When Justin Chambers determined to step away from “Gray’s Anatomy” after a whopping 16 seasons, he briefly vanished from the sequence after season 16’s eighth episode “My Shot,” which is … odd, to say the least. So how does “Gray’s Anatomy” rationalize Alex’s departure throughout the narrative? The worst method doable, that is how!
By this level within the present, Alex, who was as soon as married to his and Meredith’s fellow unique surgical intern Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens (Katherine Heigl), is seemingly pleased along with his life in Seattle, his shut friendship with Meredith, and his marriage to Dr. Jo Wilson (Camilla Luddington). Apparently, although, a chunk of reports about Izzie modifications his total life. In “My Shot,” Meredith assembles colleagues and sufferers so she will be able to argue to maintain her medical license after committing insurance coverage fraud to assist a younger affected person, and Alex is in command of corralling the group. As he explains in a letter to Meredith on the finish of his “ultimate” episode “Go away a Mild On,” he contacted Izzie and realized one thing so stunning that he deserted his total life. (He additionally writes letters to Jo and Bailey, the latter of whom is the chief of surgical procedure at what’s now referred to as Gray Sloan Memorial.)
“This isn’t the way in which I wished to do that,” Alex’s letter to Meredith, learn in voiceover by Chambers, begins. It continues:
“The very last thing on Earth I need to do is damage you, however I am leaving. I already left, really. I am gone. This isn’t the way in which I wished to do that, however you already know me. Any probability to take the simple method out. Or possibly that was once true. I do not know. What I do know is I owe you the reality, and I do not understand how else to inform you.”
What Alex has to inform Meredith (and Jo and Bailey) is that he discovered that Izzie is the mom of his kids. See, in season 5 — when Izzie is affected by most cancers — she freezes her eggs after Alex fertilizes them, and apparently, she saved them and had twins. After Alex calls her to ask her to testify at Meredith’s listening to, he learns about these youngsters and strikes to Kansas to be along with her. Alex tells Meredith that he nonetheless loves Jo, however mainly says all of it comes all the way down to the children: “And if it was nearly two girls I really like, I would select my spouse. You understand I might. But it surely’s not simply her. Izzie made our children.”
This ending sucks. I am undecided what else I can say right here. Should you’ve seen this episode, you get it. If you have not, please do not put your self by this viewing expertise.
