| No.overall | No. inseason | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod.code | viewers(millions) |
| 107 | 1 | "Buzzkill" | James Wong | Molly Green & James Leffler | September 26, 2024 (2024-09-26) | 8LAY01 | 4.93 |
| Hen and Karen make progress with regaining their foster license; Hen notices that Chimney and Mara are growing close. Buck and Tommy help Eddie throw a birthday party for Christopher over video call, but Christopher is vacant and eventually leaves to celebrate with new friends, much to Eddie's dismay. Bobby is now a technical advisor for firefighting TV show "Hotshots;" he is undermined by production, but idolized by the lead actor, Brad Torrence. A truck carrying 22 million killer bees crashes downtown, threatening the lives of a mother and daughter and, later, the attendees of a perfume party. Buck's initiative allows the 118 to handle both situations efficiently, but he is punished by Gerrard for unruliness. Buck later saves Gerrard from a flying circular saw, but knocks him unconscious in the process. Meanwhile, Athena escorts her first fiancé's killer, Dennis Jenkins ("Athena Begins"), to L.A. so he can testify in a trafficking case in exchange for freedom. En route, she detains a fake officer who tries to take Dennis into his own custody; Dennis reveals that someone wants him dead. They board an L.A.-bound plane which, due to the bees obstructing visibility, violently collides with another plane. |
| 108 | 2 | "When the Boeing Gets Tough..." | Bradley Buecker | Ted Griffin & Tim Minear | October 3, 2024 (2024-10-03) | 8LAY02 | 4.92 |
| Before the planes collide, Dennis tells Athena that he is being targeted because the perpetrator of the trafficking case, who was his cellmate, confided in him. The collision kills the pilots of both planes and creates two holes in Athena's — one in the cockpit that incapacitates the co-pilot and another in the back of the fuselage. While Gerrard is taken to the hospital, the 118, via phone call, aids the plane's passengers in treating casualties. Athena attempts to fly the plane herself with the help of flight instructors on the ground and a young aviation enthusiast on-board. The co-pilot eventually awakens, but suffers a heart attack shortly after. Meanwhile, all fire stations are directed to LAX; Buck travels there separately after retrieving Bobby (and Brad) from their show's set and taking a prop fire truck for transport. |
| 109 | 3 | "Final Approach" | Bradley Buecker | Tim Minear & Ted Griffin | October 10, 2024 (2024-10-10) | 8LAY03 | 5.52 |
| Passengers on the plane take turns performing CPR on the co-pilot. The plane's rudder becomes damaged, removing its ability to turn. This eliminates LAX as a landing option; Athena instead aims for the 110 freeway, with Buck, Brad, and Bobby clearing part of it in preparation. The plane is successfully landed, but a fire breaks out while the passengers are disembarking, threatening Athena, who stayed behind to continue CPR on the co-pilot. The fire stations arrive and the 118 and Bobby extinguish the fire and rescue Athena. Afterwards, Bobby deters a pair of detectives from locating Athena and Dennis and the three go to LAX's long-term car park to retrieve a book detailing the trafficker's associates. A detective follows them, reveals himself to be a fake, and shoots at Bobby; Dennis takes the bullet and stabs the detective, allowing for his detainment. Athena passes the book to trusted investigators and later has a heart-to-heart with Dennis, absolving herself of the resentment she held towards him over his past actions. Meanwhile, Gerrard returns to the 118 and is uncharacteristically beholden towards Buck, much to everyone's surprise and confusion. |
| 110 | 4 | "No Place Like Home" | Marita Grabiak | Lyndsey Beaulieu | October 17, 2024 (2024-10-17) | 8LAY04 | 4.16 |
| Athena makes plans to rebuild her and Bobby's house. Gerrard, who has taken Buck under his wing, prepares to lay off 12% of the firehouse due to budget issues; he later mandates all firefighters wear bodycams. Emergencies include a male cheerleader with a twisted pelvis and a pet tiger attacking its owner's landlord. Eddie, missing Christopher, confronts the cheerleader's absent father, helping repair their relationship. At her adoption hearing, Mara risks being returned to group housing after the Wilsons are revealed to have continued contact following her removal from their household. Councilwoman Olivia Ortiz, still bitter over her son's death, rebuffs Hen's pleas for mercy before revealing that she was the one who reassigned Gerrard to the 118. After Hen and Bobby inform Gerrard of this, Gerrard convinces Ortiz to shut down the 118 to solve the budget issues. The 118 fights against this in court and Ortiz's reputation is ruined after it is revealed that Gerrard used his bodycam to record his conversation with her and expose all her schemes. With Ortiz's desire for revenge on Hen permanently foiled, Mara is reunited with the Wilsons and Bobby returns to the 118 as captain, with Gerrard taking on his technical advisor role. |
