It’s laborious to know the place to start. The demise of a important character will all the time lower deep, and 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15, titled “Lab Rats,” made certain to twist the knife as they intestine us. The companion to the earlier episode finds the 118 sans Buck nonetheless caught contained in the lab within the aftermath of the explosion, with a lethal virus within the air and the one vial of the treatment within the fingers of a wannabe Nobel Laureate in search of the very best bidder. It’s a superbly shot, action-packed hour that ends in a tragedy each stunning and gut-wrenching, however the aftermath of which spells some attention-grabbing instances forward for 9-1-1.
Let’s begin issues off within the lab. Chimney’s (Kenneth Choi) getting worse, and Hen remains to be recovering from her collapsed lung. With Maddie’s (Jennifer Love Hewitt) assist, the staff works collectively to get Chimney steady sufficient whereas they anticipate Athena (Angela Bassett) and Buck (Oliver Stark) to trace down the treatment. Whereas the remainder of the hour is action-heavy, the scenes between the 118 contained in the lab are rife with fantastic character-specific moments. Everybody will get an opportunity to replicate or to specific worry in 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15. Chimney asks Bobby to take care of Maddie, a very cursed second contemplating Bobby (Peter Krause) has already made the choice to save lots of Chimney.
Ravi (Anirudh Pisharody)is not sure if he ought to name his family members, to which Hen (Aisha Hinds) tells him that making that decision is for him, and transferring ahead, it’ll be even more durable for them to observe him go to work. It’s a poignant second contemplating Ravi was considering quitting within the earlier episode, however it will even be good to learn about Ravi outdoors of his job. Who did he wish to name on this life-or-death state of affairs?
Hen will get an enormous second in 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15, too. After Chimney helps save her life within the earlier episode, Hen will get up with a chest tube nonetheless in and fights her method to Chimney’s aspect so as to help in getting him steady. These sorts of moments in these sorts of conditions are the defining qualities of this present, and are essential in promoting a loss like Bobby Nash. However we’ll get to that.
Outdoors of the lab, Buck and Athena go rogue at Bobby’s suggestion to go after Moira as a substitute of letting the army and the FBI lead the hunt. As Athena tells Buck, the 118 is expendable. If the army will get their fingers on the treatment first, they received’t use it to save lots of Chimney. It’s not the primary time Athena and Buck have teamed up, however they make an awesome duo.
It’s a race towards time in 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15 to save lots of lives.
Regardless of the dire circumstances in 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15, there’s nonetheless room for some comedy. Nonetheless, if there’s something 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15 misses the mark on, it’s Moira. She doesn’t make it far in her escape, and primarily tells her total plan to a pharma man, who calls the cops on her.
Some logistical inconsistencies appear to have been scrapped within the edit of 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15 to get Athena and Buck from level A to level B. There are too many issues occurring in fast succession, so a few of the minor particulars get misplaced, like their choice to go to Karen (Tracie Thoms). And when precisely did Buck name Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr) between seeing the army arrive on the pharmaceutical constructing and operating upstairs to detour Athena and Moira to the rooftop? How did Athena get across the army on her method again down the constructing for Karen to select her up? However in an episode like this one, the emotional beats of the characters take priority within the face of a few of these gripes.
However talking of, keep in mind that “calling Tommy” thread left open once more on the finish of 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 11? Buck lastly makes that decision, and Tommy solutions in an enormous method. Atop the roof of the pharmaceutical constructing, Tommy lands his LAFD helicopter, providing a getaway from the army and the FBI to allow them to ship the antidote to Chimney on time. It’s poetic, and possibly somewhat hysterical, that Tommy has a behavior of stealing municipal property to assist the 118 in a disaster. Now right here he’s once more, evading authorities officers by Downtown LA at a single cellphone name from Buck. In spite of everything, what’s somewhat operating from police beneath menace of home terrorism expenses between ex-boyfriends?
The helicopter chase is shot superbly, and never fairly like something 9-1-1 has finished earlier than. It’s all actual footage, no CGI concerned within the air, lending a cinematic really feel to the entire ordeal. It’s an thrilling sequence, and although the chase finally ends up being a distraction for Athena to get away with the treatment, it’s a sequence crammed with emotional stakes in addition to narrative stakes. The clock is ticking for Chimney to get the treatment, however there’s stress between Buck and Tommy as nicely. A life-or-death state of affairs is an ideal reunion after their battle again in 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 11.
