4.08: Breaking Point

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9-1-1.
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We do draw the line atsacrifice, animal or otherwise.
Yes.
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Glad we could inspire that we had fun.
Yeah, we, I think we did.
Yes.
It's been a while.
I can't remember.
Speaking of being unable toremember things, um, Alice,
would you mind reminding us whathappened Last episode in 9-1-1?
Yes.
So last week on 9-1-1, Michael andBobby played amateur detectives and

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caught an illegal surgeon, Buck'sterrible date, introduced Albert
to their new neighbor and Hen'smother arrived into town to stay,
but after all of that heartache lastweek, she didn't show up at all this week.
Yeah.
We don't see her this week.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
She doesn't,
even though she apparently livesthere, she's just, she's gone.

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Yeah.
She was having a sleepover.
You know how it is.
Yep.
All right.
So this episode is episodeeight, titled "Breaking Point".
Um, and it first aired in March.
On March 8th, uh, 2021.
The official summary goes, the 118are called to the tarmac when a flight

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attendant reaches her limit withtheir flight's passengers, Athena
discovers that quarantine has pusheda couple to their breaking point.
Um,
drink.
Yeah, it's, it's even in theactual summary this time.
Yeah.
Already it's in the summary.
Mean.
Meanwhile, Eddie worries Christopherwill not accept him dating, comma,

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Buck reconnects with an old flame,
Buck reconnects with an old flame,and finds himself in the middle
of Albert's new relationship.
And Maddie and Chimney make a
comma,
comma, and Maddie and Chimney makea big decision about their baby.
Those are three separate incidents.

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Buck is not in the middle ofeverybody's relationships.
Sad, um, or not sadly, as the case may be.
I mean, he usually is, but you know,
yeah.
Not this time.
Not this time.
Um, so yeah, in this episode, we do havethe triggers include claustrophobia,
which is being sealed behind a wall.

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We have domestic violence, uh, fostercare system, minor gore and needles in the
form of lots of people given a vaccine.
We've got some theories as to why this,um, scene is actually in this episode, so,
okay.
Let's get into it then.
Uh, so we are going to start, like thesummary said on the tarmac at an airport.

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We're not exactly, we are not told whichairport we're at, we're just at a generic
airport on a generic airplane, whichis currently, uh, waiting for a gate.
And it appears that it's been waitingfor a while because our two favorite

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baggage handlers are just hangingout on one of their baggage carts.
Yeah.
And yeah, I saw these guys and I waslike, I'm sure we've seen that guy before.
He was he one of the guys?
Yeah.
So you and Buck are onthe same wavelength there.
Yeah.
I didn't recognize him at all.
I was like, what?

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I don't know why I recognized him.
I just looked at him and went, I'm surewe've seen that guy before, but, yeah.
Yeah.
So they, uh.
Uh, Darryl, one of which isthe, um, the more, oh, what
is the word I'm looking for?
Conscientious worker of the two ofthem, the, um, tells us that the flight

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from Orlando has been delayed again.
Yeah.
I feel sorry for these planepassengers because, I mean,
Orlando is in Florida, right?
So it'd be like a, I don't know, five hourflight or something across the country.
And then they're stuck on this plane.
So they've already been waiting for alittle while and then we cut to inside
the plane and we're told that theyhave to wait for another 30 minutes.

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Yeah.
Yeah.
So one of my friends was actuallyon a flight this week, and her
flight was delayed after they'dalready boarded all the passengers.
So before they left, they were juststuck on the tarmac for three hours.
Oh, three hours.
Oh my God.
Three hours.
Well, that happened to us when,when we were leaving Melbourne
the other few weeks ago.
We were stuck on the plane forlike an hour before we left,

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but it wasn't three hours.
Oof.
Yeah.
Why didn't they deboard the plane?
Is that because I, they didn't haveto take all the luggage off as well?
I assume so.
I'm not too sure.
All I know is that shewas stuck three hours.
Luckily she wasn't flying alone,so she had someone to chat to.
But yeah, far out.
Oh God.
So for reasons known only to thewriters of 9-1-1, um, there is only one

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cabin crew working this entire plane.
Yeah,
yeah.
I don't know what happened to the others.
Like they got lost up mid-flight,but there's usually more
than one flight attendant.
Well, judging by the number of rowsacross, I'm guessing that these guys
are, my only explanation is that theseguys are business class or first class.

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'cause there is a shot at onepoint where we see kind of a
curtain behind the back row.
So I'm assuming there are more cabincrew like further down the plane.
'cause there's no way that youwould have like a row on the,
they have three rows columns?
So you've got two seatsdowns down the side row.
You've got seats in the middleand then seats at the window.

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There's no way the plane would have likethat many rows and then that's just it.
Yeah.
It does seem like a very small...
it would have to go back further.
Yeah, you're right.
Yeah.
But even so, there should be at least one,
like I feel
like there should be more crewaround there should at least.
Right?
Definitely.
And there should be more crew whenlike Molly loses her shit later on.
Yeah,
yeah.
The chief, the chief pursershould be coming up to like,

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what the fuck is going on woman.
But we'll get there.
So we have to, we haveto see the, the chaos.
Um, 'cause the passengers are, um.
They are very frustrated, uh, tobe sitting in the airplane and
they're starting to get restless.
Mm-hmm.
They're reaching their breaking point.
Breaking point.

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Yeah.
For safety reasons, they have tostay like in their seat with their
seat belts on because the planemight start moving at any moment.
Um, but they're done.
Like one gentleman gets up to tryand get his bag out of the overhead
locker, um, which pisses Molly off.
'cause she's like, you haveto, like, your bag can wait.
And he's like, no, I'm getting it now.

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And then I will sit down.
There is a child who requests apple juiceand because they are still technically
taxiing, there is no, um, there'sno beverage service at that point.
And this child, the child's motherhas requested the apple juice.
The child is too busy sneezingand then pulling its mask down

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to wipe its nose on its sleeve.
Ugh.
It
And then they sneeze inMolly's face as well.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Because, because at some pointthe, the mucus gets too much and
the mother like yeets the kidinto the aisle to get a tissue.

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Um, and when Molly kind of crouchesdown to go, I'll get you a tissue,
but you gotta get back in your seat.
He it full on sneezes in her face.
Yeah.
Sends her flying backwards.
But that's, that's not what.
That's not the straw thatbroke the camel's back.
The straw that broke the camel'sback is another gentleman, um, who
had got out of his seat to go to thebathroom, which again, you are not

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supposed to do when the plane is waitingbecause technically it's taxiing.
The toilets are closedbecause it's a safety issue.
Uh, when Molly goes flyingbackwards, he takes the opportunity
to cop a feel as he so gentlemangentlemanly helps her to her feet.
Ugh.
Yeah.
And yeah, she just losesher shit at that point.

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I'm pretty sure the like five bottlesof airplane alcohol that she downed....
oh yeah.
When
to try and calm her nerves did not help.
She,
at one point when she went into the frontthere to hide, to kind of gather her
wits and pulled out a bunch of littlebottles of alcohol and just swilled
them, um, yeah, that's not helping.
After she begged the captain, why can't wejust push the other plane outta the way?

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Yeah.
The captain's like,yeah, we can't do that.
Just calm 'em down.
So she, you know,
her breaking point is rapidlyapproaching and she's about to get this.
Yes.
So she's boozed up, she's pissed off.
She's just been sneezed on and groped.
So she gets back onto the loudspeakerand uh, says that "on behalf of the

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entire flight crew," and I'm like.
What flight crew?
Yeah.
Where are they?
That, well, let's just say thaton behalf of the, on behalf of
herself, um, that all of herpassengers are a bunch of ungrateful,
disgusting, miserable, spoiled brats.
And she is done.

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So she asks all of her passengers toput their tray tables in the go screw
yourself position and place your personalbelongings where the sun don't shine
because this is where she gets off andshe grabs a bottle of champagne out of the
galley fridge, um, deploys the emergencyevacuation slide and declares "Molly out."

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I know this part is actually based on atrue story where, um, a flight attendant
like quit and just used the emergencyexit to yeet himself outta the plane.
Yes.
But what, what I, what I found hard tobelieve was that after all of like the
actual emergency cards that you get inthe back of your, like seat pocket, show

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you the correct way to go down the slide.
And I'm sure anybody who works,
It's not to just jump off?
Like an idiot?
She just throws herself downand she doesn't even try,
she just throws herself down.
And I'm sure that the cabin crew wouldhave training on how to properly, like
slide down the slide safely so thatthey can, you know, land elegantly
and be ready to help the passengersas they come sliding off with their

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pet carriers and their luggage.
Yeah.
Um, but she doesn't, she,she just yeets herself.
Um, and goes rolly poly-ing down, Darrylsees this, um, and he has, he jumps
into the baggage carrying cart andstarts driving towards the plane and the

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slide so that he can offer assistance.
And I think we are supposed to believethat the rolly poly-ing action was
enough to cause pressurized thepressure to build up in the champagne
bottle and it caused the bottleto release the cork prematurely.

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Yeah.
She must have been startingto undo it as she's jumped out
or jumping out or something
because Yeah, because we see where thatcork ends up in a second and it still
has the muselet, which is the little wirecage that goes over the top of the cork,
which is to stop the cork from flying off.
Mm-hmm.
Um, so how so unless she had completelyloosened that before she, uh.

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It's so very much for the drama,
for, for the drama, the champagnecork... Like he tries to, Darryl is
running towards her, basically gonnacatch her as she comes down the slide.
Yes, I know what he, dunno whathe's thought he was, was gonna do.
Um,
I don't know
but she like barrels into him and heends up like, we don't actually see what

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happens to him, but, but we see Wadethe other guy and he is like, "Oh my
God!" He's like freaking out about it.
We hear like champagnecork popping 31 wav.
Um, yes.
And then we see the other guy freakingout and then we get the title card.
Yeah.
And after the title card, weget the 118 on the tarmac.

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Just, you know, for a change.
I, I, I don't know if the, um, theairport has their own, I'm assuming
this is LAX, I don't know if the airporthas their own firefighters, but that
doesn't matter because the 118 are there.
And screw those guys.
I'm going to assume.
I think they do, butthey still call external.

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We must have had this discussion beforebecause this is not the first time that
the 118 have been called when airport,
yeah.
The most interesting part is that, sothe 118 had been called, they, they get
onto the tarmac and over to the plane.
Darryl can't breathe.
This entire time.
And yet they've been dispatched, got tothe airport, got onto the tarmac, which

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surely re like, requires some sort of
security clearance?
Clearance.
Yeah.
Um, and he's still likestruggling to breathe.
Anyway, so
Yes.
So he must be able tobreathe a little bit then.
But he's having trouble breathing.
I dunno.
That's what Wade says.
So, um, um, Hen's trying todeal with Molly and Wade is just

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like, "no, like ignore her."
Yeah.
Like the 118 immediately just zero inon Molly and they're like, "no, no, no,
no. Ignore her. She's the whole, she'sthe reason that this has all happened."
Yeah.
She's fine.
Ignore her.
"Ignore her. She can deal withher consequences of her own
actions. Work on my friend here."
Um, yeah, because yeah, Darrell hasa cork in his throat, the whole thing

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thing including the, the metal cage.
Yeah.
And unfortunately it's exactlywhere you would do a tracheotomy.
So they can't even trachehim to help him breathe.
Not,
I would thoughts that they could cut ahole in the lungs or something like that.
Dunno.
But, and I would've thought that if hecan breathe somewhat, then maybe they
should have been hurrying him off to thehospital so that he would be in a more

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sterile and, and, you know, expertise
Yes.
Environment.
But no, we need, need totake the cork out right here
because we need to get the, the thejoke about operation, they have to,
of course, right.
You 100%.
Right.
They should, they should have packed that.
They should have done somethingto get him as much oxygen as they

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could and whisked him off for, tohospital for emergency surgery.
Yeah.
In my professional, notvery professional opinion,
when is this show ever done what isactually what they should be doing?
So they, they work out that he's,he doesn't have any fluid in his
lungs and he's not coughing up blood.

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What's funny is that we've got Chim andHen working on, um, Darryl and the, the
cork, Eddie is working on Molly, Buckis just kind of looking backwards and
forwards and staring at Darryl, tryinglike, you can see his brain ticking over.
He has got an amazing memory for faces.
The one brain cell, like considering,considering Eddie is working, like, so

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he's got the brain cell at the moment.
Buck is doing his hardest to get it back.
He's like, no.
Give it just, just for a sec.I just need it for a sec.
You finally goes, "is it just me ordoes this guy look familiar?" and
Bobby's the one that connects thedots and goes, "oh yeah, this is the
guy we pulled outta the jet engine."
Yeah, I don't know how they remember that.

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I remember nobody ever.
Didn't remember this guy.
Like
Eddie goes, um, "his job seemsmore dangerous than ours." Yeah.
But, um,
yeah, I'd agree with
they, Chim says that they can't, ifwe try to pull it out, it'll clip
the arteries because of the metal.
And Hen just says "you gotta try andpull it out really carefully because

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we don't have another choice." Like,Hen you do have another, like no,
we kind of do have another choice,
but okay, let's do this.
Meanwhile, Molly is in thebackground, you know, getting,
yeah.
We don't care about Molly
getting a neck brace andstuff on her and yeah,
we don't talk about Bruno,we don't care about Molly.

