3.08: Malfunction

In this episode of That Weewoo Show, Alice, Ellen, and Bex discuss season 3, episode eight of 9-1-1, titled "Malfunction". Emergencies include a skating mishap at an ice show, an accident involving a self-driving car and a fulfillment warehouse robot going rogue; Eddie's after-hours fight club gets out-of-control; Hen struggles in her relationship with Karen.

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Episode Transcript

Ellen (00:16):
Welcome back to That Wee Woo Show, a podcast where we watch and
discuss episodes of the ABC show 9-1-1.
I'm Ellen.

Alice (00:23):
I'm Alice.

Bex (00:25):
And I'm Bex.

Ellen (00:26):
Thanks to everyone who has been listening to our episodes and
has replied to our question last weekabout like, Bex wanted to know where
are you when you listen to our podcast?
Thank you so much to Emma whoreplied on Spotify to say that she
listens while driving or lifting.

(00:46):
Um, hopefully we give you somemotivation to like, you know, smash
those weights and . Um, I don'tknow how we would do that, but okay.
Um, so we've also gothad a reply from Kiera.
Thank you so much, Kiera.
Um, who has a very short commute,but makes time to listen to
when we drop a new episode.
I relate.
I also have a short commute.
I just get out of bedand walk down my hallway.

(01:09):
So, um, I don't get to listen topodcasts on my commute either, but
yeah, I do get to put them on inthe background while I'm doing other
stuff, just like Kiera does apparently.
Um, and we also had a reply from onYouTube from Celtic Welsh, who had a
few comments about the lawsuit era.
Thank you for sharing those with us.
So yeah, thank you to all those people.

(01:29):
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(01:53):
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We'd love to hear from youif you have some comments.

Alice (01:58):
That's definitely the worst part about listening to, listening
to a podcast, like when they'retalking about something and you want
to comment and you're just like,no, that's, it's because of this.
They can't hear you.

Ellen (02:07):
I love it.
Uh, yeah, we want to hear all of that.
That's fine.
Just let us know.
Um, so we're up to episodeeight in season three now.
But.
Alice, you want to let usknow what happened last week?

Alice (02:22):
Yeah, so last week on 9-1-1, we explored Athena's origin story
with flashbacks to the death of herfirst fiancé in the early 1990s.

Bex (02:32):
This week, uh, we are jumping back into present time for "Malfunction",
and the official summary says thattragedy strikes at an ice skating show.
And the emerg that's the headline,that was the most important thing,
apparently, that was going to catcheveryone's attention for this episode.

(02:53):
Um, the emergencies in this episodeinclude a skating mishap at an ice
show, an accident involving a selfdriving car, and a Fulfillment
Warehouse robot going rogue.
Meanwhile, Eddie's After Hours FightClub gets out of control, and Hen
struggles in her relationship with Karen.
And our triggers for this week areCar accidents, multiple, car versus

(03:16):
building and ambulance versus car, uh,fertility issues, depression, death
of a patient, gore, like massive gore,amazing gore, and, um, MMA fighting.

Ellen (03:29):
It's a lot.
I mean, we say that every week,it's a lot, but this one actually
does have quite a variety.

Alice (03:34):
The show is a lot, yeah.

Bex (03:37):
So let's get started with our ice skating show.

Ellen (03:41):
This, this family who they show at the beginning of the, of
the ice skating show are so funny.
Like the dad's trying to getall excited about taking them
to this ice skating thing.

Bex (03:52):
I don't know, I don't think the dad's trying to get
excited, I think he is excited.

Ellen (03:56):
Yeah, yeah, he's excited, but, but the kids are just not into it.
They're just like looking sobored and the little girl's
like just looking at her phone.

Alice (04:06):
Yeah, like the dad's on the phone.
And he's just like, yeah, yeah,like they're totally excited
and the kids are just, no.

Bex (04:14):
It's giving divorce to dad, trying to do something fun
for the kids on the weekend.

Alice (04:20):
I thought that too.

Bex (04:21):
He's trying to justify the excursion to his ex wife on the phone.
Especially when it gets to the, "Ofcourse it's age appropriate, you know,
it's pure family friendly entertainment,"and it's very much like, "Why are
you taking the kids to an ice show?"
"It's gonna be fine!" And then we cutback to, we cut backstage of the ice show,

(04:44):
and it's not so family friendly becausethe two skaters who are playing Hansel
and Gretel are at each other's throats.
Not literally, but figuratively.

Ellen (04:56):
Oh yeah.
They're having a big fight.

Bex (04:59):
They are.
Apparently they are exes.

Alice (05:03):
Yeah, they're not sleeping together anymore.

Bex (05:05):
Which, I mean, working with your ex is bad at the best of
times, but, like, they're, they'repair ska they're pair skaters.
So they're, he's lifting her,they are skating together.
It's um, that's not gotta be fun.
No.

Ellen (05:22):
No.
At least they're Hansel and Gretel,so they don't have, like, a romantic
component to their, uh, story.

Bex (05:29):
That's very skeevy.
It's very Dexter.
Like playing brother and...

Ellen (05:37):
well, we go back to the show and the skaters are doing their
little twirls and they're dancing.
And, um, we get this, like,really kind of slow mo.
close up shot of a sequin, a singlesequin, coming off one of the
costumes and landing on the ice.

Bex (05:58):
It was very, um, Final Destination ish.

Alice (06:02):
I was going to say it's, it's, it was almost like a throwback
to the early thousands with, like,CSI, where it'd show, like, what
happened in vivid, gory detail.

Bex (06:14):
Okay.

Alice (06:16):
But yeah, Final Destination, I definitely see.

Bex (06:18):
Yep.
Especially considering what happens next.

Ellen (06:23):
The kids are still, like, not interested.
They're just like, they've gottheir hands on their chin going

Bex (06:28):
I swear the little boy is asleep.
Because that sounded not into what he is.
So Hansel and Gretel skateout into the ice, and

Alice (06:38):
They're still bickering the whole way out to the ice.
Like the, um, the hallway out?
Like, they're like, "Should have broken upwith you earlier," "Shouldn't have dated
you at all," um, "You're just a bronzemedalist," um, like full on bickering.
And then as soon as they're announcedto be on the ice, they take each other's

(07:00):
hands, have big smiles and skate out.

Bex (07:04):
Once they hit the ice, you wouldn't know there was any
issues between them whatsoever.
Um.

Alice (07:10):
Professionals.

Bex (07:11):
Very professional.
But once they take their position incenter ice, the, um, swans or owls or
snowy owls who were skating sort ofaround the perimeter, one of them suddenly
toe-picks, he just like stumbles and fallsflat on the ice and I have many, many

(07:32):
issues with this scene, but I'll just,I'll just summarize what happens first and
then we can go back and pull it to pieces.
So he falls down.
One of the other snowy owlsskates past him and skates over
his hand, severing his fingers.
And we get, and we get a shot of, itlooks like arterial spray, um, going

(07:54):
over Dad and the kids in the audience.

Alice (07:56):
Oh, like, I knew this was coming, because obviously I'd seen it before, um,
and I still like, gasped and looked away.
I forgot how, like, it's so graphic.
Yeah.

Bex (08:10):
Then Gretel, sort of sensing that something is wrong, sort of
turns around, stumbles backwards, I'massuming she tripped over a finger,
and she flies backwards, and her skateends up lodged in Hansel's chest.
And there are so many thingswrong with this scene.
It's just not funny because itjust would not actually work.

(08:33):
It's all for the drama.

Ellen (08:37):
Okay, tell us what's wrong with it.
Oh, and apart from, like, asidefrom that, the kids love this.
Oh, the kids?
They're like, that's awesome!

Alice (08:48):
Yeah!

Bex (08:49):
This is apparently how you get the kids attention.
You turn the ice skatingshow into a gore fest.

Ellen (08:54):
Yeah, now they're excited about it.

Bex (08:56):
Okay, like, the snowy owl that falls,.
I'm pretty sure that ice skatersget taught how to fall safely
and because they do a lot of it.
Um, and I'm pretty sure that fallingsafely does not mean throwing your hair,
throwing your arms out and splayingyour fingers out across the ice.
Um, point number two, the skatescan't actually cut your fingers off.

Ellen (09:20):
Oh,

Bex (09:21):
they are sharp and they will cut down to the bone, but
they can't go through bone.

Alice (09:27):
I did a lot of, like, ice skating when I was younger and I was
always taught, yeah, like, if you fall.
Bring your hands in toyour chest straight away.
And, um, because yeah, otherwisethey'd cut your finger off.
I didn't actually see anyone's fingerget cut off, but I'm pretty sure
you can cut someone's finger off.
It's fine.

Bex (09:42):
I did do a little bit of, Googling about ice skating injuries, especially
relating to skate versus hands, andthere are some gnarly photos of people
who've had skates go over their fingers.
Everyone's fingers are still intact.
There's no way that they can gothrough, like, all four bones

(10:02):
in one fell swoop like that.

Alice (10:05):
I was more like, because obviously we know that it happened because of a
sequin, and I was like, really, a sequin?
But apparently this is based on somethingfrom Dancing on Ice, because one of the
skaters costumes started shedding sequins,and the techs literally had to stop

(10:26):
everything and handpick all the sequinsoff the ice because, yes, if they go
over it, the skate will just stop dead.

Bex (10:37):
Imagine how tedious that would have been.

Alice (10:38):
Right?

Ellen (10:40):
Yeah, because they're hard to see.
I mean, you saw that later when Bobbywas, like, shining a torch over it.

Alice (10:44):
Yeah!

Bex (10:46):
But, like, the odds on that, that skater hitting the
ice with that one sequin on it.

Alice (10:52):
Yeah, like this was obviously one sequence for the drama.
This was like a whole bunch on the ice.
So

Bex (10:58):
yeah.
Oh, no, that one definitelyI could understand.
Yes, and then my, my final that'sbullshit point for this sequence would
be Gretel was going backwards, whichmeans her skates were going upwards.
But when we see her on screen, her skateis coming down into Hansel's chest.

Alice (11:21):
Look, maybe she really just wanted to kick him, so

Bex (11:25):
If she's falling backwards, her skates would be going up, they wouldn't be
like, slamming down into Hansel's chest.

Alice (11:32):
"Oh no, I fell!" Kick.

Bex (11:37):
Yeah, so like, the entire sequence is completely
illogical, and not even in like a
Alice If there was a skater on theice, I don't know how big this rink
is, but I'm pretty sure that even ifthey did cut off the fingers, the,
uh, the spray of blood would not bepowerful enough to hit the audience.

Alice (11:57):
Oh god,
no!

Ellen (12:02):
Definitely for the drama.

Alice (12:05):
But yeah, it's so good.

Bex (12:06):
It's definitely for the drama.

Alice (12:09):
It's so good.
This is one of the scenes thatI've watched, like, multiple times.

Ellen (12:14):
All right.
After the title card, we have one ofthe best one liners in this entire
episode, which is one of the guys fromthe production saying, who, who's leading
the 118 through the backstage area.
He says, "I haven't seen thismuch blood on the ice since a
squirrel crawled into the Zamboni."
Oh no.

(12:37):
And yes, even though we live ina place where it never snows, we
do vaguely hear from pop culturewhat a Zamboni actually is.
Well, they still use themin ice skating rinks here.
Yeah,

Alice (12:48):
I mostly know it because of Deadpool.

Ellen (12:51):
Oh

Bex (12:53):
We actually just lost our skating rink.

Alice (12:55):
Oh

Bex (12:56):
We don't have one anymore.

Alice (12:58):
Oh, that's sad,

Bex (13:00):
but they did have a Zamboni when they did exist.

Alice (13:04):
I need to go again I used to go a lot when I was a kid because my mum and
Grandma on the other side both ice skated

Ellen (13:12):
I used to go for like a Wednesday afternoon sport at high
school, but I was terrible at it.
I just, I was so terrible at it.
Like I was better at roller skating,but yeah, ice skating, I was terrified
of falling over and it just, thatif you're scared of something like
that, it means you just can't do itbecause you've got to be confident.

(13:34):
So I was

Alice (13:34):
scared of falling and so I just stayed up.
Like, I was like, no, I'mjust not going to fall.
So, and it seemed to workbecause I very rarely fell.
Um, but yeah, like I couldn'tdo any tricks or anything, but
I could like, you know, get somespeed up and didn't, and not fall.
So that was all I was aimingfor at, you know, 10 years old.

Ellen (13:56):
The idea of skating on like a frozen over pond or lake
or something, just, I'm, I don'tknow how people can do that.
That sounds terrifying.
Cause like, if you fall in, that's bad.
Real bad.

Alice (14:12):
It's hard to comprehend that.

Ellen (14:15):
It is hard to comprehend.
Especially when it was like32 degrees Celsius here today.

Alice (14:21):
Yeah, we've been almost 40 all week.
Crazy.
Which is like almost100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Ellen (14:28):
Anyway, they don't work out what caused it until much later,
when Bobby kind of twigs that

Bex (14:35):
Randy explains it a little bit more, but I do love this, um, this
introduction because Bobby asks"Any idea what causes the accident?"
And Nicole said that, "well, it wasall fine, and then Hansel and Gretel
hit the ice." And it looks like Chimand Hen have gone in ahead of Bobby.
So Chim is approaching asBobby is being updated.

(14:57):
So Bobby asks him, "What's the story?"And so Chim very seriously starts telling
him the story of Hansel and Gretel.

Alice (15:04):
Yeah.
"These two children are abandoned inthe woods, they come upon a gingerbread
house," and Bobby just looks, like,levels in with a look, and he's like,
"okay, yeah, it was a multi-skater.
Multi-skater pile up." In between this,Buck is trying to walk across the ice.

Ellen (15:18):
Oh, yeah.

Alice (15:19):
And just, like, keeps slipping over and trying to stand up and slipping over.
I'm pretty sure I saw something abouthow, like, that was literally just
Oliver falling down and they justkept it in because it was funny.
Um

Bex (15:31):
Everybody else is fine.
Like, everyone else seems to be ableto walk on the ice in their boots,
but cannot I just love the fact thatBuck is sort of set up to be the
stereotypical bro who you would thinkwould be, you know, the perfect athlete.
Um, but yet he's completely unathletic.

Alice (15:50):
Oh, yeah, he hates, he's not good at sports.

Bex (15:53):
He can't, you know, he can't.
The, the running is all limbsgoing in every direction.
He can't, like, even just walk across ice.
It's, it's hilarious.

