"I'll be back before you know it," said hunky Dr. Derek Shepherd, flashing a smile as he walked away from wife Meredith Grey at the start of Thursday's Grey's Anatomy episode.
But now we know: He won't be back!
Patrick Dempsey's character was killed off.
The episode, written by series creator Shonda Rhimes, opened with Derek witnessing a horrible car crash and tending to all the injured people on the scene. He got a chance to utter that thing he says: "It's a great day to save lives."
He wasn't injured in the crash.
That happened just as he was pulling away from the scene. He heard his cellphone buzzing as he turned into the road. He stopped to get it out from between the seats and — BAM! — a semi crashed into him.
Dr. Shepherd wound up in an unknown hospital, bloody and bandaged. We heard him narrate his own (botched) care as he lay on the gurney in the operating room. And then we saw the police telling Meredith there had been an accident. She makes her way to the hospital and finds out he's on life support. The neurosurgeon is brain dead.
Without consulting anyone, and all alone, Meredith signs the papers to end his life. "Derek," she says, touching his cheek. "You go."
In the final moments, she stands by his side remembering their wonderful moments, as his pulse stops.
The episode, the first written by Rhimes since the Season 8 finale in which series regulars Chyler Leigh (Lexie) and Kim Raver (Teddy) were written out, was spoiled earlier in the day for some subscribers of Entertainment Weekly, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The magazine arrives on newsstands on Fridays, but in home mailboxes for some a day earlier. This week's edition featured a Grey's Anatomy story all about the episode, prompting EW to issue an apology.
Fan favorite Dempsey, who has been on the show from the beginning, still has a year remaining on his contract. He and Pompeo both signed two-year deals in January 2014 that would have keep the couple on Grey's through the 2015-16 season.
ABC has scheduled a two-hour block of Grey's for next week.
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2015/04/23/greys-anatomy-kills-off-derek-shepherd-patrick-dempsey/26272557/
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