"Fear (of the Unknown)" | |
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Grey's Anatomy episode | |
Cristina (Sandra Oh) and Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) dance it out one last time.
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Episode no. | Season 10 Episode 24 |
Directed by | Tony Phelan |
Written by | William Harper |
Original air date | May 15, 2014 |
Running time | 43 minutes |
"Fear (of the Unknown) " is the twenty fourth episode and the season finale of the tenth season of the American television medical drama Grey's Anatomy, and is the 220th episode overall. It aired on May 15, 2014 on ABC in the United States. The episode was written by William Harper and directed by Tony Phelan. On its initial airing it was watched by 8.92 million viewers. The episode marked the departure of one of lead characters, Cristina Yang, played by Sandra Oh since the inception of the series. The episode focuses on Yang as she prepares to say her goodbyes to the doctors at Grey-Sloan Memorial hospital including her best friend Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and her love interest Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) and leave for Zurich for her new job. The episode received generally positive reviews with Oh's performance receiving enormous praise.
Amidst Yang's departure a catastrophe occurs at a nearby mall bringing loads of patients to Grey-Sloan. Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) asks Meredith to move to D.C. with her for his new job. Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez) and Arizona Robbins (Jessica Capshaw) consider having a surrogate mother carry their child while April Kepner (Sarah Drew) is nervous about raising her own child with Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams). Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) is nominated for a position at Board to replace Cristina who instead left the seat for Alex Karev (Justin Chambers). Also, Leah Murphy (Tessa Ferrer) is fired from her job and Shane Ross (Gaius Charles) and Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.) meets with Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary), and finds out that her birth mother was Ellis Grey.