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By Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter

“Grey’s Anatomy” viewers, buckle up: you’re in for screams, blood, exposed bones and a completely stressful episode if the first six minutes of Thursday’s Season 8 finale are any indication of what’s coming.

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After a plane carrying some of Seattle Grace’s best and brightest crashed into a forest, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), Derek (Patrick Dempsey), Cristina (Sandra Oh), Lexie (Chyler Leigh), Mark (Eric Dane) and Arizona’s (Jessica Capshaw) lives were left hanging in the balance.

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Showrunner Shonda Rhimes has warned that the episode, fittingly titled “Flight,” will include what she calls a “pretty big death.”

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“We’re not talking [about] some guest star [who] is going to come in and die kind of thing; it’s a big death and it’s fairly shocking,” she told The Hollywood Reporter during a recent interview. “It was hard, it was hard to write, it was hard to listen to at the table read. It is a difficult thing to do and not done lightly. When one of your main characters dies, it always affects the heart and soul of the hospital.”

So who will survive the first six minutes? Watch the clip to find out, but be warned: it’s graphic and severely cringe-inducing.

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The Grey’s Anatomy docs are Lost!

No, seriously. The plane crash recalls the days of the ABC mystery island series, complete with an injured leader (Ellen Pompeo’s Meredith), an unfortunate tailie (Chyler Leigh’s Lexie) and a missing husband (Patrick Dempsey’s Derek), who fortunately is found by the end of the opening act. But he’s not pardon the pun out of the woods yet. Plus: Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) has a nasty injury, and Cristina (Sandra Oh) and Mark (Eric Dane) are trying to save the pinned-down Lexie. And that’s only the first six minutes!

Lest we forget, someone will die during this hour, so watch the first act of the gruesome and terrifying finale below and hit the comments with who you think won’t make it out alive.

The Grey’s Anatomy finale airs Thursday at 9/8c on ABC.

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FORTUNE — Everyone from Greece’s squabbling political parties to Europe’s central bankers are expressing faith that Greece will remain in the Euro. That’s not surprising, since simply talking about how to manage an exit would spread panic, making the exit inevitable. But the panic is already here. Greece’s departure from the Euro could happen within a couple of weeks, if not a few days.

The pressing problem isn’t a splintered legislature that may balk at delivering the reforms that the IMF and European Community are demanding in exchange for the next tranche of bailout money. It’s a disastrous, old-fashioned run-on-the bank. “For a year, Greeks have been sending their savings from Greek banks to foreign banks,” says Robert Aliber, retired professor of international economics from the University of Chicago. “Now, the flood has reached a crescendo.” Indeed on Monday alone, outflows from the Greek banks reached almost $900 million.

The flight of capital is sapping the deposits needed to refinance mortgages and small business loans, causing a full-blown credit crisis. Greeks are also extremely reluctant to spend their Euros on cars, dining or anything else, since they reckon those Euros will buy more at the supermarkets and auto lots in the weeks or months ahead. The disappearing consumer is further crippling the economy.

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Greece’s exit is absolutely necessary. “Its prices and costs are far too high under the Euro, so it just cannot compete on international markets,” says Aliber. “The Greeks have suffered far more through all these misguided bailouts than they’ve gained by lowering prices or costs.” The political gridlock, argues Aliber, is actually a good thing because it will hasten abandoning a disastrously overvalued currency, just what’s needed to get Greece growing again.

The mechanics of shelving the Euro for its own currency are pretty predictable. One day soon, imagine it’s late on a Friday afternoon, the Greek government will declare all banks closed for the following week. By Monday, the legislature will vote an emergency law that designates a fixed exchange rate of, say, 1 drachma the Greek pre-Euro currency for each Euro. By Monday, all corporate and personal savings in Greek banks will be denominated in drachma.

The drachma will tumble in value, so that almost immediately, Greek consumers will need at least 1.5 Drachma to buy one Euro. A savings account that held 15,000 euros is now 15,000 Drachma. But those drachmas will soon fetch just 10,000 Euros. That’s a “devaluation” of 33%. “That number is the low-end of the range for countries that exit a common currency,” says Uri Dadush, an economist at the Carnegie Endowment.

What happens next is the pivotal issue, and top economists disagree strongly on Greece’s post-Euro future. To be sure, this isn’t a play by Aeschylus or Aristophanes where the audience knows the finale. Yanis Varoufakis of the University of Athens foresees a Greek tragedy in which a run on the banks is followed by a run on the drachma. “Greeks paid in drachma will go to the ATM then immediately exchange their drachma for Euros people have stashed in their freezers,” says Varoufakis. He thinks that the drachma will keep plunging against foreign currencies, and Greeks will keep bailing, causing a new crisis of hyperinflation.

