"...we've got lots of traffic from overnight construction right at the Fifth Street off-ramp." "So, expect long delays." "You're not kidding." "No." "Nance." "Probie." "What's shaking, Tyler?" "Another day, another shift." "Sure enough." "What?" "Seriously." "You didn't notice that?" "Notice what?" "Tyler just walked through covered in blood." "Looks like he's coming back from a slaughterhouse or something." "I don't know." "I didn't notice anything." "You people are weird." "You think us people are pretty messed up, huh?" "No, I didn't mean it like that." "I'm just saying." "A guy walks by covered in blood and you don't even notice it." "And this is your expert opinion based on your... observations." "Yeah." "So, if us people are so different from you, then tell me this." "Who's it standing here in front of me in a uniform about to drive the rig?" "Hey, Danny!" "Danny!" "What?" "Switch with me!" "Nah." "I'm not dumb enough for that job." "Danny!" "Danny!" "What?" "Do you hear anything?" "The transformer?" "Any..." "No." "Really?" "Glenn, you get this guy." "Good." "He hit pretty hard." "Back up, guys." "Hey, they're here now." "Is he conscious?" "Yeah." "Okay, sir?" "Can you tell me where it hurts?" "Everywhere." "Where does it hurt most?" "The back." "Legs." "Help me!" "Nance!" "I'm coming!" "Load him." "Nance!" "I'll be there!" "Okay, well, okay, sir, you've broken your legs." "You fractured your back." "I'm going to give you something for the pain." "Can you wiggle your toes?" "Nancy!" "Yes." "Okay." "Guys." "I need you to board him, load him." "He's fractured his back, he's broken his legs." "I need you to give him some morphine." "Yeah, we got him." "Hey." "Okay." "His arm's off." "His arm's off." "Yeah." "I noticed." "Oh, I know." "I know." "I know." "Okay, this is a load and go, Glenn." "I'm going to need some more gauze." "Glenn, I need gauze." "Glenn?" "Oh, Glenn." "Are you okay to drive, or do I have to hit you with smelling salts again?" "No, I'm good." "Hey, can you not tell anyone about this?" "Sure." "Promise." "You know, Glenn, it's not about whether the job gets to you." "It's about how you deal with it when it does." "Having fun?" "Yeah." "Oh, yeah." "Winner picks dinner." "You ready?" "Hey." "I'm Rabbit." "What's your name?" "Jessica." "I think my ankle is broken." "I think you're right." "All right, darling." "I'm taking you home." "I can't believe I have to be airlifted off a mountain." "You must think I'm such an idiot." "On the list of stupid things we see, you ain't even in the top 100." "Well, thanks for coming to get me." "That's what I do." "What, did you fly there on a magic carpet?" "How about a little love for the pilot?" "Don't be needy." "So, I bet you've seen a lot." "Oh, yeah." "And then some." "You're doing the Clint Eastwood squint-off- into-the-distance, aren't you?" "So, what's the most intense thing you ever did?" "That's hard to say." "Well, pick one." "Uh..." "A minivan in the Cal Salmon River." "Upside down, wedged against a boulder about a hundred feet from a class five rapid." "Oh, my God." "I'm inside on a line trying to cut junior out of his car seat, and the van decides to go rafting." "Oh, my God." "What happened?" "You know, I grabbed junior under one arm," "Superman out the side window just as the van hits the whitewater." "Rocks tore it to pieces." "That's incredible." "You all right?" "Yeah." "Oh, don't worry about this." "It's just a little chunky air." "We'll be through it in a sec." "Okay." "Hey, how are we doing?" "There's only up and down." "Both are bad." "Okay." "I don't like this." "It's okay." "You'll be fine." "Just look into my eyes." "Okay." "I'm not going to let anything bad happen to you." "Okay." "All right?" "You okay?" "Uh-huh." "Okay." "Okay." "You're going to be..." "How we doing?" "All right." "Oh." "Oh." "I'm okay." "Sexy." "Hey, Rabbit." "Hey." "Rabbit." "What's up, man?" "You feeling all right?" "Yeah, groovy." "Hey, you've got a transport to Stanford." "Severed arm." "All right." "Okay." "So, the doctors at Stanford Hospital are going to put your arm back together." "Cutting-edge