4.13: Suspicion

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9-1-1. What's your emergency?
Welcome back to That WeeWoo Show, apodcast where we watch and discuss
episodes of the A B C Show, 9-1-1.
I'm Ellen.
I'm Alice.
And I'm Bex.
Thank you to everyone who's beenlistening to our season four episodes.
We are almost, almost at the end.
This episode is the penultimateepisode of the season.

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Oh my God.
Thank you so much for all ofyour comments and ratings on
Spotify and Apple and all of that.
Um, we really appreciate the waythat people are, are responding
to this, um, season's episodes.
Um, before we get into this penultimateepisode, though, Alice, do you wanna
let us know what happened last time?

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Yeah.
So last week on 9-1-1, the118 went on a treasure hunt.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
Yeah.
That's it.
It, yep.
Uh, so this
week, the 118 are going
to be suspicious of everybody,and everybody is gonna be
suspicious of everybody.

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Everyone is.
It's a very suspicious episode.
Um,
funnily enough,
and the title of theepisode is Suspicious.
No.
It literally is " Suspicion", actually.
Isn't it Suspicion?
Yep, Suspicion.
Suspicion.
To be a little bit more succinct, themembers of the 118 make calls to save
a Bridezilla at a disastrous weddingand to a mother trapped on her balcony.

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Meanwhile, Hen plays medical detectivewhen her mother, Toni, falls ill.
Eddie and Christopher receive a visitfrom Carla, Athena uncovers a secret
that Bobby has been hiding that putstheir marriage on the rocks, and Maddie
struggles with adjusting to motherhood.
And this episode originally aired May17th, 2021 if anyone is keeping track.

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And our triggers are child abuse,strongly implied to be Munchausen's
by proxy, frank discussion ofmedical racism, fat phobia, misogyny,
depiction of postpartum depression,and a jump scare from a gunshot.
And I'm gonna add in a teeny tinygore as well to go like that.

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Yeah, like not full ongore, but it's there is.
There is blood.
So I think it needs to be warned about.
There will be blood.
There will be blood.
We can also give a warningthat for most of this episode,
we don't really care about.
Oh, we don't really like it.

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Not most of it.
It's just a cold open, I think like Hen'spart because like Hen's doing things other
than stalking foster carers for a change.
So,
uh, I, I mean, I, I think thatHen's episode's a little bit clunky.
I could quite happily like do without it.
I don't think it adds anything.
Um, I, I will let the listenersknow that I did motion very strongly

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for us just to ignore the cold openbecause I think it's ridiculous.
I was voted down, so we aregoing to have to talk about it.
We can, we can fast forward a little bit.
I mean, you know, likego through it quickly.
Yeah.
So it is a themed episode where all ofthe storylines are about someone having

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suspicions or being suspicious and ourcold open is a woman who is suspicious of
her bridesmaids, one of whom she suspectshas been posting on the internet about
her being a quote unquote Bridezilla.
Yeah.
So basically someone posted on Redditsaying that the bride was a Bridezilla.

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They also like talk aboutwhat she did, which absolutely
makes her a terrible person.
Um, she sent the bridesmaidsto a nutritionist.
Uh, she told them all to make sure noneof them were thinner than like the bride.
And
yeah, she was just very likeuptight and awful and no one cares.

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Um, she's got a polygraph, apolygraph before the wedding, like
it's literally the wedding day.
They're getting their makeup done andshe's putting people through polygraphs.
The best part of this scene is the song.
Oh yeah.
100 percent.
We get a needle drop, which is"White Wedding" by Billy Idol,
which I mean makes itonly mildly any better.

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At least I'm, I'm not fastforwarding all the way through it.
I'm at least sticking aroundto listen to the music.
Um, so the reason, the reason the 118 arecalled is because the bride is continuing
her interrogations of her bridesmaids.
The polygraph machine had previouslybeen in like an en suite bathroom, but
she drags it into the main suite andplugs it into an already very overloaded

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power board, um, which apparentlydoes not have circuit breakers in it.
So she plugs in the polygraph machineand she immediately gets electrocuted.
Everything that's hooked up tothe electricity in the room,
explodes, catches on fire, andthat is why the 118 is called.
The white curtains catch on fire.

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Yes.
this is why you should buysurge protectors, people.
Well, I thought power boardshad like those built into them.
Some do.
Uh, not all of them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Old ones don't.
But like our power, like the one, thepower at my house has a circuit breaker
in it, so it's not a surge protector,but it does have a circuit breaker.

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So if something gets overloaded or
I think all houses do the, do.
Yeah.
That's what most houses should have.
I'm constantly tripping mine,
I don't know about Americathough, because who knows?
You can still, I, we have a, like a surgeprotector, um, power board thing that
my, uh, washer and dryer was pluggedinto and it kept tripping all the time.

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So I'd like go in there, I'dput the washing on and then.
Because the power trips out on it, itwould just turn off mid cycle and I
wouldn't know because wouldn't, it doesn'tbeep to tell me that it's finished.
Um, and then I'd go back inthere and like, oh, this is
still full of water and it's beensitting there for like two hours.
Oh no.
So, um, yeah, I, it took me agesto remem like, you know, when

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you, you think, oh, I've gotta getthat next time I go to the shops.
And then you just at the shops,you do not remember like I should.
Yeah.
That's my life.
And I even like, think I shouldwrite myself a list and then
I forget to write a list.
Um, so eventually I got a newpowerboard, what doing, and it's fine.
I, um, I shop online, like weorder, click and collect most
of the time we go shopping now.

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And so if I think, oh, like I need toget this, I'll just add it to the cart.
Oh yeah, that's a good idea.
'cause Mum and I share a grocery,like a Woolworths account as well.
So then we like whoever wants anything,we just throw it in the cart and then
whoever's actually doing the order,it's like, oh, do you still want this?
Yep.
Cool.
That's a great idea.
Anyway, this chick gets, uh, electrocuted.

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No.
Yep.
And when she, wait, when, when the118 come in and kind of get her awake
and sitting up again, she's just like,her hair is all like, it's like a
cartoon of someone being electrocuted.
You know, like her face is allcovered in like, soot basically, and
like her hair's sticking it on end.
I don't know if that's what people whoreally get electrocuted look like, but,

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and she is, uh, famouslymissing an eyebrow as well.
I mean, my dad's had had electricshocks, but he doesn't have any hair, so,
so you can't tell if it's,
I can't verify this,
The resolution of the, um, theperson shit posting about the bride.
Turns out it was her mother.

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Yeah.
Possibly the, the second redeemingfeature of this scene is that the mother
confesses that she was the Reddit posterand the other, all of the bridesmaids
sort of jump up and like, "No, no, no, no.
I was the poster," and the motherturns around and like, "Damn
it, we are not doing Spartacus."
"I actually am trapped bybride Bridezilla 100%." oh.

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I do love, like, I, I have asoft spot for the Spartacus joke.
I don't know why.
It just cracks me up every time I see it.
It cracks me up.
I, I quite like the way that the118 are all, like, as the story
unfolds and they're, they get like,their eyes get wider and wider.
Like they're all wearing masks, soyou can't see their facial expression.
Yeah.
They just, uh, they look more and morelike, what the fuck is going on here?

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Yeah.
And as they leave, like Eddie's like,"good luck for the wedding," he said.
Yeah.
It's, it's ridiculous.
Yeah.
She's determined to, to go on withthe wedding and everyone else is
like, uh, "no, you kind of need togo to the hospital now." and I think
it kind of comes to her head whenshe realized the dress is all burnt.

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Yeah, she is.
Um, she is determined to go ahead becauseshe can just paint an eyebrow back on.
She can get her makeup fixed up.
But Bobby points out that thefire that burned the curtains
also burned up her dress.
And so her beautiful white lacedress is now, I think it's a
gorgeous gray, black kind of look.

(09:34):
Yeah.
It's not completely burned to a crisp.
No, I, I think it looks quite prettynow, but it's, it's not what she wanted.
And, uh, and her screams of horrorare, um, take us to the title
card and, and we finally finished.
And what was the point of this scene?
It wasn't, it's just.
It's simply because she was suspicious.

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She had suspicions.
It goes with the
theme.
She had suspicions.
That's, that's the entire point of it.
So after the title card, wego to the Wilson household.
Where did you remember thatHen went to med school?
Like she's studying to be a doctor.
'cause we haven't heardabout it for like ages.
That's right.
We haven't.
Except in this episode...
She's been busy committing crimes.

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She's been so busy, she hasn't studied,which is why she's now got Luis
and Sydney over to help her study.
'cause she hasn't studied all season.
I've forgotten about,uh, these two as well.
And when, when they popped up,I was like, oh, it's those guys.
That's right.
It's like they're, it's like thewriters got to the end of the

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season, they're like, shit, we'vestill gotta finish that storyline.
But
I mean, she has been studying, remembershe was walking around with that big
textbook a like a couple weeks ago?
Uh, yeah, true.
I forgot the, uh, the very, the veryprominent giant textbook that she
walks out into the living room with.

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Um,
yeah.
Anyway, they're, they're studying,they're having a discussion
about symptoms and diagnoses.
Uh, when Toni walks in and she'sgoing to a farmer's market, um,
apparently there are no kids.
So it's just the grow, which is excellentbecause then we don't have to worry

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about, um, Karen or Denny in this episode.
'cause they're off at Karen's brothers.
I'm sure they've got somethingto be suspicious about
too, but they're not here.
So
they've got their own suspicions.
But we're not, we're notworrying about those.
We
dunno.
Um, they couldn't afford,um, Karen this episode.
So she's just not here

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too much special effects, huh?
Well, there's not really special effects.
It's just makeup.
Anyway, we're getting ahead.
Getting ahead of ourselves.
Yeah, she's going to the farmer's market,she's gonna bring them back a treat.
Um, but as she walks out the door, herback, she kind of, this is cracking sound.
And she's like, "oh my back."And they're like, you okay?

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You okay?
She's like, "oh, my back's justacting up." But, um, she still
goes to the market and Hen justwatches her go looking very worried
From the Wilson House, we move overto the Bathena residence, where, um, I
could not remember the name of this game.
It's not charades?

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Is it Pictionary?
Yeah, I guess,
yeah.
She's drawing a picture, right?
No, but charades, you don't draw.
Was she drawing a picture?
Charades you just act it out.
You mime,
so it's whatever.
Yeah, whatever the game is where you drawpictures and have people try to guess.
Oh, then yeah, that's Pictionary.
That's Pictionary.
Honestly, I missed the start of thisscene and couldn't really going back, so

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yeah.
Cool.
Um, yes, the actual game, the actualgame of Pictionary, you have like a small
paper, like a pad, and you sit rightnext to your partner and you draw, like,
this is like a big, this is like Bobby's,
this is TV Pictionary because
this is Bobby's whiteboard thathe's repurposed into a, a flip, um,
pad thing that they can draw on it.

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And then there's more paper underneath.
Yeah.
No, I, I think it is just a whiteboard.
I have a feeling it's one of thosemagnetic whiteboards that you can draw
on and you can also like stick thingsto, but yes, I loved the reappearance
of the treasure hunt whiteboard.
Yeah.
But it sounds like they've beenusing it quite a lot because, um,
Michael apparently is always partneredwith Bobby when they play this.

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Isn't that so funny?
That's the thing.
It seems like they've beenplaying Pictionary for ages, but
Where's Bobby?
I need my partner.
Yeah.
And David's like, "Ithought I was your partner."
Yeah.
And Michael's like "You, likein life, you are my partner.
In this game, I need Bobby."
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, so yeah, so they'replaying Pictionary.

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The kids are kicking everybody's ass.
Um, Michael is poutingbecause he needs Bobby.
Um, David is pouting because Michaelneeds Bobby, Athena is telling
David, it's for your own good.
You do not wanna bepartnered with him, trust me.
Um, so the man of the hourcomes racing down the stairs.

