""This is not a normal job." "Everybody's got their stories." "Their weirdest call." "I must've bugged Rabbit for six months before he told me his." "Of course he blew me off, he dodged me." "And then one day out of the blue, he just blurted it out." "It was back when he and Nancy were riding together." "Multiple gunshot victims in North Beach... a real blood bath..." "Rabbit's favorite kind of call."" "Hey!" "Hey, douche lord!" "Come on!" "There's an ambulance behind you." "That's right, that's what the lights and sirens are." "Come on, move the hell over." "Thank you, douche lord." " Rabbit." " Sorry." "Emperor-ess." "Hey, don't take Grant." "It's too narrow." " You'll get stuck." " Come on, we gotta." "I mean, if we take Romolo, it's too steep." "And we'll be lugging dude up, which means I'm lugging dude up..." " Take Vallejo." " All right." "But you're not always right." "I am this time." " You got it?" " Yeah." " Hey." " Hey, Rabbit, Nancy." "Remember, it's a crime scene, don't touch anything but the guy that's breathing." " All right." " Hey..." "Get ready to walk into a movie." " Yeah?" " You're Italian, right, Rabbit?" "Uh, not Italian, Ray." ""And, yep, Ray was right..." "straight out of a Coppola flick." ""Red wine mixed with blood on the floor, a trio of goombahs facedown in their ziti bolognese." "And one still breathing."" "Okay, let's get him on the ground." " Got him?" " Got him." " Watch your step." " "Shot four different times, once through the neck..." "this is one tough bastard."" "All right, pulse is down." "Airway?" "Stopped breathing." "E.T. tube, preoxygenate." "This is yours." "Got it." "Ray was not kidding." "I didn't know this kind of stuff happened in San Francisco anymore." "Yeah, obviously it does." "All right, they're out." "Need a hand?" "No, airway's clear." "Ventilate." "Nice." "Just load the patient, Rabbit." "We're gonna wanna talk to him." "Yeah, well, right now he's got a tube down his throat and an appointment with surgery." "You'll have to catch him at city in a few." " All right, will do." " Oop." "Drive safe, Rabbit." "Why start now?" "Seriously, Rabbit?" "Oh, all right." "Only for you, though." "I gotta tell you, this reckless-rogue thing you have going on..." " Yeah?" " It's not working." "Come on, it's totally working." "Not even slightly." "This guy is a fighter." " Okay, fighter." " Oh, oh." "Okay, careful." " Okay, hold on." " Yeah." " Okay, go." " Okay." " Aah!" " Get down!" "Whoa!" " Hey, over here!" " We need some help over here." "You all right?" "Yeah, I'm okay." "Are you okay?" ""And it wasn't the bullets flying that got to Rabbit." "The thing he said pissed him off... that still gets to him..." "is that it was a save 30 seconds ago."" "Thank you, guys." " Hey, great job." " Thanks." " Wow, man, hell of a story." " Yeah." "Restaurant just up the way, right?" " Yeah, yeah." " And you were there?" "No, it was before my time, but my partner was." "Her and the guy she used to ride with." "Wow, man, a job like that'd mess you up." "Yeah, I know, tell me about it." "But you know what, man?" "That was really good." "You need to come back next week." " Really?" " Absolutely, man." "Yeah, well, I got, you know, work." "Kind of never know what's gonna fall in my lap, but..." " All good." " Hey, thank you." " You got it, man." " Thank you so much." " Take care, man." " All right." "Need a hand?" "Here." "I'm sorry." "Miss!" "Hey!" "Okay, I didn't know whether to get blue or pink." "Okay, I don't think it matters, but it is a girl." "Here we go, sweetheart." "She's tachypneic and not responding to stimuli." " We gotta get her to city." " Well, they're waiting for you." "Okay, let's go." " Here we go." " Uh-huh." " Got her?" " I'll go fire up the rig." " Work with me, Tyler?" " Hell, yeah." "I got you." " Here we go." " All right, let's do it." "Heart rate's 57." "Yeah, that's borderline." "It's not rising." "All right." " Okay, come on, little girl." " Come