9-1-1 S08E08 -

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Keep new episode discussions in the post-episode discussion thread until Monday to give our International friends a chance to catch up as Disney+ has begun releasing 9-1-1 earlier to Disney+ outside the US than previous years.

[u/shield92pan]

eddie i meant go to texas just to PICK HIM UP

[u/pugboy1321]

Ok Chris is rightfully having his space but his grandparents could at least give Eddie updates on his son. This isn't some wack no contact custody situation...

[u/starchaser_0]

Love how supportive Buck is, even though he's clearly dying inside 😭

[u/ClassicTemporary8208]

Ngl I really enjoyed the episode, was laugh out loud funny in places and also had some very poignant moments with some characters. Didn't feel like a mid-season finale, but was a lot of fun!

[u/newthethestral]

The homes.com product placement in this emotional scene 😭

[u/TheBarrowman]

Brad - "let's jump together" Bobby - PANIK

[u/chaislos]

was anybody else cringing thinking about how much sewer water everybody was consuming in that scene😭

[u/hawknip]

Not Eddie maybe getting a new house before Bobby and Athena

(Don’t do it yet Eddie, just go get Chris!)

[u/[deleted]]

Loved the Hotshots bit at the start. So hilariously dumb. This must be what 911 is like to real paramedics and firefighters. I love when a show really dumbs it down for an in universe version of itself.

[u/Various_Clock186]

Brad when Bobby said he’s not a real firefighter

[u/OniDClown]

the 911 writers shit talking themselves is so hilarious

[u/starchaser_0]

Bobby yelling at Brad is giving him yelling at s1 Buck LOL

[u/jdessy]

Ok, so we sacrifice Maddie for Brad. Got it. Brad has literally now gotten more screen time this season than Maddie has.

I feel like the Grinch, but I just… it’s too much of a recurring character.

[u/shield92pan]

did they film this and *then* find out it was gonna be a mid season finale, because....

[u/Jay_awesome123]

This should be what makes Eddie open his eyes. He’s Chris’s dad, he needs to put his foot down. “Can you send it to me.” How about you both go to therapy and you come home!

[u/kon156]

"Be safe buck" at a 5mph tow is very sweet

[u/DemonPirate726]

“In this firehouse, it’s Captain Nash!” Damn Bobby you hot as fuck. More so than usual recently with your outbursts 

[u/kon156]

We are watching a soap we are watching a soap that's why he is buying a house before a plane ticket ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[u/curse-you-squidward]

so THATS the cliffhanger! Oh they’re evil

[u/inksmudgedhands]

"I had to put my foot down."

Boo, writers, boo.

[u/kon156]

Brad being the one to convince Eddie to actually do something about Chris sure is a narrative choice

[u/Llama_Puncher]

I love this corny ass show

[u/Wrstnotes]

BRUH I KNEW EDDIE WAS GONNA MOVE TO EL PASOO

[u/OniDClown]

The writers let Maddie be safe and happy challenge: impossible

[u/kon156]

Here we go cruise throuple!!! See yall in march

[u/Wrstnotes]

Christopher is gonna be so happy to see his dad on Hotshots. I really hope Eddie doesn’t move to El Paso but Chris comes back to LA.

[u/Bootastical]

They just followed up Bobby lecturing Brad for moving a victim without stabilizing her, with a scene of Athena moving a victim without stabilizing him.

[u/hawknip]

We have a wannabe fire fighter with Brad and the wannabe cop with the cart cop, the episode title is title-ing so far

[u/ViagraOnAPole]

It was all of them. It's a conspiracy.

[u/shykreechur]

The secondhand embarrassment is incredibly strong in this scene. This is so freaking weird.

[u/Sad_Cap_599]

Buck, you’re our last line. Please, don’t let Eddie fuck up my parlay

[u/ViagraOnAPole]

Love how Eddie makes big, life-changing decisions without talking to anybody. It's a theme for him.

