Grey’s Anatomy
In the first two seasons of the hit aesculapian play , Grey ’s Anatomy , viewers get to know the inner working of a surgical internship as well as the inner workings of our main characters ' personal life . time of year three of the series direct everything we ’ve learned so far and amps it up for even more shocking moments and heartbreaking dramatic event .
New characters are present , including a new hot physician , Mark Sloan a.k.a . " McSteamy " , played by Eric Dane . The third season of the show also pave the direction for a young spin - off series , Private Practice , after Addison leave Seattle Grace and moves to Los Angeles to do work at a atomic number 27 - op private pattern .
Testing 1-2-3 (8.5)
The interns are facing the biggest trial of their careers when it is time for them to all take their houseman exams . The stress levels are high and for Meredith , even high after the unexpected and shocking death of her stepmother , who come into Seattle Grace with singultus and died a few hours later . Everyone is concerned about Meredith ’s power to rivet , but she guarantee her supporter and foreman that she ’ll be okay . When Meredith ’s Fatherhood shows up drunk and upset at the infirmary , any luck Meredith had of take place her tests is gone , she ’s too cark by her folk ’s grief .
Six Days: Part 1 (8.6)
The midseason premiere was split into two episodes . In the first instalment of the two , Izzie ca n’t bring herself to fix the nine million one dollar bill check from Denny , and Bailey wo n’t let Izzie into an operating room until she does . George ’s father , Harold , has been admitted to Seattle Grace for surgery , shell out with a heart stipulation and esophageal malignant neoplastic disease .
Harold ask Bailey and Webber to do whatever they have to do to take his tumour out , and the Doctor harmonise , but know how hazardous the surgery will be . Meanwhile , Meredith and Derek are deal with a less serious issuing , that being Meredith ’s snoring that keeps Derek awake at night .
Some Kind Of Miracle (8.6)
Meredith is in the middle of a close - death experience after fall into the ocean and nearly drowning while attempt to save someone in a mass - casualty ferryboat boat stroke . The doctor at Seattle Grace refuse to declare Meredith dead and perform over-the-top measures trying to keep open her life . While Meredith is unconscious , she is visited by people who have died in past episodes , Denny Duqette , Dylan , the psyche of the bomb squad who died when a dud went off in one of Meredith ’s patient , Bonnie , who died after a train accident , and Elizabeth Fallon , who has Ellis Grey ’s scrub nurse and go bad of cancer .
Wishin' And Hopin' (8.6)
Dr. Richard Webber , the chief of surgical process at Seattle Grace , has announced his decision to ill-treat down as chief , leave the attending doctors all contend for the placement . Meredith ’s mother , Ellis , has been suffering from Alzheimer ’s , but in this sequence she is coherent and goes to Seattle Grace to have heart OR .
Meredith and her mother get into an line while she is lucid that leave Meredith devastated and haunt by her female parent ’s words . Ellis and Richard divvy up a visit and a walk down computer memory lane , having had an liaison when they were practicing medicine together . It ’s readable there are still a lot of feelings there for both Webber and Ellis . By the end of the episode , Meredith ’s mother is no longer lucid and Meredith tries to go back to normal .
Time Has Come Today (8.7)
The first episode of the third season has all of the independent fiber still reeling from the 2d season ’s finale . Izzie , distraught by Denny ’s end , turn down to get off the bathroom floor , despite multiple attempts by her friends to console her . At the infirmary , a baby is take on with a severe heart condition . The doctors check that the babe was found in a methamphetamine hydrochloride bin and suspect that one of the four pre - teen young woman who found him , is the biological mother . In the hospital ’s storage locker room , Derek and George are quarantined together after potentially being exposed to a computer virus .
Walk On Water (8.8)
The offset of this episode point Meredith take a bath and relive her mother ’s parole from when she was logical and she told Meredith how foiled in her she was . Meredith sinks into the tub and stays there for a little too long .
Derek pulls Meredith out of the bath water , worry for her mental well - being , knowing what her mother just put Meredith through . Later , there is a mass casualty accident and the doctors go to a burn ferry boat to process the victims . While Meredith is helping a hysteric patient , she falls off the dock and into the body of water , exit audiences timid if she has survived the spill .
Didn’t We Almost Have It All (8.8)
Cristina ’s wedding daytime has arrived and though Cristina admits she ’s look forward tomarriage , she admits that the marriage itself is n’t very exciting for her , as Callie compose Cristina ’s wedding party vow on her helping hand . All of the Dr. get foliate , except for Cristina , but she does to the hospital anyway , not require to take the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. off for her wedding . Cristina scrubs in for OR , dampen her vow off her hand and when she realizes that at the chapel , she panics . Burke , seeing Cristina ’s hesitation , holler the wedding off and leaves a devastated Cristina at the altar .
From A Whisper To A Scream (8.9)
Cristina and Burke have been keeping a big secret . Burke has tremor in his hand that he ca n’t insure and for a heart surgeon , those tremors can be incredibly dangerous in the eye of a operating theater . George , whose dad is in the infirmary and about to have heart surgery , find out about Burke ’s microseism and the fact that Cristina is keeping it a closed book and he ’s very angry .
He bespeak that another heart operating surgeon , Dr. Hahn , step in to do the operating theatre on George ’s dad , leaving the rest of the interns to marvel why George is so angry with Burke and Cristina .
Six Days: Part 2
This episode picks up decent where part one left off . Meredith is still snoring , Izzie has lodge Denny ’s check , and Harold , George ’s Church Father , is in the hospital judge to retrieve from his operating theater . Izzie takes some of her one thousand thousand and anonymously donates it to a patient needing an expensive surgery her insurance wo n’t overlay . George ’s fellowship face their worst fears when they have to decide to take Harold off his aliveness support . George is angry when he cypher out that Bailey and Webber followed his father ’s wish to attempt to take the tumor out , cost Harold his life and George ’s mother and brothers unbearable grief .
Drowning On Dry Land (8.9)
This sequence pick up where " Walk on Water " left off , with Meredith drowning and all of the doctors at Seattle Grace in rescue mode examine to save up as many multitude as possible after a mass casualty incident on a ferryboat gravy holder . one-half of the doctors are still at the accident and the others are back at the infirmary in surgeries and helping loved one key their family appendage . In all of the chaos , no one seems to discover that Meredith is nowhere to be find , until a niggling girl who saw Meredith go into the water , leads Derek to the incident and he pulls Meredith out , who is blue and not breathing .
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