On tonight’s Grey’s Anatomy season 11, episode 14 Arizona and Amelia stare down two career defining cases. See how the surgeons fair in our full recap!

Cases of the Week: Dr. Herman goes under the knife as Amelia attempts to remove her tumor. Arizona takes on Bailey’s case and her first solo neonatal surgery.

Inspiring confidence in the OR can come in many forms. For Derek Shepherd it was a ferry cap. For Amelia it is a superhero pose. The history of great surgeons are packed with quirks that all lead the greats to their successes. What does not exist in the well-known stories are all the lost cases that lead to their breakthroughs. With the gallery packed, Owen tries to give Amelia one final pep talk, but what she needs is a minute alone to convince herself there is no running once the first cut is made.

Bailey, on the other hand, needs some help in the inspiring confidence department. As Arizona walks through the steps of the surgery as she scrubs in, Bailey pesters her with question after question regarding Herman’s whereabouts. With Herman on the table down the hall, Bailey needs to deal with the cards she is given, but she cannot seem to wrap her head around the circumstances.

Amelia lights up Herman’s tumor and is literally inside her head, while Herman is spending her phantom days lurking inside Arizona’s down the hall. As Arizona begins to make bold calls in the OR, Bailey’s lack of confidence in Robbins mixes with Herman’s voice echoing the same. Bailey begins to ignore Robbins and demands nurses to call Karev in for delivery of the baby, but Robbins’ desire to prove herself to Herman pushes her to finally tell Bailey to stop. Robbins may not be Herman, but she has every bit of knowledge that a fellow of a full year would have acquired. She has made her call not to deliver and if something goes wrong with that decision it will not be because of Robbins, it will be because of Bailey’s yelling. Bailey can either get on board or get out. You go, Robbins.

The delicate dance in Herman’s brain that Shepherd is trying to perform is starting to feel awkward without someone leading her. Webber comes down into the OR, not to lead, or find her a partner, but prove that her dance looks just fine without her brother getting on a plane to save the day. After all, if Derek were to take her hand, he would get to step in and look like a fool because he doesn’t know the choreography.

Amelia jumps back in the saddle, picking a path and heading blind into the forest.

Arizona emerges from her walk in the woods not only with a recovering mom and baby, but with a new found respect from Bailey and Karev. She retreats to the board and removes Glinda’s card, leaving only one left for the taking. In another flashback, Herman walks in with Arizona congratulating her on another successful operation. The task she accomplished, a full year fellowship in less than six months, is nothing to sneeze at. Herman will never leave her head, but that is not the only place Arizona wants to be able to find her. Callie finds her reminiscing and offers a familiar shoulder to lean on while Edwards and Amelia finish upstairs.

Speaking of Edwards, she may be upstairs, but she is on the floor. After 13 hours, Amelia clears the optic nerve and it is time to place radioactive seeds to kill the rest. Grey and Webber step in to help her with the final push, but Amelia’s best is a race against the clock and the precautions are making the process nearly impossible. Risking exposure to radiation, Amelia removes the gloves and plants the final seeds. Time to close.

With Herman out of the OR, Amelia enters another part of the forest beyond the clearing — the waiting game. Examining film is only making it worse as Herman spends weeks not waking up.

After discovering that Herman had a stroke, Amelia begins to waver. But in true Herman style, she does not only wake up, she sasses every professional in the room. But before everyone gets out, three doctors realize that her eyesight is gone. The optic nerve was too far gone. The tumor took that from her, not the surgeons. In the grand scheme of things, Amelia and Edwards conquered death, and Herman, well, she gets the opportunity to figure out a next step.

Watch Grey’s Anatomy season 11, episode 15, “I Feel the Earth Move,” Thursday, March 12 at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC.