Buck decides to dip his toes back into the dating scene but is scared that he’ll slip back into Buck 1.0 ways. He then starts to think that there’s something more than friendship between Maddie and Chimney.
The 118 is called in as a woman named Lola is blocking up traffic while standing on a highway sign, calling for her husband Norman. Athena, LAPD, and CHP are trying to convince her to come down, but Lola refuses until Norman comes and they work out their relationship. Norman, having discovered his wife's actions via the newsfeed on someone's cellphone as he was stuck in the gridlock further back and got out to grab something from a food truck also caught in the traffic jam, calls into 911 and gets an LAPD escort to Lola's location. Meanwhile, Lola sees the 118 having brought the airbag up, and reveals a snub-nosed revolver, shooting the airbag to deflate it, and then turning it on Buck, only for Athena to warn her that if she shoots Buck or keeps the gun aimed at him, every LAPD and CHP officer there will shoot her full of lead to protect him as they all have their pistols, shotguns, and assault rifles now aimed at her and primed to fire. Not wanting to die, Lola lowers the revolver, and Buck tries to negotiate with her.
Norman soon arrives, and tries to plead with her to surrender, but Lola refuses, until Norman plays their love song over Athena's P.A.. Hearing that, Lola is so stunned and shocked, along with Norman's romantic pleas and apology, that she willingly surrenders, happy to see Norman still does love her, though she is still arrested by Athena as Athena reads her the Miranda Rights as she's taken away after being checked over by LAFD paramedics.
At a bar, Buck meets with Chimney about dating again after Abbie left Los Angeles following her mother's passing, while Bobby has dinner with Athena, Michael, and their children, where Athena mentions the various charges Lola was hit with for what happened on the expressway, leaving her with a big rap sheet that could put her away for some time. Back at the bar, Maddie and Chimney do a little karaoke while Buck drinks as the bar and speaks with the news reporter from Lola's incident, Taylor Kelly. They soon duck into the restroom for a romantic moment while Maddie and Chimney finish their song.
At a gas station, two thieves prepare to rob it, and the clerk calmly calls 911 to report they are being robbed again. As the clerks recognize the thieves and cooperate, until one tries to stop them, the crooks' plan falls apart as the LAPD arrive, and Athena tasers the male suspect in retaliation for calling her a "dumbass", while the female one falls out of the ceiling and has to be treated by the 118 at the scene. The two clerks, a husband and wife, make it clear they still love each other, as the wife, Ruth, tells her husband, Earl, to go with the 118 to be checked out as he's been a hero once already today and not to press his luck by refusing to be looked over at the hospital.
Buck speaks to Taylor again one night, and they once again have a romantic moment in Taylor's newsvan until she was called to report on a big news story.
The 118 is called to join Athena after a car with newlyweds inside ran off the road and got tangled around a tree. They work fast to free the bride and groom from their destroyed "Just Married" car and while the bride is freed quickly, the groom is not freed until after nightfall, being forced to use the tow truck and one of the fire rigs to tear the car apart to free the groom. Athena is impressed when she talks to Bobby about it afterwards.
Chimney brings home groceries and dinner as he, Buck and Maddie eat and talk regarding Buck's future and Buck realizing Chimney and Maddie are dating, before Buck slips away to talk to someone on the phone, but Chimney and Maddie overhear, and Buck groans about dating again.
Meanwhile, an elderly gay couple are having a peaceful moment at home, when as one of them reminisces on their lives together over the years, culminating in their marriage when they were in their older years, and still having fun then, before discussing adding in another memory, but before they can leave to have their memories digitized, one of them is pinned against the gate by the car due to it being shifted into neutral without anyone's notice. The 118 is called in, but by the time they arrive, the pinned man is DOA (Dead On Arrival), and as his life mate discusses his heartbreak to Buck, he asks for some final moments with his love, before he too passes away after saying goodbye to him, with Buck, Bobby, and Eddie unable to resuscitate him, so at least now the gay couple is together again in death, showing just how strong their love truly was.
Chimney visits the 911 call center to look for Maddie and finds her in the break room, where he and Maddie talk about going solid after this.
Athena comes in to find Bobby having whipped up dinner for them, Buck goes to a restaurant to find Taylor there to eat with her, and the ending narration discusses love throughout the ages as all the people seen in the episode are shown still loving each other after what they've been through: Norman visiting Lola at the prison where she's incarcerated, the bride and groom reuniting in the hospital as they recover, Ruth and Earl going about their regular business running their gas station and convenience store again like nothing happened, Bobby and Athena enjoying their dinner, and Buck heading out with Taylor on a date.
Tropes featured in the episode:
- The Bus Came Back: Taylor Kelly and Ali Martin return this episode.
- Shout-Out: The title is one to "Love, Actually".
- Oh, No... Not Again!: During the convenience store robbery, the lady working the store there is mostly annoyed as this is not the first time the robber tried to do this (and not the first girlfriend he had as a partner)
- Together in Death: One emergency has an old gay man die only for his partner to pass on shortly after, holding his husband's hand.