| 111 | 5 | "Masks" | Christine Khalafian | Taylor Wong | October 24, 2024 (2024-10-24) | 8LAY05 | 3.98 |
| A discontented Karen interrogates Hen on her continued absence during the holidays due to work. Athena lectures a classroom about Halloween road safety, but is disrupted by dismissive students. Eddie laments over Christopher outgrowing Halloween. Buck unknowingly decorates the 118 Haunt Fest with a real corpse and terrifies a group of children by dislocating its left shoulder before dislocating his own during a subsequent call. Recuperating at home with Tommy, Buck learns that the corpse was once a boil-covered cowboy who was betrayed by his own posse. Buck awakes the next morning covered in boils, which, coupled with his injury, leads him to believe he has been cursed; Eddie and Tommy remain skeptical. On Halloween, Athena and the 118 deal with various inoffensive calls before responding to a car crash brought on by a man who chased the aforementioned students via car after they egged his home; the excursion kills the man and pins Denny against a house. Denny's heart stops, but, thanks to a blood transfusion from Karen and CPR from Hen, he is revived and recovers at the hospital. Hen and Karen reconcile. Buck and Tommy visit the corpse's grave and Buck "lifts the curse" by giving a monologue about the importance of companionship. |
| 112 | 6 | "Confessions" | Chad Lowe | Andrew Meyers | November 7, 2024 (2024-11-07) | 8LAY06 | 4.16 |
| Tommy offhandedly reveals to Buck that he was previously engaged to Abby Clark while he was still closeted; Maddie and Josh reassure Buck that his concerns over Tommy's alleged insincerity are false. Eddie attends confession and professes his guilt concerning Christopher, but rejects the priest's suggestions of penance; he later runs into the priest in public, who discerns that Eddie's newly-grown mustache is a disguise for his woes. Maddie suggests the prospect of a second child to Chimney, who is apprehensive due to the severity of Maddie's prior post-partum depression. Emergencies include a deranged wife stealing her mother-in-law's ashes, a cheating man sneezing his guts out, and a young boy who aids the rescue of his little brother from a hole in the ground. The latter emergency warms Chimney to Maddie's suggestions; Maddie reveals that she is already pregnant. Buck discloses his past relationship with Abby to Tommy and asks Tommy to move in with him; Tommy, believing that he is only Buck's "first" and not his "last," ends their intensifying relationship to avoid heartbreak. Eddie shaves his mustache and dances around his home in a show of self-liberation. A dejected Buck arrives and the two drink in contrasting silence. |
| 113 | 7 | "Hotshots" | Keith Tripler | Lyndsey Beaulieu & Aisha Casey | November 14, 2024 (2024-11-14) | 8LAY07 | 4.01 |
| Buck bakes excessively as a way to dissuade himself from contacting Tommy; he deduces Maddie's pregnancy during a dinner with her and Chimney. Athena injures her leg while intercepting a gang robbery and is subsequently assigned an assistant rookie officer, Matthew Sparks, who tells her that he entered the occupation after noticing that policemen were the only thing that instilled fear into his abusive father. Athena replaces Sparks after noticing his ego while capturing the leader of the earlier gang, then later witnesses him accidentally shoot an uncooperative motorist during a call. Athena decides to apply for a rookie of her own afterwards. Brad, preferring Bobby to Gerrard, sabotages the latter's job, resulting in the injury of a stuntman. Chief Simpson implores Bobby to mentor Gerrard, who confesses Brad's mistreatment of him thereafter. Bobby takes Brad to dinner in an attempt to quell the latter's antagonizing, but ends up aggressively admonishing him after he mistreats a waitress; the moment is filmed and goes viral, humbling Brad but also adding to his admiration for Bobby to where he acquires approval to shadow him at the 118. |
| 114 | 8 | "Wannabes" | Bradley Buecker | Molly Green & James Leffler | November 21, 2024 (2024-11-21) | 8LAY08 | 4.60 |