As they weave in between buildings excessive within the Los Angeles skies, Buck thanks Tommy for doing this for him. Tommy solutions that he’s doing this for Chimney, a pleasant reminder of the historical past Tommy has with the 118 and with Chimney particularly, who as soon as saved Tommy’s life in a methane leak. This reestablishes that Tommy has connections to this story past Buck. At Buck’s apparent disappointment, Tommy breaks and admits he’s, after all, doing this for Buck, too. They smile at one another. Thus, their will-they-won’t-they continues.
Athena’s in a position to ship the treatment in time to save lots of Chimney, with Karen performing as her getaway driver, and dodging being arrested as she does it. Buck, Athena, and Tommy, together with Moira, watch on the monitor as Chimney awakens and Bobby provides the go-ahead to save lots of his individuals. After which, he locks himself inside.
Uncovered to the virus by a crack in his airline, Bobby’s recognized he was a goner for some time. However with just one vial of the antidote obtainable, he decided to save lots of his teammate as any captain would. These closing goodbyes, first between Buck and Bobby, after which between Athena and Bobby, are a few of the finest scenes 9-1-1 has ever finished. The daddy-son dynamic between Bobby and Buck has been a staple on the present. Bobby’s calm assurances to Buck that Buck goes to be okay, that the 118 goes to wish him, ending with an “I really like you, child,” damage in the easiest way.
However it’s the second Bobby tells Buck to go away and never come again that has stayed with me. It’s the quiet of the second. Time and time once more, Buck has rebuked Bobby’s orders, however right here, he doesn’t speak again, he doesn’t battle. He appears to be like at Bobby, a silent goodbye that holds a lot historical past between them, the digicam staying on Buck for longer than typical to actually maintain the burden of the second. After which Buck turns and walks away, shutting the door behind him, solely to have his breakdown alone.
After which there’s Athena and Bobby on the finish of 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15. There’s a lot on this goodbye that’s essential to Bobby’s character and to the connection between Athena and Bobby. It’s important that Bobby tells Athena that he doesn’t wish to go. Contemplating 9-1-1 Season 7 featured a pseudo-goodbye montage that held heavy suicidal implications on Bobby’s half, it’s essential that Bobby’s actual demise isn’t just a continuation of that. He doesn’t wish to die. He doesn’t wish to go away Athena. It provides Bobby company in defining what’s occurred to him.
This demise hurts rather a lot within the wider context of 9-1-1 Season 8 particularly. The tip of 9-1-1 Season 7 noticed the destruction of Athena and Bobby’s home. They’ve been rebuilding all season, creating a spot that speaks to the love they’ve for one another, not merely a reproduction from relationships previous. However although they’ve bodily been rebuilding a house throughout 9-1-1 Season 8, Bobby discovered his house and began to dwell once more the second he went out to dinner with Athena in 9-1-1 Season 1.
The clock ticks down for one in every of 118’s personal for good.
However as he tells Athena in his closing moments, he’s been residing on borrowed time. The demise of his spouse and youngsters in an condominium hearth he was partially accountable for has been haunting him ever since, together with all the opposite lives misplaced. Bobby was confronted with the realities of that aftermath final season when he crossed paths with Amir (Malcolm Jamal Warner), a survivor of that fireplace.
Over time, Bobby has grappled with and made peace together with his function in that tragedy, together with his alcoholism, and labored day by day to assist these round him who could have related experiences. He got here to the 118 unwilling to confide in anybody, and but nonetheless created a household beneath that roof, whereas studying to dwell once more, with Athena.
The Bobby and Athena relationship has been the cornerstone of 9-1-1 for eight seasons. They’ve saved one another, challenged one another, and beloved one another many instances over. They first got here collectively throughout one in every of 9-1-1 Season 1’s heart-wrenching tragedies — a motorbike accident during which a father, torn in two, talked to his son on the cellphone whereas he died. It was one in every of their first true standout moments within the present. However from there, they had been off on a whirlwind romance that proved second probabilities at love are potential. It is a loss for the ages.
Bobby’s demise marks a big change for 9-1-1. It’s the primary time the present has killed off a important character, and Bobby wasn’t only a important. He was the captain of the 118, the glue that held the staff collectively. However that’s why his demise holds the suitable weight. If 9-1-1 was going to do a forged shake-up to ship these characters into uncharted waters, it was all the time going to must be Bobby. He has a connection to all of them, and together with his demise, they’ll every unravel in their very own methods, earlier than coming again stronger collectively.
