‘9-1-1’: Angela Bassett Tells Fans Hoping Bobby’s Alive ‘I’m Making No Promises’
9-1-1 is gearing up to head into its first full season without the 118’s captain after Bobby Nash (Peter Krause) tragically died on the job with three episodes still to go last spring. That’s not a death that fans are going to get over any time soon — and according to Angela Bassett (who plays Bobby’s now widow, Athena), one of her siblings is among them.
“My sister’s one of the fans, and she won’t stop talking about it,” she admitted to TODAY.com. “She is mad” and has said to Bassett, “It don’t make sense… Is he coming back?”
Unfortunately, Bassett doesn’t have anything to say that will make it easier for fans or her sister. “I have to keep his memory alive in some way. I’m making no promises. I’m wondering just like you, just like the fans.”
It would be quite the elaborate ruse should Bobby somehow be alive, but his death was pretty definitive, even though we didn’t see his body and only saw the body bag being carried out before the episode in which he died — the 15th of the season — ended with a shot of his helmet.
“Initially, it was just going to be the body bag,” showrunner Tim Minear told TV Insider of the image he was going to leave viewers with. When we couldn’t help but go “oof,” he shared, “The reaction that you’re having is the reaction that I was going for. People did not seem to like that, which is why I knew it was probably right. But when we were editing the episode, we found that shot [of the helmet], and I’m just like, ‘Put it at the end.'”
The three episodes after showed how Athena and the rest of the 118 grieved Bobby’s death. What they did not do was name a new captain of the 118. That, as well as seeing where Athena will be living — she put the house she and Bobby were building together when he died on the market at the end of the finale — are among the chief orders of business for 9-1-1 when Season 9 begins. And while we did see Peter Krause after Bobby’s death, via flashbacks and hallucinations, we don’t expect that to continue this fall.
What are you hoping to see in Season 9? Let us know in the comments section below.
9-1-1, Season 9 Premiere, Thursday, October 9, 8/7c, ABC
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I won‘t watch this show anymore. Without Bobby Nash this show is dead to me.
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Also Angela you are one of the executive producers on the show and your sister is right. Please bring Bobby back. You and Bobby made a great couple.
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I think you can still bring Bobby back .Even though there was a funeral and everything . Bobby was and still is very important to the show. No offense to the other characters ,they are all excellent but the show needs Bobby to balance out with Athena and the other people of the 118. Please reconsider and figure out a way to bring him back. The writers have done some pretty fancy stuff with the storylines. They can do it again.
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I can't seem to watch it anymore, I know main characters sometimes die,but I have watch other series that kept them alive too and it went on for several seasons, because we love them.
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Remember when Tim said Bobby's death would bring all these new opportunities for the show? turns out 'new opportunities' just means erasing bobby completely and leaving everything else exactly the same only now it's more depressing because they took away the heart of the show…
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We will see who tunes in to watch this show now that Tim ripped the heart out of it (and rubbed fans faces in it at every opportunity). If they honor the real grief the characters would feel over Bobby, it’ll be a depressing slog. And, if they skip over it the way Tim seems determined to do, it’ll piss viewers off. As for me? As much as I love Angela Bassett, I have no desire to watch any longer and certainly won’t be tuning in for whatever that Nashville thing is.
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I hated that they killed Bobby off. So mad I wished I was rich so I could punch my TV, lol. Just kiddy about that, but I did grieve. I wanted Athena to go shoot something. But she is too much of a Lady for that. I say bring Bobby back and only let Athena know about it. Slipping around in the dark and being just the two of them. For awhile, anyway.
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I would like to see Buck or Diaz named Captain since Chimmey and Hen turned it down
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