She said no. Not long after, she shows up at his doorstep and he begins to argue with her for being unavoidable. They continued to sleep together several times over the course of the day. She accosted Alex and the two proceeded to have sex in a linen closet. After dropping Jo off at the psychiatric department, Alex went out for drinks with Link to inform him about Jo. Alex eventually saw that Rebecca indeed was not pregnant, and became slightly worried when she didn't listen to him and instead insisted that she lost the baby. Reminding him of the time his father left him in a parking lot when he was six, Alex had a strong reaction to the situation and told the kid's father to do whatever he needed to to protect his son, even if it meant keeping him away from his mother. It would cost too much to fly him out herself and she was at a loss as to getting someone who was willing to bring that kid, plus the dozen others, to the US for surgery. 8. Familial Information That worked, but the car got stuck on the highway due to fog covering the city. Things are uncertain and there's no turning back. Meredith was not happy about the move but Alex told her she still got him around this way and that it was time for Jo to move on to her own stuff.[16]. Then, she returned and attempted to get back together with Alex, but he refused because of the fact that she had left him, and they ultimately got divorced. When George finds a way to pay for Joe's hospital bills, the animosity between George and Alex is dissolved after Alex gives George a hug. He rushed to the loft and found Jo laughing hysterically at a cartoon. Alex then proceeded to stalk his father at bars where he was performing. After which, he proceeded to taunt a furious Meredith, who attacked him in retaliation, calling him a frat boy bitch. He suggested Alex apply for the Chief of Surgery job at Pacific Northwest General Hospital so he could hire him. She just wasn't ready to talk yet. While in there, they were informed that the insurance company had found out about Meredith's insurance fraud and that Andrew was taking the fall for her. James and two of his friends were in a car crash and they were obviously on some drugs. Bailey decided to fund the fellowship with her own money and appointed Alex interim Chief of Surgery, as she herself needed a sabbatical. Alex stayed clear of Paul's room per Meredith's instructions, but he stood by Jo as she was left with the decision about what to do with Paul after he slipped in an act of aggression towards Jo and his new fiance Jenny and was declared brain dead. Alex himself had to call time on death on Frankie as Richard wouldn't give up. Jo retreated back to their hotel room, while Alex spent the day enjoying himself outside. He thought it was a good time to get legally married and they went to the courthouse. Later, Jo told him she freaked out not because of him but because she didn't know anything about her genome and her biological parents' medical history, so she decided to have her genome examined. WhenPierce accidentally revealed in the OR that Alex was looking for a spot on the board, Lebackes fired him on the spot. Alex got himself a case of a young man with a pulmonary bleb, but the man refused surgery because his insurance wouldn't cover it. The two of them handed out beers before the countdown and kissed at midnight. Alex is the only one of the 5 original interns and remaining residents of his class to have gone into private practice, albeit briefly, after their training was complete. Gabriella's father was an immigrant cleaning offices for a living and he made too much money to qualify for state coverage for the surgery, which was too expensive for Luis to pay. He meant to protect her but Izzie didn't think so and she left Seattle, leaving Alex with unpaid medical bills and no ideas of where she was. Alex paused her and started to look for the ring. "You Can Look (But You'd Better Not Touch)". When Rebecca Pope returned to Seattle Grace and revealed she was pregnant, Alex took up some shifts at the Emerald City Bar. She asked for him later when Lexie was having trouble moving her without causing pain. After being absent from the show for weeks, it was revealed in the March 5 episode that Karev had left Seattle and his new wife, Jo ( Camilla Luddington ), to reunite with his ex-wife, Izzie (the. However, when he was in another room, she attempted to cut her wrists with a kitchen knife. ("Desire"), Because her more emergency health issues were addressed and her memory had still not come back, Derek Shepherd agreed to look more seriously into possible causes for the memory loss. "), Rebecca reappeared. Grey's Anatomy Universe Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. You're not good enough for me, Alex. Alex wears a personalized scrub cap that is a mix of silver and brown seemingly stylized in a marble-wood fashion. He Will Stay In Iowa. Jo left them to talk so they could correct his mistake. He jumped to the wrong conclusion and began to punch him.