on." "Okay, hold... hold CPR." "Okay, the rate's 68." "All right, 62." "It's dropping." "Right, she's what, seven pounds?" "If that." "Okay, let's be on the safe side." "Injecting five mils D-10." "Injecting." " Pushing." " Okay." "Okay." "Okay, hold CPR." " Yes!" " Yeah?" "Okay, got it." "Yes." "Good work, little girl." "Rabbit, please." "Come on, it's a question." "It's a dumb question." "It's not a dumb question." "Rabbit, please stop bugging me, okay?" "If I miss a step, I have to start over." "You know, I'm asking you because I wanna know." "You wanna know what normal people do in a relationship?" "No, I wanna know what, you know, people do in a normal relationship." " That's the same thing." " Well, not exactly." "I mean, with Nancy and I..." "It's always been about the work and the bedroom." "And I like both." "But now it's different." "You know, it's all grown-up." "And I don't have a great track record for that kind of thing, so..." "Okay, and what makes you think I do?" "You're about the most well -adjusted person I know." "Ha!" "Well, then you don't know me that well." "Come on." "Okay." "Uh, normal, normal." "Dinner." " Dinner?" " Yes, dinner." "You eat, you talk, it's normal." "You make her dinner." "Oh, dinner." "Okay, I can do that." "Yeah, I don't think she can be more than two days old." "Tough way to start out." "But at least she gets a start, right?" "Right." "Any word on the mother?" "No, she just dropped and ran." "Okay." "You." "It's a pleasure saving lives with you, Nance." "Nice work." "You too." "You miss me?" "Not exactly." "Wait, how about some props, man?" "The baby lives." "Huh?" " Should celebrate." " That's a save, okay." "But I don't... try not to get my drink on" " at work before noon." " Yeah?" "No, seriously, what you doing tonight?" "My dad's in town." "We're going to the hidden cove, you should come." " What, he flew in to visit?" " Yeah." " Cool, right?" " Wow, okay." "Are you gonna seize the opportunity?" "Seize the opportunity for what exactly?" "You came out to me and my family, and you can't come out to your dad?" "I really wanna know why it's such a big deal to you." "You know what?" "Don't even answer that." "Because I'm not having this conversation with you right now." "It'd make you feel better." "You know, sometimes I think I would feel better if I just... punched you in the face." "But I don't do that, huh?" "Logic." "How's baby Jane Doe?" "She's off to NICU." "Say, I was freaked when that girl handed me that bag." "It's a heavy call." "Yes, Glenn." "So would you say that was your weirdest call?" "I thought the book was on hold?" "Yeah, well, it kinda came back." "The longer I do this, the more I see..." "Writing about it helps." "Yeah, I get it." "Okay, Glenn, you wanna hear the story?" "You kidding me?" "Yeah, I'll put it down as soon as we get back to the station." " I'll put it in the book..." " No, okay, this is not for public consumption." "No notebook, no using this." "I'm trusting you here." "It's just between you and me, because..." "When you hear it, you'll get it." " Okay." " Promise me?" " I'm not joking." " I promise." "Well, it was a while ago." "Before you turned up, so I didn't have a regular partner," "I was pulling mystery meat EMT's." "This one day, I pulled a guy named Kino." "Strong back, weak mind." "Not much of a talker." "We get a call for a 51-50." "Some whack-job tearing apart a fleabag apartment in the TL." "Nothing new there, right?" "Whoa, sounds like domestic violence, huh?" "Yeah, except he's in there alone." " Is he hurt?" " No way of knowing." "I think he's got a couch or something barricading the door." "Don't have a name." "We can't even get a hold of the landlord." "We've been trying to get him to open up for 20 minutes." "Mind if I have a go?" "Please." "Sir?" "Sir, can you hear me?" " No." " Sir..." "I just wanna help you." "I just wanna see if you're hurt." "I'm a medic, I'm not a cop." "Listen to you, psycho whisperer." "Sir?" "Can you open the door?" "I just wanna help you." "Would you mind opening the door?" "Nancy?" "Rabbit?" "How'd you find me?" "What are you doing here?" "We were called." "Someone..." "Hey, Ray." "Are you hurt?" "Are you okay?" "Yeah, yeah." "I'm..." "I'm great." " Can I come in?" " Sure." " Come in." " Okay." "Why not?" "Grab a seat." "What's going on, Rabbit?" "I don't know." "I don't know." "Pizza's under the bed in case you're hungry." "Look, here's what I don't understand." " What did you save me for?" " What?" "I'm supposed to be dead." "Rotor's dead, everybody's dead." " Oh, no." " I'm supposed to be dead." "It's okay." " No!" " Ah!" "Just stop trying to save me, okay?" "It took two cops and two shots of Diazepam to finally subdue him." "He spent 72 hours at city psych." "But Kino never pressed charges." "I think he was kind of embarrassed that Rabbit knocked him out." "I bet." "Yeah, so now you see why" "I didn't want you broadcasting that one." "And you know, the weirdest thing about it is..." "That madman trashing that fleabag apartment on that 51-50 call... ." "Today he's my boyfriend." "Dispatch, this is angel rescue two en route to city." "I got a 32-year-old male MVA victim." "Possible spinal injury." " Hey, Marisa." " Uh, working, Rabbit." "Check this out." " Whoa, nice." " Yeah." "Thank you." "You're not out of the woods yet, bud, but it's a good sign." "We'll be in the hospital in about five minutes." " Mm-mm, try two." " Correction." "Two minutes." "Hey, I got the dinner all hooked up, though." "Doing coq Au Vin, braised leeks." "It's gonna be awesome." "I got it outta this French cookbook." " Wow, I'm impressed." " Me too." "Yeah, it's exciting." "All right, he's got sensation and movement in his extremities, thank you very much." "Oh, that's good news." "I'll let neuro know." "All right." "Take care." "Yeah, good luck with dinner." "Thanks." "Glenn, where's Nancy?" "I don't know, she's kinda been disappearing like this." "Hmm, I'll find her." " Thanks, Suzie." " We're moving out, Rabbit." "Patient transfer to Stanford." "Hey, tell her I'll see her tonight?" " Yeah, will do." " Thanks." "Hey, we got GSW." "He's coding." "Here you go." "Your chariot awaits." "Whoo!" "You are a bloody mess." "What happened?" "So says Captain hemorrhage." "Look at you." "Where at?" "Here?" "Yeah, just all over in here." "Okay, I got the spare uniforms." "All right." "All right." "No, you save the pickle juice but put cucumbers in it, yeah." " Hey, here it comes." " What?" "What?" "I don't know." "What, what, what?" " No, I was..." " yes, Glenn, I am." "Wait a minute, man." "How you can come out to this guy, and you can't even say it to your dad?" " Shut up." " No." "That's not what I'm talking about." "Listen, Ty, I know you've worked different cities and all that, and I was just wondering..." "If I could hit you up for your weirdest call?" "Yeah, I'm hella curious, you know?" "Because we've been on a lot of strange ones, me and myself, you know?" "Yeah, well, it wasn't here." "Or New York, or Chicago." "It was Louisiana." "Even before Katrina." "I was just outta school." "Work at a private ambulance company just outside of Jeanerette..." "you know where Jeanerette is?" "Oh, well, it's right next door to nowhere." "All right, well, anyway," " my partner, Bo, and me..." " Bo?" "Yes, that's his name." "And yes, he was from the shallow end of the gene pool." "So we get a call out at the swamp." "If you don't know about the swamp, you about to hear about it." "Oh, I think he dead, yeah." "Oh, yeah, he dead." "Yeah, Bo was a man of few words." "He was ready to call the guy right there." "Now I may have been green, but I was at least gonna pull him outta the water." "Ugh." "Codeine cough syrup." "Which is what we used to call " bayou bourbon."" "Call me crazy, but I don't think our boy here was using it to treat a cough." "All right, no breath sounds, no pulse." "They call that dead." "Why don't you get