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If you’ve been following ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy from the start, you probably agree that the show has been going downhill since season three when they killed off George. Well, the Season 6 finale finally changed things. A rampant gun man, a pregnancy, a miscarriage, shootings and deaths, and Mandy Moore? There hasn’t been a nail biter this intense since Meredith was stuck with her hand in a man’s chest cavity preventing a bomb from detonating in season 2 Episode 16 ‘It’s the End of the World’.

You think it’s going to be a typical drama filled finale when Meredith finds out she’s pregnant. Turns out, drama is an understatement. The first gasp moment comes when Gary Clark, the gun man who’s out to get Derek for revenge after his wife’s death, shoots Reed square in the forehead. Then he shoots Alex—double gasp—who manages to drag himself into the elevator.  Clark then runs into Christina, who’s just broken up with Owen, and asks her where Dr. Shepherd is. Thankfully, she answers him nicely and escapes being shot dead (breathe). April—so annoying but still likable—stumbles upon Reeds bloody body and has a minor freak out before rushing to tell Dr. Shepherd there’s a shooter in the hospital. The hospital is officially on lockdown—but no one takes it seriously. Fifteen minutes later, Alex has been found by Lexi and Mark who just escaped being shot themselves, Clark has entered the room Bailey is in with a patient, Mandi Moore, who plays dead while Bailey hides under the bed and Charles hides in the bathroom. He shoots Charles and spares Bailey, who says she’s a nurse. Whew.

Clark goes back on the prowl for Derek. When he finds him, they have a stare down and a long conversation about death while Meredith and Christina watch. It can’t get more dramatic than this. Finally, Clark starts to see that Derek is a good man—until darn April bursts out of Derek’s office and Clark instantly shoots Derek in the chest.  At this point, your hands are literally shaking, your mouth is hanging open, and tears are most likely streaming down your face. Before Clark can finish Derek for good, the SWAT team arrives and he flees. He runs into Lexi and tells her he only intended to kill Derek Shepherd, Richard Weber, and her—the three doctors on his wife’s case. Again, the SWAT team comes to the rescue but only manage to graze his arm. Lexi returns to save Alex, telling him he can’t die because she loves him—all in front of Sloan (ouch) and Alex addresses Izzie in return (double ouch).  After 15 more minutes of holding your breath as Callie escapes being shot and Charles dies in Bailey’s arms, Christina is operating on Derek to remove the bullet as Meredith is forced to sit outside and not watch. Owen finds this scene and goes in to help, but finds Clark standing by the operating table with a gun to Christina’s head ordering her to ‘stop fixing him’. Christina, stubborn as always, keeps operating. Meredith takes this cue to step in and asked to be shot instead—good call, not. He’s about to shoot her when Christina announces Meredith is pregnant.  As he hesitates, Owen lunges for the gun and Clark shoots him instead. Jackson tricks Clark into thinking Derek is dead by unplugging some equipment, but Christina saves him after Clark leaves. Freaked out April then asks if Meredith’s been shot too—she’s bleeding down her leg—but no, she announces she’s having a miscarriage.

To wrap things up, Richard finds Clark in the room his wife died in, drinking. He announces he was going to kill Richard then shoot himself, but he only has one bullet left—oh, the irony.  He kills himself as the SWAT team arrives.  Arizona and Callie make amends and the drama filled finale finally ends when Derek asks for Meredith and she throws away the pregnancy test before going to tend to her husband. If that isn’t a season finale, I don’t know what is.