Deadline and GreysAnatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff discuss: - Meredith & Nick - New character that is a nephew of Patrick Dempsey's Derek - Potential flashbacks with Dempsey - Taryn Helm potential return - The show doing Roe v Wade next season
Liliane Lathan/ABC via Getty Images: It’s interesting you call it a backdoor pilot. We certainly treated it like a pilot in the casting, in that we took a lot of time and care finding these five actors and fleshing out these five characters. But our hope is that we’re refreshing, so that we can return to the roots of teaching and learning and what it is to be a surgical intern.
: I don’t have an answer to that, that’s always up to Ellen. She’s got some new projects on the horizon that she’s really excited about butSo there are no plans for the finale to be a farewell episode for Meredith?Talk about the decision to bring another Shepherd into the fold with the new intern, Lucas.