 Amelia comes to the show as part of a team of neurosurgeons visiting Los Angeles to do a consult in the season three episode “Eyes Wide Open”.She joined the team despite knowing she would encounter her former sister-in-law, Addison Montgomery.However, Amelia is soon fired from the team after offering the patient’s family hope in the form of an experimental surgery, but the patient’s husband requests Amelia to perform it despite the risks.