Identical to Chimney and Hen are ride-or-dies and all the time there to again one another up, you’ll be able to rely on 9-1-1 stars Kenneth Choi and Aisha Hinds being an incredible pair to help each other.
The Season 8 finale ended with Chimney definitely coming throughout very “Cap”-like — Hen even calls him Cap after his speech — and the 118 does want a brand new chief within the wake of Bobby’s (Peter Krause) tragic, heartbreaking demise. However is Chimney prepared for that when the present returns for Season 9 within the fall?
“No. Chimney’s not prepared for any sort of dutiful tasks in any way. By no means,” Kenneth Choi quipped to TV Insider on the 2025 Disney Upfront carpet in Might.
Aisha Hinds interjected with, “I wouldn’t say by no means. I believe that’s being a bit hyperbolic. You’re a accountable individual, and I believe he may very well be prepared for it.”
“She simply slipped into Hen mode. Did you hear that?” Choi famous. “That was lovely, proper? It was like she simply turned Hen proper earlier than your eyes.”
9-1-1 killed off Bobby in Season 8 Episode 15. The next three episodes dived into the 118 and his spouse Athena’s (Angela Bassett) grief. Gerrard (Brian Thompson) returned to fill in as captain, stressing it wasn’t everlasting. Hen was supplied the place however in the end turned it down. Within the Season 8 finale, everybody got here collectively to save lots of victims of a constructing collapse, together with Eddie (Ryan Guzman), who confirmed up as an alternative of going to the airport to return to Texas, the place he’d moved earlier within the season to be together with his son. Buck (Oliver Stark) had been planning to switch out of the 118, with Bobby and Eddie gone. Chimney, upon everybody returning to the 118, determined nobody was leaving.
“That is our firehouse. That is the 118. And it’s not only a quantity, it’s us. And also you’re proper, Buck. Issues are by no means going to be the identical once more as a result of Cap is gone. However leaving received’t change that. It received’t make you are feeling any much less unhappy. It simply signifies that you’ll be unhappy on their lonesome. Bobby died so I may dwell, and it has screwed me up in methods I can’t absolutely categorical, however the reality is, he would have carried out that for any one in every of us. He knew that simply coming in to work day-after-day, there’s an opportunity that a number of of us wouldn’t make it house, and his job above all the pieces else was to be sure that we did. And we’re all standing right here proper now due to him. This group, we’re his legacy,” Chimney identified.
“So we are able to miss him, and we are able to mourn him, and we are able to even curse his title, however we’re not going to disrespect him by throwing away what he constructed proper right here. So that you grasp up your turnouts, you hit the showers, you go house, and also you get some relaxation as a result of we’re all going to see one another on our subsequent shift, proper right here, collectively. Understood?” he concluded. Hen instantly responded with, “Copy that, Cap,” earlier than correcting herself.
We’ll have to attend to see if Chimney is the 118’s captain in 9-1-1 Season 9. However we knew going into the ultimate episodes of Season 8 that they wouldn’t put somebody in that place completely. Showrunner Tim Minear instructed us after Bobby’s demise episode that will be the case.
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9-1-1, Season 9, Fall 2025, Thursdays, 8/7c, ABC