April Returns to ‘Grey’s Anatomy’… to Reunite With Jackson? (PHOTOS)
If you thought that Dr. Jackson Avery’s (Jesse Williams) 11-hour trip at the end of Grey’s Anatomy‘s April 15 episode might be setting up two reunions in his future — including Sarah Drew’s return as his ex, Dr. April Kepner — you were right.
In “Sign O’ the Times,” amidst the George Floyd protests, Jackson asked his mother, Dr. Catherine Fox (Debbie Allen), “If our foundation is so good at fighting the good fight, then why isn’t anything getting better? … Why aren’t we there [protesting in the streets]? Why don’t we have scars?” And, he wondered aloud, why aren’t they doing things they’ve talked about in the medical field? “I don’t want to play a role in a system that’s just broken,” he said.
“You sound like your father,” she told him. “Oh, that’d be the worst thing in the world?” he asked. And at the end of the episode, he set off on that aforementioned long car trip.
Yes, Eric Roberts is back as Jackson’s father, Robert, in the May 6 episode — the focus of the April 22 episode will be in Seattle, while Grey’s isn’t on the following week — and that night also will bring Drew’s return.
According to the logline for “Look Up Child,” “Jackson pays a visit to his father that helps set him on the right path.” Does whatever happens with his father lead him to April, or will he be seeing April first? We’re assuming it’s the former, but you never know.
Fans are hoping to see those two get back together, but unfortunately, we can’t guess what their conversations hold based on these photos from their reunion. Scroll down for a look at Drew as April once again.
Grey’s Anatomy, Thursdays, 9/8c, ABC
Catherine (Debbie Allen)
Jackson (Jesse Williams)
Richard (James Pickens Jr.) and Catherine
How’s Catherine feeling about what’s going on with Jackson?
Reunited and … ?
Sarah Drew returns as Dr. April Kepner!
Good conversation over a good meal?
April and Jackson
It looks like Jackson has a lot on his mind.
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Please please please - let them find their way back together. Japril is my alltime favorite tv couple.
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Can't wait and need for japril to reunite, this chemistry is pure gold!
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Long overdue. Praying they find their way back together.
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Yes get Jackson and April back together as a couple Harriet needs her parents reunited.
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What about her other kid? Remember Matthew's wife died during childbirth so April is the only mom that kid knows. Either way a family gets wrecked. She and Matthew have the same beliefs. Jacksolll. Jackson was always trying to change her.
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Jackson isn't going to change her he's always accepted April for who she is and as for her bonus child which I didn't know about gotta watch that season and I'm sure Matthew has a sister or sisters that can be a mother figure to his son as well.
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maybe her and matthew aren't together anymore. in one of the pics there are boxes what if its just her and harriet living on their own ???
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Is everyone forgetting that April is married to Matthew her ex the paramedic well not ex he's now her husband so what is he not around anymore or did she get a divorce if they reunite don't get me wrong I'm all for Jackson and April I love them together but she is married to Matthew and Matthew was really good for her to
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Totally agree. Japril had chemistry but not the same beliefs. That doesn't work. I don't want her to break Matthew's heart again and abandon her stepchild who only knows her as mom. I don't want the writers to sloppily write in a divorce for a Christian couple which would either be unbiblical or it would make Matthew suddenly the bad guy who abandoned her which would be against character. They wrote her out with dignity. They need to keep it that way.
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ABC give us our end game. 😍
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April is married tho goes she get a divorce ?
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Am I the only one who didn’t (and still doesn’t) like them together? Never been an April fan, I hope she stays gone!
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