3.16: The One That Got Away

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9-1-1.
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episodes of the A B C show, 9-1-1.

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I'm Bex,
I'm Alice.
And I'm Ellen.
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least in New England, uh, middle schoolstudents do start rotating their classes.
And Ginger, who left a comment on the"Taking of Dispatch 9-1-1" episode to
educate us on the logic behind LA'sridiculously long street numbers.
Um, so thank you to Dee and Gingerfor educating the Australians

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about the inner workings of the US.
We, we, we appreciate you.
I think Ginger's actually in theUK, correct me if I'm wrong, Ginger.
You will, I'm sure.
But had looked it up afterwatching a different show.
I don't particularly care where thepeople are from as long as we're,
I'm getting edu-macated about stuff.

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Yes, thank you.
Thank you for letting us know about it.
We love all our northern hemispheres andsome of the southern hemispheres, I guess
all of them too.
So before we get into this week'sepisode, which is episode 16,
Alice, could you give us a refresherabout what happened in episode 15?

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Uh, yeah.
So last week on 9-1-1, Eddie was buriedalive while rescuing a child from a well,
and we dove into his life before movingto LA and the origin of his silver star.
Uh, Hey guys, did you knowEddie has a silver star?
And he's never done anything illegal?
So we're told.
Nothing illegal.
Okay.
One day that will make senseto you, Ellen, we promise.

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Yeah.
In like two years, Ellen'sgonna be like, oh my God.
And be the Leo DiCaprio memewhere he's pointing at the tv.
It's like, that's gonna be,
that's why they kept saying it.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, in the past, this episode,we're up to season three, episode 16,
which is called "The One That Got Away."

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Um, this one first aired in April, April27th, 2020, which in fact is today as we
are recording, uh, five years ago today.
Oh, there you go.
Yeah.
Look at us being up to date again.
Little bit of synchronicitygoing on there.
Up to date, but five years previous.
So the summary for this episode says, the118 fights an apartment building blaze

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and attempts a daring rescue of a woman.
In the summary, it says blind,but she's actually deaf.
Whoops.
Um, I, I'm not sure why theywould've changed that, like after,
anyway, we can talk about thatlater when we get to that part.
They attempted daring rescueof a deaf woman trapped inside.
When Athena responds to a simpleaccident call, she discovers a

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potentially more sinister crime.
Meanwhile, Hen performs a risky medicalprocedure after an accident at a
televised cooking show, and Buck meetsa retired firefighter and is inspired
to re reunite him with his lost love.
Wow.
That's quite a mouthful that summary.
Um, there's a lot goingon in this episode.
Yes.
So triggers include for thisepisode an apartment building fire.

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Uh, I think we've worked out lastweek that these were all out of order.
And I'm...
oh yeah, they're all over the place.
Not gonna try and put them in orderon the fly because I can't do that.
Um, so cancer, uh, a characterwith dementia, a deaf woman at
Threat Home Invasion, medicalgore involving a lot of blood.

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A minor character death, and a patientdeath due to medical error, uh, which is
not shown on screen, but still happens.
And we have sexual violenceand or in the form of rape.
Um, so you know that feeling whenyou are like just minding your own
business and you're like, prettysure I've forgotten something.
You are like, oh, if it wasimportant, I'd remember, it's fine.

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And then you sit down 20 minutesbefore recording the episode of the
podcast for that week and realizeyou haven't watched the episode.
Um, yeah, I don't relate to that at all.
That totally did not happen tonight.
Um, no idea what...
at least.
I'm sure it'll all come back to you.
At least it was you, Alice.
It would be much, much worseif it had been Ellen who has

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never seen the series before.
Yeah, I have.
I've seen, I've seen thisepisode in a total of one time.
You and I kind of have like vague memoriesthat we can fall back on in a pinch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ellen does not have that.
Uh, right.
Well let's get going and then we'llsee how much of it comes back to you

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in the, you probably saw this verybeginning, but, we have a, an apartment
building that is on fire and it, thisopening scene is extremely chaotic.
Yeah.
We arrive right in the middle of it.
Yeah.
There's no lead up.
There's no 9-1-1 call.
The episode opens and the building isablaze and there are multiple units

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responding, trying to put out the fire.
There are, there are lots of trucks there.
There are.
They've got their ladders up.
There's people with their, the hoses out.
Everything's happening.
I... people with their hoses out.
I was very excited to see themactually fighting a fire again,
because I don't even remember thelast episode they went near a fire.

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Yeah, that's true.
It's, it's been all, um, uh, it's,there's been a lot of medical
emergencies, but like, um, it's beenall character drama lately rather
than actual, there hasn't been a lotof like firefighting going on, right?
No.
I seem to remember seeing a tweetor a post something somewhere

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that, um, I. That's ratherrealistic though for firefighters.
They, most of their call out are,yeah, they don't do many fires, medical
emergencies and things like that.
Fires are the exceptionrather than the rule.
Yeah.
Which is ironic consideringthey are firefighters.
But anyway, um, the 118 areinside the building searching

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for residents to evacuate them.
Well, Bobby, Eddie and Buck areinside, I'm assuming Hen and Chim
are I think inside as well, butwe don't see them at this point.
It's pretty scary.
They're like knocking on doors andyelling for people and then hacking
apart doors that they can't, that,that are locked and they can't open.

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Uh, which is probably a good thingbecause when Buck gets to a door
that he literally needs to, um, kickin, uh, oh no, he doesn't kick it.
He uses his ax.
Of course he does.
Um, you know, king ofjust property destruction.
Yeah.
Um, they find an elderly manin the bathroom on the floor.

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Yeah.
He's got blood all underneathhim, but he's, he's awake.
Like when they ask him, are you hurt?
Um, he says, "I dunno, I can't get up."
It's very Monty Python.
"I've fallen and I can't get up." Yeah.
But much more, much more serious.
But yes, he does have blood all over him.

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So, you know,
so, um, Bobby and Eddie areworking to get the man stable
so that they can transport him.
Uh, the man his name is Anton ismore worried about Gladys, but
unfortunately he passes out beforehe can tell anybody who Gladys is.
So Eddie makes the assumption thatit might be a cat or a dog, and

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so Buck is sent on the search ofthe almost completely engulfed
apartment for a cat or a dog.
And then they get the call overthe radio that the building is
unstable, so everyone has to get out.
So yes, Bobby says like, "Let'sgo, let's get him downstairs."

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He says to Buck, who'sstill searching around the
apartment, "Let's go, let's go."
Buck's still looking for thecat and calling for the cat
Buck's, like he actually finds a catand grabs it and they get out of there
and we cut to Dispatch whereMaddie gets a 9-1-1 call but it's
not your an ordinary 9-1-1 call.
It is a TTY call, which is atele typewriter, which is used

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by, uh, Deaf and Hard of Hearingpeople to make telephone calls.
Um, and the caller tells Maddiethat they are trapped in a fire,
which turns out to be the exact samelocation that the 118 are already at.
Yeah.
So we can assume this is Gladys.

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I mean, I didn't realize that this wasGladys until later when they get reunited.
Um, I mean, I should have workedit out from the, the fact that
it was right after the guy hadbeen saying, calling for Gladys.
But
I worked out when, like in the nextscene when he is like, "that's not,
that's not Gladys." I was like, oh, no.

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Yeah.
I think it, it, it was slightly confusingin that I don't, do not think that
Gladys and Anton were in the same room.
So you could have kind of, you couldbe forgiven for thinking that they were
like two completely separate incidents.
Yeah.
And not that.

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It's definitely like a, a good misdirect.
Yes.
Yeah.
So while, uh, Gladys is typingin her address into the thing,
they, they cut the sound out.
So you're basically hearing, youknow nothing, which is amazing.
Really very effective.
It is very effective.

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They do that a few times when we'reseeing things from Gladys's point of view.
And then we, yeah, get backdown to the front door.
So we know that 579 Atwater isthe address that she's put in.
And then we see that actual addresswritten on the front of the building.
So they get Anton to the paramedics,Buck, reunites him with Gladys and Anton

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is like, "That's that, that's Hoover.
I'm so glad you found Hoover.
But that's not Gladys." And at that verymoment, Bobby gets a call from Maddie
over the radio that he, that, she has aDeaf woman trapped in an apartment and
everybody looks up to see glass fallingout the window as Gladys has thrown

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something at the window to smash it.
And Buck is the one who puts two and twotogether and says, "Oh, that's Gladys."
I don't know that breaking the glasswas necessarily the best idea though.
I mean, I think it's toshow which apartment it is.
Oh, no, no.
I can, I a hundred percent agree thatit's like for the dramatic effect,

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it's also so that they could seeIt's just that smashing the window
creates like oxygen coming intothe room, which would feed fire.
Yeah.
Which can feed the fire.
Yeah.
It makes the fire bigger.
Yeah.
Um, but what, what window did she break?
Because Buck smashesthrough the window later.
Yeah, I think there's two windows.
Why wasn't she near the open one?
I don't know, for dramatic effect?

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So that Buck can smash it.
For the drama.
It's for the drama.
Remember, everything's for the drama.
Um, so at the reveal that thedeaf woman up on the 10th floor is
Gladys, we go to the title card.
When we come back, we'restill at 5 7 9 Atwater.
And they have a slight problem inthat the ladders don't reach up to

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the 10th floor and the firefighterscan't go up the stairs inside the
building to get to her either.
Yeah.
Um, but the buildingnext door is not on fire.
And the rapelling kithas 150 feet of rope.
Buck's got the thinking cap on today.
I, I love this though, like,Eddie's just like, "You wanna do
a rope rescue? Of course you do."

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Of course you do.
Of course you do.
Literally.
But it's, it's, it's even better'cause like he's throwing up his
hands going like, of course you do.
Your ridiculous person.
And Bobby's just looking at him going,well, he is not gonna do it alone.
Someone's gotta help him out.
You've gotta go do it too.
And Eddie's face has just gonefrom like, oh, that is such a what?

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You want me to what?
Fucking Buck.
What an idiot.
What do you mean I'm going too?
They're gonna tell Gladys, hegoes, please inform the resident
that we'll be descending fromthe roof through her window.
And Gladys is just curled up on the floor.
She's like, not dealing,
she is not paying anyattention to her machine.

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No.
I don't know if the machine is stillfunctional at this point, but not
Oh she looks so terrified.
Maddie is not telling her anything.
So while Gladys is curled up in a cornerpanicking, um, Hen is trying to treat
Anton and she discovers that aside fromthe injuries he sustained in the fire

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and the whatever happened to him in thebathroom, he is like sick for another
reason, and she must have the, themagic, the magic helmet that allows you
to diagnose things on the fly becauseafter hearing that, he has, um, abdominal
tenderness, he's been nauseous for days.

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He's been urinating a lot, and he's beenchugging antacids for quite a while.
She says that he's got an undiagnosedthyroid condition that has caused
an excess of calcium in his blood.
Mm-hmm.
Like how?
Yeah, okay.
If you say so.
Where, where in paramedic schoolwould they teach you that?

