They are saying you both ‘go huge or go residence,’ and boy did Station 19 Season 3 Episode 15 come to play.
The ultimate jiffy have been jam-packed with one twist after one other and glided by so quick I felt like I had whiplash.
Station 19 Season 3 has been an emotional rollercoaster all by itself, and even with one episode left, there’s nonetheless no telling the place issues will finish.
First off, who’s Pruitt Herrera?
An odd query to make certain for it’s was requested after Station 19 Season 3 Episode 12, I would have a solution.
Now, although, it appears there’s so much in regards to the late captain viewers have been by no means privy too.
In hindsight, viewers solely acquired to know Pruitt because the captain of Station 19 and the daddy of an grownup daughter.
All of the assumptions made about his life earlier than then, akin to the kind of husband he was or what he was like as a father to a younger Andy, might should be revised.
Although it appeared out of the blue when Diane, the trauma therapist, introduced up Andy’s mom on Station 19 Season 3 Episode 10, that random line of questioning seems to have segued right into a thriller surrounding her dad and mom’ marriage.
Or on the very least, some kind of darkish secret that is been stored from Andy her whole life.
Why precisely did Pruitt cease contact with Andy’s mom’s facet of the household after his spouse’s demise?
Andy: This looks like an ex-communication, like my dad minimize Sandra off.
Sullivan: Properly, do you keep in mind that taking place?
Andy: No, I don’t keep in mind any of this. I imply, I don’t keep in mind so much from when she died, however one thing is off.
Sullivan: When my dad and mom died it was too painful for lots of people. You already know, no one knew what to say to me, not even my family. They… they only slowly drifted away. It occurs. Possibly your aunt simply didn’t know the way to deal with the truth that her sister was gone and seeing you was a reminder.
Andy: OK, effectively if that’s true that… that sucks.
Sullivan: It does.
What was so terrible that he simply determined to chop them out of his and Andy’s lives for the foreseeable future?
With Pruitt being lifeless, there is not any approach Andy will get the solutions to those and the various different questions that should be circling in her head.
If he have been alive, he’d most likely inform Andy he was making an attempt to guard her, that every thing he did was for her personal good.
Nonetheless, Pruitt’s been utilizing that line for the reason that starting, and whereas that will have labored when Andy was a baby, she’s now an grownup.
There are some issues about her life that her father is not presupposed to meddle in, akin to her love life and job, however but he continued to try this, as much as his demise.
Although it may be unnerving to consider — as a result of he was a great man general — Andy is correct in that Pruitt was controlling.
He made selections for her with out bothering to even ask if that was what she needed.
And he barely ever apologized for doing what he thought was proper.
Whereas it is impolite to talk ailing of the lifeless, this new revelation does warrant some criticism on Pruitt’s behalf.
Andy: I’ve at all times had this concept that my dad and mom had this epic, superb love story, that they have been soulmates, meant to be. However what in the event that they weren’t? What in the event that they have been simply two tousled individuals who rushed right into a household, after which one among them died?
Maya: Andy, do you suppose possibly it’s potential that you simply’re projecting your anxiousness about your personal marriage onto your dad and mom?
Andy: Why can’t I simply say one thing with out somebody writing if off as simply… Can I… Can I simply speak?
Maya: OK, OK, what are you speaking about?
Andy: I’ve been going by my dad’s issues, and I… I don’t know. I really feel like… like possibly I didn’t even know who my dad was, like… like what do I truly find out about Pruitt Herrera? He was… he was overbearing. He was… he was controlling. He was…
Maya: If he was controlling, it was solely as a result of he cherished you.
Andy: Controlling as a result of he cherished you. That appears like a Lifetime film about an individual who wants to flee.
Maya: Andy, who your dad was. All of us do.
Andy: Can we, or can we simply know the model of him that he needed us to see?
Maya: No, no, you don’t get to show your dad into a foul man. You received the lottery of dads, and now, simply because he died, you might be gonna tear down his reminiscence ‘trigger it’s simpler than dealing with the lack of him? No, I’m not gonna stand by and watch you try this, to not my captain.
Andy: To not your captain? Maya, he was my dad.
Maya: Yeah, and it’s best to depend your self fortunate.
Hopefully, it is not some horrible secret that alters the course of Andy’s life and makes her query her whole identification, however that can probably be the case.
This can be a present from Shondaland in spite of everything.
Like Andy, Maya was having some severe daddy points.
And once more like Andy, she’s not precisely making the very best selections.