stuff." "Do you have to put it that way?" "Sorry." "You know you're screwed when your paramedic faints." "What, Glenn fainted?" "Drop it, Rabbit." "Wait a minute." "You fainted?" "Did something happen?" "No." "Nothing happened." "Why don't we just focus on fixing up Phil's arm and stop gossiping?" "Can you do that, Rabbit?" "Okay, Nancy." "Tell me what happened." "Who was it?" "I don't know." "You, you, you." "You were..." "Tell me." "I need names, faces..." "This is what my life has become." "I'm a Facebook whore." "I mean, I can't even help it." "I'll "friend" anybody." "Even if I don't know them." "It's, like, a thing with me now." "Well, you know, the first step is admitting that you have a problem." "That's the first..." "Well, good." "I'm off to the right..." "Check this out." "What..." "Ava." "She put that in my lunch." "She put..." "This is very impressive for a six-year-old." "I love the anger in the grape's eyes as he stabs the guy." "Dude, that's me giving a guy an IV." "I don't think so." "It looks like a pissed-off grape." "Dude, you should never have kids, man." "I should..." "Are you kidding?" "I'd be, like, the cool dad." "People would come to my house." "It's, like, the cool house." "Yeah, okay." "All right." "That's good." "Yeah." "Hey, C, check it out." "They're turning it around." "I saw it five times already, Dad." "When are we going to get on?" "We're definitely on the next car." "Hey, man." "What are you doing?" "There's a line." "I was in line." "I had to use the can." "Relax." "Hey, you need to relax and get behind me." "All right?" "Come on, man." "Hey!" "What?" "Hey, call PD." "I got it." "Medic 78, show us on scene at the Hyde Beach turnaround." "Fight in progress." "Send PD." "Code Three." "Whoa!" "Oh!" "Sir?" "How are you doing?" "I'm Boone." "What's your name?" "John." "John?" "This is Caleb." "What's up, Caleb?" "It's okay, buddy." "Don't be scared." "Hey, Caleb." "Hey, I'm Tyler." "Man, can I show you something?" "Check this out." "Here." "Now, do you like teddy bears?" "No?" "No tingling?" "No." "All right, let me take a look." "Wow." "Sir, do you know a piece of your tongue is missing?" "I spit it out somewhere over there." "All right." "All right, hold on." "Hey." "Hey, man." "Can you help me find this guy's tongue?" "What?" "Why?" "Why do I have to find the tongue?" "Because EMTs find the tongue." "You're not a paramedic." "You've got to study harder, bro." "You went right to it, didn't you?" "No." "No hesitation." "All right." "Okay." "Well, we've got to find the tongue." "Can't it ever be a fingertip or a piece of veneer?" "Excuse me, people." "Looking for a tongue." "Why can't it be a kidney?" "A kidney, I could find." "Anybody see a tongue?" "Just..." "Hey, buddy." "What's that?" "Found it." "You know, I was a smokejumper up in Oregon." "Grants Pass." "Now, that was intense." "You love that word, huh?" "Which word?" ""Intense. "" "Okay." "So, I'm dragging this brush, and this baby raccoon, he waddles right up to me." "And he's all wobbly from dehydration." "And I take out my canteen and I let him drink right from it." "Wow." "That story gets you laid a lot, huh?" "Yeah." "Sometimes." "Yeah, because girls dig intensity." "Mixed with a little sensitivity." "Toward raccoons." "Come on, okay?" "Let me take you out for a drink sometime after work." "I don't know anything about you." "You know what?" "You really remind me of this guy I met on a call." "He kept asking me out over and over." "Yeah?" "Did you go out with him?" "No." "No, he died." "Yeah, he kept asking me out because he had a closed head injury." "Yeah?" "Hey, aren't you going to open your present?" "Your own personal barf bag." "Welcome to the club, Rabbit." "It's about time." "I launched my second week on the job over the doctor's parking lot at City." "Amateur." "Try yakking into a bag while you're trying to pull a guy off a mountain in 20-knot crosswinds." "You got him good." "You having fun?" "Oh, come on." "So you puked." "Big deal." "I mean, yeah, you could have aimed a little better." "But whatever." "It happens to everybody." "It doesn't happen to me." "You know, a lot of the other kids in his class already have a cell phone." "But I'm afraid we're going to get him one and he's going to lose it." "Right." "And then again, I don't want him to be the only one in his class without one." "Would you two like to be alone?" "Do you smell smoke?" "Don't try and change the subject." "The wall's on fire." "What?" "We've got to get out of here." "Come on." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Let's go!" "Let's go, let's go!" "Oh, thank God you're here." "I've got a callous on my finger." "I could use a Band-Aid." "Oh, yeah." "Yeah, don't worry." "You can get back to your Xbox in no time, Vic." "Hey, want to do some real work?" "Grab a hose!" "What is it?" "Why are you guys always trying to get me to touch your hose?" "I just don't..." "Hey, get a room, you two." "Hey, Ray." "Hey, Bob." "What's up?" "How you doing?" "All right." "So, anybody still inside?" "Uh, owner says no, but until they clear the smoke, we have no idea." "Okay." "So, what do we have?" "Uh, I could really use you on that guy over there." "How's this guy doing?" "Please." "You have to help my husband." "He's really hurt." "Okay." "All right." "All right, sir?" "Look, I'm Boone." "That's Tyler." "What's your name, sir?" "Doug." "All right." "Doug, are you having any trouble breathing?" "No." "No?" "You let me know if you do, all right?" "Okay." "Okay." "Let's see this." "Wow." "You know what?" "We've got first, second degree burns on the back." "We have a partial thickness on his arm." "Okay." "Sorry." "This is all my fault." "He got burned because he was trying to save me." "You know what, ma'am?" "I know this is scary, but the best thing that you can do right now for your husband is to just go ahead and let us do our jobs, okay?" "Why don't you go ahead and have a seat right here?" "Have a seat and relax, all right?" "He's going to be fine, okay?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Here we go." "Wendy thinks I shielded her." "I just tripped." "Yeah, well, uh..." "You love your wife, Doug?" "Yes." "So, shut up and be a hero, all right?" "We have one down in here!" "Boone, Tyler, take it." "We've got this." "Guys, where are we at?" "Fat boy's over here." "Watch out." "All right." "All right." "Let's roll him." "Okay." "Get him up." "All right, he's not breathing." "Airway clear." "Patches on." "Beginning compressions." "All right." "One..." "One second." "Hold CPR." "All right." "This dude is flatlined." "Continue CPR." "Epi one milligram." "Hold CPR." "Holding." "Come on, big man." "Work with me." "Just a little bit." "Continue CPR." "I'm going to call it." "Yeah?" "Oh!" "Hey, hey, hey." "What?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Dude got a condom on." "I love Chinese food, but not like that." "What was he doing in the back?" "Everybody else went out of the front." "Tyler!" "Tyler, come here!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Move back from the door, okay?" "On three." "You ready?" "Kick the door." "Yeah." "One, two, three." "One, two, three." "It's okay." "It's okay." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Right through here." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "It's okay." "They're probably illegals." "Now the guy with the condom makes sense." "You know they're running a brothel downstairs?" "She's a real piece of work." "Saying the building's empty, knowing they're locked in there." "Hey." "Do you..." "Do you understand English?" "Huh?" "Yeah?" "Okay." "The smoke can cause your throat to close." "So, I need to look inside your mouth and nose, all right?" "Can you..." "Hey, hey, hey, hey!" "Hey, hey, hey!