Grey’s Anatomy S12xEp11 { Unbreak my heart }
“Unbreak My Heart,” begins with Jackson racing to a church to meet a blushing bride — a bride that isn’t April. The woman in white is Jackson’s long-time patient Tatiana who he’s been treating for facial reconstruction for nearly four years. (She had acid thrown at her, which melted nearly half of her face.) But before audiences can find out why Jackson is sporting a tux, the Season 12 installments flashes back to reality … and it isn’t pretty.
“Unbreak My Heart” explored some of the unseen moments from their relationship, and changed our perspective on some things along the way.
Their fight over Chinese before she left for Jordan the second time revealed some new information – or at least put some things into a different light. Personally, I think April had some really good points about needing to take care of herself.
The episode rewounds us through their entire relationship, from them meeting as interns to them sitting in a lawyer’s office getting divorced. Hilariously, Shonda Rhimes tweeted that she got the idea for the episode’s structure, a series of fast and slow rewinds punctuated by longer scenes, because she “accidentally hit the slow rewind button and saw how cool it looked.” Only, instead of taking us back to moments that reminded us of how right for each other they were, how destined their relationship was, how strong their foundation was, the episode mostly just outlined all the reasons why Jackson and April were wrong for each other.
As the episode came to a conclusion, however, April signed the divorce papers. It wasn’t totally shocking, though it was still tragic to see. Then, though, everything went from sad to stunning: In the final minute, April revealed to Arizona that she was pregnant.
I have to believe that even if something seems like it cannot be fixed it doesn’t mean it’sbroken.