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We don't care about Molly
Uhhuh.
This is where Chim talks about Operation.
It's like, "I guess all that time playingOperation is finally gonna pay off."
Uh, Wade is trying to, to um, to inspireDarryl to, you know, keep breathing
and survive this whole ordeal and saysthat, you know, "I know that I give

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you a hard time 'cause you love thisstupid job, but it's really inspiring.
I just, I wish I cared about anythingas much as you care about these bags."
And Molly's in thebackground, like, "Oh my.
God, shut up.
Try flying the unfriendly skies.
It's all rainbows and unicorns on theground," and Wade's like "You don't
know what Darryl's been through, lady."

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Yeah,
he got sucked into a jet engine witha bunch of golf clubs and he was fine.
I feel like we've seen him before as well.
Or is it just that?
I think it's just Darryl,
just that one.
He might have been in Supernaturalso I dunno, I didn't look
these guys up for that reason.
I'm totally gonna Google it now though.

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Hen and Chimney are playing operation.
I don't
know what Hen's doing though.
I think she's trying to move themetal bit out of the way so that
they can pull it out easier.
'cause they don't wanna shredhis windpipe with the metal bit.
Yeah, I don't know.
But they're poking around around somethingand even and she needs to, she needs to

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concentrate so that she can like fiddlearound in the wound so that then Chim
can very carefully pull the cork and themuselet out without causing more damage.
Which he does.
Yeah.
And there's still a great big holein his neck and they cover it up.
Let's stuff it full of gauze
and hopefully he survives.
I know we never find out.

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But he can breathe againtrying to, but yeah,
Wade is like, you know,"I knew he'd pull through.
Nothing stops Darryl, not a jet engine.
Crazy white ladies.
He'll not quit." And theDarylyl like,waves wade over and just goes, "I quit."
And then Molly says, me too.

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And then Buck utters the
Exposition Buck.
Yeah, utters the episode title.
"Everyone, I guess everyonehas their breaking point."
Drink.
I feel like I'm actually gonnaneed like, some alcohol for this
episode to get all the way through.
Oh, it's very,
oh, yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
Full disclosure, we are not, we'renot the biggest fans of this episode.

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Um, so if this is your favoriteepisode for some reason or
another, um, we're really, sorry,
sorry, sorry.
I think, I think I even put inthe group chat before I started
watching this episode again.
I'm like, guys, I don'tlike this episode at all.
And it's only gonna get worse onceI actually start dissecting it.
Interestingly, I looked it up because,you know, I always have the 9-1-1

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Wiki open while we're recording.
This was the winter final.
Oh,
oh, okay.
Yeah.
So like, this is what theyleft everyone with for however
long the, the winter break is.
Hmm.
Gross.
I, I don't know that I would'vebeen inspired to, you know, wait a
couple of weeks after that episode.
Yeah, I think it's like two monthsor something that they, oh, I don't

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know about the Fox schedule actually.
Okay.
The, the guy who plays Wade is calledhis, his name is Daniel Curtis Lee.
He's in, he's actuallyin two episodes of 9-1-1.
Oh, so he must have,
yeah, this one.
And he's in an episode, uh, inseason three, "Christmas Spirit".
Is that the one that Yeah, the same one.
So he was in, yeah, he wasin the previous one as well.

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He was in the jet engine one
he's, he was also in as,
I don't recognize anyone ever.
Also,
he was also in Glee and he wasin one episode of the Shield.
So how was this the winter finalwhen it aired on March 8th?
I dunno,
what, when did "Blindsided"....okay, so it air on this,

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air on, what did I just say?
March 8th?
Yes.
Um, it, then it didn'tcome back till April 19.
Yeah, that was the, the spring.
There was a short hiatus and middle there.
Yeah.
The, yeah, yeah.
There's like a, always a short,but yeah, I don't know why.
Anyway, um, yeah, so this waslike the, the hiatus and it's a

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very much filler episode anyway.
Then we get the weirdest
it's, this is, oh my God,this is, this is so bad.
It's so weird.
So we come back from commercial and it is.
A closeup of what looksto be a date night.

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We have a, a tablethat's set with candles.
There's wine, there'smostly eaten plates of food.
The food looks terrible.
Um, and look at it, it's iceberglettuce with pasta, with like
big cubes of cheddar cheese.
Oh.
In the pasta and the sauce.
I didn't look that hard.

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Like, what the hell?
No, I wasn't looking that close.
Oh my God.
Speaking of close, though.
Like, there's like sultry r and bmusic playing, and we hear Ana, Ana
and Eddie, and Ana's like, "oh,"Eddie's like, "no, let me," Ana's
like, "oh, you're almost there.

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You're so close."
And the camera's panning away fromthe table across the living room.
We see honest heels have been kicked off.
And then instead of getting the sexscene that the writers are like, trying
to make the audience believe that, um,we're about to see, instead we see, um,

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Eddie struggling to do fourth grade math.
It does, it makes no sense.
Like the, the context makes no sense.
No.
And why are they doing it on a date night?
No sense.
Like, I know Ana's a teacher, but like
why is Ana like, oh myGod, you're almost there.
She's
also an English teacher.
You're so close.

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Why are they doing math's homeworkwhen she's an English teacher?
Is she?
I don't understand this scene at all.
Like, they just wanted to like, theyjust wanted to put in the, uh, we're
gonna think that they're havingsex scene, but it makes no sense.
No.
Like, they could havedone this so much better.
And they did not.
It's so bad.
It's, it's so bad because theycompletely underestimate the

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audience's media literacy.
Like nobody was watching that scene going,oh my God, we're about to see boobies.
'cause somebody's getting some, like,no, you are not gonna see anything.
It's gonna be a bait and switch.
And that's exactly what it was.
It's so like what, like theend... anyway, so Eddie is
struggling to do fourth grade math,

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They're doing math.
Eddie's mad because they've moved, likethey've changed the way that they do it,
um, because they do, what's it called now?
Common Core or some shit,
uh, in the States.
Yes.
It hasn't really changed for ourkids, but it has, it's changed
quite a bit for the kids in theStates and he's still struggling.
But the lead up for this is Anaoffering to come over and help

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Christopher with his math homework.
And then Eddie absolutelyfreezing and panicking at the
suggestion because he's not ready.
Eddie, panicking around a girl?
That doesn't sound, um, anyway.
Uh, yeah.
So, um, Ana completely understandsthat there's, there hasn't
been anyone else since he lost,since Chris lost his mother.

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Um, Christopher's very sensitive.
Um, Eddie is like, "You're anamazing, amazing woman, and a great
cook and a terrible math teacher."
I throw in terrible cook too, 'causethat that meal looked pretty shite.
Really.
I, I'm pretty sure Eddiecan't cook either, so
he's getting better.

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We do have to mention that she, that Anahas this habit of Edmundo-ing him and
Oh yes.
He melts every single time.
Yes.
The heart eyes definitely comeout when, when she Edmundos him.
So, um, the amazing woman, terriblemath teacher, um, is apparently

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like student teacher flirtationbecause, um, Ana then pushes back
saying, "oh, sure, blame the teacher.
That's what all the lazy studentsdo." And Eddie's like, "Oh, lazy?"
And Ana's like, "You heard me." "Well,maybe you need to keep me after class."
And the entire time he's doing this,he's leaning in closer and closer and

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she's leaning in closer and closerand they're angling their heads.
And, um, Ryan does like the, thefingers under the chin to like
tip the chin back a little so thatthe perfect angle for kissing.
Aw.
And then Eddie's phone alarm goes off
and then his alarm goes off.
Yes.

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Like they're inches,inches away from kissing.
They are like smelling eachother's breath at this point.
And the alarm goes
literally like, and he just stops.
He's like, ah, you knowI've gotta get home.
Yep.
Yeah, that's what you get talkinginstead of going in for it.
You couldn't wait 30seconds like Jesus christ
Just shut up and do it.
No, it's that alarm's gotta go offand he's immediately packing up his

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books and hurrying outta the house.
And an has slept on the couchgoing, "Oh, class dismissed." Yep.
Poor Ana.
So Eddie rushes home, but he doesn't rushhome fast enough because as he sneaks in
the front door, he gets a very accusatory,"You are late" from the babysitter who
happens to be booked, who is lurkingby the front door waiting for his

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husband, I mean, his friend to come home.
No wonder Christopher'sstruggling with Eddie dating Buck.
Eddie wasn't even there for it.
So yes, Christopher is already inbed and apparently that makes Buck
a miracle worker, but Buck says no,he's just an excellent negotiator.

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Um, he got in the bed and got readyfor bed, but he, he was not allowed.
Buck was not allowed to turn outthe lights or tell him a story.
That's your job basically.
And Eddie's like, "It just, probably justas well after you told him that little
thing about the kid in the rotisserie,"it's like, oh my God, what is this story?
It sounds awful.

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Yeah.
Like
I wanna hear this story.
Yeah.
Apparently it wasn't a story,it was a cautionary tale,
which means that it was 100%a call that they went on.
Right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sounds kind of horrific.
But anyway.
Yeah,
but Eddie doesn't even, doesn'teven see Buck out or anything.

(29:04):
He's just like, oh, wellthanks for watching him.
And then he like pisses off intothe room and Buck's like, okay, bye.
Oh, but not before heasks how the big date was.
Yeah.
And Eddie's like, "it wasnice. She taught me math."
Buck's like, "I thought I'd been singletoo long." it's like, oh, Buck, I'm sorry.

(29:25):
Poor Buck.
And yeah, then just Buck clearly justlike leaves himself because Eddie
just goes into Christopher's room.
He didn't say bye or anything.
He's just like, okay, you're done.
Bye.
Yeah.
I mean, off you go.
Yeah.
Um, but yeah, so Chris is very,um, accusational when Eddie gets in
and he is like, "where were you?"

(29:45):
Uh, so Eddie says that he toldChris he was at dinner with an old
friend, and Chris is "from Texas?"But no, "from the Army?" "No." And
yeah, Eddie's being very evasive.
I missed Chris.
We haven't seen Chris in ages,and this scene was so lovely.
Yeah, he hasn't been in the last fewepisodes, so it was so nice to see him.
Yeah, I, I missed him.
It was really nice to see him again.

(30:05):
But yeah, so Chris asks again whohe was out to dinner with, and
Eddie says, "Nice try, but we bothknow you're supposed to be asleep.
We can talk about everything else anotherday." So Chris goes, "Okay, tell me a
story." And when Eddie asks, "Which one?"He goes, "The one about your friend,"
cheeky.
Oh, such a little shit.
Eventually Eddie manages to escape.

(30:25):
Christopher must go to sleep, and weare going to check back in on Buck
who has just returned to his loft.
It's dark except for the sort ofthe flickering lights of the tv.
So he heads towards the TV where he cansee Albert, Albert sitting on the couch.
But before he gets there, he accidentallyhits a basket of laundry that's just

(30:50):
like in the middle of the walkway,
literally just in the middle of the floor,
nowhere near the couch.
It's like someone came aroundthe steps and just dropped the
laundry basket by the steps.
Um, and if that's not weird enough,what's even weirder is that there
is a bra in the basket of laundry.
Um, and unless Albert has really beenfeeling himself, now that he's in the

(31:13):
States, I don't think it's his, it doesn'tlook, the, the strap does not look like
wide enough to fit around Oliver's chest.
So it's probably not Buck's either.
Hey, he's not that much of a brickwall yet, but yeah, no, it's not.
Um,

(31:33):
No, it's Veronica's.
Um, but yeah, Albert, she's like,"oh, Buck, what are you doing home?
We thought you were babysitting!" AndBuck's like, "yep. And now I'm home."
But he, but he also picksup on the, the "we",
He did not expect to seeVeronica here in his apartment.
Apparently they were doing somelaundry and Netflix and chilling.

(31:53):
And at this point I was like, okay, Ihave to head canon that Veronica also
lives with an annoying brother-in-lawin her studio apartment, because
why aren't they at her place?
Well, they thought Buck was gonnabe out babysitting all night,
but it's not even Albert's house.
Veronica has her own house
and she had to haul her laundryfrom her apartment down the hall

(32:18):
to Buck and Albert's apartment.
Yeah, I I, that doesn't explainwhy they're doing laundry
at hi at Buck's place, but
No, no, because they're not do, like, theycan't do the laundry in Buck's apartment.
They would have to go downto like the laundry room.
Right?
So all they would be doing would bepossibly folding laundry, which she
can't, can't do anything once it'sfolded because she can't put it away.

(32:41):
It's just the weirdest thing.
It is weird.
I don't understand why they're atBuck's place and not her place.
'cause like Buck's gonnacome home at some point.
Yeah.
But maybe they thought he wasstaying there one night night.
Why not just go to Veronica'splace if Veronica lives alone?
That would be easier for them.
So I don't, I ha I'm like,now I have to head canon.
It's that Veronica also has an annoyingroommate who happens to be home and

(33:02):
that's why they're at Buck's Place.
Because otherwise, I don'tknow why they're not,
I mean, the reason they did this,'cause they had to, you know, we had
to rub Albert and Veronica in Buck'sface, which then causes the whole thing
with Taylor later on, yada yada yada.
But yeah, it makes no sense.
I don't like it.
No.
So Buck peaces out, goes up to his loft,says that he's just gonna go to bed.

(33:25):
Veronica pipes up.
"Yeah, us too." And I'm going,bitch, where are you sleeping?
Yeah.
Where, where are you going?
Albert's on the couch.
Please tell me that you are notsleeping on the couch with Albert.
Because I know it's a nice couch, butI don't think it fits both of you.
She can sleep on Albertwho's sleeping on the couch
and don't sleep together onBuck's couch and like, as in

(33:48):
don't have sex on Buck's Couch.
Yeah.
And yeah.
Don't have sex on someone else's couch.
It's very rude
when Buck is there in a studio apartment.
And considering that's a loft,that's not an enclosed space.
No.
So he can 100% hear anythingthat's happening downstairs.
Yes.
Please go to Veronica's place.
Go.
Yes, Veronica, go home.

(34:08):
Take Albert with you.
Yeah.
Ugh.
Anyway.
Buck's mad.
So weird.
So fucking weird.
Buck is really mad.
Alright, we're gonna checkin on, uh, Maddie, who is
gigantically pregnant right now.
Yeah,
she's huge.
She's gonna pop, but they're, they'rehaving an appointment, uh, via Zoom,

(34:31):
which why?
Yeah, I'm, I'm pretty sure thatyou're allowed to go to the
hospital for an appointment because
here's the thing.
They're talking about the numbersthat they sent doctor, the,
the ob GYN, which is like bloodpressure, kick count, everything.
So they would've had to havegone to a clinic or a hospital
to like get those numbers, right.

(34:52):
So why didn't they just goto her office to get it?
Yeah.
It's so weird.
This, this storyline is ridiculous.
Like, oh, most of the storylinesin this episode are ridiculous.
This one I found even more ridiculous.
But anyway, we will continue.
So the point of the phone call is thatDr. Heller needs Maddie to reconsider
her birth plan because Dr. Hellercannot guarantee that she will be

(35:20):
the person standing at the foot ofthe bed when Maddie goes into labor.
Um, her reasoning is that they'vehad to pull people off the OB GYN
floor to help out in the ER and.
So that their, her office'sprotocols are changing.
So she's going to send all thatinformation over to Maddie.
And Maddie and Chim need to have a lookand then reconsider what they want to do.

(35:43):
And Maddie is just shellshocked.
It's in America.
It, it weirds me out because doctorsdeliver the babies and not a midwife.
So in Australia, our babies are generally,
if you go to a privatehospital, it'll often be the
obstetrician who will deliver.
Yeah, you, you can go private, you canget an ob, GYN who will manage your, the

(36:05):
care during the pregnancy and who willsupposedly be there for the delivery.
But yes, in Australia there is noguarantee that your OB, GYN will be there
unless you are having an induction or ascheduled C-section because they might
not be on call when you go into labor.
They might be away.
They might, something might have happened.
So you can pay through your privatehealth insurance to have this OB,

(36:28):
GYN and still end up with somebodyelse at the foot of the bed.
Yeah.
There is never a guarantee thatyour primary care provider is going
to be there when you give birth.
That's just the reality ofpregnancy and labor for everybody.
Oh yeah.
'cause it's all like, younever when it's gonna be.
Um, but yeah, like, so in, in Australia,generally it's the nurses that
deliver the babies, not the doctors,unless it's a C-section, in which

(36:51):
case, like obviously it's a surgeon.
Um, but to bring it back to 9-1-1,apparently nobody has told Maddie
that this is completely normal.
That your ob GYN may not be theperson, um, at the end of the bed.
Um, I think she is slightly worried aboutthe COVID protocols as well, which, yes.
That, that cracked down on howmany, like, people coming into the

(37:12):
hospital and, and whether you couldhave somebody with you during labor.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I know my bestfriend gave birth in 2020.
Yeah.
September, 2020 was when her son was born.
Ah.
Oh.
And her husband was allowed to be inthe room, but then like, as soon as
the baby was born, he had to leave.
Like he wasn't allowedto stay there overnight.
He wasn't allowed to, um, likebe there for a prolonged period.

(37:36):
Uh, her mom wasn't allowed to visit'cause she really wanted her mom there.
And her mom wasn't allowed to visit.
Um, her husband wasn't allowed atany of the ultrasound appointments.
That sucks.
Um, she had a really bad experience atone of the ultrasound appointments and.
Like her husband was just at work.
Hmm.
Like 100%.
It makes sense.
You don't want someone who'simmunocompromised to possibly be exposed

(37:58):
to COVID and then you don't want Yeah.
Babies to be exposed to COVID becausethey have absolutely no immunity
themselves yet and have never, butit's sucks for the, the grownups.
Yeah.
That's it.
So Maddie's issue is that pregnancyand labor and birth is supposed to be
a joyous occasion, and suddenly it'sbeing very sort of medicalized and

(38:23):
it's, it's not very joyous right now.
Yeah.
So she says, I, she's not having ourbaby in a parking lot and she's not doing
it without chimney, so she has decidedthey're going to have a home birth.
I dunno why her firstthought was parking lot.
Like she's, she's still allowed in thehospital, even if her doctor's not there.

(38:44):
But Sure.
I mean, we do see later on the, uh, withthe, with Taylor storyline that there
are marquees set up in the parking lotwith like COVID overflow treatment rooms.
Yeah.
Maybe that's, it's just, it's, yeah.
So she's worried about there being noroom for her at the hospital at all.

(39:05):
Yeah.
I mean, you could, you could theorize thatshe's like catastrophizing at this point.
Yeah.
Um, I mean, people, people do stillhave home births in this day and age and
they're, they're totally fine, but yeah.
She's like, changed her mind completelyand decided she wants a home birth.
But Chim just stares at her andum, then we cut to a commercial and

(39:28):
when we come back we get ChannelEight news and Taylor Kelly,
yay!
Yay Taylor.
She's back.
She is covering a standoff witha crazed gunman is what the um,
channel eight news sort of tickettape on the screen tells us.
Mm-hmm.

(39:49):
Apparently there was a mancaught breaking and entering.
He decided to run from the LAPD, um,by going out a second story window
and running across the rooftops.
Um, he is not exactly the brightestbark because he ran into or followed
the houses into a cul-de-sacand now he's got nowhere to go.

(40:12):
But he also doesn'twanna get off the roof.
So he is just waving hisgun while standing up there.
Yep.
They've deployed, like everybody is there.
They've got the 118 there on standby.
They've got LAPD havecornered off the area.
Um, they've got like negotiatorsin to try and talk him down off the
roof, much to disgust of, I don'tknow if it's his house or one of

(40:35):
the homeowners in the cul-de-sac.
Actually it is his house.
My apologies.
It's his, yeah.
Who just, who just wantsthe kid off his roof.
He doesn't understand whyeveryone is just standing around.
Yeah.
'cause no one can go anywhere orleave until they get this guy down.
So they're all just sittingaround waiting and watching.

(40:55):
Yes.
And, but it gives them a good opportunityto air all of their grievances that
are going on in their lives and havea chat about, you know, catch up
what's been happening with everybody.
Yeah.
'cause they're there for hours,what else are they gonna do?
Exactly.
Honestly, this this segment, like,like this scene is probably the,

(41:16):
um, my favorite part of the episode.
Yeah.
Like, it's so dumb, but
it's the most interesting.
It's so good because they'reall just bitching at each other.
Like I'm pretty sure like, Buck'sbitching at just a random cop.
Oh no.
Is it Eddie that's bitching at arandom cop at one point, or B Buck?
They, I think they bothdo at different times.
No, Buck.
It's Buck.
Yeah.
So Buck's like bitching at a random copat one point and he's just like, okay.
Like

(41:38):
I thought he was bitching at the, um,the hostage, the, the negotiator guy who
he was, yeah, he was, it was the hostagenegotiator and I think, I swear he must
have given Buck a time limit becauseBuck's talking about what he is talking
about and then the negotiator's watchgoes off and he is like, oh, time's up.
He was, he was probably on break andhe got like bailed up by Buck and he's
like, okay look, I gotta go again.

(41:59):
Bye.
It's so great.
Yeah.
Bye.
Um, yeah, so Athena's there,obviously the 118 are there, um.
It's, and Taylor Kelly's there,
the 118 are putting money onwhat is gonna happen to the guy.
Hen's got 10 bucks on thathe falls off the roof.
Eddie's got 20 that hemakes a jump for a tree.

(42:21):
Um, I think Chimney goesin on one of those as well.
Eddie's reasoning is that theguy's got at least one more
bad life choice left in him.
Um, do, do we think that Hengets it because she, she said,
oh, I dunno,
he falls off the roof.
Yeah, she must take it.

(42:41):
Does that count as, does that count asfalling because it was an assisted fall?
I mean, he still falls.
They do.
Um, they do, they do actually explainwhy they're just leaving him on the roof.
Um, so like he hens, like, it'd be tragicif it wasn't so moronic, but, um, yeah,
so they don't storm the roof becauseit's a tactic that, that the negotiators

(43:06):
use to drag out the process in order towear down the suspect and eventually the
suspect will just hit a breaking point.
Drink.
Thank you Bobby.
Yeah.
Um, they're literally justletting him like yell himself,
horse and pace back and forth.
Yeah, to get himself downbecause he does have a gun, so
it is a dangerous situation.
They don't want him to shootanyone and hurt anyone.

(43:27):
But yeah, so that's whythey're all just hanging out.
So we get captions as well.
Yes, we do get the captionslike one hour in, two hours in.
So after the first hour, um,
yeah, let's break this down hour by hour.
So what, one hour in
Yeah.
Buck has found Taylor
and in between her bits tocamera, she's hearing him bitch

(43:48):
about Albert and Veronica.
Yeah.
Same in between like when she's reportinglive, he's filling her in on the thing.
So like as soon as the cameraman'slike, and we are clear, Taylor goes, "so
you went to apologize about the date,"
poor Taylor
and Buck's like, "Yeah. So thenAlbert walks out of her bathroom in a

(44:10):
towel." So like, clearly they'd beenmid-conversation and they're just
like, oh, Taylor, we're an hour in.
We have to give her an update.
And they just continue it.
It's great.
But what I love about thisexchange is that Taylor is not
amazed at Albert's audacity.
She is amazed that Buck has an apartment.
'cause the last time she hookedup with Buck, he had just moved

(44:33):
out of Abby's apartment and wassleeping on somebody's couch.
I think it was stillMaddie's at that point.
Yeah.
And then, so I think from Maddie, fromMaddie, he moved to Chim's, I think.
Yes.
Um, and yeah, so they were hooking upin first the karaoke bathroom and then
the um, then the back of her news van.
So yeah, she's very amazed that,um, that he has an apartment.

(44:55):
Then we go to two hours in and we'vegot Hen and Chimney and Yeah, he and
Hen's like, "so Maddie really wants tohave this baby at home" Chimney's like,
"I was a nurse, you're a paramedic.
What could possibly go wrong?"And Hen's like, "yeah, I feel
like a 9-1-1 dispatcher shouldknow the answer to that question."
She really should.

(45:16):
Uh, three hours in and the LAPDare taking Cody's lunch order,
which infuriates the homeowner.
Like why are they taking lunchorders instead of arresting him?
And Athena is trying to explainto him, they, they think that
the food will build trust.

(45:37):
Um, at this point, a pizza deliveryman is let through the cordon with
like an entire stack of pizzas.
And she's like, "oh, good lord, howmuch trust are we building?" But no,
that's not for the, um, the thief.
That's for the 118.
Eddie's like, that's for us.
Um, so the homeowner's just like, "Whyhas everyone gotta eat but get to eat?
But me, maybe I'm hungry too."And Eddie's like, "Do you want

(45:58):
some, like, you can have some."
And he can just, he just shrugsand goes, okay, whatever.
Just give me the damn pizza.
Uh, so then four hoursin is my favorite part.
Buck has moved on to talkingto the police negotiator.
And, um, I think he's after a malepoint of view because he's claiming

(46:19):
that what Albert did, breaches thebro code, except the negotiator has
never heard of the bro code before.
Buck's like, "Yeah. You know, the, theunwritten rules of male friendship."
He's clearly never watchedHow I Met Your Mother.
And Yeah, the negotiator's like, "Idon't think that's a real thing."
Buck's like "How do you know? It'sunwritten." Uh, so, and the negotiator

(46:41):
asks how long he Buck dated the womanand Buck's like "90 minutes, maybe
less. 'cause we took dessert to go,"
even if there is a brocode, that would not at all.
Yeah.
Less than 90 minutes I don't think.
Doesn't count.
Think counts.
Yeah.
At that.
That's the point.
The negotiator's alarm goes off andhe is like, "and I'm done. Good luck."

(47:04):
Um, five hours in is my favorite,like four hours was funny.
Five hours is my favorite because everyonehas just given up and they are now
chanting softly begging this dude to jump.
So the camera pan slowly over 118.
So the 118 are all leaning againstthe firetruck, and it starts on Eddie

(47:26):
who's just "jump, jump, jump, jump."And then it hands over to like,
Hen and Chim "jump, jump, jump".
And then it pan over.
And Bobby is also "jump. Jump."
Yeah.
He's got his little hands up, like
six hours in and the dude has not jumped.
He's still up on the roof.
He's still there.

(47:47):
Um, Eddie is now talking to mom anddad, AKA, Bobby, and Athena about
his woes, um, being, how does hetell Christopher that he's a dating
and b dating Christopher's teacher?
They tell him that, that he should,
that's pretty much all it is.
He should rip off off the bandaid and tellhim before he figures it out on his own.

(48:10):
And Eddie's still uming and ahh-ing.
He's like, I don't know what to say.
Buck is still, Buck is talking to Taylor.
He's bailed her up again.
Buck's back to Taylor.
He's gone back to Taylor.
Yeah.
He's looped around.
He is gone back to Taylor.
He's spoken to everyone andhe is gone back to Taylor.
Oh, I dunno.
Poor guy.
He, he thought this was gonna be hisyear 'cause he started going to therapy.

(48:32):
Yeah.
But now the crux of the problem,
but now working on his issue with hisparents and he felt ready to meet someone
and start a meaningful relationship.
Um, I do love that Taylor's likeI've met the people you work with.
Your life is nothing butmeaningful relationships.
Aw.
Buck's like, yeah, but Ican't sleep with any of them.
Yeah, right.
No,
it's, I've tried.
Eddie keeps turning me down.

(48:55):
No Buck's response is I, "itdoesn't seem the same." Um, and
Taylor asks, "Do you ever thinkmaybe you just need to be patient?
Let the universe come to you?" AndBuck gives her the, like, the side eye.
Have you met me?
Do you even know me at all?
She's like, yeah, no.
Hait,
let let the universe scream at you.
Yeah.

(49:15):
The universe doesn't scream, Buck.
Um, while these two are having theirconversation in the background, Mr.
Knowles has taken matters into hisown hand and he's found a ladder and
you can see him walking past withthis ladder tucked under his arm.
Um.
So the negotiator is still workingwith, um, our wannabe thief who is now

(49:40):
treating this as a therapy session.
Um, yeah.
The poor negotiator is, it's, isliterally just being a therapist.
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
And the thief's name is Corey.
He's, you know, complaining about hismother and his brother and how his
mother loved his brother more, andhis brother got everything he wanted.
And Corey never got anything.
Life never went his way.

(50:01):
When is it my child?
Corey wanted a dog.
I don't care.
Nobody cares.
Corey always wanted a dog.
No, it doesn't matter because the,all it is, is it's a lead up to him
going, "Life always goes his way.When is it my turn to fly?" And
suddenly he goes flying off the roof.

(50:24):
Mr. Home just climbed up the other sideand pushed him off the roof and Corey
goes flying straight into the car parked.
I'm assuming that's Mr. Knowles's car.
Yeah.
Right.
It gotta be the homeowner's car.
Yeah.
And he shouts from the top of the roof.
He is like, "The rest of y'all can getoutta here too." it's like, wow, dude.

(50:47):
But it's, uh, everyone, it's such a reliefbecause the 118 just immediately start
running into action because, you know,finally they've got something to do.
The negotiators to sort of clutchinghis pearls going, go "Corey, no!"
'cause he thought the kid jumped.
Um, but no, he was pushed, he didfall though, which is why I think Hen
should be entitled to the, the pot

(51:08):
uhhuh.
Yeah.
And uh, yeah, that six hourslater they can all go home now
I wonder if that that was the, I wonderif they were on overtime after that.
Like if that was the end of the shiftand they just not allowed to leave.
So, or if it, they had to goback to the station and sit
around for a little while more.
Yeah.
Right.

(51:28):
They probably did.
Well now Buck's at home
doesn't look like daytime.
Yeah, he's got some groceries and he'sputting them away but that just, then
Albert comes in and he also has somegroceries and he's like, "It was my
turn to buy groceries." But Buck saysthat he's been spending so much time at
Veronica's that he bought some anyway.

(51:49):
Yeah, so Albert is allowed atVeronica's, but I don't, so I
don't understand what, anyway,
he offers to stop seeing Veronicaif Buck would like that and
Buck's like "No, no, it's fine."
Yeah, but it's not, I'llstop seeing Veronica.
It's just, you know, like, "it was sohard. I was so lonely and I, you know,
I didn't get to meet people and suddenlyI met this cool chick, but I will stop

(52:14):
seeing her if you really want me to."
Yeah, that's not really giving
Of course Buck's notgonna turn around and go.
It's not really giving Buck muchof an opportunity to say no.
So Buck's just like, no, it's fine.
And Albert's, so Albert's happy, they'vegot, they're gonna work on it together.
Um, on Thursday
they have to work through the awkwardness.

(52:35):
So yes, they are going to workthrough it together at Veronica's
Thursday night for dinner.
Yeah.
Which sounds so much fun.
It sounds extremely awkward.
And Albert kind of rubs, he rubs saltin the wound, he says, "Don't worry
about, um, being a third wheel," whichto start with, I thought, oh, that

(52:55):
Veronica was gonna bring a friend to
Yeah, same
set Buck up with, um, but, but even ifshe was, she's not gonna get the chance
because Bucks immediately are like,"oh no, I'm not a third wheel. I have
somebody that I can bring to dinner.Like I'm seeing somebody right now." Um.
Albert's like, "Oh, that's great.

(53:17):
I didn't know you were seeing anyonenew." And Buck's like, "oh, she's,
she's not new." And then we cut toTaylor on the phone with Buck as he asks
her what she's doing Thursday night.
Oh, Taylor.
Oh, Buck.
But before we find out, uh, how dinner'sgonna go Thursday night, we are gonna go

(53:38):
to the dispatch center where, Maddie'skind of heading into Gloria territory.
Oh, she's having a time.
Yeah, she is a little bit,
she's cranky.
So she gets an emergency.
Russ and Cindy's car was broken into,it's parked on the street because,
uh, Russ wasn't gonna pay to pay in aparking lot 'cause that's extortion.

(53:59):
Um, and he didn't even wanna go downtown.
Cindy was the one who wanted togo downtown because they were
gonna meet Cindy's friends.
And Cindy's like, oh my God.
Excuse me for having friends.
Maddie's like yelling at at the phone.
Yeah.
She's like, oh, hello?
Like,
"You called me."
Yeah.
Where are you?
Are you at the car now?
And they're not answering.
They're too busy bickering.
Um, and then, yeah, Ilove the, yes, we're here.

(54:20):
What?
She's like, you called me.
So she gets the names and descriptionof the car and as this conversation
is happening, Athena and May arewalking up to Maddie's station and
they hear her tone and they justkind of stop and look at each other.
So Russ gives name, gives carmodel, and asks, "are you sending

(54:44):
the police?" And Maddie's like,"I've relayed the information and
someone will get there when theycan." Russ is very irate about this.
Like when they can what?
We're supposed to just sit here andwait and Maddie's like "Yes," and
hangs up the call despite us beingtold over and over that they're not
supposed to hang up on their calls.
Yeah,

(55:04):
she does.
But yeah, Maddie evensays, "I've had enough."
And then she gets up, turns aroundand sees Athena and May with like
identical looks like, girl, are you okay?
And she's like, "oh hi. Hi Athena.Uh, it is nice to see you."
She Athena's just swingingby to have lunch with May.

(55:27):
Um, and she's like, "are you okay?" AndMaddie scurries off to the break room.
She's like, "I need a minute."Um, and then she says like,
Athena comes in to check on her.
Basically,
I'm hoping this is like after lunch,otherwise Athena ditched May for lunch
and spent her with, with Maddie instead.
So,

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oh, I immediately assumed thatshe looked at May and went,
uh, I'm gonna go to, to her.
And May's like, yeah,you, you go talk to her.
We don't need to have lunch.
You go deal with her.
It's fine, mom.
My, my husband's son's sister needs me.
Yes.
Yeah.
Well this is like I, this is where Istarted actually worrying about Maddie.
'cause she's like, "That is noteven the first caller I've yelled

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at today. It's maybe the fifth," andI'm like Maddie, why are you at work?
Like you clearly, you should not be here.
I know.
right?
Sue.
Sue should have taken her off.
America doesn't have maternity leave.
Like not just for the maternity leave,but like if she's in such a bad mood
that she's starts yelling at five ofher callers, she should not be there.
You know?

(56:30):
Yeah.
Josh or Sue should have reassignedher at this point, honestly.
Or just sent her home.
Yeah.
But those guys can hear everything thatgoes on in all of the calls, remember.
So they should have heard.
Josh is at home on his day off and issuddenly just sat bolt upright and gone.
My spidey sense tingle.
Something's wrong.
I feel a disturbance in the force,

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something's wrong with Maddie
rushes in from the lobby again.
Apparently she also yelled at hermother on the phone this morning.
But I think that happens fairlyregularly, so we don't need
to worry about that too much.
Yeah.
Even Athena's like sheprobably had it coming, so
honestly, Margaret deserves it.
I don't even know what they talked about.

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I don't know what Margaret said,but I am a hundred percent on board
with Maddie yelling at Margaret.
Well, she said she was worriedabout her having a home birth.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
So grounds for yelling.
Margaret was actually worried
about Maddie having a home birth and whenAthena's just like, oh, I'm surprised.
Given your, Maddie assumesshe's gonna say age.
Yeah.
And Athena's like, no, no background.

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You were a nurse.
I figured you'd be all in forgiving birth surrounded by all
the medical bells and whistles.
Um, and then we get the whole like,discussion again about how, you
know, Maddie was really excited and
COVID had fucked everything up, basically.
Yeah.
Had this idea in herhead how it was gonna go.
And now it's about protocols andtests and masks and no visitors

(57:55):
at the hospital or at home.
So the home birth was her wayof trying to get back control.
Yeah.
So Athena tells Maddie about her, um,her pregnancies and her labors with
the whole, the entire point of thestory is that it didn't matter what
the pregnancy was like, it, what didn'tmatter, what labor and delivery was like.

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All that mattered was when theyplaced the baby on Athena's chest.
So it doesn't, the, the,the journey doesn't matter.
It's the destination.
And so she's, she trying to encourageMaddie to not focus on the bells and
whistles and the, what labor is like,and just be excited and be ready, however
she gets there to meet her daughter.

(58:44):
Yeah.
Maddie says that she can't wait,but there's part of her that wishes
she could keep her inside andsafe until the world gets better.
I'm like, oh, Maddie.
That's, that's really sweet.
I remember thinking that too.
It's like, do I really haveto bring the baby out of here?
But, um, Athena says areally touching thing.
She's, she's says, maybe you'll findthe world gets better once she's in it.

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Aw.
So
thanks mom.
So, from one set of mothers on mother'sdebate to another set of mothers, uh,
we're going to, the Wilson House Hen isstudying at the dining table when suddenly
we hear Karen sort of screaming from thekitchen because she has been attempting
to have an important phone conversationwhile chopping vegetables and inevitably

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has ended up chopping her finger.
Yep.
And she's freaking out,
in fact, she thinks she's chopped it off
she's being such a baby about it.
It's, it's quite hilarious actually.
Maybe she's afraid of blood.
Oh, luckily Hen's themedical one in the Yeah.
Hen's the medical one in the family.
She's like, I think I chopped it off.

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And Hen's like grabbing at her hand andexamining the wound and she's like, no,
no, no, your finger's still attached.
But when she goes to get the, like theteeny tiny family first aid kid out so
that she can start to patch Karen up,she discovers that there are absolutely
no bandages or gauze or anything.
All that's left in the first aidkit is like an ice pack, some

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tongue depressers and Q-tips.
I was very surprised that Hen's firstaid kit was so small because like
Right?
I would've assumed shehad like a massive one,
literally.
So like my mom was a nurse andstill works for like a hospital.
And our first aid kit is literallylike one of those big like
plastic tubs that you get Oh wow.

(01:00:38):
From like Kmart or Bunnings.
Um, and it's just full of likerandom shit, like including,
we've got oxygen and everythingbecause so many of us have asthma.
Oh yeah.
But yeah, like we have oxygen.
There's a nebulizer at the bottom of it.
Yeah.
There's so much shitin that first aid kit.
There's, so like whenever Mom'sjust like, oh, I've used like a,
like one thing of um, like bandages,she goes and buys like four more.

(01:01:01):
Um, whenever I'm like, oh, I cutmyself, I need some bandaids.
Mom's like, yeah.
Yeah.
It's in the first aid kit and there's like12 boxes of different shapes and sizes and
Oh, good.
Good to be prepared.
Um, and there's the one, the car ones,which are like still twice the size of
Hen's, home First aid, like Hen's one.
Yeah.
So yes, I was veryshocked that hers is tiny.

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So was I.
The set, set dec people clearly,um, or the props department clearly
aren't from a medical background.
No.
We've established that already, I think.
But even, but even in just the tinylittle, like a, someone who is a
paramedic would have like a, a much,much more detailed, much more fully

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stocked first aid kit in their house,especially with a child in the house.
Yeah, I would've thought so.
Um, but despite the size of Hen's firstaid kit, what's important is that the
gauze and the alcohol wipes and thebandaids and the rolled bandages, um,

(01:02:04):
are scattered across the floor in a pathleading to another room in the house.
I don't know which room she's in, but Niahas taken all of the, um, medical supplies
out of the first aid kit and is running aillegal doctor's surgery out of her room.
And all of her stuffies are her patients.

(01:02:25):
It's the guy from lastweek except much cuter.
Yeah.
Like 30 years earlier.
But this little actressis just so gorgeous.
She's like,
she's so cute,
"There you go, all better,Mrs. Pig." And then she's gonna
help Hen fix mommy's finger.

(01:02:45):
How are they going to like, takeall the gauze, which has now like
been contaminated 'cause it's on thestuffies and put that on Karen's hand?
I don't know.
Hopefully some of it's wrapped up inplastic somewhere still and unused.
Hopefully she hasn't un shehasn't opened everything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well it sounds like Karen probablyonly needs like a bandaid.

(01:03:07):
Like has she really sliced herfinger open that badly or is she
just worried about the blood?
I don't know, but, but anyway,
I dunno.
She's like, come on.
Um, but we'll make it better, Mommy.
So while Nias gathering up her medicalsupplies, um, Hen remembers the other
part of the, what Karen was trying to do.

(01:03:27):
She was trying to, she waschopping, but she was also
having an important conversation.
So she checks in with her wife.
"Hey, what was the importantconversation?" Um, the important
conversation was apparently that Deidre,the social worker wants to come see Hen
and Karen this weekend and Hen's like,wow, why is Deidre coming to see us?
And more importantly, why isDeidre letting her know that

(01:03:48):
she wants to come see us?
Karen theorizes that Nia has beenwith them for almost a year, and
that's usually when they starttalking about permanent placement.
Mm-hmm.
And say, and Hen goes adoption,but before the conversation
further, that's any further

(01:04:08):
that's permanentplacement means, but Sure.
You apparently 9-1-1 audience is stupid,so they've gotta spell everything out.
Um, but the conversation doesn't goany further than that because Dr.
Nia is ready to see her patient.
Yeah.
Yes.
Speaking of stupid,
oh no.We g
Get another 9-1-1 call.
This is so dumb this one.

(01:04:29):
Do we, do we ev do we evenhave to go through this?
'cause this is so fucking stupid.
It's so weird.
We don't have to go through it in detail.
Okay.
Let's, we can justexplain what happens and,
okay.
So Maddie gets a 9-1-1 call becausethere is a security alarm that
is continuously going off and theneighbors are getting sick of it.

(01:04:50):
So she dispatches, uh, LAPD to doa welfare check, which of course
means Athena gets dispatched.
And yes, there is indeed a securityalarm that continues to go off.
Even once the homeowner entersin the code, the alarm will then
reset and continue to go off.
Pretty sure this isn't howhome alarms work for sure.
There's like blue tape all over the houseon the floor and the walls and everything,

(01:05:17):
everything in the room thatAthena can see has stickers on it.
Um, Athena in attempting to behelpful, tries to reset the security
alarm and the little panel saysthat the error or the reason why
the security alarm keeps gettingtriggered is in the downstairs bedroom.
So she goes down to examine the downstairsbedroom with the homeowner's consent

(01:05:39):
and we get, like, the tension startsto build because in this downstairs
bedroom there is a large chest freezerand Athena sort of starts to unsnap her
holster because a large chest freezer, shedoesn't know what it could be filled with.
Yeah.
Why would the alarms goingoff about a chest freezer?

(01:06:00):
I don't know.
But anyway, she opens it.
I don't know.
It's, and it does not have a body in it.
It's a fake out.
It it has meat.
It, yeah.
A but it, it's not abody, it's animal meat.
Um, it's fine.
Apparently the, the homeowner's husbandis a carnivore and he was just stocking
up to make sure they had enough meat.
Why the freezer is in a bedroom?
I don't know.
It's funny 'cause I had, um, I had abig chest freezer over COVID and it

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was just full of dog fur, dog food.
Dog fur?
But dog food.
That makes sense.
Uh, said husband is not on the premises,he's apparently away on business.
Um, mm-hmm.
The alarm goes off again.
Athena sees that the reason that thealarm is going off is because there

(01:06:45):
is a contact, um, that has come loose.
There's a, something stuck on theinside of a windowsill, so she tries
to stick it back to the window sill.
It falls off again, triggering the alarm.
And then we hear thumping noises frombehind Athena because the homeowner's
husband is not away on business.

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She bricked him inside the wall.
And I don't know how Athenaimmediately jumps to the
conclusion that her husband nope.
Is behind the wall.
She just,
Nope.
She has x-ray vision,like her husband's fine.
Oh, it's, anyway.
So apparently these two were goingto get a divorce and then COVID hit.

(01:07:29):
The courts shut down.
Uh, they couldn't get theirdivorce decree and the husband
removed, uh, refused to move out.
So the blue tape was them kind ofdelineating their areas in the house.
The stickers were him picking whathe was going to take with him.
When he did move out, uh, thehomeowner reached her breaking point.

(01:07:50):
Everyone take a drink andstabbed him in the back with
barbecue tongs or barbecue fork.
It didn't look like thatseries of a stab wound.
And then.
I don't think you can brick up awall and plaster a wall that quickly.
No, I don't That he would still beunderstand like semi-conscious and

(01:08:11):
semi breathing behind the wall.
Yeah.
And she's also done such a goodjob of it that it looks perfect.
Like yeah.
It, it's doesn't look like a DIY job
'cause it's COVID.
She's not getting contractorsto come in and do it, so
she's having to do it herself.
But yes, that's what she's done.
She stabbed her husband and thenshe brick, she built a tomb for

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him in the downstairs bedroom.
And when they find him, when Bobbysays, looks with the infrared
camera and says he's still there.
And she goes, "What? He'sstill alive. I mean, great."
Yeah.
Somehow he's also still alive.
So how is he still alive?
I don't know.
But anyhow, it's, it's, yeah.
How, how long has this been?

(01:08:54):
How, yeah.
It just doesn't make any sense.
And the, the thing is, I couldpossibly accept this, like the complete
ridiculousness of this storyline ifit moved another storyline on further.
But it doesn't, it's a standalonestoryline just about someone
reaching their breaking point,but it just does not make sense.

(01:09:16):
It's weird.
Yeah.
None of it makes sense.
And her, this lady's breakingpoint is sending her to prison.
I don't never find it entertaining.
We don't even care.
Nope.
Nope.
Yeah.
Like some of them are like, make no sense.
But are funny.
Like this, I don't get this one.
Like, it's not funny at all.
No,
it's just weird.
Yeah.
Like I think in "Jinx" we talkedabout how a lot of "Jinx" and a lot

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of other episodes, the storylinesare literally just for the drama.
You have to switch your brainoff and not think about it.
Like the octopus one is so dumb,like as if an octopus would
get stuck to someone's head.
But it's so funny that like, but
yeah, that one's funny.
I like it.
But other, the other writers, the waythat they tell the story, the acting
in the story, the way that they tie itin with the rest of the episode, it's

(01:10:02):
entertaining enough that you are willingto overlook the inconsistencies because
Exactly.
It's, yeah.
This one, I am not willing tooverlook the inconsistencies.
'cause this is fucking boring.
Yeah, it's boring, it's dumb.
Been Okay.
Who wrote this one?
Who we, who we painting?
Um, this was written by DavidGrossman, it looks like.
Sorry.
No, he was the director.

(01:10:23):
Bob Goodman was the writer.
I've never heard of this dude before.
Oh, that's awkward.
He is a co-executive produceron 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Lone Star.
Oh, well,
yikes.
He wrote,
he's like, he's like, Tim Minear's besty.
Oh, that's really interesting.
He wrote this one, but thenhe also wrote "Treasure Hunt".
Oh man.
"Treasure Hunt" was good.

(01:10:44):
That's what I mean.
Like, that's really interesting.
Maybe he just, they he justhad a bad one, a bad writer's
room experience with this one.
He wrote one Lone Star episode.
Um, he wrote 4 9-1-1 episodes.
He wrote.
Two in season four and two in season five.
I wonder if "Treasure Hunt" is the outlierbecause the writer's room came up with

(01:11:09):
all the ideas and he was the one thatsat down and actually put them to paper.
And that's why it's better becauseother people had input and he was
just the scribe anyway, um, he didn'tdo a very good job in this episode.
I mean, the, the dialogue's funny,like a lot of it, like the, the siege
thing was silly, but it, the actualexecution of it was quite funny.

(01:11:31):
Maybe it was just that the idea,the individual ideas themselves
were kind of dumb and the some ofthe dialogue was, is quite good.
But
maybe,
anyway, this particularscene just didn't hit.
Yeah, no.
Nope.
So when we finally, finally get to theend of that scene, uh, we're gonna go back

(01:11:53):
to the Diaz house where it's dinner time,
It's Thursday night
Eddie's cooking.
Christopher's, um, ripping up, uh,iceberg lettuce to make a salad.
Holy shit.
Maybe Eddie cooked dinner.
He seems to have a thingfor iceberg lettuce.
That's all that theycould afford in props.

(01:12:15):
This week is just iceberg lettuce.
Just lettuce and cheese.
The same iceberg lettuce
and like a block of cheddar.
Um, oh, it's, I hate iceberg lettuce.
Do you?
I do not like iceberg lettuce.
No hate.
I like it.
It's crunchy.
You can't stand it.
I, I like, I like other types of lettuce.
Like, I like rocket.
Um, and I like, I usually justhave rocket and spinach, but I hate

(01:12:36):
iceberg lettuce and it's in allthe salads and I freaking hate it.
And it's just blah.
Yeah.
It's 'cause it's cheap.
Yeah.
Don't like it.
Not a fan of iceberg lettuce.
Ah,
the crunchiness.
The crunchiness pleases me.
Um, I'm easy with lettuce.
Do not serve me.
Oh.
I like co I like, um,the, like co cos lettuce.
Yep.
I like cos lettuce.

(01:12:57):
I like rocket.
Um, do not like iceberg lettuce.
I like the fancy likepurple ones and stuff.
Do not like iceberg.
Do not feed me iceberg lettuce.
Noted.
Well, apparently Alice is not gonnabe, Alice is not gonna be having dinner
at the Diaz household anymore, whichis probably good because nobody's
having salad after Eddie startshis conversation with Christopher.
Um,

(01:13:18):
exactly.
I'm with Chris.
I would also be doing this.
You would be throwing it on the floor?
Yep.
Yeah.
Eddie decides that whileChristopher is busy, um, distracted.
So he's going to bring up, um, hisfriend, you know, the friend that
Christopher was asking him about,you know, the, the the woman friend.

(01:13:39):
Um, yeah.
Chris is immediately like,
he's like, "Oh, I, there's somethingI wanna talk to you about." And
Chris is like, "What's wrong?
Is the lettuce too big?" And it islike, "No, lettuce is looking awesome.
Gonna be a killer salad."It's like, okay, whatever.
It's iceberg lettuce.
But sure.
Yeah.
Um, so when Christopher hears that it'sa woman friend, he's immediately like, "A
girlfriend!" And Eddie's like, "uh, yeah."

(01:14:02):
Yeah.
I, I mean we haven't, you know, definedthe relationship and, you know, decided
if we were gonna use those terms.
But I, I guess you could sayso I really like her and, um,
I think you'll like her too.
And Chris is like, "No, no I won't."And he slaps the salad bowl off the
bench and it shatters on the tile floor.

(01:14:22):
And then he makes his stormsout the room as best he can.
And then we hear a doorslamming in the background.
'cause he's gonna lockedhimself in the room.
Yeah.
He's really mad.
It, it's where it belongs on the floor.
Oh.
But poor Eddie is just looking sadlyat his broken bowl and letters.

(01:14:46):
The chat did not go as he was hoping.
No.
Speaking of dinners not going the waypeople thought they were gonna go.
Um, we're over at Buck's Loft, sorry.
Veronica's Loft, which is justBuck's Loft in a different font.
Same set, but redressed.
Yeah.
Um, where, uh, Buck is sitting in anarmchair in the living room very nervously

(01:15:11):
while Veronica is puttering around in thekitchen and Albert is making up cocktails.
Um, but she's wondering, is your datestill coming because no one has turned
up that, you know, Buck said he wasbringing someone, but she's not there.
And just then the, there's a knock onthe door and Buck goes to answer it.

(01:15:31):
So he's invited Taylor directly toVeronica's house instead of his house?
Yes.
It also appears that he has not told herwhat's going on because she comes in and
she's all apologetic that about beinglate because she had trouble finding
parking and Buck tells her that it's fine.

(01:15:52):
Um, "let me introduce you to everyone."And she's like, "Who's everyone?"
And turns around to see Albert andVeronica just of looking at her.
So she was not told thatit was a double date?
No.
So Buck introduces like, "Taylor, thisis Albert and Veronica," and Albert's
like, "oh, it's nice to meet you.

(01:16:12):
Buck has told me nothing about you."
And Taylor's gone, "Well, I have heardso much about you. Albert, Veronica."
Yep.
Yeah, because Buck didn't shutup about them the whole time that
they were together the other day
For six hours.
He talked about them
six hours.
For six hours.

(01:16:33):
Yep.
Um, Veronica seems thrilled to seeher because she recognizes Taylor.
She's like, "I watched you during thatsiege. That was great reporting." Um,
she offers Taylor a glass of wine.
Taylor's.
"Oh, why stop at a glass?"
Taylor's very unimpressed already.

(01:16:55):
Um, and when Buck leads her into the,the sitting living area, she sort of
mutters at him, "I thought that youwere inviting me over for dinner.
Maybe some sex.
Like, is this even your apartment?
Were you lying about the apartment?"
and Buck's like, "No, it's not myapartment, but we could still do those

(01:17:17):
things." Taylor's like, "Yeah, no."
Yeah.
Like, I'm still down for sex.
Like, what?
No, Taylor's not down for sex.
To be fair, It is, it is Taylor Kelly.
Anyway, what, what happened?
Um, yeah, I have no ideawhat they were talking about.
Taylor looked real mad and it was hot.
She does look, she doeslook lovely in the scene.

(01:17:39):
Stuff happens,
but she's mad,
like she knows what she wants.
It was not a double date.
Uh, dinner is still going to be a littlewhile, so Veronica's whipped up some
appetizers for them to enjoy whilethey're waiting and they're at the
getting to know you portion of the dinner.
Um, she asks Taylor and Buck, "howlong have you been dating?" And

(01:18:02):
Taylor's like, oh no, we're not dating.
We're more like friends with benefits.
Yeah.
"We hang out on more of an as neededbasis." Um, Buck tries to save it
tries to make it more romantic.
He's like, "Oh, we've known each otherfor a while. Um, I pulled her out of a
crashed News helicopter saved her life."
Taylor's not impressed.

(01:18:24):
Yeah.
But Veronica goes, "Oh, that is heroic."And Albert says, "Well, that's just a
regular date for Buck." It's like, dude,
yeah.
Taylor's, Taylor's had a enough.
She just goes, "oh, we alreadyknow how you met Albert. Buck
can't stop talking about it."
And Buck's so uncomfortable.
And Taylor's like, yep.
Now you know how I feel.

(01:18:46):
Albert's like trying tomove the conversation along.
And he's, you know, he's, he'snever, he didn't meet, um,
jaded, cynical bit of Veronica.
Um, so he's really surprisedthat the woman that he knows, you
know, bubbly, happy, full of life,Veronica and Buck didn't get on.

(01:19:08):
Yeah.
Taylor just says,
I love Taylor.
"You know, Buck can be intimidated bystrong women. He needs a good ego stroke
every now and then." And Veronica's like,"Yeah, I'm not gonna do that." Taylor's
like, "You know what? Neither am I,I'm out." And she gets up and literally
just walks straight outta the apartment.

(01:19:30):
Yep.
Just leaves.
Um,
iconic.
Yeah.
I'm sure it's his ego that youare usually stroking, Taylor.
But, um, anyway, so yeah, Buck chasesher out and it's just like, "Oh, it's
not what you think." And Taylor's like,"Oh, that you didn't really wanna see me.
You just needed them to see you, see youwith me." Um, and then calls him needy.

(01:19:51):
It's like, "God you're so needy."And it's just like, yeah, we
know that, but you can't justsay that Taylor, like, oh my God,
no, no, no, no.
It's even better.
She says to his face, "you justcan't stand the idea of someone
not liking you," and Buck's.
Like, well, that's not, I mean,"I'm very likable," likable.
I felt sorry for Buckin his moment, but yeah.

(01:20:13):
So, but Taylor has,
but Taylor apologizes.
She's like, I'm not stickingaround for this bullshit.
Bye.
Um, but yeah, so Buck apologizesand was like, yeah, I did.
I knew it was gonna be super awkward andum, didn't wanna sit through it alone.
So I phoned a friend and Taylor's like,"yeah, I wish that was true 'cause I could
really use a friend these days. But ifthis is how you treat your friends, you

(01:20:34):
know, maybe the problem isn't Albert,maybe it's you." And it's like, oh,
ouch.
Ooh.
Yeah.
Um, yeah, so Taylor is going through,
you're gonna need a couple of emergencytherapy sessions after this, Buck.
Yep.
I know, right?
Like,
but yeah, Taylor is going throughsome shit and did not wanna deal with

(01:20:54):
Buck's shit while she was doing so
Uhhuh
and good on her.
Go Taylor.
Yeah.
Yep.
I'm 100% team Taylor in this.
I mean, I love Buck, but she,nothing she said was true.
So that writing was great.
I just don't know whathappened to the last scene.
Maybe they just like wrote some realgood 118 scenes and then were like,

(01:21:15):
oh shit, we, it's some emergencies.
Yeah.
I dunno.
Alright.
Maybe we, maybe we judged,um, old mate too fast.
Maybe he's not so bad.
I'm still reserving judgment.
I'm side eyeing him, so, yes.
Um,
all right, what is Eddie up to?
He is FaceTiming with Ana reporting back.

(01:21:36):
"Look, I tried to tell Chris aboutyou and he had a total meltdown."
So Ana gives Eddie the out.
She's like, if you, you know, Christopherhas been through so much and she
doesn't wanna cause him any more pain.
If she and Eddie need to takea break, then that's fine.
And Eddie's like, "no, no, we're nottaking a break. You're not going anywhere.

(01:21:57):
You got it?" She's like, okay, I got it.
Yeah, cool.
We can, we can figure it out.
It's like, Jesus,
okay, we'll figure it out.
He ends the call, closes his laptopand then yells for Christopher.
Nothing.
No response.
He, he's a little bit slittle bit annoyed now.
Like, Christopher, get your ass in here.
No response.
Walks to the doorway, Christopher!

(01:22:18):
Still no response.
And now he's absolutely pissed.
And he goes to Christopher'sroom and he is like, look buddy.
I know you're mad.
Opens the door.
There is no Christopher.
Yeah, he is gone.
The room is empty.
The room is empty.
The house is empty.
Um, so he starts, he starts freaking out.
He's like checking in the closet.
He's searching through the room,calling Christopher's name,

(01:22:41):
getting more and more frantic.
Thankfully his phone starts to ring.
So his, yeah, his phoneis in Christopher's bed.
He's gotta tear the bedapart to find the phone.
Yeah, because it's underthe, like in all the sheets.
He checks the caller ID and sees thatit's Buck call and he is like, "Buck,

(01:23:01):
you gotta help me. Christopher..."and Buck interrupts him and says
"He's here. He's at my place."
He is here.
Um, so yeah, Christopher stole Eddie'sphone and used it to call an Uber
and Father of the Year did notnotice A, his phone missing or
B, his child leaving his house.
Yeah, like did he climb out the window?

(01:23:22):
Like how,
how
surely he isn't that quiet?
He can't climb out the window,
but how did he get out thedoor without Eddie noticing?
Even if he had climb out thewindow, like assuming you meant
like out of his bedroom window.
But the curtains wereclosed when Eddie walked in.
What did, did he climb out the windowand then close the curtains behind him?
I, I don't know.
He's he's bigger now than he was.
Like, you know, the,when we first met him.

(01:23:44):
Maybe he was able to,
like, he just walked out the frontdoor and Eddie didn't notice,
but yeah, somehow he got out the door.
Anyway, he's, he got, he madehis way to Buck's place and
Yes,
he's in, he's sitting on thecouch looking a bit sheepish,
can we just, can we just, Chrishad a moment where he, like, he's

(01:24:05):
hating his dad and he doesn't wannabe at home so he goes to Buck's.
Yeah.
Can we, just a moment.
Oh, it was so sweet.
I'm like, of course he goes to bus.
It's like he could havegone I don't know where.
No, I don't, I don't thinkhe anywhere else to go.
'cause I don't think hisabuelita is available.
I think she's gone back down to Texas atthis point, but still he went to Buck's.

(01:24:27):
Oh
yeah.
Yeah.
And they have a reallysweet conversation here.
Yeah.
So while Eddie is on his way to comepick Christopher up, Buck decides
to have a heart to heart with Chris.
And Chris is like, "I don't wannatalk about it." And then Buck says,
"Well, we gotta talk about somethingwhile we wait for your dad, so
we may as well talk about that."

(01:24:49):
He goes, "you were there for me when Ineeded to talk, so now I wanna be here
for you. It's what friends do." Yeah.
I'm like, Aww,
I trauma, I trauma dumped on you, sonow it's your turn to trauma dump on me.
Um, but yeah, Chris, Chris isvery sad about his dad dating,
"dad's dating,"
but it's not, he, Chris isn't sad forthe reason that you would think Chris

(01:25:12):
is sad because like, so Buck's like,"you know, maybe it feels like he's
forgetting your mom, but Chris, I promiseyou..." and Chris is like, "I wish I
could forget," and Buck's like, "what?"
So Chris's problem is not thathe doesn't want his dad dating
and like forgetting his mom.
Chris's problem is that he keeps gettingattached to people and then they go away.

(01:25:35):
So not just mom, but Aita Carlaand his friends, they leave
and then he misses them and hedoesn't wanna miss anyone else.
Oh, Chris.
And it's like, aw.
Like COVID would be reallyhard to explain to her.
What is he like eight now?
Yeah.
I've, no, I think he's older than that,but I've like, by the time you get to
that age, you but know better about peoplecoming and going, but it's still you.

(01:25:59):
You still miss people.
Of course you do.
Yeah.
Like his mom died.
That's not just a, you know, little thing.
Yeah.
And yeah.
So Buck's like, yeah, "people goaway and it's sad and it hurts,
but not everyone goes away forever.
Sometimes they come back and as much aswe miss them, that's how happy we are.
That that's how happy weare to see them again.

(01:26:20):
Your grandma, your friends Carla,you're gonna see them all again."
And until then, Chris has still gotBuck because Buck is not going anywhere.
Aw.
And he gets, he gets a big Chris hugfor that and Chris tells him that he's
a good friend and Buck's face falls.
He's like, uh, "sometimes I'ma good friend," apparently

(01:26:42):
I'm a good friend to a kid.
Yeah.
Like he was just told he is a shit.
Yeah.
He was just told he was a shit friend.
And Chris is like, you're a great friend.
He is just like, yeah, to a 10-year-old.
Like,
Aw,
aw.
And then Madney.
Poor Chim.
Yes.
It's, I'm guessing Friday morning.
'cause all of thathappened Thursday night.
This we come back from commercial toChimney walking into the main part

(01:27:08):
of his and Maddie's apartment andMaddie says, "Oh, hey, you're up."
So I'm assuming that it'smorning time, he's just woken up.
And Maddie is, look I pregnantpeople are supposed to be nursing and
they're supposed to rearrange shit.
'cause you get like that urge to organize.
Um, but she's turning the living areainto a, a delivery suite and she wants

(01:27:31):
Chim to help her move the table becauseshe's going to give birth in the dining
room mostly because she thinks it's gonnabe easier to clean up than the bedroom.
And Chimney loses it.
She's like, no, I can't.
The sight of the dining roomtable suddenly turned into
a full on medical station.
Probably doesn't help situation either.

(01:27:53):
Yeah.
She's got more supplies on that tablethan Hen had in her medical first aid kit.
Yeah.
In her entire house.
Yeah.
Yes.
Um, so Chim tells her, "I can't,"Maddie assumes that he means that
he can't help her move the table.
And Maddie's like, "Oh no,you, you got, you just work up.

(01:28:14):
That's fine.
Go have some coffee, um, and thenyou can come help me." And Chim's
like, "No, no, I'm not talkingabout, I can't move the table.
I can't do a home birth."
Um, because he needs Maddie not to die.
And Maddie tells him, "I'm notgonna die." And then Chim reels off.
He has calculated and timed how long,worst case scenario it would take if they

(01:28:38):
needed to get Maddie to a hospital at 13minutes all up from a call being made, the
RA being dispatched, getting the gurney upto their apartment, getting her back down
to the RA unit, and then to the hospital.
It's 13 minutes.
And so much can go wrong in 13 minutes.

(01:29:00):
He tells her, do you know, hesee, he says, "do you know what
can go wrong in 13 minutes?
'cause I do.
I see it every day.
We lose so many people in transitand I can deal with it if it's
other people, but I don't thinkI can deal with it if it's you."
Poor Chim, he just looks so sad.
This whole scene,
it feels a lot like PTSD kind of thing.
Like he's seen so much and now it'sbecoming real because of someone that

(01:29:26):
he knows that he's worried about.
So Maddie says that he, she'snot, she says it's okay.
And she's like, no, it's not.
And she's like, "no, it's okaybecause we, we don't have to do this.
Like, I'm not, I love you.
I'm not gonna put you through that.
And so, you know, we don't have todo it here." And Chim is so relieved.

(01:29:49):
I, I love this scene.
I, I love this scene for Kenneth becausewe get some amazing acting out of Kenneth.
Yeah.
But I don't know that this scenewas necessary because it feels
like Maddie had already acceptedthe having the baby wherever.

(01:30:09):
Because all that's important isthat I have a baby at the end
of it, which she reached afterher conversation with Athena.
Yeah, it's weird.
It's like Athena's like, "Oh hey,like maybe don't do a home birth.
'cause like you have amedical background and.
Regardless, like, it's gonna begreat." And Maddie's like, "Yeah, cool.
I'm gonna go buy all thesesupplies." It's like, what?
Yeah.

(01:30:29):
Yeah.
Um, and then if she was so hell benton like, turning her house into a home
birthing station, would she reallyhave changed her tune that quickly?
Yeah, it's weird.
I don't know.
Like I said, I love it.
Kenneth does amazing.
Kenneth is so good atthe emotional scenes.
Um, I just, I don't understand this scene.

(01:30:51):
Why this scene is necessary.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I, I don't know.
Maybe she thought that, that Chim wason board with having a home birth,
so she went ahead with it and thenit turned out that he wasn't, she was
like, okay, okay, we won't do that.
No, but I thought like, she was on boardwith having a hospital birth again.
'cause all it matters is how the babygot, how the, what was that she got a
baby and not how the baby got there.

(01:31:13):
So she changed her mindback to a hospital birth.
Maybe this, but then hadn't,
Ugh.
Should have been this No.
That 'cause she changed her mind.
I don't know.
No, it doesn't.
Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense.
But no.
So we appreciate KennethKenneth's performance, but we
don't think it was necessary.
Yeah.
Now we get the scene that I feel likethis whole episode was written for

(01:31:35):
possibly.
So we're back at the 118 firehouseand you can hear the news in
the background on the t, the tv.
Meanwhile, Buck's walking up thestairs, leaving a message for Taylor.
Who we can hear on the tv, um, andBuck's like, "Hey, hey Taylor and Buck.
I was really hoping at some point you maystop ducking my calls," and Hen just looks

(01:31:57):
up from the TV and goes, "I think she'sa little busy right now." And sure enough
she's live on tv, but it's really sad.
So the hospital is at full capacity dueto COVID and that's where we see the
marquees set up in the parking lot astemporary hospitals slash treatment rooms
with a big, like we see later on,there's a big sign across the back of

(01:32:20):
one of them that says COVID Overflow.
So they're having to treat the COVIDpatients out in the parking lot and
they are, even Taylor is telling,talking to camera, saying that they're
having to ration care, which I'mguessing, I don't even know what that
means, but it upsets her a lot to thepoint where she has to turn her back

(01:32:42):
At the start of COVID um, I rememberItaly, it was a big thing where
they basically had to choose who wasgonna live and who was gonna die.
So like
that's just triage
instead of putting Yeah.
But like, they literally, like, theydidn't have enough, like okay, like
you're old, you're not getting treatment.
Yeah.
They couldn't treat everybody.
I mean, it's horrible, but it's,it's triage and that's what you

(01:33:05):
do in an emergent situation.
Um, I know that sounds really callousand cold for me to say it like
that, but it's, it's, it's triage.
That's what happens.
You have to assess your patients andthe ones who are at most risk, the ones
that you can save are the ones that yousave, the ones that you don't think you
have a chance of saving, unfortunately,you don't, you move your resources, but

(01:33:26):
to saving the people that you can save.
Yeah.
But people may have just beenmildly sick, but because they didn't
have enough like oxygen, yeah.
They could have saved everybody.
If they'd had enough facilities and stuff,
they literally were like, okay, you arenot too bad now, but you're also 80.
So, and we've got a, you know, 21-year-oldwith kids, so we're gonna have to
give the oxygen to her instead of you.
Yeah, it's awful.

(01:33:47):
Um, whereas if they had allthe beds and stuff, they
would've been able to save them.
Um, but yeah, so they'rehaving to ration care.
It doesn't really make sense.
This part because at the startof the season, they were lifting
COVID restrictions again.
Yeah.
It's, it felt like, it feels like this.

(01:34:08):
Yeah.
This storyline is very pointed for thetime at which it was written and aired
and as if the, um, the writers were tryingto get a story across and they're like, I
know that the, we know that this doesn'tfit into the COVID narrative that we've
been playing out through this season.
Fuck it.
We wanna tell this story.
It doesn't matter that it doesn'tmake sense to the, what we've set up.

(01:34:30):
In universe.
Yeah.
So Taylor is incrediblyoverwhelmed by this.
She has to turn her back to camerato continue to giving her piece.
Yeah.
And Buck is watching her.
It's is very, um, veryupset on her behalf.

(01:34:50):
They finally clear and Taylor takesa moment to, um, compose herself and
sends her cameraman to like, first ofall to leave her alone, um, to go and
see what's going on in the distancebecause we see a man in a lab coat having
a very, um, emotional phone call astwo women in Scrubs race up to him and

(01:35:13):
they have a very heated conversation.
Meanwhile, Taylor looks at herphone and notices how many missed
calls that she has from Buck on it.
But before she can do anything aboutthat, the cameraman guy calls her over.
So there's obviouslysomething going on over there.
Meanwhile, back at the 118house, um, Buck's, phone rings,

(01:35:33):
and it's actually Taylor.
Um, and Buck answers it by saying,"Hey, hey, I wanted to apologize." And
Taylor's like, "Shut up and listen to me.
I don't need an apology,Buckley, I need a miracle."
I need a miracle!
Very dramatic dialogue,but gets the point across.

(01:35:55):
So this storyline that's aboutto unfold is apparently a ripped
from the headlines storyline.
Uh, what happens next actuallyhappened in LA in January.
Oh.
Um, which is about when thisepisode was being filmed.
So this episode was filmed earlyFebruary, I believe, if we can
trust Oliver's social media posting.

(01:36:18):
Yeah.
So it happened and then a couple weekslater they filmed this episode, basically.
Yes.
Hmm.
So what happened is that ahospital freezer broke and it was
a freezer that specifically wasstoring COVID 19 vaccinations.
And they have thawed and unless they can,um, get the vaccines into arms of people,

(01:36:41):
the vaccines are gonna go to waste.
Um, it's about a thousandvials in the freezer.
Um, they've been, the hospital havebeen trying to get people to come
in, but there are still 600 vialsthat could possibly go to waste.
Um, and they've got two hoursto get them out and into people.
So the LAFD and the l la a PD mobilizedto get the vaccines out to clinics, to

(01:37:09):
nursing homes, and to set up vaccinationstations and get as many people through
those stations and vaccinated as they can.
Mm-hmm.
Including Michael who gets his vaccinationas Bobby and Athena look on fondly.
And I am specifically pointingout Michael, because that's

(01:37:29):
gonna be an interesting pointat the end of the season.
Oh, okay.
So we'll put a pin on that.
But it works.
All of their efforts,uh, don't go to waste.
They get all of the vaccines out andadministered and everyone is vaccinated
and it's all is right with the world,at least for this part of it once again.

(01:37:54):
Mm-hmm.
Um, Buck checks in with Taylor.
Taylor said she was looking fora miracle and Buck gave her one.
Yeah.
Yeah,
Like she says, "I was looking for amiracle and you gave me one even after
I said those terrible things. Why?"I'm like, why do you think Taylor?
Because, and Buck says that'show you treat a friend.
To get some!
I mean, because that'show you treat a friend.

(01:38:15):
Yeah.
That's how you friend treata friend with benefits.
Yeah.
Um, then Taylor pulls down her mask andgives him a kiss on the cheek and the
subtitles very helpfully put "Smooches,"
smooches, COVID, smooches.
But yes, even with the mask on, helooks very pretty in this scene.

(01:38:39):
The hair.
He looks great.
Like I, I love his curl.
He does look very good the waythat they've got it, like the,
the buiffont and the way it sortof swoops and the height to it.
I don't know what it is,but it is working for him.
Like when he, um, was leaning onthe doorway when Eddie got home.
Oh,
I love that.
I love that scene.
Oh yes.
Speaking of Eddie, we are, we aregoing to temporarily go back to the

(01:39:03):
Diaz household, um, where Eddie hasdecided that he's going to introduce
Christopher to his lady friend.
He apparently hasn't told Christopher,who his lady friend is, yet
he's going to spring it on him.
Um, but the joke's on himbecause Christopher sees Ana and
immediately runs over and hugs her.

(01:39:25):
So if he had just told Chris atthe very beginning that it's Ana.
Yeah.
I feel like, I feel likeit would've been easier.
I think it would've been fine.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
Like, Hey, do you miss your teacher,miss whatever, Ana's last name is?
Flores.
Yeah.
And he is like, thank you.
Um, couldn't, could not remember it.
And I was just like, uh, yep.
Um, yeah, if he was like,oh, do you miss her?

(01:39:46):
And Chris would've been like, somuch Eddie would've been like,
cool, let's go to lunch with her.
And then like, oh, by then, like a daylater, oh, by the way, like how would you
feel like introduce it a bit better thanjust like, oh, I'm seeing someone random,
how do you feel if Ms.Flores was your new mother?
Yeah,
just jumping ahead a little bit.

(01:40:06):
But yeah, I mean, they could have juststarted going, like, she should could
have started coming over for dinner andhe would've been like connecting the dots.
He just had to say,
I'm connecting the dots here
that the lady friend was Ms. Flores.
It would've been fine.
Yeah, he would've been fine.
Literally.
He was just being very dramatic about it.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Edmundo Diaz?
Dramatic?

(01:40:27):
Yeah.
Right.
Who have thought?
That bitch is so dramatic.
Um, from there we cut to the Madneyapartment where we see chimney and packing
Maddie's hospital bag, which I, I put inthe notes that when I was watching this,
I don't think that's Chimney and Maddie,I think that's Kenneth and Jennifer

(01:40:50):
Uhhuh,
because Maddie says, "I love you,"and Chimney says "Ditto." And Maddie
Maddie's got like a, a, a onesie in herhand that she is like supposed to fold
and put into the hospital bag and shejust throws it at Kenneth and he catches
it and just throws it back at her.

(01:41:12):
And I 100% feel like this was likean, an extra take that they did.
And he's just gone.
I don't like, I don't know what theline was supposed to be, but he is gone.
You know, I'm not gonna say it.
I'm just gonna like muck around.
And it was so cute that they kept it.
Because after he throws theonesie back at Jennifer, it lands
on the, like the fake belly.

(01:41:32):
She's like, "Oh, I'm justgonna leave it there.
Look how cute that is.
This onesie stretched outover my belly like that.
That's so cute."
Yeah.
It's a weird scene for them to do,but if you think of it as mucking
around, it makes a little more sense.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's super good, because I think we'veseen so many other scenes where, um,

(01:41:55):
it looks like Kenneth and Jennifer, notChimney and Maddie, like, I'm thinking
of the, um, the popcorn in the pocket.
I love their friendship so much.
Did you see, um, yeah, the, didyou see um, Kenneth's reel where
like during the hiatus he waslike, "oh, I miss my wife." Yes.
And then he walks into a movie theaterand was, she's like, "I hope I can see

(01:42:16):
her face." And then she's on the poster.
Yes.
Did last summer.
It's so cute.
I love them.
He's so supportive of hercareer outside of 9-1-1.
It's adorable.
And I love that she was supposed to bepaired up with Eddie and she was like,
actually, I want this one instead.
I don't want that one.
I want this one.
Yeah, I want this one.

(01:42:37):
Uh, so another quick scene.
We're going to go to Buck Loft,where Albert has returned from
Veronica's apartment becauseVeronica broke up with him.
He broke up with her, ormaybe it was a mutual thing.
No, I think he says he broke upwith her, um, because she did not

(01:43:00):
approve of his friends like Buck.
She didn't approve of Buck.
She probably loved Taylor.
Yeah.
He doesn't have any other friends.
She's just didn't like Buck.
Yeah.
Oh,
that we haven't met any of his friends.
Like maybe he does have friends now.
You're not, you're not wrong.
But that's so blunt.

(01:43:26):
I'm just
poor Albert.
Just, I'm just speaking fromthe viewer's point of view.
We have not seen his friends.
Yes.
It's COVID.
It's hard to get friends.
Yeah.
You can't just go out anymore.
But anyway, Buck has Thaifood to make him feel better.
Yeah.
The, uh, the Thai food thatAlbert mentioned earlier is
finally, um, materialized.
So the, the two bachelors sit down forsome, you know, um, curry and noodles.

(01:43:51):
Eddie and Chris and Ana looklike they're getting ready to
sit down and watch a movie.
Um, Ana is sitting on the couchand Eddie and Chris are hovering
in the doorway, having a whisperedconversation that she 100% can hear.

(01:44:11):
It's an adorable conversation, but.
It looks like they've clearly come fromthe kitchen with big bowls of popcorn.
So why they couldn't have hadthat conversation in the kitchen?
I don't know.
But Christopher is happy to,
that's not where the camera was set up.
Set up.
Um, Christopher is happy to see Ana,but he's a little bit apprehensive

(01:44:34):
because she's a really hard grader
and Eddie says,
that's okay.
Maybe she'll grade Eddie on a curve.
Oh, like God, that's what she said.
Um, I dunno.
For some reason that line justseemed really dirty to me.
Oh,

(01:44:54):
oh my God.
But it goes over Christopher'shead and he just, um, heads into
the, further into the room andannounces that they've got popcorn.
Um,
so cute.
And then I apparently need togo and like, get bathed in holy
water 'cause I'm an abomination.

