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Shonda Rhimes Previews 'Emotional Death' in Season 9 Finale

May 3, 2013 | Source

Things are heating up at Grey-Sloan Memorial with only two episodes remaining in Grey's Anatomy's ninth season.

This week, a hot new craniofacial specialist (Hilarie Burton) blatantly flirted with Arizona (Jessica Capshaw), who seemed to enjoy the attention. Jo (Camilla Luddington) turned to Alex (Justin Chambers) after what appears to be a case of domestic violence at the hands of her former boyfriend and a super storm is on its way to Seattle, putting Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and her unborn son at risk. Meanwhile, Owen (Kevin McKidd) and Cristina (Sandra Oh) continue to dodge "the talk," even as Ethan's future hangs in the balance.

The Hollywood Reporter turned to showrunner Shonda Rhimes to preview what's ahead and get the scoop on how the season nine-ender compares to the brutal plane crash that claimed the lives of both Mark and Lexie.

The Hollywood Reporter: One doc fights for their life in the finale. Compared with the plane crash, which ultimately claimed Lexie and Mark's lives, how deadly can we expect this year to be?
Shonda Rhimes: We're definitely going to see some people in jeopardy. When we leave the season, we're definitely going to be worried about one of our own. I don't think that anything can match the brutality of last year's finale for me. I just watched it again recently and was kind of surprised myself about the brutality of it. I don't think we're going to match that but for a lot of our characters, it's a much more emotional. There's a lot of emotional death.

THR: Should we be concerned for them?
Rhimes: We should be concerned about the future of every couple.

THR: Meredith's baby seems genuinely at risk in the promo for next week's episode. Storms and expectant mothers typically don't mix. How will she and the baby fare?
Rhimes: I've said before that Meredith is basically giving birth in the last-worst situation you'd want to be giving birth. It's going to be not so pleasant for her. Ellen did really beautiful work and the story we told is really charged, interesting and strong. It's the last way you'd want anybody to ever have to have a baby and that's Meredith Grey. Things obviously don't come easy for Meredith Grey. Derek (Patrick Dempsey) possibly,maybe will be around (laughs).

THR: Are you approaching season 10 as the last one for Grey's?
Rhimes: Nope!

Spoiler: Will Meredith and the Baby Survive?

May 3, 2013 | Source

A storm is coming on Grey's Anatomy and sending the doctors of the Grey Sloan Memorial scrambling to deal with difficulties that comes with torrential downpour and power outages in the final two episodes of Season 9.

"The hospital is going to find itself dealing with some technical difficulties," executive producer Shonda Rhimes tells TVGuide.com. "The general outcropping of what happens when patient care is affected by the need to move patients and the need to deal with all the things that happen when a storm happens. They're going to be facing a lot of challenges."

To give you an idea of what the doctors will face, Rhimes recalls the episode in which the attendings banded together to teach the visiting Syrian doctors how to do procedures in different ways by using the limited supplies they have on hand. "Now they're facing that themselves, which is going to be great," Rhimes says.

Naturally, the repercussions of the storm won't be good for Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), who was seen in the penultimate episode's promo slipping and then falling down the stairs during the storm. "She has that fall, and that starts a string of events that is cause for concern," Rhimes says. "Then, in the finale, we have the storm hit and the conditions under which Meredith Grey has to go into labor are the exact opposite of any conditions under which anybody ever in the world would want to have to give birth. Ellen joked, 'That's, of course, how it would be for Meredith Grey.' It's also a really beautiful story, and I think Ellen did amazing work on it and I'm really excited about it."

For fans fearing that Meredith may be the doctor whose life is in danger in the finale, as written in the episode's description, Rhimes would only tease, "We will see a doctor fighting for their life. We will leave the season with someone fighting for their life. There's plenty of jeopardy in the finale, there's a lot of pain, but there's also some joy. Unlike some seasons when there was no joy and only pain, there is some joy."

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