‘9-1-1: Lone Star’ to Welcome Angela Bassett’s Athena Monday With Mini-Crossover Episode
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business WriterWhen “9-1-1” Season 5 returns from hiatus Monday and reunites with its spinoff “9-1-1: Lone Star” in back-to-back time slots, leading lady Angela Bassett will be pulling double duty as her character Sergeant Athena Grant appears on the Fox first-responder drama and has a brief crossover appearance on “Lone Star.”“There’s a thing called SWAT-ing, where somebody calls 9-1-1, and they send the police or usually a SWAT team to a house,” showrunner Tim Minear tells Variety, teasing the episode. “It’s a malicious prank, and gamers do it to each other.
In California, people have died in these raids. So I always thought that would be a fun way to do a crossover because usually it’s cross-state.
So we have a story on ‘Lone Star’ where there is a SWAT-ing incident and somebody is killed, and Carlos (Rafael Silva) and Grace (Sierra McClain) feel personally affronted because they were used as weapons.
They are trying to figure out where the SWAT-ing call came from, and they trace it to Los Angeles.” On Monday’s “9-1-1,” Athena, Bobby and the 118 “speed” to the rescue to save a family whose pick-up truck has been rigged with a pipe bomb which will detonate if the vehicle slows under 55 miles an hour, per Fox.
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