We last saw Angela Bassett’s Athena and Peter Krause’s Bobby headed out on a cruise. Now the Fox-turned-ABC drama has one going down.
“I can’t believe we’re doing this!”
Athena (Angela Bassett) and Bobby (Peter Krause) were quite excited to head out on their delayed honeymoon cruise in the 9-1-1 season 6 finale in May — but now, in a season 7 preview clip exclusive to EW, the middle of the ocean appears to be the last place you’d want to be.
“I’m on a cruise ship, there was an explosion,” a passenger tells a 9-1-1 operator in the first peek at the upcoming season of the first-responder drama, which makes the move from Fox to ABC when it returns March 14.
It’s not yet clear if this is the same cruise ship that Athena and Bobby headed out on, but it doesn’t bode well that the show made a point to tell viewers that the couple didn’t inform anyone about their last-minute trip. (Classic 9-1-1 mistake!)
This cruise ship disaster has been a long time coming, with showrunner Kristen Reidel teasing a honeymoon hazard way back at the end of season 5.
“I mean, dinners don’t go well on 9-1-1. Proposals don’t go well on 9-1-1. So I would expect that yes, at some point next season, you will definitely see some portion of that vacation and it will be very 9-1-1,” she told EW in May 2022.
And Reidel wasn’t alone in predicting a cruise mishap.
“Bobby feels like, ‘Hey, maybe it’s finally time for us to go on a honeymoon.’ And he chooses to surprise Athena with an idea for a vacation — and what could possibly go wrong if they get on a cruise ship?” Krause told EW a few weeks prior to the season 5 finale.
It may have taken them a season longer than we’d expected, but it seems the high seas are finally set for high drama.
