Welcome to That Weewoo Show: a podcast where Bex, Alice, and Ellen watch and discuss every episode of ABC’s TV show, 9-1-1.
In this episode we discuss episode 13 of the third season of 9-1-1, titled “Pinned”.
The 118 responds to accidents at a bowling alley and a home renovation; Bobby and Michael take Harry camping; Chimney and Maddie rush into action when their romantic dinner date takes a wild-turn.
Content warnings for episode 3.13:
accidental nail gun injury, discussion of cancer and possible parental death, gore, blood, compound fracture, and the threat of gun violence.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Dean Winchester: Rebel Just For Kicks (aka The Clicky Edit)
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Episode Transcript
Maddie: [00:00:00] 9-1-1, what’s your emergency?
Bex: Welcome back to That Weewoo Show, a podcast where we watch and discuss episodes of the A B C show, 9-1-1. I’m Bex,
Alice: I’m Alice.
Ellen: And I’m Ellen.
Bex: Thank you to everyone who has listened to our episodes so far, who have shared our social media posts and have rated us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and Apple Podcasts and YouTube and wherever it is else that you are listening to us, we do appreciate it.
We haven’t done this for a while. Uh, we mentioned in the last episode that we had, uh, some of us had some deadlines that prevented us from, um, getting episodes out. So, apologies in advance for this episode. I’m not [00:01:00] sure how long it’s gonna take us to get back into the swing of it. Um, we may be a little bit punchy, so just be warned for whatever comes next.
Um, but before we get into whatever comes next, Alice, would you like to tell us what happened in the last episode?
Alice: Uh, so last week on 9-1-1, Eddie lost it at his son’s charming teacher, Anna, after Christopher was injured trying to ride a classmate’s skateboard. That was a run on sentence and a half, and Josh from dispatch was assaulted during what was supposed to be a first date.
Poor Josh.
Ellen: So in this episode, we’re gonna be discussing season three, episode 13, which is called “Pinned”, which first aired on the 30th of March in 2020. And the official summary says that the 118 responds to accidents at a bowling alley and a home renovation. So we, yeah, there is a [00:02:00] Athena Pursues a car thief in the summary, but that was cut from the episode.
Another one of those. So we’ll just skip right over that and go to Bobby and Michael, take Harry camping and chimney and Maddie rush into action when their romantic dinner date. Takes a wild turn.
Alice: I just realized. So “Pinned” aired five years ago today from when we’re recording.
Ellen: Oh, it’s the 30th. Oh my goodness.
Alice: Because it’s currently the 30th of March. So five years ago today this episode aired we’re, we’re actually up to date. We have caught, we’re right on schedule now, but five years ago.
Ellen: Geez, that feels like a really long time ago.
Alice: Yeah. Right?
Ellen: So yeah, we better just mention that there are some triggers for this episode as usual.
Um, or as Bex likes to call them, traumas. Um, we’ve got the accidental nail gun injury. We have discussion of cancer and possible parental death. We [00:03:00] have gore, plenty of blood and a compound fracture and the threat of gun violence. So we’re, first up, we’ve got this bowling alley trauma, no, injury.
Bex: I’m pretty sure trauma is a good word for it. I don’t think anybody’s getting out of this lightly.
Ellen: No, no. It’s pretty gruesome. I love the, um, these people who work in this bowling alley are like the perfect encapsulation of like the people who work at these kind of places. Like you’ve got this older lady who is, um, just trying to get stuff done in the place.
Like she’s, she sounds tired and kind of like she’s over it and the young guy is. You know, really excited about everything. He’s like, I’m gonna be, I’m management material. And then the other guy who works for them is just like the teenager who’s looking at his phone all the time. So it, I thought the [00:04:00] characterization was like very, I, I don’t wanna say stereotypical, but it was, you know Right, right on the money for
Alice: Yeah, we, we’ve all had those coworkers in retail.
Ellen: Yes.
Bex: Yes. So the 9-1-1 Wiki would like us to know that the actor that plays Garrett, in this episode was in the Christmas episode a few weeks ago, and he was the, do you remember the first scene with the woman trying to get the, the dancing duck toy? And she like, runs up to the first employee that she can find and she’s like, “I need this duck.”
And he’s just like, “It’s over there.” Apparently that was the same actor that was so, um, yeah, he’s,
Alice: oh, that was, yeah. Jesse, not Garrett. Yeah.
Bex: So he is been typecast.
Ellen: He must have done a really good job of just looking like he didn’t give a shit.
Um, I have just like summarized the entire beginning of this scene, but, um, we can [00:05:00] say that Garrett is, he’s done everything that, that, that Arlene, who’s the, the manager has asked for before she even asked for it. And apparently Jesse, who’s the, the guy who doesn’t give a shit is the owner’s son.
Bex: Uh, sister’s son. It’s, it’s a family.
Ellen: Oh, her sister? Yeah. Okay. That’s right.
Bex: It’s family connections. He’s a Nepo baby.
Ellen: So Jesse comes over and says that one of the lane five is down and he doesn’t, he doesn’t wanna go and fix it, so Arlene is gonna go and fix it, and Garrett is supposed to be going home. So.
Jesse is looking after the, the desk or whatever, but he’s not paying attention. And some girls come up and say that their scoring system isn’t working, so they’re gonna go on lane on lane five and he’s just like, whatever. Just, eh.
So this is so gross. So Ali [00:06:00] Arlene’s in the back of the, um,
Bex: hang on, hang on. We have to acknowledge
Alice: we have to mention the song first. Yeah.
Bex: We have to acknowledge the Supernatural connection with this.
Ellen: Oh yeah. I forgot that
Bex: episode. And this scene in particular because as Arlene goes back to fix lane five. Um, we get a montage of how the, um, the pin setter of how a pin setter works. So we see somebody bowl a frame, we see the machine come down, pick up this, the remaining pins cycle through the old pins, return the ball through the ball return system.
And the music that’s playing through this scene is “Feel it Still” by Portugal, the Man, which, if you are coming to us from the Supernatural fandom, and I think specifically the dusti side of the fandom. I don’t know how widely across the fandom this is known, but there is a very famous video fan edit, um, set to Portugal The [00:07:00] Man’s “Feel it Still”, um, called the technical, the, the true actual name for it is “Dean Winchester Rebel Just for Kicks”. But I think everybody just knows it as “the clicky edit”.
Alice: Yeah, it’s the clicky edit to the point,
Bex: to the point where if I type supernatural clicky edit into YouTube, this is the first video that it gives me.
Ellen: Yeah. I don’t know if it’s as widely known as it, it might be widely known in our like circle, but
Alice: No, it’s, it’s in like Tumblr quiz. It’s in like, um, yeah. Quizzes and stuff. Like how deep in the Supernatural fandom you are, and it’s like, how many times have you watched the clicky edit?
Ellen: Yeah. No, I recently, I shared it with someone this week after watching this episode, and they did, they had never seen it before.
I’m like, how, how have you not seen this? Like, it’s like the, the Tom Holland umbrella thing that you, you, if you see it, you have to share it. You have to watch it five times
Alice: You have to watch it. Yeah. You have to watch it twice. Yes. And then share it once. It [00:08:00] just, the laws of clicky.
Ellen: The clicks and everything. It just scratches your brain just the right way. It’s,
Bex: so, the, the law for the clicky edit, for those of you who haven’t, um, encountered it before is as soon as you hear Portugal, the man out in the wild, you immediately have to either watch the clicky edit or you have to like share it somebody going like, I heard the song now you gotta watch the edit.
Alice: Yeah. It’s like, um, there’s a really good Destiel edit to “Bat Outta Hell”. And it’s one of my favorite edits. It’s just done so well, it’s like fully their story from start to finish. Yes. Um, set to “Bat Outta Hell”.
Ellen: Doesn’t it go for like the whole song too? Like it’s,
Alice: it’s literally the whole song. It’s like an eight minute edit.
It’s amazing. And it, um, for a while, “Bat Outta Hell” was on my work playlist. Like, it was like on, like, I don’t set the playlist. It’s like a um, head office set playlist and “Bat Outta Hell” was on it. And so. Like every couple days when it had reloop the playlist, I’d be like, oh, rules and have to post the Bat Outta Hell [00:09:00] edit.
Um, but I’d also be like, oh, I just have to go on a break and I’d have to sit there and watch eight minutes of this edit. Oh. Because it’s just, it’s so good. And then it was taken off YouTube and I was so sad. I literally found the creator on Tumblr and messaged her and they, um, got back and like sent me the edit.
So it’s on my phone now.
Ellen: It’s not on, it’s not on anymore?
Alice: It came back.
Ellen: Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. I haven’t watched it for a long time. Now you’re gonna have to send it to me
Alice: I haven’t watched it in ages, but yeah, rules are rules.
Bex: The other thing that is notable specifically for 9-1-1 purposes is that obviously the song came on as we were, as I was watching it for, uh, the purposes of writing notes.
So I immediately had to go and watch the edit and it was, it’s taken me this long to click that the actor who plays Eli in 9-1-1 was also in Supernatural.
Ellen: Yeah?
Alice: Yeah. [00:10:00]
Ellen: Who does he play in Supernatural?
Bex: It’s one of those things I don’t… He’s one of the hunters at Asa Fox’s funeral. So it’s like it’s, he’s only in a couple of scenes. He, one episode, but I don’t know, maybe I haven’t watched Supernatural enough since I’ve started watching 9-1-1 too.
Have picked or I haven’t watched that season. ’cause that was like the Mary Winchester season, so not, not a favorite. Um, yeah. But yeah,
Alice: we know it just from clicky,
Bex: but yes. So “Feel it Still” is playing. We see how a pin set works. Um, and Arlene basically climbs into the pin setter from the back rooms to try and clear a pin that has been jammed.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Which is why she told Jessie to put a sign up and not let anybody use lane five, because as the [00:11:00] girls bowl of frame and the pin setter moves to reset their pins with Arlene’s arm halfway stuck inside the machine, she’s got a split second to go Oh shit. Before the machine starts to move with her arm inside it.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: It’s gross.
Alice: Ouch.
Bex: Yeah, I am I am actually very surprised that it did just did not take her arm off completely.
Ellen: Yeah. I thought when, okay, so after her arm gets crushed and you can kind of see that, and the girl who is about to bowl again, she picks up a ball that’s come through the machine and it’s covered in blood and she’s got blood all over her hands.
Bex: Mm-hmm.
Ellen: And I was fully expecting like the ball return to come up with Arlene’s hand. Oh. I was like, no. Got cut completely off and just came through the system. But no, they didn’t quite go that far.
Bex: I mean, that would be cool, but I don’t think that that’s 9-1-1 shtick. [00:12:00]
Ellen: No.
Bex: Maybe on Supernatural. They might have done that.
Alice: Definitely. on Supernatural.
Ellen: Yeah. Yeah, they would. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. But anyway, there’s some quality screaming going on here, like Arlene screams and then the girl with the, with the, the blood all over her hands screams. Mm-hmm. Apparently she call, when she calls 9-1-1, she calls 9-1-1 with her bloody hands and says “The bowling balls are bleeding.”
Alice: I mean, she probably reported it to Jesse, who was just like, okay,
Ellen: yeah. It’s like, I don’t, what do you want me to do about it?
Alice: Because when the 118 arrive, Bobby strides right up to the counter and goes, “Hey, are you in charge here?” And Jesse just goes, “I guess.”
Ellen: Oh dear. Can’t get good help these days. Apart from the guy who just left, except he hasn’t left because, uh, Garrett races up and says, “Thank God you’re here. This way.” And then he [00:13:00] just takes them off and he explains everything about what had happened, even though he wasn’t supposed to be there anymore.
But he knows,
Alice: yeah, he is in control.
And
Ellen: he shut off the power, which is good. Arlene is still screaming when they come around to find her.
Bex: Yeah. I have a feeling that Garrett just saw the girls screaming and the ball bleeding and put two and two together and. Hasn’t actually gone back around maybe to find Arlene yet.
So she’s still calling for help thinking that nobody has, nobody has heard her. Nobody is coming.
Ellen: Yeah. Well, I mean maybe the, the girls like no one tweaked that where the blood was coming from. Like I,
Bex: oh, probably nobody did except for Garrett. Garrett’s gone, oh, lane five, blood, shit, Arlene.
Ellen: Yeah,
Bex: maybe he was out in the parking lot and saw the, the 118 roll up and then raced inside to see what was happening.
Who knows. But the good thing is that he is on the case and the [00:14:00] 118 are on the case and Buck is on the case.
Alice: Buck is on the case.
