Welcome back, TGIT Shonda Rhimes obsessed fans. I apologize for not being able to write about the last couple of episodes as I had other engagements, but I’m back today ready for another jaw-dropping, eye-watering, heart-tightening night.

Grey’s Anatomy:

Last week’s episode worked through Maggie’s issues with Meredith and Nathan being together, and this episode seems to continue with that. Although Maggie is playing it off cool, she is clearly agitated because Meredith keeps asking her if she’s uncomfortable and then cancels her plans with her boyfriend. Something tells me that there’s going to be another fight.

A young child named Liam walks into the hospital saying he doesn’t feel well. When asked where his parents are, he replies that he doesn’t have any. The issue here is that Carev can’t do a head CT to examine him without his parents’ consent. Luckily, the police send out an alert to parents in the area, and Liam’s parents find themselves at Grey-Sloane looking for their son who got on the train all by himself. Because Liam had a seizure, Alex had to examine him anyway and found a large tumor. He notifies the parents that he will need brain surgery, but they say no because it is against their religious beliefs. Later, the parents sign an AMA and take Liam home which aggravates Alex even more. Liam ends up back at the hospital because he “prayed and prayed, but God couldn’t help [him].” He then asks “Can you help me Dr. Karev?” He can no longer see because his brain tumor is growing more and more, and the fact that he wants to go against his parents’ values shows how much Alex needs to do the surgery. What’s the best solution? Him and Dr. Edwards say that he was seizing again in order to operate on him immediately. The parents show up again and the father is furious that they operated on his son without consent. He gets in Alex’s face and says, “I hope you like practicing medicine because after I’m done suing this place, you’re all going to jail.” Edwards has the father sign release papers for his son since he is healing just fine, and they have an argument in front of everybody about what God’s job is. He argues that God will heal him if he wants to and Edwards argues that God’s job was to deliver Liam safely on the train to the hospital because the father didn’t parent properly. The father gets in her face and yells, “You’re going to go to hell,” and just as he’s about to walk out, she throws her clipboard aimed at him, but it hits the wall instead. GO EDWARDS! Minnick thinks Edwards should be suspended for her anger issues, but Webber refutes by saying she had a right to be angry because the child was sick.

Another patient, Holly, is being examined by April and Meredith because she ruptured her spleen. While going through an MRI, she warns the doctors that they may see something a little “weird.” When the scans come through they see a massive heart tumor that the patient claims is inoperable (as told by many surgeons before.) She tries to get out of the hospital quickly so she can get back out there and meet more men, but a speed bump in the road prevents that. Her late night from the previous night comes by to see if she’s alright since she injured herself leaving his apartment. The problem here is that she does not want to see him again. She does not want to become too attached, so she tells the doctors to shoo him away by saying she died-which they don’t. Next, they tell Holly that they can operate on her heart tumor but she refuses claiming that it will get in her way of sleeping with as many guys as she can. After convincing her that she has the possibility to live, Holly gives them the green light to operate, but it looks like the doctors were wrong on this surgery. They are not able to do the impossible this time, so they need to tell her that they couldn’t get her cancer out.

Meredith is moving on, growing past her dark memories. I thought I was ready for this, but one scene made me start screaming at her through the television. She had framed the sticky note her late husband Derek and proposed to her on, and TUCKED IT AWAY IN HER DRAWER! This made me so incredibly sad because although Meredith should move on, I am not ready for her to. I like her with Nathan, but when she was married to Derek, their love story was epic.

After revealing he loves Jo a couple of episodes ago, Andrew finally decides to confront her. The issue is, she’s not ready to love again. She tells him to not say anything, so he doesn’t…he just walks away. Honestly, this ripped my heart out because I’ve been routing for Andrew since the moment he admitted he loved Jo.

The episode ends with Meredith meeting up with Nathan and holding his hand.

Scandal:

The episode begins with nine drones hovering over cities all over the United States. It turns out Pais is behind the drones and they are armed. He will detonate each of the bombs until they release his partner Marjorie. When Olivia calls him out on bluffing, he legitimizes his forces by bombing Dallas, Texas. Olivia tells the president’s staff that she knows someone they could talk to and sends Jake to speak with Marjorie to get some information. While talking, Jake realizes that she has a microchip in the back of her neck and he cuts it out in order to find more information. After stabbing her in the back of the neck and digging around for the chip, he leaves with the funniest line, “I’ll send someone up with a band-aid.”

Huck investigates the information on the microchip but it starts to lock him out when Pais finds out what they’re doing. Angry with Olivia, he detonates the drone over Philadelphia and kills more people. Fitz and Olivia go to Ely (also known as Rowan) Pope to see if he will tell them anything, but he basically tells them that the country is eternally doomed. The scene becomes so heated and leaves me in awe at what an incredible actor Joe Martin (Rowan Pope) is. He always gets the most powerful lines and it always startles me because I feel as if the country really is in a state of terror.

