Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 Episode 7 recap: Jo fights to survive as Link faces impossible choices

Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 Episode 7 is titled Skyfall. It dropped on January 8, 2026, at 10 PM ET on ABC.

The show jumps back after its winter break, picking up exactly where the fall finale stopped. With two huge cliffhangers still hanging in the air, fans have been on edge, waiting to see what happens next.

Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 Episode 7 throws everyone into chaos. Winston and Ben are in a race against time, doing everything they can to keep Jo and her twins alive after some terrifying pregnancy complications. Teddy is right there for Link, holding him up while everything is falling apart around them.

Richard is trying to wrap his head around his prostate cancer diagnosis. He is not yet sure how to deal with it. Owen and Jules are fighting to save a young guy, doing whatever it takes. Lucas gets close to a patient in a way he didn’t see coming. All these stories collide at once.

Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 Episode 7 recap: Skyfall

Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 Episode 7 begins in a panic, as Jo Wilson’s life is hanging in the balance. Jo goes into early labor, but then her complications become so serious that Winston Ndugu and Ben Warren, together with the surgery staff, have to be in emergency mode. Her twins are delivered through C-section, and the situation immediately becomes critical as Jo begins to code. The doctors are struggling to revive her, and alarms are going off, as they are not sure whether they will be saving her life or only delaying the death.

Jo lives through surgery, but being alive is not being safe. She is still unconscious and dependent on a heart pump, and Winston warns that if her heart doesn’t get better, a transplant might be the only solution. That fact is devastating to Link. Being a surgeon and Jo’s husband, he knows perfectly well what it was like to wait to get a donor heart and how uncertain that would be.

As Jo is desperately holding on to life, Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 Episode 7 briefly shifts to the NICU, where her newborn twins are struggling with theirs. One of the babies, Baby B, is first diagnosed with a heart murmur and is given closer attention. A scan shows additional complications, and physicians are gearing up for more treatment. At some point, Baby B has to be put under sedation and on a bigger ventilator, something that Link takes a long time to cope with because he has to make life-changing decisions on behalf of two babies as he worries about losing their mother.

Teddy Altman turns out to be a constant companion of Link, providing medical clarity and emotional stability. She remains with the babies, allowing Link to divide his attention between the NICU and Jo. His stress levels explode when Link hears that Baby B was sedated without his direct information, and he loses his temper with Teddy. She takes his rage in her stride, knowing how much it is fueled by fear.

Miranda Bailey silently sits with Jo and replaces Ben briefly to have some privacy. The silence provides Bailey with the time to face all that she has been carrying around with her: the illness of Jo, a cancer patient whose clinical trial medicine had expired, and her increasing concern about Richard Webber, who has been evading discussing his own health.

In Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 Episode 7, Bailey breaks down at last. As Jo’s monitors suddenly spike and Winston and Ben rush in to adjust the heart pump and stabilize her rhythm, Bailey loses composure. She has a panic attack and only just manages her nerves until Ben intervenes, calming her down with the reassurance that she is in dire need of. Bailey later challenges Webber, and he finally seeks help by consenting to fresh blood tests and admitting that he is powerless to stop what’s coming.

Elsewhere in the hospital, Owen Hunt and Jules Millin handle a trauma case of a young pilot (Graham). As he tries to put across an elaborate wedding proposal using skywriting, Graham loses control of his plane as he performs some aerobatics for which he has not been trained. He comes alive, but is in a critical condition.

Graham is brought in by his best friend, who wants to help, but medical center regulations restrict his actions. Graham makes one request before he is intubated: to contact his girlfriend, Fiona, so she knows that he did not change his mind regarding proposing. Eventually, Fiona arrives, and she is enraged that the friend has allowed Graham to fly, but her anger soon turns into grief and love. Unfortunately, no matter the teams’ efforts, Graham has too serious injuries. Owen is compelled to announce the time of death when Jules is left heartbroken and shaken by another loss.

Later, Owen crashes into the friend of Graham who is outside the hospital, and is devastated by guilt. Owen reminds him that accidents do not belong to an individual, a quiet moment of compassion after an unforgiving outcome in Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 Episode 7.

Against this emotional backdrop of Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 Episode 7, Bailey delegates to Lucas Adams an urgent mission: to transport her cancer patient, Katie, to take her immunotherapy after her shipment of pills is discovered to be out of date. Bailey believes Lucas because Katie believes him.

The trip soon becomes a nightmare as Lucas avoids the highway, but the vehicle stalls in the back roads, and they are stuck. To Katie, it is like the affirmation of nothing being right in her life. She shares how her friends “gave her space” without asking, leaving her alone at the worst time of her life. Lucas attempts to console her, yet Katie reminds him that being a doctor is not equal to living with Stage 4 cancer.

They eventually get to the hospital in time. Lucas accompanies Katie through treatment, watching movies and providing simple companionship. Their relationship is not founded on romance, but on sincerity and vulnerability.

In Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 Episode 7, tensions in the hospital are transferred to personal lives. Simone and Bill confront each other over his relationship with Kavita Mohanty when Simone urges him to take workplace relationships seriously, only to realize she may have been projecting her own issues. Blue sends Kavita flowers, yet she clarifies that she had never wanted anything serious.

Simone herself avoids unresolved feelings with Lucas until a tense ride with him on an elevator ends with the two of them hooking up in the on-call room, evidence that there is no emotional knot at Gray Sloan that remains untied.

Jules, who is emotionally fragile after the death of the pilot, arrives at Joe Bar in the hope of meeting Winston, only to see him talking closely with an OB colleague who is openly flirting. She walks away silently, without knowing where she is.

In the meantime, Owen and Teddy get a quiet moment in Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 Episode 7. Owen confesses that he broke up with Nora but remained silent since he did not want to repeat past experiences. To alleviate some of the pressure, he informs Teddy how proud he is of her to venture into the limelight professionally.

Exhausted, Link ends up in the hospital chapel. He is joined by Richard Webber, who says that faith does not necessarily imply believing in God; it can mean believing in those people who show up when everything goes wrong. Prayer might not warm up the heart of Link, but he has people around him who will not allow his family to go through this by themselves.

Back in the NICU, Teddy leans over the twins and talks to them softly, walking them through what’s happening as if they can really hear her. Link comes back. He looks tired, but he apologizes and settles in next to Teddy, speaking quietly to the babies. Then, out of nowhere, Baby B finally pees. It’s a tiny thing, but everyone in the room breathes a little easier.

Later, in those last few minutes of Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 Episode 7, Link goes to Jo’s bedside. He sits with her, hoping for something, anything. And then, just as he is starting to lose faith, Jo stirs. She blinks her eyes open. It’s still uncertain. Recovery is not promised. But right now, it’s enough.

After so much fear and heartbreak, Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 Episode 7 doesn’t end with a miracle. It ends with a flicker of hope. Jo is still here. Sometimes, that’s all you need.

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