Exclusive: Buck and Capt. Gerrard go head-to-head | face

Getting a brand new boss at all times comes with its challenges, and 9-1-1 pours gasoline on that idea within the season 8 premiere.

In a preview clip unique to Entertainment Weekly (beneath), Buck (Oliver Stark), Eddie (Ryan Guzman), Hen (Aisha Hinds), and Chimney (Kenneth Choi) are coming actually face-to-face with their new adversary/boss, Capt. Vincent Gerrard (Brian Thompson), who's stepping again in to guide the 118 after Bobby (Peter Krause) stop heading into the season 7 finale.

9-1-1 showrunner Tim Minear defined to EW that Bobby is keen to get again to the 118, however Gerrard had already been put in energy by the point he'd recovered from his coronary heart assault and recanted his retirement. And it appears not less than Buck is simply as wanting to have him again.

“I think it's harder for Buck than the rest,” Minear instructed EW earlier this month as a part of our Fall TV Preview. “Eddie was in the military, and both Hen and Chimney already served under this guy — they've been vaccinated, in a way. They know how to not let him get to them. Bobby is the only captain Buck has ever served under. Bobby really is his surrogate dad, so it's just a lot harder for Buck. And not only did Hen and Chim serve under Gerrard before, but she's got other fish to fry. She's trying to get her foster license back. She can't be written up at work. She has to toe the line. And Chimney's in a similar position because he's the one who's watching Mara with Maddie.”

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“I think we landed in a really good place for an interesting story with Dad out of the house, I guess you could say,” Minear mentioned of exploring the 118 with out Bobby, who continues to be formally employed by the Los Angeles Fire Department however, with out an open firehouse to captain, is working as a technical advisor on an motion TV present referred to as Hotshots.

“It's a ridiculous firefighter TV show,” Minear explains. “Bobby's just completely over it. He's not lured in by Hollywood or any of that stuff. He just finds the whole thing incredibly trivial and ridiculous.”

While Bobby is away, the 118 will face a “bee-nado” of twenty-two million killer bees by chance launched upon Los Angeles.

“We just wanted to generate some buzz,” Minear joked to EW, additional explaining that the upcoming catastrophe stemmed from a dialog with co-creator Ryan Murphy. “He really just loved what we did last year with the Poseidon Adventure [storyline], and he was like, ‘What are some other great '70s disaster movies?' And I just threw out The Swarm, and he's like, ‘Yes, do that!'”

9-1-1 season 8 premieres tonight at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.