3.17: Powerless

In this episode of That Weewoo Show, Alice, Ellen, and Bex discuss season 3, episode seventeen of 9-1-1, titled "Powerless". The 118 races to rescue a little girl in a runaway hot air balloon and help with a city power outage caused by a hijacked tree-trimmer truck; Athena's investigation into a serial rapist case puts her life in jeopardy.

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Episode Transcript

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9-1-1. What's your emergency?
Welcome back to That Wee Woo Show,a podcast where we watch and discuss
episodes of the A B C show, 9-1-1.
I'm Ellen,
I'm Alice.
And I'm Bex.
Thanks to everyone out there who'sbeen listening to our episodes, we
are almost at the end of season three.
Oh my God, how did, how did we get here?

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But, um, we really appreciateeveryone who's been commenting
on Spotify and other places.
We've gotta say a shout out to Kieraagain this week, who, when we were
having our long tangent about coffeea couple episodes ago, reminded us
that like, that's Starbucks coffeesare quite different to Australian

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coffees in that like a macchiato isnot what we call it in Australia.
So it's like, you know,
you think just Starbucks coffeeis different from coffee anywhere.
Whatever you consider is acoffee, Starbucks is different.
Yeah.
They've kind of madethe language their own.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we forgot that.
So
but anyway, um, coffee is definitelydifferent all over the world

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.We are all snobs here about coffee apparently compared to other places.
But anyway, thank you Kierafor telling us about that.
So before we get stuck intoepisode 17, Alice, can you tell
us what happened last week?
Uh, yeah.
So last week, uh, buck met his older selfin the form of an elderly firefighter

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hen performed life-saving surgery inthe field, and Athena inadvertently
discovered a serial rapist whileattending an electric scooter crash.
Whoops.
This week, Athena's investigationputs her life in jeopardy.
According to the official promo, we aretold that the, the official, some, the

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official promo for this episode saysthat the 118 races to rescue a little
girl in a runaway hot air balloon andhelp with a city power outage caused
by a hijacked tree trimmer truck.
Lemme say that three times fast.
Meanwhile, Athena's investigationinto the serial rapist case
puts her life in jeopardy.

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And the triggers forthis episode are a doozy.
And once again, they are not in anykind of chronological order that, but
this episode will deal with discussionof cancer, a child at threat, uh,
multiple instances of claustrophobia.
Gun violence, um, graphic assault,major character injury, a police

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officer at threat, suspectedcheating, uh, sexual violence slash
rape, and a trained derailment.
Damn.
When you list 'em all like that,all out like that, it sounds awful.
This episode, there's so much
There is.
Yeah.
Although for some of them, like thecancer is what Just mi The fact that

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Michael appears in this episode, andI think maybe he mentions once he
has cancer and he is having the scansto determine, um, how he's going.
So the, the, the triggers arenot, like the severity of the
triggers is all over the place.
Yeah, because the, the trigger ofcancer is nowhere near the trigger

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of the graphic assault, for instance.
We didn't mention it already.
Um, and it will become prettyclear early on in this episode
that the title is "Powerless".
Get your shots ready and
Yeah, because yeah, we really needto line up a few shots for this one
because, uh, we should mention that,right off the bat that this is a Kristin
Reidel episode, so, uh, you know what thatmeans when it comes to themed episodes,

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but it was co-authoredthough with Lindsay Beaulieu.
So hopefully Lindsay has pulledthis back from the, the brink of
Oh,
thematic overload.
I don't... to the, I think the fact thatyou were able to identify very early
on that this was a Kristen episode, itkind of, it kind of indicates that yeah,

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maybe
she didn't, I mean, it's nowherenear the level of "Karma's a Bitch",
but it's still pretty on the nose.
It's overwhelmingly powerless.
Yeah.
Powerless to resist thetheme of this episode.
All right.
Where do we begin?
Uh, we are gonna begin with,uh, Sophie and her mom going

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for a hot air balloon ride.
Which I think is the mother'sattempt to blatantly buy her child's
affection in the divorce proceedings.
It does sound that way, doesn't it?
And the kid's not really having any of it.
He, she's like, you and dad aregetting a divorce and you are

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trying to make me feel better.
And the mom's just like,get out of the car.
Let's just do it.
She's very grumpy, this child.
I'd be, she'd be fair if they'regetting up for a hot air.
Those things are normally like sunrise.
Yeah.
So how early would they have hadto get up in order to do this?

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So she's being dragged out of bed at Godknows what time to drive, God knows how
long to get in a hot air balloon that shedid not wanna get in in the first place.
Yep.
I'd be cranky too.
I would absolutely be cranky.
I'm not a morning person
to go with the theme of the episodebeing powerless, Sophie is, um, feeling

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a little bit powerless in her family.
She, um, she's powerless tostop her parents from getting a
divorce and she almost, that'salmost verbatim what she says.
She says that she's a kid,she doesn't have any power.
Her mother and her father getto make all the decisions.
Yeah.
'cause you're 10 years old, kid.
That's how it works.
Yeah.
And you have no, you haveno concept of your parents'

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relationship, so just butt out.
But when you're 10,everything is, is huge.
And I can understand, you know, that she'sa bit overwhelmed by the whole thing.
Yes.
But, um, she agrees to get in the balloon.
Her mom says, "It is magical." AndSophie goes, "It's not magic, Mom.

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It's hot air.
That's what makes it fly."
The kid's very cynical.
The kid's more cynical than Bex is.
Oh my God.
Whew.
I do.
Before we go on with my cynicism andSophie cynicism, um, not only does this
episode on the nose for, uh, thematicreferences, but the music supervisor

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was having a ball this episode.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
He really was.
Because while, uh, the mother and like,once again, the mother does not get named.
We know it's so we know Sophie's name.
She's, but mom is just mom.
Um, while they are floating around,um, a song from the sixties called
"Up, up, and Away" is playing, whichis all about being up in a balloon.

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It's very upbeat.
It's, it's very, very cheery.
It's happy.
Yeah.
So, you know, something's gonna go wrong.
Yes.
They're so excited,
uh, which is exactly what happens.
Um, after way too much footage of a hotair balloon floating around, they're
obviously trying to get their money'sworth of being out in location and having

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this hot air balloon, and God knows whatequipment they had to haul out there
in order to get all these aerial shots.
Mm-hmm.
There is a, a gust of wind,which kind of jostles the basket
and knocks everyone around.
And Nick, who is our hot airballoon operator, um, decides
to make an emergency landing.

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The winds are pushing too hard, he's gonnabring the basket down and it's a, it's
as much of a crash landing as you canget when you're in a non-powered vehicle.
I guess it definitelywould not have been fun.
It bouncy.
It's very bouncy.
It drags along the ground a littlebit, but they, they're all okay.
They're, they're fine.

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Um, and then they just need to get out.
So Mum sort of says to Sophie, "Let meget out first so I can help you." And
so she and the instructor guy or theoperator, I don't know how you, the pilot?
Like, what do you call ahot air balloon person?
I'm going, operator?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, Nick, he's, he, he gets a name.

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Yeah.
Does he introducehimself at the beginning?
I dunno.
Um, he, he's talking to theother guy and he over the radio
and he says, Gabe, this is Nick.
As if anybody else is gonnabe on the radio that morning.
I don't know, maybe they'vegot multiple balloons up.
Who knows.
But that's how we get his name.
Well, I mean, here in Melbourne whenthey do it, there's a lot of balloons.

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Yeah?
Um, yeah, like, 'cause they do likethe early morning flights and Yeah.
It's usually like a whole group of them.
You just, okay.
Obviously they could only afford one.
Maybe Gabe does have other peoplethat he's meant to be monitoring.
So anyway, Nick gets a name.
So, um, yes, but with both Nick and themother, disembarking the basket at the

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same time, suddenly the basket is very,very light and starts to lift off again.
Yeah.
With Sophie in it.
Well, yes.
'cause Sophie has not beenlifted outta the basket yet.
And somehow as the basket lifts up,it knocks Nick off balance, spins him
around 180 degrees and he falls flat onhis back, cracking his head on a rock.

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So he's out of action, and so themother is powerless to watch as her
daughter floats off without her.
Yeah, the ropes are trailingon the ground, but she
just stands there having a.
Yeah.
Panic, um,
just waving, bye!
Although I feel like maybe if she grabbedone of the ropes, maybe she would've
ended up like dangling from a rope.

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So maybe that's a bad idea.
But
she doesn't do this.
I, I like, I understand.
In a panic she probably likedid not think to grab the ropes.
Even though, even though I'm sittingat home with like backseat hot air
ballooning, going, "Just grab the rope!"
Yeah, me too.
Or tell her to jump out into your arms.
Um, yeah, no, she calls 9-1-1 instead.

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And while this, um, 9-1-1 callhas not made my list of the
worst 9-1-1 calls for the season,it's still not exactly helpful.
Um,
yeah, it probably should have,
I mean, I can add it.
The list is gonna keep going until we getto the end of season, end of episode 18.
Um, but she tells Maddie, 'causeit's Maddie that takes the call

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that she's lost her daughter.
And so Maddie's like a immediatelyin like missing child mode.
Um, yeah, but she, the mother can'ttell Maddie the location where the child
was last seen because she's like up,up and away in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah, she's flying away.
Maddie's like, uh, did you say flying?
Yes.

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So of course the 118 get dispatched.
Um, which is actually hilarious becausethey're obviously told, you know, we've
got a missing child in a hot air balloon.
And so Buck is very grumpily sittingin the back complaining that, you
know, hot air balloons look so romanticuntil someone has to call 9-1-1
Oh.
Because he is been there before.

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But Eddie doesn't know that, sohe just gives him like a look to
say what are you talking about,
it's such a weird exchange.
Yeah.
So Buck's explanation for his, um,like cynicism when it comes to hot
air balloons is that, you know,"I, I heard that dispatch get a lot
of calls about these things." AndEddie's like, "okay, that makes sense.

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Maddie told you that?" And Buck's like,"uh, no, someone else told me that."
Yeah, someone else.
Like what?
Why, why are you not talkingabout your ex to Eddie?
Yeah, I'm sure Eddieknows about Abby, like,
oh, 100%.
Eddie knows all about Abby.
Um, but obviously not this,
why are you being cagey about it?
Not this story, but I just love that likethey're having this exchange and Bobby's

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just got this little grin on his face.
'cause he remembers this exchange.
Oh yeah.
Because if, uh, for the, any of youwho have forgotten, uh, buck tried to
take Abby on a hot air balloon date,and she kind of went, "You do, you
know how many calls I get about thesesort of things?" Um, and they didn't
end up going on the date because,uh, Patricia was, um, in trouble.

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So Abby had to go and thenBuck, who had probably begged
the morning off from Bobby.
Immediately just went back to work andthen had to explain to Bobby why he was
at work and not up in a hot air balloonwith his, um, with his girlfriend.
Oh, that's right.
Poor Buck.
Poor Buck.
Uh, well, they arrive at the scene.

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Well, I assume the hot air balloonhasn't gone too far because they,
they can still see the balloon,like it's still right there.
Yeah.
Those winds seem to have dropped.
Yeah, I guess so.
Um, and Bobby asked how old the herdaughter is and the mom says she's 10.
She doesn't have a phone with her,but there's a radio up in the basket

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apparently, um, Gabe has now arrived,the other hot air balloon guy, and so
he says we can get her on the radio.
So they try that.
Yeah.
So they load Gabe up intothe back of the truck.
And they're chasing the hot air balloonacross the fields, um, to get in radio

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range so that Gabe can teach Sophie howto use the ropes to lower herself down.
So this is another case wherewe are outside of the city.
Like we, we are going across fieldson rolling hills, like how close to
LA is this and why are the 118 there?

