Welcome to That Weewoo Show: a podcast where Alice, Ellen, and Bex watch and discuss every episode of ABC’s TV show, 9-1-1.
In this episode we discuss episode 14 of the third season of 9-1-1, titled “The Taking of Dispatch 9-1-1”.
Maddie fears for herself and her co-workers when the call center is taken hostage.
Content warnings for episode 3.14:
accidental nail gun injury, discussion of cancer and possible parental death, gore, blood, compound fracture, and the threat of gun violence.
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Episode Transcript
Maddie: [00:00:00] 9-1-1, what’s your emergency?
Ellen: Welcome back to That WeeWoo Show, a podcast where we watch and discuss episodes of the ABC show, 9-1-1. I’m Ellen.
Alice: I’m Alice.
Bex: And I’m Bex.
Ellen: Thank you to everyone who’s been listening to our episode so far and who has rated us on their favorite podcast listening app. Uh, we really appreciate it and we hope that you’re having a great day, whatever you’re up to.
This week we are continuing with the, um, the heist that we started in the previous episodes. Uh, so let’s find out how that all went down. Alice, do you wanna tell us what happened last time on 9-1-1?
Alice: Uh, yeah. So last week on 9-1-1, Michael and Bobby went camping with Harry to keep [00:01:00] traditions alive while Maddie and Chimney took the next step in their relationship with exchanges of I love yous.
Although Maddie’s was under duress as the dispatch center was taken hostage.
Bex: Which is pretty much exactly what the summary, the official promotional summary for this episode was. Yeah, Maddie fears for herself and her coworkers when the call center has taken hostage. That was it. That was all we got, which we already knew from last week.
What we didn’t know from last week though, were the possible triggers for this episode, which are as follows. We have a minor car accident. Uh, the aftermath of, we don’t actually see the car accident. There is the generic trigger warning for cops. There is gun violence. There is a hostage situation. There is threats of violence and actual physical violence.
Workplace under threat. There is an onscreen shooting. There is the use of an EpiPen [00:02:00] and a character being resuscitated.
Ellen: Yeah, it’s a very, um, action packed episode, this one, isn’t it? Lots of stuff packed.
Bex: It’s so action packed. Not enough talking, too much action.
Ellen: You, you’ve just wrote written notes for the whole thing.
Um, it’s, uh, it’s an interesting episode because like the other heist episode that, or, maybe unlike the other heist episode that we’ve had before, this one is just all, um, basically one day, one kind of event. It’s not like things that happened later, it’s just the whole thing is one day. So yeah, I think the pacing works really well for this because it’s just all one emergency rather than having different bit different scenes
Bex: Before we start. The Wiki would like us to know that this episode, which is about 9-1-1 dispatchers being taken hostage, um, aired during National Public Safety [00:03:00] Telecommunications week, a special week celebrating and thanking 9-1-1 dispatchers.
Ellen: Oh, well that’s nice.
Bex: Just the irony.
Ellen: I’m not sure if it’s good timing or like really bad timing.
Bex: I don’t know. I just found it ironic. I’m sure they did too. Yeah.
Alice: Like, thanks?
Bex: That was really the only bit of trivia that I felt worthy of passing on.
Ellen: Yeah. Other than that, the, uh, title of the episode is “The Taking of Dispatch 9-1-1”, which is riffing on the film, The Taking of Pelham 123. I think we mentioned that in the last episode.
Bex: We mentioned that last episode. Yeah. Yeah.
Ellen: Okay. Um, so at the beginning of this, we do have like a, a brief repeat of what happened last time, but we get extra, extra sort of introductory information at [00:04:00] the start.
Bex: Well, interestingly, there was no previously on 9-1-1 and there was no kind of reminder of where we left it. It jumped straight into the new information, which I thought was an interesting choice, considering that I think there was a two week break at this point for these guys.
Ellen: Right.
Bex: So the last thing…
Ellen: that would’ve been nice to have a bit of a reminder.
Bex: Yeah. I mean, there, there was always the risk that, you know, someone sat down, turned on expecting to see 9-1-1, and instead they see like Tiffany and Greg and like, wait. What, where’s my 9-1-1? What am I watching? Oh God. Did it get canceled over two weeks?
Ellen: They did go back into what happened in the, at the end of the last episode. Yeah. So we kind of did get a recap a little bit.
Bex: We do. It’s, it’s done quite well. So we start with the, the classic heist movie, introducing the members of the crew with the, [00:05:00] um, with the very, the, the classic, every time a new character comes on screen, we get the, the freeze frame with very stylistic freeze frame, with different coloring, um, and their name and their role in the heist.
And just in order to speed this up, ’cause we’ve got a lot to get through in this episode, um, I’m just gonna go straight through and we meet Tiffany, the driver who is late. That’s kind of the reoccurring theme for her, that she just has no concept of time. We re, we remeet Greg, who is the captain of the heist.
We meet Ellis, who is his lieutenant, Oliver, who’s the muscle and Foster, who is the artillery. So he has the weapons
Alice: Foster, AKA Voldemort.
Ellen: Um, the actors who play these guys are, I don’t know how you would say it, they’re in a lot of tv, like, and film.
Bex: One of, they’re like a voice actor as well. Like he’s does a lot of game [00:06:00] work.
Ellen: The only one I recognized was the guy who plays Ellis, um, who is called Assaf Cohen.
Bex: Assaf. Okay.
Ellen: Um, he was in Supernatural in the taxi driver episode, um, where Sam had to go to hell to rescue Bobby’s soul and take him to heaven. Do you remember that one?
Alice: Oh yeah.
Ellen: He was like the guy who was the taxi driver.
But no, um, the others have been in various things, like some of, a couple of them were in, um, the, one of the Thor movies and there’s, you know, a few others that have been in. In Marvel, other movies as well. And they’ve been in lots of tv. So, you know, these are, you know,
Bex: working actors,
Ellen: experienced actors. Yeah.
Bex: Uh, once Tiffany has picked up all of the members of the crew, we see them in the back of the van, Foster is passing out weapons, and we see that they’re dressed in, uh, black uniforms and they’re putting LAPD badges onto their jackets. They then, uh, roll up into a, I’m not entirely [00:07:00] sure where they are at this point.
Some kind of underground something. If Alice, you recognize it. ’cause you said that you’ve been driving around LA quite a bit in GTA. Do you have any idea where
Alice: Yeah, there were a whole bunch of, um, there were a whole bunch of locations at the start of this that I recognized from GTA. Um, I think this was just like under an overpass.
Okay. Like it’s just one of the tunnels. I’ve definitely gone through it in GTA, but it’s just like one of the tunnels. But I dunno why there’s no traffic there.
Ellen: Yeah, I was looking at it thinking it was quite deserted. Like why is it so quiet down there
Bex: constantly throughout this episode. Like it’s 8:00 AM on whatever day this is in LA and there is almost no traffic on the roads.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Um, but yeah, definitely there are no cars in this tunnel. There is a giant tractor trailer, like giant B dub truck which has LAPD cruisers inside it. And we meet the final two members of the heist, which is Van [00:08:00] Cleef and Arpels who are our thieves.
Alice: I’m wondering if it’s actually like the back of a loading dock ’cause I’m just rewatching it and there’s like big, like warehouse doors along it, but either way it’s like somehow very secluded.
Ellen: Another random little fact about this cast, um, Arpels heislayed by a guy called Orson Chaplin, who is Charlie Chaplin’s grandson.
Alice: Oh,
Bex: wow.
Ellen: So there you go.
Bex: Uh, Greg is setting everybody up. They get radios, they get administrator level key cards, which will get them through every door at the call center. And we are told that they have 60 minutes to get in and out.
So then everybody gets into back in the van or gets in one of the cruises and they head off.
Ellen: Yeah. And they’re showing up to, to dispatch. And they, it seems the guy at the [00:09:00] front desk had been expecting them. They, they said that the, the ride alongs are today. And he’s like, yep, okay. I’ll just buzz you up off he goes.
Bex: Yeah, he actually swipes them into the elevator that he uses. His key card opens the get the elevator door open swipes. His card hits level three with the intention that they then have to have an express trip, and the only place that they can go is level three security measure. That seems pretty reasonable.
Mm-hmm. Except as soon as the doors shut, Greg whips out his key card and overrides the security guard’s key card and takes ’em to level two first,
Alice: which apparently is the server room,
Bex: which is apparently where they keep Terry,
Alice: his little enclosure. They scatter food down there.
Ellen: Yeah. And he like. Oh, I thought Ellis asked if he’s Terry.
Okay. I thought Terry introduced himself when they [00:10:00] walked in. He is like, Terry Flores, can I help you guys? I’m like, well, that’s a really weird way to to say hello to someone when they come into the room. But no, it was said,
Bex: although I don’t know who else would be down there, but yes, they have to double check to make sure that that is actually ter um, Terry.
And because it is Terry, he gets a gun shoved in his face.
Alice: Lucky Terry.
Ellen: Oh yeah. So poor Terry is under siege. He’s like a hostage now. Mm-hmm. Um, the rest of the other three of them continue up to the actual dispatch floor and Sue meets them at the elevator. She knows that they’re there.
And Greg even asked her like, how do you know we were here? And then she does a little exposition e like, oh, this is my little tablet here that shows me everything I need to know, and I know I can see everything with this. And Greg’s very interested in how that works.
Bex: At, it’s at this point that the [00:11:00] math stops mathing in this episode, because Sue says, and we remember her from saying from last week that she thought that there were five of them.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: But so far we, we’ve seen Greg Ellis and Oliver got out at the service room, and we had
Ellen: two, there were two more guys. There were five of them in the elevator. Right. And then two got out in the server room.
Bex: Yeah. We suddenly got, we’ve got, we haven’t been introduced to one of them. So we’ve got Greg Foster and Goon number.
Ellen: Really?
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: Okay. I mean, there is rant. They’re all just like, you know, middle aged white guys. I, I don’t like, I can’t keep track of them. There’s too many of them.
Alice: Yeah. Literally. I have no
Ellen: idea. But we don’t know this episode. We don’t know them at all. We know their names, but that’s it.
Bex: Yep. Um, but yes, after we have been told that [00:12:00] there are five of them again and we start counting and it’s pretty soon the math’s gonna stop mathing.
Um, we do start looping back into, um, catching up to where we were in the last episode of “Pinned”. So we see Maddie arrive at work and say hi to Jake, the security guard before she gets in the elevator and heads up to the dispatch floor.
Ellen: Uh, we have a brief look back in the server room where Terry is doing some things to the servers, um, while Ellis is pointing the gun at his face.
Um, he’s trying to get Terry to take the system down. He wants everything to go down, and Terry’s like, ‘Dispatch gonna go down,” and, and, um, but Ellis knows that’s what’s gonna happen. He’s like, they, “it’s gonna be down for seven minutes. It just tell them it’s temporary maintenance.”
Bex: The gun is, is very convincing.
So Terry does, as he says. Um, [00:13:00] but it must take a few minutes for the actual reboot to kick in because we now get a repeat of Maddie walking out of the elevator greeting Josh telling Josh that things got kinky with a pelvic splint last night with Chimney, um, making note of the quote unquote “big police presence”, which when I watched that again, I went, Maddie, there’s, you’ve only seen two of them.
How is that a big police presence when you’ve seen literally two cops on the floor? Then we cut back to more heisty stuff, which is, we need to get Jake out of the way. So Jake down in the lobby behind a security desk, gets a phone call from Terry, who like, “oh my God, dude, I’m so sorry. I just locked myself out of the server room. Can you come let me back in, um, right now, please.”
And we find out that he’s making this phone call under supreme duress because he literally has the barrel of a gun pressed to his [00:14:00] temple.
Ellen: Yeah. This episode’s gonna be a lot of cutting back and forth between the different things that are going on in the heist.
And there’s not heaps of dialogue, but it’s good. Um, no, no. It works really well. No,
Bex: which makes really hard when I’m writing.
Ellen: Yeah. It’s, it’s just hard to describe because there’s, you know, stuff, so much stuff going on all the time.
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: And in multiple places. So,
Bex: and honestly, the, the first part of this episode where it’s all of this stuff that’s a replay from Pinned, I haven’t bothered.
To go into detail. ’cause I’m just like, like this part, Jake locks the front door so that nobody can get him in while he’s not at the security desk and goes up to let Terry back in. Meanwhile, we get a replay of Maddie’s conversation with Chim on the phone where they’re talking about the hotel room
Alice: Yeah. And how the conversation’s not no longer safe for work.
Bex: And while that’s happening, Jake has reached level two and is rather confused because if Terry locked himself out of the server room, then [00:15:00] where is Terry and why is the server room door wide open?
Ellen: Yeah. So he does come in and sees Ellis and Terry, um, and with, and the gun pointing at him. Um, but they, but Oliver, who must be the other guy who was up in there? I can’t,
Bex: Oliver. Ellis and Oliver went up.
Ellen: So, yeah, Oliver. Okay. So Oliver tackles him. And knocks him over and they drag him behind the servers. So
Bex: yeah, we haven’t gotten to that part. So we’ve just got, they, um, they knock him out.
Ellen: Okay. Getting ahead.
Bex: And then we go back down to dispatch and we catch up to the end of “Pinned.” So Maddie goes to her station. Sue brings Officer Brown over, um, to introduce Maddie to her ride along. Josh has his, uh, mug drop moment when he recognizes Greg and Terry’s.
And then, um, [00:16:00] Maddie has to end her phone call by telling Chim that she loves him
Ellen: by telling Howie that she loves him,
Bex: telling Howie that she loves him. And then that’s the title card. So all of this happened is like the most chaotic, cold open that an episode could have. Yeah. So when we come back from the title card, Terry’s system reboot has kicked in and that’s why all the computers suddenly go black, which kind of clears that up.
’cause from, from the end of “Pinned” was like all of a sudden the computers go black. Why do the computers go black? Because Terry rebooted the system.
Ellen: Yeah, it’s good timing really, because he just kind of revealed himself to the, to everybody
Bex: very dramatic.
Ellen: And the, the computers went down and he went, “Oh, there we go ladies and gentlemen. We are taking control of this facility. Do not move or you will be shot.”
So, so this is terrible. Extremely dramatic. The poor, the poor 9-1-1, [00:17:00] you know, dispatchers are forced to step away from their computers and yeah, sort of herded up with the guys who’ve got the guns. Then we go back to the server room where Jake’s unconscious body is dragged away and they’re gonna grab his uniform.
Bex: Yeah. So Oliver is left behind to take Jake’s uniform with the idea being that Oliver is going to replace Jake down on the security desk. Ellis takes Terry to take him back upstairs so that all the hostages are one in one place. But as he’s leading Terry or forcing Terry towards the stairs, uh, they hear a gunshot and Terry looks freaked out.
Ellis also looks a little shocked, and you kind of get the impression that that wasn’t supposed to happen. And the implication, at least that Terry takes away is that, and I think maybe Ellis as well, is that Jake just [00:18:00] got shot.
Alice: Yeah. Yeah. As far as we know, Jake’s now dead.
Bex: Yeah, Jake got shot.
Ellen: Poor Jake. Um, so they’ve lined them up, um, all the dispatchers and they’re making them empty their pockets, and they want all the cell phones and everything, and he gets along the line to Linda, and Linda has an epi pan in her hands, and she says, I’m allergic to bees.
Um, and Foster, who’s the guy who’s making them do this, tells her that bees are the least of her troubles today, sweetheart. So makes,
Alice: I mean, to be fair. Like, are there gonna be bees in dispatch?
Ellen: I don’t really, I mean, I, you, I get You are attached to your EpiPen. Yes. But you just never know, I guess, but
Alice: More like, no, this thing’s expensive. You can’t have it.
Bex: So yeah, she drops Chekov’s EpiPen into the, the waste paper bin that they’re handing around. Um, Terry [00:19:00] is, Terry and Ellis arrive and Terry gets shoved into the lineup with everyone else. Yep. Um, and Sue is trying to be brave and Sue tries to take control of the situation and she tells Greg that somebody’s gonna notice when 9-1-1 stops answering.
But Greg has an answer for that. He’s like, “You had a systems crash, it’s fine. Valley’s picking up the slack, your server’s coming back online, and then everything will be fine. You’re gonna get back to work. But we are going to be supervising, we are gonna be monitoring all the calls and approving all resources that you send out.”
He also says that because the call volume is usually low this early in the morning, they don’t need all the dispatchers on the floor at once. So they split them all up.
Ellen: Yeah, when he said that, I was like, oh my God, what’s he gonna do?
Bex: They’re gonna shoot all of them,
Ellen: You’re gonna shoot some of them? But no, they just take him into the, into the corridor and make ’em sit down and [00:20:00] wait.
Bex: They split them all up. So Sue ends up sort of on the floor at all times so that Greg could keep an eye on her because he’s obviously realizing that she is the one in charge. Um, and then they rotate between having some of the dispatchers at their stations. There’s a group of them in a conference room, and there’s a group of them down in the corridor that Maddie goes into when she’s trying to take private phone calls.
Ellen: Yeah. And Greg says that they’re, they’re only gonna be there for an hour, then they’re leaving, and if anyone tries anything… um, and Jamal goes, “You’ll shoot us?” and they’re like, no. And then they, one of the guys goes and just punches some other person who’s near Jamal and he’s like, “We’ll shoot the person next to you.”
Bex: So we immediately get the idea that fo this was Foster, this is the gun guy. He’s going to be the loose cannon. He’s the one that doesn’t seem to mind hurting people. I will say this for Greg, as much of a dick as he is, [00:21:00] he doesn’t seem to want to hurt people. Yeah. Like he’s threatening. He doesn’t mind roughing you up a little bit.
Like he’s gonna haul you around and throw you around, but he,
Ellen: he doesn’t actually want anyone to get shot. Shot.
Bex: Yeah. He’s got his plan. We’re just gonna come in, do our plan and get out. Nobody’s gonna get hurt. It’s fine. This is gonna be a victimless crime.
Alice: Yeah. He doesn’t want more heat on them.
Ellen: Ah, so are we, okay, so they’re in the corridor
Bex: and Maddie and Josh get, get put together.
Ellen: Yeah. And Maddie asked Josh, “how, how did you know you dropped the guy? Like you dropped the mug before they pulled the guns out,” and Josh tells her that he recognized Greg, this is the guy who beat him up on the date. And Maddie says “they, they targeted you because you work here.” So Josh is like, “oh, this is all my fault. We have to warn someone.” And Maddie says, “I already [00:22:00] did. I just hope he gets the message.”
And then we cut to Chim, who is, who is so confused. He is just, he is, he’s trying to talk himself out of panic. Getting worried.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Like, yeah,
Alice: like he’s more talking to himself. He’s, that’s weird.
Ellen: Like, is that weird?
Alice: That’s weird, right? Yeah.
Bex: I love that we do get a shot. ’cause he sent Maddie a series of texts that she hasn’t answered to it. And the longer that she doesn’t answer, the more texts he sends. So he is blowing up her phone and it’s like, um, “Hey, that was unexpected, but great. Okay. Maybe a little weird. Call me when you can, Maddie. Is everything okay?”
Alice: Yeah. So the longer it goes, like he is spiraling. Um, so he tries to call her and it goes straight to message bank, which is weird, but he is like, no, you’re think
Bex: voicemail.
Alice: It’s fine
Bex: if you’re gonna be picking on me last week for [00:23:00] Australianisms Message Bank is voicemail. What Telstra uses call their voicemail.
Telstra is one of the major carriers for, um, it’s like your AT&T in America, but we, it’s Telstra for us.
Alice: So Chim gets a voicemail and then we get a commercial break. But after the commercial, Chim’s still spiraling. Like he’s literally typed nine one one into the phone and he is like, “no, I’m not gonna be that guy. Don’t do it. Don’t be that guy. Don’t do it. Don’t do it.”
Ellen: He is trying so hard not to
Alice: do it.
And then calls 9-1-1,
Bex: I just, part of me wants to know what would’ve happened if actually everything had been fine,
Alice: literally I was about to say that.
Like, “Hey, I just wanna talk to Maddie.” “Um, she’s dealing with a high, like with a hostage situation. Like, can can she call you back?” “Oh yes. My bad. Sorry.”
Bex: 9-1-1. What’s your emergency? Hey, um, can I talk to Maddie please?
Alice: Can I talk to Maddie? If Maddie’s not available can I talk to Josh? Uh,
like Sue writing [00:24:00] Maddie up, like “can you tell your boyfriend not to call here?”
Ellen: Um, but that doesn’t happen. But no, 9-1-1, there’s like a recorded message that says, sorry, we’re experiencing a high call volume at the moment. And Chim’s like, it’s eight in the morning. What the hell? So he calls…
Bex: ’cause the last time they got…
Ellen: someone else,
Bex: that message was during the earthquake when the cell towers got absolutely knocked out. Unless you were Maddie and you had magic cell phone powers,
Alice: magic baby delivering cell phone powers.
Bex: Yes. Uh, so he. Since he can’t get through to one Buckley, he decides to try the other Buckley.
Ellen: He, Chim answers like greets him by saying, “How come 9-1-1 doesn’t respond when I call?” And Buck says, “Is that some kind of riddle?
Like, who watches the Watchmen?” Chim’s like, “Neither of those things are riddles.” Uh, so they, yeah, he’s [00:25:00] calling 9-1-1 and he is got the high volume message, but nothing’s happened. Like, did I miss something? He’s like,
Bex: which then it makes sense why he’s called Buck because I’m guessing the buck has been on shift while Chim was off shift having his date or something.
So if there was something happening that would warrant high calls, buck would probably know. Mm-hmm. That’s the way I’m rationalizing this.
Ellen: Aren’t they normally always on shift together though?
Alice: It’s fine. Buck took up an extra shift. It’s fine. Just keep going.
Ellen: He probably was just out of the shops or something.
I dunno. But the, the funny thing I thought was that when he was walking, like walking around his apartment on the phone and he, and he just walks past this bike that’s just hanging on the wall. And I was like, whoa, that’s, that’s cool. But like,
Bex: I love that decor, like it’s purely decor. We’ve never seen Buck on a bike.
