Buck and Maddie’s sibling bond is a central facet of 9-1-1, however there was a 3rd Buckley baby revealed at the start of season 4 — Daniel. Jennifer Love Hewitt joined the 9-1-1 solid as Maddie in season 2, performing reverse Oliver Stark’s Buck. Because the siblings reconnected in LA, they contributed to a few of 9-1-1’s most heartwarming moments, changing into one another’s finest buddy and most trusted confidant. In true sibling style, Maddie and Buck have additionally had tough patches all through 9-1-1, whether or not it’s petty squabbles over their private lives or harrowing moments of despair following grave accidents.

The shut relationship between Maddie and Buck typically provides a singular twist to 9-1-1’s most intense disasters, with the firefighter/dispatcher duo typically working in tandem. Though Maddie has Chimney (Kenneth Choi) and Buck has Eddie (Ryan Guzman) to be shut companions, the sibling dynamic is distinct and supersedes all else on the finish of the day. Whereas little is understood about their dad and mom, Margaret (Dee Wallace) and Phillip Buckley (Gregory Harrison), what 9-1-1 has revealed concerning the Buckley household helps clarify how Buck and Maddie turned the folks they’re (despite their previous, not due to it).

Daniel Died Earlier than The Occasions Of 9-1-1

He Was The Center Buckley Little one

By 9-1-1 season 4, the strained dynamic between Buck and his dad and mom had solely been implied. Within the fourth episode of the season (“9-1-1, What’s Your Grievance?”), Maddie and Buck attend a household dinner with their visiting dad and mom that rapidly spirals uncontrolled. Maddie, the peacemaker of the Buckleys, tries to steer the dialog into secure waters, however Buck can’t cover his feelings. After Buck berates his dad and mom for his or her failures in one among Oliver Stark’s finest performances in 9-1-1, Maddie comforts him. The episode takes a flip when Buck discovers what he assumes is an image of himself.

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Maddie sends him reeling when she admits that the photograph isn’t of Buck; it’s their late brother, Daniel. Born a yr after Maddie, Daniel was identified with childhood leukemia. After studying none of them can donate to avoid wasting him, Margaret and Phillip resolve to have Buck as a final resort. Sadly, Buck’s donor cells didn’t graft, and Daniel succumbed to his leukemia in 1993, when Maddie was 9 and Buck was about 2. Regardless of being conceived to avoid wasting his older brother, Buck didn’t know Daniel existed till he discovered the image in 9-1-1 season 4, which despatched him spiraling.

Why Maddie And The Buckley Dad and mom Stored Daniel A Secret In 9-1-1

They Had Completely different Motivations

Understandably, Margaret and Phillip had been consumed by grief following Daniel’s demise. Whereas Daniel’s demise explains Buck’s childhood neglect, it doesn’t excuse it. Margaret and Phillip by no means advised Buck about his brother in 9-1-1, nevertheless it was principally a egocentric determination. Margaret’s grief over shedding Daniel drove her to keep away from seeing her kids in ache, which inadvertently meant ignoring them. Buck by no means felt cherished by his dad and mom on account of their detachment, together with his captain Bobby Nash (Peter Krause) changing into his father determine. Actually, Buck and Bobby’s relationship in 9-1-1 is the closest Buck has to an actual guardian in LA.

Maddie’s causes for hiding Daniel from Buck had been rather more nuanced in 9-1-1, as she demonstrated an earnest concern for her youthful brother. Whereas Maddie was additionally deeply traumatized by shedding Daniel, she truthfully thought it will be finest to defend Buck from the reality. It’s completely doable that Maddie herself was attempting to suppress reminiscences of Daniel as a result of they had been too painful, particularly with 9-1-1’s many near-death experiences typically putting her and her brother at risk. Ultimately, Maddie and Buck each understand how sophisticated the scenario is, and Maddie agrees to inform Buck about Daniel.

Can Daniel Seem Once more In 9-1-1?

He is Already Proven Up Posthumously

Though he died previous to the sequence, Daniel stays an summary character that may be— and has been— used. Daniel might have died earlier than Buck met him, however that didn’t cease an imaginary model of his brother (portrayed by Aaron Staton) showing in Buck’s coma dream after he’s struck by lightning in 9-1-1 season 6. “In One other Life” (9-1-1 season 6, episode 11) is extensively thought to be one among 9-1-1’s finest episodes, and Buck hallucinating a grown-up Daniel is without doubt one of the most unusual and emotional moments of all the dream. Consequently, Daniel might doubtlessly return in 9-1-1.

Different characters have had their very own dreamlike states coupled with hallucinations, like Chimney’s fugue state in “There Goes the Groom” (9-1-1 season 7, episode 6). When used sparingly, it’s an efficient means for 9-1-1 to discover the interior machinations of its characters. 9-1-1 has by no means explored Maddie’s reminiscences of Daniel, and it’s doable that the first-responder drama might use flashbacks from her childhood or dream sequences to develop upon Daniel’s character. However, even when Daniel Buckley by no means reveals up once more, the impression he left on 9-1-1 can’t be overstated.

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Launch Date

January 3, 2018

Showrunner

Tim Minear

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  Angela Bassett

  Athena Grant

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  Peter Krause

  Robert ‘Bobby’ Nash