4.11: First Responders

In this episode of That Weewoo Show, Alice, Ellen and Bex discuss the eleventh episode of season 4 of 9-1-1, titled "First Responders". The 118 rush to the site of a hit-and-run that leaves a familiar face in critical condition. Athena investigates the case of a missing woman last seen in a casino. Josh recalls an emergency that led him to become a 9-1-1 operator.

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Episode Transcript

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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.

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I'm Ellen.
I'm Alice
and I'm Bex.
Thanks to everyone who's beenlistening to our episodes so far.
Uh, we are over halfway now throughseason four, which is shorter than
the previous seasons have been.
Um, so actually as we approach the end ofseason four, we're gonna need to get, ask
you guys to get your feedback into us.

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So I'll just say that up frontjust in case you don't make it all
the way to the end of the episode.
Just start thinking about your seasonfour thoughts now and then you can get
them into us at another time after youfinish listening to this episode maybe.
But in the meantime, uh, let's hearwhat happened last week on 9-1-1.

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Last week on 9-1-1, Hen Rensaid goodbye to their foster
daughter and broke some laws.
And Maddie and Chimney adjusted to life asnew parents after both returning to work.
In this episode, we are going todiscuss the 11th episode of the
season called "First Responders".
It first aired May 3rd, 2021, and in thisepisode, the members of the 118 rush to

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the site of a hit and run that leavesa familiar face in critical condition.
Meanwhile, with Buck's help andTaylor's, Athena investigates the
case of a missing woman last seenin a casino, and Josh begins.
Well, technically, Josh recallsan emergency in 2006 that led

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him to become a 9-1-1 operator.
Yeah, this episode's basically JoshBegins, I had to stop it the first time.
I watched, like halfway through andI was like, is this Josh begins?
It's very Josh Begins,
They missed a trick notcalling it Josh Begins.
Yeah.
Uh, triggers for this episode area car accident, car versus person,

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the generic warning for cops, um,discussion of missing Black persons and
treatment thereof by law enforcementspecifically, I think, uh, hit and run.
See above re car accident, uh, kidnapping,roofies and threat of gun violence,

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and also a trigger warningfor fawning over Taylor Kelly,
I'm not sorry.
No, it, it, it will bealmost guaranteed to happen.
So we actually get into theaction like straight away at
the beginning of this episode.
We are not, we don't know it at the time.
It starts fairly calmly.
It starts fairly innocuously

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in the car park.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're at Fields Market and we'rewatching, uh, an older white man exit the
market with his trolley and then notice
It's Jerry Gergich.
Okay.
I have no idea who that is.
Um, Jerry Gergich is buyinghis wife some flowers.

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Unfortunately, he's left his, like,he's already brought his cart out.
So he asks the security guard verynicely if she would mind watching
it, because daffodils are his wife'sfavorite, which is very sweet.
Yeah.
The, the security guarddoesn't really care.
Yeah.
The security guard's just like,who's gonna steal your truck?
Shit, but Okay, sure.
Whatever.
The security guard is doing a very goodjob of watching over the parking lot.

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But you can tell she does thinkit's kind of sweet 'cause she's
like, okay, I'll watch it.
Then we do cut to Jerry Ger, Gergich?
Berg, Jerry?
Gary?
Jerry Gergich
Larry?
Terry?
Yep.
Um, we cut to the wife in the car waitingand it's Sue and she's on the phone.

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Can't believe Gary.
Uh, Jerry would cheat on Gaillike this, but it's fine.
Um, yeah, so Sue's on the phone.
Are you gonna explain that at all?
Because I have no ideawhat you're talking about.
There are gonna be a lot of Parksand Rec references in this episode.
I'm not sorry if you haven'twatched Parks and Recreation.
You need to watch Parks and Recreation.
Okay.
So this is this a dudefrom Parks and Recreation?

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This is one of the main characters.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
That makes a lot more sense now.
Thank you.
Did you read the, you didn't read the notethat I dumped in the, in the group chat?
Yeah, I saw it, but I didn'trealize it was this guy.
Oh yeah,
this guy?
Yeah.
Oh.
Like how does that relate to Sue?
That doesn't make any sense, but yeah,
Because it was Sue's husband.
He's was one of the main characters.
Yeah.
Gotcha.

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Yeah, he is one of the maincharacters of Parks and Rec.
His name is Jerry most of the time.
No, his name is Gary.
Isn't it?
Like, but they call him Jerry?
His name is his, yeah, his name is Gary.
Sometimes it's also Terry.
It's a thing.
Um, so, so, um, yeah, Jerry goes to,is in the market buying some flowers.

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Sue's on the phone in the car andshe is like, kind of annoyed at,
I don't know who she's talking to,but she is saying that the call
center's not a tourist attraction.
She doesn't want a councilmanjust parading through the
office, which is fair.
Like, they're there to do a job, they'rebusy, but then she sees something at
the windscreen and the camera stayson her so we don't know what she saw,

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but she's just like, "no, just tellhim no, I need to call you back." And
she gets out of the car and as we're,we like cut back to the security guard
and as Jerry Gergich is coming outof the shops with his flowers we hear
Sue start yelling and then we cut toher running towards something near the

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dumpsters and then a car running intoher, sending her up and on top of the car.
Like there's no braking, there's no,like, it's clearly not an accident.
It's very,
it's very violent.
In fact, we hear the engine revvingas it accelerates towards Sue.
So it's quite clearly he isgunning... whoever is driving is
intentionally gunning for Sue.

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Yeah, I was terrified.
I'm like, what?
Sue, no!
So Don and um, the security guard goracing over to check that Sue is okay.
Sue is okay.
She's not.
So the security guardgoes to call for 9-1-1.
And I do love this, that Don is adamantyou have to start with the address.
Always start with the address.
Sorry.
Who, who?
You mean do you mean Jerry?

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Tom, Don, Dan,
Dan.
Um, yeah, go start with the address.
Always give the address first.
And that's such a like husbandof a first responder thing.
Yes.
Uh, because yeah, it would've beendrilled into him because the amount
of stories she would've had whereshe comes home and she's like, "oh
my God. They just like, I just wannaknow where they're calling from."

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And very correctly, when Linda picks upthe 9-1-1 call, the guard immediately
starts with the address and reportsthat there is a woman that's been
hit by a car and it's real bad.
So Linda, obviously filling in forMaddie immediately dispatches the 118.
Yeah.
It's funny that Maddie didn't get the,um, the important call, but Linda got

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it this time moving up in the world.
Um, so the 118 obviously are dispatched.
They're like, Bobby's sort ofgetting the rundown of the situation.
So the guard's like, "Yeah, the carwas parked over by the dumpster. He hit
the gas and then hit her," and Yeah.
Bobby's shock that he just took,like the driver just took off.

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Yeah, they're assessing her onwhatever, and they don't recognise
her at first, but then Chim is likechecking her out and then he looks
at her and goes, "Wait, I know her."And but Hen doesn't recognize her.
Um, but Buck does.
And he says "it's Sue Blevins."
Yeah, Bobby also recognizes her.
So everyone but Hen has beento the dispatch apparently.

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I was gonna say, I don't thinkHen has been to dispatch.
No,
because Chim's obviously we haven'tseen, been in dispatch because he's
been a creeper and Buck was involvedwith the, at the dispatch, with
the taking of the dispatch center.
Um, maybe also visiting Maddie.
Visiting Maddie.
Visiting, um, Abby.

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Yeah.
Sue has a pretty severe headinjury and her pupils are uneven.
Um, nothing good.
So they get her onto the backboardand they get her onto a gurney.
And as they're trying to load her intothe ambulance, Sue starts talking and
she's definitely saying "nine one,"then there's a, a sound afterwards.

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It's "Nine one W, nine one w."And Buck interprets this as 9-1-1.
He's like, yeah, we hear Sue, we got you.
It's all good.
But she won't stop saying it.
Nine one w And then in a nice sortof little segue, she says "nine
one w," and we go straight tothe title card, which is 9-1-1.

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Yeah, it's sort of over.
I did like that it kind ofoverlays with each other.
Like it's like nine one.
Yes.
And then like,
it's like she's reading the title card.
It's, yeah.
Yes.
Um, so I did really like that.
Yeah.
So I like how this entire episodefollowing this is just everybody,
like literally everybody trying tosolve the mystery of who hit Sue.

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Yeah.
Um, as they should.
Because as we learned last episode, likeshe's the mom of the dispatch center.
Yes, but before we get onto solvingany mysteries, we're going to
stop by the Bathena residencewhere, why is Michael here?
I don't know.
It's it's morning.
Why is he there?

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Why is he having breakfast?
He's doing something with the kids, say
either dropping off or picking upHarry because Harry's living with him
But he's in the kitchen.
Like either dishing up orcleaning up after breakfast.
He's hungry.
It's like sir, you have your own house.
Go be in your own house.
He pretty much lives there.
He's hungry.
Um,
when he is not looking outthe window of his own house.
I don't know what's his name?

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The surgeon?
Is it David?
Yes, it's David.
Yeah, David.
Dave.
David.
Look at me rememberingnames of random people.
Um, yeah, David's probably insurgery, so Michael's bored and
came to raid Athena's refrigerator.
Um, Harry's probably eaten everything inhis because he is growing like a weed.
Yes.
Um, yeah.

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So Harry wants new sneakersbecause his are getting too small.
Michael's shocked because theyjust bought him new sneakers.
Athena says that all they have todo is buy him a pair of sneakers and
his feet shoot up to the next size.
I feel this,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's true.
Oh yeah.
It's the truth.
Um, and May jumps in becausethis is a perfect segue for May.

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She's like, "oh, he's growing up and youboth have done a fantastic job racing us,
letting us be our own independent people."
But it's so, it like Michaelcomments about how scripted the
conversation turn was and it was, yeah.
She was very definitely, shehad practiced that segue.
Mm-hmm.
Or she had practiced something alongthose lines and decided that now was the

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perfect time to, to bring it into play.
They just kind of look at eachother and raise their eyebrows.
Like, do you think she waslike, oh Harry, don't forget
to say that you need new shoes.
I don't know.
But the point of her, um, the point ofher bringing up that like buttering up her
parents is because she wants to move out.

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She wants get a place of her own.
She wants to get her own place.
She's got money and she's ready.
She's sick of walking in onAthena and Bobby doing whatever
Athena and Bobby are doing.
And, and then Athena justgoes, "oh, okay then."
And everyone, everyoneelse just goes, what?

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Really?
Like May is shocked.
She's like, "Really?" AndMichael's like, "Yeah, really?"
No one can believe it.
And then Bobby comes in andhe can't believe it either.
No one can believe it.
Oh, he's also a little bit, um, a littlebit distracted because he was checking
on a hit and run case from last night,which he very callously just says, "Oh

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yeah, May your boss was in a hit and runlast night. She's not doing so good."
Is he?
Is he allowed to talk about cases?
Well, he's not a doctor.
He's not violating hipaa.
It's just weird like.
It's this daughter, like yourstepdaughter's boss, like be a bit nicer.
Yeah.
I mean it's probably, it's notbreaking any ethical codes, it's
just, it, it's a little, it's alittle bit of an abrupt way to

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It was a bit blunt.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, not the gentlest ofways to break it to May.
We missed a bit before because whenthey, when she says that she wants her
own place, and Michael's like, "okay,well there are a few vacancies in the
building across the street from me,"and, and May's just like, no, I'm not

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having, look at me with a telescope.
With the telescope.
Yeah.
Building across the street from him islike the, the, the creepy murder hotel.
Unless,
yeah.
The one with the, I thinkthe surgeon's been umm,
the surgeons' in the other building.
So it's either the building with theillegal surgeon and Miles and the
artist or the creepy murder hotel.

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Like, sorry, neither ofthem are a good choice.
Yeah, Michael's like, yeah, there'sactually a, um, a vacant apartment
because the guy got arrested.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The guy, the surgeryguy's not there anymore.
Someone almost died inthere, but No problem.
Anyway,
the second bedrooms, been kittedout as like a surgical room, but
we can, we can renovate that.

