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30 Best Gray'south Anatomy Episodes Ranked

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Introduced as a mid-season replacement in 2005, executives never could have known that "Grayness's Anatomy," a medical drama created past Shonda Rhimes — and named equally a cheeky nod to the famous medical textbook "Gray's Anatomy" — would become one of the network's all-fourth dimension biggest hits. Over many seasons and hundreds of episodes, fans accept feverishly followed the career of Dr. Meredith Grey, from her origins equally a timid intern with a famous surgeon for a mother to condign a legendary doctor in her own right.

Throughout its run, the hospital at the center of "Grey'due south Anatomy" sees plenty of drama, from various romantic entanglements to natural disasters to shocking events — including aeroplane crashes, mass murders, and ferry boat accidents. From a disgruntled (and armed) grieving widower roaming the hospital to some seriously difficult episodes to some of the show's biggest romantic moments, here are the all-time episodes of "Grey's Anatomy," as decided by fans on IMDb. Major spoilers ahead!

thirty. Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response (Season 2, Episode 26)

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The showtime season of "Gray's Beefcake" might've been brief, clocking in at simply viii episodes, but Season ii, which spans a whopping 27 episodes and contains plenty of drama throughout, more than makes up for that fact. And while the second half of the Flavor 2 finale, "Losing My Organized religion," is often touted by fans as one of the flavor's very best episodes, the offset one-half, "Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response," sets upwardly every domino perfectly for the following episode.

Every bit the episode opens, Izzie has but recently snipped Denny'due south LVAD wire in an attempt to motility him up on the transplant list, as her swain interns rally effectually her and argue about whether or not they should help her suspension the police. Meanwhile, as Izzie waits for Shush to come and perform Denny's centre transplant before he dies, she and Burke'southward girlfriend, Cristina, receive some seriously frightening news: Burke has been shot. Amidst all of this, Dr. Webber's niece, Camille (a "Grey'southward Anatomy" cameo by Tessa Thompson), arrives at the hospital with an embarrassing problem ... simply to discover that her ovarian cancer has returned. "Losing My Religion" might be the more than popular installment, just this episode puts all of the pieces in place.

29. 17 Seconds (Season 2, Episode 25)

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Before the epic second season of "Grey's Anatomy" can come to an stop, everything has to be fix in motion, which is exactly what happens in "17 Seconds," the concluding episode before the honey two-part finale. While they treat victims of a shooting at a local restaurant where a gunman opened burn on the employees — though he's really aiming for his awful dominate — the doctors at Seattle Grace cope with their ain personal problems, including Izzie, Denny, Addison, Meredith, and Derek.

Thank you to an argument over the fact that Meredith is dating Finn, Derek and Meredith are barely speaking, even equally they picket their shared domestic dog, Medico, endure from bone cancer that'south spreading throughout his body. Suspicious, Addison asks Meredith if anything is going on ... but to discover who the younger medico is romantically involved with, which culminates in a huge fight between Addison and Derek.

On summit of everything else, Izzie — who's just discovered that her young man, Denny, is only 17 seconds behind the first person on the list for a heart transplant — devises a terrible program, and in the concluding few moments of the episode, Shush gets shot by the same shooter who attacked the restaurant. As far as "Grey'due south" episodes go, "17 Seconds" definitely brings the drama.

28. Into You Similar a Train (Season two, Episode 6)

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In nevertheless another example of a totally baroque (and likely unrealistic) medical case, after a locomotive derails in the Season 2 episode "Into You Like a Railroad train," doctors have to treat ii patients — Bonnie and Tom — who are impaled together on a pole. And with the clock ticking, the doctors have to figure out who they should remove beginning. Meanwhile, Meredith, on the heels of her epic "pick me, choose me, honey me" speech to Derek, is mainlining tequila at Joe's, the bar right virtually the hospital, and has to pull herself together to try to save Bonnie'southward life.

As Alex loses a patient unexpectedly in the aftermath of the crash, Cristina searches for a missing pes, Izzie treats two meaning patients with serious burns, Meredith waits for an answer from Derek ... just for him to tell her that he'south staying with Addison later on all. Heartbroken, Meredith fights for Bonnie, only to lose her on the table, leaving the heroine of the bear witness in a seriously rough identify as the episode comes to a close.