Although Maya will not be able to confront the reality about her father, there are lots of of higher methods she may have dealt with the state of affairs.
Communication, for one, is essential.
Sleeping along with your ex, not a lot.
All Carina and Jack have been making an attempt to do have been be there for Maya, however as a substitute of calmly stating she did not need to speak in regards to the topic any additional, she lashed out at them.
This, in fact, is typical Maya trend.
Jack: So.
Maya: Yeah. I assume I’m damaged.
Jack: I assume we each are.
She even acquired into it with Andy when her bestie was questioning the kind of man Pruitt was, one thing Maya discovered so egregious that she went on a tirade.
The one “good” factor to return out of all of this — when you can name it that — is that Maya does appear to comprehend she’s participating in some self-destructive habits.
What she is going to do about that or if she plans to rectify it stays to be seen.
And whereas acknowledging that her father was abusive is just not one thing that can occur for Maya in a single day, however let’s hope she would not alienate everybody in her life whereas she works by her sophisticated feelings.
She’s already minimize off her mom, and issues with Carina aren’t trying nice.
She’ll at all times have her firefighter household to show to, however she could also be too cussed to confess that she wants them.
Issues are undoubtedly going to worsen for Maya earlier than they get higher however hopefully, she’ll get by the opposite facet in a single piece.
With there being a lot packed into this episode — to the purpose the place it did really feel a tad overstuffed — the flashbacks surrounding Vic felt extraneous and misplaced.
Viewers already knew Vic cherished performs and did musical theater, as proven by flashbacks on Station 19 Season 3 Episode 9, so the few scenes that includes her in doing drama in neighborhood faculty provided little or no new data.
Cooper: Let’s take 5.
Pruitt: Oh, hearth inspections take so much longer than 5 minutes.
Cooper: Oh my god, hearth inspection. For what?
Pruitt: For hearth.
Cooper: Each single present you folks do that, and each single present, it’s an enormous waste of money and time. Tremendous, the town of Seattle thanks you for safeguarding them from the massive unhealthy neighborhood faculty drama college students.
The one factor worthwhile followers realized is why Vic determined to develop into a firefighter, however even that felt uninspired and missing.
Why? Properly, her causes for turning into a firefighter have been nearly a precise reproduction of Dean’s motivations, proper right down to assembly Pruitt on the scene of an emergency.
The argument may very well be made that the purpose of the flashbacks was to point out why Vic took hearth inspections so severely.
Nonetheless, the identical objective may have been completed with out all of the pointless bells and whistles by merely having Vic speak in confidence to Travis, her finest good friend, about what occurred when she was in faculty.
Certain, that tactic might not have been as efficient from an emotional standpoint, however viewers barely knew Cooper.
The actual tragedy was not that he died however that his demise may have been averted.
An emotional monologue from Vic whereas she was on the bar with Travis — one thing Barrett Doss is greater than able to — would have been simply as efficient.
Emotions apart, the flashbacks did clarify why Vic had such an issue with skipping hearth inspections and gave additional context to why she would danger insubordination.
Usually, it is not the very best follow to sentence your boss, however generally, you need to take a stand, particularly when there are lives on the road.
Sullivan: Montgomery, Hughes. The chief’s workplace despatched over some addresses of inspections that they want fast-tracked in the present day. Who desires some extra time?
Vic: So, is that this simply the way it’s gonna be now? The battalion chief desires to spend time along with his spouse, so simply the underlings should work on their break day?
Sullivan: Yep.
Vic: Bought it.
Displaying up at Sullivan’s home was a ballsy transfer, however it was the suitable factor to do.
And in the long run, Sullivan did the suitable factor too, although that wasn’t his first intuition.
Although the battalion chief finally did come clear about Dixon’s corrupt practices and masking up his theft of Fentanyl from the PRT, it was solely after he was backed right into a nook.
Sullivan most likely would have had no drawback chopping corners if there wasn’t a transparent and current hazard to different folks.
On Station 19 Season 3 Episode 14, he was virtually giddy as he informed Andy there have been no lasting penalties for his indiscretions.
Whether or not Sullivan was in denial or did not understand the complete extent of their quid professional quo, Dixon’s silence got here with huge strings.
It wasn’t only one favor Sullivan was going to owe Dixon; the battalion chief would have probably spent the remainder of his profession beneath Dixon’s thumb.
And once more, he appeared resigned to his new state of affairs, till he was confronted by Vic in regards to the lethal penalties his actions — or quite inaction — may trigger.