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Yeah,
I mean, considering that Bucktook Abby there, I don't think
it's that far out of the city.
It's, I don't think it's farmland.
Like we were actually inthe last couple of episodes
actually I was justthinking Yeah, you're right.
Um, and I was just thinking that theydo once, when the mom and the the
girl are up there, they get a viewover the city as well, don't they?

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Yeah.
Yeah.
So it can't be too far away, but yeah.
Uh, so they get in range.
Sophie is able to grab the radio,and her mother is trying to convince
her that she is able to helpherself 'cause Sophie is scared.

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She doesn't want, she,she thinks she can't.
And so her mother says, and we'regoing to get our shot glasses ready.
Um, that she knows that Sophiefeels powerless, but she's not.
She has all the power rightnow, and that bolsters Sophie.
And so she gets up and followsGabe's instructions and the amount

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of, the amount of footage that theyhave of the hot air balloon and the
trucks driving across the fields.
They, they really went, you know what,we're spending a lot of time out here.
We've spent a lot of money haulingthe trucks out on location.
We are going to use every damn secondof footage that we have filmed.
Oh yeah.

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Yeah, so they, it's theballoon is dropping now.
It's like, it's coming uptoo close, like too fast.
Um, Sophie's sort of saying thatshe's gonna crash, but um, they
do like, it comes in to land.
Like it doesn't even, doesit bounce on the ground?
Like it doesn't, they just sort of jump onit and drag it down the last little bit?

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Yeah, I think it gets close enoughto the ground that they can reach,
everyone can reach the ropes and like,we see, you know, Evan "Long Legs"
Buckley, sprinting across the field.
Yeah.
To, to grab one of the ropes.
He just yeets himself into the basketwith her so that she, he can like help and
Bobby hanging off the side aswell to add a little bit more

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weight to it while there, therest of them heave on the ropes.
So Sophie gets out and getsback to where her mom is and.
Then she's like, "You were right, Mom,I do have power." It's like, oh my God.
Ugh.
"And so I think you anddad should go to therapy."

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I think Kristen needs to spendsome time with 10 year olds and
figure out how they actually talk.
Yeah.
All they want's Roblox.
Yeah.
Um, I just looked up like whereyou can go Hot Air ballooning in
In Los Angeles?
In LA.
Okay.
And it's like fairly low,like fairly out of the city.

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It's like where all thewine like wineries are.
Oh, so it's like a That'swhere they go, isn't there?
Isn't it a winery in, in seasonone when Buck and Abby go?
Probably
okay.
Well, I mean, it can't be too far.
'cause Big Bears only what, two hours?
Out a, even though Doug takesapparently 24 hours to drive there,

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uh, we already know that the 118'srange covers like the entirety of
everywhere.
Santa Monica Beach all the way out to
Yeah,
they are the only house.
They go everywhere.
Yeah, that's it.
But um, yeah, it looks pretty likeif anyone's in LA or in California
and wants to go on a hot air balloonride, you can go over the wineries.

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That does sound nice.
It does.
All right.
We're going to Hen and Karen's house.
Um, and Hen is having troubleputting the kids to bed now
that they have two of them.
Uh, there's a hostage situation,apparently negotiations.
Karen's like, "Well, who won?" And Hensays "They did," which totally accurate

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for getting small children to bed.
I mean, Nia, Nia isprobably easy to put to bed.
It's gonna be Denny.
Denny's gonna be the onethat's gonna be pushing it.
Mm-hmm.
But while Hen has been doing that,Karen has been doing their finances.
She looks like she's going through banktransactions, or maybe it's a budget

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spreadsheet, I'm not entirely sure.
But she is, she tells Hen that theyneed to cut back on eating out.
They're spending far too much money,they're spending more on takeout
and eating out and on restaurantsthan they are in groceries.
And then she notices a particulartransaction for a teppanyaki
restaurant, and she asks like, "Wait,you went to teppanyaki without me?"

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Yeah.
Who'd you go with?
Um, so Hen says that she went outwith Chimney because she never
took him out for his birthday.
And Karen's like, "but you didn'tinvite me. I love teppanyaki."
She's so pouty when she said that.
It's so cute.
It's so cute.
But then we get another interestinginteraction, um, where Hen says,

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"You know how it is, I invite you.
So he invites Maddie.
Maddie invites Buck.
Buck invites Eddie.
And now I've gotta invite Athenaand Bobby." Why is Buck inviting
Eddie to the triple date?
Yeah, it's like every, every personthat they just mentioned was a couple.
So you've got, you know, Chim'sinviting his girlfriend, they
have to invite Athena and Bobby'cause those two are a matched set.

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Um, so yeah, all of a suddenBuck and Eddie are being
Maddie's inviting Buck.
Yeah.
Maddie's inviting Buck because like, Buckfeels left out if Maddie doesn't invite
him to things, but Buck invites Eddie.
It's like, okay, sure.
And it's not just like...
besties!
It's that everybody in the 118understands this immediately.
Yeah, those, those two are matched pair

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and outside of the 118, because Karen'snot in the 118, but she knows that
Buck and Eddie are a package deal.
Karen seems to buy thisas like, yeah, okay.
That does make sense.
Um, and kind of gets sidetrackedby the, uh, the frugalness of Hen
and, and finds that very, very sexy.

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It's a side of, um, Hen thatshe's never seen before.
So they get in a little bit of, um, like
it's a strange thing to find sexy.
But anyway, I guess yourkink is not my kink.
It's okay.
Hen starts flirting with like, "oh,did I tell you that I was thinking
about getting a Costco membership?"

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And Karen literal literallygasps and starts purring,
but they do get interrupted from beingall, you know, smoochy-woochy by a
little voice from the other room calling.
So, uh, Karen says, "Oh, I guessI'm being summoned now," but hen
tells her to stay put and she'sgonna, she's gonna go get it.

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So as Hen leaves her phone, chimes beeps,she gets a message and Karen checks it.
I don't know why she checks it.
I mean, I know why she checksit 'cause she needs to be able
to check it to see these textmessages to kick off this storyline.
Um, because the messages thatpop up on Hen's screen that say,

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"are we still on for tomorrow?
This time it's on me" from somebody namedImelda and Karen is speaking for the
entire audience when she looks at thephone and goes, "Who the hell is Imelda?"
The, oh boy, we have another cheatingstoryline for Hen 'cause apparently that's
the only storyline she gets at the moment.

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Yeah, it something to dowith kids or with cheating
or sticking your handinside someone's chest.
I mean, she could have justasked Hen who it was, maybe?
I don't know.
Anyway, that would'vebeen dramatic enough.
So for the drama, um,
oh, this entire episode is gonna befor the drama with like extra sparkles.

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Anyway, we're gonna go to Michael.
Hang on.
Where are we?
Are we at Bathena's house?
No, we are at Michael's.
We're at Michael's apartment becauseBobby is there to pick up the kids
because Athena is still at work.
Although Bobby is super early because thekids are just sitting down for dinner.

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So he gets invited tojoin them for dinner.
Yeah.
And but Athe is, like Michael says,like he thought Athena was coming
to get the kids and she's beenpicking up a lot of overtime lately.
And then.
Um, Bobby says it's because eversince she caught this case, which
apparently May knows all about,she's like "The realtor rapist."

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She saw on the news.
"Mom's on the task force." Yeah.
She saw it on the news.
So
yeah.
And the, the, the news havegiven, um, Jeffrey a, a cool name.
He is the, as you said,the realtor rapist.
Yeah.
You gotta stop naming these dudes.
Yeah.

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Anyway, Michael tells him to,to, let's not talk about that.
It's not a dinner table subject.
So yeah.
May's having her prom this weekend,and so she wants to talk about
the schedule for Saturday becauseAthena's gonna take her to get her
hair and makeup done at 12 o'clock.
So they should be done by three.

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Oh, you have to start soearly for these things.
I don't know.
Just reminds me of like wedding day,having to get up at crack of dawn so you
can get, start getting ready for these.
Yeah.
The main point of thisconversation is the photos.
So after hair and makeup, Dariuswho obviously survived dinner

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with the whole family, um,
oh yeah.
He's still in the picture.
Is continuing to, he's continuingto date May, um, is picking her up
at four o'clock, which will giveMichael 45 minutes for pictures.
And Michael's like, "That's notlong enough." And I'm like, and
I'm thinking, how long does ittake to shoot a couple of pictures?
Yeah.
45 minutes?
Yeah.
To take some photos.

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Yeah.
And he's, he startsbartering for more time.
He's like, you know, "Don't you thinkI should have a little extra time,
you know, an account of my, my braintumor?" which is what going to render
him incapable of using a camera.
Um, yeah.
Which I find ironic that like it'shim taking the, like him bartering
for more time to take the photoswhen it turns out that Harry is

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the photographer of the family.
Yeah.
But anyway, uh, May just likeflat out denies the cancer card.
No, she's going to, he's she'sgonna tell Darius to come earlier.
Yeah.
He's gonna get an hour instead of 45.
Not because the cancer card though,she can't deny the puppy dog eyes.
'cause he is like, heplays the cancer card.
She, UNO reverses him.

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So he's like, gives it the puppydog eyes and he's like, okay, fine.
Yeah.
He gets an hour for Harry to take photos.
Like, does photos not takelike, you know, five minutes?
Like you just
I thought so.
I won't argue.
Yeah.
Although I'm guessing based on kind ofwhat we see at the end of the episode.

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It's not just photos of May and Darius,it's photos of May and Darius with all
the combination of siblings and parentsand stepparents and God knows who else.
Yeah.
It's, it's like wedding photoswhere they're just like, yep.
Bridesmaids.
Yep.
Groomsmen.
Yep.
All right.
Now just the brides family.
Alright.
Third cousins twice removed.

(25:54):
Yeah.
So that possibly might take a littlebit longer, but Yeah, I don't, I don't
see, it would take an hour anyway.
It doesn't matter.
It becomes a mood point anyway.
But it does bring us back to the Michael'scancer storyline because um, Bobby tells
Michael that he's not gonna be ableto play the cancer card much longer

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because he's got a, uh, a scan tomorrow.
Oh yeah.
And Harry is sure thathe's gonna crush it.
Yeah.
And Michael says thathe's feeling pretty good.
He hasn't had any headaches ordizziness, but you know, we'll
see how it goes kind of thing.
The last time it was bad news, buthopefully this time it'll be okay.

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And then Bobby says, the very ominousthing that about bad news, the thing
about bad news is you never see it coming,
dude.
Yeah.
Which is a weird kind of segue because
it's a very weird segue, isn't it?
It doesn't really make sense.
It's not like that other episodewe had recently, which were
like really snappy, like seguesthat just went into each scene.

(27:03):
Yes.
The really clever point.
It just goes to, yeah.
No,
it just, it just goes straightto Athena being on the case.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, she's beating herself up over it.
Yes.
Because, um,
they can't find this guy,
Jeffrey has vanished into thinair, which Athena finds impossible
to believe since it's 2020.
Yeah.

(27:23):
He hasn't used his credit cards.
Uh, we've got Lou back again, the, thedetective who was in the last episode.
Yeah.
We've got Lou and Stafford, uh,obviously working this case.
Um, yeah.
And they are going to be interviewingin number of, um, Jeffrey's victims.

(27:47):
Oh, yeah.
These poor women.
Um, they sort of, they make them watch thevideos, which is, I don't, I don't know if
this is normally how these investigationsgo, but you know, they, yeah.
They watch the videos and they're like,"Is that you in the, in the video?" These
poor women are just not enjoying havingto live relive through their trauma again?