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The underdiagnosed thyroidcondition section, obviously.
Um, look, honestly, I've beenwatching a lot of House lately.
I'm pretty sure henjust also watches House.
Surprised she didn't, but well, shewasn't like, oh, feels like lupus.
Anton doesn't care aboutany thyroid conditions.
He just wants to know that they're gonnaget Gladys and Hen tells him not to worry

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that they've got their best boys on it.
And then we cut to the best boys,best boys who have run sped run up to
the top of the building next to 579Atwater, and then parkour their way over.
And I'm once again, amazed athow close they build buildings.

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Yeah.
'cause I'm, I'm not discounting that thatwas like the feats of athleticism required
to jump from one building to another.
But the fact that they were able todo that and there wasn't any of this
like teetering on the edge 'cause thejump was just that little bit too far.
Those buildings must be hella close.
Yeah, right.
It's crazy.

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Like the jump was so, CGI though,
No, let me live, lemme livein the delusion that Ryan and
Oliver actually got to do.
Like maybe not jumping acrossactual buildings, but they set up
styrofoam blocks on a green screen.
Yeah, they might have had a set.
Had a jump from astyrofoam block to another.
It looked like a real jump.
I mean, I only watched itone time, so maybe, but

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look, if they let them ride on top of anactual fire truck, surely they'd let them
jump from one styrofoam block to another.
Oh, I'm sure they jumped on something.
Yeah.
Oh no, it definitely wasn't super far up.
Oh, no, no, no, no insurance companyin the world would be like...
unlikely to be the actual buildings.
...hey, we've got these two actors,we're gonna take them up to the top
of two buildings and we're gonnamake them, like multiple times

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jump from one building to the next.
Yeah.
No,
no.
But yes, they, Eddie starts to lower Buckdown 'cause he's got a, you know, he's,
they're hooked up to each other so thathe can lower him down kind of thing.
And everyone else is watching fromthe ground with their phones in
the air because of course you do.

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Yes.
Uh, and then.
Like Buck sort of drops to the,to the 10th floor and looks in
the window and Gladys is aboutto smash the window with a chair.
Like she, she notices him thankfully,and like jumps backwards kind of thing.
Doesn't throw a chair at Buck.
That could have been unfortunate.

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It's very dramatic because, um, he isabseiling down and then he uses his
feet to push back off the buildingto gain momentum and you can hear
the crowd like gasp underneath,like, oh my God, he's swinging out.
Why is he swinging out?
Is everything okay?
It's, it's the maneuver.
But no, it's just a. It's just to buildup speed so we can complete the maneuver.

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I do love that like Bobby is watchingjust because he needs to make sure buck's.
Okay.
Shi is just watching on like noddingapprovingly like, sir, you have never
been allowed to do the maneuver.
How would you know if he'sdoing it correctly or not?
But then we get another, when Buck crashesthrough the apartment, we get the second,

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um, section where there is no audio.
We get it all from Gladys's point of view.
Yeah.
He says something to her and youknow, she's watching his mouth move.
So hopefully she understands what'shappening, but he does also point to
the harness that he has in his hands.
So she gets the drift and

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yeah, I got the feeling that she getsthe drift as he sort of points at
himself and points at her and points atthe harness and she's like, oh, okay.
That's what's going on.
Yeah,
but it works.
She gets up, she comes over to Buck,he literally stripes it to his chest.
Um, they climb out the window andEddie starts lowering them down.

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Yeah.
Eddie's still standing on the toproof of this building that's on fire.
It's like, um, dude,
well not for much longer.
The behind him, the roof collapses.
Um, yeah, the roof literally vanishes andhe's just like, "Cap, the roof's gone."
And so Eddie has to leavethe same way he arrived.
He secures Buck, make sure that Buck'sgot control of the ropes, and then jumps

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his way back across the other building.
Mm-hmm.
Um, it's interesting though becauseBobby yells out to two firefighters,
um, to secure the airbag and it'sMitchell and Sanchez, and I didn't
think that Sanchez was a memberof the 118, but apparently he is.
Maybe he transferred.
Who's Sanchez?
Have we seen him before or is this from...

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I was about to say, I'm justgonna open up my, um, my little
tracker of all the 118 members.
So Sanchez...
You're so organized man.
It's great.
Sanchez is in season eight.
Oh, okay.
And I didn't think hewas in it until then.
What's this tracker?
Oh no, that's all thevehicles destroyed by the 118.
That's not the tracker I want.

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Wrong tracker.
There is another.
Anyway, yes.
So Mitchell and Sanchez are,they are getting the, the airbag
deployed, uh, just in case.
Okay.
We have, I get to add more firefighters'cause we have never met Mitchell
or Sanchez before, so there we go.

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Okay, cool.
So we haven't met Sanchez.
I'm not crazy.
No,
I don't remember Sanchez.
So, no, but that doesn't mean anythingbecause I never remember any of the
people that we only see one time.
I literally only remember Sanchezbecause they're in season eight.
I don't remember Mitchell, butI definitely remember Sanchez.
Mm-hmm.
Well, anyway, they are there and theyare getting the airbag deployed, which

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is a good thing because as the airbagis being deployed and as Buck is slowly
lowering himself down, the fire eruptsout of one of the apartments above him,
smashing the windows, a big fireball.
It's all very dramatic.
Um, has the slight consequenceof setting his rope on fire.

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Yeah.
What are the chances?
So he starts hurrying up.
Um, but he's not, he's like, "Idon't think we're gonna make it."
Yeah.
It's, it's, will he get down safelybefore the rope, um, fully burns through?
Or is he, is the ropegonna burn through first?
But thankfully when the rope does burn,burn through and they fall, uh, they

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land on the airbag and they're fine.
Whew.
Very dramatic rescue though.
Yes.
There's a lot of gaspsfrom the crowd as well.
It's great.
Yes.
Yep.
And Gladys says thank you.
And she's reunited with Antonand that's the point where I
was like, oh, that's right.
He said, that's

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so Wow.
Okay.
So you
completely, no, I must, I must'veworked it out earlier when, um,
like when he said when the cat,when when the cat was not Gladys.
Anyway, it was a verydramatic, um, opening scene and
it was very dramatic.
It got to this part and let outa sigh of relief kind of thing.
Yes.

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Sort of chill out a little bit now,
um, Hen can't though, 'causeshe's still gotta handover Anton
at the hospital, which she does.
We see the 118 arrive at whicheverhospital they get to, and she wheels Anton
in and she's reeling off all of his statsand the doctor's like, "Yeah, okay, cool.

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We got it. We're, you know, absolutelysmashed right now, but we got it."
And Hen's like, "No, no, no, no. Youneed to listen to me because I am a
paramedic with the magical ability todiagnose somebody just by looking at
them. And you need to make, I'm gonnagive you all these orders." And again,
has her viewing of House and Grey'sAnatomy and all of the medical shows.

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Like where in para paramedic school,would she know what tests to order?
Yeah, I have no idea.
House
12 lead EKG
to look for an "arrhythmia associated withhypercalcemia." Where in the paramedic
textbook does it teach you that, uh,
paramedics that are listening?
Yes, please.
I have a friend who's thefirefighter paramedic.

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I should ask her.
Yes.
Uh, well the rest of them, apartfrom Hen and Chim, are back at the,
um, they're in the locker room.
They're there too.
They're all there.
Oh.
Oh, they are too.
Oh no.
This is not the guy that Hen goes to.
I thought Hen was, you know,holding onto the guy's aorta here.

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Oh no, this is later
That's later.
Okay.
This is the one that, this is whyshe ends up pinching the aorta.
Because she doesn't trust the doctorsanymore after what happens to poor Anton.
But we've gotta getthrough date night first.
So everyone's back at the 118,Buck is riding the high of his
amazing dramatic rescue and hewants to go out and celebrate.

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Oh, he's so happy.
He's so happy.
My little golden retriever.
He wants to go to a bar with theloaded fries and he is like, "The first
round is on me." But unfortunatelyeverybody else on the 118 has plans.
Yeah.
Christopher is actually hostinga sleepover at Eddie's house.

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It's not that he's going tosomebody else's house for sleepover.
'cause um.
Fun fact, Ellen.
Christopher never sleeps atEddie's house in fan fics.
He's always over to sleepover,which I think is just a device
to get Chris out of the house sothat Buck and Eddie can get it on,
Right.
But it's nice to see that Chris isreciprocating by allowing people to come

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to his house for a sleepover for once.
Oh yeah.
The poor guy.
He's having a bunch of nine yearolds for a sleepover like that.
Sounds like hell, but,okay, good, good for Chris.
Do you think that, 'cause remember thelast time Chris had a sleep, went to
a sleepover, Eddie pretty much handedover a binder full of instructions.
Yeah.

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Um, do you think he got that in returnfrom any of the parents or they're
like, if you can, if you can handleChristopher, you can handle my kid.
Maybe.
Well, it's because it's a, likehigher needs school, isn't it?
So Yeah, probably.
I have no idea.
Maybe, I'm sure.
I'm sure he can handle it.
It just tickles my fancy that, youknow, some parent shows up at the door

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with like a three ring binder fullof telephone numbers and medication,
An even bigger binder
protocols.
And you know, I know
it's just like, shit, I have tomake a bigger binder and it's just
bigger binders all the way down.
And Eddie's just looking at thiswoman going, I'm a paramedic.
I think I know how toadminister an EpiPen.
Yeah.
But anyway, what I do like is that, um,everybody else is, everybody's got plans.

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Um, everybody leaves, butEddie does invite Buck to come
to the sleepover with him.
Like it's not, you know, loaded fries at abar, but you can come and hang with me and
Christopher and a bunch of nine year olds,
but everyone else has got datenight, so they don't want him.
Yeah.
Like Buck's going like, "oh, cool.It's date night. Have date night
at the bar with me," and yeah.

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Uh, all three of them are like, um,okay, that's not exactly the date night.
I'll do, I'll volunteer.
I'll, yep.
What?
And we know you would, butapparently that's not Karen's
idea of a fun date night
or Athena's.
Um, and a
Bobby, Bobby and Athena don't wanttheir son third wheeling their date.
And uh, as Chim says, Buck is notthe Buckley that he was looking

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forward to spending his night with.
Yeah, he's fine.
And so one by one, they leave untilBuck is left in the locker room alone.
Oh.
Poor Buck.
He says like, "Okay, Buckley, Iguess will celebrate alone." Like,
oh, now you're talking to yourself.
'cause all your buddies have left.
So Buck actually does go though.

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He does take himself out.
He does go out the bar.
He does actually go out.
I would've just said,fuck it and gone home.
But no, he, I guess for thestoryline purposes, he has to go out.
I don't know if it's the same bad though.
We're also older thanBuck currently is, so yes.
Remember having, like beingyoung and having energy?
No, that was way too long ago now.

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I don't think I was everyoung and had energy.
Anyway.
Yes, Buck goes to a bar.
I, I don't know if it is the bar thathe wanted to go to, but it looks like
it's a, um, a first responder bar.
Yeah.
Is it the one that has the karaoke?