It’s been true for some time now that 9-1-1 has gotten stale in sure elements. Characters really feel caught in endless loops of retreaded tales. Regardless of the present largely specializing in their jobs as firefighters, there was no actual consideration for a way every character grows of their job. What do they need, what are their motivations, and the way do they function throughout the bigger LAFD? Bobby’s demise offers a possibility to discover these avenues and permits for these characters to step out of their consolation zone and be challenged in a method we haven’t seen earlier than.
Did Bobby’s demise in 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15 must be the catalyst for that? Most likely not. However his demise additionally brings stakes again to this present. Every character has had a number of near-death experiences, and with every one, they begin to lose their significance. With Bobby’s demise, immediately each name the 118 goes out on is terrifying.
9-1-1 Season 8 might have featured extra Bobby and Athena earlier than this occurred. Their home construct obtained left behind for a lot of episodes, and was not likely ever introduced up once more in any vital element till the final episode. And whereas this two-parter has been a few of the finest the present has to supply, it nearly might have been a three-parter to actually draw this tragedy out. However there’s no denying this episode delivered on making it damage.
It’s laborious to know when the tears first began flowing. Bobby praying in his closing moments, and the appears to be like on everybody’s faces as all of them realized what’s occurred. It’s additionally vital that everybody’s separated from their family members whereas listening to the information. This already establishes the fracture this demise will trigger in future episodes, however it additionally foreshadows how they’ll want one another within the instances to come back. In spite of everything, it’s their individuals who make life price residing.
9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15 will go down within the 9-1-1 historical past books as an enormous swing, one which has but to see the fallout of such a choice. Nonetheless, that doesn’t change how nicely this episode handles every character’s second, doing everybody justice within the face of the present’s greatest tragedy.
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9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15
8/10
TL;DR
9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15 will go down within the 9-1-1 historical past books as an enormous swing, one which has but to see the fallout of such a choice. Nonetheless, that doesn’t change how nicely this episode handles every character’s second, doing everybody justice within the face of the present’s greatest tragedy.
It’s laborious to know the place to start. The demise of a important character will all the time lower deep, and 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15, titled “Lab Rats,” made certain to twist the knife as they intestine us. The companion to the earlier episode finds the 118 sans Buck nonetheless caught contained in the lab within the aftermath of the explosion, with a lethal virus within the air and the one vial of the treatment within the fingers of a wannabe Nobel Laureate in search of the very best bidder. It’s a superbly shot, action-packed hour that ends in a tragedy each stunning and gut-wrenching, however the aftermath of which spells some attention-grabbing instances forward for 9-1-1.
Let’s begin issues off within the lab. Chimney’s (Kenneth Choi) getting worse, and Hen remains to be recovering from her collapsed lung. With Maddie’s (Jennifer Love Hewitt) assist, the staff works collectively to get Chimney steady sufficient whereas they anticipate Athena (Angela Bassett) and Buck (Oliver Stark) to trace down the treatment. Whereas the remainder of the hour is action-heavy, the scenes between the 118 contained in the lab are rife with fantastic character-specific moments. Everybody will get an opportunity to replicate or to specific worry in 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15. Chimney asks Bobby to take care of Maddie, a very cursed second contemplating Bobby (Peter Krause) has already made the choice to save lots of Chimney.
Ravi (Anirudh Pisharody)is not sure if he ought to name his family members, to which Hen (Aisha Hinds) tells him that making that decision is for him, and transferring ahead, it’ll be even more durable for them to observe him go to work. It’s a poignant second contemplating Ravi was considering quitting within the earlier episode, however it will even be good to learn about Ravi outdoors of his job. Who did he wish to name on this life-or-death state of affairs?
Hen will get an enormous second in 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15, too. After Chimney helps save her life within the earlier episode, Hen will get up with a chest tube nonetheless in and fights her method to Chimney’s aspect so as to help in getting him steady. These sorts of moments in these sorts of conditions are the defining qualities of this present, and are essential in promoting a loss like Bobby Nash. However we’ll get to that.
Outdoors of the lab, Buck and Athena go rogue at Bobby’s suggestion to go after Moira as a substitute of letting the army and the FBI lead the hunt. As Athena tells Buck, the 118 is expendable. If the army will get their fingers on the treatment first, they received’t use it to save lots of Chimney. It’s not the primary time Athena and Buck have teamed up, however they make an awesome duo.