the gurney, Bo?" "So I figure I'm gonna keep working on him until a doctor or at least someone smarter than Bo says he's dead." "I'm telling you..." "He's dead." "I tell you, Bo." "God help me, I'm beginning to agree with you." "He dead?" "Uh-huh, he's dead." "We declared him, but a doctor should pronounce." "Take him down to the morgue." "I ain't goin'." "I swear to God I'm working with the Forrest Gump of paramedics." ""He dead." "He dead." "Oh, he dead."" "You're gonna be dead." "This must be morgue." "Where the hell is he?" "Ah!" "Ah!" "He's not dead." "He's alive." "He's not dead." "You see, the bayou bourbon done shut our boy down, but it didn't kill him." "Man, what that codeine does is slow down your respiratory function like that David Blaine-type stuff, right?" "Which probably saved his life, being face-down in the water like that." "I mean, that cheap-ass rig we was on didn't have a monitor, and I couldn't get a pulse, until those drugs kicked in on the way to the morgue." "Whoo!" "That scared the fool outta me, yeah." "Hmm!" "Why you talkin' like that?" "You got your story." "And you know what?" "We're off the box, so you can relax." "And hey, you publish, I get royalties." " Of course." " Ah." "I can't believe you a live guy was dead." "No, my idiot partner thought the live guy was dead." "I withheld judgment." "Hey, Nancy, where you at?" "We gotta get back to the station, it's getting busy." "All right, I'll be there in a bit." "This is Nancy." "Leave me a message." "I'll give you a call when I can." "Hey." "Nancy, it's me calling again." "And... wondering what time you're gonna get home 'cause I got a little surprise for you." "It's not a weird surprise." "It's a nice, normal surprise." "So if you're gonna be late, just let me know, okay?" " Thank you." " You're welcome." "Come here." "Hello." "Shh." "Aw, yeah." "He did, huh?" "He did." " You remember Bo?" " I do." "Lucky B." " I've heard that one before." " Yeah." "So this fellow you work with, is he writing all these stories down?" "Yeah, he's putting it in a book, or a blog, or something." "What's that?" "A blog, I never heard of that." "It's a web log." "Like, on the computer..." "I'm a dinosaur, help me out." "No, you are not, daddy." "You know what?" "I'm very happy that you came to visit me." "And without mom..." "have you ever done that before?" "No, and that's why I figured it was about time." "Hey, you reckon they got pickled pigs feet over there?" "I'm gonna check it out." "I highly doubt..." "nobody eats pickled pig feet." "He's a sweet guy, man." "What happened to you?" "Ah, it's so sad when you try to be funny, Boone." "Hey, man, you gotta tell him." "Yeah, I'm tired of hearing you tell me that." " But you're right." " Well..." "He looked at me like I got a screw loose" " and gave me a pretzel." " All right." "Sela's blowing me up." "I gotta go home." "Sir, it was a pleasure to meet you." "Nice to meet you." "Hey, thanks for taking care of my boy out there." "Well, the truth is, nowadays, I don't know who's taking care of who." " I'll see you soon." " I hope so." "He seemed like a nice guy." "You just don't know him well enough yet." "Give it time." "I'm kidding." "He is a good guy." "Puts up with me, doesn't he?" "No, no, I'm just good with soda pop." "Okay, now... now I'm worried." "What?" "Are you on the wagon?" "You run off on mom?" "No, if I did that, I'd be drinking again." "Or picking buckshot outta my ass." "You actually would be picking buckshot outta your ass." " It's true." " Mm." "Dad, you know, I.." "I gotta tell you something." "Well, I got something I wanna talk to you about too." "Okay." "You first." "What... what I came to San Francisco for is to have some tests done." "Kind of a second opinion out at the oncology department..." "Wait, wait, oncology?" "What do you mean?" "Doctor Vaughner back home says it's lymphoma." "But the university is gonna run some tests, we'll come up with the best treatment plan, and I'm gonna be fine." "Tyler." "Look at me." "I am not gonna let this kill me." "You hear me?" "Okay, I'm gonna beat this." "You understand?" "So much for the heavy." "Uh, what was it you wanted to tell me?" "Uh..." "I don't even remember." "Hey, it's me again." "I'm worried, where are you?" "'Cause I'm about to go home and I was just trying to..." "I don't know." "I don't know what I was trying to do, so..." "Oh, I know." "Oh, I know." "Oh, my God." "Damn." "This is Rabbit." "Leave a message." "Hi, it's me." "I just got home, and I just saw what you did." "And I'm so sorry." "Listen, let's talk about this tomorrow, okay?" "Dispatch, this is medic 78, do you have anything?" "A stubbed toe, a drunk fell down, kids playing space monkey, something?" "Nothing, medic 78." "Please keep the airways clear." "Big bad city, huh?" " Lame." " Yeah." "Hey, sorry about your dad." "But I got a feeling that everything is gonna end up just fine." "You got a good feeling?" "I don't know." "It's a catch-22." "He's sick, so I can't tell him." "You know, and if something happens to him, and I never said anything..." "I don't think I can live with that, man." "Right now, he still thinks I'm his rockin' little boy." "And... and..." "I don't know." "78, please respond." "Code three to Sinai Retirement Home for chest pains and shortness of breath." " Here we go." " Dispatch, this is medic 78." "And we are so on it." "Wow." "Am I really seeing this?" "Yeah, well, it's slow, so I'm helping out." "Don't read too much into it, okay?" "Ah, dinner last night sucked, huh?" "Not talking about it." "Let me guess, you're not that good at being normal." "I could've told you that." "Actually, I was fine." "Gotcha." "Hey, guys." "Hey, Marisa." "Oy, here it comes." " 'Sup, Rabbit?" " Hey." " Oh, you seen Nancy around?" " Not yet." "She said she was gonna stop by the hospital." "Spending a lot of time there lately." " Um, Marisa." " Let me guess!" " You know, you know, huh?" " Mm-hmm." " You want my best story." " Yes." "It was when I got back from my first tour." "I was living in the mission." "Now Baghdad is a pain in the ass, so is the mission district." "But la mission is my pain in the ass." "It was good to be out of uniform." "It was good to be home." "Bye." "You son of a bitch!" " Oh, my..." " Baby!" "No, do not call me "baby."" "You told me that you guys broke up!" " I'm sorry." " Who the hell are you?" "Who the hell is this ho?" " Who is she?" " Get outta my house." "I'm giving you three seconds." "Three, two... what the hell is that..." "Whoa, oh!" "Oh." "Uh!" "And I thought, great, not only is my man doing some white chick, but now she's dead at the bottom of my stairs." "Hey." "Hey, can you hear me?" "What the hell?" "Mari, what the hell did you do?" "Mari, get inside." "Leave her there." "Will you call 911 before I kick your ass?" " Get inside." " She's not breathing." "Of course I worked on her, probably even saved her." "She ended up with a broken hip and a few broken ribs." "Wow, what happened to the boyfriend?" "That bastard wasn't a boyfriend." "He was my husband." "Oh, I'll catch you later." "Wait, Marisa." "Why didn't you ever tell anybody you had a husband?" " You need to go?" " No." "Did you get my message?" " Uh, no." " Dinner." "It was really sweet." "Well, you know, we don't get to do that kind of stuff, so..." "I was just trying to do something different." "I'm sorry I wasn't there." "Okay, look, if I get into where I was and what I was doing, it's just gonna open up a can of worms." "And I can't deal with that right now, and I don't think you can either." "Really?" "Well, why don't you try me?" "Just trust me, okay?" "I trust you." "I do." "Maybe you could trust me to be able to handle this." "I feel like I've been working my stuff out, and..." "Maybe it's time for me to work mine out." "Angel rescue two, respond to medevac at Treasure Island." "Okay, copy that." "We're on our way." "All right." "Dinner looked great." "Tasted even better." " Rain check?" " Maybe." "You ready?" "So I won the warriors bet." "Oh, hey, no." "Uh-uh." "We're gonna talk about the husband." "You can't drop a bomb like that and go running off." "Come on." "Well, what can I tell you?" "Jerry was a scumbag." "He cheated on me when I was overseas, cheated on me when I came back, so I got rid of Jerry and went on a second tour of the sandbox." "End of story." "I gotta tell you, though, normal ain't all it's cracked up to be." "Let me ask you a couple of questions so I know you're with us." " Name?" " Jonas." " Where are you?" " San Francisco." " Year?" " 2010." "All right, got a girlfriend?" " You ever cook her dinner?" " What the hell?" "You, my friend, are alert and oriented." "And on your way to City Hospital." "Control, this is angel rescue two departing scene." " And we are en route." " All right, Marisa, meet Jonas." "He's got a head injury, ao times three." "But I do not like the way those eyes are drifting." "He's gonna get himself a cat scan." "Copy that." "Hey, hey, hey." "Jonas, wakey, wakey." "Don't be falling asleep, bud." "Talk to me, talk to me." "Stay awake, dude." "No, just tell me." " You ever been married?" " Rabbit." "What?" ", I gotta keep him talking, it's therapeutic." "Oh, really?" "For who?" "No, no, never married." "But if you were married, and it was, like, a bad marriage, would you run off, join the army, go overseas, get shot at, to deal with it?" " Rabbit." " Huh?" "Ah, no, no, no." "There's no right answer." "It's an emotional response." "It's kinda like... hey, you remember the beginning of Blade Runner?" "You know, if you find a turtle on its back, what do you do?" "Is he okay?" "He's actually a lot better than he used to be, if you can believe that. " "Hey, we got a broken distal radius, orientated." "The guy's more scared than anything." "And the other driver's..." "Oh, possible subdural hematoma." "He's in C.T. now." "Rabbit already brought him in." " Yes, I did." " Oh." "Making the world a safer place for careless people since 1997." "Is it me or, is this guy getting weird again?" "Yeah, I heard that." "See that?" "" "Have you guys seen Glenn?" " No, he wasn't on my call." " Boone's dodging him." "Your boy's hitting everybody up for their weirdest call." " The book?" " The book." "Diane is cool." "Glenn's a lucky man." "Have you seen Glenn?" "Diane is the lucky one." " Here's your gurney, guys." " Thanks, Dez." "So how is your dad?" "He's going to the doctor tomorrow." "I'm gonna go with him." "And no..." "I don't know if I'm gonna tell him or not." " I didn't even ask." " You didn't have to." "Okay, see, you need to let it go." "It's your own guilty conscience." "Hey, there ain't nothing guilty about my conscience." " Nada." " You need to calm down." "And you need to realize that you're driving." "Wait, no, no, no." "I drove on the call." " Well, I drove to the call." " Exactly." "Calls don't count." "You can't change the rules like that." "What are you talking about?" "I just did." "I'll talk to you in there." " Hey, girls." " Uh-oh, what do we got?" "Eh, just some drunk guy." "I got him hooked up to charcoal and fluids back there." "Don't need a doctor for it." "Good." "For once, I'm glad not to be needed." "You seen Boone?" "Tyler?" "Have they come through here?" "I need to ask them something." " The book?" " Yeah, the book." "The book." "You gotta hear Marisa's story." "That was a good one." " How was Nancy's?" " Promised I wouldn't tell." "Well, Boone and Tyler left a few minutes ago." "All right." "If you see Boone, just let him know that I'm looking for him." "How come you've asked everyone else their weirdest call, but not me?" "Uh..." "You're not a paramedic." "Okay, but then you're limiting yourself, right?" "Do you have a story?" "I got time." " Shoot, let me hear it." " Okay." "Like you said, I'm not a paramedic." "And I haven't been here that long, so is it okay if it's not the weirdest