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It's fine.
We can work with that.
It's fine.
Um, oh, but yeah, no May's,May's not about that at all.
Um,
so while Bobby is breaking the newsto Sue, very bluntly, I'm hoping that
Buck is doing a little bit betterbecause it looks like he was the one
that broke the news to Maddie and Josh.

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Yeah, did no one else like,
yeah, why is he at dispatch?
Yeah.
Like did no one tell, like, didDon not like whatever his name is
at the moment, um, tell not ring
Terry.
Her work and like tellum, them what's happening?
I don't know.
Yeah.
And like why Buck and not Chim anyway, Iguess Chimney's looking after the kids.
I don't know.

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Chimney could have brought the kid in.
I don't think anyone's gonna complainabout a baby when they just learned
that their boss is dying in hospital.
Well, he could have justpicked up a phone like
Yeah, too.
Just like texted Maddieand being like LOL.
Guess who just got hit by a car?
Oh,
it's okay.
Oh no, wait, it's Chimney.
Not Bobby.
Bobby would be like LOL guess becausehe thinks that LOL is lots of love.

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Lots of love.
And then he'd sign it Bobby Nash,
and sign it, Bobby Nash.
Oh God.
Oh, okay.
Poor Bobby,
we're doing so well.
It's fine.
So Buck, Buck is the bearer of bad news.

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We do get a little bit of informationfrom this scene in that the, um,
the person that Sue was talkingto in the car was apparently Josh.
Um, yeah.
Anyway, so Josh is on the phone withher, um, and she hung up on him.
Uh, he says he needs to call Terrybecause he must be beside himself.

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Um, Maddie tries to like.
Kick Josh out and was like, well,maybe go to the hospital 'cause
she should be outta surgery.
And he's like, "No, she wantsme to stay here. The calls
don't stop and we can't either."
No.
Because I have a feeling that Joshis like the second in command of
Yeah, Josh seems to belike the 2IC dispatch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah.
So Maddie asks Buck if Sue hadsaid anything to him while he

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was there and Buck's like "No,no. She just kept saying 9-1-1."
No, that was your assumption, Buck.
Yeah.
Like not quite, but like I, it'sa fair assumption and like when,
when, um, adrenaline's runninghigh as well, it's, you know, he
would've just assumed and then that'sprobably what he remembers as well.
Yeah.
But yeah, Josh is worried, like, worriedabout how dispatch runs without her.

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Maddie's like "Yeah.
Yeah.
Like it's got you.
It's got all of us.
We're not gonna let her down.
'cause we all owe Sue a lot," and thisis where Josh says "I owe her my life."
Back and then we get Ellen'sfavorite needle back.
A needle drop,
needle back.
No.
All of a sudden we are thrust,thrust back into 2006 and

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Justin is bringing sexy back,
simpler times.
Supernatural was just starting to air.
I didn't know about it foran extra 10 years after that.
No, hang on.
Must have been earlier than that anyway.
Um, we're, we are in LA obviously,and Josh is looking very dapper.
This is corporate Josh.

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He's, he's pulling a a, he'spulling like a briefcase that's got
like wheels on the bottom of it.
So like, I don't know if that wasfashionable in 2006 particularly,
but I feel like that was avery shortlived like choice.
It's, it's his stenotype,that's where the machine is.
It's in his, that's the, likethe case where his stenotype.

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Because we discovered that Joshis a freelance stenographer and
he has been hired by, I'm assumingit's a law firm, Myers and Wong,
to, um, to transcribe the planningsession from the partners retreat.
So he is, uh, ushered up to the 32ndfloor of a corporate office building.

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They have the, the officehasn't moved in fully.
There are still boxes everywhere.
There is still like protectiveplastic film on the floor.
Um, they obviously haven't finishedmoving in, but Josh says all he
needs is a quiet space, a poweroutlet and an ergonomic chair.
He's very, very specific that heneeds an ergonomic chair, which

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thankfully they have for him.
They have.
Yeah, that's nice ofthem for a freelancer.
Maybe he stipulates it in his contract
possibly
and must have an ergonomicchair to be able to work.
Like my rates are competitive, butthey do, you must have an ergonomic
chair in order to access these rates.
Yeah, yeah.
Um, so he sets himself up in theconference room with his stena type

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machine and a tape deck and headphonesand his, uh, travel mug full of
whatever's in there and just startslistening to the tapes and typing
them on his little stenotype machine.
He's having a great time with it.
'cause apparently the partnersare a bit salty as the woman

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told him that they would be.
But they're also a bigbunch of gossips and,
oh my god, so much gossip.
He is loving it.
He like, he loves it.
The one, the one we get quitea bit of him just listening.
Um, and we as the audience canhear the tapes, but the fun part is
Josh's facial expressions 'cause heis absolutely living for this tea.

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The best one is when one of thepartners is complaining about,
uh, another man named Jimmy Act.
And there's when one of the otherpartners asks What's wrong with Jimmy?
The first partner says that there'sjust something about his face that's a
fa like his face is in need of a punch.
It's a very punchable face andJosh immediately adds in the

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German word for it, which I'm noteven gonna try and pronounce it.
Yes, there's too many,
It's got a lot of consonants
too many Fs in that word.
Apologies to our German listeners.
Yep.
Please pronounce it and send it in.
We
would, we murder it.
Josh does a great job as faras I know, I've got no idea.

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Yeah, we can't speak German.
He might be terrible.
Interestingly, he is literally thereall day because when we see him setting
up the, we see that it's like the sunis up through the, the large windows in
the conference room, and then we see thesun travel across and start to set, and
suddenly the conference room is dark.

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Josh doesn't appear to notice.
Josh also doesn't notice thatbehind him in the bullpen or open
plan office, people are freakingout and running out of the office.
Everyone gets up andstarts sprinting away.
He's too busy listening to
Yeah, he's too involved with the tea.
I don't blame him because one of themis like, "She did what with her boss?

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While his wife was in the next room?"
But then this, I'm just like, uh,this is, this much is very much
for the drama because as Josh islistening, the, uh, however, is,
um, recording it stops the tape.
He takes this opportunity totake a break and then all of

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a sudden the lights go out.
Like the office is just plungedinto darkness and Josh takes his
headphones off and now all of asudden he can hear the fire alarms
and what in the noise cancellationis going on with these headphones?
Because there is not a set of headphonesin the world that can do that.

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No, I reckon they're like theactive ones that like fully, like
electronically block out the outside.
Okay.
But back in 2006?
Because they're pretty good.
Yeah,
I, I call bullshit on that.
Nah, they were just new.
But, um, yeah, Dad had some and um,'cause we'd like fly once a year and

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he got them for the plane and youliterally could not hear anything.
That's so dangerous.
Oh yeah.
That is so incredibly dangerous becauseat this point Josh realizes that
something is terribly, terribly wrong.
'Cause everybody else is gone, the officeis black and the fire alarm is going.
So he makes a 9-1-1 call.

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He has not had it drilled intohim that you give address first.
Um,
no, not at all.
So he's got a, he's gota, he's very polite.
9-1-1 call.
It's like, "Hi, this is Josh Russo.I'm stuck on the floor of a building
that may or may not be on fire."
I love that.
That may or may not be on fire.
He's adorable.

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The main issue for Josh is that thestairway is blocked and nobody bothered
to show him where the emergency exit was.
Nobody talked him throughthe evacuation plan.
He's never been in the buildingbefore and he doesn't know what to
do and he is kind of freaking out.
Yeah, I would be too.
The 9-1-1 call is being takenby a very cute looking Sue

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in such a bad wig.
Such a bad, bad wig.
It's a terrible wig but shelooks adorable in it nonetheless.
She, she tells him to take a deep breath.
She's gonna get him out of there.
Um, so yeah, so Sue, but we don'tget to find out what happens next.
Sue.
Yeah.
Sue back in 2006 was justan average dispatcher.

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Yeah.
Above average thank you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But she wasn't running the show.
She was.
No, not yet.
No.
Like dispatcher level.
Um, she did have Maddie's superpower ofgetting the important calls though, so
Yes, she did for this episode.
All right.
Before we find out any more about Joshbeginning, we have to go back to Bathena.

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Okay, so just get, this is a litlittle scene where basically Bobby
and Athena talk about May moving out
LOL
Yes.
Where it appears that, um,Athena has swung like too far
in the opposite direction.
So she came down on May, likea ton of bricks about Layla.

(24:11):
Um, and then she realizes that she wasstarting to sound like her own mother.
And so she's overcompensating byallowing May or giving May permission
to move out, to like, to make up forthe fact that she's starting to emulate
her own mother because she never wantsto be the voice, she never wants to

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be to May, what Beatrice was to her.
Yeah.
Considering she's now moved.
How far away from Beatrice?
Like,
I just like that Bobby was like.
"You are not Beatrice." And then hefollows it up to, to remind us of who
Beatrice actually is by saying "You'renot your mother." I'm like, thanks Bobby.
But the, um, little bit of exposition, um,

(24:54):
yeah, yeah.
The, the, the bar is very, very low foraudience understanding in this episode.
Bobby's like you are not your motherwho was in episode blah, blah, blah.
Yep.
And that's literallythe point of the scene.
So let's move on to something moreinteresting, which is Buck and Taylor
Kelly, who are apparently getting lunch

(25:17):
Yeah.
I mean, for, apparently they're notsort of friends with benefits anymore.
They're besties now
they're just besties
they're besties now it's fine.
Yeah.
They just go and have lunch.
That's it.
And, you know, collude on, like,trying to solve mysteries apparently.
Okay.
No, but this was 100% Buck calling Taylorbecause he needed something from her.
Oh, yeah.
He needed, yeah, that's right.
Yeah.

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So he's not, he's not a, he'snot a really good friend yet.
He's still like using Taylor forhis own purposes, but like she said,
she really needed, they're like,
they're still lunch buddies.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's mutual using ofeach other at the moment.
Um, but also Buck is in full info dumpmode and it just cracked me up because
I, the first time I watched it, Ididn't realize how much he did this.

(25:59):
I think because I'm around a lotof Neurodiverse people, including
myself, and this is just what we do.
Um, but since it's been mentioned in fanfiction, like now I can't stop hearing it
and it just cracks me up because he justfull on like info dumps all over her.
So they're getting lunch.
He asks her what he,

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it sounds so dirty whenyou say it like that.
I know.
Um, she asks, uh, he asks Taylor whatshe knows about the 9-1-1 call center.
And she's like, "Nothing, butyour sister works there." Um,
and Buck's like "Yeah, she does.
Um, her boss Sue's really great.
She's actually been at the callcenter since it opened," and Taylor's
like, "Oh, since the sixties?"

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Buck's like "No, that's when theycreated the number, the call center
here in LA didn't open until 1984.
And did you know, dispatchers aren't evenclassified as first responders in most
respondent the country, which is crazy.
It only changed here in California lastyear." And Taylor's just like "Uhhuh
fucking take your um, Vyvanse please."
Yeah, she is on her phone texting.
She is not paying.

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She does not any attention.
And he's insulted 'cause he is like, youshould paying attention to me right now.
She's like this infodumping little bitch again
to the point where like he'sleaning around trying to see
what she's doing on her phone.
Um, to be fair it is really annoyingwhen you're trying to info dump
something that you feel like isreally important at the time.

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And the person's just like, I don't care.
But the point, like he's not justinfo dumping as in, Hey, I just
learned all this information.
I'm finding it really interesting.
It's like a segue that's building.
He's trying to get her interest so he can
Yeah, but she doesn't know that.
No, because, so thenhe's like, okay, fine.
I'm just gonna have to get tothe point, which is, Hey Sue...
so Sue was hit by a car the othernight and the driver just took off and

(27:44):
Taylor's like, "Uhhuh, that's awful."And he goes, "did you know less than
10% of hit and runs ever get solved?"
And she's like, "yeah, but this doesn'tfeel like you're just citing another
interesting fact now." So she is so done.
Like I love it so much.
I love her so much.
I don't care.
I'm a Taylor Kelly apologist.
I will always apologize for Taylor Kelly.
She deserves the world.