Alice: Well,
Bex: not yet,[00:26:00]
Alice: but yeah, he never uses it. But
Bex: yeah, it’s, it’s purely decor.
Alice: It’s there.
Ellen: It’s really cool.
Bex: Yeah. It’s, it’s small room storage for bikes. You hang them.
Alice: Yeah. That’s what my brother did at his, um, apartment when he lived at the apartment.
Ellen: Very cool. Anyway, so yeah. Buck’s trying to talk him, talk Chim out, down, basically.
Bex: Well, no, I, I love this cause he, Buck is concerned that Chim is calling him. And then he’s even more con confused when Chim reveals that the whole reason that he’s calling Buck is, “Your sister told me that she loves me.” Yep. Chuck’s like “Wasn’t that the whole point of the date last night?”
And Chim has to explain like yes and no. “Look, she made this big deal about how she couldn’t say those words to me and then she says those words to me, but then hangs up on me. That’s weird.”
Ellen: Yeah. And Buck’s like “this not sounding like it’s emergency. Like what? Why, what’s what the hell?” And then Chim’s like, “You know what? [00:27:00] Forget it.” And then he just hangs up.
Alice: Yeah. He realizes as he is talking that he sounds insane, but he is like, I swear I’m not insane. However, I feel insane.
Ellen: Alright, so back on the actual dispatch floor. Um, 9-1-1 is working again and the dispatchers are taking calls. Um, um, and. Linda is, has taken a call where there was the, uh, the car accident, right?
There was a, an accident on the corner of ninth and Los Angeles Street, and then Ellis, he’s basically just taken over the whole of dispatch. Right? He’s, he’s, he’s like really good at this. Like he seems professional.
Bex: He’s got Linda’s special little pad. Um, and yeah, he’s the one who is monitoring,
Ellen: he’s like running the whole thing.
Bex: Yeah, he’s doing Sue’s job and yeah, he’s doing really good job. He’s got really good customer service voice. You would not know that he had taken everybody [00:28:00] hostage. He sounds very professional, um, except for the fact that he literally yanks the headset out of Linda’s ear. Um,
Alice: yeah. Kind of rude,
Bex: which I don’t understand why Linda has a headset in, because apparently everybody in the room can hear every single call.
Because the person on the, the, the caller, the 9-1-1 caller says, um, that they’re calling from the downtown, the corner of ninth and Los Angeles Street, Sue and Ellis, who are on the other side of the floor. Their heads whip around so fast. I’m surprised they don’t need to….
Alice: Yeah. They can also hear it somehow
Bex: see chiropractors because they’ve heard that.
I’m like, how did you hear that? It was in Linda’s ear. Neither of you have headsets on at this point. Um, at which point Ellis literally bounces across the room and yanks the headset from Linda’s ear so that he can take over the call. Um, it’s not quite Gloria bad, but he’s pretty much just, “can you guys just push the cars outta the intersection?”
Alice: Yeah. Like you guys do it. Bye. Yeah.
Ellen: [00:29:00] Yeah. But he does tell them that help is on the way. Like they’re gonna send someone
Bex: help is on the way, dear.
Ellen: Uh, and he tells Linda that no one goes into that area. Yeah, they do say that it’s, now it’s time to rotate. So they grab the people who have been sitting at the desks and take them to the corridor or wherever they were stashing them. And other people are, you know, made to come and answer calls instead.
And Linda’s like, tells Maddie or whispers to Maddie as she goes past, “They don’t want anyone downtown.”
Alice: Yeah. So now they know where they’re trying to protect.
Bex: Meanwhile, downtown, ’cause of course she’s downtown.
Ellen: Yeah. Right in the middle of everything.
Bex: Athena always not realizing that she is, but she is. No, no.
Um, Athena Athena’s cruising in her vehicle talking to May, [00:30:00] um, updating her. Apparently the menfolk are on their way back from the campsite.
And then Athena has to cut the conversation short because she is now on the corner of ninth and Los Angeles Street, and she has come across the multiple vehicle collision, which looks like it’s just a fender bender. It’s not really as severe as Linda was making it out to be.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: And the peop, there are people pushing the cars out of the intersection as Ellis asked them to.
Ellen: Yeah. Yeah. And two people are having an argument like,
Bex: oh, I love these two yelling at each other. They’re like, it was yellow. It
Ellen: you jackass. It was irresponsible. Athena’s like, why don’t you each go to your own car and we will sort this out?
Bex: And then the guy’s, like, we were in the same car, and the woman that’s yelling at him sort of points at him is like, that’s my husband.
Ellen: Yeah. Um, [00:31:00] and Athena’s just like, okay. So obviously she hasn’t, she’s just come across this accident. She wasn’t called to come here by 9-1-1. Yes. So the woman’s confused is like, “why isn’t that why you are here? Someone called 9-1-1.”
So the, so Ellis gets on the radio and asks her, they’re requesting you at like Sunset for an assault and battery. So off you go, you know,
Alice: way further away. Go away.
Ellen: Yeah. Athena’s like, “I’m at ninth and Los Angeles, there’s an accident here.” And Ellis is like, no unit’s already on route. Get outta there.
Bex: Just please leave. Please leave.
Ellen: So she leaves and I think as she leaves the, the woman who was involved in the accident, it’s like rolling her eyes going, whatever. Just,
Alice: we’ll keep moving the cars outta the way. I guess.
Ellen: She’s not having the best day.
Bex: And then we. Realize as after we have seen Athena drive [00:32:00] through the very, very empty, very, very quiet streets of Los Angeles, that Ellis is watching her car on his magic iPad.
So he has seen that she has responded to the call and that’s why he has requested her to attend the assault and battery down on Sunset.
Ellen: Yeah. So she gets out of the way and we get, and we see Tiffany who is in the van still, and Ellis tells her that she’s clear for delivery. So she grabs a box from her passenger seat and gets out of the van.
Um, she goes over,
Bex: yeah, she’s driving like a, a white panel van, which at the moment says that she’s from Marathon couriers.
Ellen: At the moment? Delivers. Does it change costume?
Bex: Yes, it does. Right. Okay. I think they’ve got like magnetic stickers and they keep changing the stickers on the side of the van, depending on what Tiffany’s doing. It’s very clever. They thought of everything.
Ellen: Yeah. I mean, it’s a, [00:33:00] it’s a really complicated plan.
Bex: Tiffany’s just in a white, um, polo shirt, so, and a white cap. And she keeps changing the badges on her shirt and cap, depending on what van she’s driving. Interesting. Yeah. Um, but she delivers a box to what essentially looks like a fire door that has no sort of external way of getting into a building, which seems a little bit suss until you realize what she’s doing.
Ellen: Yeah. So she puts the box down and adjusts it until she’s happy. Like, I don’t know how she gets this angle just right, but. It overloads, the security camera that’s on the side of the building that’s across the intersection. Um,
Bex: yeah, there’s something in the box
Ellen: and it kills it. Yeah. So it was at this point that I was like, if they’ve got this technology that can [00:34:00] disable a camera just by shining a laser at it or whatever they’re doing, why do they need guns to get into the dispatch?
Like, it just seems like unnecessarily risky.
Alice: Yeah, I was the same. I was like, what? Why do they need dispatch? I don’t understand.
Ellen: But I mean, it’s to keep the, ’cause it, it triggers off the alarm when the cameras go down, which is what we see next. And they need to keep the, they need to keep the cops away from the investigating the alarm until they’re like, it’s, it, it’s so complic complicated.
The plan is very convoluted. I ju I don’t know. It, it worked, it would’ve worked if, if it hadn’t been for those pesky kids.
I.E. Chim and Buck.
Bex: Pretty much. Yeah.
Ellen: So, yeah, she overloads the thing, the, the, the alarm goes off and Sue gets a, a, you know, here’s the sound that the iPad makes, which is an automated alarm and says that, you know, that’s a security alarm. We usually send someone to that. [00:35:00]
Bex: So this is, um, a little bit of a, a funny point because when Tiffany disables the security alarm, the camera pans up from where Tiffany was to do a long lingering shot on a specific building, which is meant to be the scene of where the heist goes down.
And I was pretty sure that if I had been. Los Angeles native that I would immediately go, oh, hey, it’s that building. Um, because it felt like it had,
Ellen: it’s quite a, um, distinctive looking building.
Bex: Exactly. But being Australian, I have no fucking clue what that building is. So I did a, I took a photo of it and then I, like Google Image, searched it and found out that it is the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the LA Philharmonic.
Alice: You know what’s funny is I recognized it from the Get Smart movie.[00:36:00]
Ellen: I just assumed it was an actual art gallery. Are you saying it’s not an art gallery at all? It’s just,
Bex: it’s not an art gallery.
Ellen: It’s like a concert hall building.
Bex: It’s a concert hall. Um, so that’s like the, that’s like hilarious. ’cause I love that the fact that the. Um, they’ve got all this, like real later on it becomes that they display the art like they display pictures at a school. Like they’ve got the art lining, the hallways of this, um, concert hall. Like you have the art lining, the, the hallways of a primary school. Um, but we’ll get back to that ’cause I think that’s hilarious. But the point that I wanted to make here is that it is the Walt Disney Concert Hall, but when we get a shot of Sue’s magic iPad, it comes up as the Pacific Concert Hall.
Because I’m guessing Fox didn’t wanna pay to name drop Walt Disney.
Ellen: Yeah, fair enough.
Alice: Fair. Which is amusing because now 9-1-1 is owned by Disney.
Bex: Well, it’s owned by ABC, but Disney had the [00:37:00] rights to stream it in Australia.
Alice: Um, ABC is owned by Disney.
Bex: ABC is also owned by Disney. Excellent.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: So yeah, I thought that was, is, that was quite funny. But anyway, um, so with the security alarm going off, which everybody in the room thinks is so funny, oh my God.
There’s a security that’s gone off in first of grand, whoever thought that would’ve happened, Greg alerts the Rover team to go fetch. They rotate out the dispatches. Um, and we cut to 19124 Sunset, where Athena has been sent by Ellis.
Ellen: I can’t believe their streets are so long that they have like a 19,000 addresses on them. That’s crazy.
I mean, we do have that in Australia on, on long highways, for example, but not in a middle of a city.
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: As far as I know. I don’t know. Anyway
Bex: If you had [00:38:00] a road long enough to, to warrant that. You’d suddenly get cross streets and it would change names and then start
Ellen: Yeah, it often changes names before it gets that high.
All right, so Athena shows up, um, and there’s already police there that the guy who’s, what, what is that the officer’s name who we see all the time?
Bex: Williams! My friend. Officer Williams. Yeah, he’s there.
Ellen: Yeah, he’s there all the time. Um, there’s, she’s sort of looking at, she doesn’t even get out of the car.
She just looks at them and goes, “You mean to tell me it took four of you to subdue a two person brawl and then you called for me?” And Williams is looking at her going, “We didn’t call you.” So Yeah, obviously the, all of the cops that were hanging around, um, the guys in dispatch have just sent them all to this place to get them out of the way.
Bex: I think so. Yeah. Um, dispatch, uh, the other [00:39:00] officer, so not Williams, there’s another one there who is, um, not currently apprehending one of the suspects. He blames dispatch on having a, uh. A late night last night and Athena calls back to dispatch to like, “Hey, is there any reason that we’re all having a party out on Sunset?”
