As her subconscious plays the “what if” game.
It turns out, Owen has every reason to be worried for the mother of his child.
That person is Teddy.
She’s the love of Teddy’s life, who died tragically on 9/11.
Teddy bursts through the double doors outside and spies Tom waiting for her in the car.
Happy Meredith is there beside her in an instant, wondering why Teddy isn’t getting married.
Who cares that DeLuca is in the back seat and there’s a grenade in her purse?
She’s going to Vegas, baby!
Although we don’t see the wedding, we do see Teddy in her honeymoon suite with Tom.
The next moment, Baby Allison is gone.
Tom informs Teddy that Owen ran away with the kids.
Teddy properly freaks out over this news, which annoys Tom to no end.
Teddy shouts horrible things to Tom and then blows him up with that random grenade in her purse.
DeLuca is back, and he’s come bearing gifts.
It’s a romantic love montage between Owen and Teddy.
All we needed was a Taylor Swift background song, and it would have been tight.
Let’s rewrite some history again!
They enjoy some sexy times, and Owen proposes.
Teddy wants to start this marriage off without secrets, so she tells Owen about Allison.
Owen takes the news like a champ.
He doesn’t care that she had a lover she never told him about.
Owen is gutted for Teddy that Allison died in such a tragic way.
Everyone is on the same page.
Here comes the bride, and DeLuca is the officiant.
Do you know what else makes sense?
All of Owen’s exes texting him at the altar.
That’s right, Amelia, Beth, and Cristina all wishing Owen a lifetime of happiness.
He even goes as far as to say what he has with those two women is true love.
Teddy isn’t having it, especially when he keeps calling her Amelia and forcefully demands that Owen leave.
He gives her a grin and says, “I always come back.
It’s our thing.”
Owen gives a hard pass and explodes when Amelia suggests he give Teddy a break since she lost DeLuca.
Back in dreamland, DeLuca and Teddy are in the OR, but this time she sees Allison again.
Young Allison consoles Young Teddy.
This was the night that they first admitted their feelings for each other.
She tells DeLuca that they didn’t mean to hurt anyone.
They just fell in love.
And Teddy killed her.
Teddy went to work instead.
In the South Tower.
She cries to DeLuca, wondering what would have happened if she had just said yes to the pancakes.
But before we make that subconscious time jump, Amelia rips Owen a new one.
And I am here for it.
Owen needs to forgive Teddy because he has loved Teddy in some form for decades.
Who cares that she lied about Allison for their entire relationship?
It’s called PTSD.
The love of Teddy’s life died in a horrific accident.
Then Amelia brings up the time that Owen almost strangled Cristina, and he gets it.
He’s experienced it.
Amelia says traumatized people lie to others and themselves.
It doesn’t mean their entire world is a lie.
When you hurt, you hurt other people.
Silk pajama set Teddy sits on a bench in a park with Allison on 9/11.
They are blissfully happy until Allison wonders why everyone is screaming.
Then Allison claims to smell smoke.
She begins choking and falls to the ground.
The scene changes to Teddy performing CPR on Allison in the OR.
Meredith walks in and claims Allison’s time of death.
Meredith takes Teddy through the hospital, which now has multiple scattered bodies under white sheets.
It’s all of the people Teddy has “killed.”
She proposed to Henry when he was sick.
(Side note: Who didn’t love Henry?)
She ran to Tom when things got sketchy with Owen.
She ran to the army when life handed her too much.
We don’t want to feel.
Or, in Owen’s case, you damper the rage and hate with a hypothetical wet blanket.
Amelia encourages Owen to ditch the blanket and forgive Teddy.
Meredith encourages Teddy to “leave this place.”
Teddy begs Meredith not to die.
Then Teddy jerks from her subconscious, hears her baby crying, and rushes to console her.
Her eyes are clear.
She appears ready to fight.
And fingers crossed that Meredith doesn’t die.
