911 Lone Star ShowRunner On Asteroid, Tommy Death and Tarlos Ending

Spoiler Alert: This article contains spoilers from Monday’s episode of FOX’s “9-1-1: Lone Star” titled “Impact.”

The sky literally falls when Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star” ends his second to last episode Monday. The members of the 126 stag themselves for the action of an asteroid, they found about minutes before, and the audience is waiting for next week’s finale, which will reveal the fate of not only our beloved heroes but all of Austin. And if they survive this cataclysmic event, there are still all the loose ends in their personal lives that need to be tied together.

Does Owen (Rob Lowe) really leave 126 to return to New York? Will TK (Ronen Rubinstein) and Carlos (Rafael Silva) find a way to adopt Jonah after all? Is Tommy (Gina Torres) actually dead when we last see her lying on the couch after months of chemo that has proven to be successful in treating her cancer? Will Mateo (Julian Works) be deported? How will Paul (Brian Michael Smith) help Jax?

Here to answer all your burning questions in front of the “9-1-1: Lone Star” series “is Showrunner Rashad Raisani, who has worked closely with the series creators Ryan Murphy, Tim Minear and Brad Falchuk to bring” 9- 9- 1- 1 ”Spinoff to close after five season. In this interview with BlackRaisani even speaks to how he thinks “9-1-1″ (now broadcast on ABC) will one day be able to fill this world-ending final with an emergency that somehow competes with the impending apocalypse on ” Lone Star. “

Where did the idea come from this last emergency from? And it is teased at the top of the episode that the asteroid will not be the only part of the emergency in the final, yes?

The high concept that this episode is the asteroid and the secondary crisis it causes for our characters-our role crew and our crew, we would all be in this kind of world world for us when our show was canceled, in all our minds , too early. I think it was added where we would end this season and put all our characters and our audience through this feeling that the world just ended for suddenly. And that is the theme of these last two episodes, in all the history lines and also with regard to our actual emergency.

We were looking for an emergency that started with that theme. So the two ways the world could end up prematurely would be, 1) the asteroid that we thought was the perfect metaphor of what we felt, and then, 2) what the asteroid entails in the final that I won’t spoil , if you couldn’t derive it from the opening of this episode.

After this you think it will be pretty difficult for “9-1-1” to top this series final when it’s time for the show to end on ABC one day?

It’s funny because Tim and I work hand in hand. We are both executors at both shows, which is why we always think we have to make each episode, whether “Lone Star” or “9-1-1,” you look at each one and say, “What is the best thing that we can do for this moment of every single show?” And we never draw blows. One thing we often have to say is, “wait you can’t do it. We just did In section 5 ″ of this show. that we find out something for “9-1-1.”

In this episode, we find that TK and Carlos are not approved to adopt Jonah strictly because of their high -risk. Does this mean that one of them will leave their chosen career so they can continue to adopt him?

I once read it, “There is no meaning without a victim.” So to make the most meaningful decision from one of their lives, someone will have to make a decision. This decision is made before the apocalyptic event, in both cases that you see in the final. But I think you’re on something.

At the end of the episode, it is strongly understood that Tommy has died because of the effects of her cancer, and she even sees her late husband Charles welcoming her into the afterlife before she seems to go away. Can you confirm if she is dead going into the final?

I have said when we did this whole trip with Tommy’s cancer and with Gina, the actor, we also really have to go all the way. And a large part of that was also an option in this episode for Tommy to get it in full circle. And to be honest, I took a lot of warmth to end the relationship Trevor and Tommy, but part of why we did it is because I knew this is where we would take her character in full circle with this love for Her life. And not to get too personal, but when my mother, just before she passed, I was in her hospital room and she told me how her mother and father had come to visit her that morning. And it was so alive for her. She didn’t say it as if, “Oh they’re ghosts.” She just said it as if it was happening. And then she didn’t go long after, and it gave her such comfort. And I think it’s stuck with me.

And it was actually Tim Minear who said we should find a way to get Charles back in the show before it’s too late. And it was a deep anchor of inspiration that we really wanted to come to. And it looked like this was the way we could really show what the love in her life meant to her, and also this cancerous fight would require the ultimate, I wouldn’t say price – but she wanted to go to the ends of themselves. So that’s what I want to say about it.

You come into two major character stories in this penultimate episode: Mateo is deported and Paul mentoring a non -binary teenager who is jeopardizing stunts to gain acceptance and popularity. Why did you decide to approach these two topics with so little time back in the show?

As I said before, part of the theme of these last two episodes is that your world can end at any time. And for Mateo, he is right in gardening with his girlfriend and he thinks he has an existential moment when she reveals she does not want to marry, but in fact it is, no, the real existential threat is due of his exciting Daca status, even an injustice could cost him everything. And what you want to see in the final, I think, is that it will lead Mateo to the ultimate growth site in this series by doing so. So it was part of it, to tell that mateo story at the end.

And as far as Paul’s story, funny enough, when there were about four episodes left of our show, Brian Smith, who plays Paul, came to me and said, “Look, in the pilot for this show, the way Owen is able to convince Paul to stay in Austin, he says, ‘a place out there in Austin is a child, just as you see who is not feeling accepted for who they are and maybe one day they will see a firefighter as you and believe they mean something. “” And he said, “wouldn’t it be cool if we wrapped up before the show, did we do well on the little promise? “And I thought it was a brilliant idea. So Brian is the reason we did that story because he brought it up from the pilot and it led to the Jax story.

Owen is just about to tell the 126 about his plans to leave and move back to New York to walk up the city’s fire department when the asteroidal arm comes in. Should they all manage it through this, will Owen continue with his decision to leave Austin?

Well, first he has to live. I say that. I think what we wanted to show in this episode is that you can put together what you want to put together in your own mind. “I’ve been thinking about it. I reflected on it. I want to do this, ”and then real life has something to say about it. And how do you handle it when your plans get foamed because Fortune turns back to you. So you see him experience it. You know if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. That’s what happens to Owen.

This interview is edited and condensed.