Heartbreaker

"Heartbreaker"
Episode Information
Season 1
Episode 6
Airdate	February 7, 2018
Viewers	6.64 million
Written by	Matthew Hodgson
Directed by	Bradley Buecker
Episode Chronology
Preceded by	"Point of Origin"
Followed by	"Full Moon (Creepy AF)"

"Heartbreaker" is the sixth episode of the first season of 9-1-1. It was written by Matthew Hodgson and directed by Bradley Buecker. It aired on February 7, 2018.

Synopsis

On Valentine's Day, a surprise marriage proposal goes awry with dangerous consequences. Athena attempts to help a desperate woman and unintentionally joins the Lonely Hearts Club. Bobby and Chimney pull holiday duty and learn about the "Casanova Fracture" and Abby and Buck go on their first official date.

Cast

Starring Angela Bassett as Athena Grant Peter Krause as Robert Nash Oliver Stark as Evan Buckley Aisha Hinds as Henrietta Wilson Kenneth Choi as Howard Han Rockmond Dunbar as Michael Grant (credit only) Connie Britton as Abigail Clark

Guest Starring Mariette Hartley as Patricia Clark Cocoa Brown as Carla Price Megan Ferguson as Melora Ian Reed Kesler as Ted Michael Roark as Elliot Smalls Lyndon Smith as Kate Jessalyn Wanlim as Sandra Tom Parker as Alex Jessica Collins as Christina Gallagher Josh Daugherty as Mickey Alice Kina Diehl as Stephanie Gaskins Carlos Sanz as Detective Anderson Co-Starring Ben Bowen as Med Tech Matthew Jain as Paramedic S. Zylan Brooks as Hospital Staffer Jon Snow as Waiter Grace Rowe as Highway Patrol Officer Jessica Richards as Ashleigh

911 Cases

False Alarm

• Reason for 911 Call:
  • Kate passes out after the caller proposes to her with a falsified engine failure and he suspects she suffered a heart attack.
• Process:
  • Abby advises the caller to land his Cessna aircraft immediately and he does so at a golf course, followed immediately by units from 118. Bobby suggests Nitroglycerin Sublingual application when Hen and Buck assume it was indeed a heart attack. Abby dials Buck and informs him Kate is taking levothyroxine due to thyroid conditions, which prompts Bobby to stop Hen, who pulls out adenosine instead. Kate is resuscitated and slaps the caller immediately after his proposal for nearly killing her, much to the amusement of Buck and Abby.

Mad Woman

• Reason for 911 Call:
  • The caller senses suspicious activity near his house but does not wish to risk himself.
• Process:
  • Athena finds Melora at the door and demands to search, describing it as a "noise complaint". Thet chat, but Athena doesn't find anything suspicious and departs after another call, leaving behind a card. Melora is seen murdering Ted after Athena leaves. The next visit has Athena performing a "police welfare check", during which Melora accidentally splatters wine on Athena, forcing her to use the restroom. Melora accidentally reveals ammonia being used to clean blood and Athena confirms her suspicions behind a cabinet stuffed with drugs, as well as with the blood stains near the drain. Athena draws her weapon and begins searching, but ends up finding Ted's and is held at gunpoint by Melora before being subsequently taken hostage. Whist trying to reason with her, Athena hears Ted's other date Ashleigh screaming nearby, and soon learns Melora attempts to kill all of them. Athena slowly breaks her hand through the tape constraing herself as Sandra angrily tries to break into the house. Before Melora could attack, Athena resists and knocks her out with a frying pan, then snatches her weapon, empties the revolver and opens the door. While Sandra frantically searches for Ted to exact vengeance, Athena takes thos opportunity to restrain Melora, explains Ted's death and dials for reinforcements, including a homicide detective, straitjacket, a horse tranquilizer and rescue ambulances. With these out of the way, she rescues Ashleigh. Officers discover chlopromazine, fluhenazine, haloperidol, some first-generation anti-psychotics, proving Melora may be insane, which Athena takes pity on. The detective advises her to go see her husband in the last hours of Valentines, and the vehicle locking Melora drives away. Athena returns to her empty house and finds a Valentine's card made by Harry and May.

• Pileup
  • Reason for 911 Call:
    • The caller reports a severe congestion caused by wrecked vehicles.
  • Process:
    • Many other units were present and working on the casualties as Athena arrives, and one unit present informs her that there are 12 vehicles involved with no fatalities. However, a medical transport vehicle carrying an organ was destroyed, leaving them with no means to bring it to a critical patient. Without hesitation, Athena gets the driver to take the organ and they scramble in the police SUV. She backs out when the wrecks block her vehicle from going forward and quickly heads to Southland Medical. To extenuate the process, Athena dials for manual traffic control, and two police motorcycles show up to assist. While on the way, Athena weaves through obstructions, and driver informs her the recipient is a girl named Anna Cerritos. The vehicle arrives on time, and a doctor praises Athena for a timely indirect rescue, also revealing it was actually a kidney, not a heart.

Choking

• Reason for 911 Call:
  • Abby dialed 9-1-1 after Buck choked and stoped breathing.
• Process:
  • As she attempts compressions, Abby gets a waiter to dial 911 again, this time directed straight to Stephanie Gaskins as they cannot spare 7 minutes for paramedics to arrive. With no other choice, Stephanie advises for a sharp object to make an incision that will free up his windpipe, and Abby gets a pen from the staff. She makes two quick breaths in five seconds per instructions after getting the cut, and Buck springs back to life just as paramedics arrive to check on him. Bobby later visits Abby and the unconscious Buck at the hospital after the botched date, with them commenting around the actual chaos. The two leave the ward for coffee.

Fall

• Reason for 911 Call:
  • Caller dialed and claimed his back was broken, also providing an address.
• Process:
  • Chimney and Bobby arrive though the door wouldn't open initially, yet when the former is about to brute force it, a woman and a man, Alex show up, neither of which seem to be in distress and appear to be a perfectly normal couple with Alex arriving home a few hours early. Bobby and Chimney get their permission to search the premises in order to ensure they don't miss details. They discover Mickey has jumped off the balcony and injured himself, which Bobby correctly assumed a consequence of an affair. Alex and the woman also show up, and the crew realize the woman was actually Mickey's wife, though the two were in fact separated and not divorced. The wife is allowed to attend the ambulance with other emergency units, and when Chimney asks Bobby whether it is creepy or romantic, Bobby claims it has a bit of both.

Trivia

• Chimney makes his full recovery in this episode.
• First episode where Buck ends up as a patient in the hospital.
• Buck and Abby had their date at Le Chance Bistro in Century City.
• Buck is 26 as of this episode.

Soundtrack

Song	Artist	Timestamp*	Storyline
"Fly Me to the Moon (feat. Count Basie and His Orchestra)"	Frank Sinatra, Count Basie and His Orchestra		Opening, marriage proposal in Cessna.
"Lust For Life"	Iggy Pop		Bobby says he misses his wife every day, not just on Valentine's Day, returns to Fire House.
"There Goes My Heart"	Nat "King" Cole		Emergency transport by Athena of transplant kidney to hospital.
"Do You Wanna Go Party"	K.C. And The Sunshine Band		Abby arrives at the fire-station party with a platter of cookies.
"Heartbeats"	José González		At the end, Athena comes home from work to wine and cookies on the table from Michael and the kids.

*Timestamps are rounded to the minute.

Multimedia

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