Tonight on ABC Station 19 returns with an all-new Thursday, April 22, 2021, season 4 episode 12 called, “Get Up, Stand Up,” and we have your Station 19 recap below. On tonight’s Station 19 Season 4 Episode 10 recap as per the ABC synopsis, “In the wake of the national outcry after the tragic murder of an unarmed Black man, Maya brings in Dr. Diane Lewis to grief counsel the team.”
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In tonight’s episode of Station 19, Dr. Diane Lewis was asked to return to Station 19. Maya called her. Maya needed to do something in the wake of George Floyd’s death and so she called a therapist because she knows that her firefighters are grieving. They were all coming to terms with the racial equality that led to George’s death. The man allegedly passed off a fake twenty-dollar bill and it somehow led to his death.
He didn’t commit a violent crime. He wasn’t a threat to anyone and George would still be alive if he was white because then the cops would have seen him as a person and not a threat. The whole team knew this. The black members of the team especially knew this and so they did need to talk to someone. And Maya knew it couldn’t be her.
Maya can empathize. She can feel for them and do her best to be their captain, but Maya also knew that maybe she wasn’t the best person to talk to right now. She was a privileged white woman. She knew strife because she was emotionally abused by her father and no one should ever have to go through that. Only she never had to worry about the cops or what the cops might do to her on the slimmest pretext.
Maya knew she would survive a traffic stop and someone like Ben couldn’t say the same. Ben is black. He was also raising two black boys in America with his wife. The couple had to sit down with their kids and they had to tell them it was on them to deescalate. It should be on the cops to that because that is their job yet black parents have to tell their kids to remain calm.
Ben was the first to seek out Diane’s counseling. He had to tell her his frustrations and how he felt like a hypocrite because he hadn’t done anything when he had been pulled over. He had gotten pulled over for nothing. The cops made him come out of his car and put his face to the pavement. They humiliated him.
Ben could have followed up on that by filing a complaint and he hadn’t. He just wanted to let it go because at the time and even now he wasn’t sure if it would have gone anywhere. Ben thinks about that all the time. He wonders what would happen if he could do it again and odds are it’s going to happen again because again he’s a black man in America. Ben was the first to speak with Diane.
He wasn’t the last. Maya was the next person to seek out Diane’s services and she originally thought she would just checking up on her team. Seeing who took up the offer of counseling. It wasn’t until Maya was asked how she was feeling that she admitted she doesn’t know how to handle this fire. She was a firefighter and she studies fires for fun. S
he knows that they have to release the pressure to kill it but she doesn’t know how to do that now because everything from language to the very foundation is built on this inequality. Maya also admitted that when she was younger she thought the inequality had been solved. She studied Black History and was told of the Civil Rights Movement. She thought those things had solved everything. And so now she doesn’t what to do.
The only thing Maya knows how to do is to show up for her friends. When she was younger, her father would coach her and her running team. He would find fault in the little thing she did. He would make her practice over and over again until she collapsed on the pavement where there he would leave her. It was her friends who one by one laid down next to her.
They didn’t say anything. None of them knew how to stand up against abuse of power at age thirteen and so they just laid down next to her. Maya said she wants to show up like her friends once did for her but Maya also knows that now she’s in a position of power. She’s a captain in Seattle Fire Department. She can speak up and she wants to do so for everyone. Not just the black members of her team.
No one else seemed like they wanted to talk to Diane. So, Diane sought out Montgomery and she asked him how he’s doing. Montgomery didn’t think he should talk. He thought the black members of his team deserved their say first, but Diane knew that as an Asian man, Montgomery was also dealing with racism. Someone spit on her mother while she was at the supermarket.
The woman he did so had said “that if the kung fu virus was real, she was the reason for it” to Montgomery’s mom and it happened the same day that George Floyd died. Montgomery hasn’t told anyone this. He didn’t think he deserved to talk during this time and so Diane assured him that other groups experiencing racism don’t diminish what he or his mother have had to face in the rise of Ant-Asian hate crime.
The next person to talk with Diane was Andy. Andy always thought men who had to have a daughter before realizing women are people were horrible and only now is she realizing she’s just like them. Andy didn’t know how bad or scary it was to be a black person until she married one. Her husband Sullivan won’t talk to her about what he’s feeling. He’s bottling it up and so Andy feels like she’s doing the feeling for him. She’s scared.
She genuinely is afraid now that someone might kill her husband next and she was also feeling foolish as well because she grew up around cops. Cops and firefighters worked together as well as being friends. Andy’s late father Pruitt had plenty of cop friends and none of them had spoken out against what happened to George Floyd.
The only thing happening is that the likes of Dixon were now kneeling supposedly in support of the black community. This was the same man that proved he was racist with how he treated black members of the fire department. Both Vic and Dean called him a hypocrite when they saw him doing that on tv. Jack overheard them and he went straight to Diane afterward. Jack isn’t racist.
He just doesn’t know what to say right now because he thinks it damn if he does and damn if he doesn’t. Diane played it straight with Jack. She told him how privileged he is. She even saying by not saying he was racist is the same thing that most racists say. Jack didn’t mean it to come off like that but he’s grown up in privilege.
Jack has stolen, illegally drank, and ran from cops. He has never had to worry about a gun in his face or wonder if he was going to be the next hashtag. Diane told him if he didn’t know what to say then he didn’t have to say anything. He could just listen. Diane next saw Dean. She didn’t talk to him. He just used her office to cry to himself and he didn’t reveal why or explained it.
He just said thanks when he was done. Dean was crying because a black man came in with his two kids and he wanted to show his kid’s a good black man in uniform. This mad had heard about Station 19. He figured they would be the best people to turn to and he had been right. Sullivan showed those kids around the station. He even let them play with the gear.
Vic spoke with Diane. They spoke from one black woman to another and they laughed about all the white people checking in on them. They even laughed about how the usual guys are vilifying George because that’s what they do while the supposedly good guys are doing their best to humanize a human. Both Vic and Diane knew George was a person before he died.
They didn’t need to hear about his family to feel for him and so both women are just angry. Diane was leaving when she ran into Sullivan. He told her that he was eight minutes away from being the next George Floyd. He could do everything right and they might still kill him. And so Sullivan realized that he wasn’t going to talk Dean out of the lawsuit.
Sullivan and the rest of Station 19 later went to a protest. It was Jack’s idea and he agreed to stand in the way of them and the police if it came to it.
THE END!