Alice (16:03):
But yeah, so Chim, once he stops his Hansel and Gretel, mentions that most
of the injuries were minor except for thatguy, who lost four digits, and they're
still looking for the fingers, which iswhy the 118 are sort of spread out looking
through prop decks, uh, prop decorations.

(16:24):
Um, and Hansel tookGretel's blade to the torso.
Barely missed his heart.

Bex (16:30):
Which apparently he doesn't have, because this entire time Hansel and
Gretel are still bitching at each other.

Ellen (16:36):
Oh my god.

Bex (16:38):
So they just, they work out that the easiest way to proceed
would be to get Gretel's foot.
out of her boot, um, so that theycan remove her from the situation,
they can transport Hansel.
And Chim asks Hen to pass hima pair of trauma shears so that
he can start cutting, and shehands him, uh, laryngoscope.

(17:01):
And everybody kind of looks alittle bit, "uh, Hen, you okay
there?" Because apparently thatis not typical behavior for Hen.

Alice (17:10):
No, and not really going to help with um, cutting anyone out of anything.

Bex (17:15):
No.

Alice (17:16):
But yeah, Hansel and Gretel are still bickering, um, but it turns
out the, they broke up because Gretelwas offered a position at Disney on
ice and Hansel thought that she wasn'tgoing to take it because of him.
So he broke up with herso that she would take it,

Ellen (17:36):
which is a weird kind of backwards kind of way to force someone
to doing something, I guess, buthe was like, it's been your dream.
It's always been your dream to do that.
And she's like, no.
This is my dream beingon the ice with you.

Bex (17:51):
Which kind of tells me that Hansel is right in like breaking up with her and
being mean to her to force her to leave.
Cause she apparently wasn't going to.

Ellen (18:00):
Yeah, she, they've got her, her foot out of the boot and, and also
Eddie has actually located a pinky,which he's really excited about.
He's like, "Oh look, I found a pinky!"
The others are still looking for theother fingers still, but Hansel's like,
"You're just saying that because Icould die." And Hansel sort of reassures

(18:23):
him that he's actually going to live.
So, and then Gretel'sall happy with him then.
So she's like, "Oh, you're an idiot."
And she gives him a kiss.
Okay, they're they're okay now like
Apparently.

Bex (18:36):
So while all this is happening Bobby is talking to Randy who is still
in his full like evil witch costume,green face, pointed hat and he's
It's telling Bobby how it went down.
He said that "Hansel and Gretel werefighting, figured they would shake

(18:57):
it up before they hit the ice, butthen one of the snowy owls went full
toepick and everyone hit the ice."
And Bobby just kind of cockshis head and goes, "Did you say
toepick?" And then we see him likeexamining the ice with his pen torch.
Like, minutely examining the ice.

(19:17):
Even after, Buck lets him know theyhave found all the fingers, even
when, um, Hansel and Gretel havebeen, um, ready to be transported,
he's still examining the ice.
And he gets really excitedbecause he finds a sequin.

Ellen (19:34):
Yep.
One single sequin.

Bex (19:36):
That one single sequin that everybody seemed to find so easily.
And he explains to the 118 that he,that it is a sequin, and when your
blade runs across one of these, itstops your skates dead in their tracks.
And Buck, whose entire role in thisepisode is to be Exposition Firefighter,

(19:59):
says, "Wait, one sequin did all of this?"
And Bobby very seriously tells himthat a wardrobe malfunction can be the
most dangerous part of figure skating.
And when Chim questions, "How do youknow so much about figure skating?"
Bobby just kind of goes, sighs, like,oh, shit, backed myself into a corner,

(20:20):
and reveals that his partner andhe were the Twin Cities Junior Pair
Champions for three years running.
And then we get a cut of baby Bobbyand baby Heidi In all of their 70s
glory, finishing their pair's routine,to the general cheers of the audience.

Ellen (20:42):
I love this.
I mean, you just never knowwhat's in someone's past, right?

Alice (20:49):
I just love the 118's react like, the rest of their reactions.
Yeah.
Like, Chim and Hen justlook absolutely dumbfounded.

Ellen (20:57):
They're just, they're just staring at him going...

Alice (20:59):
Buck is grinning.

Ellen (21:00):
Okay.

Alice (21:00):
And Eddie's like, "I always thought you were a hockey player." And Bobby
just goes, "Who says you can't do both?"

Bex (21:07):
He's blowing Eddie's mind right now, because he's had like Bobby
firmly in this very sort of masculinepaternal role model box, and all of a
sudden he's discovered that he was afigure skater, which I'm guessing in
Eddie's mind is slightly more feminine,slightly less masculine role model.
To, it's a role to be doing.

(21:28):
Um, she's like, wait.
you can, like, be the masculine hockeyplayer and be a figure skater as well.
And I think Buck is just thrilledbecause he loves the idea that
Bobby was a figure skater.
Like, he's not particularlyfussed about the fact

Alice (21:44):
Buck's like, "We'll Google for photos later." Like,
he just wants to see this.

Ellen (21:50):
And as they sort of leave, Bobby does this weird thing where
he, like, pushes through themiddle of the group to leave.
It's like, why don't you just go around?
They're all standing in a clump.
Anyway, um, as they leave.

Alice (22:04):
Yeah, he is being dramatic.
He's got a flair for the

Ellen (22:08):
He's got his dramatic dad bitch hat on.
Um, dramatic bitch dad.
Yeah, yeah, that way around.
And as they're all leaving, Bucklike almost falls over again
and he just sort of looks at himand goes, what a great scene.

(22:28):
Loved that one.

Alice (22:30):
It's so good, which is why I've watched it multiple times.
It's just, Bobby's face is amazing.

Ellen (22:37):
Yes.
Well, they all, all their reactionis just so funny, like they're just
like, "What? You did what now?"
Anyway, it is time now for the, thethirsty part of the episode because
Eddie's going back to Fight Club.

Alice (22:51):
Yeah, let's just let Bex take this, um, if she can stop drooling for a sec.

Bex (22:54):
There wasn't many notes, it was just, yep, Eddie's shirtless and
sweaty, not quite as bloody this week.
But it's Fight Club 2.
0. We've upgraded it.
It's not just a bunch of cars tailgatingat the back of the salvage yard.

Ellen (23:10):
It is a real fight club.

Bex (23:13):
It's a warehouse with an actual cage and people placing bets on the
outcome of the fight and like big bets.
Somebody puts 2,000 dollars on Eddie.
And.
Thankfully, for this guy anyway, andprobably for Eddie as well, um, Eddie wins

(23:33):
the bout that he's currently fighting.
And he gets a thick yellowenvelope of cash for his troubles.

Ellen (23:41):
And they, the bookie guy says that a lot of people bet against him,
and so that's why he ended up winningso much money, but um, yeah, he
wants to know when he can come back.
So obviously, maybe this isthe first time he's been there.
And yeah, so the guy says he'llput him in on Friday night on the

(24:02):
card, so he's going to come back.

Bex (24:05):
And they, they really emphasize that the rules of this fight
club is tap out or knock out.
It's the only two ways that a bout ends.
So I don't know how much money was inthat envelope, but the next morning,
Buck has arrived at the station house,and he is pulling something out of
his jeep when Eddie drives up ina brand new, shiny, black, General

(24:32):
Motors truck that he definitely wasnot driving a couple of episodes ago.

Ellen (24:38):
They're so massive, those trucks.

Alice (24:41):
It's huge!
It's huge!
Like, if I stood in front of it, youwouldn't see me from the driver's seat.

Bex (24:47):
Yeah.
It's ridiculous.

Ellen (24:49):
It's almost a monster truck.

Bex (24:49):
I did a little bit of, Googling, and I think this was the era of when
General Motors was just sponsoring allof the TV shows, so all of the characters
were driving General Motors vehicles ortrying to, um, like, I remember, like,
there was an entire episode of Fringewhere it was based, where the characters

(25:10):
were just driving General Motors trucksand talking about the amazing features.
Like, "Oh, I've got to drive to a case.Hey, this truck has built in sat nav.
Let's use the, um, voice activated satnav to get us to the next location."

Ellen (25:24):
Oh, no.

Alice (25:25):
Oh, the product placements can be so bad.

Bex (25:29):
This one's at least subtle.

Alice (25:31):
Yeah, this one's much more subtle than they do later on in the show.

Bex (25:35):
Yeah.

Ellen (25:36):
Oh.

Bex (25:38):
So Buck looks over at the truck and looks at Eddie and asks
him if he's, he's renting it.
And Eddie reveals that,no, he's bought the truck.
Um, apparently, the story, the storythat he's told, I don't know if it's a
true story, or whether it's just a storythat he's decided will work to explain

(25:58):
why he's suddenly got a new truck, wasthat the A. C. crapped out in the old
one while he and Christopher were sittingin traffic, or sweating in traffic.
They, he saw a dealership,so he thought, why not?
And
Buck is a little bit confusedby this because Eddie is not
usually an impulse buyer.

(26:20):
And Eddie counters that maybe heshould become an impulse buyer.
And then when Buck says, I'll remindyou of that the next time you're
begging for extra shifts to cover thepayments, Eddie pulls this face which
tells us that there are no payments,he bought that truck outright.
And I did a little bit of Googling andI don't know what kind of truck that

(26:43):
specific one that he's driving was, butI found one that kind of looks like it.
Um, and that was about68,000 dollars back in 2019.

Alice (26:52):
Jesus.

Bex (26:53):
So how much money did Eddie make in that fight?
Like I know the firefighters makegood money and then you put on that
extra cash and then you probablyput on his pension from the VA.

Alice (27:08):
Maybe some life insurance from Shannon?
Oh.

Bex (27:11):
Maybe, but then all of Christopher's expenses.

Alice (27:13):
She wasn't working though, yeah.

Bex (27:15):
Was she?
We never found out what Shannon was doing.

Ellen (27:17):
Yeah, we don't know what she was doing.

Bex (27:18):
She could have had like

Alice (27:20):
Well, she wasn't, like, she wasn't supporting them, but yeah,
maybe she had life insurance for Chris?

Bex (27:24):
Or she had money, or something, who knows?
We never found out asingle thing about Shannon.
But the point is, yeah, that'sa freaking expensive truck.

Alice (27:32):
Yeah, he bought a really freaking expensive truck.

Bex (27:34):
Which he just bought outright.

Ellen (27:35):
He had the cash.

Bex (27:38):
So he tries to distract Buck from thinking any closer about the
financial implications of the truckby asking him what the large, long,
flat, covered in brown paper thingthat he pulled out of his truck is.
And Buck just, he looksso pleased with himself.

(28:00):
He said that this is epicbecause he found Heidi Schatzky.

Ellen (28:07):
This is very silly.
So they do take it, they go insideand they're up in the kitchen and
they're, as Bobby comes in, the others,actually they're all there, aren't
they, blocking Bobby's view of thething, of whatever's behind them.

Bex (28:22):
Yeah, Eddie and Buck are sort of, um, Eddie and Buck are
blocking, because honestly you'dstill be able to see it over Chim.
I love you, Kenny, butyou are a short king.
But you know, he's not even thatshort, it's just in comparison
to Ryan and Oliver and Peter.
So yeah, it's, it's morning briefing.

Alice (28:46):
Yep.
So Bobby starts off saying the waterheater went out last night, but
they're sending someone to fix it.
But until then, you might want to braceyourselves when you hit the showers.
They're also changing the lunch schedule.
They full on, like, da da da da, and justpull out this life size cardboard cutout.

(29:06):
I don't know how Buck got it so fast.

Bex (29:10):
I'm gonna say that there was a couple of days between
the ice skating call and today.
But yeah, I'm sure there were, by thetime he sort of got Heidi, got the photos,
got it to like a Kinko's or something,I don't know how quickly you can turn
around, like, giant cardboard cutouts.
Ha ha ha.

(29:30):
You Time, it's timeywimey, let's not do that.
Timey wimey, that's it.
Timey wimey.

Ellen (29:35):
But Chim's, Chim's got his phone out to, to capture
Bobby's reaction to this.

Alice (29:40):
Yes.
Buck has a life size cardboardcut out guy on standby just 24 7.

Bex (29:45):
Yes.
He, he's, he knows a guy.

Alice (29:48):
Just in case.
Yeah.

Ellen (29:51):
But Bob, Bobby's not embarrassed, he's just like, "Oh
gosh, where did you get that?"

Bex (29:56):
I do love that, that he's not embarrassed about his past.
He's he's like, he's fully,um, he's fully accepted that he
was a figure skater in the 70s.

Alice (30:08):
To be fair, like, with Bobby, it's probably the least
embarrassing part of his past.
Maybe.
Like, when people dig into him, it'sjust like, oh my god, like, he was an
alcoholic, he was a drug addict, he, like,his entire family died, oh, and he did
some figure skating when he was younger.

(30:30):
Like, the worst.

Ellen (30:30):
Yeah, and he was the champion.

Alice (30:31):
The easiest part of that is the figure skating.

Ellen (30:34):
Yeah, maybe.
Uh, but he, Buck does say that, that,um, Heidi didn't want to ruin the
surprise, so she will email you later.

Bex (30:44):
God bless Heidi.

Ellen (30:46):
But yeah, what have we, we decided earlier that, um, that Bobby
is extremely Dad in this episode.
He's just Dad all the way through.

Alice (30:54):
Bobby's so dad in this episode.

Ellen (30:55):
Yep.
And he, cause he says like, cause Eddiegoes, "What is this, what is this haircut,
you know, like, is this some kind ofTravolta thing?" And Bobby's like, "Not
Travolta, Bowie." I don't even know.
And they're all like going, what?

Bex (31:08):
I don't even know how they got Travolta from that haircut.

Ellen (31:11):
Grease, maybe?
No.

Alice (31:13):
Yeah, I think they were trying to link it to Grease.

Bex (31:15):
It looks nothing like Travolta's hair, so.

Alice (31:17):
Nothing like it.

Ellen (31:20):
It looks a lot more like Bowie, but then, and, and, and, They're
all looking at him going, what?
And he's like, trying to, hegoes, "Ziggy Stardust?" Like,
you guys don't know Bowie?
Like, Chim goes, "This feels alittle more like Siegfried and Roy."

Bex (31:34):
I, I'm gonna be honest, I didn't get Bowie from it either, and I think
that's just because the, it was thehaircut of, like, a 10 year old who
went into a hairdresser in Minnesota andheld up a photo and went, I want this,
and the hairdresser who was used todoing like short back and sides, like,

(31:54):
Just has just tried their best and he'sjust walked out with a spiky mullet.