27. Guess Who'southward Coming to Dinner (Flavor 12, Episode 5)

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When information technology comes to unforgettable deaths on "Gray's," fans will never forget the death of Dr. Derek Shepherd, who — after helping victims of a automobile accident on the side of the road — is struck by a truck while driving his ain car. Brought to a small hospital without adequate resource to assistance him, Derek, unable to speak and severely injured, is left encephalon dead subsequently the hospital staff fails to give him a head CT that would've saved his life.

Afterwards Meredith grapples with Derek's expiry at the small infirmary and confronts the resident whose inaction led to his decease, she returns dwelling house to Seattle afterward an absence, presumably on the mend emotionally ... until Meredith's colleague, Callie Torres, brings that same resident, Dr. Penny Blake, to a dinner party at Meredith's house, unaware that her new girlfriend was involved in Derek's expiry. When Bailey reveals that Penny is transferring to Grey Sloan Memorial as a surgical resident, Meredith loses it, declaring that she tin't piece of work with "the woman who killed Derek," setting off emotional reactions from anyone in the room. Add in a drunken Arizona, plenty of cooking problems, and Meredith's half-sister Maggie, and you lot've got a archetype "Grey's" episode.

26. The Altitude (Flavor xi, Episode fourteen)

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The doctors on "Grey's Anatomy" definitely relieve a lot of lives, but they as well experience a ton of medical ailments themselves, from encephalon tumors to gunshot wounds to lost limbs. For example, take Dr. Amelia Shepherd, sister to famed neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd — too as an accomplished brain surgeon in her ain right — who finds herself in the center of the Season eleven episode "The Distance." The plot kicks off when she's asked to operate on legendary neonatal surgeon Dr. Nicole Herman, mentor to Arizona, who has a seemingly inoperable tumor that Amelia must piece of work effectually in guild to endeavor to save her life.

Afterward a lot of protesting and grumbling, Dr. Herman finally allows Amelia to practise the surgery, simply when faced straight with the tumor, Amelia isn't sure where she should even begin ... and eventually realizes that she can't remove the tumor without damaging some sort of Dr. Herman'due south brain. Ultimately, Dr. Herman loses her sight equally a result of the surgery, but she survives, proving that even the best doctors, including Amelia, accept limitations when the human trunk presents an impossible problem.

25. The Time Warp (Season 6, Episode 15)

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In Season 6's "The Fourth dimension Warp," Derek, who takes over from Dr. Webber as the hospital'southward principal of surgery, decides to reinstate a lecture serial, which allows for the series to flash dorsum to before times in the lives of several of the doctors and lets us to meet where they came from. Webber, Bailey, and Callie — the concluding of whom is terrified of public speaking — all have the stage to detail some of their most memorable cases, and the results are pretty spectacular.

While Webber goes all the way back to his days working alongside Meredith'southward mother (and his secret lover), Dr. Ellis Grey – played in flashback by Sarah Paulson – Callie's story finds her transforming a beau's order pes, and it's a tale that's much more than recent. Meanwhile, the now-formidable Dr. Bailey details her time as a resident, though information technology probably leaves out the details the audience sees — which is that Bailey, equally a meek, shy intern working under a savage resident played by Missi Pyle, solved a medical mystery despite being foiled by her superior at every plow. "The Fourth dimension Warp" doesn't have any modern medical wonders, but that doesn't make this episode any less exciting.

24. I Saw What I Saw (Season six, Episode 6)

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Introducing an innovative narrative construction to an episode well into a series' run is always a skillful idea if the creative team can pull it off, and with the Flavour half-dozen episode "I Saw What I Saw," the team behind "Grey's Anatomy" proved they were definitely up to the task. Told in flashbacks from several points of view, the episode focuses on the aftermath of a fire in a crowded hotel that left tons of victims seriously injured, including Cathy, a female parent traveling with her young son. At offset glance, Cathy seems okay, simply when she ends upward dying in the emergency room, the attending surgeons are forced to effigy out where the arraign lies, getting accounts from residents who spent their nighttime in the E.R. bouncing from patient to patient.

