Is Buck leaving 9-1-1? Is he really dead?

Is Buck leaving the show 911? Is he really dead?

The sixth season of Fox drama “9-1-1” returned Monday after a months-long winter hiatus, with an episode in which almost everything goes surprisingly right for the 118 — until it goes horribly wrong.

Before the bad came good, when Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Chimney (Kenneth Choi) hosted their families at their new house with daughter Jee-Yun. Maddie was expecting her and Buck’s (Oliver Stark) parents, and imagining that they would be quite judgmental and rude, as they have been in the past.

Chimney got a surprise visit from his father and stepmother as well. While the visit went very well, with both sets of parents apologizing for times when they acted inappropriately, there was one big turn at the end. Due to the thunderstorm rolling over Los Angeles, the 118 deals with a series of lightning strike emergencies throughout the episode, the last of which sees Buck struck by a bolt himself while atop a ladder — left literally hanging, and seemingly dead.

With plenty of questions doing the rounds on the internet, showrunner Kristen Reidel opened up about Buck’s present and future.

What did the showrunner have to say about the Buck storyline?

“Buck has been on this journey this year to find out the purpose of his life and what he requires to be happy and the kind of person he wants to be,” the “9-1-1” showrunner said.

“And it just felt like nothing really focuses you like dying — or so I’m told. It’s just this idea that at any moment, any of us could die, right? You can walk into the street and be hit by a bus. So the idea that time was limited and we should spend our time on what matters and make ourselves happy and worry less about what everybody else thinks — that’s a huge part of Buck’s story, in general, on the show.”

“He’s always been a person who defines himself by how other people see him,” Reidel continued. “And so dying and coming back, it’s an important lesson for him to learn that how he sees himself is the most important thing. And it harkens back to the thing Bobby says to him in the first episode of the season, which is: You can be alone and be at peace.”

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