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It does not.
Do you really think that Redwould be the kind of guy to go
to the bar that does karaoke?
I think it's just not karaoke night.
Yeah.
They might, you might just, justhave karaoke on one or two nights.
Like, I think
they only go to one bar, but I thinkit, um, it's just not karaoke night.
It might be a different one, who knows?
But
who knows?
I was not paying closeenough attention to the set.
An older gentleman is sitting atthe bar and watching the tv, which

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is showing, uh, Buck's Rescue, likethe, you know, him rescuing Gladys,
which is literally just thefootage footage that the, like
a, the, um, the, a crew shot.
They didn't even like doctor it to makeit look like it was shot by a news camera.
It's literally just the same footage.
Of course they didn't, theseare the same people that use
screenshots as family photos andit's just like, who took that photo?

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There was no one else there.
They did that in Supernatural too.
It always made me laugh.
They did do it in Supernatural.
It's like, was it, um, I'm prettysure there's like a shot from like,
the Endverse episode in one of them,and it's just like, how the fuck?
That was an alternate dimension.
How did you get this photo?
Yeah.
Yeah.
How did this photo end up in?

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Yeah.
Anyway.
Uh, physics, um, yeah, so Red, see,like this guy's name is Red, we
find out later or in a little bit.
But he sees Buck rescuing someoneon TV and goes, "Idiot." And, and
Buck's like, "Excuse me?" And hetells him that he's stupid, basically.

(28:36):
But Buck realizes that he used tobe a firefighter and then Red's
like, "I'm still a firefighter.Just 'cause you retire doesn't
mean you forget who you are."
So they introduce themselves toeach other and, um, he buys offers
to buy Buck a drink, even thoughhe still thinks he's an idiot.

(28:58):
So he had recognized him.
I wasn't sure that he rec actuallyrecognized him from the footage
until he actually said like, how didhe recognize Buck from the footage?
I don't know.
But because in in, he's got like ahelmet on and everything, and yeah.
Magic
For the drama, he recognised him,
for the drama, yes.

(29:19):
Uh, so to be fair, they were probablylike, "firefighter Buckley does it
again," and he's like "this fuckingidiot," and then turns around and
he is like "this fucking idiot."
.Uh,
so we see them a little bit later.
They have, uh, moved to a booth.
There are many, many bottles ofbeer on the table in front of them.
And it sounds like that Red has been,um, telling Buck Wall stories about

(29:45):
his time as a firefighter, whichdoesn't have the happy ending.
The Buck thinks it's gonna bebecause he asks Red whether
he still sees his old crew.
And, uh, he doesn't.
Long story short, theyare pretty much all dead.
He said at, at first, we, we keptin touch, like they had barbecues
and parties and then, then therewere Christmas cards and emails.

(30:10):
And yeah, the only thing theyget together about nowadays
is when one of them is dead.
So that's very sad and,and unfortunately true.
Like, I dunno about the dead part, butthe, uh, you know, people you went to
school with, for instance, graduallydrift apart over the years, you know,
unless, unless they're like your BFFsand you never do that, which is great.

(30:35):
Yeah.
I don't speak to anyone that I went toschool with, but I do have one friend
who I knew while we were both in highschool, we went to different high schools.
Mm-hmm.
But yeah, I knew one person I stillspeak to regularly, um, that I knew
from back when I was a teenager.
Yeah.
It happens.
I guess it's a thing where the peoplethat you're friends with in high school,
you are literally friends because byvirtue the fact that you are in the

(30:57):
same place at the same time, um, yeah,you might, there's, that's, that's
the thing that binds you together.
And once you no longer have that, youkind of realize that maybe they're
not the kind of person that youwould've been friends with anyway, so
Yeah, they're proximity friends.
It's like work friends.
Yes.
Like you have people that youtalk to every day and you're
like, oh, these people are cool.

(31:19):
And then you leave thatworkplace and you're like, yep.
Never spoken to them again.
Yeah.
It's sad, but it's the way,it's, it's the way of things.
Um, and so Buck's asking him, he hasany grandkids, he always, but Red
always thought he'd, he'd get around tohaving kids, but it just never happened.

(31:40):
He was too busy with work, basically
"too consumed with the firehouseand being the best in saving lives."
And at this point I'm like, oh wow.
We're just, we're really hammering,we're really going for the, uh,
the comparison between the twoof them right now, aren't we?
Mm-hmm.
It's about as subtle as abrick wall in this scene.

(32:01):
So while, uh, buck is having deep andmeaningful conversations with Red.
Bobby and Athena, uh, on theirdate night, they're very sweet,
but at home.
They are.
Well, I, I have a feeling that thedate night is going to involve other
things that you possibly couldn't bedoing at a restaurant or at a bar.

(32:22):
So, you know, being startingit at home makes perfect sense.
Yeah.
They're slow dancing in the livingroom, and I always think it, I
always find it really funny whenthey have Bobby and Athena dancing.
It just, it, it's, it's sweet, butit's not something that like, um,

(32:43):
that I ever remember doing, likejust dancing in the living room.
Maybe I'm not whimsical enough,
not romantic enough.
Apparently not,
not in love enough.
I have to say I don't think I'veever done that either, but unless it
was, uh, like to make the kids go,"ew!" Which does happen sometimes

(33:05):
I dance with my dogs, butit's not slow dancing.
It's like, yeah,
well there's no chance of any kidsgoing Ew, for Bobby and Athena.
Because Athena very pointedlymentions that their house is
silent because there are no kids.
Except then there's a knock on the door.
Bobby's like, "You gotta be kidding."

(33:26):
They jinxed it for sure.
And it might not be one of theirkids, but it's still someone,
it's one of their kids
It's, it's kind of one of their kids.
'cause it's Hen and I, I did love Athena.
Um, Bobby's like, "no, I've gotta goanswer the door." And Athena's like,
"Okay, just don't open it all the way.
'cause if you open it all the way,whoever it is is gonna want to come

(33:47):
inside." So he, he only opens it acrack Hen just like wedges her body
into that crack and pushes through.
She, she's like, she's coming in.
Yeah.
I mean, to be, there's nostopping Hen we know this.
Oh yeah.
Well she, she's like, I tried.
She's quite flustered though.
She's upset.
I tried to call you, butboth of your phones were off.
It was going straight to voicemail andthen she looks around and realizes why

(34:10):
it was going straight to voicemail.
Look, she knew that they werehaving date night and she's still
just like, no, I'm pushing in.
It's fine.
Yeah, I'm going to go overthere and tell them in person.
But the thing is she also haslike, it's also date night for
her and she left Karen in the car.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They were on their way to therestaurant and, and hen's gone like,
Nope, we need to like do a, we needto swing by Bobby and Athena's first.

(34:35):
Yeah.
I need a debrief right at this very second
because she heard a report on thenews that there was a fatality from
that fire that they just attended.
And it's the guy thatshe took to the hospital
and Bobby identifies himas the guy with the cat.

(34:59):
It was like he also had a wifewho was rescued by, well, I
assume that she's his wife.
Um,
I have no idea
in the most dramatic fashion, butanyway, yeah, the guy with the cat
Lesbian housemate, who knows?
They had a lavender marriage.
Um, so Bobby goes off to make a calland Hen is distracted enough to, um,

(35:22):
like, comment on how Bobby and Athenago all out for date night and says
that, you know, "Me and Karen, wejust, you know, we go to Mexican."
Yeah, they've got all these candles onthe table and stuff like, it's very,
it's very romantic.
It's very romantic.
Yeah.
To be fair, this is bothof their second marriages.

(35:44):
So I have a feeling that you try a littlebit harder in your second marriage.
Hen's like, she notices there'sa, there's flowers on the table.
So she pulls out her phone and she'slike, "What time do florists close?"
Athena's like, "No, no, no, no. Googlejewelry. You gotta think bigger."
Flowers aren't gonna cut it.

(36:04):
Just a moment of lightheartednessbefore, um, we go back to the drama.
Yes.
Because Bobby returns and informsHen that Anton's official cause
of death was cardiac arrest.
At which point Hen is just absolutelyin disbelief because she's like, I knew,
like I knew that something was wrong.

(36:25):
I've got that magical.
I had the helmet, for God's sake,
yes.
She's, she just starts ranting.
She's like, you know, "What is thepoint in rescuing these people and
treating them and getting to thehospital if when they get to the
hospital they just, they're gonna die."
And Bobby's trying to reassureher and said like, "Hen you did

(36:47):
your job." And she's like, "Well,too bad nobody else did theirs."
Yep.
I would've thought that, um, she'dbeen in this job long enough to realize
that this happens sometimes, right?
Yes.
But we need this to setup the next storyline, so,
yeah.
Yeah.
But it's just, it's really interestingthat not only have, like when the
show started, it was, "we don'tgo past the glass doors" and now

(37:08):
suddenly we've gone like through theglass doors and now we're like deeply
invested in the diagnosis, like allthe way into the operating theater.
Oh, we're into the operating theater.
God,
I have a feeling date night's ruined.
So, yeah.
Poor Karen.
But, um, like Buck's havinga great date night now.

(37:31):
Because he's, he's gone,he's gone home with Red.
But like I said, I think he's invite onceagain, he's invited himself home with red.
Yeah.
He's looking, he is taking him hometo make sure he gets home okay.
Yes.
That's the reason.
But I just thought it was funny thathe's like going up to the door and

(37:53):
I'm like, Ooh, Red's taken Buck home.
Yeah.
Um, anyway, yeah,
Buck sees a photo on the wall that, um,has a bunch of firefighters in it and he
said, "This is them, right? This is yourhouse." And yeah, that's all of the 1 34.

(38:13):
And he tells him all about, like, redtells him all their names and stuff.
And then God bless Buck because hesees a certificate of commendation on
the wall made out to John Delacroixand Buck's like, "who's John?" And
Red's like, "you didn't think somebodyactually called me Red, did you?
It's a nickname."

(38:34):
Yeah.
So the guys used to call him Code Redbecause he was a bit of a hothead when he
was young, because just in case we hadn'tnoticed Red and Buck are very similar.
Yeah.
Really?
Just in case you hadn'tmade that connection yet.
Hadn't noticed, um,didn't see the parallels.
No.
They were, had no idea.
As someone who often doesn't see theparallels, I definitely saw the parallels.

(38:58):
Like this is,
even Ellen saw the parallel.
Even I saw the parallels.
The parallels were likeneon, neon flashing lights.
Yeah.
Like I'm surprised they didn'tjust call him like Chuck and
his name was like John Chuckley.
Yeah.
I mean, he has a nicknamethat's pretty close.

(39:19):
Yeah.
Yes,
he, but Buck notices a photo of.
Um, a young, much younger Red with awoman and he's like, oh, who's this?
But Red tells him that that's Cindy.
She got the one, she wasthe one who got away.
Everybody take a drink.
Yeah.
Yep.
Take a shot.

(39:40):
Uh, they were gonna be married, but theyended up breaking up over well, he was
too busy working and sounds like she gotsick of being second place, you know?
Yeah.
There was a baseball story, which I'mpretty sure is meant to be significant,
but having no idea about baseball.

(40:01):
I don't know.
Something about a Dodgers game.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And like something aboutlike five games or something?
I don't understand at all.
It was, it was a World series.
I have a feeling that it's significant,but the point is she, that she left him.
Yeah.
She left.