call?" "Yeah, it doesn't have to be weird." "Let's just call it the most memorable, does that work?" "Yeah, it works." "It was my first week..." "B.P. was normal, but we can't be certain until we get the C.P.C. back." "And so I didn't know if I should come get you, or if I..." "Okay, slow down, Doctor Van Dine, is it?" " Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah." " New on the rotation?" "Second week." "You get two more weeks to come get me on silly calls." "After that I get mean." " Okay?" " Okay." "Okay." "What do we have?" " 67-year-old male, hypertensive." " Was complaining about..." " Hey!" "We need help over here." "Doctor Joe!" "Doctor Joe!" "Bay two!" "Come on." "Good God, how's he still moving?" "Tell me about it, I was afraid to sedate him." " G.S.W. how many?" " He's been shot 14 times." "Sir, we're going to do everything we possibly can." "You just gotta calm down, all right?" "Get the bag on the kid." "Son... it's going to be all right." "I promise." "And the kid was shot more times than he was years old." "eThat's the most memorable call you've had?" "Well, no... it actually wasn't the victim that made it memorable." "It was the medic who brought him in." "I remember that call." "Good." "That was..." "And you're not using me in the book." "You sure?" "All right." "I remember you." "You brought her in." "Yeah." "Volunteering for holding hours?" "Yeah, when I can." "Someone's got to look out for her, right?" "A lot of us are." "Oh, I know, I just..." "I mean, a little girl like this left to fend for herself." "Who takes care of her?" "All these people." "I mean, beyond the basics." "Oh." "Miss... ?" "Carnahan." "Nancy Carnahan." "Nancy." "Jane isn't a puppy." "It's not finders, keepers." "Yeah, I know." "It just got me thinking, you know, about foster care, guardianship, being state raised." "A lot of those people end up in my ambulance at both ends of their life, you know?" "I do." "But..." "Nancy, it's pretty unlikely Jane here will ever see foster care." "You know that, right?" "There are ten families waiting to adopt her right now." "That's great." "It's time." "Bye, baby Jane." " You got her?" " I got her." "Bye." "See you soon." "Thanks." "For everything you've done for her." "You too." "Still don't know why you came out here for a second opinion." "You been to Baton Rouge general lately?" "Dad, BRG is a major cancer research center." "Wait." "Look at me." "Does mama know?" "Daddy, you..." "I should've known something was up." "Okay, amazing." "It is some burdensome news." "That's why I started with you." "You're the strong one." "I'm the strong one?" "Why does she even think you're out here?" "So I've spoken with Dr. Vaughner back in Louisiana." "I concur with his course of chemotherapy." "And honestly, I think we have reason to be optimistic." "We're in early, and you're in good hands." "I would, however, recommend you take your treatment at BRG." "That's home for you, isn't it?" "So what are my chances?" "I'm sure your doctor told you." "At your age, this type of lymphoma has an 80% survival rate." "If all goes well, you'll live long enough to see your grandchildren." "Wow." " Wow." " Yeah, wow." "That could've been a hell of a lot worse." "Well, you're telling mom." "Yeah, it's gonna be a lot easier now after that." "I mean, you heard what he said." "I'm gonna to see my children's children." "Daddy..." "You know I'm gay, right?" "Yeah." "I kinda figured." "I always wondered why you never told me." "I guess the same reason why you... you didn't tell mom about the cancer." "Just burdensome news, I guess." "Son, I may be from a different generation." "And there's a whole lot of people that'd say a man loving a man is like some sort of disease." "But I don't feel that way." "Okay?" "Okay." "You tell your mom." "Be good for both of you." "I love you, son." "I love you, daddy." "I told you." "Told you you'd feel better." "Yes, it feels better." "But you know what feels absolutely