The video below begins at the firehouse, where Bobby is now back permanently as the captain. The 118 rush to the emergency, where Athena is also present doing crowd control. There appears to be a traffic pile-up whose source is unclear, but if cops are on the scene, it is an accident. The accident becomes the least of their concerns when a fire hydrant erupts, sending a car exploding once it hits the ground. Meanwhile, two people are trapped inside a car in the pile, and the water from that hydrant starts filling it. At the same time, the car’s driver is bleeding, making the situation very dire. It is a race against time to get the victims out as fast as possible before the driver bleeds out or they both drown.
Several hanging arcs need resolution as the show goes for a mid-season break. Buck’s (Oliver Stark) future, now that Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr.) is out of the picture, is undecided. Eddie (Ryan Guzman) and Christopher’s (Gavin McHugh) future has also not been resolved, and Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) has some news regarding the pregnancy. In an interview with TV Fanatic, showrunner Tim Minear teased a conclusion to some of the running arcs throughout the season. Minear teased the episode, saying,
“What I would say is that episode eight this year is more kind of tying up some story threads that have been set up in the first eight episodes. Nobody’s hanging off a cliff at the end of the episode except for possibly one character.”