(28:09):
No, because, um, I think it, it's addinga level of a layer to their trauma
that they didn't even know existed.
Because when.
As far as they were concerned, yeah,as far as they were concerned, this
guy just broke into their house andraped them and now they're finding
out that he stalked them in advanceand then he filmed the attack Other,

(28:29):
yeah, he put a camerain the smoke detector.
And now not only have they beenassaulted, but this guy might have
been rewatching the assault and nowall of these police officers in the
room have watched them be assaulted.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
It just seems like unnecessarily cruelto make them relive the whole thing
to actually, yeah.
I think you probably could have achievedthe same result by just taking a, still

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like snapping a screenshot and going,we is like, "Can you confirm that this
is you? This is from a video. We're notgonna make you watch the entire thing,"
but for the drama of this episode.
Um, and the interesting thing withthis scene is that it's kind of the
same interview, but with six differentwomen and it keeps going backwards.

(29:15):
It sort of cuts between eachwoman answering the questions.
Yeah.
I'm not sure how theyfound all these people.
Like did they just identify themfrom the videos or like match them up
with people who'd reported assault?
Yeah.
I'm gonna assume that they probably wentthrough everybody who had reported being

(29:36):
sexually assaulted and matched them maybe.
Well, no, because one of them reportedit as a break in, not an attack.
Maybe Jeffrey was very anal and had markedall of the addresses on the videos, so
they just went to the homeowners and
maybe, yeah,

(29:56):
who knows?
For the drama, they were ableto find all of these women.
But yeah, it's, it's awful.
It's a horrible scene to watch.
It's awful.
And the, uh, one of the women actuallysays that, "I was wearing a necklace
when he attacked me and he took itwith him when he, when he left."
So they realize that if he's takingthe souvenirs or trophies, um, they

(30:22):
can find, you know, see if anyoneelse is missing anything personal.
And then if they can track thatstuff down, then it might help
to give, yes, to bring evidence.
'cause at the moment they don'thave any evidence against him.
'cause he is, he was wearinga mask and everything.
So, but if they can find these,these things in his possessions,
then they can use that Yes.

(30:44):
In court.
Um, so I, this episode is a lot,a lot of short kind of scenes
jumping between storylines again.
Yeah, it is.
So we go to a commercial when we comeback, Michael is in the M-R-I machine.
Can I say MRI Machine?
Magnetic radio.

(31:04):
Yes.
I can say MRI machine.
Yeah.
Medical Imaging
just wanted to make sure wasn't like,
I dunno what it stands for.
Make sure it wasn't like an ATM machine.
Machine.
Yeah, yeah.
No, just have an M on the end.
So I think you okay?
No,
we're good.
Okay.
So Michael's in the,
oh my God, I don't know if either ofyou have watched Breaking Bad, but I
almost turned it off in like season onebecause an ATM gets stolen at one point

(31:27):
and they just keep saying ATM machine.
Oh.
Oh no.
And the person I was watchingit with was just like, you know,
like they're uneducated, rah rah.
And then like, um, the main charactercomes in and says ATM machine and
he's a teacher and I like almostthrew something across the room.
Like it's a fucking ATM!
Anyway.
ATM machine and pin numbers,

(31:49):
Pin number.
Oh my, my God.
Yeah.
Especially working in retail, I haveto say like, just enter your pin.
Or like people all the time willbe like, oh, what's my pin number?
And I'm like, Twitch.
MRIs are like one of the worst.
Like I haven't ever been in one, butit just, I I've heard that they're

(32:10):
extremely noisy and claustrophobic.
Yeah.
Apparently they try and like play musicnow and you can't, you can hardly hear
it 'cause it just bangs the whole time.
Right.
Well apparently Michael was in quoteunquote that coffin for 45 minutes.
Yeah.
Um,
that's a long time to be lyingflat on your back like that too,

(32:31):
especially with all that banging.
Yeah.
Um, so he's finished the scan.
He is still in the hospital.
He's on the phone with Athena.
I dunno why we don't actually get reallyanything out of the scene except that
he's done the scan and he needs togo upstairs, um, to get blood taken.
So it's kind of the, the, um, leading intohim getting into the elevator later on.

(32:54):
Otherwise, it's a prettysuperfluous scene.
But it also then segues into Athena, um,in the LAPD headquarters, um, going back
into the official "criminal investigationroom" where they have all of the, um,

(33:15):
all of the cases, case files and files,uh, like the board with all of this stuff
up on it for Jeffrey's investigation.
Oh, yeah.
They, they don't have any redstring, but it's there in spirit.
It's pretty close.
They're trying to work out where he'sbeen, by tracking his, where, like they

(33:38):
went through the credit card stuff again,but Stafford says that maybe if they
look at where he, he had been spendingmoney, they could work out his movements.
Yeah.
So everything's pretty obvious.
Like his house is green,his office is red.
The real estate listings are yellow,but then there's a blue pin way out

(33:58):
of the way of him and it's a coffeeshop and he's been there seven times
in the past six months, but theycan't work out why he'd go there.
And that's the point of that scene.
Yeah, that's it.
Like, I dunno, it's odd,but it's probably nothing.
And then we go to the dispatch
and then we know that it's probablynot nothing because otherwise you

(34:20):
wouldn't be telling us about it.
Yes.
Yeah.
Athena gets that like, um, that, thatlook on her face where it's like mm-hmm.
The wheels are turning.
Yeah.
Yes.
But yes.
Dispatch, um, we're in the break room.
Josh is on the phone.
Is Josh's turn to feel powerless?

(34:41):
Yes, because the district attorney has,as he tells Maddie, when Maddie comes
in, um, the district attorney has beencalling him because Greg is coming up
for his sentencing hearing and theywant Josh to appear at the sentencing
hearing and give a victim impactstatement, not just write a letter like

(35:03):
the rest of the, um, dispatchers haveto do, but actually stand up in court.
Yeah.
Which is going to put like, there'sa lot of trauma going around
in this episode, isn't there?
There is, but yeah, Josh doesn'twanna see him again and doesn't wanna
talk about what he did to him whileGreg's sitting there looking at him.
Yeah.
He thought he wouldn't have to facehim again, but, uh, but he says like,

(35:27):
not going makes him feel more like acoward, but, 'cause he's like, Greg
is now in jail, but it feels like he'sthe one with all the power because Josh
feels like basically scared to face him.
He'd be powerless to face him?
Yeah, I guess so.
I don't think he actually saysthe words in this scene, but

(35:49):
No, it's, it's "all the power".
But I'm still flagging it asyou're like powerless, adjacent.
Yeah.
So, um, speaking of power,
we actually have literal,electrical power coming now.
I did love that you're watching thisepisode and you're like, "oh, there's

(36:10):
literally a power outage." and bothAlice and I are like, what did you
expect?
the literal power goes out like
Yeah.
What did you expect?
I don't, I dunno.
But I should've seen this coming.
It's an episode called"Powerless" by Kristen Reidel.
Of course there is going tobe a literal power outage.
Oh.
So this scene is so dumb like this.
Oh, it's so stupid.

(36:30):
It's just ridiculous.
Um, this woman is walking her dog andshe comes across two, uh, workers who are
cutting trees, um, away from power lines.
Like they're just trimming them.
They're not cutting thedown, I don't think.
No, they're just trimming them.
Yeah.
And she actually asks them like,"What are you doing?" And they're

(36:54):
like, "Trimming the trees?" And shesays, "You mean murdering them?"
Apparently they cut another tree ortrimmed another tree a while ago, and the
other, the other tree has not recovered.
It's not doing well anymore frombeing trimmed, which, I mean,
trees don't bounce back instantly.

(37:14):
They take a while to grow.
They are very slow growers.
So if it's only been a year,yeah, it's probably not gonna
grow, have grown back just yet.
Um, but the worker tells the woman whoI've nicknamed in the notes as Karen,
not like our Karen as in a, I wannaspeak to your manager, kind of Karen.

(37:35):
Um, that if she has an issue withwhat they're doing, they, she needs
to call the city because the cityare the ones that have all the power.
Yeah.
Um, they're just doing their jobs.
Have we counted how many powerswe're up to now, like power less?
I have not been counting, but I'mglad I'm only taking metaphorical
shots because I feel like if I wereactually taking shots, I would be

(37:58):
like three sheets to the wind by now.
Yeah.
We'd be drunk by now.
Um, but yeah, so this, this Karen goeson about how their botanical butchers and
that trees are like show dogs and withoutthe right cut, the entire aesthetic is
wrong and they're not made for crew cuts.
And I'm just like, what?
Like, I'd really like to say that noteveryone who shows dogs is insane, but,

(38:21):
but she, she also has like this tinylittle like white fluff ball of a dog.
Which I wanna say is like a BichonFrisé or something, but I don't know.
It's it's tiny.
It's white.
It's it's very well groomed.
Yeah.
I didn't look too closely at it, honestly.
But like, my breed is abreed that you like, don't,

(38:43):
yours is just fluffy.
I don't trim.
Yeah.
Um, and trimmings actually lookeddown on, so I am just like, what?
But these, these workersare so, so uninterested.
They're just like,
yeah.
They don't care.
"I, it's what stops the trees from takingthe power lines down? So go away so we can
do our job." So, um, they start doing itand the one of the guys gets up in the,

(39:11):
I don't know what you call that thing.
It's a bucket.
So
it's a bucket.
A bucket.
It's a little, it's alittle a cherry picker.
It's a little bucket.
It goes up in the air.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But his saw doesn't work.
So he tells the worker on the ground togo and get the other saws, which requires
the worker walking around to the otherside of the truck and in the like 10

(39:34):
seconds that it takes him to walk aroundto the other side of the truck, um, the
Karen decides to jump into said truck andthe workers have apparently left the keys
in the ignition because she drives off.

(39:55):
Where does she put the dog?
The dog's left on the side of the road.
She, yeah, it's just
so, she just leaves iton the side of the road?
She leaves it, it's just sitting therebecause as the truck drives away with,
the work is still up in the bucket,worker number two is just left staring
at the dog in like, what the fuck?
And the dog's just looking back athim going, yeah, no, I don't know.
She's crazy.
And the guy stands there lookingat the dog for the longest time.

(40:18):
Like he, he's just in shock, like.
Is like the truck.
Where'd the truck go?
You didn't wanna run after it or anything?
I mean, the guy in the bucketdidn't notice the Karen climbing
into the truck and say something?
No.
Oh, and Karen, I, I'm so sad thatshe didn't actually get a name.

(40:39):
'cause I have a friend calledKaren and she's not like this.
But anyway,
Hen's Karen is also lovely, but you know,
she, she, she starts cackling.
Oh, it's such a cackle,
in the driver's seat, and she's like,"who's got the power now?" Another power.
You're about to have all the power, lady.

(40:59):
And then it's not the one who was lefton the ground who makes the 9-1-1 call.
It's the one who's in the bucket.
Yep.
Yeah.
He reports to Josh thathe's been kidnapped.
And again, it's not like the worst,but it's not the most helpful.
Um, because Josh is like, "Okay, cool.

(41:22):
Is your captor armed?
Are they known to you?" And the worker'slike, "They just stole my truck." And
Josh was like, "Hang on, wait, um, areyou reporting a kidnapping or a vehicle
theft?" And the guy's like "Both.
I'm a tree trimmer, I'm up inthe bucket and some psycho just
jumped in my truck and took off."
Yeah.
At least.
Yeah, he does say a location atthis point, so I guess that's good.

(41:47):
He gets like, we're on, you'reheading east on, he gives a street
name and then he looks up and seesand do they really string power
lines across streets like this?
Really?
Well it's gotta go across the streetsomewhere, but it is quite low, this one
I forgot to check whileI was driving around.