Alice (31:57):
It wouldn't have even been a photo.
It would have been likea magazine clipping.

Bex (32:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
An album cover he's walked in.
So it's like, it's a version of Bowiefrom someone who's like, never really
actually seen a picture of Bowie before.

Ellen (32:13):
It does look like a spiky mullet, you're right.

Bex (32:17):
Which is why I'm really surprised they didn't like pull
out a Wayne's World reference.

Alice (32:21):
Yeah.

Ellen (32:22):
Oh yeah.

Bex (32:24):
Although, that's assuming that, um, because we know that
these guys, none of these guyshave ever watched anything, ever.
So they probably don'teven know Wayne's World.

Ellen (32:34):
Only Chim has.

Bex (32:36):
Only Chim.

Alice (32:38):
Only Chim has.

Ellen (32:39):
Well, Hen comes in, she's running a bit late because she had to take
Denny to school, and then she justnotices what they're all looking at.
And she's like, "What did I miss?"

Alice (32:50):
and Bob Bobby's reaction again is perfect and just goes,
"okay, for everyone who isn'tfired, , I won't be cooking today."
. Bex: So he suddenly lost a paramedic and two firefighters in one fell swoop.
. Alice: Um, but it's okay 'cause their special guest chef will have three
less people to cook for for lunch.

(33:13):
Buck's very disappointed that there'sno pasta Thursday, but when we cut
to lunch, we've got Athena cooking.

Bex (33:20):
Yeah, and I do enjoy that they've, that the, um, the Bobby
cutout is in the kitchen with Athena.

Alice (33:26):
Yeah!

Bex (33:26):
Like, it's popped up in the background.

Alice (33:28):
Right behind her.
Um, she even, like, makes a comment,because Bobby's hovering and, like, sneaky
adding seasoning while she's not looking.
Um, She's like, "Now I've got two ofyou hovering over me when I'm cooking."

Bex (33:42):
Okay, so this scene kind of confused me, because was the implication that
Athena is a bad cook, and that's whyBobby is hovering and trying to add stuff?

Alice (33:52):
I think that it's, like, I took it as more as, um, like,
Bobby's just a control freak.
Because like, Bobby's always the kitchen.
Honestly, I think this is myfavorite, like, Bathena episode,
because this is so married.

Bex (34:09):
Yeah.

Alice (34:09):
Like, as soon as she turns away, he's just like quick add stuff.

Bex (34:14):
Yeah, it's very cute, but then like later on Buck is, goes to add seasoning,
so I was confused as to whether he

Ellen (34:21):
Well he's used to Bobby's cooking, so maybe Bobby just
adds more salt or something.

Bex (34:26):
Yeah, maybe because then like Hen is absolutely hoeing down like
there's no tomorrow, so I'm going,and Chim is absolutely loving as
well, so I'm thinking well, it mustbe okay if everyone else is eating it.

Ellen (34:37):
Yeah.

Bex (34:38):
Yeah, okay, those are interesting.
Those are interesting observations.
I will go with that.
But yes, Athena is cooking lunch forthem today because she needs to get
out of the house because she's goingslightly stir crazy with the suspension.

Alice (34:53):
Slightly.

Bex (34:53):
she has apparently cleared out every closet.
She's taken 16 bags to Goodwilland even started organizing their
receipts for the accountant for taxtime, even though it is November.
And I'm guessing that tax timeis, I don't know when tax time
is for the U. S. That's it.
Like, end of financial year, the sameas our end of financial year, or is it?

Alice (35:15):
No, I think it's January for, like, they have tax time
in, like, normal year times.
Whereas we have it, like,mid year for some reason.

Bex (35:25):
Okay.
Anyway, apparently it isfar too early to be getting

Alice (35:28):
I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's yeah.
January.
Yeah, but yeah, Athena'sworried that she's gonna start
redecorating the whole house.

Ellen (35:37):
Yeah, she needs her suspension to be over.
I wonder how long she's been suspendedfor, that she's done doing all this.

Bex (35:44):
But isn't it interesting that we never actually, like,
this is the first time we'veheard that she's been suspended.
Because they ended Athena Beginson her, like, all hail the
conquering hero bringing in, um,Dennis, I think his name was.
So that episode ended on ahigh for Athena, except now.

(36:05):
Well, we're apparently finding out thatshe then fell, fell very, very far down
off the pedestal that she'd been put on.

Alice (36:12):
I'm pretty sure she was warned that she'd be suspended.

Ellen (36:16):
Was she?

Alice (36:18):
I'm fairly sure there was, like, a line in Athena Begins that
if she kept going she'd be suspended,and she was basically like, well, I'm
not letting this go, which is why shewouldn't let, what's his name, help.

Ellen (36:29):
She, no, she said she was, She said she might end up with, by losing her job,
and she didn't want that to happen to him.
That was when she wastalking to, uh, Romero.

Bex (36:38):
And then, when Romero was getting in her face, she was like, "This could
go badly and I'm not taking you downwith me." There was no, there was nothing
from Elaine that would indicate thatshe was going to be in trouble for this.

Alice (36:51):
Oh, well there you go.

Bex (36:52):
It's just interesting, they just like completely skipped over it, and
now the only, sort of the only timewe ever find out about it is, is now.
It's through Bobby and Chim.

Alice (37:03):
Because yeah, Chim even has a line, um, when they're having
family lunch, where he says it,he thinks it's ridiculous that she
got suspended for solving a murder.

Bex (37:14):
And this is the, the part with Buck that I find absolutely hilarious.
So Athena takes the compliment, um,about her cooking and she starts
to explain her, her, how she getsher brisket to taste so good.
But even as she's explainingthat, Buck is reaching for the
salt shaker to season his plate.

(37:34):
And Athena clocks it, and thenshe just stops talking in mid
sentence, and everybody freezes.
And Buck's, like, looking aroundthe table like, what do I do?
He looks over at Bobby, and Bobbyjust, like, shakes his head.

Alice (37:48):
It's so, it's so good!

Bex (37:50):
And Buck, like, Eddie has frozen with his water glass halfway up to his mouth.
And then Buck just very carefully putsthe salt shaker back down on the table.

Ellen (38:02):
But Athena just like, rolls her eyes.
She's like, oh.

Alice (38:05):
It's the most, like, parent scene ever.
Um, well yeah, and just like, Bucklooking at Dad and, you know, Dad just
shaking his head without saying anything.
Like, it's the tiniest shakeof his head and he's just
like, yep, nope, okay, put the

Bex (38:21):
Yeah, because he doesn't want Athena to see him.

Alice (38:24):
Yeah, exactly.
But yeah, I love it.
And yeah, this is, like, my favoriteBathena episode that we've had so far.
Because they're just so married.

Bex (38:34):
But lunch gets interrupted because Hen gets a phone call and she has to get
up and excuse herself from the table.
Um, I don't know who Cheryl is.
Do we know who Cheryl is?

Alice (38:48):
No, but Karen was going to call her.

Bex (38:49):
Apparently Karen was supposed to call her and she didn't, so now she's
called Hen, interrupting her work.

Ellen (38:56):
Yeah, I'm guessing maybe someone at Karen's work?

Bex (39:02):
Or school related, like something to Yeah, I was

Alice (39:04):
thinking something to do with Denny.
Um.
Yeah, maybe.
But yeah, we never really find out.
No.

Bex (39:10):
But the point is that there's something going on with Karen and
Chim and Athena are concerned.
Because they exchange a bitof a look as Hen walks away.

Alice (39:20):
I feel like we need more Chim and Athena interaction,
because they're both Hens besties.
But I guess they're, like, it's like whenyou, you know, you've got that best friend
and you leave your two best friends ina room together and they don't know each
other, so they're just awkward about it.

Bex (39:39):
The only connection they've got is you.

Alice (39:41):
Yeah, so they're just like, "oh, so like, um, Hen's pretty cool, hey."

Bex (39:45):
Yeah.

Ellen (39:48):
All right, time to go to the next emergency.
We have a man driving on the freewayand he's having a talk with his wife
about the self driving car and, but shedoesn't trust the self driving technology.
She's like, "At least tell meyou still have your hands on the
wheel." And he's like, no, he'sgot his hands up in the air.

(40:09):
He's like, "hands free, feet free.I can text, eat a sandwich." Like,
I think back then, like self drivingcars were like a extreme novelty.
Like, I mean, obviously even now wedon't really have them that much.
They are around.

Bex (40:22):
Not in Australia.
I know.
Yeah.

Alice (40:24):
I was gonna say, I don't think we have them here at all.
Yeah.

Ellen (40:27):
Um, but yeah, back then it would have been just new and yeah,
the wife is like, "That is not safe."And the guy whose name's Brian, he's
like, "Guess what I'm doing now?
The Macarena."
Um, but then he, he sort ofmoves his arm and he like grabs

(40:48):
at it and goes, "Oh, that hurts.
Something's wrong.
My chest hurts." And then the, hiswife's like, "What are you, can you
pull over?" And he's like, "Yeah, no,I got this." And then he just presses
one button and it says, "Re routing tothe hospital." It's like, no, that's
not how that, that's not how they work.

Bex (41:06):
Well, apparently in this car, there are a range of quick options along the
side and one of them is "hospital".

Ellen (41:14):
Yeah.
I mean, that's very convenient.
But I don't know if you'veever tried to, like, look up
something while you're driving.
It's, like, nearly impossible.
I mean, you're not supposed to.
Usually they make you use the,um, voice, commands to do it.
Yeah.
It's never easy.
I always end up having to pull over totry and find something on there because

(41:36):
it's like almost impossible to do it.

Alice (41:38):
My car's not that new.

Ellen (41:39):
Yeah.
Well, I'm, I'm talking aboutdoing it on my phone, mainly.
The car itself doesn't do it.

Alice (41:44):
Maybe you should get a self driving car.

Ellen (41:48):
Right?
One day I will have a car thatcan drive me places, but not yet.
Um, okay.
So the car is taking him to the hospital.
The wife actually rings 9-1-1to say that, "I think my husband
is having a heart attack.
He's in the car on the way to thehospital, but I think he's passed out."

(42:10):
And the dispatch person, who is notMaddie, because she's not allowed to
work at the moment, Um, apparently,they're like, "Are you in the car
with him?" And she's like, "no, I'mat home." And dispatch person says,
"Who's driving the car?" and then,

Bex (42:26):
and then we and then we cut to the car slamming through the front
doors of the emergency department, um,and crashing into like the back wall
and then cheerfully announcing thatit has arrived at his destination.

Ellen (42:42):
Yeah.

Alice (42:43):
Yeah.
I think, um, I'm pretty sure thewhole point of self driving cars
is that they're supposed to stop ifthere's something in front of them.
But hey,

Ellen (42:50):
I'm pretty sure that it would not do that.

Alice (42:51):
It was an emergency.

Bex (42:52):
I mean, the entire episode, the episode title is "Malfunction".
So like everything is malfunctioning.

Alice (42:59):
Yeah.
Um, and it's a reallygood segue, honestly.

Bex (43:02):
It's such a funny segue.

Alice (43:04):
"Who's, who's driving the car?" And then just smashing through the hospital.

Bex (43:08):
It's one of the, it's one of the few times that I will just, I will
quite happily just ignore the factthat it was like, would not happen in
reality and just enjoy it for the drama.
Cause it's funny and it's good drama.
Speaking of good drama, I love thenext scene, which is the 118 get
called to the emergency department to

Alice (43:28):
It's so good!
I forgot about this sceneuntil I was watching it.

Bex (43:32):
So they

Alice (43:32):
And I was like, laughing so much.

Bex (43:34):
They get Brian out of the car, and they get him onto a backboard,

Ellen (43:38):
It's nice to see Buck and Eddie doing things together again.

Bex (43:41):
Yep, Buck and Eddie get Brian out.
Chim and Hen are standing by with agurney to put him onto, um, but as soon
as Buck and Eddie lift Brian up to puthim on the gurney, the hospital emergency
team is there with a stretcher, ready.
And it just makes sense to put himstraight onto that stretcher because
that's what Chim and Hen would have beendoing, they would have been wheeling

(44:03):
him into the emergency department.
So, they just, they put Brian on thestretcher and they take him away and
Chim and Hen are just sort of standingthere going, "I don't even know why
we're here. We're completely redundant."

Alice (44:15):
Literally!
But then we find out that there's a doctorwho's pinned to the wall by the car.
And Bobby asks, like, how the doctoris, and the doctor's just like,
"Yep, couple fractured ribs, multipleplaces, just some blunt force trauma."
She's just diagnosing herself, it's great.

Bex (44:32):
But once again, Buck and Eddie get, like, the car out of the way,
they get her free, Chim and Hen go toput her on the stretcher, and there's
an emergency team waiting for her.
And

Alice (44:42):
It cuts to the medical team, and they're just like
eyeing down Chim and Hen, andthey both just put their hands up.
They're like, "yep, justtake her. It's fine."

Bex (44:51):
She's all yours.
Which is fair enough, because thepoint of Chim and Hen is to get
them to the emergency department.

Alice (44:59):
Yeah.
And they're already in theemergency department, so they're
just like, um, why are we here?

Bex (45:06):
Chim wants to keep bitching about the fact that they have nothing to do,
but Hen has been distracted becauseshe's got a phone call, um, from Denny.
And so she is booking it out ofthe scene so that she can talk
to Denny on the phone, um, whichboth Chim and Bobby notice.

Ellen (45:25):
Yeah, they're a bit concerned about it when they hear who it is.
Um, but then, so, I mean, laterat the end of the shift, I assume,
um, unless, she got out of her, therest of the shift, because Denny
asked her to come home or something.

Bex (45:41):
I'm going to say that considering the shifts are usually like 24 hours,
if she's home at dinner time, thenBobby probably let her go early.

Ellen (45:51):
Yeah.

Bex (45:51):
But then again, I don't think the writers of 9-1-1 really pay
much attention to shift times.
No.
So regardless, it's dinnertime and she's at home.

Ellen (46:02):
Yeah, um, so Karen is in bed and Hen comes in and turns the lamp
on and says, Hey, dinner's ready.
Are you going to come and eat?
And Hen's, uh, Karen, Karen'sjust not interested at all, but
she's in that place where whateverHen says is going to be wrong.
And she's sort of depressed, basically.

