Building on the surprising revelations of season 21’s premiere, Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 2 laid out even more clearly the key story arcs on which the medical drama’s 21st outing will likely focus. With the premiere tying up loose ends left by Grey’s Anatomy season 20’s finale and setting up new challenges connected to those, Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 2 showed life returning to normal at Grey Sloan Memorial, more similar to how it was before the Seattle wildfires. This involved new relationships, surgeons taking new mentees under their wing, and the return of most doctors previously fired.
While Owen, Teddy and Amelia being back at Grey Sloan meant exciting new medical cases, and for the first two even a reunion with Owen and Megan’s childhood neighbor, Meredith still had to grapple with the knowledge of Catherine’s worsening condition. Following her case and trying to convince Catherine to do more exams even got Meredith to involve Bailey, which proved the best possible development given how she eventually convinced Catherine to agree to a biopsy. Finally, Richard’s ignorance of everything going on with Catherine continued to be a problem, one Grey’s Anatomy season 21 will have to face soon.
Winston Is Unwillingly Competing With Maggie By Taking Lucas Under His Wing
Lucas’s choice not to move to Chicago, instead staying at Grey Sloan Memorial despite the punishment of repeating the first year due to his mistakes in Grey’s Anatomy season 19’s finale, inevitably drew Winston Ndugu’s attention. Having been Maggie’s student, Winston knew what Lucas was saying no to. However, his recent divorce from Maggie also put Winston in competition with her, pushing him to ask Lucas to be on his service to show him what Grey Sloan could still offer him in terms of cardiothoracic teachings.
Winston’s journey to accept his divorce from Maggie was difficult in Grey’s Anatomy season 20, and he only proved strong enough to move away from Maggie’s kiss in season 20, episode 9, something he wouldn’t have said no to just the previous season. While he seemingly moved on after hooking up with Monica Beltran in Grey’s Anatomy season 20’s finale, interactions with Maggie of those relatively close to him still affected him, prompting Winston to take personally the responsibility of showing Lucas how his cardiothoracic education could still thrive, inevitably seeing himself in a kind of competition with Maggie.
Molly Asking Blue About Their Past Forces Him To Deal With Difficult Feelings
After learning about their past connection in Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 1, Molly badgered Blue until he told her more about their story. Their exchanges throughout the day offered insights to Molly and viewers alike, about Blue’s backstory and how he eventually came to terms with the string of tragic events in his life. While Molly’s approach proved refreshing, showing someone very determined with her goals and optimistic enough to make the episode’s darkest moments lighter, her exchanges with Blue eventually brought him pain.
Between reliving the pain of admitting to his cheating and the guilt Blue always felt from their terrible fight prompting Molly to go for the drive during which her amnesia-inducing accident happened, Blue had a challenging day. The day was nevertheless made more difficult by Blue still feeling drawn to Molly, as she might not have remembered him, but he remembered her, and the person in front of him wasn’t that different from whom he remembered, despite the amnesia. With the almost-kiss seemingly affecting Molly, it’s unlikely for their story to have reached its end in Grey’s Anatomy season 21.
