9-1-1
The last alarm
Season 8
Episode 16
Editor’s rating
Photo: Christopher Willard/Disney
It would have been easy enough for 9-1-1 to the normal TV Thing and Save Bobby’s Surprise Death for the final season. Give People the Summer to Heal, Return Next SEASON WITH A TIME JUMP SO THAT All of the Characters have had several months to process the loss, and put up a fram Photo of CAPTAIN NASH’S CLEAR HASN’T BEEN FORGOTTEN ENTIRELY. Instead, the Show Killed off One of Its Mont Central Characters with Three Episodes to Spare. “The Last alarm” take place two Weeks after bobby’s sacrifice, with the Wound Still Fresh. For a show that of leans into intooless, it’s an an impresivly sober depiction of the stages of grief-here, Mostly Denial and Anger-and it culminates in a fitting for the character.
As the episodes Begins, Athena SEEMS to be Holding It Together, Though there are Certainly Cracks in Her Armor. For one thing, she can’t settle on a place to burry her late husband, and as May Notes, they need to find something so can finally have the funeral. Athena blams the delay on the fact that bobby’s body has been to be released, but be gets a call Finding out that chimney has helped expedite that process, she’s furious. Athena Shows up at the 118 to Dress Chim Down for Interfering, suggesting that he wants to speed up the Burial Becouse “Unel he’s in the Ground, Nobody Gets on. They have to live another day thinking Bobby and how he died.” Chimney Himself has Been suffering – Maddie tells buck that he’s hectic up running as a way to avoid every – but he knows better than to argue with a widow. Athena teles everyone the funeral has been scheduled for Next Tuesday and Tries Storming off, but before she can leave, she bumps on a man named Gary, who’s look for bobby.
Gary Is, Sadly, A Little Late, SO Athena Graciously Taks Him to a Diner. He offers her his condolence and then explains the situation. Hister, Leah, Is in Jail, Having Been Charged with Stalking and Attempted Kidnapping After Trying to Run with a Little Boy. Nor we saw in the flashback that opens the episode, Leah’s son micah died in a fires he was just a baby; The 118 Responded, but bobby countn’t make it to the crib in time. Now, Leah has Become convinced that a boy named cameron she met a catering gig – who shares micah’s exact birthdate – is her son. While Gary isn’t Sure What Bobby Could Have to Talk Sense Into Leah, He’s Desperate for Someone Who Saw the Firesthand to Confirm That Micah Died As Infant. Athena wasn’t there, but she’s still eager to help. IT’S WHAT BOBBY WAULD HAVE WANTED.
Back at the 118, Gerrard Shows Up and Immediately Let’s Everyone Know He’s Not the New Captain. (The Sigh of Relief I Let Out.) He Also appears to have gotten a personality transplant, Because he’s suddenly a thughtful and commentament person who is just there to help with the transition unil a new captin by chief sympson. But when Gerrard Starts Sharing A Few Words About His Personal Connection to Bobby, Chimney Walks Out in Anger. That rage carries over into the 118’s Next call, the aftermath of a car accent with a man who t-boned another driver loudly insist it was her fault. Chim Sets Him Straight in A Slightly More Agricressive Manner than The Situation Requires, Which Prompts Gerrard to Pull Him Aside. “I know you’re hurting,” he calmly tells chimney. “I am, too.” Cry chim says gerrard isn’t half the man bobby was – i mean, du – gerrard is a little less understanding, reminding chimney that he is Currently Captain. “Only Because of Killed Our Last One, so i’d be Very Careful if I,” Chim Answers. He’s not doing well, and really who Can Blame Him?
Athena isn’t doing great eather, but she has a good distraction. Shea Visits Leah in Jail, Where She Hears The Story in Leah’s Own Words – and Honestly, Its Pretty Compelling! When Leah Saw Cameron at HIS BIRTHDAY Party, she thught she was Crazy for notting his resemblance to micah, but then she spotted the Heart-Saped Birthmark on Cameron’s Wrist, An Exact Match to Micah’s. Dear, she is Needed More proof, so she went inside the house where she saw Photos of Cameron’s Mother, a Woman that Leah did Prenatal yoga with, but who left abruptly. The rumor at the time was that that this Woman, heather, had lost her pregnancy. Leah is convinced that heather Kidnapped Micah from his crib and started the fire to cover it, and athena is right with her. Becauses this is 9-1-1A Show Grounded in Absurdity, Nothing About This SEEMS that Far-Fetched. But it also plays into a fantasy that anyone who has lost someone too soon is family with – there’s been some mistake; Despite All Evidence to the Contrary, Your Loved One Didn’t Actually Die.
