At the time of his death, Meredith is pregnant with their third child. He loyally served his role of bringing Derek (From a patient without insurance to Teddy Altman’s (Kim Raver) adoring husband, Henry (Scott Foley) became an important part of the “Grey’s” family, so his death hit hard. It was almost like a quick hit if it weren’t so random.
It would be hard to watch any newborn die, and it was even harder to watch Jackson (Jesse Williams) and April’s (Sarah Drew) preemie succumb to his rare bone disease. From Callie recognizing the freckle, to John Doe tracing “007” into Meredith’s palm, each moment created goosebumps. In the season one finale, his past eventually catches up with him when his estranged wife Addison moves to Seattle and is offered a position by Dr. Webber. It’s after the surgery that she fell into a coma and died. If their marriage remained an insurance fraud contract, there wouldn’t have been as great a reaction to the obvious fate of the chronically ill Henry. To me, it felt like that was the only way to make Meredith and Derek's magic remain true and forever frozen in time.The character was later written to be a graduate of Although Izzie seemed to move on, Denny’s ghostly cameo in Season 5 made it clear the love story was always doomed. Mark’s character growth endeared him to audiences as more than a set of washboard abs and sexy salt and pepper goatee: At the time of his death, he served as a decent best friend, mentor, father and true love to Lexie Grey.
She gives birth almost a year later to a daughter whom she names Ellis after her mother. While she may not have been well liked, Reed Adamson (Nora Zehetner) certainly didn’t need to be killed off in such an abrupt and violent manner.
Love makes people do crazy things; but, unfortunately cutting L-Vad wires, breaking the law, and Izzie almost losing her job couldn’t save Denny Duquette from death.
If you compare him to Lexie — who died an episode earlier — he made it through the plane crash unscathed, only to succumb to his injuries and be pulled off life support in the dramatic Season 9 premiere. He admits to Meredith that Addison cheating on him with Mark was partly his fault as an absentee husband.When Derek is offered the Chief of Surgery position for the second time, he persuades the board to keep Dr. Webber on the staff. For me, that was untenable.
As the first to die from the plane crash, Lexie Grey deserved better. With mixed feelings, Derek offers him an ultimatum: go into rehab and possibly pick up where he left off after, or quit altogether. Shonda Rhimes Finally Explains Why Derek Had to Die on Grey's Anatomy TGIT boss reveals Derek had to die on ABC's medical drama. Among the numerous nameless victims of one of “Grey’s” most traumatic episodes, a few of the Seattle Grace-Mercy West residents also died. Read Next: Mahlon Reyes, Deckhand on ‘Deadliest Catch,’ Dies at 38 Just because Doc’s presence on the series was only the result of Meredith’s escapism, it doesn’t mean he deserved to die. Read on for the Top 13.Like so many of the relationships on “Grey’s,” amends were sadly made just a little too late. In seasons three and four, Meredith and Derek's relationship becomes rocky, and they each take time to date, other people.
A day that began with McDreamy saving a family, ended in his death as the incapacitated neurosurgeon described the missing steps in his own emergency intake and surgery. But watching a usually stoic Teddy try to keep her cool — eventually giving way to one runny mascaraed tear — over Henry’s dead body in the morgue was simply too much for a midseason episode.