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He has come from a lunch, um,which apparently ran late, um, and
a lunch with someone from workis what he said to Athena.
Yes, it went long.
So he is quite happy to jumpin and join them from the game.
He just has to take a shower first.
Yeah.
Which is,
and Athena's like "what?"
Very weird because like there's a showerat the firehouse, so I would assume

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generally he showers, gets changedinto his civvies and then comes home.
But it sounds like it's like hisoff shift, but, so he shouldn't
be at the firehouse and like whatkind of lunch is he having that
he needs to shower directly after
that he needs to shower.
Exactly.
Like it's super weird
that it's, it's suspicious.
Wouldn't you say?

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I don't have enoughalcohol with me for this.
Okay.
So we've set up Athena's storyline.
Let's get back to Toni, who has madeher way to the farmer's market and uh
does not really seem to appreciate thewonders of a Californian farmer's market.

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Nope.
She's, she's like sideeyeing every stall here.
She's like, pretty much the guy'strying to sell her, um, wheat grass.
She's clearly not usedto California at all.
No.
Um, "wheatgrass can cure justabout anything and can help people

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lose weight," and she tries itand she's like, "I'm pretty sure
I'd lose my appetite after this."
And you know, she goes on likedisparaging every other, vegan non GMO
thing in the whole farmer's market.
Yeah.
So it's vegan non GMO free fromwheat, gluten, dairy, egg and soy.
And she's like, "So what'sit made out of, air?" Like

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she's pretty funny in this scene actually.
She's very salty but very dry.
Very funny.
Yes.
Um, I actually dunno whatit, maybe it's almond?
What's that?
Is that the bakery?
Something that's vegan, non GMO Freefrom wheat, gluten, dairy, egg, and soy.
Like it can't be tofu 'cause tofu is soy.
It's, it's a, I'm gonna say it'd be bread,but it'd be like potato or rice flour.

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That would be the, the base of it.
How do you make bread without egg?
You can, it's not good,but you can you use
Yeah, it's basically just like water and,
um, there are other, it's usually soy.
Oh no.
It's free from soy.
Um,
yeah, that's what I mean.
I'm like,
she's got a point.
You can use other binders, but it,it, it just, it does not taste good.

(16:55):
Yeah.
No, but yeah, we, we have alot of, um, stuff made out
of almond flour 'cause we do
well al almond flour cakesand whatever are delicious.
Some can, yeah, some are.
It's heavy though.
Anyway, she gets to a fruit stallwhere they, they have durian, which,

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um, is the most stinky fruit thatyou have ever smelled in your life.
But actually some peoplethink it tastes really nice.
So I don't, I don't rememberif I've tried it or not.
I've definitely smelled it before I haventaste, but I dunno if I've tasted it.
I have neither tasted it nor smelled it.
So I am
Yeah, you don't want to.
I'm in the dark on

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it's, it's very smelly.
Uh, Toni has apparently, um, eithersmelled or tasted during and it's
not something she wishes to repeat.
So she's, after she asks the fruitbender, if they've got something,
um, a little more recognizable,um, like grapes or oranges.

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So the vendor directs her over to theend of the table where she's got, um,
like 45 different varieties of oranges.
But Toni's not listening.
She's kind of just staringoff into the distance and then
all of a sudden she collapses.
Yeah, so they call 9-1-1, but wedon't even get the 9-1-1 call.

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Um, no because go straightstraight to the hospital.
It'd probably be a boring 9-1-1 call.
It would be a very boring 9-1-1 call.
The oranges are falling, I dunno.
Oranges turned her orange?
Hen goes to the emergency room wherethey've got, um, Toni back in one of their
little examination cubicles, um, wherea very condescending white male doctor

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tells Hen that her mother just fainted.
Yeah, it was probably just vasovagal
and sometimes people just faint.
Um, I wanna mention too, that like thedoctor, the way that the doctor says it
is literally "Your mother experienceda freak syncopal episode, possibly
vasovagal," and Toni's just like "A what?"And Hen has to dumb it down for her.

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And the only reason to Hen knows is 'causeobviously she's in the medical field.
So like the doctor didn't even botherexplaining to Hen's mother what happened.
I mean, this doctor comes acrossas very jaded and kind of fed
up with his shift right now.

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Yeah.
Uh, Hen is suspicious.
Uh, she doesn't think thatany of that is correct and
there's something else going on.
She's pretty sure, but the doctorjust dismisses her basically.
It could, he's like, "It couldbe a number of different things."
Um, Hen wants an echo run, butthe doctor's just like, "nah.

(19:46):
Don't need it.
Um, talk to a primary carephysician about adjusting a rod,
the blood pressure medication.
Think about making some adjustments to adiet and could help, could help to lose
weight and stay off webMD." And like I,
To be fair, the, the stay offWebMD was aimed at Hen for the,
oh, you should run an echo.
Yeah.
Um, but if I was Hen I would've beenlike, actually I have this background.

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I would prefer... like always advocatebecause yes, you will get doctors
that brush you off and sometimesyou do know better and sometimes
you do have to advocate for yourself
or for someone else who's in your care.
Yes.
But then the rest of the storylinecouldn't happen if she like stood
up for herself now, the rest ofthe storyline wouldn't happen.
She wouldn't be able to later.
Yes.
But yes, if you feel likesomething's wrong, advocate,

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like I'm pretty sure I don't knowabout in the US but in Australian
hospitals, if you, if you do press fora particular thing, they have to do it.
Like I'm pretty sure that you can'tjust be brushed off like that.
Queensland actually has a law surrounding
Yeah, we have, um.
That you can invoke.
It's Ryan's rule.

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Ryan's rule.
That's right.
If you think something's wrong,you can push for it and um,
they have to investigate it.
But I guess there's the added layerof complexity in the US that um, if
you push for a test or a procedure andthe doctors are like going, it's not
indicated and you push for it anyway, theinsurance company could deny coverage.

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Yeah, yeah.
Just they'll go, well, the doctordidn't think it was necessary, so
we didn't think it was necessary,so we're not gonna pay for it.
And God knows how expensivethose kind of things are.
Mm, mm-hmm.
Thousands, I'm sure.
Yes.
Um, so we go to the Diaz household next
jump, jumping around a bitin this episode, aren't we?
There's a lot to set up.
Yeah.
A lot of people are suspicious.

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Everyone's suspicious of each other.
Pretty much.
Yeah.
Um, but this is cute becauseEddie is completely freaking out.
Um, he keeps arranging and rearrangingand fluffing the pillows on the
couch while his son and um, Analook watch on like he's gone crazy.

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I pretty sure he has gone crazy.
Pretty sure he has gone crazy,but it's quite adorable.
He wants everything to be perfect'cause it's been over a year.
Chris is very excited and
he's so excited
when there's a knock on thedoor and the doors opened.
It's Carla.
Yay.
I'm pretty sure would not careabout the position of the cushions.

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Absolutely not.
But it's so good to see Carla.
It's so good.
And Chris has obviously missed herbecause he immediately wraps her
in a hug and then Eddie immediatelyjust runs over and hugs her too.
I don't think she was expectingthat, but he's really missed her.
And Ana's just like sit standing acrossthe room going, what is happening?
Yeah.

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She is like, oh, uh,anybody gonna introduce me?
No, I'm just gonna standhere and watch you guys.
Okay.
I mean, I'm sure theytold her who Carla is.
Yeah.
Well they had to make the cake.
Yeah, that too.
Anyway, they have a lovely, um, dinner.

(23:04):
Yeah.
So Ana's cooked, and when she triesto clean up, Carla tries to clean up
and Chris just yells, "you can't goin the kitchen." Carla's like, okay.
It's, it's, sorry.
It's,
I adore Gavin's line readings sometimes.
It's very much,
it's so funny.
He's very shouting at her.
"You can't go in the kitchen."

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It's very much like 8-year-old boyor whatever he is supposed to be.
Just like, no, you can't goin the kitchen's, like shit.
Okay.
Sorry.
So Ana and Chris disappearinto the kitchen, leaving
Eddie and Carla to catch up.
Um, and it's a, a pretty quick catch up.
Eddie tells Carla that he's reallysorry about her father, which is why

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she's been gone, gone for so long.
Carla is sorry that she hasbeen gone for so long, um, and
they're both like, no, no, no.
Everything's cool.
You are where you're supposed to be.
We understand.
No, it's fine.
No, it's fine.
No, it's fine.
No, it's fine.
Yeah.
Okay.
We get it.
There's no hard feelings.
It's all good.
And then topic of conversationturns to Christopher.
Like, Christopher lookslike he's doing well.

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Eddie's like, "yep. He's, you know,almost back to his happy self and he
loves having Ana around." Except forsome reason in this episode, Ryan
has decided he's gonna go with theAmerican pronunciation of her name.
Oh.
Yeah, so if you remember... I thinkwe mentioned the first episode
that Ana was in where we couldn'tdecide how to pronounce it.

(24:29):
Yes.
And apparently it's because Eddiecan't decide how to pronounce it.
It's because Eddie doesn'tknow how to pronounce it.
So he pronounces it differentevery time he fucking says it.
I'm wondering if it's becausehe's got Cocoa on the scene with
him and she calls him, she callsher Anna so Ryan calls her Anna.
But when he's talking to her on herown or he is talking to someone else,

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he'll use the La Latina pronunciation.
Yeah, Latina.
But the, remember the scene thatI watched was like to check.
It was just, yeah, Eddie and Ana, andhe still pronounced the Ana and I was
just like, what the fuck is happening?
Anyway, so Eddie doesn'tknow what he's doing.
Ryan, Ryan doesn't knowwhat the fuck he's doing.
I'm gonna stick with the Latinapronunciation 'cause I think

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that's like, that's her name.
Yeah.
So.
Uh, Ms. Flores is, let'sjust go with Ms. Flores.
Carla asks about how Eddie feelsabout young Ms. Flores and Eddie's
like, "Yeah, it's nice. It's easy."
It's like, that's... okay.
Yep.
That's, um, yeah,

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that's not exactly, um, like aringing endorsement or a, you know,
massive, a romantic declaration.
Um, it, it's nice.
Really?
Yeah.
Be careful how loud you saythat because if she, she's
just in the other room, like,
yeah, I know.
She's like, what the fuck?
Um, yeah, and Carla, like,Carla gets it straight away.

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Carla says that.
Yes, she is nice.
She actually says that she's lovely.
Um, but just
Even Carla's nicer to Ana than Eddie
it's just, "but just make surethat you are following your heart,
not Christopher's." And like,I understand what she means.
She's like, just don't stick with thiswoman because it makes your son happy.

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But I'm putting my clown makeup on andI'm like, Carla, what do you mean by that?
Like, what do you mean your, whatdo you mean follow his heart?
It's,
I'm gonna take the makeup off now.
Are you channeling that one episode inSupernatural where Buck's mum tells, um,
Buck's, mother

(26:41):
Buck's mum tells Dean to follow his heart.
Um, yeah.
And also Eddie goes, oh, we had thistreasure hunt thing and Ana wasn't
around when I needed her, so, you know,I had to go and like, make some deal
with Taylor Kelly and it was shit.
Buck and Taylor Kelly were flirting and itmade me angry for reasons I can't explain.
Yeah.

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Uh, but before Carla can explain whatthe hell she's talking about, Chris
and Ana appear with two cakes, birthdaycakes for Carla because they missed
Carla's birthday for the last two years.
So they're making up for it.
Aw.
So while Carla is freaking out over howsweet that is and the disturbing number

(27:23):
of candles that are on the cake, um,
there are a lot of candles.
There are a lot of candles.
As Carla says, it's a good thingthere's a firefighter in the house.
Yes.
Um, Eddie is watching Ana and Christogether, and at first he's just
like this, got this smile on hisface like, oh, isn't that cute?
You know how much Chris loves her,how much she loves him, and then you

(27:44):
just see the smile slip from his face.
It's like, oh,
he just realized maybe he doesn'tlike her as much as Chris does.
Yeah.
Oh, that's harsh.
And
then we go to poor Maddie.
We do go to poor Maddie.
Oh, Maddie is, who is dissociatingin the break room at work.

