Season 3
🎬 25 Episodes 📅 2006 ⏱ 43 min
Behind the sterile walls of Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, ambition collides with humanity in ways no textbook could prepare them for. Grey's Anatomy captures the raw, unfiltered journey of surgeons learning that saving lives means first understanding their own. Every patient on the operating table becomes a mirror, reflecting the doctors' own struggles, failures, and the fragile beauty of second chances that make them whole.
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📊 Season Stats
25
Episodes
2006
Year
43
min / ep
17.9
Watch Hours
3/22
Season No.
⭐ 8.8
Best Episode
Ep. 12 · Six Days (2)
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🎬 Episodes 25 episodes
1
⭐ 8.4
Time Has Come Today
Meredith must make an important choice about which path she wants to follow to determine the future of her love life. While she considers her future she and others have flashbacks of their pasts. Cristina spends time with Burke while he recovers. Webber and Adele have a conversation after he spends …
🎬 Daniel Minahan ✍️ Shonda Rhimes
2
⭐ 8.4
I Am a Tree
Cristina meets Burke's parents, the interns try to get Izzie's job back, and Addison takes a day off, a surgical patient may be living her last day. Some of the interns want to know why Bailey won't talk to Izzie. Meredith tries to decide between Derek and Finn and comes to a decision somewhat. Webb…
🎬 Jeff Melman ✍️ Krista Vernoff
3
⭐ 8.4
Sometimes a Fantasy
The staff tries to prevent a patient from getting an elective surgery. Cristina tries to help Preston cope with the after effects of his surgery. A patient bails on their surgery. Someone goes to a bed-and breakfast. Alex deals with a patient who has had a high amount of injuries in the past. A man …
🎬 Adam Arkin ✍️ Debora Cahn
4
⭐ 8.1
What I Am
Shawn Sullivan, a car salesman who just had surgery, wants to get back to his routine so he doesn't lose his renown. Addison works with a pregnant woman named Rebecca who may need a C-section and Addison doubts her medical skills. Rebecca wants to have the baby naturally. Derek and Mark's opinions c…
🎬 Dan Lerner ✍️ Allan Heinberg
5
⭐ 8.4
Oh, the Guilt
Derek learns one of Addison's secrets. Bailey talks about motherhood and depression to a mother who is set to have cancer surgery and who seems to not care about any decisions concerning the future. A resident is fiercely questioned about the death of a male patient. An ex-couple meet before lunch a…
🎬 Jeff Melman ✍️ Zoanne Clack
6
⭐ 8.2
Let the Angels Commit
Cristina gets to scrub in on a rare surgery which incites envy. Alex questions his future in plastics. George and Addison work together with Noelle. Noelle is pregnant with twins but one of them is growing slower than the other. Her fiancé has problems of his own. Derek's sister visits. A patient's …
🎬 Jessica Yu ✍️ Stacy McKee
7
⭐ 8.4
Where the Boys Are
The men of Seattle Grace go on a camping trip together, Addison and Callie must team up to work on a patient, Meredith assists Sloan with a procedure unlike any she has experienced, and, suspicious of her recent actions at the hospital, Bailey confronts Cristina. A 9-year-old is seen by Cristina aft…
🎬 Daniel Minahan ✍️ Mark Wilding
8
⭐ 8.4
Staring at the Sun
George's father has a serious heart problem that requires surgery and George chooses Burke to do the procedure. Burke doubts himself because he knows the pressure this kind of surgery will put on him, but Cristina believes the team can handle it. Derek works with Meredith on being a couple again and…
🎬 Jeff Melman ✍️ Harry Werksman
9
⭐ 8.6
From a Whisper to a Scream
A traumatic car accident fills the ER. Izzie pushes the boundaries of her probation. Cristina has a crisis of conscience about her deceptive teamwork with Burke.
🎬 Julie Anne Robinson ✍️ Kip Koenig
10
⭐ 8.4
Don't Stand So Close to Me
Recent events strain Burke and Cristina's relationship. Mark and Derek must work together when two close-knit brothers seek medical help. One of Meredith's half sisters is admitted to the hospital.
