[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for 9-1-1 Season 9 Episode 5 ” Día de los Muertos.”]

“Are they really gone if we still hold them in our hearts, if we remember?” Eddie ( Ryan Guzman ) wonders of the dead as a Dia de Muertos procession passes him to bookend the latest 9-1-1 episode.

“I know death. I’ve seen it. Felt it. Fought it,” his voiceover opens the episode. “I’ve saved some people I never knew and lost others whose names I’ll never forget. One way or the other, they all haunt you.”

This 9-1-1 episode does what the show does so well: feature a mix of borderline ridiculous calls and heartfelt, character-driven moments. For example, the emergencies include a giant inflatable pumpkin that Athena ( Angela Bassett ) tases, a headless horseman hitting a man who t

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