4.14: Survivors

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9-1-1.
What's your emergency?
Welcome back to That Weewoo Show, apodcast where we watch and discuss
episodes of the A B C show, 9-1-1.

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I'm Bex.
I'm Alice.
And I'm Ellen.
And welcome to the seasonfour finale episode.
We've made it to the end of season four.
It's all downhill from here, folks.
Don't say that.
Not to be pessimistic, butum, she's kind of right.
Aw.

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But before we dash Ellen's hopesas to the future of the show
that she's fallen in love with.
Um, thank you to everyone who has listenedto our other season four episodes.
Thank you to those of you who have takenthe time to leave us comments, uh, to
reach out to us and tell us your thoughtsabout the show and who have rated us on

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particularly Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
We very much appreciate your time.
Yeah.
So before we jump into the finale, Alice,would you mind remind, would you mind
reminding us what happened last week?
Yeah, last week was a bitof an action packed episode.
So last week on 9-1-1, Hen's mother had alife-saving surgery after being diagnosed

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by Hen, Maddie struggled with motherhoodafter Jee was diagnosed with colic, Bobby
hid a secret from Athena and none of thatmatters at all because Eddie was shot!
And he's been bleeding out onan LA street for weeks now.
No, that's
weeks, months.
That's not, it's not as bad as Chimney
for moments.

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moments.
Lots of moments,
yes.
So this episode is episode 14, thefinale, it's called "Survivors".
Uh, first aired on May the 24th in 2021.
And the official summary just says Athena,Bobby and the 118 are on high alert

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when a sniper targets members of theLAFD and Maddie makes a life decision.
Nearly forgot aboutthat part yet important.
So this being the season finale, theydo, uh, they do end up wrapping up
all of the threads of the season.
I think they do do a pretty goodjob of doing that in this episode,

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but we'll get to that along the way.
So we've got a fewtriggers for this episode.
Um, gun violence obviously, and threatsof gun violence with the sniper.
We have lots of blood immediately.
And all over Buck.
Mm-hmm.
And in his mouth.
Um,

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so much.
Let's, okay, uh, where am I up to?
I've lost my place.
Major character injury,
Got distracted by bloodagain, what is wrong with me?
Major character injury, likethe gunshot that Eddie has.
And we also have postpartum depression.
And we have a further warning forexcessive fangirling and clowning,

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potentially shipping in general.
I think that can justbe taken as like read.
It's, it's gonna happen.
If you're listening to this podcastand you don't realize that Alice and
I have like pancaked the clown makeupon and have our Buddie goggles firmly
secure to our faces by now, then,um, I don't know what to tell you.
I dunno what you were listening to.

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Uh, but if we're gonna be warningpeople about this episode,
warning, I am in a bad mood.
This episode has not helped.
Um, so I may be taking out mybad mood on Kristin Riedel and
Athena for the next hour or two.
So if you liked thisepisode, I'm really sorry.
'cause apparently I thoughtI did like this episode.
I've discovered that I do not,

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yeah.
Apparently I'm the only one wholikes this episode, so I am gonna
be like bright and bubbly, and
I don't hate it
and just for the drama, waving everything.
And, um, ignoring those two tonight,
I thought, I thought there was like someparticularly good acting in this episode.
I thought that they, the, the teamdid like a great job with what they

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were given and it was exciting.
You know?
Like maybe it was thedirecting that was great.
Like, I don't know, there wassomething about it that made
it in like good to watch.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
But anyway, as usual, we'velooked too hard and, you know,
yes.
Ruined it for ourselves.
I have smashed the glass and nowI cannot unsee what I have seen.

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I just gotta say too, so I just wentto open up the Wiki 'cause I usually
have that open while we're doing this.
Um, yeah.
Typing up, typing in "9-1-1 survivors"
Oh.
Does not bring up the,the Wiki for some reason.
Yeah, I'm sure there's plentyof stuff out there about that.
It's okay.
I got there eventually, but that, yeah.

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Okay, so let's jump into it.
Alright.
We are gonna, we are gonnastart exactly where we left off,
which I have to say I very much appreciatebecause this show has a habit of setting
up cliffhangers and then the next episodestarting in a completely different spot.
Yeah.
And making, yeah.
Going back in time or,
yes.

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Or starting somewhere else thateventually segues into where we ended
the last episode, but thankfullyfor this one, they did not.
We are still on the street.
Eddie is still bleeding outin the middle of the road.
Um, Captain Mehta is still pinningBuckley down to the ground to stop
him from doing something stupid.
Um, and screaming about

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stopping him from doing a Buck,
stopping Buck from being Buck, um,and screaming that shots had been
fired and a firefighter's been shot.
Yeah.
So while the, the scene at the endof the last episode went on forever
because it was just like alternatingshots of Buck and then Eddie and
then Buck and then Eddie, that moment

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and then Buck?
Didn't actually go on for as long as itseemed because this one Buck's belly down
on the ground staring at Eddie before hejust commando rolls underneath the truck.
Yes.
Because Mehta at some point takeshis hands off Buck and Buck sees his
opportunity and so he gets under thetruck so that he can rescue Eddie.

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And I hadn't realized this, like thefirst time I watched it, I hadn't
realized, but when I re-watched it.
Again today I realized thathe's actually shouting the
whole time that he's doing that.
He's like, I'm coming, I'm coming.
Oh yeah, he's,
it's chaos.
'cause you've got Buck shouting at Eddie.
You've got Mehta shouting in the radio.
You've got the sniper continuing to fire.
Um, he hits Bobby's battalion car,rupturing the petrol tank, which then

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catches on fire with the next bullet.
So you've got fire roaring,Buck screaming, Mehta yelling.
Just the peep, the one, the 1 33are running around screaming like
chickens with their heads cut off.
It's absolute chaos.
Yeah.
Really well put together scene actually.
That's crazy.
It is.
I think I, we get to sort of the, theend of this scene and I realize that

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it's only been two minutes of air time.
Yeah, yeah.
It's, it's amazing howpacked this opening is.
Um, so Buck crawls out fromunder the car, grabs hold of
Eddie's hand as Eddie's sort of.
While they ended the last episode withhim sort of on his side with his eyes

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closed, at some point he's regained enoughconsciousness to roll onto his back,
uh, which has stretched his arm out.
So Buck grabs hold of itand yeets him under the car.
Unfortunately for Eddie, it's thesame arm that's connected to the
shoulder that he just got shot through.
Ow.
Oh, he pulls him and all thisblood like trails behind him.
It's like, oh.
But I guess in the grand scheme ofthings, it's, you know, stay out there,

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keep bleeding out, possibly get shotagain, or have your best friend ya yank
you across the road by said injured arm.
I'd probably take the, the latter option.
Yeah.
Better than the alternative, but Ouch.
Yes.
So they get Eddie, he gets Eddie underthe car and then under the truck and
then out the other side where Mehtaand some of the other firefighters

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from the 1 33 have taken cover andthat kind of jolts Mehta into action.
He's like, okay, he's, Eddieis out of the line of fire.
Let's get him in the truck.
Let's evacuate, let's get everybody out.
Um,
and being yanked by the sore armis like, like waking him up too.
So he's screaming.
Oh yeah, he's screaming.

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So then we see, um, Oliver, exactlyhow strong Oliver is because he
manages to pull Eddie up onto hisfeet, wraps his arms around his
upper thighs, and then lifts himbodily up into the cab of the truck.
It's such a good shot.

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Like Oh yes.
Very capable.
I do just wanna mention, I know thatwe're, we're in the Buddie of it all
right now, but I just need to mention thefact that, um, Oliver did an interview
about this whole like, scene, like fromlast episode to this episode, episode.

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And, um, he was basically sayingthat like he had to work out a lot
because he knew that he'd have tobe lifting Ryan and Ryan meanwhile
was in between takes sitting there,eat, like standing there, eating cake
and Oliver's like, can you likestop making yourself heavier for me?

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And everyone's like, nah,I just kept eating cake.
Which is totally unfairbecause he looks amazing.
Yeah.
Like, ugh.
Anyway,
if you, between, between having toliterally like bodily drag and haul
Ryan around and climbing ladders.
Oliver got a workouton these two episodes.

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Yeah.
But he's very strong.
He gets him up, eets him into thecab of the, um, the back of the
cab, of the, the engine truck.
Um, and everybody else jumpsinto the truck while the sniper
is continuing to fire at them.
Oh my God, I really thoughtsomeone else was gonna get shot
on while they were in the truck.

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I can't believe no one was.
Yeah.
Like I know there was,
they broke windows and
Yeah, the, they get, they get shotstraight on and we see one of the bullets
like spiderweb the front windshield of thetruck directly in front of Mehta's face.
Um, yeah.
Um, so he screams at the driver to, toback up, uh, 'cause they're not driving

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in that direction 'cause that's thedirection the bullets are coming from.
Um, so they back up.
But the driver is, you know,obviously not really being
careful with where he is going.
He's just more, more, uh, worriedabout getting outta the line of fire.
And as he backs up, the back door ofthe truck is still open and it scrapes

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past the battalion truck, battalioncar, which is still on fire and just
rips the door off the side of the truck.
Oh yeah.
Uh, but that's enough of, um, areverse that they are then able
to head down the side streetand get out of the line of fire.
So Buck is, standing up in theback of the cab with a door open.

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He'd better hope they don'tgo around the corner too fast.
It's, yeah, it's all very dramatic.
It's great.
It's, it's a very good shot wherethe car does go around the side and
they've got Oliver in the back andhe's like frantically grabbing at
the roof to keep himself balancedas they go around the corner.
So it's very effective.
Oof.
Yep.
Uh, so while they're on routeto the hospital, Buck is

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working on Eddie in the back.
It's like ripping his shirt off him,using his teeth to rip open gauze
pads so that he can stop the bleeding.
Oh, it's so frantic.
Like the, the ripping,the gauze with his teeth.
It's like, oh my god.
Yes.
Um, but yeah, so likeBuck's completely frantic.
Eddie's pretty much out of it.

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And then Eddie sort of stirs and Buck'slike, Hey, hey, like, just stay with me.
And Eddie looks at Buck who is stillcovered in blood and goes, "Are you hurt?"
Yeah.
Oh, Eddie.
And it's like, oh my God.
Like, dude, that's your blood, Eddie,
that's your blood in my mouth, hun.

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That's,
it's your blood I'm swallowing right now.
He's like "No, no, no, no. I'm all right."
Yeah, I'm good.
Just hang on.
And he just keeps yelling, like,"Hang on, I, I need you to hang on,"
because Eddie's fading out ofconsciousness at this point.
Um, so after that sort of, we, we don'teven get to see them get to the hospital.

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They're still driving, Buck is stillyelling and for some reason, we're gonna
jump back to, you know, Alcoholics not soanonymous in the middle of the Bobby and
Athena fight from last week, where, if youremember, um, Athena tailed her husband
to his meeting to catch him in his secret,which was he was sponsoring the woman

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who caused the highway crash a couple ofepisodes ago and did not tell Athena and
Bobby kind of dropped a mic like you,this marriage isn't working, walked away.
Uh, so we now get the second part ofthat where Athena is like, "You don't
get to say our marriage isn't workingand then just walk away." But then
Bobby is continuing to ignore her, herhis phone starts vibrating and he very

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pointedly puts it on speaker to continueto ignore Athena a little bit more.
And it's Hen he's like, "What's up,Hen? I'm on my way." He's late for work.
I, the the timey wimey of this is insane.
I don't understand what's going on.
Um, but Hen is not calling to ask wherehe is or to chastises him for being late.

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She's, I don't know how she foundout, but she's telling him that
Eddie has been shot and that put him,
why did they call Hen but not Eddie now?
I mean, why did theycall him but not Bobby?
I don't know.
Well, Hen was probably, so hang on, didChim, so Chim went to, did Hen go to the
earlier scene or was it it was just theboys, wasn't it Chim, Buck and Eddie?

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It was just the Boys.
Chim.
No, Chim went to thestation house with Buck.
So we saw Chim and Buck walk in together.
Eddie was already there.
Yep.
Buck and Eddie went tothe apartments, leaving.
Oh that's right.
And met the 133
Chim was, was behind.
So was Okay.
So they, so Chim would'vebeen at work, so that's fine.
Hen probably is already atwork because like Bobby's at

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Bobby's late at this point.
Um, and so they would've justheard it on, on the radio.
Whereas Bobby's doesn't have a radio.
I dunno.
And so that's why he wouldn't know yet.
Regardless, it puts an end to Bobby andAthena's fight, uh, because Bobby is like,
immediately I am going to the hospital.
Which hospital am I going to?
And Athena also looks a little concerned.

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Um, so then we cut to the hospital, whichis Burn Memorial and it's a gorgeous
shot overhead of the hospital, whichhas got a circular driveway at the front
and you just see the 133's engine truckcome screeching around the driveway.
And as they're coming round, a traumateam is already running out to meet them.

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Yep.
So they've already told them thatthey need a transfusion 'cause
Eddie's lost so much blood.
And then Mehta's explaininglike exactly what happened.
So it was a large caliber sniperand it was a through and through.
So Buck and the other firefighters arelike bodily hauling Eddie out of the

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cab so they can put him on the gurney.
He immediately gets rushedaway for a thoracotomy.
Sure.
Why not?
They, they love doing that on this show.
They like cracking open people's chests.
Why not?
Yeah, they can say it.
So it's, it's fine.
Um, but as soon as they wheel Eddie away,it's like they've taken Buck's power
source out and he's just, he's frozen.

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It's like he's, he no longer hasanything to do and now he, he's just
completely overwhelmed once again andhe's just watching Eddie be wheeled
away and the other firefightersare racing into the hospital.
LAPD have shown up and they'reracing past into the hospital.
Um, Mehta kind of noticesthat Buck's shut down.
He's like, "Hey Buckley, are you okay?"But he doesn't stick around for an

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answer and it takes Buck a good fiveseconds to very quietly say "No".
Oh,
and that takes us to the title card.
And all of that happened in two minutes.
Yeah.
Amazing cold open.
Which is ridiculous consideringwhat, like, there are other, other
parts of this episode where I am alsotiming how long it takes something

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sounds, um, kinky, but sure.
Okay.
So here's where we startgetting a little bit eye rolly.
Oh my God.
So Athena, um, goes to the crime scene,the scene of the shooting, so outside
the, uh, Regal Point apartments,where the burnt out, um, truck is, the

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captain's truck is still there, andthen she bails up the detective who's
on site, Detective Denvers, introducesherself, and then she says she thought
she'd stop by and see if she could help.
And Denvers is like, "Why would yoube interested in my crime scene?"
I considering how badly Denvers getsrailroaded in this episode, I love the

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fact that she's immediately like, whywould a sergeant and an off-duty sergeant
at that, be interested in my crime scene?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Athe is like, well, I'm sleepingwith the, like, I'm, that's, that's
my husband's car, like the guythat got shot, that's one of his,
yeah.
So I'm invested in this nowand you will let me help.