Ellen: They’re all standing around on top of the machine to work out how try, like, she’s got a compound fracture. So there is actually, like, you can, at one point you can see like bone sticking out of her.
It’s extremely gruesome.
Bex: Whereas Chimney says her, um, her arm is like a ba, a wet bag of rocks. Yeah. How broken the bones are.
Alice: Lovely visual.
Ellen: And if it, so yeah, if they just release the whole thing, you know, it’s, she’s gonna be worse.
Bex: Yeah. Bobby asks, um, how to release the pin setter. ’cause obviously it’s lifted halfway up and stopped and so they wanted to probably come back down.
So there is a little winchy thing that you can put into a part up the front and you can manually lift it and lower it as necessary. Um,
Alice: the, the part that they had that like, does that, it [00:15:00] looks exactly like the thing that raises and lowers my outdoor blind.
Bex: Yeah. Oh, it’s just a little winchy thing.
Alice: It’s literally just, yeah.
Bex: Pretty standard issue. Um, but then the issue yes, is they could lower it, but then what are they gonna do once they get it lowered? Because they can’t get her arm out of the pin setter because it’s, it’s a wet bag of rocks.
Ellen: Yeah. She needs to hold her arm in place.
Bex: Yeah. Which is when Buck comes up with the somewhat brilliant idea to use the pin setter framework itself as the splint.
Alice: Yeah. Buck’s not just a pretty face,
Bex: not in this one anyway. In some episodes he very much is just a pretty face and the, the audience stand in. But in this one he gets to use his brains a little bit.
Alice: Yeah. He, he has the brain cell episode. It’s very exciting.
Ellen: But then they go on and get a welder or whatever you call that thing.
I guess it’s a welder?
Alice: Yeah. It’s a stick welder.
Ellen: Yes. And I dunno, does a welder do [00:16:00] welding. I, I’m not a tool person. Um, they like Buck is the one with all of the eye protection and gear on and the rest of them are just standing around looking at it.
Alice: Yeah. Don’t look directly at a welder.
Ellen: They don’t even give Arlene, any eye protection or anything.
They just start welding like right next to her arm, which is not ideal.
Bex: No. They should have at least thrown one of their turnout coats over her or something to give her a little bit of protection.
Ellen: Yeah, I mean, there’s sparks flying all over the place.
Alice: You just have to look away from them. But yeah,
Ellen: anyway, for the drama, um, they cut her out.
Yes. And she sounds like she’s in so much pain when they pick up the metal part that’s around her arm. But they do manage to push her out. They get her onto a gurney with her metal thing and push her out of the alley.
Bex: And for once Buck actually knows something pop culturey [00:17:00] because as they push Arlene out of the bowling alley towards the front doors, he does his best, um, German accent, which, you know, it’s his best, but it’s still not good.
Um. And mangles a quote from the Terminator saying like, “living tissue under a metal endoskeleton.” And I was just so happy for him that he actually had a movie reference for once because the,
Alice: yeah, this what happens when he hangs out with Chim, apparently
Bex: the Buckleys know nothing about pop culture.
Alice: I don’t think they were allowed a television,
Bex: probably not. And then Eddie, of course, has to stomp all over him and tell him that he’s getting the quote wrong, which yes, he is. But at least he recognized that the quote in some form was applicable Yeah. To this situation. Just let him have it Edmundo.
Ellen: And the look that Buck gives him is like, [00:18:00] dude,
Bex: to the point where Buck, yeah. Buck’s just starts, um, sulking. Like he can’t just let me enjoy the win. And then Dad has to turn around just like pacify the situation with like your “Good job, Buck.”
Alice: Have a cookie.
Ellen: And then, and Bobby also says, that says to Garrett, um, yeah, Garrett a good job.
“Good job Buck, you too, Garrett.” And um, Arlene then tells Garrett that, I don’t know if they’ve given her some pain relief by now, but she doesn’t sound like she,
Bex: oh God, I hope so.
Ellen: She lost a lot of blood, so who knows. Um, and then Garrett’s like, “No, no, I’ll give everyone a coupon for another visit.”
And Arlene says, “You are in charge, Manager.” Yes. And he’s like, ah,
Bex: very savvy. Yay. First, first order of business.
Ellen: And then he, he turns around and he looks straight at Jesse and then he just goes, “You’re fired.”
Bex: And I love the way the [00:19:00] actor does this ’cause he like snap and points at Jesse. He’s like, you’re fired.
And then. Turns away with like, this pleased grin on his face and walks away and Jesse’s just left there. Like, huh?
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: So we didn’t actually get the episode title said in this scene, but it’s very
Alice: No, but she was very pinned.
Bex: Yeah. She was pinned like by a literal pin setter. So I think it counts. Mm-hmm.
Ellen: Yes. I didn’t make that connection at the time. Okay. We’re going to Michael’s place. Mm-hmm. Where Hen was is visiting. I did not notice this, that Nia was there. Why is Nia there?
Bex: Because Karen would be at work, so somebody’s gotta look after the baby.
Alice: They also just like forgot about it last week. So they’re just like, shit.
Bex: No, I have, I’m having a feeling that, um, Hen came over to Michael’s [00:20:00] and Nia was fussing.
It must have been like nap time. So she’s just like, “Can I put her down for her nap here?”
Ellen: Yeah. Okay.
Bex: Maybe she’d hoped that she’d fall asleep in the car on the ride over or something and it didn’t work out. She was just like, just let me put her down and then we can catch up and do whatever it is we needed to do.
Alice: It’s fine. They just wanted us all to remember that Nia exists.
Bex: Yeah. Basically it was, it was a very clever way of just, yeah.
Alice: Remember guys that he Hen and Karen are fostering a child. This is the child.
Bex: Yes. But it wasn’t like shoving it down our throat or, or having a, a big, it was just this little tiny snippet of there’s a baby
Ellen: and Hen’s trying to force Michael to drink some green tea.
But even though he says he does, he’s not a green tea kind of guy. But Hen’s, like “Apparently the EGCG in green tea can boost the effectiveness of the temozolomide.” I’ve probably pronounced that totally wrong, but I don’t care. [00:21:00] So apparently the, it can make the chemo drugs work better on the brain tumor.
Thank you for explaining that, Michael. But he does drink it and um, you know, it’s not that terrible.
Bex: So Hen has apparently come over to give Michael her tent. Did not take Hen for the camping type, but she has a tent that she’s willing to give to Michael because his got lost somewhere in the move.
Ellen: Not sure how you lose a tent in the move, but anyway.
Bex: Well, I would assume that if it’s not at his place, it would still be at Athena’s.
Alice: Yeah. Maybe Michael’s not talking to Athena right now. So Athena’s just like, yeah, I found his fucking tent, but go give him yours because I’m mad at him and maybe he’ll listen to you. I,
Bex: I don’t know. It’s a good, it’s a nice way to set up the, the duals back and forth that we have.
’cause we hadn’t have a conversation [00:22:00] about why Michael needs the tent, um, happening from both. Michael and Hen and then also from Athena and Bobby and it kind of cuts backwards and forwards. So they are, um, Michael and Harry are going camping. ’cause apparently that’s tradition even though, and we cut to the Athena residents where Athena and Bobby are carrying groceries into the house.
Um, even though Athena says that it’s foolish because he’s got a brain tumor, he shouldn’t be going camping.
Ellen: Yeah. And just then May comes in and she was really happy about something, but then when she hears about the camping, she stops being happy basically. Yeah. He’s like, wait, they’re still going camping.
Like he has a brain tumor, but Bobby is gonna go along too. And we go back to Michael’s and he’s saying Bobby is an [00:23:00] EMT, but he’s not a doctor. And. Yeah. But Michael is reassuring her saying, I still need to go on this trip.
Alice: Yeah. So the first time I watched this episode, I absolutely thought that something awful was gonna happen to Michael while camping.
Ellen: Yeah. They, they’re set sort of setting it up for that. And, and Michael does say that he’s taken him every year and they need to make sure this time is memorable, just in case there isn’t another time. And we go back to the Athena House and May says that it’s all her fault. And Athena and Bobby are both like, “no, it’s not your fault at all,” you know?
And then Bobby said, “you know, we, we said we’d support him when he decided not to have the surgery.” And Athena’s like, “No, you said that. I haven’t given up on the idea of knocking some sense into him.” So, and then after that May sort of goes, “oh, by the way, I got into USC.” And so then they’re excited, except May [00:24:00] isn’t, she just leaves.
Bex: Poor thing. She was so excited about that and she was so looked, so excited to share that news and that that moment has now been ruined for her. So from the Bathena residence, we go to the Han residence, I’m assuming later that night. Who knows timeline wise, but it’s nighttime. Um, and Chim has emerged from his bedroom to get a drink from the, the fridge when he hears noises from the living room slash Albert’s bedroom.
And he goes over to turn the lamp on and a half undressed woman pops up from the couch. Yeah. To Chimney’s shock.
Ellen: “You are not Albert!”
Alice: that’s not Albert.
Bex: And then Albert pops up and he’s also half naked.
Ellen: I like how Albert’s now started calling him Chimney. That’s great. I love that.
Bex: So obviously they told him [00:25:00] why Howard is called Chimney.
Ellen: Well, I don’t know if they told him, but, but,
Bex: or he did just see everybody else doing it. So he is just,
Ellen: yeah, everyone else is calling him that. Yeah, I think so. Yeah.
Bex: Um, so Megan is the, the half undressed woman is just as surprised to see Chimney as Chimney is to see her, because she didn’t know that Albert had a roommate.
I’m like, lady, she, you were about to have sex with him on the couch, don’t you think if that was his apartment, you would’ve gone to his bedroom?
Ellen: I mean, maybe I, I’m glad that Megan gets a name in this episode.
Bex: We find out quite a bit about Megan in this episode. I’m very, we do, I’m very pleased with that.
Ellen: She’s only in it for five minutes, but you know, we do get some details.
Bex: So she scurries off to get dressed in the bathroom and the, the brothers have a bit of a standoff. I did [00:26:00] love in the comments that you refer to this sort of scene as Albert 1.0.
Ellen: Well, yeah. I mean, it sounds like he’s been sleeping around a bit since he arrived, according to Chim, after, after Megan leaves.
Alice: Yeah. And last week’s episode he was on a date.
Ellen: Yeah. But yeah, Chim describes her as a Rando Club girl and you know, then she comes in and goes, “Oh, I’m actually working on a PhD in Applied Mathematics.”
Bex: No, no, no, no. It’s even better because Chim goes like, “You brought some Rando Club girl to my home?” And Albert’s like, “Bro, did you not see how hot Rando Club girl was?”
So Albert doesn’t even remember her name at this point. And so then she emerges and goes, “um, Rando Club girl is actually working on a PhD in Applied Mathematics.” To which Chimney very gallantly says, “I apologize, Doctor, I wasn’t trying to disparage you. I was trying to disparage him.”
Alice: Yeah. She does [00:27:00] accept their apology and then leaves and Albert’s like, “oh, I wish I’d gotten her number,”
Bex: Dude.
But the point of this scene is not so much Albert’s slutting it up in Los Angeles, but that Chim is no longer slutting it up. Um, in fact, he’s not slutting it at all. He’s having very boring, vanilla, monogamous sex maybe once a week with Maddie,
Alice: I, I laughed so much.
Bex: And Albert is horrified.
Alice: Yeah. Albert’s like, oh yeah, Maddie’s a good friend to you.
Um, and Chim goes, she’s a lot more than a friend. And Albert goes, is she, because I see the friendship, but I don’t see the passion. Do you guys even have sex? And Chim’s like, of course we have sex. We had sex… three nights ago…,
Bex: and then he has to and think about it.
Alice: Yeah. And Albert’s like, “I didn’t notice,” and Chim’s like, “You weren’t supposed to notice!” [00:28:00] like, sorry for not having sex in the middle of the lounge room. Like,
Ellen: like not everyone does it on the couch, Albert
Alice: No, but I guess have a bedroom.
Bex: But, um, Albert, Albert is expecting, like, if, if the ignition between the two of them, the passion would be so loud that it, like sounds, would be echoing throughout the apartment,
Alice: maybe they went to wherever Maddie lives.
Bex: It’s very respectful, very quiet, probably missionary position,
Ellen: Very demure? Who knows?
Alice: But yeah, Albert didn’t mean to offend Chim and said, as long as Chim’s happy, then he’s happy for him. And Chim’s just like, “well, I’m, I’m happy of, of course I’m happy.”
Bex: Like, are you,
Ellen: he doesn’t sound very sure.