Each doctor is questioned in turn, just equally it becomes more than and more confusing equally to who handled Cathy, everyone is at a loss, specially since the incident happens so soon later Seattle Grace merges with Mercy W (doubling the hospital'southward residents). In the end, it turns out that new add-on Dr. April Kepner didn't check Cathy's airway upon arrival, which directly led to her death, resulting in April'due south expulsion from the plan and an fifty-fifty more stressful surroundings amid the competitive residents.

23. Here's to Future Days (Flavor 5, Episode 23)

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After Meredith and Derek surrender the church wedding they honestly never wanted to let Izzie and Alex get married in the wake of her cancer diagnosis, Derek comes to a startling realization. He finally knows how he tin operate on Izzie's dangerous brain tumor. Armed with confidence and newfound knowledge, Derek does some tests on Izzie, only to discover that if he operates in the vicinity of the tumor, Izzie could lose her memory or even the ability to speak. After dealing with her female parent'south debilitating Alzheimer's, Meredith begs Izzie not to get the surgery, but Izzie'south newly minted husband demands that she have information technology for both of their sakes.

At kickoff, Izzie isn't sure what to exercise, just she has a sudden realization when her new friend, Alison, a young man cancer patient who needs emergency surgery and leaves the operating room without the ability to exhale on her own. Devastated by Alison's experience with an aggressive form of chemotherapy, Izzie agrees to have the surgery and goes nether the knife ... just after she signs a "do not resuscitate" order, leaving her loved ones in flux.

22. Common cold as Water ice (Season xiv, Episode 23)

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In yet another example of a doctor catastrophe upward in a life-threatening state of affairs on "Grey's," Season xiv features a penultimate episode where one of the hospital's almost honey doctors ends upwardly surrounded by her boyfriend surgeons as they try to rescue her from the brink of expiry. As Jo and Alex'south wedding approaches, April, who loves weddings as much as the couple hates them, agrees to programme the nuptials, only her friends grow worried when she doesn't bear witness up for planning-related events.

Every bit it turns out, Apr and her former fiancé, Matthew, were out for a car ride and got into an accident, and though the team finds Matthew first, they later observe April freezing cold and deep in a ravine. Though she'south in dire, icy straits, her boyfriend surgeons blitz to help her survive the ordeal, and somewhen, she does recover, much to the relief of her ex-husband, Jackson Avery, and their daughter, Harriet, forth with all of her friends and loved ones.

21. Perfect Storm (Season ix, Episode 24)

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Natural disasters are a dime a dozen on "Grey's Anatomy," and time subsequently time, they put these Seattle surgeons in some super dangerous situations. And the Flavour 9 finale, "Perfect Storm," follows that formula perfectly.

In the midst of a storm boasting hurricane-level winds, Meredith goes into labor with her and Derek's second child as the ability to the unabridged hospital keeps flickering. Meanwhile, Arizona — in the backwash of losing her leg in a plane crash and dealing with her increasingly troubled marriage to Callie — sleeps with craniofacial surgeon Dr. Lauren Boswell, who's at the infirmary consulting on a pediatric instance.

Before long, things get very bad very apace. Meredith starts bleeding out afterwards her commitment with but a few residents to save her, Callie discovers Arizona's betrayal thank you to her inside-out scrub acme, and Jackson throws himself into a called-for bus to save a immature girl. Ultimately, Bailey saves Meredith's life (and Meredith names her son after her savior), and Jackson survives, but the episode ends on a cliffhanger with Richard in the hospital basement, lying in a puddle of water subsequently being electrocuted well-nigh the ability system.

xx. Remember the Time (Flavour ix, Episode ii)

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One of the almost harrowing events to affect the main characters in the history of "Grey'due south" is the plane crash that closes out Season 8, where Meredith, Derek, Cristina, Arizona, Meredith's sister Lexie, and Derek's best friend Mark are injured. Tragically, Lexie and Mark, a star-crossed couple, finish up losing their lives in the aftermath. And as Season nine begins, the survivors of the crash are traumatized. Arizona has lost her leg, Cristina is catatonic, and Derek's manus barely functions, threatening his career as an award-winning surgeon.

"Recall the Time," the 2nd episode of Season 9, shows viewers the immediate aftermath of the plane crash, from the residents who were set to leave Seattle returning to the hospital to Arizona'south simmering resentment over the loss of her leg (due to the fact that her wife, Callie, ordered the amputation). Still, the reason this episode is legendary amongst "Grayness'due south" fans is almost certainly Cristina's harrowing bathtub monologue, where she tells Owen exactly what happened in the wood after the crash.

