One of the vital divisive romantic pairs in Gray’s Anatomy historical past lastly got here to a giant resolution on Thursday’s (March 27) episode, “Ridin’ Solo”: Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) and Teddy Altman (Kim Raver) determined to present the open marriage idea a whirl in hopes of saving their always-rocky relationship.
The dialog between them went like so:
Owen: “I don’t need us to really feel caught. And I believe I didn’t wish to admit it as a result of I’ve this concept of what our lives needs to be, and all the pieces that therapist stated appears reverse to that which is…
Teddy: Form of terrifying.
Owen: Yeah.
Teddy: Perhaps it doesn’t must be.
Owen: I’m prepared to strive one thing new in case you are. Typically it simply takes me a minute to get there, and it’s a little bizarre picturing you flirting with another person.
Teddy: I’m a horrible flirt. [Laughs.] Okay. If we truly open this…
Owen: I don’t wish to know any particulars.
Teddy: Agreed, and we verify in commonly.
Owen: And we keep secure.
Teddy: And our marriage comes first. No severe relationships or emotions.
Owen: In fact.
That trade is sufficient to gentle the fireplace between them and get them again within the sack collectively once more after the entire Cass and Nora debacles, however is it sufficient to really save their relationship in the long term? Extra importantly, is their relationship even price saving at this level?!
Owen and Teddy’s is definitely the messiest relationship this present has ever seen. In any case, Teddy continues to be the one who left a voicemail of herself sleeping with Tom Koracick (Greg Germann) on her marriage ceremony evening to Owen, which he performed on speakerphone for your entire OR to listen to. She’s additionally the one who named their daughter after the girl who she claimed was her greatest pal however was secretly the love of her life — whose reminiscence was the entire cause she joined the conflict effort to satisfy Owen within the first place, no much less. And Owen’s no saint, both. His lawless resolution to present death-with-dignity medicine to individuals left each of them on the run; plus, let’s not overlook that he did basically hop out of Amelia’s (Caterina Scorsone) mattress earlier than flitting off to Germany to seduce Teddy.
They’re the very definition of cold and hot with each other, and whereas they haven’t precisely had probably the most secure relationships with different individuals, they appear to work greatest when there’s one thing conserving them aside. The craving is the enjoyable half for each of them, it appears.
So will opening up their marriage lastly be the ticket to creating Owen and Teddy work? Or are they means too far gone at this level? We’ll have to attend and see when subsequent week brings Teddy head to head with Cass once more at a medical convention — this time, with permission to discover with different companions, it appears. May she even achieve this with out catching emotions, per the above-mentioned rule? Dun dun dun… Within the meantime, tell us how you’re feeling about this large resolution by weighing in with the ballot under!
Gray’s Anatomy, Thursdays, 10/9c, ABC