(28:05):
Um,
I don't think at this point it'slike Taylor is done with him.
I think she's finally tweaked that thereis a point to all this info dumping.
Yeah, that's it.
She's like, okay, we're so somethingjuicy is going on let's go.
You're trying to tell me something thatyou think I will find interesting or you
were trying to pitch something to me.
So fine.
I will pay attention to you at this point.

(28:25):
This ADHD child is tryingto communicate with me.
I just have to get through allthe K-Pop Demon Hunter first and
then there's something in there.
Oh my God.
No, don't Buck would love
Buck would love K-Pop Demon Hunters.
Absolutely.
My, so my, um, my nephew's Mom calledme today and she's just like, "oh

(28:48):
yeah. Like I was babysitting for mybest friend's daughter who's like a
bit older than her son, and asked ifI, if she wanted to watch something
on tv. And so she put this movie onand now I am learning the dance moves"
and I'm like, "oh, was it K-PopDemon Hunters?" And she's like,
"It was K-Pop Demon Hunters."And I'm just like, yeah, no shit.
Kpop.
Like, everyone knows K-Pop Demon.
I haven't even watched it yet.
And I'm already like, oh my God.

(29:08):
Have you seen K-Pop Demon Hunters?
I still haven't seen it.
Oh, please watch it.
But everyone else needs to watch it.
It's so good.
Please do.
Watch
It really is so good.
It's just because my Netflix is mymom's and so I can't cast it to the
tv, so I have to wait till she's hometo send me the code so that I can log.
It's a whole thing.
Um, but yes, I absolutely, like I'm,I'm fully for K-pop Demon Hunters

(29:29):
and I'm making everyone else watchK-Pop Demon Hunters, even though I
have not watched K-Pop Demon Hunters.
This, the soundtrack is still,still on repeat in the car and
we watched it several weeks ago.
I was stilling to it.
I listened to "Golden" so much for someonewho has not seen K-Pop Demon Hunters.
I love it.
My, my bestie just watched it the otherday and now she's, she's like, "Oh my God,

(29:51):
I'm listening to the soundtrack so often.
I love 'Golden'." I'm like, "Excellent.
If you like 'Golden', here is a wholeplaylist of other K-pop songs and other
K-pop artists that you might like.
I, I'll get you into this fandom."
I was messaging when one of mybest friends first watched it.
I was messaging Bex, just like,what else can I recommend?
Because I don't actuallyknow K-Pop, but Bex does.

(30:12):
So it's like my interest in law,
like I'm interested adjacent, like I'm allfor K-Pop and I'm like, yay, K-pop, Bex.
So yes.
Tell me about K-Pop.
If anybody.
If anybody out there has watchedK-Pop Demon Hunters and they really
enjoyed the music of Huntrix and theSaja Boys and wants to know what to
listen to next, hit me up 'cause Ican give you some recommendations.

(30:36):
Yes, please talk to Bex about
please!
K-Pop Stray Kids, please.
That's as far I know.
Lemme talk about K-Pop.
I just love that it's in mainstream,like I'm so happy for you anyway.
So yes, once we've got through, once we'vegot through Bucks info dumping, he, the

(30:57):
police have no leads on Sue's hit and run.
Um, so he is hoping that thepublic could maybe help, but the
public would need to know about it.
And Taylor's like, "oh, so maybeif they saw it on the news?"
Buck's like, "It just so happensI have a friend who's a fantastic
reporter," fluttering his eyelashes.
He's basically like asked her to do itwithout actually asking her to do it.

(31:18):
He's just done all this info dumping whenhe could have just asked her to do it.
I don't know.
Literally.
Yeah.
But it's Buck and he like,yeah, it's ADHD classic
and she's kind of, you know,charmed enough that she says yes.
Yeah.
She's like, okay, if you stop talkingto me about K-pop Demon Hunters, I will
talk to this about my talk about, talkto my assignment editor about this.

(31:42):
But she wants a better hookthan just a hit and run.
And she wants to know moreabout the call center.
Speaking of the call center.
Yeah.
So poor Josh has to break the news toeverybody else at the call center about
Sue now after Buck told him about it,
she's out of surgery.
Uh, Terry says she did well, and there'slike, Linda realizes that she was the

(32:06):
one who took the call in the first place.
Um, but you know, therewas no way for her to know.
Yeah.
So Maddie reminds Josh that heneeds to offer people counseling.
Um, so he does, he's doing avery good job at being in charge.
Like surely he must do this now andthen anyway, when Sue, like, Sue
is not there 24 7, like surely hemust be in charge some of the time.

(32:30):
Well, yeah, we saw him really step up whenthey lost, was it the, they lost the power
and they had to go back to like, thisis a map as he's holding up a paper map.
So he's probably really good at the jobside of rallying the troops, but not on
the emotional side of rallying the troops.
Yeah.
He's really worried about Sue.
So he's, um, doing all rightunder the circumstances, I guess.

(32:52):
Yes.
So he tells everybody to keep Sue intheir thoughts and then turns around
and walks out of the conference room andhe's thinking about Sue, which leads us
to another flashback where, um, Sue istrying to help him and he is hell bent
on just throwing himself into the fire.

(33:13):
Yeah, because she's telling him thathe needs to climb up the stairs and
he's like, "no. Smoke rises. I don'twanna go up, I wanna go down." And
she's like, just fucking listen to me.
He even says, that soundslike a really stupid idea.
Sue was like, what the fuck, bro?
Like, did you call me for help ordid you call me to do your own thing?
But then thankfully he'slike, yeah, I'm gonna go down.

(33:35):
He starts going down and sees fire on thefloor below him and he is like, "The fire,
it's coming from the floor below. What doI do now?" You go up, you fucking idiot.
You listen to the woman who has beentrained to help in these situations.
But then it is actually an interestingsegue because you've got, um,

(33:56):
Josh absolutely freaking out.
Oh my God, what do I do now?
And then immediately the next line isJosh saying, you need to calm down.
You're being too loud.
And I was like, uhoh.
Oh, oh.
But he's not talking to himself.
He's talking to another 9-1-1 callthat he's taking in present date.
Yeah.
This poor guy's in the carbailed up by this woman who's

(34:19):
swinging a baseball bat at him.
Yeah.
Um, he, like Josh asked him,says, I thought you said she
was blocking your car in.
And he says, yeah, she'swith a baseball bat.
So, but this woman is actually reallyworried about her daughter because
she's been missing for a few days.
And this guy was herex-boyfriend, I'm guessing?

(34:40):
Yes.
Is that how that works?
Yes.
So she's saying like, get outta thecar and tell me where my child is.
And he's trying to tell herthat he hasn't seen her.
Um, and so eventually, uh, a police carrolls up and guess who steps out of it?
You get three guesses.
The first two don't count.

(35:01):
It's definitely Athena.
It wouldn't be Athena.
No.
The, the, the one copwe have in this show?
And the guy in the caris so terrified of her.
It's, um, it's very comical almostbecause she's coming up there, like,
first she tells the woman that if shehits the car, if she hits that vehicle,
um, I'm gonna have to arrest you.

(35:24):
So like she comes over to the carand she's like, no, no, hang on.
She first, she asks thewoman about her daughter.
So she's just turned 21.
She's getting both sides of the story.
So she starts with the woman.
Yeah, she's been gone for two days.
She hasn't been home, she hasn'tbeen to work, her friends haven't
heard from her, blah, blah, blah.
And you think that he knows where she is?

(35:44):
Um, so apparently he was the onewho, they broke up a few weeks ago.
So then she goes and, and knocks on thewindow of the car with the baseball.
No, no, no.
It's, it's not just, he knocks,she knocks on the window.
She takes the baseball bat from the womanand then uses the baseball bat to knock
on the window to get Keith, our, um,ex-boyfriend to roll down the window.

(36:07):
Yeah.
And says, and he looks terrified anddon't even think about lying to me.
And I'm going, Athena, you've got likefive different weapons on your belt.
Why do you need a baseball bat?
Because it's very much,
it's a menacing picture.
Like, to be honest,
it's so very menacing becauseit, she's clearly aligned herself
with the mother at this point.
Thank God, God for Keith.

(36:28):
He has a very, very strong alibi.
Yeah.
In that he has not heardfrom Tracy in weeks.
And while Tracy has been missing, he'sbeen moving into his Momma's basement
and a million people saw him doing this.
And he is told by Athena to go and getthe names, names of all of those million

(36:50):
people so she can check his alibi.
Yeah.
And then she asked the mom, "Did youfile a police report?" And the mom
says that, "They just asked me if Iwas sure she didn't run away, and now
they said they'd get back to me andit didn't seem like she was a high
priority." And Athena very ominouslysays, "Well, she is now." And we all go...

(37:14):
she basically takes off like whips offher sunglasses and goes "she is now,"
and then for some reasonthe, the CSI theme plays.
Yeah, it was very dramatic.
But yeah, then we get some like actualopposite of copaganda, which is nice.
Yeah, because Athena's pulled Tracy'sfile and the like detective in

(37:40):
charge of the case has done nothing.
. All there is in the file is the initial statement and the photo of
Tracy, because apparently Nelson,who was the, um, detective assigned
to the case, has decided to wait andsee if she'll come back on her own.
Yeah, I'm sure she's fine.
She'll just wander back.
But yeah, as Athena says, she'snot the kind of missing girl

(38:03):
that makes the evening news.
Interestingly, she's having thisconversation with Lou Ranson who has
decided to involve himself in this case.
Um, he was the extra that was freethis week, so I have a feeling it's
because like Romero is, is he robberyand probably Ransone is homicide.

(38:23):
So different, different areas.
Although why he's involving himself ina missing persons case, I don't know.
But anyway,
maybe he's just, maybe he's just bored.
Because he's like,
he's got nothing better to do.
Do.
He's like, you want some company?
Like, I got nothingelse to do around here.
So
I'm guessing, Romero, Romero was like offwith his evil twin over in Rookie land.

(38:45):
Um, so they had to get Ransone.
So yes, he tags along with Athenaas they investigate Nelson's case.
Um, hopefully Nelson doesn't notice ordoesn't mind 'cause I have a feeling
that, um, that will not go over well,
not if they solve it under his nose.
So Taylor has accepted thechallenge to get the message about

(39:08):
Sue's hit and run to the people.
Taylor's doing reporting things.
She's just doing reporting things.
Um, talking about how Sue remainsin critical condition at this hour.
Police have no leads.
The like tape at the bottomsays local hero struck down.
So that's obviously theangle that they're taking.
It's not the particularlythat it's just a hit and run.

(39:29):
It's this, it's the, um.
Talking up, Sue hyping her up asa local hero in the community.
Worked the night and workedin the dispatch center.
And that's the tragedy.
And all of the dispatchers arewatching this from the floor.
Yeah.
I don't know who's takingcalls right now, but, um,
Nobody's taking calls.
Apparently not.
It's quiet out there in la la land

(39:50):
They're.
The whole, um, the whole city iswatching Taylor's report, which is fair.
'cause you know, I mean, to befair, everyone seems to recognize
Taylor whenever they go anywhere.
So probably the wholecity is watching Taylor.
Yeah.
Jamal's just like, oh yeah,like, it happens all the time.
People getting away with murder.
May's, like, "Sue's not dead.She's gonna pull through,"
except then we cut to the hospitalwhere a crash cart is being

(40:14):
rolled into Sue's room because shesuddenly does not have a pulse.
And they're about to rush her to emergencysurgery because she's bleeding internally.
Oh.
And it's just as Josh comes in too.
So he sees the whole thing.
He's freaking out and so isDon, obviously, 'cause he
is there as well, but Yeah.
Do you mean Barry Barry's there?

(40:35):
Yeah.
Yeah.
That dude.
I don't know.
Um, so poor Josh is under so much traumathat he flashes back to 2006 again
and he's still climbing up the stairs.
No, but he's,
he's still climbing up the stairs.
It's 2006, but it's likean alternate universe 2006.
'cause the, it's, 'cause it'sa repeat of the last time.

