Welcome to That Weewoo Show: a podcast where Alice, Bex, and Ellen watch and discuss every episode of ABC’s TV show, 9-1-1.
In this episode we discuss episode 2 of the fourth season of 9-1-1, titled “Alone Together”.
In the aftermath of the dam break, massive mudslides wreak havoc throughout Los Angeles. Bobby, Hen and Eddie rush to save hikers endangered by the falling of the Hollywood sign.
Content warnings for episode 4.02:
COVID pandemic, claustrophobia (threat of being buried alive), childbirth in the field, flashbacks to assault, depictions of grief, references to kidnapping, a natural disaster (micro quakes causing the mudslide/landslide causing multiple fatalities), men sinking in quicksand slash mud, mental illness (agoraphobia and depression), and pregnant women and babies at threat.
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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 A B C show, 9-1-1. I’m Ellen.
Alice: I’m Alice.
Bex: And I’m Bex.
Ellen: Thanks to everyone who’s been listening so far. Um, we are in season four now. We have a very special shout out this week to people who have been buying things from our Redbubble.
We have a Redbubble shop, um, that Alice has been putting things on, and it has some stickers and some other things that you can buy from there with our logo. And with “for the drama” on, and uh, some people have been buying them. So thank you. Especially Keira. We know that you are the only one who’s actually owned up to buying some of them, so thank you. Thank you.
Alice: I mean, I have a hoodie and you two have mugs. So [00:01:00]
Ellen: yes, there’s lots of things there that have our, our bits and pieces on it. So if you want, if you’d like some, um, we’ll put a link to the Redbubble shop in the notes.
Alice: The, um, the only problem with the hoodie is that I wore it out to dinner the other night because it was cold and it was with like my parents and my parents’ friends and mom was telling her friends that, um, like, “oh, it’s like for a podcast and you should listen.”
And they asked for the link and I was just like, please don’t listen. No, please don’t like this. This is a terrible idea. I regret everything.
Ellen: Well, um, hello Alice’s mom’s friends. If you’re listening,
Bex: if you have any questions about the Omega verse, Alice will be happy to explain it.
Alice: Oh God, please no. Known these people since I was in kindergarten.
Ellen: Let’s, let’s bring it back to the actual show then. Um, before we get stuck into episode two. Alice, do you wanna tell us what happened last time?
Alice: Yeah, so last week on 9-1-1, the [00:02:00] 118 rescued commuters stuck in a bus, suspended in a high-rise and Athena return to work right in time to get caught in a landslide.
Bex: Uh, in this episode we are going to discuss the second episode of season four, which is kind of the part two of last week’s episode, uh, because it is the continuation. Last week we had the Hollywood Reservoir Dam break, which caused the bus to go through the building and also caused the landslide. Well, actually then the micro quakes caused the dam to break, and the micro quakes also caused the landslide, but it’s all connected.
Um. So the summary for the episode, which first aired in January 25th, 2021, says, in the aftermath of the dam break, massive mudslides wreak havoc throughout Los Angeles. Even the summary says that they’re connected as Athena fights to [00:03:00] save herself and an agoraphobic woman after her house collapses, Bobby, Hen and Eddie rush to save hikers endangered by the falling of the Hollywood sign.
Meanwhile, Buck and Chimney must rescue a group of pregnant women trapped in a submerged house
Ellen: Out of context that sounds so strange.
Bex: Which one?
Alice: In context it’s so strange.
Bex: The pregnant women trapped in the submerged house?
Ellen: Yeah, yeah.
Bex: Makes it sound like it’s submerged under water.
Ellen: Yeah. Yeah.
Bex: Rather than that, it just got completely covered over by mud.
But trigger warnings for this episode include claustrophobia, specifically the threat of being buried alive. Um, childbirth in the field, flashbacks to assault, depictions of grief, references to kidnapping, a natural disaster, the micro quakes causing the mudslide and the landslide causing multiple fatalities, men sinking [00:04:00] in quicksand slash mud.
Um, mental illness, including or specifically agoraphobia and depression and pregnant women and babies at threat. I think the pregnant women and babies at threat are meant to be combined. Not just that pregnant women is a trigger, although that could also be a trigger in and of itself for some people.
Alice: I’m triggered by pregnant women.
Ellen: Pregnant women are triggered by themselves a lot of the time I think
Alice: my brother, when my brother was younger, um, like when he was doing his internship, he worked with someone who was pregnant for the first time in his life.
Ellen: Mm-hmm.
Alice: And he was so terrified that he’s like, oh, like what if I make her mad on a day that the baby’s like growing ears or something?
And I’m like, I don’t think that’s how it works. Like, I don’t think stressing her one day is going to break the baby.
Ellen: Oh, that’s so cute though.
Alice: Oh look, he’s fine now. He is almost 30 and like has friends that have kids, but like, when he was like [00:05:00] 17, he was like, oh my God, I’m gonna break the baby. Like, it’s okay.
Ellen: Uh, so we start with some news footage of the floods through the Hollywood Hills and the news anchors explains what’s happening. So just in case we hadn’t just watched the previous episode. Lots of water rushing down.
Bex: It’s, it’s interesting watching a series that was intended to be aired and watched weekly as a, as a, in one session bingeable series, because they do do the, oh, we have to remind the, the audience what happened in the last episode.
Like, Hmm, you really don’t, we literally just watched the last episode.
Alice: And it’s, it’s also like, oh, we have to te like show people who may have missed last week’s what went on.
Ellen: Yeah. I mean, in nowadays it’s not that so much because it’s easy to, to catch up or a lot easier to catch up. Um,
Alice: yeah, [00:06:00] like these days in America, it’s on Hulu. Hulu the next day or that night or something. Yeah. So
Ellen: yeah, like 20, 25 years ago there was no way to watch the previous episode. You just. If you hadn’t recorded it on your VCR.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Um, then you just missed it.
Alice: Which is why like you watch, oh my god, Friends is the worst. I know that it was necessary at the time, but when they do their clip shows.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: And it’s just an episode of like previous clips and it’s like, I know I just watched it. But then you remember that back in the early thousands and nineties, like they couldn’t just go and watch highlights. So they made an episode of highlights.
Ellen: Yes. Supernatural is terrible for it as well. Yeah. Like shows like basically every scene that happened in the last episode.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Before you get to the new stuff. But anyway, yes, we are getting an explanation of what happened. So at the moment they don’t know how high the death count is, um, but the emergency workers are searching for people and
Alice: spread very thin.
Ellen: You know, the, the Hollywood Hills area is [00:07:00] extremely dangerous and unstable.
Bex: This is before the quake has started, because the Hollywood sign is still in place. Um, although we’re not getting the two hours before the dam burst in this episode, we are, however, getting once again slightly on the nose, um, musical cues because
Alice: slightly on the nose?
Bex: Um, we’re gonna get, uh, an excellent song by Carole King called “I Feel the Earth Move” in an episode which involves micro quakes.
Um, I mean, it, it’s not up there. I think we’re gonna have to make a list at some point, at some point in the series and let’s talk about like the, the top five what is the most inappropriate musical cue this show has used. And I think that one might be
Ellen: Inappropriate or brilliant?
Alice: Yeah, I think this episode had two of them too. I might be wrong, but I feel like it had two terrible needle drops.
Bex: Well, we’ll continue and we’ll find out. But this is definitely one of them. [00:08:00] Um,
Alice: Definitely one of them.
Bex: So we are up on Mount Lee where the Hollywood sign is still in place. Um, and we have a group of young people going on a hike, uh, which is not advisable because we do get a lingering shot on a “no access to the Hollywood sign” sign that they’re walking towards.
Ellen: And two of them are not having a good time. So the, these two guys are twins. Um, and I’m looking at going, are they twins? And actually are twins.
Alice: Are they twins?
Ellen: It’s just like they’re, they look so similar except different.
Alice: I just thought they were friends.
Bex: They’re twins.
Ellen: No, they’re twins. Yeah.
Bex: Seriously? Like the actors are twins.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: What?
Bex: And they played roommates?
Ellen: No, they’re, aren’t they brothers who live together?
Bex: They live together, but I assumed they were roommates.
Alice: Housemates, yeah.
Ellen: Well, when I found out that they were actually brothers, I just headcanoned in that they were, [00:09:00]
Bex: hang on. Everyone’s doing a quick search.
Ellen: I’ve got it open. No, I’ve got it open at the moment. Hang on. I’m just waiting for the bloody IMDB to load again. Come on phone. You can do it. Um, Dylan and Caleb are played by real life brothers, Shane and Garrett Coffey.
Bex: Okay, there you go. I just assumed that they were roommates. Yeah. Did not pick up any familial represent.
Ellen: You didn’t you didn’t think that they looked similar
Alice: Nope, not at all!
Bex: No, because
Ellen: oh my god,
Bex: ‘Cause, um, Dylan’s got like the, the, um, like the nerd thing going and, and Caleb’s got like the, the football, all American football jock sort of thing. Nope. Did not tweak. Okay. At all. Not
Ellen: I picked them straight away somehow.
Alice: They’re not twins though, because one’s born, um. Maybe, I don’t know.
Bex: I did pick up on that, the fact that there are three people in this storyline, and yet we only have two names, because once again, [00:10:00] nobody thought to name the female character.
Ellen: Oh,
Alice: classic.
Ellen: Really?
Bex: Really. And it pissed me off because they managed to drop in Caleb’s name and they managed to drop in Dylan’s name. They could very easily have dropped in the girlfriend’s name. Did not bother to do it.
Ellen: Huh.
Bex: So, unfortunately, for our listeners, she is just gonna be girlfriend because according to my rule that, you know, I imposed myself, um, I, I can’t name a character unless they get named somehow in the episode.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Okay. Okay. Looks like they’re not twins. It just says sibling. Caleb is the one who is. So going out with the girl, obviously.
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: And he is like, has convinced the others to come on this hike with him and the others are not into it at all.
Bex: No.
Ellen: And his girlfriend is like, “I’m not dressed to scale anything. I thought we were just going for a walk.” And he’s like, “Come on, it’s not that steep.” And they’re having a bit of an [00:11:00] argument about how the, he always springs stuff on her and, and never, you know, consults with her first
Bex: to which Dylan is in the background. Just nodding in agreeance.
And then we get into a bit of an argy bargey and we realize that things might not all be sunshine and roses between the friend group because, um, apparently not only does Caleb like to spring things on his girlfriend, he likes to spring things on Dylan too, including moving said girlfriend in with them during the pandemic without consulting with Dylan first
Ellen: and the girl girlfriend, oh God, I can’t call her that. I don’t even know what her name is. But girlfriend,
Bex: Because she doesn’t have a name. That’s the point.
Alice: We, she doesn’t have a name. It’s girlfriend.
Bex: We can, we can give her a name. What’s the actress’s name? Does anyone have the wiki still open?
Ellen: Um, yeah, I’ve got the Wiki still open. Hang on.
Alice: I think it’s Katie.
Ellen: Katie? No, that, that’s Katie is the name of the girl of the actual character,
Bex: which pisses me off. Which means Katie
Ellen: Her name is Jaylen,
Bex: which means that somewhere in a script they [00:12:00] cast her and said “We have named her Katie.” They just did not think to impart that information to the audience. What the fuck? Please tell me that a man wrote this otherwise I’m gonna get very angry.
No, Lindsay, what the hell? Oh no. I was totally gonna be on board with like misogyny if this was a man, like typical male writer, forgetting to name the female characters, but Lindsay. Um, all right, well I guess we can. So I guess you can, you guys can call her Katie. Apparently that was her name. Even though Lindsay forgot to put it in the fucking script for someone to say the name.
Ellen: Well, Katie is, um, a, a hurt by this. She thought that Dylan liked having her around, that she called them. She said no, “You said we were the Quaranteam,” which is so cute.
Alice: Yeah,
Bex: [00:13:00] while they’ve been arguing, they’ve finally made it up to the Hollywood sign and they’ve, Dylan notices that there are a lot of helicopters flying around.
And we do, we get a shot. There is a LAPD helicopter and several, they’re either fire or search and rescue. I’m not entirely sure, but there are a lot of helicopters concentrated in this region, um, which Caleb just brushes off and says, “it’s LA, there’s always helicopters.”
Alice: I mean, yes, but probably not this many around a dam, but you know,
Bex: not this many in this specific area.
Uh, so they decide that they’re going to take their selfies to prove that they were up at Hollywood sign, and just as they do, the ground starts rumbling underneath them.
Alice: What’s that? They feel the earth move.
Bex: They feel the earth move under their,
Alice: under their feet?
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Oh my God.
