"Monsters" is the sixth episode of the third season of 9-1-1, and the thirty-fourth episode overall. It aired on October 28, 2019.
Synopsis[]
Athena and the 118 respond to bizarre emergency calls on Halloween, including a flock of crows terrorizing a field trip, an office employee having a close encounter with an eight-limbed creature and a ghost-like girl wandering a neighborhood. Meanwhile, Maddie remains convinced that she is doing the right thing in taking a 9-1-1 call into her own hands.[2]
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Buck is at the gas station, when he notices the man embedded through the car window. He assumes it's a prop before he notices movement after Stella returns and he tries to stop her but she heads off. Realizing a man's life is in danger, he follows after them while alerting the dispatch, who are surprised to hear the call they received of this a day ago was real.
After a lengthy pursuit, Buck cuts the driver off and she is irritated with him. He attempts to calm her before noticing the bruising on her face and her lack of concentration, to her confusion. He tells her to stay where she is because the ambulance is coming. After ensuring the man is alive, Buck tells him help is coming. The paramedics arrive and take the man away while offering help to Buck who tries to decline until seeing the blood from the wound on his arm after he checked on the man. Buck nearly goes into shock before he tells them he is on blood thinners.
The next day, Chimney is visited by Maddie who apologizes for not listening to him about Tara while informing of him of her recent troubles at work. She states that because of Doug, she finds herself trying to help every abused woman but Chim forgives her act, since her heart is in the right place. To ease the tension, he tells her of his supposed hallucinations of a crow after the call on the farm. Maddie reveals that there is one on the ambulance. Chim sees it and realizes that he hasn't gone crazy if she can see it too. The crow drops something on the floor and flies out. Curious, Chim checks it out to find it is his nametag, meaning the crow only followed him because it wanted to return it, though Chim is worried that it now knows his name.
At the hospital, a rushing Bobby goes to the hospital to check on Buck but he is fine and notices his Captain. He informs him that he just gave the cops his statement, as Bobby asks how he cut himself. Buck explains Stella accidentally struck the man two days ago and hit her head badly, causing a brain bleed. Due to this, she couldn't notice the man in her window or really focus. Buck tells Bobby the homeless man survived and went into surgery, with his chances looking good.
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Continuity[]
- Maddie previously began befriending Tara in "Triggers" after her 911 call left her worried and distressed.
- Maddie references the events of "Fight or Flight".
Trivia[]
- Although the press release says there was an incident regarding an office employee dealing with an eight-limbed creature, it was not shown in the episode.
- This episode references two movies:
- The crow attack is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
- The woman who drove home in shock after hitting a man without realizing what she'd done is a reference to Ari Aster's Hereditary.
- There are two references to real-life known cases in the 911 calls:
- The incident with the man in the windshield is roughly based on the real-life case of the 2002 death of Gregory Biggs, who got trapped halfway through the windshield of the car that struck him, though the man survives the incident and was ultimately rescued.
- Athena's discovery of the severely dilapidated basement is based on the real-life Turpin case where 12 out of 13 malnourished children were found shackled to their beds. One of the daughters had escaped the home and called 911 on a cell phone, with the ensuing police raid likewise discovering the horrendous development of their lives.
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