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Hey!" "Stop!" "Let go!" "Let go!" "Let go!" "Whoa, hey, hey, hey." "Hey." "Hey." "Relax." "Relax." "Hey, I'm going to let you go, okay?" "Okay?" "I let you go." "It's okay." "Let me see." "Let me see." "Hey, I could..." "I could use a hand over here." "You stay here." "It looks like she could lose that eye." "Hey, whoa, whoa." "Hey, hey!" "Hey!" "Hey, Ray." "Hey." "Why aren't you throwing her in jail for pandering?" "I'd love to." "Give me a witness." "Your john is dead and none of these girls will talk." "Now, you see what I'm saying?" "She's scared." "Can you blame her?" "Believe it or not, they're usually more afraid of being deported than they are of their pimps." "I must be hallucinating." "Hey, Will." "Can it be that the contractor I'm paying thousands of dollars to is actually here, at my house?" "What can I do for you today?" "What the hell is that?" "I wanted a bay window for the window seat." "It is a bay window." "No, it's a box window." "It's a bay box." "I'm not going to pay you for a bay box." "You already did." "You have no respect for me, do you?" "You just think I'm just some clueless nebbish that you can take advantage of and lie to." "Is that it?" "Well, I'm sick of it." "We'll talk when you're calmer." "No, we're going to talk right now." "Where do you think you're going?" "He's back here." "His name is Will." "Hi, Will." "How are you doing, Will?" "Oh, I'm doing fantastic." "Good." "Funny." "I like that." "Oh, I'm hilarious when I don't have a metal pole through my stomach." "Are you on any medications?" "No." "Pulse is 120 and strong." "His stomach's soft." "Perfusing well." "Give me a 14." "Wow." "Yeah." "Wow?" "Yeah, wow." "Will, you are one very lucky guy." "Oh, yeah?" "You have two arteries here, right?" "The internal and the external iliac, they're like a wishbone." "This bar went straight between them." "And that's good, right?" "Well, put it this way." "If it had hit one, you would be marching towards the light right now." "If I didn't know you better, I'd think you weren't hating this." "I just pretend they're all patients in a psych ward." "It works." "Hey, Nancy." "What's going on?" "I know it's your day off but I've got a guy with a rebar stuck in him." "Ouch." "Yeah." "And that's not the best of it." "It's gone straight between his internal and external iliac." "Any internal bleeding?" "No." "None." "Geez, it sounds like a miracle." "Well, it is, except he's going to need a really great surgeon when he gets to City, and I'm talking your kind of great." "I'm not home." "I'm at a fundraiser at the Conservatory." "Don't say it." "We'll come get you." "Attention, Angel Rescue 2." "Contact Medic 114 regarding transport." "Angel Rescue 2, contact Medic 114 regarding transport." "You want to trade jobs for a week?" "Sure." "Do I get your paycheck?" "Absolutely." "You can have my mortgage, too." "How are you doing?" "Fine." "Why?" "Just a question." "Oh, come on." "Just tell him." "Tell me what?" "What?" "I have no idea." "He puked." "Once." "Once." "Okay?" "And suddenly, she thinks I've got, what, PTSD?" "Come on." "Do you?" "No." "No." "I don't know." "What..." "Why?" "What are the symptoms?" "Off the top of my head, emotional numbing, irritability, hypersexuality, aggressive behavior, insomnia, substance abuse..." "Okay, all right." "Look." "You just described the last 22 years of my life." "Come on." "You had any flashbacks?" "No." "No flashbacks." "No flashbacks." "No flashbacks doesn't mean no PTSD." "Wow." "Well, you know, it was probably one of those inner ear things." "I don't know." "A year ago, you were in a coma." "Here we go." "You watched your best friend die." "Look, Rabbit, you've come back physically from the crash, but that's only part of the process." "You hear me?" "Did you ever see that therapist I recommended?" "Sure." "Yeah." "Dr. Denise Frederickson." "What happened?" "Well, we both decided I wasn't ready." "Then we slept together." "Will, we're just going to try and lift you a little at a time so we can get to that rebar and begin to cut you off." "Okay." "You want me to call your wife?" "Uh..." "No." "No, we're kind of taking a little break right now." "Okay." "Well, she's..." "She's kind of taking a break from me right now." "Yeah?" "Sure, get your heads clear, huh, Will?" "Yeah." "Sometimes all you need is a couple of weeks." "Yeah." "It's..." "It's been six months." "You know, she used to love sitting at that table looking out at the view." "Yeah?" "That's