[Warning: The next comprises spoilers for the newest episode of 9-1-1, “The Taking of Dispatch 9-1-1.” Learn at your individual threat!]
9-1-1 simply delivered its most thrilling episode of the season, guys. Certain, the tsunami episodes had been a rush, and who did not love the skydiving catastrophe incident? However what occurred throughout Monday evening’s hostage takeover occasion was fully gripping from its unnerving begin to its pleasant whodunnit-style end.
The episode picked up the place the final episode ended, with Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) all of a sudden discovering herself and the remainder of the dispatch unit being held up by an armed man named Greg (visitor star Sean Kleier) and his group. A 9-1-1 name middle may not look like the obvious location for a hostage state of affairs to unfold, however this band of thieves aimed to cease any first responders from ever being summoned by silencing the dispatchers on the supply and diverting potential police presence away from the scene of the true crime: a museum filled with hundreds of thousands of {dollars} value of artwork which they deliberate to heist on the identical actual time.
As savvy as that transfer would possibly sound, although, the criminals of the day did not anticipate their “victims” being such fast thinkers — and courageous ones, as well. Not solely did Maddie handle to make use of some emotional inception to alert Howie aka Chim (Kenneth Choi) that she was in hassle earlier than her telephone was taken away, however Josh (Bryan Safi) used a key handle swap whereas processing a bogus name to convey Athena (Angela Bassett) into the combo, and Maddie and Linda (Chiquita Bates) faked an anaphylaxis assault to get their fingers on the one weapon at inside attain — Linda’s EpiPen — and take again management of their home.
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The depth of the felony siege and the eventual officer swarm was satisfying sufficient with out something extra, particularly as we watched these dispatchers neatly flip the tables on their attackers with just a little teamwork and the form of quick motion they usually advise over the telephone; however that wasn’t all 9-1-1 had in retailer for us tonight, oh no.
After arrests had been made, and a group of visiting dispatchers settled in to take over for individuals who had been rescued, we had been then handled to a play-by-play recapitulation of all beforehand unseen drama which had unfolded inside the felony ring itself — beginning with the truth that the group’s beginner getaway driver Tiffany (Jocelyn Hudon), who initially appeared just like the odd lady out who could not even make it to the job in time, was the true mastermind of the entire thing. She and the decision middle’s personal safety man Jake (Jayson Blair) apparently fell in love and plotted the entire heist particularly in order that they might be left alone with the van filled with valuable work and go away their unknowing cohorts holding the bag. They usually nearly obtained away with it, too!
The perfect a part of the episode was watching Greg understand that Tiffany was simply tolerating his robust man discuss at first in order that she may make the large rating. He hadn’t observed how handy it was that she had jumped in to interchange their earlier driver, who’d died, and he clearly did not discover it suspicious that he did not know who’d even employed him for the job. Tiffany slipped proper beneath his and everybody else’s radar, blissful to disguise herself because the lackluster newb who needed to wait on the sidelines whereas everybody else did the true work. Much more enjoyable was the second when Athena was proper there ready for Tiffany and Jake as they arrived to board their very own prepare out of dodge as a result of they’d eliminated all of the GPS monitoring programs from all the pieces besides his telephone. Perhaps Tiffany wasn’t taking part in dense in any case.
We have seen loads of hostage episodes earlier than, in fact. The Blacklist, Burn Notice, Castle, Homeland, Leverage, The X-Files, and extra have tread that territory up to now, to call just a few. However this episode holds up in its personal enjoyable method for the truth that the hostages weren’t helpless or yippee-ki-yay-style heroes, and the present drastically lightened the temper altogether with its backstory drama reveal to finish issues on a comparatively humorous word as a result of why the heck not?
9-1-1 air on Mondays at 8/7c on Fox.
Chiquita Fuller and Jennifer Love Hewitt, 9-1-1