Here's where all of your favorite characters ended up on 'Grey's Anatomy' season 18

• "Grey's Anatomy" is returning with its 19th season on Thursday. 
• Season 18 saw the possible departure of several main characters.
• Warning: Major spoilers for "Grey's Anatomy" ahead.

Meredith split her time between Seattle and Minnesota while working on groundbreaking research and starting a new relationship.

After being sick with COVID-19 for weeks, Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) spent this season working between two separate hospitals.

She was hired by Dr. Hamilton (Peter Gallagher) to work on a cure for Parkinson's in Minnesota. There, she reconnected with Nick Marsh (Scott Speedman) and began dating him while still working part-time at Grey-Sloan in Seattle.

Meredith decided to move her family to Minnesota with Nick after helping Grey-Sloan gain back its accreditation for the residency program that was on probation.

But Meredith made a bad surgical call, Grey-Sloan lost more surgeons, and the hospital experienced a dire blood shortage. The program gets cut by the end of the season.

During the season finale, Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) quit and gave Meredith the keys to the chief of surgery's office. 

This season introduced Dr. Hamilton, who used to work with Meredith's mother.

David Hamilton invites Meredith to his hospital under the pretense of showing her the new wing dedicated to her mother, his former colleague Ellis Grey (Kate Burton).

After Meredith arrives, he reveals he actually wants her to lead a project to find a cure for Parkinson's.

He is no longer able to perform surgery because of the side effects of his Parkinson's and he wants the surgeons to operate on him to try to cure him. 

Previously only in one episode, Nick became a regular and dated Meredith.

Nick Marsh was first introduced on season 14 as a transplant surgeon who collapsed after receiving a transplant himself.

Meredith saved his life at the time, and the two reconnected when he saw her in Minnesota.

Nick helped Grey-Sloan during the hospital's physician shortage. He also officially began dating Meredith and met her family and friends.

The last time we see him is after Meredith found out the Grey-Sloan residency program is gone and a bunch of surgeons, including Bailey, were leaving.

She tells him to go back to Minnesota — but after a moment, she calls after him.

Jo started a new relationship and damaged her friendship with Link.

After switching specialties, Jo Wilson (Camilla Luddington) spent the season working her first year as an obstetrics and gynecology resident.

She was also raising her daughter, Luna, with the help of her friend Link (Chris Carmack). Their friendship suffered after the two slept together and she realized she was in love with him. After that, she asked him to move out.

Jo started dating Todd Eames (Skylar Astin), the brother of one of her patients, but she broke up with him after he said he loved her during a disappointing evening together.

Link struggled to deal with Amelia and Jo dating new people.

Atticus "Link" Lincoln and Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone) broke up after she declined his marriage proposal, though they continued to coparent their son, Scout. 

Link wanted to get back together with Amelia even though she didn't want to get married, but she had already fallen for Kai (E.R. Fightmaster).

By the end of the season, Link had moved into his own place and was trying to be friends with Jo again despite initially seeming to be jealous of her new boyfriend.

Amelia joined Meredith's project and began dating Kai.

Meredith recruited Amelia Shepherd to join her project to cure Parkinson's, so she also split her time between Minnesota and Seattle.

She balanced this while coparenting Scout with Link and helping Owen (Kevin McKidd) recover after his car accident.

Amelia also began dating Kai, which strained her friendship with her ex Link.

Kai met the Grey-Sloan doctors while working on Dr. Hamilton's surgery.

Kai Bartley is a neuroscientist from Minnesota who spent the season working with Meredith and Amelia on their Parkinson's project.

A friend of Dr. Hamilton, they were committed to getting FDA approval to go through with his surgery.

Though Kai enjoyed dating Amelia, they do not want any kids and realized that dating Amelia would mean always having Scout in their life.

This briefly caused the couple to break up, but Kai returned to be with Amelia during the season finale.

Owen got married, injured, and involved in an illegal plan to help injured soldiers die.

Owen Hunt and Teddy Altman (Kim Raver) finally got married in a ceremony officiated by Owen's sister, Megan (Abigail Spencer).

A soldier, Noah (Johnny Rey Diaz), came to Grey-Sloan with severe lung damage and Owen discovered an entire group of veterans were suffering effects from their time spent around burn pits.

Noah convinced Owen to help him die — and sought out the surgeon's help to do this for other suffering veterans. Owen promised to distribute the same medicine to others in this position at Noah's request, even in situations when physician-assisted suicide would not be legal.

When Owen was severely injured in the car accident with Teddy and Cormac (Richard Flood), he told Cormac of this plan so that these soldiers would still receive the medication if Owen died. After keeping it a secret for a while, Owen told Teddy about his plans and actions.