Um, the call goes through to Jamal this time and Ellis immediately takes over.
Ellen: Yeah,
Bex: with his amazing customer service persona. Like, “so sorry Sergeant, we’re having some technical difficulties. Apologies for the mix up.” Athena’s like, “Yeah. Okay, cool. By the way, that car accident is everything fine?” Like “Everything’s fine. Don’t you worry about it.”
Alice: Like, yep. Ignore the car accident. Don’t think about it.
Bex: These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.
Ellen: Yeah, he’s really good at it.
Bex: Maybe if he is a good boy in prison, [00:40:00] they’ll let him be a dispatcher when he gets out or work in some sort of call center.
Ellen: I dunno if he’ll get the security clearance.
Bex: Or maybe he can work for like the, an internet provider call center
Ellen: maybe. Um, okay, so at the concert hall, which is not Coldwell Disney Concert Hall, in this, uh, universe mm-hmm. Um, we, we have, we the security letting the, the thieves, who it is are called Van Cleef and Arpels, um, letting them in.
And they’re saying that like, we need to, we need to check with, with dispatch to make sure, um, you guys are, you know, allowed in or something. Is that what they say? That “we need verification before you, we let you in,” basically. You can’t come in unless we know that you’re really here for
Bex: Security is a little bit like hesitant to let Van Cleef and Arpels in there.
Like “guys, the, um, the cameras went down for a minute. It’s fine. It was probably [00:41:00] just a power surge. We told the security company, everything’s fine. Y’all don’t need to come in. Um, and, but if you are gonna be here, we need to contact dispatch to get the authorization and verification that you are, who you say you are before we let you into our concert hall,” which is apparently now a low grade impressionist art museum.
So apparently within the concert hall, it’s not, it’s not even just art on the hallways, the walls of the hallway and in the lobby it isn’t. They’re claiming that that’s an actual museum. It’s Museum one 11, but it’s just the lobby of the concert hall.
Ellen: Oh, right. Yeah. Okay.
Bex: Still not gonna be high enough security for all of the impressionist artists that they’ve got.
’cause there’s, I don’t even know how much one of those pieces is gonna be worth. Van Cleef does give his verification to the [00:42:00] security officer. It’s at the end of his rifle and it goes straight into the back of his head. Yes.
Ellen: He doesn’t shoot him, he just hits him with it. He
Bex: just, yeah. Um, and then both security officer, other guy.
Yeah. He just gets a gun pointed at him and then they both get duct taped and tied up in the men’s bathroom.
Ellen: Yep. So they head out the back where, or to a loading dock of some sort, um, where Tiffany is waiting and she hands them some bags to put things in and off they go to do the thieving.
Bex: See, and now the van that Tiffany’s in says, Harmony Sound Transport.
Alice: Oh, right. Which would make more sense at a concert venue. Hey.
Bex: And the, because we see later on, like, they put the artwork into sort of big black cases, which kind of look like sound equipment cases.
Ellen: So Josh is taking a call. And from this woman who is calling because they put [00:43:00] green onions in her omelet and she told them that she was allergic, but she’s not actually allergic.
Alice: She’s not actually allergic.
Ellen: But they didn’t know that. And Josh is like, “What the fuck? Like you can’t, you can’t call 9-1-1 because someone made you the wrong breakfast order.”
Bex: And like it’s bad enough. He has to put up with being held hostage. Now he has to deal with nonsense 9-1-1 calls.
Alice: That’s, yeah.
Ellen: He looks so nervous and just like, really, seriously, is this what you’re coming to me with right now?
Alice: I know. I feel awful for Josh.
Bex: It doesn’t help that Greg, who apparently can hear this call as well, comes over and kind of whispers in Josh’s ear and kind of shoves this back in his face. He’s like, “Do you still feel like you’re making a difference? I bet this woman really thinks you are. God, what is that word?”
And then we get a flashback back to Greg’s date. Um, with Josh where Josh was saying that, you know, being a 9-1-1 dispatcher, you [00:44:00] know, he’ll never be rich, but at least he’ll be “worthwhile”.
Ellen: Yeah. It’s, they made the flashback and everything. It made you skin crawl like it’s really well done. It’s just like he’s whispering in his ear sort of thing. It’s like, oh, horrible.
Bex: But it does, Josh does, it motivates him.
Ellen: Yeah. ‘
Bex: Cause he tells the woman that making a false report to 9-1-1 is a crime and he’s going to send the police. But as he’s talking, he’s back spacing out her current location, which is Wilshire again. I don’t know which one. ’cause there must be like seven of them at this point.
Um, and starts typing a different address.
Ellen: So he, Greg asked him if he feels better and he says, you feel better, big guy. Josh is like I do. So they, they put, they rotate them out, basically grabs Josh and [00:45:00] Jamal and sends them back to the holding place and grabs two new people and Jamal’s sort of questioning why they keep moving them around like this.
And Maddie says, it’s so that we can’t make a plan. We can’t, like none of us know the full details, so we can’t decide what to do basically.
Alice: Yeah. They’re keeping them separate long enough so that they can’t really chat in theory.
Ellen: Makes sense. And she looks over to see that Terry is sort of shaking basically in place.
He’s not looking well. Maddie asks him if he’s okay and he says, “I don’t wanna die in here.” And mad tries to reassure him, but he said that that’s when he said that “Jake’s dead. They shot him,” and. Everyone’s sort of shocked when they hear this. And, um, Jamal says they have to get a message out. And then Josh [00:46:00] says that “a woman called about onions in an omelet.
And I dispatched an officer,”, and Maddie says, “To the restaurant?” And he goes, “Not exactly.” So then we cut to Chim, who is on the phone to Buck again, because clearly he can’t let this go. He’s worried he’s
Bex: still, he’s still spiraling, but he’s gone beyond just trying to call Maddie. Now he’s considering storming the 9-1-1 dispatch center to talk to Maddie.
Face to face.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Um, and Buck is now kind of on board with the panic because he’s now tried calling Maddie and Josh isn’t picking up either. Um, which, you know, just seals the deal for Chim. Um, he says, “Now I’m definitely going,” but before he can go, there’s a knock on the door. Um, and Buck is still like, he’s still spiraling.
He’s like, “What if something is wrong? Maybe we should call the police.” Chim answers the knock on the door and says “Somebody already [00:47:00] did.” And we pull back to reveal that it was Athena standing at his door looking as surprised to see Chim as Chim is to see her.
Ellen: Yeah, I guess she hasn’t been to Chim’s place before.
Bex: I don’t think so.
Alice: I can’t imagine why. I actually saw an interesting comment online when I was looking up just stuff about this episode where basically like if you get put in a hostage situation and they’re not wearing masks, that’s when you should be panicking because it means that they don’t expect anyone to identify them later.
Bex: Oh, I think Maddie says something about that later on, doesn’t she?
Alice: I’m not too sure, but yeah, Maddie’s definitely like panicking a bit.
Bex: Yeah, Linda starts like, “What happens when it’s time to leave?” And Maddie’s like, “They’re not going to, they’re not gonna wanna leave behind a room full of witnesses.”
Alice: Yeah. It’s very concerning.
Ellen: Hmm. [00:48:00] So Athena has called her captain to just discuss it with her. Uh, and Chim is in the background talking to Buck on the phone still. Um, and Buck keeps asking like, “what is she saying now?”
Alice: Yeah. Buck’s very involved in this now
Ellen: and Athena tells Chim that she, the captain doesn’t think that there’s like, an “I love you” is not great evidence for something being wrong.
So. Um, but Chim’s like, but they sent you down to my apartment for an assault with a deadly onion that feels more convincing. So they’re gonna try. She says, oh, she’s gonna talk to operations and see if we can get eyes on the building. And this is when Buck sort of butts in because he’s on speaker now, so he can talk to Athena as well.
And he says he’s, he’s been obviously been watching too many, um, heist [00:49:00] movies, and he knows what’s the, what the deal is. He’s like, “Oh, we can’t just send in the swat. If there’s someone inside the call center doing something, they’ll know we’re onto them.” So Athena decides they’re gonna go for a drive and “Talk to you later, Buck,” and buck’s like, “No, don’t hang up. Don’t hang up!” But he hangs up.
Bex: Chimney hangs up, and then Buck waits like all of three seconds before going like, fuck this. Grabs his keys, grabs his jacket, and he’s out the door.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Like, oh man, Buckley, don’t do something stupid. You’re gonna do something stupid. I know you’re gonna do something stupid, but
Alice: That doesn’t sound like Buck. Buck doesn’t do something stupid.
Ellen: No, he’s gonna be a big damn hero about it. Okay, so it’s go time. It’s go time at the concert hall.
Bex: At the concert hall slash museum, we get a quick shot of the security desk showing the interior cameras, [00:50:00] um, losing signal. So Van Cleef and Arpels are, um, completely unsupervised as they run around and start pulling pieces of art off the wall.
The only one I actually looked up was the one that we see Van Cleef actually pull off the wall to start with, and that is a Degas piece called Woman Viewed From Behind. And ironically, she is at a museum. But, so she’s looking at art and then she’s being painted looking at art, which then hangs in a museum where people are looking at her, looking at art.
It’s like one of those pictures that just keeps going and going. Mostly, I just wanted to make sure that it was actually an impressionist art. ’cause I didn’t trust that the 9-1-1 writers would pick impressionist artists to hang in their impressionist art gallery. But it was,
Ellen: yeah. And it’s weird because when he, as he pulls it away from the wall, [00:51:00] these little like balls come out of it.
Bex: I could not figure out what the fuck they were.
Ellen: No, I was just assuming it was like something that would trigger the alarm system.
Alice: I think they’re, um, just to help it hang up.
Ellen: Oh.
Bex: But he’s got like the little dentist mirror. He sort of runs it along the bottom at the frame to find the little balls and like.
What? If anybody knows anything about hanging art in lobbies of concert halls,
Alice: hang on. Hang. Lemme me check the thing. ’cause I used to hang art at work.
Bex: Okay. But if you do hang art in lobbies of concert halls, especially impressionist art that you know needs full security, um, is this how you would hang it? Would you have these little ball bearings tucked behind the frame?
Would that be enough to keep it secure for you?
Alice: Oh, it’s lit. I think it’s literally just to keep the frame straight by the looks of it.
Bex: What the fuck?
Ellen: Like weights in the in?
Alice: Yeah. Like not weight. It’s just stopping the frame from like going down [00:52:00] the wall. Yeah.
Bex: Like to tipping away from where it’s hung?
Alice: Yeah. Hmm. Um, okay. But while this is happening, the needle drop.
Bex: Yes. I was a little bit disappointed that it wasn’t the remix. ’cause I love the remix.
Alice: Yeah. So we’ve got “A Little Less Conversation” by Elvis playing.
Ellen: Yeah, the remix is good. You’re right. But this is the original, so we do get a little more action, um, in that we, we see the thieves cutting the, um, artworks out of their frames and wrapping them up in and putting them in their boxes, trunk, things that look like music cases and wheeling them down to the van.
