Owen, Tarlos Endings and ABC Spinoff plans

Spoiler Alert: This article contains spoilers from Monday’s series final of FOX’s “9-1-1: Lone Star”, entitled “Homecoming.”

After five seasons of life-saving, it’s time to thank 126 for their service and say goodbye to “9-1-1: Lone Star.” In the series final episode of Ryan Murphy-created Fox First-Response Drama, a spinoff of the series “9-1-1” (now broadcast on ABC), Owen Strand (Rob Lowe) saves the day-and all Austin, Texas – by disabling an nuclear reactor that has been offset by an asteroid collision.

It is the Big Bang that ends that “9-1-1” franchise fans expected from a show proud of its increasingly wild emergencies, and a heartbreaking until it’s last moments. After a short fake release, it survived that Owen survived his injuries inflicted during the emergency, and has left 126 to return to New York. The station mourns over the loss – but not loss of life – of his former captain when the title advances to Judd (Jim Parrack). Owen’s son, TK (Ronen Rubinstein), and his husband Carlos (Rafael Silva) emerge to honor the transition, although TK is now withdrawn from the job to raise Jonah, his little-brother-over-adopted son with Carlos.

It’s a bittersweet that Lowe was proud to follow through, after all the work Owen set in to save 126 after the death for so many of its original team members who followed his own matches after losing his team in it 11 .

“He had completed his mission, his mission for the show, the notion of the show and from the very first moment of the pilot, which was: rebuilding his family, saving his son and then rebuilding the broken family of 126 in Austin,” Lowe said Black. “And he leaves 126 in Austin completely rebuilt, completely functional, a large family – and the same for his son. And now it’s time for Owen to enter because he goes east, the sunrise, not the sunset and builds the next chapter of his life. “

Meanwhile, TK has chosen his own path by leaving his boss Tommy (Gina Torres) who has recovered from cancer (after apparently very unwelvy in the previous episode!), And the other EMTs of 126 for stay- At-Home Father /”Papa Bro” role in his new life with Carlos and Jonah.

“When we introduced Jonah, you felt that this could be where the direction of Tarlos is going,” Rubinstein said of where we leave the fan favorite couple, which consists of TK and Carlos. “For me, it’s personally extra surreal. The show seems to really imitate life and mimic art to me very often for all of my great life’s moments. And when we filmed season 5, I had a baby on the way and I have a son now that just turned four months old. And knowing that the direction of the season would be me who has a son on the show, it is bisarr.

“I think it’s a really catartic, beautiful full circle of how I wanted us to finish the show for these two. And for TK, it’s really a happy ever for them and a beautiful way to leave these characters. “

With “9-1-1”, which is still strong on its new network ABC and “Lone Star” is canceled on Fox primarily due to complications about Disney’s ownership of the franchise study, 20. TV, not its lack of popularity-Lowe, Rubinstein and Silva have all expressed interest in reprise their roles either on the Los Angeles set “9-1-1” or the upcoming spinoff in the works at ABC.

“I never never say to anything,” Lowe said. “I learned it long ago. It’s always a function of, what is the story, what is the manuscript, who does it, how well is the show? Is it a cheaper, wannabe version, or will it continue to have the kind of production value characteristic that we are really proud of as we did on our show?

“Who knows?” Lowe concluded. “We will have to see what everything looks like.”

Rubinstein says it “would be a little impossible to say no,” and Silva thinks there is still “so much beautiful opportunity to build the world” for their characters. Then count them in.

Here’s “Lone Star” Showrunner Rashad Raisani with Black About how he made the final with co-creator Tim Minear so these characters could return within the “9-1-1” universe (Raisani is a writer and producer of the “9-1-1” mothers) and what it took to pull in the last budget-prelimal emergency.

There are a few minutes of the final set aside to present Verizon’s Thor (Tactical Humanitarian Operations Response) trucks. How did this prominent product placement come up with in the “9-1-1-1: Lone Star” series?

It’s fun when you try to make things as ambitious as we were, you’re always right on the line with your financial ability to make them. And at any time there is something that can give you a boost that can make something more amazing I am too. And it just happened that Verizon offers this piece of technology that just cuddled, the universe, God put it on the path. It’s the perfect thing that fits what we need to do, which is the stars falling and they turn out cell towers and what if there is a huge emergency that no one can reach help?

Yes, it was at the end of the day, about the cold, hard cash – but I have been part of many product placement things in the many years of my career, and this one, for me, felt the best of anyone you have ever done. Because what is cool is minus a beauty shot or two, that’s what really would happen. As when fires hit LA, they really did Implement Thors. It’s actually a life -saving thing. So it made me feel ok with it, and quite frankly, to feel grateful to it to Verizon to help us both on screen with their technology and the things that really do a fantastic job and also financially to let Us tell a cooler finale because we had some of the resources to do so. They saved the day and our budget.

You forged us for a moment but Owen did not die, Tommy did not die – no one died in the final. Why did you make that choice?

Part of that ironic enough was that I had decided I wouldn’t kill someone in the series final because I just felt like I would end this show with a sense of hope that went out of it and that life goes In a beautiful way. Because the world is tough enough and us were canceled, just as we kind of hit our prime, it was so painful that we just felt like “yes, it will be hard enough, so let’s end up with hope.” And then I thought, “Well, if that’s the case, if we want to end up with hope, let’s make everyone like as much as possible until we get there.” Because that feeling of joy at the end, it takes you for a moment to go, “Oh, this is beautiful!” I really wanted it and that’s how we felt when we broke it. Hopefully this feeling that we are sending to the audience, the same thing we have, which is that if we can do these scenes the right way – he is gone, it is sad that he left. But for these characters, they have the right conversations when they talk about being gone, and of course we reveal to the audience that he has lived all the time. He is right here in a very different capacity than he was in most of our series.

Wanna bring back these characters either on “9-1-1” or the new spinoff created at ABC?

I hope so. I hope it happens. I certainly wouldn’t say no to that. That’s one of the beautiful things about all of them being alive is it who knows? Maybe they either come to LA or anywhere this next thing is set, or someone from these shows will end down in Texas and we can have a few of our characters representing 126.

I would love it. I love working with every single one of them. I thought they were all beautifully talented and I felt we had more stories to tell them all. So that would be pleased.

This interview is edited and condensed.