SPOILER ALERT! This publish comprises particulars from the one centesimal episode of Station 19.
After final week’s grueling 24-hour shift, Station 19 followers had been in all probability hoping for a heartwarming story to have fun the sequence’ one centesimal episode milestone. Properly, that’s not precisely what showrunners Zoanne Clack and Peter Paige had in thoughts.
When the episode begins, everybody remains to be reeling from their final shift. One thing is clearly nonetheless occurring with Vic, Ben and Travis are nonetheless on the outs, and Maya is attempting (and failing) to elevate everybody’s spirits. To make issues even worse, Andy informs everybody that Theo has left Station 19.
However wait, that’s not all. Actually minutes later, Natasha tells Vic that the Seattle Hearth Division is eliminating Disaster One as a part of their price range cuts. Someplace in there it’s additionally revealed that Ben is probably taking steroids, presumably for his again harm. That’s certain to return again to chunk him.
At this level, it’s perhaps 5 minutes into the episode and, simply whenever you suppose it couldn’t get extra grim, it does. Andy’s pinning ceremony, which must be a cheerful affair, is interrupted by an influence outage and a name that the House Needle is on hearth on account of an influence surge on the sub station throughout the road. Nobody is absolutely in the best state of mind to be dealing with this, however they rush out to the scene anyhow.
Vic and Travis head for the elevator, the place there’s a group of individuals caught mid-air. One younger man is having a panic assault and, as Vic is propelling down to assist them, the lady inside begins to have a seizure. She requires backup however, in the intervening time, it’s simply her attempting to handle a reasonably chaotic scenario. Tensions develop between the husband and the younger man having a panic assault, as a result of the younger man retains taking Vic’s consideration away from his spouse. Ultimately, Maya and Beckett arrive as backup, however they’ve received their very own points, as a result of Beckett doesn’t appear to belief Maya all that a lot.
In the meantime, Robert and Ben are headed into the hearth. Earlier than they will handle it, the hearth surrounds them and the hose they had been utilizing runs dry. It’s trying fairly bleak for them and, after an explosion within the room, everybody on the bottom begins to panic. Andy, who had been struggling to handle the scenario and was positively doubting her place as captain after that final tough shift, jumps into motion and leads her staff inside with extinguisher spheres, saving the 2 males on the eleventh hour.
After all the things is beneath management, Mayor Osman holds a press convention outdoors the House Needle to thank the SFD for his or her exhausting work and guarantee the general public that all the things is okay. Besides, all the things isn’t high-quality. Vic blows up (figuratively, after all) in entrance of the group, telling them that Disaster One is the explanation she was capable of assist these individuals within the elevator, and Mayor Osman is attempting to remove it. Again on the station, Andy orders her to go dwelling and minimize her shift early.
Throughout the commotion after his rescue, Robert drops the engagement ring he’d gotten for Natasha, and he or she finds it on the bottom. Again on the station, she lastly lets him suggest to her.
And as if all that isn’t sufficient, Carina’s been coping with a disaster of her personal all day after an impatient driver tried to hurry round her in a parking storage solely to slam into one other automotive and critically injure the individuals inside. She helps them out and, simply as she’s decompressing from that, she’s knowledgeable that her eggs aren’t viable, so she gained’t be capable to do IVF. She’s devastated, however Maya means that they use her eggs to get Carina pregnant as an alternative.
Lastly, the episode ends with Andy’s pinning ceremony. This time, there’s not a name to interrupt the particular second.
Deadline spoke with Clack and Paige about crafting the one centesimal episode and what to anticipate as the ultimate season of Station 19 attracts to a detailed.
DEADLINE: When you considered what you needed the one centesimal episode to be, what had been a few of your objectives?
ZOANNE CLACK: Our objectives had been to be an iconic episode for an iconic milestone, coping with an icon of Seattle. So we actually needed to provide justice to town that we now have been defending for all these a few years and simply actually make it action-packed and a whole lot of staff constructing. That was type of the aim, but additionally we had a earlier thought that Peter likes [to share].
