A Penny for your thoughts on Grey’s Anatomy Season 12 Episode 6, fans?
Get it? A Penny? In honor of Derek’s quasi killer? Nothing? Crickets? Okay, moving on to a recap…
Meredith (and Amelia) opened the hour by being less than pleased that Penny was about to start working at Grey Sloan.
And it didn’t help matter when (wouldn’t you know it?!?) Bailty assigned the transfer student to the service of the General Surgery Chief.
As Julia Roberts might have someday side: Big mistake. HUGE.
Despite the comedic material present in a case that centered on a pastor who fell down the stairs after mistakenly sending his sex tape to his congregation, Meredith didn’t even crack a smile when Penny made a joke.
She told Amelia that she was trying to “rise above,” but she wasn’t exactly succeeding.
It didn’t help when Penny later messed up a bit and when Richard admitted he knew her connection to Derek; she was just the best hire.
After Penny placed the pastor’s life in danger through a mistake, Meredith finally snapped:
“You froze in the OR, you screwed up his post-op care… Is there any part of this job that you can handle?!?”
Later on, however, Callie gave Meredith a talking-to about being a “bully,” prompting Meredith to enter a chapel and talk to Derek. (With Alex showing up to offer support.)
At the end of the episode, Meredith acknowledged that Derek likely would have been a fan of Penny; Callie swapped spit with her girlfriend; and Meredith paged to say she wants Penny on her service for the duration of the week.
Elsewhere, Martin Henderson made his debut as Nathan Riggs, a cardiothoracic surgeon who met April overseas.
He got in the middle of a fight between April and Jackson over a patient (“This isn’t about you two!”), only for viewers to later learn that he and Owen share some kind of unfriendly past.
How do we know? Because Owen ordered the new doctor to get the Hell out of the hospital as quickly as possible.
Based on the following preview for Grey’s Anatomy Season 12 Episode 7, it sure looks like this rivalry will continue to play a key role next Thursday night:
Check out the above teaser and ask yourself: How is there only one episode remaining until the winter finale?!?!?!?!?