(42:08):
Um, today, I don't know.
I don't remember.
I'm not gonna like, swear onanybody's grave that I've never seen
power lines go across the street.
Um,
well, they have to go across somestreets, but our power around here is,
yeah.
Got no idea.
Our power's underground, so
Yeah.
Same in our, in my old suburb,the power is underground.

(42:31):
Anyway,
in this, on La France, apparentlythe power lines go across the road
and either they are very, very lowor this bucket is up very, very high.
Um, because the worker sees said powerline coming towards him and tells Josh
that "You might wanna send an ambulance,"before yeeting himself out of the

(42:52):
bucket into the open top of a UPS truck.
I think he like crashesthrough the top of it,
how that's worse.
Yeah.
I don't, I don't how,
I don't think that the, the truckshould, like, the roof of a truck
like that should be fragile enoughthat a person can go through it.

(43:13):
I don't remember exactly, but Iassumed that the top of the truck
wouldn't be open to the air.
Like that just seemed like a weird
Well, I, it's either,
it's like a, a mail ute.
It's either the truck is the, thetop is open, which sounds stupid or
the, the roof is so fragile that ahuman body can fall through it easily.
Yeah.
I,
I think, think both ofthem are ridiculous.

(43:35):
Um, anyway, so he's leapt out of thebucket none too soon because Karen has
completely forgotten about the fact thatshe's driving a bucket truck and drives
the bucket straight into the power line,which, um, rips the power line, like drags
the poles, rips it from the transformer.
There's sparks everywhereshe gets electric, but she

(43:58):
gets a shock through her.
It's a mess.
Yeah, they don't disconnect anything.
Um, unfortunately, like they don't justrip the power lines completely down.
I think she does disconnect aline because I think to remember
Buck and Eddie, like dodging...
there are some sparks
a line that's dancingaround at some point.

(44:19):
Okay.
So I just checked the straight nearmy old one that did have power lines
and that like, they literally goacross the street to the houses.
So yes.
Okay.
Power lines across the street.
Yeah.
Okay.
I don't know why I amoverthinking this scene.
There's so much that isstupid about this scene.

(44:39):
I should just write the entire thing off.
Yeah, yeah.
Let's just suspend ourdisbelief for a minute.
Um,
oh, several minutes.
Okay.
The 118 show up.
Of course they do.
Uh, Bobby says to everyone, "Stay whereyou are. Don't try to get out of the

(45:00):
truck." Or, you know, there are sparkscoming out of some of the power lines
so they know that the power is still on.
Um, Bobby radio's in to askdispatch if they can, um, tell
DWP to shut down the power.
Thank God Jamal is not working.
'cause he would've just come backand gone, "I'm not showing that
the power's out in that area,Cap." Yeah, that's the point.

(45:24):
Jamal.
We need the power to be out.
Yes.
But Josh says it's gonna be 10 minutes.
Um, and Bobby's like, "See if youcan shave some time off that because
we're kind of in a hurry here."
Mm-hmm.
But yes.
So then the, the driver of themail truck does say that the guy
fell through the roof, but Hensays there's no broken bones.

(45:47):
Just a couple of bumps and bruises andmaybe a concussion because the cardboard
boxes bore the brunt of the fall.
So what was the... no, I'm not even, nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Um, and then we,
it's made of the, like, thinnestaluminum you've ever heard of.
Nope.
Not even gonna think about it.
Moving on.
We learned from Chimney that cardboardboxes are sometimes used as crash

(46:11):
pads for, uh, stunts in movie and tv.
Um,
but of course thoseboxes are usually empty.
Yes.
Yeah.
These ones were full of people's mail.
Wanna hope there's nothing like kindof slightly sharp in them or anything.
I think it's like their Amazon packages.
At least the PorchPirate's not still around.

(46:33):
Oh, she would've had a field day.
Yeah.
So they know.
So Buck says, this is a great line though.
Um, "I thought those truck cabs aresupposed to be grounded. Why does her
hair look like that?" Because the, becauseKaren's hair is all like static, like
sticking up in the air with the static.
Mm-hmm.

(46:54):
So they.
They realize that the, the truckis still quite electrified.
Well, she had, she, her handsare still on the steering wheel.
Um, so whatever power is going throughthe, um, the, the truck I guess is
passing through the steering wheel?
Apparently

(47:16):
it's just a lot of staticelectricity around her.
'cause even though she's notgetting electrocuted, there's
still a lot of electricity around.
Well, it's enough to addle herbrain because she sees LAPD pull
up behind everybody and she's like,"You came for the tree murderers."
And Eddie gives her like,what the fuck, lady look?
And Buck's just like, yeah.
No, I don't think thatthat's who they're here for.

(47:39):
I don't think that re Ithink she's just a nutcase.
Oh dear.
So while this is going on, Michael is.
Still in the hospital.
So this is happeningconcurrently to his storyline.
Um, he is getting in the elevator,getting to either go up to have bloods

(48:02):
taken or this is, he's going down becausehe's finished getting bloods uncertain.
Um, but as he gets on, a gentlemancalls for Michael to hold the elevator.
So Michael very bravely sticks hishand between the doors and thank
god this is the episode "Powerless"and not like "Trapped" or "Stuck".

(48:25):
Um, holds the doors so that the gentlemancan get onto the elevator with him,
I was getting "Stuck" vibes.
So isn't there someone who else, whogets stuck in an elevator during "Stuck"?
Yeah, it's the, the mother and theson, they get stuck in the elevator.
Um, the elevator starts tofill with water and then as
soon as they rescue, oh, sorry.

(48:45):
The, the mother immediatelythrows her son out of her house.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
David gets onto the elevator with Michael.
We go back to uh, La France, um, and Eddieis looking at the Karen in the truck going
like, we need to get her outta the truck.
Um, any update on when the poweris gonna get turned off, and as if

(49:09):
answering his prayers, there's one finalspark from the transformers and the
power dies, and they're like, sweet.
They get to work.
Bobby radio's into Josh to thankhim for getting the power turned
off, and Josh is like, uh, DWP saysthey're still four minutes out.
And then just in time Bobby goes, well,if you didn't shut the power off, who did?

(49:32):
And then immediately the lightsall start going off in dispatch.
And then we get this, this likerolling scene where the lights clunk
out and Josh looks up and goes.
"Seriously?" And then the lights goout in the elevator in the hospital
and Michael goes, "Seriously?"
And then back on the street thereis a, the sound of a car accident.

(49:53):
And Bobby turns around to see twocars have collided 'cause the traffic
lights have suddenly cut out andsays, "Seriously?" And I'm like,
yeah, I don't know what it is about...
Seriously?
LA, Like as soon as traffic lights go out,people start crashing into each other.
It's like, are you notlooking where you're going?
No, I get, did you not seethat there's no traffic lights?
Like,
like not even that.

(50:14):
Just like you can see people comingthe other way and anyway, nevermind,
for the drama there is a trafficaccident and the lights are all
out,
maybe it's an electric car.
Ha ha ha ha.
Um, Buck says, "I'm on it, Cap," andhe runs off towards the car crash.
I'm not sure what he's gonna dothere, but maybe he's checking

(50:35):
to see if anyone's been injured,
I think
he's just checking
to make sure
everyone's okay.
Possibly trying to get the road...
And maybe doing some, um, traffic control.
Is he authorized to do traffic control?
No.
Should,
yeah,
they usually have,
one should be LAPD doing it.
Yeah, it should be, but I'm prettysure they have training on it.
the SES here do training on it.
LAPD are on the scene, so, youknow, they should just yeet Williams

(50:57):
up the road to get him to do it.
Oh, they tr Yeah, true.
Anyway, back in the hospital elevator,um, the two guys sort of just look at
each other and go, uh, probably an outage.
It's, it's the most like dickmeasuring without dick measuring.
It's like, yeah, it's kind of funny.
David's like, "Oh, you know, it'sprobably an outage." And Michael's go,

(51:18):
"Well, you know, no, I'm an architectand my, a architectural teaching
has told me that the generators aresupposed to kick in." And David's
like, "Well, I'm a doctor and I knowthat at the hospital, the generators
are reserved for like the ICU and theoperating rooms, and they're not gonna
bother putting power to the elevators."
Michael's like, "Oh, doctor, huh? Really?"

(51:42):
Like eyeing him up and down.
He
really is.
I can't remember what point itwas that I first thought there was
something going on between them.
Um, I think it was, it might'vebeen right from the start.
I think it's, I think it, it's, Davidsays to Michael, "You know, look on
the bright side, there's worse placesthan this elevator to be trapped."
And Michael gives him a Oh really?

(52:04):
Kinda a look like, yeah.
Okay.
Like the odds of you being trappedin an elevator with a handsome gay
man are, you know, very, very slim.
But they're not none.
So let's just
Yeah.
And you've managed itthis time, so lucky you.
Uh, speaking of other people who aretrapped inside, but this dude does not

(52:26):
have a cute gay man, gay doctor with him.
Um, no.
We cut to Gordon, who has called 9-1-1.
He's got Maddie.
Um.
He says that he is over at the hostwholesale meat and fish, and he
wants to know if the power went out.
And Maddie's like, "Yeah, thethe power's, uh, power's out.

(52:47):
We are recommending that people shelterin place." And he is like, "Yeah, you
know, I'm, I'm not going anywhere.
That's, that's kind of the problem.
Um, 'cause I'm trappedinside it, you know.
Do you think you couldsend someone to get me out?
'cause it's getting pretty cold."And Maddie's like, "where did
you say you were?" And he islike, "I'm in a walk-in freezer.
I'm stuck in the inside the freezer."

(53:09):
Yeah.
And there is a sign on the outsideof the freezer that says "27 days
without a lost time accident."
The irony,
um, that's about to become zero again.
Well, unless, unless they do dodgy thingslike one of my previous employer used to
do, which was if they had a, um, a fieldmember, like somebody who worked out in

(53:32):
the field had an injury that meant thatthey couldn't work out in the field.
They would just bring them into theoffice and have them do like basic
admin photocopying shit, because thenthey could say that they were still
working, so they hadn't lost any time.
Therefore, they didn't haveany lost time injuries.
Oh, is that what it means?
There you go.

(53:53):
I thought it just meant like a wasteof time ac like an accident that
No, it's employees who have lost timefrom working because of the injury.
Yeah, there you go.
Wow.
Why do you need a sign to count that?
Like what is going on in this workplace?
A
lot of um, OH&S violations, clearly.
Yeah.
Apparently.

(54:14):
Anyway.
Maddie actually has a, like anaction chart for what to do if
you are trapped in a freezer, or,
I mean, we knew that something, weknew that dispatchers had that because
back in the tsunami, she tells one ofthe callers that, um, she had a, an

(54:35):
how to on getting someone to escapethrough the roof of their house.
Yeah.
In event of flood.
So,
yeah.
So I'm not surprised they also, butthe, like, the, we actually see it,
there much have manuals on everything.
Like our triple zero's the same,
but we actually like see it on the screen.
It's like a, a little flow chart thing,and it has the script that Maddie has

(54:55):
to say and then the um, the, like, ifthey say yes, this is what you say.
If they say, no, this is whatyou say and this is where you go.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So she's coaches him through getting,um, you know, as insulated as possible so
that he doesn't lose too much body heat.
Yeah.
So the emergency, there's usually an,um, an emergency release knob inside

(55:18):
the freezer, but it's frozen over.
Um, and he's tried whackingit and it's pretty thick,
but later, like obviously they, they havea, a cut to a overhead kind of skyline
shot to show that time has passed.
And she asks him how he's going, andhe's pretty cold and tired and then

(55:39):
he kind of slowly just tips over
and, but he's also, he'sfollowed Maddie's instructions.
So on the, the manual on what to do abouthow to conserve body heat, it's, um, they
need to insulate hands, head and body withlike a plastic curtain or a sheet, tinfoil
can be used as an insulator for the head.

