Grey’s Anatomy – S12xEp17 – I Wear the Face

You know how there are some episodes of Grey’s Anatomy where, from the very first second, you’re on that carousel Meredith and her mom are so fond of talking about, and you can’t get off? This was not one of those. This was the sort of Grey’s Anatomy episode where you think about partway through, I could probably watch this and fold laundry at the same time, right?

Meredith, Owen and Riggs head off in an ambulance to pick up a heart for a transplant patient. Meredith starts talking to Owen about Amelia and when Riggs overhears that Amelia is an alcoholic he mentions that he bought her a drink one time (in the mid-season finale). Upon hearing this Owen becomes enraged and blames Riggs for Amelia’s relapse. Later on after losing the heart Owen again blames Riggs for what happened to the heart, Amelia, and his sister Megan, telling Riggs: “Disaster happens wherever you are.” After Riggs leaves Meredith tells Owen that he needs to let go of the anger he’s been harboring towards Riggs, but also unveils that Riggs told Meredith a fabricated story about Megan’s death.

Though Richard probably correctly assumed that Catherine’s meddling would be the worst thing to happen to Jackson and April’s fractured relationship since they retained divorce lawyers, Mama Avery insisted on getting her son a high-powered attorney to help overturn the divorce. As she saw it, right now, Kepner had all the power, so Jackson had “better get some power”

The night’s patient of the week is a man, played by Wilmer Valderrama, dealing with an MS hand tremor that’s interfering with his guitar career. He’s supposed to be charming, I guess, but his extreme flirting with the highly accomplished doctors about to poke around in his brain just reads as very creepy. Playing the guitar while your brain is being operated on does seem impressive though, and it prevents your surgeons from using that time to discuss their own personal issues (Richard actually books a surgery with his wife for the express purpose of having a meaningful discussion. Organs, people. Focus on the organs).

April and Arizona are forced to work together, despite not having resolved their issues, to help a 14 year old girl named Jenny who’s experiencing some pregnancy complications.

Arizona and April have no choice but to perform the surgery on Jenny after her artery ruptures, but on the bright side, it looks like this scare helped Jenny and her mom improve her relationship, as well as April and Arizona. The episode ends with April expressing her anger about what she overheard from Catherine to Arizona. She declares that she’s not going to be a victim, as viewers see that April served Jackson with a restraining order. April then returns home to find that Jackson sent a crib along with a kind and caring note that says he will support her and that she has the power. It looks like April made a huge mistake. Do you think Japril will be able to reconcile?