Grey’s Anatomy Season 21 Reveals How 1st Major Character Exit Will Happen (And It’s Going Awful)

Warning! Spoilers about Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 3 ahead.

Two capital letters are set to exit Gray’s Anatomy
In season 21, and one worrying development in season 21, episode 3 probably kickstarted the storyline leading to the departure of one of them. The main stories in Gray’s Anatomy Season 21, episode 3 continued to revolve around Katherine and Meredith’s feud and Meredith and Miranda following Katherine as a patient, but the episode also introduced interesting new developments with Nick and Amelia’s motivated surgeries. Another unexpected and Poor situation is nevertheless revealed in Gray’s Anatomy Season 21, Episode 3, and it impacted multiple storylines and affected one character in particular.

Good before Gray’s Anatomy The release of season 21, the exits of Jake Borelli and Midori Francis from the show were announced, making it imperative for season 21 to tackle what will prompt their characters Levi Schmitt and Mika Yasuda to leave Gray Sloan. Although it is unclear how Louis could be persuaded to leave a hospital that was so central to his growth, One detail revealed in Gray’s Anatomy Season 21, episode 3 just introduced a major crisis for Mika. The crisis in question may affect Mika enough to leave Gray Sloan Memorial, especially since the hospital will play a key role.

Chloe Yasuda’s illness set up Mika’s Grey’s Anatomy exit

Chloe’s shocking diagnosis can make Mika reevaluate her whole life

Mika Yasuda spent the best part of Gray’s Anatomy Season 21, Episode 3 In her own head after she disappeared as Sidney Heron gave the interns their assignments, even lashing out at Jo and Amelia when they were fighting in the middle of Rhiannon’s surgery. The end of the episode eventually clarified why the phone call affected her so much, with Jules and Mika’s heart-to-heart revealing how Mika just learned that her sister Chloe was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at age 22. This revelation thus explained both Mika’s behavior and her request to speak with Teddy in private.

Chloe’s appearance in Gray’s Anatomy Season 21, Episode 4’s trailer highlights even more the severity of the situation based on Richard’s words. This shows how Chloe’s cancer may be what triggers Mika to leave Gray Sloan Memorial. Indeed, with showrunner Meg Marinis revealing how Levi and Mika could both return (via Deadline), Mika’s departure involving her death is all but ruled out. However, the serious illness of someone as close as her little sister can be life-changing enough to change her life, whether Chloe lives or dies, which makes it more likely that the diagnosis will prompt Mika to leave Gray Sloan.

Grey’s Anatomy has a history of characters experiencing Mika’s crisis

Many relatives of Grey’s Anatomy doctors have ended up at Gray Sloan as patients

Assuming Chloe will die based on Gray’s Anatomy Season 21, episode 4’s trailer and Mika’s reaction would be too hasty, but all the doctors in Gray Sloan who faced Mika’s problems were without a close relative at the end of the story arc. The trend is established in Gray’s Anatomy Season 3 with the heartbreaking death of George O’Malley’s father After his health declined for days when he was treated in Seattle Grace, but the medical drama sadly kept it up even in the last seasons. Indeed, Alex’s father also died after being treated at Gray Sloan.

More recently, Maggie’s fight with her mother about how to deal with her illness in her last days was difficult enough to make the episode of her death in season 13 one of Gray’s Anatomys saddest episodes. Finally, the death of Bailey’s mother from Covid-19 Gray’s Anatomy Season 17 also happened in Gray Sloan, cementing the admission to the hospital of his doctors close relatives similar to a death sentence in the medical drama. This makes it more likely for Chloe Yasuda to die in Gray’s Anatomy Season 21, thus fully justifying Mika’s disappearance from Gray Sloan Memorial.

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

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