Grey's Anatomy Season 9 Episode 1 - Going, Going, Gone Recap
by Travis
Life can sometimes change in an instant and can blindside you to the point of losing focus on day to day routines. In the ninth season of Grey's Anatomy, the premier opened with the staff of Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital coping with the tragic loss of a colleague who was fatally injured in a plane crash and as a result of that same plane crash another colleague, Mark Sloan, has been left in a coma and on life support. To add more stress to the situation, Dr. Sloan left a living will that state if after 30 days there are no signs of improvement in his condition, life support should be discontinued.
After weeks of convincing Dr. Shepard that he is ready to get back in the saddle and start performing surgery again, Dr. Torres has great concern that he may not be ready to perform surgery. Dr. Shepard is insistent and does not back down. The surgery does not go well because Dr. Shepard cannot hold the instrument because of the numbness in his hand.
Having surivor's guilt, Dr. Karev has decided to leave Grace Mercy and take a position at John's Hopkins...but not before he has sewn his wild oats with one of the interns. Later, before boarding the plane on his new venture, Dr. Karev changes his mind and does not board the plane.
Dr. Yang is now employed at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota where she is not considered as a quarterback surgeon but a team player as her new boss put it. She has attempted to reschedule her surgery to catch a flight to Seattle for the 5 o'clock appointment. Sitting in the observation pavilion of a surgical room, she has a face time conversation with Dr. Grey, assuring her that she will be in Seattle by 5 o'clock.
In this premier episode, there are scenes of flashbacks going back to Dr. Shepard's wedding, Dr. Torres' ceremony with her wife. In one of the flashbacks, Dr. Sloan announced that Lexi Grey was the one person with whom wanted to spend the rest of his life with.
The hands on the clock now show 5p.m. and all eyes were on clocks in operating rooms in Seattle and Minnesota. Doctors Torres and Shepard emotionally watch at the bedside of Dr. Sloan as medications are being discontinued and the ventilator being disconnected.
Meanwhile right outside of Dr. Sloan's room, Dr. Bailey is wondering if her nickname, which has been changed from The Nazi, demands respect from the interns. While no one is ready to inform her of her new nickname, on his way out of the hospital to board his plane to John's Hopkins, Dr. Karev gives up the information and informs Dr. Bailey her new nickname is BCB....... meaning Booty Call Bailey.
Doctors Torres and Shepard remain at Dr. Sloan's bedside watching as the monitor numbers slowly drop to zero while other colleagues wait outside the room until Dr. Sloan has taken his final breath.
Dr. Grey is on a plane and suddenly has a panic attack and demands to be let off the plane.
Dr. Hunt tracks down a doctor whom he had dismissed and apologized to her for his treatment of her and explaining that he never should have taken her job from her. He told her that she did not belong on a farm but belonged in Seattle, nothing was the same and asked her to come back.
Dr. Torres returns home, frustrated and grieving and demands for her wife to snap out of it, get up and get the hell out of bed but her wife asks how can she snap out of it when Dr. Torres has cut off her leg?