Ellen: It’s not the sky tumbling down
Bex: No, we’ve had that episode already.
Ellen: It’s, it’s the H [00:14:00]
Bex: Yes. The, the H and the O’s start tumbling down and, um, they hightail it out of there. It was very interesting the way that they shot, the way that the letters were falling down. It remember, God, I don’t even wanna put a like year reference on this, but do you remember when they, Hollywood went through this phase of all movies were made in 3D.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Uh, the way that they filmed the H coming down reminded me of like, horror movies that were shot in 3D the way
Ellen: it was like coming right out the camera?
Bex: The, like, it was designed that we were meant to be sitting there with like, the 3D projector or something. So it was gonna come out of the screen towards us.
Alice: Okay. I don’t wanna make you feel old, but that was like around 2009.
Ellen: Yeah,
Bex: I was gonna say early two thousands.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: It’s very specifically like Final Destination 4 or something.
Alice: That’s literally what I googled, was Final [00:15:00] Destination 3D,
I was like, oh, what’s the name of that movie I saw that was really Yep. Final Destination.
Bex: Yeah. Yeah. It’s the one where it’s a race track and like the, the cars are flinging off the track into the stadium. Yeah.
Alice: And the other one, um, and where the girl gets like suction cupped or the guy gets suction cupped to the bottom of the pool. Oh, and then it like explodes out towards the screen.
Bex: Yeah. Yeah.
Ellen: Oh, okay. Well, the first, the first movie I went to see in 3D was How To Train Your Dragon, and it was amazing and I loved it. And it’s my favorite.
Alice: That’s so, so much more G rated and Bex and I are just like, yeah. Remember when we had blood sprayed on our face?
Bex: Okay, so this, I mean, obviously it’s television. It was not designed for 3D. That’s just what it reminded me of.
Alice: Um, How To Train Your Dragon was also 2010, so yeah.
Bex: Around the same era. Oh,
Alice: [00:16:00] yep.
Bex: But that was like two years ago, right?
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: At least. Like it’s gotta be two years ago.
Ellen: Five at most. Unfortunately, 2020 was five years ago. So
Bex: What’s, what’s interesting about once we’ve seen the Hollywood sign, like come flying at us through the screen as if it’s trying decapitate us, is that we also get a shot of, as a segue to continue the story of Sylvia’s house from the back. So the last episode, we saw it from street level and, and we watched it disappear from the curb.
This time we get to see the back of it, and no wonder the fucking thing collapsed. It’s built on stilts on the side of the cliff.
Alice: Yeah. It’s one of those like fancy houses that is juttered right out from the cliff.
Ellen: Yeah. Like as it was collapsing at the end of the last episode, I’m pretty sure we saw the back of it.
Bex: I was expecting it to be like, but it, it [00:17:00] protrudes right out. Like she’s got a pool or something in the back of it as well. So. It’s, it’s quite, I mean,
Ellen: um, it’s an earthquake prone area.
Alice: Yeah. More fun GTA facts, because I know you guys love hearing about GTA five. Um, but in one of the early missions, you actually like attach a, um, like attach a rope to one of those houses, like the stilts to one of those houses and pull down the whole back of it.
Ellen: Oh,
Alice: oh yeah. It’s fun. And then as you’re driving past, you see like, like as the story progresses, you see like construction crew starting to fix it up. It’s really cool. Um, also when I first this, um, I was at like, once the Hollywood sign fell down, I was like, ah, actually surprised it took until season four for them to break the Hollywood sign.
Ellen: Yes. Considering it’s a major landmark of the city.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Probably took them that long to get permission to do it. [00:18:00]
Alice: So yeah, we’re in the, um, the “Ollywood” Hills. And there’s a wide shot of Sylvia’s house down the hill and we go inside and Athena is okay. She is coughing, but she manages to pull herself up.
Um, Sylvia’s also, okay, like Athena asks if she’s all right and she says No, but as Athena says “Me either, but we’re alive.”
Ellen: Yeah. If she’s not hurt yet, she looks okay in my, yeah.
Alice: Sylvia’s, “This is why I don’t leave the house. Bad things happen,” and Athena’s like, “This bad thing happened while you were in the house.” Like,
Bex: yeah. That argument no longer, um, holds any weight.
Ellen: Yeah. This is funny ’cause she, uh, Athena asked her if she has a cell phone and Sylvia says she doesn’t. But then Athena says that she left her phone in her car and she lost her radio in the fall. But she finds it again a bit later because she radios dispatch.
Alice: Yeah, she does find it. [00:19:00] Yeah. She finds it while she’s climbing back up later.
Bex: Does that mean that Sylvia, like Sylvia works from home? We establish that. Does that mean that she’s exclusively used a landline? She doesn’t have a smartphone at all.
Ellen: I guess so. Yeah.
Bex: A smartphone and a desktop computer. Oh my God.
Ellen: Well, she hasn’t been outside for seven years,
Bex: but, but you don’t use the, you don’t internet use a smartphone to, you know, talk, it’s like games and, and stuff like that.
Alice: She’s got a computer for that.
Ellen: It’s like looking up IMDB. What else do you do with it?
Bex: Yeah, so, yes, so they’re, they are incommunicado with the outside world. There is, um, they can see sunlight coming through, uh, a hole in the side of the house, which is now their roof I guess. And Athena says that there are gonna be plenty copters in the sky. They just have to climb out and signal for help.
Alice: Yeah. Easy, right?
Bex: So they start climbing.
Ellen: Yes. Um, we [00:20:00] find the 118 at a mobile command center. Uh, it’s not just the 118 there though. There’s a bunch of different houses there and someone, we don’t know what their name is, but there’s a lady who is the commander type thing. Right? Coordinator or something.
Bex: Yeah. Once again, according to the Wikipedia, she has a name, but uh, it’s never used in conversation and I never got a good enough look at either her turnout or if she has a badge on somewhere. So I don’t know what her name is. I’ve just been calling her the Battalion Leader ’cause that’s what she is.
I don’t know why she’s specifically a battalion leader, but that’s what it says on her helmet. So that’s what we’re going with.
Alice: Sure, why not.
Bex: And she’s briefing Bobby and Hen, and the only reason I know it’s Bobby and Hen is that Bobby’s got “captain” on his helmet and
Ellen: they’ve got the masks on.
Bex: Hen’s the only Black person on the 118. So
Ellen: Right, [00:21:00]
Bex: because yeah, they’ve got face masks on, got face masks and helmets. All you can see is their eyes.
Ellen: They’ve got the nice face mask with like the,
Bex: the branding,
Ellen: the LAFD branding on ’em. Yeah. So she tells Bobby about, um, they’ve only got two casualties so far, but they’re gonna find more.
But the LAPD was evacuating people when the hill came down. So they’re a bit concerned about what happened with Athena because… actually did they know that Athena’s out there at this stage? Maybe that’s later.
Bex: I think they must do at some point. There was a scene between Bobby and May where May was expressing her concern that she had not heard from Athena.
And I think last,
Alice: I’m pretty sure it was last week. Last, yeah, so last week.
Ellen: Yeah, it was last week.
Alice: May was like, “Oh, like mum’s out there doing things,” and Bobby’s like, “Yeah, she’s working. Leave her alone.” So they do know. Bobby doesn’t know that Athena’s trapped.
Bex: No, but they do know. They do know that she’s out on the streets and
Alice: Yes.
Bex: So they, the look [00:22:00] between he and Bobby is like, oh, Athena is out here somewhere. But the battalion leader obviously has not been caught up on the gossip that like the captain, the 118 and police sergeants, they’re like married, so she doesn’t realize that she’s like slightly put a foot in it.
Alice: Yeah. Um, but yeah, so Bobby does ask if any officers have checked in with mobile command and the battalion leader says, not that they’ve seen. So Bobby is like keeping Athena in the back of his mind, but he has to work.
Ellen: So she tells them that the ollywood sign is falling down. Um, there was some hikers in the area and, and Chim says, “Guess they should have bought a vowel,” Because all the letters are falling down and Hen just looks at him. But they, like Bobby tells Hen and Eddie to come with him to the sign and Chim and Buck have to stay there and search for survivors.
And Hen tells him that that’s punishment for his bad [00:23:00] jokes. And he’s like, “no, they’re dad jokes.”
Bex: No, it’s just bad.
Ellen: To remind us that he’s gonna be a dad.
Alice: Yeah. So he’s like,
Ellen: just in case we forgot.
Alice: “I’m getting in the habit early, I know I’m gonna be a terrible father.” And it’s just like, oh, what Chim you are not, your jokes are bad, but I’m sure
Bex: jokes are terrible.
Alice: Um, but yeah, it’s, it’s interesting that this episode, they have Chimney and Buck working together.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: I’m assuming
Ellen: changing it up.
Alice: It’s because they want one paramedic on each team.
Ellen: Yeah, that would make sense.
Alice: But yeah, it was just an interesting change. ’cause usually we see Buck and Eddie doing stuff
Bex: While the 118 get to work ,we go back, uh, not go back because we haven’t been there yet. Um, we go to dispatch, um, where everyone else is frantically working, answering phone calls. But Maddie and May are just standing watching television, um, where the Channel eight news helicopter is flying over the, the Ollywood Hills and Mount Lee [00:24:00] and they show footage of a patrol car that got caught in the mudslide, which May points out, just so happens to be Athena’s patrol car.
And when Maddie questions her like, “are you sure?” I’m like, Maddie, it says 7 2 7 on top of the car you have called Athena over the radio enough times, surely you remember her call sign, um, May says, “Well, I may have like hacked into the system to find like her location. So yes, I know that my mother was in that area. Um, can we like radio her to try to find her?”
And Maddie’s like, “Hmm. We would normally wait for the officers to call in for us,” and May gives her like pouty face, puppy dog eyes, and she immediately folds and says, “All right, we’ll make an exception this one time.”
Ellen: As this episode progresses, Maddie is just getting like more and more done with May’s shit. Like, she’s like, “okay, [00:25:00] fine,”
Bex: It’s good training
Ellen: We’ll do it this time. Um, so she calls, yeah, they do radio, uh, for Athena and asks her what is her status,
Bex: but of course,
Ellen: but they don’t hear anything.
Bex: We’ve, we’ve learned earlier that Athena has lost her radio, so she can’t answer. And May just pouting a little bit and, and tells Maddie and the audience that, um, you know, she’s not even supposed to be out in the field. She’s on desk duty. And Maddie’s like, “well, you know what, on my first day there was a 7.1 earthquake.”
Ellen: Yeah. So stop your whinging.
Bex: Yeah, if I can survive that, you can handle this. Um, she does it a little bit nicer away. She’s like ” I will give you the same advice that Josh gave me on that day. They, we all have people we love out there. The best thing that we can do for them is our job.” Yeah. And then she just immediately dismisses May and starts picking up calls. May’s [00:26:00] like, okay, fine.
Alice: Well, yeah, she’s busy.
Ellen: Uh, and, and May does then try to call Athena on, on a phone. But you see, Athena doesn’t answer that either, so. Yep. Uh, so Chim and Buck are like walking into the, up into the hills.
It’s all muddy underfoot. Seems like a risky kind of thing to do, walking up a mudslide, but they’ve gotta try and find people who are buried in their houses.
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: So they’re calling for people. Um, they find someone, but they didn’t make it so they mark the location and keep moving.
Bex: Then Chimney hears something, he hears the sound of a baby crying, but it’s a, it’s like a weird echoey kind of sound of a baby crying and they end up finding, not a baby, but a baby monitor, which I don’t know how the hell the baby monitor ended up where it ends up.
Ellen: Yeah. Where, how did it [00:27:00] get outside.
Alice: Yeah. How it end up outta the house.
Bex: Like it, and it’s not even
Alice: like it got flung out the window somehow?
Bex: Plus it’s not even like next to the house because then they have to go searching for the house that it’s connected to. So it’s not like it got flung out the window, it got flung out the window and taken like halfway down the mountain or something, um,
Ellen: and then ended up on top of the debris.
Bex: Yes. But that becomes the question like, yes, there’s the baby monitor, so where’s the baby?
Alice: Where’s the baby? Yeah. Um, so yeah, for the drama, there’s a magical baby monitor, but they don’t know where the baby is
Bex: with incredible range. Like it’s still
Alice: the most top of the line baby monitor ever.
Bex: The, it’s still picking up like the transmitter. Uh, but that’s it. We get like, so there’s the baby monitor, where’s the baby? And then boom, commercial.
Alice: Like my phone doesn’t even work if I’m in like a parking garage. But sure, the baby monitor works under mud. It’s fine.
