‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Airs Eric Dane Tribute With McSteamy’s Best Moments

Former “Grey’s Anatomy” star Eric Dane died on Feb. 19, one week in the past — and in Thurday’s episode of the long-running ABC drama, the present paid tribute to him and to his character, Dr. Mark Sloan, in a video at the end of the episode. The 65-second-long McSteamy montage was set to Tommee Profitt & Fleuries’ cowl of Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars,” a track that was made iconic after being utilized in the present’s Season 2 finale when Denny (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) died and Izzie (Katherine Heigl) wouldn’t let go of him. Different variations of “Chasing Cars” have been used on “Grey’s” and in its promos ever since to nice impact, always to underscore an emotional event. (The full video is below.)

Dane joined the solid of “Grey’s Anatomy” in Season 2, playing a plastic surgeon and a girls’ man — Mark, nicknamed McSteamy, was the best good friend of Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) whose affair with Derek’s spouse Addison (Kate Walsh) had damaged up that marriage. Mark Sloan proved to be a preferred character, and Dane turned a sequence common in Season 3. He died during Season 8, after a bunch of the hospital’s docs have been in a aircraft crash. Nevertheless, Dane appeared in a few more instances on the present, including with Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) in Season 19 when she was in a hallucinatory state from COVID, and characters who had died on the present visited her.

Dane was identified with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 2025; despite his terminal sickness, he performed an ALS affected person on NBC’s “Brilliant Minds” in the fall, and accomplished filming Season 3 of “Euphoria,” on which he performed Cal Jacobs. “Euphoria” will premiere on HBO on April 12.

Dane’s loss of life prompted an outpouring of grief from his colleagues at “Grey’s Anatomy,” from creator Shonda Rhimes to Heigl to Walsh and past, all of whom wrote loving tributes to him on social media.

The video, with “Chasing Cars” playing, begins with Mark’s earliest appearances, when he referred to himself and Meredith as the “dirty mistresses” via his changing into a father. Mark’s recommendation to Jackson (Jesse Williams) from his deathbed performs over a montage: “If you love someone, you tell ’em, even if you’re scared that it’s not the right thing. Even if you’re scared that it will burn your life to the ground, you say it. You say it loud.”

Watch the “Grey’s Anatomy” tribute to Eric Dane below.