'Grey's Anatomy': Cristina's Exit Plan Revealed?

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"Grey's Anatomy's" Kevin McKidd and Sandra Oh

[WARNING: This story contains spoilers from Thursday's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" episode of Grey's Anatomy.]

ABC's Grey's Anatomy seemingly formalized Dr. Cristina Yang and Sandra Oh's exit plan during Thursday's hour.

After leaving Oh's beloved Dr. Cristina Yang at the altar during the season three finale, Isaiah Washington's Dr. Preston Burke returned to the Shonda Rhimes medical drama with an offer his ex may not be able to refuse.

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Following her Harper Avery award snub, Cristina will, it seems, be moving to Zurich to take over Burke's practice so her former mentor can spend more time with his family. It's a move that would make total sense for Cris, who despite a marriage-divorce-reunion with Owen (Kevin McKidd), has always considered her career to be her true love in life.

With the hospital staff still reeling from her loss of the Harper Avery award, Cris winds up traveling to Zurich -- which had been calling the hospital multiple times a week begging to have Yang present her conduit findings there -- and bumping into Burke, who is seated in the audience for her presentation. Burke, he reveals, is the one who invited Cris to Zurich to speak at his hospital. "I didn't think you'd respond to an invitation from me given the circumstances of our last interaction," Burke says in a nod to their failed nuptials.

It turns out they've both been following one another's careers, and Burke is on the verge of publishing a groundbreaking findings. After inviting Cris to observe during his surgery, Burke reveals he was on a high after he won his Harper Avery that was followed by a fear that his best work was behind him. Afterward, he put a ton of pressure on himself and came to Zurich, bringing in people from all over the world to the hospital that is bankrolled by a billionaire who wants to make a difference. (Read: No reliance on outside funding, no politics!)

During the surgery, Burke shows Cris his creation, a 3D hologram of the human heart that allows surgeons to see and cut through everything during surgery. Cris is expectedly impressed, as she is with the Zurich facilities. Cris reveals she has big dreams -- she wants to print a functional beating human heart -- but is afraid she can't get the support she needs to do it after losing the Harper Avery. It's then that Burke invites her to do it there, at his hospital.

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'Grey's Anatomy': Cristina's Exit Plan Revealed?