[54]. Alex finally saw that Rebecca wasn't actually pregnant and became slightly concerned when she didn't listen to him, instead insisting that she had lost the baby. When she finally got back, to get some help for an old teacher, they didn't manage to work their problems out and Izzie left once again. Alex hesitated and wondered why Meredith's family was relevant to the hearing. He hated that he didn't come up with Vincenzo's idea of his own. Pulcher, dubbed "Dragon Lady" by Alex because of her constant cold and mean spirited remarks, refused and threatened to sue him and the hospital. His confidence took another blow when he froze up during a makeshift emergency surgery in an elevator during a power outage, and George had to operate on the patient himself. He had brought together a whole group of people who had been treated by Meredith and had all come from all over the country to testify on her behalf. Alex thought she was doing better, but Link told her she was in a rough shape, unlike anything he'd ever seen before. This was one of the very few compliments Alex has ever gotten from her. A part of this disorder was that she had forgotten that she already had a baby. Frantic and crumbling under the pressure of owing so much money and living up to the expectations he had set up for these kids, Alex nearly had a meltdown. Alex then warmed up to him. She needed brain surgery, but he warned her that due to the location of the bleed, she needed to be awake during the surgery. The baby should be naked, except for his diaper and something to cover his back (usually the parent's clothing or a folded receiving blanket), with oxygen as needed. Richard yelled at him, but Alex told him about the time when he was 12 and he stole his neighbor's car to drive his sister, who was spiking a fever, to the hospital. She said it hurt her more than it did him.[37]. Who does Alex Karev end up with? While the wedding was delayed by people going to the wrong address and minister being late, Alex and Jo snuck off to have sex in a shed and got locked in. He apologized to Meredith lots of times but she refused to forgive him at first. Titled . She was upset at still not knowing who she was and caused a fight between Alex and herself. Izzie later revealed that Ava wasn't really pregnant and was just trying to get Alex to keep dating her. Before heading into back-to-back meetings, he asked Bailey to cover the ER. The patient, Nora Hillridge, was sabotaging her own surgery by drinking juice to increase her glycemia so that she could stay in the hospital and wouldn't have to go back to school. Alex and Izzie had a rocky start to their relationship. Jo showed up with fake blood in another attempt to scare Alex but he was informed that multiple patients were crashing in the ICU. He and Helen said goodbye to Jo and left for the airport. She confessed that the only person she wanted to be was Ava. Where's The Cabbage PatchPig BoyDirty Uncle SalAlex StevensThe Out GuyRat BoyDr. George contracted syphilis from Alex through Olivia. After Jo visited her birth mom and entered a depressive episode, Alex stayed by her side and helped her recover. Alex also boughtMeredith's housefrom her after he chose to remain in Seattle. For a while, he pushed everyone away, but since going into peds, he's showed more of who he really is. When Cristina Yang got Alex to get up and help Meredith to keep Zola, after yelling at him, he replied with, "I don't have anyone! Biographical Information ("The Other Side of This Life, Part 1"), Derek found bleeding in her brain, which he said could have been from one of her other surgeries. Alex has been seen in five colors of scrubs: light blue (resident in Seattle), navy blue (attending in Seattle), turquoise (the. Later, Meredith's opinion of Alex changed for the better when he offered to listen to her problems with her mother, Ellis. Karev explained in his letter to Meredith that . Alex informed Richard, who took it upon himself to keep the investors busy while Alex handled the administrative load. Alex refusedto believe it and so did Ava. Walk on Water When acclaimed plastic surgeon Dr. Mark Sloan took up a position at Seattle Grace, Alex leapt at the chance to pursue his interest in plastics. His favorite dessert is banana cream pie. He didn't want her to keep it inside like before. Both out of a job, they went to Joe's for day drinking. He kissed her deeply. Jo found herself hesitant to be included in an article about Meredith's surgery, as it showcased how much control her husband still had over her. They