| Athena is called to a parking lot where a vigilante named Graham, self-dubbed "The Cart Cop," has made it his mission to shame people who refuse to return their carts to the corral. Graham is later attacked by a person he wronged, who Athena exposes to be the elderly cart pusher at the grocery store then gives Graham his job. The 118 responds to a multi-car accident due to a wastewater explosion in the street and rescues a stuck couple from their car that is filling up with water. Brad, desperate to help, carries an unconscious woman out of her car, but gets admonished by Bobby for moving a patient without a C-collar and is told that he is an observer, not a member of the team. Eddie and Brad talk about fatherhood and their sons. Later, the 118 is dispatched to help a man who has recently been laid off, is separated from his wife, and is contemplating suicide. When he spots Brad on the scene, Bobby asks him to help. The two of them make a pact to stay alive, though Brad's commitment is on behalf of his Hotshots character Captain Race Banner. After, Buck goes over to Eddie's house and is caught off guard when he learns that Eddie is considering moving to El Paso to be closer to Christopher. As part of his promise, Brad returns back to Hotshots. |
| 115 | 9 | "Sob Stories" | Bradley Buecker | Teleplay by : Tim Minear & Rashad RaisaniStory by : Tim Minear & Rashad Raisani & Matt Solik | March 6, 2025 (2025-03-06) | 8LAY09 | 4.66 |
| The 118 responds to an animal shelter on fire, with Buck becoming attached to a dog he rescues. Maddie becomes involved in a drastic case when a distressed killer who has taken a child hostage calls 911. She teams up with Athena and Amber Braeburn, a detective that specializes in child kidnappings, to help track down the suspect. The suspect apparently commits suicide on call, with the girl being rescued. Meanwhile, Buck struggles to come to terms with Eddie leaving Los Angeles. They meet with several potential subletters to take over Eddie's lease, but Buck inadvertently sabotages every attempt, causing a rift between the two. Buck eventually puts his feelings aside and tells Eddie that he will be moving out of his loft to sublet his house, easing Eddie's anxieties, and they reconcile. Later that night, Maddie is drugged and kidnapped from her own home by Amber, who reveals herself to be the real killer. |
| 116 | 10 | "Voices" | Jennifer Lynch | Ted Griffin & Molly Savard | March 13, 2025 (2025-03-13) | 8LAY10 | 4.21 |
| Chimney returns home with Buck to find his daughter alone and Maddie's wedding ring off her finger, making him assume that Maddie has depression again. The 118 splits up with Buck and Eddie searching for her all night, Hen and Karen staying with the kids, and Chimney and Athena meeting with Amber, unaware of what she has done. Maddie wakes up in Amber's basement tied up and shackled, having been kidnapped by her the night before. She breaks herself free and searches the basement, finding out that Amber had been kidnapped as a child and has dissociative identity disorder. Amber is about to inject Maddie with a lethal dose of fentanyl before the latter stalls for time by talking to one of Amber's alternate personalities, "Peter." After re-kidnapping the previous child, Amber fronts again when Chimney, suspicious of her earlier behavior, shows up at her door. She and Maddie get into a physical altercation where she slashes Maddie's throat. Upstairs with Chimney, Amber is about to harm him before a bleeding Maddie pushes her aside and Athena arrives, shooting Amber dead. The child is saved, Maddie is treated at the hospital, and she and Chimney find out they are having a baby boy. Later, Buck helps move Eddie out of his house. After an awkward goodbye, Eddie drives away, leaving Buck standing in the rainy street alone. |
| 117 | 11 | "Holy Mother of God" | Aisha Hinds | Taylor Wong & Darek Cioch | March 20, 2025 (2025-03-20) | 8LAY11 | 4.76 |
| During an emergency in which hundreds of church-goers suffer from carbon monoxide poisoning, Bobby is reunited with his mother, traveling faith healer Ann Hutchinson, and older brother, Charlie, both of whom became estranged from Bobby due to his father's abuse. Charlie convinces Bobby to meet with Ann, but they end up quarreling; Bobby berates Ann for abandoning him in his youth. Bobby eventually comes to understand Ann's reasons for leaving during a call in which a wife escapes her murderous husband of forty years; Bobby and Ann reconcile after he learns she has metastatic cancer and traveling with the megachurch causes her condition to worsen. She comes clean about her condition to her followers and tells them they have had the gift to heal themselves without her the entire time. Meanwhile, Buck struggles to settle into Eddie's house due to it reminding him of his absence; Maddie suggests he make new friends and Buck takes Ravi out for drinks. Ravi leaves after encountering Tommy, who hooks up with Buck. The following morning, Tommy says he is receptive to trying again with Buck now that Eddie, the "competition," is gone, accusing Buck of being in love with Eddie; Buck rejects this line of thinking vehemently and Tommy leaves, upset. Later, Buck has a conversation with Maddie where she also questions his true feelings for Eddie and encourages him to "re-learn the lesson" of how to be alone. He then finally unpacks. Athena gets a call on the police radio about a bank robber about to take a voyage on a cruise ship called The Odyssey. This episode begins a crossover event that concludes on Doctor Odyssey season 1 episode 11. |
