Angela Bassett knows firsthand how brokenhearted “9-1-1” fans still are over Season 8’s major plot twist.

“My sister’s one of the fans, and she won’t stop talking about it,” Bassett tells TODAY.com .

Bassett has starred as Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. Athena Grant since Season 1 of the first responder procedural. The show opens with Athena’s first marriage headed for divorce, but by the end of Season 1, she finds love with Fire Department Chief Bobby Nash, played by Peter Krause. The two marry in the Season 2 finale.

That relationship, known to fans as “Bathena,” became one of the emotional centers of the high-stakes show, and together, they survived a tsunami, a sinking cruise ship and a plane crash. But in Season 8, Episode 15, Bobby died after he was exposed to a deadly vir

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