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And Denvers asks about Eddie.
So she's like, "What do you know aboutthe wounded firefighter?" Like he's
ex-military and they work out that theydon't know what, who, like, who might
have done it yet, but they think thathe's probably a very well-trained sniper.
So they feel like there's a connection.
So she's interested in Athena at thispoint as a potential source of information

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about Eddie as a way to get some moreinformation about why he would be
targeted and who would be targeting him.
Um, at this point, she get Denversgets dragged away to a con discussion
with, uh, a white guy in a suit.
It's, it's very much like, "Hey,Denvers, that's Athena Grant.
You need to let her run thisinvestigation." And Denvers we're

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like, "why the fuck would I let asergeant?" "No, you don't understand.
That's Athena.
You have to let her." And so Denversvery reluctantly, calls over to Athena
and says, "uh, looks like we're gonnaneed your quote unquote expertise."
You're giving her a lot moresnark than I thought she had

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watched it, but yeah, I love it.
Look, she's in, she, that wholeline, it looks like we're gonna
need that expertise of yours.
It is a little bit reluctant.
It is a little bit, Idon't know why I need you.
I am adding layers onto this because, um,
it, it kind of needs, it needs

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because it needs
some extra layers.
But yes, because otherwise, like there,Athena has no expertise in this situation
except for the fact that she knows Eddie.
It's basically, um.
Oh, you guys haven't seen Parks and Rec.
I keep wanting to quote Parksand Rec and you haven't seen it.
You can quote it, quote it.
We're just not gonnaunderstand that reference.

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Um, listeners who have watched Parks andRec, because you're not awful people.
Um, the part where, where Ron Swansonjust like has his permit and it
just says I can do what I want.
Yes.
Oh yeah, I've seen that one before.
See, I haven't watched Parksand Recs, but I am chronically
online, so I do get the references.

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Um, yeah, that's, that's literally Athena.
That is literally Athena.
Not to worry.
Like, why are you at my crime scene?
Not to worry.
I have a permit.
I have permit.
Just says "I can do whatI want. Athena Grant."
yes,
she has a lot of permits in this episode.
The permit to kick ass.
Anyway,

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anyway, let's move on.
Back to the hospital.
Um, someone has founda new shirt for Buck.
Um, he's changed into an LAFD shirt.
Um, he's exiting the hospitaland I love the press have
descended upon the hospital, butit's like we saw the driveway.

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It's this massive circular driveway.
Yet the press have decided thatthey are going to abide by the
rules and just cluster thislittle corner off to the side.
Um, and they're quite happyto stay behind the tiny little
cordon that LAPD have set up.
Like, they're not gonna rusharound to the main driveway.
They're just gonna stay where they'vebeen told, which is very polite of them.
Um, unless you're Taylor Kelly,in which case you are going to

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push through the cordon and tellthe officer to let you through.
And she is obviously as mesmerizedby Taylor as Alice is because she
lets Taylor through to talk to Buck.
Oh, this whole scene I was just likegazing at Taylor, like, oh, she's so good.
So Taylor rushes through and Buck's,like he's still very out of it.

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He's still cut, likealmost covered in blind.
He's got a new T-shirt.
Um, but he's still got blood likebehind, like on his face, behind
his ear and on his hands and
his pants
are still covered.
So Taylor runs over to him
on his pants.
Yeah, his pants.
Yeah.
Like it's, it's bad.
Um, and his immediate thought is "Nocomment, taylor." And Taylor's like,
"no, no, that's not why I'm here.

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Like really I'm not working.
This one, I just hearda firefighter was shot.
You didn't answer my calls.
So I got worried."
And Buck's like, "Oh sorry, like I wasn'tchecking my phone." So he pulls out his
phone and he like, he's shaking like hishands are shaking and Taylor's like, "Is
that blood?" 'cause she still doesn'tknow like what's happened at this point.
And Buck goes, "Yeah, it's not mine, it'sEddie's," and Taylor's face just falls.

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She's just like, "Eddie's the one whogot shot?" Buck's like "Yeah, he was
standing right in front of me and then.
Uh," and then he like, he's like,"I need to talk to Christopher.
I don't have a car.
I need to call a ride."
Yeah.
You can see him like in realtime talking out like, I, I
need to talk to Christopher.
Wait, no, I, I don't have my car.

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I need to get a ride to,to get to Christopher.
So I can talk to Christopher.
Like, he's, he's fine.
He's suddenly got a new goal andhe's trying to work out that new
goal so he doesn't freak out.
Yeah.
And Taylor's like, "Look, I'll drive you.
We're can stop by your place."And Buck's like, "No, no.
I like, I got it." And Taylor's like, "Youcan't go see his son looking like this."
Except if you're Ellen you hearsomething completely different.

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Well, she said it quite quickly and um,the first time I heard your son, but
the second time I was watching earlier,I'm like, "You can't go and see your son
looking like that." And I'm like, whoa.
Okay.
I mean we know that he kind of is, but...
Even Taylor knows.
Yes.
And yeah, so Buck's hands are shaking.
Taylor like takes hold of themto steady him and explain that.

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Yeah, you can't see hisson looking like this.
And that's where Buck sort of realizesthat his hands still have blood on them.
So then we get one of those famous9-1-1 cuts where Taylor says to
Buck, "Are you sure you're okay?"And Chimney answers in another scene.
Um, going, "He's prettyshaken up but otherwise fine."
And still talking about Buck.
But Chim's on the phone with Maddie,

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Who is also freaking outbecause she's also been trying
to call Buck and he's not.
Been answering his phone.
So she also assumed that he was,
I love that everyone just assumes itwas Buck like, oh, a firefighter's
injured fucking Buck again?
No, just the people who areimportant to these particular people.
Um, Chim says, "I think he's just inshock," and that could not be more true.

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Chim.
Um, Maddie says, "Another traumato add to the pile." It's like, oh,
aw,
poor Buck.
So Maddie's watching the news at thesame time as she's talking to Chim.
Um, they don't know anythingabout how, how Eddie's doing yet.
He's, he's in surgery, so, but thenMatt, Maddie kind of tunes into the
TV and she hears that someone else,like, uh, like a firefighter was

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shot at the scene of a car accident.
And Chim's like, "no, it wasn't a caraccident," but they're talking about a
woman who has been transported and sothere's, there are more people being shot.
Yeah, there's already a second victim.
I don't know how fast the guyruns with a sniper rifle, but, um,
yeah.
So we cut back to Burn Memorial andTaylor and Buck have only just started

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walking out of the entrance when anambulance pulls up with, and they, um,
pull out female firefighter on a gurneyand one of the other, the, the original
firefighter who pulled her out wassaying like, "She's been shot. We were
ambushed. The shots came out of nowhere,"
and Buck and Taylor are bothlike, what the fuck is going on?

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I would like to add here at thismoment that I think in this episode,
um, Jennifer Love Hewitt is, is likevery visibly pregnant because they're
doing that thing where they're tryingto hide her body from all of the shots.
It's just a lot of like face closeups.
Yeah.
Like in the, the scene where she's talkingto Chim, she's doing laundry and like

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the laundry basket is on a table, so youcan just see her from like, boobs up.
I didn't notice.
And I, I did the, I did the math on like,when they filmed this and when her last
kid was born, and she's probably aboutfive to six months pregnant at this point.
And obviously with Jee having been born,they can't, like, yes, you still have a

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bit of a belly after the kids are born.
It takes a while for that to snapback, but she, she wouldn't be
looking that pregnant at this point.
So yeah, I was watching thisentire episode going, how are they
gonna hide her belly this time?
Oh, okay.
Cool.
This is how we're doing it.
Uh, all right.
We're having, there's a lot of like, likeI think the tension is mounted up pretty

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quickly by lots of like short scenes,like jumping back and forward between all
the different things that are happening
except when it's not.
Um, but yes, so we're immediatelyjumping to the scene of the car
accident slash second shooting, whereDenvers has reluctantly agreed to

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allow Athena into the investigation andthey're watching the security footage.
And you can see, um, the scene.
There were several, um,LAFD units or LFD vehicles.
There were two LAPD vehicles.
There were lots of firefightersand police officers and bystanders

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all standing on the street sortof rubbernecking at the accident.
Um, but the only one thatgot shot was the firefighter.
Um, they note that the, there wereplenty of targets if he wanted, if
the shooter wanted someone random,but he waited until LAFD showed up.
He's specifically targeting firefighters.

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so later, um, they're still allhanging around at the hospital.
Um, they're outside again though.
Uh, do they not, are they not allowedto wait around inside the hospital?
I don't know.
Um, none of them smoke, so Idunno why they're sitting outside.
It's just a nice LA night.
Okay?
I guess so.
Um, but it's, it's extra nice becauseAlbert has arrived, um, and he has food.

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He has a giant, he, like, he comes inholding a cardboard box and then suddenly
in a, like in a few minutes, they're goingto be holding and unwrapping sandwiches.
So I'm assuming he's comewith like a delivery of food.
That's nice.
And ironically, his, um, his first lineis "Who'd wanna shoot at firefighters?"
Yeah.
"Does this happen a lot?"

(28:41):
Which, considering where this episodeends, like I would've thought that
that would've perhaps deterred Albert,
right?
Yeah.
Well, they catch the guy, so he's fine.
He's safe now.
Yeah, it's all good.
Yeah.
I mean, it's happened before, butnot multiple times on the same day,
like multiple scenes on the same day.

(29:02):
And Hen's like, "I've never heard ofmultiple scenes on the same day. I kind of
wish I wasn't hearing about it right now."
Yeah.
Uh, and as she sort of starts unwrappingher sandwich, um, she nearly, she drop
like fumbles her phone and it drops, butAlbert catches it and she's like, "oh,
your hand eye coordination is back."

(29:24):
Yes.
Albert.
Yeah.
Albert fully recovered.
Yeah.
So he asks, "so what do we do now?
Do we just wait for news aboutEddie?" And Chim's like "Yeah.
Or we wait until the hospitalstaff kicks us off campus.
It's been known to happenboth ways." Like, hmm.
Okay.
Um,
what were you doing toget kicked off that time?

(29:45):
They're probably like, that'sprobably why they're outside.
'cause they got kickedoutta the waiting room
maybe.
But Albert literally looks around, heis like, "Where's Buck?" and Hen and
Chim exchange a look and Chim says,"uh, he's got the harder job tonight."
And we cut to the Diaz residence.
Oh, this scene,

(30:06):
this scene.
It's a lot.
Yeah.
So, um, Buck's gotta tell Chriswhat's going on and rather than
telling him, um, that your dad'sokay, like, don't worry, he's okay.
He, he doesn't quite, uh, wellI guess at this stage he doesn't
know if he's gonna be okay.

(30:26):
So they sort of sit down on Chris's bedand Chris says, "Where's dad?" And Buck
said, tells him that "He's not coming hometonight, Chris," and Buck, that is not
the way to lead into this conversation.
It just sounds terrible.
To be fair, the boy is traumatized.
He's not thinking straight.
He's not thinking straight at all,
he's also probably never hadto give this speech before.

(30:49):
Um,
no.
So yeah, he's, he's doingbadly, but I think, I think it's
understandable why he's doing badly.
Well, Chris bless him,takes it quite well.
He's like, "Why, why is he not cominghome?" and Buck fumbles through telling
him that he got hurt at work today.

(31:11):
Um, and not in a fire.
But someone hurt him and Chris is like "Onpurpose? A bad guy hurt him on purpose?"
Yep.
That's the easiest way to explain it.
Yep.
A bad guy.
Poor Buck is just like barely holdingit together and Chris wants to know
if he's gonna be okay and Buck'slike, "Your dad is tough as nails.

(31:36):
He's a fighter." And then you start,he's like wiping the tears away.
Yeah.
He says that Eddie's with the doctors now.
And Chris goes "Like the ones that fixedyou?" Buck's like "Uhhuh, like, like
the ones who fixed me," and Chris islike, "then he is gonna be all right."
Yeah.
So cute.
At this point.
Buck's phone dings and he's got a messagefrom Bobby, um, which tells him that

(32:00):
Eddie's out of surgery and the doctorswent well and I am so disappointed because
he did not sign off the text message.
Oh, you mean it's not true?
It's not canon?
It's not true.
It's Fanon.
We had so much fun with signingoff all of our messages like Bobby,

(32:24):
but he doesn't do it in canon.
He doesn't do it in real.
Uh, in the show
also why on earth... Buckjust has like a generic
The iPhone background?
Yeah.
Yeah.
The generic iPhone Black background.
I'm like, Buck.
You have friends.
Like
100% that background would'vebeen of Eddie and Chris.
Yeah.
Or the three of them at least.

(32:45):
Yeah.
It should have been a, likea still of when they were
doing the, um, the skateboard.
I would also accept...
which would've made no sensebecause no one would've taken
the photo, but it would've useda still, still from that episode,
Carla, Carla had her phone there.
She was filming the entire thing.
So they would've got it from Carla
She
did.

(33:05):
That's true.
Um, I would also accept a photo ofJee as his background right now.
Oh, it should be a baby.
Yes.
It should be a tiny photo of Baby Jee.
Yes.
Come on props.
What are you doing?
No, think it's, it's someone elsethat does the, it's like something
digital, something that does the
Yeah.
Uncle Buck has droppedthe ball on this one,
but, yeah.

(33:26):
Um, anyway, so we'll gonna Photoshopbaby Jee off his background.
That's fine.
Um, but this text message, it just, itbreaks down the last of Buck's defenses.
'cause he's been holding it together forso long and he's finally, oh, he's got the
confirmation that Eddie is gonna be okay.
And he literally starts sobbing,
he's got the confirmation.

(33:47):
Eddie's alive at least.
Yes.
And it's now on like10-year-old Christopher to once
again reassure a grown man.
He's get, he's got a lot ofpractice at this at this point.
This is,
yeah.
Well, he's probably stilla little bit confused about
what's happening here because.
Buck hasn't really given him any details.

