Grey’s Anatomy Finale Preview: Chris Carmack Teases ‘Be Afraid’

Is Grey’s Anatomy gearing up to kill off a beloved character — or two?

Actor Chris Carmack teased the “very high stress environment” in the upcoming season 21 finale on Thursday, May 15, which will follow Jenna (Piper Perabo) taking an operating room hostage as her daughter Dylan’s (Sophia Kopera) condition worsens.

“Be very afraid,” Carmack, 44, told Us Weekly when asked for a finale tease. “It’s gonna be worth watching.”

In the penultimate episode of the season, which aired on May 8, Carmack’s character, Link, married Jo (Camilla Luddington) in a last-minute ceremony after one of their patients canceled on the wedding venue.

“While we’re shooting, we’re scratching our heads going, ‘What’s the timeline? Are we gonna get married, like, next season? When is this gonna happen?’” Carmack, who spoke to Us with his real-life wife, Erin Slaver, pegged to their partnership with McAfee, said. “Then the script came out where [the wedding will be] four days from now. It felt very Jo. It felt very endearing as well, so of course Link goes along with it. What’s important to him is that they’re together. It happened a lot faster than we expected when we were winding up the season.”

Link ended up singing his vows to Jo. “It was such a sweet moment when the writers came to me and asked, ‘Hey, would you be interested in singing the vows?’ Of course I said yes. I used to be on Nashville and play a country music singer and the opportunity to bust the guitar out and sing again excited me a lot,” Carmack explained.

When asked whether he thinks Link and Jo are “endgame” — after many fans thought she would end up with Alex (played by Justin Chambers, who left the show in 2020) — Carmack got cryptic again.

“I love Link and Jo together. For me, as a fan of the show, they are endgame. But I don’t think anyone physically or their relationship is safe until the series finale of Grey’s Anatomy. And even then, who knows?” he teased.

Offscreen, he has a solid relationship with Luddington, 41. “When you’re doing the serious stuff, it’s a real drain on you, physically and emotionally. And I know a lot of actors who do like to walk off stage and stay in that place, but for me, that’s just too exhausting. I need a break. I need a reset,” he said. “And then when it’s back to work and we’re shooting, we get right back to it. I’m grateful that Camilla is of the same mind and she loves having fun on set as well.”

On his hopes for Link and Jo next season, Carmark gave one final nod to a potential turn of events: “I hope we get to next season, right? I mean, hey, I’m not gonna give anything away.”

While fans will have to tune in on Thursday to see what happens on the finale of Grey’s, Carmack and Slaver are focused on McAfee’s Keep It Real moment, prompting the company’s new scam detector tool.

“It automatically filters through all of your stuff. It tells [you] about suspicious links, you can feed a screenshot of a communication — with an online seller or a DM — it will analyze the communication and reveal if it seems like it could be a scam,” he explained. “And it’ll give you the reasons, whether it’s the pushy language they used or a sketchy link that they’ve sent.”

Their partnership comes after Slaver fell for a fake online seller and the couple lost money. “It was really sad, and it is shocking that it could happen so fast and so easily,” Slaver said. “It certainly made Chris and I aware of how prevalent these scams [are] and how smart they’re getting.”