NEW YORK (AP) – If you haven’t seen Thursday’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and plan to – spoiler alert!
Out of nowhere, the episode walloped viewers with the shocking exit of – wait for it – Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd, the reigning heart-throb and a charter member of the long-running ABC medical drama.
Played by Patrick Dempsey, making a surprise departure from the series, Shepherd died from injuries suffered when he was blindsided by a truck.
This was after he had stopped while on the road to administer aid to four people injured in a gruesome two-car crash. He had stabilized them all by the time medics arrived and whisked them away to a small, local hospital.
Moments later, Shepherd’s own car was struck, and – irony of ironies – he was dispatched to that same hospital.