When crafting the Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 premiere , which picked up in the immediate aftermath of an explosion at Grey Sloan Memorial, showrunner Meg Marinis was given the unenviable task of deciding which beloved hospital staffer wouldn’t live to see Episode 2.

After all, “it doesn’t have as much of an impact if everyone is saved,” Marinis explains to The Hollywood Reporter . Virtually every character was on the chopping block, but after much internal debate, Marinis says, “One morning, I woke up and went to the writers’ room and I said, ‘It’s Monica.'”

“I wanted to see someone die selflessly saving someone’s else’s life, and she was not only saving that little kid on the table, she was saving Jules,” Marinis says of reluctantly killing off Natalie Morales ‘ character. “It

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