Spoiler: Do Maggie and Winston Stay Together on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’?

Find out what happened in Kelly McCreary's farewell episode.

Grey’s Anatomy said goodbye to Dr. Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary) over the course of two back-to-back episodes (“Shadow of Your Love” and “Mama Who Bore Me”) on Thursday night. As expected, Dr. Pierce left Grey Sloan Memorial to take a research position at the Heart Center of Chicago—a move that, just last week, put her already rocky marriage to Dr. Winston Ndugu (Anthony Hill) on the brink of collapse. What could possibly bring the couple back from the edge?

At first, it seems like a successful surgery will do the trick. The two team up to save Nola, a patient with a tumor so big it's crushing her heart, and their success in the OR is enough to drive them back together—at least for a night.

“I could not have done that surgery without you," Maggie tells Winston. "You challenge me, you inspire me ... and the way that you accessed that jugular today..." Cut to the scalpel-wielding lovers tearing each other's clothes off, surrounded by Maggie's moving boxes.

Do Maggie and Winston stay together on Grey's Anatomy?

Unfortunately, the two are back to having the same-old argument the very next morning, with Maggie asking Winston to come to Chicago and him pushing her to stay in Seattle. "I’ve been offered the opportunity of a lifetime," Maggie explains for the millionth time. Winston warns her that if she isn't careful, she's going to end up like her mother, Ellis Grey, which is code for saying she's too ambitious (or, to quote Amelia, a "cold-hearted monster").

Only, Maggie isn't too ambitious—she's passionate—and she knows it.

"I thought about everything you said," Maggie tells Winston. "Ellis stayed with her husband, and by all counts that’s why she became so bitter." She added that her adoptive mother similarly compromised for a man. "They didn’t follow their hearts, they didn’t follow their guts, they didn’t bet on themselves," Maggie said. "They stayed to keep the peace. They stayed to keep other people happy."

Her heart is in her work, Maggie concluded—but that doesn't mean she's cold.

"I think we did the best we could, and that nether of us is to blame," she said. "I love you. But I have to go."

And with that, it would seem Maggie and Winston are done—at least for now. According to Deadline, McCreary will back sometime before the Season 19 finale on May 18.

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