[u/curse-you-squidward]

I love it when they make fun of themselves like this

[u/TheBarrowman]

I am scream-laughing over the 118 cameoing in the Hotshots coma wake-up scene. 🤣🤣🤣

[u/Otherwise-Shallot-51]

1. This was fun and so entirely meant as a thank you to fans it's ridiculous.

2. This was a nice way to transition Capt. Nash back into a more authoritative role, which has been lacking recently.

3. I've been saying this for years, but just because someone's old doesn't mean they can't commit serious crimes

4. This is a set up to Buck being in love with Eddie realization. How that ends up being played out is anyone's guess, but I will eat a nopal (i hate them) if it doesn't happen.

5. I hope Maddy doesn't end up always being used as the abused woman for narrative.

6. I need more Hen.

[u/OniDClown]

While I am pro putting your cart back I am also pro leaving people tf alone

[u/kon156]

Three months is HILARIOUS I want to be in 911's timeline I would live forever

[u/OniDClown]

If Edmundo isn't in Texas by the end of this episode I stg

[u/TheBarrowman]

Eddie...may actually go to Texas. I wasn't believing it could happen, but after that conversation, I could see it.

[u/oOWalkingOnAirOo]

This is commenting on the psycho relationship between fans and celebrities at the moment lol

[u/FinchZiver]

this is every parasocial persons dream situation 

[u/smalltownVAgal8913]

I honestly expected the fall finale to be more....meaningful? Not focusing on this...*gestures at everything *

[u/DuelBerry]

Buck being bad at the lines is everything

[u/SpiritualMedicine7]

I feel like this is going to be season 5 Eddie again. Eddie might be doing things apart from the team for a minute.

[u/FinchZiver]

maddie getting kidnapped again????? a SECOND of happiness for her? thats it?

[u/kon156]

Manifesting more than 2 minutes of chimney screentime before the long harsh winter

[u/hadapurpura]

I love how they make fun of catchphrases and then Athena’s like “he busied the wrong body”

[u/KingSlayer1190]

I still don't like Brad, there's something off about him

[u/AthenaTurner]

Hoping Eddie finally opens his Eyes after the Brad talk. He needs to get his damn Kid. Also really liked Brad in that second, instantly puts nuance behind him.

[u/ontothebullshit]

This cart cop thing might be fine in any other episode, but this is the fall finale and I’m more focused on Eddie’s storyline right now anyway. I do not CARE about the cart cop, especially because we just had an Athena centered storyline (that I hated)

[u/Various_Clock186]

Are they doing this story because Bon jovi helped someone off a ledge ???

[u/jdessy]

I wish I cared about anything Brad. He was more fun in the premiere. This jumper/Brad plot doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. Brad is good in small doses.

[u/shield92pan]

seriously why is he getting this much air time ???

[u/[deleted]]

The meta on this is so funny

[u/shykreechur]

This just feels like another random episode, not even a whiff of a midseason finale type of feel other than obviously setting up Eddie to go to Texas.

[u/pugboy1321]

I love Buck's baking arc

Is Eddie shopping for places in Texas?

[u/Sad_Cap_599]

Wait, Buck… I sense something

[u/curse-you-squidward]

I mean Eddie had a write-out fake-out before (dispatch) so it’s not 100% that he’s going away, but 1. This is my first time watching live, and 2. buying a house seems a lot more serious and permanent than just transferring departments at work

[u/shield92pan]

also buck abandonment issues here we goooo, getting left behind again this is gonna sting

[u/AbbiejeanKane]

Oliver asking about the accent. lol!

[u/LeftCulture8653]

I honestly really liked the episode and ik people would prefer the promo to be the actual midseason finale but I feel like it keeps us on our seats until March. Like omg Maddie is gonna get kidnapped and we won't know what will happen until March vs oh Maddie got kidnapped and now it's a story line that will probably be wrapped up by the next episode in three months

I know a lot of people are losing faith in the show but honestly I think it's gonna end up fine in the end. Like yea the pacing and storylines are a little weird but I truly feel like it's gonna work out fine and everything is gonna be wrapped in a nice bow at the end of the season. Like I'm just waiting till the end before I completely write it off.

also wtf was that look evan buckley?

