History Recap / NineOneOneLoneStarS3E8InTheUnlikelyEventOfAnEmergency

* TryingNotToCry: Both TK and Gwyn are barely holding back tears as the former reluctantly leaves the airport for the clinic.

-->'''Gwyn''': You're losing control, TK. We're getting you help. [...] Are you addicted to the needle prick yet? I read about it, needle fixation, the ritual of pain.

-->'''Gwyn''': ''[[ArmorPiercingResponse That]]'' [[ArmorPiercingResponse is what]] ''[[ArmorPiercingResponse I]]'' [[ArmorPiercingResponse am trying to do.]]

** In 2017, Gwyn takes a taxi to an abandoned building in the Bronx that is revealed to be a drug den when she walks in. After looking around, she finds a drug-high and unconscious TK near the corner of a room with an empty syringe in his arm, and tries to rouse him to little avail.

* FiveStagesOfGrief:

** In the present, Nancy and Mateo also do this while watching the plane land on the news.

* ToughLove: Gwyn gives TK shades of this in the flashbacks after the drug den, and as she accompanies him on the flight to Los Angeles.

* DownerBeginning: Before the flashback, the episode begins with an audio version of 9-1-1 call about Gwyn's death from the biker's perspective. When following the dispatcher's instructions to check on her, he's devastated to find that she died on impact, and even moreso when he checks on Jonah in his stroller.

** In 2017, Gwyn takes a taxi to an abandoned building in the Bronx that is revealed to be a drug den when she walks in. After looking around, she finds a drug-high and unconscious TK near the corner of a room with a needle in his arm, and tries to rouse him to little avail.

* ToughLove: Gwyn gives TK shades of this after she finds him, and as she accompanies him on the flight to Los Angeles.

* AppetiteEqualsHealth: One of TK's withdrawal symptoms includes a lack of appetite and nausea, which is what keeps him from eating his food despite Gwyn's stern coaxing.

* MamaBear: The entire episode shows and tells how Gwyn was this to both of her sons, from not-so-gently saving TK from himself when his drug use spirals into an addiction to pushing Jonah's stroller out of a biker's path at the cost of her own life in the DownerBeginning.

** During the flight, TK's withdrawal symptoms intensify to the point that he starts getting more irritable, can barely put his seatbelt on with shaking hands when sitting down, and struggles with heightened senses in the plane. Midway through, he's able to ease his tremors with travel-sized alcohol, but Gwyn is quick to call him out on lying again. TK counters by telling her she can't forcefully save him, but while she acknowledges this, she tearfully tells him she doesn't want to see him dead. This gets her son to mellow significantly for the rest of the plane ride.

* QuickNip: During the flight to LA in 2017, TK's withdrawal tremors become so unbearable for him that he steals two mini-bottles of what looks like vodka and, after going through turbulence, downs them in the lavatory. Gwyn picks up on this when she notices his lack of tremors and the pack of chewing gum, which TK gets defensive about.
* SensoryOverload: Part of TK's withdrawal symptoms includes him experiencing the sounds around him as louder than normal.

* DownerBeginning: Before the flashback, the episode begins with the 9-1-1 call about Gwyn's death from the biker's perspective. When following the dispatcher's instructions to check on her, he's devastated to find that she died on impact, and even moreso when he checks on Jonah in his stroller.

* HeroicBSOD: In the present, while Carlos and Owen prepare to fly to New York, TK is naturally stuck in one of these. He only really snaps out of it during the sudden engine malfunction, and while treating one of the wounded passengers.

* MomentOfWeakness: After greeting the rest of his team, TK walks into one of the ambulances and opens one of the cabinets that store painkillers. He then finds a bag of vials and contemplates two of them, until Owen gets his attention.

--> '''TK''': What do you think'll happen in California, hm? Think I won't know where to find a score within ten minutes? You can't save me, Mom.

--> '''Gwyn''': I can’t bear the thought of attending my son’s funeral. ''I can’t bear it.''

* ToughLove: Gwyn gives TK shades of this over his protests about boarding the plane to Los Angeles, and later when noticing that he took something to stop his hands from trembling.

* ToughLove: Gwyn gives TK shades of this over his protests about boarding the plane to Los Angeles, and later when noticing that he took something to stop his hands from trembling.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: As one more nudge towards the attendant who is scheduled to take him to the rehab facility, Gwyn gives one to TK.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Lampshaded and averted with TK’s physical state in the 2017 flashbacks.

* DownerBeginning: Before the flashback, the episode begins with the 9-1-1 call about Gwyn’s death from the biker’s perspective. When following the dispatcher’s instructions to check on her, he’s devastated to find that she died on impact, and even moreso on hearing Jonah crying in his stroller a little ways off the road.
* ExplosiveDecompression: When one of the plane’s engines malfunctions, the woman sitting in the window seat next to Owen and TK has the bad luck of nearly getting sucked out. They’re able to pull her back in and get the open window secured, but she’s still critically injured as a result.

* Flashback: Over half of the episode sees TK remembering one of his previous drug relapses, and how Gwyn found and helped get him to drug rehab.
* FunctionalAddict: TK insists to Gwyn that he’d been this.

* MomentOfWeakness: After greeting the rest of his team, TK walks into one of the ambulances and opens one of the cabinets that store painkillers. He then finds a bag of vials and contemplates two of them, until Owen gets his attention.