Did ‘Gray’s Anatomy’ Simply Kill Off [SPOILER] in Season 21 Finale Firebomb?

[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for Grey’s Anatomy Season 21’s Finale, “How Do I Live”]

It’s going to be a really lengthy summer time for Gray’s Anatomy followers as we anticipate Season 22 to reach this fall and resolve that huge cliffhanger the Season 21 finale simply left us with.

The episode closed with a significant gasoline explosion attributable to the tank that Jenna Gatlin (Piper Perabo) used to pressure Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone) to carry out one other surgical procedure on Dylan. After the surgical procedure labored, Jenna revealed the tank was at all times empty, but it surely turned out that wasn’t true — and he or she’d been leaking acetylene onto the ground the whole time.

The explosion may probably value the lives of a number of surgeons who have been nonetheless on the surgical ground. So who is likely to be on the casualty checklist?

Right here’s a breakdown of the place the finale left off and who may very well be in peril.

Which Gray Sloan surgeons have been protected from the explosion?

There are a handful of characters that we all know with 100% certainty weren’t in peril of being close to the explosion when it occurred.

To begin with, Meredith Gray (Ellen Pompeo) witnessed the explosion from outdoors after making a deal to spend her summers again in Seattle and the hospital. She’d been on the town to promote Catherine (Debbie Allen) her hospital shares to assist fund her analysis and determined she needed to be again on OR 2 a bit extra usually after dashing into the hostage state of affairs to stage with Jenna as one other mother who’d do something for her youngsters.

Ben Warren (Jason George), in the meantime, was additionally outdoors on a bench considering his future after studying he wouldn’t be invited again full-time. Although he bumped into the hospital as quickly as he noticed the explosion, he wasn’t inside on the time. And Jo Wilson (Camilla Luddington) was already residence after by accident telling Hyperlink (Chris Carmack) that their twin infants are ladies and having a “honeymoon” on the ground of the OB provide closet.

Simone Griffiths (Alexis Floyd) and Benson Kwan (Harry Shum Jr.) have been additionally nowhere close to the surgical ground as they watched the brand new batch of interns submitting into the locker room — together with one which she attached with the evening earlier than, performed by Trevor Jackson. Plus, Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) and Amelia have been each on the restoration ground with post-operative sufferers on the time of the explosion.

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Which docs have been positively on the surgical ground when it occurred?

Hyperlink was in an working room — although we don’t know which one — performing the arthroscopy process that had been delayed by the hostage state of affairs, so he’s at very, very excessive danger of being a casualty of this. The truth that he simply had a gushy second with Jo and that highlight singing scene at their marriage ceremony makes his probabilities of being taken out even larger.

Monica Beltran (Natalie Morales) and Jules Millin (Adelaide Kane) have been additionally on the ground getting ready for surgical procedure. Beltran has been displaying up extra usually than ordinary recently, so maybe all that face-time is supposed to remind us of her charms earlier than taking her away? Equally, Millin simply delivered a giant speech to Winston Ndugu (Anthony Hill) about how improper it was for him to disclaim her service alternatives due to his attraction to her. Large speeches usually precede deaths on this present, so she’s positively a candidate.

And, gulp, Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) was on the scheduling board after consoling Ben for his profession setback. Earlier than returning to the ground, she advised her husband how she felt responsible for not sticking up for him extra within the course of and mentioned a poignant “I like you” earlier than getting again to work. There aren’t too many originals left round, so it’d be a real shock if Bailey was killed off this manner.

Which different characters may very well be in peril?

Ndugu was on the elevator final we noticed, so presumably he headed residence, but it surely’s nonetheless potential he wasn’t far sufficient away but — it’s a really slim risk, although.

In the meantime, Lucas Adams (Niko Terho) was working to seek out Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.) after studying from the affected person’s dad that the gasoline tank wasn’t empty, as Jenna had promised. We don’t know the way far he made it or the place Richard is — simply that he was with Catherine (Debbie Allen) the final time we noticed him, so her whereabouts have been unknown as effectively. Adams did have a giant scene with Simone after the hostage factor, by which he declared his intention to be together with her, so if he did make it to the surgical ground, it may very well be very dangerous for him.

Additionally unaccounted for was Teddy Altman (Kim Raver), who’d simply damaged it off with Owen. She managed to save lots of Owen’s childhood friend-turned-lover, Nora (Floriana Lima), however advised him afterward she was selecting herself over him for as soon as. Final we noticed, Teddy was heading off to seek out Webber. If she was on the ground after performing a groundbreaking surgical procedure on her husband’s “girlfriend” and ending it with the love of her life, being within the neighborhood of an explosion may simply be the trifecta of horrible.

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