(34:09):
Um, so he kind of just puts his arm aroundBuck and says "it's gonna be okay, Buck."
And they just cry together basically.
Except I don't think Chrisis crying at this point.
He's just like, I think
Chris does have a bit of a cry at the end.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's really, it's super sweet.
It is very sweet.
But it's good.
It's also good to show kids thatlike, you know, when sad things

(34:33):
happen, you're allowed to cry.
Yes.
Yeah.
Well I think he was trying to be strong.
He absolutely was.
But it just didn't work 'cause he wasso relieved that, you know, he was
gonna make it so he just kinda lost it.
Alright.
After the commercial, we, uh, the, thenews is reporting on the sniper who

(34:54):
appears to be targeting firefighters.
Um, and no open space is safe forthe men and women of the LAFD.
So,
so members of the LAFD are watchingthis news and, and are realizing,
oh shit, we've literally gottargets painted on our backs.
Yeah, it's a bit scary.
So in inter intercut scenes, uh, we haveBobby lecturing the 118, or sorry, not

(35:18):
lecturing, like pepping them up, basicallyexplaining to them what's gonna happen.
And we also have, uh, like a fewother groups around the place.
We've got Athena and Denvers, um,like trying to work out how the
sniper could have done what he did.
And we have the dispatch, we haveSue at dispatch, who's also telling

(35:41):
the dispatchers, um, that they, thatthere'll be extra LAPD at every, um,
scene that the LAFD have to go to.
Um, "but we have to think strategicallybecause we have limited resources."
So yeah, the 118 are gonna have towear their bulletproof vest things.
Yeah.
So we cut back to the station houseand Chimney's like, "Great, but

(36:03):
we're still sitting ducks." AndBobby kind of holds up a Kevlar vest
with an LAFD patch across the front,and he goes, "Well, not entirely."
Those things are hot.
It, it must be hell in likein LA wearing those things.
Yeah.
Oh.
I think that's the reason why most ofthe rest of this episode, when you see

(36:23):
the LAFD, they're in like their t-shirts.
They're not Yeah.
In turnouts, they're notin their duty uniforms.
They're stripped down to theirt-shirts with the vest over the
top, because otherwise it wouldjust be completely uncomfortable.
So the needle drop for this episode, andI don't understand why, if anyone would
like to explain to me the significanceof it, um, is "Season of the Witch"

(36:46):
as, um, as known sniper and ballisticsexpert Athena, uh, reenacts the shooting
to see where the casings from eachof the bullets would land if these
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure they have likeforensic people to do this, but sure.
So this this scene here with Athena,um, pretending to shoot and unloading

(37:09):
the, um, the cartridges stuck inmy mind as this is the most fucking
ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
Even from the very first time thatI watched this show, I got to this,
went this scene and went, hang on.
That's pushing it a little bit.
Why is Athena doing that?
Yeah.
Apparently the, the, for the restof the episode I was okay with,

(37:31):
but this bit I'm just went, no, no.
Well, surely I have likeballistics kind of experts who yes.
Come in and do this kind of thing, right?
Or you know, the actualdetective who's, you know, this
is her field of expertise, but
yeah,
it's, it's for the drama, it'sbecause it's Angela Bassett.
It's because it's Athena, but yeah.

(37:56):
It's all for the bit where the,the casing rolls under the, um,
I mean eventually
into like a drain,
oh look, I do not dispute that thiswould be useful because they're able
to retrieve an actual casing thatthey can then trace the bullet from.
My thing is, why is it Athena doing it?
Yeah, yeah.
Considering she's still offduty at this point as well.

(38:18):
Anyway, in like, it doesn't matterbecause I, like my brain stopped
working, watching Buck strap onhis bulletproof vest, honestly.
Okay.
So yes.
So while Athena is loading and unloadingcartridges, we are cutting, we are doing
quick cuts to the members of the 118who are getting into their, um, vests.
Can we just take a moment toabout how sad it is that Chim's

(38:43):
getting dressed with Maddie?
Karen is helping Han into her vestand Buck's getting dressed alone.
Yeah.
I also think Bobby's gettingdressed alone, but that's 'cause
his wife's off playing sniper.
So, um,
yeah, that's it.
Oh, the Buddie of it all.

(39:05):
Okay, so finally they're readyand, the 118 have to roll
out and actually go to a call.
And when they get to this house, Imean, I'm guessing this woman is having
like an asthma attack or something.
She is wheezing as she's breathing,you know, but she doesn't wanna
leave the house because she's, she'slike, is it safe to go out there?

(39:27):
Like the, the news said that youguys were, you know, getting shot at,
but Bobby's like, don't be scared.
We'll get you to the hospital.
Safe and sound.
They leave the house surroundedby like 10 SWAT team guys.
Seriously, so many
In full armor.
Why?
They just said they had limited resources.
Why?
Why have they got so many of them?

(39:47):
But I guess they're trying toprotect them from every angle.
But I feel like in realityit wouldn't be quite so many.
It, it would not, it would not befeasible because they would have like
how many members of SWAT are there?
How many teams could they deploy?
How many you, like how many, um,houses are there of the LAFD?
How many calls do they go out on?

(40:08):
Do like, do you have someone who'ssuffering a heart attack and they
need to get 'em outta the house?
Sorry, SWAT is 30 minutes away.
They've got two more stopsbefore they get to you?
Yeah,
it And who's paying for this?
Like
the city who can't evenafford to fix engines,
but there is like a quick moment thatkind of justifies why SWAT is doing this

(40:29):
because as the 118 are wheeling the womanout, um, we have a quick shot of Bobby
through the cross hairs of a sniper rifle.
The sniper can't get a cleanshot though because SWAT is there
but he's obviously still trying.
Yeah.
So Bobby gets home thatnight very awkward.

(40:50):
It's so awkward.
Athena just kind of comes ingently from the other room.
Like carefully.
Yeah.
She's like, "I hear nobody gotshot today. That's good news." But
they both realized that they werea little bit overreacting earlier.

(41:11):
So she says, "I know you're tired. I justwanted to say," and then they kind of
apologized to each other for overreacting,
I don't think, oh, she does apologize.
I was about to say, I don't thinkAthena actually says it, but she does.
She says that she's sorry too.
Yeah.
And they kind of rehash this conversation,um, that they've been having before

(41:32):
about the fact that they don't talk, Imean, conversation about not talking.
They took, they have a,a brief talk about Yeah.
The, the attack that Athena hadthe pre in the previous year.
Yes.
She's saying that, um, they, theydidn't talk a lot about, uh, what
Athena was going through, but in themidst of all of that, not talking, they

(41:55):
definitely didn't talk about what itwas like for Bobby to go through that.
'cause remember, um, the radio wentto an open frequency while Athena was
being assaulted, and it, Bobby had tosit there in the truck and listen to
her getting the crap kicked out of her.
Yep.

(42:16):
And as he said, he was sittingin the engine thinking that
he was listening to her dying.
Yeah.
And he says, "I didn't need to imagineanything. I knew what my life would feel
like without you in it. And it scared me."
That he's proud of her for doing her job.
Um, he knew that she was just doingher job, but there was a small,
selfish part of him that wishedthat she didn't do that job anymore.

(42:37):
And Athena reiterates that for a momentshe also didn't wanna do her job.
Um, she was scared and we saw that likethe audience, we saw that in the episode
that she was hesitant to go back out.
And, um, then Elaine brought upretirement and she did consider it.
And she specifically didn't tell Bobbythat Elaine had brought up retirement and
she was considering it because she knewthat Bobby would support that and that

(43:02):
she would, he would give her permissionto quit and she couldn't do that.
Bobby finishes the thought sayingthat she couldn't let the bad
guys win because everybody grabbedtheir shot glasses or beer kegs
or whatever it is we're drinking.
Athena is a survivor, and Athena agreesand said, "Yes, we are survivors," and

(43:23):
everybody take a shot while we scream, um,while we start playing Destiny's Child.
It's weird that Bobby starts singingDestiny's Child here, but hey, if they
can get the rights good on him, I guess
he's got the choreography down too.
He just, he just needs thepermission to go for it.

(43:44):
All right, so as it turns out,Buck is staying at the Diaz
house with Chris at the moment.
He's, he's sleeping onthe couch, god bless him.
Yeah.
And uh, he and Chris are eatingcereal when Carla arrives.
Thank god Carla came back.
Huh?
That's very fortunate.
I know, right?
Yeah.
What a, a great timing for, oh my God,

(44:06):
hang on.
Has anyone seen Carla in thesniper in the same room together?
No, but she has literally come totake, um, him to school it sounds like.
'cause she's like, "You're still in yourpajamas and school starts in 20 minutes.
What are you doing?" Buck's like, ohyeah, sorry, I only just woke up and I

(44:27):
don't know what the fuck's going on here.
Um, yeah, so Buck slept throughhis alarm and Carl was actually
grateful because it means that Buckslept, like got some sleep and then
Chris is being sassy and he just said,
this is adorable.
He's like, "Buck snores. Loud."
Carla's like, "Ah, that's also goodto know." And Buck's like, "Thanks.

(44:50):
Um, maybe go get ready for school Chris."
And Chris is like, "Yeah, fine, I'llgo to school, but I'm gonna need a
nap later 'cause of all the snoring."
So yeah, Buck pretty much like throws himoutta the room and Carla's like he seems
to be doing okay and Buck's not actuallysure that he understands what's going on.

(45:13):
But as Carla mentions, Chrishas already lost his mother.
She's like, "I think he understandsmore than we'd like him to."
Yeah.
That poor kid needs to be back in therapy.
'cause the trauma.
Yeah.
Well, especially now after this.
Well, I mean, he's had, like, hewatched Buck get crushed by a firetruck.
He lost his mother.

(45:34):
He s he survived a tsunami.
Um, I don't know if they evertold him about Eddie almost
drowning in that well, um,
oh yeah, right.
People around him go away very often.
And get hurt very often.
Yeah.
So Carla asks like, how it's like,what it's like being back out there

(45:55):
and Buck's like, "Oh yeah, it's weird'cause like it feels off without
Eddie," and Carla's like, "No, likeI'm worried about you being out there."
And he is like, "Yeah, it's fine.
I wasn't shot yet."
Yeah, he's not fine.
Definitely not fine.
He's traumatized.
No, I'm sure this next scene won'tshow that Buck has any trauma from
his best friend slash boyfriend's.
Blood getting in his mouth afterbeing shot and almost dying at all.

(46:18):
It's because he's turning into a vampire.
That's why
I thought I saw some glitter.
Oh no.
Well, why is he hanging out aroundhigh schools all of a sudden?
Okay.
No, let's go.
Okay, so
no, no, no more.
We get a 9-1-1 call from aconstruction site downtown.

(46:42):
No specifics.
It's just a randomconstruction site downtown.
Where one of these workers
yeah, it's a construction site.
Um, got pinned by a cableway up on a tower crane.
Where's the crane?
Uh, somewhere downtown.
Somewhere downtown?
Yeah.
Cool.
Yeah, narrows it down... town.
He's just like, just startdriving 'til you see a tower crane.

(47:02):
It's probably ours.
Yep.
Um, I'm sure there's only one.
So it, it's a, it is kind of acool shot because the, they have a,
it's a very tall crane,
a drone or something that they shootup like right up to the top of a tower
crane that is working to build a, like,multi-level skyscraper ish style building.

(47:24):
And then while the, while the, the camerais right up at the top of the crane, we
see this teeny tiny little engine 118 andrescue ambulance pull up, um, on there.
'cause the site office down below.
So the 118 get out.
And when Bobby was holding up thevests to show Chim what they were
gonna be wearing, I was like,okay, that doesn't look too bad.

(47:47):
But it turns out that was just the vest.
And then they had toadd the Kevlar plates.
So it looks like they've got phone books,
they're very bulky,
strapped to their chest.
It's bulky as fuck.
It looks really uncomfortable.
It really does.
So, LAPD is also on the scene.
We have the return of Officer Williams.

(48:07):
Nice to see you.
Um, the foreman is pissed though becausehe's like, "why have you called the cops?
We didn't need cops.
We just needed the ambulance.
'cause our buddy's hurt."
Yeah.
Calm down.
What are you so afraid of cops for?
Jesus Christ.
'cause his workers areprobably undocumented.
Mm-hmm.
So the issue is that they've got aguy up the top of the tower crane.

(48:31):
One of the cables came unseated.
And the end of the cable is a coupleof large steel beams and the cable is
across the guy's uh, upper arm pinninghim to the, the arm of the tower crane.
Why was the No, I,

(48:53):
no, don't think about it.
There's absolutely no
don't want to know why he was there.
Logical reason why he's out on that arm.
Why the cable is where it is.
It, it doesn't make sense.
Don't even try to think about it.
It'll just hurt.
No,
I don'Ananna think about it.
No, it don't even think about,
but he looks like he's in quite alot of pain and there is a camera
up there pointing directly at him.
Yeah.

(49:13):
So they can see exactly what's going on.
Yeah.
I'm actually surprised that hisarm is still connected to his body
if, 'cause the cables are thosereally big, thick steel cables.
Um, and those steel beamsare quite heavy as well.
I'm really surprised that it didn'tjust slice through his arm like butter.

(49:35):
Um, so then there would've beenan arm falling from the sky.
It's disgusting Anyway.
Um, so Hen and Chim are like, "Ooh,that's like interesting and gross. Um,
there's probably an arterial bleed.He's got like eight minutes to live,"

(49:58):
maybe 10.
Unfortunately, SWAT is 10 minutes outand there's no way that they're gonna
get an ent, entire SWAT battalionup the ladder with whoever has to go
up the LAFD and there's no air ship.
Yeah.
So while they're having this discussion,
they're trying to work outwhat, how they're gonna get
up there and help this guy.
Um,

(50:19):
but Buck has other ideas.
Yeah.
The the worker is just like, "um,I think he beat you to it." And the
whole team turns, including the cops.
And Buck is already climbing the ladder.
Bobby is pissed.
Yeah.
Hen's just like, yeah, of course he did.
Um, Bobby, Bobby calls the radio.
Bobby gives him the "Please explain."

(50:39):
Radio.
Yeah.
Going, "No one cleared you to go up there.
You're completely exposed.
We don't have any way to protect you.
Buckley.
Buckley respond.
Buckley, please explain."
So to get up to the top of thetower crane Buck is literally
having to climb a ladder.
So in order to answer Bobby,he has to stop climbing.

(51:02):
And he is like, "I got this, I gota tourniquet, I got a rope Hen and
Chim can walk me through anythingelse, anything else I need to do."
And then starts climbing again.
Chim just goes, "Can you blame him, Cap?"And Bobby's like, "Yeah, yes fucking can.
What the fuck?" and, Hen justgoes, "Buck's gonna Buck."
Kinda hate how they all likejust shrug and go, eh, it's Buck.

