Carlos goes on a warpath after learning Iris has gone missing again, while Owen makes strides and stumbles during the progression of the FBI’s investigation of the Honor Dogs.
Tropes:
- Bad "Bad Acting": The 126 paramedics decide to play along with Granger’s delusion of Chrissy being real, with Nancy in particular going a little over-the-top in “encouraging” Chrissy to fight for her life.
- Bait-and-Switch: When reporting to a cliffside, the 126 go to rescue a man’s girlfriend named Chrissy, who he apparently pushed off by accident… only for Paul and Marjan to turn her over and find she is not a gravely wounded human, but a scuffed sex doll.
- Cliffhanger: At the episode’s end, Carlos enters the house Iris was found in, finding and making his way through an underground tunnel that leads from the first dilapidated house’s fireplace to an adjoining kitchen in a second home. Seconds after he comes out and starts looking around, someone behind him whacks him in the head with a shovel, knocking him unconscious.
- Crying Wolf: At the hospital, Iris is questioned by Detective Grier, but due to the lack of evidence of another person in the abandoned house she was found in, the latter is very skeptical of her testimony and chalks it up to a mental break.
- Damsel in Distress: Not long after the cliffside call, Austin Dispatch receives a call from Iris, who shakily whispers her whereabouts and captivity through her kidnapper’s phone. She has to hang up when he wakes up, and gets slammed into a wall, but thankfully Carlos’ unit and the 126 arrive in time to rescue her and treat her wounds.
- Jerkass Ball: After learning that TK was the last person to have spoken to Iris before she went missing, and that he wanted to discuss the divorce proceedings with her, Carlos furiously rebukes him for confronting her. He instantly regrets it, but remains aloof, hypervigilant and short-tempered for the rest of the episode as he focuses on finding his friend. During the cliffside call, he also mistakenly believes that Iris is the victim, and briefly gets into Granger’s face when the latter refuses to answer his questions.
- Too Dumb to Live:
