911 – Eat The Wealthy

October 12, 2025

Spoilers forward!

Since its transfer to ABC, 9-1-1 is decided to discover larger grounds for its opening disasters. For season 7, we had a cruise ship sinking within the ocean. Final season, a beenado (!!!) induced two flying automobiles to collide, forcing Athena to land a aircraft.

For its ninth yr, the inventive group wished to take their present to infinity and past: this time, we’ll area. And like final season, the premiere opens with a fast scene that offers us a style of what is to return sooner or later, juicier elements of the catastrophe:

Elbow surgical procedure on a robotic arm within the chilly vacuum of area goes mistaken

Astronaut Joyner is fixing one thing exterior the spaceship. Captain Stanton talks to him from inside, attempting to persuade the mechanic to complete the restore later. Then, communication is down. Stanton sees one thing approaching Joyner; it is coming to hit him from behind, and it is coming quick. She tries to warn him, nevertheless it’s too late: Joyner is hit by area particles whereas the captain offers with the chaos contained in the spaceship.

Then the episode rewinds to 2 weeks earlier, in the course of the ceremony to call the station after Bobby.

Athena misses the Memorial Station ceremony as a result of she has a date to attend

Chimney, now Interim Captain Han, has just a few phrases to share after Chief Simpson opens the ceremony. He is doing his finest to maintain it cool, however speaking later with Maddie, it is potential to see a little bit of his insecurity. In spite of everything, it is no small mission to step into Bobby’s sneakers. Is he actually match for the job? Are his buddies about to hate him now that he is their boss? His spouse is fast to guarantee Chim he is doing an awesome job as the brand new captain, and he or she’s pleased with him — a stunning Madney scene!

“Six months in the past, the LAFD misplaced a hero. To honor his management, his service, and his sacrifice, from as we speak on, this would be the Robert Wade Nash Memorial Station.”

In the meantime, Hen and Eddie are having the time of their lives with their new partnership because the 118 paramedics. At the very least it is what Buck thinks, feeling hints of an analogous jealousy to the one proven within the episode “Buck, Bothered and Bewildered,” now that his finest good friend isn’t his work associate anymore. It has been some time because the relationship between Buck and Eddie hasn’t been the identical, and I’ve a sense an enormous a part of this primary half of the season may have them determine why.

Might and Harry additionally attend the ceremony, and through a fast convo with Sue, it is acknowledged that Harry is crashing at Might’s, who’s finishing her research in December. However that is simply small speak for now. The siblings are apprehensive: their mother, Athena, did not present as much as Bobby’s — her late husband’s — tribute. Karen and Hen are additionally feeling the sergeant’s absence, and they’re all asking themselves: The place is Athena?

On a date, after all.

A faux one (clearly) as she works undercover to research a case. Disguised as “Sondra” and assisted by Elaine, Athena goals to collect info and confessions from Jonathan Prescott, a person linked to mobsters. Irritating Athena, the faux date is interrupted by Particular Agent Cordell, now liable for the suspect, because the FBI hijacks the case.

Anybody else obtained the vibes that Cordell would possibly come again sooner or later? Maybe the FBI has an curiosity in monitoring Athena? There’s one thing about how this agent was launched that makes it appear to be there’s extra to this story.

Elsewhere, a whale eats a person…

This week’s loopy emergencies

1) A billionaire, whereas kayaking off Angel’s Gate, finally ends up eaten by a humpback whale;

2) A bus faculty driver and the children he is driving take care of ethylene glycol poisoning;

3) A girl faces an an infection by foodborne micro organism from a wound attributable to a soup can lower.

Eaten by a whale

Tripp Hauser is in bother. Individuals are protesting as a result of the app he created is simply too addictive and threatening to the setting. In the meantime, he is spending tens of millions on non-public millionaire spaceflights, inflicting dips within the firm’s inventory and making the board contemplate altering the management.

Kayaking off Angel’s Gate in the course of a videoconference, Tripp finally ends up eaten by a humpback whale. The decision is not interrupted; in actual fact, he will get to speak to Maddie from contained in the whale whereas the 9-1-1 operator contacts the 118.

Because the Coast Guard takes too lengthy to reach for rescue, Captain Chimney has an thought straight from Star Trek IV: The Voyage House. Humpbacks sing to one another, and loud noises, like boat engines, can pressure them to the floor. Additionally they hear sounds by water for miles. Subsequently, the 118 places a parking cone over the siren, connecting it to the gated valve and working an inch and a half line by it. After charging it full blast, the firefighters pump 120 decibels into the bay, saving Tripp.

The pictures created to symbolize the sounds of the siren wailing by the valve and hitting the humpback are a number of the coolest issues this episode has to supply, and a few of my favorites from the present. Additionally, the particular results used to create the whale are superior. Props to the concerned!

After Eddie jumps off a bridge to rescue an unconscious Tripp, Hen proceeds to reanimate the billionaire, who wakes to the imaginative and prescient of paramedic Wilson saving him. Individuals document the group saving Tripp’s life, and it does not take lengthy for these TikToks to go viral… Let’s circle again to this quickly.