why I'm building her this room with a window seat." "When she sees it..." "You are a romantic guy, Will." "Yeah." "Do you need some more morphine?" "No." "No?" "Okay." "Are you ready?" "Uh-huh." "On my count." "One, two, three." "God!" "You're doing great, Will." "You're doing great." "You're nearly there." "Hold on." "Stop for a second." "Okay." "I need some large trauma dressings now." "What's happening?" "What's happening?" "It's okay." "You're just bleeding a little." "We're just going to take care of it." "Can you come here and hold this?" "Can you just put on pressure here?" "A lot of pressure right there." "Medic 114 to Angel Rescue 2." "What's your 20?" "Our 20 is that these headwinds are kicking our ass." "En route to City Hospital." "No." "I need Dr. Joe here now." "What happened?" "We nicked him on the way up." "He started to bleed." "I can't be hands-on for at least 10 minutes." "You're going to have to handle it until we get there, Nancy." "Get in and shut down the bleeder." "I am not a vascular surgeon, Joe." "You have the training." "And right now, we have no choice." "I'll talk you through it." "I can't do this." "If that artery is ruptured and you don't, he'll die." "How are we doing, Will?" "Oh, great." "Have you ever done this before?" "No." "But I am an M.D." "But you're not a doctor?" "No." "But it's complicated, and you're bleeding." "Okay." "Morphine in." "Medic 114 to Angel Rescue 2." "Let's do this." "Okay." "You're going to need to open up the site around the impalement to get to the bleeder." "Okay." "Scalpel." "Suction." "Come on." "Suction." "All right." "Okay." "Retract that." "Got it." "Retract it." "Are we done, yet?" "Yeah, Will." "We're nearly done." "Okay." "Just hang on in there." "You're doing great, Will." "Can you see the bleeder?" "Uh, yeah." "I see the bleeder." "Hemostatic dressing." "Hold this." "Okay." "Damn it!" "Talk to me." "Yeah, there are two bleeders." "Both, the internal and the external iliac." "They're both leaking." "One at a time, elevate the common and external lilacs till you can get a better visual on the internal." "You're doing great, Will." "Can you clamp it?" "Yeah." "Hemostat." "Okay." "Internal iliac clamped." "You can drop in anytime, Joe." "There are too many power lines." "We're going to have to land farther off." "I've got the 02 sat 94." "Heart rate, 130." "Okay, he's crashing, Joe." "You're going to need to do a ligation." "Sutures." "Okay." "Keep this clamped." "You got it?" "Got it." "Got it." "Okay, I got one." "It doesn't have to be pretty." "Just tight." "Hang in there, Will." "Hang in there, buddy." "Okay." "Hold this." "Okay." "I think I've got two." "Are they holding?" "Yeah." "Yeah, they're holding, Joe." "What the..." "What's this?" "Hey, Tyler." "Kim!" "Hey, come on, man." "Get in the rig." "What?" "We're leaving." "Get inside." "Kim." "Kim." "No." "Kim!" "Kim, you go with him, and you're going to be right back where you started." "Please." "Just when I thought you couldn't do any more to impress me." "Thanks." "And I missed out on all the fun." "Yeah." "How are you doing, Will?" "I'm okay." "Yeah." "Good." "All right, people." "Let's get a move on." "And one, two, three, up." "And you have a great story to tell." "So do you." "No." "But impaled ones are always awesome." "The ones that live?" "Yeah." "Sure." "Them, too." "Hey, crazy day out there, huh, guys?" "Most of them are, Glenn." "I mean, I faint." "You puke." "Must be something in the air." "What are you talking about?" "I heard you got sick." "In the copter." "It happens to the best of us." "Are you comparing us?" "No." "I was just saying..." "I didn't get sick, okay?" "I don't know what you heard." "And I don't know what goes on inside your head apart from bad medicine." "But you and I got nothing in common." "We clear?" "Yeah." "Sorry." "All right." "Do your job." "Dude." "You know, now that he mentions it, you two are kind of similar." "You know, it would be cool if you stopped spreading that around, all right?" "I would never." "Man, looks like we've got paranoia and aggressive behavior." "Hey, come