Los Angeles’ most photogenic first responders return to obligation following the drama’s midseason break with a tense two-parter that finds 9-1-1 dispatcher Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) caught in a madman’s crosshairs. And like most 9-1-1 instances, it’s rooted in actuality.
“There was a serial killer who was calling 9-1-1 after he killed folks, crying on the cellphone, ‘I really feel so responsible,’ and ‘Oh, I did it once more and I can’t cease myself!’” previews showrunner Tim Minear, referencing the 1980 case of Minnesota’s Weepy-Voiced Killer. “The entire thing is [based on] that true-crime story. A man calls Maddie and he or she realizes he hasn’t simply killed somebody. He’s about to [again, because] he has kidnapped somebody.”
Issues take an unsettling flip as Maddie is drawn deeper into the investigation, elevating considerations for firefighter husband Howard “Chimney” Han (Kenneth Choi). “He’s very frightened about her, however he additionally trusts that she is aware of what she’s doing,” says Minear.
The story actually kicks into excessive gear by the tip of the primary hour, when it turns into clear that Maddie too has gone lacking. “There’s some twists and turns in there that I hope you gained’t see coming,” Minear warns. “And it’s not going to be readily obvious that she’s been taken.”
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On the similar time, the 118 is going through their very own potential loss. November’s fall finale revealed that Eddie (Ryan Guzman) was homes in Texas to be able to be nearer to his son, who’s now residing with Eddie’s dad and mom down south. Like Buck (Oliver Stark), his platonic greatest bud and most positively not romantic curiosity, we had been shook by this twist.
“He’s useless critical about shifting and that really will choose up that thread after we come again within the midseason premiere,” teases Minear. Might Eddie have ended up in Austin had 9-1-1: Lone Star not been canceled? “I had talked about by some means connecting these tales, nevertheless it simply was not meant to be…1740777525 he’d present up there and there’d be like a tumbleweed and it’s like, ‘What occurred?!’ Sorry, you bought right here after the present!”
Along with what Minear describes as “an entire Buck-Eddie story about Eddie shifting,” he says we will additionally anticipate the present to return with “a few nice 9-1-1 emergency calls that aren’t actually related to the Maddie story in any respect,” together with one which brings a brand new greatest good friend — in reality, man’s greatest good friend — into Buck’s life.
“I’m not saying Buck’s getting a canine,” laughs Minear. “I’m simply saying there’s a canine concerned.”
We at all times although the station home might use a pet.
9-1-1, Midseason Premiere, Thursday, March 6, 8/7c, ABC