9-1-1 showrunner Tim Minear woke up and chose violence. When he and the rest of the team were crafting the madness that would befall our TV screens with the show’s eighth season, not only did they dream up the harrowing and now legendary “Bee-nado,” but they also put the stakes sky-high and killed off a primary character. That death came last week when Peter Krause’s Bobby Nash gave his life so that the rest of the 118 could live theirs. This week, we know that we’re going to be fully embracing grief while attending Bobby’s funeral, but the shocking moments aren’t done quite yet.
While recently speaking with TV Insider, Minear teased more trials and tribulations are on the way before the eighth season bows out in May. Foreshadowing “a real 9-1-1 emergency finale,” Minear described the upcoming episodes as something “we haven’t really done before” before revealing that the dominos will fall in such a way that it will lead “to a mass casualty event.”
Those final episodes are going to be there to remind audiences — and the characters — that even when they’re swamped with heavy emotions, first responders must rise to the occasion and snap into action at a moment’s notice, with Minear continuing,
“And even in their grief, they’re first responders, they got to put that aside and work together to save people. So I think what you’ll see in the last three episodes, yes, grief, love, loss, sadness, and rallying and victory.”
Where Will ‘9-1-1’ Go From Here?
The loss of Krause’s Bobby Nash was a major one for the 9-1-1 fandom, who had never experienced a heartbreak quite like this one in the show’s history. Moving forward will be difficult for every member of the 118, but particularly Bobby’s wife, Athena Grant (Angela Bassett), Buck (Oliver Stark), who looked up to the captain, and Chimney (Kenneth Choi) who will undoubtedly have some severe survivor's guilt moving forward. But, if you are hoping for a speedy answer to who will permanently fill in the chair left by Bobby, Minear says you’ll need to be patient.
“Yeah, I’m not solving that problem right away for the rest of this season. There is an interim captain there who is not going to be the captain going forward, but the last three episodes are not about who’s in Bobby’s chair. The last three episodes are about that chair is empty.”
