It’s hard to top an earthquake or a dam breaking or a tsunami, but somehow 9-1-1 manages to keep doing it with each passing season. At this point, the show is clearly coming for Grey’s Anatomy’s crown for most dramatic disaster episodes (though it’s still hard to top the plane crash from Grey’s). It also seems fitting that Season 7 of 9-1-1 starts with one of the biggest disasters yet, now that the show has switched over to the ABC network. Season 6 ended with a lot of new changes for the 118 — Chim (Kenneth Choi) and Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) just got engaged, Hen (Aisha Hinds) and Karen (Tracie Thomas) are adopting a new baby, both Buck (Oliver Stark) and Eddie (Ryan Guzman) are starting new relationships (not with each other), and Athena (Angela Bassett) and Bobby (Peter Krause) are going on a cruise together! But, because nothing can ever go smoothly, Season 7 starts by throwing all of that into disarray in true 9-1-1 fashion.

At the Beginning of ‘9-1-1’ Season 7, Everything Goes Wrong
Kicking it off at the top, it’s clear that just because Chim and Maddie are finally getting married, things will not be smooth sailing. In fact, panic has already set in for Chim at the idea of a marriage that might “calcify” or fizzle out over time, after he encounters a particularly cantankerous couple on a call. So, rather than stress out about wedding planning, Chim and Maddie’s new plan is to stress out over a strict schedule of date nights to keep themselves in the “Honeymoon Phase.”

Meanwhile, since the break between seasons, it seems that Buck has, yet again, lost another girlfriend. Natalia (Annelise Cepero), the death doula he met toward the end of Season 6, is no longer in the picture, despite the season ending on the fact that they seemed to be interested in each other. On the flip side, Eddie and Marisol (Edy Ganem) are still going strong, but his priority is his son, Christopher (Gavin McHugh), who is now old enough to enter the dating scene himself. Eddie is shocked to realize that his son is a bit of a player, having multiple girlfriends at the same time, and decides to send in Buck to talk with him about it. This culminates in the discovery that Christopher still has a lot of unresolved feelings about his mother’s death and feels abandoned as a result.