For her latest birthday in 2020, the Kitchen host of Ava giving a thumbs-up while out to dinner.
After her facial surgery was a success, Rebecca decided to have an affair with Alex despite being married and having a child.
Yet, over the course of 10 seasons Alex has evolved, slowly and realistically, into a genuinely good person whose faults don't miraculously disappear, but take a backseat to much better qualities.
In the fifteenth season premiere, Alex becomes interim Chief of Surgery after Miranda Bailey takes a sabbatical.
Alex struggles to decide whether or not to take the plea deal.
That night, his dad dies, due to a mistake by intern, Shane Ross, and Alex is upset.