Bex: I mean, I don’t think mud is quite as dense as concrete. [00:28:00]
Ellen: Well, the top of the house they find is actually sticking outta the mud, isn’t it? Like the roof is sticking out so it’s not under mud.
Bex: But the transmitters like still down… anyway for the drama, like this entire episode.
Ellen: Yeah, it does. It doesn’t matter.
Bex: Sorry.
Alice: Um, yeah, so we go back to the,
Bex: the Ollywood Hills,
Alice: Ollywood Ills um,
Bex: where like tour guide Bobby is talking about the history of the Hollywood Hills because,
Alice: oh my God, literally this is like, it’s like Buck info dumping, but it’s Bobby and it’s just like, oh, you are his dad,
Bex: because God bless him, when Bobby first arrived in LA he did all the touristy things because he wanted to know more about the area. So he took a tour of the Hollywood Hills and he found it very informative.
Alice: Um, yeah, so apparently this isn’t the first time the Hollywood sign has fallen. Legend has it back in the day, a groundskeeper got drunk and crashed his car into it and knocked down the H. [00:29:00]
Ellen: I don’t know how you’d crash your car into it, isn’t it on the side of a
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: Like a steep hill. Yes.
Alice: I’m maybe the car would like, there’s like a dirt track around it. So, yeah. Um, I dunno, I guess he was doing the dirt track.
Bex: If I’d cared enough, I would’ve looked that up. I to like fact check Bobby, but I didn’t. So we’ll just go with
it.
Ellen: We’ll just believe him for the time.
Alice: We believe Bobby
Ellen: for the drama we believe him.
Bex: In Bobby we believe,
Alice: Honestly my knowledge of the Hollywood sign comes again from GTA, um, and yeah, there’s like a track to it. And my favorite part is…
Ellen: Have you ever driven your car into it?
Alice: That there’s, yes. Um, there’s, it doesn’t fall. I’m very disappointed. Um, my favorite thing is that there’s like a big sign on the letters that are like, no hiking in this area ’cause you’re not actually allowed to go up to the Hollywood sign.
Um, and then there’s always hikers because they didn’t actually code out the ability. Or maybe there just are always hikers up there.
Ellen: Maybe [00:30:00] despite the signs.
Alice: Despite, despite the signs. Um, but yeah, I’ve climbed the, I’m trying to remember what it’s actually called in,
Bex: um, actually maybe in Bobby Nash we cannot trust because Wikipedia has a lot of information about what has happened to the sign since it was erected in the twenties, and none of them include being knocked over by a ground keeper in a car.
Alice: Oh.
Bex: So I think Bobby was had.
Alice: Wow.
Ellen: Mm-hmm. Either that or the 9-1-1 Universe is doing its parallel thing where other stuff happens that we don’t get.
Bex: Apparently in the seventies, the O broke in half and became Hullywood sign
Ellen: Hullywood.
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: Um, the thing I like about this scene is that, um, they can’t find the sign to start with, like the H They Yes.[00:31:00]
They, they’ve hiked it all over the hills and they’re like. “We should be able to see it. It’s a giant H,” and then they, they eventually stumble on it and the, the, the hikers are there. And then when Bobby calls for like, reinforcements and they’re like, “is there any landmarks in the area?” And he is like, oh yeah,
Bex: Funnily enough…
Ellen: like, Bobby, you couldn’t find, you couldn’t find this H a moment ago. Like, I assume it’ll be more visible from the air,
Bex: but yes, I was gonna say…
Alice: Oh, wow. So the Hollywood sign was originally erected in 1923 as a temporary advertisement for a local real estate development.
Bex: Oh, wow. And
Alice: it originally said “Hollywoodland.” oh. And then in 1949, they removed the “land”.
Ellen: Right.
Alice: Then it was replaced, like the letters were replaced with steel in 1978.
Ellen: Well, thank you random facts Buck.
Bex: Um, well, no, not thank you Random facts Buck, because it was Random facts Bobby. And it was,
Ellen: it was random facts, Bobby.
Bex: Incorrect Random facts.
Alice: Yeah. Bobby’s [00:32:00] useless.
Bex: Um, apparently, sorry, Bobby.
Ellen: Poor Bobby. He’s trying,
Bex: But yes, they finally find the H and Caleb and his girlfriend are on the ladder attached to the back of the H, and poor Dylan is waist deep in mud.
Alice: Hang on. The letter H was destroyed in early 1944, but they blamed winds.
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: Alright. It doesn’t matter.
Alice: No, I’m really invested in this Hollywood sign now
Ellen: We’re believing Bobby. Okay? Bobby calls for a, a, a supply drop of plywood so they can get Dylan out of the mud
Bex: and they can get the other two down off. Yeah.
Ellen: So we go back to the chaos twins. Um, Chim is, they’re trying to work out how they’re gonna find this baby and he’s like the, it’s gotta be nearby, right?
And Buck’s. Like “why, why can’t, it’d be good if [00:33:00] we could like ping it, like find my phone type thing.” And Chim doesn’t think that’s a thing.
Bex: Pretty sure it is actually.
Alice: But yeah, Buck says that it should be,
Ellen: it should be.
Alice: Um, Buck says it should be. And Chim’s like, “Well, maybe you’ll invent it for when I misplace my kid, you know what’s gonna happen. I use, I lose my phone at least three times a week.” And it’s just like, what?
Bex: But that’s not gonna work if it’s the transmitter, because unless you’re like strapping the transmitter to the kid, you just find the transmitter and not the child.
Ellen: In this situation,
Bex: unless you’re gonna like put a, like an NFC tag like under your child’s skin or something so that you can, you know, ping your baby.
Ellen: Don’t give people ideas,
Alice: but like attach the air tag to it.
Bex: Yes, I was thinking more permanently, but that’s just me. Um, but thankfully they don’t have to do anything like that because as Chimney goes to call for backup they [00:34:00] realize that the radios radio frequency interferes with the frequency that the baby monitor is working on and they get feedback.
So then Buck has the idea that if they just follow the feedback, they’ll find the transmitter. So they just have to keep transmitting over radio.
Ellen: Yeah. Find my baby.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Yeah. Which he, I mean he thought outside the box, it seems stupid, but it actually turned out to be a very good idea.
Ellen: Buck absolutely has the brain cell this episode.
Alice: It’s ’cause he is separated from Eddie. Like the further he gets from Eddie, the more his brain cell becomes normal.
Bex: Um, he’s got the brain cell and he’s got the judgment this episode.
Ellen: Yes.
Bex: Uh, because as they start searching for the, um, the baby, um, Chimney notes that on the, through [00:35:00] the, the radio, they only heard a baby.
They didn’t hear an adult. So he immediately jumps to worst case scenario that the baby is now an orphan and Buck calls him on it. He’s like, “you really are just, you really always do go worst case scenario, don’t you?” And Chim’s like, “Are you judging me?” And Buck’s? Like, “Yes, you know, I am judging you because you’re having a kid with my sister, but you’re living on my couch because of this whole doom and gloom over the pandemic that you’ve got going on. Like the worst case scenario.”
Alice: Yeah. Yeah. Like I, it, it’s pretty clear that Buck’s sick of Chim being on his couch.
Ellen: He does sound pretty fed up, doesn’t he? Yeah.
Alice: Like it’s like when you’ve got that friend that like overstays their welcome and it’s just like, yep, cool. I actually have errands to run. Please leave.
Bex: Is it like, is it, it could be that Buck wants Chim off his couch, but it could also be that Buck just wants Chim back with Maddie because like he’s gonna be a father and a father should be with [00:36:00] Maddie and
Ellen: Yeah, he knows that Maddie’s missing him,
Bex: he’s trying to keep the family together.
Alice: I’m sure Maddie as well, like Maddie’s his sister and so I’m sure Maddie’s been texting him just like, why the fuck is he still go at your house?
Buck’s like, I don’t fucking know. He won’t fucking leave. I don’t know what you want me to do, Maddie. So Buck’s probably had it from all sides. Like he just wants Chim to go back to his pregnant life. I mean we, I mean girlfriend and deal with it.
Bex: We know that Buck has this really big thing about families. So as far from his perspective, it looks like that there’s a family that Chim is sort of very, very deliberately keeping apart.
He’s like, no, that I’m not having that, that is not on. You are even, you’re making a family go be with your fucking family.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah. But Chim’s like convinced that he will be a bad, he’ll be a crappy dad over video conferencing.
Bex: No, it’s so sad.
Ellen: Um, if the world never goes back to, to normal and, uh, Buck’s like, “you’re gonna [00:37:00] be a great dad. What are you talking about?”
Bex: That’s, it’s such a sad line where he says, you know, that he’ll be a crappy dad over video conferencing. That’s actually something that I have experience with. Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah. And he thinks just because his dad was shitty, that he is gonna be, he’s,
Bex: he’s destined to be a shitty dad too.
Like, but that’s why you go, you go overboard in the other direction. You don’t just resign yourself to your fate.
Ellen: Yeah. And Buck reminds him that he takes care of total strangers every single day.
Alice: Um, but then they’re interrupted by the feedback going and we get possibly the greatest interaction…
Ellen: I love this
Alice: in the history of the show.
Bex: Yeah. So they find,
Ellen: I just laughed so hard.
Bex: They find the house that they assume is going to be where the baby is, and it’s a, um, a flat roof that is up to the, like gutters in mud and they cannot see any way of getting into the house [00:38:00] except,
Alice: So Chimney goes, “How do we get inside?” And Buck just goes, “Chimney.” Chimney’s like, “What?” And Buck’s like “What?”
Ellen: It’s just the way that Buck looks at him, like he’s. Like he doesn’t understand what he is saying. “What? No, there’s a chimney.”
Bex: Yeah, there is a chimney.
Ellen: Oh, the chimney
Bex: there was saying these are called Chimney. We can go through the chimney.
Ellen: It’s an excellent acting. Excellent Oliver Acting Oices.
Alice: Oh, it’s fantastic. The greatest thing. Yeah. Then we go back to Athena, who is still stuck in a house and is still climbing up the house.
Bex: But their luck changes because Athena finds her radio and thankfully it is still working. It
Ellen: still worked and didn’t get crushed.
Bex: I’m assuming It also didn’t get like, locked onto the broadcast option. So like nobody has been [00:39:00] forced to listen to her climb through this house for God knows how long. Uh, so she is able to, uh, radio into dispatch.
Alice: I love that Maddie’s like, “What’s your location?” And Athena’s like, “Well, it was 1415 Ledgewood drive, but I don’t know where we’ve landed.”
Bex: Maddie’s like, yeah, I’m pretty sure that address has moved since the last time.
Ellen: But your con, your patrol car is still there. May rushes over to listen in because somehow… oh no, she, she must have hear Maddie speaking about like,
Bex: yeah, she hears the call sign
Ellen: 727 L30, so yeah.
Bex: Yep.
Ellen: She rushes over to listen in.
Bex: Athena asks for a lift out. Um, Maddie tells her that there are units in the area, but the mud is slowing them down, that they’ll get to her as soon as they can.
And that’s not good enough for May. She’s like, “Can’t you put a rush on it? Tell them that there’s an officer in distress or something,” and Maddie just [00:40:00] points at the screen and said like, “I did.”
Alice: Yep. I already did. Like Maddie knows how to do her job. She’s good. But then we get another aftershock slash micro quake.
Bex: And this one, everyone does hear over the radio because while the house is shaking and Athena’s being flung around, she keeps her finger on the radio. She’s really good at that.
Ellen: Yeah. Or maybe it’s still broken from before. Actually, no, that was like six months ago. So surely
Bex: you would’ve hoped it fixed.
Ellen: It’s a different radio then.
Bex: So they hear rumbling, they hear Sylvia screaming. Um, and then it’s just silence.
Ellen: And May’s having a panic.
Bex: May is freaking out.
Alice: Yeah. Poor May.
Bex: Maddie would’ve just gone like, this is not the worst that I’ve heard over the radio.
Ellen: All right, so the hikers are still hanging onto the, the H that’s sticking outta the ground, but, and they, the kid is still in, um, stuck in the mud too, and they’re trying to [00:41:00] tell him not to move because he’s getting. You know, sucked down.
Bex: Yeah. But other firefighters have arrived and they are laying plywood around, which allows Caleb and his girlfriend to get down off the, uh, unstable H and it also allows the 118 to get a little bit closer to Dylan.
Ellen: Yep. The mud is gonna start to constrict, restrict his lungs. He is gonna have trouble breathing, but he’s gonna be all right.