(46:25):
She's not interested in eating.
Um, and Hen says something like,you're, "I'm worried about you.
I know you're still upset," and Karensort of bites her head off about
saying that she's still like, "I'msorry my grief is taking so long."
Um, yeah, she's just really,really feeling it a lot.

(46:45):
Feeling a lot.
She's, oh god, my wordsare not working either.

Bex (46:50):
She has very big feelings.

Ellen (46:52):
Yes, indeed.

Bex (46:53):
About this.
And then Denny, the littlesweetheart, comes in with, he's
made a cup of tea for Karen.
And he very carefully tries to give herthe cup of tea, even though both Hen
and Karen are saying to him, like, No,not right now, I don't want the tea.

(47:13):
And the inevitable happens, andhe spills the tea in the bed.
And suddenly all of Karen'sanger has another outlet.
And all of her rage goes at Denny.
And the, the wet sheets that she now hasto change because he spilt tea on them.

(47:33):
I will say, she does, um, pullherself together very quickly.
And she apologises for her outburst.
And thanks him for bringing the tea.
Tells him that it was very thoughtful andthat she will come and have dinner with
him and he can tell her all about his day.

(47:54):
So, we're gonna get Denny out of the room.
Feeling a little bit better.
Hopefully.

Ellen (48:00):
And Hen sort of sits down and reassures Karen that she's not the only
one who's feeling the loss, Karen sortof doesn't know how hen can just get on
with her day by like, how can she justput it away and get on with things?
And, um, hen says that she's sad too.

(48:20):
She just, She got really attachedto the idea of a new baby.
And then that was thewrong thing to say again.
And Karen says, "I guess that'sthe difference. Those embryos were
just an idea to you. But each oneof them was actually a part of me."

Bex (48:35):
I don't know that it was the wrong thing to say, but it does
highlight the difference betweenhow they're reacting to this loss.

Ellen (48:44):
Yeah, hen just looks, you know, devastated that she's taking it like that.

Bex (48:49):
I felt so, so sorry for Karen in this scene.
Because you have to think, she'sstill, like, her hormones are still
running super high at this point.
She would still, they wouldstill be pumping her full of
hormones ready for implantation.
I assume.
I don't know anything about IVF.

(49:09):
So yeah, so hormonally she's all overthe place, which is affecting her,
um, like, psychologically, mentally.
Um, so yeah, she's taking this loss.
It's hitting her a lot harder thanit would be, than it's hitting Hen,
because Hen is not having to dealwith that extra, extra trigger.

Alice (49:28):
Not only that, but Karen feels like a failure as well.

Bex (49:32):
Oh yeah, poor, like, Karen, I think is just, she's just hating herself and
she's so angry at herself right now.
Mm. But she can't externalize that.
She's not using her words.
Like everybody in this episodeneeds to go to therapy.

Alice (49:52):
Oh yeah.
Everyone in this showneeds to go to therapy.

Bex (49:54):
Everyone in this show needs to go to therapy.
But yeah, definitely right now, um,like I know Maddie should be at therapy.

Alice (50:01):
I was gonna say, hey, Maddie is in therapy.

Bex (50:03):
Maddie should, she should be in therapy.
Um, Eddie definitelyneeds to go to therapy.
Um, and yeah, Karen, I thinkKaren would really benefit
from having someone to talk to.
Um, Because we don't

Alice (50:15):
Who's external, yeah.

Bex (50:16):
We don't know if she has anyone to talk to because Hen goes and
sort of spills her guts to Athena,so she's got Athena as a sounding
board, but who has Karen got?

Alice (50:24):
Yeah, we don't really find out.

Bex (50:26):
Yeah, we don't because we don't care about Karen except for
the fact that she's Hen's partner.

Ellen (50:30):
I mean you'd hope, I feel like in Australia they, maybe it's the same
over there, but um, as part of thatfertility process they would, like, if
you lose you know, a pregnancy, theywould recommend that you speak to someone.

Bex (50:49):
But I guess they haven't even got to the pregnancy part.
Yeah.
They're still justdoing the fertilization?

Ellen (50:59):
But I mean, the process is in no way guaranteed to work.
They must have heaps of women who have,you know, um, you know, failures, I guess,
like trouble with, with the whole process.
And that must take atoll on a lot of them.
You think they wouldhave people available?

Alice (51:15):
Oh yeah, I guess like the health care system's not great over
there either, so we don't know.

Ellen (51:20):
Well, it's fine if you can pay for it.
Yeah.
It's, I don't think the health caresystem's bad as such, it's just that
it's expensive if you want decent care.

Bex (51:32):
Oh no, I think it's, even if you could possibly pay for it out
of pocket, you still couldn't.
I don't think there is the option.
of, "I want this surgery, I am willingto pay through the nose for it."
Your insurance provider will stilljust say no, you can't have it.
But yes, poor Karen is going, sheis frustrated and angry at herself

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and her body for malfunctioning,failing her and failing Hen.
Um, she's angry at herself for puttingoff trying to get pregnant, putting her
career ahead of family, and now it's,it's not working the way she wants it to.
She's regretting just herchoices, I guess, and it's

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just all boiling inside her.
She just doesn't know how to handle it.
So she's gonna lash out at Hen,she's gonna lash out at Denny,
and she's just going to curl up inbed and try not to face any of it.

Ellen (52:34):
But there are people who are also worried about Hen.
We have at Buck's place?
Where is this?
No,

Alice (52:42):
It's Buck's loft.

Ellen (52:43):
Okay.
Um, Chim is over, Chim and Maddieare there having dinner with Buck
and Chim is complaining that he wantsto help her but she's not talking
to him about it and there's, youknow, Buck agrees there's something
going on with her but also Eddie.
Something going on with Eddie too.

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And he thinks maybe it's the Santa Anas.
Oh, they make people act weird.

Alice (53:09):
Yeah, Maddie doesn't think it's the wind.

Ellen (53:11):
No.

Alice (53:12):
And maybe it's something personal she doesn't feel like sharing.
Which Chim rebuts with, "Well,historically speaking, Hen and
I tell each other everything."

Bex (53:23):
Which Maddie's like, "Wait, everything? Including about me?" And
Chim's like, "No, I didn't tell her aboutyou, only because I didn't get the chance
to. But if I'd had the chance to, Idefinitely would have told her about you."

Alice (53:34):
Yeah!

Ellen (53:37):
Maddie is not impressed that they tell each other everything.

Bex (53:41):
Because she knows how the 118 works.
Like she tells Chim, um, no, she tellsHen, no, she tells Chim, Chim tells Hen,
Hen tells Buck, Buck tells everybody.
And suddenly, what was once a secret,now every single person in the 118 knows.
And Buck says that this is becausethat's how they survive 24 hour

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shifts, by talking about eachother, and each other's significant
others and families and friends.

Ellen (54:14):
It's a long time to have to spend with your workmates in a row, 24 hours.

Bex (54:20):
Especially if you're not busy.

Ellen (54:23):
Yeah.

Alice (54:23):
Yeah, if it's a Q-word shift.
Mm.

Ellen (54:27):
Well, it's a good thing they all get along with each other.
Nowadays.

Alice (54:29):
Well, at least the four, five do.

Bex (54:32):
Or now they do.
Oh!
Last week was a little bit.

Alice (54:35):
That's what else I was going to mention.
The, um, the, in the dinner scene,there was one other firefighter
on the table with everyone else.

Ellen (54:45):
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I didn't notice that.
Geez.

Alice (54:50):
Um, it was a. I feel like she was blonde and I don't remember.
I feel like we've seen her before,but yeah, she was like also looking
horrified at Buck picking up the salt.

Bex (55:01):
I wonder how she got picked.
Did they like draw straws?

Alice (55:04):
Yeah.
Right.
Like there was an empty chair and shejust like jumped into it and the others
were just like, "Oh wow, fuck that bitch."

Bex (55:10):
Did they, like, she took somebody's shift or like, I will do like, I will
clean the toilets for a week if youlet me have lunch with the A team.

Alice (55:25):
Please let me have some of Athena's brisket, please.
It smells so good.

Bex (55:33):
Um, back to the Buckley dinner, um, Maddie confesses to Buck why
she's not working at the moment.
Um, because, and explains that a womanfiled a complaint against her because
she said that Maddie was stalkingher, although Maddie thinks that
stalking is a bit of an overstatement.

(55:53):
I don't think that it's anoverstatement, I think it's a

Alice (55:55):
No, she was literally stalking the woman!

Bex (55:57):
It's a statement!
It's an exact statement.

Alice (55:59):
So I don't think therapy is doing, going too well, but um

Bex (56:02):
No!

Ellen (56:06):
But she's, but you know, Chim explains that the woman called 9-1-1,
she just, Maddie just tried to help herand Maddie's like, "Yeah, but she didn't
want my help because she thinks I'm acrazy person who invaded her privacy.
Maybe there's a lesson in there forthe two of you." It's like, Maddie out.

Bex (56:23):
Chim takes two seconds, like not even two seconds, and then immediately
turns back to Buck and goes, "So whatdo you think's going on with Eddie?"

Alice (56:31):
And Maddie's just like, for fuck's sake.

Bex (56:32):
Maddie whips around like, what?!
Did you not just hear what I said?!

Ellen (56:38):
They are gossips, the lot of them.

Alice (56:40):
Oh, I love it.

Bex (56:44):
Uh, speaking about what's going on with Eddie, Eddie is back in Fight Club.
It must be Friday night now.

Ellen (56:49):
He is currently getting beaten in the face.

Bex (56:53):
Yeah, it's, there's fighting, there's sweat.
There's shirtlessness.

Ellen (56:55):
There's some fighting.
Yeah, there's some punching.

Bex (56:57):
It's Then, Eddie gets the upper hand on his opponent, and to the point that
his opponent is just sort of standingthere with this, like, dopey look on
his face, and so Eddie executes the coupde grace and just snap kicks him in the
face and drops him, and like the crowdgoes wild and Eddie's like, he's basking

(57:19):
in the glory, and then he realizesthat his opponent is, like, choking.
He's unable to breathe.
And so, um, MMA fighter Eddiegets replaced by paramedic Eddie.
Who immediately dropsto check in on the guy.

Ellen (57:36):
And he's like, "Someone call 9-1-1!" And the
promoter goes, "Are you crazy?
I'm not calling anyone."This place is illegal.
Like, I'm

Bex (57:43):
Yeah, everybody in this building is not meant to be here, we're
not calling the authorities down.

Ellen (57:47):
"He'll be fine. We don't need to call 9-1-1."

Bex (57:50):
Yeah, he's not fine.
Because Eddie rolls him into arecovery position and clears the
airway that's blocked, um, anddiscovers a piece of his nose.

Alice (58:01):
Yeah, it's literally like a bit of like cartilage or bone or whatever.
Yes.
That Eddie knocked intohis cranial cavity.
And then it fell down his throat.
And the guy's gonna start leaking spinalfluid, like, what the fuck, Eddie?

Ellen (58:17):
Yeah, I don't know if that's how anatomy works, but, ugh.
Yuck.

Bex (58:23):
Let's just go for the drama.
Basically, Eddie's literally kickedthe crap out of the guy and he's
going to die if they don't get him.

Ellen (58:30):
Just kick the snot out of him.
Literally.

Bex (58:33):
Um, they're hap eventually they do call 9-1-1.

Alice (58:37):
Well, Eddie calls 9-1-1.

Ellen (58:38):
He grabs someone's phone.

Bex (58:40):
Oh yeah, I love that there's this guy who just so happens to be standing
right in front of the, right next to thecage with like, phone in his hand right
in the gap between two of the panels.
And so Eddie can very easilyreach through the gap.
He yanked this guy'sphone and called 9-1-1.

Alice (58:56):
He just, like, because the bookie's still like, "Don't call,
don't call, don't call." And Eddiejust like, holds the phone up, dials
9-1-1 while maintaining eye contact.
Yep.
And puts it up to his ear,just like, "Fuck you, what
are you going to do about it?"

Ellen (59:11):
And who should show up at the scene?
But, um.
I can't remember what the number is.
Do you remember thenumber of the, the house?

Bex (59:19):
I think it's the 1 36.
I think I was wrong last week.
I think I said the 1 37.
Um, okay.
But I think, I believe Bobbytells us a little, it's later.
It's, it's the one 30.
So basically it's um,

Ellen (59:31):
it's Lena.

Bex (59:32):
It's Lena and, uh, Captain Cooper who has two arms again.

Ellen (59:37):
Oh!
Does he?

Bex (59:39):
yeah.

Alice (59:40):
Hang on.

Ellen (59:40):
Is one of them a prosthetic?

Bex (59:42):
I don't know if we can tell, but he very definitely has two arms.

Ellen (59:47):
Oh, I didn't notice he had two arms again.
Anyway, they, um, they check the guy.

Bex (59:54):
But the important thing is that Lena is there.

Ellen (59:55):
Like, no one's around.
Yeah, Lena's there.
No, everyone's cleared out.
Yes.
Like, there's no one around.
And, but they find the guy.
He's sort of sitting upagainst the edge of the cage.

Bex (01:00:04):
Where Eddie, I guess Eddie propped him up.

Alice (01:00:07):
He's also semi conscious, which is kind of weird, but sure.

Ellen (01:00:10):
They check him out, and Lena notices that the bit of his, the guy's
nose Like just a little bit of bone orwhatever, which is lying on the ground.

Bex (01:00:20):
Like Eddie has pulled this out of this guy's mouth.
He's then propped the guy up againstthe side of the cage and then very
carefully placed the bone, likebone off cartilage shard down on the
ground where someone will find it.
Yeah.

Ellen (01:00:35):
And then Lena works out what it is immediately.
She's like looking at it going,"is this part of his nose?"
I'm like, wow, Lena's gotthe, uh, magical, you know

Bex (01:00:45):
She can diagnose someone just by looking at them?

Ellen (01:00:47):
Yeah.

Alice (01:00:47):
Okay, hang on, it appears to be a prosthetic.

Ellen (01:00:50):
Oh.
Prosthetic nose?

Bex (01:00:51):
Oh, you're still on the arms.

Alice (01:00:53):
Yeah, I'm still on the arm.
I don't know what you guyswere listening... Were doing.
Um, it's, cause it's like downto his side and it's carrying
something but it's a differentcolour and it's like moving stiffly.

Ellen (01:01:05):
Okay.

Alice (01:01:05):
So it looks like it, yeah, it's definitely a prosthetic.

Ellen (01:01:08):
All right, that's good to know.

