Spoiler alert! This story discusses the 9-1-1: Lone Star Season 4 episode “This Is Not a Drill,” which aired February 28. Proceed with warning!
For all of Season 4 up to now, we’ve recognized there was one thing huge brewing across the Honor Canines bike membership that Owen Strand discovered himself related to. 9-1-1: Lone Star threw in loads of purple herrings for viewers — I’m nonetheless undecided I consider Ty O’Brien was harmless the entire time — however in the long run it turned on the market was only one unhealthy apple attempting to spoil the entire bunch. Whereas Owen could have saved town of Austin as a complete, there have been nonetheless casualties, and co-creator Tim Minear defined why one character particularly “needed to go.”
FBI agent Rose Casey sadly died in an explosion set off by Mikey (Richard Meehan), the Honor Canine who Owen (Rob Lowe) and Judd (Jim Parrack) noticed get branded within the season premiere. Mikey ended up being the mastermind behind the home terrorism risk the FBI was investigating, and whereas the bar explosion took the lives of 9 federal brokers and much more Honor Canines, Agent Casey was the most important loss in viewers’ eyes. There was apparently a purpose it needed to be that means, and Tim Minear instructed EW:
Properly, I feel that most likely lots of people anticipated we have been establishing a love curiosity there, and for me, the truth that they really had a number of enjoyable, bantery onscreen chemistry made it all of the extra poignant — as a result of in the long run there you would see, ‘Oh, there perhaps may have been a sparring, enjoyable relationship between these two characters.’
So, principally he’s saying Owen can’t have good issues? Whereas it appeared like the fireplace captain was extra a thorn in Casey’s facet than something, their banter was fairly amusing, and by dangling the potential for extra interplay between the characters, 9-1-1: Lone Star ensured emotional stakes by the point the plot reached its conclusion. Minear continued:
However if you end up doing a narrative like this, there may be this sense of one thing coming, one thing scary goes to occur. So I felt like there needed to be a casualty, a casualty that mattered. And for me, Agent Casey is a personality whose coronary heart was in the appropriate place…. As a storyteller, you need it to be impactful — and also you wish to have an effect on any person the place it may matter, to your foremost character. So that’s the reason she needed to go. I truly would have cherished to have stored Amanda round, I believed she was improbable. And by the point we shot that episode, I used to be actually regretting that she was going to need to go, however she needed to go.
Saying goodbye to Agent Casey means saying goodbye to Amanda Schull, one in all two Fits vets recurring in Season 4 and thus reuniting with Gina Torres. The opposite is D.B. Woodside, who will return as Tommy’s new love curiosity Trevor Parks in subsequent week’s episode, “Tommy Dearest.” At the least any person can have good issues!
Tune in subsequent Tuesday, when 9-1-1: Lone Star returns at 8 p.m. ET on Fox, and if you could catch up, all episodes up to now can be found to stream with a Hulu subscription. Within the meantime, take a look at our 2023 TV schedule to see what new and returning exhibits are premiering.