Although Dylan’s like, “I’m gonna die!” He’s sort of panicking. Everyone else is like, no, it’s gonna be all right. Just calm, calm down. And his brother and the girlfriend or his roommate, whatever, um, no, he, he does say ” Me and Caleb are roommates.” They don’t even say that they’re brothers, even though they look exactly alike anyway.
Bex: No, you just, you just immediately jumped on the brother bandwagon. We’re all out here with just roommates
Ellen: anyway. Caleb and the girlfriend are like, not at all sympathetic. They’re like, “just shut up and stop moving.” [00:42:00] Um,
Bex: yeah, Dylan’s like been moaning like, oh, wo is me. Caleb’s like, “you’re acting like I forced you to come out here. I was just trying to be nice and include you in like, like third wheel allow you to be the third wheel on our date.” The girlfriends, I think she’s getting a little bit upset at the way Caleb, I mean the way he’s acting. I could believe that they’d be brothers though. The animosity between the two of them.
Alice: Um, yeah
Bex: and she’s like, she’s sort of explaining to Bobby that they’re all roommates and Dylan comes back with, “No, me and Caleb are roommates. You came over for dinner and never left.”
Alice: And Hen’s face is just funny. Like we get a full zoom in on Hen and like. Aisha’s eye acting is amazing like that because she’s wearing a mask.
Yeah, yeah. You just go, whoa.
Bex: Yeah. Everybody has to put all of their, um, [00:43:00] acting into their eyebrows and their eyes and they’re all doing a really good job. So, yes. So Dylan is freaking out. The more he freaks out, the deeper he sinks into the mud. Um, but they can’t just yank him out, um, because as he said, it him out, they’ll rip him in half.
It’ll rip him in half because his like bottom half will continue to be stuck in the mud and the top half will come out. And despite what I said earlier about, it’s trying to be like a 3D horror movie, I don’t think that that’s what 9-1-1 is going for at this stage.
So they need something to go into the mud to support him so they can pull him out. Nothing on the trucks, nothing of their tools are going to suffice. So they start cannibalizing the H of the Hollywood sign.
Alice: Yeah. They just start cutting it up and it’s like, oh, I feel like that should be like some sort of sacred thing, even though I know it’s not,
Bex: but it’s already broken
Alice: and it’s already broken, [00:44:00] but it just feels wrong.
Ellen: I’m sure they’ll be making a new one. Like,
Bex: and as you’ve just discovered, like it’s only what, 40 years old, so it’s already been replaced once.
Alice: Yeah. It just feels wrong. Like, like why are cutting it up?
Ellen: So the kid’s rapidly is rapidly sinking into the mud, but they, they still have time to like go and grab the tools, then start hacking into the sign and then cut the sign apart so they can get something back to him without him sinking any further.
Bex: I’m, I’m assuming that the saw was in the pack that they brought with them. Like they would’ve just had their backpacks, it had all of their just in case tools, so
Ellen: Oh, well I hope no one went running back down the hillside to get them.
Bex: Or up the hillside. I don’t know what direction they’ve come from. Were they up or down?
Doesn’t matter.
Alice: Across the hillside? I dunno.
Bex: Because, because that’s not the drama we need to be focusing on. We need to be focusing on the love triangle because Dylan decides that now is the perfect time while the mud is constricting his chest. He can’t get the mud off his chest, so he is gonna get other things off his [00:45:00] chest, um, including that he is in love with his roommate slash brother’s girlfriend.
Alice: And her reaction is just, “I love you too, bud. Go quaranteam!”
She doesn’t like,
Ellen: no, I’m in love with you.
Alice: I’m in love with you. And it’s like, um, let’s know,
Ellen: Hen’s just loving this. She’s like, oh, the plot thickens.
Bex: The girlfriend is very confused because she’s like, but you’ve been a total jerk to me. And I’m thinking, oh, it’s very much Love Actually. Like that whole plot with, um, like the best friend anyway.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: He is like, “I’ve been a jerk to you because it has been killing me. Having to live under the same roof as you with you two kissing and canoodling.”
Ellen: Ah, I’m sure I read a fic in this vein once.
Bex: And for some reason Hen wants Bobby to [00:46:00] hurry up the rescue operation. I, I would be more wanting just to sit back and see what happens with these three.
Ellen: Tell me more.
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: Um, but they, they do finally get the, the ladder that was on the back of the H, they cut it free so they can come and stick it into the mud behind Dylan.
Alice: Yeah. Dylan’s being very dramatic.
Bex: Yes. He’s like, “I, I just, I didn’t wanna die without telling you,” any, and even as. Eddie and Bobby are trying to save him.
He’s still flailing around and Eddie is like telling him to stop moving or he’s gonna make things worse. So the girlfriend decides that the best thing to do would be to tell Dylan that she loves him too and that he needs to listen to the firefighters and keep fighting and not give up because she loves him and she needs him to live for her.
Yeah. And Caleb’s standing there like going, what the [00:47:00] fuck? But it works.
Ellen: Yeah. Like they manage to lever him out somehow.
Alice: Oh my god. Caleb though just bugged me in this because like obviously she’s doing it to get him to calm the fuck down. And he’s like, (humphing)
Bex: At, at no point did I believe…
Alice: it’s like, okay, calm down Caleb.
Bex: That she was saying it because she was actually in love with him. She was very clearly just saying like, I am just saying this to get you to do what they, you need to do to get out of this. Yeah. Or if you are going to die
Ellen: Well clearly melodrama lives, melodrama runs in the family because they’re both as bad as each other.
Bex: So, so they get, they get Dylan out, um, and Dylan’s like, “Oh my God, it’s, it’s working. I’m gonna live. And Caleb’s like, yeah, great. Now I’m gonna kill you.”
Ellen: See? Brothers.
Alice: Like, it’s so ridiculous. [00:48:00] Um, so then we cut to like, when Dylan’s out, Caleb’s out. Who are we out?
Bex: Um, Dylan’s out
Alice: when Dylan’s out. The girlfriend’s like trying to apologize. She’s like, “I’m so sorry. Like, I just”, and she’s, and Caleb’s like, “oh, so you’re in love with Dylan?” She’s like, “I thought he was gonna die. Um, I was moved by his passion. I thought I should say it back.” And Dylan’s like, “oh, so you didn’t mean it?” And Caleb’s like, well, you were sure quick to say it, or the other way around. I don’t know which is which anymore.
Bex: I’m pretty sure Caleb was like saying to his girlfriend, oh, so you didn’t mean it. And Dylan’s like, well, she was pretty quick to say it back to me, like just needling him that little bit more.
Alice: But yeah, it’s just ridiculous. Like, your, your friend almost died. It was clearly to try and calm him the fuck down.
Bex: Yes. But fragile masculinity and all of that.
Alice: Oh, clearly.
Ellen: Hmm. Anyway, they’re all mad at each other.
Bex: Thankfully a helicopter arrives, [00:49:00] um, which is there to whisk them back down to safety.
Um, the girlfriend sort of looks at Hen and goes, “Can I like, take the next helicopter out of here?” Hen’s like, “No. Go Quaranteam.”
Alice: Go quaranteam!.
Bex: She has no sympathy for this woman.
Alice: Zero.
Bex: And so that ended that stupid storyline, which was like entertaining but incredibly stupid. Um, and we are gonna go back to Buck and Chimney, where Buck is preparing to, uh, lower Chimney through the chimney into the house.
Ellen: Yeah. There’s like a bunch of other firefighters around here too.
Alice: Yeah. They called for backup.
Bex: I’m assuming they got that back up. We too, get this line, which makes me believe that we are never, ever, ever finding out where the name Chimney comes from because as he’s being lowered into the chimney, [00:50:00] um, Chimney says to Buck, uh, “In the future, if anybody asks, this is how I got my name.”
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Like, okay, fine. I guess that’s what we’re going with this.
Alice: So this is, this is less bad than the real reason he got his nickname,
Ellen: apparently. I mean, all he is doing is going down a chimney, so I don’t know. I don’t think we’ll ever find out either.
Bex: No, that’s what i’s saying too.
Ellen: It’s too much of a thing now.
Bex: They’re thrown, they’ve thrown that line in and that is like, yeah, we are never gonna tell you. If you wanna know why this is why, because he went down a chimney that one time. Yeah,
Alice: yeah,
Bex: yeah. Uh, but it works. He manages to get into the house, which seems to be in relatively good shape except for the fact that, you know, it’s like under several feet of mud.
Ellen: Yeah, it’s under a load of mud, but there’s still light in there.
Alice: There’s also a skylight and it’s like you couldn’t have gone in through [00:51:00] the skylight?
Bex: But No, but he can see the skylight from underneath. I don’t think they could see it from on top. So it was completely covered with mud. ’cause then I think they have to dig it out later on so that they can go through it.
Alice: Oh, okay.
Bex: Because chimney sort of looks at it and you can see him making notes of like points.
Ellen: Yeah, he points at it
Bex: Ah, skylight. We can use that. ’cause they’re not getting the baby up through the chimney I guess.
Alice: I mean, not with that attitude.
Ellen: It’s a very wide chimney though. It’s could definitely fit a Santa through there.
Alice: Chimney. Chimney’s a very small man. It’s fine.
Ellen: Apparently.
Alice: Imagine like imagine Buck, not so much season four Buck, but imagine season eight Buck trying to get through the chimney.
Bex: Oh good lord. Nope. He’d get like an, he’d get like an ankle in, be like, Nope.
Alice: Yeah. He wouldn’t even get one thigh through.
Bex: Oh God, no.
Ellen: Oh, don’t make me cut out all the thirst again.
Bex: We’re not please, we’re not fat [00:52:00] shaming, the man is built like a brick shit house in season eight. ’cause he has been working on his body and we appreciate every second that he has put into it.
Alice: Oh yeah. Yes.
Bex: Especially considering
Alice: Gone is twinky Buck.
Bex: Especially considering he did it on a vegan diet. Like damn.
Alice: Yeah, he’s a very impressive man. I would climb him like a tree. Um, anyway,
Ellen: There she goes again,
Bex: Chimney finds a woman inside the house. Um, she has blood on her face, um, and she’s quite clearly dead. And chimney kind of clocks her as he assumes that that’s the mother. He is like, okay, my suspicions were correct.
The mother has died. The baby is an orphan. Now let’s go and try and find the baby. Um, yeah, which is suspiciously quiet. Or a baby that was crying so much earlier.
Alice: Yeah. And [00:53:00] still like perfectly swaddled and everything.
Bex: Yes. ’cause he finds a bassinet and baby is perfectly swaddled and asleep in its bassinet.
Then he wakes it up because he’s like, oh shit, is it dead or is it sleeping? Um, but it wakes up and we get like baby cooing version three sound file.
Alice: Oh my God. Literally it’s the, like, it’s the baby cooing noise, but it’s, and i’s just like, oh. So they, they spent all their money destroying the Hollywood sign and no money for like new baby coing
Ellen: and, and making like a a, a gener like AI baby, because it doesn’t look like a real baby
Alice: AI didn’t exist then. This is 2020. What are you talking? 2021. What are you talking about?
They still had visual effects.
Bex: This is just generic baby cooing, but it’s not even like, this is a teeny tiny, like newborn baby. And that’s that size baby does not make that noise yet.
Alice: No. Um, it’s bad. [00:54:00] It’s like the stupid kids laughing.
Yes. Um, thing and they put it in Star Wars Phantom Menace. And I want to scratch my brain out every time I hear it.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Does make
Ellen: I know exactly what you mean. Yeah. Yeah. I hate that too.
Bex: Uh, anyway, so Chim radios back up to Buck. Says that he’s found the baby. He’s found the mother. Um, and just as they’re about to start working to get Chimney and the baby out of the house, suddenly, I’m assuming that because they heard Chimney talking. A woman starts screaming and Chim continues searching the house and finds a, a, a door that not only is shut, but it has been like padlocked with the giant secure lock from the outside.
Alice: Yeah. And then the woman’s like, “Help we’re locked in!” As if we didn’t see the padlock.
Bex: Like, no, no shit woman. But it’s [00:55:00] not a very secure padlock because it takes Chimney, like one strike with his ax to break it open. Um,
Alice: no Chimney’s, just a very strong firefighter.
Bex: I just find it very ironic that we’ve had two episodes back to back where padlocks are broken by
Alice: being smashed? Yeah. It’s like, oh, okay.
Bex: So I, I question the, uh, the structural integrity of padlocks coming out of Los Angeles at the, at this like timeframe. Yes. Um, but he, yes, he smashes open the padlock. He gets the door open and discovers a young woman in a nightgown who is immediately frantically asking him about the baby. Not just the baby, her baby. Yes. Yes. Because apparently, because this is the mother. Takes Chim a little bit to put two and two together.