19. Walk on Water and Drowning on Dry Land (Season 3, Episodes fifteen and sixteen)

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Early in its run, "Grey'southward" thrived on 2-function disaster episodes, and in the Season 3 duo "Walk on Water" and "Drowning on Dry Land," viewers watch as a ferry crash puts one of the hospital's most important figures in mortal peril. Called to the waterfront to deal with a massive gunkhole wreck with hundreds of victims, the residents are faced with countless challenges, and unfortunately, Meredith isn't at her best. After her mother recently regained lucidity, the two had a horrible interaction, leaving Meredith doubting all of her life choices.

As Izzie, who'southward but returned to the surgical rotation, prepares to do a life-saving surgery on a whim in the field and Cristina tries to effigy out how to tell Meredith about her engagement, everything turns on a dime when Meredith — trying to help a niggling girl and a distraught, injured man — is knocked into the h2o ... and doesn't swim. In the 2d installment, Meredith'south loved ones detect out that her life is in danger and await equally Webber and Bailey badly try to save her life, saying they won't residue until she'southward "warm and dead" (the same tactic they apply in "Cold as Ice" for April). Whether or not Meredith will wake upwards is a question the next episode answers, giving viewers a gripping cliffhanger as "Drowning on Dry Country" comes to a close.

18. Personal Jesus (Season 14, Episode 10)

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Throughout her run on "Grey'due south," April's enduring Christian faith is one of her almost important attributes, as her conventionalities in God helps her through some of the toughest parts of her job. All the same, in "Personal Jesus," her savior falls curt as one of the worst days of April's career comes to laissez passer, resulting in some harrowing personal tragedies even her faith can't explicate.

As Paul Stadler, Jo's abusive husband, arrives at the hospital as the victim of a hit-and-run — which Meredith assumes is Jo and Alex's doing, even though they plow out to exist innocent — April is met with a surprising patient: Karin, the wife of April's scorned ex-fiancé, Matthew. Elsewhere in the hospital, Jackson and several other Blackness doctors try to keep their emotions in cheque when a young Black boy suspected of committing a criminal offense — although he was but trying to become into his own house afterward forgetting his keys — is shot past police. In a tragic twist, both the young boy and Karin die (as does Paul), leaving April insufficient and hopeless. Near "Grayness'due south" fans could've never imagined that an April-centric episode would be quite this good, but "Personal Jesus" proves itself as one of the show'south darkest and near intense hours.

17. Liberty Part 2 (Season four, Episode 17)

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After the events of "Freedom Part 1," the first half of the Season 4 finale, Meredith and Derek notice themselves at odds over their groundbreaking surgical trial. Derek, disheartened by all of the patients they've lost, wants to cease information technology, while Meredith wants to admit one more patient, Beth. Meanwhile, other doctors try to gratis a young man who decided to lie downward in fresh cement as a dare, Cristina regains her surgical groove thank you to a pager that alerts her to every new surgery, and Alex's troubled girlfriend, Rebecca, has some extremely troubling mental health problems.

Even though Derek doesn't want to take Beth on as a patient, Meredith manipulates the organisation so that he does so anyhow, and in the end, he's rewarded for his efforts. Beth survives and becomes the first success of his groundbreaking trial. As a effect, Meredith and Derek, who spend the better part of Flavor 4 apart, reunite in a house made of candles, truly "rekindling" their romance once and for all.

16. Sweet Surrender (Flavour v, Episode 20)

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As the 5th season of "Greyness'due south" draws to a close, there's plenty of drama throughout the hospital, equally per usual. Meredith and Derek'south wedding is fast budgeted, Izzie is undergoing chemotherapy, and Derek and Mark are fighting thanks to the fact that Mark is dating Meredith's younger half-sister, Lexie (whom Derek affectionately refers to as "Little Grey"). Meanwhile, Callie's strict father — played by rom-com fable Hector Elizondo — stops by the infirmary to visit, but to receive quite a shock when his daughter introduces him to her new partner, Arizona Robbins.

