Tonight on ABC Station 19 returns with an all-new Thursday, December 3, 2020, season 4 episode 3 called, “We Are Family,” and we have your Station 19 recap below. On tonight’s Station 19 Season 4 Episode 3 recap as per the ABC synopsis, “The future of Sullivan’s career hangs in the balance as his disciplinary hearing gets underway, and Ben, Dr. Richard Webber, Emmett Dixon and former Fire Chief Dixon are called to testify. Meanwhile, the crew investigates an electrical fire at a neglected apartment building that serves as the home and performance space for some of Seattle’s most prominent drag queens.”
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Sullivan returned to the station house for the first time in months. Sullivan is facing a review because he used his position as someone higher up in the Seattle Fire Department to score drugs and so he could be fired over this. His review is basically his bosses coming to a decision about what to do with him. They could realize that he’s an addict and accept that he is getting treatment. Sullivan is clean. He’s been clean since he came out about his drug use. He also brought along his sponsor so that he could stay clean even if this review didn’t go his way. Sullivan is a firefighter and he wants to continue to be a firefighter. He is ready to fight for his career. He wants to show everyone that is ready to return to work and that includes his wife.
Andy and Sullivan were going through a trial separation. They were still married. They weren’t talking about a divorce and so Sullivan just asked for a separation so that he could use this time to seek treatment. He was going through the program. He was told how addicts sometimes use sex as a means to alleviate the thirst for drugs and he didn’t want that to happen to him and Andy. He wanted better for them. Sullivan and his wife agreed to separate for ninety days. This is three months and its killing them. They miss each other like crazy. They almost jumped each other when they ran into one another at the firehouse and now wasn’t the time for it. Sullivan still needed to focus on himself as well as his career.
Sullivan wasn’t simply asked to come to tell his bosses what happened. He already gave them his account of the events and so now they were questioning everyone else. They brought back baby Dixon to question him. He wasn’t a firefighter anymore because his time there had so traumatized him that he left. He’s now back in the private sector and what he has to say about Sullivan wasn’t all that great. He was the one that found Sullivan OD on the floor of his office. He recalled that moment for the board and he also told them how at first he thought Sullivan had just passed out. It wasn’t until he found the fentanyl beside Sullivan that he realized what it was. He then more supplies from the Physician Response Team’s vehicle in order to treat Sullivan for the OD.
Dixon hadn’t reported what happened when it did happen. He had been talked out of it by Sullivan who reminded him that the station operated on “trust” and so there was this one guy on the board who openly accused Sullivan of using his position to manipulate a rookie. Dixon was a rookie at the time. He was supposed to be watched over and guided. It wasn’t his place to play watchdog for his superior. Baby Dixon had hurt Sullivan with his testimony. Only his father also came back as well. Former Fire Chief Michael Dixon faced his own review because of what Sullivan did and he had been asked to step down. The former Fire Chief did so because he claims he didn’t like how the investigation into Sullivan was so mishandled.
The former Fire Chief is now the Deputy Chief of Operations with the Seattle Police Department. He somehow managed to land on his feet in spite of everything and he wasn’t afraid to make himself look good. He accused Sullivan of using his son’s homosexuality against him as way to keep quiet. Baby Dixon didn’t tell anyone he was gay until much later on and once he did his father stopped talking to him. His father was a weasel. He made it out like he was trying to do the noble thing when he first covered up what Sullivan did and that Sullivan’s drug use might have gone further back than he claimed. He reminded everyone that people died on Sullivan watch. He brought Pruitt Herrera who as it turns out was Sullivan’s father-in-law. There was no way that Sullivan would have purposely risked his father-in-law and so the most that happened on his watch was that he became too overly concerned with Andy.
Sullivan as Battalion Chief shouldn’t have run into a burning building to keep Andy company. He only did so because by then she was his wife and he didn’t want her to be hurt because he was very much in love with her. He still loves her. Sullivan was going through the program as a way of healing himself and getting back to his wife. He wants to be with Andy. He asked her not to speak up for him because he didn’t want to drag her into this and so Andy didn’t testify on his behalf. It just didn’t stop her from talking to Ben. She knew Ben was going to testify and she asked him not to come down too hard on Sullivan. She reminded him that Sullivan was only human. He made a mistake and he owned up to that mistake. It shouldn’t be held against him for the rest of his life.
Something Andy said must have gotten through to Ben because he didn’t come down on Sullivan. He instead said that the country as a whole has a drug problem and with a system that allows an actual rehab program to be so expensive and not covered by insurance – it was hard to blame just one man for what happened. Sullivan is a drug addict. He also made questionable decisions back when he was using drugs and Ben didn’t try to hide this. All he did say was that Sullivan needed help. He also reminded everyone that until the system changes then odds are the PRT will have this problem again and it took a lot for him to say that out loud because he has been fighting for the PRT from the beginning.
The PRT was Ben’s brainchild. He was the one who came up with the idea to have floating OR and so to have to most likely die because of this must have hurt. Ben was dealing with the death of his dreams while his team were responding to smoke in an apartment building. The apartment building was home to Montgomery’s favorite drag queen. She lived in the building with three other drag queens and it was hard for them to evacuate the building with so much of their valuables still inside. The team had to return to building several times to make sure everyone was evacuated and two people were injured because of it. One of the queens had gotten knocked out because a blast knocked her off her feet and it did the same to Miller. Miller’s knee had to be snapped back in afterwards.
Miller had to be helped out of the building. Jack was the one who snapped knee back in and the two men got to talking. They talked about Inara. Miller had said earlier that Jack likes that he can rescue Inara and its true. Jack has been looking for a surrogate family for a long time. It makes sense that once he found it, he wouldn’t want to let it go. Jack and the rest of the team returned to their station house and together they all stood side by side with Sullivan. They believe in him. They want him to have a second chance and so they spoke up for him. Even Baby Dixon spoke up for him. The team stuck together and they later laughed about it because they were glad to have done this together. Andy and Maya even made up.
The two missed each other more than they knew. They were friends again and that’s a good thing because Sullivan gets to keep being a firefighter, but he’s been knocked back to grunt and so now Maya is the boss over everyone. And its going to get weird.
THE END!