(40:21):
She left.
Buck also has no one.
He did once, but no longer does.
Um, and Red's like, "look, youcan be the hero, save lives, but
don't neglect having your own.
Last thing you wanna do is be atthe end holding nothing but regrets.
Trust me.
I know."
Oh,
And on that slightly depressingnote, we go to commercial.
So this whole scene is justBuck looking into a mirror.

(40:44):
Yeah, an older mirror.
Yes.
Yeah.
From the future.
It's like the, the ghost ofChristmas, past, present, and future.
So Buck freaks out and goes towork the next shift whenever that
is, and tells everyone else, um,sorry, they're all playing pool.

(41:04):
It must be just, you know,in between jobs or whatever.
But he's telling them all about Redand how, how great he was during his,
doing his job and everything, but now helives alone in a one bedroom apartment.
Um, that he pays for with his pension andhe doesn't see any of the others ever.
And, Eddie's like, "Well, from theway you described him, it sounds

(41:27):
like he's okay with that," and Buck'slike, "Well, I'm not okay with it."
No, because it's hitting a littlebit too close to home for Buck.
And he eventually, he says that,uh, Red's situation does bother
him because he has no friends.
He has no family.
All the guys from the 1 34,they don't talk anymore.
It's like they just left him behind.

(41:47):
And that's that a very,
Can we talk quickly about the,um, the, I, I think that Bobby's
been like dubbed over here.
Like, I'm pretty sure he did not saythis in the thing, but like every time
he makes a shot he like comments on itand it's only Bobby and it's like in the
background and it doesn't sound right.
It's Bobby

(42:07):
cracked me up so much.
It's Bobby being supportive dadand just, you know, making sure
his team know that they're doinga really good job playing pool.
It is.
I love it so much.
But it's very much like, it seemslike it's just been put in afterwards.
Oh, it just made me laugh so much.
But it is slightly ironic 'cause oneof the like, nice shots, um, comes

(42:29):
after Eddie makes an absolute bangerof a bad shot to the point where,
I dunno, he fires.
He like, okay, I'm assuming they'replaying the version of pool where
you like, I, I don't know all thatmuch about different, you know,
snooker and pool and that, but youhit the white ball into another ball
and make it go in the pocket, right?
Yeah.
And Eddie just fires.

(42:50):
He just fires the whiteball directly into a pocket.
Yeah, it's awful.
And Bobby goes, "Nice shot!"
You just, you hear Bobby like weirdlysuperimposed in the background.
Like, "Nice one, Eddie,"what is happening right now?
Like, did they, did they just feel likeevery, someone needed to comment on
the fact that they were playing pooland they're just like, you know what?
We've got Peter in the likerecording like booth today.

(43:14):
Peter just say like, yay Eddieand good job Chim and that'll do.
Yeah.
It's just, it's so ironic thatone of them comes after Ryan
makes an incredibly bad shot.
Yeah.
Um, so while Bobby is beingsupportive, dad and, uh, Eddie slash
Ryan is terrible at playing pool,um, Buck's still spiraling about

(43:34):
he's no Jensen Ackles.
That man can do anything.
Like Yeah.
Anything and everythingwe're still mad at him.
Yeah.
So Buck's still spiraling and um.
He wants, he wants reassurancethat what has happened to Red
is not gonna happen to him.

(43:56):
And, but he, he's like, " Whathappened to the 1 34 is not
gonna happen to us, the 118."
And everyone's like, youknow, "of course not.
We are family.
Nothing's gonna change," includingthe line of Buck's like, "yeah.
You know, if, if Bobby retired,"Bobby's like, "wait, you know,
something I don't." And, um,

(44:22):
Alice is just losing it in the background.
Um, for those of you who areup to date with season eight,
if you know, you know, um,
Buck clarifies, like, you know, "Somedaywhen you retire someday, you know,
but we're all gonna keep in touch."And Eddie's trying to be supportive.
Like "Yeah. You know, like, youtwo like Chim and Hen you still

(44:44):
talk to the, the guys that used tobe in the 118 before us. Right?"
Um, and Hen's all, like, "Uh,I don't know that we would call
them friends." And Chim and Chim'slike, " I mean, I spoke to Tommy last
year when I called him for a favor."
Is he talking about thething where the plane like,

(45:04):
yes.
He was dumping the water with the plane?
Water bomb the house.
Yeah.
So he didn't even call him afterthat to like, say thanks or anything?
He was just like,
no, no.
Yeah.
Oh.
Um, and then they're like, they'relooking at Eddie like, did that help?
And Eddie's just like, what the fuck guys.
No, that did not help.
So as a quick aside, um, for everybodywho... I know we, there was some

(45:27):
comments after, like, uh, Bobby BeginsAgain when we were talking about Chim
and Hen's relationship with like Saland Tommy and those, um, this is my
Or lack of relationship.
This is my evidence where I'mlike, yeah, they, they were
simply situational work friends.
They were not actual friends.
And this is your proof because Hen's like,yeah, no, we weren't actually friends.

(45:48):
Proximity workplace.
Oh yes.
What, what does Ron Swanson say?
Proximity Workplace associates.
Oh wow.
That's super specific.
Um, workplace proximity associates.
Yes.
So yes.
And apparently when you are no longerin the same workplace, so you don't

(46:09):
have proximity, you are no longer, youno longer associate with them anymore.
Um, so Eddie's like trying tobackpedal and trying to reassure buck
that that's not gonna happen to us.
And Buck just death glares him andsays, "Well, it better not." And I
love this line reading from Oliver.
'cause it's so intense.

(46:29):
It's like I will do whatever it takes.
Oh, you are not, you are not leaving me.
None of you are leaving me.
Uh, okay.
So we're going to the next medicalemergency, uh, which is a father and son.
Electric scooters.
Yeah.
A bit topical at the momentbecause places keep trying to ban

(46:51):
them because people keep actingthemselves on trees and things.
I literally, I was watching Ambulance lastnight, which is the show that's literally
like, it's about to descriptive as 9-1-1.
It's um, the show about theQueensland Ambulance Service.
Mm-hmm.
And their first call out was a guy whowas on an electric scooter and read, like,

(47:13):
ran directly into the side of a van andhe ended up with like broken teeth and a
like compound fracture in his, um, calf
damn.
Yeah.
Like I know a lot of people ride themaround the city when they're drunk.
Like to get from one place to another.
The funny thing is, right, so the,like, the paramedics are talking to

(47:34):
him and like, you know, trying to keephis mind off it and they're just like,
"Oh, like where were you coming from?"And he goes, "Officeworks." And they're
like, "why were you at Officeworks?"Because it's dark at this stage too.
And he is like, "I wasmaking photocopies." And
they're like, okay, okay.
Right.
So yeah.
Who knows?
These, these, these characterswere not making photocopies.

(47:56):
They were not making photocopies?
No, I think they are.
They're making memories
went.
They are,
they're having a nice time to start with,
to start with.
Yeah.
Um, until, so they get on theelectric scooter, the, both
the dad, it's a dad and a son.
They both get on the samescooter, take off down the road.

(48:18):
Um, neither of them are wearing a helmet.
They're going quite fast.
They are, they're also on the footpath,um, which means that they keep almost
running into people and people haveto keep diving out of their way.
They're not even slowing down either.
They're just like barreling through.
Yeah.

(48:39):
So they end up going onto the road,which, you know, at least they don't
have to worry about pedestrians.
Um, but it does mean thatthey have to worry about cars.
And what's interesting as while theseguys are doing their joy ride, we
are occasionally getting glimpsesof them through a drone camera.
Like from overhead.

(48:59):
Yeah.
And then as they're, you know, windingtheir way through the suburbs, the drone
camera operator is sitting in, uh, a truckand he gets out of the truck for some
reason, but he doesn't do a Swedish look.
So he opens the car door and ourscootering enthusiast just immediately

(49:21):
smash into the now open door.
What is this?
What is a Swedish look?
I think it's called the Swedish look.
I remember seeing it somewhere, whichis, um, in, I wanna say Sweden, but
it's sort of the European countrieswhere they have a lot of cyclists.
When you open your car door, youdon't do it with your, with the

(49:43):
hand that's closest to the door.
You do it with the other hand, whichforces you to twist your body so that
you're looking over your shoulderas you open the door so that you
can keep an eye out for cyclists soyou don't open it into their path.
Right.
But this guy didn't do this.
Very smart.
Yeah.

(50:03):
It is very smart because then it stopsthis from happening, which is, um, they
don't actually smash into the door.
Um, I misremembered theyswerve to avoid the door.
Yeah.
They swerve outta the way andthen the drone crashes to the
road and they run into the drone.
And they run into the droneand which sends them flying.

(50:26):
Yeah.
And we get a really almost comicalshot of them from underneath going,
"ah!" as they fly through the air.
That must have been a fun day for them.
Like, okay, we just need you tolike jump onto the crash pad and
make like the sprawl out in theair and just make the best faces.

(50:46):
Uh, but in the show, theydon't land on a crash pad.
Um, I don't know what happens toBryce, which is the son, um, but the
dad ends up upside down in a hedge.
Fully upside down.
It's ridiculous.
He's, he's so stuck in that hedge theyhave to get like a little chainsaw
thing to cut him out of there.

(51:06):
They
get the chainsaws, but like his feetare just like di directly up in the air.
Yeah.
He did a full 180.
Yeah.
I do love that once again, someonehas gone to get, um, a chainsaw
and the victim immediately thinksthat the chainsaw is for them
like you are in a bush.
It's not even like, this isexactly what a chainsaw is for.

(51:30):
Actually, we won't talk aboutwhat a chainsaw was invented for.
Don't think I wanna know.
I think I already do know.
You don't know?
But no,
if you don't know, don't,don't ever find out.
Okay, good.
It's horrific.
It's horrifying.
Okay, so Athena is like, youknow, gonna write this guy.

(51:51):
Sorry.
He, he's gonna write them aticket for riding an e-scooter
without a helmet to start with.
But also, it's illegal to flya drone over private property.
So that guy's also getting done.
Athena's just generally mad ateverybody about this whole thing.
Athena really is mad at the world today.

(52:12):
Yeah.
Well I'm guessing
you get a ticket, you get a ticket.
You ruined my date night, soeveryone's getting a ticket today.
Exactly.
She, she didn't get her sexy times,so she's pissed off at the world.
Oh, you don't think they stillgot it on after Hen left?
No,
Bobby was sitting in a cornersad about the guy dying and
Athena's like, fucking Hen

(52:33):
you, you gotta make themost of your non kid time.
Like, I'm sure they stillgot something going on
anyway, so Athena,
let's not go there much further.
Athena takes the now brokendrone over to the drone.
Over who... drone owner.
Um, who
dronowner?

(52:54):
Drone owner.
The drone owner.
Um, or Jeffrey, which is probably aneasier thing for me to say right now.
Hang on.
What are the laws?
So they just said you can't flydrones over private property.
Yeah.
Yes.
Like other people's private property.
'cause we have a drone, butwe have acreage, so we only
fly it over our own property.