Equally Izzie starts feeling the effects of her chemo, Arizona delivers a touching spoken communication to Callie's father near sticking by your children no affair what. Plus, Meredith unwillingly prepares for her wedding, Derek and Mark finally make up, and George discovers his true surgical passion: trauma. "Sweet Surrender" might not be a crazy season finale, but it's a fan-favorite episode for enough of reasons even so.

15. My Shot (Season 16, Episode 8)

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An episode named for a "Hamilton" ditty, flavour 16 episode "My Shot" tackles the aftermath of Meredith's interruption by the medical lath — which she incurred after falsifying insurance information to help a ill kid. With her license on the line, Meredith is concerned that she'll never be legally permitted to operate once more, only her friends and colleagues help her out until the very end.

The hearing gets off to a pretty rocky start when one of the doctors on the panel begins criticizing Meredith personally — just for her to indicate out that he was one of the physicians present when Derek died. Later their confrontation, another doctor on the panel has a seizure. When he needs surgery, the hearing is nearly postponed ... until Alex brings a parade of Meredith's former patients into the room, all of whom traveled to speak on her behalf. Fans of "Greyness'south" know that Meredith is a great doctor, simply in "My Shot," it'south gratifying to watch the people she's treated help her retain her medical license.

xiv. Stand past Me (Flavour 5, Episode 18)

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Being a surgeon is clearly a difficult task for countless reasons, one of which is losing a patient despite your best efforts. Such a instance securely affects Derek in the Season five episode "Stand past Me." Derek is inconsolable after losing a significant adult female despite multiple operations — especially when he finds out that he'south lost far more patients than he's saved. To cope, Derek retreats to his trailer in the woods. When colleagues Callie Torres and Owen testify up, they all end up wallowing about their hardest losses.

Meanwhile, equally older residents, Meredith and George are forced to bargain with a troublesome intern beloved triangle — one which has left several of their charges bloodied, crying, and otherwise injured. This all happens while Cristina prepares for her outset solo surgery and tries to help Izzie get treatment for her avant-garde skin cancer. By balancing the seriousness of Derek'due south mental breakdown with the dizzy intern drama, "Stand by Me" emerges as ane of the all-time examples of the testify'south skill at straddling several moods at once.

13. Lift Honey Alphabetic character (Season 5, Episode 19)

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Season 5'due south "Lift Love Letter of the alphabet," which features 1 of the show's biggest romantic moments, besides opens with an unsettling scene depicting post-traumatic stress disorder. As Cristina and Owen fall asleep adjacent to each other, Owen, a veteran, finds himself disturbed by her ceiling fan. This leads to a horrifying scene where an unconscious Owen chokes Cristina in his sleep. Devastated but loyal to Owen, Cristina seeks assistance from Meredith — who is furious at Owen and, by extension, Cristina.

Amongst this, Derek is trying to figure out the all-time manner to finally propose to Meredith after years of buildup. He besides has to perform surgery on Izzie'south encephalon tumor, leading to a hectic day throughout the infirmary. Later on Derek proposes in an elevatored lined with scans of cases he and Meredith worked on together, Meredith tells Cristina she'southward engaged ... just for Cristina to reveal that she split up with Owen. The episode'southward fundamental story might focus on Derek and Meredith, but it's but right that it ends with Meredith and Cristina by i another'due south side.

12. Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story (Flavour 14, Episode vii)

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Shonda Rhimes is a huge fan of the hit testify "Hamilton," and she went on to name several episodes of "Grey'southward" later on Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical — including the landmark 300th episode in Season xiv, "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story."

As Meredith prepares to nourish the ceremony for the Harper Avery Awards as a nominee — a prestigious award that her late mother, Dr. Ellis Grey, won multiple times — an accident at a carnival brings a group of surgical residents to the hospital. The incoming patients remind the doctors of George, Cristina, and Izzie (all of whom take left the serial by this point). Despite protests from her coworkers, Meredith elects to stay behind and perform surgery on the resident who reminds her of Cristina ... only to live stream into the Harper Averys and discover that she won the accolade. Equally Meredith stands in the O.R., watching her friends and loved ones cheer her on from the gallery, she sees the specter of Ellis grin down at her — bringing a hard mother-daughter journeying to a heartwarming and satisfying conclusion.

