SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about Monday’s series finale of 9-1-1: Lone Star. With 9-1-1: Lone Star answering its final call Monday, the series finale was a particularly emotional ride-along for star Gina Torres.
Sitting down with showrunner Rashad Raisani, the actress behind Station 126 paramedic’s Captain Tommy Vega told Deadline it’s “so rare” to be part of such a talented TV ensemble cast, as they both mourned the end of the spinoff after five seasons. “I think it was right on the money for Tommy,” said Torres of her character’s farewell. “None of that surprised me.
When I read it, I thought, ‘Yeah, of course, she’s a soldier.’ She’s gonna go out the way. She came in fighting and doing what she can.
That’s what first responders do.” Although in the final episode, Captain Vega has been put on bed rest during her bout with cancer, seeing what appears to be the ghost of her late husband Charles Vega (Derek Webster), she chooses to join her fellow 126 family one last time in shutting down a nuclear reactor as an asteroid heads toward Austin.
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