| 118 | 12 | "Disconnected" | Tessa Blake | Molly Green & James Leffler | March 27, 2025 (2025-03-27) | 8LAY12 | 5.04 |
| Maddie goes back to work after a nightmare in an attempt to reclaim normalcy, but she loses her voice while on a call. Her doctor tells her that it is the result of psychological trauma and encourages her to get to the root of the problem. Chimney supports her with vocal exercises and Athena speaks from her own experience, reassuring Maddie that her voice will come back in its own time. Later at the park, Maddie panics when she loses sight of Jee-Yun and is able to call out for her daughter. Meanwhile, in El Paso, despite a glowing recommendation (and a promise that he will always have a job at the 118), the fire department cannot offer Eddie a job due to a hiring freeze. In dire need of money, Eddie trades in his truck for a sedan and picks up gig work as a rideshare driver, which he struggles to navigate socially. He lets Chris and his parents think he is still working as a firefighter until Chris catches him in the lie when he gets a ride and pretends not to know Eddie. Buck offers advice via Facetime calls, encouraging Eddie to keep trying with Chris, so Eddie texts Chris to apologize. Chris shows up at Eddie's house and says he's still proud of Eddie and that he wants him in his life, giving Eddie back a PS5 he bought in order for him to return it for the money. Emergencies include a structure fire and a car overhanging the edge of a parking garage. |
| 119 | 13 | "Invisible" | Brenna Malloy | Lyndsey Beaulieu & Taylor Wong | April 3, 2025 (2025-04-03) | 8LAY15 | 4.13 |
| Hen feels like no one is seeing her when everyone around her forgets that it's her birthday, empathizing with Archie, a victim of several accidents throughout the day. After being stuck in a murphy bed while his fiancée has sex with his cousin on top of it, he moves into his car, gets a flat tire, and then gets stuck in the wheel well of a semi truck. Archie's car gets towed with all of his belongings — and nearly himself — still inside. Overwhelmed by the events of the day, he takes a city bus hostage with a kitchen knife that another passenger falls onto when the bus hits spike strips. When the 118 arrives on the scene, Hen feels responsible for Archie's actions because of the pep talk she'd given him (and also herself) earlier about taking up space in the world. On the bus, Hen talks Archie into letting the hostages go and later saves him when cops mistakenly think he's pulling a gun. Hen goes home to a birthday celebration and says it's her best birthday yet. Meanwhile, Eddie learns that Chris is going to Lubbock for a chess tournament and only one parent is allowed on the bus, in this case Ramon. Buck advises Eddie over FaceTime that it's time to "dad up" and take the lead. During a round of chess, Chris vomits and Eddie steps in to help instead of Ramon. While cleaning up, Chris admits that he hates chess and that his love of Ramon is the only reason he does it. To Chris' relief, Eddie tells him that he's moving back in with him and then breaks the news to his parents. |
| 120 | 14 | "Sick Day" | Karla Braun | Lyndsey Beaulieu & Taylor Wong | April 10, 2025 (2025-04-10) | 8LAY13 | 4.47 |
| The 118 responds to a multi-vehicle pileup; while Ravi evacuates a woman from her car, he unintentionally misses her infant child in the backseat. Though Bobby is able to successfully rescue the baby, Ravi nonetheless feels guilty and contemplates quitting the 118 until Buck encourages him against it. Later, a scientist named Moira Blake is terminated from her job after dangerously speeding up the incubation period for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever to create an antiviral; enraged, she steals a keycard before setting the lab on fire. The 118 is dispatched to the fire, but an explosion traps everyone but Buck in the lab and aerosolizes the virus; Hen suffers a collapsed lung and Chimney's mask is destroyed, exposing him to the virus. Isolating himself, Chimney successfully guides Bobby through an emergency thoracotomy on Hen, but begins exhibiting symptoms of the illness shortly after. The 118 is then made aware that the antiviral Moira made could save him; despite warnings from the U.S. Army, Ravi locates the freezer where the antiviral is located, but finds it empty, revealing that Moira has stolen the vial. |
| 121 | 15 | "Lab Rats" | Dawn Wilkinson | Kristen Reidel & Molly Green & James Leffler | April 17, 2025 (2025-04-17) | 8LAY14 | 3.81 |
