S01E10 - Station 118

"Station 118" is the tenth episode of Season 1 of We Can Fix Pawbert and a 9-1-1 crossover episode.

Synopsis

The team pursues Perry Stackwell, a Lynxley banker who kept parallel ledgers, but arrives to find his office already ablaze. Station 118 responds to the fire, and the two teams converge. Maddie Han shares her experience surviving an abusive marriage, drawing a parallel to Pawbert's own trauma.

Plot

The episode opens with Maddie Han taking a 9-1-1 call from a trapped otter in a burning apartment building. Engine 118 responds—Bobby Nash directing his crew with calm authority, Hen Wilson, Chimney Han, Buck Buckley, and Eddie Diaz moving with practiced precision. Buck scales the ladder and pulls the victim out alive. The cold open establishes the firehouse crew before the storylines converge.

At Site Two, Pawbert identifies Perry Stackwell as the next target. Stackwell handled offshore accounts before Sterling took over and was paranoid about documentation—he kept copies of everything, which Milton complained about. The team heads to the Canal District to locate Stackwell's commercial office, with Pawbert coming along to identify the ledger format. Nick and Luther climb to the third floor only to find smoke and the smell of accelerant—someone beat them there. Stackwell's office is already ablaze, an arson designed to destroy the records.

Nick and Luther kick open the door to find Stackwell on the floor, coughing, with files scattered and some already burning. They pivot from arrest to rescue, hauling Stackwell out while scooping up as many documents as they can carry. Other mammals emerge from offices, panicked, and the two officers shift to evacuation coordination. Engine 118 arrives and takes command of the scene. Judy approaches Bobby Nash to report that two officers are inside helping with evacuation. Hen and Chimney head up to the third floor while Buck and Eddie sweep the second. The teams work together seamlessly—professionals recognizing each other. When Nick emerges carrying salvaged files, Chimney asks if he stopped to grab paperwork in a fire. Nick's response: it's been a weird day.

At Zootopia General Hospital, Stackwell agrees to cooperate in exchange for protection, revealing that someone from the network tried to kill him—they're eating each other now that Milton's gone. Bobby invites the team to dinner at Station 118, a post-incident tradition that's also recognition of what they accomplished together.

At the firehouse, the warmth is immediate. Bobby works the stove while the crews mingle—Buck challenges Nick to arm wrestling, Hen and Judy compare notes. Pawbert stands apart, watching mammals who save lives for a living, feeling like the opposite. Buck approaches with unexpected bluntness: everyone's got something, and Pawbert isn't as special as he thinks. It's not mean—it's leveling, the first moment of unexpected kinship.

In Bobby's office, Luther and the captain have a quiet conversation about protecting someone who's trying to rebuild after destroying everything. Bobby shares that he was an addict who lost everything—career, family, almost his life—and the only reason he's standing now is because someone refused to give up on him. He observes that Pawbert has the look of someone who doesn't think he deserves to be in the same room as everyone else. Bobby later finds Pawbert washing dishes—the guest who can't stop being useful—and shares his own darkness: he killed people when he was drinking, too drunk to know what he was doing. He spent years thinking he didn't deserve to live before realizing that dying wouldn't bring them back. When Pawbert asks how he carries it, Bobby's answer is simple: one day at a time, and with help. He calls the Lynxley family dynamic what it is: not a family, but a hostage situation.

In the truck bay, Chimney finds Pawbert seeking space from the overwhelming warmth inside. He mentions that his partner Maddie survived something—someone—and took a long time to believe she deserved to be happy. Chimney tells Pawbert she wants to meet him and thinks she can help. On the balcony, Maddie stands at the railing, waiting. She recognizes something in Pawbert—the way he stands apart, the way he flinches when someone laughs too loud. She shares her story: married to someone who controlled everything about her life, who said no one else would ever want her, who almost killed her when she tried to leave. She stabbed him to escape. He came back, kept coming back, until he didn't. Pawbert's defenses crack as she describes control that doesn't need violence to work—it just needs you to believe you deserve it. He admits his family called him the weak link his whole life, too soft, too emotional, too much and not enough at once. His mother was the only one who said he was okay, and when she died, his father made sure he understood his weakness killed her. Maddie tells him that breaking out isn't breaking down—escaping takes strength they told him he didn't have. When Pawbert protests that he didn't escape, that he got caught, that he's only alive because others saved him, Maddie gestures toward the firehouse: everyone in there survived something that should have destroyed them, and not one of them did it alone.

