9-1-1 season 9 is sending Hen and Athena for a joyride into the cosmos — whether or not they prefer it or not.
In Us Weekly’s unique first have a look at the season 9 trailer, launched on Thursday, October 2, Hen (Aisha Hinds) will get provided the chance of a lifetime when (evil) CEO Tripp Houser (Mark Consuelos) presents to ship her into area.
All of it begins with the 118 speeding to avoid wasting Tripp after an accident involving a kayak and a whale leaves him in peril. “A part of what makes somebody an on a regular basis hero is the willingness to avoid wasting lives,” Ryan Guzman’s Eddie says on the high of the teaser earlier than it flashes to Tripp showing to get swallowed by the ocean creature.
After Eddie dives into the ocean and brings him to security, Hen performs CPR on Tripp, who regains consciousness to inform her, “You saved me from that fish.” She replies, “It’s a mammal, sir.”
Tripp then turns into decided to “reward” Hen for her act of heroics, though she claims she was simply doing her “job.” He presents her two seats on a shuttle headed for the cosmos — an expertise Hen hopes to share along with her spouse, Karen (Tracie Thoms).
“Tripp Hauser is sending you to area?” Karen asks, to which Hen responds excitedly, “And also you’re coming with me.” Karen, nonetheless, shouldn’t be . “I’m a severe scientist,” she says. “Tripp Houser doesn’t care about severe science. I can’t go into area.”
Hen then extends the invite to BFF Athena (Angela Bassett), who instantly turns down the provide. “You need me to return with you to area? Completely not!” she declares earlier than the teaser cuts to the 2 girls in area gear. “I can’t imagine you talked me into this,” Athena says whereas shaking her head.
Because the twosome put together to jet off, the remainder of the 118 keep down on Earth and watch by means of TV updates. “Tripp Houser has assembled 5 on a regular basis heroes for this historic flight,” an announcer says as Athena, Hen and their fellow passengers head to their spacecraft in gradual movement.
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As they put together for takeoff, Tripp is alerted to a “geomagnetic storm” that may very well be harmful. Whereas his cohorts urge him to “scrub” the launch, he refuses.
“Punch it,” he calls for because the spacecraft bursts off into the environment.
Issues rapidly take a flip for the more severe when Tripp reveals all “contact has been misplaced” with the spacecraft due to a “sudden” geomagnetic storm, sending Los Angeles into chaos.
“What do you guys suppose is occurring on the market?” Athena’s son, Harry (Elijah M. Cooper), asks the 118 crew. “The tip of the world,” Chimney (Kenneth Choi) replies.
Chimney then leads the best way because the 118 places boots to the bottom to assist civilians survive a number of catastrophes from sky-falling meteors and Tripp will get known as out for understanding concerning the storm and pursuing the launch anyway.

“One factor I learn about our mothers? They by no means quit,” Athena’s daughter, Might (Corinne Massiah), guarantees Hen’s children because the display screen flashes to Hen attempting to tug Athena again into the rocket as she practically floats out to area.
Whereas the 118 shall be confronted with loads of pure disasters when the ABC collection returns on Thursday, October 9, they’ll additionally nonetheless be reeling from the aftermath of Captain Bobby Nash’s (Peter Krause) loss of life. The season 9 premiere, titled “Eat the Wealthy,” will see Athena, Eddie, Chimney, Eddie, Buck (Oliver Stark) and extra come collectively to “dedicate the firehouse in his reminiscence,” the official logline reads.
The 118 shall be renamed “Captain Robert W. Nash Memorial Station 118.”
“It simply felt becoming and proper,” showrunner Tim Minear advised Leisure Weekly final month of honoring Bobby/Krause. “There’s a stability it’s a must to strike. You don’t wish to are available in and really feel like all the pieces is simply going to be unhappy from right here on out, however Bobby’s reminiscence needs to be blessed. And it is a factor that fireside departments do in actual life. They may title a fireplace station after a fallen hero. I feel the concept it will all the time be ‘Bobby’s home’ is type of lovely, and never miserable.”
9-1-1 season 9 premieres on ABC Thursday, October 9, at 8 p.m. ET. Stream episodes the subsequent day on Hulu.