| Athena and Buck discover that Moira has a savior complex and intends to win a Nobel Prize through selling the antiviral. They secretly track her to a big pharma company where the CEO called 911 after learning about Moira's plans, inadvertently alerting the Army and FBI. Athena and Buck arrive and the former arrests Moira with the latter calling Tommy. With Tommy's help, Athena manages to use Buck and Moira as a distraction so that Karen can help her get the antiviral to Chimney. Meanwhile, Ravi briefly runs out of oxygen, but Bobby saves him by using the tubes in the lab. Chimney begins suffering organ failure as he enters Stage 2 of the infection, but the team stabilizes him via a saline solution before Athena arrives with the antiviral. Bobby cures Chimney and signals for the Army to let them out but, as Buck leads the rest of the team to safety, Bobby shuts the door. He reveals that, in the previous explosion, his oxygen tank's connection got a hole blown into it and he started exhibiting symptoms around the time Chimney entered Stage 2. Bobby knew this, but chose to keep quiet so that Chimney could be saved. Athena comes down to talk with Bobby one final time, where he says that she was the reason he kept on living after his family's death before succumbing to the virus in front of a horrified Athena. |
| 122 | 16 | "The Last Alarm" | John J. Gray | Tim Minear & Kristen Reidel | May 1, 2025 (2025-05-01) | 8LAY16 | 4.80 |
| Following the death of Bobby, the LAFD and LAPD bear the burden of mourning their fallen brother. Athena throws herself into her work, investigating a woman who claims that her baby that was lost in a house fire Bobby fought eight years ago has really been abducted, while Hen attempts to comfort her on Bobby's passing. Athena learns from DNA testing that, despite the similarities, the woman's baby really is dead. Station 118 tries to cope with losing their commanding officer as the LAFD brass prepare to find a successor to Bobby. Gerrard returns as interim captain and consoles Chimney. Eddie returns to Los Angeles and expresses his guilt for not being there at the lab. Bobby's funeral is held, with the LAFD, LAPD, and other first responders offering final salutes and goodbyes to their fallen brother, before Bobby is flown home to St. Paul to be buried next to Marcy, Robert Jr., and Brooke, finally able to rejoin them in the afterlife. Athena, May, and Harry say goodbye one last time before Bobby is laid to rest. |
| 123 | 17 | "Don't Drink the Water" | Jonathan Lawrence | Molly Green & James Leffler | May 8, 2025 (2025-05-08) | 8LAY17 | 3.99 |
| Eddie admits to Hen and Karen that he received a job offer from the El Paso Fire Department and is struggling to tell Buck about it. Buck finds out and the two get into an argument where Eddie explains to Buck what it was like receiving the phone call that Bobby had died. Feeling bad about their argument, Eddie flies in Christopher to cheer Buck up and brings over his aunt who talks to Buck about his grief. Athena tells Hen she would be the best fit to replace Bobby as captain, but Hen is unsure about the idea. Athena also struggles with being able to forgive Chimney after Bobby sacrificed himself for him. May and Harry advise Athena to sell the house she and Bobby built. After an earthquake hits Los Angeles, fires begin to break out from water sources, with the 118 responding to several calls. Athena reconnects with Graham (aka Cart Cop) and helps him with a feud at an apartment building. The flammable water causes an explosion, which collapses the apartment building. |
| 124 | 18 | "Seismic Shifts" | John J. Gray | Kristen Reidel & Molly Savard | May 15, 2025 (2025-05-15) | 8LAY18 | 4.05 |
| Before the collapse, the 118 hosts a goodbye lunch for Eddie, where Hen gifts him his 118 turnouts. Hen also admits she turned down the offer to become captain and Buck says he put in for a transfer from the 118, feeling it is no longer the same without Bobby. At the apartment building site, Athena tries to help Graham and another civilian who has been crushed by the debris. The 118 arrives on scene and quickly becomes overwhelmed after the building suffers another collapse. Eddie, seeing the event on the news, puts on his old turnouts and arrives at the scene to help. Chimney, hearing Athena has been trapped in the building, goes in by himself to help her get out; they learn Graham was impaled, but said nothing because the other civilian, who he previously had been feuding with, needed their help more. This causes Athena to accept what Bobby did for Chimney and the two reconcile after the team saves Graham. Back at the firehouse, Chimney tells Eddie he is not living in Texas anymore and tells Buck he's not transferring, making a speech about keeping the importance of Bobby's legacy alive. After the speech, Hen slips up and refers to Chimney as "Cap." Hen and Karen formally adopt Mara, Eddie and Christopher move back to Los Angeles and begin unpacking boxes, Buck starts looking for a new apartment now that Eddie is back, Athena begins work on selling the house, and Maddie gives birth to her son. Upon Athena arriving at the hospital, Chimney tells her they named the baby Robert Nash Han, after Bobby. |