discovered it was a mass grave, a remnant of the hospital's past as a psychiatric facility, and decided to stop construction. ("Haunt You Every Day"). However, Izzie realized that she didn't have to settle for Alex. A bit later, under pressure from Izzie, Ava revealed the truth to Alex. [21], Alex and Jo overslept on the day that a wind storm hit Seattle. They agreed to return most of it and buy a bigger television with the money they'd get back. After the surgery, he found out that Jo and Bailey had gone against his orders and were performing a transplant with the revived liver. However, Alex told her he had gotten good at the job and that he wanted to keep the job till the end of the six-month contract they had agreed to. Alex was Owen's original choice for chief resident but after he sold outMeredithwhen she tampered with the Alzheimer's trial,OwenchoseApril Kepnerinstead. They were to perform a total pancreatectomy. However on that very day, he found out from the Chief that he failed his medical board exams. Link said he tried to tell her that he did not like Paul, but then Paul grew jealous and made Jo back away. He wanted to know why and as she went to tell him, he cut her off and stormed out. He said it didn't have to be today or tomorrow but he wanted to know that it would happen. Change is a funny thing, and not everyone can handle it. Jo and Bailey revived a liver with a perfusion system, but Alex ordered them to shut it down because it could risk their standing with UNOS. He only told him being Chief is finding creative ways to get out of corners you've been backed into. This contributes to his poor bedside manner. His feelings for Izzie eventually came back and when she gave him an ultimatum (to pick between the nice Alex and the jerk Alex) he chooses nice and they begin to go out again. The bartender treated Alex to a beer on the house. Izzie had yet to get over Denny and told him she cannot commit in a relationship with him just yet, and he understood. Her baby survived and was watched closely by a group of nurses. Alex and Jo then got back together after Jo realized that she could trust him. He thought he should have stopped her, but Meredith told him he couldn't have. Soon afterwards, Meredith, Jo, Bailey, and Richard all received letters from Alex, who explained that he had reconciled with Izzie during Meredith's trial. First Although first he was an intern of Jeremy, Alex was reassigned to a new resident Dr. Miranda Bailey, to the disdain of the other interns under her. Before she came back to Seattle, Ava had developed a borderline personality disorder. Alex left the group in Richard's hands and went with the worker, who showed him they had come across skeletal remains while digging. Jo had been treating Natasha Deon all day and thanked Alex for being alive and having married her. He told Izzie to make it clear to her that she was not pregnant and get her a psych consult. She told him that when he tried to talk to her in her depressive episode, she felt fear, shame, and pain. [23], Alex settled in the Chief job and got the hang of it. Alex and Izzie got married after a tumor was removed from her brain, but a second one was found by Dr. Shepherd. Alex later came back and placed his hand on her belly, not knowing that the pregnancy test had come back negative. Alex was excited, but Ava minimized it, saying it was nothing. His first meeting was with Vincenzo DeLuca, Andrew, and Carina. Alex promised her they would figure it out. He later revealed to Jo that he saw Paul but didn't act violently towards him like Jo thought he would. Izzie pressured Alex to get her admitted to the psych ward. Alex then went home and found Jo in bed. Alex took the investors to his office and explained the situation properly. At age 15, Alex stood up to his father, beat him up, and threw him out of the house. Alex asked her if she was keeping it or having an abortion and then left abruptly. She was ashamed that she was unable to receive the love that he was giving her. She was taken to a psychiatric ward and Alex was forced to move on. She asked if she could go home with them. Portrayed by It should also be mentioned that Luddington announced in October that she is pregnant in real life and expecting her first child with boyfriend Matthew Alan. She was worried about not knowing anything about her life, so Alex used her labs to tell her what they'd learned about her. These episodes are Alex-centric or are otherwise very informative about his life. Alex resorted to shoplifting to get food for them, which resulted in him being arrested and sent to juvie. She was Alex's intern and was helping him study to pass his boards when she passed out. Furious, Vincenzo took his research back to Italy. Alex was thrown in the deep end of the pool