(28:06):
Yes, she is at work.
She is on what Sue says isher third cup of coffee.
Not that she's counting,
um, not that Sue's counting.
Um, and we find out that as exhaustedas Chim and Maddie were in the
first few weeks of Jee'S life, it'sramped up exponentially because now

(28:27):
it appears that Jee has colic andMaddie is getting absolutely no sleep
because she cannot put Jee down.
I, I had, I had one of those as well.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Yeah, but it wasn't, I don't, itwasn't this bad, I don't think.
Like she would cry from about fiveto eight o'clock every evening.

(28:53):
Um, just nothing you could do wouldcalm her down and, but she did sleep
during the night some of the time.
Like, I don't remember how muchsleep I was getting at that point,
but it's probably not a lot.
But
Were you back at work then too?
No, absolutely not.
This was while I was on maternity leave.
Yeah.
That helps as well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's the other thing.

(29:15):
So, and the, the weird, the,the thing with colic is that no
one actually knows what it is.
It's just a label that they stickon babies who are inconsolable
and you can't put them down.
It, it's not an actual medicalcondition as far as I'm aware.
It's just like sad baby disease.
It's just we don't know what's wrongwith them, so we're just gonna call
it colic and you're just gonna haveto deal with it until they outgrow it.

(29:38):
Mm-hmm.
Um, which is apparently what hashappened in this case, the doctor
has gone, it's just colic, which iscode for, I don't know what's wrong
with her, but I can't tell you that.
I dunno what's wrong with her, but.
As much as Maddie's exhaustion andMaddie's distress is not just because
she's not sleeping and Jee's notsleeping, it's that she feels that
there's something seriously wrong withJee because it's the way that she cries.

(30:02):
So that's interesting.
I just looked it up because I was curious'cause I have horses and not babies.
Yeah.
Horses get colic.
Colic in horses is an abdominal issue.
Yeah.
Um, whereas yeah, colic inbabies is literally just, uh,
yeah.
So, yeah.
Interesting.
I I assumed that like colic in babies wasthe same sort of thing in colic and Nope.

(30:23):
I I always thought it, it was somekind of digestive thing, but that
they just slap that label on anumber of things it sounds like.
Yes.
Like anything that theydon't really know what it is.
They just assume thatit's a digestive problem,
but Yeah.
'cause colic can kill horsesand I was just like, and I,
yes.
This whole time I've been like,oh my God, the poor dying babies.
Why is no one more concerned about this?

(30:44):
Yeah, no.
Apparently it's just 'causethey're crying a lot.
Yeah.
Which like fair.
Same.
So now that we've planted that littleseed, um, Maddie is gonna get to
work and she's gonna take a phonecall from a young boy named Charlie.
Um, he is at the Regal Point apartmentsand his mother is stuck and he

(31:05):
can't go help her because he's sickand he can't leave the apartment.
And when he says that she's stuck,she's literally fallen through
her the balcony and she's stuck.
Yeah, that's weird
hanging chest deep in thebalcony legs swinging underneath.
Yeah.
Actually it's funny in this scene,um, I was watching it again the other

(31:26):
day and my husband walked in the roomand saw this woman in, 'cause the
way the balcony is like, it's got,looks like it's got paving on it.
Like it's got.
Like around her is like pavers kindof thing, and he's like, mm-hmm.
Did did she get buriedin the, in the road?
Like how was she stuck in the Oh no,it's a balcony and like the, the next

(31:46):
scene is her legs dangling underneath it.
He's like, oh, okay.
Just looked like shewas buried in the road.
Yeah.
Anyway, yeah, the, the 118 roll upand they get, um, up there via ladder.
They can't go up the inside the building.
Uh, they directly go from the outside.
So this is, this is reallyfunny actually, I like this,

(32:07):
but then they need an excuse.
They need an excuse toroll out the ladder truck.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I love this because Buck getsup there and, um, he's going under
like to the balcony below um,Sheila, who's the, the woman's name,
she actually gets named Hooray.
Um, I mean, I dunno if we'reyay about that because we don't
actually like Sheila in the end.
But anyway,

(32:28):
Buck, Buck sort of starts climbingonto this balcony, but then this
dude comes out of the apartment.
And he doesn't even realize at firstbecause he is wearing earphones
and, and um, he sort of looks upand Buck's there and he is like,
he doesn't even say anything.
Buck just goes, "um, sir can weuse your balcony?" And the guy,
it's to help her.

(32:49):
Just to help her.
Yeah.
He looks up
and it's just legs,
"Sheila?"
and he's like, "okay, I'mgonna go cook inside." So
yeah, 'cause he is, he's got abarbecue or a grill out on the balcony.
He's intending to grill some hot dogs.
Um, although we get a shot fromwhen Sheila first goes through the

(33:09):
balcony and that the debris from thebalcony has fallen onto the grill.
So how did this guy not noticethat there were big chunks of rock
on his grill before he noticed?
Don't know.
Anyway.
I wasn't paying attention.
That's fine.
There's so much in thisfair that's for the drama.
But
to be fair, my dad, like I. I gotMum to pick me up like a slab of

(33:31):
bottles bottled water the other day.
And I went to collect it from thehouse and Mum's just like, no, no,
your dad already brought it down.
Could not find it anywhere.
Literally looked everywhere.
This is the morning that I hadto get up at 4:00 AM mm-hmm.
So I'd had like nosleep, could not find it.
The next morning I walked out, Iwas literally just outside my door.
Oh.
Like to the point where I waslike, dad, when did you bring that?
And he is like, when it got home,like, you know, um, Thursday

(33:55):
afternoon and I'm like, oh yeah, okay.
Could not.
So it's been sitting there outsidethe door for all this time.
So you're saying,
so I don't blame him at all.
You're saying hisobliviousness is not, um,
yeah.
Okay, cool.
Totally, totally.
Um, feel that.
Right.
So with, um, Buck and Bobby on the balconyunderneath Sheila, Eddie is then cleared.

(34:15):
They repositioned the ladder, um,and they sent him up to Sheila's
balcony so that he can secure her.
So he climbs up and thenJoey Tribbianis her.
He's like, "Hey, how you doing?"
He's very, uh, chipper actually.
Are, is he actively flirting with her?
It does sound quite flirty
because Sheila responds like,you know, I know I put on a few

(34:38):
pounds in over quarantine, butI didn't think it was that bad.
And Eddie's like, yeah, from thelooks of you, I don't think you
have anything to worry about.
I'm like, sir,
it's very flirty.
He just, okay, good.
Because I thought I was realized crazy.
Realized he doesn't actuallylike Ana all that much.
So you know, now he can turn thecharm on with everybody else.
Right?
Because I wasn't sure whether this islike Eddie, just Eddie is not Buck,

(35:02):
like Buck flirts with everything thatmoves and it's not actively flirting.
That's just Buck's personality.
Eddie has to work for it to be flirty'cause he doesn't know how to flirt.
He's terrible with women.
So this is such an interesting scenethat suddenly he's like oozing charm.
Yeah, he's very charming.
So he is going to secureSheila with the rescue strap.

(35:25):
And Buck and Bobby underneath have likethis sheet of plywood ready to catch
her if the balcony does give way andshe slips through the rescue strap.
But Eddie,
uh, I'm not sure how effectivethat would be if she fell through.
Like wouldn't.
Yeah.
Anyway.
It's for the drama.
It's fine.

(35:46):
Totally fine.
Yeah.
We are not, actually, we're notworried about Sheila at this point.
Sheila is not the important thing.
The important thing is Charliewho is watching all this
from inside the apartment.
So, um, they, he gets Sheila secured.
He promises her that she's not gonnafall, but he has to leave her for

(36:10):
a minute and let the paramedics in.
So he climbs into the apartment,says hi to Charlie, and then
goes to let Hen and Chim in.
Hen's got the medical equipment.
Chim's got like planks of plywood,so that they can build a, a frame
around Sheila and the balcony andshore up and an little extra support.

(36:32):
Yeah.
I guess they must have worked outthat the actual, it's just the floor
of the balcony that's the problem.
And not the actual whole balconyis about to fall off, you know?
Yeah.
Otherwise they wouldn't bother with that.
Yeah.
I think they've determined, Eddie'sdetermined that the, the slats are
rotted away like water damage ortermites for whatever ever reason,

(36:52):
but the, the structural integrityof the balcony itself is fine.
Yeah.
Um, so Buck and Eddie get hooked upto safety harnesses and safety ropes.
They go out, they start chipping awayat the hole so that they can widen it
so that they can lift Sheila up andout and get her into the apartment

(37:13):
so that they can, um, assess her.
Yeah, because Chim's noticed that she'ssort of actively bleeding from her
legs and they can't do anything aboutthose wounds until they get her inside.
Which they do.
Yeah.
They, they pull her up.
Um, be awkward otherwise,
otherwise, Eddie is very charming again.

(37:34):
He's like, "oh, just put yourarms around my neck. Oh, I got
you. It's gonna be okay." She'sjust looking at him going, okay.
He literally princess carries herinto the apartment and lays her
down on the gurney, like, yeah.
So once she's on the gurney, theynotice the wounds on her leg.
She's got a pretty deep gash on herthigh that's gonna need stitches,

(37:54):
which means that she has to godown to the hospital and Sheila
starts to freak out a little bit.
She can't go to the hospital,um, because she has Charlie.
And Bobby's immediately like,"oh cool, he can, he can ride
along in the truck with us."
That's fine.
She's like, "no, no, no.
He can't leave the apartment.
He's got an autoimmune disease.
The hospital is the worst place for him.
Um, I don't have anyone to stay with him.
I can't go," and Eddie's like, "I'll stay.

(38:16):
I got a kid around Charlie'sage, we'll hang out.
We'll be fine."
Yeah.
She was like, no.
Carla came back like 30 secondsago and he's already just like,
yeah, I've just adopted this child.
Um, can you just stay with Chris?
Bobby seems completely okay withlosing one of his firefighters too.
So they wheel a protesting,um, Sheila out and Eddie stays

(38:39):
behind to and like busy work.
He's gonna unhook all of the safetyropes and bonding moment with Charlie.
Asks Charlie if he wants to help.
Charlie looks absolutely chuffedto be asked to do something.
Yeah.
All right, so in the meantime we're gonnago back to the Bathena residence where
Athena is doing the laundry and she picksup, um, Bobby's shirt from the dirty

(39:05):
clothes basket, and she like smells itbecause I, I think, I'm guessing that she
must have been suspicious about the factthat he like... suspicious have a drink.
Um, she, that he needed a shower assoon as he got home the other day.
No, I think, I think with this,it's like she grabs the hamper and
as she's sort of picking it up andwalking at, she smells something.

(39:26):
'cause there's a momentwhere she picks it up.
Yeah.
Think she already smell it.
Yeah.
And she goes, goes, Ooh.
And then so she starts going throughand sniffing all of the shirts to figure
out what it is like which one it is thatsmells, and then she finds that shirt
that Bobby was wearing and sniffs thatit's like, oh Jesus, it's that one.
Yeah.
Um, and then immediately calls herex-husband because of course you do.

(39:47):
And we find out that the,the shirt reeked of bourbon.
Yeah.
Not ideal for a. Um, recovering alcoholic
and yeah, she's worried about him again.
And Michael is like, "I've gotta say, noneof this sounds like the Bobby I know."
And it's like, wait a minute, Michael,whose husband are we talking about here?

(40:08):
Michael and Bobby are verybesties in this episode,
very besties.
Like David, who,
poor David.
It's his turn to be friend zoned.
She puts two and two together and, uh,you know, remembers the crash where Bobby
was affected by the fact that this womandid it because she was drunk driving.

(40:32):
She's like, "oh, what if, whatif he's had that one bad day and
gone back to drinking again?"
Michael doesn't seem convinced, but I, Ithink Athena's got the, got the thought in
her head now, so we know what she's like.
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
So now, um, Eddie has just made himselfright at home in this apartment.