When Owen and Teddy refused to give life-ending medication to a man whose veteran wife was dying, the man reported the couple to Bailey.

Bailey made Owen and Teddy resign. The couple then began to flee Seattle with their kids.

Teddy struggled to trust Owen.

Early in their marriage, Teddy Altman became distrustful of Owen when she realized he told Cormac something he was keeping from her during the car accident.

When she finally found out about Owen giving lethal medication to the soldiers, Teddy was furious at him for making a decision that could result in him being arrested without consulting her.

Teddy and Owen also went into therapy together after disagreeing about how to respond to their son, Leo, referring to himself as a girl. Owen was fully accepting of however Leo identified but Teddy was more concerned about how their family and friends would react.

She ended the season by preparing to leave Seattle with Owen and their kids.

Megan cared for her son, Farouk, as he received a heart transplant.

Megan Hunt spent the season taking care of her son, Farouk, as his health worsened and he received a heart transplant.

She appreciated how Owen, Teddy, and Cormac were able to get the heart to Grey-Sloan in time, even after the car accident.

Megan also encouraged Teddy to trust Owen when he was hiding his secret about the soldiers.

Hayes chose to leave Grey-Sloan after Owen confided in him during the car accident.

Cormac Hayes was a source of support for Meredith this season as she prepared for Dr. Hamilton's surgery.

He was in the car accident with Teddy and Owen on the way to retrieve Farouk's heart, and Owen confided in him about what he was doing for soldiers.

Cormac was furious at Owen for telling him about his involvement in an illegal medical procedure. Unable to justify working with Owen without calling the authorities about what Owen was doing, Cormac left Grey-Sloan.

He decided to move back to Ireland with his family, which baffled the remaining surgeons who didn't know about what Owen told him.

Dr. Bailey struggled to keep the hospital's residency program functioning during the physician shortage.

Miranda Bailey struggled to keep the residency program running throughout this season, as she dealt with a severe physician shortage, injuries on her staff, and some of her surgeons leaving to pursue other jobs.

She and her husband, Ben (Jason Winston George), also adopted Pru, the daughter of one of Ben's coworkers who died.

Bailey finally decided to put her well-being first after Grey-Sloan's residency program was cut.

She quit in the final episode, handing her office keys to Meredith. 

Levi Schmitt left Grey-Sloan after losing a patient but returned when his mother was injured.

Levi Schmitt (Jake Borelli) was successfully working on surgeries until he lost a patient on a table while there was no attending in the room.

He was shaken by the patient's seemingly preventable death and spent time at home debating whether or not to return to work. He also broke up with Nico (Alex Landi).

Schmitt returned to Grey-Sloan after his mother fell down the stairs and he had to jump in to save her life.

During the blood shortage at Grey-Sloan, Levi tried to donate blood but cannot due to dated regulations preventing a man who recently had sex with another man from doing so. He ends the season trying to advocate for that rule to change. 

Dr. Webber introduced a controversial teaching method and considered retiring.

Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.) let residents have more hands-on experience by allowing them to perform operations without an attending present.

This was meant to happen during simple surgeries and help residents feel excited and get experience even when there weren't enough attendings to oversee an operation.

After Schmitt lost a patient during one such surgery, Richard's entire method was called into question.

He debated whether he was of sound mind and should even continue doing surgery, though decided he was fine to continue after passing Dr. Hamilton and Kai's neurological testing.

Richard also helped his wife, Catherine Fox (Debbie Allen) go through chemo for her cancer.

Maggie criticized Webber's teaching decisions while facing a strain on her marriage.

Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary) took some time away from Grey-Sloan at the beginning of the season while she was on her honeymoon with Winston (Anthony Hill).

She voiced concerns about the Webber teaching method when she returned, arguing the hospital should be using verified, proven-to-be-successful teaching methods rather than trying something new without properly researching it.

Though this initially caused tension between her and Webber, the two made up.

Maggie also found a letter addressed to her from her biological mother, Ellis Grey. She began working through her complicated feelings about it with the support of her family.

Though her marriage to Winston was strained by the arrival of his brother, the two appeared to have made up by the end of the season.

Winston's brother caused issues for him at work and with Maggie.

After Winston Ndugu's happy honeymoon, his estranged brother, Wendell (Rome Flynn), came to Seattle and caused issues. 

Wendell had a new job as a medical-sales rep, but Winston realized it was a scam after Wendell tried selling faulty medical devices to Grey-Sloan.

Winston tried to help him get out of the scam and let Wendell stay with him and Maggie in Seattle. But Winston became more stressed after learning his brother owned money to loan sharks.

Wendell left after accepting money from both Winston and Maggie to pay off his loans.

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