‘9-1-1’ Star Leaving After Surprising Character Demise

WARNING: This text accommodates spoilers for 9-1-1 season 8 episode 15.

9-1-1 simply mentioned goodbye to 1 beloved character, Captain Bobby Nash, performed by Peter Krause.

Earlier than the Thursday, April 17 episode “Lab Rats” aired, hypothesis circulated for weeks {that a} lead character had died, after pictures surfaced of a large-scale funeral scene for the Fox drama being filmed in Los Angeles.

Nonetheless, it wasn’t clear which character followers could be saying goodbye to, and three characters have been all going through near-death circumstances. The episode concluded the present’s two-part contagion occasion, and there have been indicators that the three sequence’ leads might have died.

Ravi (Anirudh Pisharody) momentarily ran out of oxygen earlier than Bobby might save the firefighter. Or Hen (Aisha Hinds) would have a deadly final result after she sustained accidents from the laboratory explosion and Bobby carried out surgical procedure on her.

Chimney (Kenneth Choi) fell sick from the signs of the mutated model of CCHF, or Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. Moderately than use the ultimate antidote to save lots of himself, Bobby used it on Chimney. He informed Buck (Oliver Stark) that he cannot go away the contained laboratory.

He then asks Buck to usher in his spouse, Athena (Angela Bassett), to say goodbye, who urges Buck to get a medical staff. However Bobby insists they not threat exposing anybody else to the virus. Athena continues to plead with Bobby and tries to discover a answer to save lots of his life. As they trip with each other, he insists she go away the room earlier than he collapses to his demise.

“I’ve heard that many followers are upset by this loss and so they have a proper to be. It’s a loss,” Krause mentioned in an announcement to Selection on Thursday, April 17.

“That mentioned, it was greater than a daring artistic selection on a daring present. Bobby Nash was written in sacrifice and he was constructed for this. First responders threat their lives on the job in order that others can see one other day. His story arc honors them.”

“We at ‘9-1-1’ salute all of the unimaginable women and men who do these harmful jobs and try to maintain us secure. Our present is extremely troublesome to make at instances with lengthy hours, difficult stunts and elaborate disasters. We couldn’t do it with out one another,” he concluded.

The following episode will present Station 118 mourning the lack of their captain. In a teaser for the upcoming Thursday, Could 1 episode, the crew members are proven grappling with Bobby’s demise.

The teaser reveals the group of firefighters carrying his casket, as Athena’s voiceover is heard saying, “I’ve skilled a devastating loss… He is not alleged to be lifeless. He simply left. He left me.”

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9-1-1 returns on Thursday, Could 1, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.