"Fight or Flight" is the thirteenth episode of the second season of 9-1-1, and the twenty-third episode overall. It aired on April 1, 2019.
Synopsis[]
The First Responders rally together to search for a missing Maddie.
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The episode begins with Buck kneeling over Chimney while on the phone with 9-1-1. As he performs first aid, he gives his name to the 9-1-1 operator and finds out he's talking to Josh, Maddie's co-worker. Buck describes Chimney's condition and says that he has only minutes until he dies. Chimney is able to mumble out the name "Jason" and how he took Maddie. As EMS arrives on the scene, Buck runs around Maddie's house and calls out her name but eventually finds her phone. He comes to the conclusion that Doug must've kidnapped Maddie.
A flashback shows Maddie and Doug celebrating and slowly dancing. Maddie accidentally knocks over an expensive wine glass, to which Doug punches her. Jumping back to the present, Doug and a restrained Maddie drive down a highway. Doug yells at Maddie for leaving, and she asks if Chimney is dead. She asks how long he's been watching her, and Doug reveals that he's been stalking her for a while. Meanwhile, at the hospital, the 118 stands in the waiting room as they anxiously await more news on Chimney.
At Maddie's house, Buck tells Bobby, Athena, and Detective Marks that Doug took his sister. When he becomes frustrated that they are doubting him, he steals Chimney's phone and leaves for the hospital. Once there, Buck manages to use Chimney's thumb to unlock it. Unfortunately for him, Athena catches him in the act, but after talking to her superiors, she is willing to help him find Maddie on the condition that he doesn't get into any trouble.
Back in Doug's car, the fuel light appears, forcing him and Maddie to find a gas station. Before they arrive, Maddie asks him to kill her, which he refuses. At the gas station, Doug fills up the tank but, to his annoyance, gets an Amber Alert on his phone. Meanwhile, Buck and Athena are escorted by Sue through the 9-1-1 operation center, the two introduce themselves to Josh. They show Josh Doug's number from Chimney's phone, which he recognized earlier that day. He makes a manual request to find the location of the phone.
At the gas station, Maddie leaves the car and is caught by Doug. She makes up a lie and says that she needs to use the bathroom. He reluctantly releases her but follows her inside the building. After asking for a key from a suspicious-looking cashier, Maddie tries to escape through the window and manages to climb out. Before Maddie can run, however, Doug catches her and restrains her. At that moment, the cashier appears with a gun. Before he can shoot, Doug attacks the cashier and kills him, to Maddie's horror.
Back at the hospital, the 118 share stories about Chimney to lighten the mood as they wait for him to get out of surgery. Michael and Harry show up and bring treats for everyone. Michael reveals how Harry was worried for Bobby's mental health. Buck drives with Athena as she takes a call from Detective Marks, who is angry about Buck stealing Chimney's phone. After Athena defuses the situation, Buck shares his doubts about Maddie's survival.
At the same time, Maddie and Doug are back on the highway. Maddie is stoic after the cashier's death but is hopeful as she notices a police car following them with their lights on. To her dismay, it speeds past them. Maddie tells Doug she's done running because she doesn't want anyone else to get hurt.
Meanwhile, back at the hospital, Chimney awakes to find Christopher sitting beside him. Bobby and Eddie enter the room and greet Chimney. After Chris and Eddie leave, however, Chimney asks where Maddie is, to which Bobby's expression turns grim.
Buck and Athena climb out of their car on the same highway Maddie and Doug were taking. The police car from before had pulled over a cargo truck that had been at the gas station, which they had tracked Doug's phone to. Finding his phone and talking to the driver, they come to the conclusion that Maddie and Doug must've stopped at the gas station. Buck and Athena go back to the gas station with other officers and find the cashier's dead body. When the two talk to Detective Marks, an officer comes out of the bathroom with a paper that Maddie had taken inside as a clue. On it is information about the car rental company Doug is using. The three realize that they can track the car with a GPS.
Doug breaks into a retreat cabin in the woods and takes Maddie inside. He instructs her to sit on the couch, not wanting her to go to the kitchen for fear of her finding a knife. In a flashback, we see a police officer knocking on Maddie and Doug's front door. He says that someone called the police after hearing yelling. Maddie tries to lie to him, but the officer sees through her and asks if she's in danger. When Doug comes to the door, the officer makes up a story about robberies. Before leaving, he tells Maddie to run from Doug. In the present, Doug tells Maddie about his dreams of being with her and starting a new life. She plays into it but secretly grabs a fire rod. After hitting him in the head with it, she runs out the door and flees into the woods.
At the hospital, Chimney talks to Hen about how upset he is with himself, ashamed that he let Doug become his friend. At the same time, Maddie is running through the snow, desperate to escape from Doug. He follows her footprints and calls out her name. Athena, Buck, and Detective Marks show up at the cabin retreat and ask the owner is she's seen Maddie and Doug, to which she tells them that she hasn't.
Back in the woods, Maddie and Doug get into a fight, where Doug attempts to shoot her but runs out of bullets. Doug uses his knife to cut her leg and stab her in the chest, but she finds a small log and hits him over the head. Struggling to grab the knife he dropped, she is punched in the face. When Doug tries to stab her again, Maddie bites his hand and is able to use the knife to stab him multiple times, and eventually kills him. As she lays on the ground, she begins to pass out from exhaustion. Maddie has a flashback to the same night the officer came to her door and recalls how Doug told her that she could never leave. As the flashback ends, she forces herself to stay awake, not giving in to sleep. Stumbling to her feet, she leaves Doug's dead body.
At the retreat cabin which Buck, Athena, and Detective Marks found, an officer finds blood in the snow. Buck starts to run to the woods in search of his sister. Eventually, the two find each other and call out their names. As Maddie collapses into Buck, she tells him that she didn't give up. In the ambulance, Buck reveals to Maddie that Chimney is alive, much to her relief.
At the end of the episode, Maddie and Chimney reunite at the hospital and share a heart-to-heart.
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- Maddie kills Doug and is reunited with Chimney at the end of the episode, both surviving their injuries.
- As referenced in an online article later seen in "Monsters", the events of this episode take place on April 1, 2019, which is the same day that this episode aired in the United States.
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