Alice: I think he’s just shocked at seeing the room of women.
Bex: Yes. Because not only is this young woman in the room, there are also three other, three other young women, and the room is full of [00:56:00] like cribs and baby shit.
And the, um, the mother is telling him that Carol, the owner of the house, tricked her into giving up her baby.
Ellen: So Chim’s worked out that Carol was the one who locked them in and took the baby, but she didn’t make it. So he’s feeling less bad about that now.
Bex: I, I do like that line.
Ellen: So, uh, no one’s injured, but one of the women was screaming because she’s in labor. And so Chim radios up to Buck to ask him for more reinforcements. Because he’s about to deliver a baby.
Bex: And so here’s where we start getting the parallel storylines. So we are going to jump back to, uh, no longer 4 1 55 Ledgewood Drive, um, where after the last micro quake, [00:57:00] Sylvia has now become trapped under giant, I don’t know if it’s concrete or marble, or she’s stuck under something incredibly heavy.
Ellen: Yeah, it looks like it’s a bit of like MDF or something, but she can’t lift it.
Bex: Athena is, Athena Is Athena’s acting like it’s heavy? Like it’s a s slub of marble? Um, yeah. So like, it might be MDF, but the acting is it, and, and the, the dialogue is that it’s crushing Sylvia. Like, she can still breed, but it hurts.
Um, so we’re all going to suspend our disbelief and pretend that they, it is something incredibly heavy.
Ellen: I don’t know. I don’t know what it is, but it, yeah, it doesn’t look heavy, but it’s heavy.
Alice: Yeah, it looks like a slab of concrete, but I don’t know why there’s a slab of concrete. Maybe it’s the top of her dining table, so who knows?
Ellen: I don’t know. But Athena can’t even move it. Like she tries to move it, but she can’t even,
Alice: yeah, it’s heavy.
Ellen: Pick it up. So, um, she calls in to dispatch to ask [00:58:00] like, we need an ETA. Like, what the hell guys? We need to get outta here. So May is still there, like panicking.
Bex: Yeah. Um, Athena tries to hurry Maddie up. She’s like, you need to get units here quicker. The structure has shifted. Uh, we’ve slid further down. We might not have much time. And Sylvia contributes to the conversation by telling Athena to go and save herself, at which point May dives for the transmitter button and tells Athena to listen to the victim and get out of there before they both die and oh, is Athena pissed.
Alice: Oh, Athena’s pissed. Maddie’s pissed. Like, it’s, we get,
Ellen: they’re all done now.
Bex: Athena gets that, like that special mum voice where it’s like you’d almost prefer her to be yelling at you. But she’s gone very low and she’s gone very [00:59:00] quiet and she’s gone, “Dispatch, I appreciate your concern, but I have a job to do and I am doing it. If you want to help get the rescue down here now.”
Maddie’s just like, yep, yep.
Alice: May is in trouble.
Bex: We are getting re rescue’s on the way Sergeant, she like goes super formal, um, disconnects the call and kicks May off the floor. She’s done? Yep. Go
Alice: take a break.
Bex: And May’s like, “I have to go take a break? You’re pulling me from the floor?”
I’m like, yep, ma’am. After what you just pulled. Yep. She’s lucky. She lets you come back on later that she didn’t immediately go to Sue and say that it is not appropriate for you to be working the calls when your mother is possibly gonna be on the other line.
Alice: Uh, so then we’re back at the baby house
Ellen: while they’re trying to get organized night has fallen.
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: So now it’s dark. Bobby has worked out that from what the women were saying, there was an illegal adoption ring. [01:00:00] Um, they got coerced to give up the babies, but he’s telling the, what did you call her? A batal? Battalion leader?
Bex: Battalion leader, yeah. Yeah. He’s, he’s briefing the battalion leader about what’s going on in the baby house.
Um, apparently there were four women down there. One of them is in active labor. They are clearing the roof now for extraction and the battalion leader’s like, “Great. While your guys are doing that, um, I need to talk to you about something else ’cause I’ve been updated on a situation that involves you apparently.”
Ellen: Oh yeah.
Bex: So while she talks to Bobby, uh, the rest of the 118 are working on the house and they have, Buck says they’ve dug the sky, they’ve dug the skylight out. So they are going to lower him into the house. He’s gonna get the women, put them in the harness, send them back up. Eddie and Hen will assist from up top.[01:01:00]
So they, he smashes the skylight open. Um, heads down, he takes the medics bag that Hen has given him to Chim, where Chim is with, uh, the woman who is in active labor. Her name is Amber. She gets a name, thankfully.
Ellen: Oh good.
Bex: And he’s going to deliver her baby. While Chim gets well, Buck gets everybody else out of the house.
Ellen: Amber is freaking out because she doesn’t wanna have the kid down here alone. She, they have a little heart to heart while she’s like screaming in agony, basically, because, you know, Chim asks about the father and Amber says that he doesn’t know he’s, he wasn’t a good guy and she didn’t have anybody. So there’s lots of people who’ve been abandoned in this episode, aren’t there?
Bex: Um, lots of people who are alone, would you say?
Ellen: Alone?
Alice: Alone. Together?
Ellen: Alone, but together with other people apparently.
Bex: But Chim kind of [01:02:00] connects with her and we, this is the whole point for this particular storyline, is that, um, Amber is kind of kicking herself for believing that trusting Carol was her best option and Chim’s telling her that she was just scared.
And that people don’t always make the best decisions when they’re operating out fear. And I hope you are looking in a mirror when you say that Chim, because
Ellen: Yeah. He must have had a little light bulb moment here because Yes.
Bex: Yeah. So while Chimney, and here’s where like talking about the parallel storylines, while Chimney is working with Amber to help Amber give birth, um, Athena is working with Sylvia to get Sylvia out of where she has been trapped, almost like she’s trying to give Sylvia her rebirth moment.
So Athena is trying to find something that she can use as a lever to like wedge under the incredibly dense piece of [01:03:00] MDF and um, lift it off Sylvia, so she could get out.
Ellen: Yes. We are not, “We’re in this together and neither one of us is dying. Not here, not today.” Sylvia’s like, “Okay. If you say so.”
Bex: I will, I will give, um, Lindsay props. She can’t name a female character apparently, but even though the episode is called “Alone Together”, and the theme of, especially with Amber and Chim and with Athena and Sylvia, it’s about all these people who are alone, um, coming together.
Nobody actually says the words “alone together”.
Alice: Yeah, no one actually says it.
Ellen: Yeah, that’s true.
Bex: In the same sentence. So there’s a theme. It’s a very strong theme, but it’s not like name dropped.
Alice: Um, just going back to the girlfriend that didn’t have a name quickly when like it, because it’s just hit me like a good two minutes ago and I was just [01:04:00] like, oh, hopefully there’s a segue to like to bring it back soon.
Um, so you know how we find out through IMDB that her name’s Katie. I was just like, why does that sound familiar? Like yeah, it seems like her name. And I literally like controlled f the document and I’m just like, no, she’s not called it. It just hit me that it’s because Kate is the name of the last love triangle thing that I watched, which was the Supernatural fucking werewolf found camera thing.
Ellen: Oh,
Alice: same fucking situation. And her name’s also Kate.
Bex: So apparently Kates are just sucked into love triangles?
Alice: Yeah, so look out Kate, if your boyfriend has a best friend or a roommate.
Bex: Wait, wait, what’s the name of the character in Love, Actually? Like, what’s Keira Knightley’s character’s name? Because if that’s, if that’s fucking Kate.
Alice: It’s Julie. Okay, it’s Juliet.
Bex: All right.
Alice: K-Juliet? Uh, so yes. Um, this is a, a big shout out to all Kates. Be careful [01:05:00] if you have a boyfriend who has a best friend slash roommate,
Ellen: slash brother,
Alice: he’s probably in love with that because he’s probably in love with you. Um, also you may turn into a werewolf. A werewolf. Um,
Ellen: Soz. Amber’s gonna have a baby though.
Alice: Yeah, there’s a baby being born. Um, Chimney’s like “Yeah. I’ve heard 90% of just being a good parent is just showing up.” He hasn’t even fucking seen his baby bump, but Sure.
Bex: Which just makes the rest of this conversation even more painful, because he does tell Amber that, you know, his girlfriend is pregnant with his baby, and she’s like, ” You’re so lucky. I wish that I’d had someone there with me for all of the firsts. Like they’ve gone to the ultrasounds and being there when the baby started moving and the kicking and just being able to reach out and have someone take my hand.” Oh. And Chimney’s like, like, oh my God.
Alice: She’s like, it was so lonely. And he’s like, oh fuck. I left her with [01:06:00] fucking Albert who has the emotional capacity of a teaspoon. Like,
Bex: oh no, that’s Albert’s. No, Albert’s more.
Alice: I love Albert.
Ellen: But would she have like forced Albert to go along to the, to the, the, um, appointments?
Alice: Well, back in Co. If it was during COVID,
Bex: it was COVID.
Alice: Like she would’ve been on her own anyway. Yeah.
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah. Aw.
Bex: But definitely the, like the baby kicking because Chim has had to experience… like Albert’s being able to see and feel the baby kicking, but Chimney’s just had to experience it over Zoom.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: So yeah, just like to really like do the parallels of Amber and Chim in this moment.
Alice: Um, but yeah, so we transition from Amber like groaning through the contraction, um, to Athena groaning as she tries to free Sylvia.
Bex: So Athena’s trying to give birth to Sylvia?
Alice: Sylvia’s also talking about kids for some reason. Yeah,
Bex: I think she’s, she might’ve like, she must’ve heard May and May [01:07:00] very clearly did say over the radio mom. So yeah, she’s gone like, okay, so you’re like your daughter. You have a daughter.
Alice: Um, but yeah, this is where we get Sylvia’s backstory. ’cause Athena goes, “You think you deserve to die alone in the dark just because you lived your whole life alone?”
And Sylvia goes, “I deserve it. ’cause I never should have survived in the first place. It was a car accident. I was driving, my sister was in the passenger seat, another ca car came outta nowhere and I survived. And my sister didn’t. Afterwards, everyone told me I should just get back out there and move on with my life, but without my sister in the world, I just wanted to be in it less. And eventually I just stopped going out it all.”
Bex: And Athena is like, oh, this is, this is starting to strike a chord as well. And Sylvia is like, “I’m sure you have no idea what I’m talking about, uh, because you are not a weak person.”
And Athena’s, we get a little bit of a flashback to, um, to why Athena might be sympathizing with Sylvia in this situation, being the attack on her by Jeffrey. [01:08:00] Um, and she confesses that ’cause she told Sylvia that she wasn’t meant to be back at work at this point. Um, Sylvia thought that she had been injured.
Um. And she says that the injury was because I was attacked and that she has never felt more weak and she blames herself for the attack and for being injured. Um, she, she feels guilty the same way that Sylvia feels guilty, and she must have been getting some kind of therapy because she tells Sylvia like, she can’t internalize this message, but she can give it to Sylvia.
That the guilt, the blame doesn’t help. It only serves to isolate you and that. Sylvia needs to push through the fear and the pain and come out [01:09:00] on the other side. Uh, just like Amber needs to push and breathe so that her baby can come out on the other side.
And you think I’m making this up, but No, because we go from that line where Athena is telling her to push through the pain, to Chimney telling Amber to breathe through the pain.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Like it’s not at all subtle.
Alice: Um, I do, it cracks me up in TV shows when they’ve got like someone in active labor and then a paramedics like, cool, I’ll help. And because all they do is stand like they can’t do anything. Women deliver their own babies.
All you’re there for is to cut, like cut and clamp the cord to counter. So he’s just having a deep, he is just having a deep and meaningful with this poor woman while she’s having a baby.
Bex: Like, not only that, but he’s having this deep and meaningful while staring at her vagina.
Alice: Well, well, that’s like Jesus Christ. Like, oh my God. Poor thing. But yes, like women know how, like women have been [01:10:00] giving birth for like millions of years. Just leave her alone. Stop guilt tripping. Like stop, um, trauma dumping on her.
Ellen: He can’t leave her alone because she can’t do it by herself. And Chim is, is is here. He’s right here.
Bex: Like I know that it has to be Chim for the storyline because, you know, as Amber’s going through it, it’s like it’s helping Chim to resolve his issues. But Buck’s been the one that’s done the field deliveries before he went much better off down in this scenario.
Alice: And he’s the one that loves babies. So like, you know how he said that the skylight was dug out? Yeah, he dug that out with his bare hands. He’s like “What, pregnant ladies? Let me at the babies! Let me at the babies!”