Before Pawbert leaves, Maddie gives him a small card with handwritten words: "You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become." She hugs him—a red panda's arms wrapping around a lynx—and repeats the phrase that lands somewhere deep: his sentence doesn't get to be the only truth about him.

Back at Site Two, Judy catches Pawbert before he disappears to his room. She produces an envelope from the evidence return: his mother's handwritten recipe card, root vegetable stew with notes in the margins—"Pawbert likes extra carrots." His paws shake as he traces the handwriting, her voice frozen in ink. In the tag, Pawbert sits in his room wearing the green sweater, both cards pinned to his corkboard—Maddie's message and his mother's recipe. The smallest details, the ones that prove you were loved. For the first time, he considers the possibility that survival might be worth it.

Key Moments

• Engine 118 rescues a trapped otter from the Riverside Apartments fire in the cold open
• Pawbert identifies Perry Stackwell as the next target—a paranoid banker who kept parallel ledgers
• Nick and Luther arrive at Stackwell's office to find it already ablaze from arson
• Nick and Luther rescue Stackwell and salvage documents from the burning building
• Engine 118 responds to the Canal District fire, bringing the teams together
• Stackwell agrees to cooperate from the hospital, revealing the network is turning on itself
• Bobby invites the team to dinner at Station 118
• Buck tells Pawbert that everyone has something and he's not as special as he thinks
• Bobby shares his addiction and recovery story with Luther
• Bobby tells Pawbert he killed people when he was drinking and learned to carry it one day at a time
• Bobby calls the Lynxley family a hostage situation, not a family
• Chimney sends Pawbert to the balcony to talk with Maddie
• Maddie shares her story of surviving an abusive marriage that mirrors Pawbert's family trauma
• Pawbert breaks down and admits his family called him the weak link his whole life
• Maddie tells Pawbert that breaking out isn't breaking down—escaping takes strength
• Maddie gives Pawbert a card with the message about choosing who to become
• Maddie tells Pawbert his sentence doesn't get to be the only truth about him
• Judy returns Pawbert's mother's handwritten recipe card from evidence
• Both cards are pinned to Pawbert's corkboard in the tag

Key Lines

Characters Introduced

Locations

• Riverside Apartments - Cold open fire rescue
• Site Two - Team safehouse
• Canal District commercial building (2215 Orchid Drive) - Stackwell's office, destroyed by arson
• Zootopia General Hospital - Stackwell treated for smoke inhalation
• Station 118 - Firehouse dinner; captain's office, truck bay, balcony

Items

• Stackwell's ledger files - Parallel ledgers partially salvaged from the fire
• Maddie's card - "You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become."
• Mother's recipe card - Root vegetable stew in Lillian's handwriting; "Pawbert likes extra carrots"
• Corkboard - Pawbert's growing collection; both new cards pinned alongside existing items
• Green sweater - Pawbert wearing it in the tag scene

Notes

• This episode establishes the 9-1-1 crossover connection that continues through the series, with Station 118 becoming recurring allies.
• Maddie's trauma parallel (abusive marriage) provides Pawbert with a peer who understands survival from a different angle—control through psychological manipulation rather than physical violence.
• The recipe card and Maddie's card become core items in Pawbert's collection, remaining pinned to his corkboard until surrendered at prison intake in the finale.
• Christopher Diaz (Eddie's son) appears briefly via video call during the firehouse dinner.