9-1-1 fans, HOW ARE WE DOING?
ABC recently aired the highly-anticipated Season 8, Episode 14 of the two-part 9-1-1: Contagion special. Part 1 was ruthless, and the teaser for Episode 815 at the end of it promises even more intensity, emotion, and terror.
In the episode titled “Sick Day,” the 118 respond to a routine emergency at a research lab that escalates into a deadly biohazard crisis. While Buck and Athena work to find a solution outside, Bobby, Hen, Ravi, and Chimney are trapped inside the lab, exposed to a lethal virus.
Despite surviving the lab explosion, Hen faces a life-threatening situation with a collapsed lung. Bobby steps up to save her by performing an emergency surgery guided by Chimney, who is unable to do it himself after his mask breaks, exposing him to the virus.
Since rogue lab worker Moira (Bridget Regan) modified the virus strain and shortened the incubation period to 90 minutes, Chimney’s health is at serious risk and time to save him is running out. When the episode wrapped, Moira was on the run with the only antidote to the deadly virus, so now fans are left to fear the worst for our beloved 118 members for an entire week!
Does Chimney die on 9-1-1 Season 8, Episode 15? And is Kenneth Choi leaving 9-1-1? Here’s everything we know about Chimney’s 9-1-1 fate and a potential twist ahead.
Episode 815 will presumably feature a serious manhunt for Moira as the 118’s situation worsens. But how the heck does 9-1-1: Contagion conclude?! Before fans watched the preview for Season 8, Episode 15, we were fairly certain that the trapped 118 members would eventually be rescued, the antiviral would be retrieved in time, and Chim would survive this extremely dangerous situation like everyone always does on this show! But things are admittedly NOT looking good in the dramatic AF 815 preview, located at the top of this article.
When the two-part thriller continues, Bobby will say what we’re all thinking: “I’ve got two firefighters down in here. What’s the plan?!” The 30-second teaser clip shows a deeply distressed Maddie explaining that Chim is already in the second phase of exposure and infection, organ failure. And Chim tells his teammates, “I’m running out of time.”
We saw him cough up blood and start bleeding from his nose in 814, but based on the looks of the 815 teaser, things are about to get a whole lot worse.
The clip shows Buck telling people on the scene that by the time they get to the trapped 118 members, they’re going to be “pulling out bodies.” We see a sobbing Hen with her mask off and a breathing tube in her nose. We see Chimney dripping blood and saying, “OH GOD.” We see a firefighter collapse in a creepy hallway alone beside a 118 helmet. And we see Buck wailing uncontrollably as if…one of his teammates really just died?!
We almost forgot to mention that while all these distressing clips are flying by, a narrator says, “Think you know the ending? You’re dead wrong.” So, uh, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT WEEK?!
If you’re desperately searching for a silver lining right now, the clip does show Bobby explaining that Athena is on her way with the antiviral, which means there’s still hope. Would 9-1-1 really kill off one of its main characters like this?! Is Chim about to die? Time to investigate! And stress! Instresstigate?!
As a reminder, Maddie is pregnant and just survived a serial killer/kidnapping/throat slashing, so on a basic human level, I highly doubt that 9-1-1 would off her husband of all people right now. Back in Season 7, Tim Minear did confirm that 9-1-1‘s main characters aren’t unkillable but he admitted, “I just don’t want to kill any of them,” which seemed incredibly hopeful for fans and actors alike. That said, the showrunner also told TheWrap, “One day when it does happen, it’s going to be a sad day for me,” implying that a major death could, in fact, happen one day. So is that day on the horizon in Season 8?
Fearing for characters’ safety and watching them emerge from dangerous, life-threatening emergencies in tact against all odds is the sheer nature of 9-1-1. As we know from the steady string of near-death experiences these characters have survived, after the show takes viewers on emotional roller coasters, things usually turn out OK! While things do look disastrous for Chim, the predictable turn of events here would be for him to die, and because the teaser literally warns, “Think you know the ending? You’re dead wrong,” I have to believe he doesn’t. But does another member of the 118 go down instead?!
Right now, we’re meant to primarily fear for Chim’s life, but could Bobby be the one most in danger at the end of the two-parter? If you need a run-down on the Bobby death theories, Decider’s got you covered. Basically, 9-1-1 filmed an elaborate funeral scene for Cap, so fans have been wondering for weeks if his death storyline would be real.
Since Episode 814 opened with a Bobby death fake-out and Episode 816 is reportedly called “The Last Alarm” (which may reference the final bell service at a firefighter funeral, a 1940 movie about a firefighter dying, or both!) Bobby’s fate isn’t looking good. And killing him instead of Chimney would fit the unpredictable 9-1-1: Contagion narrative.
Before you go mourning Bobby and worrying that Peter Krause is leaving the show, however, just know that an unexpected Oliver Stark script leak earlier this month seemed to suggest Bobby will be calling 911 from a coffin in a later episode while being buried alive. So perhaps…he ultimately lives?! (ICYMI, the script leak happened on April Fool’s Day so no one knows what to believe!)
Though Bobby is trapped in the lab with his fellow firefighters at the end of 814, his life doesn’t seem to be the main one in danger. But is 9-1-1 trying to throw us off the trail? We don’t know what awaits, but if — hypothetically speaking — Bobby were to have firsthand exposure to the virus, too, and there’s only one antiviral dose, who among us doesn’t believe he would sacrifice his own life to save Chimney’s without a second thought? We watched him put his own life on the line to save his team when he rescued that baby at the start of the episode and countless times before. So could he do it again? Or will another twist befall the 118?
AHHHHH!!!! Is it Thursday, April 17 yet?! How could you do this to us, Tim Minear!
New episodes of 9-1-1 premiere on ABC Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. ET with next-day streaming on Hulu.
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