(51:25):
Whatcha gonna do?
Well, I mean, there is literallynothing they can do right now.
'cause he is like on the ladder.
They can't like, get him back down.
Um, so they kind of have to let him go.
He is just gonna, he's gonna getit when he gets back on the ground.
Um, so I mentioned at the beginningof the episode that the whole opening
sequence only lasted two minutes.

(51:46):
Um, and it felt like it took a lot longer.
And I mentioned that there wasanother scene where time was a factor.
And it's this scene because we geta full one minute and 20 seconds
of Oliver climbing ladders with acouple of other scenes cut in and
some dialogue every now and thenjust to, you know, pad out the time.

(52:07):
But it's literally
mostly just dramatic music,
mostly just dramatic music andsweeping camera shots of Buck
climbing this fucking ladder.
Oh, I'm gonna make a referencethat literally none of our viewers
are going to understand, butit's, it's just Metal Gear Solid.
There's, there's a ladderin Metal Gear Solid.
Yes.

(52:28):
Yeah.
You got it.
Oh my God.
Only because there's, only becausethere is, um, as a TikTok who I
follow, he's also apparently astreamer on Twitch of games and he
specifically played Metal Gear Solidto show everybody like the greatest
troll that a developer has ever done.
Um, and it is literally like twominutes of your character climbing

(52:51):
a ladder while a music plays.
And there is no way to skip,there is no way to speed it up.
You just have to let your character climb.
It's literally just like clunk, clunk,clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk,
clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk.
And apparently he did itto stop the speed runners.
Like it's to force you toactually sit there and suffer.

(53:14):
And I love it.
Yeah.
And yes, I do get that reference.
Oh, that game was full of trolls.
That that is kind of how it feelswatching Buck climb up just this crane.
Yeah.
But at the same time, I feel like it wouldtake him a lot longer than one minute, 20
seconds to get up to the top of the crane.

(53:34):
So here's some fun factsfor you about tower cranes.
Um,
It's fun facts with Bex!
I knew you'd come through with this stuff.
The tower cranes can vary inheight, obviously, and they're
usually, they are the height of themaximum height of the building that
they're intending to construct.
Plus like another couple of meters inorder to give the arm clearance and

(53:58):
to be able to, you know, get stuffup over the top of the very top of
the building once it's constructed.
Mm-hmm.
So they can go from, uh, I'mgonna be using metric system.
I will try and translate as I go if I can.
Um, so they go from 30 meters toup to 200 meters tall, which is,

(54:18):
Jesus
like 98 feet to like 650 feet.
It's like almost astall as Jared Padalecki.
I know.
Like Gabriel would definitely need a towercrane in order to climb him like a tree.
Um,
I did a quick Google and there was a,um, a little sort of like a day in the

(54:39):
life of a tower crane operator from a guywho works, who worked on a tower crane
at the University of the UN Minneapoliscampus where they were doing some sort
of project, creating new buildings.
His, the tower crane they had on that sitewas 49 meters tall, so it's like 160 feet.
It would take him 20 minutes toclimb the ladder from the ground

(55:04):
Oh God.
To the cab up the top.
20 minutes.
And then once he was up there, he hadto stay up there for his entire shift.
There was no like coming back up and down.
So yeah, I don't know how tall theladder is that Buck is climbing,
but I'm gonna say it would've takenhim a good 10, 15 minutes to climb.
Mm-hmm.
Keeping in mind that Chim saidthat this guy probably only

(55:27):
had about 10 minutes to live.
Yeah.
And when he, when he gets up there,he, he doesn't look too exhausted
either for having climbed up
there is like they do a quick momentof, okay, Oliver, we just need you
to stop and pretend like you're outof breath 'cause you've been climbing
for so long, um, to sort of indicatehow long he has been climbing.

(55:49):
Um, but yeah, he looks incredibly, um,refreshed by the time he gets to the top.
There is, um.
Yeah, there's one moment as well wherelike while Buck's climbing, there's a,
like a glint in one of the buildings.
It's actually really pretty.
'cause it, it coats Buckin a rainbow for a second.

(56:09):
Um, but yeah, it definitelycould be like a sniper rifle.
Yeah.
Because as he's climbing, he's surroundedby other skyscrapers, which are
pretty much all windows at this point.
Yeah.
He's feeling very exposed.
But then he's like, well, I'm,
I wish he was a bit more exposed.
What?

(56:30):
I walked into that one, didn't I?
But then you can see that there's the,well, you know, I'm up here already, like
there's, there's no point going back down.
If they're gonna shoot me,they're gonna shoot me.
I've still gotta help this guy,so I'm just gonna keep going.
So he gets up to the top, the dude whoby all rights either should not have
an arm or should be unconscious fromblood loss or shock, or who should

(56:52):
be dead is neither of those things.
Um, and still screaming his headoff by the time Buck gets up to him.
Yeah.
He's been screaming for like 20minutes at this point, but sure.
Yeah.
One minute, 20 seconds.
One minute of 20 seconds.
Which just, it just
Buck has legs of steel.
I'm telling you.

(57:13):
So imagine poor Oliver, he's like, Idon't know what sequence they shot, but
he shot like hours of like squattingand hauling Ryan up over his shoulder.
And then they're like, okay,
chocolate cake eating, Ryan.
Okay, now we're gonna need you to climba ladder over and over and over again.
And like I, I do not believe thatthey stuck him on an actual tower

(57:33):
crane and made him climb all that.
But it's probably, it's reallylike sections that they just made
him climb over and over and overagain, but still his legs would've
been burning by the end of it.
Alright.
He finally reaches the guy,
finally reaches the guy, chucksthe tourniquet on his arm,
and then they get himback down and that's it.

(57:54):
How did they get the basket up there?
No, you can't think about it.
No, don't think about it because I, Iwas originally thinking how they gonna
get this guy down, like Buck's gonnahave to carry him down again, the ladder.
Like anyway.
No, they, he cuts the cable and
I guess once he's to tourniqueted, theSWAT team arrives so they can do whatever.
I

(58:14):
don't know.
We, we do need to mention, like, I, Idid kind of brush over the fact that, um,
once he got the tourniquet on the guy'sarm, he did need to cut the cable in order
to release the pressure on the arm sothat he'd get the guy, Cliff, back down.
So he pulls out his handy dandylittle, um, hand circular saw.
I'm not even gonna consider whetherthat would actually be strong enough

(58:35):
to cut through this fucking cable.
We're just gonna accept that it is,um, cuts through the cable, says
to Bobby like, "Make sure thearea is clear down there." Yeah.
Cuts through the cable and
Bobby's like, oh, clear.
No worries.
We're all good.
Except the area.
I mean, the area is clear ofpeople, but it's not all clear.

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'cause he cuts through the cable.
The cable and those heavy-ass steelbeams immediately drop onto a truck.
A truck laden with water barrels.
For the drama they had to havesomething underneath that would explode.
Yes.
So water exploding everywhere.
Apparently those water barrels wereenough to absorb the shock of those heavy

(59:20):
beams traveling at terminal velocity.
Um, because the truck barely bounces.
I would've thought they would'veabsolutely flattened the truck, but
yeah, especially from that height.
Yeah.
And then they teleport ropes anda basket up and somehow and like.
Yeah.
Somehow they get him back down again.

(59:40):
We're not even gonna try andfigure out how he, how he does it.
Um,
they, they teleport him down again.
It's fine.
Uh, because the, uh, the, the importantthing is that Buck's back down on the
ground now within swinging reach of Bobby.
Yeah.
The, the boss guy says, thank you.
And Hen's like, "Don't thankus. Thank the crazy guy," and

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they all turn and look at Buck.
And he's just like, okay.
He's, he's, and then Bobby's justgiving him the worst, like, just
absolutely death glaring him.
And it's like, wait tillwe get home young man.
Yeah.
I'm in trouble.
Yes.
Because, um, apparently Bobby is not goingon the, um, scorched earth with Buck.

(01:00:22):
He's going with the silent treatment.
Mm-hmm.
And so Buck slinks into the kitchenwhere Bobby is preparing lunch and he
is just like, "are are you going to,like, are you gonna say anything?"
He's cutting up thevegetables with some force.
He is taking out all of his, allof his stress on the cabbage,

(01:00:43):
hence poor unsuspecting cabbage.
Mm-hmm.
Um, Bobby's response is, "Idon't know, Buck. What do you
want me to say?" Which, oof,
it's very dad, very dad, Bobby.
It's very dad.
And um.
Buck's like, "oh, I, I don't know.
It's usually something along thelines of, what were you thinking?
Or that was reckless or my personalfavorite, you could have been killed."

(01:01:08):
And Bobby's like, "well, it doesn't seemlike we need to have this conversation.
You know it by heart already, andyet you still went full Buck."
Oh,
poor Buck's like "you, you say that likeit's a bad thing." And Bobby just sighs,
I do like this next part.
I, I, I do enjoy Peter Krause.
So he's very, very good at his craft.

(01:01:29):
He's like, "You know what?
I have come to terms with theidea that you'll never be the
guy who thinks before he acts.
Um, I don't have a choice.
You are never gonna change.
And, but I have, I've come to termswith that because I know that no
matter how dangerous or impulsive youractions are, they come from your heart.
You do it because you care."

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And Buck's like, "wow, thanksBobby." And Bobby's like, "yeah,
that's not what you did today.
Today you made a deliberatechoice to make yourself a target.
And I'm fucking pissed about it."
Bobby tried like Buck tries to defendhimself by saying that he made himself
a target because he didn't want anyof the others to be, become a target.

(01:02:14):
'cause he can't handle anyoneelse getting hurt right now.
I think at this point Bobby's, Bobby'sclued into what's going on in Buck's head
and he's like, "Buck, what happened toEddie is not your fault." Buck's like,
"no, but I was just the guy standingthere who couldn't do anything to
protect him." I'm like, what exactlydid you think you were gonna do, Buck?

(01:02:34):
He'd be like, do youhave psychic abilities?
And you were unable to divine that asniper was setting up and was targeting
Eddie and like, throw yourself in front ofa bullet you didn't even know was coming?
Yeah.
There's no real good reason for him to beso blaming himself for this whole thing,
except that he's Evan Buckleyand that's kind of what he does.

(01:02:57):
Buck being Buck.
He's going full Buck as
he's going full Buck
as Bobby called it.
So Bobby's sort of like, you know, "Weare a team. We are supposed to protect
each other, just don't do it again."
And goes back to angry, chopping

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and Buck, bless him, kind ofsenses that he's been dismissed.
And then we get, as the show is known for,as, um, one of those wonderful transitions
where as he's slinking out of thekitchen, we hear Taylor go, "That's it?"
Is apparently she is over getting winedrunk while Buck is doing his laundry.
Yeah.
Why not?

(01:03:40):
It's the weirdest setup.
She's literally sitting at the benchwith a glass of wine while Buck is
coming downstairs from his loft bedroomwith an arm of towels or something.
I don't know what's going on.
Well, Buck was convinced thatit felt like some kind of
weird reverse psychology thing.
Um, and he likes it betterwhen he just yells at me.

(01:04:00):
It's like he doesn't yell atyou all the time Buck, like
Occasionally he slams youagainst the wall in anger.
Yeah.
But he hasn't done that for years.
Yeah, it's fine.
Taylor's like, "I could yellat you if you think that would
help." And she's like so mad.
Like it, the, the camera goes full on herand she's just like got the angriest face.

(01:04:22):
She is so cute and Buck's like "You can'tbe mad. You weren't even there." Taylor's
like, "There are at least half a dozenvideos on the internet of your climb up
that crane all taken from nearby windows.Any one of those people could have had
a gun and shot at your big stupid head."
You tell him Taylor.
And Buck just goes, "I was wearinga helmet?" and she's like, "not made

(01:04:42):
of Kevlar dumb ass." But then Buckgets like that little satisfied smile
and he is like, "Hold on a second.
It almost sounds like youwere worried about me." Taylor
goes, "I'm annoyed with you.
You are not invincible.
You could have gotten hurt or worse."
Buck's only answer is, "But I didn't."
Oh, his standard answer.
His standard answer, A, B,C, or D could have happened.

(01:05:03):
But it didn't.
Yeah, it didn't.
So what's the problem?
Um, and Taylor is so annoyed and soangry at this that she immediately
storms across the kitchen and kisses him.
'cause you know that's a logical response.
That's what you do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's angry fucking, Okay.
Pretty much, yeah.
She's gonna show like, I am so mad atyou that I'm gonna fuck your brains out.

(01:05:25):
I don't know that that's exactly,um, going to teach him a lesson,
but yeah, no, I feel like that's a reward.
So instead she leaves, she's like,"Oh, um, I don't know where that
came from. It's probably the wine,"
Ma'am, you had one glass, you've drunk,you drink so much, you one glass would
not, would not, um, cloud your senses.

(01:05:47):
Um, but yeah, so Buck's like, "Should wetalk about it?" And she's just leaves,
she backs out pretty damn quick.
She's like, I should go.
And he's about to go afterher, but then his phone starts
buzzing and it's a, it's Ana,
um, he answers the phone with What up Ana?
How's our boyfriend?

(01:06:07):
Um, no.
So he ans he answers and goes,"Is everything okay?" And then
we cut to Buck, literally runningdown the hall of the hospital.
Yeah.
Bless him.
And he gets to the right room.
He rips his mask off.
Ana's like in the middle of the frame,but with her back to the camera.
And she turns to look at Buck and thenmoves aside to reveal Eddie awake.

(01:06:34):
And he just goes, "Hey, Buck."
Did Ana like call Buckimmediately as he woke up?
Like.
I, I'm gonna assume so.
Eddie probably woke up andwas like, where's Buck?
Like what are you doing here?
Where's Buck,
uh, at home with your son?
Where, you know, maybe Anashould have been, but whatever.

(01:06:55):
I'm assuming that Carlawas a Chris at this point.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But Buck was the one thatstayed there overnight.
True.
Yeah.
And later when they're FaceTiming,so they're FaceTiming with Chris
on um, Buck's phone, I guess.
Yes.
And he does say that and Carla says,"oh, me and Buck have got it sorted

(01:07:15):
out." I'm like, what about Ana?
She's, she's just been atthe hospital the whole time?
Like,
I'm pretty sure 'cause there was,there was a shot earlier in the episode
where when they're doing the sort ofthe montage thing where she was kind
of sitting vigil next to Eddie's bed.
So Buck's looking after his kid.
She's sitting there like the dutifulgirlfriend waiting for him to wake up.