Alice (01:01:11):
Still, like, I'm amazed that they

Ellen (01:01:13):
Continuity.

Alice (01:01:14):
Yeah.

Bex (01:01:15):
I'm guessing it's probably easier for someone like Captain Cooper to come
back to work because the Captain is very,can very easily not be active on a scene.
They can just standback and be supervisory.

Alice (01:01:28):
True.

Bex (01:01:29):
So he doesn't really need two arms.

Alice (01:01:32):
But yeah, literally lost an arm and they were just like,
Oh no, Buck's on blood thinners,like better not let him back.

Bex (01:01:37):
To be fair, that was Bobby.
That wasn't the LAFD.

Alice (01:01:41):
That was Bobby.

Bex (01:01:41):
So obviously Captain Cooper didn't have a Bobby in his house
that was like, no, sorry dude.
You lost an arm.
You can't come back yet.
Anyway, so Lena noticed,has noticed the bone shard.
Cooper says that whoever was thereobviously knows what they're doing.
We have a quick shot of Eddie lurking insort of the catwalk above the warehouse.

(01:02:07):
And as he ducks out of sight, themovement sort of catches Lena's eye.
And she's like, it's thatfucking Diaz, isn't it?
So the next scene is she'sobviously, she's tracked Eddie
down and she's confronting him.

Alice (01:02:22):
Yeah.
She's like, "so are you the one who savedhim or the one who almost killed him?"

Bex (01:02:26):
Why can't it be both?

Alice (01:02:27):
Uh, both.
"Por qué no las dos?"

Ellen (01:02:32):
Okay, just, just to be thirsty for a moment, but, and I know
that Eddie's haircut is terrible,but he looks great in this scene.
Just saying.

Alice (01:02:39):
Oh, he looks so good in this scene.
Like ignoring the haircut, likethe scruffiness and like, Oh,

Bex (01:02:46):
and the pout, like the angry pout is working for him.

Ellen (01:02:49):
It's great.

Alice (01:02:51):
Um, just FYI, he absolutely would not be allowed that stubble
in the LAFD, uh, because it stopsthe masks from fitting properly.
Which is also why they're only allowedthe mustache and not the beard.

Bex (01:03:02):
Look, I'm going to say that this is their 96th off.
So they're finished.

Alice (01:03:06):
Yeah, he just hasn't shaved.

Bex (01:03:08):
He just, like, he got off his last, um, 24 on and he just hasn't shaved.
And this is like theend of the three days.

Alice (01:03:15):
Like, where's Chris?
Who knows?
Don't care.
Fight club.

Bex (01:03:18):
Um, I'm assuming Carla?

Ellen (01:03:20):
Oh yeah, where is Chris?

Alice (01:03:21):
At night?
Like, oh yeah, I'm working.
Ahem.

Bex (01:03:26):
Well, I don't know.
How old is Chris at this point?
Which Would Eddie be comfortableleaving Chris alone overnight?

Ellen (01:03:34):
No, he's only like ten.
Nine or ten.

Alice (01:03:35):
Yeah, he's like ten and he didn't even want to give him to a sleepover.

Bex (01:03:39):
So I'm assuming he's like, oh I've got a date or something
and so Carla has come over for

Alice (01:03:44):
Or maybe he's given in to his um, abuela.

Bex (01:03:47):
Yep.

Alice (01:03:49):
Or his tia.

Bex (01:03:50):
Maybe Josephine, yeah, maybe, maybe Abuela has him, but Again,
the show doesn't care about that.

Alice (01:03:56):
Anyway, Eddie looks real good.

Bex (01:03:58):
Eddie does look good.

Alice (01:03:59):
Chris has been abandoned somewhere, but Eddie looks good.

Bex (01:04:01):
He's, he doesn't want to talk to Lena.
He needs to get out ofthere before LAPD shows up.

Alice (01:04:08):
Speaking of, guess who shows up?

Ellen (01:04:10):
He doesn't want to go back to jail.

Bex (01:04:13):
So Lena shrugs out of her turnout coat and like bless her for
thinking that it would fit um, Eddie.
They're very different sizes.
Yeah, right.
Um, but she tells him to put theturnout code on so that she doesn't
have to bail him out of jail again.

Alice (01:04:31):
Which is fair.

Bex (01:04:31):
So I'm guessing the, um, the idea is he puts that on and then he
can walk out of the scene lookinglike he's part of the 136 and he
can get into his truck and drive offand no one will be any the wiser.
That's the idea.

Alice (01:04:44):
His fancy new truck.

Bex (01:04:45):
Anyway.
His fancy new truck, which isparked pretty much exactly where
the emergency vehicles are.

Alice (01:04:51):
Yeah, it's like right out the front.

Bex (01:04:52):
And why, like, the LAPD aren't going to be taking license plate details?

Alice (01:04:58):
They're just like, oh, that firefighter just came in his
random new, brand new black truck.
Seems fine.

Bex (01:05:08):
It seems to work though, because they do get out to his truck.
They do.
And they have, even though there is asquad car parked just down the, the lot,
in front of the warehouse, um, Eddiefeels comfortable talking to Lena now.

Alice (01:05:24):
Yeah, just openly.
It's fine.
They're not in a rush.

Bex (01:05:27):
So we find out that the reason that Eddie has been promoted to the big times
is that the, uh, promoter guy, the bookie,saw him at the junkyard fights a few weeks
ago and offered him a shot in the bigleagues and says that it's in the, like,
understatement of the It pays pretty good.

Alice (01:05:48):
So yeah, Lena kind of yells at him a bit.

Ellen (01:05:50):
Yeah, is she upset that he got in and she didn't?
Like, she's like, you're notsupposed to be It's supposed to be
a healthy outlet, not an obsession.

Bex (01:05:59):
I think she sees that he's taking it and it's like, it's
supposed to be a healthy outlet.
Like she says, it's supposedto be a healthy outlet.
It's supposed to be like, you get on,you work off, you work off some steam
and then you go about your business.
You're not meant to bemaking a career out of this.

Alice (01:06:15):
And he's also not supposed to be almost killing people.

Bex (01:06:19):
Although, and then Eddie shoots back the rules of Fight
Club, which is tap out or knock out.

Ellen (01:06:24):
Yeah, and she says that he wasn't, he couldn't even keep his hands
up to protect himself, so you shouldn'thave taken the cheap shot, basically.

Bex (01:06:32):
Yes.

Ellen (01:06:33):
Um, and he's like, you know what, just, I don't
want to hear it, just say it.

Alice (01:06:38):
And Lena, who has already said, I don't like therapists, goes,
"Eddie, you need to talk to someone."

Bex (01:06:45):
But she doesn't, I don't know if she necessarily means the therapist, but he
just doesn't, he needs to talk to someone.
He needs to use his words, not his hands.
Like literally.

Ellen (01:06:59):
So we're going back to Athena's place and she's got drinks out again.
So this time she's got like a,this, one of those canister things
like on the bench that has, lookslike iced tea or something in it.

Bex (01:07:12):
I was wondering if it was sweet tea.

Ellen (01:07:14):
Yeah, um, but it looks really refreshing and when I was
watching this I was like, oh yeah,I could go some ice tea right now.
Um, but yeah, Hen's there sothey can sit on the, on the patio
area having a drink and a gossip.
So Hen wonders where everyone isand Athena says that Bobby found

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an ice rink and he wanted toteach May and Harry how to skate.

Alice (01:07:41):
It's so cute, like I love that they reminded him of his figure
skating days, and he's just like, ohmy god, kids, we're going ice skating.
This is the best.
Let's go.
He just saw blood everywhereon an ice rink, but he's just
like, oh my god, kids, let's go.

Ellen (01:07:54):
Adorable.

Bex (01:07:57):
Athena was not interested in going because she is not interested in any
athletic activity that requires a parka.
You know, it's fair.

Ellen (01:08:06):
No big bear for her.

Alice (01:08:10):
Only if she's like, skating around it.
Yeah.

Bex (01:08:14):
Like she'd probably be happy to sort of stay in the cabin on the bear
skin rug in front of the fire, youknow, drinking a hot toddy or something.

Ellen (01:08:21):
Glass o' wine..

Bex (01:08:21):
Yeah.
But like out in the snow.

Alice (01:08:22):
Mind you, ice skating's like hot work.
Like I don't think I ever wore, like youwear a jumper, I guess, to get there.
But when you're skating, youdefinitely don't need a jumper.

Bex (01:08:32):
Oh no.
But if she went skating, then she wouldn'tbe here for like Hen's therapy sessions.

Alice (01:08:37):
Exactly.

Ellen (01:08:38):
Yeah.
She asks, "What's going on with you?" Sheheard about what happened with the IVF and
here we go with the 118 telephone againbecause Chim told Bobby, Bobby told you,
Bobby can't keep a secret to himself.
We know that.

Bex (01:08:53):
But it's, it's that thing that, you know, um, spouses are exempt from secrets.

Alice (01:08:59):
Yeah.
When, when someonesays, don't tell anyone,

Bex (01:09:01):
it's like everyone except your husband or your wife.
Yeah.
Or your significant other, likethey get an immediate pass.

Alice (01:09:09):
Um, it's to the point now, because I don't have a significant
other, but my best friends do.
And I will share, like,I'll send things to them.
I've got their significant others,like numbers, and I've got one
of them on Facebook, one of themdoesn't have Facebook, but I'll
send stuff to them and be like, Ohmy God, this is for your husband.
I don't want to talk to them directly,but like, I think that your like

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other half would appreciate this.

Ellen (01:09:32):
Oh.

Bex (01:09:32):
And you just kind of understand that whatever your secret you're telling

Alice (01:09:35):
They're a package deal.
Yeah.

Bex (01:09:37):
Yeah, it's gonna get shared with them.
You just hope that theirsignificant other understands
that, like, it stops with them.
They cannot then take that andthen talk to anybody else about it.

Alice (01:09:48):
Exactly.

Bex (01:09:49):
Um, but in this instance, um, yes.
Chim told Bobby, Bobby told Athena,Athena is just a little bit upset
that Hen didn't tell her directly.

Alice (01:09:58):
Which is understandable.

Ellen (01:09:59):
This is so sweet though, Hen says, "You had so much on
your plate," and Athena says,"There is always room for you."

Alice (01:10:05):
Yeah.

Ellen (01:10:06):
Aw, besties.
I love them.

Bex (01:10:09):
They are, they are so sweet.

Ellen (01:10:11):
Hen explains that she thought they would have gotten through it
because they, on the day they got thenews, they, you know, lay in bed and
held each other and cried and grieved.
And then at some point, she got up.
But, Karen is still lying in the bed.

Bex (01:10:28):
And Hen can see that Karen is struggling, but she's angry with
her for that struggle, becauseselfishly, it's affecting Hen.

Alice (01:10:40):
And Denny.

Bex (01:10:41):
And Denny, yeah, she doesn't want to be angry at Karen, but she is,
because Karen, from the end of lastseason, her new job is like, working
from home, so she's at home She's sort ofresponsible for Denny more than Hen is.
So, Hen comes home afterdoing, you know, 24 hours on

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shift, and the house is a mess.
And Denny's parked in front of theTV with, like, a box of cereal.
And Karen's in bed.
And it's frustrating Hen.

Ellen (01:11:17):
And she feels terrible for saying that out loud, but They,
she needs, she and Denny need Karento get over it, kind of thing.
But, Athena says "you're, you'renot a terrible person, you haven't
said it to her, but you're sayingit to me because you're worried
and frustrated and exhausted."

Bex (01:11:37):
It's one of those things where you just need to get the words out.

Ellen (01:11:40):
Yeah, and that's okay.

Bex (01:11:42):
And hopefully now that she's got them out in a safe space,
she can start to process Yes.
and maybe release some ofthe anger and frustration.

Ellen (01:11:52):
And Athena's so lovely here, she says, you got me.

Bex (01:11:55):
Until Karen comes back, yeah.

Alice (01:11:57):
Yeah.

Ellen (01:11:58):
We all need a bestie like Athena.

Bex (01:12:00):
Yes, we do.
Yeah.
All right, time for

Alice (01:12:06):
More Daddy Bobby.

Bex (01:12:07):
I was thinking Daddy Bobby, but he's, he's not, he's, he's Dad.
He's not Daddy in this scene.

Ellen (01:12:13):
Yeah.

Bex (01:12:16):
Bobby, the father of the 118, is about to scold one of his sons
because Eddie walks in and he doesn'teven get within spitting distance of
the change room and Bobby is orderinghim up to the kitchen to talk to him.

Alice (01:12:27):
With the last name!

Bex (01:12:28):
Yeah, it's not Eddie, it's Diaz.
Get your ass up here.
Yep.
Um, but as Eddie starts to head to thestairs to head up to the loft, um, Lena
is coming down the stairs and tells Eddiethat she just talked to his captain.
And Eddie's immediately angry and onthe defensive because he knows what

(01:12:51):
she, he thinks he knows what she said.
And he's like, "I thought wewere friends." And Lena's just
like, "What's the name of my cat?
Like, I know everything about you.
What is the name of my cat?"

Alice (01:13:04):
Yeah.
"I know about your kid and yourdead wife and your arrest record
and the guy you almost killed.So what's the name of my cat?"

Bex (01:13:12):
And Eddie's just like, "I have no frickin idea."
And Lena's like, "That's my point.
It is a one way street with you.
We are not friends." And she sort ofwalks away and then turns around and
goes, "Oh, and by the way, I don'tactually have a cat." Trick question.
Just, but it proves my point.
You didn't even knowthat I didn't have a cat.

Alice (01:13:32):
Yep.
Not like Ellen, who has a cat named Bluey.

Bex (01:13:37):
Aww.
See, we're friends.
Yeah, we're friends.
We know about pets.

Ellen (01:13:42):
Mostly because I'm just complaining about him being a dingus.
Anyway,

Alice (01:13:46):
Aww, we love Bluey!

Ellen (01:13:49):
I love Bluey too, but he is Ginger.
And, yeah, that explains everything.
Um, so, Eddie goes upstairs andhe's like, "I don't know what
Bosco told you." And Bobby's like,"No, Captain Cooper called me.
And he recognised you from the tsunami."Even though I don't think... Like, he

(01:14:10):
was lying on a on a gurney like withhis arm off when he saw Eddie, so

Alice (01:14:15):
and I'm pretty sure Eddie... like in the trivia of this episode.
It says that Eddie didn'tactually have any 118 Identifiers
on him during the tsunami

Bex (01:14:25):
and also at this point in this scene Eddie was like all the way
over by the tents and Lena had to runacross to meet Cooper on the gurney as
they were wheeling him in So, I mean,

Ellen (01:14:37):
maybe they met later.