(40:57):
It's a, the last couple of seconds ofthe last time we were in 2006 where
Sue is urging Josh to go up and he islike, no, fuck you, I'm going down.
But then he sees the fireexcept now he goes, fuck you.
I'm going down.
He starts going down and he suddenly,there is a person in the stairwell with
him that wasn't there the first time.

(41:17):
Yeah.
It wasn't there the first timethat he remembered this, but,
oh, okay.
So he's editing his memories now?
That's a worry
the entire, the entire episode is likegoing back and reconning memories.
This happens multiple times inthis episode and it pisses me off.
Um, but yeah, so Joshdecides to, to go down and.
Memories aren't perfect.

(41:38):
Josh decides to go down and he sees awoman in the stairwell on the 31st floor.
Um, she is breathing, but as Suerightly surmised, the fire is down
below them and it's coming up.
So she's telling Josh thathe needs to get out of there.
He says, "I'm not leaving. I can't leavethis person because she could die." So

(42:04):
Sue talks him through getting the womanup in sort of like a, a fireman's carry.
And then he has,
is anyone else singing "Golden" right now?
Every time you say up?
No, just me?
I would, but I would blow outyour ears as I tried to, as I
attempted to hit those notes.
And I love you too muchto, um, to do that to you.
Speaking of "Golden", youcan do CPR to "Golden".

(42:25):
Anyway.
Of course you can.
Um, so he's going up, up, up.
It's his moment?
It's his moment.
Um,
he's, while he's carryingthis lady on her back.
while carrying a random woman.
Yeah,
like an unconscious womanon her, on his back.
So that's kind of even worse,
and he goes up like another five flightsof stairs with this woman on his back.

(42:46):
Yeah, he's doing great.
Um,
yeah, so he gets to the 36thfloor, which is more office space.
Even, uh, less finished than uh, Myersand Wong, which was where he started.
Um, it's got caution construction areatapes everywhere in the office, which at

(43:07):
first glance looks like crime scene tape.
Um, but it does, it does actually.
It's that same yellow and black.
It's very bizarre.
So Sue, Sue is continuing to talkhim through, uh, what he does now to
get the woman safely off his back.
And once he's done that, shetells him that the LAFD is on

(43:27):
route and should be there soon.
And he stumbles over to the large plateglass windows and we can see the 118
ladder truck and engine truck pullingaround to the front of the building.
And so exhausted adrenalineshock, uh, relief.
Josh passes out except when he wakesup, he's in the bad place because

(43:52):
the captain of the 118 is leaningover him, and it's fucking Gerrard.
It's fucking Gerrard!
Because this is still 2006,
it's the bad old days, remember?
Yeah.
He unfortunately did not wake up in 2018.
It's still 2006.
I mean, kudos on Brian Thompson for comingback to shoot like two or three scenes,

(44:15):
literally like three minutes of um,
I think it's maybe three offootage, three lines of dialogue.
It's maybe like half a day offilming, but he's obviously like,
yep, I've got nothing better to do.
He was literally, he was already inLA they're like, Hey, do you mind?
He is like, sure, why not?
I'll go yell at Chimney again.
Um, so yeah, sure enough Chimney's there.
Um, working on the woman that Joshrescued, I'm just trying to remember

(44:39):
when Chimney got his nickname,but I think, I can't remember if
he's actually Chimney in this,
well, we'll still call him Chimney, buthe probably is still Howie at this point.
Um, or, well, I mean, Gerrard's thecaptain, so he's probably still the, um,
probie?
The delivery guy.
Well, he is doing paramedicwork, so at least he's

(45:01):
That's true.
Oh, true.
That's true.
They let him out of thestation house, so Yeah.
Yeah.
So it's, it's late Gerrard.
He's accepted.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, it's obviously, it's like Gerrardera, but it's pre Hen joining them.
Yeah.
But yes, Gerrard basically, uh,orders Josh to his feet and literally
drags him out of the building.

(45:23):
And then we get this weird scene wherethe woman wakes up and is incredibly
thankful to Chimney for saving him.
Um, and once, and Chim's like, no, no, no.
Uh, I just showed up.
Someone else was the onethat actually saved you.
Um, and he asks Gerrard, wherethe good Samaritan, where the hero

(45:46):
is, so the lady can thank him.
And Gerrard says, oh, he ison his way to the ER already.
Yeah, I don't get the pointof that part of the scene
anyway.
Josh is a hero.
He doesn't even know that he's a hero yet.
It's just so that Gerrardhas more than one line
possibly.
It's like there's a, there's a minimumof a minimum that you, when you're

(46:07):
getting someone on set that they haveto be on set to like, oh, let, we'll
just make up the scenes up for you to,you know, pad out Brian's shooting time.
I will say that that scene is usefulbecause I get another name to add
to my list of the 118 members.
'cause we haven't seen Serrano before,so I'm adding, I added his name.
Um, then we go into the Madney apartment.

(46:29):
Josh is over.
Yeah.
Sue's still in surgery probablyfor the next still hour.
Uh, next few hours.
Um, Terry sent Josh home because hedidn't want Josh all, uh, up all night.
Well, he's supposed to work tomorrowand Maddie's trying to, like,
trying to tell Josh to take a dayoff and Josh was like, no, I can't.

(46:49):
It's basically just Josh freakingout, Maddie trying to reassure him.
Yeah, pretty much saying like, Maddie'slike you need to take care of yourself.
Um, Josh says, "You know, we've all gotpeople we love out there. The best thing
we, we can do is our jobs, which I gotfrom her, got all my best stuff from her."
Um, Josh is really scared.

(47:11):
You poor Josh.
He obviously has a really closerelationship with Sue and Yeah.
Maddie's like, "I'm scared too, butyou know what? We're gonna have, we're
gonna have all the faith in her thatshe's had in all of us. She's gonna pull
through this." So Maddie's manifesting.
So while she's manifesting, we aregoing back to the Bathena residence

(47:33):
where it is Girls Wine night.
It's Girls wine night, andAthena is sharing details of the
missing person's case with Hen
Which again, are they supposedto be talking about their cases.
Yeah.
But yeah, Hen didn't even knowthere was a missing girls case.
Um, as Athena says, that's the problem,like Athena's a police officer and

(47:56):
even she didn't even, like, shedidn't know there was a missing girl.
The mother came to the police tohelp and they couldn't be bothered.
Wait and see if she turns up.
But they wouldn't be waiting andseeing if it was a white woman
that was missing on the streets.
They would be,
yeah.
They'd be out combing the streets.
Yes.
And then Hen makes a, an interesting,um, point about when she was a kid.

(48:19):
She used to, it's an interestingpoint, but I don't think it hits
the mark quite quite right becauseshe's talking about the community
outreach that police used to do.
She said that the kids, the copswould go into the community, play
basketball with the kids, uh, alwayscoming to the cookout, so to speak.

(48:40):
Um, and she questions why they werecoming into her community and not so
much into the communities of like.
Into Beverly Hills and hens lineis why do they need to know us to
do the job that they're paid for?
With the implication being that the,the police are sent into, uh, the black

(49:03):
communities, the lower socioeconomiccommunities to make them more sympathetic
to those communities in order to makethem more likely to do their jobs.
But it's, that's not the reason thatthey send cops into neighborhoods
to play basketball with kids and dothe dances and go to the cookouts.
It's um, it's to condition the kids tohave positive connotations of the police.

(49:29):
Yes.
So that when they grow up and theyhave future interactions with police,
they're more likely to cooperate.
'cause they're, they're going to think,oh yeah, that's, you know, Constable
Barry who shot hoops with us, you know,that's, it's exactly like Constable Barry.
You know, these guys are our friends.
Like we can trust them.
Yeah, because like if you are, you know,if you are growing up as a poor kid in a

(49:52):
poor neighborhood and the only interactionyou've had with police is that they
arrested your dad or your neighbor, yeah.
You're not gonna trust them.
So, you know, if there's a policeofficer that's shooting hoops with them,
then maybe they will trust them more.
Yeah.
Ironically, my college, which for, uh,people in the US that's junior, senior

(50:18):
year of high school in Australia,and for everyone who is in Australia
in, uh, where I live college is aseparate school from high school.
I, um, okay.
We, we had a police officer who usedto come on campus and visit us and
hang out with us and talk to us.
Yeah, we
have one at our, at our primaryschool who comes to visit

(50:38):
and does stuff with the kids.
But I think, but I think we were the onlycollege that had one and I'm thinking,
damn, what was so wrong with our collegethat they thought we needed a cop?
Like they had so little faith inus growing up that they thought we
needed to get, you know, inoculatedagainst police so early on.
See, it's funny because I was like, Igrew up in such a small town that in

(50:58):
primary school, elementary, um, for theAmericans, um, the police officer, the
one police officer in the town livedopposite the school and was also the
president of the school board becauselike it was a school of 50 children.
In the media, they, they're, sometimesthey're made out to be the bad guys.

(51:18):
So if they come into the schools and befriendly with the kids and, you know, do
stuff with them, um, they'll realize thatthey're, you know, they're people too.
They're friendly.
They, they, you can go to themfor help and they'll help you.
Yeah.
I mean, in a lot of cases,that's not always the case.
If you go to the cops, they'renot always gonna help you.
But we, we also probablyhave that problem here.

(51:41):
Well, that's the story that's beingset up in this episode that, you know,
a Black woman went to the police abouther Black daughter and the police.
I'm assuming Nelson is white.
I feel like
it feels like that, doesn'tit, from what they're saying,
it feels it either Nelson specificallyis a white police officer or it's the,
um, like the systemic, systemic racismwithin the police department that a bl

(52:04):
missing Black person is not treated as,um, higher priority as, as a priority, as
a white missing person would have been.
Yeah.
There's a lot of issues withcops all around the world.
Um
mm-hmm.
So Hen questions why Athena seems to beso fixated on this missing person's case,

(52:27):
and she wonders whether it has to do withthe little girl, the one who disappeared
when Athena was a kid, the one that wassupposedly the perpetual, the motivation
for Athena to become a police officer.
But then that got reconnedand it's was something else.
Um,
she, her, her fiance,
but it turns out she's notthinking about that little girl.

(52:48):
She's thinking about her own littlegirl and the fact that's thinking
about May, may wants to moveout and get a place of her own.
I love that Hen's immediately, like,"Bet you shut that down real quick."
And Athena's like, "Why do you, whydoes everyone think I'm such a hard ass
that all I I know how to do is say no?
Yeah.
Don't answer that."
Yeah.
Because Hen gives her like, girl, please.

(53:13):
And then Hen has to remind us towhat happened last week, um, by
saying that giving Nia back was thehardest thing that she's ever done.
And though this is why that I nolonger want to be a foster parent.
No, she doesn't say that.
Um, she says it was because
it's so weirdest.
It's the weirdest analogy thatshe's decided to throw with her.
It is a weird analogy, but it'swhat we know from the previous

(53:35):
episode.
Yeah.
Remember that time thatI was fostering like,
you know, not that okay.
You know, not the child that Iadopted from, you know, my junkie
ex-girlfriend and, and you know, allof the fears that I've had around him.
No.
That, like the kid that I had for a year.
Yeah.
But it's because she's, she wasworried about that Nia was going
into a situation that was going, thatsomeone was going to hurt her and that

(53:57):
she wouldn't be there to protect her.
And that's what Athena is going throughbecause she wants to protect May and
she won't be there to protect her.
I'm sorry to mansplain that to you.
The cops.
Anywhere.
Yeah.
But then she encourages her to be,
it's just, it's bad writing.
Like I understand kind ofwhat they're trying to do.

(54:19):
It's just bad writing.
Like this is where I started tuningout and falling asleep, honestly.
Yes.
Um, well, she says that she hasto be the voice that teaches her
to protect herself when the worlddoesn't, it's like, okay, whatever.
I mean, what can you sayto a child to convince them
nothing
that you know what they, you, you, theyjust have to work it out for themselves.