Alice: Tell Albert or are you trying to tell yourself that you’re happy?
Yeah. He doesn’t seem too [00:29:00] convinced.
Ellen: And I was like, no, we can’t have relationship drama between those two. They’re so cute.
Alice: Madney, my beloved.
Ellen: Thankfully it didn’t, didn’t turn out to be too much relationship drama.
Okay. Camping, camping time. I’m just remembering I have to post this episode next week when I am camping.
Bex: Oh. Oh, no.
Ellen: So while, while everyone’s listening to this, I will be camping.
Bex: Will you be planting a tree?
Ellen: No. No. I will not. I will be sitting on the beach.
Bex: Oh, that’s just, that’s a very different type of camping
Ellen: anyway. Yes. There’s nice weather at this camping trip.
Bex: It does look like it’s nice weather. We’re um, we are driving towards said camping trip. It’s Michael driving. Bobby’s riding shotgun. Harry in the tree, in the backseat. ’cause apparently the main point point, Harry, the Harry, Harry and the tree. ’cause apparently the, the main point of this, um, [00:30:00] camping trip is that Harry and Michael are working to, um, repopulate the forest one tree at a time.
Alice: Yep. Single handedly. One tree at a time.
Ellen: Um, once a year.
Bex: Yeah. Michael Bobby asks, “Why the tree?” And it’s really cute because Michael starts to tell the story and then Harry immediately picks up the thread and runs with it. He’s heard this story so many times he could tell it in his sleep.
So the, the story was that there, there was a fire in the forest. Most of the trees burnt down and Harry’s grandfather promised that they would all grow back. And so they go up. So he and Michael would go up and plant a tree. And then when Grandpa Grant passed, Harry and Michael kept up the tradition and Harry’s very cute because he says now Bobby [00:31:00] gets to do it too.
But as I said, Michael was driving, but he’s not doing so well. He’s like, he’s,
Ellen: yeah, he’s got pain in his hands and
Bex: something’s going on with his hands. He looks like his head’s hurting a little bit. So he asks if Bobby can take over driving and Bobby looks a little bit concerned.
Ellen: I think one of the, the side effects of the chemo is, uh, like neuropathy, nerve pain in your, in your fingers and stuff.
So, or numbness sometimes.
Alice: Yeah, they mentioned numbness later.
Bex: Bobby says later on that you don’t, you think you’re hiding it. Something about numb hands.
Ellen: Yeah. Yeah.
Bex: So yeah, that’s probably,
Ellen: so he asked Bobby to take over.
Bex: Driving, but I think Bobby takes that a little bit further. Yeah. So Bobby’s taken leave. While he’s going camping. The rest of the 118 are on shift. Um, ’cause it’s still a work day for them. Um,
Ellen: they’re having therapy session in the, in the, in the [00:32:00] locker room.
Bex: We have Eddie, Hen and Chim getting dressed in the locker room and Yes. It’s Chimney’s therapy session.
Alice: Yeah. Yeah. Thank God Buck was not involved in this.
Bex: I have a feeling that Chimney would probably not wanted to discuss his sex life with Buck’s sister in front of Buck.
Alice: Yeah, exactly.
Bex: There’s a reason Buck was not in the room when they had this conversation.
Alice: Yeah. Like, do you reckon Chimney was just like, “oh, Buck, can you go get me a left-handed screwdriver from the storage closet?”
Bex: I don’t know. Or maybe he’s just like. Looking at everybody and telepathically telling them to be like super slow getting dressed, so Buck gets ready super fast and they’re all sort of lingering behind. And as soon as he leaves, they’re like, right. I gotta tell you about what Albert said to me the other night,
which is apparently that things with him are, Maddie are great, [00:33:00] but they’re not exactly lighting the world on fire.
Ellen: And then Chim says he really cares about her, and he describes that as the dreaded C word. But she says, “I really care about good arch support. But that’s not how you feel about your significant other, Chim.”
And Chim’s like, I care about her more than my, more than my shoes.
Alice: Yeah. Eddie goes straight to the point and just goes, “Do you love her?” And Chim goes, “yeah.” “And does she love you?” But Chim says it’s unclear because. Chim feels like she does, but neither of them have actually said the exact words out loud.
Bex: Which hen finds a little bit, she finds that interesting because they’ve been together for like a year. It’s not a year because, um, Chim knows exactly how long they’ve been together. They’ve been dating for 10 months and three weeks, and he could probably tell you the days and hours and minutes as well,
Alice: which is kind of cute.
Bex: Yeah. Yeah.
Ellen: And “So you’ve been together for [00:34:00] like a year.”
Bex: Yeah. But Chim is, he’s being very respectful. Chim 2.0 is being very respectful. He’s letting Maddie take it slow, especially after everything that they’ve been through with, you know, Doug,
Alice: you know, getting stabbed, almost dying, all of that.
Ellen: They’ve been through so much.
Bex: Although, although apparently according to Hen, glaciers move faster than Chim and Maddie.
Alice: Mm. But Chim helpfully says “they’re also melting, so maybe fiery is overrated.” And that’s when Buck turns, turns up.
Bex: So they have a new interim captain, just as Chim said he wasn’t gonna do it again. Um, so interim Captain Reynolds wants everyone to do a lineup before the shift starts.
Alice: Who’s Reynolds? Do we know who Reynolds is?
Bex: I don’t think we’ve ever met Reynolds.
Alice: Cool. So,
Bex: I [00:35:00] mean, the only other, the only other captain we’ve met was Gerrard and I weren’t gonna bring him back.
Alice: Yeah. So I, all I can think’s Bert Reynolds, and it’s not Bert Reynolds, so
Ellen: it’s not Burt Reynolds,
Alice: um, but anyway, before they leave, Eddie stops Chim and says, “Hey, I get taking things slow, but tomorrow isn’t promised to anyone. So if you love her, tell her.” And if anyone knows that it’s Eddie,
Bex: it would be him. Poor Eddie.
Alice: Poor Shannon.
Ellen: Justice for Shannon.
Bex: Hashtag Justice for Shannon. Alright, so while the 118 go do their lineup, um, we’re gonna cut back to the Bathena residence where Athena is attempting to make up for the lackluster response they had to May’s announcement that she got the big envelope from USC. She’s gone to Starbucks.
Ellen: By bringing her [00:36:00] Starbucks.
Bex: It was very interesting that it was quite clearly a Starbucks cup, but they never actually fully showed the logo.
Ellen: No, you just see the edges of it,
Bex: which I didn’t, don’t, don’t understand what was going on there because I think if Starbucks were like sponsoring the episode, they would wanna have the logo sort of fully facing.
Or if it was one of those, we can’t show Starbucks because we don’t have permission and the license to use it. They wouldn’t. Be letting the logo be shown at all. So I don’t know what’s going on with like the half on, half off logo, but it is quite clearly Starbucks.
Alice: Maybe they didn’t know if they’d got the deal yet, so they just were one foot out the door.
Bex: Then you just, you just use like ordinary coffee cups. Who knows?
Alice: Yeah. But anyway, it’s um, it’s one of those frothy ones that May likes, made it entirely out of milk and sugar.
Bex: So she’s got coffee, looks like she got some pastries as well to go with [00:37:00] the coffee and they have a nail, an extra nail appointment ’cause they have like a standing one month, once a month appointment with Tammy.
But they’re going again today to get their nails done. And then Athena is going to take her for lunch over the burger place, which just so happens to be by USC, which May was really excited about the coffee and the pastries and the nails. Uh, except now she realizes that it’s just Athena trying to sway her decision towards USC.
Ellen: So yeah, she’s like, “oh no, there’s, I’m not trying to sway it. There are a lot of colleges you still haven’t heard from,” but she wouldn’t mind if May followed in her footsteps. But she, she says she’s very proud of May and they’re gonna celebrate the first acceptance letter, whether May likes it or not.
Bex: Yeah. ’cause that’s a big deal getting into college.
Ellen: Yeah. And she says that, she goes, “okay, but after lunch, can we go to the mall? We can [00:38:00] celebrate with some new clothes?” And Athena’s like, “if you say yes to USE, I’m buy you a whole new wardrobe.” But yeah, she hasn’t told Michael yet about it, but, um, you know, he’ll be back soon, Athena says, you have time.
Bex: Still have time. But then we cut to the campsite and Michael’s not doing so well. Um. They’ve set up the tents. There’s a little fold out picnic table. Michael is trying to bring an esky from the vehicle and he’s struggling and to the point where he doesn’t even get it all the way to the table.
He like stops three quarters of the way there, drops it, and then sits down on it immediately.
Ellen: We have to call, like, call it a cooler though, because no one knows what an esky is outside of Australia.
Bex: Yeah, fine. And they
Alice: call it something different. They call it something different in New Zealand too. I’m
Bex: chili box
Alice: what it is?
Ellen: Chilly [00:39:00] bin!
Alice: Chilly bin! Thank you.
Ellen: Apologies.
Alice: Shout out to our Kiwi friends.
Ellen: To kiwis. Love you. Love you. Kiwis.
Bex: The, uh, the, the cool food receptacle. Um, so he’s,
Alice: yeah, so the cooler.
Bex: Yeah, the cooler. Um, so he’s absolutely wiped. All he wants to do is take a break. Harry, who’s been like in the car for hours and is ready and raring to go, wants to start scouting out for the perfect place to plant the tree. And Michael’s like, “No, I need you to give us, I need you, I need to rest. Okay. Just gimme a few minutes to lie down.”
And Harry’s like, “No, but we always go straight away. We always pick a spot when we first get here, it’s tradition.” Um, so Michael’s like, “No, I just give me an hour.” And so Bobby tries [00:40:00] to play, tries to mediate. He’s like, okay. ’cause Michael’s gone to lie down. Harry’s getting upset because he’s realizing that things are not okay with his dad.
Alice: Yeah. So Harry says that Michael said that he’d be fine for a year and it’s only been a month and there’s like, he’s already struggling. So Harry’s freaking.
Bex: Bobby tries to console him, like, “it’s fine. We can pick a spot in the morning.” And Harry’s like, “but no, we always do it when we first get here.” Like kids are not good with change, especially when stuff is like, this is the way things are supposed to go.
So Bobby goes, “okay, cool. Why don’t we do this? You and I will go find some spots. When we come back, we’ll show them to Michael, we’ll take photos, we’ll mark him on the map, and then once he’s had his lie down, we can go back out and we can plant the tree.” And that cheers Harry up. [00:41:00] And so they go off and do that.
So while they go and do that, we’re going to our next emergency of the episode. Apparently the writers used up all of their, uh, like character world building on Megan, because none of these characters have names in this scene. Um, yeah. So they, I am going to refer to them simply as Dad and Daughter, because we don’t know what their names, that’s who they’re, so it turns out we are in a, a nice little house somewhere in la which the, um, the daughter has bought with assistance from her parents.
Um, but her dad is helping her remodel it. She has returned from Home Depot with supplies and we can see that the house is covered in like drop cloths and painters [00:42:00] tape. And there is a, um, a wooden frame for an interior wall halfway between the kitchen and. I’m guessing what would be the living room main room.
Ellen: Yeah. For some reason she does not like open plan in the house.
Bex: Oh no, I’m with her.
Ellen: Oh really?
Bex: I’m 100% with her. Yeah. I hate,
Alice: oh, see, I hate not having open plan.
Bex: See, the reason that the reason the daughter gives,
Ellen: I hate having walls everywhere.
Alice: Yeah. I hate the walls.
Bex: No. So like the daughter gives the reason, which is the reason that I hate open plan, is that she needs something to hide the view of the dirty dishes from the couch.
I hate the fact that my kitchen, like I’m sitting couch adjacent in my living room and I can stretch out my arm and I can touch my kitchen bench.
Ellen: Right.
Bex: Which means that when I’m sitting in the, in the living room, I can see my kitchen and I can [00:43:00] see how filthy it is if I haven’t done the dishes. Um, it also means that all the smells from the kitchen grow straight through everywhere in the house because I can’t close the kitchen off.
Alice: Yeah. Okay. Yes. In my issue, like I, my old house was semi open, but the kitchen and the lounge room were on opposite ends of the house. And so, and ’cause it was such a small house, like all the smells still traveled, but if, like, if people were over, or even when I didn’t live alone and had like a partner, if they were watching TV in the lounge room or like playing games in the lounge room or doing anything in the lounge room and I wanted to cook dinner, I had to go to the opposite end of the house.
And so like, I was always away from everything. Um, so it did my head in because like, even like getting like drinks or snacks for anyone, I’d have to go all the way away and then miss like all the conversation. Right.