The staff tries to figure out the best way they can find out more information and Cyrus points out that Marjorie has no way of finding out what’s happening at the moment, so they can tell her anything. Jake goes down and feeds her a story of how forces supposedly reprimanded Pais and gave him a deal if he chose to take it. Marjorie takes the bait and asks for Pais’ deal in exchange for everything she knows. David goes down there to speak to her about the deal and she asks him if they can start over and date again to which he obviously replies, “NO!” He explains how he hates her so much and never wants to see her again, and that’s when Marjorie rips up the paper with her deal on it. She explains that David twitches when he lies which he did when he was talking about reprimanding Pais, but he never twitched when he told her he hated her. David hits her and she yells, “You better hope I don’t get out of here David Rosen!” I knew wit would be a bad idea if Jake sent David in. Jake and Huck are the master interrogators, and although David is strong, he isn’t the smartest in the show.

Olivia discovers that her father has been receiving packages from Marjorie and Pais several times and after going through security feeds, she discovers it’s a brick every time. Later, Rowan reveals to Fitz that the reason for these bricks was because they weigh 9 to 11 lbs., which happens to be the same weight as the human head. They would send him these packages to ensure he would follow orders because the day he wouldn’t would be the day that a severed human head would be in the package: Olivia’s head. Rowan struggles with the fact that he was so powerful, but now everything he has worked for is crumbling away because he cannot protect his daughter.

Rowan decides to finally help so he suggests that he go talk to Marjorie. When he goes, he apologizes to Olivia before stealing a security guard’s gun, demanding him to remove the handcuffs from Marj, and shoots him in the leg before demanding how to leave. He does all of this to earn his freedom from them, so when Marj guarantees she can get it for him, the pair take off, locking Olivia and the shot security guard in the plain prison cell. It works to his advantage, because he’s been emancipated. It is soon revealed that he did this for the president to alert him where Pais would be. When they find him, Jake kills him and Ely kills Marjorie. Finally, the problematic pair are removed from the situation and all is well. Melly is no longer their puppet, the drones have been deactivated, and no one will be killed for a while at least.

The Catch:

The episode picks up when Reese tells Margot that he killed Felicity, but for some reason, she’s back. She seeks help in Alice and Val yet again and gives them a lead and suspect. A man called “The Cleaner” mysteriously disappeared the night Felicity was shot, so she thinks that he took her body and saved her. Felicity goes to visit Margot and meets Tessa for the first time. They catch up a bit until she runs into Reese. He points a gun at her, and right when he’s about to shoot, Tessa walks in and Felicity points a gun at her. She releases the fifteen year old when she leaves, leaving Tessa to make a perfect first impression on her uncle, saying, “Shoot me in the shoulder if it means getting a clean shot of that [obscenity].”

In the meantime, Ben investigates Ethan to verify that when Alice works with him, she isn’t getting into trouble. He discovers that someone is laundering money in Ethan’s company and tries to figure out who it is. A woman who works for Ethan puts the money away in the name of a nonexistent resort so Ben pretends that he is a buyer interested in it to make her sweat. When she tries to escape, Agent Diaz is waiting for her. Reese is still troubled by the fact that Felicity is roaming around alive, so him and Alice hunt down The Cleaner and ask him a couple questions. He reveals that he never actually got rid of the body because it wasn’t there when he got there. This means that another person saved her life.

Margot involves her latest fling Danny in one of her schemes, and when Sophie tells Margot to make sure she doesn’t get him killed, Margot sheds a little light on her heart. She is worried for Danny and Tessa’s safety, but the two are willing to stay for Margot’s protection. Looks like Danny is in love! GROSS, GO BACK TO SOPHIE!

Reese lectures Alice about the truths of a con man. He describes them as tigers, and Ben is a tiger who cannot change his stripes. No matter how good he may seem, he can never erase who he is. When she goes to see Ben, she finds him finishing a conversation with Ethan. He leaves on her arrival and while he’s leaving he tells Alice he can’t work with her anymore because he is still in love with her. WOW BIG SHOCKER THERE. Of course he’s in love with Allie, she’s so good at everything she does.

Danny and Margot make their relationship official, and just as he’s about to head over, Felicity intrudes and shoots the guards and Sophie! She takes Tessa and when Danny gets there, he reaches just in time to get Sophie to the hospital.

The episode ends with Margot finally meeting the man she’s been waiting for: the Mockingbird. GUESS WHO THE MOCKINGBIRD IS? TOMMY!!! As you can imagine, my sister and I were shocked and this cued us to start cursing at the T.V.

Hey, I mean these are just the normal reactions from a TGIT night.