11. Stairway to Heaven (Flavour five, Episode xiii)

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"Gray's Anatomy" tends to explore morally gray areas. During a Flavor v storyline in which a bedevilled murderer gets moved to the hospital from decease row, Meredith and Derek's opposing beliefs are truly put to the test. Rather than just let killer William Dunn die of his neurological injuries, Derek says the man doesn't deserve pity and is hellbent on saving him. Meanwhile, Meredith finds herself weirdly drawn to the man. When a dying young boy desperately needs organ donation, Meredith tries to convince William to injure himself further — infuriating Derek after he discovers the ruse.

The young male child ultimately gets organs from a different patient, and William receives surgery, returns to Decease Row, and is executed past the state of Washington. Every bit a twisted act of compassion, Meredith attends the execution and watches William die, breaking down in her car after. Derek, at a loss, begs Cristina — with whom Meredith has been fighting — for aid, and the two make up as Cristina consoles Meredith. "Stairway to Heaven" might seem similar a pretty dark episode, but as Meredith and Cristina rekindle their friendship, fifty-fifty this unsettling episode has a happy ending.

ten. Of a sudden (Flavour 8, Episode x)

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Picking up directly where "Dark Was the Night" leaves off, Flavor viii episode "Of a sudden" sees Meredith and Alex struggling to save a family unit on the side of the route after a car accident, every bit well as the backwash of Henry'southward death at Cristina's hands. Subsequently the ambulance is hit by some other car, Meredith and Alex are forced to keep a struggling infant alive — equally well equally the rest of the family, most of whom are dire condition.

Once Meredith and Alex finally render to the hospital, the girl, Lily — the simply good for you one — watches as both of her parents die despite multiple attempts to save them. Meanwhile, Teddy, involved in a different cardiac surgery, grows frustrated when Cristina refuses to answer her pages. Ultimately, Owen and Cristina are forced to reveal the truth: Henry died on the table, and there was null that they could have done. Between Lily's losses and Teddy'due south abject grief, "Suddenly" is a devastating installment of "Grey'southward Anatomy," leaving the audition to sympathize with multiple people grieve their loved ones ... and gives audiences a moment of relief when Derek and Meredith are granted custody of Zola.

ix. Losing My Religion (Flavour two, Episode 27)

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After an abbreviated start flavor, "Greyness'due south Anatomy" truly became a tv set miracle in its 2d season, edifice to the flavor's unforgettable finale, "Losing My Religion." Every bit "Saturday Nighttime Alive" standout Stefon might say, this episode has everything, from a devastating death to an illicit affair to a prom held in the infirmary after hours — and it all builds into a dramatic, gripping conclusion.

The latter half of Flavor Two builds up the ongoing relationship between Izzie and her patient Denny, driving information technology to a truly dangerous point. When Denny narrowly misses out on a centre transplant, Izzie nearly kills him by cutting the wire to his LVAD (a mechanical centre pump), worsening his condition and so he gets the first bachelor heart. By "Losing My Organized religion," Denny has a brand new heart — and has proposed to Izzie, who says yes — but as Izzie heads to visit Denny before the prom, he dies suddenly, leaving her to find his body.

Elsewhere in the infirmary, the interns are all suspended over Denny's LVAD wire, Meredith and Derek rekindle their relationship — despite having other dates to the prom — and Richard must make a difficult family unit conclusion when information technology turns out his niece, Camille, is dying of cancer.

8. What a Difference a Day Makes (Season five, Episode 22)

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Weddings are a regular occurrence on "Grey's Anatomy" — putting aside the fact that every unmarried doctor seems to attend every wedding, which would seem to leave the hospital dangerously understaffed — simply in the Flavour 5 episode "What a Difference a Day Makes," the helpmate and groom go through several switches before the hymeneals even takes place.

