After that loss of life within the season 22 premiere, Gray’s Anatomy continued with somebody revealing a shock being pregnant — whereas one other character selected to take a sabbatical.
In the course of the Thursday, October 16, episode of the hit ABC sequence, the workers at Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital have been grieving Monica Beltran’s (Natalie Morales) loss of life with Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) taking it the worst. Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) was joined by Maggie (Kelly McCreary), who got here again to assist take care of Amelia.
Their day collectively led to some shock revelations when Maggie confirmed she was anticipating a child by way of sperm donor. Maggie famous that she hadn’t informed Winston (Anthony Hill) but. Later within the episode, Amelia made the choice to take a sabbatical so she might concentrate on her psychological well being and her mates.
In the meantime on the hospital, the second-year residents balanced transferring up the medical meals chain whereas serving to ease the brand new interns into the day-to-day life on the hospital. Some interns — corresponding to Wes (Trevor Jackson) — succeeded however that led to residents like Blue (Harry Shum) failing beneath the strain of making an attempt to be taught and be a instructor.
Hyperlink (Chris Carmack) was one other character who was struggling. After a near-death, Hyperlink needed to heal as rapidly as doable, which stressed his spouse, Jo (Camilla Luddington). They in the end obtained into a giant struggle however with Owen’s (Kevin McKidd) assist they have been capable of work out their points.
Talking of Owen, he was adjusting to transferring out of his and Teddy’s (Kim Raver) home by initially sleeping in an on-call room. By the top of the episode, he had moved into an airstream whereas adjusting to his new regular.

Jake Borelli, Chris Carmack, Camilla Luddington Disney/Ser Baffo
The episode additionally adopted Jules’ (Adelaide Kane) grief journey after witnessing Monica’s loss of life. She initially prevented going through it however because of some significant recommendation from Winston, Jules was capable of finding a method to honor her former boss.
Earlier than Thursday’s episode, Hill, 37, teased what viewers might count on from the remainder of the season.
“There’s a number of challenges for the individuals who survived the blast for many completely different causes,” he completely informed Us Weekly. “All people has their very own traumas from that have in that blast, after which, choosing up the items and making an attempt to actually put the hospital again collectively and determine transfer ahead goes to be a tricky dynamic to navigate for everyone and well being bodily, mentally and emotionally.”
Hill promised “huge curve balls” for the surviving medical doctors.
“Plenty of us are taking a look at one another in these scenes identical to, ‘That is loopy,’ however I believe that’s a testomony to the writers,” he teased to Us. “They discovered how to do that present in a method that’s so efficient for folks, and that’s why folks maintain coming again and watching it. They only actually take pleasure in what journey they’re gonna go on [each] week. And so, I believe we’re doing a reasonably good job. I believe folks will prefer it.”
Hill concluded: “That is Gray’s Anatomy, so we all know that no one’s all good ever. Shonda [Rhimes] set that tone early. I believe there’s loads of room for problems to occur with any of those characters that might finish in a demise. It’s simply how the present is, and it’s built-in. … We’re capturing some issues which will play into that. We’re about midway by way of proper now, so it’s getting a bit of spicy.”
Gray’s Anatomy airs on ABC Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET.