4.09: Blindsided

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9 1 1. What's your emergency?
Welcome back to That WeeWoo Show, apodcast where we watch and discuss
episodes of the A B C show, 9-1-1.
I'm Ellen.
I'm Alice,
and I'm Bex.
Thanks to everyone who's been listeningto our season four episodes so far.
We are more than halfway through now.
We are getting through it.
All right, so we're up to episodenine, but before we start talking

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about that episode, Alice, can youremind us what happened last time?
Yeah, so last week on 9-1-1, Eddiereunited Ana and Christopher, while
Buck was reunited with Taylor Kelly,and Chimney and Maddie made the
decision to not have a home birth.
That was their whole story last week,
unfortunately.
Yes.

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Um, also Hen and Karen found out that theyhad to give Nia back, but you know, we'll
discuss more of that in this episode.
Indeed.
This episode is called "Blindsided".
It originally aired on the 19th of April.
And the official summary tells usthat Athena and the 118 race to save

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lives after a drunk driver causesa deadly pile up on the freeway.
Meanwhile, Maddie goes into labor, andHen and Karen are devastated as they
prepare their foster daughter Nia tobe reunited with her birth mother.
And the triggers for this episodeinclude childbirth, foster care

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system, multi-vehicle car accident dueto drunk driving with child threat,
multiple injuries and fatalitiesand minor character at threat.
This was an amazing episode.
I was on the edge ofmy seat the whole time.
It was amazing
I cried almost the whole way through.
Oh my God, I've seen it before.

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I know what happens and yet I likeimmediately was like almost crying.
I was like, what the hell?
Yeah.
It's like it's tense as.
Incredibly tense the entire time.
Amazing return for the season.
'cause remember they had a break.
Yeah.
Considering what happened last week.
Yeah.
Oh, this is the first after a break.

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That's right.
Yep.
The last episode was like four weeksago, or five weeks ago or something.
It's their spring premiere or something.
Which is why we went from, um, Maddiebeing sort of discussing giving
birth to her being 42 weeks pregnant.
That was quite a time jump.

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Yeah.
Already ready to go.
Oh yeah, she's ready to pop.
And she's like, okay.
So we're starting out with Chim andMaddie, and we go through this a
series of like little clips whereMaddie keeps thinking that it's, it's
time or, like Maddie makes a noise.
And Chim goes, "is it time?"And Maddie's like, no,
I do.

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And the first one's great becauseliterally, Maddie makes a noise and Chim's
just like, I'm awake, I'm awake and rollsoff the bed and roll and hits the floor.
He falls right outta bed.
I love that.
And he's like, is it time?
And Maddie's just like, no.
And just rolls overand goes back to sleep.
And Chim's just like, what the hell?
Uh, I don't know why she's still waitingfor it all to happen at 42 weeks.

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Like, isn't that theend of the line usually?
Like they just,
usually if like nothing ishappening, then it's fine.
Like I know one of my friends,was induced because the baby was
showing like some issues that,so they wanted to get him out.
Whereas I was two weeks late'cause I was just chilling and
they were like, yeah, it's fine.

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When I started actually having issues,then they were like, okay, fine.
And I ended up being an emergencyC-section because inducing did nothing.
Right.
But yes, 42 weeks is overdue, butas long as like mom and baby are
healthy, my like, because she is asMaddie's mother helpfully pointed
out because she is high risk Iwould've thought that they prob like

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would've induced her by now, but yeah.
Yeah, I would have thought so too.
Um, I guess that's not as funny.
So especially with her anxiety overnot having Chim there, not having her
doctor there, you, it would've madesense for the doctor to go, okay,
fine, we will induce you on thisspecific date so that I can be there.

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Yeah.
But yes, then we didn't get the humorof, you know, Maddie almost giving
birth in the 9-1-1 dispatch center.
Yeah, it's a very, like,it, it's definitely a trope.
Um, like you had Friends when Rachelwas super pregnant as well and she
was trying all the things as well.
Oh yeah.
And the other thing that I foundfunny about this episode, oh, we

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can talk about it later when sheactually goes back to work, but by
about the maybe even 36 week mark.
Like even pre before thatI was like, I, I, I'm done.
Like I can't go to workanymore, even though my work
We'll get into American healthcarewhen we get down to there, trust me.
Oh yeah.

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But like my, I sit at a desk all day.
It's not like I actually movearound much, but I couldn't sit
like on my chair for that long.
It was hurting me and getting inand out on the train, obviously
I had to get the train then.
Ooh.
Um, oh, being on the trainwhile pregnant would be awful.
Yeah, it sucked.
I hated it.
I remember one day Ihad to, I was the same.

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I would have to takethe train into the city.
I'd be at my desk all day.
Thankfully we had standing desks soI could shift from standing up to
sitting down, um, and then train allthe way back, and usually in heels.
Um, and there was one particularday where the train was packed and
nobody would give up a seat for me.
So I stood.

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For an hour on the train.
Oh my God.
That's awful when you're not pregnant.
I was in tears by the end of the trip.
I bet.
Yeah.
No, thank you.
That's awful.
I can't believe you wore heelswhile pre that, that No, I
That sounds like a nightmare.
That that's like a,sounds like extra thing.
Yeah.
Yes.

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Like I have a phobia of pregnancy asit is, but that sounds even worse.
It's, it's a very uncomfortable time.
Um,
meanwhile my dog's been pregnant and, um,
she was also quiteuncomfortable at the end.
Yeah.
She told me
Sure.
She didn't have to work.
Um, Maddie is having BraxtonHicks contractions the whole

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time, which is like false labor.
Like you get some contractions, butthey do, um, non, you know, finish.
They don't,
they're not, they nonproductive contractions.
They don't actually do anything.
Well, they, they help to move thebaby down, I think, to get ready.
In, but not actuallyactively going to labor.

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Um, I did find the, the scene where,um, it's 42 days and three weeks
pregnant and they're in the car racing
42 weeks and three days?
Yeah.
You said three weeks.
It's like, that's a long time.
Three weeks.
Wow.
Or 42 days in three weeks.
No.
Alright, let's try that again.
Um, the scene, the scene wherethey're in the car, Maddie's 42

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weeks and three days pregnant.
Um, Albert is driving them to the hospitaland Maddie's just like, "Wow, I thought
labor was gonna hurt more. This doesn'thurt a bit. It's not even that painful."
Only for them to get to the hospital andthen immediately turn around and leave
again, because today is not the day.

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Yeah.
It's just Braxton Hicks.
Yeah.
Today's the day.
Today is not the day.
Yeah.
So we, we go through like day by day, so.
We have a caption that comes upsaying like 42 weeks pregnant,
and then 42 weeks one day.
Um, so the first day, Maddiefully drinks a bowl of like spicy
soup, and then is like, ooh.
And Chim's like, "Oh my God, isit time?" And Maddie's like, "Yes.

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To pee again."
Um, oh yeah, there's a lotof peeing when you then,
Then we go 42 weeks and two daysand Maddie calls out to Chim and
Chim's like packing the hospital bagand he literally just like throws
the onesie that he is holding.
He is like, "I'm coming, I'm coming. Isit time? Is it time?" And Maddie's trying
to do yoga on the floor and she's stuck.

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Like she's just stuck in a position andshe's like, "Get me up." Um, so yeah, she
says they've tried pineapple, raspberrytea, spicy foods, and now exercise.
Um.
And Chim's like, what's next?
And Maddie just goes "Sex," and likethrows his her shirt at Chim, and he's
like, "Why didn't we start with that one?"

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oh, love them.
Because when you are like40 weeks pregnant, you don't
really feel like having sex.
That's probably thelast thing on your mind.
Oh.
Um, but yeah, so then 42 weeks andthree days is Albert like driving
them quickly to the hospitaland it's just Braxton Hicks.
And then we get the title card.

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So yeah, the first, the wholefirst part is just great.
It's all just humor.
Um, it's all just Madneybeing Madney, which is great.
Mm-hmm.
And then we go straight into the drama.
Oh yes.
The drama.
This is like one of the mostfor the drama things this show
has ever done this section
and that's saying something.

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Yeah.
Yeah.
So when we return from thetitle card, we are at DCFS.
And Hen and Karen have brought Nia foran exchange or for her, um, supervised
visitation with her birth mother.
Um, and so while the aide, Carly,who we've seen before, takes a crying

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Nia out of the room to see her birthmother, um, Diedra talks to Karen and
Hen about, or she wants to talk tothem about scheduling overnight visits.
Um, instead they end up outin the courtyard where Hen
starts ripping into Diedra.

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This is like, okay, I can, Iget where she's coming from in
the, the emotional side of it.
Like, okay, it sucks that.
This happens, but like I feel likemaybe she should have known this
already before, like when theydecided to become foster parents.
Yeah.
I feel like there should Like
they knew this was like going to happen.
Yeah.
Surely they have, when they sign upto be foster parents, surely they have

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to like have a talk and be like, youknow, "re reunification is like what
we aim for here." It's not just like,
well they must do,
we're giving you a child on a trialrun and then taking it back again.
Like, that's not how it works.
Well because Karen is like quiteupset through this process, but
she is the one pushing back at Hen.

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She's resigned to it.
Like yeah.
She's saying to Hen, "Look, this waslike, we knew this was happening. This is
the whole point of fostering." Um, yeah.
So, yes.
So while Diedra and DCFS are working toreuni to, um, reunite Nia and her birth
mother, um, Hen is pretty much trying toput her foot down to stop the process.

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Um, she wants to meet Nia'sbirth mother to make sure that
she's safe for Nia to return to.
Yeah, no, that's what, like, that's what c
that's the department's job
which is what Diedra says.
And then Hen says, "Well, how doyou know that, um, that she is safe?

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You know, we don't even knowwhy she would, why Nia was given
to DCFS in the first place.
Um, you know, was her mother,was she involved with drugs?
Was she abusive?
Was she neglectful?"
And we get told that.
This is not uncommon reactionfrom foster parents, especially
in situations where the placementis for an extended period of time.

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Apparently Nia was meant to be fora few months, but the pandemic made
it even longer, which is why she'sbeen with them for nearly a year.
Um, and so Hen goes, "So what are ourlegal options, you know, to adopt her."
Yeah.
Diedra's like, "let me just stopyou right there. Um, you've done an

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amazing job. I wish I had a dozenmore foster families like you, but
reunification is our main goal."
And she pretty much tells Hen,look, you can stay outside
and have your little tantrum.
I'm gonna go back inside.
You can come in when you've calmeddown and you're ready to talk.
Pretty much.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And yeah.
Karen, sorry, I just backto the topic earlier.

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I just opened Facebook while you wereexplaining like the DFSS thing and the
first post on my thing was from a group.
Um.
Going, Hey, so no one tells youthis, but there'll be a time when
you think your water has broken andyou'll be like, oh my God, it's time.
But it'll be piss.
And then you'll have to say no.
It's just piss.
Sorry everyone.
I just pissed.
I'm just like, that's so relevant towhat we're talking about right now.

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Yeah.
It's not a fun time.
There are a lot of fluids involved.
Yeah.
That's great.
Anyway, uh,
yeah, so Hen is like still going on andKaren's just like, you need to calm down.
Um, and Hen's like "They'retearing our family apart.
How can you stay calm?" Karen'slike, "'cause this is what we
signed up for." Like, we knew this.

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Yeah.
I feel like, uh, like Hen
I'm absolutely on Karen'sside this whole time.
Yeah.
I don't wanna, so I don't wannasay that she's overreacting,
but she kind of is overreacting.
Like,
yeah,
this is, this is out of character for her.
Like, she's not normally, so,
see, my issue with this storyline is thefact that it's Hen being the one that is

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having this reaction, because I feel likeit's an important conversation to have.
It's important to show that fosterfamilies can get attached, but they
shouldn't get so attached becausethey accept they're standing in
the way of DCFS doing their job.
And we have Diedra here doinga really good job of explaining

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all of the steps that get takenthrough the reunification process.
That they're not just throwing the kidback at the birth mother and birth parents
and going, okay, you know, best of luck.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She says they've beenworking on it for months now.
Yeah.
To try and make sure that everything wasfine for her to go back to her family,
you know, DCFS will continueto have visits, but that's

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not the foster family's job.
The foster family is to provide asafe place for the child to land,
not to judge the birth mother forwhatever mistake she made in the past.
I really, I really feel like... My issuewith them giving this storyline to Hen is
that I feel like that us as the audience,we should be looking at Diedra, we should

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be looking at Karen, we should be lookingat Hen and we should be recognizing
that Hen's reaction is the wrong one.
And that when she says that givingNia back is wrong, the entire audience
should be taking a step back and going,oh, okay, you are, you are outta line.
This is the wrong reaction.
Mm-hmm.
My fear is however that because itis Hen and because it is Aisha and

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her level of performance and theemotions that she puts, that the
audience is going to side with Henand suddenly there are gonna be, yeah.
She's also main character.
So we are four seasonsin, we're attached to Hen.
So are we supposed to be lookingat Hen and going, look, I love
you but you are wrong on this one.
Or are we supposed to besiding with Hen and going Yes.

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This is wrong.
They should be able to keep Nia,the foster system is broken in
this aspect, and I think that's areally dangerous storyline and a
dangerous narrative to be pushing.
Yeah.
I don't like how they did this at all.
I'm really glad that allof us are on the board.
We, we watched this episode for the firsttime and went, oh no, no, this is bad.

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I feel like a better thingfor them to do would've been
to have Nia struggle with it.
But like, I possibly they couldn't getthe, like, it's hard to get a kid that
young act like that, but like, I feellike Nia should have struggled with it
and they could have had a discussionlike sat down with Nia and had a
discussion going, "you're going back,like you're going to, your mommy, uh,

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we'll always be your family, but youknow, this is where you belong. Um, we'll
always love you." That sort of thing.
Like it would make sense for Nia tostruggle because she's a tiny kid
and she's been with them for a year,
or if you are gonna,
but Hen's an adult, sheshould pull it together.
If you are going to have an adultdoing it, then have Karen do it,

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because I don't think that theaudience is quite as attached to Karen
because she is not main character.
Yeah.
And the other thing is she just had,uh, you know, uh, the trying to have
a baby, like the, you know, processthat she, that they went through
Yes.
The IVF stuff and that was not successful.

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So, and then they went straightinto this foster thing, so,
so it would make sense for Karento have be clinging to Nia.
Yeah.
To have that attachment.
Yes.
I don't know if that's a bad storylineeither, but I feel like that I could
wrap my head around and justifythat better than Hen doing it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, you're right.

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I agree.
Yeah.
I'm not a fan of Hen's reaction at all.
Um,
no.
Like, I, like I said before,I don't like this storyline.
Yeah.
No, I love the factthat they're fostering.
I think that's fantastic.
But they, I don't like the waythat they did the reaction.
Like they should have been upset.
Absolutely.
But they shouldn't have done this.

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Yes.
With Hen literally throwinga tantrum because the kids
going back to her real mother.
And I think,
I mean, we also have to rememberthat she's been through a
lot of trauma with Denny.
Like,
oh yeah, I was just aboutto bring up the same thing.
The adoption
stuff
I think lot of it's, you know, Henassumes that all mothers are gonna
be like Denny's mother's mother.
They've been already, yeah, that's right.

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But they don't know that she's,they, she may not have been a junkie.
She may have been goingthrough, um, domestic violence.
Like there's so many reasons that,you know, someone can go through this
also, that it can be voluntary.
That's true.
Like you can just be in sucha hard time that you cannot do
what is best for your child.
So you put your handup and go, I need help.

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I need you to give my kid asafe space for a little while
so I can get my shit together.
Yeah.
And it's not like, and so many fosterfamilies just do it for the money.
So many do it for the wrong reasonsand you know, Nia was really lucky
to land with Hen and Karen and evenDiedra says that, but I hate the

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reaction like, oh no, she's ours now.
It's like she's not.
Yes.
Like I said, you don't foster fail kids.
No, exactly.
Fostering is not a do not pass go.
Do not collect $200 straight to adoption.
It is, you are there temporarily.
That does not mean that there are, aren'tpeople who do end up adopting people that

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they have fostered, but that's in extremecircumstances when there is literally,
that is what is best for the child.
Reunification is not gonna work.
Adopting them.
Well, they don't have anywhere to go
another family is not gonna work.
It's best for them to stay where they arefor their own mental and physical health.
And yeah, the whole point was that,you know, Karen saw a kid that needed
help on Christmas and was like,oh, let's be that help for kids.

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And then all of a sudden she'slike, no, I wanna keep it.
And it's like, that's not how it works.
It's not really helping.
Yeah.
It, I, I think it's just aweird, it's out of place.
Like, it's a weird reactionto the whole thing anyway.
Like, uh, they've been going throughthis process so well, so far.
Uh, and now.

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It's kind of all fallen apart.
But anyway, we've got a lot to getthrough before we actually get to
No, let's just
them working it out,
talk about the fostersystem for like two hours.
It's okay.
Anyway.
Fine.
Speaking of trauma, yes.
Let's bring up some more trauma.
So we're gonna cut to May, who is
actually, I, I missed the start ofthis bit in the, in the episode when

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I was watching it, I didn't see May...
I wasn't paying attention to either.
Um, yeah, she runs into Josh.
That's the main part that I,
yeah.
May steps outta the elevator,looking at her phone.
So May's at work.
Um, she's in the elevator heading upfor a shift and her phone chimes, so
she pulls it out and sees that she hasa friend request from Laila Creedy.

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Yeah.
So this is the girl that was likebullying her and in season one enough to,
yeah.
So,
you know.
Try make her try and kill herself.
Yeah.
So massively bullied her in season one.
Um, Athena ended up arrestingher on drug possession.
It was a whole thing.
Mm-hmm.
Um, and yeah, now she's senta friend request to May and

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May's just like, what the hell?
Like, why would she wanna talk to her?
But also, like, this is another example oflike whichever designer put the stuff on
the screen, it's like an iMessage popup.
But then when May goes into it,it's not a message, it's like a
profile, like a Facebook profile.
Oh.
Um, but anyway, yeah.
So May's like, what the hell?

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Um, and then when the doors open,May walks out, but she's still
looking at her phone and shejust walks straight into Josh.
Um, and she's like, sheimmediately starts apologizing.
But yeah, Josh is like, "I'd saywe'd need traffic lights there, but
I'm pretty sure you'd have barreledthrough those too. Like, are you okay?"
Because yeah, May's just still likestaring at her phone and she sort of

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gives like sort of an explanation to him.
Like obviously she doesn't wanna gointo it a detail, but she's like, "yeah,
I just got this friend request fromsomeone I used to go to high school
with that caught me by surprise."
And Josh's reaction is the bestthough, because he's like, "ah, a
whole seven months ago how time flies."
Oh, I did laugh at that.

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I love Josh.
Um, yeah.
So I was like, "No, no. She transferredout a few years back after bullying me
and making my life are living hell."And Josh, who I'm sure has also been
bullied in his time is like, "Do youwant me to respond to her? I'll, I'll
think of a few choice ideas of whereyou can stick her friend request."
May decide she's gonna ignore it.
She doesn't, it doesn'tmatter what she has to say.

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It's been three years.
Doesn't matter whatshe has to say anymore.
And Josh's like, yeah.
Go girl.
This is where Maddie's gone back to work.
And I'm just like, whyare you there, Maddie?
Why?
Why are you there?
So then we, then we cut tothe break room and Maddie's
and, and Linda saysexactly the same thing.
Linda just goes, "you sure you should beworking nights?" I'm like, yes, exactly.

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No, I'm with Maddie.
The staying up all nightis, it's good practice.
'cause you're not gonna get anysleep once the baby's there.
She might as well, youknow, slowly practice,
not get any sleep before the baby's there?
Yes.
Because otherwise it's too big ofa shock when you go from, you know,
a nice full eight hours to suddenlywaking up every two hours or three
hours if you've got a crappy sleeper.

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Sure.
So you may as well just not geta full night's sleep beforehand.
So you just, um, resigned to thefact that you're not gonna sleep for
the next, like, how old are they?
12 years.
Makes me very glad I stuck with dogs.
Thanks.
Um, but wouldn't you wanna take thetime now to sleep as much as you can?

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Yeah, that's what I did.
I was like, screw you, I'm gonna sleep.
Um, Linda's like, "You make mefeel like I should be calling OSHA
to report a labor violation," andMaddie's like, "Don't say labor."
Um, but yeah, she's having contractionsconstantly, but she's like, "oh, they're
not real ones. They're just BraxtonHicks. I've been having them all week
and every time I think something'sgonna happen, nothing happens."

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so Linda, um, changes the subjectand asks if they have a name
and we get some more great Madney.
So Maddie makes this thinkingface and we as the audience, we
flash back to a previous day intime when Chim and Maddie were.

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Trying to think up names.
It looks like they weregoing through a list.
So Chimney's on the couch, readingthrough names from Maddie to veto as she's
pacing back and forth behind the couch.
And they're all P names.
Yeah.
So Piper, no Poppy.
No princess, no.
That's a dog's name.
She's just, yeah.
She's just giving them, givinghim looks every for every one.

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Yep.
Priscilla?
No.
And Chim's like, "Well, that's itfor the Ps." And then Chim sort of
starts asking her something elseand then realizes Maddie's gone.
And he is, she's, he is like, "Whereare you going?" And she's like,
"Well, now I have to pee." And he islike, "Well, that's not my fault."
It turns out that Linda has kindof a, an ulterior motive in getting
Maddie to pick a name sooner ratherthan later, because her mother didn't

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pick a name for her little brotheruntil they were in the hospital.
And she tells Maddie the story that, um,she ended up naming Linda's little brother
after the doctor that delivered him.
Yeah, they were, theywere so thankful that,
and Maddie's like, "oh my god,what did she name him?" And
Linda just says, "Norman,"

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which isn't a bad name.
Like it's a bit oldfashioned, but it's not awful.
Unless, unless you know what Linda'slast name is, which is Bates.
Yeah.
So this po there is an, there isa man walking around Los Angeles.
There's probably several of them,but we have a man walking around
Los Angeles called Norman Bates.
Um, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
And I'm hoping that,

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for those of you who don't know,
I'm hoping that everybodyknows who Norman Bates is.
But Norman Bates is, um, the protagonistfrom the Hitchcock movie, Psycho.
Would we say protagonist?
Antagonist?
And yeah,
Main character?
Evil dude?
Um, who was based on

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serial killer.
A particular serial killer.
Was he the Ed Gein, was he basedafter Ed Gein, or is that another one?
No idea.
Uh, but basically, yeah, hewas a, he was a serial killer.
He kept, uh, his mother desiccatedcorpse, like in the, in his house.
Fun guy.
Definitely, definitelywanna be named after him.

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So, yes.
So that prompts Maddie to fire offan angry text to Chim, demanding
that they need to have a name.
Yeah.
Literally just sends,we need a baby name now.
And then, like a bunch of angry faces.
Meanwhile, Chim is at work andhe's, he just asks the others,
"Anyone got any ideas?" Yeah.

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And then, and then he turnsaround to Buck and Eddie.
Yeah.
Are both going to like open their mouthsand he is like, "Not any of your names."
oh.
So it's not gonna be Buckette or Ivana?
Or Edwina.
And Buck's.
Like, I thought you weregonna put names in a hat.
And then it turns out they tried that.
But, um, the only thing,

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oh, this is the best.
I laughed so hard.
The only thing that was on thepieces of paper in the names in the
hat when Chim opens, one of themis I, is it, "I don't really wanna
pick our baby's name this way."
Yeah.
And Chim's like, "okay, but that'snever gonna fit on her driver's
license." And Maddie just leaves.
She's like, Nope.
Ah, she's being very resistant to thiswhole naming process to be honest,

(28:05):
Nothing seems right.
Um, but Eddie says that he andShannon didn't know what they
were gonna name Christopher.
Then they saw him and they knew,and Chim's like, yeah, cool.
Like, we're, we're wayahead of our skis here.
So he texts Maddie, "meet herfirst?" With Maddie's question marks.
Maddie's.
Maddie's response is all caps.
Norman Bates like five exclamation points.

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And Chim just looks up from his phonewhen he receives his text and goes,
"I think she just called me a psycho."
Yeah.
Like he has no context forthis, but he's just like, what
the fuck did you just call me?
Oh, that's great.
Um, then Bobby turns up and Yeah,Bobby, what a great name for a baby.

(28:51):
Um,
no,
and asks if Maddie'sstill having false labor.
And she was like, "yeah, I know kidsare supposed to test your patients,
but I thought she'd at least waituntil she was out of the womb."
Bobby's like, "Well, at least you'vewell prepared for her arrival."
The waiting
is the worst.
Absolutely the worst.
I do love that.

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Um, Chim starts listing all the ways inwhich they're prepared for baby's arrival,
and it includes freeze dried rations.
Yeah, so the normal stuff like baby toys,clothes, towels, blankets, supplements,
but yeah, freeze dried rations,
which are in there apparently incase the hospital loses power.
So they will have, how long arethey gonna be in this hospital

(29:34):
that they require rations?
Literally,
um, interestingly, while Chim and Bobbyare having this conversation, Chim looks
up to see that Hen is sitting in thelocker room staring at her phone and yells
at her pretty much to get her ass out andhelp him with restocking the ambulance.
Um, which they just did

(29:55):
apparently.
But, um, Hen's got her, uh, pessimistic,uh, grumpy pants on because when Chim
says to her, but yeah, you know, "Sure wemight have just restocked her, but there's
no such thing as being too prepared."She comes back with "Sure, like there's
any rhyme or reason for the crap lifethrows at you," and walks off, which

(30:19):
Bobby and Chim are just very confused.
Oh, she's in a great mood today.
Such a great mood.
Chim's getting it from allthe women in his life today.
Yeah.
So this isn't a very, it doesn'treally segue nicely in either

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for the main, we just cut to
No, we just go straight into it.
Yeah.
We go straight to a 9-1-1 call,um, where we hear a, a little
voice asking whether this is the9-1-1, the one that helps people.
Oh my God.
Like I was alreadycrying just at this part.
And of course, the algorithm that handlesthe 9-1-1 calls realizes that this is

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gonna be a major, a major storyline.
So they've routed it through to Maddie,
obviously.
Um, and we find out that this isJacob and his mom is acting weird.
They're in the car, but, andhe thinks that they're lost,
but his mom is not talking to.

(31:25):
Yeah, I'm not sure.
I, at first I thought she was havinglike some kind of a stroke or like a
medical episode of some kind, becauseshe's not responding to him at all.
But it turns out later she's just drunk.
It's interesting, they do a, a,they do a closeup of her face and
then we get a cut from her pointof view and she's seeing double.

(31:46):
Um, yeah, which makes sense.
Once you've seen the entire storylineand once you have seen the entire
storyline, you immediately recognize thelook on her face that this is someone
who is very, very, very intoxicated.
But at this point, yeah, we haveno idea what is actually going on.
All we know is that,
yeah, it just seems strange thatshe wouldn't respond to him at all.
Like,

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and she is veering all over the roadbecause she's seeing cars, like she's
seeing double vision, so she's trying toavoid the cars she thinks are in front of
her, which are actually cars next to her.
So,
so Maddie tries to speak to Jacob's momby asking him to put the phone on speaker.
So she's trying to, you know, "Ma'am,this is 9-1-1. Like please pull over

(32:30):
and we can send you some help." Butshe just doesn't even do anything.
She just keeps on driving.
And poor Jacob's pleading this whole time.
Oh, he's so upset.
Amazing acting
like God broke my heart.
Brilliant actor.
Like this little kid, he's tiny.
Like they picked the, like the sweetestlooking child to play this kid.
He's like got these wideeyes and he's got glasses.

(32:54):
I feel like he's got glasses.
I think so?
Yeah.
That sounds familiar.
But yeah.
Um, and like these wide eyes andjust looks so terrified and he's
doing just, just the best job atthis and like, I'm like tearing up.
I'm just like this poor little kid.
Someone save him.
Yes.
Um,
he's so scared.
He's very scared because at thispoint his mother, whose name we
later find out is Rachel is actuallystarting to hit the other cars.

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Then they, Maddie asks him if she can,if he can see where they are and he
says, "we're getting on the freeway,but we are going the wrong way." And
then they start getting cars actuallycoming towards them and yeah, veering
out of the way so they don't crashhead on and, uh oh, it's terrifying.
It's so, ugh.

(33:41):
Then we go to commercial.
We come back to a series of 9-1-1 calls,all about what's happening on the freeway.
The first one we get, there's a caron the freeway, it's going the wrong,
and then the call drops out, we get,
we get a bang, then the dial tone,
we get a second call that Joshpicks up that says that there is

(34:04):
a car driving all over the road.
He swears that the driver is blind.
And then we see multiple otherdispatchers receiving other calls
relating to the same incident.
May gets one.
Um, the rest of thedispatchers all get calls,
At which point Sue kind of takes overand, 'cause this is obviously a, like
a going to be a mass incident because

(34:26):
Yeah, she, he like, they'reliterally driving on the freeway
going quickly against the traffic.
It's not a good thing.
So Sue radios to LAPD and letsthem know like roughly where it is.
Um, Maddie's still begging thedriver to pull over immediately.
So Sue like, runs over to Maddie prettymuch to help her out 'cause she's

(34:51):
obviously on the phone with the driver.
She tries to get the freeway shut down.
Uh, I guess they've tracked Jacob'scall 'cause they have like the map up.
I'm not entirely surehow she knows exactly.
There might be.
Yeah.
'cause she says to shut down theseven 10 North just after exit 43.

(35:11):
I'm gonna assume that other people havecalled in and have given exit numbers.
So Sue was reading thatas it's coming through.
Well maybe Jacob actually managed to see asign and tell her roughly where they are.
Yeah,
either way they know where Yeah it is.
Um, and then this is where Maddie'slike her son's with her in the car.
His name's Jacob and Sue.
Radio's going, please notethere's a child in the vehicle.

(35:35):
Um, Jacob's still pleading and I'mlike crying and like covering my eyes.
Yeah.
Um, because cars are justcoming faster and faster.
They're swerving around, um, one carswerves to get outta the way and like
spins around and finally they run outtaluck and an airport shuttle bus comes

(35:57):
straight at them and just hits them
They hit head on.
Like, I'm, I was, I thoughteveryone was dead at this point.
I'm just like, well, I guess that's it.
But no, they're not dead.
That we find out
it's fine.
9-1-1 still in history has notkilled a child in present day.
So, but, but Maddie doesn't know that.

(36:18):
She hears that there's been a crash.
No.
Maddie's crying like,
and she is like, oh my God.
They've finally had an actual crash,but then, then we get like a bunch
of cars just running into the back ofthis bus and the pile up is massive.
Yeah.
It just keeps going.
Like the
things are, things are exploding.
The car that ran into the shut, theairport shuttle starts like burst

(36:42):
into flames somehow and it just,like, cars just keep hitting it.
Like, how fast were these cars going?
That they couldn't leave a gap.
Yeah.
There were a lot.
Leave a gap.
It felt like there were alot of cars for, for slamming
into, there were a lot of cars.
It just keeps going.
Like they zoom out and it'sjust, it's so many cars.
Yeah.
And leave a gap.
Like I've seen a couple thathave been like, you know,

(37:04):
five cars, that sort of thing.
But this is massive.
Like it's insane.
But yeah, so the phone's still onspeaker, but Jacob and his mom are
both unconscious and that's wherethey pan over like so many cars
all on fire, like it's all awful.
And so LAPD are on their way.

(37:24):
Athena's obviously part of it as well, and
she's heading into the thick of it.
When she gets there, theLAFD are already there.
And Bobby's, I assume she saidshe was gonna rendezvous with the
incident commander and then sheturns up and Bobby's there and I'm
like, Bobby's the incident commander?
Or has she just zeroed in on him.

(37:46):
I dunno.
But
I think Bobby must be theincident commander because
he's the one that's telling,
he's telling everyone what to do.
Yeah.
Isn't, yeah.
Um, so yeah, when Athena gets there,he's telling everyone to make sure
that they stay back until the cars havebeen de-energized and all the airbags
have been checked to note for later

(38:07):
de-energized.
Um, but yeah, so Athena asks "What'sthe count?" And there's three casualties
so far and at least a dozen injured andthey're all very negative at this point.
They're like, oh, thisbecause of one driver.
This is the offending vehicle.
Was like, yeah, what's left of it?
We're like working on getting in there.
They're sort of not going very quickly.

(38:27):
Yeah.
Athena's like, oh, is thereeven anyone left to save?
And Eddie says that no one's speaking.
They can't see past the side of airbags,but they have picked up a heat signature.
Um, so there's definitely a live occupant.
Occupant in the front and asmaller heat signature in the back.
And this is where Jake, uh, thisis where Athena is like, "Oh,
dispatch says that they got acall from the driver's son Jacob."

(38:49):
And they're like, "Wait, the kid's stillin the car?" And then they start racing.
So it's like, yeah, they at this pointdon't know that the driver's drunk.
She could have just had a medicalepisode and they seem to be like
dragging their feet, getting her out.
And I'm like, um,
yeah, there was a, a weird toneto start with, wasn't there?
But

(39:09):
yeah, I was like this, I don't know,it just rubb rubbed me the wrong way.
They can't get the door open becausethe, the top of the car is too bent.
But they eventually get a saw andactually just cut the top of the car off.
Yeah, they do this, like the emergencyservices do this a lot, you'll see.
Um, 'cause my mom was in the SESand so she used to like work car

(39:34):
crashes and when you see like a carcrash on the news and stuff, like
the car will look absolutely mangled.
But a lot of the time it'sjust from the jaws and saws.
Getting the OCC occupants out.
So like, they'll be like,oh my God, what a bad crash.
And it's just like, well itwasn't had to like, it was bad.
You had to rip the car apart to get them.
Yeah.
Like they, the, the car didn'tlose its roof in the crash.
The car lost its roof.

(39:55):
Um, and yeah, when you know, like whatsigns to look for, it's just like,
ah, it was just, 'cause it was like,
not like that bus, I can't rememberwhere it was, I don't think it was in
London, but like one of those doubledeck, open top buses, like a tour thing
and it went, it was off route and it wentunder a, a low bridge and the top of it
just like peeled off like thankfully,

(40:17):
like a sardine can.
Yeah, yeah.
The people in the top there like allducked down and it didn't, no one was
oh, far out that'd be scary.
I
think people were hurt, but they weren't.
No one died, but Yeah.
Yeah.
It looked incredible.
Holy crap.
I can't even rememberwhat country it was in.
Yeah, we, we um, in Melbourne wehave the Montague Street Bridge.
Oh yeah.
I used, used to see that oneon social media sometimes

(40:40):
all the time.
Like I have been under it several times.
Um, 'cause it is in just like a main area.
Yeah.
Um, and I don't know why theyhaven't just like dug the
road deeper to make the bridge
small.
Yeah.
Because only like small kind of sedantype type cars can get under it.
Right.
It's like, like I've beenunder a four wheel drive, but
1.2 meters or something.
It's now, yeah.
It's tiny.
It's, it's small.

(41:01):
Um, and, but like it has flashinglights, it has um, like sensors and
like it actually has physical things'cause it used to just have sensors
and people wouldn't listen to them.
So now it has physical things where ifyou drive underneath, you will hit it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Before you get to the bridge and peoplestill regularly manage to get under
it and get wedged or sardine themlike sardine the top of the truck off.

(41:24):
Oh dear.
Um.
Yeah, it's always those like, youknow, the little like hire vans or
the little courier vans that are Yeah.
People who dunno where
they're going.
Yeah.
Like people who don't actually needa truck license can drive them.
Those ones.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, so yeah, they just don't payattention and go straight under.
So yeah.

(41:44):
Montague Street Bridge,um, foreigners have a look.
It's fun.
I think every ev just aboutevery country's got one
probably.
Yeah.
But no, they take the roofoff and they can see the kid.
He's still breathing.
He's all right.
Um,
I don't know how they can seethat he's still breathing from
where they are, but I don't know.
But he is still breathing,
I don't know, but Hen is magicallydiagnosing him with being alive.

(42:07):
Um, yeah.
And they can also see the driver and thecar's all, you know, mashed around her.
But she's okay.
She's unconscious, but she's all right.
They're not sure if, um, if Jacobhas got like vertebrae problem.
So they think that, that they,they're just gonna pull the

(42:28):
whole car seat out taking,
yeah, so they put a neck brace on himand just pulled the whole car seat out.
At least he was in a car seat, I guess.
Yeah.
He didn't look like, he was like, Ididn't notice a car seat before, but
yeah, like when he was on the phone.
Yeah.
Unless they're actually just takingthe actual seat out of the car.
Like the, not, not like a child seat.
I don't, because it wasn't,it, it looked like a seat.

(42:49):
No, it was an actual car seat.
I think it was most, I think most ofthe time we saw Jacob, he was leaning
forward to try and talk to his mother.
So we didn't actually seewhat he was sitting in.
Yeah, that's what, that'swhat made me think.
'cause normally when you're in likea booster seat type thing, it's
holding you back fairly tightly
if you've got a five point harness.

(43:10):
But if you are advanced to thebooster seat where you can have
the lap and shoulder sash you canmove around a little bit more.
So maybe he was in that sort of booster
seat.
Yeah, so it looked like a boosterbecause it just looked like
it was like the bottom bit.
It didn't look like ithad like a back on it.
Okay.
Well in any case, they pull him out withthe seat attached to him and take him off

(43:33):
and Yeah, they try and... so at thispoint, like the mum starts waking up
and her pulse is steady, but she'slike covered in glass and has airbag
burn and her speech has slurred andthey're like, well, is a slurred
speech a symptom of her injuries?
But Athena says that dispatch says thatshe was acting odd before the crash too.

(43:55):
And Athena kind of has a lookin the car and there's an
almost empty bourbon bottle.
Yes, she does some veryprofessional detector-ing
detector ring.
And dis discovers that she was drunk.
And Athena loses it.
Like she's like, "How many peoplehave to die tonight because she
was drunk and stupid?" And then sheturns around in disgust and realizes

(44:19):
that Bobby's just staring at her.
And I was like, oh, fuck
yes.
Whoops.
Oh yeah.
So after this Bobby's having abit of an episode, he's like, you
know, like he's having a flashback.
Well, Hen's cracked it too.
Like Hen's like, oh, drunk drivingwith your only child in the car.
Bobby's like, yep, you good here?
I'm just leaving.
I got my own trauma to deal with.

(44:40):
Can I, you know, hand this over to you?
And Hen's like
literally
"I'm not good at all, but I got it.'cause that's our job, right?" So
he walks off and he sees an officerfrom the 1 32 trying to help someone
out of their car and yells at themwhether they disabled the airbag.
'cause it doesn't look likehe disabled the airbag.

(45:02):
I don't know how Bobby cantell that from where he was.
I dunno maybe they likedeflate when they're disabled.
I don't know.
I,
because it, it's not that it's deflated,it's just because what happens next,
because, uh, the, uh, the officerwent from the 1 32, Renfro, absolutely
did not disable the airbag because itgoes off, um, when Renfro tries to,

(45:26):
it fully explodes.
It fully explodes.
Is a thing that actually happens?
Yes,
I guess so.
Because they'd have to have somesort of gas in them to keep Yes.
To inflate them.
It's why one of the first thingsthat they have to do is disable the
airbag so that this doesn't happen.
Um, so
if you are a first responder or know howairbags work, uh, please let us know.

(45:47):
Yeah.
'cause I can't be arsedlooking it up tonight.
Um, so the car explodes,sends Renfro flying.
It, it's a big enough explosion thatit makes Bobby duck for cover as well.
And when they eventually theother officers come running to
douse the car and put it out.

(46:08):
Chim goes running for Renfro afterhe has checked that Bobby's okay.
And, um, Renfro is likecompletely messed up his face.
The extensive burns, like Chim has topeel his LAFD face mask off his face
and just thank God it wasn'tactually like, uh, it must have

(46:30):
been very high quality materialto not have melted into his face.
Ouch.
The, uh, the driver we, like,we thought Renfro was bad, but
at least he was outside the car.
The driver who was inside the car,um, as Buck reports back when he
comes racing to assist in thissituation is that he is alive.

(46:52):
He has a pulse, buthis skin is like paper.
Then he calls for a burn blanket.
Bobby comes to help Buck, Buck, getthe guy out of the car, and once they
get him on the gurney, you just, youcan see that Bobby's having flashbacks.
His trauma is raising itsugly head in this moment.

(47:13):
Yeah.
Bobby's not doing great.
He is not doing great.
But then we get a, a little bit ofa, a more light, lighthearted aspect
of the, um, the accident in whichMaddie has taken a call from a man
somewhere further back on the freeway.
Not really important, but typeone diabetic, he's feels like.

(47:37):
Um, his blood sugar's getting low.
He needs some support.
So Maddie is trying desperately to makea call to LAPD to get a car back to
him, but she's struggling to be heardover the radio through her contractions.
Like Bobby, we can hear Bobbygoing like, I, I don't know
what you're saying, Maddie.

(47:58):
Yeah.
She's like, "what's the make and ooh,plate of your vehicle?" And he's like,
"it's a black Ford, F-150?" And she'slike, "Ooh, would your license plate?"
So Sue immediately is watching thisin, um, she's watching disapprovingly.
So she comes and takes over.

(48:18):
She gives Bobby the license plate.
Um, they get someone down and, uh,
oh, my favorite.
I love this.
Sue's like, "Exactly how longhave you been in labor?" And
Maddie's like, "Hard to tell."She's like, "Weren't you a nurse?"
So she kicks Maddie off the floor.

(48:38):
Maddie's excuse is that she'sgot an hour left of her shift,
so she doesn't wanna leave.
Like obviously they're busy.
Um, but also it just, it blows mymind that Americans have to work
right up until they have the baby.
I mean, let, let's make it clear.
It's not that they have to work rightup and take the baby, it's that they,

(48:59):
they do not have the leave available.
So if they, if they stopworking, they stop getting paid.
Yeah.
So in order to keep getting moneyin, they have to keep working.
They can't take maternity leave.
Like I have a friend who literally,so she's in the US she's getting
induced in one week's time.
She's still at work.

(49:20):
I'm like, what?
And she's like, oh yeah.
Like I haven't been able to takea sick day, even with the back
pain and stuff, because I needthe leave for when I give birth.
And I'm like, what the fuck?
I think some people do get maternityleave, but not everybody, um,
it's not as good as ours either.
Like I think the max is like six weeks.
It's, it really depends onwho you work for, I think.

(49:43):
Yes.
Um, very much so.
And your insurance coverage Iguess too, but um, but yeah, like
here it's like what, six months?
Three months?
Or six months or a year?
Yeah.
Depends on, depends on, yeah,there's a few depending factors.
Depends on, um, you can take longer ifyour company will do, like, we'll match

(50:06):
the government maternity leave as welland then you can decide do you want a
shorter period at full pay or you can takelike double the period but at half pay.
The other thing is, if you go backafter, well, we've, I think we'll
discover this in future episodes.
If you go back after just a couple ofmonths or even a few weeks in some cases,

(50:26):
um, I don't know how people do it becauseyou're exhausted and we'll find that out.
Yeah.
In a, in a, in a bit.
But she
breaks my heart.
I'm sorry, America.
Maddie doesn't want to go, butSue's like, no, you're out.
Go, go to the hospital.
Basically kicks her out.
Yeah.
Um, the, they finally get the, themother out of the crash and they're

(50:50):
gonna take her to the hospitaland Athena is going to follow.
Um, and yeah, make surethat the hospital knows.
They need the blood alcoholcontent as soon as she gets there.
Which if, um, we do get a, a quickEddie's is quite, um, surprised at this.
Um, Athena says that the, shealready has the warrant and it's

(51:11):
going to meet them at the hospital.
Um,
I dunno why they need a,do they need a warrant?
Our cops just take the blood alcohol.
Uh, I'm going to assume that itmight have something to do with
her con like she cannot consent
maybe 'cause she can'tconsent to having it done?

(51:32):
Anyway.
Um, so before Athena disappears,um, to follow the ambulance,
she checks in with Bobby.
Um, but before they can have a fullheart to heart debrief over what's
going on, Sue comes over the radioasking whether Captain Nash can spare
a paramedic for a woman in labor.

(51:52):
Um, and Bobby's like
at dispatch.
Yeah, so I love it so much.
He's like, "I'm pretty sure that thereare paramedics a lot closer to you
than where I am right now, Sue," andSue's like, "Yes, you are correct.
However, none of those paramedicsare the baby's father."
Um, so she's done this over like thefull radio, so she hasn't just radioed

(52:14):
to Bobby, she's radioed to like the wholeteam and all of them who are all of a
sudden like all in the same place again.
Um, all of them just turn and stareat Chim who pulls his mask down and
has the biggest grin on his face
Chim is beaming.
It's, he's so happy.
He's just like, "Oh my God."
"It's time!"

(52:34):
And Bobby's like, "Chim, go meet yourdaughter." Um, and just like kicks
him out and Athena's just like, "Cool.
I'm following that ambulanceso you can ride with me," and
like, throws him in the car.
Yeah.
Because apparently everybodyis going to First Presbyterian.
Yeah, all of them.
Like, except for Jacobwho went somewhere else.
Maybe First Presbyterian doesn'thave that good a pediatric surgery.

(52:56):
I was gonna say Jacob probablyjust went to a children's hospital.
Yeah.
Um, but yeah, back at dispatch, Maddie'sstill straining and she's like, "Yeah,
that contraction was, um, that, thatone was less than five minutes between."
And Sue's like, "Yeah, you thinkyou've still got another hour left
in you?" And she's like, "Eh,"
Josh is basically making it, like,forcing her to get in the car.
He's like, "We're going,here are your things."

(53:16):
Yeah.
Josh has grabbed her handbag, um,his car's downstairs and ready.
Clearly.
Um, I feel like he feelslike a getaway driver.
Like he's already like got thecar, like at the stairs at the,
and he is just like, yep, let's go.
Josh is like at panicstations at the moment.
He's like, oh my God.
Literally, it's, it's so good.
I love it.
He's just like, oh my God.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
And yeah, Maddie asked about Chim,Sue is like, yep, he's got a police

(53:40):
escort, he'll meet you there.
Um, Maddie's like, "It just feels likeit's going so fast," and Josh is like,
"You're nine and a half months pregnant.
It's not that fast."
Uh, I love this bit 'cause I getto the hospital, oh, Athena and
Chim get to the hospital and Chim'sgetting in the elevator and he says
to Athena, "Wish me luck." And shegoes, uh, before the doors shut.

(54:01):
She's like, "Here's a word of advice.
If she tells you to shut up, you shutup." And Chim's like, "Okay, copy
that." I'm like, that's good advice.
So while Chim heads up to,uh, obstetrics, I'm guessing
maternity, wherever he's going, um,

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delivery?
Delivery suite?
Labor and delivery?
Yeah, that's probablya better term for it.
Um.
Athena overhears a conversationthat's happening at the nurse's
desk where a man is, uh, demandingto see somebody in the hospital.
And Athena goes over to make surethat everything is okay, because

(54:42):
apparently the man is there to seeRachel Hawkinson, who is the mother
that they have pulled from the freeway.
But he doesn't know any information.
All he's been told is that sheis at this hospital, um, that she
and his son were in an accident.

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She's at this hospital, he'sat a different hospital and
she's been, he's been told thathe can't see her wi his wife.
And when he, when Athena tries to talkhim down and he continues to demand, I
wanna see my wife, Athena lays down thelaw and says, "You can't do that because
your wife's room is secure, becauseshe's in our custody while we investigate

(55:28):
the cause of tonight's accident."
And the man sort of looks at her andgoes, "But the news said it was a
drunk driver," and Athena just looksat him and goes, "Yes." And you just
see all the fight leave the man.
Yeah.
He finally gets it.
He's like, right,
right.
So she was drunk,
she was the drunk driver
and she was driving and shehad Jacob in the car and she

(55:51):
caused the massive accident.
Hmm.
I feel so sorry for this guy.
Oh, so do I.
Um, he calls like a, a short amount oftime passes and he is called the other
hospital to see how Jacob's doing.
And apparently he's still in surgery,but he's gonna go over there to be

(56:12):
there when he gets out of there.
But yeah, then we, he, he sortof tells Athena that she tried
so many times to stay sober andit almost broke our marriage.
And when Jacob was born, he fihe thought they fi, she finally
had a reason not to drink.
But um, you know, he sort of says,"Is there any way that you're wrong

(56:32):
about this?" And then says, "No.
She had a blood alcohol content of0.28 when she arrived, which is four
times the legal limit." And thenshe says that would account for her
disorientation when your son called 9-1-1.
And this just breaks the Jacob's dad.
He's like, "Jacob was the onewho called 9-1-1?" And he just

(56:54):
bursts into tears and so do I. Um,because this is so heartbreaking.
But yeah,
it's so sad.
He blamed, he's blaming himselfI think at this point as well.
That's interest.
So, so sad.
I was just curious because Athenasays that the, um, BAC was 0.28,
which is four times the legal limit.
Mm-hmm.

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Our legal limit's 0.05, like0.28 divided by four is 0.07.
So I'm like, is she rounding or is thelegal limit in California just more than,
I'm assuming she's rounding.
I doubt it.
Unless they're measuring different units.

(57:37):
No.
Point oh eight
seriously?
Or higher is the, um, is illegal.
So yeah.
Point oh seven is the legallimit by the looks of it.
Holy shit.
Because it says BAC of 0.08or higher is an automatic DUI.
So 0.07.
But is it the same

(57:57):
units as we as we used to measure it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
'cause it's percentage, it's not.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think blood alcoholis metric versus imperial.
I think that's a, a standard.
Yeah.
Um, I think that's a standard measurement.
Damn 0.08.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
Yikes.

(58:18):
Yeah.
So yeah.
Here it's 0.05.
Doesn't stop people.
No.
Doesn't at all.
But yeah, poor Jacob, poor his dad.
Um,
poor everybody.
Yeah.
It's sad.
Athena's like, you know, you didn't know.
And he is like, I should have.
Um, and then we go back to this,this episode really is just

(58:38):
a rollercoaster of emotions.
Yeah.
It's emotional whiplash.
It's funny, it's sad,it's funny, it's sad.
It's like, yeah,
that's right.
Heartwarming.
It's heartbreaking.
It's,
this was the reason that I was, I was kindof convinced that something terrible was
gonna happen with the baby because likeeverything else was so heartbreaking.
Like there was all this like reallytense and scary stuff going on.

(58:59):
And then all of a sudden in the middleof it, there's this baby being born,
which in itself is quite dramatic.
Yeah.
But, um, for different reasons, uh,Chim rocks up just as, um, the doctor
says that Maddie's at 10 centimetersdilated and they need to get, like, you
know, starting with the pushing, he'slike, "we're gonna grab a few things
and we'll get started." I'm like,

(59:20):
what are you grabbing?
I think the baby's gonna, yeah.
Well, I don't think the baby'sgonna wait for you to get ready.
No.
Don't you have people to do that?
If she's ready to go, then
yeah.
But it,
like, I'm sure someoneelse can grab a towel.
It's okay.
But it's, it's such the traditionalHollywood like vision of labor.
Like Maddie's up on the bed with her feetup on stirrups and everybody's gowned
up and masked up and gloved up and it's,she's literally just stays seated or

(59:44):
lying in the bed pushing the entire time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think that's how labor works.
No.
Sometimes it does, but not all the time.
Autumn had contractions while I sungfolklore to her and rubbed her belly.
Aw.
But yeah, so they grab a few things.
Maddie's still in a mask at thispoint, and I'm just like, surely

(01:00:04):
they would not make her be in a mask.
Like she's got enough to worry about.
Yeah, it's gotta uncomfortablethat she's panting.
Yeah.
Luckily when it's actually happening, hermask is off because I was getting real
worried, but yeah, so Maddie's sort ofwhimpering and Chim's like, "Are you okay?
Can I do anything for you?
I can shut up.
I mean, I can try." Um, but Maddie'slike, "no, no, no, you're fine.

(01:00:25):
What I need is my breathingbeads." What are breathing beads?
So like rosary beads.
She's just doing the Hail Marys.
It's like something to do with like,no, no, like you, the breathing
pattern, you know, like that you'resupposed to do to calm yourself down.
Like you have a certain number of beadsof one size and then the next like,

(01:00:45):
I don't know, I'm not exactly sure.
They help sync mind, body and breath.
It's literally, you're gonna laugh,but it literally is a rosary.
It's just, it's a string of beads.
Yeah, it's for counting.
It's for counting breaths.
Yes.
Except, yeah.
Um, but this is an important, this is animportant part because the baby bag is not

(01:01:07):
with Chim, he's left it in Albert's car.
But when he calls Albert to try and gethim to come and bring the bag to labor
and delivery, um, they get Albert'svoicemail, which is that, "This is Albert
Han. Please do not leave a message. That'swhat texts are for." And I, I resonate

(01:01:28):
very strongly with Albert's voicemail.
I have to set up my, my voicemail again,and I'm so tempted to make it this
so tempted to just be like, "hello,this is Alice. Please do not leave a
message. That's what texts are for."
Yeah.
You should, I like it.
But Chim's like, you know,he's probably sleeping.
Maddie gets over it pretty quickly.

(01:01:48):
They don't think anything of it.
And at this point, Dr. Heller comesin and says that they're ready to go.
They get Chim into a gown, sothey're kind of distracted.
Meanwhile, we come back to 9-1-1,um, for a 9-1-1 call, funnily enough,
who would've thought, um, May hasstepped up and taken over a station.

(01:02:09):
And the 9-1-1 greeting haschanged because it's not 9-1-1.
What's your emergency?
It's "9-1-1. Are you calling aboutthe pile up?" I'm guessing they're
getting a lot of calls about it.
And the caller says his, hisvoice is very faint, very weak.
Says, "yeah, I think I was in it."And May's like, "Well, this first

(01:02:31):
responders on the scene and working,you should be able to see them."
The caller responds thathe doesn't see anyone.
Um, and we can see that, um,from their point of view.
There's just trees and the airbag in frontof them, they can't see any LAFD people.
Um, May questions whether they'reinjured and it's, at this point we see

(01:02:56):
that the caller is Albert and his faceis covered in blood and it's dripping,
but it's dripping the wrong way.
It's dripping like up off hisface and when he reports to May,
yes, he's bleeding quite a bit.
He sort of follows the blood that'ssort of dripping up off his face

(01:03:19):
and it's hitting the ceiling ofthe car, except at this point
There's blood everywhere
the camera spins and we realize thatthe ceiling is now the floor, and
Albert is pinned upside down in his car.
Oh, poor Albert.
And we cut to commercial and thenwe come back from commercial.
To hear that first,
I just have to say quickly.

(01:03:40):
I was so mad when I rewatched this, like,thank God I knew what was happening,
but I'm pretty sure it got spoiled forme the first time I watched it too.
Because when May goes "9-1-1, are youcalling about the pile up?" Because like
the voice is off screen, it captioned
Yes.
When they said 9-1-1and then the captions.
And the captions was like, yes.
Albert says, yeah.
Yeah.
I think I was in it and Iwas like, what the fuck?

(01:04:01):
I noticed that when I was watching it.
Like that's like the biggest,like it's the reveal.
Like don't just fuck.
Oh, I was so mad about it.
I didn't have the captions on.
So that was a reveal for me.
Yeah.
I did notice that when I was captioningit, that the captions did spoil, big
reveal before it actually got revealed.
Um,
uh, only by like 10 seconds.
Yeah.

(01:04:21):
But still like the shot,the shot is so well done.
Like it
is really well done.
Yeah.
Like you, you're seeing it fromhis point of view and he is looking
around and then they like, theypan out and then the camera spins.
Oh.
It's just, it's so well done.
Who directed this?
Uh, David Grossman?
No.
Marcus Stokes

(01:04:42):
Good job, David.
Oh,
David was last week.
David was last week.
That's why his name was stuck in my head.
This was written by Andrew Myersand directed by Marcus Stokes.
Yeah.
Excellently, uh, framedand put together this bit.
Oh, there you go.
He, um, he also directed "Fallout", whichis the one with the, um, radioactive

(01:05:02):
waste truck inside the tunnel.
Bobby.
Bobby going all Hulk on us?
Yeah.
Which I, I really liked the first time,but then the second time it didn't really
hit 'cause I knew that it'd be fine.
So yeah.
He's good at tense.
Good job.
So yes.
So back to Poor Albert.
I did, I did like this, that the firsttime we heard all the 9-1-1 calls, that
first call where there, there's a caron the wrong side and it gets cut off.

(01:05:26):
We now learn that that was Albert.
Yeah.
We now know it was Albert.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's such a throwaway thing.
And the, the great thing is that evenwhen you go back and watch it, after
knowing this information, it's, itis Albert's voice making that call.
You just don't realize it's Albert'svoice because it's not captioned.
Yeah.
It goes back so quickly.

(01:05:46):
The writer of this episode too, I justwent and checked, um, the writer of
this episode wrote "Ocean's 9-1-1"and "The Taking of Dispatch 9-1-1".
Oh, right.
Yeah.
We like Andrew,
Plus a lot of other ones.
Yeah.
Andrew's a good writer.
We like him.
Oh my God.
He, he, he wrote "BuckBothered and Bewildered".
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure we had.

(01:06:07):
That's great.
I don't know who, I've had conversation.
Conversation.
I,
I'm sure we have the conversationevery time he writes an
episode, but like that he's,
I'm pretty sure we've had theconversation that he's like the
Bobo of, um, of 9-1-1 as well.
Yeah.
So, yes, so Albert made that 9-1-1 call.
The reason that it got cut off wasthat, um, he swerves to avoid Rachel,

(01:06:30):
he gets t-boned and gets spun off andhe flies off the freeway, which is
why no one has found him because he'sliterally not on the freeway anymore.
Not on the freeway.
And also not part of the big pile up.
He's actually before it.
Sue has, Sue calls back to Bobby andsays that they've received a call

(01:06:52):
from a driver who says he was inthe pile up and Bobby is like, I'm
pretty sure we've cleared everybody.
Um, are you sure that they're
Yeah, they're sure theywere in this crash?
So at this point, Sue decides to askMay, why don't you call them back
and see, like, get some more details.
And of course the phone goes to voicemail,um, which is great because May recognizes

(01:07:17):
the name and she goes back to Bobbyand says, "Bobby, the call came from
an Han. Isn't that Chimney's brother?"And at this point, the rest of the
118 again have all gathered together.
It's amazing how theydo that in this episode.
Anytime there's a big plot point, they alljust kind of gravitate towards one another
to be fair, like they're waitingbecause they're like, oh, there

(01:07:39):
might be someone trapped in the car.
So they this at this point they'rewaiting for their next instructions.
I know, but every single time there'sa big, like there's a big story
point they're all back together.
They're just little ducklings.
They're following theirBobby, leave it alone.
So Bobby.
Uh, Bobby asks if May is sure that it'sAlbert and she said, "yeah, I heard his

(01:07:59):
voicemail message." Buck grabs the radioat this point and says, "what was the
voicemail message?" And so May recites it.
"He said his name.
It's Albert.
Albert Han.
He said not to leave a message because..."Buck finishes "because that's what
texts are for," and that's when Bobbybelieves that it is actually Albert.
Yeah.
Because yeah, they might be 50,like, you know, it's LA, There

(01:08:21):
might be a lot of Albert Hans.
You don't know.
Um, but it's the exact voicemail.
Yeah.
If Buck knows that voicemail,then it's, it has to be,
yeah.
It's gotta be Chimney's brother.
So they start re-searching every singlevehicle that they've just cleared.

(01:08:41):
Yeah.
And yelling for Albert.
Meanwhile, um, Maddie's pushing.
Um, Chim's like, "this is really it.
Today's the day!" And Maddie'slike, "Shut up." Chim's like, okay.
Yeah.
He's like, copy that.
So the next couple of minutes are cutting,cutting back and forth between the freeway

(01:09:03):
and the hospital and Albert and Maddie.
Yeah.
So Buck says that they've been up anddown the road twice and he's not there.
Then the main reason why I startedfucking sobbing is the needle drop is
because they're like, oh, we're justgonna play "To Build a Home", which,
you know, is very traumatic of a song.
So I'm sobbing as soon as the,the like opening notes start.

(01:09:26):
Yeah, it's definitely a choice.
Bobby gets an idea and says, um,"Dispatch, this is Captain Nash, the
very first 9-1-1 caller who reportedseeing the vehicle, which exit were
they calling from?" And May looks andsays that it says Exit 43 Exit Ramp.
And they're at, they're at exit 46.

(01:09:48):
And that, that's when theyrealized he wasn't in the pile
up, he was in front of it.
And so they race to get to exit 43.
Then we go back to the hospitaland Maddie's still pushing,
she has a break for a second.
Chim goes to change the towel thathe is like dabbing on her head.
And she's like,
yeah, he's, he's literallygot a rolled up towel that he

(01:10:10):
is patting her forehead with.
He's keeping the sweat out of her eyes.
It's fine.
Um,
but the other thing is like all this time,like Maddie is yes, straining and pushing,
whatever, but she's also kind of smileyand chatty and like, at some points.
And I'm just like, no,
that's not how it went with you?

(01:10:30):
That's no, like if you're in thepushing stage, then, you know, it's
pretty relentless and quite painful.
But anyway, um, the otherthing I, the fact that this
doctor's name is Dr. Heller.
Every time I see that on the thingI'm just like, oh, it's one of us.
Dr. Heller to, to build a home place.
Who's the Destiel fucker on the,

(01:10:53):
I know it's all here.
All right, so they get to exit 43.
They, they fuck yelling for Albert.
They can't see anything.
Um, and then Buck notices thatthere is tire tracks heading
off the side of the road.
And he's like, look, look, look over here.
So they run over and theysee the car upside down.

(01:11:16):
Um, I gotta mention too, like they,again, the directing is really good.
Buck puts the flashlight like on thecar, and as it goes over Albert's face,
it quickly cuts back to the hospital.
Where the doctor goes, "I can see thehead. You're doing great. Keep going."
Like, it was just, it was a reallygood segue because as soon as you see

(01:11:37):
Albert's head, they go, I can see thehead, and it's just like, oh my God.
Get back to Albert.
Like, he's dying.
What are you doing?
This next sequence, the,
yeah, he's dying while thisother thing is being born.
Oh, they, they do cut back and forth andthe what happens in one scene is kind of
carried over to the next scene and Yes.
Isn't it funny that this is not thefirst time that this show has had

(01:11:57):
a situation where someone is beingrescued while someone else is giving
birth and the birth and the rescuing
Oh, yeah.
Coincide to the fact that,what was the other one?
The la the mudslide.
Where you had Chimney giving the birth.
Oh, Chimney helping deliver the baby
That was this season as well!
Holy shit
Chimney giving birth?
Wait, I missed an episode?
When did Chimney give birth?

(01:12:19):
Okay.
No, come on.
My brain is not working.
It's okay.
Sorry, I'm just teasing.
Oh, the mirroring.
Oh,
yes.
That's what frustrates me aboutthis show is that we have amazing
episodes like this, and then wehave episodes like last week.
What was last week?

(01:12:39):
Exactly.
Oh,
it was the one you didn't like.
Breaking point.
That's right.
Yes.
Um, speaking of last week, just quick,quick segue, um, while Maddie's, you
know, halfway through labor and Albert'sdying, um, I, after we recorded last
week, I've been listening to the HowWe Made Your Mother podcast, which is
literally how we, the podcast abouthow they made, How I Met Your Mother,

(01:13:00):
and it's the one of the co-creators andthe, um, and Josh Radner who played.
Like Ted, so Ted, the main character, um,and they were going, they were talking
about the New Year's Eve episode, andthey were having like this big laugh
because when they re-watched it, they'relike, a lot of this doesn't make sense.
Like there's a whole storylinewhere, um, they, like two of the

(01:13:24):
main characters can't contact eachother and they just keep saying that
it's because the circuits are jammedand they're like, what circuits?
This is 2005.
It's not like there's a, like peoplein the thing like plugging in things
and they've like lost the wire
and the telephone cables?
And they're like, yeah, maybe thereception was shit, but like, why didn't
we just say something about the reception?
Like, why did we have tosay circuits are jammed?

(01:13:46):
Um, but then they were talking about how,and they were told this by another writer
where as long as the audience are havinga good time, it doesn't really matter if
things don't make a hundred percent sense.
Like as long as it, like, aslong as they're having a good
time, then just like, go with itand people will just go with it.

(01:14:07):
Mm-hmm.
And I think that's, that was theproblem with last week is that
we weren't having a good time.
Oh yeah.
And so everything that was stupid,we were like, this is stupid.
100%. We've said that before in theseepisodes, that there are some storylines
that are absolutely ridiculous, but weenjoy them enough that we're willing to
suspend our disbelief and we're willing tooverlook how ridiculous the storyline is.

(01:14:28):
But when the writing is bad and theacting is bad, and we are not having
a good time, then yes, we are gonnabe a hundred percent more critical.
Yeah.
Um, but yeah, it was just interestingthat I literally listened to it like
the day after we recorded that episodeand I was like, oh, need to remember
to mention that because it was so true.

(01:14:49):
And like it's interesting thatlike to hear the writer of
the episodes talking about it.
Yeah.
Because the writers are aware that thingsdon't make sense all the time, but as long
as the audience is having a good time.
So, um, anyway.
Yeah.
So.
I feel like they embraced thatin Supernatural quite a lot.
Yeah.
Don't pull the thread, Misha.
Don't pull the thread.
Lot.
Yeah.
A lot of, a lot of things didn'tmake any sense, but anyway.

(01:15:11):
Yeah, they continue, shecontinues giving birth and,
and they continue rescuing,
they continue to save Albert and theyfind that he's lost a lot of blood.
Uh, he's, pulse is racing, buthe's still alive at this point.
Um, Dr. Heller tells her thatshe needs one more big push.
Yep.
So we've cut back to Maddie.
You can do this,
but then we cut back to the freewayand just as Dr. Heller is encouraging

(01:15:37):
Maddie, Buck is encouraging Albert,
yeah, we're right here.
We got you.
Um, and then 3, 2, 1.
And they cut his, hisseatbelt, he falls free.
But then the, this is one of the ones thatI really like where you've got Eddie going
3, 2, 1, and then you cut back to thehospital and Chim is counting 5, 6, 7, 8.

(01:15:59):
I know it's not like sequentially.
Yeah, but it's really good.
Yeah.
But it's the idea that they're allcounting, they're just counting for
different reasons, for different times.
But yeah, so they get Albertout and onto a backboard
and then straight into the ambulance.
We don't even see that.
He's out, boom, he's in the ambulance,he's going straight to hospital.
Um, and then he flatlines,

(01:16:20):
they believe he probably has a rupturedspleen and is hemorrhaging inside.
Um, and then, yeah, he starts coding.
So they start compressions.
And as we cut back to the hospital andChim is once again counting Maddie's
like contractions 'cause she's gottapush for 10, the counting of the
contractions starts to line up with thecompressions that Hen is doing for CPR.

(01:16:44):
And oh, I'm sobbing, sobbing, mess.
And as Hen is beseeching Albertnot to do this, Chim is telling
Maddie that she can do it.
Then we go back to Hen going, "comeon, you have a niece to meet. Come
on." And sure enough, the baby's born.
"That's her. That's her. You did it."
Maddie's like, "I did?"

(01:17:05):
They actually have a babythat looks like a newborn.
I was so excited.
I was like, holy crap.
It doesn't look like a toddler.
It did look like a verylittle baby this time.
And then here's where the fake, here'sthe fake out because we get the baby.
The baby is fine.
We cut back to the ambulance.
Hannah's continuing to docontractions, and the music fades out.

(01:17:30):
And then it's just silence.
And the heart, the, the heartrate monitor flatlining.
And it's a good couple of seconds whereyou're thinking, oh shit, the baby's born.
Does that mean Albert's not gonna make it?
Mm. And then right at that momentwhere you're really starting to worry,
the monitor picks up a rhythm andEddie announces that he's got a pulse.

(01:17:55):
Yeah.
I had no idea if Albertwas in this after this.
So I was b the first timeI watched, I was bawling.
I was like, oh my God, I'm justgonna, like, I was just getting
used to him and now he's gone?
Um, like even the, like the secondtime I was still re like, I was still
tearing up and crying a little bit, butlike, it wasn't as bad, but it was still
such a tense moment even on rewatch.

(01:18:17):
Oh yeah,
yeah.
Fucking hell.
Yeah.
Very tense.
And, and to be honest, I kind of knewthat Albert was gonna make it, but
it felt so much like he wasn't gonnamake it, that I was still very dense.
But, um, watching babies being bornalways makes me cry anyway, so yeah,
I was crying for a different reason.

(01:18:38):
Uh, but yeah, amazing, amazing scenes.
Loved it.
Loved this.
It's so tense.
Um, but yeah, Maddie gets handed the babyapparently they don't let you have skin
to skin contact in this, on, on TV maybe.
I dunno, dunno how that works.
Maddie's gotta keep her clothes on a a,
a wrapped up baby.
We're only an M rating.

(01:18:58):
Um,
yeah.
No, no boobies, um, allowed.
There's a way to do it withoutshowing boobies though.
Seriously.
I'm sure they couldhave managed it, but No.
Um, but
yeah, they say
they did not.
She's so perf, she's so tiny and perfect.
Chim says "everything's perfect.
I love you." And Maddie says, "Ilove us," and it's just like this
happy little bubble and I'm justlike, Chim, your brothers dead.

(01:19:23):
Yeah.
Very emotionally roller coastering atthis point because it's, yeah, you still
don't know what's going on with Albert,but for the moment everything is perfect.
Oh.
The fucking song.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, that was, thatdefinitely did not help.
Um, for those of you in theSupernatural fandom as well.

(01:19:45):
Um, there's a like really long, quite wellknown fan fiction called To Build a Home
that's like loosely based on the song.
I wondered about that,
which I have not read because I knowthat it's emotionally devastating.
It's very emotionally devastating.
Like it's,
I do not have the spoons.
It's good.
It was written, it was writtenover like five years or something.

(01:20:07):
And it's crazy because the author waslike 17 or something when she started.
Mm-hmm.
And then the whole like, it'slike we grew up with them.
Like there'll be like, you know, amonth gap and they'll be like, oh,
sorry, like this happened in my life.
So it's really cool because you getlike Cas and Dean's life, but also
the author's life, which is cool.

(01:20:28):
But yeah, it's one that I want asa physical copy, but it's big and
I just haven't had the money spare,um, because it's just amazing.
I've read it once.
It made me cry.
Now the song makes me cry every time.
And so the fact that that'sthe song, I'm just like, no.
How could you?
We are going to jump back toDispatch pretty much just to

(01:20:53):
further May's storyline slightlyto um, to lead up for next week.
So Josh walks in, it's themorning, everyone's getting
ready to end their shift.
He announced he's got a text from Maddieor Chimney or somebody with all of the
stats for, uh, the new baby, which heannounces to the group and everybody

(01:21:15):
is thrilled because baby is there.
Baby is safe.
Baby was not born at Dispatch.
Baby was six pounds in one ounce.
And I was like, that's real small fora baby that was two weeks overdue.
Yeah.
Um.
Two and a half weeks overdue.
But then I remember that Chimneyand Maddie are both tiny people, so
that's a good point.
Um, but yeah, like Iwas two weeks overdue.

(01:21:37):
I was like, I was a lot more than that.
Yeah.
So the normal, the birth weights rangefrom 2.5 to 4.5 kilograms apparently.
So for this baby to be 2.7 is very small.
Yes, it's tiny for atwo week overdue baby.
I don't think they know whatbaby supposed to weigh anyway.
Yes.
No, I don't think they do.
Anyway,
they're both very smallpeople, so that's fine.

(01:21:59):
That's that they're on the slowside of, on on the slow side.
On the low side of, on the tiny normal,
the, yeah.
Um, but yeah, they're very excitedthat it wasn't born at Dispatch.
So everybody heads off for, um, morningbottomless Mimosas, I believe is the
general consensus of where they're going.

(01:22:20):
They do invite May to go with them, butone, number one, they wouldn't be able to.
May wouldn't be able to drink.
Number two, she's pretty surethat if she were drinking, she
would fall asleep at the table.
And number three, she's still preoccupiedby that friend request in her phone.
Yeah, her, her phone dings again andshe like opens her phone again and

(01:22:41):
it's still Laila's friend request.
It's like why is it buzzing you?
Yeah.
And that's pretty much the scene.
It's everyone at dispatch knows that,um, the baby's born May is still
preoccupied with, um, with this friendrequest with Laila and that's it.
Yeah.
But they're all happythat the baby's born.
So

(01:23:02):
the, the more interesting scene isthe next one, which is we cut to
First Presbyterian where Buck isroaming the halls, clearly looking
for someone with a bag in his hand.
Oh,
this scene.
Um, and Chimney for some like sixsense reason looks up and sees Buck in
the hall and leaves Maddie's bedsideto meet Buck out in the hall because

(01:23:27):
there's no visiting, there's a strictno visitor policy at the moment.
And Buck's like, "Yeah, Iknow, but Chimney," chimney
is just off on another planet.
He's so happy.
He's all he wants to talk aboutis Maddie and his new daughter.
Um, he's not even sort of paying anyattention to Buck, except when he
turns back around, uh, he noticesBuck's got a bag in his hand and he

(01:23:51):
recognizes the bag and he's like, "Hey,that's Maddie's hospital bag. Where
did you get that? Is Albert here?"
Mm,
I mean, he is, but not in the sensethat Chimney means, um, and because
it's a hospital and because it's thistimeline, um, Buck is wearing a face mask.

(01:24:11):
So he has to use his body and his eyesto just convey his, what he's trying to
tell Chim without actually using words.
And Oliver does an amazing job.
'cause yeah, he literally like hisshoulders just completely sink and his
entire body just deflates like a balloon.

(01:24:32):
Then we go back to our leastfavorite storyline of the episode.
Yes.
Because while Buck left the 118,after getting back after the, the call
and headed to the hospital, Hen hasheaded home and the first thing she
sees when she gets home is, is a tinylittle pink suitcase next to the door.

(01:24:54):
Because today is the day Niais going to go to her birth
mother's for a overnight visit.
And while Karen is doing her bestto put on a brave face, she's
making pancakes for everybody.
Um, Hen's like, no.
No, I've had an absolute shit night.

(01:25:16):
Um, I need Nia here.
I'm not letting her go.
And when Karen tells Henthat, you know, we can't stop
this, she lashes out at Karen.
Yeah.
And, and Karen's, uh, does well,Tracy, I guess the actress does
such a beautiful job of this.

(01:25:37):
She's like, you know, she burstslike, you know, her eyes are well up.
And she's like, "You think I, I don'twant to fight this? Like, we can't
fight it. There's nothing we can do."
And Hen's like asking her, "Why, what?Tell me why you don't wanna fight this."
She's like, "There is no fight. Youknow, I'm barely holding onto this."
Yep.
"She has a mother. She's not ours.Even if we love her, like she is,"

(01:26:01):
yeah.
She's barely hanging on.
And "please don't make me do thisalone." And so then Hen is a bit, you
know, sad that she made Karen sad.
I'm glad Karen said it.
Go, Karen, you fucking tell her.
So then the kids, there's noise in thebackground and Karen has to go and do
deal with the kids while Hen stands therelooking ashamed of herself a little bit

(01:26:24):
As she should.
Mm.
Um, and Nia is happy that Mama Hen is home
just to, you know, reallysort of twist the knife.
Oh, right.
Yeah.
But yeah, it's sad that they, these guyshave to have a fight every now and then
to make the drama, like for the drama.
I don't like to see them fighting.
Yeah.

(01:26:44):
Our moms are fighting,
so while they're fighting,Chimney is still in the hospital.
He is still sitting beside a bed.
Uh, but this time he's sitting besideAlbert's and he's just, he's talking
to Albert trying to get him to wake up.
Um, including, like asking Albert whathe thinks that they should name the baby.

(01:27:09):
'cause the name, thebaby doesn't have a name.
Um.
Suggests, maybe they couldcall it Alberta or Albertina.
Albertina
And pauses to wait for Albert tolike go and you fucking idiot.
That is not a name that yougive a child, but of course he
doesn't wake up at this point.
There is a, there is a, a long monologue,which we love when they give Kenny,

(01:27:33):
like, I hate that they do put Chimneythrough the ringer, but I love it because
Kenneth, Kenneth does it so well.
Oh he does.
Oh they do.
They're like, oh, Kenny andJLH can cry real well, so let's
just make their life a tragedy.
Yeah.

(01:27:54):
He's lost so many people.
He tells Albert, Albert that, um, heknows that he's had a really crappy
day, but Chim needs him to wake up.
Because the doctors are giving himsome real serious looks and expressing
their concerns, "but they don't knowus Hans. We are excellent healers."
At which point my brain went, wait,Chim, didn't your mother die of cancer?

(01:28:17):
And then another part of mybrain went, yes, but she wasn't
a Han so she doesn't count.
I mean, deep, like accurate, but ow.
I know.
Anyway, that's where mybrain went during this scene.
Yeah.
Um,

(01:28:37):
of all the things to get hungup on, that's what my brain
decided to get hung up on.
Um, yeah.
The point is that he's nowaccepted Albert as his brother.
He didn't know when it went from being abiological fact to an emotional reality,
but it did, and there's no turning back.
Um, and he now has everythingthat he's ever wanted.
He's got a family of his own.

(01:28:57):
And that includes Albert.
He tells Albert, "This could bethe best day of my life because
I have a beautiful baby girl.
And my brother didn't die.
'cause in fact, he just woke up andtold me that he was gonna be okay.
So just open your eyes, Albert please."

(01:29:18):
And at some point during this speech,he's, he picked up Albert's hand and
he is sort of holding Albert's hand.
And at the, this last plea for Albertto wake up, he drops his head onto
Albert's hand and he just starts sobbing.
And of course, Albert opens his eyes.
We get the little flickering first.

(01:29:39):
Well, yeah, 'cause it's not,
he takes him a little while.
It's not quite, you know,for the drama enough that he
like wide awake immediately.
They, they do have a little bitof realism where it takes a while
for you to come to consciousness.
And Albert just whispers "it hurts."
Aw.
And then we get Chim wholike immediately looks up and

(01:30:00):
starts stroking Albert's hair.
He's like, it's okay.
"Hey, we got plenty of time,little brother." And I'm
just bawling my eyes out.
I'm just like, oh my God.
It's his brother.
I'm like, oh, thank God.
He's all right.
He woke up.
Uh, okay, we're gonna go checkin with Bobby and Athena.
Yes, Athena has to apologize for the, theshitty thing she said in front of Bobby

(01:30:24):
we apologize and we have to catchup on what happened to everybody.
'cause these guys are theones who do the exposition.
Oh yes, we've gotexposition police officer.
So she heard Athena comes inand says she heard about Albert.
Um, is he okay?
And Bobby says he's alive.
But what about the boy from the crash?
And Athena explains thatsurgery was a success.

(01:30:47):
He's recovering with his fatherand the mother is also okay.
She only had minus scrapes andbruises despite being hit head on
by a, like a mini bus or whatever.
It was like, wow, I knew cars thesedays had pretty good safety, but like,
it's probably 'cause she didn'tknow what was gonna happen.
So she was quite relaxed.

(01:31:07):
They do say that drunks tend notto get injured when they get into
accidents because your entire,their entire body is just relaxed.
Most of the injuries that peopleget are because you anticipate
the, the, the, the, the hit.
So you tense everything up, whichis why the injuries are, are a

(01:31:27):
lot, often a lot, um, more serious.
Yeah.
And like you'll put your arms up and thenyou might, like, your arm will smack you
in the, the head from like the airbaggoing off and that sort of thing too.
So,
but like it was a head on collisionfollowed by plenty more cars
ramming into the back of it.
Like I'm just, I'm just shockedthat anyone's alive anyway.

(01:31:49):
It happens all the time though.
It's like, and often it's likethe driver will walk away and
the passenger will die as well.
Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, so Athena goes on tosay that the husband had no idea
that she'd started drinking again.
And then not sure if I believe him.
And Bobby's like, well, could be true.

(01:32:10):
Could be.
He just needed to believe it was true.
And his face, like he's tryingto keep it together, but like
his eyes are glassy and like,
he's definitely beengoing through it since.
Oh, he's breaking my heart.
Poor thing.
Um, and this is when Athena sortof like clocks him and goes, "yeah,

(01:32:30):
I'm sorry about what I said at thewreck, the drunk and stupid thing."
Bobby's like, "You weren't wrong.People died last night because of
her. I don't know her, but I knowwhat it's like to inflict that
kind of damage." And Bobby tries.
I mean, Athena tries to deflect and says,Bobby, you're nothing like that woman.
Bobby's like, "I'm exactly like thatwoman. And the day that I forget,
that will be a very dangerous day."

(01:32:53):
Oh, the trauma.
Um, but then he just stands up andhe is like, "I've gotta go out for
a while. Love you. Bye." And I'mjust like, I wouldn't let him let,
I'd be like, where are you going?
Are you okay?
Do you need me to come with you?
Yeah.
Turns out he was heading toan AA meeting, so it's fine.
Which is fine, but like, I wish he'dsaid like, I know it's like for the

(01:33:15):
segue, yes, but like, I wish Athenawould've been like, where are you going?
Like, um, unless he just, likewhen he's going, he just says,
I've gotta go out for a while.
That's like his code.
Or could be that she's, it's thatshe trusts him, that she doesn't
need to know where he's going.
Although,
don't go find a rookie surgeon again.

(01:33:37):
No more dumpster diving.
What?
Oh,
yeah.
No, it's . I've gotta go, I'vegotta go to Michael's place.
Yeah, I'm going to Michael's.
We've got some spying to do.
No, he's,
Well she'd be okay with that.
No, he's going to a, he'sgoing to an AA meeting.

(01:33:59):
He, um, he stands up to, um, to sharewith the meeting and his sharing becomes
the monologue that wraps up all ofthe loose threads for this episode.
Um, so we see Jacob, we see, um, wesee all the characters pretty much.

(01:34:20):
Um, some of it's cute.
So there's a, a moment where we see Eddie,getting breakfast ready, and Christopher
comes in, he's just woken up and Eddiejust grabs him into the biggest hug.
And Chris asks, "What was that for?"And Eddie's like, "eh, just because,"
and Chris was like, yeah, okay, cool.
Goes back in for another hug.

(01:34:41):
Oh, it's so sweet.
Who was watching Chris all night?
I don't know.
Don't, don't focus on that.
I'll,
Don't pull the thread.
Don't pull the thread!
I'll say I did have that same thoughtand then chose not to pursue it.
But what I took away from it wasthat Chris has, gives the best hugs.

(01:35:01):
Yeah.
Looked like an amazing hug.
Yeah.
Karen and Hen are sayinggoodbye to Nia before she heads
off for her overnight stay.
So she's like, she'sdoing really well with it.
She's like, "Okay, see you later!"
Yeah.
"Bye mamas." And so cute.
Karen and Hen are like basically intears, like a bit heartbreaking for them.

(01:35:25):
Bobby's saying that last nightwas a hard night, but I'm here
and I didn't have a drink.
So maybe today can be a goodday and if today can be a good
day, maybe tomorrow can be too.
It's like, well done Bobby.
I was just, I was just rolling through thetranscript of his, um, monologue to see
if he actually said the word blindsided.
He doesn't,

(01:35:46):
so, yay.
Did we get, did we get to thewhole episode without the title?
No one said it at all?
How good is that?
No, it's a, a thematic episode,I guess, where they don't ram
the theme down your throat.
You have to actually think abouthow all the storylines are on theme.
Oh, how good.
What a good episode.

(01:36:08):
We are not at the end yet.
I know, but I'm still happy about it.
Um, turns out that Andrew Myers is aco-executive producer too, so Yeah.
Shout out to Andrew Myers.
Um,
shows like this have a lotof executive producers.
I know, right?
Um, Peter Krause is an executive producer.
True.
No, he's, uh, yeah, he is too.
Yeah.

(01:36:28):
Cool.
So is Angela.
Yeah.
Okay, so to wrap it up,we're gonna go back to
Buck being adorable?
Yeah.
You know, we're gonna check in with Madneyand with Buck we're going to, um, because
Buck is meeting his niece via Zoom.
And you all that comments we hadabout Dan, that's a small baby.
Um, yeah, it's not small anymore.

(01:36:49):
Oh, it's massive.
Yeah.
It's, it's a entire toddler.
Like she's
no longer a
newborn.
She's getting her driver'slicense next week.
Like, I was wondering, like, how, howmuch time has it been since like baby
was born and Buck's meeting her forthe first time that like four months,
five months, six months have elapsed?
Are we sure this is the, I don'tthink this is the first time, surely.

(01:37:10):
Well, it's the first Uncle Buck.
It's the first time.
So the first Yeah.
But still first.
Yeah.
But Dr. Heller wants him towait a few more weeks, then you
get to meet your Uncle Buck.
So maybe it's not the first time.
But that he hasn't met in person yet.
No.
No.
He hasn't met in person.
But I'm still that it's either a very,
that's the first timethey've said Uncle Buck.
Yeah.
It's a very, very significant timejump from when baby was born to, um,

(01:37:35):
to now, or they've just switched outthe babies and suddenly forgotten what
like this age group baby needs to be.
I think it must be
anyway.
Yeah.
So the kid who's getting its driver'slicense just met, met her Uncle Buck,
um, Maddie's like, "Oops, Chimneyjust missed the first Uncle Buck," and

(01:37:55):
Buck's like, "It's okay, knowing him.
I'm sure we're in for about10,000 more of those."
Um, and sure enough, Chimney thenappears on screen and he goes, "Okay,
I'm clean and ready to hold my girl.
Oh, Uncle Buck, oh my God.
Was I the first one?
I was the first one.
Right?" And they're all like, mm-hmm.
Yep.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You were the first one.
First one that said Uncle Buck.
Good job.

(01:38:15):
Um, so then literally hang upon Buck, like, Maddie, just
It's so cute
just slam
like Buck's.
Like I'll leave you guys to it.
And then as Maddie's like closing thelaptop Buck's, just like, "Buck loves
you, Buck loves you, bye-bye-bye-bye!"
so cute.
But see, it also can't be thatlong because, um, they're only now

(01:38:36):
They still
haven't named the baby
having a discussion about the factthat the baby doesn't have a name.
So it can't have been that long.
But, um, yes, Chimney is amazedthat they let Maddie leave the
hospital without naming the baby.
Um, and she's like, "oh,actually I did name it."
Yeah, I picked a name.
She had to give him something.
Don't be mad.

(01:38:58):
Chim's not sure if he's mad orrelieved because the pressure's
off, but then he is like, "It's notsomething I'm gonna hate, is it?"
So, baby's name is Jee-Yun.
And Chim is absolutely shockedbecause that was his mother's name.
It's like I bawled when he said that.
Like I know, obviously I know what'sname is Sweet because she's been in the

(01:39:20):
show since this episode and when he'sjust like, that's my mother's name.
I'm like, yes, it's your mother.
So Maddie explains that she calledMrs. Lee to tell her like everything
that's happened, you know, Ihad a baby, Albert nearly died.
Um, and apparently Mrs. Lee just keptsaying, I wish his mother was here to

(01:39:43):
see, um, her being the baby I guess.
And so that's when Maddie knew that hername was going to be Jee-Yun Buckley Han
Aw.
And Chim loves it.
Yes.
Um, and they're really glad Albert's okay.
And then Maddie's just like "God,talk about bad luck." Chim says,

(01:40:05):
"No, I'm starting to think we'rejust the luckiest people ever."
No, boy.
Why does she say, talk about bad luck?
Who's got bad luck,
Albert.
Well, what else has happened to bad luck?
Like Albert,
just Albert.
Yeah.
It doesn't really make sense.
It's bad luck that he hadan accident on the day...

(01:40:27):
yeah.
It was bad luck that he had an accident
the baby was born?
Yeah.
That he like was
okay because the way she says, it'slike, it makes it sound like there
are other bad luck things happening.
I'm like,
no, not really.
I mean, be fair they'vehad a lot bad luck so
Well over the years.
Yes, I guess.
But yeah, today not, not that many.
And so the episode ends with the, withMaddie and Chim and Jee-Yun on the couch

(01:40:52):
just being all happy and lovey-dovey.
Yeah.
They're so cute.
It's like that was a happyending after all that drama.
Very dramatic episode,but yes, excellent one.
Yeah.
Love this one.
Whew.
I'm exhausted after talking about it.

(01:41:13):
What else can we say about it?
It's nice that, like I did, um,vaguely know that there, there was
a, a child called Jee-Yun in thefuture, and now I'm glad to see that
the baby is fine and it's the samebaby that we, that is happening later.
So that was good.
I was really worried thatsomething terrible was gonna
happen with the pregnancy.

(01:41:33):
But no,
9-1-1, once again, not putting childrenat risk or putting children at risk,
but not doing anything bad to them.
Not killing the babies.
Yeah.
Yay.
Yep.
Still to date, no killedbabies in present time.
Excellent.
Only in flashbacks.
Hopefully that will not change.
I still wonder if it's a ratings thing.

(01:41:54):
I'm gonna assume it's just adecision that they've made.
Yeah.
If you work for the ratings board,
look, it's perfectly, I'm perfectlyhappy with the, that decision.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah.
Um, but yeah, really good episode.
I really like it.
It was still tense on rewatch,uh, which I find like a lot of
them aren't as tense when you knowthat everyone's gonna be okay.

(01:42:18):
But this one I was stilljust like, oh my God.
I know he survives, butlike Albert, wake up.
Yeah, right.
I made the mistake of rewatching the,the rescue scene specifically at work
while I was doing the notes, and sotrying very hard not to sob at my desk.
Yep.

(01:42:39):
Aw.
Yeah.
And I love the way that they, um,there were a few points, well, at
least two points in the, in it whereyou did weren't quite sure what was
happening, and they only graduallyrevealed what was actually going on.
Like, especially that part withAlbert, you don't know that he was
the one who was on the the 9-1-1 call.
Yeah.
I really liked that.

(01:42:59):
Like I didn't pick up on it until likeit was mentioned and then I went back and
was like, oh, that was really well done.
That was Albert's voice, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Really good episode.
Um, and that's what frustratesme, as I said, when the show is
bad because it can be so good.

(01:43:19):
Like we, I understand that they can'thave like, you know, big dramatic
like sob fests every week, but someof the episodes are just so bad.
Alright, so what do we gotlook forward to next week?
I don't know if we're looking forwardto it, um, but next week, we have
the episode called "Parenthood", inwhich the 118 responds to a series

(01:43:44):
of calls dealing with parents andtheir children, including a disastrous
birthday party thrown by a mommy blogger.
Meanwhile, Athena and Michael talk toMay about her past suicide attempt.
Chimney and Maddie adjust to lifewith their newborn, and Hen and
Karen are emotionally shatteredas their foster daughter, Nia is
reunited with her birth mother.

(01:44:06):
So triggers for next week, we haveassisted suicide, um, abuse of power.
I'm looking at you Hen, um, intheir investigation of a biological
mother after reunification.
Uh, favorite bad parenting,cancer, flash back to May's suicide

(01:44:29):
attempt, um, and just the fostercare system in general again.
Also mummy bloggers, thatmight be a trigger for you.
That is a fair trigger.
Yeah.
Actually, having seenthis episode already.
Yes.
Have we mentioned thatEllen has watched ahead?
Yeah.
So Ellen last, last night, decided towatch the entire rest of the season.

(01:44:53):
Um,
yes.
Fair warning.
I do know what's coming, but that'sokay because it wasn't anything
that's gonna change the view ofany, what happens in each episode.
Like we're so close to the end anyway.
But I'll say that I got a tasteof what it's like to binge through
without knowing what's coming becauseI did not know anything about what

(01:45:13):
was coming in this next episode.
And it was a really difficult watch.
That's a good point.
Because I wasn't expecting...
we do kind of spoil you for eachepisode because we tell you the summary
I before, um, before you watch it
and then and the triggers.
Yeah.
But I, I, I don't mindthat because it means I've.
I can be emotionally preparedfor what's coming kind of thing.

(01:45:35):
Whereas in this episode, I didn'tknow what was coming and then all
of a sudden this woman is tryingto commit suicide and refusing to
be, you know, revived or whatever.
And I'm just like, oh myGod, this is so horrible.
But anyway,
so much happened in this episode.
I'm just, I'm trying to write the lastweek on 9-1-1 summary and I'm just

(01:45:55):
like, oh my God, everything happened.
Albert really very busy, nearlygot reincarnated as Chimney's
his niece?
daughter.
Yeah, that would've been funnyif the, not, not funny but weird.
It would've been a good storylineif like Albert had died and then
all of a sudden Jee-Yun started
and all of sudden Jee-Yun was born.
Yeah, that's seriously whatI thought they were gonna do.

(01:46:17):
Oh yeah.
I think, I think thatwas the, in intentional
misdirect
Yeah well, it was heading for that, right?
That was, yeah, that totally thought.
That like, like Chim was gonna belike, oh my God, best day ever.
And then Buck would turn up andbe like, yeah, Albert's dead.
It's like, oh fuck
yeah.
Yeah.
The universe said there wasonly room for one more Han.
Yeah.
Yeah.
One's gotta get out.

(01:46:37):
Dead man's boots, you know?
Oh God.
Okay.
All right.
Let us know what youthought about this episode.
Uh, were you on the edge ofyour seat, like the rest of us?
Um, what do you think theyshould have called the baby?
No, we already know, knewthat her name was Jee-Yun, so
no, no other names necessary.

(01:46:59):
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(01:47:19):
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"Parenthood".
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