Richard’s Retirement Story Hides Grey’s Anatomy Season 21 True Major Crisis

Warning! Spoilers about Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 2 ahead.

Richard’s retirement was heavily hinted at Gray’s Anatomy
Season 20’s ending, but Season 21, Episodes 1 and 2’s developments reveal another major impending crisis, one Richard can’t see clearly because of his focus on retiring. The Seattle Wildfires season 20 finale prompted Gray Sloan Memorial to request all hands on deck, prompting Richard to perform a difficult emergency surgery even if a few days earlier he would have avoided the OR. Richard involving Yasuda and Millin in the repair made Ndugu think the interns’ mistake Killed the patient, but it was later revealed that the mistake was Richard’s.

Richard comes clean with Winston Ndugu about his mistake in the OR Gray’s Anatomy Season 20 reintroduced Richard’s retirement story, despite various Gray’s Anatomy Surgeons made many mistakes over the years that killed patients. however, Richard was determined to see his mistake as a damning one that should have ended his career, solely due to his age.. This led Winston to push Richard to be in the OR with him because he wanted to show Richard that he could still work on patients and it was not his time to retire if it was not Richard’s wish to do so.

Grey’s Anatomy Season 21, Episode 2 Hints Richard’s Surgical Skills Are Not His Biggest Problem

Ndugu’s behavior establishes how only Richard doubts his surgical skills

Gray’s Anatomy The season 21 premiere finally turned the tide on Richard’s trust in the OR. While Richard spent Gray’s Anatomy Season 21, Episode 1 Reluctant to be in the OR and work on the patient, his approach was fundamental to saving him. Indeed, if Richard had not been in the OR with Winston, he would not have realized how to approach the bleeding, Proving Richard’s expertise as the thing that made it possible for Winston to save the patient in the end. While Richard was in his head, worrying about his supposedly declining skills, Winston wanted to learn from him.

Gray’s Anatomy Season 21, Episode 2 possibly convinces Richard that Winston is telling the truth. Indeed, playing golf with Lucas and Winston and winning, only to have the energy to play some more, made it evident that Winston was right when he saw Richard’s endurance and concentration as matchless. While Richard didn’t exactly show interest in returning to the OR in Gray’s Anatomy Season 21 Episode 2’s End, He gave Teddy back her job as principal, hinting at his choice to release his plan with a potential return to the OR..

Catherine’s health is the biggest story of Grey’s Anatomy Season 21

Richard will have to deal with Catherine’s refusal to involve him

Richard’s focus on his worries about retirement let him miss what was going on in Catherine’s life. While his newfound clarity in Gray’s Anatomy Season 21, Episode 2 moved his attention back to his wife’s silence, prompting him to involve her in his singing because of his good mood, Richard didn’t know Catherine’s secret yet. Although Gray’s Anatomy Season 20’s finale introduced Richard’s retirement as his next major crisis, season 21’s premiere revealed his next major hurdle involved Catherine’s worsening condition and her refusal to tell him about it.

Katherine collapses in front of Meredith Gray’s Anatomy The premiere of season 21 already indicated something bad, but the tests that Meredith had Catherine undergo only confirmed how her death could be impending. Catherine seemed resigned to it, and certainly she did not want to let her loved ones know about it, effectively Making Richard’s biggest problem the potential death of his wife and his unpreparedness for itAs Catherine is determined to keep her liver problems private in Gray’s Anatomy Season 21.

Gray’s Anatomy Season 21 releases new episodes every Thursday at 10pm ET on ABC.