(53:14):
I assume that's legal.
You can fly it over your own property.
That's fine.
As long as you're not going to high upto interfere with like actual airplanes.
I don't think it could get that high.
Yeah.
Um,
I honestly didn't look it up.
And even if I did, I think Australianlaws relating to sort of drones is
gonna be different from American laws.

(53:37):
Yeah.
I mean, you see drones flyingaround the place all the time, like.
There was one at a park when wewere there for Halloween once.
Yeah.
But that's like public property.
Like you don't see dronesflying sort of over houses.
And we find out that, um, Jeffrey isclaiming that he's a real estate agent.
He was taking, um, footage of aerialfootage of the house for an a listing.

(54:02):
Um, and I have had my neighbor, when hisproperty was up for sale, the real estate
agent took drone footage of the house.
And because I live in a townhouse andthey're conjoined, the real estate agent
did come to my door and say, "Hey, I'mtaking drone footage. Your property will
unfortunately be included in that footagebecause it's literally attached to my

(54:25):
client's house. Are you okay with that?"
Oh, so they come and approach you?
Yeah.
There you go.
Well, my car is also parked right outside.
So like my car and my license plateand all that sort of stuff was,
so yeah, he did come in and doublecheck with me that I was okay.
And it literally just sort of, the dronewas only going over this guy's townhouse.

(54:47):
It didn't go over anybody else'shouses in the, in the complex.
Mm-hmm.
So I'm gonna say, yes, there arestrict laws when you are flying
drones about where they can go.
Uh, but in this situation, um, there,there's a woman who I'm guessing
is the woman who called 9-1-1, istalking to, with is there while
Athena is interrogating Jeffrey.

(55:09):
And he's saying like, "I'ma real estate agent. Um, I'm
getting footage for the house."
And the the woman's going like, "Iknow those neighbors. Um, I haven't
heard about any of them selling."
He's like, oh, they, it's not public yet.
Um, yeah, well the, thelisting hasn't gone up yet.
And Athena is like, "uhhuh cool.
So, um, you, you know, the, the agencythat you work for, it's a commercial

(55:33):
drone, therefore it should have a license.
Can I see a license?" He's like,"Oh no, they're, they're too
cheap to, to pay for a license."
yeah,
just the, the backpedaling.
And Athena's like, "okay, cool.So I'm guessing they're gonna be
too cheap to bail you outta jailthen. 'cause you're under arrest."
Damn.

(55:54):
And he just does not shut up theentire time she's putting him in cuffs.
He's like, "is this this really necessary?
Can't I just pay a fine for something?"And they, we get back to the police
station and he's still going like,"Arresting me just feels like way more
trouble than it's worth." Athena handsJeffrey off, you can hear him complaining

(56:15):
all the way to wherever they're takinghim, complaining that he wants a lawyer.
And Athena goes to talk to anotherofficer whose name badge says that their
name is Stafford about the drone handsover the drone, wants that put into
evidence and Athena's Spidey sense istingling and she says, "Hey, can you

(56:35):
pull the SD card from the machine so wecan see what Jeffrey's been filming?"
Yeah.
And Stafford's said that the,the drone got destroyed, but
the cart should still be fine.
Yeah.
So they're gonna check him out.
Meanwhile, Buck is up to no good.
He is up to all the good.

(56:56):
He's up.
No, he thinks he's doing good.
Yeah.
I love that like, Red's like,go live your life and Buck's
like, no, I'm gonna live yours.
Be right back.
I think, I think maybe it's um,buck thinking, if he can fix Red's
life, then Buck has a chance.
Yeah.
Yeah.

(57:17):
Yeah.
But again, it's like, I'm notgonna go out and live my own life.
I'm gonna fix your life because then Iwill be reassured that no matter how badly
I fuck up now, by the time I'm sort of40 year veteran, and, um, I will be okay.
Um, but so he,
he's like, it's fine.
Some smart ass kid willcome and fix me later too.

(57:38):
Um, so he showed up at Red's becausehe found Cindy, which he thinks is he's
done an amazing job and Red's like, " Iknow where she has been this entire time.
Um, but the last I heard she was marriedto that dentist, husband of hers,"
which leads us to one of the greatestgifts of all time from this show.

(57:58):
Not anymore.
He died.
Isn't that great?
I mean, not great.
Unfortunately, for me, that is avocal stim and it's very inappropriate
to say in most occasions, that and
maggot!
because of course it's always theinappropriate things that your

(58:20):
brain latches onto and is like,Hey, we should say this forever.
Yeah.
Apparently it's the, it's the emotionalweight of that sort of phrasing.
Like, you know, it's inappropriate.
Yeah.
And because, you know it's inappropriate.
That's why your brain latches onto itbecause you get a Yeah, I did look it up.
Brains are dicks.
I get it.

(58:41):
Yeah,
pretty much.
Yeah.
Um, anyway, yeah, so he died,which is great, except not great.
Uh, that's obviously an overstatement.
I'm sure.
He was a nice man.
But it's like, you know, "now she's singleand you are single and um, you know,
you know the last thing you wanna be isat the end holding nothing but regrets.

(59:01):
You remember a wise man told me that,"
um, and Red so well, "you know,it would be polite just to, you
know, go pay my respects. Right?"
Uh, and Buck's like,"Yeah, you should change,"
yeah, go change your shirt and Red'slike "You go get the car ready."

(59:26):
And then we get Totos "Hold the Line"
where we're told thatlove isn't always on time.
Excellent song choice.
Yes.
And Buck's all gone, all out.
He's even got, got two ticketsto the baseball for them.
And specifically he isgot them Dodgers tickets.
So.

(59:48):
He was listening.
He paid attention.
Yeah,
he did.
Yeah.
The ADHD Gods work really well, except forthings that you actually want to remember,
like what you entered a room for.
Yeah.
He's hyper fixated on Red,so he remembers everything.
But yeah, so they approachthe door and when I say they

(01:00:09):
approach the door Buck goes too,
oh yeah.
I dunno why Buck is also going,but he marches Red to the door,
he's knocks and everything.
He's invested in this.
He's like, we are gonna go meet Cindy.
Red's like, why are you here?
A lady opens the door andit's like a, a younger lady.
Like not, probably not gonna be Cindy

(01:00:31):
obviously not Cindy.
Yeah.
Unless Red has got somequestionable tastes.
That's right.
Also, no, we saw a photo of ayounger Cindy and, uh, the woman
who opens the door is not her.,
Yeah, this is not her.
So it's quite clearly, this isn't Cindy,but, Cindy does sort of pop up behind.
This is Doris who has opened the door.
Um, she pops up behind Doris'sshoulder too to see who is at the door.

(01:00:54):
Mm-hmm.
And Red sort of very shyly says,"Hey Cindy," and there's a beat.
And then Cindy like, "oh, oh, hello."And I'd like, do you think she
actually recognized him or is she just
No.
Doing that thing that dementia patientsdo when they know that they think

(01:01:18):
they're supposed to know somebody.
So they just pretend because that'swhat society expects them because like
if they haven't seen each otherfor that many years too, like
he'd look different as well.
So I don't think that
Yeah, but doesn't the, the sortof memory come and go a bit like,
well see, that's why I'vegot the question mark.
Like, does she actually recognizehim or is she just pretending to

(01:01:42):
at this point and hoping that atsome point the memory will kick in?
She might think that he's someone else
I don't know
as well.
But anyway, um, they get invitedin for tea and Red is regaling
Buck with stories about Cindy andit's, it seems to be going okay.

(01:02:02):
Red's telling stories.
Everybody's laughing, Cindy's chimingin, but like some of the things she's
saying is like a little bit strange.
Like they're talking about Cindybeing afraid of, of snakes and she
says, oh, well they make terriblepets and Red's trying to roll with it.

(01:02:24):
But then, it continues on.
She sort of starts talking about birds.
Yeah.
And he's like, okay, cool.
He just, yes, ands thisentire conversation.
Like anything she says, he just rollswith it until we get to the point
where they're talking about pets.
And then Doris very seriously says"you have to fold them very carefully
before you put them in the box."
Yeah.
They both look very confused.

(01:02:44):
Yeah.
Well, Red is like, whatthe fuck is going on here?
Buck is like, ah, shit,I know what this is.
I've seen this before.
And he tries to like, very gently,very gracefully get Red out of the
house before the shit hits the fan.
But unfortunately he's not fast enough.
Um, because he says to Redlike, "Maybe we should go."

(01:03:09):
And Cindy's like, "Oh, Red.
I knew a Red once." And Red's like, "Yeah,you knew me a long time ago." And he takes
Cindy's hand and that just triggers herand she flies off into complete confusion.
I think this is where she becomes lucid.
Yes.
Because she rec, shehas no idea who he is.

(01:03:32):
She just knows that he's not her husband.
She recognizes that he's not Stanley.
Yeah.
Yep.
And "why are you in my house? Why are youin my house? Who let you into my house?"
It's such a terrifying thing.
It's so sad,
Especially with people that you used toknow and you just no longer know them.
Red is absolutely furious with Buck.

(01:03:55):
He storms out of the house, Buck,leaving Buck to sort of make
their apologies and, and leave.
Um, because the only thing Red hadwas Cindy and these memories of Cindy.
He had the memories
and now he doesn't have thatanymore because the girl that
he once knew no longer exists.
That's so sad.

(01:04:16):
He was trying to make it better.
The end where he goes, "I'm not sureI can survive your help anymore."
I'm just like, oh, poor Buck.
Oh, that's really.
That's hard.
It's, but again, it's the, the parallelsare just like slamming over the top
because we've had, you know, the onewho got away and we had Buck reference,
you know, like, I had somebody once,but you know, they got away from me

(01:04:39):
and now all of a sudden we've gotCindy who has dementia and like, the
parallels with Patricia and mm-hmm.
I'm not sure I can survivethe symbolism in this episode.
Uh, all right, well, I guess we have togo back to the LAPD briefly for a, the
storyline that we don't really care about.
Um, sorry, Athena.

(01:05:00):
We can like, too long didn't read itfirst, like absolute speed run it.
It's, it's important later.
So we should probably go through it.
So Stafford has been reviewingthe SD card that she pulled out
of the drone and she's found, um.
That it, it does contain aerial footageof the neighborhood, which would make
sense if Jeffrey was a real estate agent.

(01:05:22):
However, I don't know of any kind ofreal estate listings that would require
the drone to focus on upstairs windowswhile women are standing right in front
of the open window getting undressed.
Mm-hmm.
And it's like very pointedly.
You know, I don't know of any womanwho would stand right in front of

(01:05:42):
a open window like that to takeoff their bra, but you know, they
had to like make it very obvious tothe audience that he was peeping.
He's a peeping Tom,
so she heads out to,you know, do him for it.
And, but the guy who was out the,who's, I don't know, can't remember
this scene, I can't rememberhow she approaches this guy.

