Here's where all of your favorite characters finish up on 'Grey's Beefcake' season 16

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Here's what's happening on "Grayness'southward Anatomy" for anyone who isn't caught upward.
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  • ABC'due south "Grey's Anatomy" returns on Thursday with its 17th season.
  • The 16th season left fans with a lot of questions and heartbreaking moments.
  • Warning: Spoilers for season 16 of "Grey's Beefcake" ahead
  • Meredith Grey ended the season in the middle of a love triangle, and characters like Jo Karev, Jackson Avery, and Levi Schmitt were single past the final episode.
  • Richard Webber underwent a lifesaving surgery and Amelia Shepherd gave birth to a infant boy.
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On Thursday, ABC'due south "Grey'due south Beefcake" will return for its 17th flavour.

Previously, flavor 16's finale left fans with a lot of questions and surprise twists. The season was originally supposed to accept 25 episodes, simply amidst the coronavirus pandemic, production close down in March, meaning the show came to an stop four episodes early.

Read on to come across what all of the master "Grey's Beefcake" characters are up to by the end of season sixteen.

Alert: Spoilers for season xvi of "Grey'due south Beefcake" ahead.

Meredith Grey has a new beloved interest and a new beloved triangle.

Meredith Grey is starting flavour 17 with a potential new suitor and feelings for an old one.
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Meredith Grayness (Ellen Pompeo) had quite the intense season.

The season began with her completing community-service hours after she was caught committing insurance fraud — she'd lied on a form to help a young girl who had cancer but no means to pay for the treatment.

Merely she kept leaving in the middle of her shifts to go check on her quondam patients, which led to her spending a couple of days in jail for not meeting her community-service requirements.

She also faced potentially losing her medical license but was saved at the last minute when several of her colleagues and former patients vouched for her.

On the romantic side of things, she and Andrew DeLuca (Giacomo Gianniotti) broke upwards, and Meredith began a flirtationship with the new pediatric surgeon and widower Cormac Hayes (Richard Alluvion). He had been sent to the infirmary by Meredith's best friend, Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh), clearly in a bid to try to set up the two of them up.

By the finale, Meredith agreed to grab drinks with Cormac at a later date — but on her way out of the hospital, she stumbled across a visibly upset Andrew and stopped to help him and bring him home.

Richard Webber nearly died of a mysterious illness, but got a lifesaving surgery during the finale.

Richard Webber's mysterious ailment was figured out.
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Afterward being fired during season 15 for not reporting Meredith'southward insurance fraud, Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.) went to work at a new hospital called Pac-North with Alex Karev (Justin Chambers), who had also been fired.

But after an argument with his wife, Catherine Fox (Debbie Allen), led to her ownership Pac-North and shutting it downward, Richard returned to Greyness-Sloan.

He and then began exhibiting signs of illness, including shaky hands, then he stepped dorsum from surgery. Eventually, his mystery illness progressed to numbness in his legs and mental disorientation.

None of the doctors could effigy out what was incorrect with him but, during the finale, Richard finally got a diagnosis, courtesy of Andrew DeLuca.

Richard was suffering cobalt toxicity from a prior hip replacement. He underwent surgery to repair the hip and woke upwards alert and with his memory back.

Unfortunately for Catherine, that meant he also remembered that he was mad at her, and he threw her out of his recovery room.

After a serial of niggling moves, Catherine Fox was spurned by her husband.

Catherine Pull a fast one on ended the season on a low note.
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Afterwards ownership and dissolving Pac-North led to a huge rift in her marriage with Richard, the two decided to separate. At i indicate, she asked for him to accept her dorsum, but he refused.

When Catherine learned that Richard was sick, she immediately came and sat by his bedside. Once he was out of surgery and feeling amend, he remained aroused with her — even though she was prepare to put the by behind them.

Miranda Bailey became a foster parent and helped Amelia get through intense labor.

Miranda Bailey is at present a foster mom.
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Early during season 16, Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) experienced a miscarriage.

As she began to movement forward with her life over again, she found herself taken by a teenage foster child who was being treated at the hospital. The teenager had younger siblings who he was scared of losing, and Miranda promised him she'd do everything she could to make certain he could stay in touch with them.

Without asking her hubby first, Miranda decided to let the immature teen movement in with their family. This was briefly a point of contention for her and her husband, merely they worked through it.

During the finale, she as well helped Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone) requite birth — just equally George O'Malley (T.R. Knight) one time did for Miranda during season 2.

Alex Karev left Seattle to be a father and to be with Izzie Stevens.

Alex Karev won't exist back on season 17.
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Actor Justin Chambers left the prove midway through season 16, so his graphic symbol, Alex Karev, had to be given an off-screen exit.

Using a mix of voiceover and letters, the showrunners had Alex leave Seattle to exist with his ex-wife Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl). She now had 5-year-one-time twins, who turned out to have been fathered past Alex.

He said goodbye to his Gray-Sloan colleagues and current wife Jo Karev (Camilla Luddington) via the personal letters, explaining his decision to stay with Izzie and be a present father for his kids.

Jo Karev ended the season unmarried, and focused on her career.

Jo Karev might not be keeping her new concluding name, either.
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During the commencement of the flavour, Jo was working on her mental wellness in an outpatient facility.

Once she returned to Grey-Sloan, this fourth dimension finally as an attending dr., things seemed to be looking up for her and Alex's relationship — the couple even renewed their vows.

Merely Alex left a few episodes later, leaving Jo heartbroken and without much closure since he left her with a letter.

During the finale, she scoffed at the idea of finding love once more, but she seemingly unsaid she'd be open to eventually joining a dating app.

Owen Chase chosen off his nuptials after learning that his fiancée was cheating on him.

