Find out who among the chosen few may be the conqueror of death in our Grey’s Anatomy season 11, episode 16 recap.

Case of the Week: A car drives into a house, leaving a punk rocker and his pregnant wife in the ER.

Patients are lost week in and week out on Grey’s Anatomy, but what keeps the doctors coming back for more carnage is to save as many of those patients from death as possible. What if there was one among them who stood between life and death, blocking the patients from succumbing to the unknown? Amelia valiantly prevailed in her fight against death with Dr. Herman’s tumor, but Meredith Grey is as close to a true conqueror as the interns at Grey Sloan Memorial have seen. With her streak up to 89 patients, how long can she stare down the darkness?

Meredith’s personal life is perpetual darkness as she sits mere minutes after the end of last week’s episode in Alex’s on call bed going over the details of her phone call to Derek. Both Maggie and Alex agree that he is not cheating, but that may just be to get Meredith out of the room. Callie wishes she could run from the room as Arizona catches her taking a kiss from her date that was cut short. Even worse, down the hall Owen and Amelia’s fling is called off on account of a trauma in the ER.

In the ER, Martin Davis is in restraints after crashing his car through the front of a home. Suffering from Alzheimer’s, he has forgotten his stint on Wonder Years as Jack Arnold as well as the last five years of his life. Thinking he is in a shoe shop, Martin punches Maggie, giving her a concussion and a nice black eye. His wife arrives to set the record straight, but gives Maggie some pause. Once they are up in the OR, Maggie begins to rant about the poor care Martin’s wife is providing the man. Ben tries to get Maggie to cut her soap box speech short, but Richard ends it when he announces that he lost Adele to the disease.

Back in ER, there is the punk rock loving couple who suffer extreme complications from their wild night of sitting around the television. The wife is pregnant and seemingly better off than her husband, who nearly crashes twice before heading up to surgery. But nothing is as it seems on Grey’s Anatomy and the wife suffers from an extreme seizure that kills her before there is a chance to find out how Arizona spent her own punk rock days. Before the doctors stop pumping air and blood throughout the woman’s body, though, Arizona successfully delivers a strong baby boy.

After Martin wakes up, it seems that his Alzheimer’s disappeared. So did the doctors have a major medical breakthrough? Not quite. Martin suffered from a build up of spinal fluid that caused him to suffer similar symptoms.

Callie tries to avoid Arizona and the topic of her lip-lock at all times. If she just took a moment to hear her ex-wife out, however, Callie would learn that Arizona has less of a problem with Callie dating and more of a problem with whom she is dating. The woman was one who falls hard, falls fast, and pulls a steak knife on her lovers when they won’t get matching tattoos in their fourth week of dating. Callie and Arizona laugh off their shared misery.

While Alex keeps the tiny man he calls Dan alive in the nursery, Martin is looking at murder charges. Waking up everyday not knowing who he is or what happened seems like a blissful way to carry on his days. His wife begs to differ, but she must honor his wishes to revert back to his mental state, pre accidental fluid drain.

This sparks a conversation between Maggie and Richard that did not pan out when Meredith took her sister aside. At age 12, Maggie had a full genetic work up. Worried that her Alzheimer’s predisposition came from Richard and though she is relieved that her crossword habit is counteracting something on her mother’s side, she now understands even more about her past than before.

April is kicking ass and taking names in the ER. One day back turns into two, and Jackson is finding her enthusiasm less contagious and more worrisome. After turning her down twice for sex in the supply closet, Jackson finally speaks to what is bothering him. Every morning he can barely pull himself together enough to make it through the day. He assumes April is suffering even more. But she just wants to get back to feeling like herself and that includes having sex with her husband.

Reminiscent of many moons ago, Meredith, Alex, and Callie sit in the storage hallway of the basement. Maggie offers a variety of reasons why a woman would answer Derek’s phone, but Meredith has the narrative to back up her feelings of betrayal. After all, she was the one on the other end of the phone when Addison came calling.

Meredith may have 90 saves under her belt, but the podium the interns set her up on needs to be lowered. Edwards and Wilson need to see themselves as skilled surgeons capable of saving as many, if not more, lives than Meredith.

The high from 90 only lasts so long as Meredith sits at home and the door begins to jiggle. She opens it to find Derek on the other side saying, “A woman answered my phone.” Yes, Derek, a woman answered your phone. And you look a little too sad to deny it.

Watch Grey’s Anatomy season 11, episode 17, “With or Without You,” Thursday, March 26 at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC.