Reuniting with your family can be stressful, but for Maya (Danielle Savre) on Station 19, that common reality is taken to new extremes. The former fire captain was helping with the PRIDE parade in Thursday’s episode of the ABC drama when she saw a man in the group of white supremacists outside of the parade route who she believed was her brother.
Andy (Jaina Lee Ortiz) convinced Maya that maybe she was seeing things because all of the men were wearing masks. Later in the episode, Maya confirmed the masked man was her brother when she caught him running after a car backfiring turned the parade into a scene of chaos.
The episode kicked off a multi-episode arc that will see Maya have to come to terms with her brother’s hatred. This new horrifying information is coming to light as she and Carina (Stefania Spampinato) are trying to settle into motherhood with their newborn foster son, Liam.
Parade caught up with Danielle Savre to talk about Maya’s traumatic family reunion and what it means for Maya in the rest of Station 19 Season 7.
We don’t get to see Maya with the baby much in this episode. How would you describe her as a new mother?
She’s excited and nervous, but also very ready. What’s beautiful is that she’s really gone on this journey and she’s embracing it. We’re going to see more of that as the episodes go on, how she embraces it and her version of embracing motherhood. Currently, in this episode, she’s just excited and getting comfortable with it.
How does seeing her brother at this Pride parade shake her? Does it change her viewpoints on how she and Carina should be raising a son?
It’s shocking. She’s really processing it the first time that she sees him. There’s a trajectory where she first sees him and doesn’t know it’s him, and then when she actually confirms it is him, she is still shocked and trying to process it all. I don’t think in this moment she fully understood what it means in raising her own son yet, but that will be explored. I think it’s just a complete shock. Coming face to face with that fact—you know, we haven’t visited her brother’s storyline in years, so I think it’s a shock and we’ll see where that storyline goes because we are going to get some intense stuff from it.
