One of the divisive romantic pairs in Gray’s Anatomy historical past lastly got here to an enormous determination on Thursday’s (March 27) episode, “Ridin’ Solo”: Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) and Teddy Altman (Kim Raver) determined to offer 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 need to admit it as a result of I’ve this concept of what our lives ought to be, and every little thing that therapist mentioned appears reverse to that which is…
Teddy: Sort of terrifying.
Owen: Yeah.
Teddy: Perhaps it doesn’t should be.
Owen: I’m prepared to strive one thing new if you’re. 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 really open this…
Owen: I don’t need to know any particulars.
Teddy: Agreed, and we verify in usually.
Owen: And we keep secure.
Teddy: And our marriage comes first. No critical relationships or emotions.
Owen: After all.
That alternate is sufficient to gentle the hearth 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 value saving at this level?!
Owen and Teddy’s is definitely the messiest relationship this present has ever seen. In any case, Teddy remains to be the one who left a voicemail of herself sleeping with Tom Koracick (Greg Germann) on her wedding ceremony night time to Owen, which he performed on speakerphone for your complete OR to listen to. She’s additionally the one who named their daughter after the lady who she claimed was her finest buddy however was secretly the love of her life — whose reminiscence was the entire motive she joined the struggle effort to satisfy Owen within the first place, no much less. And Owen’s no saint, both. His lawless determination to offer death-with-dignity medication to individuals left each of them on the run; plus, let’s not neglect that he did primarily 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 steady relationships with different individuals, they appear to work finest when there’s one thing maintaining 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 approach too far gone at this level? We’ll have to attend and see when subsequent week brings Teddy nose to nose 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 huge determination by weighing in with the ballot under!
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