![]() ![]() Step one: Fire that terrible crisis-management woman (sorry! She is probably very good at getting results, it’s just like, read the room lady!). So after they kick ass in surgery, going all in on that face tumor and changing Diego’s life, Jackson and Meredith come up with a plan to do just that. Meredith warns him that to rebuild that foundation, Jackson will first have to break it all the way down. Of course Jackson wants to help the victims, and he can do that through the foundation. Jackson and Meredith have always shared a special bond, both understanding what it is like to be a surgeon with a family legacy following them around, and now they have something else in common: Harper Avery is undoing all of the hard work done by their strong-willed, boundary-breaking mothers. That he ruined lives and suffered no consequences. But really, they are both angry about the same thing: that this privileged man hurt so many people and got away with it. Even after they almost lose the surgery because the charity doesn’t want to be associated with the Avery name and Meredith defends Jackson, they argue. If the foundation goes under, it affects more than just people with the Avery name. Jackson isn’t trying to be callous or self-serving here (later, when April reassures Maggie that she’s dating a really good guy, she means it), he is thinking about the 72 hospitals that the foundation funds, and the people who work there. The dozens of women who were hurt by Harper Avery sure don’t. ![]() Who cares about the foundation, she remarks. She knows he is playing it safe in order to avoid more bad press for the foundation. Meredith is the perfect person to pair Jackson up with in this situation because she is REAL MAD, both about the terrible things Harper Avery did to women, and the fact that the award she worked her entire life for is tarnished - she isn’t afraid to call Jackson on his bullshit. A full resection now is better for Diego in the long run. It is risky, but surgery is always risky. Meredith, on the other hand, thinks the best course of action is to do a full resection of the tumor. It’s why he wants to do a less invasive surgery on Diego, have a good outcome, and deliver something positive to the press. Okay, Meredith genuinely wants to help - Jackson does have the fate of the entire Avery Foundation weighing on him and he knows this surgery could be beneficial to him. But their attitude changes once they meet Diego and his face tumor. Neither Jackson nor his surgical partner, Meredith Grey, are happy about this slimeball move. Yes, they are using children with life-threatening tumors in their faces to make the Averys look a little better. Jackson doesn’t have much time to persuade his mother otherwise, as he is given his own job: a PR-friendly surgery on a very nice boy from Venezuela who has been brought to the U.S. This doesn’t sit well with Jackson, who doesn’t want to see a strong black woman take the fall for a rich white man. For Catherine, it is simple: She’ll take the blame. Since there is no way in hell the Averys are going to blame the victims, many of whom left medicine because of what happened to them, they need to come up with another plan. The situation is getting out of control (the doctors finding out that Jackson secretly funded the Innovation Contest and then entered it doesn’t help ease tensions, either). ![]() ![]() There are reporters swarming the parking lot, Meredith Grey is returning both her and her mother’s Harper Avery Awards, and a ruthless crisis manager is advising Catherine to attack her father-in-law’s victims - who, by episode’s end, total 37. Although Grey Sloan Memorial is perpetually in crisis mode, this time it feels different. ![]()
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