(54:39):
Honestly,
pretty much.
There's not much you can do.
Yeah.
You need to just let the, letkids make their own mistakes
and just be there to catch them at theend much without the told do so dance,
I, no matter how badly you want to do it,
I, I still can't talk about TheSummer I Turned Pretty, can I?
No, because I still haven't finished it.

(55:01):
This is exactly, exactly theargument that I had with that show.
Um.
She just gotta let her make her ownmistakes, even if they're stupid mistakes.
Yes.
All right.
What's next?
Uh, Taylor Kelly.
Oh, more Taylor.
More Taylor
Taylor's on TV but only very briefly.
'cause it's still still Athena.

(55:21):
And what's his face?
Investigating the girl.
Yes.
But Taylor does give Athena a crucialpiece of evidence because she does.
Taylor is talking about Sue again.
Um, and that according to witnesses,Blevin was hit by a red Vero Galaxy.
So Athena is standing in a car showroom,waiting to talk to the missing woman,

(55:47):
Tracy, her manager, 'cause she worked,was something to do with car sales.
So Athena And
does how, how does Taylor not, I'm sorry.
How does Athena not alreadyknow about the red car?
Maybe she does but Taylor's telling us.
Yeah,
they're not connected at this point.
So this is like a, Athenadoesn't care about it.
Athena's not working onthe Sue Blevins case,

(56:07):
like the police know about the car,but that's just associated with the
hit and run that's not associatedwith the missing person's case,
the kidnapping.
Okay.
I see what you mean, they're not connected
so at this point, this is whereAthena learns this information
about the car so that she realizesthe two cases are connected,
Right.
And so Taylor is giving this informationout on the news because there would be

(56:30):
witnesses to the hit and run that don'trealize they were witnesses, because
they need to know that there, that they,if they saw a red car in this vicinity
on that time, at that time, on thatday, that maybe they saw something and
they should come forward to police.
Um, anyway, yes.
So Tracy, who's the missing girl,she works at the desk at the service

(56:53):
department, which closes at six, andthe girls are usually gone by six 15.
So there's actually like anothergirl who they can talk to because
Meredith works the desk with Tracy.
And so Athena and Lou interviewMeredith, and she says, "as I told
Tracy's mother at the time that theynormally leave, I was ready to leave.

(57:17):
Tracy, Tracy wanted to hit the ladies'room first, so we said goodbye. And
that's the last time I ever saw her."
And Athena's like, "Okay, cool. Nowtell me what you didn't tell her
mother." And apparently what she didn'ttell her mother was that Tracy had a
gambling habit, and after she wouldleave work, she would go down to the
local casino and play some poker,

(57:37):
I do like Ransone's line, which was,"What was she doing at a casino?" and
Athena's like "Winning, apparently."
He's like, "She, she was hustlingguys at cards?" And yeah,
Athena's like, "I didn't say that.
I think she was good.
She was good." Yeah.
So apparently there's a guy sittingnext to her who sort of leaning over to

(58:00):
talk to her, but she keeps distance.
She never looks at him, sothey didn't come in together.
That's an issue that I have because thedialogue that Lou says is... As they're
talking, they're watching security footageof Tracy at a poker table and Lou is
saying like, "she's talking, but she keepsa distance. She never looks at him." But
as he's saying that, she's leaning, shelooks at him into this guy, their shoulder

(58:22):
to shoulder, she's talking to him.
She's turned toward him.
So like the, the B crew were notaligned with the script or aligned
with the, the, A crew at this point.
They didn't come in together,but they left together.
Um, 'cause Tracy getsup and she's looks drunk
and the, the guy sitting nextto her, uh, gets up to hold her

(58:46):
up and grabs her purse and helps
a white purse,
very specifically a white purse.
Uh, Ransone assumes that she'sjust a cheap, um, a cheap
date, can't hold her liquor.
And Athena says, "no. The waitress saidshe wasn't drinking any alcohol. Um, she
had two teas and a water," but it doesn'thelp when the footage, they rewind the

(59:11):
footage and they're playing it again.
And they see that the dude inthe ball cap very, very obviously
tips something into her drink.
Like it's blatant.
He's not even trying to be subtle.
So then they follow their paththrough the casino to the parking
garage and Ransom says that he hopesthat they will get lucky and the

(59:33):
guy will drive towards the camera.
And he does, but he has blockerson the license plate so the
camera can't pick it up.
Um.
Being a guy, he's like, "Oh,that looks like a Vero Galaxy.
What color do you think that is?" AndAthena's like, "That's red." Yeah.

(59:53):
And Lou's like,
she has connected the dots.
"That, that was a very, very definiteanswer. What makes you think it's
red?" And Athena is because at 9:02,which is what, 12 minutes, 15 minutes
later, a Red Vero Galaxy was spotted,fleeing the scene of a hit and run.

(01:00:13):
And so, yes, Athena has connectedthe dots that our kidnapper
does feel like...she's right.
But
she's very right.
It feels, it feels like she's kind ofdoing the board with the string, like
connecting the dots at the moment.
Like it's a, it's a jump.
I've connected two dots.
I've connected nothing.
I've connected them.
Yeah.

(01:00:33):
It's, yeah.
It's, it's very, it's very, um.
Would only happen in television becauseit's just the way that it's written that
Yeah, I mean it's, it'sjust one possibility of what
may have happened, I guess.
Like there might've been multiple Verogalaxies, but I mean, in this case
for the drama,
turns out to be right.
Entirety of la there's only one

(01:00:54):
Red Vero Galaxy
Galaxy, Vero Galaxy.
Anyway, Buck is going to meetup with Taylor back at the
Taylor!
Market, uh, car park.
Yeah.
So they've gone from, um, lunch at a foodtruck to hanging out in a parking lot.
So classy
moving up in the world.

(01:01:15):
Taylor really knows howto show a guy a good time.
Mm-hmm.
But no, she, um, she sweet talks, oneof the security guards into giving
her the surveillance footage, um,from the night that Sue was hit, and
she says that there is something...
she can sweet talk me any day.
Weird there.
What?

(01:01:38):
Um, but she has the, she doesn'twanna let Buck see the, the footage
because she, because he knows Sue.
Yeah.
She's being so caring.
She'll like, she's like, no,like this is your friend.
You know her.
Yeah.
I don't think you wanna see this.
It's rough.
And Buck's like, no, let me see it.
Come on.
So, yeah, they watch it.

(01:01:58):
Yeah, they watch it.
The guy in the carreally didn't slow down.
Um, Taylor's trying to work out whySue's running towards the car and
this is where Buck is having his,I've connected two dots moments.
Yeah.
Because he's like, "Oh, maybe she sawsomething she wasn't supposed to. She,
she sees the guy in his car, gets outto confront him. He runs her over."

(01:02:19):
Taylor's like, "What,what could she have seen?
Look where the car was parked over thereby the dumpsters." And Buck immediately is
like, "oh, I've heard about this illegalplastic surgery clinic a few months back,
guy was tossing evidence in the" Yeah.
Who told you that?
Fucking Bobby totally went to workthe next day and was like, "oh my
God, guess what I did you guys."
Um, but yes, the guy was tossing evidencein the dumpster, and this is the best

(01:02:42):
Light bulbs have gone off aboveboth their heads and they both
start walking towards the dumpster.
And Taylor's like, "oh, someonewas dumping evidence in a dumpster.
What if our driver did too?" Buck'slike, "Oh, should we call the police?"
Taylor's like, "ah, I mean, we're alreadyhere," and Buck's like, "I do have gloves
in my car." And as he says that Athenarolls up behind him on the loudspeaker.

(01:03:07):
She didn't even hear what hesaid and she's just like, "Don't
even think about it, Buck."
Literally don't even think about it, Buck
and he slowly turns around.
She's like, I've seen this movie beforeand I had a nickel for every time someone
went dumpster diving in this show,
damnit mom caught me.
It's very much he turns around andboth Athena and Lou, Lou I don't
think has met Buck at this point.

(01:03:29):
Yeah.
Lou's like what is happening?
But he's also looking very disappdisapprovingly at Buck and then Buck
turns back to the camera with likea aw man kind of look on his face.
She's always spoiling his fun.
They like, they get arrested here?
Like why did they endup back at the station?
Like what have they done?

(01:03:49):
They haven't done anything.
I'm pretty sure they're justthrowing them out of the way.
Um, like Buck's in the interrogation?
Why are they in separateinterrogation rooms
like they haven't done anythingto worth being arrested over?
I love that.
So Buck's just like pacing in theinterrogation room and Lou's watching
through the mirror and Buck's usingthe mirror to check his teeth.

(01:04:11):
It's like that's a two-way mirror.
You dumbass.
Yeah.
But we've established that Buck has notwatched anything in popular culture,
so he probably has not watched anykind of detective or police procedurals
how weird that this big mirrors here.
I'm sure it's fine.
And he does not realizethat it's a two-way mirror.
Yeah.
Oh, I love him.
Um, but yeah, Athena walks in and he'sjust like, "What'd you find in the

(01:04:32):
dumpster?" And um, yes, they found thehandbag and the idea of the missing
girl Buck, like is still a couplesteps behind because he doesn't know
anything about what, like about the girl.
So he's like, "I don't understandwhat the girl has to do with Sue."
So then Athena fills him in abouthow Tracy was kidnapped less than

(01:04:53):
a mile away from the supermarket.
And they think she was in the car thathit Sue and like the driver gunned for Sue
so she couldn't tell anyone what she saw.
And so Buck remembers that Sue was tryingto say something when, um, they were
getting her loaded up into the ambulance.
Um, and he tells Athena that "whenwe got to the scene, Sue was trying

(01:05:17):
to talk. Her husband thought she wassaying, 9-1-1." Honey, you were the
one who thought she was saying 9-1-1.
Yeah, you heard 9-1-1,
not the husband.
Don't blame Jerry in all this,
but maybe it was about thecar and maybe it wasn't 9-1-1.
Maybe it was nine W, you know, likenine one W. So Athena walks over

(01:05:39):
to the mirror and she's literally,
he literally just keeps saying"9-1-W, 9-1-W." Like okay,
it's the weirdest, Buck probablythinks she's gone crazy 'cause
she just walks straight up to themirror, she's staring at her own
reflection and says, "Let's run it.
Red Vero Galaxy partial plate nineone..." and then we cut to Lou
behind the mirror going "William."

(01:06:00):
Buck's like, oh, is this one of thesecool like AI mirror things that like
will do stuff for you if you ask it?
He's like swiping on the mirror,like trying use it like a smartphone.
But here's the other fun part.
So while Buck was like pacinglike a caged animal and checking
his reflection in the mirror,
my love, my Taylor
Taylor is just kicking back,she still has her phone.

(01:06:22):
She also got a coffee from somewhere.
Yeah they didn't eventake her phone off her
and she's just chilling out.
She doesn't even look up.
She's like, "Stationlawyers are on the way."
Yeah, Lou walks in, she assumesthat she's about to get arrested or
interrogated or something, and he's like,
Clearly not the first time.
And Ransone is like, "Hmm, you mightwanna call your cameraman instead." and

(01:06:44):
she immediately puts the phone down.
She's like, "Tell me more."
Yes.
Hmm.
Let me, so what the more is, is that thereis now a kidnapping alert for a red Vero
Galaxy with a California license plate.
Nine one William Adam Lincoln, Tom, Nora.

(01:07:05):
And that has gone out on the, um,the VMS signs, the variable messaging
signs that are, um, set up on allthe freeways and also out as an
emergency alert to everyone's phone.
Damn.
Yep.
91 Walton including, um, thephones of the 9-1-1 Dispatchers,

(01:07:27):
who just look at it and go.
Uh, shit, we're about to getinundated because they are, yeah.
Every man and their dogcalls in for any reason.
Like it's, it's a red Vero Galaxy,which is like a, a sporty kind of
car, yet Jamal takes a call fromsomeone calling in a, um, A minivan.

(01:07:51):
A minivan, yeah.
Um, but thanks for calling.
Yeah.
You see, it's, he really does not wannaadd that "Thanks for calling." 'cause he
really would've preferred they had notcalled at all, but he has to be polite.
Um, but they do actually investigate onecaller who said that they saw the car
parked by the fence near a container yard.