Tequila for the children

A college bus driver passes out whereas driving an entire class of kids, all of them unconscious too. After an accident occurs, Athena joins forces with the 118 to find what occurred. The antifreeze is responsible: the engine overheated, compromising the hose and entering into the AC system. Everybody within the bus breathed it in and obtained ethylene glycol poisoning consequently. Metabolized to glycolic acid, this induced a number of organ failure in fifteen youngsters. To avoid wasting the day, the group needed to do the unthinkable, giving rum, whiskey, and tequila pictures to the children.

If somebody cares…

Gina Moningham was as soon as an individual full of affection, buddies, and the desire to dwell. Within the current, she’s an previous girl who seems to be useless, with affected areas in her arms, arms, higher torso, neck, and face. Athena comes to research, because the scent attracts the eye of Gina’s neighbors.

Pondering she’s standing in entrance of a corpse, Athena’s shocked when the previous girl screams for assist. Whereas the 118 tries to search out out why she’s in that state, her previous is revealed, because the viewers will get glimpses of her previous life as a teenager in love and anticipating a baby, with Jasmine Thompson’s Mad World enjoying within the background. As issues do not go as she deliberate, Gina isolates herself from the skin world, changing into an individual who will get infections by foodborne micro organism from a wound as a result of she does not care about checking the wound, and nobody is looking for her.

“It makes a distinction if somebody cares.”

This last emergency hits Athena arduous. She’s on their lonesome in her home, attempting to maintain herself occupied, going undercover in a number of circumstances. She’s additionally rejecting all of the invitations and avoiding her youngsters — a scene with Might and Harry touches this topic, as Athena discovers Harry dropped out of faculty and is working at a espresso store.

This episode offers with Athena’s grief in ways in which final season could not, exhibiting a personality frozen in time, avoiding ceremonies that would remind her of Bobby, and avoiding even calling him by identify. As an alternative, she drowns herself in work, going undercover and creating different names and personalities so she will get a break from being Athena Grant. That is all very fascinating, and Angela Bassett shines as a lot as ever.

A tiny little favor

In the meantime, Tripp decides to reward Hen. As his reputation declines and Hen turns into well-known after the rescue she carried out goes viral, Tripp’s firm, MacroNova, gives to donate $5 million to the LAFD. This might imply new tools, upgrades to the firehouses, counseling companies to firefighters and their households. Nonetheless, for this donation to occur, Hen might want to do Tripp a tiny little favor: Hen has obtained to go to area.

It is in low Earth orbit. They’d go up some hundred miles, do two laps across the planet, and are available again down. Hen’s obtained a plus-one invite, so her rocket scientist spouse Karen goes together with her. However Karen has to disclaim it, as there are a number of pending lawsuits between Tripp and the individuals Karen works for.

After Buck, Eddie, and Chimney spend the episode attempting to persuade Hen to take one among them together with her to area, Hen makes her resolution throughout a dialog with Athena. The sergeant is anxious about having a destiny just like Gina’s. After Hen assures her good friend that this isn’t taking place in a stupendous heart-to-heart, Athena says that she’s saying sure to the following factor she’s invited to. Hen smiles. Reduce. They’re inside a spaceship, able to take off. The episode ends.

In conclusion…

Eat The Wealthy ups the sport after an underwhelming finale. Following the rushed, weirdly irregular (or just outright dangerous) last episodes of season 8, this premiere competently reintroduces the viewers to a world with out Bobby. Everybody has loads of screentime, from the 118 members to Athena, Might, and Harry. And most significantly, Bobby’s right here too, haunting the narrative of each character from afar. The emergencies are nice and enjoyable, and the area journey guarantees to be a wild experience.

However 9-1-1 by no means had an issue with premieres and opening emergencies. Excluding one season of two, you may at all times rely on this present in the case of starting robust and properly. What is finished with the center and the ending is one other story, tho.

This season specifically has an enormous activity: after leaving room for interpretation about Bobby being really alive, it is protected to imagine that a part of the viewers is keen to find if all these clues will culminate in what may very well be one among this present’s most explosive storylines, or if it was all for clout. And if it finally ends up being the latter, no matter is deliberate for the center of the season is prone to being judged not just for what it’s, but additionally for what it is not.

Moreover, the final season suffered loads with a number of the predominant characters’ storylines being sidelined in favor of minor/recurring characters, to not point out the frequent large emergencies that pushed private storylines for later. So whereas it is all enjoyable and video games within the premieres, will the writing group be capable to preserve writing persistently for each predominant character all season lengthy?

Anyway, a win is a win, and the ninth season begins robust. The emergency being centered on Athena and Hen is a large professional, as their friendship is among the nicest and most strong issues on the present. And the area factor, identical to the beenado, may find yourself being manner higher than anticipated. That is to say that the following two weeks are promising, and 9-1-1 is again on observe!

Be at liberty to go away a remark together with your impressions and theories. Thanks for studying!

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