S05.E06: Naked Truth

[KeithJ]

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A heist on an armored truck sparks a Texas Ranger investigation led by Carlos. Owen deals with Robert's death in therapy as Marjan and Paul vie for lieutenant.

Airs: Mon, Nov 4, 2024

[t7686]

Can we not with Tommy? Jesus, she’s almost made her kids orphans like 3xs this season alone. As a half orphan with an identical twin sister, this is triggering ME lol plus I just think Tommy has been through enough. Like she was just there to help a friend, can’t it just stay that?

I liked it better when TK was the sacrificial lamb. 
 

that said, Nancy and Carlos were fun until it got dark. 
 

Owen’s storyline was… something. Odd that the second brother’s death is what’s doing it and not the first one. 
 

Overall, I’m not loving this season. 

Edited November 5 by t7686

[iMonrey]

On 10/23/2024 at 2:06 PM, KeithJ said:

A heist on an armored truck sparks a Texas Ranger investigation led by Carlos. Owen deals with Robert's death in therapy as Marjan and Paul vie for lieutenant.

Wait what? That - is not the description of this episode.

Owen riding out of the barn after the damn thing blew up was absurd. It would have been just as dramatic, and far less ridiculous, if he made it out of there seconds before the explosion. 

Not a lot going on this episode. The kid trapped in the police car and the guy trapped under the vending machine both felt like afterthoughts. Too much focus on inter-department drama. I'd prefer shows like this keep the focus on the emergencies the characters are employed to deal with, not the ones affecting their personal lives. Thanks.

[KeithJ]

4 minutes ago, iMonrey said:

Wait what? That - is not the description of this episode.

Hmm.  IMDB must have had the wrong description posted.  I'll update it.

I guess I can't?  Too old of a post?

Edited November 5 by KeithJ

[eel2178]

1 hour ago, iMonrey said:

the guy trapped under the vending machine both felt like afterthoughts.

Did they even tell us if the guy survived? It was all so brief I don't even remember what I saw.

[Crashcourse]

I didn't understand why the guy with his arm trapped in the vending machine didn't ask the woman who was standing there to call 911.  He was stupid.

[Quark]

This episode was awful.

[iMonrey]

22 hours ago, eel2178 said:

Did they even tell us if the guy survived? It was all so brief I don't even remember what I saw.

No, he died. I think his final moments with Nancy are what prompted her to go see Mateo. The parallel was that he was too afraid to ask for help.

Edited November 6 by iMonrey

[possibilities]

So the horse was acting wild with everyone, but all it took to calm him wsa for OWEN to tell his secret?

I don't like what they are doing with Tommy,. Yes, tell women to get screened, but... I don't want this show to be a chemo/death saga. Will Mateo and nancy adopt her kids when she's gone? I don't know. This show is not fun anymore.

[fastiller]

18 hours ago, Quark said:

This episode was awful.

Agreed; I stopped watching when 911 operator* started helping dude break out of the police car.  

 

*whose name I should know and probably do know but the show has gotten so bad I'm not even going to try to remember or bother looking it up.

[Jillybean]

As someone who has been getting screening mammograms for 15 years, including one year when I was directed to proceed with a diagnostic mammogram, and then an ultrasound (which resulted in the all-clear), I have questions about this episode's depiction of breast cancer testing and diagnosis.

Are breast lumps able to be seen in photos?

Can one simply make a call and schedule a mammogram at the same date, time, & place as a friend? (This question is facetious, it certainly doesn't work that way in my experience!)

Could Tommy already have been diagnosed with breast cancer based on a screening mammogram? Or are we to assume that she went through a second mammogram, ultrasound, biopsy, etc. in record time (without mentioning any of those steps to Nancy)?

My questions are sincere, because I found this genuinely confusing. TV doesn't always have to reflect reality, but it's almost irresponsible to portray it this way.

Speaking of, the rather upbeat, silly music that played the whole time that guy had his hand inside the vending machine was completely dissonant with the outcome of that story. That said, I knew the machine would end up crushing him. What a tired, lazy storyline. They couldn't come up with a better case to show Nancy how to ask for support?