PETER PAIGE: I feel the aim was with the one centesimal, we needed to be one of the best of all the things that the present is. You wish to be probably the most action-packed, probably the most emotional, you need nice humor, you need nice character progress, with all of these issues working at their very, very, very highest degree. So it is advisable to put the staff in a very fascinating, difficult scenario. We talked first about going to Korea. Two of our characters are half Korean. We thought that may be actually fascinating private alternatives, and we will create a firefighter alternate with a South Korean station and create some fascinating motion the place they’re combating fires in unknown circumstances. We simply thought that could possibly be actually, actually cool.
We couldn’t get it collectively within the period of time that we had after the strikes earlier than we got here again, after which we had been like, ‘Okay, we’re setting that down. What can we do this we’ve by no means completed earlier than, that takes the present to an 11?’ One of many first ideas that got here to us was what if we save the House Needle?This factor is unattainable, and it was terrifying. I’m not gonna lie, two days earlier than we began capturing this, I used to be like, ‘Now we have to rewrite this. That is loopy.’
CLACK: However I’ll say that the House Needle individuals had been superb.They helped us kind by means of all of the little nooks and crannies of the House Needle and precisely what was occurring there.
DEADLINE: Talking of character progress, Episode 4 is so pivotal to the expansion that occurs in Episode 5. By the point this episode begins, they’re all at their wits finish.
CLACK: It’s in regards to the staff being fractured and having Andy on her management journey, having to convey all of them collectively. Additionally simply having such an incident that they need to rely on one another and so they have to understand what’s actually at stake from them being fractured. I feel the right imaginative and prescient of that was the distinction within the pinnings, from the start when it was very rote, very simply mechanical, after which on the finish when it was emotional and actually heartfelt. You can actually perceive the journey that they went by means of from Episode 4 to the tip of Episode 5.
PAIGE: We actually considered Episode 4 as a springboard into the one centesimal. We very particularly, within the structure this season, we knew we needed an actual nadir at that second in order that ascending the literal House Needle, the literal tallest construction in Seattle, would really feel even increased. I do suppose we did that actually efficiently. We needed Andy to have an enormous, massive, massive fail, which is one thing that 19 will not be used to, and definitely she will not be used to. Nevertheless it simply makes the victory all this sweeter.
DEADLINE: What’s going on with Vic? That public outburst in the course of the press convention is unquestionably going to get her in scorching water.
CLACK: Properly, Vic has gone by means of a lot simply within the entirety of the present historical past. She typically will deflect it with humor and not likely undergo it — push it down, push it again. However she would all the time be there for everybody else. Then after all when she took over Disaster One, she began taking the psychology [on]. So she was actually there for everybody else and that is type of a mirrored image of placing all of that on your self. Not only for Vic, however for anyone who’s going by means of this type of burnout, empathy fatigue. It’s simply beginning to actually gnaw on her.
She has this historical past with Disaster One the place Dean began it, she took it over, she pulled it as much as the place it’s now. That was the one factor that she was conserving collectively. In her skilled life, she was nonetheless on it. She was doing fantastically. She had one little crack in the midst of saving the individuals on the elevator, however she pulled it off utilizing her Disaster One [training]. For [Mayor Osman] attempt to use that as the explanation [they saved the day] but additionally figuring out that he has taken it away, that was simply the final straw for her. She’s gonna undergo a journey.
PAIGE: I don’t suppose we will even say it’s her backside simply but.
DEADLINE: With these cuts looming, there was already a lot rigidity. I can’t inform if her outburst will make it worse or higher, or perhaps worse then higher?
PAIGE: Properly, the mayor ain’t glad. The third line of Episode 6 is, ‘We’re attempting to avoid wasting your job.’
DEADLINE: So, issues are solely getting extra intense. We’re not taking our foot off the gasoline pedal.
PAIGE: Not but. Yeah, we solely have 10 episodes, so we needed to get as many miles out of them as we might.
DEADLINE: There’s a whole lot of strife on this episode but additionally some glad moments. Robert and Natasha are lastly engaged. Why was this the best second for that to occur?
CLACK: Natasha has been on this tug of struggle with the mayor, AND she’s been backwards and forwards. She’s been giving a little bit piece of herself away. She’s not been who she actually needs to be, not been her finest self. So, on this episode, she sees that Robert is about to die. She understands why she’s been saying no on a regular basis up thus far, as a result of she loves this man. She needs to be with him. However when she realizes that he’s about to die, and that she’s been giving little items of herself all of this time, she realizes what she wants to maneuver ahead, and that’s what she requested for.