(01:06:03):
But anyway, he basically tellsher that he's already let him go.
The Feds said it wasn'tworth the drive across town.
So they got, they lethim go with a warning.
They bounced him.
Yeah.
This is Officer Re he'srunning, he's riding the desk.
Um, and she wants him to pull Jeffreyout of wherever they've stashed him

(01:06:24):
and put him in interrogation room.
But he's not there anymore, which justmeans that Athena's gotta track him down.
Alright, so Buck is now having adebriefing with Maddie at his place.
And could we just talk about the, um,the staging of this debrief for a second?
'cause it's the weirdest staging.
It is.
They're quite far apart with it.

(01:06:46):
So Maddie is sitting on the littlesteps that lead out, that lead up to the
balcony on Buck's loft and Buck is sittinghalfway up the stairs to his bedroom.
Like, why?
Why is Maddie not sitting on a chair?
Because isn't there a tableand chairs right there.
There's.
There are stools at the kitchen bench.

(01:07:09):
Then you've got the kitchentable right now with its chairs.
There's a couch in the lounge room,
and now there's couches and chairs.
There are plenty of seating options.
I mean, other than maybe toemphasize the distance between them
and how isolated Buck is feeling,but it's just the weirdest setup.
But yeah, he's telling Maddieabout what happened and that he

(01:07:33):
thought that he was helping Red,but he just made everything worse.
Yeah.
But they have a have achat about Abby's mom.
Yeah.
Just in case.
Yeah.
Just in case anybody forgot about Yeah.
Abby and Patricia.
In case, in case anyone forgot.
Uh, skipped season one.
Um, yeah, he mentioned that Abby's momwould have moments like that, and Abby

(01:07:56):
would always take it in her stride, butlike he knows it hurt to have someone
she loved look at her and not see her.
And Maddie's like, "do you stillthink about her a lot?" And
Buck's like, "Abby's mom?" Yeah,
Sassy boy.
But no, he admits yes, he sometimesstill thinks about Abby, but

(01:08:16):
that's not what this is about.
So Maddie calls out the entire parallels.
She's like, so you
Yeah.
Maddie full on just calls it out.
Yeah.
In case.
In case you didn't see the neonflashing lights and like the
interpretive dancers pointing atthe parallels between Red and Buck.
Maddie says, "So you don't thinkthat this business with red is
hitting a little too close to home?

(01:08:37):
The lonely hero firefighterwho's pining for his lost love?"
And Buck's like "no, no, no.
That's ridiculous.
Wait, you think I'm lonely?"
Can I just pause for a momentto say that how amazing that
Oliver looks in this episode?
Oh, he's so cute in this.
He looks amazing.
Oh, the part in the hospi.
Oh, what?
But the lean at the hospital,

(01:09:00):
I think pa, partially because a lotof it's not wearing his uniform.
Like he's in C'S andit looks so different.
It's jarred my brain into like, oh wow.
You can always pause to marvelat the physical splendor
that is, um, Oliver Stark.
We will never be upset with thatkind of like, can we just pause?

(01:09:22):
Yeah.
Anyway, yes, continue.
And like last episode, we just had himcovered in mud and not in a fun way
because he was just crying the whole time.
And same with Eddie.
Like he was just covered inmud and not in a fun way.
Yeah,
like, like grungy, but not that bad.
Like
not in a fun way.
And they were in the turnoutsfor most of the last episode too.
So it is nice to see them likeactually see the physical form a

(01:09:46):
little bit, tighter of clothing anyway.
Yes.
Anyway, thirsting aside,um, Buck is being sad.
Buck is being very sad.
Maddie says that she, like, she doesthink that he's lonely because he
tried dating a few times after Abbyleft, but it appears to her that he's
just, um, given up, stopped trying,and she tries to sympathize with him by

(01:10:10):
saying that she knows how hard it is.
And this next part is justheartbreaking because Buck is not mad.
He's not blaming.
He just speaks truth and says, "Do you?Because you are never the one getting left
behind. You are always the one to leave."

(01:10:31):
Yeah.
But it is like, he just like stabbedMaddie in the heart and twisted.
Yeah.
And he, he does mention not, hedoesn't mean with Doug because
Doug, she definitely needed to leave
But everybody else.
Um, but all the guys he, all theguys she dated before him, the
girl that she was best friends within high school, mom and dad, him,

(01:10:54):
um, and Maddie goes to apologizeand Buck's like, look, I'm not mad.
I'm just saying maybeyou don't understand.
'cause you're always the one who leaves.
You don't know what it's like towatch someone you love walk away.
And he's not mad and he's not upset.
He's just, his voice iscompletely calm and flat.
He's just like, this is the truth.
This is facts.

(01:11:14):
You don't know what it's like toleave because you don't know what
it's like to be left because you'realways the one doing the leaving.
And then from that heartbreaking scene,um, we go to our next medical emergency.
Oh, this is like everything I hateabout these cooking shows and like,
Masterchef is about to start again,and I know that my daughter wants to

(01:11:37):
watch it, and I'm like, do we have to?
I mean, it's, it's not as bad as this.
It's not,
it's like, it's like a, um, a likecommunity channel, like has no money.
It's operating outta the back ofsomeone's house, kind of level of
cooking show because this, there's,
it's Channel 31 made a cooking show

(01:11:58):
pretty much like, um, every five secondsthere's a dramatic sound effect or a,
um, like a knife, um, doing the, likesweeping down to cut the next transition.
Um, the dialogue is terrible.
The set is like, couldfit into my bathroom.

(01:12:20):
It's, it, it's bad.
It's just they took all of the,the it existing cooking shows and
just turned them up to a hundred.
You know, like,
like every cliche you can thinkof from every cooking competition.
This is it.
I don't even know what thepremise is of this show.
I don't even know if it's meant to beparodying something or whether it's
just meant to be parodying everybody
cook, cooking,
Bex, cooking.

(01:12:41):
No, but like she's saying,
they are actually cooking.
Like she, these are the losingchefs from all her other shows.
So like, anyway, that's not the point.
The point is that
Bex is like, I don't wanna watch 9-1-1.
I just wanna watch the last cook.
I wanna know what the point of this is.

(01:13:02):
I, anyway,
but this guy's making triplebourbon bread pudding, um, and he's
adding more bourbon to the sauce.
He's got bourbon in the pudding itself.
And bourbon in the whipped cream.
Yes.
And he's going to use a nitrous thingy,which looks like he's, it's like a
pressure canister to whip the cream.
Yeah.
Rather than trying to whip it by hand,which the um, the host of the show is a

(01:13:27):
little bit, um, dubious about because itchanges the texture of the whipped cream.
But in the end it doesn't reallymatter because the canister explodes
and the poor, uh, chef contestantgets the nozzle embedded in his chest.
Ouch.
And the host who is covered in cream,

(01:13:50):
everything in is covered in cream.
The camera is covered in cream
everything is covered in cream.
Yes.
Yeah, it is kind of, it's quitehilarious 'cause everyone's
just kind of frozen in shock.
Um, including the chef that justgot shot through the heart with
the, um, the cream canister.
And then he,
you mean the chef that just got creamed?

(01:14:10):
He slowly topples backwards and then youjust hear this little voice go "medic!"
Yeah, but it's the actual, the actual hostwho pulls out her phone and calls 9-1-1
and says, my host, my chef's been creamed.
I agree.
One of the worst.

(01:14:31):
It's like I literally have it in my notes.
I think this is the worst call.
Mm-hmm.
It's so bad.
Maybe if I'm bored one day we'llgo through and I'll find all of the
9-1-1 calls and like we can rank them.
That's one for the season wrap up.
Yes.

(01:14:51):
Yeah, the top five, but
Fuck, marry, kill, but it's the,the top five, the worst 9-1-1 calls.
Uh, but it, I'm assuming that they geta little bit more information out of
her other than her chef as being creamedbecause the 118 do arrive and, um,
Hen and Chim immediately take charge.

(01:15:13):
They, they see that the, thenozzle has penetrated his chest.
They don't know how deep the shrapnel is.
I don't know why.
I mean, if you can look at a patientand diagnose them with a thyroid
condition, surely you should be ableto use what sort of x-ray vision
you've got to, to figure out exactlyhow deep the shrapnel is penetrated.
Um, honestly, come on.
But they immediately decide thatthey're gonna rush this guy straight

(01:15:35):
to hospital and let actual doctorstreat him or So we think, um,
yeah,
because Chim and Hen get himin the ambulance, they're
rushing to Mercy Hospital.
Bobby's radioed head told themto get surgeons on the line,
but the chef is not doing well.

(01:15:56):
His blood pressure is bottoming outand they've still got seven minutes
before they're at the hospital.
Yeah.
Hen doesn't think he's gonnamake it because his torso filling
up with blood and the shrapnelprobably clipped his aorta.
And at least Chim callsher out on it this time.
He's like, "You have noway of knowing that."
Like, sir, do we need to tellyou about all the things you have

(01:16:19):
managed to diagnose just by look?
I'm pretty sure that he looked at somebodyand worked out that they had like a double
collapse lung just by looking at them.
But sure.
In this instance, fine.
So Hen decides that the onlylogical thing to do is to perform a
thoracotomy in a moving ambulance.
Yeah.
She's gonna widen the opening that'salready there and Chim's like,

(01:16:42):
"Um, that's a job for a surgeon."She's like, "Nah, I got this."
I'm good.
I got a, I, I got gloves.
I watched House last night.
She's, she's gonna pinch the aortajust above the injury and and I'm
thinking, isn't that just gonna cutoff the blood supply to his body?
And then Chim actually says,"You're gonna cut off the

(01:17:04):
circulation in his lower limbs."
And Hen's like, "Nah, as long as hisheart's still fine." It's like when
they, um, the dude that they were, um,they got the nail gun to the chest and
they're having to perform CPR on him.
And Chim's like, I'm justmaking the whole works.
And he's like, you know,they can fix broken.

(01:17:26):
They can't fix dead.
So she's just, it's just thesituation's reversed here.
Yeah.
Like they can fix lack ofcirculation in the limbs.
They can't fix a heart that's not beating.
So, um,
yeah, like to be, this is, it'sbasically the, um, the theory about
like CPR and tourniquets as well.
So CPR you break the, likepatient's sternum and or ribs.

(01:17:47):
Yeah.
But it's like they're dead when you'redoing it, so it's better than being dead.
Um, and same with the tourniquet.
Like it's a big likelihoodthat you're gonna lose the limb
that's below the tourniquet,
but at least you'll be alive.
But otherwise you're gonna bleed out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Um, Chim calls out Hen and sort of letsthe audience know why hen is doing this.

(01:18:12):
Like her motivations for why she is soadamant that she's gonna perform this
like incredibly risky maneuver, um,because she doesn't wanna lose this guy
the way she lost the guy at the fire.
Yeah.
And I was also thinking at the time aboutthe cellist, like she's had a lot of

(01:18:32):
trauma recently about losing patients.
So now she's like, "You do what you want,I'm gonna do this." And it was like, okay.
Yeah.
And Bobby brings that up as welllater on the episode that, you
know, she's, all of these patientsthat she's quote unquote lost.
Um, but she's adamant in thissituation that she didn't
lose Anton, the hospital did.