Bex (01:14:38):
No, he, like, they said at the scene, that is because this is the only
scene in which Cooper and Eddie arein the same place at the same time.
So, obviously, when the writerswere writing this, like, wait, would
they have, oh yeah, they're at thescene, yes, they're in this scene.
They're in this scene, at the sameplace, at the same time, that's
where he recognized him from.

(01:14:59):
And nobody's actually gone backand looked at it and went, well,
actually, there is no way hecould have physically seen Eddie.

Alice (01:15:05):
I guess Captain Cooper, while in immense pain from having his arm cut off
in the field, um, saw Eddie at a distancetalking to Lena, and then during this
fight, during the, um, like fight scene,he saw Eddie in the distance talking to
Lena, which I'm sure is the same person.
The same, like, vague outlineis probably the same one.

Bex (01:15:28):
But how did he see him?
Because he was flat on his back.
Like if he was propped up inthe gurney, I could understand.

Ellen (01:15:34):
There isn't really any way he could have seen him.

Alice (01:15:36):
It's just magic.

Bex (01:15:38):
Yeah, it's just... Yeah, okay.
Fine.
I will.

Alice (01:15:41):
Lena's just like, "Oh my God, there was this guy that I
was hanging out with from the 118and he has like a shaved head.
It's a really shitty haircut, butthe guy's real hot." And then Captain
Cooper was just like, "Oh, look,it's a guy with a really shitty
haircut that Lena's talking to.
It must be that guy from the 118that she was hanging out with.
Better call Bobby."

Bex (01:15:59):
Anyway.
So yeah, Lena didn't, the pointof the, the point of this is that
Lena didn't say anything to Bobby.
Captain Cooper got in first, and thenhe must have told Lena that he had
called, um, Bobby because Lena thenraced over to kind of defend Eddie.

Alice (01:16:19):
Yeah, Lena was there to defend Eddie, and Eddie jumped down her throat
that she ratted him out when she didn't.
So way to go, Eddie.

Bex (01:16:29):
Yeah, apparently, unless you're Buck, and even if you are Buck, you
get treated shittily by Eddie Diaz.

Ellen (01:16:36):
Oh, if he's mad at you.

Bex (01:16:38):
Oh, if he's mad at you.
Like I said it last time, I donot want Eddie to be mad at me.

Ellen (01:16:44):
No.
But Eddie and Bobby have a littleheart to heart here and Eddie
just gets progressively more andmore upset the more he speaks.
And it's so heartbreaking because Ithink this is the first time we've
really seen him break down at all.
Right?

Alice (01:17:00):
It's the first time he's talked about Shannon.

Ellen (01:17:02):
I don't think we've ever seen him cry before.
Oh.

Bex (01:17:05):
We, there was, I think the implication that he was, after, when
he was reading the letter that Shannonwas sitting on the beach, crying, but
sort of in that situation he was byhimself so nobody, he could, he could
sort of lose control because nobodywas watching him but here, Bobby

(01:17:27):
is sitting right in front of him.
So, he's like trying desperately tohold on to control in front of his
boss, um, his pseudo father figure,but he's just unable to do it.
And that control is, that he alreadyhad a very tenuous grip on, is just
slipping further and further away.

Ellen (01:17:46):
Yeah, he explains that he's, he just, he can't, he needs to be
strong in control for Christopher.
Doesn't want to let him down becausehe's the only parent he's got left.
And, you know, he, he was like, he didn'tthink he wanted to bring Shannon back
into Christopher's life because shealready left once and broke his heart.

(01:18:07):
And guess what?
She did it again.
And Bobby's like, "Yeah, but she died."

Alice (01:18:11):
It's so heartbreaking, this scene, where Bobby's like, "she died, Eddie,"

Bex (01:18:17):
It's not like she chose to leave.
She died.
And Eddie's like, "yeah, butshe was going to leave. Cause
she asked me for a divorce."

Alice (01:18:24):
And the way, like, you can tell Eddie feels like a failure,
the way that he says this.

Ellen (01:18:32):
Yeah.

Alice (01:18:33):
Cause he can't even, like, it takes him a couple goes just to
get out that she wanted a divorce.

Ellen (01:18:39):
He needs therapy so bad.

Alice (01:18:41):
She's mad at, he's mad at a dead person and he's mad at himself.
And so he's taking itout on everyone else.
Like on the people in the ring,on himself, on Autumn apparently.

Bex (01:19:00):
Perfect timing, pupper.

Alice (01:19:02):
What?

Ellen (01:19:03):
Who's Autumn?
I didn't know you had a dog.

Alice (01:19:05):
Wow.
Wow.

Ellen (01:19:12):
Okay, we're not friends anymore.
No.
Um,
okay.
Where are we up to?

Alice (01:19:19):
A commercial.

Bex (01:19:19):
Pseudo Amazon warehouse accident.

Ellen (01:19:23):
Oh this, okay.
Oh god, this scene, I was just, yeah.

Bex (01:19:28):
Yeah, so it's a, it's Behemoth Warehouse, not Amazon, because they can't
say Amazon, but Behemoth Warehouse, um,where their manager has decided that
the pickers are too slow and bathroombreaks is the reason that they're too
slow, so he's banning bathroom breaks.
Uh, which would be fine, exceptJerome really needs to pee.

Ellen (01:19:53):
When this, when the guy says, "We've already wasted a minute here
because we had to stop and have thischat. So quit your whining and go
light a fire under it." And I waslike, Oh, there's going to be a fire?
Because usually they, they signal likewhat's going to happen ahead of time.
But in this case, no.

Bex (01:20:12):
So the signaling was not the fires.
It was the bathroom breaks.

Ellen (01:20:15):
Yeah.

Bex (01:20:16):
So one of the reasons the manager is so angry at the workers
being so slow is that they havethese robots in the warehouse.
Um, I don't think they're pickingand packing orders, but whatever
they're doing, they are fasterthan their human counterparts.

Ellen (01:20:32):
Yeah, they're like moving stuff around the warehouse.

Bex (01:20:36):
So Jerome decides to take Take revenge on the robots and
deal with his, um, overfullbladder, all in one fell swoop.
Because when he turns to, I guess,pack the next order, there is
a robot right in front of him.
Uh, so he drops trou and pees on it.

Ellen (01:20:56):
I was watching this going, is he peeing on the robot?

Bex (01:20:59):
Yep.

Alice (01:21:00):
What?
Such a weird scene.

Ellen (01:21:02):
Um, but yeah, a little bit later, the robot starts malfunctioning, um,
and crashes into, like, it goes aroundin circles for a little bit first.

Bex (01:21:13):
Oh, this is, like, number one, I don't see, the robots must be very
shittily designed that the liquid canget into the inner workings like that.

Ellen (01:21:25):
Yeah.

Bex (01:21:25):
I would have thought that they would have been a little bit more hardy.
Anyway.

Ellen (01:21:30):
And if the liquid got in, it would, it would just
short it out and it would stop.
Rather than Um, going around incircles and crashing into stuff.
But anyway, for the drama,

Bex (01:21:42):
not only does like, it crashes into shelves, which then knocks boxes off
one shelf and those boxes then land onthe shelves perpendicular to the first
shelf, which then just completely, allof those shelves just start falling and
collapsing and boxes going everywhere.
And I'm just like, what are inthose boxes that they can destroy

(01:22:03):
a shelf just by crashing into it?
Yeah.
Again, for the drama.

Ellen (01:22:07):
It was a little confusing, but yes, it looked cool.

Bex (01:22:10):
It did look cool, and the result was that Jerome ends up pinned under
a very heavy steel shelf and boxes.
And his co worker has to call9-1-1 and tells the dispatch
that the robots are attacking.

Ellen (01:22:26):
Of course they are.
It was just one robot, but obviouslythey must have seen what happened.

Bex (01:22:33):
I don't even know how they saw the robot do it, but anyway.
Um, 118, get dispatched, and wego to the ambulance where Hen's
driving, Chim is riding shotgun.
And Chimney, they've obviouslypassed the robots are attacking call.

(01:22:56):
Through to the 118, and Chim is just goingoff about, um, our future robot overlords.
And how terrifying thefuture is going to be.

Alice (01:23:06):
Um, but Hen's not paying attention.

Bex (01:23:08):
No.
Hen is a little distracted.
Again.
But Chim tells her that heneeds his partner back, he
can't do this without her.
So she kind of gathers herself and says"Yes, I'm with you." He's going, "Great,
let's go put down this robot revolution."Um, and in a little bit of foreshadowing,
Hen says, "Hey, not all automation isbad," and she hits a button on the dash.

(01:23:31):
Um, which is the, I've got itwritten down here somewhere.
It's the trafficked preempt button.
And the formerly red light in frontof them turns green, allowing them
to pass through the intersection.

Alice (01:23:45):
Okay.
Do we want to talk about this now ordo we want to talk about it later?
Because I don't understand this button.

Bex (01:23:53):
Okay.
So let's talk about it now.

Alice (01:23:57):
Because, okay.
So it turned like the red, there'sa red light in front of them.
They push a button and itimmediately turns to green.

Bex (01:24:03):
Yeah.
I don't think that's howit works in real life.

Ellen (01:24:06):
I know it doesn't.
It can't.

Alice (01:24:06):
Because, like, the people going through the other way would be on a
green light and then it just suddenlyturns to red and then, like, they're
just supposed to slam on the road.
I don't understand.
No.
I was like, I, what?

Ellen (01:24:17):
No, the, the fire engine would need to slow down, at least.

Alice (01:24:20):
We don't, do we, we don't have these in Australia, do we?

Bex (01:24:22):
Uh, Queensland has them in some regions.
And about 10 years ago, theytrialed it in southeast Melbourne
in a particular section.
Um,

Alice (01:24:33):
they probably tried the Springvale intersection and they were just like,
yeah, that didn't fucking work becausethe lights there never work anyway.

Bex (01:24:38):
Apparently it was very successful.
I don't know though.
Everything that I readsaid it was successful.

Ellen (01:24:43):
I, I seem to remember it was.
It's to do with, rather than justhaving a button that would change the
lights for you, I believe I heard aboutthis back then when they were trying
it out in Queensland, um, that theywould work out the route from the fire
engine for the, from the station towhere they were going, and they would
program the lights along the route.

Bex (01:25:05):
Yeah.

Ellen (01:25:05):
To be favorable for the engine?

Bex (01:25:08):
That's how the ones in Queensland work.
Once you get the 9-1-1 call or thetriple zero call in our instance, as
soon as the emergency vehicle leavesthe garage, the system is activated and
traffic control work out the best routeand they change the lights along that
route to allow for the, um, for theemergency vehicle to get through quickly.

Alice (01:25:33):
Yeah, that makes sense.

Bex (01:25:34):
The one in Los Angeles.
Kind of works the same way.
It is like a button in thetrucks, but it works in advance.
So it's not going to work on theintersection, like, right in front
of you, but it works for all of theintersections that you're coming up
to, and it, um, it gives everybodya warning that the lights are going

(01:25:58):
to change before the lights change.
But there is still the, um, Theinstructions to firefighters is do not
rely on the fact that you've hit thebutton and that the lights will be green.
You still need to slow down and checkbecause for instance, a pedestrian may
just step out in front of the road.

Alice (01:26:16):
Yeah, yeah.

Bex (01:26:17):
Um, so they should still be slowing down, clearing the
intersection before going through it.
Um, so it's, yeah, it's not gonnawork the way it does on the show, but
they're doing it this way for the drama.

Alice (01:26:29):
Yeah, okay, no, that, like, I was, I was so confused because I was like,
the poor people that are like, comingup to the light just have a sudden red
light and have to slam on the brakes.

Bex (01:26:38):
Could you imagine that?
Like, you're driving up, you get right to,you get right to the um, part where you
enter the intersection, all of a suddenyour green light is immediately red.
So you slam on your brakes.

Alice (01:26:49):
Yeah, like, immediately, there's no orange, it's just red.

Bex (01:26:50):
The person behind you slams on their brakes and probably slams onto you.

Ellen (01:26:54):
Yeah, you make a big problem.
But to be, like, in, in reality,that's why they have the sirens
as well, so you hear a siren, youslow down and look around to see
where the, like, if it, if it,

Bex (01:27:05):
Well theoretically yes, but as we see, that's not
what happens in this episode.

Ellen (01:27:08):
No, no, not in this case.

Alice (01:27:10):
And like, even in real life, um, yeah, you can hear the sirens, but like,
if your music's up loud, it takes a longtime for you to be able to hear them.

Bex (01:27:17):
Or if you're like me, and you're listening to K pop, and a certain producer
decides that he's going to put sirensin all of his songs, so you don't know,
are you listening to, is it a siren?
Is it a siren in the song or is itan actual siren around you somewhere?

Ellen (01:27:31):
No.

Alice (01:27:32):
That was literally like, when Ellen was like, Hey, do we
want to make a 9-1-1 podcast?
I'm like, as long as there's no sirens init at all, because I can't stand when I'm
listening to something and there's sirens.

Bex (01:27:44):
Yeah, but we definitely don't have this system in, um, where I'm, where I
am because the other day I was sitting atthe lights and my direction went green.
as an ambulance wasapproaching from the other way.
Um, so I'm watching to seewhat everybody is going to do.
And thankfully we've all been well taught.

(01:28:04):
So all of the people who had rightof way suddenly just stopped and
let the ambulance come through.

Ellen (01:28:10):
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure it's not .. That'sdefinitely not everywhere in
Queensland because I've definitelyhad, um, some approaching red
lights and needing to go through.

Bex (01:28:20):
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's only like four or fivesuburbs that they trialed it in.

Ellen (01:28:25):
Okay.

Alice (01:28:26):
Also, to be fair of Tasmania, there were probably
like three cars on the road, so.

Bex (01:28:31):
It was a, it was a heavy intersection.
There were at least 20.
But yes, so, long storyshort, this system, we do
sort of have it in Australia.
It does exist in reality in Los Angeles.
It does not work the way thatthey work it in the show.

Alice (01:28:53):
Okay, cool.
Cause yeah, I was very confused.

