9-1-1 Season 6 Episode 5

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9-1-1 Season 6 Episode Five! – Review

Home Invasion is setting us up for some HenRen drama. The episode itself isn’t overly stressful until the very end but it leaves you feeling a bit concerned with a few questions. The episode bounces around a bit between stories, Hen, Hoover, and Maddie. Some of the calls this time connect back to Mddie’s story, or at least the home invasion calls do. Hen is preparing for her big practical exam, Karen is doing everything she can to make things easier at home. Maddie and Chim finally picked a nanny and have to deal with the consequences. And then we have Hoover being bounced around different homes as he works on finding his forever home.  

This is a pretty solid episode, say not exceptional but not bad. So let’s just get right into talking about it.

We start with a home invasion call which this time turned out to be a raccoon. I found that rather amusing being so scared of a trash panda but I suppose it could be freaky just staring at you from your pantry. Plus, detective Buck was fun.  

Maddie and Chim have hired an…interesting nanny or should I say house manager as she prefers. Very overbearing. So, the trust issues must have been Maddie sewing a tracker into Jee’s stuffed animal. It’s funny and a little over the top but I do understand where Maddie is coming from. It gets to the point that Maddie and Chim are hiding out in the tub drinking wine and eating take out just to have some freedom in their own home. definitely funny but that lady needed to go.

Back at the dispatch center Linda was once again great, making a Downton Abby reference. They were talking about Maddie and her new house manager and how if she’s learned anything from Downton Abby it’s that the help is always watching. Linda has good taste in TV and her scenes never disappoint.  

I felt bad for Bobby learning both Athena and May are allergic to dogs, he was really attached to Hoover but of course if his wife and daughter are allergic he can’t keep him. It was sweet of Athena to try to pretend it was a cold and not allergies. Back at dispatch Maddie really keeps getting stressful calls and dispatch drama. Can she catch a break? But Sue once again expressed how wise she is and is the heart of the call center.

When Athena says the raccoon didn't shoot the man I couldn't help but think, they do have dexterous little paws. Has she never seen raccoons use their little hands? Clever little trash pandas.  

Coming in with some Hen family fun, Denny likes poached eggs? Odd for such a young kid but hey I think they are great so kid’s got good taste. Karen really was the best wife and partner this episode being on top of everything so Hen can prep for her exam.

Bobby really brought out sad dad face when he dropped Hoover off at Hen’s. it was comedy gold. Hoover later goes on to be a mood killer for Hen and Karen in the bedroom. Hen couldn’t keep in the mood with him in the room and he couldn't be alone so Hoover was the real winner, he got to sleep on the bed. Also, some comedy gold before Hoover moves on to Eddie or well the last straw for Hen and Karen, Hoover tore apart their home. Karen has some of the best lines, “we weren’t burgaled, we were Hoovered.”

Eddie didn’t last long with Hoover either. He too got Hoovered. Chris theorizes he doesn’t like being alone and has separation anxiety. Smart kid, he’s probably right. Eddie must have left him with Buck but we are sadly deprived of that scene. Buck’s place doesn’t allow dogs so Buck too cannot keep Hoover. He does find his forever home with the first home invasion call, the woman who had a raccoon in her home.

The insulation call was pretty intense though I hope we are done with that particular family after today. A woman was doing some home improvements and her brother came to help though he’s not that handy. He brought some spray insulation and ended up with a kink in the hose, having the insulation kind of explode and he ends up unconscious and encased in the spray foam. The 118 rescue him and at the end of the episode Buck and Eddie show up to help her fix the home that they damaged on call. I hope we don't see them again, the woman almost had a Ana vibe, like this is the type of woman they might try to set Eddie up with. It could just be me being skeptical of writers and recurring female characters because they can’t just let them be good characters and not a romance plot for someone else. But maybe she’s not recurring and Buck and Eddie were just being nice. Eddie looked really hungover in those sunglasses at the end there, I'm not sure that was the intent but that’s how it looked.

Back to the home invasion calls, someone had gotten Maddie’s password and used it to track the calls where someone ended in the hospital and giving out their alarm codes to first responders. That someone turned out to be the newbie which I was disappointed about. I was hoping the new guy could just be a new guy. But Maddie figured it out and with the cops help set a trap for him. She played up how she would be fired and did an excellent job getting a confession out of him while wearing a wire leading the cops to ambush the home invaders at the next home.

We end the episode with Maddie letting the home manager go and a party for Hen. Hen, as everyone thought, aced her practical exam. She even got to watch a surgery she did so well. the party was bittersweet. All the flashbacks showing us what Hen is giving up was sad but it was exciting for her to be achieving her dreams. Eddie had some good sass, saying they won’t hold it against her if she ghosts them. That had to be a callback to Buck ghosting them during the lawsuit. He even looked towards Buck as he said it.

And then we get to the stressful part of the episode. A 911 call from Karen at her work. The place had an explosion, Denny might be there and people are likely dead. In our preview for episode six has Hen working on Karen in the ambulance and I wonder if this will change her mind on being a doctor. Being first on the scene for people is why she became a paramedic in the first place. But they really want to put Hen through the ringer once more. And Karen is too awesome she better not be the first main character death.

Overall enjoyable, not too exceptional but nothing terrible either.

7/10 biscuits