(01:08:13):
So they actually do goand check that one out.
Yeah, they, well, Josh got it,so it was clearly a plot point.
So, yeah.
And they let, they let Williams outof the precinct and I'm so happy.
Branford's there as well.
But they let Williams out.
He's usually out and about doing stuff.
No, Athena gets all the calls.
He was during the earthquake.
When was the earthquake?

(01:08:33):
That was like 14 whole episodes ago.
It was this season.
Alright.
11 episodes ago with severaltimes jumps in between.
So it's been
Maybe we, we've seen himsince then though, right?
Oh, the mud slide.
Yeah, that's right.
The mudslide thing.
Yeah.
I I'm like, what earthquake?
Yes.
No, I remember now.
Mud slide.
That was a while ago.

(01:08:53):
Jesus.
That's been, yeah, that was a whole ago.
I don't feel like it's beenthat long since we saw him.
Yeah.
Maddie's had a whole baby since then.
Literally.
That was just last episodes.
That's fine.
Um, no, but like she was pregnantat the beginning of the season
and she's had a whole baby.
And now only, only nowhave we seen Williams.

(01:09:15):
That's what I'm saying.
It's like it's been a long time.
It's been a long time coming.
Athena's just gonna be inthe middle of everything.
So yeah, back to the, back to Williamsand Branford doing their jobs.
They've discovered the car, they'vediscovered that there is, uh, blood
in the car, which is incredibly weirdbecause it's like, if anyone could explain
to me how that blood gets in like themiddle of the, um, the top of the seat

(01:09:41):
back, I would appreciate it because,
oh, behind the seat?
'cause she was sitting in the front seat
and, but I could understand ifit was like on the seat back, but
it's like on the top, the curveright next to the head thingy.
So I don't know how blood got there.
Yeah, I don't know.
And from what we could seewhen we find Tracy, she's not
bleeding, but somebody's bleeding

(01:10:03):
Anyway
for the drama they found some blood.
They found some blood, andthere's even a trail of blood.
That, um, Williams followsinto the container yard.
So she's, she's been stabbed?
No, but she hasn't, she just got drugged.
There was no stabbingas far as I remember.
There's no reason any of this should
How else does
she have a blood trail?
I don't know.

(01:10:23):
It's, they obviously needed somethingto alert, um, Williams and Branford
that this was a serious situation.
And then they, they were all out ofbreadcrumb, so they had to do a blood
trail to get them into the container.
Yeah.
They couldn't actually puta neon sign pointing at the
car going, this is the car.
So they just threw some bloodin there anyway, so they call,
um, a bunch of other people.

(01:10:44):
We start getting a lot of numbers.
Yeah.
So basically,
and this doesn't stop forthe rest of the episode,
they found the car and there's blood, sothey're going in to investigate and three
additional LAPD units call in that theyare also going to the, um, container yard.
Athena is not one of them, surprisingly.
Yeah.
I don't know what Athe Athena's doing, but

(01:11:04):
she probably finished her shift by then.
She's like, well, I'm done.
Good luck with Tracy guys.
Yeah.
Um, so Williams and Brand Fed are walkingthrough, it's a, it's a bit of a maze in
the container yard, but they happen tocome across the container that they need.
Um, and they find Tracy inside.

(01:11:25):
So, um, they call it back into Joshthat they've located the victim.
Um, she needs medical attentionand Josh says that the RA unit is
on route, no en route, en route.
And I'm about to punch my television, um,
because I know that it's, um,it's one of those regional things.

(01:11:49):
'cause we as Australians,sorry, I would say on route.
Yeah.
I would not say en route.
And then it started me thinking like,okay, maybe it's just an American
thing, like maybe the Americans sayen route, but then I'm thinking, no,
but the highway system's Route 66.
So how like, do they call it Route 66?

(01:12:13):
I ended up having to message my friend.
I don't know that,
I ended up having to messagemy friend going, Hey, how would
you say this highway system?
She's like, oh no, that's Route 66.
I'm like, sweet, how would you say this?
And she'd say, oh no.
I'd say en route.
Like, okay, then why thefuck does Josh say en route?
And he's like, oh,
well that's French.
She's like, oh no, no.
He's Southern

(01:12:33):
is French.
He's southern darling.
And I'm going.
Of course.
Yeah, right.
Oh yeah.
So Bryan Safi grew up in Texas.
Oh, so he says en route,'cause he's southern.
Everybody else in the world says on route,because we understand French, I guess.

(01:12:56):
Hmm.
Interesting.
Sure.
Anyway,
anyway, um, the 118 get there,
linguistics aside,
Eddie's like one and very the like,his one and only appearance in this
episode as he jumps out of the,um, truck, gets the hand saw and
opens up the gates to the containeryard so they can get the trucks in.
Yeah.
Um, but they're not actually allowedto do anything yet because they're,

(01:13:19):
um, the cops have to make sure thatthe scene's secure because obviously
they don't wanna send in firstresponders if there's an active shooter.
Yeah.
They probably should have done thatin the beginning, like when they
first showed up and found the carthere, they probably should have
established a perimeter, basically.
Well, that's what they do.

(01:13:39):
That's why they've calledso many people in to
they're, they're doing that now afterthey found the girl and everything.
But before they startedcreeping in to find her.
Yes.
They probably shouldhave secured the area.
Oh yeah.
We even mentioned that they found.
We found the girl?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's why they dispatched the, that'swhy they dispatched the 118 because
they needed the medical support.

(01:13:59):
That was before the on route discussion.
I got, I forgot what we're, um,anyway, yeah, so the 118 can't get in.
Um, 'cause they've got to makesure that the things safe.
Eddie's like, "ugh, hasn't it beenlong enough?" Hen's like, "the girl's
been drugged, we need to get in there."Chim's like, "yeah, haven't they got
the suspect yet?" And then, but see,immediately Josh was like, "yeah, officers

(01:14:23):
now advise this, the scene is clearfor you to respond." Which, but it's
like you haven't found any, like what?
No, they, if they have clearedthat entire container yard,
then they both need to be fired.
'cause that was a shitty job.
Um, yeah.
The one thing that is interestingabout that scene is we kind of see
how the, um, the radio system works indispatch because on Josh's screen we

(01:14:44):
can see the different, um, channels.
So you've got the LAPD, whichis tactical channel two, and
you've got LAFD, which is four.
And Josh uses foot pedalsto switch between channels.
So when he wants to talk tothe cops, he hits the foot
pedal, it switches to tack two.
When he wants to talk to Bobby, hits thepedal again, it switches to tack four.

(01:15:05):
Um, so the scene is quote unquote secure.
So Josh sends the 118 in, buthe didn't tell them where to go.
And so they get lost very quickly.
Yeah, there's a lot of containers there.
And it is,
yeah, it's a maze of containers,
maze.
And they've all but handily,they all have numbers on them.
Yes.
But un handedly they're not inany kind of sequential order.

(01:15:27):
They're not in order.
No, they're in
No, they're not in order.
Um, but what is handy is that they'reclose enough that Williams has heard
them come in and he's come to get them.
So he leads them to thebox that Tracy is in.
And Bobby double checks with Williams.
Like "there's no sign of thesuspect. Right. It's fine."
And William's like, Nope.
Nothing.

(01:15:47):
We must have scared him off.
And then as Bobby is radioing back intodispatch we see the suspect peering around
the corner of one of the containers.
Yeah.
He's literally just there.
I don't know what, like, what they weredoing to secure the scene, but not much.
Um, to be fair, this whole episodeis about how useless the cops are
he's in stealth mode are so, yeah.

(01:16:10):
He's wearing dark clothing.
They couldn't see him.
Yeah.
He's got, um, I've been readingPercy Jackson with, uh, my kids.
He's got, um, one of thecharacters has a ball cap.
The hat of invisibility?
Yeah, the hat of invisibility.
Exactly.
Cool.
Yeah.
So they're looking at Tracy.
Um, she's got fresh bruises on her wrists.

(01:16:31):
Um, they're not sure howlong she's been in there.
There's a syringe that's likebeen sedating her somehow,
but it's not labeled.
Um, they have no idea what it is.
You mean he didn't very convenientlyleave the little like medical vial
with all of the information aboutthe drug that he just administered
in the container with her?
No!
All rude about it.

(01:16:51):
No, and, and amazingly Chim,and Hen don't even have a go.
Like they have a go guessing what itmight be, but they don't instantly know by
looking at it, which is unusual for them.
Um,
yeah.
Right.
They just 'cause Athena's notthere with her magical, um,
diagnosing powers to help them.
Maybe, maybe the container islike blocking, like shielding

(01:17:13):
them for the magical effects
maybe Yeah.
Of the ability to immediately diagnose.
But yeah, Hen checks her vitalsand is like, yeah, she's about
to stop breathing any second now.
Um, so they prep the, uh, naloxone.
Yeah.
Um, because if it's not anopioid, one, do one dose won't
hurt her and could actually help.
Um, so they're pushing fluids,they're prepping the Naloxone

(01:17:37):
and then backup arrives.
And so Josh says "Units on scene searchingthe area for the suspect, who's possibly
still in the general area." And what?
The suspect is not in the general area.
Williams cleared it.
Yeah, he just said the suspect.

(01:17:57):
Well, not very well.
Suspect was gone
like my whole issue,
but Josh doesn't believe him.
The issue with this is nobody evermentioned that there was a suspect there.
They just found the carand they found Tracy.
I'm guessing they assumed thatthe suspect is still in the area.
Um, but Williams has cleared it, so theyshouldn't be looking in the containers.
They should be lookingoutside the container.

(01:18:19):
The, the math is notmathing in this episode.
Once again, we've looked too hard at itand once again, we've exposed the holes
and the, the glass is brokenand now I cannot unsee it.
Um,
damnit,
it's fine.
Stop looking at it.
It's, it's a interesting sort of thing.
So,
and ironically, I really do likethis scene for what Josh does

(01:18:42):
it's very tense thefirst time you watch it.
The second time wasn't as tense,maybe because I was falling
asleep and all the numbers,
it's incredibly tense.
It's, um, like my brain cannotcompute that anybody could
actually do what he does.
Um, I don't actually know thatanybody could do what he does
in this particular situation.
I think it's incredibly for thedrama, but it's very well done.

(01:19:05):
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, so he established, he'strying to establish a perimeter.
So he sends the, uh, the new, um,officers to the four corners of
the container yard, and they tellhim what box number he's next to.
So he writes it all downin the, in the system,

(01:19:25):
which would work if thenumbers were sequential.
Yeah.
And if they worked out, like yeah,it would work if the numbers were
sequential and you, you knew how many can,
it's just so that when they get tothe end, he knows where they are.
Yeah.
But it doesn't that mean that they needto work out like the X and the Y axes?
So that
maybe, maybe thinks that they,they are sequential to start with

(01:19:49):
and then when they tell him, he'slike, oh fuck, they're not in order.
I don't know.
But anyway, he, he knowsthat they need a helicopter.
They need air support.
Yes.
So Linda tries to call,Linda's trying to arrange that
because the, the people on theground can't see through the shipping
containers, where if they had eyesin the sky, they'd be able to be

(01:20:11):
like, oh, the guy's just there.
Yes.
But before they can get the, uh, the bird,quote unquote, um, Williams and Bradford
just happened to stumble upon our suspect.
Who, uh, immediately sees them andbolts deeper into the containers.
And so all of the,

(01:20:33):
um, yeah, he's a bit of a coward.
He only likes picking on women clearly.
So all of the officers suddenlyright, are starting to,
well, he is got like severalcops after him now, so
it's, but, but they're gettinglost, um, because they have
no idea where they're going.
Um, they are, as Williamsays, they're in a maze.

(01:20:54):
Lots of the same thing in every direction.
The helicopter is still unavailable.
Josh throws a bit of a tantrum sayingthat he needs aerial visual assist because
he's got an armed suspect and officerswho are as good as sitting ducks and
Joshie, nobody told you that he was armed.
They didn't even know
I'm sure they told him atsome point, it's fine, shh.

