Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. Our long national nightmare is over: Captain Gerrard is out at the , and Bobby Nash has returned as captain.
Also, and this is so important, there are multiple gnarly injuries and a tiger. This is why we watch! The episode begins with Gerrard and Buck on the driving range, where the captain reveals that mandatory budget cuts are coming to the firehouse.
Bobby coddled the team and turned them into snowflakes, but they will now face the harsh reality of layoffs. His feelings toward Buck remain somewhere between paternal and sexual, and I am ready to move on from this relationship.
As someone who has worked in media for the last couple of decades, I find the layoffs conversation highly triggering. There are more changes coming to the Thankfully, this is not an episode entirely about city government. We meet our first emergency of the week, a high school cheerleader named Weston. His mom is at the game to support her son, but his dad is MIA. Suddenly his lower half is facing the opposite direction as his top half, an injury that looks very fatal even as he remains conscious.
The arrives to, one assumes, twist Wes back into shape. There are a lot of arteries in the pelvis, so that means they have to transport him to the hospital extra carefully. Off the clock, Hen and Karen are in court trying to get their foster license reinstated. In fact, she orders Hen and Karen to have no contact with Mara at all. Out of options, Hen tries to appeal to Ortiz directly, but it turns out this woman is an actual supervillain. Chimney stresses that the needs Bobby.
