[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for 9-1-1: Lone Star Season 5 Episode 11 “Impact.”]
Initially, we’re not even going to entertain the likelihood that 9-1-1: Lone Star could have simply killed off Tommy (Gina Torres) within the sequence’ penultimate episode. She’s a fighter! But it surely actually does look that manner…
It’s been a tough last season of the present for Torres, she admits in TV Insider’s 9-1-1: Lone Star after present, First Response — and a “lonely” one. “It’s been extremely lonely being away from everyone. I keep in mind once I was beginning out, Julia Roberts was doing an interview about Metal Magnolias, and when everyone else was taking pictures her funeral, it was the one time that she had been separated from them and I didn’t actually get it and the way lonely and type of out of it she felt,” she shares.
“After which I used to be taking pictures all of this entire, actually half the season I’m just about away from what everyone’s doing,” she continues. “So these little blips in time, these little moments that I get to seal away, the place they arrive to go to and or Marjan’s [Natacha Karam] wedding ceremony, these are nice moments the place I get to see everybody once more.”
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It was “vital” to everybody concerned that they acquired Tommy’s arc this season “proper.” Earlier within the season, she was identified with most cancers. We’ve seen her preventing ever since. “Lots of work went into each facet of that, not simply me, but additionally hair and make-up and the writers getting it proper, and aligning ourselves with Stand As much as Most cancers,” says Torres.
On this episode, Tommy is optimistic heading into her appointment together with her physician; she’s capable of maintain an egg down and watch a complete episode of Bridgerton with out falling asleep. However then the physician tells her that it seems to be like her tumors have grown, regardless of her therapy supposedly a certain factor. Tommy means that her immune cells attacking the most cancers might trigger the tumors to swell earlier than shrinking, however that’s uncommon. The physician recommends she start making ready … to solely have doable days left to stay. However her ladies are in Atlanta visiting their uncle, and when Tommy calls to deliver them dwelling, she learns they’ve live performance tickets. She retains them at the hours of darkness.
“It’s Tommy sacrificing,” Torres says of her character in that second. “What’s the final picture of their mom that she desires them to have, and why not allow them to have yet another stunning reminiscence within the place of a tragic one?”
It’s after that that Tommy sees her late husband, Charles (Derek Webster). She instantly thinks that there’s a medical cause (a stroke, a tear in her coronary heart simply threw a clot) and needs to name 9-1-1. “They’ve been to this tackle sufficient,” he tells her. However she is aware of he’s not actual, that he needs to be a hallucination as a result of stress and chemo. He kisses her. “I’m right here to deliver you dwelling,” he tells her.
“I really like Derek. I really like working with Derek. He’s a mensch. He’s humorous and he’s so beneficiant as an actor and we actually simply loved one another and the time that we acquired to spend collectively once more, I imply, it wasn’t simple, but when there’s anybody that I might love to do this dance with, given the circumstances and simply the historical past that we created throughout my first season, our first season, then yeah, then it was nice,” Torres says. “It was an exquisite shock after they advised me he was coming again.”
However Tommy worries in regards to the ladies and who will watch over them. (Their uncle.) She thought she might beat it, she says. He tells her she gave all the things she had, suffered a lot, fought so arduous, and now, she will be able to relaxation. She lays again, tells him she loves him, closes her eyes and … We’ll have to observe the finale to study her destiny.
Talking of the finale, Torres teases, “The goodbye of the 126 shouldn’t be going to be passable for everyone, however you get to see us at our greatest.”
Watch the complete video interview above for rather more from Torres on this episode and lastly working with Karam in Episode 10.
9-1-1: Lone Star, Collection Finale, Monday, February 3, 8/7c, Fox