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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the\u00a09-1-1: Nashville<\/a><\/em> series premiere \u201cPilot.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n

9-1-1: Nashville<\/em> kicks off in classic franchise fashion: with the tease of a major emergency. During a Kane Brown<\/a> concert, after part of the stage collapses, a tornado approaches. Then, flashback to two weeks earlier, when Captain Don Hart (Chris O\u2019Donnell<\/a>) introduces his son Ryan<\/a> (Michael Provost<\/a>) to his other son Blue (Hunter McVey<\/a>).<\/p>\n

We meet Don \u2014 distracted by something on his phone \u2014 and Ryan first as a father-son duo at the rodeo; they break a record, but Don gets bucked off after (he\u2019s fine). Blythe (Jessica Capshaw<\/a>) is the proud wife\/mother. Dispatcher Cammie (Kimberly Williams-Paisley<\/a>) is Ryan\u2019s aunt who helps Taylor (Hailey Kilgore<\/a>) with her music in her downtime at the 113. It\u2019s soon after that that Don, after Ryan calls him out on lying to Blythe about why he was bucked off \u2014 he was riding with too much tension, according to his son \u2014 tries to tell Ryan something. A news report about storms on the way interrupts them.<\/p>\n

That means that that secret comes out when the 113 and Blue bump into each other during a call. Blue steps in, while in his stripper firefighter costume (Captain Smokeshow), to help after a bachelorette party pedal pub crashes. He uses stripper oil to free the bride-to-be and introduces himself as \u201cBlue, like the color.\u201d Ryan\u2019s impressed, suggesting he call them if he wants to make a career shift \u2026 and then Don reveals that Blue is his brother.<\/p>\n

Once alone in Don\u2019s office, Ryan immediately questions how he could cheat on his mother. Don reveals that he and Blythe once separated when Ryan was a kid, and during that time (and before they realized how much they loved each other and had something worth saving), he \u201creconnected\u201d with an ex at a nightclub, Dixie (LeAnn Rimes<\/a>). He found out she was pregnant on Ryan\u2019s birthday. Five days ago, Blue reached out online, having taken an ancestry test, and wanted to meet since he\u2019s a likely match for his father. Don hadn\u2019t mustered up the courage to reply. But he\u2019s now thinking the change might not be a bad thing, pointing out Ryan may be right about him working there. His son says that was before he knew he was a stripper. \u201cHe was a stripper who showed up to our scene dressed as a firefighter,\u201d Don says (which is supposed to mean he can be a firefighter?). \u201cI just got his feeling. This place is where he\u2019s meant to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blue then shows up at the 113, wanting to take them up on the job offer. He even already quit stripping. Ryan (rightfully) argues he needs training, and he can\u2019t sign up for the fire academy for six months. But Don, way too happy under the circumstances, suggests afire cadet exception, with in-field training until he\u2019s ready to be a probie. That\u2019s usually only under extraordinary circumstances, and Don thinks that finding his long-lost brother on a call qualifies. Ryan\u2019s against it, but Don reminds him he\u2019s the captain.<\/p>\n

Ryan then goes to see Blythe about Don betraying them, but she tells him she knows about Blue. They were separated, so Don didn\u2019t cheat, she insists, plus, she had her fun, too. They even took care of Blue until last year. But \u201chell hath no fury like Dixie Bennings scorned,\u201d Blythe says, and when she and Blythe stayed together, Dixie punished him by keeping him from Blue and not telling him who his dad was. Blythe doesn\u2019t seem to react too well to Ryan revealing Don having a fantasy of being a big happy family at the 113 (\u201cDoes he really?\u201d). He\u2019s not sure if he can look at his father the same, and Blythe says no one\u2019s perfect.<\/p>\n

But as a conversation between Blue and his mother at home reveals, they have a plan. Dixie feels wronged, having received zero credit for her help from major artists, and she lost her singing voice to polyps (and smoking a pack a day). She\u2019s been done dirty her whole life, as she sees it, and their plan will save her livelihood (pay for a surgery), but he feels bad manipulating his father to do it. Dixie argues he has plenty to go around with his wealthy wife, Blythe (of whom she\u2019s clearly not<\/em> a fan). Dixie also reminds him that his dad didn\u2019t respond when he initially reached out, and he only looked at him after the rescue. She urges him to go into the firehouse and start sinking his hooks into them; the universe put him where he is for a reason, and they\u2019re finally going to get what\u2019s coming to them.<\/p>\n

Blue then joins the 113 \u2014 Don casually dropping he\u2019s his son at the end of the introductions \u2014 before they\u2019re called to Kane Brown\u2019s concert for the stage collapse, with a tornado minutes away. And when their pulley stalls, Don decides that everyone \u2014 including civilians rallied by Kane Brown \u2014 will lift the pieces of the stage off the victims trapped (reminiscent of when everyone, including civilians, stepped forward to do just that when Buck\u2019s leg was trapped under a truck on 9-1-1<\/em>). But when they realize someone\u2019s trapped up on a piece of the stage hanging, Don, Ryan, and Blue climb up \u2026 just as the twister\u2019s reaching them.<\/p>\n

What did you think of the series premiere of\u00a09-1-1: Nashville<\/em>? Let us know in the comments section below.<\/p>\n

9-1-1: Nashville<\/em>, Thursdays, 9\/8c, ABC<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the latest entertainment news on TV Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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