two could no longer deny their simmering chemistry.
I think I rewatched their mini make-out session about five times. Here’s hoping it’s a relationship built to last!
Wedding under the stars
For the most part, the surgical aspect of Grey’s Anatomy took a backseat to the romance this week. Instead of having multiple patient storylines to focus on, “Girlfriend in a Coma” focused on only one. I’m sure you can guess which, yeah, a girlfriend in a coma.
After spending over a month in stasis, she finally wakes up, much to the happiness of her boyfriend Garrett. But in typical Grey’s fashion, her days were numbered. No matter what her surgical team did to repair the damage done in the car crash, they weren’t able to get her eating, or even breathing, on her own. Not wanting to live a life on feeding tubes and a ventilator forever, she made the devastating choice to be taken off the machines, letting her die peacefully by Garrett’s side.
Not before they had their wedding though! Alex comes up with a plan to create a makeshift “wedding beneath the stars” (oh Karev, you big softie) complete with Meredith reading the vows the patient wrote before the crash, to Garrett, and all the doctors gathering around to wave their cellphones fit with galaxy screensavers to create the ambience.
Get me to that bedroom now
Catherine is struggling with her rehabilitation post-surgery. Richard, Maggie, and Jackson are all trying to find ways to help her through the process but Catherine isn’t the type of woman to ask for help.
The Catherine Fox we all know and love is a strong and domineering woman, so it’s hard to watch her struggle, and at times, fail, in her physical therapy and recovery. But it’s important for Catherine to learn it’s okay to stumble. She survived a brutal surgery that would have broken a weaker spirit. The most important thing for her to do is her best, every day, knowing Richard will be there to catch her when she falls. But that is the hardest part, being vulnerable.
Thanks to the time jumps executed in this episode, we do get to see Catherine finish the worst of her recovery. She even gets out of the neck brace and the first request she makes to Richard? Get me to that bedroom now.
It’s a girl
In perhaps one of the shows most confusing and least interesting storylines, we learn that Betty has been lying about her identity this whole time. Her real name is Brittany and she hasn’t actually been talking to her parents on the phone. It was her friend Jerry. Also she might be dating a guy named Lionel at rehab? I don’t know, do the writers? If the Brittany switch helps us get rid of this character faster than I’m all for it.
But before Owen has to stress out about losing Leo to his real grandparents, he gets to share a very tender moment with Teddy. Together, they get a peek at their baby and find out it’s a girl!
Speaking of, Teddy seems to be doing pretty well herself now that she’s dating Koracick. Their idea of a perfect Valentines is the shared bliss of partner pedicures at Koracick’s favorite place, because, as Teddy decrees, of course he would have a favorite spa.
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Odds & Ends
- Does anyone really buying Owen pretending he’s not in love with Teddy still?
- I was literally holding my breath when Catherine went up those stairs to go to bed.
- “Garrett calls them Abercrombie and Stitch.”
- It’s nice to see Maggie and Jackson getting along so well together again but a little confused about the issues they have still not being discussed.
- “I’m gay and he’s gay and we’re gay together.”
- Every version of the song “Maps” makes me emotional.
- I love that Jo and Alex put their dorky New Years glasses on first before kissing, they’re adorable.
- Not to make this sinister but Maggie mentions having a fleeting urge to commit suicide when her mom was sick, Garrett shouts “You die, I die!” several times when his fiancé starts to crash, and both of them talk about “spending the rest of their lives together”, does Garrett plan to kill himself after the love of his life passes on?
A new episode of Grey’s Anatomy titled “I Walk the Line” premieres February 14th on ABC.