(56:00):
So Gordon has made himself alittle nest with cardboard boxes.
He's got a tinfoil cap on, andhe's got a plastic, um, wrap
wrapped around him like a blanket.
Yeah.
Poor Gordon.
But it doesn't work.
But it's not enough becauseit, yeah, he falls asleep.
Yeah, he's, he's got hypothermiapretty bad, but pretty much just as

(56:20):
he passes out the 118 arrive and,
um, so clearly they weren'tneeded for that car crash.
Well, I mean the car crash was,it's must have been like an hour
or so 'cause we saw the sunset.
True.
Um, and they, they must have been at caraccidents because whether that one or any

(56:40):
others, because when Eddie tries to usethe saw, the little like miniature saw
to saw through the hinges so that theycan like literally yank the door out of
place, the saw dies and the backup batteryis also flat because he says they've
had too many car accidents in one day.
Oh yeah, true.
So they can't saw him out.

(57:02):
They can't, they probably couldsmash the window open, but that's
not gonna help them becausenobody can go through the window.
So I look this is, thisis a pretty cool idea.
Um, the door Bobby notes shouldhave an electronic emergency door
release, so they find another wayto get power to that electronic door

(57:28):
release by using the defibrillator.
And it is an absolutely brilliantidea, but every time I watch this
scene, I'm more distracted by thefact that they've got a guy stuck
in a freezer suffering hypothermia.
And the music supervisordecided to play "Ice, ice baby."
Yep.
Yeah, it made me laugh, I have to admit.

(57:52):
Uh, perfect, perfect choice.
No, not perfect choice.
Incredibly on the nose choice!
Oh yeah.
But like, if you're gonna havea ridiculous music choice, then
it's the perfect one for that.
But yeah, I don't know if this wouldactually work if you use the, I
mean, it's delivering an electricshock to a patient, isn't it?

(58:16):
So.
Yeah.
And I mean, they, they do go throughthis thing where they, they pull the,
the panel off the door release andthey're stripping wires and there's from
that circuit board, and then they'restripping the wires from the defibrillator
and putting the two together.
And I don't know, and I don'tknow if it would work in reality,

(58:37):
but it does in this show.
They mm-hmm.
They hit the door with two charges andthe second charge tips it over the edge.
There is enough power for thedoor to be powered on and open.
Yeah.
So they managed to get, get him outin time and, um, pump him full of warm

(58:57):
fluids and they, they got to him in timeand they think he's gonna be all right.
So Maddie's relieved 'cause she actuallygot to hear the outcome of that one.
Yeah.
So I've discovered a a9-1-1 creator on TikTok.
Who is 9-1-1 dispatcher.

(59:18):
Oh.
So that's interesting.
They have some very interesting insightand one of the insights is that she knows
fuck all about what happens after thecalls because nobody gets back to her.
And somebody mentioned you like, oh,maybe it, you know it in the show
it's more realistic because you know,you've got Buck and you've got Chi.

(59:38):
They've got a connection with Maddie andshe's like, my husband is a firefighter.
I'll send him out on calls and thenI will not hear for him for hours.
And then the next time that I hearfrom him, he's like, left work.
And he's been at home and I'mstill at work wondering where he
is, thinking he's still on a call.
So

(01:00:00):
that's rough.
See, because that's the thing is like,that's what season one was all about.
Yeah.
Like Maddie's like Yeah, like in,I mean, Abby is saying, Hey, you
never find out and rah rah rah.
And then from like, as soon as Maddiegets in, they're just like, oh, we'll
just tell her everything and justkeep her on the line the whole time.
It's fine.
But Maddie also had a big thing where shenever found out what happened afterwards.

(01:00:24):
Yeah.
And so she was like, doI go back into nursing?
Like,
and they had to stage that bigintervention with her to prove that
what she was doing next was, youknow, what happened after the fall.
That's right.
Yeah.
She was still making a difference.
And I've been watching the, um, theAustralian Ambulance show, which is a
real, like a show about real life, likewith real paramedics and real dispatchers.

(01:00:47):
Are you saying this isn't real?
Okay.
And, um, they often like mentionhow they don't know what happened.
Could you imagine the volume of callsthat they're getting through that
dispatch center and Maddie is justsitting on one call the entire time?
Yeah.
Like how long has she beensitting on that call with Gordon?

(01:01:10):
I mean.
Sitting on the call with Gordon, okay.
'cause she's not allowedto hang up, right?
Right.
They have to hang up the, theperson calling has to hang up.
Yeah.
But like,
I dunno if
Yeah, for her to hang around longenough to hear that he's okay, I guess.
Yeah.
I don't know if that's true becauselike, there's so many times where they're

(01:01:30):
just like, "Cool, call me back if youneed anything." like in real life.
No, but I think we've established inthis show, because remember during
the, the floods, Linda, like, Sueliterally had to hang up on one of
Linda's calls because the caller haddrowned, but because the smartphones
were water resistant, the phone
Oh yeah.
Wouldn't drop.

(01:01:51):
And Linda's like, "No, we arenot allowed to end the call."
And Sue's like, "They're dead,honey." And hangs up the,
yeah, yeah, yeah.
Anyway, Gordon is fine.
Maddie is relieved to hear that,um, while he's been turned out
of being a Gordon-cicle back intoa human being, David and Michael

(01:02:13):
are getting their flirt on.
Um, by the way, I don't think weactually find out David's name in
this, but I'm just gonna call himDavid 'cause I know that's his name.
Yeah.
I'm assuming he's coming back.
Uh, this is where they have their littlerelationship conversation in that, um,
you know, Michael is just, has beentalking to the kids, I'm guessing?

(01:02:40):
Uh, I don't know.
We don't find out.
But David asked him if the kidsare okay and Michael's like, okay,
"Do you have anyone you need tocall?" And basically finds out
that no, he doesn't have anybody.
But it's such a, a sly way of doing it.
'cause David's like, "Oh, youknow, I mean, I've got Oscar,"
and Michael's like, "Oh, Oscar.
yeah." And David's like, "Yeah, but he'snot expecting me until seven." Like,

(01:03:02):
"Oh yeah, yeah, that's good." "'Causeyou know, he's a dog." Like, "Oh.
He's a dog, Right.
Yeah."
Yeah.
"He's, he's probably notgood at returning texts."
Yeah.
Yeah.
No.
And then David's like, to answer,
Michael's on a bit of arollercoaster at the moment.
He's like,
David's like, "You know to answer,the question behind the question. No,

(01:03:22):
I don't have anyone special waitingat home." Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Mm-hmm.
I'm also not, you know, adverseto you thinking that I had a
man at home waiting for me.
You know, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Ah.
But anyway, Athena is goingto investigate the coffee shop
that Jeffrey has been visiting.

(01:03:43):
Yes.
At night, in the dark at night by herself.
It does say close due to power outage ona sign on the door, and it's nighttime.
Coffee shops don't
usually open at night anyway?
Open at night anyway.
this scene would not play thesame in daytime, so they had to
make it at night for the drama.

(01:04:04):
She does helpfully call Lou tolet him know where she is because
after she realizes that the coffeeshop is closed, she turns around
and discovers that there is a selfstorage company at that location.

(01:04:24):
And that kind of explainsthe coffee shop charges.
He's not driving all the way upto West Hollywood to get coffee.
I mean, it could be amazing coffee upthere, but the coffee is incidental to
Athena's newly formed theory that heis, that Jeffrey is visiting a storage
locker where he's storing his trophies
And it's closed.
Nobody's here because of the power,so she needs Lou to call the manager

(01:04:49):
in.
But Athena, this is a, we are goingto check this out tomorrow during
the daylight when the manager ishere situation, this is not a go in
by yourself in the dark situation.
Except it is because it's Athena.
But when does Athena ever let commonsense get in the way of the drama?

(01:05:12):
She, she does at least hang upwith Lou and call dispatch and get
herself marked as at the studiostorage, um, doing a welfare check.
Um, although she kind of likeburies the lede a little bit.
'cause she just tells Maddie she's justdoing a business check and it's not like,
Hey, I am checking out a business thathas a connection with a serial rapist.

(01:05:33):
Yeah.
Um, which I think she shouldprobably have mentioned.
Or, or she could havecalled for backup or,
or she could have waiteduntil the next day.
Or wait until tomorrow.
Yeah.
Brought some other people with her maybe.
But anyway, she goes, she findsa door that's open a little bit,
so she goes inside, she can hearthere's somebody else in there.

(01:05:55):
There's like footsteps.
And then we, the audience seethat Jeffrey, Jeffrey is in there.
Yes.
He's, he's like lurking.
He's,
he's lurking and, and he's standing underan emergency light, so he's bathed in red.
Oh, it's very evil.
Creepy.
Yeah.
Yeah.

(01:06:16):
Just like hitting us overthe head with the symbolism.
Like he's bathed in red in red guys.
Athena's in like the blue and whitelight and then he's in the red.
Do you get it?
Um, but Athena doesn'tknow that he's there yet.
She does find a storage locker that lookslike Jeffrey's been living out of it.
Yeah, there's like a little bedmade up on one of the shelves,

(01:06:38):
Plus a box that saysSerial rapist trophies.
So Athena does the sensiblething and calls for backup.
She says she needs backup and detectivesdispatched to Studio Self Storage.
Um, but before she canfinish, Jeffrey attacks her.

(01:07:01):
And for some reason, when he attacks her,he damages her radio, but not so much
that it won't, that it stops transmitting,but that it continues to transmit.
It keeps, even though she's not holdingthe button down, he's like, he's knocked
the button and locked it into on position.

(01:07:22):
Um, so everything that'shappening, dispatch can hear,
but apparently everyone in dispatch can.
I don't, like, I watched this scenetwice because I was trying to work
out if everyone in dispatch couldhear Athena or if everyone was
just responding to Maddie's frantic
or like somehow Maddie hadlike turned it on to broadcast

(01:07:45):
so that everyone could hear.
I don't know.
It's weird.
Sometimes I feel likeeveryone can hear everything.
'cause Josh will be like four storiesdown and Maddie will get a call and
then suddenly he's right there becausehe's heard what she was on a call for.
Yeah.
Um, yeah, it's weird.
But then not only can Maddie hear it,but then in her infinite wisdom she

(01:08:06):
decides to transmit Athena's call toeverybody with a radio in Los Angeles.
And so as she's calling forbackup for officer in distress,
everyone can hear said officer indistress, including her husband.
Yeah.
This, this is really strange.
They are finishing up atwholesale meat and fish.

(01:08:28):
They're about to takeGordon to the hospital.
Um, when all of a sudden they getMaddie over the radio saying, "Officer
in distress," and they could hearAthena's grunts and cries of pain
and the sound of her being attacked.
Oh, it's just awful.
I mean, not only that, um, Athena isgetting beat up so thoroughly, but

(01:08:48):
also that everyone can hear, and youknow, Bobby can't really do anything
about it except he's, um, you know,tell Hen to take old mate to the
hospital and everyone else, lets go.
So they, Dr. They're driving andhe's just listening and it's awful.
Would you say that he ispowerless to do anything?

(01:09:09):
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, not in so many words thistime, but yes, absolutely powerless.
But even as Maddie is telling everyoneto switch off from that channel, uh,
Bobby is powerless to, to do that.

