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Longtime no see, Thatcher Grey.

Jeff Perry — who has been busy playing “Scandal”s conniving Cyrus Beene for the seven-season run of the recently-wrapped Shonda Rhimes series — is heading back to another Shondaland drama this fall. Perry will reprise his role as Meredith’s (Ellen Pompeo) father on Season 15 of “Grey’s Anatomy,” an ABC spokesperson told TheWrap.

Perry hasn’t ventured to Seattle since his appearance during Season 7 of the Pompeo-led series. And for those who aren’t regularly binging old episodes of “Grey’s,” allow us fill you in on Thatcher.

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He had Meredith with her mother Ellis Grey, but wasn’t involved in her life as a child. He married Susan Grey (Mare Winningham) and fathered two more daughters, Lexie (Chyler Leigh) and Molly (Mandy Siegfried).

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Another half-sister for Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo)? Seriously?! Her family tree just keeps getting more and more complicated on Grey's Anatomy. The doc already had to deal with meeting two half-sisters a few years ago, first when her father Thatcher (Jeff Perry) brought Molly (Mandy Siegfried) into Seattle Grace Hospital in season two, and then when Lexie (Chyler Leigh) was forced to perform her internship at Seattle Grace after her mother died. Of course, all Grey's fans know that Mere and Lexie ended up becoming really close after years of working together, and treated each other like real sisters before Lexie's untimely and violent death after the season eight finale plane crash....

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Ellen Pompeo tells TVLine she has made no formal decision yet about extending her Grey’s Anatomy run beyond next season — nor has she been asked to. But should her swan song in fact air a year from now, at least one succession plan has the actress’ stamp of approval.

Series creator Shonda Rhimes volunteered to us on Friday that she is approaching Season 8 as quite possibly the “last hurrah” for her remaining original cast members, Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey included. “I really don’t know [who might re-sign] and I don’t presume to know,” Rhimes said. “Everybody has an individual choice...