(01:18:53):
Mm-hmm.
And so she's just like, "I don'tcare. I don't care what you
say, Chim, I am doing this."
Anyway, they ma managed to makeit to the hospital without being
completely covered in blood this time.
Well, all the blood'sinside the chest cavity.
Yeah.
So she Chim's a little disappointed.
Yeah.
All
the blood's inside the body, that's where

(01:19:15):
it's supposed to be,
but they get, they do make itto the hospital and Hen's hand
is like inside his chest as theywheel him out of the ambulance.
Yeah.
She's refusing to take her hand out
and they tell a doctor what happenedand he's like, "Are you kidding

(01:19:35):
me? That's a surgeon's job."
This doctor though, like he's offin the lobby talking to two other
people who I'm assuming are his,like are relatives of patients that
he's supposed to be dealing with.
He sees the gurney coming in andjust immediately ditches those people
that so that he can come over andlike, take over this situation.

(01:19:58):
He's trying to be the big damn hero.
He's like, see ya losers
just sort of leaving these twopeople with business badges going,
ah, what, what just happened?
Yeah.
Um, but I do like that, um,like all in, in the scene in the
ambulance Chim is just reiterating.
It's a job for a surgeon.
It's a job for a surgeon.

(01:20:18):
Hen No, we get to the hospitaland the doctor is saying
that was a job for a surgeon.
Chim has immediately got Hen's back.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Like Chim is the best like,you know, he's the best friend.
He's the big brother.
He is like, you know, I'm allowedto give her shit, but no one
else is allowed to give her shit.
Yeah.

(01:20:38):
Like Hen you're a fucking idiot.
The surgeon's like, Henyou're a fucking idiot.
And he is like, fuck you.
Yeah, she's done.
She's the smartest person in this room.
She's done it and she's done it well.
So tell us where to go.
Yeah,
yeah.
So the doctor immediately takes charge.
He tells Hen that she can let go, andthen she's like, "No, I let go, he
codes before we make it to the ER.

(01:20:59):
I lose another patient.
You are taking me with him.
I am not letting go until he isliterally right in front of a surgeon.
So just tell me where I'm going."
. So now we enter into an episode of Grey's Anatomy somehow.
Um, they weren't even on the samenetwork at this stage, but here we are.
It's
very much, um, BokHee's in thebackground for some reason.

(01:21:20):
Who?
The anesthesiologist in Grey's Anatomy.
Is that the one that fell asleep andthe kid woke up in brain surgery?
Uh, no.
She's like the only, hang on what she, Idon't think she's the anesthesiologist.
Actually.
That's the onlyanesthesiologist I remember.
Sorry.
She's a scrub nurse.

(01:21:40):
Oh, okay.
But she's like still in itand she's actually a nurse.
Um, and like she doesn't talk, she'sjust sort of in the background.
Okay.
Well, uh, Hen
she's not actually in thisepisode for the record, I was Yep.
They have a little montage of Hengetting scrubbed up and, well, as
much as she can handle, because she'sstill got one hand in the patient.

(01:22:02):
Yeah.
Like they immediately, there are two scrubnurses, um, putting a gown and a mask.
They put like the gown and the hat on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
As she's, as they'rewheeling the patient in.
And then we meet the, the surgeon.
So the surgeon asked for the sit rep.The, uh, the, the white male doctor

(01:22:24):
from the waiting room has followedeverybody into the room and, um,
very sort of sneeringly says, "Oh,it's a thoracotomy in the field."
Um, and the surgeon was like,"Wow, somebody needed a challenge."
So they do medical stuff.
Um, the surgeon says,

(01:22:45):
The notes literally say"surgery stuff happens".
Surgery stuff!
Imagine if we, we were actuallydoing a Grey's Anatomy podcast.
Oh, God no.
I, it's like, I don't know.
It's, there's a scalpel and some stuff.
And do
they do some cutting?
I don't know.
Blood spurts.
Yeah.
And then they're in an elevatormaking out, so it's fine.
Surgery stuff happens.

(01:23:06):
They, they manage to clamp the aorta.
Hen is able to remove her hand.
Maurice lives, it's all good.
Um,
yeah.
But the surgeon says to her,"You can let go now, doctor."
You can let, you can let go now doctor.
Doctor?
And the, the white male doctor islike, "She's not a doctor, she's just
a paramedic who brought him in andapparently felt the need to break every

(01:23:29):
rule in the book." And the surgeon whois uh, a white woman, looks at this
young, privileged white man looks atthe older black paramedic and decides
that she's gonna side with the paramedicand goes, "Nice work firefighter."
She's like, fuck the rules.

(01:23:49):
Yes, you were right.
Fuck
the patriarchy.
Yes.
Uh, meanwhile in a possibly same hospital,
another hospital
in another hospital?
Possibly the samehospital, I'm don't know,
hospital
mark two?
Different floor on the same hospital.
Let's go with, um, Buck has beencalled to said hospital, um, by Red.

(01:24:16):
I don't know why Red is in the hospital.
I don't know when he got to the hospital.
Um, but he called Buck becausehe didn't know who else to call
and he needs help getting home.
Oh.
But apparently Buck wasted a tripdown there because the doctors don't
appear to be willing to let Red leave.

(01:24:39):
Yeah.
And Buck's like, "well theyprobably know what's best.
Like they'll release you whenyou're better." And Red goes,
"oh kid, there's no better.
Um, this escalator is only goingin one direction 'cause it's mess."
Mesothelioma.
I'm Thank you.
Uh, which is lung cancer?
Pretty much.
Yeah.
Apparently he lasted longerthan they thought he would.

(01:25:02):
Apparently.
Ev like, he's just decided to nosedive in the last like couple of days.
Like he met Buck and immediately,just went on a downhill.
Oh no.
Buck assisted in breaking his heart, so.
Oh, that's what it is.
Like Cindy was the onlything keeping him alive.
And now he no longer has Cindy.
He's just,
he's dying of a broken heart now.
Spiraling the drain.

(01:25:22):
Yeah.
Okay.
Poor Red,
poor
Buck.
Um, so
Buck's like it's okay, Red won'tleave me and Red's like bet,
but for once Buck asks,what can I do to help?
And Red's just like, well, couldyou sit with me for a while?

(01:25:45):
So Buck sits with him and let'sred tell him more war stories
about his time with the 1 34.
Yeah, it's very sweet in the end.
Yeah.
Yes.
So then I'm guessing the next day,um, Hen's arriving for her shift
that she's already in duty uniform.

(01:26:07):
I'm very confused as to exactlythe timing of what's going on here.
Um, but as she's walking towardsthe locker room, she notices that
some smart ass has hung a whitelab coat from her equipment locker.
Apparently the, apparently the rest ofthe 118 has been like hiding under the
truck and like around the corner and,um, behind doors so that they could jump

(01:26:31):
out and surprise Hen when she noticedthe doctor's, um, doctor's jacket.
It's very cute.
Yeah.
They all jump out and they cheerand they make her put the coat on.
Yes.
Um,
and you know, "you did it. Let'scommemorate the first surgery."
Yeah.
They call her Dr. Wilson and she says,"oh, I like the sound of Dr. Wilson."

(01:26:56):
Um, and can we have a quick shout out?
Um, that background firefighter is back.
Yay.
Background firefighter.
Yeah, we have mistybackground firefighter.
Actually there are a bunch ofother firefighters in this episode
that we've never seen before.
Yeah, they were allowed to participate.
It's nice.
Yeah.
It's like suddenly they had thebudget to have a bunch of extras.

(01:27:18):
So while everybody's celebrating,Buck gets a phone call and disappears,
and I don't know where everybody elsegoes, but, um, Bobby approaches Hen,
okay.
So he, he says to like Hen apologizesto him and says, "look, I'm, I
wasn't thinking, I just, it wasinstinct," and he, she had to

(01:27:41):
make sure that it stayed a win.
So, and this is where Bobby callsher out and says, "This is, this is
more than about Anton. Like, you're,you're still thinking about the
cello player." I like how they keepreferring to her as the cello player
rather than like, yeah, thatwas, that was her entire like,
but like, they had like a five wholeminutes of let's get to know her.

(01:28:05):
Let's learn her name.
I don't even remember her name.
She's just literally now the cello player.
It was Evelyn,
of course you,
oh, it was too.
Of course you can remember that.
But anyway, Hen does, like Bobbydoes say that the patient didn't
die and no one's complained, so
No, no, it's great.
Don't do it again.
So yeah, like "how much trouble am amI in?" And Bobby's like, "The patient

(01:28:28):
didn't die, nobody alleged to complain.
It's a great save." Andthen his face drops.
"Don't do it again."
Don't do it again.
Thanks, Captain Dad.
Um, my paramedic just got back to me,um, regarding Hen doing changeover.
Mm-hmm?
Um, so I was like, she tells the doctorshe does, um, to run a 12 lead EKG to look

(01:28:54):
for an aari arrhythmia associated withhypercalcemia, and my paramedic friend
said, um, yes, the 12 lead, that's normal.
And she does those.
Um, but you're definitely not supposedto put your hands inside a patient.
So shout out to Kate, the paramedic.
Um, love your work.

(01:29:16):
Thank you.
Good job.
Thank you Kate.
Okay,
we've gotta go back to the hospitaland we're just gonna freeze
frame for a couple of seconds.
'cause Buck is in his duty uniform andhe's doing this lean against the wall.
Um,
and he's just all legs.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
I,

(01:29:36):
the, the length of those man's legs,
I am so going to hell.
Yeah.
At least he's my age.
Yeah.
See, this is what I'm talking about.
I'm not allowed to be lusting afterOliver Star because he's fully not age

(01:29:59):
You can appreciate
age appropriate.
You can appreciate on the television.
Oh, I'm very much appreciating.
We may rename you, we may rename you toAbby, but you're allowed to appreciate.
No.
Hey look, I liked Abby.
I'm okay with that.
If I can get hair likeAbby, I will be fine.
Yes, she did have very beautiful hair.

(01:30:22):
Anyway, so
Anyway, Buck is springing Red out of jail.
I mean, hospital jail.
Hospital jail is springinghim from hospital jail.
Um, yeah.
Red even is like, "How'd you get them tospring me?" And Buck's like, "I made a few
calls, actually it was a lot of calls."Um, turns out Buck's also stubborn.

(01:30:44):
Hmm.
But, and he's gonna take himhome, but not in his car.
And this bit is really lovely.
It's very touching.
It's, isn't it?
It's so
They push open the doors to wheelRed outside and reveals that there
is an honor guard set up of, I'massuming members of the 118 in uniform.

(01:31:08):
And then there are older men,which I know I said that I
thought all of the 1 34 was dead.
But I have a feeling that thoseguys on the left hand side of
the honor guard might be theremaining members of the 1 34.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think so.
Yeah.
Even, even existing members.
So they are, they've, they've formeda, uh, a tunnel that Buck pushes

(01:31:33):
Red through in his wheelchair, andeverybody is standing in a salute.
And then outside in the, the,the parking lot entry roadie
thingy external to the hospital.
Um, the 118 are parked their enginetrucks and their ladder trucks.
And Bobby, but Bobby, Chim Hen and Eddieare standing in a salute waiting for Red.

