Greys Anatomy Recap: The Shepherds Hit Rock Bottom

Patrick Dempsey, Caterina Scorsone

We've always known Meredith Grey to be the dark and twisty one onGrey's Anatomy, but apparently she's got nothing on Amelia and Derek Shepherd.

It's Amelia's (Caterina Scorsone) night to shine (or flame out) onGrey's, with her drug-fueled past putting her career in jeopardy. How does she get to this point?

The episode kicks off with Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) apologizing to Maggie (Kelly McCreary) about the dinner party that never was. "We really lost track of time," she says of her and Derek's (Patrick Dempsey) absence, which translates (literally, a few scenes later) to "we were up having sex all night." Rude.

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In another part of the hospital, Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) is indignant that Dr. Herman (Geena Davis) expects her to process in 24 hours the fact that her mentor has a fatal brain tumor. Dr. Herman tells her to suck it up. (Brain tumor or not, I still kind of hate Dr. Herman.) As a result, Arizona finds herself in the position of having to take over all of Dr. Herman's cases and also lie to the patients about why Dr. Herman is MIA.

After Meredith's sex humble-brag, Callie (Sara Ramirez) confesses that she was also up all night but it was because she was having all kinds of feelings about her and Arizona. (Needless to say, shereallydoesn't want to hear about Meredith's boning-induced insomnia but they do later bond over the "time-outs," "Band-Aids," and what have you that they've both been putting on their respective relationships.)

Amelia and Derek have a bit of a turf war over two burn victim patients who come in attached to each other on a gurney. The wife is pretty much a goner, but Amelia promises the husband she'll do her best to save her. But, when she heads out to the waiting room to update the couple's daughter, she's in for an unexpected surprise. The woman flips out and demands a different doctor. "She's a junkie," the family member blurts out as Amelia looks on, helpless and horrified. "I met her in Narcotics Anonymous ... I want another doctor." So much for Amelia keeping her past under wraps!

Grey's Anatomy'sCaterina Scorsone: Amelia's past comes back to haunt her

Derek steps in to appease the patients' daughter, but Meredith later chastises him for not leaping to Amelia's defense. "The woman had it out for her, Meredith," Derek explains patiently. "If anything goes wrong, she would have blamed her because she's an addict." I'm Team Derek on this one.

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Greys Anatomy Recap: The Shepherds Hit Rock Bottom