(01:07:38):
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
But like sitting there isn't gonna feedhis son, so it's fine, let Buck do it.
'cause he is actually Chris's parent.
Mm-hmm.
So Eddie tells Buck that he appreciatesBuck staying with Chris and.
Buck says, well, it, it made sense.
It was probably overwhelming enoughfor Christopher without him having

(01:08:00):
to sleep in a strange bed as well.
And so Eddie, he asks afterChris, is he doing okay?
Oh, yeah, because Carla offeredto bring him to her house.
Yes.
Like still no mention of Ana looking afterthe kid that he, she's basically been
living with for the last couple months.
No, no.
So Eddie asks after Chris, Bucksays, "oh, he's doing better than me.
I, uh, I kind of lost it on himwhen I told him that you were shot,

(01:08:23):
like broke down sobbing in his lap.
I'm really sorry.
I should have held it together." AndEddie's like it's, you were, you were
there for him when I couldn't be.
That's what matters.
And Buck sort of mutters, "it, it mighthave been better for him if I'd been
the one that got shot." And Eddie'slike, what the fuck did you just say?
I'm sorry.
Is the anesthesia stillclouding my hearing?

(01:08:46):
What?
Yep.
Yeah, we don't get to hear any more ofthat conversation though, because we
have to go to the, we go back to the
lapd, um, Athena, the ballistics expert.
Well, okay.
So we have a brief scene where Athena,um, they, they got the results back
from the bullet casing that they foundif it's what a sniper would use and

(01:09:11):
matches the slugs from both scenes.
Um, but they,
yeah, but they, they didn't send a report.
They sent the chief
and so Denvers is wondering whyhe has come to deliver this news.
But yeah, like long story short, basicallythe ammunition was, was match grade,
It was expensive and traceable.

(01:09:31):
Yeah.
Down to the lot number.
And ballistics reached out to themanufacturer to identify the purchaser
and the manufacturer called thepurchaser who happened to be the chief
of police because the sniper didn'tget his ammo from the gunshot shop.
He got it from the LAPD.
Yeah.
And the chief's like,
Dun, dun, dun.
I am not the sniper.

(01:09:52):
Yeah.
Just to be clear, I, I shot nobody,
but the LAPD provided the bullets.
Yeah.
So they, 'cause it's very traced,like obviously you need to find, you
need to know where really expensive,really powerful ammo is from the
LAPD, so they know exactly who it was.
Yeah.

(01:10:12):
A Athena says it later that the armorykeeps detailed log of all of the ammo
and those rounds were issued to him.
So they, they roll into this house andthey, they break down the door and then
they chuck in a flash bang grenade.
It's like, wow, is this really howthey go about arresting people?
But I guess so if they'rejust gonna raid the house,

(01:10:33):
but could we, like they throw,they bash down the door,
they throw in the flash bang.
The dude is just in his bedroom,on his knees, hands behind
his back waiting for them.
Yeah, he's not doing anything dodgy.
I understand they're probably,they're treating him as a, as a
domestic terrorist, but like youdidn't need to go to that extent.

(01:10:54):
Yeah.
Well, they didn't know, um, true.
Anyway.
Yeah.
So they, they bring him in.
Um, he apparently got fired sixmonths previously because he
accidentally shot a hostage.
And Denvers is just like, "ha ha,Athena, you have to go talk to him."
It's like, it, it reminds me, okay, I'mjust going to like, I keep bringing up

(01:11:14):
Supernatural, but it reminds me of thatbit where they're, they're like gonna,
they, um, torture Alistair and they'relike, "Dean, you need to go and do this."
Yeah, it has to be.
She's looking at Athena and she'slike, you need to get him talking.
I'm like, she's gonna torture him?
Oh no.
I've watched way too much Supernatural.
I haven't watched in ages, but I'vebeen like, I've had the urge lately.

(01:11:36):
And I'm like, oh no,it's calling to me again.
Ha.
Well, it, it is, it has been the birthday,
it has been Cas's birthday
and Castiel day.
Yep.
Yeah, so back at dispatch, um, Suelike happily tells Maddie that they
got the sniper and he's in custody.
It's like, you should,like, shouldn't you wait?
But no.
Instead they've been like, yep.
This is probably the only personever who has sniped anybody.

(01:11:59):
Oh yeah.
Like everybody, everyone's safe now.
Everybody's on stand down.
They're like, yeah, we got the guy.
Um,
yeah, we're good.
Which we haven't even spoken to himyet, but we're probably fine now.
So Maddie's in the conference room and Suewalks in and shuts the door behind her.
And like considering Maddie'sfamily are like pretty much all
first responders, she's like, she'snot super happy about this news.

(01:12:22):
She's just like, "Oh, that's a relief."
And Sue goes, "Yeah, now things cango back to normal." And Maddie's like,
"Yeah, that's kind of what I wantedto talk to you about." And Sue's like,
"This isn't gonna be a happy talk, isit?" Um, should mention she still has
a cane, so she's still recovering.
That's always nice when
excellent continuity.
Good work.
Yep.

(01:12:43):
Actually have continuity.
Although this show sometimesis good with continuity.
Like the fact that they had amark on Chimney's forehead for
so long after the rebar incident.
Sometimes they're good withcontinuity, sometimes not so much.
But I do like snaps to them forremembering to give Sue a cane.
Makeup and wardrobe do their best.
But yeah, Maddie just says verybluntly, "I'm quitting." Mm-hmm.

(01:13:04):
And Sue knows something's wrong.
She's just like, you know, "Is everythingokay at home? I know you've been
worried about Jee." And poor Maddie.
She just says "I'm failing her.
I'm just so tired all the time.
I can't focus, I feellike I'm in this fog.
I can't get free of,I, I need to do better.
I need to be better and Ican't do that and be here."
Poor Maddie.

(01:13:25):
And Sue says "if you feel like youneed to spend more time at home, I
understand, but I want you to talk to..."
and Maddie interrupts her and islike, "Don't tell me to go see like
the counselors." And that wasn'twhere Sue was going, but she's like,
"no, I want you to talk to Chimneybecause what you are describing and

(01:13:46):
what I see here, this is more thanjust having too much on your plate.
You need to talk to Chimney."
Bless Sue.
Which is exactly the, the exactlythe, the correct thing that
Sue should, should have said.
Yeah.
But that's all we get from that scene.

(01:14:06):
'cause we've gotta go backto the LA LAPD where they're
interrogating the wrong dude.
Kenneth is our suspected sniper's name.
Um, yes.
What?
Kenny Choi?
uh, he, the, the rounds.
No wonder he needs to talk to Maddie.

(01:14:27):
The rounds might've been issued to him,but he hasn't touched his gun in months.
And this, this scene I like,it's, it's for the drama.
It's so for the drama, but it's sounnecessary because Athena's walked in
and like, you know, "You've got a grudgeagainst first responders because you shot

(01:14:47):
the wrong man and you lost your job."
And Ken's like, bitch,what are you talking about?
I quit.
Yeah, Kenneth's, like, no, I don't,
I I made it, I told them not tobother doing an investigation.
I knew that I had done something wrong andI made it easy for everyone and I left.
I so that I could try and get on withmy life and try to figure out how to
live with the mistake that I made.

(01:15:09):
Yeah.
So I don't hate firefighters.
I'm grateful for firefighters, and I'mgoing, shouldn't they have known that
if they'd like pulled his personal file,
wouldn it be in his file?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like Denvers just like, oh,he got fired six months ago.
And it's like, whosefile are you looking at?
Because this guy quit.
Like, ma'am, did you actually open thefile and read or did you just like look
at the wiki summary that the AI that thea LAPD, um, officers are using and it's

(01:15:32):
just said, uh, like his job ended andthis date and you've just assumed fired?
I don't know if they,
no man, this is like fouryear, four years ago.
AI was not good then It'scome along very quickly.
Well, that's why the summary was so bad.
Not bad.
Yeah.
Like Google AI is not great now.
They used Google AI and it's just like,yeah, this guy was totally fired, lol.
And they were like, oh yeah,we'll just take that as gospel.

(01:15:54):
Um, anyway, yeah.
So Kenneth, who apparently is notChimney, um, didn't care about care
about being cleared, he felt bad.
Um, he loves firefighters,which is a weird kink, but sure
they've got the wrong person.
Also, Athena mentions that theaccident happened, like the, where he
shot the wrong man was in a factory.

(01:16:15):
That's all we get.
So after he's just like,yeah, no, I love firefighters.
You need to find someone whodoesn't like firefighters.
Um, then we get a 9-1-1 call from a guywho's like, "I'm trapped in a fire."
Oh, it's so bad.
So May's like, "Cool, what's your address?
Blah, blah, blah.

(01:16:35):
Um, what's your name?" And the guygoes, "Ethan," and then hangs up.
Not at all suspicious.
No, it's totally normal.
'cause they've got the sniper,the snipers in custody.
It's fine.
Of course.
So the 118 get dispatched.
Um, Ravi has been bumped up fromB shift to fill Eddie's spot

(01:16:58):
while Eddie is still recovering.
Um, and he immediatelygets paired with Buck.
Lucky Ravi
not go Ravi.
Yeah.
So they start like settingup the cha the scene.
Um, Ravi does the exposition.
"Glad we don't need bulletproof vestsanymore." And Buck's like, "Yeah, I won't

(01:17:18):
miss them." Then we go back to the LAPDwho are just like, "ah, Kenneth's gun
was right where he said it'd be buried inthe yard, hasn't been fired in months."
What?
Why was he still allowed to keep his gun?
I don't know.
Maybe.
And then Athena's like, oh,maybe, he used a different...
Why did he bury it in the yard?
Yeah, why wouldn't hejust hand it back in?

(01:17:39):
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's just, let's not worry about that.
Athena's like, "oh, maybe he used adifferent weapon," and Denvers was
like, "oh, probably not though, hey."And Athena's like, "yeah, I don't think
he's our guy, but the ammo was his, oh,someone else had access to, but who?"
Hmm.
"Oh, rifleman don't work alone.They work in pairs." And so instead

(01:18:00):
of like calling all the, like thefirst responders going, oh shit,
actually they might still be a sniper.
They just leave it.
It's fine.
I'm sure they'll be right.
Well I think at this point they stillhave to like pull the personnel file and
try and figure out where like who he,who his partner was, and then locate,
oh, absolutely.
But like, maybe be like, actually wedon't think we have the sniper in custody.

(01:18:21):
Like, can you pleasego back to being safe?
But would that incite a panic amongstthe first responders and put them?
Well, I mean, probably, probablyless panic than when they got shot.
But, um, anyway,
it would nice if, um, it would've beennice if Kenny, like Kenny, Kenneth
had give, given up his, um, partner.

(01:18:41):
You know, they didn't even ask him.
No, they didn't care.
So Hen and Chimney are like in theburning building, yelling for Ethan.
Um, there's no sign of him.
Dispatch said he may be unconscious.
So Bobby's heading up to three.
Um, so he goes to the third floor andit's some sort of like fashion or like

(01:19:03):
clothing warehouse, but there are heapsof mannequins, which is super creepy.
Mm.
Um, because like everywhere youlook, you think that there's
people and it's just mannequins.
And we do get a lot of shots throughBobby's, like from Bobby's point of view.
So he's in full breathing apparatuswith like the face mask on.
So not only is it creepy enoughthat there are mannequins, Bobby's

(01:19:27):
visibility is incredibly reduced.
You've got the smoke and the flamesand then the masks completely
narrows his field of vision.
So it's, it's even more, um, it'seven easier for him to mistake
the mannequins for actual people.
Um,
oh, absolutely.
I was mistaking 'em for actual,people and I was watching on tv.
We had full camera view.

(01:19:48):
Yeah.
Yeah.
And while he is up there searching forthis supposedly unconscious, um, man,
May comes over the radios orderingthe 118 to evacuate the building.
Bobby's like, "why are we evacuatingon who's authority we evacuating?"
And May tells him like, "LAPD."Like your wife is telling you to

(01:20:08):
get your ass outta that building.
Um,
Mom says she'd have to come home.
Mom says you're late for dinner.
Uh, but Bobby does not evacuate, um,because he sees a pair of feet lying
amidst a gaggle of mannequins onthe other side of the factory floor.
So he's not going toleave somebody behind.

(01:20:31):
He's going to rescue Ethan if he can.
So he gets across the factory floor,he grabs hold of Ethan only to
discover that Ethan was a mannequin.
And then Bobby realizes that it's atrap and we hear over the sound of the
fire, over the sound of his breathingapparatus we hear the very distinctive
sound of a handgun being cocked.

(01:20:54):
And then Bobby gets shot.
Ah, I happened to know thathe was in future seasons.
So at this point I wasn't tooworried about him, but I can imagine
that if you were seeing this live,it would be quite terrifying.
Yeah.
Like, oh my god, Eddie survived.
Oh wait, nevermind.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, so that takes us to commercial.

(01:21:14):
We come back to see LAPD have convergedon the scene because I guess they
finally discovered who Kenneth'spartner was and that he was the one
that called in this fire emergency.
The 118 have evacuated and they'reall standing outside frantically

(01:21:35):
calling for Bobby over theradio and he's not answering.
Um, and Athena of course is rockedup and she's like, "Where is my
husband?" And like, he's still inthe building looking for the victim.
She's like, "Victim? He's the sniper."
"Ethan Copeland? He's nota victim. He's the sniper."
She's so dramatic.

(01:21:57):
Oh, this entire thing is so
She like,
took sunglasses off eventhough it's nighttime.
It's so strange.
Like, and just to like increase the drama.
Um, Bobby kind of holds himself up asEthan is telling him to, um, to call
the firefighters back into the building.
And, um, Bobby like rips off hisrebreather and knocks his helmet

(01:22:18):
aside and is like, "And what?
And if I don't, then what we burn?"And Ethan's like, "Just tell 'em
you broke your leg or something.
Get them back in here." I'mlike, "nah, I think you shot
enough firefighters already."
Literally Bobby does not care.
Bobby's like, the fuck are you gonna do?
Like, either you burned a death inhere with me or like I call them
back and you shoot more of my family.

(01:22:39):
So like, why would I,
that does not sound likea, a good deal to me.
No thank you.
No.
So then we get Exposition Hen
Oh no, we get Exposition Deputy,um, director of like the LAPD.
Oh yeah.
He's there too.
The chief because chief's shown up.
He's
Yeah.
Yeah.
So yeah, the snipers, ex-LAPD.