Bex: See, that actually sounds like a really good thing for me.
Alice: No, fucking hated it.
Ellen: [00:44:00] Interesting. Um, but I love house plans.
Alice: Mom designs this, the reason our house, like the house, their house. Um, when they did the renovation, she designed it so that the kitchen would be in the middle so that you wouldn’t miss out on things.
It’s big enough so that like when we have Christmas or whatever here, um, like there can be people in the kitchen and you are not elbowing people.
Right. And so like, mum will be cooking and I’ll just be sitting in the kitchen chatting to her and I’m not in the way. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Whereas in like the little pokey kitchen, someone goes in the kitchen and you’re like, cool. Now I can’t open any of the drawers. ’cause you are in the way. Yeah.
Ellen: This is why I used to love playing Sims, because designing like, this is still what I do when I play Minecraft, I build houses, but um. Designing
Alice: I still play Sims,
Bex: yeah, I was about to say Alice.
Ellen: Oh, my, my daughter plays Sims now. Designing houses is, is so much fun. But, um, I, I must be like mildly claustrophobic I guess. ’cause I [00:45:00] really hate small rooms. Like Yeah. Um, unfortunately most modern houses these days have like pokey little rooms, but, give me an open plan, high ceiling and I love it. That’s what I like. So,
Bex: Sound off in the comments. Are you team open plan or are you team closed plan? Let us know what your living preferences are like,
Ellen: I think it varies quite a bit. Ba like from country to country as well. Like a, a lot of, um,
Alice: yeah. American houses are totally different to our houses.
Ellen: Yeah.
And European houses tend to have small rooms that you can close all the doors to save on heating and all that kind of thing.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: So, depends on climate too.
Bex: Anyway, this house back in LA…
Ellen: They’re adding, they’re adding a frame. They’re adding a wall.
Bex: They’re, they’re adding a wall, which, um, the father is teaching his daughter how to, how to build a wall, um, which apparently involves the use of, [00:46:00] I’m gonna call it a nail gun.
I know that he, that their father is going to get mad at me because it’s a framing nailer. Um, oh, I’m calling it Chekhov’s Nail Gun. Um, because he picks up the, the nail gun and he is showing his daughter how to use it to secure the, um, the studs. He is ironically, very concerned with his daughter’s safety and will not let her a pick up the gun until she has eye protection and gloves on, and gets very angry at her when she accidentally points the gun at him.
It says that she needs to treat the nail gun as she would an actual gun and never pointed at anything you don’t intend to shoot.
Ellen: And I was watching this with like, through between my fingers going, someone is getting a nail in them at some point during the [00:47:00] scene.
Bex: Hence Chekhov’s Nail Gun.
Ellen: Exactly. Um, so he guides her to put it up in the middle of the stud and they, they get it in and she fires the nail and it goes in and they’re so excited that they got it right.
But the next time she tries to do their next nail, it doesn’t work. She’s clicking with the trigger and nothing is happening. So naturally, Dad starts poking at it, points it towards himself. Oh my,
Alice: my entire body clenched. Yeah. As soon as he started fucking around with it, my entire body clenched.
Bex: It’s like those videos when it’s like that prank where that they have, I think it probably tricks back to like Charlie Brown or something where you’ve got a garden hose and somebody, some further down the line sort of bends the garden hose in half and the other person trying to use the hose to water something and they [00:48:00] look down, they look down on, yeah, the nozzle of the hose.
Like where’s the water? And the other person releases it and all of a sudden they get shot in the face with water. It was like that except it’s a nail gun.
Alice: Yeah. And but it’s essentially the same thing. And instead of his face, it’s his heart.
Ellen: Yeah. Yes. So he ends up with a nail in the chest and they just sort of stare at each other for a moment.
Which you are like, that’s valid. Yeah. And she’s like, dad, and he’s like, uh, you better call 9-1-1. And then he just like totally just.
Bex: Death drop backwards,
Ellen: lumberjack falls over sack of potatoes onto the ground. Um, yes, Maddie takes the nine one one call and the daughter tries to tell Maddie that it was a pin nailer, and dad said, this is where he says it’s a framing from the background, even though he’s shot on the ground.[00:49:00]
Bex: Well, first of all, she tells Maddie that her dad has shot himself in the heart. And so Maddie is like getting very concerned that there is a weapon on the scene, and she’s trying to get more information about the potential dangerous weapon that the team are going to encounter
Alice: just when we get the fun.
She’s also singing Bon Jovi for some reason.
Bex: No, that was me.
Uh, for those of you who are out there and listening to land, I was typing the notes and I’m go and it says, and I quote, the gun is pointing straight his chest, and of course the tri trigger mechanism unjammed at this point. And the dad gets shot through the heart and then my brain just went on the Bon Jovi track and it’s, the rest of the notes are, “and you’re to blame, darling you give love a bad name.”
Alice: Yeah. Mm-hmm. So yeah, the daughter says, “Help, please. My dad shot himself in the heart and you are to blame Maddie, you give love a bad name.” Um, but she gives the address. Um, but it was a nail gun. It got stuck. He was working on it and it went off.
Bex: So the 118 get dispatched. [00:50:00] For some reason it appears that Eddie is running point on this call because he’s the first one on the scene.
Um, he’s the one that does all the radioing through to dispatch and the hospitals. Um. I don’t understand why, but
Ellen: where’s, where’s Reynolds?
Bex: Apparently Eddie’s in charge today. Yeah, exactly. Where is Reynolds? Maybe
Alice: we don’t know who Reynolds is. It’s fine.
Bex: Maybe when Reynolds is in charge, he’s like the captain does not need to go out on every single call.
Ellen: Yeah. You guys got this,
Bex: got this. Yeah.
Alice: Yeah. You guys are fine. It’s just, I’m gonna go play cards.
Bex: It’s just interesting that it’s, it’s Eddie. I mean, Chim would have seniority, but obviously he’s gone. Interim Captain Han has retired, which then Hen has next seniority. Even Buck has more seniority than Eddie. So why is Eddie the one in charge?
I am not complaining. I love a man in charge, but it’s just an interesting thing to note
Ellen: Eddie sort of saying, [00:51:00] “Is that thing still on?” And the daughter was too afraid to touch it so she doesn’t know. So they take care of that and then Hen ask the dad how he’s feeling,
Alice: Buck goes, “I’ll secure the weapon.”
Ellen: Yeah. Hen asks the dad how he’s feeling and Dad goes “Like an idiot.”
Bex: So there is a risk that the needle has punctured the heart, of course, which has, which is creating a fluid buildup around the heart. So they need to get him to hospital. Um, so they get him on a gurney, they get him out of the house. Um, the daughter is still talking to her dad as they push him out. She wants to know what hospital they’re taking him to so that she can follow.
She’s gonna get her mother first and then they’re gonna meet him at the hospital. And I love that her dad is like, “Do not tell your mother what happened.” And the daughter’s like, “You’ve got a nail sticking out of your chest. I’m pretty sure she’s gonna figure it out.”
And the daughter is just kept, [00:52:00] keeps trying to tell her dad that she loves him. Like, “I love you. I love you.” And he’s just more concerned about the fact that his wife is going to tear him a new one.
Ellen: If the nail doesn’t kill him, then she’s gonna finish this. Exactly.
Bex: And he, they drive off before he says, I love you back to his daughter.
Ellen: Yeah. And then when they’re in the ambulance on the way Chim’s sort of attaching leads to him just to make sure his heart’s still okay. And he says, “Oh, damn it. I didn’t say I love you back to my daughter. What if it’s the last time I speak to her?” And Chim’s like, “Don’t worry, you’ll have chances to tell her later.”
And he looks really, you know, a bit disturbed by this.
Bex: Yeah. It’s very interesting that the, so the main theme of this episode is people being pinned or being pinned. So you’ve got, um, you know, Arlene getting pinned by the pin setter. You’ve got this guy being pinned by the pin nailer. Uh, [00:53:00] but the underlying theme is also people thinking they have more time and maybe they don’t.
Ellen: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And then Hen notices that the dad’s heartbeat is, like, his pulse is kind of flattening out a little bit. And she asks whether the leads are correct and Chim’s like, of course I did. But they realize he’s about to
Bex: bitch You questioning my abilities right now?
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Like, how dare you?
Alice: What the fuck, Hen? I thought we were friends.
Ellen: He’s about to basically go into arrest, so they’re gonna have to start compressions and they get, you know, he does a few compressions and then all of a sudden all this blood starts just spurting out of, out of where the nail is in his chest.
Alice: So much blood.
Ellen: “I think I’m making the hole in his heart bigger!”
Bex: I love how calm Hen is in this situation. ’cause Chim’s absolutely freaking out and she’s just like, “Eh, they’ll fix it at the hospital assuming he’s not dead.”[00:54:00]
Yeah. That’s one of those situations where
Ellen: it’s very matter of fact
Bex: where the, it, like you might be causing damage, but damaged is better than not dead. So Chim just has to keep doing the compressions. Um, there’s, it works,
Ellen: there’s so much blood flowing out of him.
Alice: There’s so much blood. As soon as the, like heart starts beating it sprays Chim in the face.
Um, so I’m, which watching this while eating dinner. And I’m eating a sausage roll for dinner, which I don’t think they have those in America. It’s literally just like sausage mince, um, surrounded in like pastry. And I’ve covered this thing in tomato sauce, like ketchup. Mm-hmm.
Bex: I love all the translations we’re having to do in this episode.
Alice: I know like sausage roll with like tomato sauce is such a like Aussie thing, but
Ellen: Yes.
Alice: Um, anyway, it’s [00:55:00] covered in tomato sauce and then all this blood is just spurting and then they get to the um, like they get to the hospital.
Bex: Can we just, we have a side segue side quest. This part, I know we’ve got some medically adjacent or medically inclined listeners.
Can anyone please tell me whether Chim would have any, whether Chim and Hen would go through any medical repercussions from being coated in blood? Because Chim literally gets sprayed in the face.
Alice: Yeah. I assume they would
Bex: considering the number of bloodborne they should, viruses and infections, um, can, I would’ve thought that they would’ve been wearing masks in the ambulance to protect themselves at some point, or, or
Alice: This is pre covid, masks didn’t exist, Bex
Bex: In the medical field, they bloody well did [00:56:00]
Alice: No Bex They didn’t exist. Yes, they did. I’m being a dick.
Bex: But even then, I, I should have, I would’ve thought that they would be slightly more concerned about the fact that he just got sprayed with blood in the face.
Ellen: Yeah. I mean, you guarantee they’d be going to wash off as soon as they got to the hospital or back to the,
Bex: and I just kept thinking that it should have been treated the same way it’s like a, a needle stick injury.
Alice: Yes. So they should be like testing the dad as well when he gets Yeah. To the hospital to test, like, to make sure that he’s clear of things and then,
Bex: and then testing them to make sure that they haven’t contracted anything as well, I guess.
Alice: Yeah. Like I just watched the episode of House literally like two days ago, um, where they’re treating a patient who’s HIV positive and he starts coughing up blood and gets Cameron in the face and she has to go through like all the things where she has to get tested like every month.
Um, and then like [00:57:00] every six months and has to go on the antivirals and everything.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Okay.
Alice: And then she gets high and sleeps with Chase. But anyway, um,
Ellen: Spoilers!,
Alice: but like they, they knew that he had HIV, so like they went into the thing straight away.
Bex: Yeah. Anyway, that’s just something that I’ve, I’ve always. I thought that everyone was just a little bit too blase about the fact that these two end up looking like they’ve just escaped from Carrie’s prom and nobody’s freaking out.
Alice: The engine truck arrives ’cause they’ve followed the ambulance. And Eddie and Buck are just chatting as they like walk to the ambulance and they’re, and Eddie goes, “oh, you hungry? You wanna grab a bite?” And Buck’s like, “yeah, definitely. I haven’t had a proper meal since Bobby left.” And that’s when they opened the door to the ambulance and Chim and he literally just covered in blood.
Ellen: Yeah. I wanna know what happened between like him getting his heartbeat back [00:58:00] and…
Bex: I’m gonna say that…
Ellen: arriving at the hospital…
Bex: every time it his heart beat it would spray more.
Alice: Yeah. Every time his heartbeat it would’ve sprayed blood, yeah.
Ellen: But can’t, can’t they like, you know, stop it from doing that?
Alice: Unless they stick their hand in the chest and cover like, and hold the hole closed.
Bex: No, no, no, no. Ellen’s got a point because shouldn’t they have secured the um. The nail, like wrapped it in bandages or just like secured in place?