Bobby wasn’t there to hold him back this time, so he just dug on right, right on through.
Bex: Well, while Amber is saying that she can’t do this, Chim tells her that she doesn’t have to do it by herself. She’s not alone. They are in this [01:11:00] together.
Ellen: Oh. So we do get a alone together.
Bex: No, I’m paraphrasing.
Ellen: Just not in the same sentence.
Bex: She says, “I can’t do this by myself.” And Chim says, “You don’t have to. We are in this together.” So no, we don’t get the words “alone together”, but we get the sentiment. Yeah.
Alice: So then we cut back to Sylvia, who’s literally just lying there like, oh no, it hurts. Ow. Um, ’cause she can’t do anything.
She’s under a thing. Um, and Athena is like, “You can do it, lift and push, push through the pain, push.” And then we go back to Chim who’s like, “Push Amber, push.” It’s like, oh my God, what is happening? Um, so everyone pushes. It’s a whole thing. Um, Sylvia’s free, the baby’s crying. It’s a girl. Um, it’s perfect.
Bex: Only the only reason I will accept this scene is the music that they play during this scene, um, which is a beautiful, um, piano and strings piece called “Experience” by, and I did not look up how to say this guy’s [01:12:00] name. Um,
Ellen: Ludovico Einaudi.
Bex: There we go. We’ll go with that. Um, it’s gorgeous.
Alice: Thanks, our classical music correspondent,
Bex: it was, um, trending. It was trending on TikTok for a while. If you, if you, I’m sure that if you haven’t watched the episode yet, you’ll get to this part and you go like, oh yeah, I remember that piece of music.
It’s beautiful. It’s, it’s like heart stirring and it very much fits, um, the, the emotions of all of these people giving birth and rebirth and being alone together and coming through to the other side.
Ellen: Mm-hmm. And Chim asked her how she’s how she’s feeling. And Amber says “Like I’m ready to get the hell outta here,” looking, sounding very perky for someone who just had a baby.
Alice: Yeah. But yeah, who was ready to give up two seconds ago.
Bex: Yeah. So she’s ready to get out of there. And Sylvia is also ready to get out of her [01:13:00] situation with Athena.
Ellen: Yeah. Well it’s, it’s not over yet. ’cause they got to, they have to climb out of the house first. They, she still has to climb.
Alice: Yeah. Yeah. It’s not over. We’re like half, well, not quite halfway through the episode. We’re two thirds of the episode
Ellen: there’s still, yeah, there’s still more.
Alice: There’s still a lot.
Bex: So while all this is happening, May is sulking in the conference room, and I don’t understand why she’s in the conference room and not like sulking in the break room
Alice: because she was grounded.
Bex: But would,
Alice: she’s not allowed to even speak to the other dispatchers
Bex: because the con
Alice: Go stare at the wall.
Bex: But the conference room is like. We remember the setup of like dispatch, the conference room is at the end of like the row of um, stations and it’s all glass walls so everyone can see her sitting in there and she can see everyone looking at her through the glass walls.
I mean, ma’am, go hide.
Alice: What is it with the show and the glass walls?
Bex: I don’t [01:14:00] know.
Ellen: Apparently all office spaces have glass walls
Alice: and change rooms, yeah.
Ellen: In America.
Bex: I’m sure it’s just easier for shooting ’cause you can just shoot through them, but yeah. Yeah. Um, so Maddie goes in to,
Ellen: Maddie gives her a pep talk,
Bex: which she doesn’t deserve.
Alice: Ouch.
Ellen: Well she just says like, May apologizes and she says she was just trying to save her mom.
Bex: That’s not an apology.
Ellen: Um, Maddie says, “You only made the situation worse.” Which is like, ow. Geez, Maddie. But yeah,
Bex: it’s true
Ellen: when they’re, they’re, they’re someone else’s lifeline when they’re on the call and “we don’t get to panic no matter who is on the other end of the line.” And so May promises her that it won’t happen again. And so Maddie lets her come back out there because apparently it’s still very busy.
Bex: Yeah,
Alice: well, yeah it would [01:15:00] be. So, bodies on the floor. Let’s go.
Bex: So we cut back to the baby house where Amber has been successfully lifted to the surface. Um, Hen and Eddie are walking her to a gurney so they can get her into an ambulance, take her to the hospital, make sure she and baby are okay. When one of the other women that was in the house with her comes rushing over to her and Amber is shocked to see her because she thought that they would have taken her to the hospital by now.
Um. And she tells Amber that she couldn’t leave without her. So Amber, it looks like Amber doesn’t have family, doesn’t have a boyfriend, but she’s got a friend, so she’s not going to be alone.
Ellen: Oh, that’s good.
Alice: It can have a little traumatized mother’s group.
Bex: Yeah, I reckon that’s, that’s gonna be an interesting mother’s group.
How did you guys meet? Like you said, mother’s group, at least in Australia, mother’s groups are just a bunch of mothers that [01:16:00] have babies all around the same time. The hospital? Yeah, the hospital just puts you together. Um, whereas this mothers group hospital, the council or this, these mothers are gonna be like, oh, so how did you meet?
Oh, like we were all like kidnapped and our babies trafficked from us. Um,
Alice: yeah.
Bex: And then we got rescued from mudslide together, like good times. Um, so while. Somebody else takes care of Amber, the 118 rally around Chim. Um, check in on him, check, see how he’s going after doing very little. Um, which he cops too.
He says, you know, it was, he does, you know, “The practice run was great. In all fairness. I didn’t have to do a lot. I just had to kind of catch.”
Alice: Um, yes, Buck talks it up, though, Buck’s like, yeah, “He doesn’t need a practice run. He’s gonna be a great dad to a baby Buckley.”
Bex: Which then I find a really interesting transition. It’s like they’re talking about [01:17:00] dads and then Chim’s next word is like, “Hey, where’s Bobby?”
Alice: Yeah, where’s dad?
Bex: Speaking of dads, where’s ours? He wonders if Bobby’s like got sick of it and kicked off early and Hen’s like, “no, no, he’s still working.” Um, ’cause he is now up in one of those helicopters looking for his wife.
Alice: Yeah, he’s busy.
Ellen: Poor Bobby. He’s just, she’s just gone back to work. And she’s already in the shit. Yeah, he’s looks very worried, but, um, they’re trying to like, find her by just shining like a spotlight at the ground, which seems like kind of futile. ’cause it’s only a very small light that gets flashed around trying to find people.
But anyway, Athena and Sylvia can hear the helicopter, um, and they, they get all the way up to the surface and they like wave around the, the flashlight, but they, they fly, they’ve helicopter flies [01:18:00] right over and they don’t see them. But Athena sees something just over there and has a bright idea, literally, because her car has also somehow managed to stay with the house as it fell down the mountain and she’s able to, it’s not, not buried in, in enough mud to, you know, not let her open the door or lean in an open window.
Alice: Yeah. Somehow she manages to turn the lights on.
Bex: How, um, aren’t they,
Alice: I don’t know,
Bex: Aren’t they connected to the engine? Like, don’t you need to turn the engine on?
Alice: I would’ve thought.
Ellen: Apparently not.
Alice: Apparently. It’s a magical police car.
Bex: So where are the keys?
Ellen: It’s just a switch. Yeah.
Alice: Magic. She left them in the car. Yeah, she, I mean, she probably had them in her pocket. I guess.
Ellen: Where is this electricity coming from?
Alice: But also how did she, like it was buried under anyway
Bex: for the drama. Um, it’s very,
Alice: for the drama,
Bex: it’s very dramatic. It’s a very, it’s a very effective method of getting your husband’s attention, is turning on your lights and standing on top of your police car.
Ellen: Yeah. [01:19:00] And she just looks so relieved. It’s a really, it’s a beautiful shot actually of her standing there with her arms up, like looking super relieved.
Bex: Is that when the spotlight hits her and she’s like, bathed in a heavenly glow?
Ellen: Yes.
Alice: Yeah,
Bex: because it, because, yeah, it works. Bobby can’t see the, the torch light, but he can see the, the blue, the red, red and blue light. So he turns the helicopter around and they find her.
Ellen: The first time I watched this, I was like, like, she’s on, she’s in the helicopter and on the, on the radio to dispatch. And I’m like, did they just leave Sylvia like behind? Because I didn’t notice. Bobby watched.
Alice: Athena immediately like, forgets about Sylvia.
Ellen: We don’t need Sylvia anymore.
Alice: ’cause as soon as the helicopter lands and Bobby gets out, Athena’s just like, “Oh, I wasn’t expecting to see you, Captain.” And Bobby’s like, “Well, I heard you needed a ride.”
Ellen: Yeah. And then we, we never speak to Sylvia again
Alice: And Sylvia’s just standing there just like I what? No one’s here for. Yep. Cool. That’s fine. [01:20:00] You guys just make out in the back of a helicopter. This is fine.
Ellen: But when I went, went back and watched it again.
Bex: To be fair he wasn’t looking for Sylvia
Ellen: Yeah, Sylvia was in the helicopter. They did rescue her as well, so, you know. That’s fine.
Alice: So they did remember? Okay, good.
Bex: No, because like Bobby was in the helicopter specifically to find Athena. Everybody else was there to rescue anybody else that needed rescuing.
Ellen: Yeah. Anyway, that it’s all over now. Everyone’s fine.
Bex: So a Athena calls into dispatch to like update dispatch. ’cause in this show, remember we keep dispatch informed, um, especially when your daughter is dispatch.
And, um, and Maddie rewards May for her bad behavior by allowing her to take, allowing,
Alice: I just had two puppy school classes this morning and now you’re just sounding like me.
Ellen: Um, rewards their behavior.
Alice: Yeah. Don’t, don’t let the puppies go near each other and play when they’re, like, when they’re bouncing [01:21:00] towards each other. Make sure they’re calm first, because otherwise you’re just rewarding the bad behavior.
Bex: Um, but May proves that she can be professional. She, um, because she, she acknowledges Athena’s check-in and just simply says that, “I’m glad to hear that you’re okay.” And Athena professional as always just says, “I’m glad to hear you too, dispatch,”
she actually says, “Thanks for coming to get me.” And Bobby very surprised. Just says “Always.”
Alice: Yeah, like that. That’s my job.
Bex: Yeah. That’s literally what I do.
Ellen: Aw, it’s cute.
Bex: He is very cute
Ellen: So they share the heart eyes for a little bit.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: While Sylvie’s in the background going…
Alice: They’re making out in the back of the helicopter and like bumping into poor Sylvia who’s just like,
Ellen: she’s like, I left my house for this bullshit? Like, seriously?
Bex: Can somebody please take me back to my house? I prefer to be in there right now.
Alice: Yeah. I [01:22:00] don’t care that it’s muddy and vertical. I would like my house back.
Ellen: Oh, poor Sylvia.
Bex: Poor Sylvia. Eventually Athena, um, gets home, although is this the same night? Is this another night? I, everything’s a bit timey-whimey here.
We don’t get the, the time update.
Alice: I think this was,
Ellen: I think it must be the day because they’re talking about what happened that day.
Alice: So Michael, Bobby, and Harry are all there,
Bex: but May is also there. May’s there too. And it looks like Bobby was there before Athena got there.
Alice: Maybe Athena had to go do a debrief because she,
Bex: I don’t know. Anyway,
Alice: got slid down a mountain in the line of duty.
Bex: I don’t know. So Athena walks in,
Alice: maybe she went to make sure Sylvia got a hotel.
Bex: Athena walks in and is surprised to see everybody in her backyard, including her ex-husband, who, I don’t know why that’s a surprise.
’cause you know, he’s always, I suppose he’s not always there now because it’s COVID.
Ellen: No, he hasn’t been,
Alice: no, [01:23:00] because of COVID. Yeah.
Bex: He hasn’t seen him in a while.
Ellen: COVID’s finished now apparently so. But he brought Harry in.
Bex: He brought Harry, so she gets to see her kid. Um, and they wanted to celebrate her first day back at work. Um, which Athena says it’s a lovely surprise. Um, Michael kind of counters and says, “Well, it turns out you were the, the one with the surprise, you know, so much for desk duty,” and Athena’s like, “I was on a desk and then the desk almost fell on me. So that kind of counts as desk duty.”
Alice: Yeah. I always had a desk full on my head, which.
Bex: Uh, so May goes into the kitchen to get the salads because whatever the menfolk are grilling is almost done. And Athena follows May into the kitchen and Okay. It is the same night, but how late are they eating?
Alice: Yes. Yeah. Right night. This is like 10 30 at night by this point.
