Grey’s Anatomy
With each new time of year of the run into primetime medical dramatic play , Grey ’s Anatomy , come raw dramatic play and a couple of new form members . time of year five enter us to lover favorites like Dr. Owen Hunt , play by Kevin McKidd , and Dr. Arizona Robbins , wreak by Jessica Capshaw .
time of year five has become one of the most memorable seasons of the entire television serial , thanks to a couple of shocking storylines , including Izzie being diagnosed with cancer and the unexpected expiry of a character who had been an audience favorite since the very outset of the serial , during the time of year finale .
An Honest Mistake (8.8)
Derek and Meredith ’s relationship has been back on track for a while , and Derek has architectural plan to propose . Those plan are put on hold when Addison return to Seattle Grace to handle a fraught patient with Derek . Derek starts to question his abilities under the imperativeness Addison puts on him . Meanwhile , Izzie is confronted by a patient role who she give a Crab diagnosis to earlier .
The patient role comes back to tell Izzie that she does n’t have cancer , she ’s anaemic , and the hospital mess up up her diagnosing . She tells Izzie she wants to make certain the person who does have cancer knows it . Izzie goes to her own medical book and reveals she had run done on the same day as her patient role , that came back she was anemic , pass on us wondering if it ’s Izzie that has cancer .
Sweet Surrender (8.8)
Izzie has been admitted to Seattle Grace with an prescribed Crab diagnosing . To help take her mind off of thing , Meredith has agree to permit Izzie aid plan her upcoming wedding to Derek . Callie has a few problem of her own to take with at the top of the sequence when her somewhat intimidating father arrives .
Callie introduce her daddy to the new person she is dating , Arizona Robbins , and it ’s clear it will take Callie ’s father a min to action this new information . Also happening at Seattle Grace , Dr. Bailey deals with a particularly hard case when a very sick child in her care go away in her beginner ’s branch while Miranda sits by and ticker .
Sympathy For The Devil (8.9)
Stresses are high for Meredith , Derek , and their friends for a match of reasons at the top of this episode . Derek ’s mother is come to town , so Izzie , Cristina , and Alex avail Meredith clean house her house .
Derek is treating a captive on end row who is reject surgery , stating he ’d rather die in a hospital than in a maximal - security measure prisoner , which bestow to an already tense environment . Izzie on the other handwriting , is dealing with her own issues , like reckon the spectre of her dead fan , Denny Duquette , and hear to keep that a arcanum from the residuum of the group .
Derek is suffering from a bought of depression after drop off a affected role . The affected role ’s husband sues the hospital for malpractice , and during the deposition , Derek is inform that more hoi polloi have die in surgical operation with him than have hold up . This fact makes Derek question everything about his entire life , and he resolve to cease medicine .
Of of course , Meredith reject to give up on him . Izzie is puzzle out through her cancer diagnosing with her interns , who still do n’t cognize it ’s her chart and x - ray they ’re looking at . The first person Izzie decide to tell is , amazingly , Cristina .
Stand By Me (9.0)
Cristinais now the only person who fuck about Izzie ’s cancer , and Izzie struggles to keep her unruffled until she ’s quick to tell everyone else . Derek has gone missing , causing even more pandemonium than usual at Seattle Grace . On top of all this , the Dr. and medical intern are getting quick to do one of the most difficult surgical process they have ever done .
A affected role who lost a large majority of his typeface in a drunk driving accident has returned to the hospital so that Mark Sloane can give him a face transplanting . The difficulty of this surgical procedure requires most of the attendings at the infirmary , give the resident doctors a lot of responsibility , and Cristina gets to execute her first solo surgery .
Here’s To Future Days (9.0)
Alex and Izzie have just get marital , and Derek has figured out a agency to remove the tumor from Izzie ’s brain . Derek explain his programme to Izzie , and she has to adjudicate whether or not to have the speculative operation .
Izzie gets put through a series of trial to see how possible outcomes of the surgery would strike Izzie ’s memory and speech . The test does n’t go well and it scar Izzie out of the surgery . Alex is upset by Izzie ’s decisiveness and lashes out . Izzie sprain to George for advice and ultimately decides to have the surgery . She also decides to signalise a DNR .
Elevator Love Letter (9.1)
Derek turn back toSeattle Graceafter his breakdown and is ready to operate . His first mental process is on Izzie , who has just revealed to her friends and fellow doctors that she has a brain tumor . Cristina is having her own emergence with her new boyfriend , Owen , who before working at Seattle Grace , was an U. S. Army medical officer and is suffering from PTSD .
Owen ’s posttraumatic stress disorder stick out of hand one Nox when he seek to strangle Cristina in her quietus . Callie walks in on the whirl and snap Owen out of it , but the grouping is left with a peck of worry and questions .
Stairway To Heaven (9.2)
The doctors have been fighting to keep a young boy live , Jackson , who necessitate multiple reed organ transplant . There ’s a match for Jackson just a few door down . An yard bird on death row has just undergo mentality operating room , but he ’s a friction match for Jackson and wants to die so he can give the vernal male child the organs he want .
Meredith is on card with the idea , but no one else seems to be . At the same time , Izzie see the ghost of Denny everywhere , and she ca n’t turn tail it . She knows this means something serious is wrong with her , but she ’s in denial and refuse to address it .
What A Difference A Day Makes (9.3)
This episode is a special one because it is the series ' one - 100th episode . Derek and Meredith are train for their upcoming wedding . Izzie is more mad than anybody else , despite the fact that her hair is falling out , and she ’s seeing Denny ’s ghost again , which think her tumour is still very much in her brain .
In a big kink , Meredith rushes into Izzie ’s room toward the destruction of the installment carrying her wedding clothes , telling Izzie that the clothes is n’t hers . Izzie is fuddle at first , but then Alex arrive into the way , and Izzie sympathize . It ’s not Meredith ’s wedding day ; it ’s Izzie ’s .
Now Or Never (9.6)
In the season five finale , everyone ’s nervous about Izzie ’s self-aggrandizing surgery with Derek take the leash and removing a part of Izzie ’s encephalon , in hopes of removing her tumor as well . At the same clip Izzie is in surgery , a John Doe is rushed into the emergency room with wide injury after leap out in front of a bus to save a woman .
The John Doe seems to be a side storyline until the patient writes " 007 " on a post - it and hands it to Meredith . It takes her a second , but Meredith realize that their John Doe is George . The time of year ends on a massive cliffhanger , with both Izzie and George ’s life on the line .
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