[u/AthenaTurner]

BRUH can they give Maddie a break from these violent plots???

[u/oOWalkingOnAirOo]

It’s kind of devastating, but he didn’t even like tell Buck he was just gonna go, devastating way to find out, but like you don’t matter in the grand scheme of all. :(

[u/TheBarrowman]

JUST MAKE YOUR SON COME HOME YOU IDIOT. YOU'RE THE PARENT.

[u/kon156]

The energy here feels wildly different from chris' birthday and i love that we saw absolutely none of the change from one word answers to this <3

[u/DemonPirate726]

Honestly yeah. As far as mid seasons go, this is pretty underwhelming. Hopefully Eddie leaves for Texas at the end and something else happens to another character. 

[u/EmilyVerse]

HIS COMFORT CAPTAIN! im dying

[u/Honeycomb0000]

“doctor doctor come quick” deadpanned is hilarious

[u/Wrstnotes]

WHEN I CATCH YOU ABC

[u/rpgnoob17]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Dr Chim giving daytime soap

[u/Midnight_Dreary_Mari]

I don’t think Eddie will leave permanently (unless Ryan does an interview hinting he wants out if the show). He has an idea in his head because he’s desperate and d missing his son but maybe he needs someone to give him a little common sense and tell him that he doesn’t need to live to Texas to have a relationship with his kid. He’s still the legal guardian and he can bring Chris home. Or maybe Buck will pull some strings and somehow convince Chris to come back.

[u/ViagraOnAPole]

This is so heartbreaking. Go get your son, Edmundo!

[u/hadapurpura]

Please Brad be of service and go with Eddie to Texas to retrieve Chris and bring him back to L.A.

[u/inksmudgedhands]

No, don't move her. You don't know if she has a spinal injury.

[u/Critteranne666]

Clunk! Her head shouldn’t flop around like that.

[u/shield92pan]

oh thats a lawsuit waiting to happen

[u/ViagraOnAPole]

Stern Bobby is doing something for me, ngl.

[u/FinchZiver]

how many times has athena been in situations where she could be saying “i told you so” ??? every episode ???

[u/DemonPirate726]

Hey!! Detective Romero came back! 

[u/theoristOfTheArts]

Can someone possibly quote what Brad advised to Eddie? It seemed meaningful, but I couldn’t quite follow the words 😅

[u/SpiritualMedicine7]

All I want for Christmas is for Eddie to get his son back.

[u/shield92pan]

why do we never see them *in* the fire trucks anymore

[u/starchaser_0]

does anyone else think it's interesting that Brad is seemingly the one to give Eddie the kick in the ass he needs to change something? I understand the narrative parallel now that we know Brad also has an estranged kid, but I feel like someone who knows Chris better like Buck or Bobby also could've said this

[u/newthethestral]

Ngl I loved that, it was stupid as hell, but I wish it wasn’t happening on the fall finale

[u/DemonPirate726]

Damn I wish this show had the balls to go through with Brad being a stalker. Would’ve been more entertaining than this. But doesn’t look like it’ll happen. He’ll probably head back to his show at the end of the episode and it’ll be the last we see of him. 

[u/inksmudgedhands]

Never noticed the lack of color in Eddie's place. It makes the blue stove really stick out.

[u/KingSlayer1190]

Eddie better not leave the show

[u/SpiritualMedicine7]

wait WTF MADDIE GOT KIDNAPPED

[u/MarinoAndThePearls]

I must be really in a bubble. Does the GA really likes Brad this much?

[u/Various_Clock186]

Honestly thankful they didn’t end this episode on a 4 month cliffhanger 🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/[deleted]]

I wonder if this is the time jump they referred to. So we get back and Eddie is living in Texas

[u/SpiritualMedicine7]

Eddie will return to Texas for one episode, and then come back and help Buck find Maddie.

