"We were debating, 'Do we want to push that button...and for who?'" the star says of crafting the series finale of the Fox drama.

The Jan. 27 episode additionally showed the 126 crew faced with an asteroid that’s expected to hit Austin, which star Rob Lowe speculated might make his character, firefighter captain Owen Strand, part of the finale’s death toll.

The end is near—and not just for this spinoff that remained on Fox after the LAPD-set mothership moved to ABC. In a plot inspired in part by a real-life meteor strike in Siberia, the Austin-based crew prepare as an asteroid barrels toward Texas.

Lone Star' ending? The popular spinoff of '9-1-1' premiered in January 2020 and rapidly gained a huge following. Here's where it stands.

Lone Star is about to come to an end, with the show's penultimate episode, "Impact," setting up the series finale, "Homecoming." And there's quite a cliffhanger at the end of the show's penultimate hour,