Every bit Izzie recovers from her first round of surgeries — and plans a fairytale wedding ceremony for Derek and Meredith, which neither of them particularly want — she makes the unsettling discovery that she's notwithstanding hallucinating her dead fiancé, Denny Duquette. Enlightened that Denny'due south presence means she has another tumor, Izzie asks Bailey and Derek to investigate ... only to discover that the tumor seems to be inoperable. As a surprise, Derek and Meredith brand a sacrifice on the spot, handing their "perfect" wedding to Izzie herself — who marries Alex that very day. When you consider that a bus full of graduating college students filled the emergency room before long before the hymeneals, creating multiple surgeries and categories, in that location's no doubt that "What a Divergence a Twenty-four hour period Makes" remains one of the prove'southward best episodes.

seven. Dark Was the Night (Flavour 8, Episode 9)

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Many of "Grey's Anatomy's" very best episodes feature several dissimilar intense plotlines overlapping, which is likely why the Season 8 episode "Night Was the Dark" is such a fan favorite. Afterward Teddy marries Henry, a patient who needs wellness insurance, as a kindness to help him get his treatment, the two end up falling in love. When Henry needs a relatively uncomplicated cardiac surgery, Teddy tells Owen to have Cristina perform information technology, saying that they can hands cover Henry's face and hide his identity from Cristina. Still, because this is "Grey'southward Anatomy," Henry's body is also weak to withstand the surgery, and he dies. When Cristina realizes who she just lost, she breaks downwards, while Teddy is still in a dissimilar O.R., oblivious to her husband's death.

Add Derek and Meredith'due south connected struggle to regain custody of their adopted girl, Zola — and an ambulance accident during a thunderstorm that leaves Meredith and Alex in danger — into the mix, and it's easy to understand why "Nighttime Was the Night" is so popular. Across that, the episode even ends on a major bewilderment, leaving the viewer on edge fifty-fifty if they've seen the series multiple times.

6. Fear (Of the Unknown) (Season 10, Episode 24)

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Derek and Meredith might seem like the primal couple of "Grey's Beefcake" — but the truth is that Meredith and Cristina are the serial' nearly of import duo, referring to one another equally their "person" and sticking together no thing what. With that in listen, fans were understandably devastated when Sandra Oh appear that she would get out Cristina Yang and "Greyness's Beefcake" behind later on its tenth season. Thankfully, Cristina'southward final episode, the Season 10 closer "Fear (Of the Unknown), provided a perfect, emotional, and poignant catastrophe for this dearest grapheme — and her human relationship with Meredith.

After losing a prestigious surgical award due to some petty behind-the-scenes politics, Cristina doesn't know what to practise. She is somewhen presented with an opportunity: her ex-fiancé, Dr. Preston Shush, wants her to take his identify as the head of a cardiac department at an esteemed Zurich hospital. Despite the opportunity, Cristina drags her feet in leaving. Before she does, she and Meredith "trip the light fantastic it out" one time final time, culminating in one of the show'south sweetest moments. Telling Meredith that she can't sacrifice her needs for Derek, Cristina delivers one concluding piece of wisdom: "He's very dreamy, but he is non the sun. You are." Cristina Yang is one of the all-time television characters in recent memory, and in "Fear (Of the Unknown)," she gets the astonishing ending she deserves.

5. The Sound of Silence (Flavor 12, Episode 9)

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Meredith Grey goes through some pretty horrible stuff throughout "Gray's Anatomy," but one of her near harrowing experiences comes halfway through Season 12 in ane of the bear witness's toughest hours: "The Audio of Silence." Directed by Denzel Washington, the episode sees Meredith become attacked by a patient suffering from a astringent neurological episode. Left alone with him, Meredith is brutally beaten, laying in an examination room for an extended period of time without anyone realizing what happened to her.

Meredith survives the set on, just at a smashing toll: her hearing has been seriously damaged, and her jaw is wired shut as she recovers. Every bit a result, most of the episode occurs in silence or about-silence as Meredith'south hearing slowly returns, chronicling her difficult and arduous recovery. In possibly the most harrowing moment of the episode, Meredith's iii children — Zola, Bailey, and Ellis — are brought to visit her in the infirmary ... but they leave in horror afterward her appearance scares them, putting Meredith in a country of pure panic. Pompeo'south performance in this episode is one of her all-time in the entirety of the serial. Though you know deep down that Meredith, a consummate survivor, will be alright, "The Sound of Silence" will keep yous on the edge of your seat for the entire run.

iv. Information technology'due south the End of the Globe and Equally Nosotros Know Information technology (Season 2, Episode 16 and 17)

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Early on in its run, "Gray's" made a proper name for itself with wildly unrealistic all the same fascinating medical oddities, and the 2-part season ii arc "It's The End of the Earth" and "As We Know Information technology" features one of the show's most famous cases: a bomb in a body cavity. Afterwards two men make a homemade bazooka and fire information technology, ane of them ends up with the unexploded armament inside of his chest. Paramedic Hannah has to hold the bomb still as surgeons try to figure out a class of action. When Hannah flees the scene, information technology's upwards to Meredith to hold the bomb yet, aided by bomb squad leader Dylan Young.