(01:23:01):
After his partner quit, they realized hewas a problem and removed him from duty.
So I don't know why they were like, ohyeah, let's get the guy who quit rather
than the partner who we removed from duty,
the guy who was the problem.
But sure, let's blame the guy who quitbecause he accidentally shot a hostage
and now he has the thirst for blood.
It's like when people feeddogs bones and it is like, oh,
you can't feed them raw meat.
They'll get the taste for blood.

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And it's like, that's not what,anyway, meanwhile, Athena's just
like, "yeah, but where's Bobby?"
Um, Buck's like, "yeah.
Yeah.
He's on the third floor Bravo side.
Somewhere around that window."
Yeah.
And this, this scene is great though.
Yes.
When the chief's like, "what's rightbehind us? We are taking over this
scene." And Chim's like, "You aretaking over the fire?" He's like, "Who

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are you?" And Chim goes, "Howard Han,118. And since my captain's trapped
inside, I'm in charge of this scene."
Yay.
And we all cheer
very dramatic.
Meanwhile, while Chim's facingoff with Pate, Athena is staring
at Buck like telegraph, liketalking through her eyes at him.
And Buck is staring back at her like,what, what are you trying to tell me?

(01:24:09):
What?
And of course he doesn't,
Who's stuck in the well?
So she drags him off to the side,um, because she's realized that of
everybody down in the 118, Buck isthe only one she can strong arm.
And she needs to get inside that building.
And he is afraid of her.
So he's going to do what she wants.

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Buck's gonna Buck, but she's gonnaforce him to Buck in this case.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She's gonna take advantageof Buck being Buck.
She's like, "Buck, you need to helpme." Hen teleports next to Athena
and goes, "Help you do what?"
Yeah, she's seen Buck suddenly gone.
Like Bobby's stuck in the building.
Buck has suddenly disappeared and Hen'slike, oh shit, I need to find Buckley.

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Only to, only to discover it.
Is he climbing a ladder again?
She's just got like, she'slike, he's with Athena.
That should be okay.
Um, but Athena's like,no, not in this case.
I need him to be Buckto go get my husband.
I do like this segue.
'cause Athena says, "go get myhusband." And Bobby says, "You're
insane." I'm like, yes, yes.

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She Oh, you're not talking to her.
And we're all like, okay,
yeah, we're all like, yes.
Yes she is.
Bobby, you are correct.
Oh, you're talking to Ethan?
Yes, apparently.
And yes, Bobby's like, "We're both gonnadie in here for what?" And Ethan's like,
"Well, I'm done either way, so I may aswell take as many out with you as I can."
Bobby's like, "Well, no one's comingin." Like, he'd be better off going to
the window and just wildly shooting.

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Yes, very much so at this point.
Um,
but yeah, he's a fricking dumb ass.
He is a cop.
So
yeah.
So Buck's, like Buck's backon the ground explaining to
Hen like, "Oh, it'll be easy.
Like we go in on the Delta side,most of the fires contained there,
um, Athena drops in, makes her wayacross to Bravo." And Hen's like,
"Except she'll be in a fire!" AndAthena's like, "So put the gear on me.

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I'll be protected.
I'm not gonna be in there that long."
So while this is all happening, Chimis still squaring off with the chief.
Literally they're still chatting,as I said, like Ethan could have
just gone and started shooting andtaken out the whole squad by now.
Um, because he's trying to get pto loop him into what's going on.
'cause SWAT obviously wannaget into the building to get

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Ethan, but Bobby is in there.
So the 118 and all of the other LAFDneed to make sure that Bobby is not
going to be caught in the crossfire andthat Bobby is going to be, um, safe.
Um, so he Pate's like, "I will, like,let me get my guys in position and
then I'll let you know," and walks off.

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At this point, Hen comes back andChim's like, "we need to get this fire
knocked down so we can go in thereand get Cap," and Hen's like "Yeah.
About that." Um, and looks over Chim'sshoulder and Chim's like, what the fuck?
Turns around to see Buck and Raviclimbing up the ladder of the ladder
truck with Athena in between them.

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Yeah, does the laddertake three people at once.
Um, I know Athena's quite small.
Yeah.
Because it'd, it'd get, um, likethey get, um, injured people up and
down it with the thingy all the time.
So
it's, it definitely would be, I I'mguessing that they've upgraded since
the last one that got blown up.

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Yeah.
Um, but also like, um.
Ravi's, like quite small.
Athena's quite small.
Yeah.
Ravi's tiny.
We got the brick shit houseup in front, but that's fine.
The other two are Okay.
Um,
yeah, so inside Ethan'sstill chucking a tantrum.
He's like, "oh, where are they?"And Bobby's like, "Well, the
building's on fire." Like,what do you expect you dumbass?

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They're both, both sittingthere without breathing gear on.
They're both just like, thewhole building is on fire.
Like, Ethans, like monologuing.
There's smoke everywhere.
I don't know how they're notlike passing out from the smoke.
No, I'll say the Bobby's, he's startingto look a little bit sweaty and a
little bit in pain at this point.
He's, because he's, he's been shot.
He did get shot.
Yeah.
But he's just like, "Oh, you know,we, we can totally save yourself.

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Like I can help you get outta here."And this is where Ethan sort of like
starts his little manifest and heis like, "oh, like, don't you ever
think it's just a waste of time thatsome lives don't deserve saving."
And Bobby's like, "Everyone deservesto be saved." Meanwhile, on the
roof, Buck cracks open a skylighttries to go in and Buck's like,

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"No, I can't protect you in there.
He's trying to kill firefightersand Buck's like, "Yeah,
you are dressed as one."
Because at some point Athena got put inturnout, and please be aware that for
the next couple of minutes, I am justtrying to figure out who the fuck gave
Athena their turnout, because we don't see
Yeah.
Who's naked right now?
We don't see the back of her turnout, I'massuming Ravi, but I'm pretty sure that

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we get a shot of Ravi up on the roof and
Yeah.
Don't we see Ravi?
Turnout.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ravi's in his turnout,
so it's not, so, I don't knowwho's Hen's still in her turnout.
She would be absolutely swimmingin it if it was Buck's turnout.
Um, I don't think Chim gave his up, soI would be so curious to know where,
is there a, there must bea spare one in the truck.
I'm assuming that Athena justlike sized up the 1 64 and the

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rest of the 118 as to someone whowas like her size and just went
"You, get naked."
Yes.
I mean, it's not naked,it's just his jacket.
Like just the jacket?
Yeah.
And the pants,
but, and the breathing equipment.
Yeah.
Um,
yeah.
So, um, Athena is in the firefighter gear.
Um, she like climbs down a ladder.

(01:29:39):
She manages, I don'tknow what she's doing.
She's opening doors, I think.
Um, and she has her gun is the main thing.
I think the skylight, it possiblyis a hatch for the service elevator.
And she's climbing down the ladderon the inside of the service elevator
and then she has to open the,like, the sliding doors to get in.
Oh yeah, that makes sense.
That's makes the only thingthat makes sense to me.
It's, it's all very like, confusingand Ethan's still doing his manifest.

(01:30:02):
So he is like, "Oh, there was a guythat took this place hostage a few
months back, hurt a bunch of people. Meand my partner, we tried to stop him."
You're making, we made a mistakeway more dramatic than he does even.
Yes.
So much more dramatic than he does.
"My partner shot the wrong person andinnocent man got hurt." Bobby's like,
"Yeah, we all make mistakes." "The thingis that gunman shouldn't have been alive.

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He'd ODed multiple times.
But you firefighters, you so-calledheroes, you kept saving him."
You saved, saved his lives so hecould go and ruin someone else's.
We've gone into like in daytime soap, now
we have.
It was great.
I was having a great time.
I don't know what you guys were watching.
Um, Bobby's just like, "Yeah,that's the job." Like Bobby does

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not give a fuck at this point.
No.
He's literally just like sittingthere just like, "Yeah, whatever.
We don't choose who lives or dies.
We say we just save people." AndEthan's like, "you don't have to make
the tough choices, but people loveyou for it and hate guys like me."
"You think saving lives is a hardjob. Try having to take them."
Bex is getting on board.

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Uh, meanwhile outside the newpolice sniper, sniper is in the
building going, "oh, I have eyeson the suspect." And they're like,
"oh, do you have a clean shot?""Nah," Why are you talking about it?
Fucking
because like, he needs to,because he can see Ethan.
Unfortunately, Ethan is kind of pacingbackwards and forwards a bunch amongst.
Amongst a bunch of mannequinsso the sniper can see him, but

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he doesn't have a clear shot.
But he needs to know that.
Yes, I do actually I can see him.
I know where he is, so I can give himyour location if you need to, but I
cannot myself take the shot right now.
Yeah, I can't do much.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So Athena has been making her way throughthe building and as Ethan does, his very,
you think saving lives is a hard job.
Try having to take them.

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They then look to the sidebecause something's caught
both of their attention.
And they look as Athena, who is dressedall in turnouts, walks through fire
with a gun out pointed at at Ethan.
And before Ethan even aims his gun at her,shoot her she shoots, which I'm pretty
sure is not how they're supposed to go.

(01:32:16):
I'm pretty sure they're supposed tolike yell at them to stand down first.
Um, but yeah, Athena justshoots him because yeah,
I would assume that the fact thathe has his gun aimed at Bobby.
That he's, yeah, she,that's he's a threat.
He's a credible threat.
She can take him down.
It's, um, and, and her onlywitness is her husband.
And as if he's gonna be like, oh yeah, no.
Like he was unarmed and like notlooking, he was gonna be like, oh yeah.

(01:32:36):
She, he totally, almost shot her.
No, it was so scary, you guys.
But the thing is
Well he nearly shot him,
we, the thing is that we, the audience,we know this is Athena, all Bobby sees
is a firefighter in turnout and breathingapparatus, holding a handgun, walking
toward him and shooting this guy.
And he's like, he's probably wonderingA, whether he's hallucinated or B,

(01:32:57):
where the hell Buck got a gun from?
Because if anybody,
no, Bobby's, Bobby's got the mostconfused boner of his life right now.
Well, once he works outwho it is, then yeah,
no, then it just becomes less confusing.
He's like, oh, thank God.
It's like, um,
oh, it's Athena.
Oh it's you.
It's like the poor guy in Mulanwho's got the hots for Mulan.

(01:33:18):
And then it's like, ohmy god, you're a girl.
Thank God.
Yeah.
So then Athena like startsstripping off bit of music plays.
It's kind of weird.
Um,
yeah, while they're stillin the middle of the fire.
Oh yeah.
The building is stillon fire at this point.
Yeah.
The building's still on fire.
And
also also seen the firehas not seemed to progress.

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It's being very well behaved.
No, even though no one's like,no one's hosing it down, nothing.
It's just like, oh, you know, theytold me not to go there, so I'm just
gonna chill in my little doorway.
Um.
And yeah, Athena's like, Athenadoesn't even like speak to Bobby.
She's just like, "This is Athena Grant.
Suspect is down.
Need medical assistance.

(01:34:00):
Captain Nash has been shot."And Bobby's like "Athena.
How did you," she's like,"I'm here, I got you!"
oh, okay.
Petition for
It is really cool.
Like look,
petition for anytime we get a suckyepisode, Alice is just gonna recreate it.
So Alice, you better be preparedto do most of season five.

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'cause I think that's gonna be theonly way we're gonna get through it.
Is this not what hap Thisis exactly how I heard it.
I don't know what show you werewatching, but it was very dramatic
when I watched it last night.
Oh, it was very fucking dramatic.
But I wasn't quite this dramatic.
I, I love seeing, I loveseeing Athena be a badass.
She's great at it.
But this episode was just possiblya step too far with she no could

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She walked through fire.
It was very exciting.
Bobby had a confused boner.
It was great.
There's no way anyone would be lettingher go anywhere near that building.
God no.
But which is why she targetedBuck, because Buck was the only
one that was gonna let her do it.
Um, because he's afraid of her.
Buck's scared of his mother.
Yeah.
Ravi's scared of Buck.
Buck's afraid of his mother, Ravi'sscared of Buck and Athena's gun.

(01:35:08):
Um, so he is like, I'll do whatever.
Hen's just like, "Fuck yeahgirl. You go get your man."
Yeah.
Hen honestly, I think Hen's checkedout of this episode, she does not care.
And anyway.
Yeah.
So Bobby wakes up later,he's in a hospital bed.
Um, he's like, what up?
Athena's like, "Welcome back." Hegoes, "Ethan?" Athena's like, "Yeah.

(01:35:28):
He didn't make it." Andyeah, so Ethan, Ethan somehow
means that they'd arrested...
it doesn't imply that Athena killed him.
It implies that he killed himselfbecause she says "he didn't make it.
Once we'd arrested Malone, Ethan knewit was just a matter of time before he
figured out he was the real sniper."
That makes, no, that was before i, thatwas before she came in and shot him.

(01:35:50):
No, I interpreted that as,
yeah, like, oh, it was his fault.
So like,
um, okay.
Well I interpreted thatas like death by police.
Like suicide by cop.
Yeah.
Pretty much.
Well, he kind of, well he didsay that earlier, earlier too.
He was like, yeah, I'mnot getting outta here.
Like,
yeah.
So I wanna take as many asmany of you with me as I can

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He pushed the confrontation
Yeah.
By setting fire to the building.
Okay.
So I was kind of, um, yeah, itwas definitely suicide by police.
Um, but anyway, Bobby is stilllike, he's like, "You went into
a burning, burning building.
I didn't imagine that, right?
You walked through fire." And Athena'slike, "yeah, well you were inside.
I wasn't gonna let a little fire stop me.
I needed to get my partner back." Yeah.

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Drama aside, this is actuallya really sweet Bathena scene.
They're so cute
It's really cute.
He's like, "Thanks for coming toget me." And she's like, "Always."
It is the, the whole callback too, like.
I needed my partner
episode one.
Yes.
Um, was very,
actually, I think it'sepisode two, but yeah.
The first,
but it's also, um, like the callbackto just the fight that they had earlier

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where, you know, Bobby is sayingyou don't want a partner in your
work or in your marriage and Yeah.
Or as I said it, like in, you don'twanna partner in the streets or
partner in the sheets in the streets.
Yeah.
And she's here acknowledging that Yes, shedoes actually see Bobby as her partner.
Yeah.
And like almost losing him one to afight and then two to a crazy gunman.

