Stars of ‘9-1-1: Lone Star’ on Judd Connecting With Grace & Marjan’s Wedding

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for 9-1-1: Lone Star Season 5 Episode 10 “All Who Wander.”]

It’s the calm before the storm on 9-1-1: Lone Star ahead of the series finale (airing February 3). And for Judd and Marjan, the antepenultimate episode is very different tonally. We had to talk to both Jim Parrack and Natacha Karam about the episode’s major moments for their characters as part of TV Insider’s after show, First Response. (Watch the video above.)

While Judd has been going to meetings, with Owen (Rob Lowe), after his captain discovered he’s been drinking to cope with his wife Grace’s (Sierra McClain) absence, he hasn’t stayed sober. “There needed to be some substantial consequence for Grace not being around anymore,” Parrack says. It’s a journey he’s familiar with, and he shares about his own recovery. What was important for him was that “hopefully within the network TV constraints we can do as truthful a version of this as possible.” His conversations with co-showrunner Rashad Raisani included the importance of planting seeds along the way. He also wanted to “make it messy, make it a real problem.”