Rob Lowe Reveals the ‘Emotional’ 9-1-1: Lone Star Alternate Ending He Pitched and Why It Quickly Got Vetoed

Sometimes, even Rob Lowe doesn’t get his way!

In a recent interview with TVLine, the actor, 60, opened up about the Feb. 3 series finale of 9-1-1: Lone Star. Reflecting on the happy ending, Lowe, who played Captain Owen Strand on the series and also served as an executive producer, revealed that he was hoping to go out with more of a bang.

“I pitched the possibility of Owen going out in a blaze of glory 100%,” he told the outlet. “I pitched one of those amazingly emotional hero’s walks where Owen dies and then he’s given the hero’s walk in the hospital and everyone’s clapping.”

The rest of the team, however, thought Lowe’s idea was a bit too harsh, telling him: “It’s sad enough that we have to mourn the death of a show that’s still in its prime, let’s not also mourn the death of a character.”

“We thought, instead of having him walk off into the sunset, let’s have him walk off to the sunrise in the east,” Lowe added, explaining how they settled on a more optimistic conclusion. “He completed the impetus for the show — he rebuilt the 126 into a family, and he rejuvenated his own family. Mission completed. Now it’s time for Owen to figure out what his next chapter is.”

And since Owen came out of the finale alive, Lowe said he isn’t closing the door on the possibility of reprising the role.

“It’s not every day that a show goes off the air still leading in the ratings,” he explained. “There’s a lot of juice left in it, so who knows, maybe someday somebody will figure out a way to do it.”

As for what’s next for him, The Outsiders alum said he isn’t sure, joking that he has “been trying to work my way through all the members of the Village People,” so maybe he’ll continue down that path.

“I think construction worker might be next,” Lowe said. “No, I have an inkling that it’d be fun to do a show about the Secret Service, a political thriller with a lot of action. I also wouldn’t mind doing something in the Taylor Sheridan universe. I only did one Western in my life, and I had such a great time doing it. Any time Owen got to wear a cowboy hat or be on a horse, I was super excited.”

Fox announced the cancellation of 9-1-1: Lone Star in September after five seasons, but a month later, franchise creator Ryan Murphey shared that a new spinoff was in the works.

“Tim Minear and I are working on a new spinoff that we’re actually writing, and that we hope to get on the air next fall,” he told Variety. “Sadly, we all love Lone Star, but the financials just didn’t work. It’s a Disney company that was on a Fox network, and it just was never going to work. And we had a long run of it.”

“Now we’re going to launch a new show in a new city that I can’t name, but it’s fun,” he continued. “And 9-1-1 moved to ABC and suddenly became, I think, the biggest show on Thursday night. They obviously have an appetite for that, so we’re going to give them another one that I really love.”

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9-1-1: Lone Star can be streamed on Hulu.