Bex: Like how quickly does nighttime fall in LA… Did we work out? It’s this September. When does night fall in [01:24:00] September? In LA?
Ellen: Yeah. September. Well, it must be getting like earlier, but because it’s, it wouldn’t be that early.
Bex: It’s late. Like it’s summer’s. It’s heading into autumn. So, so Athena says like, if we both had one hell of a day, and Athena assumes that after going through what May has gone through, she’s going to give up this like hair brained scheme of having a gap year and being a 9-1-1 dispatcher.
And. May takes that as a bit of an insult. Like, “You think I can’t do the job,” and Athena’s like, “no, I, I know you can do the job. I just don’t know why you wanna do the job because you were gonna go to USC, you were gonna, you know, do pre-law, you’re going, maybe journalism. You had these plans and then all of a sudden…” May’s like, “Yeah, and then you got hurt, like Dad got cancer, you got hurt, COVID happened,” and she couldn’t handle Athena going back out on the street.[01:25:00]
So she put herself in dispatch so that she could protect her mother. So that even…
Alice: So sunset for LA in September is about seven o’clock until it gets to like, the very end of the month is like 20 to seven. So if it’s the end of September, is it the end or the start of September?
Bex: We don’t know. It’s just some… like the song is 21st day of September, but I don’t know if that’s actually
Alice: Oh, true. Yeah. We don’t know if, um, so let’s say it was between six 30 and seven, that the sunset,
Bex: is that like it starts to set? Or it’s fully set?
Ellen: so it must be pretty late.
Alice: So this is, yeah, this is starts to set.
Bex: Regardless, it’s incredibly late to be grilling. It’s late.
Ellen: They’ve already been flying around in a helicopter in the dark, so like, yeah, yeah. It’s late anyway. Not too late to have dinner apparently.
Bex: Or to confess to your mother that you took a job at dispatch so that she would never have to be alone even when she’s by herself in the patrol car.
Which is, it’s a [01:26:00] very admirable sentiment and like I can kind of understand why they’ve, why, like why this, why this was the reason that May took the 9-1-1 job.
Ellen: Hmm. I don’t think Athena’s terribly impressed by it.
Bex: No, not at all.
Ellen: She doesn’t seem very happy still. But anyway. Well, no, because May’s not looking down.
Bex: She’s an independent woman, you know, she’s, she works the patrol car by herself. She doesn’t need anyone watching out, watching over her. Least of all. She doesn’t need her like 18-year-old daughter watching over her. But then also there’s the, you know, she’s the parent May as the child, if anyone’s gonna be watching anyone, it would be Athena watching May, not May watching a Athena.
Mm-hmm.
Alice: Yeah. Anyway, so then we go to Chimney’s house. That Chimney’s not living in.
Ellen: That’s the, yeah. Maddie gets home,
Bex: it’s the wrong Han.
Alice: And Maddie’s getting [01:27:00] home and you get like the whole COVID thing where she takes off her masks and washes her hands and then she sees, uh. Like bags of clothes in the middle of the floor. And she’s sort of scolding Albert for leaving his stuff lying around.
Ellen: She’s like, “Albert!” You can’t just leave your shit all over the floor.
Bex: Yeah. She, she like yells at Albert, goes in the bedroom and changes out of her work clothes into like comfortable quotes. Uh, when she comes back, it looks like the bags are gone and, but it’s not Albert who left them there or cleaned them up. It’s the other Han brother,
Alice: which I have no idea what he said in any this scene.
Bex: No, because he’s standing there in it, a tank top and gray sweatpants and guns are out and words are just not, not, not, not doing anything.
Alice: Yeah, so like, I’m sure that they had some sort of deep and meaningful, but like Maddie’s looking real cute in like her comfy clothes and her [01:28:00] like, her like scruffy haircut and Chimney’s out with like his tank top with gray sweats.
And I like, no, no idea.
Ellen: Alright, allow me to explain it to you.
Maddie says very cutely, “You are not Albert.” And Chim is surprised at how pregnant she is because he’s only seen her from like the boobs up on, on a, on a zoom screen. And so he hasn’t noticed how big her belly is getting, and now it’s 3D it’s huge. So, um, so he, she asks him what he’s doing here and he says, “I’m home. If you still want me here.”
And she’s like, yeah, yeah. She’s like, “But, but why now?” And he says, “I think maybe what needs to change is me.” And so he explains, so how he’s been worried about her and he got [01:29:00] scared and he ran and now they’re gonna try to be scared together. So yeah, he’s moved back in again. Yay.
Alice: Yay.
Ellen: Okay. You may resume your thirsting.
Bex: I just don’t know how they expect us to concentrate when Kenneth Choi is standing there looking like that. I mean,
Alice: yeah, like he doesn’t get the guns out often and when he does it’s like, oh,
Bex: like damn. You kind of after you know, everything we, I’m sure we’ve said this before, but you know, all the thirsting over like Ryan and Oliver, you kind of forget that Kenneth is built.
Alice: Yeah, Kenneth just strolls in shirtless occasionally and we’re just like, oh Hi! No, the young ones like, you know, take all the attention but um, hello?
Bex: And I have no qualms over thirsting over Kenneth. ’cause I think he is actually age appropriate and size appropriate too. I think he’s [01:30:00] like within a reasonable height distance of me.
Alice: So, yeah. Well considering, um, Jennifer Love Hewitt is my height exactly. Then yes, he’s very height appropriate for me. Thank you.
Bex: Just double checking. Yeah, he is 71. Thank you.
Alice: Years old?
Ellen: 71?
Bex: No, he was born in 71.
Ellen: Oh, okay. Like wow, he looks great for his age,
Alice: like, wow. Go Kenneth!
Bex: He’s 53, which I I am, I am sad to say that is actually age appropriate.
Alice: I mean, back then he was like, what, 40 something seven? Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah. It was a while ago.
Bex: Uh, anyway, let’s, um,[01:31:00]
Alice: Kenny, when you listen to this,
Ellen: yeah. If you’re listening,
Alice: big props, huge props. Buy a sticker
Bex: fan, big fan of your work, man
Ellen: and your guns.
Bex: And by and by work we mean we like your arms and like chest… back at Athena residence. Um, ’cause we’ve still got some of this episode to get through. Oh, what are we doing?
Michael? Michael is helping Athena clear up, and Athena pretty much kicks him out of her house and tells him to go home and take care of his man. Um, and that she will, she says that, um, you know, David looks tired. Um, so Michael should go home and take care of himself and she’ll keep Harry like so that a, she can, you know, see her son in person.
Um, and so that, you know, the two men can have some alone time together. I don’t think they’re gonna be getting [01:32:00] much sleep though.
Alice: No,
Ellen: it doesn’t seem like that later. And they do, they do address the fact that, that, um, it’s been only a short time since like David actually moved… like they only just met each other and then they moved in together. And
Alice: yeah, he’s like, I, I know you think we went COVID crazy with David moving in so fast, but it just felt right.
Bex: They’re like lesbians?
Alice: And as someone who moved, look, as a woman who moved her girlfriend in during COVID. Um, yeah, this, this hit me hard.
We weren’t allowed to drive very far, so it was just like, eh, just come live with me. It’s fine.
Uh, we are a stereotype. So, yeah. So then, uh, Michael goes home. He’s working at his desk, even though it’s like, it’s gotta be 1130 at pm at this point.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: But David texts Michael to say that he’s just pulled into the garage. [01:33:00] So Michael starts the shower, puts out a laundry bag. And then we cut to the Diaz residence.I forgot that we cut to Eddie
Bex: randomly. Yeah. We cut to the Diaz residence where it’s so fucking late. Chris should be asleep by now, but he and Eddie are hanging out on his bed while Carla reads them a bedtime story.
Alice: Yeah. ’cause Chris is missing Carla.
Bex: And it is, it’s a beautiful story. I, it’s called The Invisible String of Love, and it’s basically about love and grief and um, connections to people.
And uh, Carla says that reading from the book that “people who love each other are always connected by an invisible string made of love.” And I’ve just got Taylor Swift playing in my head.
Alice: I was about to say. Yeah. How many of us is singing Taylor Swift right now?
Bex: Yeah. Um, and Chris asks Carla if she has an invisible string and she tells him [01:34:00] that he knows that she does, and it’s connected right to him. Even if Chris can’t see it, Carla says, well, you can see me anytime you want on the computer because you and me, we are connected no matter what. And then we go back to Michael’s apartment where David has walked up from the parking garage still in his scrubs.
Not entirely sure that that’s accurate, but I’m not just for the drama, it’s fine. And Michael is standing on the other side of the kitchen island, uh, wearing a mask, waiting for David to do his like post COVID, uh, arrival routine, which is he strips off, puts everything he was wearing into the laundry bag, which Michael, still wearing a mask, wearing gloves, then takes and tosses the entire thing into the washing machine to be put through probably a very hot wash. [01:35:00] Um, and then he cooks dinner so that by the time that David comes back out dinner and wine is waiting for him on the table.
Ellen: Yeah. And it’s so cute. And Michael asked him how was the er?
And apparently it was better than yesterday. And he asked how dinner was at Athena’s and Michael says “She thinks you’re not getting enough sleep.” And um, David gives like a, um, you know, like a, I don’t know how to describe it in a, in a, you know, audio format. Um, he’s like giving a Yeah, she would say, she would say something like that, wouldn’t she?
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: He doesn’t look too impressed. But yeah. Maybe they’re not gonna get much sleep.
Bex: But, um, the Diaz Diaz’s are getting enough sleep. Because,
Ellen: oh, that’s so cute.
Bex: Carla’s bedtime story
Ellen: Poor Eddie, he’s had a big day.
Bex: Carla’s bedtime story has not only worked on Chris, but it’s worked on Eddie as well. And he is curled up on the bed [01:36:00] with Chris fast asleep.
Alice: It’s so cute.
Bex: Carla continues to read and says, as they slept, they started dreaming of all of the invisible strings they had and all of the strings that their friends have and their friends have until everyone in the world was connected by invisible strings. And she blows them a kiss and says, goodnight boys.
Ellen: Cute.
Bex: And it’s very cute. Yeah. And then randomly, we’re going to someone who’s not sleeping. I’m assuming this must be the next morning. ’cause if they’re doing like online orientations. Like in chronology, then this must be like 1:30 AM which just seems ridiculous.
Alice: May maybe she’s doing it. Um, like distance ed in Australia.
Bex: I dunno,
Ellen: it must be the next day.
Bex: I hope not, because Nia is awake.
Ellen: Yeah, it’s gotta be the next morning.
Alice: True.
Bex: Yeah. So we’re at the, [01:37:00] we’re at the Wilson…
Alice: I don’t know, kids wake up at weird times, right?
Ellen: Yeah. Toddlers have weird sleeping schedules sometimes.
Bex: So we’re at the, we’re at the Wilson residence and um, Hen is getting ready for, uh, orientation because she is, apparently she must have passed her MCATs. She must have got into medical school and she is starting. Um, and they make everyone’s
Alice: so Karen like, she’s like, “How do I look?” And Karen’s like, “Like the sexy doctor you are.” And then Nia turns up and it’s like, can you guys stop? Like there’s a child present.
Bex: They’re making this big deal about Hen going off to orientation. Nia gives Hen her stuffed unicorn for luck.
Ellen: Oh, it’s so cute.
Bex: “You borrow for luck.”
Alice: It’s so cute.
Bex: And like Hen’s like, “I’m gonna need all the luck I can get and a hug.” And then she, you know, takes off for her long journey. The two steps to her left to sit down at the kitchen table because orientation is via zoom.
Ellen: Like Karen [01:38:00] hands her a bag
Alice: like I made you lunch, honey. Like
Ellen: It’s weird.
Bex: It’s hilarious.
Alice: So strange.
Ellen: Cute. Yeah.
Alice: They’re just like, oh, what does your mommy do? She’s a sexy doctor. It’s like, what? Karen? Put it away. Then we go to Buck’s House.
Ellen: This episode’s another one of those ones that never ends. Literally. Yeah. It’s just more and more
Bex: we’re once again on where Maddie is on Zoom. ’cause apparently that is her life right now. But she’s not talking to Chim through Zoom this time. Um, she is talking to Albert.
So we’ve had a switcheroo. She’s, because Chim,
Alice: she’s like, how, how do the uncles like living together? And it’s like, oh, that’s so cute.
Bex: Uh, Albert’s not really liking it. ’cause apparently Buck has a lot of rules.