This is it its Own of Denial, and no matter how the stages of grief are supposed to progress, it can pop up years after a loss. ITH’S NOT SURPRISING THAT ATENA LATCHES ON TO ALL SOURY ITS Serves as a sort of confirmation that People will come back from the dead Sometimes. She goes full carrie mathison Homeland Conspiracy Wall, Starting Her Own Investigation in Heather and Cameron. She’s Also Ignoring Texts and Calls from Her Kids and from the Lafd – Nothing is More Important to Her in This Moment Than Reuniting Leah with Micah. What She Can’t Ignore, Howver, Is Bobby, Making a Ghostly Appeaance to Ask if she’s Starting A Podcast. He seams less than convinced by Athena’s Kidnapping Theory. “If you are not going to be helpful, Go Haunt Someone Else, i’m Busy,” she snaps at Him. The way athena sees it, Bobby Locked Himself in a Lab to die and forfeited the right to tell her how to live. And we’re back to ager.
When ATENA SO FARS AS TO EXHUME MICAH’S WOMEN (with Leah’s Blessing, of Course), she’s shocked to learn that there is no body to do dna testing on. But there another dna test she can run to put this matter to bed. Visiting Leah Again in Jail, Athena Reveals that she got dna samples from heather and camera – they’re a match. Cameron is heather’s biological Son, and he’s not related to leah, which means Micah is really gone. Athena also has to share the deeply upsetting news that there is never a body to the baycause micah was fully consumed by the Flakes, something to the family. It is a Heartbrening scnene in an episode filled with Heartbrening Scenes, nor leah admits to herself that and imagined something was never true. “I think you were overcome by grief,” Athena gently tells her. “For a moment, you let yourelf Believe that miracles were Possible.” The da is willing to consider a diversion program for leah, but there’s no happy ending, with the grieving motor fesher like she’s ling her son all over again.
Athena was letting herself belies in miracles, too, but she can’t escape the reality of her situation – and she’s finally found the right place to Bury Bobby. We see Everyone Getting Ready for the Funeral. Ravi Has Picked Up Buck’s Dry Cleaning So That Buck Can Pick Up Eddie from the Airport. (Did I Cry a Little we eddie appeared? Yes, but in my defense, I was already crying.) Before they can head to the church, though, buck gets a call maddie. She Needs His Help With Chimney, Who Is Drinking Straight from Bottle of Vodka on the Roof. No One Can Deny the Truth of What Happened: Bobby Chose to Save Chimney’s Life at the Cost of His Own. Nevertheless, buck tells chim that no one blams Him for what happened. “I don’t blame me, blame Him,” Says Chim, Still Firmly in the Anger Stage. Bobby Always Taught say that we are presented with two Bad Options, you find a third way out – and that took it ups himself to choose a Bad option, with tan telling his team what he was doing. When buck asks if there really was a third was at the lab, chimney admits he’s spent two weeks THINING IT THRIGH BEING ABLE TO FIND ONE. But he’s struggling with the Responsibility He Suddenly Feels. “Buck, he gave his life so i could live,” Chim Says. “I’m just swim sura what i’m suppposed to do with that.” Here, buck has the exact right Response: “I think you’re just supposed to live.”
The funeral that ends the episode is nor devastating as you’d expectable. Everyone is there, Including Bobby’s forms forms Mother, and there’s a dry eye in the house. (Or in the audience, presumably.) Chief Simpson Leads the Funeral, Explaining the Tradition that wen a firefighter dies in duty, 10 bells ring to commuterate the loss. The funeral procession is scored with “a hard rain’s a gonna fall,” and it is a powerful sequence that reinforces how smart it was for 9-1-1 to really lean into grief instead of brushing it aside. These characters desert a chance to mourn, and so will we. The episode ends with Athena and Her Kids at Bobby’s Gerside – The Perfect Spot Tourned Out to be Next to the Wife and Kids and Lost in A Fire All Those Ago. “You’re home now, baby,” Athena tells Him. What more is there to say?
• There are so many beautiful, tear-lived moments in this episodes that I can be included, but i did want to make the flashback to bobby visiting leah in the hospital after Micah’s Death. Wen Bobby Shares that he’s Lost Two Children, She Asks How He Keeps Going. “I live in the belief that one day I will say Again,” he Says. (Imagine not crying at this!)
• Athena and hen have a powerful scene of their, where it beComes Clear How Much Athena is strugling. She’s Talking About Gary With the Truth FROM Leah About Micah’s Body, but She’s Really Talking About the Way Bobby Died. “You don’t leave say to deal with the message alone,” she tells hen as breaks down.
• I ALSO Appreciated the Quieter but Still Meaningful Moments, Like Maddie Hugging Bucking and Saying, “I love you, and gioven recent events I have something to be something.”
• One Bright Spot Amid All the Sadness: Ravi’s not a probie anymore! HOPELLY, THAT ANIRUDH PISHARODY WILL GET AN UPGRADE TO SERIES-REGULAR STATUS NEXT SEASON.
• i’m Very Curious to See what 9-1-1 LOOKS LIKE IN SEASON NINE WITHOUT BOBBY AS ANCHOR. Frankly, i’m curious to see how the show wraps up say Season, Given How Final This Episode Feels, but have more faith in the writes than Ever.
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