Um, and in, in in between that, we also see what’s happening at dispatch. So they’re directing all the traffic away and swapping dispatchers in and out. So I dunno how often they’re swapping them around, but it seems like it’s fairly, it’s [00:53:00] only a few minutes at a time kind of thing.
Bex: Yeah,
Alice: it does seem pretty quick, yeah.
Bex: We also find out that Van Cleef and Arpels are not going as fast as Greg would like them, because remember, they’ve gotta be in and out in under an hour and. When they get a status report from Rover team, which is Van Cleef, Arpels, and Tiffany, Tiffany reports back that they’ve only got four pieces of art, which is apparently only a third of their list.
Um, and the reason that it’s taking them so long is it’s taking, uh, longer than they expected to get the art out of the frames, and Greg’s just like, well then take the fucking frames. And Tiffany says, no, we can’t do that because the trackers are in the frames. Take the frames we’re going to, it’s just going to put a big beacon on where the artwork is being taken.
Um, and Greg’s just like, I don’t fucking care. Just go faster. We’re on a time crunchier woman. Um, and everyone’s getting very antsy.
Ellen: Yeah, a little [00:54:00] bit worried about this.
Bex: Chim’s also looking really worried.
Ellen: Chim’s looking worried. Athena is, uh, asking him. She’s, she says, “You’re quiet. Should I be worried?”
It’s like. Well, my girlfriend is stuck in the dispatch with potentially, we don’t know what’s going on. Um, are you not worried? But anyway, um, Chim’s does say that he’s freaked out and “At least now I’ve got a partner in this,” and Athena’s like, “We are not partners. You are here. So I can keep an eye on you and make sure you don’t do anything foolish.”
Alice: And speaking of foolish,
Ellen: a, a fool in a Jeep.
Alice: Very familiar Jeep, I swear “Fools” was a couple of episodes ago, but, um, yeah, very, very familiar Jeep over overtakes the squad car at high speed.
Ellen: Yeah, in the middle of this, I don’t know. I mean, I’m, I’m assuming he, he was doing it on purpose [00:55:00] to get them to stop.
Alice: Yeah. Yeah. He was getting Athena’s attention,
Ellen: but um, she’s like, “Is that who I think it is?”
Alice: But yeah, she pull over the, pulls over the Jeep and as she goes to like the driver’s side window, Buck’s, just like, “Okay, now don’t be mad.”
Ellen: He’s still so terrified of her. I love it.
Alice: But yeah, so he gets shoved into the back of Athena’s Cruiser and Chim’s just like, “Hey, Buck,”
Bex: Once again, I have the big question mark of did Buck get handcuffed because as he’s being shoved into the back of the cruiser, Oliver has put his hands behind his back. Yeah, just like he did when he was put into hospital jail.
Ellen: Why would she handcuff him though?
Bex: I dunno. But he has, Oliver has this thing of when he’s in trouble with Athena, he just, like the submissive part of him just kicks in and he puts his hand behind his back, which just makes it look like he’s been handcuffed.
He’s not. That’s just like the Oliver Stark acting choice of when [00:56:00] faced with the Wrath of Angela Bassett, I’m going to like roll over and show my belly.
Ellen: Yes. And she does say to them, “Did you two tell anyone else what’s happening at the call center?” And they both look like naughty little boys. They’re like, no.
She says, “Good, because I’m running outta room in here.” So they head towards dispatch and Ellis uh, notices on his magic tablet that, uh, Athena’s little car is coming back. So he said, tells Greg, “Hey, we’ve got a problem here.” And
Bex: Greg’s like, they’re all “Yeah, I know. We’re already, we have a problem. I knew we’ve got a problem.” and Ellis is like, “no, new problem.”
Alice: Another problem.
Ellen: Yeah. And she’s, they work out that she’s actually pulling into the, you know, here and Athena’s ears prick up and, sorry, Sue’s ears prick up. She’s like, “what’s happening?”
Bex: We gonna get rescued?
Ellen: So [00:57:00] Athena is gonna go in and take a look around and see if everyone forgot to charge their phone.
The security camera at the front picks up on her, and Oliver is at the front desk and he sees that she’s coming in and tells them on the radio
Alice: every time we, we say Oliver’s somewhere. I’m just like, think you mean Buck,
Bex: yeah, I know. No, I actually actually mean Oliver.
Ellen: Oliver, the bad guy.
Bex: I’m really surprised that they didn’t go, like, it’s obviously Van Cleef and Arpels are a, a pseudonym.
I am really surprised they didn’t go like full Reservoir Dogs and just have them all named a color. ’cause we had Officer Brown at the beginning, so I don’t know why they didn’t just keep with that and have everybody have a color name or have some kind of fun name. Yeah. Rather than their actual government names.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: But anyway, Oliver sees Athena approaching and he is like, “guys, there’s a cop coming. What do you want me to do?” [00:58:00] Um,
Ellen: yeah. And she see, she said, comes in and says, “I’m here to follow up on a call. Do you mind if I go up?” And Oliver just goes, “Yeah, sure.”
Alice: Yeah. Literally just okay.
Bex: It’s so funny
Ellen: He just panics and goes, okay, okay.
Bex: And then she walks away and his face just goes, what the fuck did I just say?
Alice: Yeah. Like, what the fuck do I do now?
Ellen: Um, she’s coming up,
Bex: Foster’s the, the gunman, Voldemort as Alice has been calling him. He’s got a really simple solution. Just shoot her.
Alice: Yeah. Way to go Voldemort,
Bex: which everybody, yeah.
Ellen: And he’s like totally on board with like, Oliver’s like, okay.
Bex: Uh, well he is like,
Ellen: at first he says, are you serious? Yeah.
Bex: And Foster’s like, yeah, just, just shoot her. Um, and Oliver, is. “Yeah. Yeah. Okay.” Pulls his gun out. Um, Ellis and Greg aren’t involved with that, so he’s like, I didn’t, Ellis’s didn’t sign up to kill a cop, and Greg agrees, like none [00:59:00] of us signed up to kill a cop.
He obviously doesn’t know about Jake. So he does, he’s not, he doesn’t realize that they possibly already have a fatality on their hands. He thinks everything’s above board. But Sue is listening to them arguing backwards and forwards, and she decides that she has a really simple solution and she can get rid of her, her being Athena.
Ellen: So Sue calls Athena by her call sign. Um, and tells her they’ve got a report code of a code 77 at Eagle Rock Lanes, which is hilarious that there is a street called Eagle Rock.
Bex: Eagle Rock Lanes.
Ellen: Um, but yes, so Athena turns around before she gets into the elevator and says, “oh, I’ll have to follow up later.”
And Oliver’s like quickly hiding the gun again. Yeah. Is that’s a Athena goes, “I hope your day is quiet.”
Bex: It’s a really clever move on Sue’s part because we later find out that the code that she [01:00:00] gives Athena was also a warning, but even Sue herself going over the radio would immediately throw red flags up because Sue is not a dispatcher anymore.
She doesn’t work the radios. So for Athena to hear her voice over the radio, she knows that something has gone.
Ellen: Yeah, Greg says that she did a good job and Sue doesn’t wanna see anyone getting shot. And tells
Bex: he seems very impressed with Sue.
Alice: They don’t even check the call sign. Yeah. He’s like, okay, yeah, that’s the, I’m sure it’s fine.
Ellen: He just “What’s the code 77?” And Sue says, “oh, urinating in public or something. Mm.”
Bex: “It’s been a while since I worked the radio.” Which should have been like the immediate, like, what do you mean you don’t work the radio? Yeah. But anyway, Athena immediately gets in her car and calls Eileen and it’s like “Sue Levins is on the radio, um, and she’s giving me the code 77,” and Chim goes, “what’s a code 77?” [01:01:00]
Apparently. And this is an accurate code according to the Wikis page. Um, a 77 is ambush, proceed with caution.
Ellen: Yeah. Hmm. I don’t remember this scene at all. How, how have I missed a complete scene? She’s poking under the, under the hood?
Bex: Yeah, she’s got the hood open. Um, basically Athena realized that they’re using CAD to track her movements, which means that she’s pulling out the GPS from her car so that they can’t track her.
Yeah, that’s the whole point of that scene.
Alice: So yeah, she pulls out the GPS, the screen goes blank, so she’s like done it,
Bex: which sounds like a really good idea, except then she suddenly goes completely blank off Ellis’s display and he starts freaking out. ’cause he should still be able to see her and he can’t see her anymore.
But while Ellis is panicking, Chim is starting to panic even more.
Ellen: Yeah, he is like, [01:02:00] no, Buck tells him that. “Don’t be worried. Um, Maddie is smart. She can take care of herself until help gets there.” And Chim’s wondering, um, you know, “Nobody inside the building knows that we are coming for them. And what if they get tired of waiting?”
So he, like, they know something’s happening in there now, but they have no idea who is doing it or how desperate they are. Yeah. So, yeah, Ellis is freaking out and we do, and we do find out that Linda and Maddie are also wondering what’s gonna happen when they get tired of waiting, you know, if they killed Jake, Maddie says they’re not gonna wanna leave behind a room full of witnesses.
Bex: Ellis is seriously freaking out about the fact that he can’t find Athena. Foster is just like, “If you let Oliver shoot her, we wouldn’t have this problem.” And Ellis is like, “you can’t just solve every problem with by killing [01:03:00] people,” and Foster’s like, “oh, maybe not, but it would’ve solved this problem.” Um. He pulls his gun on Ellis and Ellis responds by body slamming him through a conference door, conference room window, which is not good.
You don’t really want to see your, um, your hostage takers kind of fighting.
Ellen: No, they’re losing control of the situation,
Alice: Massively losing control,
Bex: and Greg is losing control of them. ’cause he’s, he can’t break them apart. He’s yelling at them to knock it off. He’s trying to pull them apart. Meanwhile, Terry has realized that everyone is distracted and he’s eyeing the fire alarm on the other side of the dispatch floor.
And when Greg wades into the fray to try and stop Ellis and Foster from like, doing whatever they’re doing, he starts sprinting across the floor.
Ellen: Yeah. And they, they do notice that he’s doing that. Greg tries to stop him and Foster, who’s the Voldemort guy, um, tries to [01:04:00] like, aims his gun towards him and he would’ve shot him, but Josh came along and tackles him and he does fire the gun, but he doesn’t hit anybody. Thank goodness.
Bex: No, the shots go wild
Ellen: and so Foster hits Josh with the butt of the rifle and Josh ends up with this big like blood coming outta the side of his head basically.
Bex: But the poor guy’s already healing from a massive head injury.
Alice: I know. Poor Josh.
Bex: Now he’s got another concussion to deal with.
Ellen: Greg’s trying to, desperately trying to get back in control of the situation. He’s like, get back to your stations, and he’s, Ellis is, he tells Ellis to take Terry downstairs to see if he can find the cop car. So I think they’re gonna try and reboot the system again to see if they can get it working.
Bex: Yeah. Meanwhile, Tiffany is not doing her job because she doesn’t answer the radio straight away and when she [01:05:00] does she tells Greg that she needs another 30 minutes. So his in and out and under 60, is that like, that’s not happening. They’ve blown their schedule and a lot, but the longer they stay, the more risk, the greater the risk is that shit’s gonna go wrong.
