[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoiler for 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 10 “Voices.”]
The 118 simply stated goodbye to one in all its personal.
Whereas a lot of the newest 9-1-1 episode is centered round discovering Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt), who’d been kidnapped by a serial killer, it additionally ends with, as soon as she’s been discovered and is recovering within the hospital, Buck (Oliver Stark) saying goodbye to his greatest buddy Eddie (Ryan Guzman) as he leaves for Texas. The transfer has been within the works for the reason that midseason finale, throughout which Eddie revealed he’d began homes in Texas to be nearer to his son; Christopher (Gavin McHugh) moved in with Eddie’s dad and mom after catching his father with the doppelgänger of his late mom.
Within the midseason premiere, Buck first sabotaged Eddie’s makes an attempt to discover a renter for his home earlier than finally subletting it (and giving up his loft). He knew that Eddie was finally going the place he belongs, together with his son. Now, in Episode 10, as they’re out in search of Maddie, Buck remarks to Eddie that it felt like every thing was lastly getting again to the way in which it needs to be — Gerard (Brian Thompson) out as captain, Bobby (Peter Krause) again — however then Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr.) dumped him, Maddie is lacking or ran away, and Eddie’s transferring again to Texas like nothing, prefer it doesn’t have an effect on anybody else, when it does. Eddie assures him it’s not nothing.
Within the closing scene of the episode, Buck helps Eddie pack up a U-Haul, and Eddie thanks him for serving to him get again to Christopher. Eddie is aware of the entire thing between them has been messy and onerous and each of them may have dealt with it higher, however he needs to verify Buck is aware of he issues to him. Buck does. Eddie reminds him he and Chris are only a cellphone name or FaceTime away, and Buck provides him chocolate chip protein cookies he baked. Each say they’re going to overlook one another, then after a second, they hug, and Eddie drives off, leaving a tragic Buck behind to observe him go.
That tracked with what Stark informed TV Insider about this goodbye whereas discussing Episode 9: “It’s discovering that line between emotional and unhappy, but additionally, ‘You must go and do that factor, and I perceive that and I’m pleased for you.’”
Wanting forward at how Buck will probably be coping with every thing, Stark additionally stated that Buck would proceed to bake, as we noticed on the finish of this episode. “That baking thread has actually lasted on the present. The baking thread has lasted longer than sure accidents on the present have lasted,” he famous. “There’s undoubtedly nonetheless baked items in Buck’s life, which I take pleasure in as a result of on the finish of the day, they get to return house with me, if I so want, or I get to offer them out to individuals. He’s going to look into the potential of discovering new mates and figuring out, if Eddie’s going to be away for some time, who am I going to spend my time with? And that’s going to take him down some enjoyable avenues.”
However simply because Eddie’s left LA doesn’t imply Guzman is off the present. Showrunner Tim Minear informed Decider that “he’s obtained a fantastic story in Texas in Episode 12.”
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