9-1-1 Season 4, Episode 8 recap: Breaking Point

The 9-1-1 Season 4 winter finale is all about breaking points, reaching them, and the repercussions that follow as a result. And when I say repercussions, I mean how one moves on from the battles of their daily lives and learns to face the music, and move on.

The usual episode of 9-1-1 focuses on all the ridiculous emergencies, but for the winter finale, it’s all about relationships. And we’re going to kick things off with Eddie (Ryan Guzman), who has a new woman in his life–Christopher’s (Gavin McHugh) teacher, Ana (Gabrielle Walsh).

Eddie struggles to tell Christopher about his dating life, in the fear that he will react negatively. And unfortunately for him, he does, but not for the reasons he was thinking. In a fit of anger, Christopher uses Eddie’s phone to call an Uber and runs away to Buck’s (Oliver Stark) house, who is dealing with lady problems of his own.

I’m so here for the adorable friendship Buck and Christopher share! It’s cute that he thinks of him as a fatherly figure and even opens up about why he doesn’t want Eddie dating. It’s not so much about Eddie moving on, but more so about another person coming into his life and potentially leaving him.

If that moment didn’t have you tearing up, I don’t know what else would. Buck explains he is there for Christopher and the others that don’t live near him will be with him again soon. And with that, we get a very sweet moment between Christopher, Eddie, and Ana by the end of the episode. Yay for Eddie’s love story!

9-1-1 Season 4, Episode 8: Buck’s (un)romantic affairs

Buck is able to get Christopher through a rough patch, but he goes through his own share of issues on the winter finale. This season has focused a lot on Buck’s mental health and his journey to eventually beginning therapy. But there are still some things he has to work through, and luckily the moment with Christopher helps him through some of it.

Ever since Albert (John Harlan Kim) started dating Veronica (Keana Marie), things have been awkward for Buck, who went on a date with her. Buck is placed in a rather strange situation when Albert and Veronica decide to invite him for dinner so they can work through the awkwardness of everything.

Not wanting to go alone, Buck calls Taylor (Megan West), the news reporter he saved not that long ago, to be his “plus one”. Really, she’s just serving the purpose of making him look less lonely, so when she shows up to dinner and realizes it’s not just her and Buck, she storms off but not before calling him a bad friend.

Ouch.

But she changes her outlook on him when Buck comes through for her later in the episode. While covering a hospital site overwhelmed with COVID patients. Taylor learns that an open fridge thawed out a lot of the vaccines which now have to be administered or else they go to waste.

With the help of the station, Buck and company are able to get all the vaccines out, and Buck manages to show Taylor he’s not a bad guy after all.

All in a day’s work!

9-1-1 Season 4, Episode 8: Maddie and Chimney’s birth plan

A reality many faced this past year is delivering their babies without their significant others. Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Chimney (Kenneth Choi) are facing the same dilemma as their baby girl’s due date grows closer.

With all the COVID-19 protocols, Maddie and Chimney learn that the gynecologist that they’ve been seeing may not be the one to deliver the baby on the day of. This prompts Maddie to consider doing a home birth so Chimney can be there for her as well.

But with how much scary crap Chimney sees on a daily basis, he’s not comfortable with the idea of a home birth at all. In fact, he’s even timed how long it would take to get help if they were to need it.

Since Maddie had a solid conversation with Athena (Angela Bassett) earlier, she was more than happy to hear Chimney out and agree to go into the hospital. At the end of the day, it is all about their baby girl!

9-1-1 Season 4, Episode 8: Hen and Karen face a harsh reality

I feel that 9-1-1 has done such a spectacular job across the board with all of their couples, and I must say that I truly love Hen (Aisha Hinds) and Karen’s (Tracie Thoms) relationship the most. They are so incredibly relatable, and I love seeing their ups and downs, and how they navigate them.

Speaking of which, the 9-1-1 winter finale ends with a very heartbreaking revelation for them. They have been fostering a little girl named Nia for the past year, but a social worker comes by to let them know that Nia’s mother is ready to begin the next step in getting Nia back.

It’s so unfortunate given how much love Karen and Hen have in their home, and I’m not looking forward to any heartbreak they will have to endure when the show comes back (which apparently is in April).

And just like that, we’re done with the first half of the fourth season. There is a lot of ground to cover when 9-1-1 returns, so we will be waiting patiently for it to come back (which I truly hope is sooner rather than later!).

Now, that’s what we call a winter finale!

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