Edited November 6 by Jillybean

[Infie]

You can sometimes see a dimple or a bulge where there is a lump, yes.  That being said, most of the time the answer is no. 

[eel2178]

On 11/6/2024 at 12:24 PM, Jillybean said:

Are breast lumps able to be seen in photos?

Yes, but it is a late sign once the lump has become very large.

On 11/6/2024 at 12:24 PM, Jillybean said:

Can one simply make a call and schedule a mammogram at the same date, time, & place as a friend? (This question is facetious, it certainly doesn't work that way in my experience!)

It depends on the facility. The free standing privately run for-profit facilities usually don't have full schedules and will take people the same day without a doctor's referral.

On 11/6/2024 at 12:24 PM, Jillybean said:

Could Tommy already have been diagnosed with breast cancer based on a screening mammogram? Or are we to assume that she went through a second mammogram, ultrasound, biopsy, etc. in record time (without mentioning any of those steps to Nancy)?

Most likely, she would have been told it was "possibly" cancer and not been given a definitive diagnosis until she had further testing, but yes with large lumps that are already late-stage cancer, it is possible to tell from just the mammo. 

[Ceindreadh]

On 11/6/2024 at 1:12 AM, possibilities said:

 

I don't like what they are doing with Tommy,. Yes, tell women to get screened, but... I don't want this show to be a chemo/death saga. Will Mateo and nancy adopt her kids when she's gone? I don't know. This show is not fun anymore.

I'm pretty sure that Judd and Grace would be named guardians.  It was Judd that Tommy left a message for when she thought she was going to die in the gas cloud.

I'm not experienced with horses, but surely it would have been better for Owen to start out by grooming Thunder to earn his trust, before trying the whole cleaning his hooves thing.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

On 11/4/2024 at 9:10 PM, t7686 said:

Can we not with Tommy? Jesus, she’s almost made her kids orphans like 3xs this season alone. As a half orphan with an identical twin sister, this is triggering ME lol plus I just think Tommy has been through enough. Like she was just there to help a friend, can’t it just stay that?

Seriously this is the last season and there are only 6 episodes left and Gina Torres's final storylines are her serious boyfriend breaking up with her and then her possibly dying of cancer. Can't she go out with a fun storyline? Although Paul's really bad heart problem was magically fixed, so who knows.

Also I can't believe in a show called 9-1-1 no one thought to call 9-1-1 when the barn was in fire and it burned to the ground. 

[txhorns79]

On 11/5/2024 at 11:37 AM, iMonrey said:

Owen riding out of the barn after the damn thing blew up was absurd. It would have been just as dramatic, and far less ridiculous, if he made it out of there seconds before the explosion. 

When the firehouse idiots showed up to rebuild the barn, I very much wished it was going to be like on The Simpsons when Ned Flanders lost his home, and the town rebuilt it.  The catch was that the townsfolk had no idea what they were doing, and the rebuilt house promptly collapsed in on itself. 

The one nice thing about Owen's guilt with regards to Robert is it gives a great example of why you don't ask a relative you've only just met, and clearly is not emotionally capable of handling things, to help you die before your fatal disease kills you. 

[tennisgurl]

Really? They're giving Tommy a cancer story? Right before the show ends? Why? What is the point? Either she miraculously gets better or she dies and leaves her poor kids orphans, both of which are a sucky way to end the show. 

Again, why?!

[Jillybean]

30 minutes ago, tennisgurl said:

Really? They're giving Tommy a cancer story? Right before the show ends? Why? What is the point? Either she miraculously gets better or she dies and leaves her poor kids orphans, both of which are a sucky way to end the show. 

Again, why?!

I read that the Tommy cancer storyline was Sierra McClain's idea, before she peaced out. 

[Madding crowd]

Wrong thread

Edited 8 hours ago by Madding crowd

[Crashcourse]

Oops, wrong thread.

Edited 10 hours ago by Crashcourse

[KeithJ]

Nancy is a paramedic, 35 years old, has had three people in her family die from breast cancer and she has never gotten a mammogram herself?