[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15 “Lab Rats.”]
Dropping a beloved character on a TV present is hard. Dropping Captain Bobby Nash on 9-1-1? Properly, we’re nonetheless processing. The excellent news? We’ll see Peter Krause once more in Season 8!
Whereas the ABC drama did kill off Bobby within the Thursday, April 17, episode, when his character was contaminated with an excellent pressure of CCHF (Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever), showrunner Tim Minear informed TV Insider that that episode was not his final look of Season 8.
Once we identified that useless characters could be introduced again through flashbacks, desires, and hallucinations, he agreed. “You’re going to see him earlier than the tip of the season. You’re going to see him in a few of these methods that you’ve got enumerated.” He pressured, nevertheless, “I don’t need to mislead anybody. He’s useless.”
Killing off Bobby got here right down to a “very arduous artistic alternative,” mentioned Minear. 9-1-1 is a present about first responders who’re put in life-and-death conditions on a regular basis and have, up to now, made it out of each single one. “Nobody ever dies, so it simply felt prefer it was time.”
With three episodes remaining within the season, that provides them ample time to indicate everybody grieving, and that’s the proper solution to arrange a return in one of many aforementioned eventualities.
“They’re all leaning on one another, and but they’re all type of fractured on the similar time. Discovering an equilibrium for that grief, it was essential for me that I had a run of episodes after the occasion in order that the viewers may attempt to get their bearings with the characters to grieve with the characters,” Minear previewed. “So all of the levels of grief will likely be represented within the final three episodes with all of the characters.”
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