(01:09:30):
He's like, you know, if I, I am going tosit here and I'm going to listen to this
entire thing, and I'm gonna, I'm gonnaforce y'all to listen to it as well.
Yeah.
It's like that thing where they'rejust like, oh no, where will I
find, like, you better tell methat, where that horrible thing is.
So I don't ever look at it.
It's like, oh, don't, don'tlisten to channel two guys.

(01:09:52):
There's a police officer getting beatenup and everyone just goes to channel two.
Yeah, it's just
the drama is good.
Peter k Crower does a really good jobwith his facial expressions in this scene.
Yeah.
He looks so horrified.
and the, the tension with the music.
It's, it's a veryemotionally wrought scene.

(01:10:13):
It's just so fricking ridiculous.
So we kind of cut backwards andforwards at this point to, um, gom
Athena getting the crap beaten outof her to dispatch listening in
horror to Bobby listening in horror.
As the 118 race to studio selfstorage, we get a little quick shot of

(01:10:34):
Athena's gun dropping to the ground.
And then getting kicked away.
And then it cuts back to Bobby in timefor a gunshot to be heard over the radio.
And once again, if actors couldcontrol their like physical
reactions, he would be like whiterthan white at this point because

(01:10:55):
like he fully flinchesand he just looks, ugh.
Because all the soundsof the assault stop.
It's like gunshot and then silence.
Yeah.
And so he's immediately,
because at least like when he waslistening, he could still hear
her like even if it was gruntsin pain, he could still hear her.

(01:11:15):
Yes.
She was still awake and aliveand fighting at some point, but
now that's the silence thing.
And now there's nothing
his immediately thought, hisimmediate thought is Athena got shot.
Yep.
Yeah.
The gunshot seems to have fixed the radio.
Yeah.
Or maybe it, it brokeit further because Yeah.

(01:11:36):
She hasn't told anybody that she's okay.
Athena shot the gun.
Uh, shot the radio.
She shot the radio, whichwas attached to herself?
No, that's not it.
Yeah.
Um, but anyway, by the time the118 arrive at the scene, um, there
are other LAPD officers there forbackup, and they try to stop Bobby

(01:11:56):
from going in and he's just like, no.
And then keeps going.
It's not, he grabs an axe, hegoes to the storage locker,
grabs the fire axe, and just
marches into the buildingwith said fire axe.
He's
on the rampage.
Yeah.
Like, he like, do not stop that guy.
His wife is in trouble.
Let him the fuck through.
Yeah.
Um,

(01:12:17):
they get there and theydiscover that Jeffrey is alive.
Um, he looks in pretty bad shapeand he is handcuffed to a pipe.
And Bobby just stands overhim with the axe in his hands.
Um, and like Jeffrey's just looking at himgoing like, what, what, what is going on?

(01:12:39):
Because he has no idea who Bobby is.
No.
Bobby's not wearing his"Athena's husband" t-shirt today,
but it's under histurnout so no one can see
it.
Um, thankfully Williams recognizes Bobbyand he is like, dude, she's over here.
Um, and we get a quick shot to seethat the gun is in Athena's hand.

(01:13:05):
Um, so it wasn't Athena who got shot,it was obviously Jeffrey who got
shot, although he seems to be ratherquiet for someone who just got shot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe she missed, but yeah,
I, I think she did just shoot the radio
that's like attached to her chest?
But yeah.
So Chim and Hen check her out.
Her pupils are equal andreactive, which is good.

(01:13:27):
Uh, she may have a fractured rib.
Her arm's definitely broken andshe's like, Athena starts waking
up and just goes, "I got him."
At this point Lou arrives.
I don't know what he's been doing.
Um, he's more interestedin this situation.
He like checks in with the other LAPD,"Is the suspect down?" Um, Williams

(01:13:52):
reports that he is alive and he's wounded.
Um, Ransone turns to Bobbyand says, "Let's get a medic."
Bobby just goes, "He can wait."
Yeah, Bobby's said nothing sincehe got in, he has said nothing.
He's just standing there with an axe
staring at this man.
But the see the
staring at this man and then, yeah,let's get a medic and he can wait.

(01:14:13):
It's like, oh fuck.
Okay.
Yep.
Not fair.
Yeah, he mad.
But the thing is they, becauseChim and Hen are fixing up Athena,
but once again, everyone hasforgotten that Eddie is a paramedic.
So if he really needed medical attention,they could get Eddie to look at him.

(01:14:35):
But Bobby's just like, no, I'm denyingthis man all medical attention.
None of my people are touching him,and Ransone's like, okay, we're
gonna need somebody not from the 118to come up here and fix this guy.
We're gonna need someone who has notbeen in Bathena's house for dinner.
Have you got like somebody from Oregon?
Can they come down?

(01:14:55):
Like, I know it's a bit of a drive,but um, I think they're probably
going to be the ones with noconflict of interest in this case.
Well they managed to get Athena out tothe ambulance and Bobby is, yeah, so
they get her on again, hovering, lookingso, so distressed about the whole thing.

(01:15:15):
And Athena also, now thatshe's awake, she's like calling
for Bobby and he's like,
yeah, he immediately dives intothe back of the ambulance with her.
There is no stopping him.
Um, he's riding in the back.
I don't think anyone wouldeven try at this point.
They're like, Bobby, do you wanna drive?
Like where are we going here?
Yeah.
No.

(01:15:35):
So Chim gives up his place.
So it's Bobby and Henin the back with Athena.
Yeah.
So quick look back at the elevator.
They get the other firefighters whoare not at the storage place get
the doors open to let them out, andMichael's like, "Finally, I've had
enough of this place." And then heturns to David and goes, "No offense."

(01:15:58):
And then David tries to like make com.
He's just like, "So listen." And Michael'sphone immediately starts vibrating.
Yeah.
So Michael's just like, hang on,just leave the flirting for a second.
I gotta answer this call.
He's like, "Hey Bobby. Bobby?" Andthen immediately just sprints out

(01:16:19):
of the hospital leaving David withhis, so listen, just standing.
Oh, in the hallway in the dust.
Like, oh, so Michael and Bobby.
Okay, cool.
Yeah, sorry David.
This is gonna happen a lot.
'cause Michael will likedrop everything and run to...
Bobby,
help his family.
So.
Yeah.
To Bobby.

(01:16:40):
When Bobby calls Michael is powerless.
The David's already written likehe's, he'd be sitting there going
like, I thought he was single.
He said he didn't have anybody.
Yeah.
Who the fuck is Bobby?
This Bobby called, and heimmediately just legged it out of
here.
Like dropped everything.
Look, honestly, being in queer spaces,if someone said that they were single

(01:17:00):
and then dropped it, dropped everythingfor like someone else, I'd be like, oh,
their emotional support ex. That's fine.
That's kind of like, I was gonnasay, that's kind of like what Athena
is, but no, it's Bobby, right?
Yeah.
He's like Michael's support person.
Yes, yes.
at the moment.

(01:17:20):
Bless them.
So Michael has brought the kidsto the hospital where Athena is,
which I'm assuming is a differenthospital because this one appears
to have power or maybe, yeah.
Got the power fixed.
Yeah.
Later.
Yeah.
Later, after the power came back on.
Um, and like he's sort ofpreparing the kids for like, the

(01:17:41):
fact that she's been beaten up.
Like, "she's probably not gonna, she'shurt and she's, you know, not okay,
but we've gotta be strong to help herthrough it." And they're like, "okay."
To May's credit, she immediatelyjust takes her mother's appearance
in stride and just goes overand it's like, "Mom, I'm so glad

(01:18:01):
you're all right." Gives her a hug.
Um, 'cause she does, she, she's notlooking, I mean, I'm, I do not wanna
say that Angela Bassett does notlook good because she still looks,
yeah, she always looks beautiful,
looks good, but she's got,um, like her hair is really
working for her in this episode.
Um, but she's got like two blackeyes, one eye's nearly swollen shut.

(01:18:25):
She's got that, that tape thatyou use to tape stitches together,
bruises all over her face.
She's got a cast and a sling.
Harry looks absolutely horrified.
Poor Harry,
and Athena's like, "It's okay, baby. Youknow, come and come and give me a hug."
And Harry's like, "I don'twanna hurt you." And she's like,
"Oh, you're not gonna hurt me.
Your hug from you is exactly what I need."So he literally throws himself on her.

(01:18:49):
Yeah.
And God bless.
She's like fighting back the screams ofpain, like trying to control her face.
And she's like, "oh yes, that'sexactly what I need. And I'm
feeling so much better already."
Yeah, she's gonna be out of there soon,but Bobby says that he's gonna stay with

(01:19:11):
her for, she's gonna stay for a few days,so Athena's like, "Oh, that's, I don't
want anyone to make a fuss." It's like,
just, yeah, because Bobby saysthat he's gonna get a rollaway
bed set up in the corner so hedoesn't have to leave her side.
Yeah,
yeah.
And she says she's fine.
She and, and Bobby's like, "No,you're not fine. Just let me do this,"

(01:19:33):
which translate as I'm not fine.
I need to do this for me.
Yeah, yeah.
He's like two seconds awayfrom a complete meltdown here.
He's like, "no, I needto do this, please."
Thankfully, she sees that and she'slike, "Okay, it'll be nice to have
the company," but then we go from thatscene to, I, I don't know who made the

(01:19:56):
decisions, like what order they're goingto put all of these little snippets in.
Um, but we go from that likeemotionally wrought scene to, um,
yeah, I thought that that was gonnabe the end, and then the show,
it just kept going.
Just kept going.
I was like, oh fuck.
Okay.
It's like The Return of the King.
It just kept going.
You thought you got an ending,but then there's another ending.

(01:20:17):
Yeah.
Um, we go over to the Wilson householdwhere, um, Karen is ransacking Hen's,
belongings, trying to find evidence ofother things that she's kept from Karen.
Yeah.
And then she, she actually mutters toherself, "What else are you hiding?"
The only reason I'm accepting this sceneis because it, it ends up quite cute

(01:20:41):
in the end, but I'm, I'm not loving.
The Hen is accused ofcheating storyline again.
Yeah.
Hen's arranged a babysitter forthe kids so that they can go
and visit Athena in hospital.
But Karen's like, "no, I'm not, I'mnot really feeling too well. So just
give Athena my love. I'll, I'll staybehind." But as, as we sort of end

(01:21:04):
the scene, we see that she's gotsome paper in her hand that she's
hiding behind her back, which is,
yeah, she's pulled something outof... something out of Hen's wallet.
And then for some reasonwe go back to Dispatch.
Like it would make sense.
Oh.
Not gonna think too.
Nothing makes sense.
Nothing.
We're not gonna think too hard about it.
Um,
we've, we've gotta progressJosh's, um, storyline for a bit,

(01:21:26):
but do we have to storyline,progress Josh's storyline now?
Could we have not like, finished off theHen stuff and then jumped over to Josh?
No, not even.
Oh, I don't know.
We, anyway, we're back at,we're back at dispatch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So Maddie and Josh are, um, talkingabout what happened, you know, they're

(01:21:47):
gonna have nightmares about hearingAthena over the radio, because they
were powerless, they couldn't help her.
I don't actually think they saythat, but that's what's happened.
And then Maddie says, oh,that's, oh no, hang on.
Josh says, "it gives us somethingnew to talk about in therapy."
He sounds really excited about that.
And then Maddie says, "well, that'sgreat because I thought I was starting

(01:22:07):
to bore Frank," and shout out to Frank.
Hey.
Apparently he's the only
yes
therapist in the entire,um, first responder circle.
Yeah.
She says that he should talkto Frank about going to court,
and Josh is like, horrified.
He's like, "You think I should doit." But he, but Maddie says, "No.

