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| “ | I'm already hurt. You hurt me when you decided to kill my wife | „ |
| ~ Clark to Derek when finally confronting him during the shooting. |
Gary Clark is a major antagonist of the medical drama Grey's Anatomy, serving as the main antagonist of the final 3 episodes of season 6 and the posthumous overarching antagonist of season 7. He is a former patient at Seattle Grace hospital and after his wife died under there care, decides to shoot the place up.
He is portrayed by Michael O'Neill
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- He repeatedly blames Derek for the death of his wife and tries to sue him for it.
- On his way to the hospital to enact his revenge, he shoots a man for crashing into his car.
- He shoots and kills Reed for being rude to him when he asked her for Derek's location and when Alex discovers her body, shoots him in the chest
- When the hospital goes on lockdown and a nurse confuses him with a patient, he shoots her for telling him to stay put.
- He shoots down 2 guards when they try to apprehend him.
- He fatally shoots Charles in the stomach and then leaves him to painfully bleed to death.
- When he finally finds Derek and after being failed to be talked down by him, he shoots him.
- When Christina, Jackson and a few other doctors are performing surgery on Derek, he threatens to kill her if she continues.
- He almost shoots Meredith but ends up shooting Owen when he lunges at him.
- When he finds Lexie, the woman who pulled the plug on his wife, he gets ready to shoot her before he is shot by a swat member.
- When Richard Webber, the man who performed the surgery on his wife confronts him he says he planned on shooting him and watching him suffer and die.
- The stress of the shooting cause Meredith to have a miscarriage with her baby.
- While he felt remorse for the shooting, it's only because it had roped in a bunch of other victims as he always had the intention of going for Richard, Lexie, and Derek.
- Overall, the mass shooting was stated to have taken 11 lives and injure 18 and while we don't see all the deaths, we still see most of the bodies, so it isn't off screen villainy.
- Even long after his death his actions still have a posthumous effect on the characters as mostly all of them suffer PTSD from it, but it mainly hurt a select few:
- Derek starts suicidally speeding down the highway in his car.
- Lexie has an entire mental breakdown and is committed to the psyche ward because of it.
- Christina quits surgery for a brief period due to the trauma of him putting a gun to her head.
- Jackson starts having night terrors and screams in his sleep.
- Bailey also quits her job for a short period and breaks up with Ben from the stress.
- While Grey's Anatomy is a mainly comedic and lighthearted show, all of that evaporates when Gary is onscreen as he isn't played for laughs once and is feared and hated by the entire cast.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- It is made clear that he dearly loved his wife and his whole mass murder of the hospital was all out of grief for her and not being able to protect her himself.
- He made sure to avoid hurting the patients and nurses and only went for the doctors.
- He is genuinely very affable as speaks politely with everyone as he politely asks Christina for directions for Derek's office and tells her to have a nice day when he leaves, and after being shot by a swat member, politely and calmly asks Callie for something for the wound without harming anybody. Even in his last moments and conversation with the person he hates the most, he still offers him a drink of his flask before shooting him and even isn't all that mad when he pours it out.
- He is shown to be very remorseful over the shooting and even tears up when he thinks he accidentally killed a patient. Richard is able to use this guilt against him and convinced him into killing himself because of it.