In typical Grey's fashion, the episode's conclusion drips with heart-wrenching irony. Approached by executive producers and higher-ups, Gianniotti recalls, " They said, 'Hey, we’ve been doing a lot of thinking about it, and we feel there’s an opportunity to tell a really, really beautiful story that is going to help a lot of people.'" Highlighting a real-world issue, Grey's Anatomy ultimately succeeds in giving DeLuca an unquestioningly noble end. In an interview with Deadline, actor Giacomo Gianniotti, who played DeLuca for an impressive seven years, discussed how the decision came, in part, in order to tie back to a sex trafficking plotline from season 16 (which was cut short due to COVID-related rescheduling). Related: How Grey's Anatomy Teased George's Death In The Very First Episodeįans of the long-running medical drama have been taken aback by such an abrupt ending for DeLuca, but it seems as though it was carefully considered by the show's creatives. While the wounds in his body are being treated, DeLuca appears before Meredith, at one point frantically building a sandcastle " before the tide comes in" – apparent foreshadowing for his inevitable fate. For a string of recent episodes, Meredith was in and out of consciousness, often finding herself in a mysterious limbo-like beach, where she has encountered a handful of departed loved ones, including her late husband Derek Shepherd and her close friend George O'Malley. Grey's Anatomy season 17's midseason finale saw Meredith Grey put on a ventilator after watched her do battle with the deadly virus herself. Rushed to the hospital and operated on by some of Grey Sloan's most prolific surgeons, DeLuca's injuries ultimately proved fatal.Įven before DeLuca's tragic onscreen death, the show's seventeenth season has already been particularly hard-hitting, tailoring character storylines to fit around the real-world impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a crossover episode with fellow Shondaland series, Station 19, the fan-favorite was brutally stabbed while in pursuit of a dangerous sex trafficker.
In a shocking move, Grey's Anatomy added Andrew DeLuca to the growing list of doctors not to survive the ever-turbulent Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. : How goes our special super secret silent sunset surgery? I've.MIRANDA: "You have too much time on your hands." : So just for the record, you’d tell me if I need to get tested.ĭEREK: "How goes our special super secret silent sunset surgery?" "I've been practicing that.".MEREDITH: "Yeah.But no more glow-in-the-dark ones." And besides, we’re practically a condom ad."
we never said we had rules and I wouldn’t hold it against you."ĭEREK: "When would I have time to go out and get syphilis? You’re a handful enough as it is. I mean we never made any rules or anything. MEREDITH: "So just for the record, you’d tell me if I need to get tested, right?"ĭEREK: "You think I have syphilis?" : Maybe we should, you know, make some rules.MEREDITH: "I am so not involved in this."ĬRISTINA: "Meredith, this is Fight Club, nobody talks about it."ĭEREK: "Maybe we should, you know, make some rules."ĭEREK: "Just for the record. You know how I know? Cause you’re a bad liar!" MIRANDA : Somewhere out there is a steak with your name on it, and maybe.MEREDITH: "This is why I keep you around." : The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you final.ĭEREK: "Somewhere out there is a steak with your name on it, and maybe a bottle of wine.".The problem with secrets is even when you think you're in control, you're not." MEREDITH And once your secrets are out in the open, you don't have to hide behind them anymore. Whether good or bad, at least they're out in the open, like it or not. "The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free. They say a person either has what it takes to play or. They say a person either has what it takes to play or they don't. I'm Addison ShepherdĪddison: And you must be the woman who's been screwing my husband. Addison.what are you doing here?Īddison: You'd know if you'd bother to answer any one of my phone calls.