The New Abnormal

The New Abnormal is the first episode of the fourth season of 9-1-1, and the forty-seventh episode overall. It aired on January 18, 2021.

Synopsis[]

When the Hollywood Reservoir dam breaks, Bobby and the 118 race into action to save passengers on a city bus that has crashed into a building several stories in the air. Maddie must first locate, and then rescue, a trapped cyclist, and Athena helps an agoraphobic woman evacuate her home. ^[2]

Cast[]

Starring[]

Angela Bassett as Athena Grant
Peter Krause as Robert Nash
Jennifer Love Hewitt as Maddie Buckley
Oliver Stark as Evan Buckley
Aisha Hinds as Henrietta Wilson
Kenneth Choi as Howard Han
Ryan Guzman as Edmundo Diaz
Rockmond Dunbar as Michael Grant
Corinne Massiah as May Grant
Marcanthonee Jon Reis as Harry Grant
Gavin McHugh as Christopher Diaz (credit only)
John Harlan Kim as Albert Han

Guest Starring[]

Bryan Safi as Josh Russo
La Monde Byrd as Dr. David Hale
Claudia Christian as Captain Elaine Maynard
Lilli Birdsell as Sylvia Mays
Nikki DeLoach as Janell Hansen
Annie Chang as Ashley Ryerson
Charlie Bodin as Kurt Willits
Oliver Vaquer as Steve Hansen
Ty Parker as C.J.

Co-Starring[]

Chiquita Fuller as Linda Bates
Chris Wu as Officer Williams
Ross Gallo as Officer Vargas
Charles Emmett as Hector Silva
Marcus Ashley as Zeke Millstein
Corey Clifford as Tracy Dawson
Thea Camara as Vanessa Hubbard

Trivia[]

This episode takes place during the month of September 2020. ^[3]
Maddie is now 5 months pregnant, indicating 5 months have passed since the events of "What's Next?".
This episode aired on January 18, which can be written as 1/18. This is probably a pun off of 118, their station number.

Continuity[]

May is taking a gap year from college and is now temporarily working at the call center, revealing what she had discussed with Maddie about in "What's Next?".
Eddie mentions that the bus disaster was at least "not a tsunami", referencing the events of "Sink or Swim".

Cultural References[]

Hen mentions her mother surviving the Baldwin Hills Dam disaster in 1963, when the dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir in Los Angeles suffered a catastrophic failure and flooded the residential neighborhoods surrounding it.

Multimedia[]

Gallery[]

Videos[]

First Look- The Team Is Back - Season 4 - 9-1-1

The Hollywood Dam Breaks - Season 4 Ep. 1 - 9-1-1

The Team Rescues People From The Bus - Season 4 Ep. 1 - 9-1-1

The Team Arrives To A Crashed Bus - Season 4 Ep. 1 - 9-1-1

Bobby Talks To CJ - Season 4 Ep. 1 - 9-1-1

Athena Returns To Work - Season 4 Ep. 1 - 9-1-1

Athena Gets Pulled To The Front Line - Season 4 Ep. 1 - 9-1-1

Maddie Trains May - Season 4 Ep. 1 - 9-1-1

References[]

9-1-1 Episode Guide
Season 1	"Pilot" • "Let Go" • "Next of Kin" • "Worst Day Ever" • "Point of Origin" • "Heartbreaker" • "Full Moon (Creepy AF)" • "Karma's a Bitch" • "Trapped" • "A Whole New You"
Season 2	"Under Pressure" • "7.1" • "Help Is Not Coming" • "Stuck" • "Awful People" • "Dosed" • "Haunted" • "Buck, Actually" • "Hen Begins" • "Merry Ex-Mas" • "New Beginnings" • "Chimney Begins" • "Fight or Flight" • "Broken" • "Ocean's 9-1-1" • "Bobby Begins Again" • "Careful What You Wish For" • "This Life We Choose"
Season 3	"Kids Today" • "Sink or Swim" • "The Searchers" • "Triggers" • "Rage" • "Monsters" • "Athena Begins" • "Malfunction" • "Fallout" • "Christmas Spirit" • "Seize the Day" • "Fools" • "Pinned" • "The Taking of Dispatch 9-1-1" • "Eddie Begins" • "The One That Got Away" • "Powerless" • "What's Next?"
Season 4	"The New Abnormal" • "Alone Together" • "Future Tense" • "9-1-1, What's Your Grievance?" • "Buck Begins" • "Jinx" • "There Goes the Neighborhood" • "Breaking Point" • "Blindsided" • "Parenthood" • "First Responders" • "Treasure Hunt" • "Suspicion" • "Survivors"
Season 5	"Panic" • "Desperate Times" • "Desperate Measures" • "Home and Away" • "Peer Pressure" • "Brawl in Cell Block 9-1-1" • "Ghost Stories" • "Defend in Place" • "Past is Prologue" • "Wrapped in Red" • "Outside Looking In" • "Boston" • "Fear-O-Phobia" • "Dumb Luck" • "FOMO" • "May Day" • "Hero Complex" • "Starting Over"
Season 6	"Let the Games Begin" • "Crash & Learn" • "The Devil You Know" • "Animal Instincts" • "Home Invasion" • "Tomorrow" • "Cursed" • "What's Your Fantasy?" • "Red Flag" • "In a Flash" • "In Another Life" • "Recovery" • "Mixed Feelings" • "Performance Anxiety" • "Death and Taxes" • "Lost & Found" • "Love Is in the Air" • "Pay It Forward"
Season 7	"Abandon ‘Ships" • "Rock the Boat" • "Capsized" • "Buck, Bothered and Bewildered" • "You Don't Know Me" • "There Goes the Groom" • "Ghost of a Second Chance"

9-1-1: Lone Star Episode Guide
Season 1	"Pilot" • "Yee-Haw" • "Texas Proud" • "Act of God" • "Studs" • "Friends Like These" • "Bum Steer" • "Monster Inside" • "Awakening" • "Austin, We Have a Problem"
Season 2	"Back in the Saddle" • "2100°" • "Hold the Line" • "Friends With Benefits" • "Difficult Conversations" • "Everyone and Their Brother" • "Displaced" • "Bad Call" • "Saving Grace" • "A Little Help From My Friends" • "Slow Burn" • "The Big Heat" • "One Day" • "Dust to Dust"
Season 3	"The Big Chill" • "Thin Ice" • "Shock and Thaw" • Push" • "Child Care" • "The ATX-Files" • "Red vs. Blue" • "In the Unlikely Event of an Emergency" • "The Bird" • "Parental Guidance" • "Prince Albert in a Can" • "Negative Space" • "Riddle of the Sphynx" • "Impulse Control" • "Down To Clown" • "Shift-Less" • "Spring Cleaning" • "A Bright and Cloudless Morning"
Season 4	"The New Hotness" • "The New Hot Mess" • "Cry Wolf" • "Abandoned" • "Human Resources" • "This Is Not A Drill" • "Tommy Dearest" • "Control Freaks" • "Road Kill" • "Sellouts" • "Double Trouble" • "Swipe Left" • "Open" • "Tongues Out" • "Donors" • "A House Divided" • "Best Of Men" • "In Sickness and In Health"
Season 5	"Both Sides, Now"

[1] ttp://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-monday-cable-originals-network-finals-1-18-2021.html

[:0-2] ttp://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20210104fox02/

[3] ttps://tvline.com/2020/12/01/9-1-1-season-4-spoilers-buck-childhood-secret/

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