"Grey"s Anatomy" Big Plot Season Takeaways
Grey's Anatomy Season 1
- An introduction to Meredith Grey, the rest of the interns, and the surrounding staff
- Meredith and Derek begin a relationship
- The interns have crazy medical cases to work on
Grey's Anatomy Season 2
- Addison shows up and Derek and Meredith break off their relationship
- Everyone, including the daddy, Burke, finds out Cristina is pregnant when she passes out during surgery
- Izzie forms a relationship with her patient, Denny Dequette, and cuts his LVAD wires to get him a heart
Grey's Anatomy Season 3
- A ferry boat accident brings Alex close to a pregnant patient who doesn't know who she is
- Meredith dies and comes back to life
- George marries Callie, and Burke leaves Cristina at the altar
Grey's Anatomy Season 4
- The interns become first year residents, except for George because he failed his intern exam by one point
- Meredith and Derek are not a couple, but continue sleeping together until he begins dating Rose
- Derek and Meredith work on a clinical trial together
Grey's Anatomy Season 5
- Everyone is upset because the hospital fell from being ranked number 2 to being ranked number 12
- The interns practice procedures on each other (including an appendectomy on Sadie that goes horribly wrong)
- Izzie hallucinates Denny and then finds out she has cancer
Grey's Anatomy Season 6
- Izzie gets healthier and leaves Alex; She returns, but he knows he deserves better
- Babies: Mark's pregnant daughter shows up and he really wants the baby, but they give him up for adoption; Callie and Arizona break up because Callie wants kids and Arizona doesn't; Meredith discovers she is pregnant, but before she can tell Derek, he gets shot and she loses the baby
- A shooter in the hospital kills several people including Reed and Percy; He injures Alex and Derek.