I was asked to list the 911 episodes that contain significant moments for Buddie’s relationship so here we go (feat. highlights):
2.01 [Under Pressure]
🌈 “Who the hell is that?”
🌈 “We might end up real close.”
🌈 “You can have my back any day.” //“Yeah. Or, you know, you could...you could have mine.”
2.03 [Help Is Not Coming]
🌈 “Whoa, you got a kid?”
“Christopher. He’s seven.”
“And super adorable. I, uh. I love kids.”
“I love this one. I’m all he’s got.”
2.04 [Stuck]
Just watch the episode. That’s my advice.
2.06 [Dosed]
🌈 Buck assumes Maddie is referring to Eddie when she says “He is so cute.” “Yeah, he gets that a lot. You should meet his kid, though.”
2.08 [Buck, Actually]
🌈 Thomas + Mitchell’s love story: “You don’t find it, son. You make it.”
2.10 [Merry Ex-Mas]
🌈 “You two have an adorable son.”
2.13 [Fight or Flight]
🌈 Eddie is there for Buck after Maddie has been kidnapped by Doug. “This isn’t your fault.”
2.18 [This Life We Choose]
3.01 [Kids Today]
🌈 Christopher gives Buck a card to congratulate him on returning to work: “Buck, you are an awesome firefighter. Love, Christopher.”
🌈 Eddie lets himself into Buck’s apartment and drags Buck out of bed to spend time with Christopher
🌈 Buck and Christopher have a day of fun (before disaster strikes)
🌈 Christopher assures Buck “You’re gonna be okay, kid.”
3.02 [Sink or Swim]
(Meanwhile, he has no idea that Buck and Christopher are caught up in the tsunami.)
3.03 [The Searchers]
🌈 Buck looks for a missing Christopher (he places Christopher’s glasses around his neck after retrieving them from the water)
🌈 Buck asks Maddie “How do you tell your best friend that you lost his son?”
🌈 Buck collapses in relief after Eddie is reunited with Christopher, who isn’t severely hurt
🎵 you won’t ever be alone, wait for me to come home 🎵 (If I gave you highlights of the ending I’d be quoting the entire dialogue.)
3.05 [Rage]
🌈 “No, because he filed a stupid lawsuit and now I can’t even talk to you because of it. You know how much Christopher misses you? How could you? You’re not around.”
3.06 [Monsters]
🌈 Buck tells Eddie “I just want you to talk to me. Even if it’s just to say that you’re still mad.”
Eddie: “I’m not mad...When you decided to sue the department, to make Cap the bad guy, did you ever stop for a minute to think what that could do to us?”
🌈 “I really am sorry. So, whatever it takes for you to forgive me...”
“I forgive you...Just don’t do it again.” *cue last time they’ve hugged in canon*
3.09 [Fallout]
🌈 “Buck was on the pier when the tsunami hit. He’s kind of obsessed with natural disasters.”
🌈 The Kitchen Scene™
🌈 Eddie says playing video games with Buck and Christopher is “my kind of therapy”.
3.10 [The Christmas Spirit]
(Eddie’s expression while watching Buck play with Christopher and Denny.)
🌈 Christopher asks Buck if he can spend Christmas with him since Eddie is working. Buck admits he will also be working. Christopher is unamused. (“Stupid work.”)
🌈 Athena and Buck team up to bring everybody’s family to the firehouse for a Christmas celebration. Buck watches Eddie and Christopher embrace, then later helps Christopher open a gift.
3.11 [Seize the Day]
🌈 “Uh, this is Eddie’s house. I’m not really a guest.”
3.12 [Fools]
🌈 Buck and Eddie construct an adaptive skateboard for Christopher and are both present the first time he tries it out
3.15 [Eddie Begins]
🌈 Buck digs his hands through the dirt and mud after Eddie gets trapped underground. (“Eddie! No! Eddie!”) Bobby has to pull him back.
🌈 Buck believes he is the one who should go down in the well to rescue Eddie. Hen asks, “So we can end up with two cut lines?”
🌈 Eddie recalls bits & pieces of his life as he fights to survive. Buck is part of the montage (along with Christopher and Shannon).
3.16 [The One That Got Away]
🌈 Eddie tells Buck that the 118 will never stop being a family no matter what the future holds (In hindsight, we now understand why he said that.)
3.18 [What’s Next?]
🌈 Buck is not thrilled with the idea of Christopher attending summer camp: “Woah, woah. Two weeks away from home? Isn’t Chris kind of young for that? I mean, what if something happens? What if he gets homesick?”
🌈 Buck and Eddie come face-to-face with Abby Clark, Buck’s ex-girlfriend, while attempting to rescue victims of a train crash. It is the first time Eddie has seen her in person.
🌈 Buck is willing to risk his life to fulfill a promise he makes to Abby (save her fiancé). Eddie is not happy about this and argues with Buck in front of Bobby.
🌈 Eddie: “His fiancée’s Abby.”
🌈 Eddie joins Buck as he watches Abby leave the scene of the crash with her fiancé.
“You okay?” // “What’s next?”
🌈 Buckley-Diaz cuteness at May’s high school graduation party
4.01 [Alone Together]
🌈 All you need to know is that Eddie, Hen, and Chimney quarantined at Buck’s apartment during the beginning stages of COVID-19.
4.03 [Future Tense]
🌈 Buckley-Diaz game nights are still going strong, making it canon that Buck is the only other adult Christopher has spent time with during the pandemic (He has yet to see Carla, Abuela, or Pepa.)
🌈 Buck and Christopher “prank” Eddie by sending him an expensive coffee maker to poke fun at his fear of technology
4.04 [9-1-1, What’s Your Grievance?]
🌈 Eddie watches Buck take out his anger towards his parents on the punching bag. He tells Buck he doesn’t need to apologize to them for his recent behavior if he didn’t “say anything that wasn’t true”.
🌈 “I just want to hit things.” *Eddie stalls the swaying bag with his hand.* “I’ve been down that road. I don’t recommend it.”
4.05 [Buck Begins]
🌈 “I had to do it.” // “I know you did.”
4.06 [Jinx]
🌈 “Check.” ☑️
🌈 Eddie is “still not sure what inspired the [Buck 3.0] software update.”
4.08 [Breaking Point]
🌈 click here for a detailed analysis of the interaction between Buddie when Eddie comes home after his date by my friend @yramesoruniverse
🌈 click here for an in-depth look at the conversation between Buck and Christopher after Christopher took an Uber to Buck’s apartment without Eddie’s knowledge
4.12 [Treasure Hunt]
Buck: “...” “How do you feel about 33-and-a-third?”
4.13 [Suspicion]
A must watch.
4.14 [Survivors]
You can’t watch 4.13 and NOT check out the finale.
“Because, Evan...”

























