‘9-1-1’s Ryan Guzman Wants Eddie to Have a Messy Love Life in Season 9

Drama on TV shows tends to come from relationships, and if Ryan Guzman has his way, it’s with Eddie’s love life that we could get that in 9-1-1 Season 9 this fall.

“You want him to be happy, but then it kind of takes away from the drama, so a little bit of messiness with the girlfriend and what not,” is his wish for his character, he told ET. In other words, more of what we’ve already seen from him.

Eddie is one of the two 9-1-1 characters — Oliver Stark‘s Buck is the other — who has not been lucky in love so far. First, there was the complicated relationship with his wife, Shannon (Devin Kelley), who then died. Then came the relationship with Ana (Gabrielle Walsh), which ended after he panicked about their future. Then he and Marisol (Edy Ganem), whom he’d met on a call, got together, and moved in together so quickly they were still finding out things about one another (like she was a nun-in-training). She moved out, then that relationship failed after she and his son Christopher (Gavin McHugh) caught him with the doppelgänger of his late wife Shannon.

A relationship wasn’t even on Eddie’s radar in Season 8, which saw him working on figuring things out and eventually repairing his relationship with his son (including briefly moving to Texas to be with him, then ultimately returning to Los Angeles by the end of the finale). When TV Insider spoke with Ryan Guzman after Season 8 Episode 6, which saw Eddie take the words of the returning Gavin Stenhouse‘s priest to heart about not punishing himself and finding some joy, he said his character wasn’t even thinking about romance at the time.

“There is not one relationship in his head. I believe that Eddie is just so focused on what he needs to be doing as a good man that before he does anything else with a good woman, he needs to solidify that,” he explained after his history of “self-sabotage” when it comes to relationships.

Guzman also shared with ET that his reaction to Bobby’s (Peter Krause) death was “shock, awe, disbelief,” and said he’d actually thought Eddie was going to be the one who died. For that call, it was, for him, “Here it comes, I know it’s coming. Wait, who?”

He would also be all for the show bringing back Krause for more flashbacks. “I want him back,” he said. “Pete, come back, please. I miss you already.”

What are you hoping to see from Eddie’s love life in Season 9? Let us know in the comments section below.