The very long wait for 9-1-1: Lone Star to return to Fox is nearly over, more than a year after the Season 4 finale aired with Carlos and T.K. tying the knot.
The fifth and final season picks up in the 2024 TV schedule with a time jump of almost exactly a year, and a lot has happened for the characters ( including one who won’t be back ). I spoke with executive producer and co-showrunner Rashad Raisani ahead of the Season 5 premiere, and he addressed the kinds of conflicts ahead for Tarlos. The good news? Some of his phrasing leads me to think that fans shouldn’t fret too much.
The Season 5 premiere is called “Both Sides, Now” and will have a year’s worth of changes to explain pretty quickly. Rashad Raisani explained the reasoning for the major time jump, saying that they didn’t know the premiere date when they were writing or filming the new episodes, but a “calendar year had a lot of good story ramifications for us, and it felt like a nice, clean amount of time.” The time jump picks up “just before Carlos and T.
K.'s first year anniversary.” Of course, while T.
K. and Carlos did end Season 4 happily with their wedding, it was at the end of a tear-jerking finale full of complications with the death of Carlos’ father, and Carlos is following in his father’s footsteps by becoming a Texas Ranger for Season 5. When I noted to the co-showrunner that the couple never seems to go long without running into some kind of obstacle, he detailed how they’re doing .