Season thirteen of ABC’s hit primetime medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy, is packed full of drama both in the doctors’ professional and personal lives. The series picks up where season twelve left off at its cliffhanger during Amelia and Owen’s wedding. Amelia and Owen’s marriage is tested early on when Amelia reveals she doesn’t want to have kids.
Meanwhile, Jo reveals a major secret to Alex after he asks her to marry him and she rejects his proposal. Alex also finds himself in legal trouble after attacking fellow surgeon, Andrew DeLuca.
10 Undo (7.7)
At Amelia and Owen’s wedding, Jo gets very drunk and leaves the wedding upset after revealing a big secret to Alex.
Alex finds her back at their apartment with DeLuca, in a compromising position. Nothing physical happens between Jo and DeLuca, it just looks like it did and a furious Alex leaps on top of DeLuca and beats him so badly, he has to take him to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Alex is eventually arrested for the altercation and turns to Meredith for help.
9 What’s Inside (7.8)
Maggie’s adoptive mother has just died and it’s Maggie’s first day back to work since her death. Maggie’s co-workers are understandably worried about her because losing her mother is the worst and most traumatic thing that’s happened to Maggie thus far.
Maggie insists she’s okay and takes on a big case her first day back, removing a tumor from a baby who is still in utero with the mother being only twenty-nine weeks pregnant.
8 I Ain’t No Miracle Worker (8.0)
Injured patients from a seven-car pile-up are admitted to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital after a funeral procession is crashed into by one of their own.
A family is burying their patriarch when the youngest daughter, who is running late for the funeral, causes the car accident. It’s an awkward family reunion for the youngest daughter who hasn’t seen her siblings or her moth in years and is now pregnant. The mother goes into cardiac arrest at the hospital and is pronounced dead, but miraculously comes back to life a few minutes later.
7 It Only Gets Much Worse (8.1)
A new doctor named Eliza Minnick comes to the hospital to instruct its doctors on their teaching methods and improve on what’s already in place.
Most of the doctors react poorly to Eliza’s ways, especially Meredith, who is suspended for voicing her opinions on the new doctor. During Meredith’s suspension, April takes over as Chief of General Surgery, and in this episode, it is April’s first day on the job, which makes her very nervous.
6 Roar (8.2)
A familiar face returns to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital in this episode, and most of the doctors are not happy about it. Leah Murphy returns as a resident at the hospital after being re-hired by Richard Webber, who claims she proved herself and deserves a second chance. Arizona is probably the most upset about Leah’s re-appearance, having had a brief affair with Leah when she was an intern, which caused a lot of drama for her fellow doctors to put up with.
5 ‘Till I Hear It From You (8.2)
Maggie picks her mom up from the airport with Alex and Meredith and is immediately upset with her mother over this visit. Her mother goes to the hospital for a consultation with Jackson Avery regarding her breasts.
Maggie thinks her mother is having some kind of mid-life crisis and wants to get breast implants, but really, Maggie’s mother has been diagnosed with cancer and that’s really why she’s come to Seattle.
4 You Haven’t Done Nothing (8.5)
It’s the day before Alex’s trial where he’s being charged with assault after beating up and badly injuring fellow doctor, Andrew DeLuca.
On the way to work, Alex asks Meredith and Maggie if they’re drinking tonight, which Meredith declines saying that they’ll drink the following night when Alex wins the trial. As if their stress levels couldn’t get any higher, they see a building collapse on their drive to work and know their day just got a lot more stressful.
3 Be Still, My Soul (8.5)
After Maggie finds out that her mother, Diane, has breast cancer, she makes it her mission to get her mom the best care and treatments possible. All of Maggie’s fellow doctors are on board, wanting to help Diane however they can.
Diane’s condition worsens, but Maggie can’t seem to accept that fact and goes against Meredith and the other doctors’ recommendations and signs her mom up for a clinical trial, which takes a toll on Diane and eventually, they decide to end Diane’s treatment and she passes away.
2 Ring Of Fire (8.5)
Stephanie and her young patient, Erin, are in a lot of trouble as they try to escape a fire that’s broken out in a wing of the hospital. Stephanie started the fire to ward off an attack from a serial rapist on the loose who had been admitted to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital in the previous episode.
Things don’t look good for Stephanie and Erin, but they do manage to get out of the burning building and survive, though there are a couple of moments in the episode where they seem doomed.
1 True Colors (8.7)
The doctors get a heavy case when a man and a woman arrive by ambulance and are admitted for their severe injuries after the car they were in drove off the side of a cliff. The woman is missing her shirt and the man is missing his pants, so the doctors assume the two were in the middle of a physical interaction before the accident happened, but when the woman wakes up, they find out that the man she was in the accident with was actually trying to rape her.
A manhunt ensues and Dr. Stephanie Edwards, who is treating the male patient, suddenly finds herself in extreme danger.
