It’s all very healthy and good and it made me very suspicious that something awful was coming because, hi, this is Grey’s Anatomy. They are going to tell Bailey and Alex and get her the help she needs. She knows that she only survived that because the people who loved her took care of her, and now she’ll do the same for Jo. Remember that Meredith? This is not that Meredith. She brings up that whole ordeal when she fell into the Sound during the ferry boat crash (there are a lot of historical Grey’s callbacks tonight - shout out to the Judy Doll heads!) and decided to stop fighting.
It’s a lovely scene and I know it’s about Jo, but I couldn’t help being proud of Meredith and how far she’s come. She’s taken the darkness from her life and turned it into something good, into helping others work through their own darkness. But Meredith, proving that she is for sure the one who needed to handle this, reminds Jo that she’s a survivor. Jo believes everything she suffered at the hands of Paul was her “inheritance” - that violence is her birthright. Jo tests that theory out: Does Meredith know what it feels like to know your mother was raped by your father? To know you wear the face of a rapist? Meredith doesn’t know what to say to that, but she lets Jo talk. She’s been through so many awful things! If you could get a PhD in surviving awful things, Meredith would have four of them. Meredith tries to get Jo to understand that she’s probably the most qualified person to hear about whatever awful thing happened.
But hiding is not the only reason Meredith is there. The last person she said “I love you” to was Derek and well, you know. Part of the reason Meredith is so eager to shirk all responsibilities and sleep at Jo’s is because she’s avoiding DeLuca after his big declaration of love last week. On a positive note, there is one person who has been trapped for what feels like years, but is finally free: Yes, that’s right - Alex sends Meredith in to see if she has any luck figuring out what’s going on with Jo and it works. We’re trapped waiting until next week to get some answers, and our doctors are trapped by the most fog I’ve ever seen descend upon a city, the physics behind hyperbaric chambers, and dumb, chivalrous lies. Friends, I had prepped this whole intro about how “Drawn to the Blood,” although clearly getting the major players in place for the season finale (you know Grey’s knows how to pull off season finales) was a tad on the boring side, but then the last five minutes happened and my brain exploded inside my skull.
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