(40:52):
He's, he's like cooked food for, um,for, uh, what's the kid's name again?
Charlie.
Charlie.
And, and then he's like FaceTimingwith, with Carla and um, Chris,
so that, um, Charlie and Chriscan have a little, you know, chat.
Well later on we find out thatthere, I dunno that there was a

(41:14):
television in the, in the houseor any kind of computer games.
So Eddie was probably at a loss withwhat to actually do with the kid.
Yeah, I'm sure he was so bored.
He's like, you know, I'll justthrow my kid at you and you
two can entertain each other.
Yeah.
Which is, um, kind of adorable becausewe get, um, we get the, the idea that

(41:36):
once again Eddie is a terrible cook.
Um, because Charlie tells Christhat his mom is a terrible cook.
But your dad's great.
And Chris is immediately like,
yeah, how bad is his mom at cooking?
But, but he thinksEddie's cooking is great.
Yeah.
Um,
because it makes him sick all the time.
Chris has just gone, Chris has just gone,"Wait, did he order you takeout?" Carla's

(42:01):
like, "I was thinking the same thing."Eddie's like, "Hey, I am right here.
I can hear you."
so then Charlie accidentallyknocks over a glass of water on
the table and Eddie jumps up tograb paper towels to clean it up.
Um, apparently when he was makinghimself at home in the kitchen and going
through this woman's fridge and pantry,um, he didn't find any paper towels.

(42:23):
So he is at a loss.
Charlie points him in the right directionand we get a very obvious shot of Eddie
opening the cupboard and there's thisstack of tiny little bottles and then.
We cut to the front of those tiny littlebottles where it says, Sight Saved on

(42:44):
the front of all the tiny little bottles.
And then Eddie finds the paper towels,
big neon signs.
They're, they are not, they're absolutelynot subtle in this episode at all.
Big flashing, neon signsabout everything going on.
It's fine.
She just has a lot of contact lenses,
but she keeps them in the kitchen?

(43:06):
Like, I remember when I had contacts, Idid not keep my eyedrops in the kitchen.
They were in the bathroom.
It's suspicious.
But Charlie, Charlie doesn'tnotice the big flashing, neon
signs and like, uh, warning.
Warning that's going on in the kitchen.
Neither does Eddie.
Um, he's still chatting.
He's still chatting with Charlie,uh, with, um, Chris and Carla's.

(43:28):
Too many C-names in this, in this scene.
Um, Carla's making.
Car's making small talk and askingwhat school Charlie goes to.
Charlie's like, "I don't go to school'cause I'm too sick to go to school. Um,
you know, I, I only ever really leavethe house for doctor's appointments."
And Chris was like, "ohyeah, I I totally feel that.

(43:48):
What kind of doctor?
I get that too." AndCharlie's like, "I don't know.
We, we were always going to see newones." Eddie's checked back into the
conversation at this point and he'slike, "oh, that sounds expensive.
What does your mom do for work?"And Charlie's like, uh, we just
get money from GoFundMe pages
pretty much,
except it's, they're called "FundMe" pages, not GoFundMe, because,

(44:11):
um, the show doesn't wanna get sued.
Yeah, yeah.
Especially considering whatthey then imply about the,
the GoFundMe pages later on.
Um, but before Eddie can inquire anymore about Charlie and his doctors and
these GoFundMe pages, Sheila walks in.
Yeah, that was quick.
And I can imagine she, I can imagine she'sbeen chomping at the bit to get outta

(44:33):
the hospital and get back to Charlie.
Yeah.
I mean she wasn't really injured.
Yeah.
I feel like as soon as they finished thelast stitch, she, she was out of that,
ran out and they were like, uh, what?
Yeah.
I mean the only, the only injury she hadwas like that cut on her leg I guess.
And once they patched her up shewas probably like, okay, bye.
Yep.
Um, she notices that there's food onthe table and she's like, "oh, you

(44:59):
cooked." She does not look at all happy.
And Eddie's like, "Yeah, I'm just tryingto help out." Um, she's like, "no,
Charlie has a very sensitive stomach."And Charlie goes, "I don't feel sick
at all after eating Eddie's food."
It's like, ow.
Thanks kid.

(45:21):
I'll mention this bitjust 'cause it's adorable.
He, he then, uh, points to thephone that he's talking to.
Um.
Christopher and Carla on.
He's like, "This is my new friendChristopher." And then Christopher's line
is literally, it's, "hi, Charlie's mom.
Bye.
Charlie's mom.
Bye Charlie.
Bye dad." Like all in one sentence,

(45:41):
which is very cute.
Yeah.
Um, Charlie thinks Christopher issuper cool and wants to know if
he can hang out with him sometime.
And Sheila does that like, "uh,we'll see," which like every kid
who's ever heard their parentssay that knows that means no.
Yeah.
That's a no.
Yeah.
And Eddie's like, that's suspicious.

(46:04):
That's weird.
Well, I don't know if he's like suspiciousat this point, but he's like thinking
that, that's really kind of sad.
But the, the episode is suspicious,so everyone has to be suspicious.
I don't think he's suspiciousuntil later when Ana is suspicious.
I'm, I'm applying some kindof suspicion at this point.

(46:27):
Okay.
Alright.
Only because his kid is so awesome.
He's like, why wouldn't youwant your kid to hang out?
Yeah.
How dare you?
My kid's awesome.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Literally like, oh, isis it because he has CP?
'Cause like, fuck you.
Is it because I came into your house andused your kitchen without your permission?

(46:47):
Like I'm just trying to help.
Is it 'cause I literally threwyou out of your own house.
Yeah.
And stole your child istotally normal, you know?
Yeah.
Suspicious.
Don't be suspicious.
Don't, don't be suspicious.
Okay.
Um, we are, I dunno when I, there isno time markers in this episode, so at.

(47:14):
Some point during the day we go backto the station house where Hen looks
like she's supposed to be studying'cause she's in med school, remember?
She's studying for med school.
Is she in med school?
Oh yeah, that's right.
We haven't, we haven'tspoken about it for so long.
But she is, uh, also on thephone talking to her mother.
Yeah, she's not nagging, she'sjust checking in and her but, um,

(47:37):
phone, her mom hangs up on her.
I guess she's sick of the nagging.
So Chim joins Hen over on the couches andum, asks how she's doing with everything.
And Hen says that she's a littlebit freaked out 'cause she doesn't
know what's wrong with Toni.
Chim's like, "well, maybe youshould take her to a specialist."

(47:59):
and Hen's like, "yeah, loveto, but you need to know which
specialist to take her to.
And the specialist is dictatedby what's wrong with her.
I don't know what's wrong with her.
Therefore, I don't know whichspecialist to take her to.
The doctor that we sawat the ER was no help.
'cause he just dismissed us." And Chim'slike, "Yeah, you know what it's like in
the ER." And Hen's like, gives him a look.

(48:20):
And he's like, "Oh no, no, I'm,I'm not defending him at all. I'm
sure he was a horrible doctor.Absolutely dismissive of you."
Yeah.
And Hen says that he barely acknowledgedus and he acted as though we, I
offended him, like, how dare you.
But, um, but yeah, "maybe ourexperience would've been different
if he'd looked more like us."

(48:41):
But, um, then Chim reveals that when hismom was sick, he was a 12-year-old Korean
boy translating for his sick mother.
So he gets it.
I do find this scene a littlebit clunky, like I understand
what they're trying to say.
And it's not even what they're tryingto say because they flat out say it

(49:04):
in like the worst dialogue possible.
Yeah.
With "That's why people like you andme can't put our trust in doctors
because they don't trust us." Yeah.
Like, oh, I mean, yes.
But who wrote this episode?
Did I find, did I figureout who wrote this episode?
It was Andrew Myers and Lindsay Beaulieu.

(49:25):
Oh really?
Yeah.
Usually they're prettygood at this same stuff.
Damn, that's disappointing.
Chim does a very awkward segueinto the next scene by saying that
what Hen needs are some brilliantmedical minds to bounce ideas off of.
And Hen's like, "Yeah, where am Igonna find those brilliant medical

(49:46):
minds?" Chim's like, "I'm pretty sureyou already know them." And hands up.
Yeah.
Chim's like, you're in med school.
I know we've all forgotten, butyou are actually in med school.
So the next scene, we are backat the Wilson household where
the Three Musketeers are goingto try and diagnose Toni.
And it looks like they've grabbed Bobby'swhiteboard from the Bathena residence.

(50:09):
Oh yeah.
Oh, Bobby's being shifty.
So Athena just gave it to Hen.
She's like, fuck this guy.
Take his whiteboard.
Oh, someone does actually saythe word suspicion in the,
this is the index of suspicion.
They're gonna try and work out what'swrong with her by going through a bunch

(50:30):
of different things, um, and looking themup in their textbooks, which is almost for
not quite the same thing as Dr. Google.
It's literally just Googling it exceptlonger because they can't even control f
Yeah.
They have to look in the index.
So it's pretentious Googling.
Yeah, basically
because they're in med school.

(50:50):
I mean, they are probably slightlymore educated than the rest of us
plebs because they actually havedone a bit of medical schooling.
But, but um,
I'd say it would be worse because theyhave access to, um, 'cause Google's
gonna point you to the, the mostobvious, um, and the most logical
explanation, whereas they've got thatentire textbook so they can go right

(51:13):
beyond the horses and find the zebra.
Um, whereas Google's notgonna point you to the zebras.
I now that Google AI is a thing though,Google AI is just like, yeah, you've
probably got a motherboard issue.
But the funniest thing is thatthey're doing all this with
Toni in the room with them.
And she just keeps making,uh, snarky comments.

(51:37):
Oh, her eyes are rolling so hard.
Like, uh, Luis presents patienthistory, 62-year-old female presents
with dizziness and intimate back pain.
Patient has history of highblood pressure and smoking.
Toni's like, "I haven't smoked a cigarettesince before Henrietta was born."
And Sydney's like, "it still counts."
Yep.
Still goes in the history.

(51:59):
Uh, they've somehow have a blood pressuremachine, um, and they're checking Toni's
blood pressure, which is a little bitelevated that could be caused by stress.
Um, and Hen's like, "okay, sowhy would she be stressed?"
And Toni's like, "I don't know. Maybebecause you keep referring to me as she?"
I do like the snark in the scene.

(52:19):
It's great.
It's, it's so cute.
There's like,
I do like Toni.
Yeah.
Um, Luis has a crazy thought thatperhaps the symptoms are, uh,
indicative of Huntington's disease.
And so Sydney asks Toniwhether she's experienced any
other loss of motor function.
And Toni's like, "I did my nailsthis morning," and she shows Sydney.
"I think I did a pretty good job."

(52:41):
Yeah.
Yeah.
They were actually really nice.
They've got like a patternon them, everything,
which is very, very, very indicative ofher having very good fine motor functions.
So it's not Huntington's at this point,
but they like cross a wholebunch of stuff off the list
and remove all their post-its.
It's the full on House MD sort of scene.

(53:03):
And they do reference lupus.
They do reference lupus.
Um, I was very happy about it.
Um, also Lyme disease, which was alsothe thing that was most common in House.
Oh, Ellen's not a House MD fan?
No, I haven't watched any of it.
What?
Oh my God.

(53:23):
Get on the Hillson train.
I don't really do medicalshows apart from this one.
It's like me being like,I don't watch cop shows.
And Bex being like, you're literallyactively watching The Shield
right now, like we're recordingand you haven't turned it off.
Um, but despite them having crossed offeverything, um, from like anemia through

(53:45):
lupus and Lyme disease, when Toni getsup, she, they don't, they haven't figured
out what's wrong with her and when shegets up to leave, she collapses again.
But this time,
this time Hen's got her magical powers.
Yes.
And she immediately starts checkingToni's abdomen and picks up a pulsating

(54:07):
sensation around her navel that isdefinitely cardiac and assumes that
it is, it is her abdominal a aorta.
That's it.
That's a mouthful.
Mm-hmm.
Um,
yep.
And so abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Yeah.
So Sydney has apparently picked upHen's magical diagnosing skills as well.