It’s a race towards time in 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15 to save lots of lives.
Regardless of the dire circumstances in 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15, there’s nonetheless room for some comedy. Nonetheless, if there’s something 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15 misses the mark on, it’s Moira. She doesn’t make it far in her escape, and primarily tells her total plan to a pharma man, who calls the cops on her.
Some logistical inconsistencies appear to have been scrapped within the edit of 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15 to get Athena and Buck from level A to level B. There are too many issues occurring in fast succession, so a few of the minor particulars get misplaced, like their choice to go to Karen (Tracie Thoms). And when precisely did Buck name Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr) between seeing the army arrive on the pharmaceutical constructing and operating upstairs to detour Athena and Moira to the rooftop? How did Athena get across the army on her method again down the constructing for Karen to select her up? However in an episode like this one, the emotional beats of the characters take priority within the face of a few of these gripes.
However talking of, keep in mind that “calling Tommy” thread left open once more on the finish of 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 11? Buck lastly makes that decision, and Tommy solutions in an enormous method. Atop the roof of the pharmaceutical constructing, Tommy lands his LAFD helicopter, providing a getaway from the army and the FBI to allow them to ship the antidote to Chimney on time. It’s poetic, and possibly somewhat hysterical, that Tommy has a behavior of stealing municipal property to assist the 118 in a disaster. Now right here he’s once more, evading authorities officers by Downtown LA at a single cellphone name from Buck. In spite of everything, what’s somewhat operating from police beneath menace of home terrorism expenses between ex-boyfriends?
The helicopter chase is shot superbly, and never fairly like something 9-1-1 has finished earlier than. It’s all actual footage, no CGI concerned within the air, lending a cinematic really feel to the entire ordeal. It’s an thrilling sequence, and although the chase finally ends up being a distraction for Athena to get away with the treatment, it’s a sequence crammed with emotional stakes in addition to narrative stakes. The clock is ticking for Chimney to get the treatment, however there’s stress between Buck and Tommy as nicely. A life-or-death state of affairs is an ideal reunion after their battle again in 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 11.
As they weave in between buildings excessive within the Los Angeles skies, Buck thanks Tommy for doing this for him. Tommy solutions that he’s doing this for Chimney, a pleasant reminder of the historical past Tommy has with the 118 and with Chimney particularly, who as soon as saved Tommy’s life in a methane leak. This reestablishes that Tommy has connections to this story past Buck. At Buck’s apparent disappointment, Tommy breaks and admits he’s, after all, doing this for Buck, too. They smile at one another. Thus, their will-they-won’t-they continues.
Athena’s in a position to ship the treatment in time to save lots of Chimney, with Karen performing as her getaway driver, and dodging being arrested as she does it. Buck, Athena, and Tommy, together with Moira, watch on the monitor as Chimney awakens and Bobby provides the go-ahead to save lots of his individuals. After which, he locks himself inside.
Uncovered to the virus by a crack in his airline, Bobby’s recognized he was a goner for some time. However with just one vial of the antidote obtainable, he decided to save lots of his teammate as any captain would. These closing goodbyes, first between Buck and Bobby, after which between Athena and Bobby, are a few of the finest scenes 9-1-1 has ever finished. The daddy-son dynamic between Bobby and Buck has been a staple on the present. Bobby’s calm assurances to Buck that Buck goes to be okay, that the 118 goes to wish him, ending with an “I really like you, child,” damage in the easiest way.
However it’s the second Bobby tells Buck to go away and never come again that has stayed with me. It’s the quiet of the second. Time and time once more, Buck has rebuked Bobby’s orders, however right here, he doesn’t speak again, he doesn’t battle. He appears to be like at Bobby, a silent goodbye that holds a lot historical past between them, the digicam staying on Buck for longer than typical to actually maintain the burden of the second. After which Buck turns and walks away, shutting the door behind him, solely to have his breakdown alone.
After which there’s Athena and Bobby on the finish of 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15. There’s a lot on this goodbye that’s essential to Bobby’s character and to the connection between Athena and Bobby. It’s important that Bobby tells Athena that he doesn’t wish to go. Contemplating 9-1-1 Season 7 featured a pseudo-goodbye montage that held heavy suicidal implications on Bobby’s half, it’s essential that Bobby’s actual demise isn’t just a continuation of that. He doesn’t wish to die. He doesn’t wish to go away Athena. It provides Bobby company in defining what’s occurred to him.
