WARNING: This recap contains SPOILERS for Grey's Anatomy Season 21, episode 17 "Love You Like a Love Song."
Simone and Lucas remain on Amelia's service and have been helping to care for her patient, who is still paralyzed. Nearing the end of their intern year and frustrated with the grim prognosis of their patient, neither is in a good place mentally. While arguing about whether or not to hold out hope for a better outcome, Simone snaps at Lucas about being handed a second chance after he made a major mistake. He later tells her that they no longer seem to have a future and breaks things off before the wedding. Simone meets a stranger at a bar and gives in to his flirting while Lucas attends the wedding reception without her.
Jules, still on Richard's service, helps him with a patient who came to the ER with an inflamed colon. The patient's date hangs around after she's admitted even though she doesn't want him to know what's really going on. At first, Jules is upset that Winston doesn't want her on his service again and seems to be avoiding her. But during an emergency surgery to remove the patient's colon, she realizes she's not just interested in pursuing cardio. After the surgery, she also marvels at how supportive the patient's date still is -- even though they just met. When she encounters Winston later that evening, she tells him she needs to explore more possible specialties and that she's no longer upset with him. He tells her that he hopes she "finds what she's looking for." Not subtle, but we'll take it.
Teddy, Winston, Ben, and Blue once again find themselves caring for Nora, the recurring patient who also happens to be close with Owen (in more ways than one). Teddy promises that even though Nora and Owen slept together, she'll give her the best care like any other patient. During Nora's surgery, everyone realizes trying to fix the problem is a lost cause and that there isn't anything more they can do for her. Teddy is distraught, and tells Owen about Nora's prognosis even though she knows it will crush him. She goes to the wedding while he ends up in Nora's room, where she confesses her love for him. At the wedding, Teddy can't stop thinking about Nora's case, and returns to the hospital with Winston determined to come up with a way to keep Nora alive. But she sees Owen holding her and the way they're looking at each other and knows in one way or another, it's not really over between the two of them like she thought.
Link spends most of his shift at the hospital trying and failing to write his wedding vows for the ceremony later that day. Miranda tries to help him, and ends up encouraging him to tell Jo how he feels in his own way rather than trying to give her a fairytale wedding. So he ends up writing a song for her, which he plays in place of more traditional vows, and Link's father later remarks that it's the best wedding he's ever attended.
Jo is still making final preparations for the ceremony when Link's mom shows up and insists on helping. Levi also arrives and, instead of talking Jo's soon-to-be mother-in-law out of helping, ends up befriending her. Jo tells her that she doesn't like the makeup she did on her or the veil she offered, and Link's mother leaves the apartment in tears. Levi reminds Jo that even though she never had a mom, she might want to consider giving Link's mom a chance to fill the role. Right before the wedding, Jo apologizes and explains her unfamiliarity with having a mother figure, and the two reconcile. The wedding surprisingly goes off without disaster, which is, to be fair, exactly what these two deserved.
There's one episode left in the season, and the pending cliffhanger is bound to have us all in pieces.