(01:32:00):
And Red is visibly fighting backtears as Buck pushes him through.
And he, he can't believe thatBuck did all this for him.
And Buck tells him, well, yousacrificed everything for the job.
The least we could do was say thank you.
Yeah.
There's a lot of people
there are.
And Bobby, when they get to the,um, the truck, Bobby tells him that

(01:32:25):
he can take the captain's seat.
I don't know what happens if they get anemergency, like while they're on their way
home, he just has to go along with them
Possibly.
I have a feeling that.
Buck might've let Maddie know to take the118 op rotation for the next hour or so.
But yes, they, they help Red up intothe ladder truck and red salutes and

(01:32:51):
Buck very slowly returns the salute andthen just holds it for the longest time.
And then we get a shot of the 118'sengine truck and the ambulance going
down the road, lights and sirens going.
It's dark.
It's very pretty.
As if we had a voiceover from Buck sayingthat Red passed away at 5 23 that morning.

(01:33:16):
Aw.
So he went quick.
Yeah.
So once again, Buck's havinga debrief with his sister.
This time they're actually sittingon furniture, which is better than
trying to talk across the loft.
Uh, across the apartmentfrom various staircases.
And, and Buck is in tears whenhe's telling Maddie about this.

(01:33:38):
Maddie says, you were therefor him when no one else was.
And then Buck was like, "Did I do thatthing that I always do and make it about
me? And I tried to fix him to make myselffeel better." And it's like, a little bit?
A
little bit?
A little bit.
But you, your heartwas in the right place.
You tried to make thingsbetter for him as well, so,

(01:33:59):
and I think he, like he didmake things better for Red.
Yeah.
So it's like win-win, likeyou feel a little bit better.
You feel like you arenot going to die alone.
And Red got like a, a final sendoff and he didn't die alone.
Um.
Although he's once again Buckis spiraling with the parallels

(01:34:21):
between his life and Red's life.
Um, because he tells Maddie,you know, all Red ever wanted
to do was talk about the job.
The job really was his whole life,which as we have seen firefighting
is Evan Buckley's entire existence.
And anything that possibly takes himaway from firefighting is met with, you

(01:34:42):
know, intense supreme panic and lawsuits.
Um, so
yeah, but, and Matt tries to tellhim that his, you and not him, his
life is not your future because
she government names him.
Like she calls him Evan, Evan, Evan, tomake sure that he's paying attention.

(01:35:03):
Yeah.
He didn't have a sister.
He didn't have me.
This is so sweet.
Yeah.
She, she tries to tell, shetries to reassure him that, um.
She might've left him once, twice,actually she might've left him twice.
Once with mom and dad and oncewhen things got rough with Doug.

(01:35:23):
But she came back because she's hissister, he's her brother, and he,
she loves him and she promises thatBuck will never get left behind.
And they pinky promise.
Aw, that's so sweet.
It's so cute.
Buck looks like he's about to burst intotears and, um, like almost begging Maddie

(01:35:45):
to promise that she will never leavehim behind and she just holds up a pinky
finger and he just bursts out laughing.
Aw.
But he does do the pinky swear with her.
Yeah.
And you think that would be the perfectplace to end this episode, but it's not.
We've still got one more scene to do.

(01:36:05):
So Athena has tracked downJeffrey, the peeping Tom.
And, uh, surprise,surprise, he is not at home.
No, he's gone.
We do meet Detective Ransone though, whois another detective who I'm not entirely

(01:36:26):
sure that I remember what department he'swith, but we don't get Romero in this one.
We get Ransone.
Mm-hmm.
He must be from the SVU,
possibly.
Um, but they, they've found a wholebunch of hard drives and disks and stuff.
Um,
yeah.
In his house.

(01:36:49):
His garage.
He just left all of that stuff behind.
Yeah.
When he got outta town.
And poor Stafford, who I'm guessingis some kind of tech analyst, um,
specific for tech crimes, um, has thepleasure of, has the, the pleasurable
job of having to go through all of it.
And she finds some terrible footage.

(01:37:12):
Um, and it's not drone footage though.
It appears to be from a, um,a camera, like a, a security
camera inside a woman's bedroom.
And we don't get, we as the audiencedon't get to see a lot of it.
This is not Criminal Minds.
Um, we just hear, I don'teven think we hear anything.

(01:37:34):
I think we just see Athena and
No, we see Athena's reaction.
Yeah,
we just see the Athena andRansone and Stafford's faces
as they watch the footage.
Um, and then Detective Ransonetells us what they watching that
Jeffrey is not just peeping Tom.
He's a serial rapist

(01:37:56):
and they let him get away.
Of course, Athena has to have thelast line of the episode and she
says, "and we let him get away."
Damn.
So like from a, I guesssad but also kind of sweet
bittersweet?
Scene.
Yeah.
We, take the mood right down withthe bit of a cliffhanger, I guess.

(01:38:20):
Yeah.
Leading into the finale, I'massuming, because we are only
a few episodes away from that.
Right?
We've got the penultimate episode.
It leads into the penultimateepisode, which leads into the
finale, so we've got two more to go.
Mm-hmm.
And I'm sure all this talk aboutAbby won't come back at all
No.
This season either.
Oh,

(01:38:41):
shush.
Don't tell me that.
So, yeah.
So next week, penultimate episodeof season three, um, where while the
118 is off doing their fun littleemergencies, including, uh, rescuing
a girl in a runaway hot air balloonand helping with a city power outage

(01:39:03):
caused by a hijacked tree trimmer truck.
Um, Athena's investigation into the serialrapist case puts her life in jeopardy.
Oh, geez.
Um, and the triggers for nextweek's episode include, um,
discussions of cancer, uh, a childat threat, possible claustrophobia.

(01:39:25):
Um, we have a character getting an MRI,we have character stuck in an elevator.
We have a character stuck in a walk-infreezer with the most on the nose, needle
drop that I think 9-1-1 has done to date.
Um, there is gun violence.
There is a graphic assaultand major character injury.

(01:39:45):
A police officer at threat.
Um, sexual violence, rape.
I don't know what the suspected cheatingis in, and it really just throws
off the flow of that, the triggers.
Um, and a train derailment,
right?
What even is the suspected cheating?
I think the suspected cheating's Hen

(01:40:08):
Oh yeah.
Because I thought that next week'sepisode was this week's episode.
No.
And then when I watched it, I was like,oh, that doesn't happen in this episode.
So I'm pretty sure it's Hen.
Yes.
So yes.
Um, next week's episode is a heavy one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cool.

(01:40:29):
Can't wait.
I love it when you say thatand I'm like, oh my God.
But yeah, it could be anythingfrom, oh, that wasn't so bad
to me hiding behind my couch.
I am like, I, I don't think we'veever, I know we joked about, you
know, gaslighting you about certainepisodes, but I don't think we've

(01:40:50):
ever led you astray when it comes towhat to expect in the next episode.
Okay.
But this episode, um, wassuch a great Buck episode.
He had some cracking lines.
It's such, it's not one of myfavorite episodes, just because it's,
I feel like it's so sad for Buck.

(01:41:13):
It is very, it's heartbreaking.
It's so pointed.
His, because he's worriedabout losing his family.
They, they really hammerhome that like Buck is alone.
Buck has no one.
Buck's entire life is firefightingand he's destined to die, you
know, loveless and penniless
Also remember Abby?
Yeah.

(01:41:33):
I just, yeah.
But outside of that, hedid have, he, he was,
he was so cute.
He was cute.
Yeah.
He was so cute.
Yeah.
But again, it was, um, once again, Idon't know if I, if this was from the last
episode that I said this, but there's, youcan sort of see the threads are starting

(01:41:57):
to, they're starting to pull the threadsto develop sort of future storylines.
Yeah.
They did a similar thing withthe, with season two, right?
The last,
yeah, the last couple episode.
Three or four episodesflowed into each other.
They kept,
yeah.
They just sort of, sort of bringup random shit and like, why, why
are we suddenly got this storyline?

(01:42:17):
And as you watch the next coupleof episodes, it's like, oh,
that's why we get that storyline.
Yeah.
That's why that thing happened.
'cause it leads into this,which then leads into that.
It wasn't a very big episode,it was mostly a feels episode.
Yeah.
I mean, you could almost saythat it was kind of a, it's
not quite a filler episode, but

(01:42:39):
it's almost a, it's kindof a bridging episode.
Yeah.
Because a lot's gonnacome back in a big way.
Yes.
Right.
Okay.
There's not a lot of substance up toit as an episode, but it is important
in the grand scheme of things.
Um, okay.
But yes, I don't have anything else to sayabout it, although I do want to note that

(01:43:05):
I don't think that the oopsie with thepromo was because they filmed it with a
blind woman and then suddenly changed it.
I think that whoever wrote the promojust remembered that the woman was
disabled and went like 50 50 as to whichdisability she had and then didn't.
Yikes.
And then didn't double check
a little bit yikes.
Before they sent it out.

(01:43:26):
I mean, I, I can't, I I can imaginethat it would've been, no, it wouldn't
have, I I was gonna say it'd be asimilar kind of rescue if she had been
blind, but it wouldn't have been because
there wouldn't have been the whole,um, the typing thing with Maddie.
Yeah, it would've, shecould've called 9-1-1.
It would've been, yeah, I don't.
Yeah.
So I think they justmust have got it wrong.

(01:43:48):
Yeah.
So this is not a promo that iswrong because they wrote the promo
before they edited the episode.
This is just somebody fucked upwhen they were writing the promo.
Yeah, yeah.
The episode was always gonna be like this.
Just the promo is wrong.
And now I'm done.
Now I have no morethoughts on this episode.
Now you're done.
Now I'm ready to move onto, um, to the next episode.

(01:44:10):
Yeah.
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Is this where she's pinchingthe guy's heart or whatever?
Yes.
So the nitrous can, canister, explodes.
He gets shrapnel through theheart, it severs his aorta.
Hen decides that the best course ofaction is to literally stick her hand

(01:45:41):
inside his chest cavity and pinchhis aorta to stop him bleeding out
before they get him to the hospital.
Wow, this is gonna be the fastestepisode ever and we're just
like hitting those plot points.
Yep.
See it.
Buck goes to a bar.
What is that noise?
Ma'am, what is that?

(01:46:03):
Gingerbread?
It's a packet of gingerbread.
I've got like inadvertent AS... dude.
I'm going to like be cutting likeall of your track out except for
the bits where you're talking.
And if you keep it up, she'll evencut the bits when you're talking too.
You'll be, I'll be like,this is too much effort now

(01:46:23):
just, just be talking I some random gaps.
And then you laughing and keep going.
Everyone's like, um, did Alice'strack not work this week?
Ellen's like, no, I justdidn't want to include
No, didn't.
It's
like that you're really petty.
She was eating on main.
That really, really petty whenyou know somebody starts talking,
just like, do you hear something?

(01:46:45):
Is somebody talking?
I don't hear anybody talking.
Sometimes I can still hear her voice.
I was about to say the same thing, Ellen.
She's, she's not dead.
She just opened gingerbread over the microphone.
Alright.

(01:47:05):
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