Ellen: Well, they did before they left
Alice: look probably, but for the drama, for the, or the drama.
Bex: For the drama.
Ellen: I was looking, I had to, when they arrived at the, um, at the hospital, I had to rewind.
Alice: I love how mad Ellen is about this episode.
Ellen: No, I was, I look, there’s, I just one to let it go. Yeah. But no, I, when they arrived at the hospital, I’m looking at ’em covered in blood. I had to rewind to see what it was like before they arrived, because all that, all that we see, like even after his heart starts spraying everywhere, Hen is completely clean.
It’s just, yeah. Chim has this a, a blood splatter, like from the first five minutes of Supernatural on [00:59:00] his face. And, um, then they arrive at the, at the hospital and they’re just completely covered.
Alice: Yeah, covered in blood
Bex: and it’s not just them, it’s the inside of the rig as well. Like the walls are covered in blood,
Alice: so everything’s covered in blood.
Um, the ambulance is covered in blood Chimney’s covered in blood, covered in blood. My sausage roll is covered in tomato sauce and Buck goes, “and I just lost my appetite.” Yeah. And I’m just like, yep. I, yep. So I just looked sadly down at my sausage roll, sent a photo to, to Ellen and Bex and then kept eating after a while.
Bex: But, um, but while Buck’s lost his appetite, Chim says that he’s found his, and he, with his bloody gloves. And I’m not saying bloody because I’m Australian and I swear they are literally still covered with blood. He pulls out his personal mobile phone, starts tapping at the screen and then lifts it.
Alice: That’s a, hang on guys, that’s a cell phone just so you,
Bex: oh, good [01:00:00] lord.
Yes. He pulls out his cell phone. I would’ve assumed that that one would’ve been understandable within the context of the situation. Um, pulls at his cell phone, starts tapping at it with his bloody, once again, literally bloody finger and lifts it to his bloody face. Again, literally bloody face. And I’m looking and going, Chim, could you have not at least cleared up the biohazard before you picked up your personal phone?
Ellen: Yes, take your gloves off!,
Alice: but no. He’s apparently in the mood. He is ready to go. Um, because when Buck asks where he is going, he is going to ask Buck’s sister out on a proper date so he can tell her that he loves her. Oh. Um, and Eddie’s just, “We missed a lot, huh?” And Yeah, apparently so.
Ellen: Well, Eddie. Eddie, you already knew that he’d loved her, but now, now you know that Chim gets turned on by having blood in his face, so, okay.
Bex: Okay. Maybe the sex is not as [01:01:00] vanilla as I thought it was.
Alice: Oh my God.
Bex: Chimney Han having a blood kink was not on my bingo card.
Alice: Oh my God. Just the visuals.
Ellen: I don’t wanna think too hard about it.
Bex: Oh, I am, I’m quite enjoying that actually.
Ellen: I mean, he knows what he wants.
Alice: Was it just the blood? Was it the squirting of the blood?
Ellen: Oh, oh no. Anyway, go away from the blood.
Alice: Let’s go camping.
Ellen: Where there is nothing kinky going on at all the camp site.
Bex: Well, no. ’cause there’s a child
Ellen: it’s very calm. It’s very calm. It’s calm until, until they get back and Michael gets cross with them. So Bobby and Harry have been walking and [01:02:00] they found some spots that are potential tree planting spots.
Then he finds out from Harry that his grandfather actually died before he was born. But, Michael showed him what his, his father had taught him. So
Bex: Michael has woken from his nap and he is grumpy like a bear. Uh,
Alice: He mad.
Bex: So pissed that they went and went hiking and went, found spots for the trees without him.
Alice: Yeah, they were just supposed to sit quietly at the table and not move for an hour.
Bex: Pretty much. Yeah, I think so
Ellen: This is the problem with, um, having different ideas of what tradition involves, I guess because Harry said that they, they needed to go right away, but I mean, Michael, the whole point of it was that they went together. So, [01:03:00]
Bex: but then, I’m jumping around a bit, but later on, um, Michael says that the whole point of Bobby coming to the camping trip was so that he can learn everything about this so he can continue the tradition.
Alice: Look, Michael has a brain tumor, he doesn’t have to be rational.
Bex: Yeah,
Ellen: true.
Bex: I guess. I mean, it’s, it’s probably like he, he did not expect to, Michael didn’t expect Bobby to take over quite so soon.
But I mean, this is the point of Bobby being there. As far as Michael is concerned, this is, this is good that he’s going out and he’s doing this stuff with Harry because he’s possibly gonna be having to do that in the future. But yeah, I think it, it’s pissed Michael off ’cause he’s having to face his mortality and what it looks like if he’s not going to be there.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: But, um, so he’s ready to rumble with Bobby. Harry gets annoyed and stomps off to the car and is like, [01:04:00] he doesn’t wanna even be here anymore, just wants to go home. Michael’s ruined it,
Ellen: but Bobby actually does tell him off. He’s like, “Look, uh, he’s terrified. You think you’re hiding how you’re feeling, but you’re not. He’s, he can see it and he. It’s making it all real.” And Michael’s like, “I’m the one fighting for my life here.”
But, um, I don’t know. This whole argument is like, I know that Michael is not feeling well and he’s trying to make everything as normal as possible, but Bobby is like trying to make out that everyone else has a life and you are making it hard for everybody.
And it’s like, oh guys, seriously, like no one is in the right here. Like, everyone’s doing everything wrong. Apparently, according to each of them. Like, you know, nothing anyone does is correct.
Bex: Yes. According to Bobby, Michael is not being sick the right way.
Alice: Yeah. How dare he?
Bex: He said, “we’re all [01:05:00] trying to support you, but you keep pushing us away.”
Ellen: And it’s like, but he’s not pushing them away. He’s trying to bring Bobby into his traditions and stuff. Like, you know, it’s, it’s very contradictory.
Alice: Yeah. Anyway, so Bobby tells Michael that May got into USC.
Bex: Yeah. Way to go, Mike? Uh, way to go, Bobby, that’s,
Ellen: yeah. That’s just, that’s a bit unfair.
Alice: Yeah. Um, and that May blames herself for Michael not having the surgery.
Um, and Michael says that it has nothing to do with her, and Bobby’s like “Her father might be dying. How does that not have everything to do with her? And with Harry and with Athena?” But Michael says he’s not trying to push anyone away. He’s trying to take step back, steps back so that they can learn how to be a family when he’s gone.
Bex: And then he storms up in a huff. So you’ve got Harry in one direction, Bobby in the other, uh, Michael in the other direction, and [01:06:00] Bobby’s sort of left in the middle going like, what the fuck do I do now?
Ellen: Yeah. I think the weird part is like they haven’t, they say earlier that they haven’t spoken to him for a few days, I think May says that earlier.
Yeah, but, and he says like he’s been trying to take a step back and you get the sense that he has been, but we, we only ever see them together. Like whenever we see a, we go to Athena’s place, Michael’s there. So to us it doesn’t feel like he’s taking any steps back. He’s just always there.
Alice: Like he’s just talking to Hen one day instead of Athena.
Ellen: Yeah. I,
Bex: yeah. Perhaps we needed a few more episodes between epi, between Michael’s sightings in order to fully get the, the sense of him pulling away.
Ellen: Yeah. I mean, in a, in an 18 episode season, when they’re trying to wrap up whatever arc is going on in this season, I’m guessing they don’t really have the luxury of having extra episodes where he is not around. But
Bex: that’s okay. We will deal with it.
Ellen: Alright, [01:07:00] dispatch time.
Bex: Dispatch time. Uh, Maddie’s finished her shift. She’s getting ready to leave and. Josh also is getting ready to leave. Um, and I will note that Josh still looks terrible, like not as bad as he did.
Alice: Wow. Ouch.
Bex: After the last episode, this show, for the most part, does a really good job of continuity of injuries. Like we probably gave them shit a little bit about the placement and the coloring of Chimney’s forehead scar after he got the rebar through his head.
Alice: Yeah. He’s, he’s still just got like a little cross on his head,
Bex: but they, they still remember, oh, this person has an injury. We need to keep including that and then we need to like, reduce it over time.
It’s not just gonna suddenly disappear one day. So it’s been
Alice: like Supernatural.
Bex: So it’s been a while. I don’t know how long it’s been between Josh getting attacked and now, but he’s [01:08:00] still got bruises on his face. The, his injuries are still evident. So, you know, kudos to makeup and continuity for taking that into consideration when they got Brian back on for this episode.
Ellen: Maddie looks like she’s about to leave for the day, and Josh asks her if she’s got big plans, and Maddie looks kind of terrified. Um, she’s like, Chim said that he is taking me out for dinner and there’s something that he has to tell me face to face. And Josh catches him right away.
Can’t wait. Yeah. And says, “Oh, you don’t think he’s…” and then Maddie says, “breaking up with me?” So we, she’s jumped to a conclusion,
Alice: but if he is, yeah, he’s picked a very expensive restaurant to do it in.
Ellen: Mm-hmm. So Josh is like, “oh, it must be good news then.” Yeah. Maddie’s like I, “he sounded serious. And Chimney never sounds serious.”
He does sound serious some of the time.
Bex: Well. Does he Sometimes, but probably in situations where it’s warranted that [01:09:00] he’d be serious. But Maddie doesn’t think that a dinner date Yeah. Dinner date is not warrant being serious. So she’s,
Ellen: she doesn’t see him at work when he’s being serious.
Bex: Yeah. Uh, so she’s questioning everything.
She’s got the what ifs and Josh immediately nips that in the bud. He’s like “Uhuh. No, no. What ifs don’t be the person who immediately assumes the worst of anyone. That’s my job. Remember?” So we get a little bit of a, um, an update on Josh. He’s doing okay, but he’s still a little skittish. Um, I love the foreshadowing this line.
’cause it sounds like a
Ellen: yes. I didn’t pick up on this the first time.
Bex: It sounds like a complete just throwaway line because he says “Yesterday I was convinced I saw Greg or whatever his actual name was outside this building.” And you think it’s just, oh. Josh is like jumping at shadows. He’s seeing him everywhere.
’cause then he also goes on and says, “I also saw him at my chiropractor.” But considering how this episode ends, it is a distinct possibility that Greg, or [01:10:00] whatever his name was, was actually outside the dispatch building.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Maddie is of course very familiar with the jumping at shadows phase, um, because she’s been through it with Doug and she tells him that it’ll pass.
Alice: It’s fine, Josh, I’m sure you won’t see him anytime soon.
Bex: No, he’s completely out of your life.
Alice: At work. Yeah.
Bex: Uh, so she goes home or she goes home to get changed, I’m guessing? She leaves dispatch. Um,
Alice: we, one of the, we don’t, we don’t actually know if she’s got a house, so she leaves. It’s fine.
Bex: I mean, she could be just be living in the back of her car.
Who knows at this point. All we know is that she,
Alice: she’s living in one of the rooms at dispatch.
Bex: Um, we did get this little throwaway scene where, um, the guy who at this point I was still calling Mr. You Have Power. Um, apparently his name is Jamal. So. Um, Jamal comes in, um, [01:11:00] and Josh is like, “why, why, why? What are you still doing here? Aren’t you going home?” And Jamal’s like, “No, I’m pulling an extra shift.”
Alice: Yeah. Josh is just like, “Why is no one going home?”
Bex: I think he’s also upset because apparently Jamal must be like his go-to for karaoke and with Jamal still working and Maddie on a hot date, nobody’s gonna be able to do karaoke with him.
Alice: Yeah. Oh, poor Josh. He’s having the, the worst week.
Ellen: Yeah, but he wants all the juicy details in the morning. Maddie’s like, okay,
Bex: but considering what we’ve just learned about Chimney, it could be very juicy.
Alice: Oh no. Hashtag Chimney Han has a blood kink.
Ellen: Terrible. All right. So apparently, um, neither Athena nor the 118 are actually working this week much because they’re all just visiting each other. Um, Hen [01:12:00] is now visiting Athena and having a drink.
Bex: It, it might be, I was about to say it might be after work, but no, their shifts are 24 hours, so Hen should still be at work.
If the writers had any, any interest in like actually paying attention to shift times.
Alice: No. Well, clearly they’ve clocked off because Chimney’s going out for dinner tonight.
Bex: Maybe it’s one of their like 48 off.
Alice: Yeah. Yeah. Like they are allowed out of the fire station occasionally.
Ellen: Yeah. Athena and Hen have a conversation about like, you know, the camping trip and.
Hen asked how it’s going and Athena says, “oh, it’s fine. At least that’s what Harry says.” So obviously Harry has actually called her at some point and things must have simmered down a little bit because Harry says it’s fine. I don’t know how long they were going camping for.
