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Recap / 9-1-1 S1E10 "A Whole New You"

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Bobby tries his hand at dating again, Athena starts a new chapter in her life. After a death in the family, Abby makes some decisions for her future and her relationship with Buck.

Tropes featured in the episode:

  • And I Must Scream: Lyle has narcolepsy with cataplexy that makes him appear to be dead with Dies Wide Open, but is very much aware of the world, unable to speak or move.
  • Body Horror: Two examples: the biker getting torn in two with his organs scattered across the road, with him still alive, and the catfisher's pus-filled, decaying corpse.
  • Catfishing: Chimney finds the man who's been catfishing other ladies using Buck's picture and info. Unfortunately, he's been dead for days.
  • Dead All Along: Buck and Chimney find the man using a fake profile of Buck to catfish women into dates. When they get to his trailer, he's been dead for days, his body bloated from his own gasses accelerated by the humidity and having a full stomach before death.
  • Due to the Dead: Buck may not like that the catfisher faked his identity, but with the crowd outside, he wants to make sure he dies with dignity by having his body drained before wheeling him out.
  • Half the Man He Used to Be: This happens to an unlucky motorcyclist when a truck t-bones another car.....with him in-between the two vehicles. It's played for the full horror, with the crew arriving to a gruesome scene only to learn the victim is still alive and doesn't realize what has happened to him. Bobby manages to keep it together long enough to help the dying man talk to his son on the phone, but then has to step away from the scene to compose himself.
  • "Pop!" Goes the Human: Buck tries to do this to the bloated catfisher's body by stabbing him with a screwdriver, only for it to just leak pus everywhere.
  • Put on a Bus: Abby leaves for Europe shortly after her mother's death.
  • Season Finale: For Season 1.
  • Starts with Their Funeral: The episode opens with Patricia's funeral after she died in the previous episode.
  • Unexplained Accent: Diane, the woman in the opening, speaks with an English accent and peppers her speech with British slang (for example, calling the police bobbies). As far as her husband David was concerned, the closest she ever got to England was watching Downton Abbey. Justified in that she was having a stroke.
  • Waking Up at the Morgue: Lyle wakes up on the operating table just before the pathologist cuts him open. He ends scaring the doctor, making him cut his own thigh. After putting a tourniquet on the thigh, his 911 call gets Chimney and Hen to save the doctor's life. He also tells Chimney and Hen he's been pronounced dead three times by accident.

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