It’s already started to go wrong.
Alice: Yeah. Like it’s very quickly they’re losing control of everything.
Bex: Yeah. The good thing is that when, um, they rotated everyone out, Maddie and Linda are now back together
Ellen: and they’re plotting.
Bex: They are,
Ellen: Maddie reckons she could fake a heart attack. Um, and then they could use a defibrillate defibrillator.
And Linda says on all of them, if it’s like there’s only. What three? No, there must be four of them up there now, if there are five altogether, I don’t know, we’ve, we’ve lost count of how many people there are.
Alice: Um, yeah, there’s an amount. [01:06:00]
Bex: There should be Greg’s just gone downstairs with Terry, so there should be Foster and Ellis and Goon Number One. We haven’t seen Goon Number One since all this went down, but he should be up there as well, so there should be three of them up there.
Ellen: Okay. Meanwhile, the LAPD have mobilized and the, um, fire department I guess as well. Um, they’ve near, near the dispatch area they’re all kind of gathering, getting ready for them to make their move. They’re closing down some streets and getting ready for the SWAT team to move in. Um, everyone is off their GPS and calling each other individually rather than the radios.
Bex: They, they have a plan.
Ellen: Yeah. They, they’ve worked, they’ve sort of worked out what was happening. Like they’ve, they’ve worked out that there were sit alongs scheduled, but um, none of the names on the list actually checked out. So there are five bad guys inside [01:07:00] and Chim says that we’ve got no plan to get our guys out.
And Athena says, “No, we have a plan. We just don’t like it.” Yeah. I said, there’s a lot going on here. There’s um, a guy comes up to them and he is from the, he’s from Valley Communications, so he used to work in the other dispatch so he knows what’s happening inside. And Buck and Chim are just watching all of this happen.
Just going, oh my God, what is happening here? Buck says, “I’m sorry I thought you were crazy.”
Bex: Yeah. And Chim says, “I’m sorry that I wasn’t.” We jumped back over to dispatch. Um. Just to check on everyone. Josh is okay. Foster is not. Foster is completely losing his shit. And that was pretty much it. That’s all we got.
Alice: Yeah. He like knocks everything off the desk. Yeah. It was just a quick checkup to be like, Hey, Josh is okay. By the way,
Bex: Josh is okay. Things with the hostages. Her hostage takers are not, whatever [01:08:00] fuse that they had is getting very, very short right now. Um, so whatever LAPD and SWAT are gonna do, let’s hope they do it soon ’cause I don’t think this guy is gonna be able to keep his cool for much longer.
Ellen: So Dave and Athena are working it all out. Maynard, who’s the, the chief, the police chief. So she’s explaining, she’s doing. Giving us the, the low down and, and Chim and Buck at the same time. So explaining what’s happening, um,
Alice: Chim and Buck in this scene, it’s so funny because they’re standing next to each other and Buck is a full head taller than Chim. Yeah. Like the size difference has never been so obvious until this moment and I was just like, oh my God.
Ellen: And even, even Maynard is, is very tall as well, and she’s standing next to Chim and he looks tiny,
Alice: just right down down he’s been hanging with Maddie mostly and they’re very close in height.
Ellen: Yes.
Alice: Then just Oliver and his a million limbs.
Bex: I thought it was more [01:09:00] interesting that for some reason Maynard is allowing them to participate in this.
Ellen: Yeah. Yeah. Why, why haven’t they been sent away? They’re not on duty.
Alice: I guess they’re dispatchers, so they’re just like, eh, you can just hang around.
Bex: They’re not on shift, they’re in their civvies, but she’s actively, like, they, she leaves Athena and Dave to do their plotting with all of the, the 9-1-1 like logs and things like that. And she specifically asks Chim, um, how are the RA units going?
Ellen: Yeah. It’s like, it’s like Chim’s sort of looking after the, the paramedics who are arriving.
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: Which is great. Uh, even though he is not on shift,
Alice: I guess they like Athena’s like, look, these two aren’t gonna like give it up. So we may as well just include them,
Bex: give him something to do, keep him outta trouble. Otherwise Buck’s gonna be storming the dispatch by himself.
Alice: Literally
Ellen: He would do that. Absolutely.
Bex: So we had the 1 22 and the 1 33 RA units have just shown up. [01:10:00] Um, Buck is more interested in the bus full of people that’s just rolled in, um, which Maynard tells Buck and by virtue of Buck as the audience that they are the off duty 9-1-1 dispatchers because as soon as they take back the call center, they’re gonna need to get 9-1-1 back up and running. And the hostages are not gonna be any, in any condition to continue to take calls. So they’re gonna swap ’em out for these guys. Um, yeah, which is very good
Ellen: planning.
Bex: But Chim’s a little bit surprised, like, it’s like, “What do you mean when you take back the call center? You’re not gonna like, negotiate with the hostage takers?” And Maynard’s like “They don’t wanna negotiate. If they wanted to negotiate, they would’ve reached out to us. They would’ve made ransom demands. Um, we’re just gonna go in and take it by force before they even know that we’re coming. If we do it right, it’ll be, you know, painless.”
Chim’s like, “if we don’t do it right?” She says, “Well, that’s why I [01:11:00] need to get all those RA units.”
Ellen: Mm-hmm. Uh, so Ellis is in the server room with Terry. Terry does not know why all cops have disappeared. I mean, Ellis, I think you can probably figure it out if you thought about it, but, Foster comes in and he’s, he’s trying to work out what’s going on, and Ellis tells him that the police car, that police, that one police car is not the only one that’s gone dark.
And so Foster says “It’s time to cut our losses.” So they tell Terry to stay there. I don’t know why they’re leaving him on his own without any supervision, but,
Bex: But see, the funny thing is I, I was like, yeah, why Terry? Why aren’t you, why are you staying there? Because it then cuts from that scene. We go back up to dispatch floor, but then we cut back to these guys and it’s like a millisecond later.
So even though it’s like stay here, when we come back, they’re still in exactly the same position and we continue their conversation. So it doesn’t [01:12:00] even have a chance to go anywhere. But while Foster and Ellis are like considering their options down in the server room. Um, Maddie is sowing the seeds of discord in Greg.
She wants, he’s freaking out because Tiffany said that it was gonna be 30 more minutes. Now he can’t get Tiffany on the phone, on the radio at all.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: And Maddie takes this opportunity to ask if she can check on Josh. ’cause she used to be a nurse and she’s concerned that he has a concussion. Um, Greg says that he, she can check on him when they are done and Maddie’s like, “When’s that gonna be? You said it was gonna be an hour. It’s been longer than an hour.”
And Greg points his gun at her and says, “You sit down and shut up. I will worry about the time.” Maddie grabs hold of that. It’s like, “oh. So you are worried, you know, that makes sense. ’cause you know, all your friends keep disappearing. Are they even still in the building?”
Alice: Yeah. Maddie’s poking fun here, which [01:13:00] is kind of funny to watch, but. Also Maddie, please don’t hurt yourself.
Bex: Yeah. I mean, so fact, Greg doesn’t seem to wanna hurt anybody, but he’s getting really stressed and you don’t want him to snap on you.
Ellen: Yeah. So Foster and Ellis are still having their argument in the server room.
Oh, not, they’re not arguing, they’re just deciding what they’re gonna do next. I think so, yeah. Um, Foster’s like, “We can go down the back stairs. I have a car waiting around the corner. We can split up the art and go our separate ways.” And Ellis is like, “You’ve got a car parked down the street? You you were always gonna double cross Greg?”
Bex: And Foster’s like, “Wait, you weren’t?”
Ellen: Yeah. Isn’t that how these heist movies work though? Everyone’s double, triple crossing each other.
Bex: Everyone double. Yeah.
Ellen: Everyone’s in for themselves only.
Bex: So we are gonna go, we’re gonna go back and forth really quick in this part now. So we then go back up to dispatch floor where Greg is still, like [01:14:00] stressed out about Maddie’s starting to drag her across the dis dispatch floor.
As he passes her, Linda suddenly collapses off her chair and falls to the floor. And then Greg starts freaking out because like, as I said before, he doesn’t know about Jake. He’s assuming that everything, everyone is okay. Like he’s stopped people from being shot. He’s stopped the cop from being shot. He did not sign up for people getting shot and he did not sign up for one of his hostages to die on him.
Uh, we’re going back down to the server room for Ellis.
Ellen: Yeah. He’s like, “You can’t just sell famous works of art on eBay.” And Foster’s like, “You can’t sell ’em from prison either.” So I don’t know why we needed to see them saying that, but okay.
They’re still trying to get out. Um, yeah, back in dispatch, Linda is gasping on the floor and Maddie gives her a, a wink and taps the side of her nose and says, [01:15:00] “oh no, she’s having an allergic reaction!”
Alice: Oh, no, Linda’s dying.
Ellen: Greg’s like, “Allergic to what?”
Bex: Yeah, unfortunately, Greg doesn’t just go along with it. He wants to know what she’s actually having a reaction to. And Maddie’s like “Bees?” but there were like imaginary bees, thankfully.
Ellen: And then Sue, like Sue, yeah. Looks around the room and goes, “Um, um, um, um, latex!”
Alice: Yeah, I’m sure it’s the gloves guys. Um,
Bex: you know, you’ve been manhandling Linda for over an hour now, but she’s only just,
Alice: it’s that, all that exposure to Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah. But Maddie’s very, you know, she’s a better actor than the rest of them. She’s like, “She’s gonna die if she doesn’t get her medication!” And so Greg is like, “Fine, just go and get it.”
Alice: At this point, they don’t even care. They’re like, do whatever we, yeah. Don’t care.
Bex: [01:16:00] I just don’t want a death on my hand. If I’m going to prison, I wanna go to prison for thievery, not homicide.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah. So Maddie runs in and like dumps everything out, um, of the little bins that they’ve put all their belongings in and finds the EpiPen while Greg’s shouting at her to hurry up. Uh, and she runs back over to Linda. But instead of putting the EpiPen in Linda, she grabs Greg and stabs him with it in the wrist and it just makes him fall over.
Bex: Yeah. ’cause he just got a massive dose of epinephrine, which he did not need. Um, so Maddie takes the opportunity to take his gun off him and strip him of all his weapons, at which point, Goon Number Two comes running. And I’m looking at this guy going, wait, I haven’t seen, wait, is that Oliver? No, that’s not Oliver.
He’s still down in the security. [01:17:00] Is that, no. How did the thieves get to, we’ve never seen this guy before.
Ellen: Really?
Bex: So this is where I’m saying, yeah, this is where I’m saying the math isn’t math because this is not Goon Number One. ’cause Goon number one was a Latino, or at least a person of color. This guy is like Aryan Nation poster boy.
Which that like, that means that there were, I, I don’t know. I’ve, it’s late. My, I don’t even know the math anymore, but just, uh, yeah, random goon.
Ellen: I wasn’t, I was not keeping track of any of this, so I believe you.
Bex: Yeah. You know, you know that…
Ellen: when you say you’ve never seen this guy before,
Bex: never seen this guy before.
And he’s all like, “Hey, what’s going on here?” Um, at which point Jamal jumps him.