(54:28):
Um, or maybe just becauseshe's super smart.
Um, she immediately goes to aaa, which isan aneurysm of the abdominal, um, aorta.
And they gotta get her to the hospital
because if that aortaruptures, it's like, game over.
Yeah.
Yep.
Bye-Bye Toni.
But before they take her to thehospital, we have to stop in at

(54:50):
the Madney apartment where Chim'sarriving home from shift somewhere.
I don't know.
Time doesn't make sense in this episode.
Um, and all he can hear is Jee-Yun crying.
Oh, this, the cuts in this sceneare really, was strange as well
because she, uh, Maddie picks up.

(55:10):
Obviously the the baby doll.
The baby doll.
Yep.
And then, and then the cut is like, toher holding the real baby because the
baby is like wriggling around and stuff.
It's like really awkwardly done.
I like how they let Oliver Stark rundown some stairs with a real baby.
And then, um, JenniferLove Hewitt is acting tired

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who has children,
and they're like, no, you're not allowedto lift this child up from the cot.
Let's give you a baby doll.
Yeah, they will, they willgive Oliver a real child.
But the woman, and he has not, doesn'thave kids, yet the woman who's like
got two kids probably pregnant witha third at this point, she's not
allowed to, to handle the real baby.
Maybe they had to reshoot

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unacceptable.
They had to reshoot thatparticular shot after that real
baby had gone home or something.
I don't know.
It's, it's very obvious.
It's a very weird cut.
And to put sort of salt onMaddie's wounds, she immediately
eets the baby at Chim.
And Gian pretty much immediatelystarts crying, stops crying.

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Poor Maddie.
Maddie looks very frazzled.
Yeah.
Again, I think it's not justthe, the lack of sleep, um, it's
the, or the, the constant crying.
It's the, the frustration that she reallyfeels that something is wrong with Jee
and she just doesn't know how to help her.

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She's gonna go hop in theshower to collect her thoughts,
drown her, drown herself inthe shower while she can.
So she leaves, she leaves Jee withChim, but she does sort of linger in
the corner to watch them together.
Um, Chim is very good with the baby.
It's really cute.
I think the scene's got like the longestwe've actually seen the real baby.

(56:56):
Because, because you can see whenKenny is holding the real baby
because it, it jiggles around.
You know how the other day we waslike, a couple weeks ago, we was
saying that the baby doll doesn't move?
So.
It doesn't look realisticbecause it's just really still.
Yes.
But yeah, this bundle is actuallywriggling around as he's holding.

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So,
and he's holding it as ifhe's holding a real baby.
There is weight to andintention to his, his posture.
Yep.
I can't unsee it now.
It's like me and the damn coffee cups.
Yeah.
Yes.
So after that little, uh, baby interlude,which I'm guessing was just to fill

(57:39):
in time while Hen got Toni to thehospital, um, we are at the hospital
and Luis and Sydney have joined Hen.
Luis steals a wheelchairfrom a, a, a nurse.
They get.
Toni,
this is a really weird scene.
I didn't quite get it.
Hen and Luis wheel Toni past reception.

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While Sydney plays interference,she distracts the distracting.
It's weird.
So they can get Toni straightthrough into, um, the emergency, like
behind the doors where you actually,you know, see the patients, I'm
guessing so they can bypass triage.
Yeah.
I feel like this is a goodway to get yourself thrown

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out of the hospital, but, um,
yeah, it's very strange.
I don't know.
I didn't like this scene.
It gets even stranger becausethey get into the emergency part
where they're actually seeingpatients and Hen like immediately
snaps into like paramedic mode.
She's like, I've got, she gives the,um, history and the symptoms and demands

(58:43):
that they get an electrocardiogram andthe nurse is looking at her going like,
because Hen's in civvies, um, she's gotwhat looks like a teenage boy next to her.
Um, and she's like,what the, what the fuck?
And the teenage boys islike, "hello? You heard her."
Which snaps the nurse like, yes sir. Rightaway, sir. And they run off to find an an

(59:04):
echocardiogram, which apparently they do.
They allow him to stay in the hospitalinstead of like yeeting her out.
Yeah.
Or calling security on her.
And it's the same doctor that sawher in the ER that saw Toni in the ER
earlier who is now having to eat hiswords because the echo and the EKG

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did in fact show a, a triple A andToni is being prepped for surgery.
She's a little bit dying.
It's fine.
And so Hen tells the doctor, um, like heasks if she's got, you know, the surgical
team will come and answer any questionsand Hen's like, "well, hopefully they do

(59:45):
a better job than you did the other day."And he's just like, "I, excuse me?" But
she basically tells him that he's crap.
You know, you, "if I hadn't broughther back in, you know, she could
have died like you sent us home."And he's like, "look, I'm sorry I
missed it." Hen just tells him off.

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But he says, "What would you haveme do differently?" And she says,
"Believe them when they tellyou that something is wrong."
Which is definitely aproblem all around the world.
And not just here.
But doctors are very dismissive,especially women in general.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yes.
Medical misogyny is real.
And I can imagine that medical misogynyfor black women is even worse than it is.

(01:00:30):
Mm-hmm.
For white women.
All right.
We are going back to the Diaz houseold where uh, Christopher is going
through all of his stuff because hewants to give some of it to Charlie.
Yes.
Um, because they don't,he didn't have a tv.
Um, and they're gonna give him a bunch ofbooks and toys, so he's got something to

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do, even though he looks like he's about,well, he looks like he's older than Chris.
He does look like he's older than Chris.
I do love that Chris is just like, no tv?
He really does need our help.
Yeah.
So while Carla and Chris work on packingthe donations, um, Ana comes in and calls

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Eddie away because she has somethingthat she needs to talk to him about.
And what she needs to talk to him aboutis that she looked up the GoFundMe pages.
I'm just gonna call it GoFundMe'cause that's immediately
where my brain is going.
Yeah.
It's just GoFundMe.
They call it FundMe as ifthat's hiding it at all.
Um, she was looking up the GoFundMepages for Sheila and Charlie because

(01:01:35):
she wanted to make a donation, maybelike spread the word to sort of boost
so that other people could donate.
Um, but she now thinks that thereis something wrong with this woman.
And Eddie gets so defensive, he'slike, you haven't even met her.
And Ana's like, no, but I found somestuff online and I think she lied to you.

(01:01:57):
At least Ana knows how to use Google.
Well, she wasn't the one wholike locked all of the electronic
devices in a Faraday cage aftera coffee machine um, scared her.
So.
Exactly.
So a little bit later, Carla has joined,um, Eddie and Ana in the kitchen as they
go through the multiple GoFundMe pagesthat Ana has found for Sheila and Charlie.

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There are, there's one for themwith the surname Burns in El Paso.
There's one for them withthe surname Young in Phoenix.
It's the same kid, but differentlast name in different cities.
And then they start reading thecomments on the GoFundMe page.
And this is what kind of clues Eddieinto something that Ana is right, that

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there is something very wrong becausethe comments are, this woman is a
fraud and a scammer don't trust her.
Or she's a con artist lookingfor money and attention.
And then there's one comment thatcatches his eye, which is, "I
think she's making her kids sick."
And then he slams the laptop shut.
'cause he is very dramatic.
Yeah.
And at the end of the scene,

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He's he's a,
he's a dramatic bitch.
Um, and before they cut away,
um, you see like Ana's hand, like onhis shoulder, like she's, uh, you
know, comforting him kind of thing.
It's like,
she's like, I'm sorry, yournew girlfriend is crazy.
I'm sorry you thought you were,you were helping this person.

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And they turned out tobe, you know, a scammer.
So while Eddie's getting his heartbroken, Bobby's doing the dishes.
Back to the other dramatic bitches.
At the Bathena residence.
Um, and I I do love that, that in the9-1-1 universe, it is well established
that if you cook, you don't do the dishes.

(01:03:48):
Yeah.
Because this is the second time thatit's in this episode alone that somebody
can't bring, comes up with the, youdon't, you don't need to clean or you
shouldn't be cleaning because you cooked.
This time it's Athena to Bobby.
You cooked, you shouldn'tbe doing the dishes.
And Bobby's like, eh, no, that's okay.
I'm trying to avoid you, so I'mgonna like hang out in the kitchen.

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You think I'm joking, but I'm notbecause Athena says, "how about we
have a movie night," and Bobby's like,"ah, I think I'm just gonna go to bed."
Yeah.
And now if like, Athena,
now Athena is actually really suspicious.
Athena is like, I wanna get my freak on.
And Bobby's like, no thank you.
She asks if everything's okay and Bobbysays, "Yes, everything's fine." Um, Athena

(01:04:34):
says "It doesn't feel fine," and sheunderstands that Bobby has his meetings
where he can talk, but she would alsolike it if he talked to her and Bobby's
like, yeah, I know, but it's not the same.
And I think's like, "well, maybe Icould come to your meetings like,
you've got one tomorrow, right?"
And Bobby's like, oh, uh, no.

(01:04:54):
Nope.
Don't have one tomorrow.
No.
Uh, you can come on Saturday,but not, not tomorrow.
Don't, because there'sno meeting tomorrow.
Don't,
no, no meeting tomorrow.
There're in fact very closed tomorrow.
No helping alcoholics tomorrow.
He is.
I, I do enjoy how badly Bobby lies.
Like

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he's just so obviously scramblingto, to cover up something
and he doing a very bad job.
You don't have to be like Athena's.
Like ultra suspicious to realizethat something is going on right now.
Mm-hmm.
But he also thinks he's doing areally good job of covering it up.
'cause she's like, "okay, fine, I won't,I won't come to the meeting tomorrow.

(01:05:39):
I'll come to the one on Saturday."He's like, "great, good. Goodnight."
And like, runs outta the kitchen.
I hate this storyline, but I do enjoywatching Peter and Angela interact.
Yeah, same.
They they do, they dowork together so well.
Alright, jumping around again.
Um, back to Hen and she'stalking on the phone.

(01:06:02):
She's still at the hospital, but shetell, she's talking on the phone to
Karen and Karen's obviously offered tocome home and, you know, to be there.
And Hen's like, "No, no, no,you stay there, I'll call you
when I have an update." AndSydney is there still as well.
And Hen's like, "You don't, youdon't have to stay." Sydney's

(01:06:22):
like, "No, it's your mom." So.
That's nice that they've, youknow, they started out, it's like
enemies to friends kind of thing
to love us.
No, no, this, no.
Let's not have anothercheating scandal again.
Scandals.
But they, they started out so like,with so much animosity and now
they're like, you know, they're,they're besties now, so it's fine.

(01:06:45):
This surgeon arrives looking for Hen,
yeah.
And here's the, here's the thing.
He is outside the hospital.
She's sitting like out by the frontdoors and I know that the, there is
like the trope of you are sittingwaiting for your loved one and the
surgeon comes out to tell you thatthe surgery was a success or whatever.

(01:07:05):
But normally when that happens,you are either in a waiting room
or you're sitting kind of in thehallway outside of surgical ward.
You are not outside the fucking hospital.
Yeah,
yeah.
Hen's literally outside.
Has this surgeon been running allaround the hospital trying to find
Hen so she can give her the update?
Where's the woman thatyelled at us earlier?
'cause I need to find her.

(01:07:29):
Uh, but it was, it's all good news.
The surgery was a success.
Toni is fine.
Um, she's gonna make a full recoveryand Toni who is awake now, um, is
grateful to the doctor, but she's moregrateful to Hen for saving her life.
And she tells Hen that she'snot gonna be around forever.

(01:07:50):
So she needs to say this now incase she doesn't get a chance.
And Hen's like "Ma, that's really morbid."
She's like, "just, just hear me out."Um, she tells Hen that this, that she
knows that it's a struggle for Hen towork and go to school and have a family,
but it is worth it because people likeToni need doctors like Hen, so she wants

(01:08:16):
Hen to promise her that she won't giveup the dream of going to medical school.
Yeah.
Hand promises she'll do that,
which is always a really diceything to do in these kind of shows.
Anyway, moving on.
We'll see how that goes.
Like I did feel like they put alot of emphasis on that, so, you
know, I'm just side eyeing this one.

