History TearJerker / NineOneOneLoneStar

** Tommy has a friendly-turned-harrowing encounter with a man who wanted to see his comatose son for the last time at the hospital, but him being "armed" to prevent his ex-wife from taking away the son's life support nearly ends with a SWAT team raid and his subsequent arrest. The son eventually wakes up at the end, but the fact that he's alive when her husband isn't, the stress from what she's faced all day, and relief to see that the man gets a miracle is enough to make Tommy break down in tears.

** TK's flashbacks to 2017 shows him at his lowest point, with Gwyn finding him at a Bronx drug den and in the grip of what seems to be a heroin addiction. From the argument she has with him after she hauls him to a restaurant, it's implied that she realized beforehand how bad it was getting for him, as over TK's protests, she firmly pre-reserves him a flight to a drug rehabilitation center in Los Angeles. She then stays with him through the flight until they reach the airport exit.
* In the present time, TK is pretty much clouded in his grief as he, Owen and Carlos try to book a flight to New York; not even an impromptu visit to the 126 fire station really helps his mood. He only snaps out of it when their plane suddenly malfunctions in mid-air and he has to treat a woman who was nearly sucked out of the window.

* TK gets off to... a sort-of bumpy start with Iris when she comments about him being "exactly what she thought he'd be." Confronting her again doesn't quite help either, as her NotSoDifferentRemark about them both being emotionally "hot messes" that Carlos is drawn to re-triggers his insecurities about their relationship ''hard''. Though Iris didn't intend to be hurtful, especially before he and Carlos are about to get married and especially because we the audience know TK works at making sure his past traumas don't fully define him, her wording certainly cuts deep.

* TK gets off to... a sort-of bumpy start with Iris when she comments about him being "exactly what she thought he'd be." Confronting her again doesn't quite help either, as her NotSoDifferentRemark about them both being emotionally "hot messes" that Carlos is drawn to re-triggers his insecurities about their relationship. Though Iris didn't intend to be hurtful, especially before he and Carlos are about to get married and especially because we the audience know TK works to make sure his traumas don't fully define him, her wording does still cut deep.

* Mouse, the little girl who appeared to help Marjan with surviving a chase from a vengeful Grant, turned out to be a hallucination of Marjan's childhood self. The feeble but devastated realization on Marjan's face as Owen carries her out of the ditch is sobering, as is Mouse disappearing in front of her before she passes out.

** After finding a man who last called Gabriel and left threatening voicemails, Carlos drives to the man's home, and in his loss of composure angrily, desperately ''demands'' that he confess to killing Gabriel at gunpoint despite said man trying to explain himself and calm him. It's not known if he would have shot the man or not if Owen hadn't intervened with help from O'Brien and Major Bridges, but seeing Carlos lose himself in grief this badly is still jarring.

* Carlos tearfully blaming himself for not being more prepared for the fire on his townhouse.

* When TK learns that Gwyn is moving back to New York because of her baby not being Owen's, he's understandably upset at her sudden change of mind; partially that she and Owen couldn't make their relationship work again, and for both the baby and himself (from his view) likely not being good enough reasons for the two of them to make the peace last.

** With TK's case, his occasional spasms are at first written off by the nurses; it's only when he jolts more purposefully with Carlos at his bedside is it clear: they ''were'' signs of him regaining consciousness. After the nurses come back in, take him off life support and stabilize him, the moment becomes both this and heartwarming when Carlos re-enters the room, still unsure of what to do next-- then TK weakly, hopefully, reaches out to comfort him. ''They do want each other back.''

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* The beginning of the episode deals with a dead body crashing from a plane onto a funeral. Minutes later, it's revealed later he tried to smuggle into the country on a cargo plane with his sister, who almost dies from hypothermia but is revived. When told of her brother's death, she starts sobbing that she wants to go home.

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* A prominent caller in the episode, Al, may as well have been Owen's wake-up call to address his own rage. Due to a combination of anger issues and misguided PapaWolf instincts on his part, Al and his family find themselves in three consecutive emergencies, with the third one ending in his arrest for shooting and killing a drunk driver while the man was being treated in the ambulance.

[[Episode 2 - The New Hot Mess]]

[[Episode 3 - Cry Wolf]]