Ellen: Yeah. And they just grab the, the guns off him. And so now all of the dispatchers have all the weapons. So they’ve like taken over. They’re doing this thing again where, um, they [01:18:00] finally get on top of a situation only for the real rescuers to arrive.
So in the server room, um, Ellis says into the radio, um, Rover crew, change a plan, leave the Van Gogh. And so the, the thieves stop and look at each other and they’re like, are you sure about this?
Bex: Because it’s coming from Ellis too. Why are they not waiting for Greg to confirm?
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Also, why is Greg not hearing this radio communication and going, “What the fuck do you mean leave the Van Gogh? There was no change of plan.”
Ellen: Well, he’s got his hands full of like, you know, random extra people in the dispatch center that he doesn’t know why they’re there,
Bex: because we know that they can hear everything because Oliver is sitting behind the security desk going, “Wait, there was a Van Gogh?” [01:19:00]
Ellen: I love that
Bex: laugh. Um, but Van Cleef apparently decides that Ellis’s word is good enough and tells Arpels, okay, yep. We’re, we’re going radio to Tiffany. “Tiffany start the van. We’re coming out hot.” Um, and as they start to leave the museum inside a concert hall, um, we see the security cameras start to come back online.
Ellen: He said he yells, “we’re coming out now. Get the van ready.” They come out into the loading dock where the van should be, but instead of a van, there is a bunch of police waiting for them. So they skid to a stop and get arrested. Hooray! Um, but he’s still,
Bex: but as they get, he’s still, yeah, he’s got his, um, he’s holding the radio. Think he still has, he still has his finger on the, um, broadcast button on the radio. So Oliver and all of a sudden Greg for some reason, um, can hear that he’s getting arrested.
Oliver starts freaking out. Yeah. Foster freaks and starts running. [01:20:00] And when Ellis asks like, where the fuck are you going? Foster’s just like, I’m going where there are hostages.
Ellen: Yeah. I mean, I assume he’s, he’s hoping to grab someone and you know, threatened to kill
Bex: them.
He’s trying to find, he’s trying to find a human, human shield.
Alice: Yeah. Yeah. Literally just trying to find a human shield, which is lovely.
Bex: And then things just start going wrong. Foster braces back up to the dispatch floor to get his hostage, um, and nearly get shot by Sue.
Ellen: Oh yeah, she’s mean!
Bex: She warns him that the next shot is gonna go into his head. Oliver tries to run out the front door of the, um, the lobby, um, and skids to a halt when four laser sights suddenly appear on his chest from the snipers across wherever they are.
Um
Ellen: mm-hmm.
Bex: So he gives up,
Ellen: Greg starts going into cardiac arrest because the whatever is in the EpiPen, what’s it called? Epinephrine? Epi.
Bex: Epinephrine. Epinephrine, yeah.
Ellen: Uh, [01:21:00] stopped his heart or something. Uh, he’s, you know, in trouble. Yeah. And Josh is not having that.
Bex: Maddie said she must have hit a vein. ’cause I’m assuming the epinephrine is meant to be intramuscular. Um, where if she has hit a vein and sent it directly to his heart, it’s probably more than like a normal heart can handle. So, yeah. But Josh is like, “No, you are, you are not going to die.”
Ellen: “You don’t get to die.”
Alice: Yeah. It looks like Josh is going to like stop Maddie from…
Bex: yeah. ’cause Maddie starts doing CPR. Maddie starts doing compressions.
Alice: Yeah. Um, so it looks like Josh is trying to stop Maddie from doing CPR, but instead he starts doing CPR and he is like, “no, you don’t get to die.”
Bex: Well, he’s going to, if you do CPR like that, Josh.
Alice: Oh, it’s awful CPR.
Bex: Oh, it’s so bad. Like, at some point it looks like he’s just like gently massaging, um, Greg’s chest.
Alice: Yeah. Like I’d say he’s doing his best, [01:22:00] but I don’t think he is.
Bex: No, I mean, we’ve had this discussion before how, you know, the actors cannot actually do CPR fully because they are, you know, going to injure the person that they are doing the CPR on. Um, but there’s, you know, attempting to look like you’re doing CPR and then it’s whatever Brian’s doing.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Uh, but just as Josh, Josh starts doing CPR and then
Ellen: the SWAT team arrive,
Bex: then power cuts out. Yeah, power cuts out. Yeah. Um, Sue realizes what’s going down and she yells at all of the dispatchers who have picked up the guns to put them down because she doesn’t want them to be shot by SWAT as potential hostages. Hostage takers.
Ellen: Yeah. See, this is what I mean. Like they’ve just taken control of the situation and then the SWAT team come in and they’re like, “oh, drop your guns!”
Bex: I think they made it worse because Sue had foster under control, but as soon as Foster sees SWAT come in, he’s like, “I’m [01:23:00] not going back. I’m not going back. I cannot go back,” and then commits suicide by cop.
Ellen: Yeah. He grabs a gun and just charges at them.
Bex: Yeah. He doesn’t even attempt, he doesn’t even attempt to shoot at them. It’s just he knows that if he runs at them holding a weapon, they will just fire.
Ellen: Yeah. So they kill Foster and an RA that comes in.
Yeah. Bye. Um, they’re all, it is sort of when the SWAT team comes in, there’s like this, the tense music kind of stops and there’s this like really calm, kind of quiet music over the top and it all goes slow motion. And all of the dispatchers are looking like, so relieved, but also like extremely traumatized.
Mm. Uh, which is understandable. Um, so they, arrest all of the, the bad guys and they take the dispatchers outside and then we see the replacement [01:24:00] dispatchers filing in and picking up the earpieces and going back to work.
Alice: So they’re filing in and starting to go back to work. And Greg is still being worked on
Ellen: Yeah. By the, by the paramedics.
Bex: Yeah, paramedics came in, thankfully within like a second of a paramedic doing actual chest compressions, they managed to get a pulse back. Yeah,
Ellen: yeah, yeah. So he’s gonna make it.
Bex: So he’s gonna be fine. But yeah, you can see the, the dispatchers kinda look around going, what the fuck happened in here?
Ellen: I’m sure they had been briefed on what’s happening.
Bex: Why is there blood on the floor
Ellen: Outside Maddie is looking, you know, very traumatized and, but she see, but Chim sees her and runs over and they have a big hug.
Alice: Oh yeah. They have this moment where they’re both searching for each other and I’m just like, oh my God. I wanna cry because I love them so much.
Ellen: Yeah. [01:25:00]
Bex: While they’re having their reunion bucks on the other side of the street. And Sue, who has somehow managed to make her way out of the building, been cleared by LAPD and walked and walked around to the other side of the street, um, to talk to Buck. And she asks him, or she says to him that she’s surprised that he’s not over there with Maddie.
Ellen: Um, yes, Sue is actually looking perfectly fine after all this, all that she’s just been through. She’s quite chipper.
Alice: She’s good. She’s a tough cookie,
Bex: but yeah, she’s looking incredibly refreshed.
Ellen: Yeah. She’s calm and collected.
Alice: Yeah, she’s good. She’s fine.
Bex: Maddie looks like she’s been put through the ringer twice.
Ellen: Yeah. And she’s surprised that Buck’s not over there with Maddie. And Buck says, “She already has everything she needs.”
Alice: Yeah. Aw,
Bex: She has Chim. She’s [01:26:00] fine.
Ellen: So now we come to the part where, where everyone has to explain everything to Buck. As we had with the last heist,
Bex: but it’s not even everyone has to explain everything to Buck, it’s like everybody knows what’s going on and they’re just telling the story to each other over and over and over again.
Ellen: Yeah. Yeah. Everyone is a part of this explanation.
Bex: How the fuck does Harry know what’s going on?
Alice: I love that. Like, they were like, oh shit, we ha we need to pay Peter for this episode. But Bobby hasn’t been in it, so he, they just sort of shoehorn him in at the end as well.
Ellen: Yeah. I’m surprised they didn’t bring like Hen and and Eddie in just to add everyone in.
Alice: They, they don’t have to pay him. He is not a producer. It’s fine. Oh,
Bex: but wouldn’t that have made sense if rather than having Maddie and Chim and Buck and Josh sit around rehash this whole situation amongst themselves. If they’re back at the 118 and like [01:27:00] Eddie and Hen are sitting there with like their mouths dropped open, like, what the fuck happened to you, Chim?
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: That day off. He’s right.
Bex: That would make more sense for him to be explaining it to them.
Ellen: That would be way more, that would make way more sense. Yes.
Bex: Yeah. Yeah. But that’s what we get to be fair, Ryan’s gonna be very busy next episode, so he probably deserved a day off.
Alice: Oh, you know what? They were probably filming next episode while they were also filming this.
Bex: Yeah, that would probably make sense. He’s got the B unit, the A unit’s doing this. Yeah. Or the B unit had this and the A unit was out with Ryan.
Ellen: Well, at least to start with, Bobby doesn’t seem to know what exactly happened because he asks Athena, so they’re sitting around the table like the Bathena family. Um. “How did you know the museum was their target?”
And Athena is quite happy to spill this tea and she says “The car [01:28:00] accident.” So she explains that like, I don’t know if we need to go through all of this because there’s quite a lot of dialogue and we, we already know it all. But anyway, she explains that they hadn’t wanted her there because it had to be something that was near downtown area.
And she, she found out that the alarm had gone off at the, um, museum from the dispatch logs and they almost got away with it. But they have a little, a little bit of back and forth, like a quick fire series of scenes where, um, each of the guys in the, in the gang says that they want a lawyer except for Greg.
Bex: Except for, and they, I love that they include Foster in this because it’s like Ellis is like, um, you know, “I would like to invoke my sixth amendment right to council. Like, just gimme a lawyer.” Oliver’s like, yeah. Not talking with a lawyer. Van Cleef lawyer, Arpels lawyer, goon lawyer, foster body bag, doesn’t need a lawyer.[01:29:00]
Ellen: And then Greg actually says, “I don’t need a lawyer.” And he’s in hospital bed.
Alice: Oh no. He’s like, I’m folding. I’m good.
Ellen: I am cutting a deal.
Bex: I’m gonna sell everybody out.
Alice: Yeah. I wonder if that’s why Greg didn’t want the, um, like didn’t wanna kill anyone this whole time. ’cause he is like, yeah, if I get caught, I’m just gonna send them down the river.
Bex: Oh yeah. 100%
Alice: That was always his plan.
Bex: Yeah, he was, he was gonna cut a deal. He was gonna get like minor offenses, but he would not be able to cut the deal if he had a homicide on his hands.
Alice: Yeah, right.
Bex: Um, but he immediately starts singing like a canary. It’s like, it wasn’t, um, the detectives who were interviewing him at bedside, like start telling us about the security guard.
And Greg’s like, “Oh, that was Tiffany’s idea.” And the two detectives look at each other and like, what? Greg’s like, you didn’t find?
Alice: Yeah. Who the fuck is Tiffany?
Bex: Greg’s like, “You didn’t find Tiffany?” And they’re like, “who the fuck is Tiffany?” And then we [01:30:00] get Tiffany, who is still in her little white panel van driving down the street.