(01:45:15):
And then to end the episode,we go to the Wilson household.
Yeah.
Hen gets home.
Uh, she's, she says, "you'll neverbelieve what I found at the hospital
gift store." Why was she at the hospital?
I, I, I, I've just assumed itwould be like a, a carry on from

(01:45:35):
the previous call or whatever, but
yeah.
Why was she,
she wasn't at the hospital today.
In this episode.
Hang on.
No, she was.
So she was, um, doingthe COVID vaccinations.
Well, she was at the hospital doingthe COVID Vaccin vaccinations.
Yeah, but she was in the carpark.
But I guess
But does that mean, does that meanthat she was like administering all the
vaccinations and then one when the one ateam were like packing up, getting ready

(01:45:57):
to go she's like, hang on boys, I justwanna go inside and do some shopping?
Yeah.
Apparently.
Yeah.
Clearly.
Uh, she notices that Karenisn't particularly overjoyed
to see her walk in the door.
And um, so she turnsaround and Deidre's there.
The social worker,
the social worker
and Hen asks Karen, 'cause Karen looksabsolutely devastated, is something wrong?

(01:46:22):
And she's sort of couldn't puttwo or two together that Karen's
face is because of Deirdre.
Um, and Deirdre explains that
her office has been working with N'sbirth mother to prepare for reunification.
And it's time to start that process.

(01:46:42):
And Hen's like, whatare you talking about?
And Karen says, "Wehave to give Nia back."
Oh,
and that's where the episode ends.
No, not.
Oh,
you don't approve?
That's the whole point.
No, that's the whole point offostering is you are giving the

(01:47:04):
child a safe place to be while theirparents get their shit together.
And the goal is for the childto go back to their parents.
Yeah.
You don't foster fail a foster childlike you can with a cat or a dog.
Yeah.
Then she's not a puppy.
She has parents and it sounds likeher parent, like her mother is doing

(01:47:25):
everything she can to get Nia back.
So I I told you I had issueswith the fostering storyline.
Yeah.
It's not, and this great,
this reaction, this thing we have togive Nia back is why I have problems
with this fostering storyline.
Yeah.
Okay.
But I mean, it's the, it's making youfeel for the parent, like the foster

(01:47:50):
parents who have brought this childinto their home and cared for her.
And then they have like,yes, they have to give back.
They have to let the childgo back to their parents.
But that's gotta hurt still, right?
Oh, 100%.
But I am, I think we should put apin in this conversation because this
storyline is going to continue andwe can talk a little bit later after

(01:48:13):
the storyline continues on how theshow continues the storyline and how
problematic I think it is, the way theycontinue the story line that's storyline.
Like it's definitely worse.
Um, yeah, having seen therest of the storyline, it's
definitely worse on rewatch.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
I guess I'll look forward to that then.

(01:48:35):
Yeah.
Like 100% it would, I feel.
Well, actually no, I don't.
In theory, I would feel for fosterparents who have taken a child in and
have fallen in love with them, it must beincredibly difficult to hand them back.
I, but that's not what happens withthis storyline in this episode.
I'm not feeling for them at all.

(01:48:57):
I guess I'll keep my commentsuntil I hear more about it then.
So, yeah.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Weird episode.
Um, weird midseason finale.
So we didn't fully, we didn't fullydiscuss, um, the COVID storyline.
So do we wanna go back and justtalk about why we think they threw

(01:49:19):
in this weird, not consistent withtheir in universe established COVID?
Yes.
Tell us your theories.
Um, right, so my theories was thatthis episode was filmed early February,
and we know that because of, if we cantrust Oliver's posting of social media,

(01:49:44):
because early February, like thinkinglike first, 2nd of February, he posted
a photo of him and Gavin, um, from thescene that they did in this episode.
So early February, like January,December, January was when COVID vaccines
really started getting rolled out.

(01:50:05):
Mm-hmm.
Um, so I think.
That this episode was vaccine propagandawas pushing the go out and get vaccinated.
Yeah,
and it was initially my thoughtsthat that came down like that was
an edict from on high that someonein the upper echelons of the network

(01:50:26):
has for whatever reason decided thatthey wanted to push the, let's get
everybody vaccinated message out.
Um, but considering that it'sFox at this stage, I dunno that
it did come from the network.
So I'm thinking that from withinthe writer's room, somebody has gone
vaccine take up rates are really low.

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The crew and the cast of 9-1-1suffered a lot of losses.
Like we know that the first episodeback for this season, they dedicated
it to a crew member who died of COVID.
Yeah.
So the uh, it's my feeling that someonein the writer's room, a lot of people in
the writer's room have gone like, peopleneed to go out and get fucking vaccinated.
So let's put a vaccine storylinein to try and encourage, look, your

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favorite characters are all pro-vaccineand showing Michael and the others
getting their vaccinations so you toocan go out and get your vaccinations.
It's really importantthat you get vaccinated.
Yeah, I'd be interestedto know how it worked.
Like were they're actually peoplewho watched this and then went,
you know what, actually maybeI will go and get my vaccine.

(01:51:32):
It would be interesting.
I'm always basing my medicaldecisions on what I see on tv.
Yeah.
But if you'd been putting it off andthen you saw this and you're like,
yeah, okay, let's go and do it.
Like, no, I'm not saying that justbecause these people definitely got
theirs, then I must do it as well.
But, you know, you, you've gottaplant it in, in people's minds.

(01:51:53):
Look, I've done weirder thingsbecause a TV character told me to.
So luckily I haven't started dealing drugsor, um, ripping off Armenian cartels yet.
Considering I'm still watching the Shield.
But,
but yeah, maybe it was like that,the, the final, the tipping point
was, oh, you know, my favorite TV showand my favorite actors are showing

(01:52:14):
the vaccines are really important.
'cause look how much they'restressing about the fact that
these vaccines could go to waste.
And all of my favorite characters arerolling up their sleeves and getting their
vaccines, so maybe I should go do it too.
'cause they seem to think it's okay.
So yes, that's my theory as to whywe've got this weird, um, doesn't fit
in their established COVID narrative.

(01:52:34):
Storyline.
Certainly,
I mean, it did happen in the realworld that things looked better
and then they looked worse again.
I mean, I think it possiblyin America, it just got
progressively worse as it went on.
It didn't actually, they didn'thave as many dips and troughs.
Um,
yeah, see, I don't know, because wewere locked down in Melbourne for a
long time, so we were very stable.

(01:52:56):
Like we only opened up for like.
A month.
They opened us up over Christmas andthen closed us straight back down again.
So I don't really,
our, our borders were closed as well.
They were like, we had hardly anymovement between states and everything.
Like in, in Queensland, we weren't lockeddown, but we had hardly any COVID because,
you know, people weren't coming andgoing and, and most people just stayed

(01:53:19):
home and, and worked at home anyway,
that's it.
Like, it, it really hit Melbournehard, which is why we locked
down so much, um, because thehospitals started being overwhelmed.
So they were like, okay, no, we have to.
Well, yeah, because you guys had theinternational airport, like you and
New South Wales, that's where allthe travelers were coming in from.
And the cruise ships were cominginto Victoria and New South Wales.

(01:53:41):
So you were getting all of thepeople who had just come back
from international holidays Yep.
And had brought COVID with them.
Yep.
'cause we saw that with, um, Tasie, likewe locked down and everything was fine.
And then a cruise ship came in andsomeone decided, oh, the, um, the
people who live in Tassie can getoff the cruise ship and go back home.

(01:54:04):
Except they brought COVID with them.
Oh
my God.
And so, like Davenport got absolutelydecimated because they suddenly
had all of these COVID cases.
Oh no.
Yeah.
So we got locked downeven harder after that.
Nobody was allowed to come back in.
Oh, those were the timesit seems like so long ago.
I know.
It seems so.
Yeah.

(01:54:24):
It seems so weird now.
Anyway, should we talk about what weare going to talk about next week?
Yeah.
What's happening next week?
It's gonna be next week.
We promise it's going to be next week.
Um, don't promise.
That's the, that's stageone of a medical drama.
You never, never promise Jesus Christ.
Don't say the q don't say the Q word.
And never promise to deliver.
Never make promises.

(01:54:45):
Okay.
Yeah.
Um, I don't, I don't promise.
I we will try really hard.
We'll attempt
to get an episode to you next week,um, because next week the Athena and
the 118 are going to race to savelives after a drunk driver causes
a deadly pile up on the freeway.
Meanwhile, Maddie goes into labor,Hen and Karen are devastated as they

(01:55:08):
prepare their foster daughter to bereunited with their birth mother.
Oh no, we're not gonna mention that.
Okay.
Um, that's it.
You've got the deadlypile up on the freeway.
Maddie goes into labor and Nia isgoing back to her birth mother.
Okay.
Yep.
Um, our triggers for thisepisode is childbirth.

(01:55:32):
He, the baby's coming!
Foster care system, um, multi-car,multi-vehicle accident due to drunk
driving, which includes a child at threat.
Uh, multiple injuries and fatalitiesand a minor character at threat.

(01:55:54):
Would we say minor?
Semi major kind of majorcharacter at threat?
No, I'm still going minor.
We can discuss this further onceEllen discovers which character it is.
Okay.
Well, Maddie goes into labor,so I'm sure everything's fine.
You know, it's, it's a TV showabout emergencies, so I'm sure

(01:56:15):
that nothing bad will happen.
Hmm.
Don't say that!
It's gonna be fine.
Maybe grab a box oftissues before you are.
Oh dear.
Okay.
Um, anything else about thisepisode you wanna wanna say?
On that note
yeah.
Um, no, this episode sucked.

(01:56:36):
I'm glad I don't have to watch it again.
Um, my two, the two things, the twoand a half things that saved this
episode were one the, um, the Buck,Eddie Christopher family dynamic.
Yes.
That was adorable.
Yeah.
Um, two Taylor Kelly.
Yes.
Icon.

(01:56:57):
Yeah.
The 118 stuff was real good.
Taylor Kelly was real good.
I just, the emergencies were real shit.
Yeah.
And specifically thejump, jump, jump scene.
Yeah.
So good.
Every, everything elsecan I, I care not for.
Yeah.
The, the whole of that, theguy waiting around on the roof

(01:57:17):
thing was pretty funny actually.
I liked that.
Yeah, that was great.
That was the best partof the episode for sure.
Yeah.
But yeah, everything elsewas kind of meh, right?
Not, not our favorite.
Definitely not, not the worst.
But I may not watch this episode againif I decide to binge the series again.

(01:57:38):
Yeah.
Like I'd fair, I'd watch a coupleof the scenes again, but not,
yeah, just like skip through to watchyour favorite scenes and then move on.
Yeah.
You know what?
I thought we were closer to theend of the season than we are.
We still have like, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
We're halfway,
six.
We've got six episodes to go.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Whoa, we're halfway there.
We're living on a prayer?

(01:57:58):
Living on a prayer?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yep.
Absolutely.
Well, uh, do let us know if you thoughtthis episode was as bad as we did,
um, or, or like, let us know what theredeeming thing was for you as well.
How much do you love Taylor Kelly?
Yeah.
Do you have any knowledge of housebuilding and plastering and do you

(01:58:22):
know how quickly that woman could havebuilt a brick wall and plastered it?
Oh God.
Honestly, I do not care.
That was so,
yes, it was brick.
It wasn't it, it wasn't plaster.
It was brick wasn't it?
It it was brick.
It was brick.
Because they, they knockeddown the bricks to get to him.
Yes.
Yeah.
Plaster look like you can put a wall upquite quickly, like, um, 'cause we've just

(01:58:42):
like built my little house thing and youcan just get a sheet of plaster and like
put a frame up and, um, nailed plaster.
A sheet of plaster in it and then painted.
Oh, 100%.
Yeah.
But she built a brick wall.
But it was brick, wasn't it?
It was brick.
Yeah.
She bricked him in.
It was so weird.
Yeah,
she bricked him in and then she putlike the plaster over the top of it.
So that's my question,
No, honestly.

(01:59:02):
How long does it take tobuild a freaking brick wall?
I am bricking up the memoryof that call in my mind.
Like I don't, I don't care.
Don't care.
I also forgot about it.
So we're building a tomb forthat particular emergency.
Totally.
Yep.
Sorry.
That's it.

(01:59:22):
Alright.
Let us know.
You leave us a comment.
No, don't let us know.
Ellen doesn't care, keepthat information to yourself.
Not about that.
Just let us know about the otherstuff that we asked you about
if you're a brick layer.
No, no.
Unfortunately we don'twanna hear from you.
No.
If you have other relevant comments,you can put them on this episode's post.

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Or you can DM us on socialmedia or however else you'd
like to get in contact with us.
Thank you for listening this week.
We'll talk to you next time about episodenine, which is called "Blindsided".
See you then.
Bye
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