Bex: I’m gonna assume that this scene, ’cause we get a scene later on where Harry falls [01:13:00] asleep talking to Athena. So I’m gonna assume that those scenes are happening like one after the other.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: So she’s literally just talked to him and it’s the same day as everything.
Ellen: Yeah. She’s worried about him. The fact that, you know, he might have to lose his dad. She’d never thought that she would have to prepare him for that. Not at 10 years old at least, but Hen tells her that, um, you know, kids are resilient. Like he’ll, he’ll get through it. It’s very heartfelt and uh, lovely.
Alice: Well, the thing is like, and that Hen reminds Athena is that Athena’s a cop who risks her life every day. And so Michael has had to prepare them for the day that she doesn’t make it home.
Mm-hmm. And Athena’s like, oh no, but like, this is looming over us. And Hen’s like, well, yeah.
Ellen: How is that different to [01:14:00] every other day?
Bex: I just kept thinking of that. Was it the earthquake episode where they couldn’t get in touch with Athena? Yeah. And like May and Harry were frantically watching the news on their iPad rather than helping Michael get the earthquake bags ready because they were looking for, uh, for their mother on the news just to reassure themselves that she was still alive.
Alice: Yeah. Yeah. And then like May and her got like stuck in electrified water during the tsunami. So May is very aware about how dangerous Athena’s job is. Oh God. And then Harry had a gun pointed at him during a traffic stop.
Ellen: They’ve been, they’ve been through so much those kids.
Alice: They’ve been through so much. Oh.
But yeah, Athena’s Athena’s worried like she was starting to prepare for the loss of her parents, but she wasn’t ready to say goodbye to Michael. And she’s afraid, and [01:15:00] if he dies, she’s afraid of what it’ll do to May and Harry and they need their father.
Ellen: Yeah. And Hen reassures her that they’ll, they’re tougher than we give him credit for and they’ll, whatever happens, they’ll be okay.
Alright. It’s time for, and
Bex: yeah. While Hannah and Bethe and Athena are drinking wine on their patio, um, Maddie and Chimney are on their date at their very expensive and revolving restaurant.
Ellen: Yeah. Except they’re not in the revolving
Bex: bit,
but they’re not revolving.
Ellen: No, no. Apparently there’s an outside track to this place that revolves and they are stuck in the middle where it is not revolving,
Bex: which Maddie says it’s fine.
Um, because she can people watch without straining her neck because the people are just going to move around her.
Ellen: yeah, I mean, you still get the feeling of revolving because the tables next to you are revolving, I guess.
Bex: Yeah. Yeah. You are just yourself not revolving.
Alice: You just don’t get to see all the like 360 view.[01:16:00]
Bex: Yeah. And Chimney just dives right into the point of the, the, um, of the dinner date. Like there’s no, um, like carefully broaching the subject, he just immediately says, “I love you.”
Ellen: Oh, bless him.
Bex: And Maddie just stares at him
Alice: He’s so cute.
Bex: He, he kind of realizes that he’s just blurted it out and it’s like, I’m, I’m sorry, I didn’t actually mean to just blurt it out like that.
Um, but. He does, and he doesn’t wanna push, and he doesn’t wanna make Maddie uncomfortable, but he has been uncomfortable because he has been wanting to tell her, but he’s been scared to tell her. But now he’s just told her. It’s, it’s a, it’s a very sweet mess.
Alice: Yes. Yeah. He’s so nervous and like, he doesn’t wanna pressure her, but he needed to tell her.
And she doesn’t have to say it back. And then Maddie goes, “I’m not sure that I can.” And [01:17:00] his, like, his little face just falls. Oh, like Chimney baby.
Bex: She has a very good reason though. It is like, she doesn’t think that she can say the actual words, I love you, because they were an automatic response to an immediate threat.
And you gotta put a pin in that sentence. An automatic response to an immediate threat. Because that’s important. Um, but she does reassure Chim that while she can’t say the words, it is how she feels about him.
Alice: Yeah. So basically the words have lost meaning to her. Um, but she does feel that way towards him.
Um, and she feels happy and safe when she’s with him and a million other things that she can’t explain right now. But she feels all of that for Chim. That’re so sweet. I love them so much. Lovely.
Bex: [01:18:00] And Chim just says, that’s fine. I will say it enough for the both of us. Yeah, she’s just adorable.
Ellen: So cute.
Bex: And then Chim starts waffling on about, um, there’s other things that he wants to discuss.
’cause you know, Maddie has been staying over at his place pretty late sometimes. Sometimes she’s even staying the night. Maddie is too busy,
Alice: so spicy.
Bex: Um, because over Chim’s shoulder, the table moving in their direction is a young man and a woman. And the young man appears to be, um, digging around in his pocket for something. And when he pulls it out from underneath the table, it’s a jewelry box. And Maddie, just
Alice: so Chim goes, “I was thinking maybe we need to take the next step,” to which Maddie proposes, “Oh my God. Public proposals make me squirm.”
Bex: Yeah. Because Shi has not noticed that Maddie is not paying attention to him. Um, and he’s absolutely horrified. Like, “no, [01:19:00] no, Maddie, I’m not proposing to you.” And she’s like, “wait, that’s not what this is. No, you, I know you’re not proposing to me that guy over there is proposing.” Um, but actually he’s not. Um, because there’s this,
Ellen: it looks like he is, but
Bex: it looks like he is because there is a little jewelry box right about the right size of a ring box.
Um. And everybody in the room apparently thinks that he’s about to propose the woman that he’s at the table with assumes that he’s about to propose and actually preemptively like, looks like she’s about to say yes. Um,
Alice: yeah. So people around the restaurant are filming.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: And this is where the guy realizes made a terrible mistake.
Bex: There’s this big thing where the, the date Wendy tries to take the box out of his hands because he does not appear to be willing to hand it over. It goes flying. They end up under the table. It’s all very cute. They emerge back outta the table. She’s [01:20:00] got the ring box. She opens it and she’s like, “um, the answer is… earrings. Are you serious?”
Because it’s not a diamond ring. It’s a beautiful pair of diamond earrings.
Alice: Yeah. Which he got her for her birthday, which is next week.
Bex: At which point everybody including Maddie is like, oh boy. This just got, this took a dramatic turn that none of us expected.
Alice: Mm-hmm. Yeah, because yeah. So they’re starting to fight. Uh, Wendy starts getting up and,
Bex: but she gets up on the wrong side of the fucking table.
Alice: Yeah. Like she gets up towards the window and as she’s trying to get up the table approaches like this big concrete pillar, which is part of the window, and she gets crushed between the table and the pillar,
Bex: or she gets pinned between the table and the pillar
Alice: she gets pinned. [01:21:00] Yes.
But yeah, so Larry goes, “I wanted to surprise you.” And she goes, “I’m not surprised. I am…” that’s when she gets squished and then she goes “crushed.”
Ellen: Literally terrible, terrible puns. Um, I feel like this. Like I, I know it’s for the drama and whatever, but is this not some kind of a safety hazard to have the table so close to the wall?
Alice: It’s such a safety hazard.
Bex: Uh, there’s, there’s so many things in this episode that just are for the absolute drama. Like if she’d got up and stepped off to the side, she would’ve been fine. Yeah.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: The tables being bolted to the floor, which we find out in a second. They are. That seems like a really big risk.
Yeah. Like why are they bolted down? The, the track is not going fast enough that they’re gonna get flung off. Yeah. Um, but we, oh dear. We go to commercial and we come back and Chimney [01:22:00] hears Wendy screaming and dives into action. Um, and this is when we discover, ’cause he tries to move the table. We discover that the table has been bolted to the floor.
So he.
Ellen: For safety. That’s what the manager says, for safety.
Bex: Yes. The manager says for safety. So he disappears to find something that, um, they can use to unbolt the table because they can’t, I think they might have stopped the track, but they can’t make the track go backwards.
Alice: Yeah. So they’ve stopped the rotation, but it, it only travels clockwise. They can’t make it go the other way.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Um, so they can’t get her out without,
Ellen: and the, and the manager, the manager is totally useless here. It’s like, would you not have some kind of procedure to like, I, I don’t know. Like she’s, so stop thinking about it.
Alice: The manager’s so calm too. She’s just like, “nah, I don’t need travels clockwise.”
She’s clearly Jessie’s mom.
Bex: But I’m [01:23:00] assuming that because. Chim and Maddie immediately have dived into action. So Chim’s been very proactive. Maddie has called 9-1-1, like the quickest nine one one call in the world. ’cause she’s, um,
Alice: well to be fair, she is, she’s a dispatcher. Yeah. So she would’ve been like, this is,
Bex: she hasn’t stayed on the line. She’s like immediately just barked at probably location and what’s happened. Ended the call and she’s, and she’s at Wendy’s side. So the manager we find, um, we finds out that you’ve got a former nurse and a current paramedic on the scene. And then she’s probably like, okay, they’ve got it, her, her entire contribution is taking the glassware and flatware off the table. That’s all she does.
Alice: Um, but yeah, it’s awesome to see because like they haven’t seen each other work and we haven’t seen them work together. And it’s really cool watching because yeah, Maddie’s just like “former nurse”, Chim goes “current paramedic” and like they both just spring into action. So Maddie [01:24:00] is keeping Wendy awake and alert and just asking her questions.
Um, chimney goes and grabs the fire ax, like, which, that’s behind a glass thing. It’s fine.
Ellen: He diagnoses her as having the e broken a separated pelvic bone first
Bex: simply by touching her. Yeah.
Ellen: He, he uses the ax to leave her the bolts out of the floor,
Bex: which makes Wendy scream more surely for her safety. It would’ve been, it would’ve been better to wait the five or so minutes that it took for fire rescue to arrive and use the saw to cut the table and lift it away from her. It’s because as he’s wedging the, the acts under the table, the table is rocking into Wendy, crushing her further. Exacerbating her already, like horrific injuries.
Ellen: Um, I don’t know.
Alice: It’s, I don’t just, [01:25:00] it just reminds me of when Buck and Abby rescue the kid from the pool and as soon as they get the kid out, the power gets cut and like, everything’s literally fine. And they could’ve just waited and kept the kid calm.
Bex: Oh.
Alice: But they were like, no, we need to do this.
Bex: I think I, I think every single time Abby tries to do a rescue, it’s superfluous because immediately somebody is on the scene.
Oh, I still, she just waited that get over second. She would be fine.
Alice: I still can’t get over her try like her doing mouth to mouth on Buck when he was, when he entire airway was obstructed. And it’s like, Abby, what the fuck are you doing? His entire airway’s obstructed. And she’s like, no, I’m gonna do rescue breaths, which will do nothing.
And then instead of just continuing CPR, I’m going to give him a tracheotomy. Like what?
Ellen: That was a wild episode.
Alice: Wild.
Ellen: But anyway, they It works. It works.
Alice: Yeah. They get the, they get us around the table. Um, they get her out from the table [01:26:00] and get her down.
Ellen: Chim further diagnoses arterial bleeding.
Bex: Look, at least that they do show some bruising. So there is like evidence of bruising and bleeding under the skin. Um, and I’m assuming that she’s possibly also like the sensation, like her abdomen feels… like it goes rigid.
Alice: I guess they wanted to get her out as soon as possible because if, because they were worried about hemorrhaging and if she had started losing vitals, they can’t do anything while she’s standing up.
Whereas if they have her lying down. But isn’t that lying down
Bex: isn’t that the whole thing? That if you’ve got like a crush injury, the crush injury just kind of like acts as a tourniquet just holds everything in place. And she,
Alice: no, the, if you’ve got a like yes, but no. So crush injuries, the longer that you stay crushed.
Bex: But she was the, it would’ve been what,
Alice: it’s fine, shh.
Bex: Five minutes?
Alice: For the drama.
Bex: I know it’s for the drama, but Ellen has, Ellen has reignited my cynicism.
Alice: I love the Madney [01:27:00] team member. The, the Madney teamwork is just giving me life. Just let them be heroes. They, they, I let them turn each other on with their, with Chim’s blood kink
Ellen: With their competency.
Bex: They do work so well together considering they have never worked together before. They do act like a well-oiled team out of the field.
Alice: Yeah, it’s great. Yeah. They get Wendy on the ground. They do a splint with a tablecloth,
Bex: which is wrong, but, okay.
Alice: Shh. It’s fine. Um, for the drama, um, Wendy and Larry make up and Larry decides he is proposing by saying, “I’m asking now.”
