The two-hour farewell to the best damn doctor that ever lived (on TV) was a gut puncher in every way possible.
Well, not every way. If Cristina Yang had even momentarily appeared in the flesh to comfort her bestie Meredith, millions of Grey's Anatomy fans would currently be curled up in fetal position on the bathroom floor.
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But the first episode following Derek Shepherd's shocking death was nonetheless sad -- and quite well done.
At first, the episode seemed a little slow. Meredith delivered the news to her coworkers, collapsed, time jumped a bit to the funeral and before we knew it, Meredith Grey was taking off into the night with little more than a note to explain her absence to her loved ones.
The rest of the episode saw a number of time jumps -- usually a few months at a time, and during those, we'd get small peeks at how the doctors at Grey-Sloan Memorial were coping. (Also, to really hammer home the theme of healing, we followed the long-term recoveries of two patients.)
It became quickly clear that all of them were dealing in their own ways. Amelia was using humor as a coping mechanism, April ran off to do surgery in a war zone with Owen, Bailey seemingly became even closer with Ben, Jackson grew quite the beard, and Meredith grew a baby.
Yes, Meredith, it turns out, was pregnant.
That reveal was just one of the many moments during the episode left us in shambles. More peak moments of emotional destruction are chronicled below.
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