Hello lovelies,
It’s been too long – I took some time off, and so did ABC’s Thursday Night Lineup. But we’re both back, and ABC’s Thursday Night Lineup came back with a vengeance. I’ll be back on a regular basis with a recap of what happened on some of our favorite shows.
Grey’s Anatomy
Meredith and Derek ended the mid-season finale in a very final moment – Derek was leaving for Washington, DC, and Meredith was letting him go. For a marriage that has long felt like one we could aspire to, it ended abruptly. Meredith went in search of a nanny. She told Owen that Derek left her. Her entire day was fueled by the idea that she and Derek were finished.
April and Jackson spent the episode trying to deal with the information that their unborn child (a son) was suffering from a terminal illness. He could live several years after birth, or just a few days. When Jackson shares the news with April, he expects her to spend the day at home, dealing with the news. Instead she’s in the ER , working as hard as she possibly can. When he confronts her about she tells him, “I need to be able to fix something,” and spends the rest of her day seeing patients.
Arizona and Amelia are still looking over Dr. Herman’s scans, trying to figure out how Amelia can remove the tumor. When Dr. Herman finds out she is furious, but after several conversations with Arizona, Amelia, and Owen, she comes to an agreement with them. In order to keep living her life, and in order to keep sharing her information with Arizona, Dr. Herman agrees that when the tumor gets to the point where it could begin endangering her optic nerve, she’ll allow Amelia to operate. It’s risky, but it’s the only way Dr. Herman will agree to surgery.
Throughout the episode, the doctors are working on a patient who nearly killed her children by driving them off the side of a bridge. Bailey is working with kids who were in a bar the woman hit, Amber is furious with the woman who was driving the car because she tried to get rid of perfectly healthy children, and Meredith is intent on proving that the woman had something physically wrong with her that made her spin out of control. Meredith finally finds a tumor on the woman’s pancreas, which they believe caused her accident. And after everything, Meredith goes home and calls Derek to resolve their fight. At the end of the call, when she tells him to go, she means it in a much better way.
So now I suppose my only question is, what’s next?
Scandal
When we last left Olivia, she was gone.
Well first, she was free. She had finally chosen herself instead of Jake or Fitz, and she was dancing. And then, when Jake left the room to get a blanket, Olivia disappeared.
When the episode opened last Thursday, we saw the moment all over again – only this time we were really seeing what was happening. We saw the man in black who snagged Olivia from her living room, causing her to drop her wine glass on her white couch. We saw Jake run down the stairs and outside, thinking that he had caught the car that had her in it.
And then we saw it again, only this time we learned that Olivia had been dragged in to the apartment across the hall. When Jake was gone and the woman whose apartment they were hiding in had been killed, the group of men dressed in all black and wearing masks changed in to paramedic uniforms and took Olivia out of the building hidden under the dead body of her neighbor.
After an injection to the neck, Olivia woke up on the floor of a jail cell. She shared her cell with a man named Ian, who had been there for God only knows how long. She tries to get information out of Ian as to where they are, but he doesn’t seem to know anything. Or isn’t willing to share anything.
She convinces him to fight with her, and has him look for a tracking device. There isn’t one, but she does let slip that if she’s missing, the President of the United States will be looking for her. And then, after she begins to seem defeated, she discovers that there is a window in the bathroom she uses. She tries to escape, or get some kind of message out, but is discovered in the process. Since the two men she sees the most can’t harm her without the permission of someone higher up, they do the only other thing they can think of – they kill Ian.
This is when things change. Olivia seems to give up. And then, when you least expect it, she is saved. Jake comes through the door of her cell with a SWAT team, and carries her off to safety. She and Fitz leave behind their lives and move to Vermont. She starts making jam. Things seem somewhat normal, but odd. Tom, the man who murdered the president’s son, is there. Then Abby shows up, and reminds Olivia what she’s known all along – she’s going to have to save herself.
Olivia wakes from her dream of Vermont to discover she’s still in the cell, but her strength has returned. In a matter of minutes, Olivia has been taken to the bathroom and found a way to remove a pipe from the sink. She beats the man who took her to the bathroom over the head, steals his keys and gun, and takes off running towards the main door. She has to kill someone else on the way, but she makes it. She unlocks it. She’s free…
Except that she’s not. The entire time she’s been in an old freight car turned jail, and the “outside” is just another larger room. Just when you think things can’t get more confusing, Ian returns as the man who had her kidnapped in the first place. He walks Olivia back to the cell. This is far from over.
(As a side note, I’d like to mention that I appreciate that this wasn’t resolved in one episode. I’m interested to see where this goes.)
How to Get Away With Murder
When we left Annalise and her 1L students, we had just learned that Annalise knew that Sam was dead. What we discover in this episode is that Wes told her what happened, and she gave him the directions on how to dispose of Sam’s body. The next day, Annalise goes to the police to report her husband missing.
The 1Ls are questions by the police, and each of them seem to handle it well in the moment. Annalise tells Rebecca she was wrong to not turn Sam in sooner, and is working to find evidence that he was in Philadelphia on the night that Lila was murdered.
Though each of the 1Ls seem to handle the police well in the moment, it’s clear that some of them aren’t doing well. Connor spends much of the episode trying to convince Michaela that they should go to the police and turn themselves in, throwing Wes and Rebecca under the bus. Michaela finally agrees, and then they begin working on Laurel.
Rebecca’s trial comes up, and Annalise is trying to get access to Lila’s records from a women’s clinic in the area, as she believes Sam tried to talk her in to having an abortion. Though she isn’t allowed access to the records, she is granted access to some video footage, where she finds Sam and Lila arguing in the clinic waiting area. The DNA test reveals that Sam is definitely the father of Lila’s child. And the tracking of Sam’s cell phone (once they’re able to get access to his computer) reveals that he was in Philadelphia on the night of Lila’s murder. In fact, it reveals that he was at the sorority house.
The charges against Rebecca are dropped, but Michaela, Connor, and Laurel have agreed to go to the police. When they arrive, however, so do Wes and Annalise. It takes a while, but Annalise finally convinces Michaela and Connor (the two who really want to turn themselves in) that if they trust her, they will be safe.
At the very end of the episode Connor, who is at the courthouse, calls Annalise with a problem. Hannah Keating, Sam’s sister, has arrived, and is insisting that her brother is innocent. It seems Annalise has a long road ahead.
What a week! These shows sure are something else. What did you think? Did I miss anything? See you next week!
Live, Love, Learn,
Melissa &