However, as the episode — the second in a two-parter that kicks off the latter half of Season 8 — runs on, it becomes clear that the situation is perhaps more complicated, and dangerous, than that.
Read on to find out more about Maddie’s fate at the end of the latest 9-1-1 episode.
The midseason premiere of Season 8, titled “Sob Stories,” saw Maddie, Athena (Angela Bassett) and newcomer missing persons detective Amber Braeburn (a razor-sharp performance by Abigail Spencer of Suits fame) chasing down a serial kidnapper and killer who’s been active and has evaded capture for around a decade. Kicking off with a chilling cold open that showcases Hewitt’s acting chops, Maddie receives a haunting call from a man who at first expresses a willingness to commit self-harm, but later is revealed to be the aggressor toward someone else, as a young woman’s pleading voice is heard in the background.
Later on, Maddie touches base with Athena, who offers an introduction to Amber. Maddie comes prepared with files on other victims who potentially match the killer’s MO, while Amber connects the dots with a longtime sex offender she has had on her radar but has never been able to nail down. After contacting the suspect Richard Bullock’s former partner, a police-wary Isabelle, they’re able to confirm that the weepy voice behind the call is his, leading Athena, Amber and a SWAT team to congregate at his hideout. Once again, they’re unsuccessful, as Bullock has deserted the location save for some evidence.
Naturally, the game-time decision breaks Maddie, and she wrestles with the ethical implications of what she has done, of what it means to indirectly take a life to save another. While Athena comforts her, saying she was just doing her job, it’s clear that Maddie is carrying a darkness with her as she processes her choice. It’s still top of mind when she’s reading a bedtime story to her daughter and washing up the dishes later at night. At the episode’s conclusion, she hears a door swing open, calling to who she thinks is Chim, only to be attacked by an assailant from behind. With her head spinning, she looks up and sees none other than Amber, who chloroforms her.
What happened to Maddie on this week's episode of 9-1-1?
Going into this week’s episode, 9-1-1 boss Tim Minear teased that it constitutes “possibly one of the darkest episodes we’ve ever done.” And he was not wrong.
Throughout the struggle for survival, it’s revealed that Amber has a split personality, with one half of her not wanting to follow through with the crimes the other has set out for her to complete. That’s where the sobbing voice comes in, distorted by an application to make it sound more masculine and thus more realistic when it comes time to pin the crime on her patsy, Bullock. Jayna, the runaway from the last episode who survived and is recuperating in the hospital, is once again kidnapped by Amber — but not before she can provide Athena with some context clues.
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A suspicious Chim talks to Amber, as yet unaware of the gravity of the situation until he gets a call from Athena, who is en route and tells him to act nonchalant while she reveals who Amber truly is. Too late though, as Amber goes on the offensive, attacking Chim. A nearly resurrected Maddie, clutching at her throat (told you it would be important!), makes her way up the stairs to fight back. Athena, appearing just in time, shoots Amber, saving the couple. All is well by the episode’s end (all things considered) as Maddie is recuperating in the hospital, barely able to speak but also in decisive recovery.
Meanwhile, Hewitt added, “I think to whatever extent people consider Maddie a fighter and a survivor, you really have no idea. But it was also so fun. It's a really cool couple of episodes in that it's driven by females. Females are fighting it out, females are fighting like hell, females leave each other. It's directed by a female. It felt really cool. It felt like we were some badass bitches, as they say.”
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