Who is Tommy Vega’s Boyfriend on 9-1-1: Lone Star?

9-1-1: Lone Star, now airing its fifth and final season, follows the firefighters and paramedics at Station 126 in Austin, Texas. Led by Captain Owen Strand (Rob Lowe), the team at the 126 came from all over the country to help reopen the firehouse after a terrible accident at a fertilizer plant killed all but one of the firefighters at the 126. Since their arrival in early 2020, the team has become like a family, supporting each other through illness, childbirth, marriage, divorce, death, and some of life’s most joyful experiences.

As the show moves through its final season, fans are getting a look at what the future of their favorite characters might look like. Judd Ryder (Jim Parrack) is trying to figure out what he’ll do for work now that he’s no longer a firefighter, Carlos Reyes (Rafael L. Silva) is trying to solve his father’s murder, and Captain Strand is trying to figure out who his next lieutenant will be. In Season 5, Episode 2, “Trainwrecks,” fans get to see Paramedic Captain Tommy Vega make a decision about her future, though it doesn’t necessarily go as planned.

Who is Tommy Vega on 9-1-1: Lone Star?

After Paramedic Captain Michelle Blake (Liv Tyler) left at the end of 9-1-1: Lone Star Season 1, the 126’s paramedics needed a new leader. In comes Tommy Vega (Gina Torres), a former paramedic captain who stayed home raising her twin girls for almost eight years. After the restaurant that her husband, Charles (Derek Webster), opened got shuttered due to the pandemic, Tommy needed to go back to work, so she returned to her former firehouse. Tommy and Judd worked together before she left to raise her kids, and she and Charles became close to Judd and Grace (Sierra McClain), even helping get them back together when they briefly broke up.

Tommy had some trouble connecting with her paramedics at first — both Nancy Gillian (Brianna Baker) and Tim Rosewater (Mark Elias) had been close to Michelle Blake, so they weren’t necessarily open to a new captain. After Tim died in Season 2, Episode 2, “2100,” after being hit by a piece of molten rock, Nancy and Tommy began to connect differently. When the team encounters two brothers who are trapped in a minefield in 9-1-1: Lone Star‘s Season 2, Episode 5, “Everyone and Their Brother,” T.K. Strand (Ronen Rubenstein), Owen’s firefighter son, offers to cross the minefield with Owen after the new paramedic refuses to do so. It reminds him how much he enjoys being a paramedic, so he applies for the open position, and Nancy, T.K., and Tommy become an excellent team. Tommy even sings at T.K. and Carlos’ wedding in Season 4, Episode 18, “In Sickness and In Health.”

Tommy’s Husband Died Unexpectedly

After an arsonist sets fires at the 126 and the home of T.K. and Carlos in Season 2, Episode 12, “The Big Heat,” Tommy spends a very late night working and gets home later than she told her husband she would. When she walks in at the end of “The Big Heat,” something is obviously wrong with Charles, though no one finds out what until Season 2, Episode 13, “One Day,” which begins with Tommy calling 9-1-1. She desperately tries to resuscitate Charles, but it’s too late — he’s gone.

Tommy goes to the hospital to have an autopsy done on Charles so she can have answers to all the questions her twins will ask, and ends up in a police standoff while trying to help someone else deal with the death of their loved one. Owen, at the hospital for a follow-up appointment, calls Grace and Judd, who are watching Tommy’s girls, and they begin to put the pieces together. No one can reach Charles, and one of the twins said they heard a car pulling out of the driveway in the middle of the night. When Grace wonders aloud if that car might have been an ambulance, she decides to call her colleague at dispatch, and Grace and Judd hear Tommy’s 9-1-1 call, which tells them everything they need to know. Eventually, Tommy learns that Charles died of an aneurysm, and it would have happened fast. “One Day” is one of 9-1-1: Lone Star‘s best episodes — the audience spends most of the episode with Tommy, including in flashbacks to when she and Charles were trying to have children, and it’s really beautiful to see Owen, Grace, and Judd rally around her to help even when she’s too in shock to tell them what has happened.

