Spoilers ahead for Episode 3 of Rescue: HI-Surf on Fox, called “The Deep End.” The plot is already thickening on Rescue: HI-Surf in the 2024 TV schedule , whether you’ve been watching live on Fox or streaming afterward with a Hulu subscription . Despite the skill of the various lifeguards – albeit some more skilled than others – there has been plenty of interpersonal drama between them, and some of it came to a head in “The Deep End” when Sonny had to take a day off to deal with grief that was beginning to affect him physically.
A shift didn’t go too well with Em in charge, and tension built throughout the hour until Sonny asked a question that might be difficult to answer. In the final moments of the episode, the team of lifeguards learned that the lawsuit from back in the series premiere didn’t come to a quiet end with the family taking a settlement from the city, and they learned it in just about the worst way: via a news broadcast. When Sonny didn’t seem as upset as Em expected, she went after him to confront him.
He finally snapped, threw a pen, and asked: What do you want me to do about it?! It wasn’t violent, but it also was probably the worst that we’ve seen between Em and Sonny. It was particularly striking due to how caring she’d been toward him earlier in the episode when he passed out on the beach. Her stint as leader when she was left in charge just didn’t go well, and he didn’t hide that he would have done just about everything diff.