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"You're not a victim, Andrew. You're an accomplice. You knew what Dad was doing to those patients—the unnecessary surgeries, the insurance scams. You covered for him for years. Alex's fists didn't make Dad a monster. He already was one."

Meredith looks at Samira. "You didn't run." Samira: "Neither did you."

"The wake-up call isn't the moment you fall. It's the moment you decide to get up. And sometimes... you need someone else to remind you that you still can."

confronts Andrew in the locker room.

Cut to , staring at a letter of resignation on her desk— her own . Teaser: Meredith is in surgery, but she's distracted. The patient is a young father with a brain aneurysm. As she dissects, she flashes back to the night of Alex's arrest—the way she lied to the police to protect him. The way DeLuca's father swore he'd destroy them all.

"You beat a man, Alex. A father. Because he said something ugly about me. That's not love. That's self-destruction." Alex: "I'm not insane, Jo. I just... broke. And I don't know how to put the pieces back."

But the avalanche has a ticking clock: a second slide is predicted within 90 minutes. The hospital is on lockdown. To save Nina's baby, Meredith must perform a perimortem C-section outside —with a headlamp and a scalpel. Grey-s Anatomy- 13-1 13-- Temporada - Episodio 1...

calls Jo from jail. Alex: "I'm taking the plea. But I need you to wait for me." Jo says nothing. Just hangs up.

"Not now." Main Plot A: The Avalanche A mass casualty event hits: a tour bus returning from Mount Rainier has been caught in an early-season avalanche. 17 injured, 4 critical. Among them is a pregnant woman, Nina , and her estranged sister, Dr. Samira Khan , a renowned trauma surgeon who left Grey Sloan five years ago after a falling out with Meredith.

"Nick? It's me. I'm ready to talk."

Tag Scene (Post-Credits): Catherine Fox is in a private jet, watching news footage of the avalanche. She dials Richard.

and Samira are forced to work together in a makeshift triage tent. The tension is immediate.

"I'm coming back to Seattle. Not for you. For the hospital. Because if Bailey thinks she can handle the DeLuca lawsuit alone, she's forgotten who built that place." "You're not a victim, Andrew

"You still operate like you're trying to outrun something, Grey." Meredith: "And you still run away the second things get hard. Oh wait—you already did that."

"I don't care about the past, Amelia. I care about the future. Yours. Mine. And this baby's—no matter whose it is."