There’s one pair 9-1-1 season 9 must prioritize— and it isn’t the highly-anticipated "Buddie" romance. Oliver Stark’s Evan “Buck” Buckley and Ryan Guzman’s Eddie Diaz have both been major characters since they joined the long-running procedural, but the vast majority of their storylines have overlapped, contributing to 9-1-1 ’s Buddie set-up . In season 8, however, their characters developed in different directions.
Regardless, in the wake of 9-1-1 ’s tragic death which killed off Peter Krause’s Bobby Nash, the rest of the ensemble’s arcs faded into the background and have since been overlooked. Understandably so, considering the backlash from Krause’s controversial exit rages on ahead of 9-1-1 season 9’s premiere. Nonetheless, Eddie has an unresolved plot— not with Buck,