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[WARNING: This post contains massive spoilers from Thursday's Season 8 finale of Grey's Anatomy.]

One of Seattle Grace's best and brightest succumbed to injuries sustained in last week's shocking plane crash during Thursday's emotional Season 8 finale of Grey's Anatomy.

After departing the hospital for Boise to help with complicated surgery involving conjoined twins, Meredith, Derek, Cristina, Arizona, Mark and Lexie each sustained injuries and were in various stages of distress.

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LEXIE Left pinned down under part of the plane with her legs and pelvis crushed, ultimately it was Little Grey, Lexie (Chyler Leigh), whose injuries were the most severe. Despite Mark (Eric Dane) and Cristina's (Sandra Oh) best attempts, Lexie ultimately couldn't be saved. In one of the ABC medical drama's most emotional scenes in its eight seasons, Lexie tells Mark to relay a message to Meredith: She was a good sister and loved. With Cristina frantically looking for Meredith -- who is busy searching for Derek after he was sucked out of the plane -- Mark realizes that there's nothing he can do for Lexie and, in a bittersweet scene as she slips away, he sends her off by telling her that they'll get married and she'll have a bright future as a surgeon.

Meredith, meanwhile, is too late to say goodbye and arrives just after Lexie passes away. As the trio start to search for Derek again, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) she continues to battle her emotions at the thought that she could lose both her sister and husband as Cristina reveals that she's leaving Seattle if she survives the harrowing ordeal.

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MARK & ARIZONA In shock after Lexie's death, Mark -- who has a huge gash on his chest -- passes out and needs heart surgery as Meredith and Cristina saves his live by draining the blood pooling in his heart. With bone exposed in her leg, Arizona is left in shock from the crash and despite her massive injuries, does her best to help keep Mark alive despite coughing up blood. Realizing that he's slipping away, Mark tells Arizona to take care of "our girl" and realizes that Lexie is waiting for him, as he knows that he'll be OK. Unwilling to accept it, Arizona tells Mark that Callie and Sophia are waiting for him, too, and she needs him to hold on so they can go home -- together. As Mark continues to cling for life, he notes that he should have professed his love for Lexie well before the crash.

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