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Hot off creating and leading her own series, the
Suits spin-off
Pearson, Gina Torres has joined the first responder crew on Fox’s
9-1-1: Lone Star. Torres stars as Tommy Vega, who returns to work as a paramedic captain after an eight-year absence. Like other medical dramas,
Lone Star has made room for our COVID reality, which is part of Tommy’s storyline the pandemic-related shutdowns devastated her husband’s restaurant business, and now she’s back to saving lives.
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Any doubts Tommy had about how well she’d readjust to her adrenaline-driven workplace quickly dissipated after the season-two premiere last month. She continues to show off her nerves of steel in “Difficult Conversations,” the fifth episode of season two. In this exclusive clip from the episode, which airs Monday night at 9:01 p.m. ET, firefighter captain Owen Strand (Rob Lowe) leads his team at the scene of a gnarly collision between an SUV and beam-laden