That’s not even a proposal, but Sure. Um, and then we cut to the lobby where the paramedics are getting him out
Bex: and Wendy, the idiot, says yes.
Alice: Yeah. I dunno why Wendy says Yeah. Anyway,
Bex: I dunno why
Alice: she’s delirious from blood loss. It’s fine. Um,
Ellen: she hasn’t lost any blood though
Bex: internally.
Alice: She’s bleeding internally.
Ellen: Okay. [01:28:00]
Alice: I mean, Ellen’s like, that’s where all the blood’s supposed to be.
Bex: It’s not blood loss as in the blood is like leaving. It’s like the blood is not currently circulating throughout her body. So she’s still suffering from blood loss even though because it’s not going to her heart. It’s like going places it should not be going and it’s staying there.
Ellen: Okay. But I, I, I’ll defer to your superior knowledge. Um,
Bex: oh my superior knowledge of like absolutely no medical training? Like I don’t even play a doctor on tv.
Alice: Yeah. So anyway, the, the paramedics fuck Wendy off. Maddie laughs about public proposals. And then Chim’s like, “Uh, you know, that wasn’t a proposal by the way. Me, not them.” Maddie’s like “it wasn’t?” And then she’s like, “wait, were you gonna ask me to move in with you?” And Chimney goes, “I was gonna offer you a drawer.”
Bex: Which considering, what was he about to say? Hang on, I gotta go back up [01:29:00] and finish that sentence of his, ’cause he’s saying, um,
Ellen: he says something about you um, leaving clothes at…
Bex: “There are a few things I wanted to discuss. You stay over pretty late. Sometimes you even stay the night and I was thinking that maybe we need to take the next step and give I will give you a drawer.”
Alice: Yeah. Yeah. He doesn’t wanna rush into anything, okay. After 10 months and three weeks.
Ellen: So goddamn romantic
Bex: I hope it was a big drawer and not one of those small ones at the top of the bureau. Anyway, Maddie, um, Chimney sort of changes the topic and he’s, he starts to get a little flirty. He says that he finds the kicking ass and saving lives side of Maddie very hot.
Alice: And Maddie’s like, you too. Good with your hands. Very precise.
Bex: I was like, oh, I’m all about precision, baby.
Alice: So they lean in to have a little smoochy [01:30:00] smooch, and the manager’s just like, “thanks guys!” They’re just like, what the fuck? Who are you? And where did you come from?
Bex: The, the bitch face that Maddie gives her is just amazing, like time and place lady.
It’s like, I have not had sex in like four days. I think I’ve lost count how long it’s been. Just leave us alone.
Alice: To be fair. To be fair, the manager probably started off as a waitress, and we all know that as soon as you have your mouth full, that’s when they come and ask how everything’s going. So she’s just falling back on her training.
Ellen: But she does offer them anything. Anything she can do for them, just let her know.
Bex: And they go when Maddie gets the ooh, anything, which turns out to be a suite in the hotel.
Ellen: So they can get away from their roommate.
Alice: Yeah, so they get a big suite [01:31:00] and take advantage of the mini bar and each other.
Because hashtag Chimney has a blood kink.
Ellen: Well he, yeah. Now
Alice: Apparently internal bleeding also counts.
Ellen: Yeah, I was gonna say he’s now got a competency kink as well because they’re about to, you know, get hot and heavy after telling each other that they liked the way their hands worked. So,
Alice: um, let’s go camping again.
Bex: We’re gonna cut to the morning after, but we are gonna give those two a little bit of time to sort of… oh,
Alice: give them some privacy.
Bex: Oh no, sorry. It’s not the morning after. We’re still that night. So this is the, when Athena was saying “I talked to Harry”, this is the end of that. So we’ve jumped back in time slightly because,
Ellen: oh yeah.
Bex: Michael comes out from the tent. Bobby is sitting by the fire and he asks Michael, is Harry still on the phone with Athena?
Michael said [01:32:00] he fell asleep halfway through the conversation.
Ellen: Oh, that’s cute.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: I don’t think my ten, my, uh. Sorry, she’s not 10 anymore, but I don’t think she would’ve fallen asleep halfway through a conversation when she was standing either. But that’s very cute that he did.
Bex: It doesn’t say much for Athena’s conversational skills that Harry falls asleep so quickly.
Ellen: Um, so they have a little heart to heart by fire.
Alice: So then May and I get our nails done, and then we went to that burger place and Harry’s just like, (snore)
Bex: and then we went to the mall and we started off at this shop and May bought this and yeah, he’s out. Yeah,
Ellen: Bobby and Michael have a little heart to heart about, um, like Michael’s saying that he’s talking about how his father died.
So he died before they could tell anyone that Athena was pregnant. He, it was a stroke. Uh, so he died suddenly. And Michael goes on to tell [01:33:00] he, he’s in a bit of an oversharing mood. I think he was telling him all about how, when they found out that they were having a boy and he wanted to be excited, but he could only think about his father and how his son would never know him.
Athena had all the answers and Bobby’s like, oh yeah, she does. But they decided to name, uh, their son Harry, after his grandfather, and they would talk about him, and Harry would know his grandfather without ever having met him. And Bobby assures him that he, he does, he talks about “The way he talks about your father. You’ve kept him alive for Harry.”
Bex: So apparently that was the whole point of Bobby coming on this trip because Michael wants Bobby to keep Michael alive for Harry, the way that he was able to keep his father away because May has had him for 18 years. So she will remember him, but he is worried [01:34:00] because Harry is just a boy that unless somebody constantly keeps bringing Michael up and remembering and reminding Harry that all of his memories of Michael will fade.
Alice: Yeah. Like Michael knows that like videos exist, right?
Ellen: Yeah. When I was watching this, I was sort of, I kept thinking that it’s a lot for Michael to be putting on Bobby. Like Bobby is his ex-wife’s new husband. Like I know that they’re now besties apparently, but like. Bobby doesn’t even know Michael all that well.
Although apparently they spend a lot of time together now, so maybe he does
Alice: Bobby trying to keep the memory alive. Just like, oh yeah. Remember when your mum was married to that gay guy?
Ellen: Yeah. I don’t know. It is
Alice: just a good times.
Ellen: Um, it’s a, it’s a really nice sentiment, like I see where they’re going with this, but is [01:35:00] is, is this the right person to ask to do that?
Like
Alice: Yeah. Like maybe talk to Athena about it. Yeah. Who actually knows Michael and like
Bex: has all of those memories. Yeah.
Alice: Yeah. But
Bex: yeah, you’re right. He should be doing video journals. Yeah.
Ellen: There’s a lot of ways that he could be doing this rather than just putting it all on his, uh, wife’s new husband.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Anyway.
Alice: Yeah, it’s a weird writing choice.
Ellen: Um, but it is, it is a nice scene like they do,
Bex: it’s a, it’s a really nice sort of male bonding to male characters, male friendship scene. It just, yes. Like why?
Alice: It’s just a weird choice. Yeah.
Bex: Okay. So now we’re going to the morning after.
Ellen: Uh, yes. They’ve had a very lovely romantic night in their hotel room.
Alice: Chim’s just coming out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel, so I’m assuming, oh, maybe they’ve been cleaning up. So yeah, I’m assuming he had a shower.
Bex: We just take a moment to, uh, to appreciate [01:36:00] Kenneth Choi because like,
Alice: oh, right?
Bex: Damn, dude.
Ellen: Uh, they ordered breakfast room service with candles because they never got around to having a candle like dinner last night. So I assume they ate something, but they got interrupted by crush injuries,
Bex: I I’m not gonna go there, I’m not gonna go there.
Alice: Bex, no!
Ellen: Um, they, they’re gonna have a candlelight breakfast. I’m not really sure why we needed to see that scene except for the thirst trapping.
Bex: Except that it was cute. Yeah. And the thirst yeah, and the Kenny thirst trap.
Alice: Yeah. We wanted Kenny out of a, out of a shirt. Yeah. Yeah.
Bex: We all always appreciate Kenny outta a
Alice: shirt.
That’s fine.
Bex: Yeah. Back at the campsite, Bobby’s on the phone with Athena who is at work. Um, and according to Bobby it went well. They communed with nature. They planted a tree and they ate smores under the stars. I’m down with the smores part. I don’t know about the rest of it.
Alice: I [01:37:00] mean, planting trees is good for the planet.
Ellen: Yeah. Yeah. I’m not sure if they always, depending on where you’re camping, I guess, um, appreciate you just planting random trees around the place.
Bex: Yeah. Like are they planting something that’s like species and state appropriate?
Ellen: It looked kinda like a pine tree.
Alice: It looked a pine tree. Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah. Or some kind of,
Bex: but do they want pine trees in that particular part of the forest?
Alice: They’ll go back in at Christmas time and be like, where the fuck did our pine trees go?
Bex: Maybe that’s where Athena’s Christmas trees are coming from. Michael is just like planting them at the beginning of the year and then coming back in December to um, to harvest them.
Ellen: Oh geez.
Alice: How fast do pine trees grow?
Ellen: They grow reasonably fast, but um,
Bex: but like the previous year’s one, so he is got like a year for it to grow and establish and then he cuts and they don’t want it
Ellen: to get too big. Otherwise I won’t fit it in the house. Don’t tell Harry, God.
Alice: Not like Chris’s Christmas tree where he wants the like really big [01:38:00] one.
Bex: Which is so big that Eddie couldn’t even fit it in the house.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Uh, well, but apparently they’re gonna come home soon, so. Okay. Thanks for letting us know. Guys and
Bex: Michael and Harry appear to have reconciled because they, uh, Michael gives him a hug before as they’re packing the car back up. So yeah, they’re, they’re little, like they’re little just tying loose end. Tying up loose ends scenes.
Alice: Yeah. Yeah. I’m sure nothing drastic will happen in the next 10, five minutes of the show.
Ellen: Yeah. It’s just the end, right?
Alice: Yeah. Um, so we go back to, uh, Chimney’s house. Albert was worried about him, but Chim says that it was none of, none of his business where he was
Bex: Albert’s up making coffee when Chim sort of lets himself in and tries to sneak in.
And Can I say how unfair it is that men get away with doing the walk of shame because it does not look like a walk of shame?
Alice: Yeah,
Bex: [01:39:00] because he’s in a suit, like he’s got his jacket over his shoulder, so he is in like suit pants with a suit shirt. It does not look like that he didn’t come home last night.
It looks like he’s just dressed very professionally.
Alice: Yeah, because like they don’t have the smeared makeup, they don’t have the, like, slept in, like the slept in hair doesn’t look too bad when, when you run a,
Bex: but I mean, even if…
Ellen: he’s not carrying his shoes,
Bex: didn’t have the chance to shower, you’re clearly wearing evening clothing at like 6:00 AM in the morning.
Yeah. So even if you look put together, it’s quite clear that you are not supposed to be wearing those clothes right now.
Ellen: Mm-hmm.
Bex: But Chim gets away with it. Although Albert’s like, you know, “Where have you been? He was so worried about you.” Um, Chim just steals his cup of coffee and says like, “None of your business. But for your, for your information, I took Maggie Maddie out and things ignited.”
Alice: He looks so smug.
Bex: Uh, Maddie. Um, and speaking of smug, Maddie is [01:40:00] at work.
Ellen: Oh. She’s in such a good mood.
Bex: Yes she is.
Alice: Can you blame her?
Ellen: She bounces into the room. She’s like, yeah, I got some.
Bex: Josh immediately makes a bee line to her and is like, “how did it go? I need all the details.” And Maddie’s like, “well, there was a pelvic splint involved.” Josh is like, “Ooh, kinky.”
Ellen: Like Josh, you have no idea.
Alice: Hashtag Chimney Han has a blood kink.
Bex: But, um, Maddie does note that there, because as she walks in, before Josh gets to her, there is an LAPD officer on the dispatch floor that she kind of gives a nod of acknowledgement to.
And as she’s walking through, she’s seeing other LAPD officers on the floor and she brings it up to Josh. She’s like, “There seems to be a, a rather large police presence here today.” And Josh is like, “It’s the scheduled sit-alongs.” So apparently it, it’s not just 9-1-1 dispatches going [01:41:00] out in the cars sometimes.
The officers come in and sit in with the dispatchers to get sort of their perspective.
Alice: Um, yeah, totally normal event. Um, apparently so. Josh says that Maddie should read the calendar. Maddie says she doesn’t have to ’cause she has Josh. Um, Jamal has not moved. Like he’s still in the kitchen,
Bex: apparently not
Alice: exactly where Maddie left him the night before.
