TK questions his future, Judd’s father gets into trouble at his home, and Michelle learns what happened to her sister.
Tropes featured in the episode:
- Afraid of Doctors: Harry, the boy who got a toy car stuck up his nose, though he's more afraid of hospitals; when Paul asks him why, Harry says that his mother went to the hospital when she got bad headaches. She never came back from there one day, so he associates it with death.
- Cliffhanger: The episode ends with a call coming through the 9-1-1 operator center from a space station, warning of something that’s going to hit Earth’s atmosphere.
- Continuity Nod: Judd tells the group about a firefighter in LA who got a rebar through his head and returned to work within a couple of months. The 126 find this wildly implausible.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Judd deals with this attitude from his elderly father, Stuart, who starts having trouble with living independently at home (such as falling on the floor while walking to the bathroom and lying there for several hours, then accidentally falling through a glass table and getting his leg impaled with glass). He eventually relents to wearing an emergency alarm on his person after the second accident.
- Easily Forgiven: A justified example. While recovering from his gunshot wound, TK, accompanied by Owen, decides to visit the boy who shot him in the previous episode, Colt. TK then gently assures Colt that he is doing okay, and understands the boy wanting to protect his grandparents, being scared out of his mind, and that shooting at the first responder was an accident.
- Face Palm: TK does this in amused embarrassment when Owen asks him how long he’s been seeing Carlos.
- Food as Bribe: Marjan attempts to become Buttercup’s favourite through the use of food.
- Hollywood Healing: After being shot and falling into a level two coma, TK is released from the hospital the very next day after he wakes up and all he has to show for it is a bandage peeking out of the collar of his shirts.
- I Never Said It Was Poison: When Zoe tells TK that it’s common for people to question their life choice after a Near-Death Experience, TK tells her that he’s always wanted to be a firefighter even since he was a kid. Zoe says she never mentioned anything about being a firefighter.
- I Want Grandkids: Judd's father agrees to wear an emergency alarm at his home if his son and Grace gives him a grandchild.
- Instant Birth: Just Add Labor!: The stress of the accident at the gender reveal party causes the expecting mother to go into labour and have the baby right then and now. Could be justified as this is her fourth child and she knows what she’s meant to be feeling. Also, the duration of labor is reduced with every subsequent pregnancy.
- Irony: A father wanted to know how his son was able to get a toy car stuck up his nose, he tries it and then gets the toy stuck in his nose.
- Man on Fire: At the gender reveal party, the man at the barbecue catches fire due to the reaction of the starched-based pink dust and the open flame of the BBQ he was standing next to. He’s able to survive it due to falling into the pool.
- Man Hug: Between TK and Mateo after TK comes to the fire station after being released from the hospital. Mateo quickly backs off when he accidentally aggravates TK’s bullet wound, with apologies.
- Near-Death Experience: A father nearly dies when he falls head first into a very narrow hole while spelunking with his son, Keithan; this position puts pressure onto his chest and he nearly stops breathing. The 126 are able to rescue him with Keithan’s help and encouragement.
- Nose Shove:
- The 126 respond to a call involving a child named Harry, who accidentally stuck a toy car up his nose.
- They are then called back again to the same house because Harry’s father wanted to know how his child got the toy car that far up in his nose… and also gets it stuck in his nose.
- Parental Abandonment: TK claims that when he was 7, Owen left their family and became focused on his firehouse family instead.
- Season Finale: First part of the two-part finale.
- Shock Party: The gender reveal party initially involves the 126 firefighters and paramedics, but when the paramedics leave the scene, the stress of the earlier events causes the mother to go into early labour. While the couple were told that they were expecting a girl, the mother gives birth to another son, making that her 4th boy.
- Shout-Out: To the original 9-1-1, Judd mentions hearing from a friend about a firefighter in Los Angelesnote who got impaled through the head with rebar and was back to work in a matter of weeks.
- Trauma-Induced Amnesia: After waking up from his coma, TK reveals that he doesn't remember getting shot and has to ask Owen what happened.
- Wanted A Daughter Instead: The family of the gender reveal party already have three boys and the parents were looking forward to finally having a little girl, just like the pink cloud said. Turns out the gender revealed at the party was wrong and they get another boy, with the mother bursting into tears at the news.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: At the start of the episode, a 7-year-old TK overhears his parents arguing about Owen staying out later than usual to help one of the firefighters at the 252. In the present, TK admits that at least part of why he followed Owen into firefighting was because of the times he’d become Married to the Job and started focusing more on his crew at the 252 than with him and his mother.
- You Are in Command Now: Judd is temporarily in charge of the 126 while Owen stays with TK at the hospital while he’s in his coma.
- You Won't Feel a Thing!: Paul promises a young boy that he won’t be in any pain when he pulls a toy car out from his nose. Turns out that removing an object that is wedged in hard from one’s nose does hurt and the boy calls out Paul for lying to him. The team teases Paul for lying to a child.
