After recovering from his injuries from the tsunami, Buck finally takes a light duty role and wants to work his way back up to a full firefighter. But after learning that someone he trusted was responsible for his benching to light duties in the first place, Buck decides to take action and sue the city, the department and the one responsible for his wrongful termination. While, Hen and Karen discuss the possibility of expanding their family.
As the 118 arrives to a fire drill practice, it is revealed that Buck is now on light duty as the Fire Marshall, but during the evacuation, one person has a seizure on the stairwell, causing a domino effect, and this causes some problems between Nash and Buck afterwards.
Hen and Karen are talking to Athena about expanding their family later on while off-duty and elsewhere, Chimney complains to Maddie about Buck's new position as Fire Marshall, until Maddie suddenly drops and smashes a plate, and leaves in a hurry. Chimney voices his concerns to Eddie, who is worried about Christopher, who is PTSD from the tsunami and having nightmares about it, making it hard for Eddie to sleep as well. Buck arrives at the 118 to find Lena Bosko from Station 136 subbing for him until he's restored to full duty, much to his chagrin, as he makes clear as he rips the temporary nametag from where his nametag and helmet sit in the lockers after the station heads out on a call.
Eddie is soon awoken again one night as Christopher has another nightmare about the tsunami, and decides to speak to a psychiatric counselor over it. The counselor shows Eddie several drawings that Christopher drew, including a drowning woman, and suggests he needs more time.
Maddie gets a 911 call, but when the woman hangs up after hearing a man catch her on the phone, she tries to call back, but the man answers, and though Maddie tries to use a cover story for calling back, the guy tells her to not call back before hanging up. Speaking to her superior, it is decided to wait on things in order to avoid making it worse.
Meanwhile, Buck speaks to the attorney he saw at the fire drill, and when the attorney knows about Buck's condition, he offers to help Buck with getting back at his co-workers, but Buck initially refuses.
The 118 arrives to where an SUV fell down a cliff when the ground collapsed underneath it, and are able to rescue the mother and two sons before they have to cut the SUV loose and let it roll to the bottom of the ravine. The near-death experience seems to have really taught the two brothers and their mother a lesson about valuing the time they have together since the Grim Reaper could come for them at any moment.
Maddie investigate the call she took with some help from Athena, while when Buck comes for dinner with Bobby and Athena, Bobby reveals he gave the authorization to have Buck relegated to light duty as he was not ready to return to full duty yet. Stung upon hearing that, Buck leaves immediately, and goes to see the attorney about getting back at Bobby for what he did, even heartlessly saying he is not concerned about Chimney, Hen, and the rest of the 118 regarding his case against Bobby, the LAFD, and Los Angeles for his situation.
The 118 is called to an estate sale where the two sisters who were getting ready to sell the house had been in an argument, and unfortunately, one of them tried on her late mother's ring while the other was asleep, but an allergic reaction caused it to get stuck to her finger, causing her to panic. With little options available, Hen and Chimney are forced to cut the ring off to save the finger, and Hen cuts it in half so each sister gets half of it, sarcastically reminding them that "sharing is caring".
Maddie meanwhile meets the woman who tried to call 911 and hung up, and also her husband when she recognizes the car from her earlier stakeout, who seem to leave on good terms. However, upon coming to work at the 911 center, she finds Chimney there, wanting to talk to her before her shift starts about the Deja vu he experienced during the cliff rescue and assuring Maddie to talk to him if there's any more problems.
One night, Hen and Karen discuss whether or not to go through with getting more children, still agreeing that they are ready for it, Eddie tucks in Christopher and figures out that the one drawing he did regarding the tsunami was of Shannon, his late mom and Eddie's wife, allowing them some time to mourn and reminisce of her, and Buck arrives at Bobby and Athena's with not just an apology for the dinner, but to slam Bobby with the bad news that Buck is suing the City of Los Angeles, LAFD, and Bobby for Wrongful Termination of Employment, to Bobby and Athena's shock before he leaves, swearing that he'll keep fighting to get his job back, even if it means fighting Bobby to do it in a court of law.
Tropes featured in the episode:
- Drunkwith Power: Played for Laughs in the case of Buck in the opening, who has taken on the role of Fire Marshall. Chimney even lampshades it, to which Maddie calls him a hypocrite for when he did the same when he was acting as captain towards the end of Season 2.