She’s very literate together with her wants, and when she confirms that he’s capable of give it to her, then she will transfer ahead. Sullivan has simply been this stunning, great, gentle, humorous character all through the primary half and so he’s not giving up. It was as much as her to grasp why she was saying that. I feel in that second, she was capable of perceive herself higher and due to this fact was capable of open up extra for him.
DEADLINE: I’ll say, her wants had been very legitimate as a lady. To see him validate her was nice.
PAIGE: I’m so glad. I really like the softness that they permit for one another. These two troopers, who each of whom may be actual exhausting asses. There’s a second in Episode 6 the place they even speak about it a little bit bit, who’s the uptight one, [and] are teasing one another. Persons are very multi-dimensional, and it’s been very nice attending to crack him open and see his playful boyishness. It’s such a beautiful colour on Boris, the actor. I’m so grateful we received to place it on the present.
DEADLINE: What the heck is occurring with Ben?
PAIGE: What is occurring with Ben? Ben is conserving secrets and techniques. Secrets and techniques are usually not good.
DEADLINE: I do know that everybody at Station 19 shall be so disenchanted in him however all I might take into consideration when he pulled that needle out was that Miranda goes to kick his a**.
CLACK: [Laughs]. Properly, Miranda Bailey does seem on our present.
PAIGE: Any time Ben is conserving secrets and techniques from his pals and Miranda Bailey, you might have cause to be involved.
DEADLINE: Maya and Carina lastly appear to be getting a cheerful ending on this episode after going by means of some points within the final episode. How did you come to the concept that Maya ought to donate her eggs?
CLACK: We’ve had a lot of discussions. It was like, perhaps Maya might get pregnant however then she firefights. Can she be on the desk? How boring would that be? We’ve simply actually set this tone for Carina that she actually needed to really carry a child. So we figured the easiest way to have the each of them collectively can be to have Maya donate her eggs. I feel that egg donation will not be one thing that’s quite common to debate overtly, however that ladies do all on a regular basis. So we thought it was actually an fascinating solution to each have the companions collectively and totally collaborating as a staff on this IVF course of, and produce up this egg donation factor that’s rarely mentioned publicly.
DEADLINE: It was a candy second for them, particularly as they’re actually new to parenting, deciding that regardless of the hardships they’re dealing with with Liam, they’re dedicated to rising their household.
PAIGE: Like we stated, we needed the one centesimal episode to the touch on all these iconic storylines that we’re carrying by means of the the whole sequence, and that was definitely one we needed to have an enormous pivotal second.
DEADLINE: As you talked about, the pinning ceremony on the finish is absolutely stunning, as is that they montage of Andy. Why was that the notice you needed to finish on?
CLACK: We’re simply trying again at all the magnificence that was and can proceed to be.
PAIGE: It’s 100. This present begins with Andy’s ambitions to grow to be captain, that’s the place it begins. And right here we’re 100 episodes in, it felt basic to the structure of this sequence, trying again a little bit bit on what she’s been by means of to get to this second carrying her father’s badge.
CLACK: I additionally suppose that since we made her captain in Season 6, and this was such a pivotal episode and the pivotal second, we needed to reset that. She is captain, and now that she’s actually come into her personal after coming off of [Episode] 4, the place she was like, ‘I don’t know if I can do that.’ To have had her victory, it was simply completely set with that pinning the place she’s like, ‘Sure, I can do that.’ Now the second half shall be how she’s going to do that.
DEADLINE: So, we all know we’re not taking our foot off the gasoline pedal. Is there the rest you may say in regards to the closing 5 episodes?
CLACK: I feel extra of Station 19 — the chaos, the motion, the love, the group. There’s a whole lot of group within the again half. Quite a lot of simply the staff coming collectively to go in opposition to outdoors forces and be stronger collectively.
PAIGE: It’s a present about household, essentially. It was vital to us, I feel, to have a look at the ways in which households develop and alter and evolve, and the way they will evolve in methods which are troublesome and painful and delightful and vital all on the identical time.
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