i’ve thought about it and i don’t actually want buddie canon tomorrow. i want eddie to go into the building, save buck, and then once they’re reunited and eddie knows buck’s okay i want a forehead touch as they breathe in tandem and buck says, “thanks for having my back” and eddie says, “always.”
Wait so I’ve been thinking about this more and now I want it to be a parallel to Bathena in 4.14. The forehead touch with the “thanks for coming to get me” except for Buddie it’s about having each other’s backs. And then a follow-up scene where Buck is shocked Eddie intentionally missed his flight back to El Paso to come to the building collapse and Eddie can parallel Athena there too, with the “You were inside—I needed to get my partner back.”
And that’s how we’ll know it’s shifted for Eddie. It’s just subtle enough that there’s plausible deniability because they’re work partners, but we’ll know. The Buddie/Bathena parallel, along with them not actively being partners at work, will show that everything between them has shifted and is coming alive.
