911 Lone Star Showrunner on Asteroid, Tommy Death and Tarlos Ending

Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers from Monday from Fox’s’ 9-1-1: Lone Star” titled “Impact.”

The Sky literally falls when Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star” closes his penultimate episode on Monday. The members of the 126 brace themselves for the impact of an asteroid that they found about a few minutes earlier, and the audience is waiting for the final of next week, who will reveal the fate of not only our beloved heroes, but all of Austin. And if they survive this Cataclysmic event, there are still all loose ends in their personal lives that have to be tied up.

Does Owen (Rob Lowe) really leave the 126 to go back to New York? Will TK (Ronen Rubinstein) and Carlos (Rafael Silva) find a way to adopt Jonah? Is Tommy (Gina Torres) actually dead when we see her last on that couch, the following months of Chemo who have not proved successful when treating her cancer? Will Mateo (Julian Works) be deported? How will Paul (Brian Michael Smith) help Jax?

Here to answer all your burning questions Prior to the final of the “9-1-1: Lone Star” series is Showrunner Rashad Raisani, who has worked closely in addition to series makers Ryan Murphy, Tim Minear and Brad Falchuk for the ” 9-1- 1 “spin-off after five season. In this interview with VarietyRaisani even talks about how he thinks that “9-1-1” (now broadcast on ABC) will be able to surpass this world-ending final with an emergency situation that somehow is the approaching apocalyps on “Lone Star” can match.

Where did the idea for this last emergency situation come from? And it is plagued at the top of the episode. The asteroid is not the only part of the emergency situation in the final, yes?

The high concept of this episode is the asteroid and the secondary crisis that it causes for our characters-our cast and our crew, we all had in this kind of end of the world for us when our show was canceled, in all our thoughts, too Early. I think that was steeped in where we wanted to end this season and all our characters and our audience stated through this feeling that the world just ended too abruptly. And that is the theme of the latter two episodes, in all storylines, and also in terms of our actual emergency situation.

We were looking for an emergency that started with that theme. So then the two ways in which the world would end too early, the asteroid, who we believe was the perfect metaphor of how we felt, and then, 2) the thing that the asteroid caused in the final I will Do not spoil completely, if you could not distract it from the opening of this episode.

Do you think that it will be quite difficult for “9-1-1” to surpass this serial final if it is time for that show to end up on ABC one day?

It’s funny, because Tim and I work hand in hand. We are both executive producers in both shows, and so we always think we should make every episode, whether it is “Lone Star” or “9-1-1”, you look at everyone and say: “What is the Best thing we can do for the moment of every specific show? This show. -1-1. “

In this episode we find out that TK and Carlos are not approved to strictly adopt Jonah because of their high-risk jobs. Does this mean that one of them will stop their chosen careers so that they can continue to adopt him?

I once read that: “There is no meaning without sacrifice.” So to make the most meaningful decision of one of their lives, someone will have to make a decision. This decision is taken before the apocalyptic event, in both cases, as you will see in the final. But I think you’re working on something.

At the end of the episode it was heavily implied that Tommy died because of the effects of her cancer, and she even sees her deceased husband Charles welcoming her in the hereafter before she seems to die. Can you confirm if she is dead in the final?

I said that when we did this entire trip with Tommy’s cancer and with Gina, the actor, also that we should really go completely. And a large part of it was also a chance in this episode for Tommy to make it come around. And to be honest, I took a lot of heat for ending the Trevor and Tommy relationship, but a part of why we did it is because I knew this was where we wanted to take a circle with this love of her life. And not to become too personal, but when my mother, just before she passed, I was in her hospital room, and she told me how her father and mother had come to visit her that morning. And it was so lively for her. She didn’t say, “Oh, they are spirits.” She just said it was happening. And then she did not go long after and it gave her so comforting. And I think that stayed with me.

And it was actually Tim Minear who said we had to find a way to get Charles back in the show before it’s too late. And that was a deep anchor of inspiration that we really wanted to reach. And it seemed that this was the way we could really show what that love of her life meant to her, and this cancer fight would also require the ultimate, I don’t want to say a price – but that she would have to go to the end of to go. So that’s what I will say about it.

You enter two large character story lines in this penultimate episode: Mateo is deported and Paul Mentor a non -teenager who is in stunts in stunts to get acceptance and popularity. Why did you decide to approach these two topics with so little time left in the show?

As I said before, part of the theme of the latter two episodes is that your world could end at any time. And for Mateo he is just in the garden shop with his girlfriend, and he thinks he has an existential moment when she reveals that she does not want to get married, but actually, no, the real existential threat is because of his weak daca status, even An injustice can cost him everything. And what you will see in the final, I think, is that the Mateo will lead to the ultimate place of growth in this series by doing it. So that was part of it to tell that Mateo story at the end.

And then, as far as Paul, Story, funny enough, when there were about four episodes of our show, Brian Smith, who plays Paul, came to me and said: “Look, in the pilot of this show, the way in which Owen is able to convince Paul to stay in Austin, he says: ‘Somewhere in Austin is a child, just like you who watch who does not feel accepted for who they are, and maybe they will one day one Firefighter like you see and believe that they matter. And I thought that was a brilliant idea.

Owen is about to tell the 126 about his plans to leave and go back to New York to lead the fire brigade of the city when the asteroid alert comes in. Should she endure all of this, does Owen continue his decision to leave his decision Austin?

Well, first he has to live. I’ll say that. I think what we wanted to show in this episode is that you can come up with everything you want to come up with in your own thoughts. “I thought about it. I thought about it. I’m going to do this, “and then real life has something to say about it. And how do you deal with it when your plans are sustained, because Fortune gives you back. So you will see him experience that. You know, if you want God to laugh, tell him your plans. That is what happens for Owen.

This interview has been edited and condensed.