‘9-1-1’ Star Leaving After Shocking Character Death

WARNING: This article comprises spoilers for 9-1-1 season 8 episode 15.

9-1-1 simply stated goodbye to at least one beloved character, Captain Bobby Nash, performed by Peter Krause.

Before the Thursday, April 17 episode “Lab Rats” aired, hypothesis circulated for weeks {that a} lead character had died, after pictures surfaced of a large-scale funeral scene for the Fox drama being filmed in Los Angeles.

However, it wasn’t clear which character followers can be saying goodbye to, and three characters had been all going through near-death circumstances. The episode concluded the present’s two-part contagion occasion, and there have been indicators that the three collection’ leads might have died.

Ravi (Anirudh Pisharody) momentarily ran out of oxygen earlier than Bobby might save the firefighter. Or Hen (Aisha Hinds) would have a deadly final result after she sustained accidents from the laboratory explosion and Bobby carried out surgical procedure on her.

Chimney (Kenneth Choi) fell sick from the signs of the mutated model of CCHF, or Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. Rather than use the ultimate antidote to save lots of himself, Bobby used it on Chimney. He informed Buck (Oliver Stark) that he cannot depart the contained laboratory.

He then asks Buck to usher in his spouse, Athena (Angela Bassett), to say goodbye, who urges Buck to get a medical group. But Bobby insists they not danger exposing anybody else to the virus. Athena continues to plead with Bobby and tries to discover a answer to save lots of his life. As they commute with each other, he insists she depart the room earlier than he collapses to his demise.

“I’ve heard that many fans are upset by this loss and they have a right to be. It is a loss,” Krause stated in a press release to Variety on Thursday, April 17.

“That stated, it was greater than a daring inventive alternative on a daring present. Bobby Nash was written in sacrifice and he was constructed for this. First responders danger their lives on the job in order that others can see one other day. His story arc honors them.”

“We at ‘9-1-1’ salute all of the unimaginable women and men who do these harmful jobs and attempt to maintain us protected. Our present is extremely troublesome to make at occasions with lengthy hours, difficult stunts and elaborate disasters. We couldn’t do it with out one another,” he concluded.

The subsequent episode will present Station 118 mourning the lack of their captain. In a teaser for the upcoming Thursday, May 1 episode, the crew members are proven grappling with Bobby’s demise.

The teaser exhibits the group of firefighters carrying his casket, as Athena’s voiceover is heard saying, “I’ve skilled a devastating loss… He’s not presupposed to be useless. He simply left. He left me.”

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9-1-1 returns on Thursday, May 1, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.