Get ready, “9-1-1” fans—Season 9 is right around the corner, and it’s already looking like a wild ride. From new leadership at Station 118 to long-awaited answers about fan-favorite relationships (yes, we’re talking Buddie), this season is setting up to be one of the most dramatic yet. 9-1-1 didn’t end its eighth season on any major cliffhangers — let’s be honest, we couldn’t have handled one after losing Captain Bobby Nash (Peter Krause) three episodes prior — but it did leave quite a bit up in the air for the show to explore going forward. The good news: We already know there will be a Season 9!
Athena (Angela Bassett) and the 118 banded together to save the tenants of a high-rise — and each other — after it collapsed, and then a time jump revealed that Athena was selling the house she and Bobby were building, Eddie (Ryan Guzman) was moving back to Los Angeles, Buck (Oliver Stark) was looking for a new place, Hen (Aisha Hinds) and Karen (Tracie Thoms) finally adopted Mara, and Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) had her and Chimney’s (Kenneth Choi) son, Robert Nash Han, named for the man who saved his father’s life. What the finale didn’t confirm was who will be the new Cap … even if Hen did call someone just that after a stellar speech.
Is Chimney the new captain? “Copy that, Cap,” Hen said after Chimney put his foot down and refused to let anyone move (Eddie) or transfer (Buck) in the finale. He certainly acted like a captain throughout the episode, from taking charge at the scene of the collapse as they rescued Graham, to the aforementioned speech.
“This is our firehouse. 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. Bobby died so I could live, and it has screwed me up in ways I can’t fully express, but the truth is, he would have done that for any one of us. He knew that just coming into 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.
And we are all standing here right now because of him,” Chimney said. “This team, we are his legacy. So we can miss him, and 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. So you hang up your turnouts, you hit the showers, you go home and you get some rest because we are all going to see each other on our next shift, right here, together. Understood?”
