‘9-1-1: Nashville’ Stars Reveal Which Classic ‘9-1-1’ Disaster They Want to Steal

ABC’s thrilling procedural 9-1-1 has many allures, but one of the biggest is its multi-episode emergencies. The show has become famous for recreating disaster-movie emergencies, making every season premiere feel like an event. The series has tackled everything, from train derailments to tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and even a cruise ship disaster. 9-1-1 is one of ABC’s most popular shows, and naturally it has led to spin-offs.

The show’s first offshoot is the 2020 series 9-1-1: Lone Star. The now-ended series is also a first responder drama, but it followed first responders in Texas. Like the flagship series, Lone Star also tackled multi-episode disasters. The second spin-off is the now-airing 9-1-1: Nashville, which also follows the same premise in Tennessee. The spin-off jumped straight in with a multi-episode tornado and stadium-collapse disaster arc across its first few episodes. In the series premiere, a powerful tornado tears through Nashville, hits a country music festival, and forces Captain Don Hart and Fire Station 113 into high-stakes rescue missions.

Naturally, the show’s cast hasn’t had as many disaster openers as the flagship series, with the spin-off in its second season. But when it happens, what emergency would be ideal? Collider’s Maggie Lovitt caught up with series stars Hailey Kilgore and Juani Feliz for an episode of Collider Set Stories, and the multi-episode disaster question came up. Kilgore revealed that her ideal emergency would separate the team, forcing them to rely on their skills to save people when communication breaks down. “One of my favorite rescues/episodes from the original 9-1-1 is the tsunami episode,” Kilgore said, referencing the multi-episode opener from 9-1-1 Season 3 that has ranked as one of the most popular emergencies ever done on the show.

Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.

You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.

• The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
  honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
  against him.
• You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
  then completely immovable past it.
• Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
  and turning it into technique rather than noise.
• People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
  work.

You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.

• This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
  because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
• You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
  defend it past the point of reason.
• You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
  an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
• The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.

You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.

• This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
  rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
• You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
  administrative error.
• You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
  The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
• Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.

You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.

• Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
  bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
• You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
  and then it makes you unstoppable.
• You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
  and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
• You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.

Why Hailey Kilgore and Juani Feliz Would Like a Tsunami-Like Emergency.

“That was very epic,” Feliz concurred. Kilgore explained that the allure comes from the sheer challenge of pulling off a rescue without the normal support system that makes the job easier for the team. “Something like that, where something epic has taken over this city — like a natural disaster type of thing. And all of us first responders are just living in our life; we feel like, ‘I need to go out there and save people.’ That’s cool,” Feliz explained.

Meanwhile, duty calls in this week’s new episode when a “blinding agent strikes Nashville during a pollen storm, leaving Blythe and others critically ill. Rogue and the 113 race to find a cure and the source, while Sam and Roxie perform an emergency heart transplant. Blythe discovers Sam’s secret.”

Watch 9-1-1: Nashville on ABC on Thursdays and check out Lovitt’s full episode of Collider Set Stories with the cast above. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.