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‘9-1-1’ Showrunner On That Helicopter Chase & ‘Apocalypse Now’ Connection That Wasn’t To Be
'9-1-1' showrunner Tim Minear explains how the helicopter chase in episode 'Lab Rats' was pulled off & how it almost was set to Ride of the Valkyries.
So the impressive stunt was overshadowed by Station 118 Captain Bobby Nash (Krause) dying just minutes later at an underground lab where a fire had triggered the release of a deadly virus. The aerial pursuit involved 118’s Buck (Oliver Stark) and his ex Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr.) leading two military choppers on a decoy mission while Athena (Angela Bassett) rushed to deliver a vial of anti-viral to Bobby’s team, one of whom, Chimney (Kenneth Choi), had gotten infected. “And then Bob Williams, our line producer, who’s always giving me more than I asked for — when we did the tsunami, he called me from Mexico and said, ‘Would you like to see this ferris wheel collapse into the Pacific as they’re racing away on their Zodiacs?’, and I’m, like, ‘Knock it over’, because that wasn’t in the script,” Minear recalled.
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