SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of 9-1-1 Season 8, Episode 18 “Seismic Shifts.”
In the 9-1-1 Season 8 finale, the 118 continues to struggle with the loss of Captain Bobby Nash.
The team gets together to give Eddie Diaz (Ryan Guzman) a farewell, and Hen (Aisha Hinds) tells the 118 that she turned down the offer to step into the captain role. In the middle of the conversation, Buck (Oliver Stark) reveals that he has submitted for a transfer.
“Out of the 118?” Eddie asks.
“It’s just a number now,” Buck adds.
Meanwhile, Athena (Angela Bassett) calls for help after an apartment building collapsed in Downtown L.A. following an explosion in the basement’s laundry room.
As Athena, Buck, Ravi (Anirudh Pisharody), and Chimney (Kenneth Choi) are inside the building rescuing tenants, a gas pocket goes up, trapping them.
While packing to go back to Texas, Eddie sees on the news that the 118 is aiding in the rescue efforts of the collapsed apartment building and decides to suit up and help.
Captain Gerrard (Brian Thompson) tells Eddie to help by clearing debris to put a ladder to help the victims.
“With all due respect, sir, by the time we clear a path, we won’t need a ladder, the building will be at our feet,” Eddie tells Captain Gerrard, who says they don’t have a choice.
Eddie then evokes Captain Bobby, saying, “If Bobby taught me anything…, it’s that we always have a choice.”
Eddie rescues Buck and Ravi from the building by attaching a zip line across another building. He then shows up in the basement with both of them to aid Hen in rescuing Athena and Chimney, along with the other tenants trapped in the laundry room.
When clearing the debris that fell on Graham, the team finds that a rebar had penetrated across his abdomen. Graham said he didn’t say anything because he knew he was going to die but the other guy “needed more help than me.”
“So you just sacrificed yourself?” Athena asks.
“It was the right thing to do,” Graham says.
This exchange was a callback to Bobby’s ultimate sacrifice: choosing to save Chimney over himself.
“Not today, Graham,” Chimney says as he mobilizes everyone to save Graham’s life.
Although he was losing consciousness, the team was able to keep a pulse and rush him to the hospital.
Athena had been feeling some type of way about Chimney as Bobby gave up his life to save his. After saving Graham’s life, Athena acknowledges that it was because of Chimney that he was still alive.
“You know, that used to make him crazy — Bobby,” Athena tells Chimney. “He always said you never gave yourself enough credit. But he knew that you were a smart, talented capable paramedic, and a great leader. He’d be so proud of you. So proud of you.”
Captain Gerrard informs the 118 that there were no fatalities in the building collapse thanks to their rescue efforts.
Chimney gathers everyone and tells that that no one is leaving and no one is transferring out of the 118 in an emotional speech.
“This is our firehouse,” Chimney says. “This is the 118, and it’s not just a number, it’s us. And you’re right Buck, things are never going to be the same again because Cap is gone, but leaving won’t change that. It won’t make you feel any less sad, it just means that you’ll be sad all alone.”
Chimney added, “Bobby died so that I could live,” and noted that “he would’ve done that for any one of us.”
“[Bobby] knew that just coming in to work every day, there’s a chance that one or more of us would not make it home, and his job above everything else was to make sure that we did,” he continued. “And we’re all standing here right now because of him. This team, we are his legacy. So we can miss him, we can mourn him, and we can even curse his name. But we are not going to disrespect him by throwing away what he built right here.”
Athena sells her dream home, which she built with Bobby, so another family can make some memories. Buck is touring houses, as Eddie decides to stay home and return to his old place. Hen and Karen adopt Nia.
There was speculation about Guzman’s future on the show, but if it wasn’t obvious from his appearance at Disney’s Upfront this week, the episode confirmed that Eddie was not going anywhere.
Maddie and Chimney welcome their baby, named Robert Nash Han.
“Hello, Bobby,” Athena says, meeting the baby.
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