Empire Season 2 Episode 1 Mr. And if you need to catch up, check out the previous Nashville recap here. Connie Britton is, indeed, leaving Nashville. Watch To Grandmother`S House We Go Online Metacritic'>Watch To Grandmother`S House We Go Online Metacritic. And this weeks episode chronicles in heartbreaking detail the tumultuous final hours of Rayna Jaymes life. More on that here. RELATEDConnie Britton Talks. It is also the most heartbreaking. I have watched a lot of screeners during my time at TVLine, but this installment of Nashville was the first one that made me cry at my desk. And I wont be able to hear A Life Thats Good the same way again. Life Unexpected Season 1 Episode 1' title='Life Unexpected Season 1 Episode 1' />Read on for the highlights of the episode. RELATEDNashville Tragedy The Story Behind That Mother of a Cameo. PHEW Its not good The car crash at the end of the previous episode left her with a crushed pelvis and hip and a broken leg. While Deacon speeds to the hospital, he calls Maddie and tells her to get there ASAP Gunnar phones Scarlett, whos still in bed with Damien, and relays the message that Deke needs her to pick up Daphne from choir practice at school. Rayna is looking pretty beat up and understandably so when Deacon arrives shes on a lot of morphine, and she needs surgery soon. Life Unexpected Season 1 Episode 12Robot, season 2 episode 1 recap of eps2. Elliot is in a holding pattern, influenced by Seinfeld, while Darlene takes over fsociety. But she wakes up and gives him a sheepish smile, asking, Can you believe this The officer driving her car is fine, and Ray doesnt remember much about the accident. But by the time Scarlett, Daphne and Maddie arrive at the hospital, Rayna is making loopy jokes  What is it with me and car accidents  and teasing the doctor who wants to play her music during the operation to choose the playlist carefully, because there were a couple of clunkers back in the 9. Maddie, meanwhile, takes a few panicked gulps of air and then runs out to throw up in the ladies room. Scarlett follows her and assures the guilty feeling teen that her moms coming to see Clay play didnt directly lead to the accident. While Raynas four hour surgery is going on, Maddie retreats to Clays car  hes dutifully waiting in the parking lot  and asks him to drive while she cries. RELATEDNashville Mystery So. And when she wakes up, Rayna tells a relieved Deacon that she really wants a cheeseburger. Its a lot like the last time she woke up in a hospital bed after a crash, she says, except Whats different now is that youre right here next to me. Thats just the sweetest feeling in the whole world. Then she holds a brief business meeting with Bucky and demands that Deacon get his guitar, because theyve got some songwriting to do. He gently says no, but shes insistent that they write a coda to the album, one that makes it clear that their relationship hasnt all been about pain Weve got to write that beautiful story, she says, drugged but sincere. RELATEDThe Verdicts In Nashville. She and Clay are walking on the bridge where her dad proposed to Rayna. Maddie muses about a day when she and Rayna were walking on the bridge together, and Maddie realized for the first time that her mom was a person outside of being her primary caretakerpunching bag. Clay chimes in that life with his mom was always a rollercoaster. Side note I realize this is so not the point of this episode, but Im still not loving Clay. He feels like everything I thought was interesting about guys when I was 1. Maybe thats the pointRELATED Nashville Midseason Finale Date Set. JULIETTE ARRIVES. The country divas engage in some gentle ribbing JULIETTE I dont want to talk about me right now. RAYNA But youre so much better at it than I am. Rayna dreamily notes that her former frenemy has changed. Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman Full Movie In English more. What a gorgeous, intimate scene for the two of them. I wish wed have had more of these. The next morning, Deacon brings his beloved a smoothie and a cheeseburger, which she downs handily, and everything seems like its going to be OK But Vision. Mom disagrees, saying, Maybe this song is finished. Guys, I dont think shes talking about music. Reba take the wheelAfter Deke comes in and sees Rayna talking to an empty chair like shes Clint Eastwood at the 2. Republican Convention, he freaks but Raynas doctor says nothing is wrong. So other friends come to visit, like Scarlett who evokes one last burst of feminism in the feisty invalid when Rayna points out that women often find themselves the objects of relationships instead of equal partners in them. Their acapella version of Bob Dylans Make You Feel My Love is gorgeous. Its perfect. And it also is the soundtrack of the beginning of the end. While Daphne sings her heart out, Deacon notices that Raynas not doing OK. Soon, the medical staff is pushing the kids out of the way to get to Rayna, Deke is panicking, monitor alarms are going off and this This is the exact moment that Michael Ausiello noticed my emotional state and messaged me, Please dont try to hug me. Rayna is immediately wheeled to the Intensive Care Unit. Deacon texts Maddie, whos stuck in traffic after spending the night at Clays, and tells her to get back now. So she gets out of the car and runs toward the hospital. In the ICU, a doctor explains to Deacon that Raynas kidneys are shutting down because tissue from her bone marrow leaked into her circulatory system, and all they can do is wait and hope everything straightens itself out. He sneaks into her area when no ones looking, and Rayna makes him promise hell be strong for the girls if something happens. Pocket Monsters Subbed Episodes. He kisses her on the mouth as the nurses rush in to tell him to leave, and thats when he breaks a little. And when Rayna replies not with I wont or Itll be OK but Im sorry, thats when it becomes clear, at least to me Shes dying. RELATEDCableStreaming Renewal Scorecard Whats Coming Back Whats CancelledWhats On the Bubble THE END. Juliette, who earlier in the episode complained that her leg felt like it was rotting but who just got good news that shes fine, makes her way to the ICU with Avery in tow and figures now is as good a time as any to dump her crutches and walk on her own. So, she does. She kisses a comatose Rayna on her forehead and whispers, All I ever wanted was for you to be proud of me, which is sweet and all but which struck me as a very melodramatic moment in an episode that otherwise felt very real. Gunnar, Scarlett and Maddie also show up, and there are a whole lotta tears all around. Later, its just Deacon, Maddie and Daphne sitting by Raynas bed. When the younger sister says she doesnt know what to say to her mom, Maddie starts singing, A Life Thats Good in a cracked, teary voice. Daphne joins in, harmonizing. Deacon adds his voice on the line, I dont need faith. IT IS GORGEOUS AND EXCRUCIATING AT THE SAME TIME. As they hit the part about Two arms around me, Heaven to ground me, Rayna opens her eyes and sees them for the last time. Then she closes her eyes, flatlines and dies. The girls start sobbing, lying on top of their mom, and Deacon cant do anything but collapse on top of them. The nurses come in to try to resuscitate, but it seems like a formality. The camera closes in on Deacons face, gripped in grief, as a tear slips out. And just like that, Raynas gone, yall. Now its your turn. Did you ever think Nashville would really kill Rayna Hit the comments with your thoughts.