May Grant is coming back in 911 season 9, with Corinne Massiah becoming a series regular once again. She’ll also be joined by Elijah M. Cooper, who has been upped to series regular, which means both of Athena Grant’s children will be around a lot more.
This is sure to be linked more to Athena’s storylines, but it also opens the door to the two getting their own arc. This has happened in the past, as Massiah was a series regular between seasons 2 and 5, landing a job as a dispatcher while she figured out what she wanted to do with her life.
Bringing Massiah back could disrupt everything we know in 911 season 9, and that’s sure to be a good thing. After all, it changes a few things for other characters in the series.
May Grant could return to dispatch in 911 season 9
As Massiah landed a bigger role in the series, it had to figure out what to do with her character. As Maddie left Los Angeles after the birth of her daughter, the show needed someone back in dispatch, and that fell on May. She quickly proved to be a force to be reckoned with, until she felt like she was being pushed out and bullied by another member of the team.
In the end, it turned out that this woman saw great potential in May, wanting her to go to college rather than always work dispatch. That’s exactly what May did, tying in with Massiah’s own college journey, but May should have graduated by now.
Her return in 911 season 9 opens the door for her to return to dispatch. This is where the show could shake things up a bit.
May could lead to Maddie moving on from dispatch
It’s rare that we get to know a lot of people in dispatch. 911 has been different to 911: Lone Star in giving us more character development for supporting characters, but we don’t get a lot of series regulars in there. So, having May in dispatch could lead to a change for Maddie Han.
As Chimney is likely to take on the captain position at the 118, Maddie could be inspired to do something bigger with her life. She used to work as a nurse, but she chose to avoid that line of work when she moved to Los Angeles to get away from her abusive ex-husband. It was a needed career change at the time, but what if Maddie has started to miss the life of a nurse?
Maddie went through the ringer in 911 season 8 with the attack and the birth of her second child with Chimney. As she gets ready to return from mat leave, she could decide it’s time to do something bigger, leaving dispatch in the capable hands of May Grant.
911 season 9 will change considerably with Maddie in the hospital
This opens the door for 911 to do something that it and the spinoff 911: Lone Star haven’t been able to do yet. We can see the way emergency medicine works. Maddie can be on the front line in the hospital, being the one to take over when Hen and Chimney deliver patients.
It would change 911 considerably, as it takes the view from the initial first responders and moves onto a different type of medical help. While it does threaten to then tread into the waters of Grey’s Anatomy or The Resident, there is a way that the show can remain separate. By keeping it on the emergency room only, it gives us a look at how fast nurses and doctors have to act here.
It’s not like the series hasn’t considered going into the hospitals in the past. For a long time, Hen wanted to be a doctor, and we got to see her go through medical school. In the end, she decided that it wasn’t for her, scrapping the entire idea, and now May going into dispatch and Maddie going into the hospital could open that world up once more.
911 season 9 premieres on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 8/7c on ABC.