best about it?" "What?" "The freedom of honesty?" "No, I feel great because you will stop bugging the crap out of me about it." "Hey!" "Speaking of bugging." "I got everyone else on the list except for you." "I'm not letting you get away." "Please, let me hear this story, man." " All right, Glenn." " Thank you." "Um, all right, this is a weird one, though." "You got a lot of competition on the weirdness front." "Tyler's story was ridiculously weird." "No, I mean like creepy weird." "I grew up out here." "And every once in a while, maybe about... hmm... ten years or so, a fog will roll in like you've never seen before." "As a matter of fact, it gets so thick that they say that it'll fill your house if you leave the windows open." "We're in." "Hey, I got him." "Dad?" "The injuries told a creepy story." "Crushed neck, not breathing, ligature marks, and then something touched my leg." "What is it?" "Something just touched my leg." "Whoa." "It just touched me." "At this point, it is all getting way too freaky for me." "I am not playing in a spooky house, full of fog, with a strangled guy, and things creeping up on me." "Uh-uh." "So we get outside, get him ready to go, and I'm telling the cops..." "Somebody strangled him." "Damn it!" "And his daughter flips out and heads inside." "I'm wondering, "what's up with this chick?"" "And she comes out with this monster freaking snake." "Larry got out." "Two things always got me about that one." "First, why didn't the snake finish the guy off?" "And second, why did he keep the snake after it tried to kill him?" "Come on." "Same answer for both." "It's love." "Eh." "I don't believe it." "No, you gotta believe in love, Glenn." "All right, we're out." " You're driving." " I'm not." "Yeah, you are." "You just lied to Glenn." " I did not lie to Glenn." " Yes, you did." "Well, she's your baby Jane now." "You're a beautiful family." ""My weirdest call so far, baby Jane." "Hands down." "But not because of why you'd think." "What got me wasn't a newborn abandoned at a fire station." "What sticks out and what I cannot stop thinking about is just how much that little orphan affected my partner." "The woman I had seen literally Wade through death and face unimaginable loss was stopped in her tracks, maybe even derailed by a baby girl named Jane." "I never expected to see that something so small could take down someone so tough."" "Hey." "Nance." "Come on, what's up?" "Quite a lot, actually." "Did you not hear our man of letters in there?" "Yeah, well..." "look, I'm confused." "Why... what did he do wrong?" "He told everybody." "He told you." "What's so wrong with you taking care of a baby?" "Come on, it's a normal thing." "And what makes you think that you can't talk to me about something like that?" "Really." "I mean, it's what people do, you know?" "Talk to each other, talk about things." "It's just regular conversation." "Regular conversation with regular everyday people." "Yes!" "Yeah, that's what I'm trying for here." "Okay, Rabbit, but everyday people work 40 hours a week." "They get married, they have kids, they go out for dinner, they... they get babysitters." "Is that what you want?" "Uh..." "I mean, is that even what I want?" "I don't know." "What am I supposed to do?" "I'm supposed to go to work for 16 hours, come home covered in blood, and give my baby a bottle?" "Is that it?" "You know what, I'm 31 years old." "You're older than that." "Did you even hear those stories" " Glenn was saying in there?" " Yeah, I did." "I did." "And it never even dawned on you that maybe we've missed the opportunity to be normal people?" "I mean, help me here, Rabbit." "Where are we supposed to go from here?" "How the hell are we supposed to make this work?" "Uh..." "Hey, hey." "Whoa." "Hey." "That's when it hit me." "All the stories that we all carry around," "I had them backwards." "It's not the calls that are out of the pale, it's the people who take them." "Thanks." "Thanks, guys."