When 9-1-1 returns in fall 2025, there shall be a serious change within the 118, one thing that the top of Season 8 didn’t handle: Who would be the subsequent captain, following the heartbreaking, tragic demise of Bobby Nash (Peter Krause)?
Following Bobby’s demise in Season 8 Episode 15, showrunner Tim Minear informed TV Insider that wasn’t one thing that may be answered simply but. We knew it wouldn’t be till Season 9 that we’d be taught the reply, although the discussions did start onscreen, with Hen (Aisha Hinds) turning down the job supply. Now, in a brand new interview with Precept Journal, Oliver Stark has revealed that filming on the brand new season begins “in a few month,” and whereas he has but to learn a script, he does have an thought about what to anticipate.
“It’s gonna be attention-grabbing within the sense that on the finish of Season 8, we misplaced Peter Krause’s character, [Bobby]. I believe Season 9 is gonna be about rebuilding and rising from that, seeing the way it’s doable to develop from that, and restructuring of the 118, which is the firehouse within the present, and seeing how all people can kinda come collectively and attempt to transfer ahead,” he shared.
That’s going to be very true for Buck, for whom Bobby was a mentor and who wrestled with the captain’s farewell phrases to him following his demise. “You’re going to be okay, Buck. Keep in mind that. They’re going to wish you. I really like you, child,” Bobby mentioned. It feels like we might proceed to see Buck taking these phrases to coronary heart.
“Bobby was so instrumental to who Buck was on the present, and I actually wanna see him carry that proudly and really feel like he’s doing justice to all of the issues that he discovered by means of Captain Nash,” Stark informed the magazine. “I need him to hold the banner and assist the youthful firefighters round him. We have now a pair on the present, and so to nearly step into that mentor function that Bobby was for Buck, I believe it’s time for him to possibly begin doing that for some others.”
If we do see that, it might be the early phases of seeing Buck start to be able to at some point be captain. It’s one thing that he has wished up to now when there wanted to be somebody to fill in briefly whereas Bobby was away, however the captain hadn’t thought he was prepared. And Stark informed TV Insider after the Season 8 finale — which appeared to be setting Chimney (Kenneth Choi) as much as be the 118’s subsequent captain — that he doesn’t suppose that point is right here but.
“It’s a job that Buck most likely sees himself at some point hoping to do, however I don’t suppose he would really feel snug wanting that place now. I believe he appears at Hen and Chimney and he’s like, ‘These are the those that I look as much as.’ They’re each bit reduce from the identical fabric as Bobby was, and I believe he’d don’t have anything however admiration and respect for Chimney within the function,” he mentioned.
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9-1-1, Season 9, Fall 2025, Thursdays, 8/7c, ABC