Warning: SPOILERS ahead for 9-1-1: Lone Star season 5, episode 12!9-1-1: Lone Star showrunner Rashad Raisani has explained the series’ ending, unpacking the message he wanted to leave viewers with in its final moments. 9-1-1: Lone Star season 5 features the most difficult task the 126 has ever faced, the team trying to stop a nuclear meltdown after an astroid crashes into Austin, Texas. Despite the many hardships they face in the final episode, a flash-forward confirms everyone on the team survived. The show ends with Owen (Rob Lowe) heading back to New York, his work rebuilding the firehouse complete.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly about the final episode, Raisani explained how he didn’t want to lean into the pain of the show ending earlier than expected with season 5. Instead, the showrunner wanted to leave the show on an uplifting note, highlighting how, despite the difficulties the team have faced, they’ve managed to persevere against all odds. Check out what Raisani had to say below:
My ultimate feeling was, ‘It’s hard enough that the show’s ending too early. That, to me, was the real loss. So why not allow these people to emerge, and give the audience a message of hope at the end of it? Letting them see these characters went through hell, but they came out the other side. I wanted to leave them with that instead of ‘The show is over and, just so you know, TK is dead,’ or something like that.
What 9-1-1: Lone Star’s Ending Says About The Show
Despite Difficulties, The Team Got A Satisfying Conclusion
9-1-1: Lone Star‘s characters went through various hardships throughout season 5, all of which defined the storylines that played out across the final episodes. This included Judd (Jim Parrack) helping his son, Wyatt (Jackson Pace), after an accident leaves him paralyzed, while Tommy (Gina Torres) struggles with a cancer diagnosis that seemingly kept getting worse. However, by the show’s final moments, all of these issues have been resolved in positive ways, even when it seemed some characters wouldn’t make it out of their situations alive.
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By the end, Judd has been promoted to team captain after Owen departs, while Tommy has returned to her role as an EMS captain. TK (Ronen Rubinstein) and Carlos (Rafael L. Silva) have adopted the former’s stepbrother, Jonah, while Marjan (Natacha Karam) is pregnant, and Mateo (Julian Works) has his citizenship. These positive endings for the show’s long-standing characters reflect Raisani’s purpose with 9-1-1: Lone Star‘s ending: deliver a memorable finale that leaves its characters on an uplifting note, despite the early finale. It makes for a fitting conclusion without any unnecessary tragedy.
Our Take On 9-1-1: Lone Star’s Ending
A Fitting Way To Finish The Spinoff
By ending with uplifting moments for the 126, the procedural spinoff manages to give a memorable, satisfying conclusion to its story, even if it’s bowing out earlier than expected. Thanks to its harrowing storylines and intriguing characters, 9-1-1: Lone Star offered a perfect final episode that encapsulated everything the show has always been about. While it doesn’t seem like anyone is going to come back through its parent show, the final episode offers closure that doesn’t really need to be opened back up.
In October 2024, series creator Ryan Murphy confirmed another 9-1-1 spinoff is in development.
Source: EW
9-1-1: Lone Star
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2020 – 2024
- Network
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FOX