‘9-1-1: Lone Star’ Stars Ronen Rubinstein, Lisa Edelstein on Heartbreaking T.K.-Gwyn Flashback and That Big Goodbye
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “In the Unlikely Event of an Emergency,” the Feb.
28 episode of “9-1-1: Lone Star.”Gwyn Morgan (Lisa Edelstein) went as far as she could with her son, T.K. Strand (Ronen Rubinstein), on Monday’s “9-1-1: Lone Star” before leaving him to go the rest of the way on his own — both in the past and the present.
Monday’s episode featured two parallel storylines, one in which a devastated T.K. and Owen (Rob Lowe) are heading to Gwyn’s funeral on a plane from Austin to New York City in 2022 following her sudden off-screen death on last week’s “Lone Star,” and the other a flashback to 2017, when Gwyn flew detoxing heroin addict T.K.
to rehab from New York to California. In both storylines, T.K. has to accept the fact that his mother cannot physically be there for him in his time of need — but that she’s given him what he needs to take care of himself and others from here on out.
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