🎬 Seith Mann ✍️ Carolina Paiz
11
⭐ 8.4
Six Days (1)
Meredith discovers that Derek has a problem sleeping while her father comes to visit the hospital. George's father is moving from one surgery to another. A patient named Heather checks into the hospital. Heather is 17 and has a nasty attitude that results from her medical condition and all the surge…
🎬 Greg Yaitanes ✍️ Krista Vernoff
12
⭐ 8.8
Six Days (2)
Cristina and Burke continue to play Uncle until one of them gives in. Derek and Meredith are fighting over the reason for their sleepless nights. Meredith tries to talk to her father about his side of the story. There's tension between Alex and Addison. There is even more tension between Addison and…
🎬 Greg Yaitanes ✍️ Krista Vernoff
13
⭐ 8.3
Great Expectations
After the Chief announces his retirement, rumors begin to circulate on his departure and successor. Mark is determined to leave Seattle for good but Meredith accidentally has him stay after letting him know of the open Chief position. Derek is angry at Meredith for causing Mark to stay in Seattle, b…
🎬 Michael Grossman ✍️ Eric Buchman
14
⭐ 8.6
Wishin' and Hopin'
The race for the Chief's position is on, and the attending physicians, Derek, Burke, Addison and Mark, compete for Richard's affections by trying to help out everywhere possible. The Denny Duquette Memorial Clinic is open for business, but only one single patient shows up. Izzie is disappointed in w…
🎬 Julie Anne Robinson ✍️ Joan Rater
15
⭐ 8.8
Walk on Water
A mass trauma situation, which turns out to be a ferryboat accident, challenges the whole staff of Seattle Grace Hospital. Richard finds difficulty in coping with his separation from his wife and dyes his hair "for the ladies", which becomes an internal joke between Mark, Burke and Derek. Cristina t…
🎬 Rob Corn ✍️ Shonda Rhimes
16
⭐ 8.8
Drowning on Dry Land
Meredith is still underwater, but nobody seems to notice. Her worsening condition makes her rescuing an urgent matter. Derek finds her coat on a man she had helped, and starts looking for her and, much to his shock, the little girl Meredith took care of suggests that she is in the water. Derek saves…
🎬 Rob Corn ✍️ Shonda Rhimes
17
⭐ 8.5
Some Kind of Miracle
Everyone is pushing for Meredith to survive, or in this case to be revived. People are still dealing with the fallout from the ferry disaster. A young man named Lucas is having problems with brain-mouth coordination. Someone else dies.
🎬 Adam Arkin ✍️ Shonda Rhimes
18
⭐ 8.4
Scars and Souvenirs
The race between the attending physicians for the Chief of Surgery position heats up after a new competitor enters the fray. They soon realize that the new surgeon, Colin Marlow, was Cristina's professor in medical school and they used to have a long-term relationship. He begins to lie to Burke in o…
🎬 James Frawley ✍️ Debora Cahn
19
⭐ 8.1
My Favorite Mistake
In the aftermath of Izzie's affair with George, he doesn't seem to remember anything. Callie lets him know that they will be having dinner with her father, but George does not make a good impression, being hung over after last night's events. Alex helps Jane Doe choose how her face will look like af…
🎬 Tamra Davis ✍️ Chris Van Dusen
20
⭐ 8.1
Time After Time
Colin Marlow continues to try to get in the way of Cristina and Burke's relationship. The daughter that Izzie gave up for adoption needs something from her. This episode features a pro chess player, a flirtatious woman, and a mother named Mrs. Malone. Mr. and Mrs. Malone haven't talked to their daug…
🎬 Christopher Misiano ✍️ Stacy McKee
21
⭐ 8.3
Desire
The attendings vie to be Chief. Two people who haven't slept together before, will. McSteamy's 60-day vow of chastity has a conclusion. We meet a boss, his assistant, and his wife. We also get to see someone being treated in the clinic. Derek has more questions about his relationship with Meredith. …
🎬 Tom Verica ✍️ Mark Wilding
22
⭐ 7.6
The Other Side of This Life (1)
Meredith works on her relationship with Susan and Thatcher. Cristina has to deal with her mother and Burke's. Alex continues to tend to Jane Doe/Ava. Meredith and Derek's relationship has a problem that needs resolution quick. Addison sees her god-daughter which leads to a job offer outside of Seatt…
🎬 Michael Grossman ✍️ Shonda Rhimes
23
⭐ 7.9
The Other Side of This Life (2)
Meredith works on her relationship with Susan and Thatcher. Cristina has to deal with her mother and Burke's. Alex continues to tend to Jane Doe/Ava. Meredith and Derek's relationship has a problem that needs resolution quick. Addison sees her god-daughter which leads to a job offer outside of Seatt…
🎬 Michael Grossman ✍️ Shonda Rhimes
24
⭐ 8.5
Testing 1-2-3
The interns finally take their first year medical exams, the biggest test of their careers, and one of them is ill-prepared. Callie grows more suspicious of George and Izzie. The doctors treat a patient named Dale. Three mountain climbers are treated. Cristina works on her vows. Adele wants Addison …
🎬 Christopher Misiano ✍️ Allan Heinberg
25
⭐ 8.8
Didn't We Almost Have It All?
The mountain climbers lie about the axe in their friend's head, telling Derek that it accidentally got there. During surgery, he and George discover that it was deliberately put there, and one of the climbers admit that he was trying to "put him out of his misery". Adele is saved after Richard finds…
🎬 Rob Corn