Bex: So the night before when she’s leaving and Josh is asking about karaoke. Jamal was in the break room making coffee when she walks back in. He’s still behind the counter at the break room making coffee.
Ellen: Yeah, like has he slept? Like he said he picked up an extra shift, but oh my God,
Bex: I don’t think it, because she says, “Have you been here all night?”
And he’s like, “no. It just feels like I was,” so I think he’s done like Yeah. Till midnight or 1:00 AM has gone home. Got maybe like two hours sleep and then he’s come back.
Alice: Yeah. Ugh.
Bex: So he’s gonna be in like great shape for today’s shift.
Alice: To be fair, like even in [01:42:00] retail, I used to do open closes a lot. Oh. And so I’d do 10 hour shifts and the amount of customers that would be like, do you just live here?
And I’m like, yeah, I’ve got a dog bed out the back. Yeah. Um, but yeah, it absolutely just feels like you live there sometimes. Like you go home or awake for like an hour, then go to bed, and then you’re back at the store
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Before 8:00 AM and you’re just like, what the fuck is this bullshit?
Bex: So as Maddie is putting her stuff away, she gets a call and it’s chimp, he’s just checking in to make sure that she got out of the hotel uh, okay. They didn’t like try and, um, charge her for any, for the room or the, the dinner or everything. But no, it was fine. Everything was 100% comped. And she stays on the phone with Chim as she leaves the break room and heads to her station to clock in, um, which is important. Because while she is talking to Chim on the phone, Sue comes up to behind her and is talking to [01:43:00] someone called Officer Brown and she’s saying to Officer Brown that I’m gonna have you ride along with Maddie today.
But Maddie’s sitting at his station, Josh has come back to get more details about that pelvic splint and he takes one look at the so far unseen, officer Brown and his face just drops. He, if
Alice: not only does his face drop, he drops his whole coffee cup.
Bex: Yeah, he, his face drops. If you could make actors like lose the blood out of their face, that’s what would’ve happened to Josh.
Ellen: Oh yeah.
Bex: And then we, as the audience, we get a cut to Officer Brown who says, “Hi handsome.” Yeah. And in case you didn’t miss who Officer Brown is, he then says, “Seen any good movies lately?” And at this point, the penny should have dropped from that line. And from Josh’s reaction, that Officer [01:44:00] Brown is Greg, AKA Josh’s date who beat the crap out of him at the, uh, the outdoor cinema.
Ellen: Yeah. Yes. And he pulls a, a gun, um, out from under his jacket. And there’s, and all of the LAPD officers who are there, uh, are not in fact LAPD. They’re all bad guys. They all have weapons.
Bex: And Maddie’s still on the phone at this point.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: And Greg tells her that she needs to end the call carefully. And Chim is. You can hear Chim through the, up through the phone. He’s like going, “Maddie, Maddie, what’s going on? Where are you? Did I lose you, Maddie? What’s going on?” And she very clearly, very carefully says, “I love you, Howie.” And then ends the call.
Alice: Yep. So not only does she say I love you, which she literally just said the night before, she [01:45:00] wouldn’t be saying, she also called him Howie.
Bex: Because what did she say? It’s like an automatic response to a threatening situation is what triggers her to say, I love you. And Yeah. She, she doesn’t call him Chim. She calls him Howie.
Ellen: And Chim’s like just looking at the phone going, what the,
Bex: what the fuck was that?
Ellen: What was that?
Bex: And back at dispatch, uh, office Brown, AKA Greg announces to all of the dispatchers as all of their stations start to shut down. And we hear the generators whine as everything powers down that he or we are taking control of this facility.
Alice: Yeah, “Don’t move or you will be shot.”
Bex: And he’s got his little mini gun raised above his head as he says this, just in case anybody really needs to have the point like hammered home. Yeah. And that’s how that episode ends.
Ellen: We have a heist,
Bex: and I love that this is how the episode ends. And then Ellen, you went and immediately watched the next episode. ’cause you couldn’t wait a week.
Ellen: Oh my [01:46:00] God. I had to
Alice: Yeah, you, yeah, you didn’t even hesitate.
Ellen: The thing is, if you are watching week to week, this would be hell to wait for a whole week until what’s happening next.
But because we have all it all available now, um, I was like, screw this. I’m going straight on
Bex: like Alice and I didn’t even have to say anything like, oh my God, if you, you cannot wait until next week. You’re just like, I can’t wait. I’m just going straight.
Ellen: No, I, I’m starting. Yeah. Yeah. So it’s like a, an un unannounced, two-parter, although I guess it doesn’t really relate. The, the, the episodes don’t really relate apart from this last five minutes. So,
Alice: but yeah, watching this live would’ve been wild.
Ellen: Yeah. Excellent cliffhanger.
Bex: And then not even watching it, um, live would’ve been hell, but then they went on like a two week break.
Ellen: Oh, did they?
Bex: ’cause the next episode did, they didn’t air until the middle of April. So just like in real life, that must been,
Ellen: I swear they do it on purpose.
Alice: [01:47:00] Must It must’ve been Easter. Yeah.
Ellen: They used, they used to do this with, um, with Supernatural as well. Whenever they’d go on a break.
Alice: Yeah. They’d have mini breaks.
Ellen: They’d have like a cliffhanger episode to keep you on tenter hooks for like two to three weeks.
Bex: It’s currently season eight. They’ve just aired. Was it 13?
Alice: Um,
Bex: eight. Eight 13 has just aired. Yes. ’cause 12 was “Holy Mother of God”?
Alice: Um, no, 12 was “Disconnected”. So 12 has just aired and they’re having a break.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Be, uh, for 15 or 16, one of the two.
Bex: So it’s,
Ellen: is it a, is it a cliffhanger at the moment?
Alice: Well, we haven’t got there yet.
Ellen: Oh, okay. There’s another, yeah. One. Okay.
Bex: So obviously it’s obviously it’s a part of the regular and sort of network schedule that somewhere around mid-April you have a break, so, yeah. So you’ve got “Ladies and gentlemen we’re taking over this facility.” We’ll see you in like three weeks time.
Ellen: Yeah. Ah mean.
Bex: So [01:48:00] from on the 13th of April in 2020 when this first aired, um, the audience got the taking of dispatch 9-1-1 on, which is a play on, it’s like take the taking of Pelham something is, I think the movie title that it’s a rip off of taking of Pelham. How do you spell that?
Alice: Pelham? 1, 2, 3. Yeah. Right. Which is the train.
Bex: Yeah. Um, and the summary is,
Alice: which I’ve actually seen, but I remember nothing about it.
Bex: I haven’t seen that one. I know that there’s original and then I think Denzel Washington did a remake.
Alice: Yeah. Denzel Washington and John Travolta.
Bex: That’s as far as my knowledge goes. Um, so the summary for “The Taking of Dispatch 9-1-1” is, um, very, is like full of spoilers, lots of information.
Um, Maddie fears for herself and her coworkers when the call center is taken hostage.
Alice: What the call center was taken hostage? I never would’ve guessed.
Bex: That’s it. That’s all we got. [01:49:00]
Alice: Yep.
Bex: Um, the triggers for the taking of dispatch 9-1-1 includes people being taken hostage, funnily enough, um, workplace under threat of shooting, uh, gun violence, threats of violence, uh, a car accident and just the generic cops being cops.
Athena is just a walking trigger.
Ellen: Aw. Yeah. I’m trying to think of what to say about this episode in general. Like I feel like that I’ve torn it apart, like with trying to make sense of it. I mean, it kind of rolled along quite well. There were a lot of really small scenes, but they kind of had to jump around because that’s just the way they’ve structured it.
But nothing happened in this episode that it was
Alice: just, it was [01:50:00] much, very much a filler episode.
Ellen: It was a filler episode.
Alice: Yeah. Which is funny because this week 9-1-1 was also a bit of a bridging episode, so it just must be I this time of the,
Bex: I like filler episodes and bridging episodes. I think in today’s, the way that everything is for is designed with streaming services, and it’s like very, very short, like 10 episode seasons. So you don’t have the ability to have a fluff filler episode because you’ve got limited time to tell the story.
Every episode is like, must see, because if you miss it, you’re going to miss out on so much. So I like the fact that there’s an episode, like pinging like, eh, I don’t actually have to watch this one again. Yeah, I can just go straight on.
Alice: I like filler, I like filler slash fluff, fluff episodes. One thing I hate from like older TV shows that I’m really glad they don’t do anymore is clip show episodes.
Bex: Oh, no. See, I, I [01:51:00] adore. I adore some. If they’re done right, they’re amazing. One of my favorite TV shows was, um, Stargate SG1, and their clip shows were so good.
Ellen: What is a clip show?
Alice: It’s where they play old clips from the te It could be, because back in the day, the only time, like the only way you could watch rewatch things was if it replayed on tv. So occasionally they’d do like flashback episodes. So if you’ve watched friends, it’s like before Chandler proposed or when they were writing their vows or whatever,
Bex: it was a really easy way for them to pad a season back easy way because they didn’t have to shoot a whole heap of shit.
They could shoot like maybe,
Alice: yeah, they just went back in
Bex: five minutes of actual footage and then they would just fill the rest of the episode with flashbacks from previous episodes. So it was a cheap way to get a new episode out.
Alice: And it made sense back then because you couldn’t, you couldn’t just rewatch stuff. But now that you like, can binge [01:52:00] stuff, it’s like, I just fucking watched this. I get it. I don’t need to watch it again.
Bex: It’s very much a, a relic of the, like the 22 episode season.
Alice: Yeah. My favorite show that did it though was community, because they do a clip show episode, but all the clips are brand new.
Like none of them actually happened. So they’re like, oh, remember that time we did this? And then it flashes back to something that we never saw.
Ellen: Right, yeah.
Bex: So, no, my, my favorite one from Stargate was they had, um, it was not nothing to do with the actual show. It was a guy who for some reason was connected to one of the main characters, telepathically.
So everything the main character was doing this guy saw in his head. So he was, he was a barber, so he would be telling his customers the stories that he was seeing in his head, which were episodes from the TV show in previous series, and they,
Alice: yeah, that’s kind of cool.
Bex: The [01:53:00] actor that they had doing this was the guy who does the voice, and I’ve completely forgotten his name of Homer Simpson.
Alice: Oh, um,
Ellen: Hank Azaria?
Bex: No, no. Hank Azaria was, um, Apu. Homer
Alice: oh, sorry. It’s fuck, what’s his name? Um, he’s in everything too.
Bex: And the, the really cool thing was that
Alice: Dan Castle… Dan Castellaneta. Can’t say that.
Bex: And it was a really cool thing because,
Alice: but yeah, he’s in everything.
Bex: The, um, the main actor who, the character who he was connected to telepathically, his favorite TV show was The Simpsons, and his favorite character was Homer Simpson.
And the act, oh, the actor, the themself playing that character loved The Simpsons and loved Homer Simpsons. So it was a nice little kind of Easter egg that they brought in the guy playing Homer Simpson to play this character
Alice: That’s really cool.
Bex: So they actually got to meet’s. So yeah, that’s my favorite clip show episode.
Alice: Yeah. So if it’s done right, [01:54:00] sure. Oh yeah, yeah. But yeah, like friends is very much just like, oh, we need an episode here.
Ellen: I mean, the filler episodes are where we get some, um, background character info. So it’s like bread and butter for Fanfic, writers for ex, for instance. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Um, not necessarily any character development, but just random stuff about characters.
Alice: Yeah. Like this one we learn all about Michael’s dad and how Harry is named after his grandfather.
Bex: Mm-hmm.
Ellen: Yeah. Yes. Well, we learned some information about Chimney that maybe we didn’t wanna know. Or maybe we did. Maybe we did.
Alice: Hashtag Chimney Han has a blood kink.
Ellen: Do please do let us know what you thought about this episode. Um, and if you are excited for the heist that is coming, uh, let us know. You can leave us a comment on Spotify or in this episode’s post on that we wish show.com.
Um, and we’d also love it if you could like, give us a, a rating, [01:55:00] uh, on your favorite listening platform. That would be awesome. Thank you for those of you who’ve already done that.
Alice: Yeah, you can actually rate on multiple platforms. It’s not illegal. Yeah. You can rate us on Spotify and then go to Apple Podcasts and rate us there as well.
Ellen: Thanks everyone for listening this week, and we will see you next time for episode 14, which is called “The Taking of Dispatch 9-1-1”. See you then.
Bex: Bye.
Alice: Bye.
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[First outtake]
Bex: Hashtag Chimney Han has a blood kink.
Alice: Get it trending, people, get it trending.
Ellen: Oh no.
Bex: Okay, back to camping.
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