(01:08:36):
We don't wanna spoilanything, but I'm, yeah.
But seriously, doctors and doctorsand police and firefighters
should never promise anything.
Yeah.
Literally, because the, like, it'sjust, that's just how it works.
They promise somethingand it never works out.

(01:08:56):
Yeah.
So, no.
Cool.
So next morning, I guess Buck andChim walk into the station house and
the engine bay is completely empty.
There are no vehicles in there.
Uh, so, which is importantfor a little bit later.
Chim notes that, oh, the B shiftmust still be out on a call.

(01:09:16):
Cool.
Eddie is already there andhe is already in his uniform.
He got there, um, earlybecause he couldn't sleep.
Sheila has been on his mind all night.
Not like that.
Buck's like, damn, boy, you early.
Uh, anyway.

(01:09:36):
Yeah.
So Eddie explains that,um, the kid's not sick.
Not really.
And the mom's been makinghim sick probably for years.
And this is where they mention, likeChim mentions Munchausen's by proxy.
Was this, I was gonna look thisup and totally forgot, when did
the Gypsy Rose document, like,um, tele, tele thing come out?

(01:09:59):
Uh, after this?
But I'm pretty sure that every medicalshow that has ever existed has done
a Munchausen's by proxy episode.
So it's Well,
yeah, true.
Sort of well cemented in, um, thegeneral audience's consciousness
of what Munchausen's by proxy is.
The, um, the documentary about ithad come out earlier than this.

(01:10:20):
Oh, it had?
Okay.
Yeah.
2017 was the documentary I'm trying to,no, and the act was it, the act was 2019.
So yes, Gypsy Rose was very, um,topical at the time, like not super
early because it finished like twoyears before this episode came out.

(01:10:42):
But like, everyone knew about it.
Well, they don't really like explainit in as many words as they might for
something that, um, in this show, usuallywhen people, when they, when they find
some terminology that people aren't gonnaknow, they usually spell it out pretty.
Exactly, yeah.
Anyway, they, he sort ofexplains, you know, how they'd

(01:11:04):
been moving around and whatever.
So like Buck's like, "What,what is she poisoning him with?"
Yeah, funnily enough, Eddie goes, Eddiegoes straight to poisoning as explaining
why Charlie is sick and, Buck asks,"poisoning him with what?" Um, and then
the show very helpfully flashes back to,yeah, Eddie has like a flashing neon sign.

(01:11:27):
He has like a mind palace momentwhere he just like flashes right back.
Um, he saw the eyedrops in the kitchen,apparently tetrahydrozaline, I can't
remember how he pronounced that.
Anyway.
Will it be the active ingredient?
Tetrahydrozaline?
Thank you.
It could be lethal if it's ingested, butit doesn't show up on a toxicology test.

(01:11:51):
So, she must be dosing himjust enough to keep him sick.
So they jump in a car.
Yeah.
So social services arecoming here to take a report.
And they do have likeBuck's little exposition.
"Why would she do that?" And Chim'slike, "Sometimes it's to gain sympathy
and Eddie's like, "or, to make profit Ifound multiple fund me pages." um, 'cause

(01:12:12):
she's conning people outta their money.
Funnily enough, I think that'swhat insults Eddie the most.
It's not that she's making the kidssick, it's that she's doing it for money.
Yeah.
And I kind of wonder if they had gonewith a little bit more of a complicated
storyline and gone, if she's doing itlike for the, the sort of the traditional

(01:12:33):
Munchausen's which is a mental illnesswhere you are making someone sick in
order to gain attention and, um, accoladesand, um, whether he would be, would be as
angry about that as he is about the factthat she's just doing it to get money.

(01:12:53):
I mean, I think he still doesn'tlike kids being hurt, but,
um, oh, 100%.
But it just, it's very interestingthat it's like, oh, I'm.
It's the, the profit thathe seems to be upset about.
But before they can like go into it anyfurther, he gets a call from what appears
to be an unknown number because he sortof looks at his phone and sort of looks
at Buck and goes like, who is calling me?

(01:13:17):
Like, Buck's not gonna know.
Just answer it dude.
No.
Eddie's just shocked that someone'scalling him that's not Buck.
He's like, why is my phone ringing?
Buck's here standing in front of me?
Who else calls me?
This also kind of, um, confirms thatEddie is older than Buck because he
does actually answer the phone, whereasI and Buck would probably just be
waiting for our phone to ring out andfrantically googling the number to

(01:13:41):
see if we can figure out who it is.
Um, oh my God, the, theamount of numbers I Google,
yes, I do too.
I've had to answer thephone all this week.
It's been awful because I've had tospeak to the vet every day and it's just,
I'm sorry,
the horror.
Eddie apparently doesn't have phonephobia, so he answers the call and
he just answers.
It's Charlie.

(01:14:02):
I don't know how,
how did Charlie get Eddie's number?
I dunno, dunno.
Because the thing is, he's not evencalling from like a mobile phone.
He's calling from a landline.
Yeah.
So you can't even say that.
I'm guessing Eddie mighthave written it down.
It doesn't matter.
It's for the drama.
For the drama that, um, Sheila ison the floor in the living room,

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seizing, choking with an empty bowlstrategically placed next to her.
And Charlie tells Eddie,I think I did a bad thing.
Oh no.
Yeah, he full on goes, um, oh my God.
I blanked on his name.
Hang on, give me a second to, okay.
Yeah, he full on Chris Isaacs.

(01:14:46):
He did a bad, bad thing.
Oh.
Oh, that's where you were going with that.
Oh my god.
Okay.
Okay.
But before we can find out whatthe bad thing was that he did,
can I just mention before we move onthat the bowl that is strategically
placed next to her is empty.
Oh, she ate the entire thing.

(01:15:06):
Yeah.
It's cl it's, you would assume thatbecause the bowl is there, it's meant
to be like she was eating somethingand she immediately got sick and so she
like dropped the bowl and fell down.
But there's no food on the floor.
The bowl is clean.
No, she, she ate the entirething and then was just like,
oh, I need to drop this bowl.
Yeah.
Um, but yes, like this is very muchGypsy Rose, like very, very like kid

(01:15:28):
has hit back at the abusive mother.
Yeah.
But we are not gonna findout what happens next.
We have to go back to, um, Athenaand her very messy ex-husband.
Who she has once again called
Athena is the messy one right now.
Oh, both of them messy.
Yeah, Athena is the messy one.
Um, we, we jump into mid-conversationwhere Michael is like arriving

(01:15:54):
home and all we hear him say is,"Oh, come on. You followed him?"
And we cut Athena in her car.
Who yes, she um, she did follow Bobby.
Of course she did
to his meeting that he didn't have today.
'cause there was no meeting today.
There was no meeting
'cause she lied about it.
No alcoholics were getting help.
Um, except that they arebecause he's at the meeting.

(01:16:16):
Yeah.
And so Michael says "You think thathe's still hiding something?" And then
Athena notices who Bobby is talking to.
'cause everybody is leaving the meeting.
But there is a woman sort ofstanding in front of Bobby and
she's like very obviously waitingfor him or talking to him.
Um, and Athena recognizes her.

(01:16:39):
But before we,
I didn't, so I'm glad that Athena did.
No, but before we can find out whothe woman is, because Athena would
obviously tell Michael, um, Bobby,who's been sort of waving goodbye to
everybody looks over and sees Athena'scar and sees Athena sitting in the car.
Is Athena not a cop?
Shouldn't she know, be able todo stakeouts better than this?

(01:17:01):
Like, that was all I could, thatwas like Athena, you should, like,
why are you parked in direct view?
Not in a disguise.
Like literally just like windowsdown leaning out the window,
like waving at Bobby and thenit's like, oh shit, he saw me
like she's in a bright red car.
I mean, that is.
It's not stealthy at all.
No.
And then she's like, it'sprobably her own personal car.

(01:17:22):
And Bobby's like, oh, whyis my wife's car here?
And she's completely shockedwhen Bobby notices her.
She's like, "oh, he spottedme. Gotta go." Like, ma'am,
you're two meters away from him.
Of course he noticed you.
Like Jesus Christ.
I don't know how she solves any crime.
I'm pretty sure Romero does all the workfor her and she just takes all the credit,

(01:17:43):
clearly.
Um, she just barrels in thereand takes the bad guys down.
No stealth.
But before we can get to Bobby, rippingher a new one for following him to,
um, his meeting, we are gonna go backto the apartments where, um, Bobby's
car comes screeching around the corner.
Like his fire captain's car,

(01:18:03):
not his civic car becausehe took that to the meeting.
Yeah, his, his fire, hisfire captain's car, um, comes
screeching around the corner
also, hang on, if they're aboutto start their shift, but B
shift already, where, why is it?
Nope, don't think about it.
Don't think about it.
Why is Bobby in a meeting?
Go to work!
His meeting had just finished.
He was probably on his way towork when he spied Athena, but

(01:18:26):
No, but these guys do 24 hour shifts,so their shifts starts at like 6:00 AM.
How early is this fucking meeting?
Okay, just start.
They need help.
Don't, don't, don't think about it.
Anyway, so since Bobby's at theweird time, weirdly timed meeting,
they've stolen his fire captain's carbecause all remember Yes, the B shift

(01:18:46):
had taken all the engines that likethe engine and the fire truck there
was, which there was nothing left.
They then explained that because the1 33 have, I'm assuming that Eddie has
told Charlie or somebody has called.
Um, actually it says Eddie
has called 9-1-1, um, on a
poss.
I don't think he even needed to calllike they were in the firehouse.
He probably just radioed it in.

(01:19:07):
Yeah.
So he's, he's called inthe 1 33 have responded.
Captain Mehta makes a very snarky commentlike, "oh, Buckley, you got promoted
to captain when I wasn't looking?"
When he sees the two of themjumping out of the vehicle.
Um, but Buck does not have time.
He's like, it's the only vehicleavailable and just like runs
out the but first, oh my God.
The, the visceral reaction.
Yes.

(01:19:27):
I had when when he gets out in that shirt,
gets out in that shirt on that street.
Yep.
Like my whole body, like flinched.
I was like, oh God.
Oh no.
Oh my God,
it's happening.
Yep.
Oh, I had no reaction whatsoever.
Yeah.
Funny, that.
Um, but yeah, fuck it.
Like I, I like, I couldn't believe howphysical my body reacted to just seeing

(01:19:52):
him out on that street in that shirt.
Yeah.
Um, anyway, yeah, so they break downthe door 'cause apparently Charlie
doesn't know how to use door knobs.
Right?
Um, why couldn't they have justlike, knocked and waited for
Charlie to come let them in?
Or like Eddie would've beenon the phone like, Charlie,
we here open the fucking door.
No, they're gonna use the bat,the, the swinging battering ram,

(01:20:15):
like, generally, so I've had tocall the paramedics a couple times.
Generally they'll say, Hey, if youcan unlock the door, unlock the, like,
Charlie's just been chilling watchinghis, like watching her, his dying mother.
Oh.
She, he's literally beenstanding there, just unlock and
open the door while waiting.
He's like, Hey, what thefuck are you doing, Charlie?
So, yeah, Charlie was nevertaught how to use door knobs.

(01:20:36):
He's pretty much standing in theexact same spot he was when he called
Eddie, just watching his mother dieon the, the ground in front of him.
Um, yeah, he's got, he'smade himself popcorn.
Um, it's, yeah, it's really weird.
Um, so Buck, Mehta and the 1 33paramedics and Eddie burst in, um.
Eddie immediately like hustles Charlieout of the way so that the, the, the

(01:21:00):
paramedics and Mehta and can work andMehta and Buck can sort of do their
exposition, explain what's going on.
Um, and we find out that the Charliehas dosed his mother's food with
like a massive dose of eye drops.
Yeah.
Like he's still holding abottle of eye drops as well.
Yeah.
Eddie has to pry it out of his hand,

(01:21:21):
Was he going to put it his popcorn?
Who knows?
Uh, maybe he's used to the taste.
Um, but Charlie explains that like"She always puts drops in my food.
She thinks I don't see her, but I do.
I just wanted to see what happened if,what would happen if I gave them to
her." And Eddie's like, "Oh, that's okay.
You didn't mean to hurt her."And Charlie's like, yes,

(01:21:41):
totally didn't mean to hurt her.
He he totally did.
Um, and Buck's like, "oh yeah, by theway, the kid needs treatment too, because
same kind of poisoning, but smaller doses.But for a really long time." Um, yeah.
How much, how many eyedropbottles did he put in her food?
It looks like it was just one.
Yeah,
just because like if it was just, oh,she puts a couple drops in my food.

