Abandoned

"**Abandoned**" is the fourth episode of the fourth season of *9-1-1: Lone Star,* and the forty-sixth episode overall. It aired on February 14, 2023.

## Summary

As Owen wears a FBI wire for his meeting with O'Brien, The Honor Dogs crash the meet-up and let them know there's an infiltrator in their midst. A frantic TK desperately search for a missing and held captive Carlos.

## Synopsis

Carlos wakes up in a kitchen after being hit on the head by an unknown assailant. The person is an elderly woman named Trudie, who is the mother of a serial killer. She asks him about that TK person who kept texting and Carlos told her that it was his fiancé. Trudie assumed it was a woman. Then, she offers him a cookie and Carlos reluctantly accepts it. Then, she accidentally opens the door of a pantry that hide the body of the woman Iris was looking for before she was kidnapped. Horrified, Carlos asks Trudie to let him go but she tells him that she can't do that and that Darryl, her son, will be coming home soon. After Darryl comes home, they discover that Carlos is a cop from his badge and Carlos spots the burn on Darryl's hand, realizing that he is Iris's abductor from her description. Darryl recognizes Carlos from the rescue that happened the previous day, while Carlos deduces the dead girl is Donna Burton and tries to scare Darryl, but the latter doesn't believe Carlos' lies about having called for backup because for one, the blood on his head is dry and also because he isn't in uniform which means that most likely, no one knows he's here. Darryl taunts Carlos that he will put his body in the tunnel and seal it off permanently. He asks his mother to "get the kit" and when Trudy does, he realizes some morphine is missing so he injects what left of it to Carlos, making him lose consciousness while he moves Carlos' Camaro from the house.

Later, Trudie gags Carlos' mouth with duct tape once she sees the cops outside the abandoned house, before TK knocks on the door. Carlos panics when Trudie picks up a knife and goes to answer the door, while hiding the knife. TK reveals he came to ask questions about his missing fiancé, showing her Carlos' picture, as she silently realizes he is the TK in Carlos' phone but denies seeing. Meanwhile, Carlos tries to warn TK about being there, he succeeds on making a shovel fall down except Trudie cuts the conversation with TK short and tells him she has to go see her cat.

Trudie returns to Carlos, remarking about his relationship with TK and lamenting Darryl couldn't find love like Carlos did. Then, Carlos asks Trudie if TK is still outside and when she tells him he isn't, he starts screaming for help and moving against the furniture. Trudie turns the volume of the music up and threatens to cut his throat with a knife, with Carlos stopping screaming immediately. Then, Trudie tells him the story of Darryl and she asks him if he loves his mother which Carlos does before, she asks if TK loves his mother. Carlos tells her that "no son loved his mother more than TK loved Gwyn" and when Trudie said it's sad that she'll miss the wedding, Carlos replies that she will be because "all the love she had for him, she sent it through him, otherwise he doesn't know where this love comes from". Trudie then frees Carlos right as Darryl comes home. Carlos engages in a fight against him and almost wins until Trudie injects him with a syringe full of morphine, stating she had to protect her boy. There, TK and Gabriel come into the house. TK goes to Carlos and has to start CPR and mouth-to-mouth because he doesn't have a pulse, he keeps doing that until back-up arrives with the Narcan and once he has it, TK injects it in his thigh, waking up Carlos immediately. He starts fighting until he realizes TK and Gabriel are the ones touching him. When Carlos is on the stretcher, about to be loaded up in the ambulance, he thanks TK for saving his life and TK replies that he did it on his own, TK only had to hold onto it. Carlos tells him that his life is TK's.

Meanwhile, Owen continues to help Agent Kasey investigate the biker gang. He and Sgt. O'Brien meet up but are both questioned by the gang. O'Brien reveals that although he is a founding member, he left when their ideas became more radical. Owen blows his cover and reveals he's the rat, therefore ultimately getting booted from the cult, as well as O'Brien. The two promptly meet with Kasey and her partner, explaining the situation while the agents are annoyed by their antics.

At night, Owen is waiting for O'Brien outside of the FBI office and they exchange about how the FBI don't want them to mess with their case again before they both leave together on their bikes.

## Cast

* Gina Torres as Tommy Vega *(credited only)*
* Ronen Rubinstein as TK Strand
* Sierra McClain as Grace Ryder
* Jim Parrack as Judd Ryder *(credited only)*
* Natacha Karam as Marjan Marwani
* Brian Michael Smith as Paul Strickland
* Rafael Silva as Carlos Reyes
* Julian Works as Mateo Chavez
* Brianna Baker as Nancy Gillian
* Kelsey Yates as Isabella Vega *(credited only)*
* Skyler Yates as Evie Vega *(credited only)*
* Roxana Brusso as Andrea Reyes
* Amanda Schull as Special Agent Rose Kasey
* Bonita Friedericy as Trudie Keyes
* Adam O'Byrne as Darryl Keyes
* Blythe Howard as Detective Meredith Grier
* Neal McDonough as Sgt. Ty O'Brien

Co-starring* Nina Concepción as Bree
* Swati Kapila as Neha
* Rob Parks as Chuck Biondi
* Scott Peat as Turner
* Dan Sanders-Joyce as Red

## Trivia

* This is the first episode Judd is absent from.
* It appears that both Judd and Tommy were supposed to appear in this episode, as they were both seen in promotional images. However, the scenes that they would have appeared in were apparently cut from the final episode release.
* T.K. played in Little League as a kid.
* Carlos' number plate on his car is 56P-QM4.
* This is the first episode we see Gabriel and Andrea Reyes house.
* Carlos called T.K. at 10:43pm before going into the house.
* The picture T.K. shows Trudie is a behind the scenes picture of Ronen Rubinstein and Rafael Silva during Season One.

### Cultural References

* Trudie is singing "*This Little Light of Mine*" while baking.
* Owen and O'Brien both says a sentence from the movie "*Chinatown*".

### Continuity

* This episode picks up right after "Cry Wolf".
* The police board of missing women shows Iris having gone missing in 2023, making season 4 happening in early 2023.
* Carlos mentions that Gwyn died last year.
* Owen brings up how O'Brien has given him a ticket before, this was first seen "Red vs. Blue".
* Ronen Rubinstein made the acting choice to have TK inject NARCAN in Carlos' thigh at the same spot Owen injected TK with it in "Pilot".
* Donna Burton's body, the girl Iris went searching for, was found in the kitchen closet of Darryl's house.

## References

 **Season 6** | "Let the Games Begin" • "Crash & Learn" • "The Devil You Know" • "Animal Instincts" • "Home Invasion" • "Tomorrow" • "Cursed" • "What's Your Fantasy?" • "Red Flag" • "In a Flash" • "In Another Life" • "Recovery" • "Mixed Feelings" • "Performance Anxiety" • "Death and Taxes" • "Lost & Found" • "Love Is in the Air" • "Pay It Forward"

 **Season 4** | "The New Hotness" • "The New Hot Mess" • "Cry Wolf" • "**Abandoned**" • "Human Resources" • "This Is Not A Drill" • "Tommy Dearest" • "Control Freaks" • "Road Kill" • "Sellouts" • "Double Trouble" • "Swipe Left" • "Open" • "Tongues Out" • "Donors" • "A House Divided" • "Best Of Men" • "In Sickness and In Health"