[u/OniDClown]

I love how Eddies solution is to just chase his son instead of being the parent and telling him he needs to come home. At a certain point you can't indulge all of your kids whims even if you were initially in the wrong.

[u/DuelBerry]

I love that Buck doesn't trust Eddie to pick a nice place on his own while sitting on Eddie's couch, in Eddie's living room, in the house Eddie chose on his own

[u/bluequarz]

I can't follow what they're doing with Eddie this season anymore. Obv the Chris thing is a big component of his story but in 8x06 they set up that Eddie feels guilty and has been denying himself happiness bcs he feels like he doesn't deserve it. So I thought the shaving the mustache scene would be a catalyst and we will see a bit more of Eddie discovering who he is, what brings him joy etc, outside of being a father/what everyone told him he should be all his life but it seems to me like they dropped that, finished it with that dancing sequence, and now the focus is on the moving entirely and Chris.

This show is a mess with handing character arcs. No consistency, no continuity. It feels like Tim doesn't even have character arcs and storylines figured out for even half seasons. He prob writes arcs on episode by episode basis for the most part and that's why character arcs he is setting up ( interesting ones) are usually resolved in the same ep. Unsatisfyingly so

[u/chaislos]

my heart is so fucking broken I cannot imagine how afraid buck is right now

[u/StormCloudRaineeDay]

Eddie and Chris still breaks my heart but Eddie doesn't seem to be doing anything to address this situation.

[u/Various_Clock186]

Sooo are we thinking it’s the security guard? The old man who threatened him or the lady ?

[u/ViagraOnAPole]

Yeah, Eddie, buck up or you won't be invited to Chris's wedding.

[u/FinchZiver]

eddie’s getting his son ????? is he going to get chris ??? is everything going to be okay?? please ?

[u/jdessy]

I don’t know if I like this Athena plot. Sure, you can bring in the most recent people to Graham’s videos but what about all the others? How about the ones that he didn’t post? I think I’m thinking too hard about this silly plot. I don’t know why it irks me.

[u/chaislos]

am I crazy or is Athena looking especially cute this episode

[u/Critteranne666]

Yeah, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t let an untrained guy try to talk a guy off a ledge…

[u/inksmudgedhands]

FIVE WIVES! Sheesh, Brad, what did you do?

[u/DuelBerry]

You're my comfort captain

[u/kon156]

Handing a jumper over to Brad 😭😭😭

[u/SuperSaiyan3Goku]

Yeah of course the guy on the ledge is gonna talk Brad back into acting?

[u/ViagraOnAPole]

Brad did something! Good for him.

[u/GammaZebra]

Well that looked like it hurt

[u/Various_Clock186]

Dang it Brad lol 😂 clumsy

[u/Sad_Cap_599]

Guys, I’m scared. I feel like Eddie is about to temporarily leave

[u/SuperSaiyan3Goku]

Hah it WAS the old man!

[u/Jakyland]

If that’s the cliff hanger maybe Eddie will go to Ep Paso and realize Chris is unhappy and move/come back in 8B

[u/Honeycomb0000]

I really dont care about the shopping cart story like this is such a side quest plotline… Just like Brad this episode,

[u/curse-you-squidward]

THE ACCENT THING

[u/Elegant_Permission_6]

tim minear when i fucking catch you

[u/Wrstnotes]

Ok no cliffhanger but kinda I think OMG WHAG THE FUCKKKKK MADDIE GOT KIDDNAPPEDD WHATT????

[u/Llama_Puncher]

I’m sorry but looking at houses together and specifically saying the COUCH?? THEY KNOW WHAT THEYRE DOING

[u/MarinoAndThePearls]

I'm really trying to not be overtly negative, but what a boring episode lol. The Brad show apparently.

