Sam Bello

Sam Bello was a surgical intern at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. When she was faced with deportation to El Salvador, she moved to Switzerland to work at Klausman Institute for Medical Research.

Early Life
Sam was born in El Salvador. A war broke out and her father was shot on their front porch, after which her mother took Sam and her sister out of the country. They moved to Florida and her mother worked 2 jobs 20 hours a day to keep them safe. ("Beautiful Dreamer")

Interview
Sam came to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital for an interview to be considered for an internship. In her interview, she said she'd read all about the fire and Stephanie Edwards was her hero. She didn't realize they'd already done the remodel of the hospital. ("Ain't That a Kick in the Head")

New Intern Mixer
Sam attended the new intern mixer at the hospital, where Richard gave a speech about them starting their work as doctors. During the party, Meredith Grey was celebrated as she learned she had been nominated for a Harper Avery Award. The new interns then walked around the hospital, in awe that they worked there and so did Meredith Grey. In the hallway, Sam was shocked to see Andrew and learn that he worked there. ("Come on Down to My Boat, Baby")

Roller Coaster Derailment
When a roller coaster derailed at a fair, Sam came to Ben because she needed supplies for a burn patient in the clinic. He had Andrew show her where central supply was, not knowing their history. They ended up having sex in the skills lab and were caught by Bailey and Webber. He later came into the on-call room where she was resting and despite them agreeing that they were bad for each other, they had sex again. ("Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story")

Hospital Hacking
When the heart monitors started malfunctioning in the ER, Sam stepped in to defibrillate, not knowing the patient was simply sleeping. ("Out of Nowhere")

Suffering from a lack of sleep, Sam then started to cause patients to panic in the ER. Richard told Andrew to stay with her and supervise her. Andrew ended up telling her not to talk to anymore patients until she got some sleep. ("1-800-799-7233")

Joining Team Shepherd
After overhearing Amelia ask Andrew to figure out which of the new interns had written a paper on pupillary response in comatose patients, Sam told Amelia it was her and was invited to join her team, along with Andrew. ("1-800-799-7233")

Kimmie Park and Noah Brosniak
Sam and Andrew both continued working on Team Shepherd, torturing both of them, as they had agreed they shouldn't have sex anymore. Despite this, they tortured each other as they worked, each of them turning the other on. They did this while they worked on a proposal for a surgical innovation to save Kimmie Park. Their proposal, under Alex and Amelia, was submitted for consideration for the surgical contest, but was not selected. ("Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger")

Despite not getting the funding, they continued to work hard to figure out a way to save Kimmie. Amelia brought in Tom Koracick to help them and they tested over and over again, but had no success. Koracick wanted to give up trying to find a solution in time for Kimmie, but during a fight, he had an epiphany and they tried another method, which had greater success. ("You Really Got a Hold on Me")

They use the guided laser treatment on Noah and it worked, but also showed them they didn't have enough time to hone the procedure to work for Kimmie. ("Hold Back the River")

Andrew's Injury
After Andrew was concussed in the ER, Sam worried about him. When Amelia caught wind of this, she encouraged Sam to tell Andrew she was in love with him. Sam went to Andrew, but Andrew stopped her and said they were young before, but now they're not and they confessed their mutual love. ("Games People Play")

Trauma Certification
The time came for the interns to go through their Trauma Certification Drill. Owen set the scenario where a Cessna crashed into a Greyhound bus. April interrupted and said that the evacuation helicopter wasn't coming and people were dying. Their job was to save lives. Owen judged the competition, but April hung around to help and insistently made the scenarios worse. She even had a second plane crash hit Andrew, who was helping monitor. She also added rain with a hose. The difficulties ended when April was paged away. Owen helped the interns calm down and continued the drill. When April returned, she learned that Casey had been the one to page her away. He realized that she was endangering the patients the most, so he removed her from the equation. She told him he was trying to cheat and after she "cheated" at her certification, a man came into the hospital and died because she couldn't save him. She then started crying and performing CPR on a dummy while the interns watched. Andrew stopped her and she said the certification was done. ("Caught Somewhere in Time")

Move to Switzerland
When ICE agent Martin Fields came to the hospital looking for Sam, they hid her in an OR and worked on a plan to keep her from being deported back to El Salvador, where she had never been since her family left. They toyed with having her flee, but fleeing would make her a criminal and not let her practice medicine ever again, so they dismissed that chance. Pressed for time, Meredith contacted Cristina and got Sam a job at Klausman Institute for Medical Research working for her and gave Sam all the documentation she needed to show that she had plans to leave the country, including an essay she'd written as part of her application to work there. Then she got a cab from the hospital to the airport. ("Beautiful Dreamer")

Andrew DeLuca
She and Andrew had a relationship in the past. Realizing they weren't good for one another, things ended badly. As she refused to answer his calls, he kidnapped her dog and she then broke into his apartment to retrieve it. He then moved across the country without saying goodbye to her, leading to her blocking him on social media. They hadn't seen each since then until they bumped into one another at Grey Sloan Memorial, where Sam had just started her residency.

He initially ignored her because they always wreck each other and because he thought she followed him to Seattle, but she made it clear it was pure coincidence. After ending up in the same on-call room, they ignored the toxicity of their relationship and ended up having sex, something they continued to do every chance they got.

After Andrew was injured in the ER, he and Sam confessed their love to each other and agreed to start again. ("Games People Play")

When she learned that Andrew was living in an on-call room, she asked him to come live with her. ("Hold Back the River")

After an ICE agent came looking for Sam at the hospital, she was forced to move to Switzerland to avoid deportation back to El Salvador, where she was born. As she got ready to leave for the airport, Andrew said he'd come with her as soon as he could, but she ended things between them and told him not to ruin his life because she was forced to leave. ("Beautiful Dreamer")

Familial
Her mother brought her and her sister to the United States from El Salvador when she was one after her father was shot to death on their front porch. ("Beautiful Dreamer")

Notes and Trivia

 * She speaks Spanish.
 * She was Amelia's favorite intern.
 * She graduated college magna cum laude.
 * She was valedictorian in high school.
 * She was captain of her dance squad.

Appearances
Sam Bello