'Grey's Anatomy' Tackled Human Trafficking and Systemic Racism in the Midseason Finale

It was an intense episode of 'Grey's Anatomy' which used to be a 'Grey's' and 'Station 19' crossover that dealt with human trafficking and police brutality in opposition to Black people. Let's speak about.

Spoiler alert: If you have not watched the fresh episode of Grey's Anatomy, you have been warned!

Tonight's midseason finale of Grey's Anatomy was a Grey's/Station 19 crossover episode which was extraordinarily intense. While Meredith was once reputedly getting higher, she relapsed. It wasn't... exactly a contented episode. In fact, enthusiasts are nonetheless reeling from several plotlines, which come with human trafficking and systemic racism and police brutality. It's a lot to unpack.

First: 'Grey's Anatomy' and human trafficking.

If you will have been keeping up with Station 19, then you might be familiar with certainly one of the most evil characters to exist on cable TV: Bob, a person who abducted two Black teen girls who ignited his basement and had been rescued through the Station 19 workforce. Bob and the kid trafficking sufferers had been delivered to Grey Sloan's for remedy. Bob attempted to persuade everyone that the women had damaged into his area and set it one fire, but nobody purchased it. "You're the devil's barbecue, so get used to the smell of burning flesh," Hunt mentioned, earlier than Bob passes out. And then we see Opal, a intercourse trafficker who snuck her method in.

But there is much more to the human trafficking plotline, which truly simplest comes in combination if you happen to watch both Station 19 and Grey's. During Station 19, the staff hears a lady close to Maya's home crying for lend a hand even though they are not on obligation. The Black lady is yelling that her daughter and daughter's buddy are being held hostage in a white man's house who may not let the girl come in as a result of the teenagers were "harassing" him. The girl discovered the location her daughter used to be located through her daughter's Fitbit.

The police arrive, but they're now not there to help the lady, they're treating her as though she's the one causing the bother. The off-duty crew get to the scene has rapid as imaginable to see what they may be able to do. And that is when they odor the fire — the girls have lit a fire in the basement in order to get somebody's attention. This made it so Dean and Sullivan pass within the area and rescue the women, who are imprisoned inside the room.

The girls admitted they did set hearth to the basement in order to get out, so Sullivan and Dean then get arrested along side the teen's mother for "assaulting" a police officer. Luckily, Jackson bail the mom out when later they be informed what happened in the Grey's Anatomy episode, but it's traumatizing to watch play out nevertheless. 

Barrett Doss, who plays Vic, stated, "Obviously Sullivan and Dean are dealing with the immediate trauma of this experience of a violent arrest and the other characters are witnessing it, in addition, of course to the actual call which [involved] sexual violence and the abduction of young Black women. It wasn't just any scene. It was already a charged, emotional call to be on. We don't just have to fight against the elements or the fire or the actual danger of the situation— were are also fighting against the people who are supposed to be helping us," consistent with E!.

Another pivotal second: Koracick sneaks into Meredith's room and told her, "I just wanted to see for myself that it's possible to beat this thing. I just wanted to be in a room where nobody's dying...'cause everybody's dying." Meanwhile, Ameila tells Maggie she may have let Bob the youngster kidnapper die, but she didn't (due to like, ethical causes as a health care provider). 

Maggie stated the real drawback used to be that "the monsters that got us here...the many reasons that Black girls are more vulnerable in the first place and rarely seen as victims." She went on, announcing "Now, there's a plague that is killing Black people at a rate that should make everyone outraged. If COVID were killing white people at the rate that it is killing Black people, you better believe that everyone would be wearing masks because it would be the damn law." 

Everyone, please take a second to applaud this. While it's been a hell of season (and just this episode on my own just about broke us), we nonetheless don't know what we're going to do without Grey's until March. 

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