Bex (01:28:55):
Yeah.
But they get through the intersection,they get to Behemoth Warehouse,
um, with the rest of the, the 118,and they start working on Jerome.
And they discover why the, as, um,Jerome's co worker is sort of explaining
what happens, Buck is investigatingthe robot, and he's the one, our

(01:29:16):
exposition firefighter is the onewho realizes, it's really gross,
he's like, he, he's examining therobot, and he sort of touches it, and
then brings his hand up to his nose.

Alice (01:29:26):
Yeah, then sniffs it!

Bex (01:29:27):
He doesn't even have gloves on!

Ellen (01:29:29):
It must be wet.

Bex (01:29:31):
Gross Buck!
It turns and he's like, Did you pee on it?

Ellen (01:29:39):
It's such a ridiculous storyline.
I hope this wasn't pulledfrom the headlines.

Bex (01:29:44):
I don't think so.
So, Eddie immediately asks, "Whywould you pee on the robot?" And
Jerome explains that the supervisorwouldn't let them go to the toilet.
Um, Bobby goes, "Oh, where is yoursupervisor?" And Jerome's coworker
just immediately spins around andpoints straight at the manager.

(01:30:08):
He's just like, wait, what did I do?
Bobby tells him not to goanywhere because Osha is going
to have some questions for him.
But in the meantime, they need toget the shelving unit off Jerome so
that Hen and Chim can work on him.
I do like this, this is hilarious.
So they lift this shelving so thatit comes up simultaneously, so

(01:30:33):
it's not putting extra pressurewhen they lift the front part up.
And then for like, point 2 ofa second, everything is fine.
And then all of a sudden, bloodstarts spurting out of his leg
and spurting out of his arm.

Ellen (01:30:50):
Ew.
They only show it for a fractionof a second, but it's like, yeah,
it's really coming out of there.
And they're like, oh my god,femoral artery, let's go.

Bex (01:30:59):
Yeah, Hen's got the brachial artery, Chim's taking the femoral artery.
See that, I can understand blood spray.
Fingers, not so much, butthis one I can understand.

Alice (01:31:08):
Yeah.
But the arteries are so damaged,they're recoiling back up.
So Chim needs to apply aclamp and a tourniquet.
to his leg, the one on his leg, I think?

Bex (01:31:23):
Yeah, Chim's got the leg, Hen's got the arm.
Um, she's having trouble finding theartery to clamp it, so she has Eddie pin
Jerome to the ground so she can dig aroundinside his arm trying to find the artery.

Alice (01:31:35):
I know, the poor guy.
But, like, if they don't dothis, he's going to bleed out.
yeah.

Bex (01:31:40):
Yeah.
And he's screaming that heshould have just wet his pants.
But in a nice little callbackto the beginning of the episode,
um, Hen gets her artery clamped.
Chim's still having trouble and asks foranother, he doesn't even get to finish
his sentence and Chim, um, Hen's alreadyhanding him the tool that he wanted.

Alice (01:32:03):
I think it was a clamp.

Bex (01:32:04):
I'm assuming it's another clamp, but it's just like the beginning
of the episode she He wanted TraumaShears, she handed him something else.
Um, this time she's absolutely onthe ball and she's anticipating
his needs and, um, she's back.

Alice (01:32:21):
Um, yeah, Jerome also crashes after they get the tourniquets on
him, but they do CPR and get him back.

Bex (01:32:25):
They get him back, it's a non issue, it's fine.

Alice (01:32:27):
And, yeah, like, it, it all seems really good.

Ellen (01:32:29):
Wouldn't it be funny if he'd, like, not funny, but kind of sad if
he'd actually not made it, and thenthey'd be like, "oh, how did he die?"
It's like, ah, he peed ona robot, so it killed him.

Bex (01:32:39):
The robot killed him.

Ellen (01:32:42):
In retaliation.
But no, he's fine.

Alice (01:32:44):
Also, tourniquets.
I don't think we've, like, spoken abouttourniquets much on this show, but
they, like, so I am first aid trained.
They very much emphasize, like, theydon't teach it in basic first aid
anymore, how to do tourniquets, becausegenerally doing a tourniquet is almost

(01:33:04):
an immediate, like, loss of limb.

Bex (01:33:06):
Oh.
Yeah, because you're literallycutting off the blood supply.

Alice (01:33:09):
Because you're literally cutting off the blood supply.

Bex (01:33:11):
Which is great if you've got like a broken artery and
you're pumping blood out.

Alice (01:33:17):
Yeah, like in this case, like the guy would have died, but, um,
yeah, the way to like apply it properlycuts off the entire blood supply.
So they, um, the way to sort of try andsave it is by releasing the pressure every
so often and then tightening it again.
But if the guy's like not got enoughblood to do that, you can't do that.

(01:33:39):
Yeah.
But yeah, so if you ever find yourselfin an, in a position where you do
have to do a tourniquet, hopefully younever have to because they're awful.

Ellen (01:33:47):
They definitely don't recommend it for, um, snakebite anymore.

Alice (01:33:52):
No, you can't, don't do it on a snakebite because the
tourniquet's not gonna help.
But yeah, they say write the time andlike even if you've got no pen and
paper, literally just use the guy'sblood and write it on the forehead.
Yeah.
Okay.
Cause like, if there's nothing else touse, like if you don't have a pen and
you're like, yeah, you need to makea record in the middle of nowhere.

(01:34:14):
It's just like, cause if theyget to it within a certain time,
they can release it, like releasethe, and then tighten it again.

Ellen (01:34:20):
Yep.
I'll be trying to scrub that frommy brain before I go to bed tonight.

Alice (01:34:25):
Whereas if it's been like, you know, several hours, they can't do that
because it'll get the toxic blood back in.
So yeah, try and write the time down.
Um, yeah, anyway, that's tourniquets.
Please don't do one unlessyou know what you're doing.
But they're almost a, like,almost a guaranteed loss of limb.

Bex (01:34:47):
Well, hopefully after what happens next, somebody is keeping
an eye on Jerome and how longhe's had those tourniquets on him.
Yeah.

Alice (01:34:53):
Um, that's it.
Like, in a situation like this, hopefullyit won't be a loss of limb because
he'll, like, they take him, generallythey'll take him straight to hospital.
So it should only be asmall amount of time.
Yeah.
But yes.
But that's not what happens.
It all seems great.
Um, Bobby's like, "Yeah,great work today."
Chim's like, yeah, she's back.

Bex (01:35:13):
Jerome is joking in the back of the ambulance about getting
a catheter, because if he gets acatheter, then he'll be able to go
to the bathroom whenever he wants.

Alice (01:35:24):
Um, so yeah, Jerome's in good spirits.

Bex (01:35:27):
Chim's in the back with Jerome.
Um, Hen is driving.

Alice (01:35:30):
The rest of the 118 have gone back to the station while Chim and Hen

Bex (01:35:34):
No, they're not back at the station yet.
They're still at the scene.

Alice (01:35:37):
No, no, but they're going back to the stage, like the ambulance goes ahead
and the rest of the 118 aren't with them.

Bex (01:35:43):
Um, so Hen's driving, Chim calls up to her that, um, he thinks that
Jerome, jokingly, he thinks thatJerome might have a head injury because
he's joking about wanting a catheter.
Hen tells Jerome slash Chim to holdon and she hits the, she approaches an
intersection where she has a red light,she hits that traffic exempt button.

(01:36:07):
Again, and continues driving when suddenlya car appears on the right hand side.
And there's basically a split secondwhere the driver looks at Hen, and
the Hen looks at the driver, andthen suddenly the ambulance just
slams into the side of the car.

Ellen (01:36:26):
And it screeches along the road a little bit before they come to a stop.

Bex (01:36:30):
Yeah, because brakes take a little while to kick in,
especially if you're going at speed.

Alice (01:36:34):
Right.
Yeah, they're both going very quickly.

Bex (01:36:37):
And then we get pretty much the David Wallace scene again.

Alice (01:36:41):
It's funny because when I, like, I watched this episode
then went and had dinner.
And I was telling, like, I waslike, oh yeah, it was that one.
And Mum's like, the poor cello.
And I'm just like, yeah, it'sjust David Wallace all over again.
And then I read the notesand I'm like, oh, yeah, just
David Wallace all over again.
So it's

Bex (01:36:58):
like, it's a couple of minutes of us, of the show, trying to,
uh, trying to desperately get theaudience to connect with this poor
woman in the blue car so that herinevitable death hits even harder.
I don't fucking care.

Alice (01:37:14):
The mu like they do the music's really well done, it
is a really well done scene.

Bex (01:37:19):
The music, I unfortunately have been conditioned by The West Wing that any
time I hear, um, this suite, I immediatelyassume something bad is gonna happen.

Ellen (01:37:29):
Oh, really?

Alice (01:37:30):
Oh, absolutely, yeah, well, like, we already know something bad's
gonna happen, so that doesn't help.
Yeah, they

Ellen (01:37:36):
Why

Alice (01:37:36):
does something bad happen when the Bach suite plays?

Bex (01:37:40):
In the West Wing, it's the Christmas episode, "Noel", Yo Yo Ma is invited to
the West Wing to play, and this is thesong that he performs for the President.
Meanwhile, um, the Deputy Chief of Staffis having a PTSD related panic, um,
because in the previous season, he wasshot when someone tried to assassinate the

(01:38:02):
President, um, and now he equates music

Alice (01:38:05):
While this song played?

Bex (01:38:06):
No, no.
No, but he, he equates music to sirens.
So he's hearing the music and hisbrain's interpreting that as the
sirens and the screams of the crowdfrom when he was shot, and like he
nearly died that, in the shooting.
So he's, Josh is completely flipping out.
Um, but unfortunately, after watching"Noel", every time I hear this song,

(01:38:28):
it always seems to be something badis going to happen in that scene.
This is no exception.
But I guess the reason I don'tparticularly care about this is, um, when
the inevitable Inevitable death happens.
I don't care particularly that shedied, I'm more concerned with Hen.

(01:38:48):
And I think we would still get the sameemotional impact if we went straight from
Hen hitting the car to her respondingto the car accident and we didn't
actually know anything about Evelyn.

Alice (01:39:00):
I think it's more, I don't know, I like the impact where it's
like, so basically Evelyn's a cellist.
She's the youngest soloist in LAPhilharmonic Symphony history,
which takes after her grandmother.

(01:39:21):
It's her debut tonight, so she'son the way, she goes to see her
grandma because, um, grandma was theone who encouraged her to pick up
the cello rather than play piano.
So she visits grandma, grandmasays how proud she is of her.
She goes and picks up her dress.
She's on the phone with her mom.

Bex (01:39:43):
It's just, they're so heavy handed.

Alice (01:39:46):
It's very heavy handed, but I still

Bex (01:39:47):
It's like she's the youngest cellist, it's the perfect day,
she's about to do her debut, likeeverything is sunshine and roses.

Ellen (01:39:53):
Everyone's so proud of her.

Bex (01:39:54):
Isn't it, isn't it so horrible that such like a young, beautiful, perfect
person has died, and I'm just like
What is Just gonna Maybe I'm just gettingold and cynical in my I'm getting cynical
in my old age, and I just don't care.

Ellen (01:40:12):
Well, I was watching it with my musician hat on, and Because it
really annoys me when they have actorspretending to play instruments in scenes.
But, um, no, she really, what, what, she,the, the music that they were playing
over the top of her playing probablywasn't her playing, it sounded like
a, an actual professional playing it.

(01:40:33):
But she was playing it likeher fingers were moving at the
right times for playing it.
And I looked up, no, I looked it up,the, the girl's name is Annie Thurman
and she, uh, she does play the cello.

Bex (01:40:46):
So they did cast a cellist.
That's nice.

Ellen (01:40:48):
So yeah.

Alice (01:40:50):
So I love that Ellen looks up nothing for these episodes, but as soon
as the music, Ellen's like, hang on.
I have some research to do.

Ellen (01:40:56):
I do.
I do look up things, but in thiscase, I was really interested to see
if she would actually was a cellistthat they put in, but they, after the
crash, the, the song that they play is.

Bex (01:41:07):
It's a Max Richter song.

Ellen (01:41:08):
Yes, it's Max Richter.
It's called "On the Nature of Daylight".
And it is a heavy contributorto the heartbreak of this scene.

Alice (01:41:19):
Oh yeah.

Ellen (01:41:20):
As well as Hen just completely losing it.
So after we, like, we do get thecrash again, and we see that Evelyn is
sort of lying on the passenger seat.
I don't Was she wearing a seatbelt, like?

Bex (01:41:35):
She was wearing a seatbelt, because in that quick split second
shot we got of her as she's lookingat Hen, she has a seatbelt on her.
So I don't know how she endedup lying sideways on the front
seat if she had a seatbelt on.

Alice (01:41:51):
For the drama.

Bex (01:41:51):
For the drama, yeah, it has to be for the drama.

Ellen (01:41:54):
So Hen and Chim are trying to get her, you know, get into
the car so they can check her out.

Alice (01:42:00):
Hen's freaking the fuck out.

Ellen (01:42:02):
Chim calls in for help and the rest of the 118 turn up
Chim

Alice (01:42:05):
doesn't know what's going on because he was in the back.

Ellen (01:42:08):
And he's like, "We need to, we need to get Jerome to the hospital."

Alice (01:42:11):
Yeah, like he's still focused on his patient and Hen's like,
no, no, there's a girl in the car.

Bex (01:42:15):
So Chim calls dispatch, he's requesting assistance.
And pretty much as soon as hisvoice comes over the radio, the
rest of the 118 is already moving.
They're still at the scene packing up.
Before Chim has even finished talking,Bobby's on the radio going, "The
rest of the 118 is responding."

(01:42:36):
We'll get there.

Alice (01:42:37):
Yeah.

Bex (01:42:38):
So they scramble to get into their rigs.
Our exposition firefighter askswho was driving, um, and Bobby
very somberly says Hen was driving.
Um, and just before he climbsinto the truck, we see him pull
out his phone and call Athena.

Alice (01:42:54):
Well, like, best Bathena episode so far.
Like, he knows already.

Bex (01:43:00):
What's

Alice (01:43:00):
gonna happen
that Hen like Hen needs her best friend.

Ellen (01:43:03):
So, so you're saying the best, the best Athena episode is the one
where she's not actually doing her job?

Alice (01:43:08):
No, no.
Bathena.

Ellen (01:43:09):
Oh,

Alice (01:43:10):
Bobby and Athena.
Yeah.
But yes.
Um, no, they're just so, like, they'rejust so married in this episode.
I love it so

Ellen (01:43:19):
much.
They are, yeah.

