It is the reunion followers have been ready for, ever since Meredith first stepped onto a seashore and reunited along with her late husband. After Gray’s Anatomy‘s March 25 episode, the sequence aired a promotion that exposed the return of Chyler Leigh as Lexie Gray, Meredith’s youthful half-sister. Subsequent week’s episode (airing April 1) will function Lexie as the newest deceased character to go to Meredith in her coma-beach state, following Patrick Dempsey and T.R. Knight reprising their roles as Derek Shepherd and George O’Malley, respectively.
It has been 14 years since Leigh made her debut on the finish of season three of the medical drama, and 9 since her character’s extremely tragic dying in season eight’s aircraft crash. Her dying alongside on-and-off lover Mark Sloan (Eric Dane) was the inspiration for Seattle Grace Mercy West’s renaming to Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital. Within the promotion for April 1’s episode, Lexie asks her sister the ultrapivotal query of the season, referring to her presence on the seashore that’s basically in limbo: “Do you need to keep right here?” Contemplating the truth that Meredith’s life is hanging within the steadiness as she performs catch-up with people, that is a query we might like a solution to sooner moderately than later!
One other Gray’s alum is returning later within the season, as Sarah Drew reprises her position as April Kepner, who may be very a lot alive. With all these appearances by fan favorites, we won’t assist however surprise if there’s some validity to the rumors that the sequence is ending. Both manner, we’ll get pleasure from seeing everybody once more!
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