(01:21:14):
They didn't know there was asuspect in the area and nobody knows
that he has a gun at this point.
'cause he ran before they, beforethey could get a good look at him.
So
anyway, for drama, hehas an armed suspect,
whoever was writing thisscene forgot that, oh yeah.
We should probably let somebody know atsome point that there is an actual gun.
It's like Chekhov's gun, but in reverse.

(01:21:35):
They haven't like showed us the gun inthe first part and it's suddenly shown
up and like, where did the gun come from?
Josh is having a panic attack anyway.
Yes.
Yeah.
Well the officers are all now comingover the radio saying, Hey, we're
blind, we're all turned around.
We don't know where we are.
We've lost visual.
Um, so
and so Josh does this weird, I wannasay beautiful mind kind of moment.

(01:21:58):
Yeah.
He gets like,
it's like Iron Man,
the numbers start flashing up and like.
It's, it's very much like, I wasthinking Tony Stark, but then Tony, like
that's is actually his computer system.
Yeah, that's the actual interface.
Josh is doing all this in his head.
He brings up,
he's forming a map, he's bringing up,he's thinking up a mental map of where the

(01:22:20):
containers are located, which is amazing.
Like if he can come up with thefour corners and then try and
direct people through a, a mazethat has, makes no sense then, okay.
Like Josh is more of a geniusthan we ever gave him credit for.
And not even that, but to the pointthat, um, he's got this mind map

(01:22:40):
where all of the containers are andall of the LAPD units, locations.
And also he's remembered exactlywhere they called in that they saw
the suspect and realizes that whenthe 118 are about to leave their
container to take Tracy back to therig so they could get it to hospital.
He's figured out that thesuspect is circling back.

(01:23:03):
And, um,
yeah,
they are in danger.
And just as he tells Bobby to hunker down,um, at which Bobby immediately does, the
suspect just walks straight towards them.
Like there's nobody around him gun outand start shooting at the container.
You would think that they'd have a copguarding one the firefighters, and two

(01:23:25):
the victim that's drugged out, like, what?
You would think, wouldn't you?
Like you've just had three otherunits pop up, leave somebody in the
container to like, keep them safe andthen have everybody else go out and,
but nah let's just shootat the firefighters.
That sounds like a, a fun episode.
Look, I was so confused by what Joshwas doing that the, when they started
firing, I was just like, "oh my God,he's firing at them. What's happening?

(01:23:48):
My babies, they're in a, they'rein a container and they don't have
any armor or anything," like Yeah.
Anyway, very for the drama.
But,
and then Josh manages continue,
it's very tense,
his beautiful mind, um, routine andmanages to tell all of the LAPD units
that are in the container, whichdirection to go, which container

(01:24:11):
to head for, so that they are allcircling and trapping the suspect.
So that when,
yeah, I have no idea how this is working,but it was a lot of fun to, to watch.
So I,
I do not think it would work.
I think that it could work if youhad like GPS on everyone and you
had an over, you were looking at itwith a sub, with a, um, aerial like

(01:24:33):
visual assist from a helicopter.
Yeah.
I don't think any one person coulddo it in their brain like this.
Especially not with thelimited information that Josh
had about the container yard.
But
it's fine.
Josh is just that goodand it's a lot of fun.
So we're hand waving it.
Yes.
and having a great time.
It's, it's one of my favoritescenes in this episode, so even
if it does, absolutely doesnot hold up under scrutiny.

(01:24:54):
Yeah, but that's what he does.
He gets police going in certain directionsso that they're circling the wagons and
when, um, the no, the suspect is likepeering around corners, trying to see if
the way is clear and then all of a suddenhe's blocked in all four sides by police.
Yeah.
And so he just gives up.
Yeah.
Literally it's just like, oh yeah.

(01:25:15):
Fair.
Yeah.
As I said, he's a bit of a coward.
He only picks on women
and shipping containers.
He doesn't really, shipping containershave a lot of choice at that point.
He's pretty surrounded.
Yeah.
Josh tells them that "Suspect incustody, 118, you can go ahead.
It's clear for transport," so, oh
yeah.
Now the scene is clear for transport.

(01:25:36):
Now the scene is clear.
Well, they definitely have the guy now.
Yeah.
So he's on the ground, the thecops have kicked the gun away.
They're, um, handcuffing him.
Bobby thanks Josh as they're walkingpast Williams, I don't think realizes
Bobby is on his radio and gives Bobbya big thumbs up as Bobby walks past,

(01:25:56):
'cause he thinks Bobby's thanking him.
Well I thought Bobby was thanking him.
Yeah.
Well, I thought Bobby was thanking him.
Classic cop's like,yeah, I did all the work.
She's like, looking at him.
You walked away.
Walk.
I he's walked around in circles.
He's just sticky beaking, like, oh, whatare they doing to that guy down there?
Like, yeah, but he's,
anyway, now we flashback again back to 2006.

(01:26:16):
Um, and Bringing SexyBack has stopped playing.
They could only affordthat like 10 seconds.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um,
what?
It's from the song!
No I know it's from thesong, it was just so random.

(01:26:38):
um, Josh makes it out to dis, makesit up to dispatch for some reason.
I don't know how he got theclearance, but sure, why not?
He's got a visitor sticker on him.
So
it's 2006, I guess security wasa little bit more lax back then.
I was about to say nine 11 hasn'thappened, but it has, so I don't know why
security is lax, but I guess the takingof dispatch 9-1-1 hasn't happened yet, so.

(01:27:03):
Yeah.
Um, so they don't care.
They just let anyone come up.
Um, but yeah, so Sueintroduces herself to Josh.
Josh pulls her into a hug and likethanks her for saving his life.
Um, Sue's just like, yeah, okay.
I literally do that every day
and then she takes himon a walking tour of.

(01:27:23):
Dispatch and I just tweaked, she wasbitching at the beginning of the episode
about she doesn't have time to takepeople on walking tours yet back in
2006, she taking Josh on walking tour.
That's Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, like she was bitching to Josh,like, oh, we don't have time to
take people on a walking tour.
And Josh's like, you take me on walkingtours all the time back in 2006.

(01:27:44):
Back in 2006, dispatch islike much more cramped.
It's, instead of being like open planned,it's, it's very much like cubicles.
It's much, it's cozier.
I think I like 2006 dispatchbetter because there's plants,
there's no hot desking.
Um, yeah, people have gotphotos set up on their stations.

(01:28:06):
Is it a different location?
No, it's the same locationbecause you can see like straight
through, um, the, the cubicles.
You can see the conferenceroom that we know and love.
Oh, okay.
So obviously in 2006 it was set up likethat and then at some point between now
and the 2020, someone's gone, oh, thisis like, this needs to be modernized.

(01:28:27):
Let's rip everything out and dolike completely open plan and
hot desking and you are like nopersonal shit on the floor anywhere.
Um, but yes, Josh makes a commentabout how the call, which was
the worst moment of his life, wasjust a day that ends in Y for Sue.
And she's like, "Yeah, we're not that,like, we're not quite that blase.
But yes, that's the job." And Joshpraises her, like, "how, how'd you

(01:28:51):
know to send me upstairs?" Um, andSue explains the initial fire call
came from two floors below, whichis why Josh could smell the smoke.
Basically she said they've gota Bible that tells them how
to react in that situation.
So she was literal justfollowing the script.
Literal, yeah.
Josh is like impressed athimself that he was heroic.
Um, he says that he'sjust a freelance, uh.

(01:29:14):
Oh my God.
Stenographer?
Stenographer
I'm really good at talking.
Um, he's just a freelancestenographer, which is a real thing.
And Sue's like, I don't know what that is.
Um, and Josh is like, "yeah, I don'treally wanna do it anymore, but I don't
know what I'd do instead." And Sue'slike, "Well, you have li experience
listening and typing all day," soapparently she does know what it is.

(01:29:34):
Um, "Maybe you want my job." AndJosh's only condition is "Only if we
can do something about these chairs."
Ha ha.
And Sue's just like laughs.
And, and I'm like, Sue, you don't, youdon't understand that joke because he
never told you about the ergonomic chairs.
But anyway, she thinks he's crazy.
Like, ha ha, Josh is like, no, seriously.

(01:29:55):
No, really.
I need an ergonomic chair.
I will not do this job unlessI get an ergonomic chair.
Look, my back is fucked.
I I
typing all day.
It's hard work.
Or maybe it's preventative.
Maybe he's using the ergonomic chairsso that his back won't get fucked
from like sitting and typing all day
maybe.
Yeah, I mean, it's a good idea.
Uh, it's back in present day.

(01:30:16):
Josh has come to visit onceagain, but present day Sue.
Yep.
And, um, Larry
and Sue has thankfully lost thewig in the last, um, couple of
years back to her normal hair.
Thank God.
So Larry's trying to tell his wifethat she needs some downtime and

(01:30:38):
she's like, yeah, nah, I'm good.
So Josh comes in, gets immediatelylike suckered in by Larry to try and
talk soon to taking a few weeks off.
And Josh is like, "Yeah, I, she doesn'tknow how to not work. Um, who tries
to stop a kidnapping while off duty?"
Oh, so then we find out what reallyhappened when the hit and run happened,

(01:31:01):
which, yeah.
Now that Sue's awake and alive.
And then we get the, the, the, I mean,I guess you could say that like the
unreliable narrator, you know, changingof mem like nobody can actually remember
what happens to explain what the fuckjust happens here, because here where
quite clearly at the beginning ofthe episode, the transcript is just,

(01:31:23):
"no, we have to put our foot down."
No.
Suddenly it's "no. Josh, wehave to put our foot down."
Yeah.
Like we've forgotten that shewas talking to Josh at the start.
God, we, like, we found, wefound out that information.
We got told, like Josh toldus she was talking to me.
Yeah, trust your audiencejust a little bit
the writers have gone okay.

(01:31:43):
So now we actually need to showthem, otherwise they're not gonna
believe that she was talking to Josh.
Um, and so this flashback isliterally just like a rehash of
what we saw at the top of theepisode, but from Sue's perspective,
which is that she saw the car,
Kristen Riedel was one of the riders.
Yeah, I know.
Which is why I'm,
she was like, no, we haveto tell them it's Josh,

(01:32:04):
which I think is why I am shittingso hard on this episode because
there is a reason the writing is bad.
Um, so yes, so what Sue saw was the redVero Galaxy pulling up to the dumpster.
Um, our suspect, Patrick Ryan Boydgetting out and very un subtly
throwing the handbag in the dumpster.
And we can sue can see Tracy in thefront seat and she doesn't look good.

(01:32:29):
She is like half asleep.
She's, her head is lulling around.
She has no control over her neck.
Um, and Sue is concerned.
So she gets out of thecar to check on Tracy.
Um, and like we know what happens next.
Yeah.
Um, why would... like thisguy's a terrible criminal.

(01:32:51):
Oh, he's so bad.
Why would dispose of the pursewith Tracy still in the car?
Why would you do it atan open supermarket?
Yeah, that's in like in peak time.
Like it's not even,
it's a busy supermarket carpark.
Complex.
Busy.
Um, but like what?
Like while having her in thecar, like dump her somewhere,
then dump the handbag

(01:33:11):
and then dump the handbag.
Like what?
Anyway, um, yeah, Patrick's useless.
Um, but yes, Sue's worried about the girl.
Josh says she's safe thanks to Sue.
We cut to the hospital.
We see that she's safe.
She's back with her mother.
It's fine.
Yeah.
Tracy sees her mom again.

(01:33:32):
Uh, Athena finds out that she wasn'tthe first girl, but probably the third.
They found her just in time.
We still don't know exactly whyshe was kidnapped, I don't think.
Don't think that's ever mentioned.
No, it was just kidnapped.
She was roofied and dumped in acontainer, but like, who knows?
If you went into the specificsit'd be too dark maybe.