Alice (01:43:20):
Like they just, they like preempt each other's like needs
and movements in this episode.
Mm-hmm . Anyway,

Bex (01:43:29):
back at the scene, um, I think what's.
really heartbreaking as well about thisis that they can see that the driver
who in the, the, um, aspirational,inspirational, oh my God, isn't life
great montage we had before, um, thegirl went to get a cup of coffee.

(01:43:50):
And the baristas, because it washer one perfect day, the baristas
heard her name correctly and thenwrote it on her coffee cup correctly.
Um, so Hen is able to see the coffeecup in the car and knows the name.
So she's talking to Evelyn.
They can't get to her becausethey can't get the door open.
And all of the tools to getinto the car are on the ladder

(01:44:12):
truck and the engine truck.

Ellen (01:44:14):
They're going to try and break the glass, but then The trucks turn up,

Bex (01:44:19):
and Bobby immediately jumps into action, he's like, "Saws and
jaws, Eddie, get the extra first aidkit," um, and then literally hauls
Hen to the other side of the road.
Like, he's got her by theshoulders, and he's dragging her.

Alice (01:44:34):
Yeah, like, Hen's like, I need to work on her, and Bobby's
like, this is procedure, we've gotthis, I need you to stand over here.

Bex (01:44:42):
He literally holds her in place until he's sure that she's not gonna bolt.

Ellen (01:44:46):
Yep.
Yeah, and poor Hen's just standingthere on her own watching as the rest of
them manage to get her out of the car.

Alice (01:44:53):
Yeah, so Buck opens the door with the jaws.
Chim's, like, talking to her, tryingto get her to respond, and Buck just
says quietly to Bobby, "There's moreblood in the car than in her body."

Bex (01:45:07):
Like I said, Exposition Firefighter.

Alice (01:45:09):
He's doing his job great this episode.

Bex (01:45:11):
He's doing a really good job.

Alice (01:45:13):
Does Athena's food need salt?
Exposition Firefighter says no!

Bex (01:45:17):
It's seasoned perfectly, or at least Athena thinks it is.
So they get Evelyn out of the car,they start CPR on her, and while Eddie
and Chim are working on her, Bobbyand Buck are kind of watching Hen.
Suddenly Athena appears, and Henjust, cannot comprehend what Athena

(01:45:41):
is, like, where did Athena come from?
What is she doing there?
How did she get there?
Um, and Athena says that Bobby called her.

Alice (01:45:48):
Yeah, so Hen says that she slowed down, she thought she had the green.

Bex (01:45:53):
She start, she starts sort of just talking really fast trying to
explain herself, but Athena can seethat there are people behind Hen.
Um, and one of them has a phone out, andthey're obviously film, they're filming
the accident, but I'm sure that Hen is,like, in frame, and that the microphone
could probably pick up what she's saying.

Alice (01:46:15):
You can actually hear, like, the bystanders who have the phones.
They're just like, "Oh, like, someonewas hit. I think she hit, hit, hit the
car." and that's when Athena goes, like,into best friend, but also a cop mode.
And it's like, "I love you, but youneed to shut up." Because Hen's babbling
this whole time, like, "I hit her, Ihit her, I hit her, I hit her," and

(01:46:38):
And Athena drags her, like, overto the other side of the truck
so she's out of the view of thecamera and goes, "Listen to me.
There's going to be aninvestigation and it starts now.
LAFD and LAPD, they're gonna roll upto the scene with lots of questions.
You need to think carefullyabout what you're going to say."
And Hen says, like insists that shewants to tell them the truth and

(01:47:01):
Athena goes "yes But you only tellthem what you know, not what you
think, not what you feel. Answer thequestions, but stick to the facts."

Bex (01:47:10):
At this point, Hen's stopped paying attention to Athena because
she's just watched Eddie stop doingCPR, look at Chim, and shake his head.
And she's realized that Evelyn is gone.

Ellen (01:47:21):
Yeah, she just breaks down and starts howling.

Alice (01:47:26):
Oh, this honestly, like, made me cry.
Like, Hen breaking down in Athena's arms.

Bex (01:47:32):
Aisha's performance in this episode, not just, this scene, but throughout
the entire episode, is wonderful.

Ellen (01:47:40):
Yeah, yeah, you're right.

Alice (01:47:42):
So amazing.

Bex (01:47:44):
And then the final, the final shot of this episode is like the very
David Wallace scene of Evelyn's cellocase just crushed in the middle of
the road and pieces of sheet musicjust blowing forlornly in the breeze.

Ellen (01:48:01):
Yeah, so she put

Alice (01:48:02):
I don't know how it got out of the car, but you know.

Ellen (01:48:04):
Yeah, she put the cello in the back, like in the trunk, right?

Bex (01:48:07):
Yeah.

Ellen (01:48:07):
And And the car got hit on the side.
So how did the cello get on the ground?

Bex (01:48:13):
Same way the seatbelt suddenly came undone.

Ellen (01:48:16):
Don't know, but it's a very dramatic shot of the cello case and Yes.
Yes.
And that's the end.
Yes.
Another, finishing onanother sad note this week.

Alice (01:48:26):
It does finish on a really sad note.
Um, I definitely teared up,but I really like this episode.

Ellen (01:48:34):
Yeah, I do.

Alice (01:48:36):
The pacing, like, I didn't feel like it was too fast or too slow.
It's a really good ensemble episode.

Ellen (01:48:44):
Yeah.

Alice (01:48:45):
Without it being

Bex (01:48:47):
All of them together, all the time.

Alice (01:48:48):
All of them together, all the time.
Like, the threads weave theirway through really, really well.
Like, we get Hen and Athena, we getMadney and Buck, we get Bobby being a
dad, We get Eddie finally having his talk.
Like, there's so much in this episodeand it doesn't feel like too much.

Ellen (01:49:13):
Yeah, and they do all get plenty of scenes where they're all
together and they all contribute.

Alice (01:49:17):
Yeah.
Like, they all do their jobs really well.
It's very on theme without thetheme being shoved down our throats.
I don't think there's a singlemention of anyone, like, I don't
think anyone says malfunction.

Bex (01:49:31):
I'm just going to do a ctrl f.

Ellen (01:49:33):
Yeah.
It might have been mentioned one time?

Bex (01:49:38):
No, no, Bobby.
Bobby says "a wardrobe malfunction".

Ellen (01:49:41):
Oh, okay.
A wardrobe malfunction.

Alice (01:49:43):
Right at the start, yeah.
But yes, it's very ontheme without it being.

Bex (01:49:49):
Actually, Bobby says the world malfunction twice.
So he's the one responsiblefor the episode title.

Alice (01:49:55):
There you go.
Well, there you go.
It's not shoved down like we didn'tfeel the need to take a shot.

Bex (01:50:01):
Yeah, I didn't even notice that he'd said it.

Alice (01:50:04):
Yeah.

Bex (01:50:05):
Um, so the writer of this episode was, uh, Tonya Kong, who was one of the
writers, um, credited in "Triggers".
And I think we were, we were talkingabout "Triggers" where It was like,
it felt like a bunch of differentstorylines had all been sort of
smashed together and then ChristopherMonfort wrote the next episode that

(01:50:27):
continued the Maddie stalking storyline.
So I'm wondering if Tonya, theFight Club storyline was her baby.
So she got given this episodeto sort of finish that one off.
Or maybe hers was the fertilitystoryline, I don't know, but it's just
interesting that from those, from thatepisode with the three writers, you

(01:50:49):
can then see the particular storylinesbeing continued and brought to their
conclusions by each one of those writers.

Alice (01:50:57):
I think that's the other reason why Season 3 feels so strong, is that there
is a continuous sort of through line.

Bex (01:51:07):
The writers are really on the ball.

Alice (01:51:09):
Yeah.
So they've really found their stride.
. Bex: There's a strong writer's room who are obviously all working together,
there is that, um, that mud map onthe wall of where each character's arc
is going, and everybody is reading,for the most part, their show bible.
And like, Eddie's because this show does do this thing a lot of the

(01:51:30):
time where something super traumatic willhappen and then the next episode they're
just like, okay, we're done with that now.

Bex (01:51:38):
Oh yeah, we just wanted the trauma.
We're not actually going to doanything with the trauma, we
just want to show you the trauma.

Alice (01:51:42):
Yeah, like Maddie had this massive traumatic thing and then
it just wasn't really mentionedagain until season three, really.

Ellen (01:51:50):
Yeah, now, now she's taking a while to deal with it.

Alice (01:51:52):
Yeah.
Um, whereas this, like, Eddie isstill dealing with Shannon's death.
Like, he's been doing Fight Club afterwork this, like, almost this whole season.

Bex (01:52:04):
I think it's also, I mean, I have no experience with trauma like that.
Um, it's very interesting that ithas taken this long to develop.
We're up to episode eight, Shannon diedthe second last episode of last season?
So if we say it's taken nine episodesand there was a good couple of months,

(01:52:25):
six months in the break between seasons.
So it's taken him a while.
It's just been simmering.

Alice (01:52:33):
Yeah.
It's absolutely been simmering.
Like, you know.

Ellen (01:52:36):
Well, they had to go through the tsunami as well.

Alice (01:52:38):
His best friend almost died.

Ellen (01:52:39):
They had a lot of stuff going on.

Bex (01:52:40):
Yeah.
Oh, Eddie's gone through a lot of shit.

Alice (01:52:44):
Yeah.
His best friend almost died.
His son then almost died.
Um, well, like, not quite,but like, went missing.
Um, his son then had nightmares,so he had to be strong for his son.
Like, and when you're aparent you don't have...

Ellen (01:52:56):
He hasn't been given the opportunity to deal with it.

Alice (01:52:57):
Yeah.

Bex (01:52:59):
Like he would anyway, even if it was given the opportunity.

Ellen (01:53:03):
Yeah.
Well, now he's spoken to Dad Bobby,so he'll be fine from now on, right?

Bex (01:53:09):
Yeah, I'm sure it'll be sunshine and roses.

Ellen (01:53:11):
Totally fine.

Bex (01:53:12):
Dad Bobby is going to put him into court mandated therapy just like Maddie.
It's going to be like, there'sgoing to be all of them.
They're just all sitting outside this onetherapist's office, like, "What are you
in for?" "Ah, my boss made me came in.
You?" "Yeah, same."

Ellen (01:53:28):
And then one of them comes out and the therapist is like, "All right,
which one of you fuckers is next?"

Alice (01:53:36):
Oh my God.
I just looked at next week'sepisode and it's that episode.
Season three is justhit after hit after hit.

Bex (01:53:43):
Yeah.
We don't get a chance to breathe.

Ellen (01:53:45):
All right.
What's next?

Bex (01:53:48):
Next week, the 118 respond to debris from a meteor shower crashing
into an apartment building and

Ellen (01:53:56):
Oh god,

Bex (01:53:57):
and, and, that's not all, and a deadly fire caused by a hazardous
waste truck crashing inside a tunnel.
Meanwhile, Hen struggles withguilt over her ambulance accident.
Um, Bobby introduces Eddie to an oldfriend to help with his anger, and
Maddie receives an urgent call for help.

Alice (01:54:18):
Gee, I wonder who Maddie's urgent call for help will be from.

Bex (01:54:21):
I want to know why Bobby just didn't introduce Eddie
to Hot Priest at this point.

Alice (01:54:26):
Hot Priest was unavailable.

Bex (01:54:28):
Apparently.
Uh, so slight spoiler alert, Ellen,it's not Hot Priest next week.

Alice (01:54:36):
Bobby was like, even Hot Priest can't fix this hot mess.

Bex (01:54:41):
Maybe he's more worried about Hot Priest.
He's like, no.
I don't want this one.
He's seen what Eddie's done to Buck.
He doesn't, he doesn't want toinflict Eddie on Hot Priest.
Triggers for next week, um, includinga very shameful lack of Hot Priest.

(01:55:02):
Um, we get yet another,yet another car accident.
Um, we get some domestic violence.
We get more gore, uh, we havedepictions of grief, references to
hazardous waste, PTSD, and apparentlythis one is a trigger, um, therapy.

Ellen (01:55:26):
Oh, going to therapy is a trigger?

Bex (01:55:29):
Apparently.

Ellen (01:55:30):
Okay.

Bex (01:55:31):
For some people it might be.

Ellen (01:55:32):
I guess, I guess you, if you've had a bad experience with therapy, then fine.

Bex (01:55:36):
Especially if you're buck, and your therapist sexually assaults you.

Alice (01:55:40):
Yeah, right.
Poor Buck's just like, No!

Bex (01:55:42):
Don't go to therapy!

Ellen (01:55:45):
Oh dear.
Poor Buck.
Geez that was a long time ago.

Bex (01:55:51):
It was, wasn't it?

Alice (01:55:53):
Such a long time ago.

Ellen (01:55:55):
All right, so let us know what you thought about this episode,
um, did the scene at the end affectyou as badly as the rest of us were
sitting there sobbing by the end of it?

Bex (01:56:04):
Or were you bitter and cynical like me and thought
that was completely superfluous?

Ellen (01:56:08):
Well, let us know.

Alice (01:56:13):
It's fine Ellen, at least we have feelings.

Bex (01:56:18):
Look, I, no, I was sad for Hen.
I was sobbing for Hen.
I just did not care aboutthe extra character.

Ellen (01:56:25):
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Bye.

Alice (01:56:42):
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Is she okay?
Is it just because it's windy?

Alice (01:57:24):
Oh yeah, I think she was barking at the possum and then
she came inside to wake Mish up.

Ellen (01:57:27):
Oh, okay.

Bex (01:57:29):
As you do.

Alice (01:57:29):
No, Mish, you don't have to go out with her.
Stay in.
No, you're gonna go out.

Bex (01:57:38):
Can she even hear that Autumn is barking?

Alice (01:57:40):
Yeah, she doesn't.
She's not completely deaf.
So if Autumn comes and like barksin her face, and so Autumn, which
is what you heard, because Autumnwill literally run inside and bark
in Mish's face until Mish wakes up.
And so Mish will wake up and thenAutumn will run away and Mish is like,
oh fuck yeah, we're barking at things.
And I'm like, oh for fuck's sake.
So Mish doesn't actually know whatshe's barking at, but she enjoys the

Bex (01:58:02):
The barking.

Alice (01:58:02):
The opportunity, yeah.
She likes being included, it's fine.