Um, but we get an updated introduction to her. She is not the driver anymore. She is the brains of the operation. And I love that her needle drop is The Zombies, “She’s Not There” because it’s the whole song. She wasn’t there. Yeah. It’s the whole song is about, you know, when you’re trying to find someone, they’re not there.
Which was exactly what was going on with Tiffany in this heist.
Ellen: Yeah. Yeah. So now we go to Maddie telling what… it’s basically Maddie, uh, Chim and Josh telling what happened to Buck. Because I don’t know how Chim knows all about what happened, but he does.
Bex: No, he, yeah. So Tiff Tiffany was the mastermind. She hired Greg.
Greg hired everybody else. Um, but Greg didn’t know that Tiffany was the boss. He just thought that she was the driver. [01:31:00]
Alice: Yeah. So yeah, Tiffany used a voice like disguiser. So they had no idea.
Bex: And then when Greg was putting his team together, um, their last driver, uh, died in their last heist. So she came highly recommended as a replacement driver.
Except she recommended herself.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah. Oh, so they targeted, um, Josh to get inside the security sent, like in inside security. And that’s what Buck, that’s what Buck thinks, at least. Yeah. But Josh says, no, not exactly. Tiffany already had someone inside, Jake, the security guard. Uh, he was the inside man.
He was perfect. Um, but apparently Jake, um, and Tiffany also were getting it on.
Alice: Yeah, Jake was too perfect.
Ellen: And he was too perfect.
Bex: Yeah. ’cause I think Tiffany hooked up with Jake the same way that Greg hooked up with Josh, like they started online dating [01:32:00] except Tiffany fell in love with Jake.
Ellen: Mm-hmm.
Bex: I do love that what sold Tiffany on Jake was when he said, when she showed up for their first meeting face to face, and she was late of course. ’cause apparently she’s always late and Jake’s just like, “you know, I think people get a little too hung up on watching the clock and being on time. You know?” You can literally see Tiffany’s panties drop at that point.
Which then completely ruined her plan because she was just going to use Jake and let him take the fall. But now he was her boo, so she wasn’t going to, you know, do him wrong. So they needed did another fall guy. So that’s where Josh came in.
Ellen: Yeah. Yeah. So they st they couldn’t steal his badge. They just borrowed it, copied it, and then returned it. So he got his wallet back with all his cards inside it. Um, so they didn’t suspect [01:33:00] anything.
Bex: They show extra footage from when Josh was getting the crap beaten out of him. So he’s riding on the floor in pain and, um, Greg has got like a card reader and he’s going through all the cards in Josh’s wallet and scanning them into this card reader before putting them back in his wallet and tossing it on the ground.
Ellen: So then we get the explanation of what happened with Jake. So Jake,
Bex: did not die.
Ellen: Uh, he was, he, he didn’t die. He was taking his, um, uniform off to give it to Oliver, and then he pulls his gun out and shoots the floor and scaring the shit out of Oliver. Um, and he’s like, “what the hell?” And Jake’s like, “oh, I just, I need, I’m just trying to sell it.”
So he made his escape at that point. I’m guessing he didn’t hang around. Um, and
Bex: yeah, Josh says when the other guys were in position inside, um, Jake was free to sneak out ’cause no one would notice that he was not there anymore. And he went to the not Walt Disney Center [01:34:00] concert hall and uh, hooked up with Tiffany.
Like literally. ’cause that point where Tiffany was telling Greg like, I need 30 more minutes. That’s ’cause they were having sex in the van. Yeah. Not because Van Cleef and Arpels were having any trouble.
Ellen: That was the point where they, disappeared. They took off with the paintings and everyone else was left. So they’re about to head off on a train, they’re going to take off with all of the, the paintings on a train, like as you do. I mean, I guess it’s the callback to the, um, actual original movie. Right. Which was involving a train.
Bex: I think it’s also because if they went on an airplane, they would have to check those large crates and they wouldn’t be able, they would have, they scanned, they would get to go through security.
They would be out of their line of sight. Whereas if they’re going on a train, they would know where they were and no one’s going to touch them until they load them off again.
Ellen: Yeah. But before they can pull it off, um, Athena apparates,
Bex: she really does
Alice: as she does. [01:35:00] It’s just what she does. Yeah. You know how Athena be,
Ellen: she’s done it on a train before.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: But “Your, your trip’s been delayed by about five to 15 years.” Yeah. And um, they all get arrested.
Bex: Yes, because apparently while Tiffany was smart enough to re, to remove all of the art from the frames, because the frames are the ones that have the GPS trackers in them. Um, Jake didn’t turn off the GPS in his phone, so they tracked his phone because he kept it on him.
Ellen: But how did they know, I guess, um, Greg must have sold him out as well.
Bex: Oh yeah. I’m gonna say he was like singing like a canary. Yeah. It probably also helped that when they went and like cleared dispatch center, they would’ve said, like, Terry would’ve said to them like, “they shot Jake!” And they go down to the servant room.
They’re like, oh dude, there’s nobody in there. Yeah. Where the fuck, Jake? He’s dead. Yeah, there’s like a bullet, there’s a bullet hole in the floor, [01:36:00] but there’s nobody there.
Ellen: And then, so her plan was always to double cross the rest of the team
Alice: because Yeah, because it turns out her, the driver who died in the last one was her dad, and they just left him.
Ellen: Yeah. And then after all that Harry pipes up with, “Wow, I guess there really is no honor among thieves.” And the rest of them, sort of, everyone’s just like, what? Okay. And have a laugh. I mean, he’s right. What a weird thing for him to say. Oh, right. So the explanation’s done. Now we go to Maddie taking her drawer that Chim has offered her,
Bex: oh no, she’s not taking a drawer. She’s taking his entire closet. Like she is literally removing his clothes from his closet.
Ellen: So she’s not moving in, right. She’s just bringing some of her things over,
Alice: some [01:37:00] of her things over
Ellen: “Some of my things,” she says. So he, he now brings up this case again, everyone wants to make a deal except for Jake who wants to fight it out in court
Bex: because he was crazy in love. So he wasn’t thinking clearly.
Ellen: Yeah. And Maddie knows what that’s like. Aw,
Alice: Aw,
Ellen: so cute.
Bex: She tells Chim that, “I’m really glad you got my message.” And his response is, “I love you too.”
Ellen: Aw. And then they take a break from clearing out the closet and get it on instead,
Bex: Maddie removes even more Chim’s clothes. Not just, not just the ones in the closet.
Ellen: The ones on his body. Yes. Oh dear.
Alice: Poor Chim has nowhere to put them.
Ellen: So did you enjoy this heist better than the um, “Ocean’s 9-1-1” episode?
Bex: See,
Ellen: because you had reservations about that one.
Bex: No, but “Ocean’s 9-1-1” was not a heist [01:38:00] movie. “Ocean’s 9-1-1” pretended to be a heist movie, and it started with a heist, but it was actually a mystery and it was a bad mystery. Whereas this one was an actual heist, we got to watch the crew try to pull off the heist. Well, actually we did see them pull off the heist, so yes, I enjoyed this one much, much more than I did….
Alice: Yeah, I love this episode.
Bex: Did the mystery one Yeah. Of “Oceans 9-1-1”.
Alice: I forgot how much I liked it too. And then, yeah, when I was watching it, I’m like, yeah, this is actually like real cool.
Bex: Yeah. Yeah. This is what I wanted. Well, actually, what I wanted from “Oceans 9-1-1” was the 118 to be pulling off the heist, but like, yeah, this is fine. I’ll accept this as well.
Ellen: Well, it had, it had everything, it had like the tension, like everyone was not quite sure what was gonna happen next because the guys were losing control and we, you know, we didn’t know what they were gonna do next.
Mm-hmm. Um, it had good pace all the way through and resolved in a good [01:39:00] way. It didn’t have any Hen or um, Eddie at all.
Bex: It did not, I dunno.
Ellen: Which is a downside.
Bex: Aisha, I don’t know what Aisha was doing this week, but that’s fine. She might’ve been taking a well deserved break. We said Ryan was probably off shooting something.
People are allowed to take time off.
Ellen: So speaking of, um, Eddie, what are we, what are we doing next week?
Bex: We are beginning
Ellen: again?
Bex: We haven’t had Eddie begins yet. Then it’s next week is “Eddie Begins”. Um, the official promo that was sent out says that Eddie’s journey to rescue a boy from a well turns into a mission to save him himself from his past, which sounds very dramatic.
Ellen: Yes.
Bex: Um, triggers for anybody who hasn’t seen Eddie begins before and wants to watch it for the first time, but wants to know what they’re gonna be in for. Includes, uh, discussions of cancer, [01:40:00] uh, claustrophobia, specifically being buried alive, child at threat. Drowning threat of drowning, uh, gun violence, a helicopter crash, depiction of war and PTSD.
Wow. Fun times.
Ellen: Yeah, it sounds like a complicated one.
Alice: There’s a lot in this episode. I can’t wait for Ellen to see it.
Bex: It’s so good.
Ellen: Okay. It, you guys are hyping this one up a lot like and have been That’s really for some time. Yeah. So I’m looking forward to it.
Bex: But have we ever hyped up an episode and you’ve then watched the episode and gone, why were you making a big deal out of that?
Ellen: No, I do believe you. I do believe you. You haven’t let me down yet.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Yet
Bex: Alice, we need to just find a random 9-1-1 episode and just start hyping the shit out of it. Just to throw off the track.
Alice: No. What we need to do is just talk about how shit, like some of the really good episodes are.
Ellen: And then I’d be [01:41:00] watch them going, whatcha talking about This is great.
Alice: Like, like “Jinx” in season four is so shit like. It’s actually the worst episode ever, ever. Oh. So we’re just, we are just gonna, we have to watch it again.
Bex: We’re just gonna gaslight Ellen. Excellent. I’m always up for a good set of gaslighting. Yeah. “Jinx”. Oh, thanks guys. Fuck. We have to watch “Jinx” again. Shit.
Alice: For fuck’s sake.
Ellen: Okay, I’m gonna remember that one now.
Alice: No, you won’t. It’s fine. It’s not like you’re one that edits these episodes.
Ellen: It’s a long way away. Potentially, actually, speaking of a long way away. Um, not a long way away. “Eddie Begins” is episode 15, which means we only have a few left in this season.
Alice: Yeah, we are nearly done.
Ellen: So I guess now is the time we have to start telling people to send us, uh, your feedback for series three. Um, let us know what you thought and like what’s your favorite episode from this season and your least favorite. All those things that we normally talk about in a season wrap, um, you can email them to us or, [01:42:00] it’s probably better if you either DM them to us on a social media or email them, um, rather than commenting them just so that we can keep track of ’em a bit better.
We’ve still got a few weeks until we have to record that, so you’ve got a little while. But yeah, start thinking about, yeah,
Alice: still, still a couple weeks before I start harassing people. Um, but get ready.
Ellen: So, um, you can also let us know what you thought about this particular episode, episode 14. Um, in all of those ways, comment on Spotify.
Can comment on the actual blog post for this episode on thatweewooshow.com or you can email us all those other things. Find out all the details on our website. Thank you very much for listening this week, and we will talk to you next time about episode 15, “Eddie Begins”. See you then.
Bex: Bye
Alice: Bye.
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