Equally Meredith grapples with this incredibly dangerous situation, the remainder of the infirmary is thrown into turmoil — especially when Bailey goes into labor after her husband is injured in a car accident. Loftier-stakes drama is definitely i of "Greyness'south" signatures, and this two-function episode is both heightened and emotionally grounded all at the same time

3. At present or Never (Season 5, Episode 24)

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Anyone who'south stuck with "Grayness'due south Anatomy" since the very beginning knows that shocking, major character deaths happen constantly throughout the season — in fact, it seems as if the death charge per unit among the doctors at this Seattle hospital is college than it is for the patients undergoing risky procedures. However, ane of the well-nigh surprising departures comes courtesy of the flavor five finale "Now or Never."

As the episode begins in the aftermath of surgery to remove a brain tumor, Dr. Izzie Stevens' memory is in terrible shape – infuriating her husband, Dr. Alex Karev. Meanwhile, Dr. George O'Malley, with the help of former war machine medic Dr. Owen Hunt, decides to enlist in the regular army as a medic himself. George'due south friends are appalled, worried he'll be killed immediately, and set up an intervention ... only to focus all of their attention on a seriously wounded man who saved a woman from an oncoming jitney and was dragged through the road equally a upshot. Later on a horrified Meredith realizes that the unrecognizable bus victim is actually George, the doctors rally to salvage two of their own as Izzie also flatlines. Knight departed the testify later on this episode, but as far as swan songs go, "At present or Never" was a pretty great exit.

2. Silent All These Years (Season 15, Episode 19)

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In that location'due south no denying that keeping a show's momentum going across seemingly countless seasons and episodes can be a huge challenge, only the squad behind "Grey'southward" proved that they could still shock and surprise audiences well into the series' fifteenth season. In the gripping, difficult episode "Silent All These Years," resident Jo Wilson and cardio chief Dr. Teddy Altman are confronted with a traumatized patient who, despite initially denying it, eventually admits that she was sexually assaulted at a bar the night before. Afraid to tell her married man or be around any men, the patient clings to Jo and Teddy, who tenderly walk her through a procedure that tin put her on a path to justice and help her heal. Amidst all of this, the episode shows flashbacks to Jo's recent trip to Pittsburgh, where she meets the birth mother who abandoned her and learns that she is actually the product of her mother's sexual assault.

Juxtaposing Jo's discovery against one patient's story is as securely moving every bit it is effective, and between the episode's unflinching look at trauma brought on by sexual assault — which creator Shonda Rhimes insisted stay in the episode despite backlash from network executives — and an unforgettable scene where women of Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital line the walls to show their support for the patient, "Silent All These Years" is a tough watch at times, but it'south incredibly important.

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1. Sanctuary and Expiry and All His Friends (Season half-dozen, Episode 24)

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When information technology comes to season finales, "Grey'due south Beefcake" always has huge surprises upwardly its sleeve — and Rhimes' talent for writing intense, dramatic finales has never been amend than the two-office Season 6 closer "Sanctuary" and "Death and All His Friends." Written by Rhimes herself, the episode begins with Meredith finding out that she and her married man, Dr. Derek Shepherd, are expecting a baby. It starts off on a cheerful note ... until things chop-chop devolve when Gary Clark, whose wife recently died at the hospital nether Derek's supervision, shows upward with a gun.

From there, Gary goes on a murderous rampage throughout the hospital, indiscriminately killing doctors left and right as he tries to rails down Derek himself — somewhen cornering the Chief of Surgery and attacking him. After Derek is shot, Meredith suffers a staggering trauma of her own. Throughout the infirmary, various doctors work furiously to save their colleagues from certain death. From Miranda Bailey's ingenious fib that saves her life to a scene where Meredith'southward best friend Cristina Yang operates on Derek while being held at gunpoint, this frighteningly intense and thrilling ii-function episode is a near-perfect installment of "Grey's Anatomy" — and clearly, fans retrieve and then besides.

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