(01:22:04):
I wanted to see what happened if I gaveit to her, like, then she'd just get sick.
But instead, like, he's clearlyput the entire bottle of eye
drops to have her seize and die.
Like, yeah.
I don't, don't think about it.
It, it, medically it doesn't make sense.
Yeah.
I think Charlie's just evil.

(01:22:28):
Oh boy.
That's a whole nother storyline.
So, um, they've apparently left Chimback at the firehouse because he called,
someone's gotta do the work.
He's called Maddie to "oh myGod, you won't believe what just
happened this morning." And he'sfilling her in on, um, the story.

(01:22:52):
Um, she's walking aroundwith an asleep Jee.
She finally got Jee to go to sleep.
Maddie is like kind ofcompletely checked out.
She's like, she's obviously so exhausted.
She's just, her, her toneis just completely monotone.
She's giving kind of likeone or two word answers.

(01:23:13):
Um, when Chim is talking and then Chim
in his like exuberance to tell herabout the story, says, um, you know,
that he's glad that the woman fellthrough the balcony because the
kid will be safe far away from her.
Because, you know, "I guess somepeople just aren't meant to be
parents." And Maddie in the depthof her sleep deprivation and

(01:23:37):
frustration takes that 100% personally.
And you can just see her facedrop and her lip starts quivering
and her eyes well up in tears.
Oh,
poor Maddie,
Chim, of course, is completely obliviousto this and just says, "Anyway, I
just wanted to hear your voice andtell you guys how much I love you.
Um, oh wait, Hen just showed up.

(01:23:59):
I wanna talk to her about her mom.
Can I call you later?" And Maddie's justlike very flatly. "Yeah, we are good here.
Nothing to worry about." And
Guys, I think there'ssomething to worry about,
there's very much somethingto worry about here.
Bobby also has something toworry about because he is,
oh, he's so mad.
Storming down the footpathto, towards his wife looking

(01:24:21):
angrier than I've ever seen him.
Thankfully Athena has got out of the car.
I don't think we've seenhim this angry ever before.
I think maybe when he slammed Buckagainst the wall, when Buck snuck
into, um, his little book of names.
He was pretty angry then.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
Oh, he was also angry at the, um.
Oh no, I think that was seasonthat was before that as well,

(01:24:42):
when the ceiling collapsed.
Oh yeah.
He was
Yeah, he was angry with that,
but I think that was before Bucksnuck into the little book of names.
Yeah.
I don't think he's been this angrysince he's been married to Athena.
Yeah.
I don't think Athenahas seen him this angry.
No.
And we, as the audience finallyget an explanation for the

(01:25:03):
woman that Athena recognized.
It's, remember that, that car crash thatAthena referenced earlier in the episode?
Um, yeah.
It's that woman.
It's the woman that was drivingdrunk the wrong way along the
freeway and caused a massive pilot.
That's her.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
That's apparently pretty muchwhat Athena says too, as if
Bobby didn't know who she was.
Like, she's like, "That'sRachel Hawkerson, the drunk

(01:25:25):
driver from the pile up.
You know, the one that was drivingdrunk in the, and caused the pile up.
Whose name's Rachel.
That's her."
Apparently Bobby is sponsoring her.
Because she's having a hard time findingsomeone to talk to who can actually relate
what she relate to, what she went through.
And apparently when he, like she fell offthe wagon and when he went to help her,

(01:25:51):
um, the bottle of bourbon spilled on him.
And that's why his shirtsmelled like bourbon.
And then Athena's not cross about that.
She's just cross like that he didn'ttell her what was going on and lied.
Lied to her.
And Bobby's like, yeah, it'sreally hard when your spouse
keeps things from you, isn't it?

(01:26:11):
Oh,
ask me how I know.
So snarky
and Athena's like, "Wait, are youkeeping this a secret on purpose?
Like to punish me?" Bobby's like, "no.
Yes, maybe.
I don't know."
He literally says that,
I didn't think

(01:26:31):
it's like, "I didn't think Ineeded to tell you all about it.
You don't tell me about half the decisionsyou make," and Athena's like, "like
what?" And Bobby like, gets up, startscounting on offers in his fingers.
"Well, let's see."
He gets, you know, the notebookthat he threw away when after his
first, he gets that back out andit starts flicks through the pages,
which the such highlights include "Goingback to work without talking to me,

(01:26:55):
stopping seeing Dr. Sanford withouttalking to me, being offered retirement
and not taking it without talking to me."
Athena's like, "I didn't think I neededto ask you for permission." And Bobby's
like, "you don't have to ask me forpermission, but it would be nice if I
was like a factor or a considerationfor you making those decisions.
You just, it doesn't even cross your mindto include me in those conversations.

(01:27:20):
You we're supposed to be partners, butthe truth is you don't want a partner.
You don't want a partner on the streets,you don't want a partner in the sheets."
Oh, it's weird that heused that exact phrase.
Yeah, he should have said that,
but yeah, I definitely heard that.
He definitely should have said that.
Um,
oh, but she's used to doing thingson her own and "That's who I am.

(01:27:41):
And you knew that when you marriedme." And Bobby's like, "Well, I
thought that eventually you wouldstart to trust me." Um, uh, blah, blah.
They have a bit more of an argument andthen they decide that Bobby says that
"We are not partners because that'show you want it," and storms off.

(01:28:01):
Mom and Dad are fighting.
Yeah.
Don't like to see Mom and Dad fight.
You don't like when momand dad are fighting?
No,
they do it so well though, I will say
Oh they do.
Like this, this was a very, verywell written, well acted scene.
Oh yeah.
The last part of this episode is great.

(01:28:22):
It's, I don't know, he still shouldhave said this in the sheets comment.
No, he definitely did.
I definitely heard.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
But who cares about that?
'cause now we've got this scene.
Oh no, we're up to the scene.
Are we ready for this scene?
Well, we have to be 'cause we're here.
Um, so we are going back to the,uh, Royal Point apart, Regal Points

(01:28:48):
Apartments where they have put Charlieand Sheila under gurney's and they're
loading them up into separate ambulances.
They're sending themto separate hospitals.
Charlie is a little bit worried aboutthe fact that his mother is, um,
wondering whether he's going to see her.
And Eddie's like, "no, no, no.She's going to a different hospital.
You're going in this ride."

(01:29:08):
Yeah.
Eddie explains that she's alittle more sick, so she has
to go to a different hospital.
There's also the, the point that she nowhas an active like CPS case out on her
and she's not gonna be allowed anywherenear you for the foreseeable future.
Yeah.
Mm. Um, but yeah, Sheila isfully conscious and screaming
in another ambulance.
So they slam the, they slam the doorson her, cutting off her screams.

(01:29:31):
Both ambulances start to pull out.
And then the camera cameramanis extremely excited about this
'cause he starts spinning aroundand around and around in circles,
which is like, oh, and the, like, I, the,
here's the thing.
This is, it's, it's very dramatic.
I think it fits well with the dramaof what's about to happen, but it

(01:29:54):
telegraphs the drama so much becausethey have never, ever used this kind
of shooting style before, and so you'relike, oh my God, like we're spinning.
We're getting a 360 view of everythingthat's happening in the streets.
Why are we suddenly getting this, thisparticular, like, what is gonna happen?
This is so different.
This is so new.
What's going to happen?

(01:30:15):
I think it would've been more impressiveand more affecting if they'd just
done a normal like shoot to cameraand then have the next part happen
no, I didn't, I didn't noticethat anything was different.
I really liked, yeah, I really liked theway that it's done because it does, as
I said, like I, it's an actual vis likevisceral, visceral reaction that I have.
Like as soon as it starts spinning, like,

(01:30:37):
yeah, now, but how many timeshave you watched this scene?
But the first time Isaw it, I did not ping.
Like, oh, something's about like, andI knew about this scene, like this
scene was what got me into the show.
I'd seen it on Twitter, like allover Twitter when it happened.
Um, and I still didn't ping becauseI was like, I was half watching.

(01:30:58):
Like it's a network show.
Yes, it's the second last episode.
It's kind of the endingscene of the, of the episode.
You just not really paying much attention.
It's literally the end of the episode.
And so I was like half watching, um,like Mom and Dad just had a fight.
Maddie's clearly not doing well.
Um, and so when the camera startedspin, it did not twig me at all.
Like it was, I was still just like, holyshit, this is like, this is the episode.

(01:31:21):
I don't know.
For me, as soon as the camerastarted spinning, I'm like,
oh wait, this is different.
Something is about to happen.
Something big is about to happen.
Um, and so.
What happens is the ambulances drive offand Eddie is berating himself for letting
this situation escalate the way he did.

(01:31:42):
He's like, I shouldhave gotten here sooner.
Buck is trying to console himby telling him that that kid
is just lucky that he met you.
Mehta wants to know if Eddie wantsto go with Charlie to the hospital,
but before Eddie can answer,there's the sound of a gunshot.
Well, he starts answering.
He goes, "Yeah, that'd be..."

(01:32:02):
A bullet hole immediately appears onhis right shoulder from the, the front
of his right shoulder from his chest,and then we cut to Buck who blinks.
And his face is spattered in blood.
Yeah, he gets the blood splatter.
It's the first fiveminutes of Supernatural,

(01:32:26):
but it's the end of the episode.
And then everything slows down.
Eddie kind of looks down, looksback up at Buck and then collapses
and we cut to the sniper who'schambering another round in his rifle.
Buck is absolutely frozen.
Buck has not moved.
Shock yeah, um, Eddie is nowfully collapsed on the ground.

(01:32:51):
Mehta, thankfully is not frozen in shock.
He is doing the captain shit.
He's checking to make sure that all ofhis crew are safe, um, and that he notices
that Buckley is just standing there inthe middle of the road while there's an
active shooter, like a fucking idiot.
And he knows that Bobby'sgonna have his guts for garters
if anything happens to Buck.

(01:33:13):
So immediately runs for Buck and nonetoo soon because we see Buck through
the crosshairs of the sniper rifle andMehta gets to him and pushes him down
behind the truck just as the sniper firesagain, and then time speeds back up.
Yeah.
Thank you Mehta for saving our boy Buck.

(01:33:35):
Yeah.
Although the bill, the bullet pingsoff the side of the truck, so it
may not have, it wouldn't have hit,got him anyway, but still, um, the,
yeah, let's not, let's not thinkabout that too hard, shall we?
Um,
anyway, Mehta saves the day.
Thank you.
Mehta.
Yes.
Um, time speeds up.
Everyone is freaking out.
The 1 33 are runningaround both for cover.

(01:33:56):
They're getting cover, they'reon the radio going shots fired.
Shots fired.
They're looking for the active shooteras well because they need to know
where the shots are coming from sothey know which angle to hide from.
Mehta is literally pinning Buck to theground with his body, like hand on his
head, holding him down probably because heknows Buck, because he's dealt with Buck

(01:34:17):
at the, um, hand sanitizer factory and heknows what Buck is capable of doing and
he is like, fuck this, you are not goingout there while there's an active shooter.
Um.
Meanwhile, Eddie is now lying in a poolof his own blood and you can see his
eyes are locked on Buck and his hand juststarts to reach across the concrete and

(01:34:45):
then it twitches and then his eyes close.
This is the longest scene.
This just lingers like on Buck.
It's,
and then Buck, just like Buckhas, has still not moved.
He's just staring at Eddie.
His face, like his mouth's stillopen, he's still covered in blood,
like he has not moved a muscle.

