Grey's Anatomy: Should April Terminate Her Pregnancy?

Things are not looking good for Jackson (Jesse Williams) and April (Sarah Drew) on Grey's Anatomy.

At the end of Thursday's episode, it's all but a foregone conclusion that the newlyweds are about to receive the news they've been dreading: that their unborn baby has a fatal disease. How did they get to this point? Let's recap the episode:

With Derek (Patrick Dempsey) off in D.C., Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) is feeling lonely, and Alex (Justin Chambers) gets his first test as her new Person when she texts him in what appears to be the middle of the night to see if he's busy. As it turns out, yes - he and Jo (Camilla Luddington) are having sex - very enthusiastically, judging by the expression on Arizona's (Jessica Capshaw) face in the next room. (Apparently Meredith and Cristina, somewhat disturbingly, had a "pause" rule if the other texted mid-coitus.)

At the hospital the next day, Meredith and Jo deal with a liver sarcoma patient who tells them the story of how her and her husband met (adorably), indicating to all of us longtime Grey's watchers that she's probably doomed.

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Meanwhile, Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) is dealing with a tumor of her own, Dr. Hermann's (Geena Davis), and Arizona is giving April an ultrasound to determine which type of the disease their baby has. Jackson tells April he wants to terminate the pregnancy if the baby has Type II (the bad, potentially fatal type), while April wants to take the pregnancy to term regardless. Before they can come to a conclusion, April's mom returns and whisks her off to church.

As Meredith, Bailey (Chandra Wilson) and Jo are working on the liver tumor, they discover that, yeah, it's worse than they thought - a "monster" tumor, in the words of Meredith, and one that's spread to several other organs. They bring in Maggie (Kelly McCreary) to help, and eventually Meredith comes up with a plan to create a replica of the tumor using the 3-D printer. And hey, no Cristina to fight over it with this time!

Elsewhere, Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Owen (Kevin McKidd) meet a representative from a tech company who's hoping to "climb into bed" with their "sexy" veterans project - but as it turns out, she really just wants to climb into bed with Callie. We discover this when Callie and Owen attempt to have a joint "single and ready to mingle" night at the bar, where, lo and behold, horny tech lady is drinking alone. After Callie tries to set her up with Owen and finds out that the flirtation was actually directed towards her, she gets flustered and runs out of the bar - but not before turning down tech lady's offer of a no-strings-attached one-night stand.

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While Amelia's (kind of hilariously) explaining to a confused/skeptical group about how they're going to approach Dr. Hermann's tumor, Hermann has been chasing the most difficult/interesting cases around the country for the "crash course" she's going to give Arizona in fetal surgery. Later, Hermann shows Amelia the stack of index cards of "babies who will die" if Amelia can't save her. So, you know, no pressure there.

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Grey's Anatomy: Should April Terminate Her Pregnancy?