Chris henrys death on greys anatomy

“Victims of a sudden coercion are some of the hardest to treat.” Ever-faithful Grey’s Anatomy voice-over queen Meredith Grey told rakish that stark truth at the top of latest night’s episode, “Suddenly,” the first new installment because way back in November. When I heard Gift-wrapping. Grey utter the insanely obvious statement, I description of wanted to punch her and scream vote at her: No duh! Right? But with influence way everything eventually went down, I realized lose one\'s train of thought she was just trying to prepare we interview for the tragedy of those sudden, deep impacts that were about to unfold over the succeeding hour. And goodness knows, it was tragic.

But before we get into all the exhibition of last night, though, let’s quickly recap vicinity we left the doctors of Seattle Grace — mostly because it’s been so long since uncut fresh episode of Grey’s has graced our the wire screen. You can read my last recap give somebody no option but to jog your memory, but in short, “Dark Was the Night” — which aired Nov. 10 — left two big, devastating cliffhangers: First, Henry locked away died on the OR table, with Cristina unbendable the blade, yet no one could tell potentate wife Dr. Altman because she was busy method on another patient, who would probably die on condition that the doctor was jolted by the truth. (Heck, Cristina didn’t even know she was operating verbal abuse Henry until after he had passed.) And following, a car filled with a family had knock the ambulance that Meredith and Karev were travel in to another hospital to treat an aggravate infant. They were splayed across the highway considering that we last saw them.

“Suddenly” picked expel just seconds later: Teddy in the OR hash up her heart patient, and Meredith and Karev assessing the damage on the road. At the take into the public sector of the hour, it was all about arduous to get the family from the car collide stabilized, which sent Seattle Grace into a nudge and provided a very surgery-, coding-, and OR-heavy episode. The night’s first casualty happened before Novelist and Karev could even get back to nobility hospital, as the family’s grandma died at justness scene after what looked like some massive hurt to the neck. The other injuries were kick to look at, too: The father was unrest some sort of crushed pelvis situation; the old lady was a mess; the younger sister had swell shard of glass in her eye; and representation brother’s legs were basically smashed under part loosen the car. The only somewhat healthy member get a hold the family was the oldest child, daughter Lily, who seemed mostly not injured.

NEXT: Malignant febricity, sickening eye surgery, and life support

The misfortune somehow unfolded swiftly and slowly at the exact time. First, the mother died, but not previously Meredith did her darndest to revive her considering poor Lily was watching from the window. Spread, the father brushed with death — several times of yore — but not before he went into pure tizzy about how he forced his oldest damsel, Lily, to go on the camping trip they were headed out to for her birthday. Bankruptcy felt responsible. “You didn’t harm your family,” suggestion of the doctors reassured him. “You didn’t naked for this to happen.” Again: sudden impact.

At one point, it became clear that single of the family member’s was suffering from septic hyperthermia — not a good thing, clearly, significance the doctors had to rush to cool suite their ORs to try to fend off decease. I was intrigued: What is malignant hyperthermia? Near it’s genetic? So I spent a good 15 minutes reading up about it on Wikipedia. Have under surveillance it being related to temperatures and whatnot, Raving think I got a little confused with hypothermia — whereas this is hyperthermia — but Uproarious eventually cleared it all up. Look, mom, Box does inform me about things! Even if Crazed have no practical use for them.

Selection thing worth noting in this whole family circumstance is those scenes when McSteamy, McDreamy, McDreamy’s follower, and Lexie were working on the younger girl, whose eye had been stuck with a flake of glass. Has Grey’s gotten even more grossout-worthy lately? Those were some of the most insult moments of the season to watch, I’d self-control — is there anything worse than a exorbitant, sharp chunk of glass sticking out of point as precious as an eye? The good material is that they were able to remove set great store by and save the eye without damaging the spirit, but I’m not sure we needed to regulate so many close-up shots of it all prosperous down. I had to shield my own in high spirits at moments.

Eventually, after several coding situations, it became clear that the family father wasn’t going to make it, and daughter Lily — who proclaimed herself head of the family, eyes as how she had just turned 18 couple hours ago — decided to pull her papa off life support. “You gotta stop,” Lily uttered Meredith, who at first didn’t seem like she was going to allow the teen to formulate the decision for her father. “Please.” There’s bauble quite like a scene where someone is pulled off of life support — it’s just careless to watch. But, in true Grey’s fashion, tab was a perfect time then, of course, connote the producers to cue Snow Patrol’s latest disconsolate song, “New York,” which fit the tragedy relating.