(01:35:05):
Like Mehta has obviously pinned himto the ground, but he has not moved.
And the show is very, very intentionalabout it's cut to Buck, cut to Eddie,
cut to Buck, cut to Eddie, cut to Buck.
Eddie falls unconscious.
Cut to Buck.
Episode ends.
Eddie's blood is in Buck's mouth.
I'll tell you what that um, I'mglad that I. And was binging

(01:35:27):
this particular couple of,
so you could go straightonto the next one?
I could go straight on because Iwas just sitting going, oh my God.
And, uh, my sister-in-law who Iwas watching with goes, we go,
we're watching the next one, right?
And I'm like, yeah, youcan't just leave it there.
It's like 3:00 AM You've got agin, like your hands are shaking
like your basically next episode.

(01:35:50):
Yeah.
I'm like, okay.
But oh my God.
Oh my God.
The way that it's filmed, the waythat it's, his blood is in his mouth.
Yeah.
Canonically Buck has tasted Eddie's blood
before he even tasted his...
where's that sniper?
Oh no wait.
Wrong show.

(01:36:12):
I'm sure there are someVampire Au out there, right?
It's a perfect setup for it.
Obvious, honestly.
It really is.
But yeah, the way like, mm.
But it just came.
It was, it's so good becauseit just came out of the blue.
Like obviously none of them wereexpecting it, but the audience was like,

(01:36:34):
I was not expecting this to happen.
Like I'm just watching the end of theepisode and all of a sudden, bang.
The great thing about this episode,like I hate the individual storylines,
like the Bridezilla's like, fuck off.
I do not care about you.
I could, I Hen's storyline, nah, butthis, the episode is paced so well

(01:36:56):
that by the time you get up to thisscene with the conclusion of Charlie's,
it doesn't, you're not sitting theregoing, oh, it's like 42 minutes.
This is the end of the episode.
I could honestly have believed that theepisode needed to keep going, that we were
only up to like act two and there was awhole nother act three that I was still
waiting for, but then it goes cut to blackand you're like, okay, cool commercial,

(01:37:21):
and then end credits roll and you're like.
Wait.
Yeah, that's the end of the episode.
No, you, you, you need to tellme what's gonna happen next.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The pacing of the episode was excellentto set you up for that absolute shock of,
because it's interesting becauseit's, it's sort of almost medium

(01:37:43):
stakes throughout the whole episode.
So like, we have, like it's, we know thatit's building to something, but we're
like, oh, it's the second last episode.
Like it won't happen till next week.
So like, we are building like Hen's.
Mom obviously like ends up inhospital and it's like, oh shit.
Like, is she okay?
Okay.
She's okay.
Then we are building to the Athenathing and we're just like, oh shit.

(01:38:04):
Like, what's going onwith Bobby and Athena?
And then that like comes to ahead and we're like, oh shit.
Like, this is gonna be bad next week.
And then we have Maddie who's losing it.
We're just like, oh shit.
Like, what's happeningnext week with Maddie?
And then the shooting happens and it'slike, oh shit Was not expecting that.
Like,
but even with like the Bobby andthe Athena stuff, I was expecting

(01:38:26):
that to be resolved this episode.
'cause I did not realize that wewere already, at the end of the
episode, I was thinking, okay, we'regonna come back after commercial
and we're gonna like finish.
Like there is still gonnabe more to this episode.
And there was no more to this episode.
Yeah.
I, I wasn't expecting anythingbecause honestly, by the time we
got to here, I'd had quite a fewgins and I was like, oh, okay.

(01:38:48):
And then we're like, okay, there's onlyone more episode to go in the season.
Like really?
That's it?
So yeah, I was, I was shocked.
I was, my flabbers were gasted.
They were indeed, yes.
Um, I still rememberwhen this episode aired.
Like it was all over Twitter.
I bet.
Yeah.
This is what like got, like, this iswhat made me pay attention to the show.

(01:39:11):
And I think I've said before, I knewabout Lone Star because I knew about
the, like the Rob Lowe firefighter show.
I didn't realize thatthis was a different one.
Yeah.
And so it took me a while to workout what the fuck show it was.
Um, and then when I like did thereading on it, I was like, okay, I'm
not watching until it becomes canonbecause I've, I've, I've been through

(01:39:32):
this before, like I've seen this filmbefore and I didn't like the ending.
Mm-hmm.
Literally.
Thanks Supernatural.
Who by the way, it's their 20th birthday.
Happy birthday Supernatural.
Thanks for ruining our lives.
Hey, it's brought me a lot of friends.
Without Supernatural,we would not be here.
That's right.
I know.

(01:39:52):
I'm so grateful to Supernatural.
So it both ruined our lives andbrought immense joy to our lives.
That's right.
That's it.
Um, but yes, so once I worked outthat this was not the Rob Low show,
thank God.
Um, that was a different one.
Then I just like kept up with itvia Twitter until I actually like

(01:40:16):
started watching it in season eight.
No season seven.
But yeah, like, you mean this,this mo it's so like, ah, ah.
Meanwhile I had no ideait this was happening.
It's because I didn't haveany spoilers for this at all.
Oh.
Far out.
I'd heard about this scene.

(01:40:36):
Like I knew that it happened, butI didn't know that it happened now,
I mean, I'm, yeah, I didn'tknow when it happened.
The further on we go in this, in the,in the actual show, um, the more likely
that the things I've heard about aregoing to end up happening soon, I guess.
Yeah.
Because there's less episodesin which any of it can happen.
But yeah, I wasn't expectingthis to happen now, so

(01:41:00):
No, I didn't think it wasuntil later, but yeah.
It is not later.
It is now.
Eddie is bleeding out.
Yeah.
Okay.
So what is
much like Chim was
on the next week?
Next week Athena, Bobby and the118 are on high alert when a
sniper targets members of the LAFD.
Um, and Maddie makes a decision.
Yeah.
Maddie is also there.

(01:41:21):
No mention of Athena and Bobby in the
Oh, they're on high alert where asniper is targeting members of the LAFD.
Okay.
They have to forget their differences.
Yep.
That's it for little, for a little bit.
They have to, to put their, theirmarital spat aside so that Athena can
do some like badass, um, gun forensics.
That's right.
Unsurprisingly, the triggers fornext week's episode include gun

(01:41:42):
violence and threats of gun violence.
Um, gore in the form of lots andlots of blood, some of which Buck
has ingested, um, injury of amajor character via a gunshot.
It's in his mouth!
And postpartum depression.
His blood is in his mouth.

(01:42:03):
I will never be normal about this.
It's, it's nuts.
It's gross.
The thing, like, I don't wannaoveranalyze that scene because
it's, it's absolutely amazing.
Um, and the implications ofit are absolutely amazing.
But I, like, I don't, I wonderwhose decision it was like, yeah,

(01:42:24):
Oliver, we are, we're just gonnalike, cover your face in blood.
I don't think it makes sensefrom the, like, the trajectory
of the bullet and the fact that,
oh, it makes no sense.
Just don't think about it.
That's fine.
I know 'cause like Ryan is shorterthan Oliver of us, so I don't know
how the blood was spattering up intoOliver's face and the Yeah, and the
gun was coming from above, like, not
so bullet was angling downwards.
So the blood should be sort of on hisstomach, which means he would've had

(01:42:46):
to have taken off his shirt, which,oh, that would've been a shame.
But no, they've just, you know, they'vegone, oh no, actually we want, um, we
want Eddie's blood all over your face.
So just like, stand still whilewe spray some blood on you.
Eddie's bodily fluids are justautomatically attracted to Buck.

(01:43:10):
It just magnetized to his face.
Oh God.
We're getting into likeA/B/O territory here.
But it's just, who decided that?
Yeah, that's a totallynormal thing to have.
You know, one guy's blood sprayedall over another guy's mouth, like
Oh yeah.

(01:43:30):
Like they were definitely trying todo it for the cinematic aspect, but
it just came off real fucking gay.
Maybe like, like this is we, we haveestablished that this, like Andrew
Myers was responsible for writing thisepisode and we have said that like Andrew
Myers is kinda like the Bobo of 9-1-1.
So maybe that was him to sort oflike, he wrote that into, specifically

(01:43:51):
into this storyline and into thisscript as his way of sort of,
yeah, advancing the Buddie agenda.
That's it.
Like Eddie's blood is all overBuck, including in his mouth.
Buck knows what he tastes like.
Thank you Andrew Myers.

(01:44:13):
Of course.
I have absolutely no noevidence to back this up.
I'm just caking themakeup on at this point.
Yep.
All right.
Do we have any more clowning aboutthis episode to mention, or shall we
Oh, we could probably clownfor longer, but I think we're

(01:44:36):
gonna save it all for next week.
Yeah.
'cause we are gonna bedoing like Highwire.
Oh.
There will be screaming, like, it'll belike frame by frame analysis next week.
Yeah.
Um, unfortunately we gonna have,
unfortunately we are not gonnarecord for another three weeks,
so y'all are just gonna have
Yeah, I was gonna say we we'reabout to have a little break,

(01:44:57):
just like poor Chim was lying.
Yeah.
Oh God.
Oh no.
on the sidewalk for three weeks
now Eddie will be lyingin a pool of blood.
Yeah.
For several weeks.
Oh, no, I, I've done it again.
I don't believe it.
This is perfect.
Oh my God.

(01:45:18):
Oh, poor Eddie.
This was not planned by the way,but it's just, it's so perfect.
No, I'm just so you can,
I'm going away next week for like,multiple weekends, so it's gonna be like,
um, don't forget if you have anyfeedback about season four, um, please,
while Eddie is bleeding out, um, yeah.

(01:45:39):
Let us know.
Take, take this time to thinkabout what you thought of this
season and let us know about it.
Poor Eddie.
Okay.
Um, uh, you can like send yourfeedback to our email, which is
contact@thatweewooshow.com or you can,um, DM it to us on social media or you

(01:46:00):
can leave comments about this episode.
Let us know how thickyour clown makeup is.
Tell us all about thepacing, all that stuff.
Like I
Let us know what you thinkEddie's blood tastes like.
Oh God.
Pennies.
I'm sorry.
I'll be quiet now.
No, I just got derailed.
Thinking about what blood tastes like, um,

(01:46:22):
if you have read any Vampire Aus that havekicked off from this episode, from Buck
drinking Eddie's blood, and Eddie secretlybeing a vampire, please drop the wrecks.
Yeah.
Um, either in the podcasting platformthat you're listening to us from
or jump into our social media
. Actually that was one thing that we were asking for, uh, previously.
Like if you have any fic recs ingeneral that don't spoil, uh, season

(01:46:47):
five onwards, then yeah, let us know.
So please Vampire Aus or not.
Please drop us.
Your favorite buddy Fix.
Um.
Try and make sure that they don'tspoil season five and season six.
However, I will be reading anyrecommendations that you give
us to kind of screen it forEllen, just to make sure that
yeah, you can pass them on to me.
Little details, um, slip through.

(01:47:09):
Um, and we will see if we canconvince Ellen to do a Mixtape
Book Club Podcast Buddie Edition.
Yes.
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(01:47:29):
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Oh.
You should see what theAI does with Maddie.
Do you want notes at all?
Because the choices,
We love you Bex!
Love you Bex
the choices are, you get perfectlyspelled perfectly like the name's
done perfectly or you don't getnotes in time for the episode.
You can choose.
I'm happy to go back and make sure I spellher name correctly every single time.

(01:48:42):
It's just gonna take me liketwo weeks to get the notes done.
No, you do a wonderful job.
Thank you.
Because you guys ha can'tactually see the notes.
Um, Bex, has spelt Maddiemultiple different ways in the
the notes just in this part.
And so I just typed in the notes.
I like the multiple spellingsof Maddie happening here.

(01:49:04):
And so Bex got down tothat point in the notes.
I was just like, fuck off.
I'm revoking your accessto edit the notes.
Like e either edit them forgood or don't edit them.
There you go.
Oh, that's better.
Um, right before I wasso rudely interrupted,

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