Gray’s Anatomy’s Plastics Posse was set to trip once more on the 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards earlier this month, as Eric Dane was scheduled to current an award alongside former costar Jesse Williams. Sadly, Dane wasn’t capable of make the ceremony, so Williams offered the Excellent Directing for a Drama Collection award solo.
Followers rushed to want Dane consolation and power throughout his ALS therapy, and now we’re celebrating his Gray’s legacy throughout 9 seasons of the ABC medical drama. Listed below are our picks for his greatest moments as Dr. Mark “McSteamy” Sloan. (Spoilers forward!)
10. Dad Mode
We see a softer aspect of Mark Sloan within the eighth-season installment “What Is It About Males,” as he takes care of Sofia, his youngster with Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Arizona (Jessica Capshaw). Cue many new-dad misadventures, together with his humorous response to an surprising rollover. (And but it was Jackson with whom Mark was paternalistic in that episode!)
9. Taunting Derek
When Mark sees Derek (Patrick Dempsey) using the elevator with ex-wife Addison (Kate Walsh), ex-girlfriend Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), and present flame Rose (Lauren Stamile), he cracks up… after which cracks clever. “Wager you would like you’d taken the steps proper about now,” he tells Derek in a stage whisper.
8. Saving Alex
Not solely does Mark protect Lexie (Chyler Leigh) from gunfire within the two-part Season 6 finale, “Sanctuary” & “Dying and All His Associates,” however he additionally helps her save Alex’s (Justin Chambers) life, although he’s clearly nonetheless in love together with her and she or he’s relationship Alex. And Mark continues stated lifesaving measures whilst Lexie declares her love for his romantic rival.
7. A Blow to the Manhood
In Season 5’s “Stairway to Heaven,” Mark and Lexie are having an on-call room assignation when he suffers a penile fracture within the warmth of the second. However 4 episodes later, he assures her that she’s accomplished extra good than hurt. “You suppose you broke me, Little Gray?” he says. “You’re the one who put me again collectively.”
6. A Promise of Marriage
After umpteen romantic problems — together with the arrival of his hitherto-unknown daughter Sloan (Leven Rambin) — Mark reaffirms his love for Lexie in Season 6’s “Shiny Joyful Folks,” only one episode earlier than the calamitous season finale. (Extra on that later.) When she reminds him she has a boyfriend — Alex, on the time — he says, “I do know. I’m telling you you may have a husband.”
5. Afterlife Reunion
The ship generally known as Slexie units sail once more in Season 17’s “Breathe,” as a Covid-stricken Meredith has visions of them whereas unconscious within the hospital. They inform her they’re collectively within the afterlife — on her dream seashore, no less than — and she or he shouldn’t waste one minute of life combating change, resisting ache, and pondering that they’re not all the time together with her.
4. His Punchy Intro
Mark makes his debut in Season 2’s “Yesterday” and instantly begins hitting on Meredith… however doesn’t get far earlier than Derek, his former bestie, punches him out. After establishing that he and Meredith are the “soiled mistresses” in Derek and Addison’s relationship, Mark begins suturing his personal face. And it’s Mer who offers him his immortal nickname: McSteamy.
3. Mark Says It Loud
Season 9’s “Keep in mind the Time” rewinds the clock to only earlier than Mark’s demise, and through a surge of vitality, he offers Jackson important recommendation: “In case you love somebody, you inform ’em. Even when you’re scared that it’s not the appropriate factor. Even when you’re scared that it’ll trigger issues. Even when you’re scared that it’s going to burn your life to the bottom, you say it, and also you say it loud. And then you definitely go from there.”
2. A McSteamy Bathe
Mark returns to Seattle in Season 3’s “I Am a Tree,” rising from a lodge room bathe — and simply barely masking himself with a towel — simply as Derek is apologizing to Addison about his position within the breakdown of their marriage. (“Oh, that is awkward,” Mark says. Derek, in the meantime, finishes a humiliated Addison’s champagne and says, “I really feel a lot better now.”)
1. Meant to Be
Mark does all he can to avoid wasting Lexie from the aircraft wreckage within the Season 8 finale, “Flight,” and when he realizes he can’t budge twisted metallic, he tries preserving her alive by means of sheer power of will. “We’re gonna be comfortable, Lex, you and me,” he says. “We’re gonna have the very best life, Lexie, you and me. We’re gonna be so comfortable. So you may’t die, OK? You possibly can’t die, as a result of we’re supposed to finish up collectively. We’re meant to be.”
Gray’s Anatomy, Season 22 Premiere, October 9, 10/9c, ABC