[There are major spoilers ahead for Grey's Anatomy's season 17 premiere. If you haven't watched the episode in its entirety, please exit this post for your own sake!! ]As a quick recap, toward the very end of the episode, Meredith collapses in the parking lot of Grey Sloan after a particularly troubling shift in the COVID ward.
As she's unconscious on the pavement, she falls into a dream sequence that seems like it's supposed to signify the bridge between life and death, and in that dream sequence, standing on that beach is...
the one and only Derek Shepherd, as a ghost, or figment of her imagination, or angel, whatever you want to call it. It was a shock so great that I had to physically remove my jaw from the floor.
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