This demise hurts rather a lot within the wider context of 9-1-1 Season 8 particularly. The tip of 9-1-1 Season 7 noticed the destruction of Athena and Bobby’s home. They’ve been rebuilding all season, creating a spot that speaks to the love they’ve for one another, not merely a reproduction from relationships previous. However although they’ve bodily been rebuilding a house throughout 9-1-1 Season 8, Bobby discovered his house and began to dwell once more the second he went out to dinner with Athena in 9-1-1 Season 1.
The clock ticks down for one in every of 118’s personal for good.
However as he tells Athena in his closing moments, he’s been residing on borrowed time. The demise of his spouse and youngsters in an condominium hearth he was partially accountable for has been haunting him ever since, together with all the opposite lives misplaced. Bobby was confronted with the realities of that aftermath final season when he crossed paths with Amir (Malcolm Jamal Warner), a survivor of that fireplace.
Over time, Bobby has grappled with and made peace together with his function in that tragedy, together with his alcoholism, and labored day by day to assist these round him who could have related experiences. He got here to the 118 unwilling to confide in anybody, and but nonetheless created a household beneath that roof, whereas studying to dwell once more, with Athena.
The Bobby and Athena relationship has been the cornerstone of 9-1-1 for eight seasons. They’ve saved one another, challenged one another, and beloved one another many instances over. They first got here collectively throughout one in every of 9-1-1 Season 1’s heart-wrenching tragedies — a motorbike accident during which a father, torn in two, talked to his son on the cellphone whereas he died. It was one in every of their first true standout moments within the present. However from there, they had been off on a whirlwind romance that proved second probabilities at love are potential. It is a loss for the ages.
Bobby’s demise marks a big change for 9-1-1. It’s the primary time the present has killed off a important character, and Bobby wasn’t only a important. He was the captain of the 118, the glue that held the staff collectively. However that’s why his demise holds the suitable weight. If 9-1-1 was going to do a forged shake-up to ship these characters into uncharted waters, it was all the time going to must be Bobby. He has a connection to all of them, and together with his demise, they’ll every unravel in their very own methods, earlier than coming again stronger collectively.
It’s been true for some time now that 9-1-1 has gotten stale in sure elements. Characters really feel caught in endless loops of retreaded tales. Regardless of the present largely specializing in their jobs as firefighters, there was no actual consideration for a way every character grows of their job. What do they need, what are their motivations, and the way do they function throughout the bigger LAFD? Bobby’s demise offers a possibility to discover these avenues and permits for these characters to step out of their consolation zone and be challenged in a method we haven’t seen earlier than.
Did Bobby’s demise in 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15 must be the catalyst for that? Most likely not. However his demise additionally brings stakes again to this present. Every character has had a number of near-death experiences, and with every one, they begin to lose their significance. With Bobby’s demise, immediately each name the 118 goes out on is terrifying.
9-1-1 Season 8 might have featured extra Bobby and Athena earlier than this occurred. Their home construct obtained left behind for a lot of episodes, and was not likely ever introduced up once more in any vital element till the final episode. And whereas this two-parter has been a few of the finest the present has to supply, it nearly might have been a three-parter to actually draw this tragedy out. However there’s no denying this episode delivered on making it damage.
It’s laborious to know when the tears first began flowing. Bobby praying in his closing moments, and the appears to be like on everybody’s faces as all of them realized what’s occurred. It’s additionally vital that everybody’s separated from their family members whereas listening to the information. This already establishes the fracture this demise will trigger in future episodes, however it additionally foreshadows how they’ll want one another within the instances to come back. In spite of everything, it’s their individuals who make life price residing.
9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15 will go down within the 9-1-1 historical past books as an enormous swing, one which has but to see the fallout of such a choice. Nonetheless, that doesn’t change how nicely this episode handles every character’s second, doing everybody justice within the face of the present’s greatest tragedy.
Earlier Episode | Subsequent Episode
9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15
8/10
TL;DR
9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15 will go down within the 9-1-1 historical past books as an enormous swing, one which has but to see the fallout of such a choice. Nonetheless, that doesn’t change how nicely this episode handles every character’s second, doing everybody justice within the face of the present’s greatest tragedy.