on his first day as Chief. The news made Alex think about the day she left for Pittsburgh. She assured him it wasn't personal. ", a move inspired by a shared patient. She tried to convince him that they could start over but he had moved on and he decided to break up with Izzie. At the consult with Mark, she said she wanted a new body because it didn't match the face he made her. The Couple: Alex Karev ( Justin Chambers )/Ava . When Izzie is discovered to have an inoperable tumor, Meredith and Derek gave their wedding to Alex and Izzie and the two marry. They pulled Gus through and Jo arrived with the blood right when the chamber was decompressed. She invited Alex to join her and he admitted it felt satisfying. Count ("Freedom, Part 2"), After Alex realized she had regained her memory, he tried to convince her to tell the authorities so that her family could be located; although she initially refused, she eventually confessed that her real name was Rebecca Pope. They still went on to have sex. She had a boyfriend, Chris, who worked at the Cleveland Clinic. She set the record straight and the ceremony continued. Arizona is Alex's mentor and the two have maintained a close relationship because of that. To some degree, Alex was also attracted to Addison as they subsequently shared frequent meaningful looks. [11], Alex went to the District Attorney's office to take the plea deal, but Andrew unexpectedly walked in and tried to drop all charges against Alex. He signed off on Link's project to 3-D print prosthetics for kids. ("Haunt You Every Day"). He went to Rebecca and said that she had underlying borderline personality disorder that was aggravated by her face being changed. Alex Karev found a semi-conscious pregnant woman crushed under a cement pylon, suffering from several severe injuries, after the ferry accident. Alex realized that his feelings for Izzie had not diminished since she dumped him, and impulsively kissed her in the stairwell. He advised her to go see him, because he found it had been good for him to be able to say goodbye to his own father. He and his son, Eli, have the same smile. GA: A Hard Day's Night Assuming that Andrew was sexually assaulting her, Alex violently physically assaulted Andrew, leading to the former temporarily injuring his hand and the latter sustaining several critical injuries. Rebecca then thought she had lost the baby, despite being told she never was pregnant. ("Scars and Souvenirs"), She had a fracture to her orbital socket, meaning she needed surgery. GA: 3 and 4 Alex persisted, however, going as far as to show her pictures of the many sick kids before she sent him away. He testified that Meredith made him a better surgeon and person. Professionally, George had beaten Alex during important situations, even though Alex was better at poaching surgeries, George would have been better at dealing with emergency cases while Alex would just have frozen (e.g. However, after this angry speech, he continued to kiss her and they slept together. Your future is staring you in the face and you're not sure you like what you see. He is the father of twins,Alexis and Eli, with his ex-wife and current partner,Izzie Stevens. Furious, she informs a stunned Alex that he would be placed permanently under her service. ("Crash Into Me, Part 2"), Rebecca came back again, saying she was pregnant. He also spent time in juvenile detention for stealing food for his family. She sucked on her fingers and made a cartoon-like suckling sound. Alex proposed to Jo for the second time two years later. [13], After months of being engaged, Alex and Jo arrived at the big day. He found out how understaffed the hospital was, making him feel like a crappy leader. Alex calledher husband, who told him that he left Ava and went with the child. Alex gradually developed distaste for plastics after serving as Mark's intern, and found himself drawn back to Addison's surgeries. Even though he didn't get the spot, GSM hired him back as an attending peds surgeon. Appearances Jo unfortunately didn't know that Meredith was only trying to pass Jo's ring to Alex without her seeing. Over time, he started dating other girls and his love for Izzie faded. While heading home, Alex and Jo ran into Link, who apparently knew Jo from her past life as Brooke. Addison left Seattle Grace and Alex found himself without any preferences for any specialty. ("Drowning on Dry Land"), She woke up after her surgery confused. Eventually,Izzie Stevensbefriended Alex and Meredith accepted him as well. Meredith took the idea to Bailey, who told her there was no room on the budget unless she did not re-hire Alex, as they had just spent a lot of money on the hyperbaric medicine lab. Alex started his internship at the same day Meredith, George, Cristina, and Izzie did.