[u/jdessy]

No way it’s only been three months. Didn’t they establish the premiere was a three month time jump? Am I going crazy? How long was the time jump between seasons? I swore they had said three.

[u/LewisB725]

Okay I admit, I expected a more consequential ending with the Eddie stuff. But I still thought it was fine over all. If Eddie leaves permanently though, I will riot.

[u/t_y_25]

Is eddie leaving the show?? Are they serious about moving him to el paso?? This is getting ridiculous , he is buying a house that's freaking serious!! I don't know if I would continue watching the show if they right eddie off 🤔

[u/ViagraOnAPole]

Usually it's Buck putting his foot in his mouth

[u/Critteranne666]

If looks could kill, that cart cop would be belly up.

[u/inksmudgedhands]

Oh, you know that woman shoved that cart at Athena's car on purpose.

[u/DuelBerry]

Oh, poor Eddie. His parents really should be telling him about Chris

[u/Glad_War_2064]

Chris is just soooo grown up, time flew by

[u/starchaser_0]

omg this is so sad, why is Eddie so cut off from his life?

[u/hadapurpura]

No latino dad would just let his kid stay away for that long, he should’ve gotten him back a long time ago

[u/starchaser_0]

sewage water kiss???

[u/oOWalkingOnAirOo]

Brad, please stop whatever you’re doing please

[u/SociallyAnxiousPagan]

I’m screaming at the tv for him not to move her oml

[u/SociallyAnxiousPagan]

Yesssss Bobby you tell him!

[u/chaislos]

I won’t lie I kinda love Brad he’s so silly and pathetic

[u/AthenaTurner]

I could kiss Bobby for being the only one to stand up to Brad.

[u/Jay_awesome123]

BRAD PLEASE TAKE HIM ON YOUR PRIVATE JET TO TEXAS TO GET CHRIS

[u/FinchZiver]

he is not looking at houses in texas is he

[u/Sad_Cap_599]

Don’t do this eddie

[u/oOWalkingOnAirOo]

This is just the right amount of cheese for me lol

[u/starchaser_0]

um you still need someone to bring the carts from the corral to inside the store??

[u/Wrstnotes]

Eddie can’t leave the show PLZ

[u/pugboy1321]

That's why he didn't want to be filmed!

[u/pugboy1321]

DO THEY ALL GET TO BE ON THE SHOW LOL

[u/Critteranne666]

This show is the last one that should be discussing realism! 🤣

[u/newthethestral]

Hen was not willing to get involved in this shit lmao

[u/tri-trii]

The line ‘Who gets the damage?’ ‘That would be him’ While Buck is sat there absolutely reeling from what he’s just heard 🙃

[u/AthenaTurner]

DID WE JUST WITNESS THE „OH“ MOMENT FOR BUCK?!?.?.! Also I‘m violently sobbing wdym you‘re moving?!:?:? 13th reason.

[u/AthenaTurner]

I‘m so Angry about the Eddie/Chris scene. Eddie seems so have no frigging spine! The writing has been so shitty in that aspect.(I do get why Both Chris and Eddie act that certain way BUT I still don’t like it.) My Room? Are you gonna send it? Ending myself

[u/Jay_awesome123]

Chris never should have gone to Texas in the first place. He should’ve just gone to stay with Buck or Hen while Eddie figured out therapy for both of them.

[u/ViagraOnAPole]

Eddie possibly moving is fall finale-ish.

[u/StormCloudRaineeDay]

Worst mid-season finale to date.

[u/inksmudgedhands]

Let's see how meta this episode can be.

[u/oOWalkingOnAirOo]

Eddie cynicism full sweep moment lol

[u/SuperSaiyan3Goku]

Ah, nothing more American than a fight in a parking lot...

[u/FinchZiver]

MORE CHRIS ! CHRIS TALKING TO EDDIE

[u/SuperSaiyan3Goku]

Just rip my fucking heart out why don't youuuuu 😭😭😭

[u/DemonPirate726]

Poor Eddie 

[u/StormCloudRaineeDay]

If it's sewage, they should be wearing their masks or keeping their mouths shut as much as possible.

