Did Buck hook up with Dixie?! Plus, “9-1-1”’s Oliver Stark and Ryan Guzman tease Buddie’s highway journey ‘thriller’

This text accommodates spoilers for 9-1-1: Nashville season 1, episode 12, titled "Spirit of the Video games."

• 9-1-1 characters Buck (Oliver Stark) and Eddie (Ryan Guzman) headed to Tennessee for a 9-1-1: Nashville crossover episode.
• The episode ended with sparks flying between Buck and Dixie (LeAnn Rimes).
• Subsequent week's 9-1-1 will see Buddie on a highway journey that showrunner Tim Minear says turns right into a "thriller" with "lasting results."

Tornadoes, fireplace, fireplace tornadoes…. The probabilities introduced by combining the worlds of 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Nashville are virtually infinite. However there's one factor the Nashville writers immediately knew they needed to do when welcoming 9-1-1's Buck (Oliver Stark) and Eddie (Ryan Guzman) to Tennessee for Thursday's crossover episode.

"Nicely," 9-1-1 Nashville showrunner Rashad Raisani tells Leisure Weekly with a smile, “the primary concept that one of many writers pitched was, 'I feel that Dixie ought to hook up with Buck.' And I simply thought, 'Nicely, that's a winner.'"

Raisani wasn't precisely positive the place within the episode that connection between Stark's Los Angeles firefighter and LeAnn Rimes' nation singer would happen (Throughout the Firefighter Video games? His first evening out in Nashville?) however in the end the staff landed on Buck and Dixie ending up subsequent to one another at a bar on the finish of the episode.

"So, uh, what's your title, cowboy?" Dixie asks Buck, having beforehand ogled the shirtless firefighter in the course of the Firefighter Video games.

The episode ends there, leaving audiences with two probably questions: 1. The place did Buck get that disco cowboy hat? and a pair of. Did Buck and Dixie truly hook up?

To reply the much less essential query, Raisani says pairing Buck with Dixie wasn’t nearly shock worth — it was about vitality. "We simply all the time needed to point out off Dixie’s… she’s to not be underestimated in any circumstance," he says. "So she’ll be there to hook up with the hunk on the finish."

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Okay, however that also doesn't reply the query. So we went to Tim Minear, who co-created 9-1-1: Nashville with Raisani and serves as co-creator and showrunner of 9-1-1.

"Did they get collectively?" Minear replies coyly when requested a query that assumes Dixie and Buck went house collectively. Regardless, he cherished the thought of throwing one of many franchise’s most adorable firefighters into Dixie's sights: "Clearly, any probability to place any of the characters in a scene with LeAnn Rimes goes to be a plus."

If sparks did proceed to fly, Buck and Eddie may have loads of time to speak about it, as the 2 will head out on what Minear describes as a "highway journey…dare I say, thriller."

Sure, subsequent week's 9-1-1 will see the buddies journeying again from Nashville — and it’s not precisely a clean journey.

"It actually felt like we have been making a distinct present virtually for a few weeks," Stark says. "The tone may be very totally different. The look of the present may be very totally different. It was only a actually pleasing, refreshing expertise."

The ninth season's thirteenth episode was largely on location, with the forged and crew staying in a lodge and dealing away from their standard units — a shift that Stark says added to the cinematic really feel. "It not solely felt totally different to make it, but it surely feels totally different to look at it," he says. "It takes the present in a brand new course. When you’ve acquired virtually 150 episodes, it’s enjoyable to department out and do these little odd bottle episodes right here and there."

"It's nonetheless very tied to 9-1-1, but it surely does really feel like its personal factor," provides Guzman. "The best way it was shot, the coloring — every thing is just a little darker. But it surely all the time has to have some levity. It's 9-1-1 on the finish of the day."

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For followers invested in Buck and Eddie’s dynamic — a relationship that’s weathered grief, profession shifts, and deeply private reckonings — the highway journey guarantees to place them below stress in a brand new means.

"There shall be some lasting results from their sojourn to Nashville after we get again," Minear teases.

As Guzman mentioned: It is 9-1-1 on the finish of the day.

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