Patrick Dempsey Hasn’t Ruled Out Another ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Return
Now that Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) is awake on Grey’s Anatomy, she has said goodbye to the beach in her mind where she was seeing dead loved ones as she battled COVID. That was how Patrick Dempsey returned to the ABC medical drama for four episodes for the first time since 2015 as her husband, Dr. Derek Shepherd.
But was their goodbye in the April 22 episode a final one? Dempsey isn’t ruling out a return. “Who knows? Never say never with this show, right? I’m glad we did it this year,” he told Variety. “[Showrunner] Krista Vernoff did a fantastic job telling the story. It was just a great way to give people some hope.”
But he does consider Meredith and Derek’s last scenes on that beach in her mind to be “a beautiful way to close it,” he said. “It was a beautiful ending to this story.”
After all, fans watched the couple’s love story from the series premiere in 2005. After ups and downs and love triangles, the two did eventually get together (though it wasn’t until that beach that they got their dream wedding). Derek then died in Season 11.
With Meredith waking up after deciding not to leave their kids to be with him in the afterlife, how could Derek return again? Might Meredith have another brush with death? Could the series end with her dying (whether in the present or a flash-forward) and reuniting with him? All good questions. At least it gives fans something else to McDream about.
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Supposedly, Meredith had him taken off life support, but no one in the family got a real chance to say goodbye to him. There was a memorial service. Meredith could have thought his situation hopeless and put him in a long term care facility where he makes a miraculous recovery. There have been stories of comatose patience having out of body experiences. This could account for Meredith seeing Derek in her unconscious state.
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Just write a new character for Dempsey and a new arc. Give him different attributes, make him a race car driver who gets injured and ends up at Grey-Sloan, and as a patient of Meredith’s. And have some fun of a more real-world nature.
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Maybe she could start having nightmares of him being alive. So she digs his grave up drunkenly. But he isn’t their. It turns out he faked his death. He kept a big secret from all of them. She freaks out. Gets into a bad car crash. She wakes up soberish. With ringing in her ears. The air bag kinda protected her. The car is upside down. Three quarters on the bridge. Pinned by other cars. Her arms are broken due to the fast impact of the air bag. She is bleeding. A shard of glass is in her torso. On her left side. Her Husband that faked his own death is living in a terrace apartment beside that bridge. He freaks out. And saves her. She wakes up in his apartment. Now everyone thinks she’s dead too. But nobody knows she’s still alive. She knows his secret. Who they are hiding from. It is found that the hospital is under threat. He found out who is threatening it. His life became in danger. So he faked his death. All she could do is make love to him passionately. Mid way to it. She cries. And they just hug. As they comfort one, and other.
Just an idea.
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