It’s easy to understand why 9-1-1 opted for a two-night premiere event to kick off the season. The first part got us up to speed on where our characters were after four months away, setting up some major arcs for the season, and clearing the path for tonight’s episode. ‘7.1’ has no room for character development, emotional introspection, or romance — it is all action.
A massive earthquake hits Los Angeles, and our first responders do what they do best: save lives. Well, except for Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Maddie, still in training to be a 9-1-1 dispatcher. She mainly stands around watching the news and looking worried. What a terrible first week of work! She’s shadowing a delightful, well-versed-in-TV-references dispatcher whose advice pretty much boils down to “listen,” when the earthquake hits. “Brace for impact,” he tells her before all the emergency calls start flooding in. The training wheels are off. Where is the calming voice of Connie Britton when you need it?
As intense as that situation sounds, the other, more seasoned members of the team have it much, much worse. You may recall that Athena was driving on the freeway when the earthquake hit, taking a huge chunk of the road in front of her with it. Seriously, she was very close to driving right into the giant gap and careening until she hit the concrete below. It is a very close call!
What we didn’t see before was that Athena isn’t alone in her car. She had just arrested frequent flier Marvin for grand theft auto. She’s arrested him before, but this time he’s an adult — so he will most definitely be going to prison. As annoyed as she is with the kid for repeatedly making bad choices, she’s lucky he’s with her. She’s single-handedly trying to deal with the multiple crises taking place due to the freeway collapse. She finds a man, Dean, trapped in a car that happens to be leaking gasoline — this is not good. The car catches on fire with Dean inside of it. Making it worse, it’s right over a heat source under the road, which means extinguishers aren’t going to work. Everyone is having a super fun time, guys!
Athena does some quick thinking: She needs a way to cool down the heat source before she can put the fire out, and when she spots a cement truck nearby, she hatches a plan. The driver of the cement truck is nowhere to be found, but lucky for her (and Dean!) she has an expert car thief at her side. She uncuffs Marvin — don’t worry, she lectures him about how he’ll prefer prison over pissing her off before temporarily setting him free — and has him hot-wire the cement truck so they can use it to cool the road off. It works! Athena and Marvin have saved the day (AND DEAN). Although she’s appreciative of Marvin’s help, she has to put him back in the cuffs. The law is the law, earthquake or not.
As you can imagine, our firefighters are very busy. They’re called to a fancy hotel that, thanks to the earthquake, has turned into the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Things are really bad and there are hundreds of victims, but we’re only concerned with three.
First, there’s the skeezy boss who had his female employee meet him in his hotel room so he could ask her to shower with him. Does this sound familiar and awful? Cool. When the earthquake hits, it sends him flying to the floor-to-ceiling window in his suite. As the hotel begins tilting, he gets trapped against the glass by some furniture. He’s staring down at the street, at his death. His employee is hanging on to a pillar nearby. The situation is precarious.
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