Of course she wasn’t going to die in a bomb or shooting or ferry crash, and of course she wasn’t going to lose her medical license.
As the titular character of the show, Meredith has felt pretty safe from any lasting harm for well over a decade and a half at this point.
For one thing, Patrick Dempsey’s return a solid five years after Derek’s death automatically made this a twist for the Grey’s Anatomy history book, but it also raises a very real sense of danger for Meredith.
But there is a lot of uncertainty about her fate with this twist, and that’s a very good thing for a show that is getting long in the tooth.