[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 13 “Invisible.”]
Eddie (Ryan Guzman) lastly says what he ought to have the second his son Christopher (Gavin McHugh) determined to maneuver in along with his grandparents in Texas within the newest 9-1-1 episode.
Simply as Eddie’s excited to shock Chris with basketball tickets, his dad and mom inform him about his chess event for a similar weekend. (Chris doesn’t appear so enthused.) What’s worse: Just one dad or mum is allowed per contestant … and Eddie’s father, Ramon (George DelHoyo), is attending. Poor Eddie! Then when he tries to supply to take his father’s place, his mom, Helena (Paula Marshall), remarks that the weekend is a busy time for his work as an Uber driver. Then she guilts him into rescinding his provide.
However throughout one in every of their FaceTime calls, Buck (Oliver Stark) suggests he simply go anyway. Eddie argues he doesn’t wish to “harm” his son, however Buck factors out, “You’re his dad. He doesn’t have a mother. Should you don’t harm him, who will? It’s your job.” He additionally reminds Eddie that he can’t solely take an Uber however “take [him]self. Don’t you wish to go?” He does. “Nobody can cease you. Dad up,” Buck says, and Chimney (Kenneth Choi), listening in, agrees.
On the chess event, Eddie learns that Ramon is considered Chris’ father. However when Chris throws up, Eddie rushes over and brushes off his father’s assist. He cleans him up, and Chris admits that he hates chess. He’s solely taking part in as a result of his grandfather loves it. He asks if Eddie can ask them if he can cease, and Eddie tells him he doesn’t should play. His grandparents simply need him to be pleased, like Eddie does. Eddie has additionally FINALLY determined that he’s not going to ask Chris to maneuver in with him however as a substitute inform him: “You’re transferring again in with me, whether or not you prefer it or not, since you’re my child.” Chris then asks, “You’ll be my dad once more?” And Eddie, hugging him, assures him, “I’ve all the time been your dad. I’m going to start out appearing prefer it.” (That is what Eddie ought to have stated when Chris first determined to maneuver from LA to Texas. Sure, Eddie shouldn’t have been with the doppelgänger of his late spouse, however he’s the grownup. Chris is the child.)
With that, Eddie goes and packs a bag for Chris (leaving his father to take the bus dwelling from the event). Helena tries to argue that he’s disrupting his life, however Eddie stands as much as her and reminds her, “I’m not disrupting his life, mother, I’m his life. As a result of I’m his father, not dad, and also you, you’re not his mom, you’re his grandmother.” He informs her that Chris hates chess, and when she protests that he’s good at it, he reminds her she stated the identical factor about him and ballroom dancing when he was 14; he stopped loving it when it grew to become concerning the trophies. With that, he drives off with Chris.
In the meantime, again in Los Angeles, everybody apart from Athena (Angela Bassett) and Eddie (due to Fb) forgets Hen’s (Aisha Hinds) birthday. Bobby (Peter Krause) even says it’s Hen day — that means HEN, for his or her new excessive effectivity nozzles — at one level, and the frustration on her face … painful!
And so when the 118 repeatedly rescues a person, Archie, who feels invisible (he will get trapped beneath his mattress whereas his fiancée and his cousin have intercourse on it, then is caught in a wheel when a truck driver begins to drag out of a car parking zone), her recommendation for him will get a bit particular. He’s not invisible, she assures him, however somewhat, he’s making himself disappear and that’s his fault. It’s okay to take up area on this planet. As an alternative of creating himself smaller, he ought to make a noise, inform the world he exists … and it’s his birthday. That’s when the others notice what they’ve finished and Hen turns into the recipient of balloons (Chimney will get whimsical when he is aware of he’s finished improper), candies (Bobby), and a cake (her children). Karen (Tracie Thoms) explains that with the children’ schedules altering, she saved transferring issues round within the calendar. Hen’s mom (Marsha Warfield) has the very best excuse: “I’m previous. I don’t want an excuse. Plus, I birthed you. You ought to be celebrating me.” Hen reminds her of her birthday and Mom’s Day. Hen additionally is aware of that it’s embarrassing to have one thing so foolish harm a lot, and he or she walks off.
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However then Archie finally ends up holding a bus of passengers hostage with a knife and unintentionally stabbing one who tries to speak him down within the abdomen. Upon realizing who’s on the bus, Hen says she must go inside to rescue him once more. The one phrases of knowledge that Chimney can provide are, “Don’t get on the bus.” Hen does discuss Archie into letting the injured man, then the remainder of the hostages go earlier than surrendering himself. However then he reaches into his pocket to provide her a birthday present, and Hen tackles him to the bottom when the police start capturing. Each are protected, and all that for a keychain from the rooster restaurant that fired him firstly of the episode (a rooster like a hen, he says).
Later, Bobby has cooked a pleasant meal for himself, Athena, Hen, and Karen for her birthday. He additionally blames his spouse for not reminding him, whereas Athena can’t consider her husband forgot to have a look at a calendar. Buck, in the meantime, is making it as much as Hen by doing free yard work for so long as he feels responsible. All in all, Hen decides, it’s her finest birthday ever.
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