Best Of Grey's Season 17
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15. 'Oh My God, No! No!'
When a rare moment of alone time with Link started Amelia weeping instead of stripping, he got down on one knee to propose. But she wasn't bawling because his mom had slipped and called her his wife. After hiding her feelings in front of the kids for so long, she said, "I just really need to be crying right now."
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4. 'Fingers Crossed for New Horizons'
As "Look Up Child" drew to a close, not only did April reveal that she and husband Matthew had broken up, she agreed to move to Boston with Jackson and their daughter, and the couple looked about a kiss away from reuniting.
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Bonus Entry: 'I Really Want to Have Sex With You'
Though in Season 17's premiere, Jackson cued up Kenny G and laid out cheese and cured meat for his tryst with Jo, she still gave it the ol' college try. It did not go well. No sooner had they kissed than she began sobbing — directly into his mouth.
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2. 'Find Your People and Keep Them Close'
We were still reeling from the MerDer reunion we'd never imagined was coming when Grey's COVID dreams came to include George — yes, George, who filled her in on his afterlife and assured her that he still checked up on her now and then.
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12. 'What Would You Say to a Sponge Bath?'
As Tom's condition deteriorated — to the point that he didn't even recognize Teddy — we feared that we were about to lose him to COVID in "Fight the Power." So we were as relieved as she was when he opened his eyes and cracked wise.
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11. 'It's a Yes'
After Winston got down on one knee and told Maggie that "I can't imagine life without you," could there have been any doubt that she was going to accept his super-sweet proposal of marriage? Rhetorical question: There could not.
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13. 'I Don't Want to Leave the Kids'
After vowing to torture herself less in an unexpected limbo-beach "wedding," Meredith admitted... well, see above. Derek didn't want her to, either. So they shared a single kiss before at last she was coaxed back to reality by daughter Zola's visit to her hospital room.
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6. 'Let Me Become Worthy of Being Spared'
At a crossroads after beating COVID, Tom decided in "Tradition" that he wanted to spend "whatever time I've got left making this lousy, stinking [world] better" — and he wanted to do it by lending a hand Jackson in Boston. "I'll even help you understand how ignorant white people think," Koracick said in pitching himself. "You don't even have to stop hating me."
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3. 'So... You Two Are Together'
Yep, in the afterlife — or at least on Meredith's limbo beach — ill-fated lovers Lexie and Mark were reunited. And the moment that he joined the half sisters, "Breathe" was turned into more of a gasp.
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10. '... and Maybe a Vanilla Milkshake'
Almost a full season after Owen learned on what was supposed to be his wedding day that Teddy had been cheating on him with Tom, the would-be marrieds reconciled, first as friends, then as the kind of lovers whose romps leave them ravenously rhapsodizing about hamburgers.
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9. 'I Don't Know How I'm Gonna Do This'
Our hearts shattered right along with Bailey's in "Fight the Power" when she mustered up the strength to sing "My Girl" one last time for her beloved mother as she succumbed to the ravages of COVID.
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5. 'I Have to Go'
Hard as it was to lose DeLuca, who perished after being stabbed while in hot pursuit of a sex trafficker, at least the show managed to give him a happy-ish ending. On Meredith's limbo beach between life and death, he was reunited with his beloved mama.
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1. 'You Love Me'
So said Derek after being reunited with Meredith in her season premiere COVID dream. And "God knows I love you," McDreamy added. It was a moment for which viewers had never dared to hope. And getting it... well, if only for an instant, life really was a beach.
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8. 'There's Definitely No One on Earth Like You'
Poor Link. After more than one false start, he finally, officially proposed to Amelia in "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" — with multiple rings and several children to seal the deal! — only to have his babymama take a pass.
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14. 'Welcome Home, Jo'
In the time-tripping season finale, Jo not only sold her shares of Grey Sloan to Tom (thus making Bailey's nightmare come true), she hired a high-priced attorney to make Luna her daughter and dumped Levi and Taryn to move into Jackson's fancypants digs.
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7. 'I Found the One Whom My Soul Loves'
A season-finale flash-forward revealed that after Winston's grandmother and Maggie's adoptive father put the kibosh on their first attempt at becoming husband and wife, the sweethearts were finally able to tie the knot in spectacular style.