Screening Report Network: ABC Screening Date: 3/19/2019 Program: Greys Anatomy Air Date/Time: 3/28/2019 8:00:00 PM Rough Cut: No Program Type: Drama Repeat: No Episode Name: Silent All These Years Episode Code: 1519 Original Air Date/Time: Rating/Clarification: TV-14/D, L Advisory: This program contains themes of domestic violence and sexual assault. Viewer discretion is advised. Disclaimer: No Disclaimer Synopsis: Jo confronts her birth mother, only to find that Vicki gave her up because she was the product of a sexual assault. Meanwhile, Jo treats a rape victim who is struggling to process her experience. Areas of concern for this episode: Abortion Alcohol Reference Domestic Abuse Drug Reference Graphic Images Industry Related Language Mental Illness Physical Illness Political Rape Sexism Teen Pregnancy Teen Sexual Dialogue Full Content Report: Karev finds Jo walking the halls. "You left while I was in the shower -- did I do something?" Jo Industry Related just wanted to come in early to impress Bailey before she becomes chief again. In voice over, Grey talks about how most people have fight or flight responses when they encounter snakes or other things/events that threaten danger. "When you are a trauma victim, there are other things -- a song in a coffee shop, the smell of rubbing alcohol -- that convince your brain you're in danger." Later, Jo drops by her birth mother's home. "I think you're my mother," she says, much to the woman's dismay. Bailey and Ben drive her son to school. Ben suggests they have dinner tonight. The boy can't Graphic Images come because he "has a thing" with a girl named Kelly. Meanwhile, a woman with a bloody Domestic Abuse cut on her cheek walks deliriously around the hospital. She bumps into Jo, who takes her to the ER. The woman smacked herself in the face with a kitchen cabinet by accident. The patient (Abby) can't seem to focus on anything and has blurred vision. Jo can tell there is something more than a cut bothering her. Abby undoes her scarf to reveal a bruise in the shape of a hand around her throat. She also has bruises over her ribcage. Jo's birth mother begs her to leave. Jo asks her for one conversation. She gives the woman directions to a nearby diner. Credits. Break 1 @ 7:00 Jo waits for her birth mother at the diner. Just as she is about to leave, the woman enters. Jo Rape explains that, in her head, her birth mother worked at a crappy diner and had no loved ones. Domestic Abuse Jo assures the woman that she didn't have a better life. "I lived in foster homes so bad it was Language better to live in my car. And when a man finally told me he loved me, I believed him, even Teen Pregnancy when he beat the crap out of me so bad I couldn't see." Jo wants to know more about where Teen Sexual Dialogue she's from. Jo's grandparents died of heart disease and cancer. There is no history of mental Mental Illness illness in the family. Jo's father is dead. "That son of a bitch who hurt me more than anybody Physical Illness has died in a motorcycle accident a few years ago." Jo gets upset at how callous her birth mother is with regards to her father. The woman explains herself. Jo's father was her TA when she was a freshman in undergrad. He chased her down and she finally consented to a date. "He started touching me and kissing me. I said no, I fought as hard as I could, but it didn't help. Nine months later, I had a baby." Break 2 @ 14:00 Jo and Qadri remove Abby's hospital gown. She has bloody gashes on her legs and shoulders. Rape Teddy comes in and Abby agrees to let her perform an ultrasound to check for internal Graphic Images injuries. She finds that Abby has a tear in her diaphragm that has caused her internal organs to migrate up to her chest. Teddy guides Qadri into the hall. She asks her not to let the nurses prep Abby with an antibiotic solution before she is sent to the OR. If they do so, all evidence of a sexual assault will be erased. Teddy and Jo try to get Abby to talk but she refuses. Jo admits that she thinks Abby's Rape husband assaulted her. Abby insists he would never do so. "We all know, if I do that kit, it will Domestic Abuse sit in the back of a police station never to be touched. And I'll wait for the day the bomb goes Alcohol Reference off and hope that a jury of my peers will believe a woman whose skirt was a few inches too Political short, who had a few too many cocktails at a bar last night. And whoever did this to me, Sexism whatever he drink will be his excuse." Jo tells Abby that her ex-husband hit her for years. She was convinced that no one would believe her until one day, someone convinced her otherwise. Abby agrees to have the kit done. A montage of clips shows the doctors administering the test. They photograph the bruises and Graphic Images wounds on Abby's body, one of which is a deep bite mark. Abby breaks down in tears when the doctors finish administering the test. Break 3 @ 23:00 Jo speaks with her birth mother, Vicki, in the diner. She didn't tell her family or college friends Rape that she was pregnant. "I did say yes to that date and did say yes to getting into that car so I Domestic Abuse had to work a little bit to qualify it as rape. At some point a man must have wanted to qualify Abortion this word rape as 'date rape,' 'acquaintance rape', and so on. Somehow it is not as real unless Teen Pregnancy it happens to a woman being chased through the woods at night." No matter how hard Vicki Sexism tried, Jo was always a reminder of the man who raped her. "That night that he smiled and Teen Sexual Dialogue forced me to say that I liked it, when he laughed and promised we could do it anytime I wanted to, that was the night I turned into a shell and I lost my right mind." It wasn't until the day Jo was born that Vicki could feel again, though it took her longer to regain her sanity. Jo was seven weeks pregnant when her ex cracked her ribs and dragged her across the living room floor. It was then that Jo resolved to have an abortion. Break 4 @ 32:00 Jo and the others prep Abby for surgery. Abby is scared of going under because her assailant Rape drugged her. "You can't leave me alone. It's all I see. Every man has his face, even when I Graphic Images close my eyes." Bailey and Ben chat on the back of an ambulance. Bailey is worried that her Drug Reference son is dating too soon. "We're gonna have to sit his butt down and talk to him about respect, Teen Sexual Dialogue empathy, consent, condoms. Dear lord." Jo has all of the female doctors and nurses line up along a hallway leading to the OR. She wheels Abby through on a gurney. Jo stands by her side for the duration of the surgery. We see her bloody organs on a monitor as Teddy operates. Break 5 @ 37:00 Jo and the others sit around Abby's bed. They were able to repair her diaphragm. "I keep Rape going it over in my head. If I hadn't been so distracted by my phone or trusted my gut and Domestic Abuse not walked down that street with the broken lamp lights." Jo assures Abby that her rape Industry Related wasn't her fault. Abby is worried that, if she tells her husband, he will only see a broken person. "I always get nauseous when I see men with expensive shoes with the point at the end because that's how my ex-husband made my kidney bleed. For years I thought I got what I deserved, that I was responsible. But I wasn't." Ben chats with his son at a burger place. "Any game we watch on TV: they run, toss, wrestle, Teen Sexual Dialogue or chase, until someone wins. Or, if someone calls time out. That's consent. If she says stop or that she is not having fun, you plain stop." Abby reports her assault to the police. Her husband sits at her bedside. Jo runs into Alex in the hall. He notices that she is distraught and asks if she would like to talk. Jo wants to go home alone and sleep. Ellen Pompeo and Giacomo Gianniotti. Ellen sends a message to the viewers; "If you or someone you know has experienced sexual violence, call RAIN sexual assault hotline at 800- 656-HOPE or visit online.rain.org." End credits. Client-Specific Information: Type Length Household Supplies Industry Related NA Grey talks about how most people have fight or flight responses when they encounter snakes or other things/events that threaten danger. "When you are a trauma victim, there are other things -- a song in a coffee shop, the smell of rubbing alcohol - - that convince your brain you're in danger." Apparel Industry Related NA "I always get nauseous when I see men with expensive shoes with the point at the end because that's how my ex-husband made my kidney bleed.