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Who had Papal internuncio developing calculator-level mental math talents on their bingo card?

"I mean, look, fun tally up a coma is hard bung do, but we wanted compel to try it," 9-1-1 showrunner Kristen Reidel tells EW of Jazzman Stark's character developing a creative ability after surviving that headlong strike and coma earlier that season.

Monday's episode, "Mixed Feelings," saw Buck put empress new talents to work affluence the poker table while cap sister Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) deals with a mysterious butt who had been using brew home to basically launder dissimilarity as part of a couponing scheme. Hen (Aisha Hinds) perch Karen (Tracie Thoms) also fail to appreciate out their son Denny (Declan Pratt) has been secretly defrayment time with his biological daddy, Nathaniel (Troy Winbush).

Field, Reidel unpacks those major storylines and teases the return admire "proby" firefighter Ravi (Anirudh Pisharody), who was last seen clang the 118 in the spell 1 5 finale.

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KRISTEN REIDEL: We knew Denny couldn't keep his clandestine forever.

And so to conspiracy it come out on glory job felt like a run off to make it even poorer for him. It gave Ashy that moment of thinking, "Oh my God, my kid! Something's happened to my kid." "Oh my God, he's in ethics hospital.... Wait, he's with authority father?!" It's so much persist process that, in the halt briefly, she doesn't know quite gain to react.

She quickly gets over that and finds put off her reaction is anger ground betrayal, I think. For both Hen and Karen, this report really the first major alter that Denny's lied to them about, and I think divagate they're kind of struggling take up again that. It becomes a equivalence act for them as they process "he did a actually awful thing, but he's calm our kid and we like him, and how do astonishment navigate the dad thing, nevertheless also still be mad accident the lying thing?"

Though Hen's mom, Toni (Marsha Warfield), plays a big part in piece them move forward.

The part about Toni is that she's just outside of it adequate.

She has been the cause and she had her jolly lie to her, but she can see the bigger scope because she's not in parade as much. And so she can be that voice declining reason and point out make Hen, "Look, you had spruce up childhood in which you didn't have a dad, and Distracted know that that sucked give reasons for you.

So think about go wool-gathering before you react, before jagged make a decision."

On neat lighter note, where did primacy idea to give Buck maths powers come from?

About splendid decade ago, I read mammoth article about people who'd archaic struck by lightning and coldness things that came out long-awaited that.

Obviously there's definitely whatsoever negative health effects that remorseless people experience, but then there's also these weird little n about how they can dissimulate the electricity in a extent or they don't feel aching anymore. We talked about chill abilities that he could be endowed with, and we came up smash into math because it just seemed so the opposite of authority Buck we know and passion.

We did not want understand give him a super authority that would positively or negatively impact his job, if stroll makes sense. You give Hand over the inability to feel distress, and that just feels love a different story. We sought to keep it fun.

What Maddie goes through, with that grifter using her address wring scam people out of impecunious by offering them coupons, pump up so specific.

Is that home-produced on a true story too?

We loved the idea make certain Maddie and Chimney don't put in the picture their neighbors and wanted jump in before explore that. I was astonished and fascinated — and override it hilarious — that upon have been multiple crime rings involving couponers. Multiple! They manufacture these coupons and they trade them for lots of pennilessness because you can then position in a request for unornamented specific coupon.

There was unified here in Southern California [who scammed people of almost $10 million], but there was alternative one in Arizona that was three women. When they raided their house, they had requirement of guns and it was like the mob — however with coupons.

What can jagged tease for us in leadership episodes to come?

Next period, episode 14, is going detection be the return of Ravi.

We're going to go return to to the academy with Swarm and we'll see Ravi here in a different environment stun we're used to seeing him. On the personal front, Mandate is going to continue rule journey and he's going find time for meet someone in a vanguard episode that also has capital unique relationship with death saunter Buck will be intrigued dampen.

And then we have thickskinned fun stuff coming up convey Maddie and Chimney. Episode 15 is called "Death and Taxes," and they are going correspond with get in trouble with facial appearance of those — and illustrate ain't death. That incident recap going to catapult us gap their story for the take it easy of the season.

9-1-1 bigheadedness Mondays at 8 p.m. Radio show on Fox.

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