THURSDAYS 9|8c
Season 6
GREY'S ANATOMY - "Good Mourning" - "Grey's Anatomy" returns for its sixth season with a two-hour event on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. In the first hour, entitled "Good Mourning" (9:00-10:00 p.m.), the hospital staff is left to deal with the aftermath of George's passing. Hitting the staff hard, they all find unique ways to get through the various stages of grief. George's mom returns, faced with the difficult task of deciding what to do with his organs. In the second episode, entitled "Goodbye" (10:00-11:00 p.m.), time has passed... Everyone is struggling after losing one of their own and are turning to any distraction they can find. Meredith and Derek seem to be consummating their marriage anywhere and everywhere, while Cristina and Owen have been instructed to abstain from sex by Dr. Wyatt. (ABC/MICHAEL DESMOND)CHANDRA WILSON, DEBRA MONK, ERIC DANE, JAMES PICKENS JR., CHYLER LEIGH, KEVIN MCKIDD, MARK SAUL, JUSTIN CHAMBERS, ELLEN POMPEO, KATHERINE HEIGL, SHANNON LUCIO, PATRICK DEMPSEY
Good Mourning; Goodbye
Season 6 | Episode 1 | Aired 09/24/09

We've kept our fingers crossed for George and Izzie to pull through, so we gasp when Izzie opens her eyes! She's alive! But we're devastated to learn that there's no hope for George, who is brain dead. George's mother is too upset to decide whether to donate his organs and asks Callie to make the call. Alex wants to keep the news from Izzie, but Callie tells him his wife will never forgive him if she doesn't get the chance to say goodbye. We burst into tears along with Izzie when she holds George's unresponsive hand. And we worry as her new husband, Alex, looks on jealously. She decides that George would "give everything," and we fight back tears  as a donor team stands by to whisk his organs away, especially when a very emotional Miranda demands to know the names and ages of all the recipients, who are all (*sniff*) children.

We're not surprised that George's friends deal with their grief in different ways. "Newlyweds" Meredith and Derek have sex all over the house, to the consternation of their housemates, who find them, naked, on the stairs! Derek throws the keys to his trailer to Alex and Izzie and tells them, "Welcome to your new home!"

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  • GREY'S ANATOMY - "Goodbye" (ABC/ERIC MCCANDLESS) CHYLER LEIGH
  • GREY'S ANATOMY - "Goodbye" (ABC/ERIC MCCANDLESS) PATRICK DEMPSEY
  • GREY'S ANATOMY - "Goodbye" (ABC/ERIC MCCANDLESS) SANDRA OH
  • GREY'S ANATOMY - "Good Mourning" - "Grey's Anatomy" returns for its sixth season with a two-hour event on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. In the first hour, entitled "Good Mourning" (9:00-10:00 p.m.), the hospital staff is left to deal with the aftermath of George's passing. Hitting the staff hard, they all find unique ways to get through the various stages of grief. George's mom returns, faced with the difficult task of deciding what to do with his organs. In the second episode, entitled "Goodbye" (10:00-11:00 p.m.), time has passed... Everyone is struggling after losing one of their own and are turning to any distraction they can find. Meredith and Derek seem to be consummating their marriage anywhere and everywhere, while Cristina and Owen have been instructed to abstain from sex by Dr. Wyatt. (ABC/MICHAEL DESMOND) DEBRA MONK
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