{"id":547865,"date":"2026-03-27T05:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/547865\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T05:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:37:09","slug":"countdown-to-teddy-owens-exit-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/547865\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown To Teddy & Owen’s Exit Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the March 26 episode of ABC<\/a>\u2018s Grey\u2019s Anatomy, \u201cTake Me to the River.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn tonight\u2019s episode of Grey\u2019s Anatomy, the exit strategy for Owen (Kevin McKidd<\/a>) and Teddy (Kim Raver<\/a>) started to take shape, a controversial couple two seasons in the making became official and there was a surprise new pairing we didn\u2019t see coming (or thought we needed.)<\/p>\n

\n\tAll season long, since Teddy\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m choosing me\u201d breakup line to Owen in last May\u2019s finale, the two had shared the screen for only a few minutes here and there \u2014 glancing in passing at each other and their rebound flings, Nora (Owen) and Cass (Teddy), talking about their pending divorce and eventually signing the divorce papers, Teddy walking in on Owen and Nora in his trailer and, most recently, Owen giving Teddy a pep talk before a risky surgery and the two subsequently hooking up in Episode 2212, something they had repeated a couple of times since.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat changed in tonight\u2019s Episode 2215, the first since it was revealed that Raver and McKidd<\/a> will be leaving Grey\u2019s Anatomy in the upcoming Season 22 finale on May 7. As the writers are setting up their departure, Teddy and Owen got a lot of screen time as the two were paired up on a medical case for the first time this season. In one of the main plot lines of the episode, Teddy joined Owen (with Simone and rookie intern Dani tagging along) for a surgical field trip to a rural hospital.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere, Owen and Teddy got to team up for an impromptu surgery, which triggered fond memories of their time together in Iraq. As they bonded \u2014 emotionally and physically as their hands were literally on top of each other in a patient\u2019s chest cavity \u2014 Teddy was alarmed to find out that Owen had been offered a job at the hospital to build a surgical unit.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat gig looked like a potential sign where Owen might be going after leaving Grey Sloan in the finale but, to Teddy\u2019s relief, Owen turned down the offer (at least for now), leaving us guessing how the two characters would be written off. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe time was not right,\u201d Owen said, to which Teddy responded, \u201cThank god, I thought you were gonna leave me,\u201d in an apparent Freudian slip. She awkwardly tried to clarify that she meant him leaving Grey Sloan but it was pretty clear what she really was referring to, another sign of the pending reconciliation the now-divorced couple had been building toward over the last couple of episodes.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: All The Major Cast Departures In \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019 Over The Years<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAs Deadline reported, there are no plans for Owen and Teddy to be killed off, leaving the door open to future returns, with Grey\u2019s creator Shonda Rhimes<\/a> teasing a \u201chappy ending\u201d for them in the upcoming finale. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy: (L-R) Adelaide Kane, Anthony Hill <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDisney\/Anne Marie Fox<\/p>\n

\n\tIn other developments, Winston\u2019s (Anthony Hill) declaration of love to Jules (Adelaide Kane) and their first kiss at the end of the previous episode led to more kissing and him, under pressure from Jules, breaking up with Iris, the nurse he had been seeing \u2014 on the woman\u2019s birthday, no less.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is true that Grey\u2019s most iconic couple, Derek (Patrick Dempsey) and Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), also were an attending and an intern when they started their relationship (technically they didn\u2019t know of their workplace power dynamic during the one-night stand that proceeded it). Still, Winston being Jules\u2019 boss continues to make their romance problematic, something Winston addressed in his speech to her, which he started with \u201cI could be fired for everything I\u2019m about to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMaking things worse, Winston, who referred to himself as \u201cexemplary employee\u201d who \u201cfollows every rule,\u201d skipped over courting and small talk, asking Jules to have sex with him seconds after telling her that he had just broken up with his previous GF.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wanna take you out and then I wanna take you home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tGrey\u2019s Anatomy showrunner Meg Marinis addressed the Winston-Jules storyline<\/a> and its parallels to Derek and Meredith after the Season 21 finale last May. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think what we\u2019re trying to do here is show the evolution of Grey\u2019s,\u201d she said at the time. \u201cIn the beginning, it was Meredith and Derek, and we didn\u2019t talk about that being problematic, but 21 years later, we\u2019re now talking about how it is a problem to have an attraction to someone who is considered a mentee, and you\u2019re not supposed to have a romantic relationship between mentor and mentee.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for where the writers were looking to take Winston and Jules\u2019 dynamic, \u201cI think he\u2019s going to try to do the right thing and resist and only have a strictly teacher-student relationship. But we\u2019ll just have to know that it\u2019s Grey\u2019s Anatomy, so it\u2019s going to be difficult,\u201d she said last May.<\/p>\n

\n\tGoing back to tonight\u2019s episode, in one of the most surprising, out-of-nowhere hookups, the bumbling new intern Dani made a move on Lucas (Niko Tehro), still grieving patient Katie\u2019s death, who, somewhat inexplicably, jumped into bed with her right away.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019: (L-R) Michael Weston, Harry Shum Jr., Chandra Wilson<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDisney\/Anne Marie Fox<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd in another shocking development, Kwan (Harry Shum, Jr.) implanted an experimental synthetic lymph node into a dying single father (Michael Weston) as a last-ditch effort to save his life, committing a crime since the treatment had not been approved by the FDA and defying Bailey\u2019s direct orders, leaving her to clean up the mess.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are three more episodes of Grey\u2019s Anatomy this season, on April 2, April 30 and May 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the March 26 episode of ABC\u2018s Grey\u2019s Anatomy, \u201cTake Me to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1855,88,33106,243241,243242,65661,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-547865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-greys-anatomy","11":"tag-kevin-mckidd","12":"tag-kim-raver","13":"tag-shonda-rhimes","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}