(01:37:18):
Like, she's gonna holdon a little tighter now.
Yeah.
It's really cute.
Extremely implausible, but adorable.
That's fine.
It's cute.
It's like, Bathena is extremelyimplausible, so we just go with it.
Yeah.
Anyway, so then we go to Buck's loftand there's a knock on the door.

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Buck answers it, and of courseit's Taylor and she's like,
"ah, you're still not dead."
Damn it.
Um, damn it.
Now we actually have tohave this conversation.
I was really hoping that he'd just dieand we wouldn't have to talk about it.
No, Taylor would never,
oh, Taylor, 100% definitely.
Yes.
She would've been so, she would've beensad, but she would've been very relieved.

(01:38:02):
She didn't have to have the conversation.
Um, so yeah.
Buck's like, "Oh, you came back.
I wasn't sure that that was gonna happen."And she is like, "Yeah, I kind run away."
Um, and he is like, yeah, I noticed,
but, and, but Taylor very, very rightlysays, "But you didn't chase me." I'm like,

(01:38:23):
he could have easily said,like, distracted you.
Like I were distracted by thefact that my husband woke up from
like his medically induced coma
Yeah, sorry.
Like my, my boyfriend woke up.
But instead he like becomes allprofound and he is like, "Spent a
long time feeling like I wasn't enoughand I don't wanna do that anymore.
So if you don't want me..." butTaylor steps inside and puts her arms

(01:38:44):
around Buck's neck and goes, "I do,I really do." And they have smooches
and I roll my eyes so hard that they'relike, they pop out of their sockets.
I just, let Taylor, be happy for a minute.
Jesus.
Look, I am very happy for Taylor.
I just finding this particular, like Ispent long enough feeling like it wasn't

(01:39:09):
enough and I don't wanna do that anymore.
Very hard to reconcile after like thered pill Buck we got at the end of
tail at the end of "Treasure Hunt".
That was pissed.
Oh yeah, that totally,he got friend zoned.
Yeah, it's just, but it'sfine because he almost died.
Well he tried to kill himselfa couple times this episode.
So he's all good.
Yeah, it's just the inconsistency isdoing my head in when it comes to Buck
and Taylor and I know that's becausethey're pushing the relationship

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really, really, really hard and they'renot actually thinking about it, but.
Not only that, but it'sdifferent writer every week.
Yes.
Yeah.
That doesn't help.
Yeah.
And then we get the worst, like,
oh, this is heartbreaking.
Yeah.
So Maddie is at home, she's on the couch.
Yes.
We don't see her belly.

(01:39:53):
She's just curled up on the couchand the shot is of her face.
She looks very sad.
Yeah, you're right.
I didn't notice it before, butyes, Chim, I, I guess I don't know
if he gets home or he is alreadygot home earlier or something.
He looks like, he looks like jammies.
'cause he's in a, a Phoenix shirt,like one of his casual shirts.

(01:40:14):
But he says, "are you nappingwithout me?" Like, were you
planning to have a nap together?
That's a weird thing to say, but anyway,
it's, I love, are you kidding?
I love napping with a partner.
Really?
Yeah.
It's great.
Don't you just keep each other awake?
No,
that would, what would be happeningif I laid down in my bed with my,

(01:40:35):
but like we would just not, neitherof us would be going to sleep.
Ooh.
Have like cuddles and like, yeah.
Lucky Ellen, Jesus or Lucky Mr. Ellen.
You just like lie down and it's allcozy and like Yeah, naps are great.
That is not what is happening here though.
Um, what is happening here is thatMaddie is going to confess that

(01:40:56):
she quit her job because when Chimasks, "did something happen, are you
okay?" She says, "No, I am not Okay.
And I need help."
Oh, poor Maddie
and Chim is very quick to say "Yes.We'll get you help. Whatever it is, we'll
get you help." As Maddie starts to cry,

(01:41:18):
he's so worried about her.
Yeah.
And like, I mean, admittingthat you need help is one of
the hardest things to ever do.
Yes.
Admitting that you need help is thefirst step, but it's the hardest step.
And unfortunately we don't getmore than that 'cause we have
to go to the fucking park.

(01:41:38):
Yeah.
Can we just skip this scene?
Yeah, we can.
We can speed run this in.
Basically it's Hen and Karenat the park with Denny, Nia and
her mother is also at the park.
They end up having lunch withNia and her biological mother.
Yeah.
Nia's cute but it's just like,
like, I understand.

(01:41:58):
Yeah.
I'm not sure of the point.
The point is that it's the seasonfinale, so we need to wrap up all of
everyone's storyline so we get, like,we wrap up Buck and Eddie's storyline.
We, we wrap up the fightthat Bobby and Athena had.
We plant the seeds for Madney's storyline.
We need to do something for Hen andrather than, oh hey, you know, she's

(01:42:20):
in medical school, maybe we coulddo something with medical school.
They decide, no, we are going to wrapup by calling back to the Nia situation.
Which, yeah.
So yeah.
And show that Nias Mom's actually lovelyand so good, and she totally deserves
to have her child back and blah, blah.
And so grateful to Hen and Karen fortaking her child and looking after her.

(01:42:42):
And, you know, Hen and Karen are sogracious and not at all admitting
that they stalked this poor womanand where, you know, this close
to like suing her for her child.
Yeah.
None of that.
Um, but now we go to the, the best scene.
The best scene,
the best scene.
Um, so we're back at the hospital,but Eddie's up and dressed his

(01:43:03):
arm's in a sling, and he issitting on the side of the bed.
He is finally kicked Ana out sohe can actually talk to Buck.
Well, I think Ana is, um, backat the Diaz house getting ready.
That's fine.
Who cares about Ana?
But who cares about Ana?
Because right now we have to talk aboutEddie and Buck because Eddie has been
meaning to talk to Buck about something.

(01:43:23):
And this is as good as time as any.
I mean's pretty good for someonewho's about to be discharged.
Usually they get rid ofyou as quickly as they can.
Yeah.
But he looks fine.
He's, it's, it's a, whatever'sgoing on with Ryan in this scene is
very good and he needs to continue.
That's all the chocolate cake.
Yes.
If that's what it is, thencake on, Ryan because damn.

(01:43:49):
But yeah, I love like the, the wayhe delivers this whole, it's great.
So he is like, "so you might'venoticed I almost died,"
again,
"again, again.
Had a lot of close calls.
This one wasn't even my closest."So Buck tries to interrupt him and
he is like, "just let me finish.
After the last time when thatwell collapsed on top of me,"

(01:44:12):
which remember was "Eddie Begins",Buck's like "you survived,"
and Eddie's like "Mm-hmm.
After that got me thinking, you know, whatwould happen to Christopher if I hadn't?
So I went to my attorneyand changed my will.
So someday if I didn'tmake it, Christopher would
be taken care of by you."

(01:44:33):
And just in case the audience didn't getthat, he reiterates that it's in his will.
If he dies, Buck will becomeChristopher's legal guardian.
And Buck's like, uh, what?
And
Buck says what I'm thinking.
"Don't you need my consent?"
And Eddie's like, um, "My attorneysaid that you could refuse," Yeah.

(01:44:54):
And Buck's like, "You know I wouldn't."
To put, to, to go back to that point.
No, you don't need the consent ofthe person to put them in your will.
You can put whateveryou want in your will.
Um, but it's probably a good ideato clue them in before you do it so
that you don't get to the situationwhere something happens to Eddie.
And, um.

(01:45:15):
Attorney rocks up andgoes, oh, by the way, Buck.
Yeah, it's a surprise.
You've got like, this kid isnow yours and Buck's like, "What
the fuck? No." And suddenly
surprise!
Christopher left going to CCPs because he,he doesn't have a legal guardian anymore.
Um, so it probably would've been a bettergood idea to let him know beforehand
so he could prepare just in case.

(01:45:36):
Um, but yeah.
So yeah, as Eddie says, his attorneydid say he could refuse, but Buck
says that Eddie knew Buck wouldn'trefuse and Eddie is like, yep.
Knew you wouldn't.
Um, so Buck points out that he hasgrandparents and other family and Eddie's
like, "yeah, after Shannon left, they alltried to get me into giving Christopher
to them and it's not what I wantedthen, and it's not what I want now."

(01:45:57):
And Buck goes, "if it came to that,wouldn't they fight for him?" And
Eddie's like, "eh, I maybe, probably,probably, but I'll be dead, so who
cares?" Um, no and no, "but no one willever fight for my son as hard as you.
And that's what I want forhim." And Buck goes, "Wait, you

(01:46:17):
said you did this last year.
Why are you just telling me now?"
And Eddie's response is "Because, Evan,you came in here the other day and said
you thought it'd be better if it hadbeen you who had been shot. You act like
you're expendable, but you're wrong."And I'm over here kicking my feet and
squealing and like pillow up to my face.

(01:46:38):
Um, because he government named him.
I don't think Eddie, hasever government named him.
Except for this moment.
Yeah.
It just like full impact of the situation.
Yeah.
I'm going to use your governmentname so that you pay attention
to me because this is important.

(01:46:59):
You are not expendable.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which is exactly what Buck needed to hear.
'cause he's been acting alot like he's expendable.
Yes.
But now he has a reason to stick around.
Exactly.
Okay.
And this is the scene thatlaunched like a thousand fan fics.

(01:47:20):
Yes.
So many fan fics.
Do you want me to give my thoughtsnow or we wait till the end?
No, tell us now.
Okay.
Okay.
No, I was trying to work out whythis whole thing, like I knew
it was coming because obviouslythere's a lot of it out there and
there was no avoiding it, you know?
Um, but I was trying to work outwhy this kind of got my hackles up.

(01:47:41):
And I think the reason is because whensomeone does some, like goes above you
and does something that you then haveto do, like, or it, if I am forced to
do something that I didn't know I wasgoing to have to do, um, I'm like that
Pingu meme where he's, he's like gothis little arms crossed and he is like,

(01:48:01):
"well now I am not going to do it."
Um, and you get all defensive aboutit and I think that's what's going on
here with me when I'm watching this.
I'm like.
How you just ex like of courseBuck is not gonna say no, but maybe
he's gonna be a little bit upsetby it, but he won't because he's
Buck and you know, that's fine.

(01:48:22):
So ba basically Ellen haspathological demand avoidance.
I was about to say.
And she's
take it out on and taking it out on Eddie.
Hang on, hang on.
Has that got a name?
Yes,
yes.
Oh my God.
Have I just discovered something aboutmyself that I didn't know before?
Possibly.
Oh yeah.
Congratulations.
Um, you probably have, it's cool,it's awkward because the acronym
is PDA, which obviously like

(01:48:45):
Yes.
Um, but yeah, it is a, but yes, it'slegitimate recognized, um, for those of
us in the neuros spicy community thatwe are usually happy to do something
until someone tells us that we have to,at which point we are suddenly would
rather do anything else, includingripping off our own fingernails than
do what you've just asked us to do.
Oh, brilliant.
Okay.

(01:49:06):
Well the, um, you know, the argumentsfor being on the spectrum are racking up.
That's great.
Maybe you're just catching it off me andBex the longer we're doing this podcast,
well, you know, I have otherASD people in my life as well.
Yeah,
it's like the opposite of herd immunity.
It's like herd influence.

(01:49:27):
Yeah.
We're slowly turning.
It's spreading.
Uh, I'm pretty sure it'sbeen there all along.
It's just.
Now I'm just discoveringnew things anyway.
Um, yes.
No, I love this.
I love that they're doing this.
It's just if like, if you look at it,you can, I'm, I'm sure you can look

(01:49:49):
at it through non shipping gogglesand that would be a really lovely
thing to, for your friend, like to,to say to your friend, you can look
after my child because I trust you.
Also,
I'm always gifting my children to friends
also.
It's really fucking gay.
And, um, I can, I totally seeboth ways, but I love, I love

(01:50:12):
the shipping implications.
It's just, it's such a, I've seenfar too many romance movies where
the whole concept of the moviestarts with somebody suddenly getting
custody of their best friend's kit.
Yeah.
And I know it would work in this casebecause the person that we want the,

(01:50:33):
like the romance to develop with wouldbe dead in order for this to happen.
But it is such a, the, the wholeidea of being suddenly thrust into
parenthood is a catalyst for romanceis just, it's so inbuilt that
Yeah, no, this is atotally normal scene, guys.
Totally straight.
Just a straight man gifting theirchild to his, his best buddy.

(01:50:57):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it's.
Yeah, I've just turnedback to Supernatural again.
And I'm like, it's like when they,people watch this confession scene
in, in 1518, and they go, yeah.
It's just, they're just best friends andhe's telling him how much he, you know,
he loves him, like a brother?
Loves him, like a friend, like a brother.
He loves like a friend.
And you're just like, no.

(01:51:17):
Yeah.
My happiest moment is always confessingto my friends that I love the what
I mean now and then I do tellmy friends I love them, but no.
Yeah.
But it's not my happiest moment.
I just say it quite,
it's like, yeah, anyway.
I'm not confessing that I want'em to know that I love them.
Like, anyway.
Um,
yeah, it just feels like we're goingdown the same kind of path, you know?

(01:51:40):
I don't, I don't like that.
I'm sorry
if if there's not payoff at the end of it.
Can, I would just like, I wouldjust like to reiterate that you
chose to start watching the show.
You held out for so long, becauseI know you did not want to be
going down that evil pipeline andyet you decided to start the show.

(01:52:00):
I know, I know.
Um, rumor has it that they didactually wanna make Buddie canon
these last two episodes and thenetwork were like, ah, yeah.
No,
it does seem to be like all signsare pointing at something happening.
Um, like there were like, basicallythere were interviews going around
at the time where like Oliver andRyan were both just like, yeah,

(01:52:22):
we're like, we're really open to it.
We're whatever happens, happens.
Um, it was thing
I thought they weren't talkingto each other during this season.
Yeah.
But they'd been doinginterviews with like,
so we can get into this a little bitmore in the recap episode next week.
But, um, one thing that I really do likeis that despite Ryan and Oliver, like

(01:52:44):
hating each other's guts off camera oncamera, they were fully committed to their
characters and their character storyline.
You could not tell watching theshow that they were not speaking.
So if um, the show was saying, you twoare going to go down this particular
path, they would be fully committedto doing what their characters
needed to advance the storyline.

(01:53:05):
Even if they're like hating, even ifthey could not stand each other, they
would publicly be supporting the showand supporting their characters arcs.
Yeah.
But yeah, so that's the rumor isthat it was supposed to go canon
and the network shut it down.
Hmm.
Interesting.
Anyway, so to close out theepisode, we get a montage
because of course we do.
It's the season finale andwe always, we with a montage.