Tommy and Trevor Met at The County Fair

Tommy spends most of 9-1-1: Lone Star‘s Season 3 single — there is a brief fling with her late husband’s younger brother, Julius (Nathan Owens), though that seems to be more of a grief-fueled romance than anything — but she’s ready to think about moving on when Season 4 begins. In Season 4, Episode 1, “The New Hotness,” Austin begins seeing some apocalyptic weather — everything from heavy rain that includes frogs to gorilla hail to a heat burst that also comes with huge wind gusts. The 126 gets called to the County Fair twice — first to deal with the heavy rain, which leads to a car driving into the ticket booth, and then to deal with the heat and wind, which results in several accidents, including a young man being trapped in a porta potty that’s melted shut… and sinking.

Two of the biggest accidents at the County Fairgrounds happen to the same father and daughter. When it starts raining frogs, Trevor Parks (D.B. Woodside) calls 9-1-1 for help and steps out from under the cover to look for the parking lot sign. While he’s talking to Grace, a frog falls from the sky and lands in his mouth, falling down his throat. Tommy, T.K., and Nancy are the team that arrives to pull the frog out, eventually having to perform the Heimlich maneuver when the frog is too slippery for their clamps. Later, Trevor and his daughter, Melody (Bella Blanding), return to the fair to try and have a better time, only to end up trapped at the top of the Zipper ride when the heat fries the circuitry. The entire ride is metal, so both Trevor and Melody burn their hands when they touch the side, though Trevor’s is much worse as he has to open the door for them to jump out into the waiting tarp that the 126 has turned into a life net. Tommy wraps both of their hands and then gives Trevor her phone number when she learns that he’s divorced.

Though Tommy plans to call Trevor back, even if just to schedule a playdate for their girls, things change when she’s at church with her girls, Judd and Grace, at the end of “The New Hotness.” Their pastor, who has been there for 15 years, announces that he has brought on a new pastor — Reverend Trevor Parks. Tommy is shocked, maybe even a little embarrassed, when she realizes she hit on her new pastor, but he doesn’t seem to be phased by it. Tommy talks about it with Grace in Season 4, Episode 2, “The New Hot Mess,” revealing that her concern is partially to do with the gossip mill at their church and partially to do with him potentially wanting to wait until they get married to be intimate — something she would do if she was younger and hadn’t already been married once, but doesn’t want to do as a woman in her 40s. She tells Grace that she’s going to call Trevor to tell him that she’s not interested, to which Grace responds, “So then you’re just gonna bald-faced lie to the man of God, then?” Grace has got you there, Tommy!

What Is Next for Tommy and Trevor?

Tommy and Trevor start dating by the end of “The New Hot Mess,” and though she tries to turn the date she accidentally agreed to into a dinner party, Trevor returns to her door to kiss her, telling her that next time they’ll “ditch the chaperones.” In Season 4, Episode 7, “Tommy Dearest,” they tell their children that they are dating, and while Tommy’s daughters take it just fine, Melody has a tough time with it. She tries to get Tommy to break up with Trevor, but Tommy isn’t about to let go without a fight. They resolve things by the end of the episode, but nothing is more heinous than when Melody fakes a stomach ache to interrupt Tommy and Trevor’s date, and Tommy tells her that the only cure is a home remedy that includes milk, horseradish, Tabasco, pickle juice, a raw egg, soy sauce, and minced garlic. Tommy thinks the “cure” will force Melody to tell the truth, but Melody doubles down and drinks the concoction.

They deal with some church gossipers in Season 4, Episode 14, “Tongues Out,” which concerns Trevor, and he even breaks up with Tommy briefly. Tommy handles it with aplomb, putting some of the old biddies in their place, and by the time 9-1-1: Lone Star‘s fifth season returned on September 23, they had been back together and dating for over a year. So when Tommy proposes to Trevor at the beginning of Season 5, Episode 2, “Trainwrecks,” it seems like something they might be ready for — and they are. But what Tommy learns from Trevor is that in his divorce settlement, he was only given custody of Melody if he agreed to let his ex-wife approve the next woman he married. It’s jarring for Tommy and something she’s still figuring out how to respond to. As she tells Nancy and T.K., it isn’t that she has to be approved; it’s also that her daughters must pass the woman’s approval, and she just isn’t sure if she wants to do that to them. Trevor and Tommy’s relationship has certainly had its trials, but will this be the end of everything or just another hurdle they have to jump over to get to true love?