Grey’s Anatomy: [SPOILER]’s Exit Repeats A Major Meredith Mistake

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Grey’s Anatomy season 18, episode 9 said goodbye to beloved Irish doctor, Cormac Hayes and his departure is familiar, as other Meredith love interests have suffered the same fate. This isn’t the first time that the writers have discarded a character that Meredith was no longer interested in; the same thing happened to Nathan Riggs at the end of season 13. Both characters had sudden and poorly plotted exits from the show.

After Owen confessed to providing Noah drugs to kill him while trapped in the car on the cliff, he asks Hayes to provide the same drugs to three other veterans with similar conditions if Owen ends up dying in the fall. Hayes returns to the hospital with a new conundrum: is he okay with helping Owen? Ultimately, the answer is no, and when an alive Owen returns to the hospital, he asks Hayes to forget the confession. Hayes doesn’t believe he can in good faith allow Owen to continue. He goes to Miranda to tell her what Owen did, but when she sings praises about him, Hayes decides to resign instead of turn in Owen.

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Hayes’s exit is very similar to one of Meredith’s other love interests, Riggs. After Riggs and Meredith got together, the relationship went stale, and there wasn’t much the writers could do in terms of storylines. So they decided to bring back Megan, Riggs’s lost fiancée, which gave Riggs an out as he resigned and moved to Malibu with her. Both Hayes and Riggs were written into Grey's Anatomy to act as Meredith Grey’s love interests, and the writers didn’t have anything planned for them beyond that. This fact was made clear from how little viewers know about both characters outside of their relationships with Meredith. The two