Owen Hunt has two children.
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At the offset of the season, Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) was adjusting to life as a parent of two and he too took a job over at the Pac-Northward hospital with Alex Karev and Richard Webber.

When that hospital was dissolved, he came back to Gray-Sloan. Later in the season, he proposed to Teddy Altman (Kim Raver), the mother of his 2nd child.

During the finale, the pair was planning on getting married quickly and quietly in their home. Merely Owen learned Teddy was cheating on him when she accidentally recorded and sent a voicemail to him while she was having sex activity with her ex-boyfriend Tom Koracick (Greg Germann).

At the end of the episode, Owen broke downwardly and cried and pretended that he had to become into surgery to avert the wedding.

Teddy Altman had an affair with her ex, and was left at the chantry.

Teddy Altman cheated on Owen Chase.
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This flavor, fans learned a pretty pregnant part of Teddy's backstory.

Information technology turns out that twenty years ago, when she was living in New York, Teddy had an affair with her best friend's girlfriend, Allison, who has since died. It's this same Allison who Teddy named her daughter subsequently, signifying the major touch on that human relationship had on her.

That story helped give some context to her present-day situation, in which she is having an affair with her ex-boyfriend, Tom Koracick, while she'due south engaged to Owen.

During the finale, she attempted to end things with Tom (though she has sex with him "one terminal time" for skilful mensurate) before marrying Owen.

As mentioned, Owen called off the wedding by pretending he was going into surgery. Teddy doesn't know yet that Owen is aware of her cheating.

Tom Koracick wanted to run away with Teddy.

Tom Koracick isn't over Teddy.
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Early on in the flavor, Catherine Play a joke on gave Tom a big promotion at the hospital, putting him in charge of all operations and essentially making him the primary of chiefs.

During the flavor, Tom also accepted a bribe to give a wealthy tech billionaire a false neurological diagnosis so he could escape the blame of a recent failed rocket launch. In return for the fake encephalon-aneurysm diagnosis, the billionaire agreed to donate a ton of money to Grey-Sloan.

Tom also spent much of the flavor pining over his ex, Teddy, who was engaged to Owen. When he and Teddy began having an matter, he encouraged her to run away with him.

She said she was going to ally Owen instead and slept with Tom "i last fourth dimension" during the finale.

Jackson Avery went through two breakups.

Jackson Avery is now single.
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At the start of the season, Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary) and Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams) bankrupt upwardly.

He then briefly started a human relationship with Vic Hughes (Barrett Doss), a firefighter at Station nineteen. They bankrupt up afterwards she wanted to move in with him and he wasn't set to accept that next step.

Past the finish of the season, Jackson is still processing his recent breakup while emotionally supporting his female parent, Catherine, through her split with Richard.

Maggie Pierce met a new love interest.

Maggie Pierce left medicine but returned to it shortly afterwards.
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After her breakup with Jackson, Maggie suffered some other large loss when her mistake in the operating room led to the death of her cousin. She tried to quit medicine altogether but eventually came dorsum to the hospital to resume her work.

And equally Jackson's beloved life stalled toward the end of the season, Maggie's picked upwards.

She reunited with an old work colleague named Winston (Anthony Hill) at a briefing and the two of them had such amazing chemistry that he suggested i of them motion to the other's city so they could begin a relationship.

Maggie said she needed some fourth dimension to think his offer through.

Amelia Shepherd had her baby.

Amelie Shepherd had a baby boy, just his name is still not known.
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At the start of season xvi, Amelia discovered that she was significant, which sped up her budding relationship with Atticus "Link" Lincoln (Chris Carmack).

Things got even more than complicated when she briefly thought the baby could have been Owen's, but a paternity test confirmed that it was Link's.

By the end of the season, she delivered a good for you baby boy. The kid's name is fix to be revealed next season, according to showrunner Krista Vernoff.

Cormac Hayes replaced Alex Karev at the hospital and quickly became besotted with Meredith.

Cormac Hayes is a widower.
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The show's newest doctor was brought in to supersede Alex as caput of pediatrics after he had been recommended to the hospital by Cristina Yang.

Meredith and Cormac bonded over both losing their spouses at a young age and shared the struggles of raising children equally a single parent.

During the finale, Cormac invited Meredith to grab drinks afterward work. She accustomed the offer, only asked for a pelting check considering she was wearied from a long twenty-four hours of surgery.

Andrew DeLuca started off the flavour potent, but began to unravel and bear witness irrational beliefs.

Andrew DeLuca experienced a lot of highs and lows this flavour.
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At the start of the season, Andrew was dating Meredith and he was appointed to primary resident, but things began to devolve around midseason.

First, he bankrupt upwardly with Meredith afterwards learning that she wouldn't have dated him anymore if she had lost her medical license considering she'd accept been too jealous that he got to perform surgery.

They both continued to have feelings for each other for the rest of the season, but their chances of reconciling were complicated by Andrew'due south increasingly concerning behavior.

On multiple occasions, he made irrational (and sometimes illegal) decisions and lashed out at patients, at other doctors, and in the operating room. Meredith also began to suspect that he might exist showing signs of mania, similar to what his father had experienced.

Afterwards violently accusing a patient'due south guardian of human trafficking (which viewers subsequently saw may have really been the case), Andrew was suspended.

During the final episode, he returned to work and discovered that Richard's symptoms were being caused by a now-toxic hip replacement.

Andrew was allowed to scrub in on the surgery only was non allowed to perform any of it himself.

All season, Andrew seemed pretty resistant to any suggestion that he may be experiencing the same mental-health issues as his father — but during the concluding moments of the finale, he broke downwardly sobbing, telling Meredith, "I don't know what'south going on."

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