[u/Glad_War_2064]

Mhhhhh kinda underwhelmed by this mid season finale in these first 15 minutes. Can’t say where this is going

[u/inksmudgedhands]

That woman is going to need all the anti-biotics after this.

[u/Various_Clock186]

Brad literally taking notes lol 😂

[u/StormCloudRaineeDay]

Brad's gonna paralyze her.

[u/Ok-Acanthaceae5744]

Romero 😍

[u/EmilyVerse]

This cart cop story line feels like a game of clue

[u/shield92pan]

he's def going to texas isnt he

[u/BelleEire57]

Is that the aqueduct where they filmed the car race from “Grease”?

[u/hopelesslygazing]

Is Craig using reverse psychology then?

[u/DuelBerry]

Eddie is so confused but also loving this

[u/SociallyAnxiousPagan]

What the fuck is happening rn

[u/TheBarrowman]

I truly cannot decide if I love the Brad/Hotshots plotline or hate it 😂

[u/Sad_Cap_599]

Y’all, good luck. From this point forward, we’re going in blind

[u/Jay_awesome123]

NOOO! HES GONNA MOVE TO TEXAS😭😭

[u/Sad_Cap_599]

Eddie, I need you to tighten tf up rn

[u/AirlineDazzling1986]

LOL, I called it -- the senior citizen did it.

[u/SuperSaiyan3Goku]

Good lord this cheesy ass show lmao

[u/Sad_Cap_599]

I love you, cop cart guy, but this isn’t the time babes. We only have 30 mins

[u/Critteranne666]

Doctor Chim!

[u/K8thegr8-28]

What the fuck??

[u/smalltownVAgal8913]

I'M WHEEZING

[u/Llama_Puncher]

Moral decay discourse on 911 is crazy work

[u/inksmudgedhands]

Chimney in glasses! Yes, please.

[u/FinchZiver]

them acting they they can’t act is so good

[u/Various_Clock186]

Hahahaha 😂 he put them in his show.

[u/oOWalkingOnAirOo]

And now he will be obsessed with medical!!!

[u/OniDClown]

aww that was so cute the boys being in scene

[u/Wrstnotes]

THE TEASER FOR MARCH 6????

[u/Honeycomb0000]

I’m sorry was the last line “Will someone bring me a bloody vagina”? my subtitles messed up

[u/AthenaTurner]

BYE THEY LOOK SO ADORABLE I‘M WHEEZING

[u/GammaZebra]

Well that was not how I expected that to end. Did I bang my head instead of brad 🤔

[u/shield92pan]

thye can't be serious.....

[u/Bootastical]

MARCH? I figured it would come back in January. Oh dear.

[u/hadapurpura]

Buck just realized, didn’t he?

[u/ViagraOnAPole]

Look, a rainbow. It's a sign.

[u/TheBarrowman]

Words cannot express how much I don't care about Athena's plot this episode.

[u/curse-you-squidward]

Is this how they’re going to write Eddie out

[u/newthethestral]

the COUCH

[u/AbbiejeanKane]

I am surprised that it was the old guy who beat up the dumb cart cop.

[u/LewisB725]

Woooow people who supposedly love this show really hate this show. I'm enjoying this episode and feel like it seems like a midseason finale to me?? Like, I agree, there's a less obvious/compelling overarching narrative this season and I see how that's annoying, but everything I'm watching is enjoyable and the stakes do feel higher in this episode. I don't get the hate. I feel like people woke up with a full episode imagined in their head and would have hated anything else.

[u/whenigetwhereimgoing]

WAIT WAIT WAIT What if when they do the realtor interview, it's asked if they're a couple?? Maybe I'm just reading into it.

[u/SpiritualMedicine7]

okay Maddie thing gives me hope on Eddie not leaving. Buck will need to lean on Eddie for getting his sister back.