(01:33:54):
Yeah.
Because who knows whathe was planning for.
Yeah.
Anyway, let's not thinkabout that too hard.
Um,
I honestly don't think thewriters thought about it too hard.
They just thought,
no, I don't think they did.
Yeah.
He's gonna kidnap her and thenshe's gonna show up in a container.
Why did he put her in the container?
Uh, I don't know.
Human trafficking.
She was, he was gonna ship her overseas.
Um,

(01:34:15):
maybe.
So then we get, uh, Mayand Athena, where Athena's,
oh, this is, this is funny.
Like, "yeah, no, you can move out.This is fine. But I've made a list of
acceptable neighborhoods, what to lookfor in a building, what, what to avoid,
and these are my conditions." Yeah.
And like hands a, like afull ream of paper to May.
Yeah.
May's eyes are just likebugging out of her head.

(01:34:36):
She's like, oh, thisis a lot of conditions.
I think may thought that Athenawas gonna change her mind, like
the other shoe was dropping.
She suddenly was not gonnabe allowed to move out.
And it's not that, uh, Athenahad gone back on her original.
Yes, you can move out.
It's now suddenly, yes, you can move out.
But I have some very specific conditionsupon which you can move out, which
includes the apartment that you moveinto cannot be on the first floor.

(01:35:00):
The apartment that you moveinto cannot have a balcony.
And I'm allowed to run a police checkon the apartment building manager, and
it has to be in these neighborhoods.
Um, but Athena just wants to keep hersafe and May's like "Yeah, I know."
It's sweet.
In like a, you know,umbrella mum kind of way.
And then we go back to Taylor.
Well, we go back to, this is great.

(01:35:21):
So we go back to Buck.
Um, who is watching Taylor on tv.
Yeah, he's watching Taylor on TV and,
and this Marone shirt that heis wearing is like top notch.
Ah, he looks so good.
Yeah.
And then he opens the door becausethere's a knock at the door.
And it's Taylor with a bottle ofchampagne and he is like, "you
are here, but you're on my tv."

(01:35:41):
He's so confused.
'cause like, how can you bein reality when you're in the
tiny box in my living room?
Yeah.
Oh Bless his little heart.
She's like, I'm a rerun.
Yeah.
They, they aired a segment at 10and 11, um, and she got a gift of
champagne from her boss, and he andher boss wants to have lunch tomorrow.

(01:36:03):
Um, so Buck's like, "oh, maybeyou'll get a promotion." And
yeah, Taylor's like, "yeah, maybe.
But that's not what we'recelebrating." And Buck's like,
"oh, what are we celebrating?"
And Taylor goes "Justice forTracy Webber and Sue Blevins. I
hear they're both gonna be okay."
But basically she's come over, she'swearing a very tight, um, very,
very flattering little black dress.

(01:36:25):
Um, she's carrying champagne.
I have a feeling
I had a great time this episode.
I don't know what you were watching,
I have a feeling the celebration isgonna go beyond that bottle of champagne.
I think it's gonna goupstairs if you mm-hmm.
Know what I'm talking about,
she's not gonna be wearing thatlittle black dress for long.
I just gotta say too, before wemove away from Taylor, 'cause
this is the last time we see her,this episode, um, and Buck too.

(01:36:47):
Um, so Taylor Swift got engaged this week.
We're like a week behind,so it's old news now.
But Taylor Swift got engaged this week.
She thanked the
Taylor Kelly?
Like her, her fiance's podcast yeah.
She didn't thank us.
She thanked her fiance's podcast.
She thanked her fiance's podcast becausehe went on the podcast after her.

(01:37:08):
So he went to her concert, didn'tlike, wanted to meet her, and her
people were like, you can't justwalk in and meet Taylor Swift.
Like, that's not how this works.
And so he went on the podcast and waslike, I made her a friendship bracelet.
Didn't even get to give it to her.
Um, and sulked about it.
And so Pete like.
People who knew, like his people, spoketo her people and that's how they met.
Anyway, I just wanna say, uh,Megan West, if your people are

(01:37:31):
listening, um, very happy to show up.
Taylor Swift and, uh, Travis Kelsey.
Um,
but have you made hera friendship bracelet?
I would, I will make her a friendshipbracelet, uh, with my number on it.
Um, I'll have to put the area codebecause we are in different countries.
Uh, but yeah, Megan West, uh,shout out, um, very butt hurt,

(01:37:53):
hurt that we haven't met.
Um, so I expect a proposal in uh, twoyears, although I think I have to be the
one that proposes now, which is fine.
I'm happy to do that.
I'll make a garden for you.
Well, good on you for shooting your shot.
Also, not opposed to Oliver Stark.
Um, shout out.

(01:38:14):
I have dog.
Oh, just one now.
That's sad.
Um, I have dogs.
Well, like, happy to be vegan with you.
Don't even care.
Um.
Yeah, so shooting my shot,
shooting several shots at this point.
Yeah.
Any more volleys there that you wanna like
just firing them out thereinto the universe, like,

(01:38:36):
I think that's it for this episode.
It's like scatter gun approach.
She's just gonna like shoota shot everywhere and hopeful
that one of them sticks.
Yeah.
Next time Kenneth is, um, next timeKenneth's topless I'll, uh, yeah.
Although the, um, the actor from Albertjust moved to the state next to mine,
so stay tuned next episode, you guys,
John Harlan Kim, ifyou're listening to this.

(01:38:58):
If you're listening to this.
I know you weren't in this episode, but,um, but hurt that we haven't met yet.
Okay.
I've shot my shot open for,
it seems really anticlimactic to go backto the episode 'cause it's just like
one scene left, which is Sue returningto the dispatch center and they do

(01:39:18):
like this big ceremony where she comesback online and everybody on the radio
congratulates her and welcomes her back.
And then that's it.
It's actually really cute when all thevoices started I did tear up a little bit.
Most of them are 118.
Yeah.
'cause they weren't gonna hire abunch of extras just to come in
and say one line on the radio.
Um, but yeah, it's real cute thatthey're just like, we missed you.

(01:39:41):
We're glad you're okay.
And she like tears up and she islike, "you're not gonna get rid of
me that easy. Now back to work."
And then Maddie ends theepisode by going back to work.
Uh, phone.
The phone rings.
She picks it up.
"9-1-1. What's youremergency?" End of the episode.
But not before one perfecttear falls down her face.

(01:40:02):
Jennifer, love Hewitt.
I know you're married,
she's married!
I just said I know that she's married.
To someone who is not you.
Yeah.
But like he plays Doug.
Is he?
No.
Um, I am happy I will bethe mother of your children.
Um,
good lord, woman, you're not even

(01:40:24):
in your luteal phase yet.
Hey, podcasts can do great things.
We've learned this today anyway.
Yeah.
Congratulations Travis and Taylor.
Um, I'm sure you guys are absolutelyavid listeners of our podcast.

(01:40:46):
So, okay.
Well this, I found thisepisode quite enjoyable.
Like now that we've talked about it,obviously there are some things that
weren't particularly believable,but you know, it was, yeah.
But it was an exciting episode to watch.
Exactly.
It was fun.
So we're not pulling the thread.
It's fine.
Yeah, it was, I will say that Idid like the theme of the episode,

(01:41:08):
which was 9-1-1, dispatches beingconsidered First Responders.
Um, and
yes, I liked that, um, that Josh was shownas more, um, more capable than the police.
We got to see both Sue and Joshhelping people out of an emergency.
I do find it ironic that both Abby andMaddie had like crises of faith when it

(01:41:31):
comes to their jobs and about how muchwork they were act, how, what kind of
impact they were having on people and notfeeling like they were doing any good.
And yet, four seasons later we get thisepisode where it's, oh no, actually 9-1-1
dispatchers are first responders and theyhelp as much as L-A-F-L-A-P-D and LAFD do.

(01:41:53):
Yeah.
Yeah, like not sure how realisticit is, but um, but hey, good,
good, good for Josh for getting hishero moment, um, all about that.
So
Josh, I think what Josh didwas absolutely ridiculous.
Um, I 100% believe Sue, like Sue'sstoryline where she's, you know,
telling Josh to go up instead of down.
She's getting him safe.
That's realistic.

(01:42:14):
That's real.
Um, but yeah, we appreciate thatBryan got an episode to shine in.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Glad we got Josh begins
and Yes, it very much was Josh.
Get, Josh begins.
And I did appreciate, um, that you hadthese like two, it started off the episode

(01:42:36):
with almost like three storylines, whichwas Josh begins, the hit and run, and
then Athena's missing persons case.
And then by the end of the episode,they're kind of all dovetailed together.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was kind like, it was verycool because it wasn't a typical
9-1-1 episode and I liked that we gotsomething different, um, especially

(01:43:00):
after last week's was so throw like, youknow, put parenthood down our throats.
Yeah.
This one was very mucha break from the norm.
Like it wasn't, I really enjoysome of the stupid 9-1-1 call
episodes, but it's nice to have abreak like this sometimes as well.
Yeah, they didn't actually haveany, there were no like intervening
weird calls in this episode at all.

(01:43:21):
It was just all,
no, it was just the one,
the mystery,
like the three storylinesthat went into, and they
were mostly LAPD focused, like the nine,like the 118 were there, but they were
back up to the LAFD mm LAPD, sorry.
So it was a very copheavy episode, but not,
yeah.
But showing that the cops aren't grlike a lot of the time when we get

(01:43:41):
cop heavy episodes, it's, oh my God,look how great Athena and the cop are.
Whereas this wasn't this, this was,
this was this just, Josh running the show.
Okay.
The cops were really fucking incompetent.
Um, and Athena had to fixeverything, which like, you know,
but doubly so.
'cause it was like the, the copswere incompetent because they,
um, you know, systemic racism.
They weren't following upthe missing persons case.

(01:44:02):
And then the, um, inadvertent, thecops are fucking useless 'cause
they didn't clear a scene properly.
And so the 118 nearly got killed,which I don't think was the
point, was that point of it.
But who would, who wouldshoot a firefighter?
It's fine.
Um, so
Don't ask that question.
Um, what do we have tolook forward to next time?

(01:44:26):
Next week's fun.
Next week, um, a famous mysterywriter dies and Athena, Bobby, and
the 118 respond to the chaos causedby a citywide manhunt for the buried
treasure the author left behind.
The episode,
oh my God.
We're up to "Treasure Hunt"!
is literally called "Treasure Hunt".
We're up to "Treasure Hunt"
and it's such a fun episode.

(01:44:47):
It's such a fun episode.
There are only two triggers for thisepisode, which I find interesting.
Treasure and hunt.
I haven't watched thisepisode for a while.
I feel like there are more triggers,but the only ones that have been
included in our, um, our trauma listingis in relation to one storyline,

(01:45:08):
um, which includes depictions ofcheating and a drowning threat.
And specifically in a septic tank.
It's a nasty place to drown.
Yeah.
So let us know what youthought of this episode.
Uh, please send all, uh, direct allTaylor Kelly love letters to Alice.

(01:45:30):
She will, you know,agree with you, I'm sure.
Um, yeah.
But yeah,
I support women's rights,but also women's wrongs.
Um, yes, you can leave a comment for us onthis episode's post on thatweewooshow.com
or directly in Spotify or YouTube,
Megan West, my personal email address is

(01:45:52):
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Our email address, actually that is nota personal email address, is our email
address is [e-mail].
Thank you so much for listening thisweek, and we will see you next time
for episode 12 called "Treasure Hunt".
See you then.
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It just started pouring with rain, and Ijust have to say, I updated my phone last
week and I now have like a weather widgeton the front of it, and it's telling me

(01:46:59):
that the rain's gonna stop in 19 minutesand I feel like I need to time this.
Like, I'm like, what do you meanit's gonna stop in 19 minutes?
That exact, that is oddly specific.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Very specific.
Anyway.
Uh, I will say that that's,
do you wanna set a timer for 19 minutes?
I kind of do.
Oh, is the rain stopped?

(01:47:22):
What time is it?
It's, is that 19 minutes?
My, my timer just went off?
Yeah.
I think the rain stopped.
Fuck.
How good is this weather app?