9-1-1 and 9-1-1 Nashville have formally had their first (unofficial) crossover.
Warning: Spoilers beneath for 9-1-1 season 9, episode 3.
The Thursday, October 23, episode of 9-1-1 picks proper up with Athena (Angela Bassett) and Hen (Aisha Hinds) panicking as their area shuttle threatens to go up in flames. Though Athena finally finds a approach to save the group by opening the spacecraft's prime hatch, they shortly understand that there's now solely a certain quantity of oxygen left for them earlier than they run out.
Whereas Hen's spouse Karen (Tracie Thoms) and 9-1-1 dispatcher Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) have been beforehand guiding them to security from earth, the motion of the craft means Hen and Athena can now not alert them to their emergency. The spacecraft additionally gained't be again in vary of Los Angeles airwaves till after their air runs out. When Karen and Maddie additionally be aware of the state of affairs from the bottom, they provide you with a plan to achieve out to a well-known pal.
“They gained't be over L.A. for 72 minutes, however they're going to be over someplace, proper?” Maddie explains to Karen. The duo then name up 9-1-1 Nashville's dispatcher Cammie (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) to ask for her assist.
“Let me get this straight — you need me to ship one in all our folks as much as the roof with a satellite tv for pc cellphone?” Cammie asks, to which Maddie replies, “Sure and it might be nice should you might do it within the subsequent 12 minutes.”
“You're conscious we're below an excessive climate watch over right here,” Cammie responds, referencing Nashville's season 1 ongoing opening emergency. “It's raining hearth over right here,” Maddie retorts, finally getting Cammie to leap into motion.
The reference to Nashville to the spacecraft is profitable. “Nashville?!” Hen responds when Cammie reveals who she is. “Am I talking with the oldsters on the spaceship? Maintain please, patching you thru to Los Angeles,” Cammie says earlier than Hen and Karen are reconnected.

Karen and Maddie then leap into motion to save lots of the group from area, deciding to ship them to the Worldwide House Station. Whereas they handle to get there safely, they discover an injured astronaut on board, seconds earlier than the station is distributed into flux from a particles area, leaving them again in hurt's approach.
The four-part opening emergency started throughout 9-1-1's season 9 premiere on October 9, when billionaire tech bro Tripp Houser (Mark Consuelos) was saved by Hen after being swallowed by a whale. Hen was then provided an opportunity to go to area and convey somebody alongside as a reward, however their celebration journey shortly took a flip for the more severe.
Nashville, in the meantime, had its sequence premiere earlier this month, introducing a climate emergency — full with tornadoes, “firenadoes” and flooding — that left the town in peril. Jessica Capshaw, LeAnna Rhimes, Chris O'Donnell and extra star alongside Williams-Paisley.
For the spinoff's third episode, titled “Forces of Nature,” Captain Hart's (O'Donnell) son Ryan (Michael Provost) will step as much as lead Station 113 after his dad accidents from being struck by lightning put him within the hospital. Collectively, the group responds to a harmful name of a kid trapped in a trailer hanging off a historic Nashville bridge. Hart's spouse, Blythe (Capshaw), will even make one other go to to Dixie (Rhimes), the mom of Hart's eldest son, Blue (Hunter McVey), who additionally occurs to be the most recent firefighter on the 113.
9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Nashville air on ABC Thursdays at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. ET.
