I said to a friend today, regarding this finale, that I was happy not to be recapping everyone getting shot again like last year. But it turns out that there was plenty of depressing business to go around in this season finale nonetheless. The repercussions of Alex's drunken announcement that Mere tampered with the trial come swiftly. She refuses to tell anyone exactly what she did but since they force Alex to give details about what he saw and on what date, Richard realizes that Mere screwed with things so that Adele could get the medicine. Because of this he suspends rather than fires her, and even takes some of the responsibility because he knows he put a lot of pressure on her to make sure Adele would be okay. Derek is understandably livid that his trial is likely now totally ruined but what makes it worse for him is that Meredith maintains she would do the same thing again given the chance. He thinks she can't tell the difference between right and wrong while she maintains that not every situation is so black and white. (In fact, you might say this is a grey area...) Derek decides that this means Meredith might be a horrible mother after all, so he takes off to sulk by himself. This leaves Meredith alone to receive the news that they have been granted temporary custody of Zola and the authorities are working to make it permanent. She takes Zola home, hoping to find Derek there, but the house is empty. Alex's room has been cleared per her orders earlier in the day -- Alex feels awful about what happened and wants to take it back but obviously that's not possible -- and everyone else is out too. She's finally joined by Cristina but they decamp to their own floors of the house since Cristina can't deal with being around a baby given her own crappy day.

She's having a pretty huge baby issue of her own, namely that she finds out she is six weeks pregnant. She tells Owen and immediately wants to end the pregnancy, but he manages to get her to at least have a few stilted conversations with him on the topic. She tries to talk to Mere about it, but Mere keeps getting pulled away into her own drama so Cristina has to figure this out herself and she does, ultimately not even including Owen in the decision. She comes home and tells him that she scheduled an abortion; he's beyond angry because Cristina wouldn't let him be a part of her decision making. He's so mad that he actually kicks her out of their house, which leaves her finishing this season sad on Meredith's sofa like she's been so many times before.

Because of what happened with Mere and Alex, and because Jackson dropped out of the running, April is awarded Chief Resident kind of by default. She doesn't have time to enjoy it, though, because there is a plane crash and the doctors all jump into gear to handle all of the patients that will be coming in. Sadly, after a while of nothing happening, they realize no patients will be coming because everyone has died. Instead of working on patients the doctors all have to tell multiple families that their loved ones have died. Ultimately, there is one lone survivor -- an unaccompanied minor -- and the few grieving families that are still at the hospital decide to stay there for her while she's in surgery, at least until her mom arrives. It's heartbreaking and heartwarming all at the same time.

Thank goodness that the hospital happens to have trauma counselor extraordinaire Andrew Perkins there to help out, and he and Teddy delay their departure to Germany for a day to assist at the hospital. Teddy spends a lot of time trying to hang out with Henry who is in for another surgery, but Henry finally has had enough and tells her to just go away because she broke his heart and she's making it worse by trying to be buddies with him. She's pretty devastated by this but her emotions, combined with the clarity that mass casualties can bring, make her realize that Henry is awesome and she's actually falling in love with him, not with Andrew. She runs back to his room and they share an awesome kiss.

Mark and Avery are teamed up as trauma buddies and when Mark gripes about it, Owen tells him what Avery did for the Chief's trial. Mark realizes Avery is a good guy after all and so he tells Avery that he's stepping off and "giving" him Lexie. When Lexie finds out she's appropriately appalled, and she goes to see Mark to tell him to leave her alone to just be happy with Avery. She admits that if Mark kept pressing she'd eventually go back to him, but she doesn't want that. However, it's hard for her to walk away at the end of their conversation and if I were Avery, I wouldn't feel so totally confident in this relationship making it for the long haul.

Also uncertain for the long haul: Meredith and Derek. It's not clear if he even knows that they got Zola since he refuses to take any of Meredith's calls and instead goes and sleeps on the concrete slab that is supposed to one day soon be their home, where he can watch the stars and ponder if he now really wants a life with her after all.

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