(01:22:31):
I think you should consider whatit means if you don't do it."
Mm.
"So you can get your power back."
Yes, we do actually get the episode title.
"Like you keep saying that youfeel powerless." He hasn't said
it on camera, but I'm assumingthat she's like paraphrasing here.
Everyone else has saidthat they're powerless
and Maddie wants Josh to considerthat perhaps if he faces Greg and

(01:22:53):
tells him how he's feel, he willget his power back and she bounces
leaving to Josh to consider this.
While he is considering this,we go back to Karen who has, I'm
assuming rehired the babysitter?
Or maybe she told Hen that she wouldtake care of the babysitter and then

(01:23:17):
told the babysitter that no, they didactually need them for that evening.
'cause she is now at Chimney's apartment.
Yep.
She's ditched the kids
and Chimney looks very confused tosee Karen standing on his doorstep
and Karen greets him with, "Who'sImelda?" and Chim's like, but
like, "Who's Imelda to you too?

(01:23:38):
Like, what the fuckare you talking about?"
Yeah.
And Karen holds up a phone withtext message notifications on
it and which turns out laterto be a photo of Hen's phone.
Yes.
Confusingly.
But yeah, so Chim's like, "What am Ilooking at here?" And Karen's like,
"Proof that Hen's cheating on me."

(01:23:58):
Chim's like, "What? Hen would neverdo that. I mean, not after what
happened the last time she did that."
So Karen starts presenting all of herevidence, um, which is like the, the
text messages, the slip of paper, whichapparently contains dates and the name
of a hotel, which Karen thinks is likefuture, um, rendezvous with this Imelda.

(01:24:23):
Um, yeah.
'cause you'd write them downon a slip of paper, obviously,
And stick it into your wallet.
Exactly.
Um, Chimney wants to know ifKaren found anything else on
Hen's phone, and Karen said "no.
The, the phone was locked.
I couldn't get into it.
I just took a photo of the, thetext messages," and Chimney's, like,
"well, did you use her thumb tolike unlock the phone while she was
sleeping?" And Karen is horrified.

(01:24:44):
Like, "Ew, no."
Ew.
But then she thinks, what?
"Wait, did you do that?" AndChim's like, "No, of course not.
Buck did it to me onceafter I got stabbed.
Anyway,"
I, I did this whole scenemade me laugh I have to admit
I, I mean, as much shit as we give thewriting, this scene is very well written.

(01:25:08):
I do love this.
It's, yeah, the little throwawayreferences to like throwaway callbacks to
previous episodes and previous storylines.
Yeah.
Yes.
Very, very clever.
Um, and then we get the, um,"There's a charge in our credit
card for a teppanyaki restaurant.
She said she took youthere for your birthday.
Is that true?" And Chim, rather thancovering for Hen, and saying like,

(01:25:31):
"Yeah, we went to teppanyaki." Instead,he shakes his head and he is like,
"I can't believe she, she lied aboutthat because I love teppanyaki."
It's like his allegiance to Henhas been completely destroyed by
the fact that she used teppanyaki.
Yeah.
But just like, not the fact that she mightbe like, oh, but I do, I love teppanyaki.

(01:25:51):
And the funny, like, thiswas Karen's reaction too.
Yes.
Like, which just like,oh, you didn't invite me.
I love teppanyaki.
Which like,
there's a reason they're all besties.
You know?
I mean, it begs the question if Karenhad said, like, she said that, you
know, you went out for drinks or likeyou went to this rest, this other
restaurant, would Chim have gone,"oh yeah, we definitely did that."

(01:26:12):
Uh, yeah.
Prob yeah.
But because teppanyaki is sacred,he's like, I am not, I'm not lying.
I'm not lying about teppanyaki.
And yeah, so.
Karen's mad because Hen liedto her right to her face.
Chim's mad because she wasusing him to lie to Karen.

(01:26:34):
And like, yeah, Karen's like, we're,"We barely survived the last time.
Now we have two kids to thinkof." Chim's like, "I really
wish I knew how to help you."
And she goes, "I, you got anything todrink?" and he goes, "I got coffee."
And they just stare at each other.
And then he is like, "I'll, I'll,I'll get something stronger."
I love it.
Like this whole thing is just thebest part of this episode, honestly.

(01:26:55):
It
really is.
Um, I don't know what they found,but when we return from commercial,
we're back at Chimney's apartment.
Except this time it's Maddie openingthe door to Hen and Maddie is like, "Oh
my God, thank God you're here. I foundthem like this. I don't think Karen can
drive home." And we see Karen and Chimlike almost passed out on the couch.

(01:27:17):
They're just, they're extremely drunk.
And Maddie must have got homeand just went, oh my God.
And just immediately rang Hen.
Chim still has a bottle in his hand,
but he is also, he foundbubblegum somewhere.
Yep.
Um, and if you thought that Karenand Chim best was good when they were
sober, when they're drunk, it's amazing.

(01:27:42):
So funny.
It's so funny
because Karen immediately starts stickingit into hen and Chim is right there.
He's like, Karen's like "I am sickof the lies." And then he hear
Chim going, "lies!" "I'm sick ofthe betrayal." "So much betrayal!"
So much betrayal.

(01:28:05):
And Maddie is very diplomaticallylike, "Hey Chim, maybe we should, you
know, give them some privacy." AndChim's like, "Why do I have to leave?
It's my apartment.
And she is the one that's cheating."
When Hen does this big double take,she's like, "I'm, I'm not cheating."
And they both just like, Ugh.
Yeah.

(01:28:25):
Eventually, eventually theyget to the bottom of it.
So,
but it's just, I just love the, likeshe hold, holds up her phone and
Chim's like pointing at the phone and
like gesturing and she
pulls out the slip, the slip of paperand Chim's like gesturing to the paper.
So silly.
Long story short, we eventually discoverthat Imelda is Dr. Royce, who was the

(01:28:49):
surgeon that performed the surgerythat Hen got dragged into because she
wouldn't let go of the guy's artery.
And Hen,
which was really stupidand reckless by the way.
Thanks Chim.
Yeah.
Maddie's like, "You should stop talkingnow." And Chim's like, "She had a
meet cute over an open chest wound."
That's not right.

(01:29:10):
Um, it turns out it wasn't a meet cute,it was just a meet because, um, Dr. Royce
has been talking to Hen about Hen possiblytaking her MCATs, which I think is like
the entrance exam to get into med school.
Yeah,
yeah, that's right.
Because Hen is thinking about becomingan actual doctor and I love that Karen

(01:29:31):
just immediately turns on a dime.
She's like, "You, you wannabecome a doctor?" Oh, we do
have, we do have to mention
"You'd
be
an amazing doctor!"
That, um.
That when Hen tells them that Imeldais Dr. Royce, Chim's like "A doctor?
Least it's better than the last oneshe was cheating on you with, Karen,"
and Karen's like, "but I'm a doctor.

(01:29:53):
Why is she cheating on me with a doctor?
I'm a doctor!"
"I have a PhD!"
Anyway, Karen is absolutelyin love with the idea and very
supportive of Hen becoming a doctor.
Chim, on the otherhand, not so supportive.
Chim goes straight back into sulking.

(01:30:14):
Yeah, yeah.
But no one's,
I'm choosing to head canon that theywent home and act like maybe after Karen
sobered up, um, they actually had a, adiscussion about how she automatically
assumed that hen was cheating again.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
They definitely need to have that talk.
We don't get any kind of resolveof this actual storyline because

(01:30:37):
No, that's not sexy.
Instead we get, um.
Like apparently can, uh, Karen hasa doctor kink because she dresses
Hen up in the doctor's coat thatHen got given in the last episode.
Um, yeah.
And then I guess takes it off herlater possibly with her teeth.
I don't know.

(01:31:00):
Yeah.
But no,
Good for them!
No actual like discussion aboutthe fact that Karen immediately
assumed that Hen was cheating.
Yeah.
I feel like Hen would've beena little more upset about it.
Oh, she should have been.
100%.
Yeah.
We don't see that.
No, because that, that'slike actual character stuff.
We don't have room for thatin the episode apparently.

(01:31:21):
No, we don't.
Uh,
we could have taken out this sceneand had some actual character growth.
Yeah.
We got prom night.
Yeah.
But no, we get this instead.
Oh yeah.
So it is, it is prom day.
Uh, may is at the salon.
Michael has dropped Harryoff at the Andersons.
Who are the people up the roadthat he set fire to the front

(01:31:42):
of their house, is that correct?
I think so.
Is that them?
Um, anyway, he's, he's checking,he's come to the house to check on
Bobby to see if he's, if he's okay
and Bobby is not okay.
He is not fine, but "I'm managing."Um, but yeah, seeing her like
that makes him feel powerless.

(01:32:06):
I, I hope I can say this is the last timeyou actually say the words, but I think
there's a voiceover later, which probably,
no, I don't see any more highlights.
I think we're good.
Think this is the last one.
I'm trying to work out whenthis is because Bobby was
gonna stay at the hospital.
Why is he back at the home alone?
I'm, I'm assuming like when he said hewas gonna stay at the hospital, like

(01:32:29):
he was gonna sleep at the hospital, um,
maybe he came home for a shower.
The last time we saw him, hewas in duty uniform still.
So I'm guessing he's come back,he's now in civvies in this scene.
But yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe he went to get pajamas or something.
I don't,
yeah.
He might have gone home to change.
Don't, don't think about it.
To get Athena's phone charger.
Don't think about it.
Just let's just get through it.

(01:32:49):
'cause this is so ridiculous.
Yes.
So Michael says that, youknow, Bobby feels powerless.
Um, and Bobby agrees that he,he doesn't know what to do with
that feeling of powerlessness.
And Michael says, "Well, you knowwhat? A wise man once told me that
he couldn't offer me any sage advice.All he could offer me was a hammer."

(01:33:12):
And said, wise man, like, Michael'sthrowing Bobby's words back in his face.
'cause that's what Bobbytold him in "Rage".
Yeah.
At first, um, I, I must have missed thesecouple of lines because they, one minute
they were talking about being powerlessand then I looked back and they were
swinging hammers?
Like smashing stuff up with a hammer.
I'm like, what?
Did they go back to the smash room place?

(01:33:35):
That would make sense.
So I had to rewind it a bit.
I'm like, no, no, they'reactually smashing up the house.
Okay.
Yeah.
He goes, Bobby goes, okay, cool.
Not, what do you want me to do witha hammer without missing a beat?
Like there's, Michael obviously hadthis idea the entire time because he
just looks straight at the fireplaceand goes, "I never did like that."
Like I built it, but I never did like it.

(01:33:56):
Then why did you build it?
Yeah, right.
He's the architect.
Well sometimes you build stuff andthen you look at it and you go, oh,
actually I don't really like it.
That happens.
But anyway, he's Bobby's like,"Athena's going to kill us." And
Michael's like, "Don't worry,I'll build you guys a new one."
I mean, that's not gonna fix Athenakilling them 'cause they're gonna be dead.

(01:34:19):
They can't, you can't build 'ema new fireplace if they're dead.
Yeah.
I mean they just lay into thewall with the sledgehammer.
And can I just thank, I mean, thank GodAthena is in the hospital and they do end
up taking prom pictures at the hospital.
Could, could you imagine trying totake prom pictures in this destruction?

(01:34:45):
In the house?
Yeah.
Like I know that there like indu, likeindustrial chic is a thing and it's
very in to have like wedding photosand like industrial parks and you know,
but I, I don't think the constructionsite is really what May was going for
no.
Broken bricks and dust.
But they look like they'rehaving a great time.
Yeah.
Obviously works to get all the anger outbecause by the time they actually go back

(01:35:07):
to the hospital for prom photos they bothlook a lot more relaxed about everything.
Way more relaxed.
So they're taking photos inthe, in the hospital room.
Yeah.
'cause ma didn't wanna Athena to miss out.
Yeah.
And Harry is taking the pictures.
Yes.
As you said before.
He thinks they shouldpay him for his services.

