Spoilers ahead for Grey's Anatomy Season 16 . With DeLuca's fate (and Grey's final episodes) hanging in the balance, ABC's medical drama really has no time to waste. However, that's exactly what happened in the March 26 episode of "Love of My Life." With all the action centered around the Surgical Innovation Conference in Los Angeles, fans got an inside look at the heartbreaking way Hayes became Mac's widow, learned about Teddy's swim in the ladies' pond, and saw Maggie in real-time Restore status. All in all, however, it felt like a lot of filler. Of course, until the very end, the angry audience was left wondering: What happened to Weber?
With so many other questions lingering in Seattle, the Los Angeles field trip is a perfect example of Gray piling up more questions rather than answering them. It turns out that the hour-long time slot is actually filled with subtle hints about the bombs that are about to be dropped in the episode's final moments. First, Weber mistakenly called daughter Maggie by Meredith's first name when arriving at the conference for his big PATH pen speech. "Someone didn't sleep on the plane," she joked.
Then an overly contrite Catherine shows up at his hotel room door to "stop" the folly of their marital discord. "I'm sorry for my actions," the woman said in her apology a few weeks ago. "I'm not sorry for a damn thing." Oh, and there's also the matter of buying an entire hospital to piss off her husband, so yeah, the apology is a little out of character. "I'm not sure I believe you're really here," Weber said.
Well, as fans later discovered, she wasn't. (To be fair, the whole episode had a dreamy feel, but that could also just be a side effect of social distancing.) After comparing themselves to Antony and Cleopatra, the couple reconciled, which gave Weber The inspiration he needed to complete the film apparently rewrote the presentation many times. “Honey, I think I’ve cracked it,” gushed a pajamas-clad Weber as he typed on a desk covered in shredded paper — just hours before his big speech.
One second Catherine was sitting on the edge of the bed encouraging him, and in the next frame she disappeared, her voice suddenly becoming low and distant. Of course, someone with Katherine Fox's financial means could easily fly back to Seattle on a private jet, but when she later attended a meeting at Gray Sloan to watch a live broadcast of her husband's speech, it became clear that Weber was hallucinating their entire interaction.
From then on, things went from bad to worse. Even though Weber had poured his own blood, sweat, and tears into the PATH pen, he announced to the packed house that he wanted to discuss that, with the help of his "talented wife," he had "found a cure for cancer." Methods". His presentation slides featured all kinds of ridiculous doodles, from smiley faces to hearts with Katherine's name in the middle, cueing an imaginary record scream.
"Dear God, he's drunk," Katherine told Jackson back in Seattle, as Bailey began to look increasingly worried around them. As a sweaty Weber continued to ramble, Maggie (who apparently smelled like sex) told Hayes and Teddy she was worried something was wrong and tried to pull him off the stage. "Who are you?" he asked his daughter. When Hayes stepped in to assist, Weber snapped, "Get your hands off me!"
Maggie begged someone to call 911. "I thought he was having a stroke," she said. As Weber was taken away from the convention venue on a gurney with an oxygen tube in his nose, he asked, "Maggie, what's going on?" Her response was, "I don't know."
Neither does the rest of us. In previous episodes, fans learned that Weber's hands were shaking and saw him have dramatic outbursts over office furniture. During his hallucinations, Catherine also mentioned that her foundation committee interpreted her behavior as signs of dementia. Could this be another clue? Still not sure.
In a preview for the April 2 episode of "Grey's Anatomy," Bailey tells the staff about a 65-year-old man suffering from memory loss and erratic behavior. "He's not the Richard Webber you know and love," she said. "He's our patient No. 1." It looks like everyone will be working together to get Weber back on track, and at the helm is none other than Meredith Gray herself. "Richard, I can deal with you because you are the one I know everything about," she tells the one-time chief in the video. If anyone could help him, it'd be Meredith, right?
Webber is one of only three OG cast members left following Alex Karev's recent departure, and Grey's fans seem to agree that he must be protected at all costs.
