Grey's Anatomy
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GREY'S ANATOMY - "If/Then" - As Meredith puts Zola to bed and falls asleep, she begins to wonder -- what if her mother had never had Alzheimer's and she'd had loving, supportive parents? The reverberations of a happy Meredith Grey change the world of Seattle Grace as we know it. What if she had never met Derek in that bar and he had never separated from Addison? What if Callie and Owen had become a couple long before she met Arizona? And what if Bailey never evolved from the meek intern she once was? "Grey's Anatomy" airs THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/VIVIAN ZINK)ELLEN POMPEO, JUSTIN CHAMBERS
If/Then
Season 8 | Episode 13 | Aired 02/2/12

We all ask ourselves the "what if" question. Let's now take a look at the way things could have been at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital.

Ellis Grey never got Alzheimer's. She married Richard Webber and became head of Seattle Grace where her daughter works. Callie and Owen are married with children. She's a heart surgeon and he's coping with some PTSD from the war by having online chats with someone named Teddy. Derek is an underachiever who is married to a pregnant Addison. Bailey is a soft-spoken, timid doc. Seriously!

Meredith Webber shows her sparkly new engagement ring to her person—April. Who is she to marry? Why that would be an overly-enthusiastic Alex Karev. Did you catch how we said April is Mer's person? That's because Cristina is an angry island who has alienated all of her colleagues. This includes Dr. Charles Percy, who did NOT die in a hospital shootout. He's alive and well and smitten with a supremely-uninterested April.

There's some reminiscing about the days when Cristina slept with Preston Burke, who eventually fled the state. There's talk of the time a crazy lady named Izzie stole a transplant heart for a patient she was sleeping with. Iz was fired after Meredith turned her in. Alex recalls a guy named George, call him 007, who failed his intern exam and was never heard from again. Funny how things work out, isn't it?

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  • GREY'S ANATOMY - "If/Then" - As Meredith puts Zola to bed and falls asleep, she begins to wonder -- what if her mother had never had Alzheimer's and she'd had loving, supportive parents? The reverberations of a happy Meredith Grey change the world of Seattle Grace as we know it. What if she had never met Derek in that bar and he had never separated from Addison? What if Callie and Owen had become a couple long before she met Arizona? And what if Bailey never evolved from the meek intern she once was? "Grey's Anatomy" airs THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/VIVIAN ZINK) SARAH DREW, ELLEN POMPEO, SANDRA OH
  • GREY'S ANATOMY - "If/Then" - As Meredith puts Zola to bed and falls asleep, she begins to wonder -- what if her mother had never had Alzheimer's and she'd had loving, supportive parents? The reverberations of a happy Meredith Grey change the world of Seattle Grace as we know it. What if she had never met Derek in that bar and he had never separated from Addison? What if Callie and Owen had become a couple long before she met Arizona? And what if Bailey never evolved from the meek intern she once was? "Grey's Anatomy" airs THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/VIVIAN ZINK) KATE WALSH, PATRICK DEMPSEY
  • GREY'S ANATOMY - "If/Then" - As Meredith puts Zola to bed and falls asleep, she begins to wonder -- what if her mother had never had Alzheimer's and she'd had loving, supportive parents? The reverberations of a happy Meredith Grey change the world of Seattle Grace as we know it. What if she had never met Derek in that bar and he had never separated from Addison? What if Callie and Owen had become a couple long before she met Arizona? And what if Bailey never evolved from the meek intern she once was? "Grey's Anatomy" airs THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/VIVIAN ZINK) ELLEN POMPEO, JUSTIN CHAMBERS
  • GREY'S ANATOMY - "If/Then" - As Meredith puts Zola to bed and falls asleep, she begins to wonder -- what if her mother had never had Alzheimer's and she'd had loving, supportive parents? The reverberations of a happy Meredith Grey change the world of Seattle Grace as we know it. What if she had never met Derek in that bar and he had never separated from Addison? What if Callie and Owen had become a couple long before she met Arizona? And what if Bailey never evolved from the meek intern she once was? "Grey's Anatomy" airs THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/VIVIAN ZINK) KATE WALSH, PATRICK DEMPSEY
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