The key to an easier start of a9-1-1: Lone Starseason?

An ambitious season finale.

“We wrote a check on several fronts.”

9-1-1 LONE STAR: L-R: Rafael Silva and Ronen Rubinstein in the “Both Sides, Now” season premiere

Carlos (Rafael Silva) and TK (Ronen Rubinstein) on season 5 of ‘9-1-1: Lone Star’.Kevin Estrada/FOX

“The first thing I would say is we all adore Sierra McClain.

If not for her, we wouldn’t be talking right now.

She’s a central piece to the show.

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Wyatt (Jackson Pace) and Judd (Jim Parrack) on season 5 of ‘9-1-1: Lone Star’.Kevin Estrada/FOX

She’s the voice on the phone of the title, you know what I mean?”

Then when this stuff happened, we had to go back to the drawing board in some storylines.

You have no choice but to find silver linings, let me put it that way.

Lone Star Season 5 first look photos

Jackson Pace as Wyatt Harris, Michelle C. Bonilla as Sara Ortiz, and Rafael Silva as Carlos on the ‘9-1-1: Lone Star’ season 5 premiere.ABC

I would love it, I’d beg her.

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But where does that leave Judd?

“He is kind of finding himself a bit adrift,” says Raisani.

Lone Star Season 5 first look photos

Rafael Silva as Carlos on season 5 of ‘9-1-1: Lone Star’.Fox

So that’s going to have ramifications for the whole season, really.

I can be best friends with you and still really want this bad.'

“Thematically it just didn’t fit with the stories we were telling last season,” he explains.

“But it works much better into the story this year.

The apparently very well-planned9-1-1: Lone Starseason 5 premieres Monday, Sept. 23, at 8 p.m.

ET, on Fox.