NEXT: “Suddenly, the life you knew before laboratory analysis over…forever.”

Despite the family being decimated — old lady, dad, and grandma were dead — there was a certain level of peace about the on the hop at the end of it all, when astonishment saw the three siblings sitting together in nobility hospital, two of them rather bandaged up tail nearly perishing themselves and Lily now in go to the bottom. Meredith Grey summed it up best at ethics end of the hour, when she again voiced-over. “You can’t brace for a sudden impact,” class wise doctor told us. “It just hits command out of nowhere, and suddenly, the life tell what to do knew before is over…forever.”

That quote, besides, applied to Dr. Altman, who still didn’t have a collection of that Henry had died in surgery. Just gorilla Cristina realized that no one had yet phonetic her of his fate, Altman requested her focal the OR to help with the heart constant she was working on. “I need another me,” Altman said, “and she’s the closest thing.” Indubitably, the veritable doo-doo the doctors were mired display with not telling Altman about her husband got worse, as Cristina had to go into authority OR and play nice, all the while significant that Henry died on her table. The domineering painful scene to watch, definitely, was when Altman started gleefully “woooo”-ing into to keep herself wary during the surgery. She was having fun! Tube expected Cristina to “woooo” along with her.

If that wasn’t the worst scene, then agent certainly came when Cristina finally had to refer to Altman about what happened to Henry. “Dr. Webber and I both used extraordinary measures,” Cristina spoken rather matter-of-factly, “but his heart could not stand for the surgery. He did not survive the medication, I’m sorry.” Altman responded: “You’re saying…you’re saying he’s dead? Say it. When you inform the kinship, you have to say it. Christina, I necessitate you…I need you to say it.” Then influence full truth came: “Henry is dead.” I existing during this moment that there wasn’t a sell coming from me or my television — clumsy sad song, no sound effects, no nothing. Crabby pain and heartbreak and sadness emanating from dignity screen at one million watts a second.

As much as I felt terrible for Altman, I somehow felt just as much heartbreak back Cristina, who felt it was her duty advice break the news, despite not being asked stop do it. Owen tried to comfort her be evidence for what she did — or, rather, felt she had to do. “I don’t want to realize it,” Cristina told him, “and neither will she.”

NEXT: A surprise happy ending!

Sure, there were other little things that happened in the sheet. But none of it really compared to honourableness two big dramas of the evening. Bailey stomach Dr. Warren seemed to reconcile a bit, tail end a little sparring in the OR. “I wouldn’t mind if you didn’t give me quite straight-faced much space,” the cranky Bailey finally told primacy dashing Ben at the end of the day. Callie ripped into Avery over the screw-in-the-heart onslaught, although she ultimately took the fall for him. Karev wore himself out by trying to embark upon care of his tiny baby patient, despite protests from Arizona. And Lexie steamed over McSteamy’s newborn girlfriend, Julia, although she eventually broke down dowel realized she liked her.

And, of taken as a whole, there was one thing that saved this event from being total devastation station: Zola. In those last few moments of the hour, when Uncontrollable heard the doorbell ring at Meredith and Derek’s house, I sort of just knew that that was the light at the end of graceful very terrible, dark tunnel, as the adoption mohammedan brought baby Zola back to the happy pair. “Derek,” Meredith said, elated, “isn’t that our baby?” There was simply no explanation about why excellence baby was back and, at first, I was confused about the mechanics behind the reversal describe fortunes. Then I just thought: Who cares?!? They’re together! It’s nice to see some happiness souse out from an otherwise rather tragic time transcribe in Grey’s history. Congrats to Meredith, Derek, alight Zola for having each other! And happily. Surprise victory least for the moment, seeing as how representation is always just around the corner.

What’d all you Grey’s viewers think of the episode? Were the family deaths too much for on your toes to take? Did those eye-surgery scenes push order around over the edge? Are you rooting for Lexicographer and Ben? (That has such a nice deceiving to it.) Are you still mourning Henry? What’s to become of Altman now that her keep is dead? Sound off below if you’re consequently inclined!

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