(01:35:31):
Uh, and Darius, bless him, says that,um, Athena has to be in a photo and
she's like, "Oh, no, I'm, I'm not in anycondition for a photo," but May insists
because "I couldn't be more proud.
You got him, you won." And she wantspictures to remember this moment.

(01:35:51):
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, it's a very cute sentiment.
But also they're gonna look back atthe pictures and go, oh, that's right.
You were in hospital afterbeing beaten up by a bad guy.
You're like, you know, thiswas my high school graduation.
This was my prom night when mymother got beat up by a rapist.
Um,
oh yeah.
Especially, you know, consider, yeah.

(01:36:12):
It's, it's not photos that May'sever gonna wanna look back on.
Yeah, no.
And then we're gonna get just like littlewrapping up of the storylines just to
tie this episode off in a nice bow.
So Josh takes Maddie's advice and decidesthat he's going to reclaim his power and

(01:36:33):
he is gonna give a statement in court.
Chimney is still drunk orvery rapidly sobering up
Very hungover.
Yeah.
And having to, having to dealwith the fact that, um, Hen
is potentially leaving him
Aw.
For another specialty.
He's so sad about it.
Yeah.
Um, Hen and Karen are getting it onwith their, like, Dr. Dr. Dr. Kink.

(01:36:58):
Yep.
Athena poses for prom photos.
Harry's very cute.
And she's, she's posing and he'stelling her, oh, I get it, mama.
Everybody's laughing.
Everybody's smiling, andshe still looks gorgeous.
She still does look amazing.
Half of her face is all bruised.
And you'd think that.

(01:37:19):
This would be the perfectplace to end the episode.
Like on a high note.
Everybody's happy.
We're all good, right?
No, no, no.
We've got one more ending.
Wait, there's more.
There's more.
There's another ending.
But wait, there's more.
No, but wait, there's more.
Um, we have, I have a last minute9-1-1 call, which appears to be, yeah,

(01:37:39):
Maddie teleports to dispatch.
I'm gonna assume it'sthe next day or later on.
I don't know, because Yeah, we justsaw Maddie trying to deal with her,
with Chim.
Yeah.
Drunken slash hungover boyfriendwho is, um, having sads and then
suddenly she's taking this 9-1-1 call.

(01:38:00):
And it's a very professional 9-1-1 call.
The caller immediatelygets to the details.
"There's been a train derailment.
Here is the location.
We started off at this locationwhere we're heading into here.
We've crashed somewhere in this location."
Maddie tries to jump in to startasking all of the questions
that she's supposed to answer.

(01:38:21):
And the caller's like, "There aremultiple injuries. This is a mass
casualty situation you need to send outevery available RA unit. We need USAR,
we need LAPD for traffic control." Juststarts listing off all of the things that
Maddie would normally be doing when sheknows that it's a mass casualty event.
Um, yeah.
And all, all through this as well,the callers walking through the train

(01:38:44):
carriage, but with their back tous, like we're over their shoulder
so we can see all the injuries andthe damage and destructions, but
we can't see who's on the phone.
Maddie's frantically typing.
We can only see thecaller's beautiful hair.
We can see them.
We can see the beautiful hair.
The voice sounds oddly familiar.
Um, yeah.
And while Maddie and Josh jump togetting a mobile command center up

(01:39:07):
getting us a getting LAPD, getting LAFD.
Um, Maddie tells the caller, "Itseems like you've done this before."
And the caller says, "Yeah, but I wason your end." And then we see the caller
turn around as they say, "I used tobe a 9-1-1 dispatcher." And it's Abby.
It's Abby!

(01:39:28):
Abby!
Which when I first watched thisepisode, I was very excited about
because I love Abby and I thought itwas great that they brought Abby back.
Yeah,
yeah.
We'll find out your thoughtsabout that next time.
Yeah.
Anyway, I dunno how I was surprisedthe first time I watched it.

(01:39:50):
Like, and I have in my notes like, "ohmy god, Abby" with a question mark.
But like, look, now that I know thatshe is like in the next episode.
Like the last two episodeshave been Abby, Abby.
Abby.
Abby.
Abby, Abby.
Yeah.
They have been recalling herlike a lot, I mean, yeah.
And then
it's like, oh, look, Abby's here.
What a, how strange.

(01:40:11):
Well, I probably wouldn't, I probablywould've been more surprised, except
at the end of the last episode, youwere like, "Oh, I wonder why they keep
matching Abby." I'm like, oh, okay.
She's coming back.
Like, I mean, it kind of madesense when they had that big thing
about Red, um, because, you know,

(01:40:31):
oh, yeah,
Red was Buck all grown up and he,you know, there was the patient
with dementia, so Oh, yeah.
It's, it's natural that they're going tohave the, the Abby parallels, but also,
and then the hot air balloon.
Why did they have to have so many Abbyparallels and then you throw in...
There was a lot.
They just needed to remindpeople who Abby was.
I think that, I think that was it.

(01:40:51):
I think that was, they neededto like, Hey, remember Abby?
Remember Abby?
'cause you're gonna need to rememberher to get the maximum impact,
like two episodes down the line.
But thankfully that is theending for this episode.
Yeah, that is the final ending.
We don't have any more endings after this.
We, we get, we do end with a big, like,sweeping shot that's like an overhead

(01:41:15):
shot of the train and like, it's bad.
One of them's almost vertical.
Everything's on fire.
Um, and that's where it ends finally.
So next week, um, train disaster?
Funnily enough, yes, the 118 rushto the scene of a train crash.

(01:41:36):
There is other shit that happens.
But that's all we hearabout for this episode.
Yeah.
Like there's nothing I knowthat you've seen there isn't.
There is a, a pretty major gueststar in next week's episode.
No mention of her.
Oh yeah.
It's just all about the train crash.
Yeah.
They could have said that she returns.

(01:41:59):
Well, the summaries usually comeout earlier than the episodes,
but like remember when, um, Lena wasthere, all of the promos were like guest
starring, um, you know, Rhonda Rousey.
Yeah.
Because they wanted people who wereinto Rhonda Rousey to watch, obviously.
Um, yeah, no mention of Brook Shields.

(01:42:21):
I would've thought that for a showthat was pushing Angela Bassett and
Peter Krause and Connie Britton askind of the, these are the actors
that you wanted, that are in thisshow that you wanna watch, Brook
Shields kind of fits that demographic.
I would've thought they'd havepushed her pretty hard too.
But there's no mention of her.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, it's a big one.
The promo summary does not also mentionlike three quarters of the triggers

(01:42:48):
that are gonna happen for this.
For the next week's episode, whichas well as the train derailment, mass
injuries and fatalities, includingchildren at threat, um, we're gonna
have continued discussions of cancer.
We are going to have flashbacksto Athena's assault in the
previous episode and discussionsof rape and sexual assault.

(01:43:09):
Yep.
'cause we've still gotta tidy upthat whole Jeffrey storyline too.
Oh yeah.
But that's not sexy.
Train derailments are sexy.
Yes.
Yeah.
So next week being the seasonfinale, that's amazing and I can't
believe we've made it all theway to the end of season three.
So the "Powerless" episode, I mean,we've already spoke about what we

(01:43:32):
thought about the overuse of the wordpowerless every, every in, every scene,
and it going from like metaphoricallypowerless to being literally powerless,
literally power being powerless.
Yeah.
Like the HenRen stuff and the KarenChimney stuff was the best part of the
episode, which is saying something.

(01:43:56):
I mean, not even the Hen Ren stufflike, I mean they were cute and
everything, but it was like, do weneed, did we really need her to be
like suspected of cheating again?
Yeah, right.
It seemed a bit pointless.
Bobby having to listen to Athena gettingbeaten up was absolutely devastating.
Yeah,
that I think every decisionabout storylines for this one

(01:44:18):
was what is the most dramaticway that we can possibly do this?
Does not matter if it's realistic.
There is no room forrealism in this episode.
We just want drama.
Yeah.
It was all very over the top.
But anyway, I didn't, Ididn't hate the episode.
I, I thought by the, there werevery funny parts to it, especially

(01:44:42):
Karen and Chim being drunk together.
That was great.
Yeah.
And the, in the,
so much betrayal
I think we, I think we need to do likea ranking of Kristen Reidel episodes.
Like it's not the worstKristen Reidel episode.
Um, no, but it's definitely not the best.
But she's done better.
Yeah.
Yeah,
yeah.
I mean, I'm wondering whethershe wrote, because there were

(01:45:05):
two writers for this one.
I wonder if they wrotedifferent storylines and they
all got shoved together again.
Like, um, sometimes happenswhen with co-writing.
I dunno.
Um, but there were so many, therewere so many moving parts in this
episode that all had had like littlechoppy scenes that came one after

(01:45:25):
the other that, yeah, I don't know.
It'd be difficult to work it out, I think
Fly on the wall.
Would love to be a fly on thewall in a writer's room sometimes.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Yes.
Onwards to the finale, right?
Yes.
Um, speaking of which, this is probablythe last opportunity that you guys,
listeners have to send your feedbackfor, for season three, because after

(01:45:51):
this, after you're hearing this, weare gonna be recording our wrap up.
Oh God.
Which means I need to look at thelist of episodes and decide which one,
which ones I liked and which ones Ididn't like better do some homework.
Yeah.
So if you would like, if you would like todo your homework from previous wrap up, we
usually discuss, uh, the best and worst.

(01:46:12):
Including best and worst episode.
Best and worst character for the season.
We also like to discuss our favoriteemergency call for the season.
Um, this season we're also going togo the best and worst 9-1-1 calls as
in the literal call into 9-1-1 thatthe dispatchers have to deal with.

(01:46:34):
Yeah, I've got a list.
I went through all theepisodes for season three.
Um, it's dismal, my God, and hilarious.
Yes.
So if you have thoughts about any ofthose things, please let them know and
don't forget, you can also give feedbackon That Weewoo Show's season three.
Were there any outtakes youfound particularly hilarious?

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Did were there any rants ortangents that you found interesting?
Have you learned more about Australia?
Do you have any questions for us?
That you would like to ask us eitheras watchers of 9-1-1 or as Australians,
um, no matter what feedback or questionsyou send in, please remember that
Ellen has only seen up to the end ofseason three, and we are trying to

(01:47:17):
keep her as spoiler free as possible.
We're not succeeding.
She does know some stuff, but we'retrying really hard to keep her shielded.
Yeah, I should mention that as, asof recording, uh, season eight, I
mean, yeah, season eight, episode 16.
Yeah, we just watched 16.
I just aired.

(01:47:38):
Um, so we are aware of what iscurrently happening in 9-1-1.
Uh, Bex and I are choosing to ignoreit, just like Nick Fury in The Avengers.
It's a stupid ass decision andwe've elected to ignore it.
So, um, yeah.
We are aware, um, Ellen is somewhataware, but we're still shielding her

(01:47:58):
and we're not going totalk about it with her
just season three
because we don't want to makeher any more aware of it.
Um,
that's it.
So just season three.
Um, but we are aware and are ignoring it.
Oh, you are making me so worried.
Okay.
See, this is also why we don'twanna talk about it because we
don't want to like influence yourthoughts about future seasons.

(01:48:19):
It's fine by the time you get to seasonnine, uh, eight, eight, you'll forget
probably it's gonna be a long wayoff if we are currently going at
this rate one, one episode per week.
But we're almost done with season three.
So you can send us feedback forthe whole season to via email or
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