Overview
- The Season 9 installment frames Eddie’s reflections on life and the afterlife through Día de los Muertos rituals and imagery.
- High-concept Halloween-style emergencies provide spectacle as the 118 balance personal burdens with on-the-job crises.
- Buck wrestles with unsettling moments in his new home as he processes the loss of Captain Bobby Nash.
- Athena navigates family tensions as questions about first-responder careers resurface at home.
- Early reviews, including from Collider, call the episode tonally uneven and a missed opportunity to advance Eddie’s developing arc.