An accident at a Hindu wedding brings up old demons that Bobby has trouble confronting. Abby’s mother disappears in the middle of the night, she enlists the help of Buck to find her. When her ex turns up, Hen struggles to make the correct decision.
Tropes featured in the episode:
- Actually Pretty Funny: Bobby tries to keep himself professionally stoic while watching the carwash worker getting wound up in the brushes, but eventually starts laughing.
- Berserk Button: Bobby goes off on the building's owner when it's revealed the floor was reinforced with Pal-Kal and not steel and concrete.
- Call-Back: Buck tells Athena that Abby was the operator during the Winnetka call.
- Corpsing: Buck, Hen, Bobby and even the car wash owner fall into hysterics upon seeing the worker get caught in the brushes on camera.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Bobby's is shown in more explicit detail through flashbacks.
- Gentle Giant: The guy that found Abby's mother and took her to the hospital is a tough-looking biker guy and is at least a head taller than Abby.
- It Never Gets Any Easier: At the hospital, the man who found Abby's mother said it (Alzheimer's) happened to his abuelita (grandmother), but it doesn't get better.
- Man on Fire: During the apartment fire, one unlucky man comes out covered in flames. Bobby smothers them with his coat, saving him.
- Pulled from Your Day Off: While Abby and Buck are looking for her mother, they help save a girl from a pool after a downed power line falls into the water.
- Ripped from the Headlines: The opening is based on the Versailles wedding hall disaster
where the floor was reinforced with Pal-Kal instead of steel, leading to 23 deaths. - Sad Bollywood Wedding: The episode starts off with the bride and groom in an Arranged Marriage who have never met each other until this day. It gets worse when the floor collapses from underneath everybody.
- Troubled Backstory Flashback: The episode does a flashback to five years prior, showing Bobby's previous family life in Minnesota before the apartment building caught fire. His wife and children died that day.
- Worst Wedding Ever: The Cold Open has the floor everyone at the wedding reception was dancing on collapse. Sixteen are dead after having fallen through two stories, with Bobby saying the number will be higher by the time it's over. The only bright side is that the newlyweds survived.
