It was around the time the YouTube prank star cemented his head inside of a microwave, fell into a swimming pool, and sank to the bottom (the cement, duh!), that I said aloud to no one in particular, “Oh, I’ve really missed this show.”
Part one of 9-1-1‘s two-night premiere event gives us everything we love about Ryan Murphy’s first responders drama: There are the ridiculous rescues (in the opening montage alone there’s a tour bus careening over a cliff, a pressure cooker exploding in a restaurant that causes a bottle of hot sauce to lodge itself into a man’s neck, and a worker from the electric company having his arm blown off and landing in a nearby swimming pool). There are the hot firefighters. There’s Angela Bassett acting the hell out of every scene she’s in. Oh, and there’s Jennifer Love Hewitt, you guys. Jennifer Love Hewitt is in this show now.
As you may recall from the season 1 finale, our favorite 9-1-1 dispatcher Abby (Connie Britton) and her gorgeous head of hair said goodbye to Los Angeles and her firefighter boyfriend Buck to go find herself after her mother died. In an attempt to fill that void (it’s impossible), 9-1-1 has enlisted Jennifer Love Hewitt to join the squad. And although her big introduction to the show involves Buck walking in on her in the shower, she is not here to be a new love interest — she’s his older sister Maddie!
Maddie does not seem concerned about the shower confusion, which we’ll have to revisit another time because GIRL. More important, she’s also being very cagey about what she’s doing in L.A. She hasn’t seen Buck in three years and suddenly shows up, tracks him down (he’s staying at Abby’s apartment until she returns, aww), and informs him that she just dumped her husband who no one likes and needs a place to crash for a second. Buck doesn’t totally buy it, and his instincts are correct. Eventually, we learn that Maddie’s husband Doug is abusive and when things escalated and he threatened to kill her, she took off. But Doug isn’t one to give up so easily: Maddie gets a pretty harrowing phone call from the guy promising that he will find her. So, Doug is The Worst.
When Buck comes across his sister making an exit, he pleads with her to stay. She’ll be safe here with him. Doug doesn’t know where Buck lives or what he does for a living, so that buys her time. She can start over. Maddie used to be a nurse, but worrying about Doug coming through the hospital doors every day is not something she wants to deal with, so Buck suggests a job in which she’s helping people but not interacting with them face-to-face. That’s right you guys, meet your new 9-1-1 dispatcher. If she can handle insane calls about babies being stuck in pipes or bouncy houses rolling down cliffs is yet to be seen.
Maddie isn’t the only new face on 9-1-1. Meet Eddie “I Do Not Have Nor Do I Want a Nickname” Diaz (Ryan Guzman), a new firefighter who is young and hot and brave — so naturally, Buck has a problem with him. Obviously, Buck is just intimidated by Eddie, but he takes it out on the Afghanistan war vet by trying to show him up on calls and picking fights with him in the firehouse. What Buck wants to do most of all is beat out Eddie for a spot in the L.A.F.D. Hot Fireman’s Calendar (not the official name, but, like, you get it). Like Highlander, there can only be one (from each station house).
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