I assumed I used to be protected. Jogging in the course of the day. You hear about girls getting raped in parks, and it’s like, effectively, duh. Why would you go operating at night time in a park? Like, it’s their fault.
Darcy
Nonetheless, as a substitute of accepting duty proper then and there, he tried to deflect the blame.
Sure, Ben compelled Sullivan’s hand when the physician gave the battalion chief an ultimatum, however Ben did not dig the grave within the first place.
Sullivan acquired himself into that mess all by himself, however even after 15 episodes, he nonetheless refuses to come clean with his errors till there is not any different alternative left.
All season lengthy, viewers have seen Sullivan repeatedly get himself into these messes, whether or not it’s stealing opioids, forcing Emmett to maintain quiet about him overdosing, or abandoning his command on Station 19 Season three Episode 12.
And with these indiscretions, he retains making excuses as a approach to justify his actions.
It is not till somebody calls Sullivan out on his actions for the second or third time that the battalion chief will then lastly do the suitable factor.
It is turning into exhausting watching Sullivan undergo the identical motions many times however by no means actually studying a lesson.
That is probably as a result of, to date, there have not been any actual penalties.
And with none actual penalties, his misdeeds do not appear so unhealthy.
Maya: Is it simply me or are orgasms higher within the daylight?
Carina: It isn’t simply you. I truly did a complete examine on feminine orgasms.
Maya: Oh, that’s a examine I’d wish to see.
Now, although, Sullivan may lose his job, together with probably going through legal fees.
Hopefully, that can be sufficient for Sullivan to lastly get it by his thick cranium that the way in which he is been performing is not OK, and he wants to vary his habits.
Lastly, keep in mind how the scrapped episodes of Grey’s Anatomy Season 16 would have featured some huge occasion that might probably have resulted within the demise of a serious character, effectively, may Jackson have been that character?
Whereas the physician appeared advantageous upon arrival at Gray Sloan Memorial, there are any variety of issues that would have gone mistaken from there.
There is a motive the hospital was as soon as known as “Seattle Grace Mercy Demise,” and whereas Jackson wasn’t shot on the hospital, that does not essentially imply he is within the clear.
Nonetheless, if Jackson was the supposed sufferer of the collection’ neverending lifeless pool, it appears viewers must wait till Gray’s Anatomy Season 17 for extra solutions.
As well as, Gray’s Anatomy viewers have been additionally promised that within the ultimate two episodes of Station 19 Season three they’d get an concept of the place the final 4 episodes of Gray’s Anatomy Season 16 have been headed.
Properly, it appears as if DeLuca was going to be formally recognized with bipolar dysfunction, primarily based on Carina’s remark about her father and brother affected by psychological sickness.
Jackson: No less than it went clear by.
Ben: Yep, you’re fortunate.
Jackson: Oh yeah, the luckiest.
It is also seemingly that Jackson and Vic would have wound up in mattress once more onscreen, primarily based on Vic’s remark to Travis at first of the episode.
It is also potential, although, that their tryst occurred off-screen however was addressed in passing on Gray’s Anatomy.
No matter did — or didn’t occur — remains to be unclear, however Vic nonetheless cares deeply for Jackson, as evidenced by her speeding off to the hospital.
It is protected to say these two are removed from over.
Until Jackson dies, however that might simply be merciless and weird punishment for Vic.
Good factor we’re watching a present that does not site visitors in that — oh wait!
Some stray ideas:
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Whereas it is nice that Emmett lastly got here out to his dad and give up being a firefighter, does this imply his time on the collection is restricted since he is not a primary responder?
Although problematic at occasions, Emmett has grown on me, and his relationship with Travis is cute. Nonetheless, relying on how issues shake out for Dixon on the season finale, Emmett may very well be leaving Seattle along with his father in tow.
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First Dean, and now Vic. Did Pruitt recruit each member of Station 19 from off the streets? Was the late captain operating Herrera’s Residence for Imaginary Firefighters?
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I want the installment had saved the exploration of an tried sexual assault and the disgrace and confusion that comes with it for one more episode, as there was hardly any time dedicated to this very well timed difficulty. The collection simply touched the tip of what may have been a really transferring and highly effective storyline.
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With so many romantic entanglements taking place proper now, I am afraid a love triangle of some type is across the nook. No extra love triangles, please.
So what did you suppose Station 19 Fanatics?
What’s Pruitt’s huge darkish secret about why he minimize off contact with Andy’s mom’s household?
Will Maya alienate everybody round her?
Will Sullivan lastly face some penalties for his actions?
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