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But the disaster scenario isn’t inevitable. “Other countries have left what’s effectively a common currency zone without suffering hyperinflation,” says Hans Humes, president of investment firm Greylock Capital, which holds Greek government bonds. Aliber thinks that Greece’s exit will create the same growth dynamic that’s recharged Iceland and Argentina, both of whom effectively shed overvalued currencies.

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Chanel in Houston: I’m seriously going to DIE this summer without New Girl scoop to obsess over!! Any suggestions to help save me from a Jess-free three months? Whoa! Well our first suggestion would be that you enroll in some acting classes because it seems like the dramatics come very naturally to you. With that said, we think that you should perfect the art of the slow chicken dance. (Remember that facial expressions are also a key part of the dance.) Then we say you gather all the youths you know and clearly lay out the drinking rules of the “True American” game. Bonus points if you can get your landlord to play too!Lastly we think that every morning you should take at look at this ridiculously cute first-look picture for season two and try to absorb as much of their awesomeness as possible. And this has been Team WWK’s guide to the ultimate New Girl summer. You areverywelcome.

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Natafree1994: What’s happening with CSI: NY?? Feel free to pop the champagne (or apple cider if you’re under 21!) as sources tell us CSI: NY has been picked up for another season. If you don’t want to jinx it, keep the champagne on ice until Wednesday, which is when CBS is set to unveil their fall lineup.

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Summary: A malicious attack aimed at Google but routed through Plaxo highlights the growing importance of API security using the forthcoming OAuth 2.0 protocol, which protects the users credential information.

Address book service Plaxo is moving to shore up its API security after being sucked in as a back-door, silent victim in an attack on Google.

Last week, a spammer armed with stolen credentials for a number of Google accounts routed their attack through Plaxos servers by taking advantage of connections the two maintain and an aging Plaxo authentication mechanism called Address Book (AB) Widget, which enables Plaxo users to import Gmail contacts.

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Given the avenue of the attack, it was hard for Google to detect the malicious traffic being proxied through Plaxos IP address.

The two worked together to dissect the hack and Plaxo has since retired its AB Widget and will update its Plaxo-Google Sync in a few weeks to support OAuth 2.0 and take advantage of its secure authentication capabilities.

The moral of the story is that security should be of paramount concern for APIs as they become a preferred point of integration within the concepts of cloud computing.

To wit, over the past two years, companies such as Twitter, Facebook, Google, Netflix, eBay and NPR have each been processing billions of API calls per day.

OAuth 2.0 is a forthcoming Internet Engineering Task Force specification that uses tokens for authenticating API end-points, which eliminates the need to share credential information among providers.

End-users wont know the technology they are using is OAuth, said Preston Smalley, general manager and head of product for Plaxo. But over time users are becoming more and more sensitive to sharing their user names and passwords with anyone other than their account provider.

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FORTUNE — It is perhaps a measure of how badly broken today’s commercial TV viewing experience is — the cookie-cutter sitcoms, the ridiculous reality shows,the ever-shifting channel line-ups, the relentless, merciless commercial breaks — that the tech press is so desperate to believe even the slimmest rumor that Apple (AAPL) is getting ready to solve all that by building its own television set.

Take, for example, last week’s report that Hon Hai chairman Terry Gou announced at a press conference in Shanghai that his Foxconn subsidiary was “making preparations for iTV.”

By Friday the report had spawned dozens of headlines. A sample:

What none of these reporters mentioned (or apparently bothered to consider) is that Gou — whose factories assemble 40% of the world’s electronic devices — is one of the industry’s most secretive executives. He is privy to the future product plans of the most valuable electronics brands — not just Apple, but also Sony (SNE), Microsoft (MSFT), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and the rest. He is trusted by his business partners because he never leaks their secrets.

Terry Gou. Photo via M.I.C. Gadget

Given how jealously Apple guards its own secrets, and how relentlessly it pursues those who spill them, what are the chances that Gou would say anything — ever — about an unannounced Apple product, real or imagined?

I’d say, nil.

So what was the source for this latest iTV story?

It was single item in China Daily — an English-language newspaper based in Beijing. The dateline is Shanghai. The byline isGao Changxin. The headline reads: “Foxconn plans renewed shift into distribution.”