(01:53:28):
I think
we got to.
Or a cliffhanger.
And Bobby gets to dothe voiceover this time.
Yes.
So yeah, we're at the Bathena residenceand the Grant Nash family, including
Michael and David, uh, sittingdown for dinner and saying grace.
That's basically, it's Bobby'stalking about, um, survival.
He's quoting Carl Sagan.

(01:53:49):
And as he's talking and I don'treally care about much of what he
is talking about, we're flashing andchecking in on all of the characters.
So he is sitting down with thefamily for dinner, Chimney and
Maddie are coming to terms withthe fact that Maddie is not okay.
We get Hen and Karen and herfamily and Nia at the park,

(01:54:10):
uh, we get the Diaz residence.
We get the reason that Ana was not pickingEddie up from the hospital because she was
organizing a surprise party for Eddie, whois either a, um, much better actor than
Buck is, or Buck didn't tell him aboutthe party because he legitimately looks

(01:54:32):
surprised when he walks through the door.
Um, to see Carla and Chris, hisaunt, his grandmother, his girlfriend
and Taylor Kelly in his house.
Yeah, his boyfriend's girlfriend
Taylor is just so random there.
Um, and so as we are flashing throughall of the members of the 118 and

(01:54:55):
Bobby is talking, we're also gettingshots of a firefighter running
up a set of smoke field stairs.
Yeah, this was so confusing to start with.
It's like, who's this?
What's this?
Yeah.
Because you've got, that's weird like thatper, like, none of the 118 are at work.
Why are we seeing a firefighter at work?
Um, to make it more confusing as the,as the montage goes on, we start to,

(01:55:17):
the camera starts to pull back andwe get to see more of the firefighter
and we realize that they're notwearing the traditional black helmet.
They're wearing like the,the yellow training helmet.
Um, and by the time we get to themontage, which we're gonna get to the
sort of the end of Bobby's monologue,which is all about surviving and
struggling and collecting scars, whichare memories of the past, but, um,

(01:55:41):
we are survivors and we move forward.
Um, it finally reveals that thefirefighter was kind of not at work.
It was a training simulation,which they successfully passed by
making it up to the roof within theallocated time to cheers and applause.
And we discover that thetrainee firefighter is Albert.

(01:56:04):
Yay Albert!
Who heard that firefighterswere getting shot and was like,
that sounds like a fun time.
Yeah.
See,
um, also the entire 118 areon the roof cheering carpet.
I'm, I don't think they'd no be there.
Um, but also, where is therest of Albert's class?
'cause like, every other timewe've seen, we've seen Hen do

(01:56:24):
this, we've seen Buck do this.
There have been other liketrainee firefighters there.
Did they do a specialexam just for Albert?
They were like, oh shit, we,we lost a couple firefighters
'cause they were shot and killed.
So we will just fasttrack this one through.
I don't think he killedanybody and like, to be fair,
no, I don't think he evenmanaged to kill anyone.
He wasn't a very good sniper.
He also only shot two firefighters.

(01:56:45):
Yeah.
Like that's the thing when you think backabout like, oh my God, there's a sniper.
Bobby was just lying there, bleedingfor ages and he couldn't even shoot him.
I don't,
he shot him once.
I don't think Bobby doesn't count.
'cause that was a handgun at close range.
Yeah.
Which makes it even worse thathe didn't manage to kill him.
He was just a bad shot all round.
But anyway, yes.

(01:57:06):
So they've got the 118 there.
It's, it's a very heart swelling moment.
It's golden hour.
So the lighting is absolutely beautiful.
Um, the 118 and Ravi are all upthere celebrating Albert's success.
Another firefighter
Ravi's, like, I have no fuckingidea who these people are.
Another firefighter Hanis joining the LAFD.
Yay Albert!

(01:57:28):
And that's, it's very, it's um, verysymbolic because, uh, as Bobby is
saying, we move forward and Albertrepresents like the future of the LAFD.
Yeah.
And that's where we end season four.
All their hopes and dreams restingon Albert's very skinny shoulders.

(01:57:50):
Then interestingly, before we getthe end credits, we get a PSA.
So if anybody was confusedas to what was going on with
Maddie, the PSA clears it up.
'cause it's um, it says that one inseven mothers and one in seven, seven
fathers suffer from postpartum depression.

(01:58:11):
You're not alone.
You're not to blame.
Help is available.
You will get better.
Here are some numbers andwebsites to find help.
And then we get end credits.
Yeah.
I'm glad they put that in.
It's an important message.
And they do actually, now, nowadaysthey hammer it pretty hard.
Like there's stacks of informationabout it in hospital in like

(01:58:31):
maternity wards and stuff now.
So, and they ask you, like,they come around and ask
like several times at least.
Oh yeah.
I think while I was in hospital.
And I think you have to keep doingthese evaluations all the time
and every sort of postpartumappointment where they're checking
on, like the check baby's progress,they're checking in on you as well.
Like, we're gonna make you dothe same questionnaire again.
You have memorized the questions, you knowthe answers that you're supposed to give,

(01:58:54):
but you need to answer them honestly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A couple of my friends like, hathey haven't gone through it like
really, really bad, but like itstill hit them in different ways.
Yeah.
And they, like, I, I'm glad thatthey've been able to get support.
Yeah.
I mean the whole having a babything is extremely overwhelming.
Like there's no way you can prepareyourself for what it's really like,

(01:59:17):
but then to have your hormones go abit crazy on you afterwards and then
Yeah, exactly.
You just can't deal.
Yeah.
It's um.
Anyway.
Yeah.
End of season four.
End of season four.
I mean, it was an excitingepisode even if like parts of
it were extremely implausible.
Like I know you did that, you, uh,didn't like it on the second watch, Bex.

(01:59:40):
I just, uh, like I know I explainedto you guys about what happened when I
was approaching this episode, but I'll,I'll, I'll explain it to everybody else.
So you know, what was kind of going on.
So we finished Suspicion and then Iwas really excited because in my mind I
thought "Survivors" was a good episode.
'cause I remembered all ofthe Buddie stuff, obviously.

(02:00:04):
Um, and there was this little bitwith Athena and the gun and that.
It's pretty stupid, but, youknow, we'll get over that.
And then I started watching itand getting the notes ready.
And part of that is we usuallycheck who written, who wrote
and directed the episode.
And I not realized, oh, thisone was written by Kristen.
That's weird.
She doesn't usually do Buddie episodes.
And then we had that first scene withAthena and Danvers and I've gone, oh shit.

(02:00:29):
That's right.
This one, it's just, it's gonna beKristen playing with her favorite doll.
And like, it's almost like,it's almost like Athena is
Kristen's Mary Sue and it's just.
It's just the,
yeah.
Athena can do no wrong.

(02:00:49):
Yeah.
The implausibility, the fact thatAthena has to be centered in everything
that she does, the fact that, um, likewe've, it's just that it's soured this
entire episode for me, unfortunately.
Um, it, it's, we've, we've joked aboutlike the, the, How I Met Your Mother,
you know, you break the glass andsuddenly you can't unhear or unsee it.

(02:01:10):
And so that's what happened.
I went, oh shit, this is what I'm up for.
And now I can't unsear it or unsee it.
That's an, that's a good point.
Um, with like, sorry I'm interrupting.
Um, well you said the Buddie of itall, like in that scene and everything.
Yeah.
Um, that like normally thisshow is very like insistent that

(02:01:31):
blood family is the only answer.
And so I thought it was interestingthat they've like gone in this
direction with Buck, like Buck andEddie with the, with the will stuff.
Like, they've deliberately gone the
Yes.
Found family route rather than like, he'slike, oh, I, I guess they'll probably
try and fight it and I don't know, which
was like why I was so surprised thatthis was a Kristen written episode.

(02:01:54):
'cause Kristen is very, yeah.
Very strong with blood family trumps all.
Um,
I wonder if she actually wroteall of that or if someone else
well see it.
It
did that part.
I begs the question again, how thewriter's room works, like how much do,
uh, do the staff writers contributecompared to the person whose name goes
on the credits as the final writer?

(02:02:14):
Yeah.
Um, whether stuff came across from theprevious episode, which was written
by Andrew and Lindsay, um, and thatgot dragged into this episode, but
because Kristen wrote the Athenastuff, she gets credit for it.
So I don't, I don't know.
But unfortunately, like,like I said, I was cranky.

(02:02:36):
Um, and so when I get cranky,I get snarky and critical.
So I took it out on the show.
Um,
that's okay.
It was probably a goodepisode to be doing that.
Meanwhile, I watched it before bed lastnight and I was having a great time 'cause
I was tired and my brain was switched off.
See, that's the thingwe've also talked about.
Sometimes
that's the best way
this show, they're, they do thingsfor the drama and if you switch your

(02:03:01):
brain off, it's fine and you can,
you're having a good time.
It's fine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I just was not having agood time with this episode.
Yeah.
So I was unable to switch off my brain.
I'm sitting there like, yeah,Athena, go get your man.
Yeah.
And I'm sitting there going, whothe fuck let her up onto that roof?
But it's fine.
I, I will be interested to see whetherI can watch it again and to be able

(02:03:26):
to enjoy it or whether it's gonnabe tarnished for me forever now,
it's almost better if you don'tknow who was, who was the writer or
director before you start watching it.
But they do tell you at thebeginning of the show who wrote it.
So
I think even, even if I had not realizedit was a Kristin episode, I would've
got three quarters of the way throughthe episode and had seen the way Athena
was being prioritized over the actual,literal detective whose job it should

(02:03:49):
have been to do the um, the investigation,
anything?
Yeah.
And I would've gone, whatthe fuck is going on?
Why is Athena being elevated?
Like she is queen of,um, queen of the LAPD?
And it still would've pissed me off.
Because she is the queenof the LAPD of course.
She's the only member of the LAPD,

(02:04:12):
apparently the only one whocan actually do anything.
And I don't actually know why thisparticular episode pissed me off
so much because we've joked aboutthe fact that when she's with
Romero, the same thing happens.
She kind of takes over.
And to some extent with Lou Ranonas well, she tends to take over.
But it doesn't seem as egregiousas it was in this episode.

(02:04:34):
Mm-hmm.
I don't know.
Maybe it was 'cause it wassomeone we didn't already know.
Maybe, I don't know.
Listeners, if you've made itthis far, tell me, tell us what
you thought of this episode.
Were you having a grandold time like Alice?
Or did you hate every episode with everyfiber of your being like I did apparently.

(02:04:55):
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You can email us.
Uh, you can leave acomment on our website.
If you go to wherever, uh, wherever you'relistening to us, there should be a bio.
There should be links in those bios.
You'll be able to find yourway, some way to contact us.
Um, I would not recommend smokesignals or carrier pigeons simply

(02:05:18):
because of the distances involved.
We definitely won't get thosemessages message in the bottle.
Well, I was gonna reach us, butprobably not in time for us to
include your thoughts in our recapepisode, which will be coming up next.
Yeah, I was just about to say, Ithink it might already be too late
for that because if we are recordingthis, if we're recording the wrap

(02:05:40):
up episode a week after this episodegoes out, that will be too late.
Oh, it might not even tobe for the recap episode.
If you just wanna tell us what youthought of this episode just to scream
at me that I was wrong and this was anabsolutely brilliant episode, and I should
be ashamed of myself for what I've beentalking about for the last two hours.

(02:06:01):
Oh, not at all.
It was worth ranting at,
but if you'd like to hear me rantfor another two hours, join us
next week for our recap episode.
Yes, next week.
Next week we'll be doingthe season four recap.
We have no, you know, summary to readout or anything, but we will be talking
about the entirety of season four.
I don't think we've got anythingelse to more to say, do we?

(02:06:22):
Anything else about this episodewe wanted to speak about or shall
we save it all for next week?
I could continue ranting, but I thinkpeople are probably hear tired of
hearing my voice, so we'll wrap it upand I'll save it all for next week.
Let's, let's let, let Bex get somerest, but I can't even speak anymore.
Let's let Bex get some rest and youmight feel better about things next week.

(02:06:45):
You know,
maybe potential.
That's really interesting.
So the director of this episodeonly directed this episode and
"Eddie Begins", that was it.
Oh, maybe that's why I enjoyed it,because I thought the directing was good.
I did say that earlier.
You did, yes.

(02:07:05):
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We are
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I think my monster kicked in.
I have a, so I normally get thelike, um, the blue no sugar Gatorade.

(02:08:12):
Mm-hmm.
Which is Glacier Freeze.
Who the fuck knows what flavor that is?
Blue flavor
anyway.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It tastes like blue.
Um, so yeah, I normally get the, theGlacier Freeze Gatorade, no sugar.
They had them for like half offor something at Coles last week.
So Mum put in an order for me for six ofthem and they ran out of the blue one.

(02:08:34):
So I got like three of the blue one,but then I also got three of the grape.
'cause Mum doesn't select.
Like Mum's just like, oh yeah, substitute.
Oh, you allow substitutions.
Oh, that's a Mum does.
I never do.
No.
Um, I always say, no, I'd prefer a refund.
Yes.
But anyway, so Mum, Mum finds itfunny what they, what she gets
sometimes, so she keeps it on.
Um, anyway, so they gave me the grape oneand I've drank like, not even half of it.

(02:08:58):
So I opened it when we started,or just before we started.
And I've drank not even half.
It just tastes like great bubblegum.
It does,
it's like too sweet.
And I'm like, it'ssupposed to be no sugar.
And it's just, it's too sweetfor me and I can't, I'm like,
this is, why don't a grape one?
Because
no sugar doesn't mean no sweet.
Yeah.
It just means it's got fake sweet in it.

(02:09:18):
I know.
But normally they tone down the sweetand it just, it's, yeah, I'm not a fan.
Oh, dear.
So yeah.
Gatorade, no sugar, grape flavor?
Not,
not a fan?
Not recommended, no.
Okay.
I liked it less than this episode.
That's gonna be from now on,we are gonna be rating 9-1-1

(02:09:39):
episodes on a Gatorade scale.
Like where do they, yeah.
Did I like it more than grape?
Was it as bad as the grape Gatorade?
This is a, this, this episodeis like a, a glacier blue.
Um, and then we're like, the,the really good ones are like
the red, whatever flavor that is.
We'll have a whole scale.
It'll be a thing.
We'll have a gator.
It's like, um, like SupernaturalThen and Now rate with beards.

(02:10:03):
We'll start raid with Gatorades andthen Gatorade will sponsor us and
we'll just get free Gatorade for life.
Oh, that's the dream.

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