Alice: Um, yeah, the rules being that they’re gonna split chores evenly. Um, [01:39:00] and Chim’s like, “yeah hate to break it to you. Albert doesn’t do chores.” He’s like, “I contribute in other ways. I make a great cup of coffee.” And Maddie’s like, “I could attest to that.” Um, Buck just scolds her for, ’cause she’s not supposed to be drinking coffee.
Bex: But then, and Chimney, like Chimney has not only swapped sides of the camera, he’s swapped sides of the argument. Because while,
Alice: yeah, he’s like, no, no, no, no. Sh sh sh
Bex: yeah. He’s like doing the, the, the cut it out gesture behind Maddie’s back to, uh, to tell Buck to stop the argument. But, um, it’s fine because Buck gets distracted by his phone. Get like some,
Alice: yeah, his phone goes off,
Bex: his phone goes off. He’s like, “oh, I’m sorry. I’ve gotta go.” And Maddie says, uh, as he is running up the stairs to his bedroom, um, “Stop being so secretive about your new lady friend. I want to meet her.” So he goes and hides in his, you know, very open, no walls. I’m sure that they can hear everything that’s going on downstairs, locked bedroom to [01:40:00] have a FaceTime call with a, um, a very much older woman.
Um, and I think for a second we’re supposed to assume that he’s fallen back into like his older habits of picking up older women. Um,
Alice: I just have to say, just quickly, the first time I watched this. When Buck answered his tablet, because Maddie was like, stop being so secretive. Um, the first time he answered his tablet, I half expected Eddie to be on the other side of the
Bex: Oh yeah. The brain rot is so real with you. I don’t think that’s what the show intended. I think they intended for you to think that this was his new girlfriend, but, um, unless,
Alice: oh yeah. But I was like, oh yeah, like Eddie is his new girlfriend. It’s fine.
Bex: But unless, um, Buck also has like sexy doctor fantasies, he, he calls the woman, Dr. Copeland and immediately starts talking about their last session.
And we realize [01:41:00] it’s not his lady friend, it’s his lady therapist. ’cause Buck has voluntarily started Zoom therapy.
Ellen: Yeah. And he’s been thinking a lot about what she said about how he hides his true feelings from others. What does that mean, Buck?
Bex: That is, that is the weirdest. The weirdest line.
Ellen: What, what I relevance does that have to anything that happened in this episode?
Alice: Yeah, I, yeah,
Bex: yeah. We’ll, we’ll come back to that later.
Alice: I like maybe because
Bex: Nope, it has no…
Alice: oh, I’m sorry I had to sneeze. It has, maybe it doesn’t make
Ellen: I thought you were being dramatic.
Alice: Maybe because he was mad at Chimney and just like pushed it down. I don’t know.
Bex: No, it doesn’t make sense within the context of the episode at all.
Ellen: No.
Bex: Like I that we’ll have to talk about it later, but yeah, it’s just the weirdest line. So while Buck is having therapy and I’m, [01:42:00] I’m guessing Frank didn’t offer online telehealth, so he is going with Dr. Copeland.
Ellen: Yeah, maybe not.
Alice: Maybe he didn’t mesh with Frank enough.
Bex: I dunno.
Alice: Like, or maybe because Eddie’s saying, Frankie’s like, no, I wanna see someone else
Bex: conflict of interest like his sister. Yeah. And his best friend is seeing the same therapist is like, no, I can’t bitch about you about those two. I need someone else anyway. No. So while he’s doing that, we’re gonna cut back to the, uh, the Buckley Han residence. So I guess if we’re going by the naming conventions, it’s the Madney residence.
Alice: Yeah. There we go, the Madney residence
Bex: where, uh, zoom calls obviously ended, Maddie and Chim are cleaning up. Maddie is heading to the kitchen with the coffee cups. When she sort of stops and like makes a noise and like expression of discomfort and pain crosses her face, Chimney immediately goes into panic mode. Um, but it’s nothing wrong.
It’s just that, you know, Maddie’s had [01:43:00] coffee and the like, mango loves coffee and he’s letting Maddie know his appreciation of the coffee and the caffeine. Um. But, but she’s
Alice: baby’s having some wiggles and kicks
Bex: or as Maddie says, baby wants to say hello.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: And I’m guessing this might be the first time that, um, mango is kicked in Chim’s presence. ’cause he’s like very sort of hesitant as he puts his hands on Maddie’s belly and says, “it’s your dad. I’m here. Hi.” Um, and then Mango ki kicks Chim back and it’s adorable.
Ellen: Aw, it is adorable.
Alice: And then it’s finally over.
Ellen: That’s the end. Whew.
Alice: Um, so in terms of season openers, it’s pretty weak.
Bex: No. I mean, nothing is gonna top the tsunami.
Alice: I didn’t hate it at all, but it’s very [01:44:00] forgettable. Like, I honestly forgot I was, I had to ask Bex. I was like, what’s the first episode of season four, and she’s like, the mudslide, and I’m like, what mudslides
Ellen: this particular episode, I, I didn’t enjoy as much as the first one. I think.
Alice: Yeah. Like it doesn’t help that I really don’t care about women giving birth. Like I know that sounds horrible, but that’s like, not why I watch 9-1-1 and it just keeps happening and I’m just like, I don’t care. Like, yay, Chimney’s, Chimney’s helping a woman that we’ll never see again.
Bex: Like I’m the same, pregnancy and childbirth is one of like my hard nos when I’m reading books or consuming media, I, I don’t want to read about that. So yeah, like this is also why this is not one of my favorite episodes.
Alice: Um, and it’s just, it puts too much focus on other characters. Like none of the main characters are ever in any danger. We have all this backstory about random characters that we’ll never see again. Like Sylvia’s in danger and it’s just [01:45:00] like, okay, I don’t care.
Bex: Well, I think Athena is like in danger adjacent ’cause she’s in the house.
Alice: Yeah. Like I worry the, the like, most exciting part of the episode is when the helicopter like goes away from them and it’s just like, oh shit, how are they gonna get the attention? And then they find that and I’m just like, yeah, go Athena.
Smart thinking. Um, but that’s ’cause I also like, you know, like the shipwreck and like lost in forest, like airplane crash stories where the helicopter can’t see them and they like get a mirror to off them something.
Bex: But you are correct that like the last couple of season openers, like we had the earthquake where you had Hen trapped underneath the rubble.
You had the tsunami where you had buck and Chris, like right in the middle of it. It’s, the episodes are more impactful and more um, or more interesting as the audience when it is actually one of the 118 who is in danger.
Alice: Yeah. Like Chim’s in danger of getting like splat in the face by a [01:46:00] fetus.
Ellen: Oh.
Alice: But that’s about it.
Bex: But even in, even in the first part, if we are saying this is a two part, or even in the first part, nobody was, what did they do in the first part? Shit. What did they do in the first part?
Ellen: They just went around and
Bex: Oh, the bus
Ellen: rescued people. Like they did the bus thing.
Alice: Oh, they, yeah, the bus.
Ellen: And then they found the, the woman in the, in the drain.
Alice: Bobby was in danger. Bobby was in danger in the first part. But did, uh, so there was that moment where it was just like, oh,
Bex: oh, like that, like that one second.
Alice: The explosion. Yeah, that’s it. Like, I don’t know. One second.
Ellen: Yeah, you’re right. There was no real danger for him.
Alice: But yeah, like the, like there was no point where Chim was like in the house and the, like the house was starting to run out of oxygen or like it started to cave in or anything like that.
Like he was just fine.
Bex: Yeah. Nobody was,
Ellen: The stakes were low.
Bex: The stakes were very low.
Alice: Stakes, were very low. So yeah. In terms of impactful season openers? Not super impactful. Um, possibly COVID. [01:47:00] Yeah, I’ve could have impacted that.
Bex: Yeah. Maybe.
Ellen: I dunno, it’s just the story itself maybe.
Alice: Yeah. But they might not have been like, you know, with the tsunami, they all went to Mexico to film that.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Like it was a huge deal. They didn’t have that opportunity with this.
Bex: But even the earthquake episode where you had Yeah. You know, Buck and Eddie climbing up through the building and you had a Hen trapped underneath that, that wasn’t in Mexico, as far as I’m aware. Um, yeah, true. It’s possible to do an emergency without, you know, international flights.
Although it’s not really international, is it? They just had to hop over the border.
Ellen: Yeah. You can, can just do with a train set in your backyard. It’s fine.
Alice: It, um, it just focused too much on characters that I didn’t care about. And we are never gonna see again. Like the first one had a lot focused on the bike rider lady. Yeah. And like, it would’ve been cool if one of them went down to rescue her [01:48:00] and it caved in on them and they had to find it together.
Like they could have still given her her whole like freeing herself thing if one of the 118 was like trapped. And they were like, oh my God, you’ve gotta go break the lock. And she’s like, I can’t do it. And they’re like, no, I’m here with you.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: But instead she was just on her own. And I’m like, I don’t care.
Bex: Hmm. No, I understand what you’re saying.
Ellen: Yeah. Fair enough.
Alice: And like compared to the rest of season four, it’s very weak. Well,
Ellen: I have high hopes for the rest of the season now. After you’ve said this.
Bex: Well, I, I don’t think the next one’s going to, um, impress you much just by looking at what’s happening next week,
Ellen: What’s happening next week?
Bex: Where we are told by the promo. So I’m not even sure how much of this is gonna be correct. Um. The 118 race to save a man under siege by his high-tech smart home and a yoga teacher who has lost her vision. Athena hunts down a bank robber disguised by COVID protocols. Oh God. [01:49:00] That’s right. Um, meanwhile, Buck confides in Maddie doesn’t say about what?
Um, Hen clashes with her antagonizing medi Oh, for fuck’s sake. We’re up to this storyline. Okay. Hen clashes with her antagonizing medical school lab partner, and despite this only being a ten second part of the episode, the members of the 118 crew prep for an out of state mission.
Ellen: Oh, are we up to
Bex: We are up to the Lone star.
Um, we’re up to the, the Lone Star crossover.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Okay.
Alice: Um, the first bit, that man under seige by high tech smart home is so funny though.
Bex: I, yeah. Um, triggers for next week, um, include medical training, which is going to involve cadavers, um, discussions of cancer, discussion of bad parents, people fainting, which I think is in connection with the [01:50:00] cadavers, if I remember correctly.
Um, discussions of the foster care system, stalking and, worms in eyes.
Ellen: Oh, okay.
Bex: Yeah, yeah.
Alice: Also trigger warning for, um, for crossover episodes because look, they’re horrifying.
Bex: Well, I mean, it’s, it’s just like a, it’s just like a, like a ten second mention at the end of the episode. And like we’ve said before, it doesn’t crossover within the OG 9-1-1 universe, so you could possibly just skip over the fact that there’s a crossover.
But because we love your, we’re gonna sit through the crossover, um,
Alice: trigger warning for mentions of Texas
Bex: trigger warnings for Bex losing her fucking mind at Owen Strand.
Ellen: I know Alice is gonna have to just explain who everybody is in the episode.
Alice: It’s gonna be so much fun. But that’s, that’s the episode after this one. It’s fine. Yes. We’ve still got this one. And then we’re [01:51:00] go.
Bex: Yeah. So next week, next week is going to be episode three, “Future Tense”. Then we will take a quick road trip down to Texas. Um, and then we will come back for episode four,
Ellen: Right.
Alice: Yeah. Um, tell us what you thought about the season four opener.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Um, did you like it more than I did?
Ellen: I don’t think that would be hard based on what you’ve already told us.
Alice: Like I didn’t hate it. It just like, it wasn’t high stakes and so it was like, it not rate the (inaudible).
Bex: It would have worked as a normal midseason episode, but
Alice: yeah, if it was just in the season, I would’ve really liked it.
Bex: But, for a season opener where they have set the standards so high with the earthquake episode and then with the tsunami episode, they were unable to meet the standard that they have set for themselves.
Alice: Yeah. They’ve shot themselves in the foot here really.
Bex: Oh, that would’ve been more interesting, I think.
Ellen: All right. Yeah, you can find all the [01:52:00] ways to get in touch with us. Leave us a comment on Spotify. Um, all the ways to get in touch with us are on the website thatweewooshow.com, um, or you can send us a DM or whatever on social media as well. Uh, thank you very much for listening this week, and we will see you next time for episode three, which is called “Future Tense”. See you then.
Bex: Bye.
Alice: Bye.
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[outtake]
Ellen: What have you written [01:53:00] here about “Cunliffe”?
Bex: Because I. Because all I saw was CUN and then like a downstroke of a letter on the back of his turnout. I’m just like, oh my God, that kid would not have survived in Australian primary school.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Could you,
Ellen: Oh dear.
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