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GONE, BABY, GONEDon’t be deceived by Arizona and Callie’s happy faces — there’s not much to smile about when this episode ends.

Earlier today, creatorShonda Rhimes told EW that in addition to a big death, viewers should be prepared for something bad to happen in next weeks season finale.

Knowing that, I watched the penultimate episode with bated breath, constantly looking for clues of what impending doom might befall Seattle Grace next week. I watched Arizona break the news to her brothers best friend Nick that his cancer was incurable, and thought that maybe this would lead to a bigger storyline. I watched April lose all possible job offers, including a place at Seattle Grace, and surmised, Oh, this is setting up her downfall. I got my answer, however, in the last moments of the episode when a closing shot of an airplane carrying majority of our doctors crashed.

Yes, you read that right, and no, you didnt stumble upon one of Doc Jensens old Lost recaps, may they rest in peace. We dont know any details yet, but a plane carrying Meredith, Derek, Cristina, Arizona, and Sloan has crashed, split open in the middle of the wilderness. Maybe some of you predicted this when you saw them all on the plane, but — paint me oblivious — I actually gasped in those last moments. I know thats a lot to process (it certainly was for me), so while you get your bearings, lets start at the beginning.

Chief Hunt and the other head surgeons are in game-time mode in the conference room as they try and figure out which of their docs are leaving the nest. But while the surgeons powwow, the doctors with the real decisions to make are partying at Casa de la Grey, taking celebratory shots, and turning the music off every time a phone rings, lest it be a hospital with an offer. That included April, who got her first of many calls from hospitals revoking their offers. The second “retract call” came during lunchtime at the hospital where Cristina was on hand to pick up, put on her best high-pitched Kepner voice, and stick it right back to the bad news bearer.

I absolutely loved seeing Cristina stand up for Kepner when there have been so many moments when shes really laid it on her. To me, it showed a true moment of unity as these doctors all go their separate ways. But though that moment was a bright spot, things continued to go downhill for April until she landed smack down at the bottom when Hunt told her that even Seattle Grace couldnt keep her on staff. April is seriously unraveling, and even though shes a pretty irritating character, I can’t help but really feel for her.

NEXT: Mixed signals abound…

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No Wedding Bells: So Ben (Jason George) was pretty grumpy all episode. Turns out that his perfect day for Bailey (Chandra Wilson) was actually an elaborate proposal attempt. Turns out Bailey didn’t have to finish that crossword puzzle after all because Ben’s accepted a new job as well.

ONE-LINERS

“I’m sorry I messed up your proposal. But I’m wearing a thong and this is as sorry as I get.” Bailey

“Oh no, they did. I just figured that’s what you’d sound like in the face of rejection.” Cristina

“Mark’ll buy it. His dreams have always been my dreams.” Derek (Patrick Dempsey)

“She’s not leaving you, she’s leaving me.” Owen

“No one’s ever wanted me like this.” Alex (Justin Chambers)

“He should be with someone who wants a baby. And you should be with someone who wants you.” Meredith

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ stars Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, Sandrah Oh, Justin Chambers, James Pickens Jr. and Chandra Wilson have reportedly signed up for two more seasons of the medical drama.

‘Grey’s Anatomy’ stars Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey have signed up for two more seasons of the show.

Ellen, Patrick, Sandrah Oh, Justin Chambers, James Pickens Jr. and Chandra Wilson have reportedly put pen to paper on new two-year deals that will see the ABC medical drama continue through the 2013/14 season, taking the programme past a 10th series, according to TVLine.

‘Grey’s Anatomy’ – which is currently in its eighth season – attracted 9.25 million viewers in the US last week, and the show looks set to become one of the longest-running medical dramas in TV history.

Earlier this year, Katherine Heigl admitted she wants to return to the show, despite leaving in a storm of controversy in 2010 after criticising her character Dr. Izzie Stevens.

She previously said: ”I’ve told them I want to [return]. I don’t know … Being a showrunner and being a writer of a TV series like that is so complicated that I mean she’s got how many characters are there now? There’s a lot and so she’s balancing about 40 different storylines, so I don’t know if it fits in to their sort of vision for this season or next or however many seasons it goes.”

Series narrator and lead female star Ellen – who has played Meredith Grey since the show started in 2005 – insisted she would be happy to continue portraying the surgical resident.

She explained: ”If I hear from the fans that they want us to keep going, then I would continue because we owe them everything.”

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