on." "Will you just back off the whole post-traumatic stress thing?" "This is really starting to bug me out." "Why don't you back off?" "I just need to keep her here for a few hours." "Then what?" "I'm working on something." "Okay." "Thanks." "Okay, Kim." "You can stay here in America." "But you're going to have to tell the police the truth about Mrs. Li, about that man, and what they made you do." "Now, I know you're scared, but this is the only way out of this I can see." "What?" "Kim, you don't have to go with him." "You cannot help me." "Stay here." "Okay?" "Two minutes." "Hey." "Get out." "It's a free country." "Trust me." "I know." "She's not going with you." "I'd like to hear that from her." "It's not going to happen, man." "Kim!" "Hey!" "Shut up!" "Hey!" "Can you get him out of here?" "Hey!" "Get out of here!" "Let's go, sir." "Let's go." "Get out of here!" "Look, Kim." "He's wrong." "I wasn't born to be a whore." "I know." "I testify." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "So, what did I miss?" "What are you talking about?" "The surgery." "I obviously did something wrong." "You were pissed." "Yeah, I was pissed." "But not because you did anything wrong." "It was because you did everything right." "You're welcome." "I'm not going to pat you on the head like a little kid." "There are, maybe, five doctors on the West Coast who could have pulled off that surgery in those conditions." "You have a gift." "And I am getting tired of watching you dance around it." "You do us all a disservice." "Especially yourself." "Hey." "Hey." "Hey, Teddy." "I want to go up." "I'm not a tour guide." "And we're wind-cautioned." "Uh-huh." "Well, between your child support and your online poker, you're in the hole every month." "Five hundred bucks, 10 minutes." "What do you say?" "Between you and me." "All right." "Go ahead." "All right!" "I can't do this!" "I'm landing!" "A thousand!" "No!" "Two thousand!" "No!" "I can't spend it if I'm dead!" "What?" "I..." "Do you want to go for a drink?" "Yeah." "Yeah, sure." "Yeah." "I would not be surprised if Teddy reports you." "He thinks you're insane." "Teddy just took me up in a windstorm for 500 bucks." "He ain't saying a thing." "Every time I come to terms with how crazy you are, you get crazier." "It sounds like the problem is your inability to gauge my level of craziness." "Rabbit?" "If you're losing your mind because you refuse to deal with your past, then just tell me and I'll request another medic." "But I am dealing with it." "In my own way, yeah." "What is so scary about talking to somebody, Rabbit?" "What happened to you is not going to go away, okay?" "So, why don't you just get it all out and deal with it?" "So, what if you get it all out and then, you can't, you know, get it all back in?" "Yeah." "That's what I thought." "Hey." "Hey." "You're a good man." "Wow." "She doesn't know you at all." "That's..." "I'll be out." "I'll be out there." "Hey, listen, you know, I've seen a lot of bad things happen to people, and few of them get a chance to change that." "Now, you do." "You're lucky." "I don't feel lucky." "Well, hopefully, someday, you do." "Goodbye, Kim." "Bye." "Mmm-hmm." "Come on." "That'll be all." "All right." "Another smart comment, I'm going to make you clean this rig for a month." "I already clean this rig." "All right." "Cheers." "You guys good?" "Oh, yes, Frankie." "We are great." "I love hearing that." "In fact, we are outstanding." "Glad to hear that, little lady." "Seriously, Nancy." "What you did today, that was amazing." "You know, that is the second guy that I have seen with a spike of rebar in him." "Maybe even the third." "You know, this..." "This whole conflicted, complicated thing you have going on, it's kind of a turn-on." "And here I was thinking it was my intensity." "Okay." "No, no." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry, okay?" "Keep going." "Keep going." "Keep going." "I like the way your mouth moves when you talk." "So, why aren't you a doctor?" "I mean, come on." "Come on." "There's got to be a story behind that." "Yep." "But not for tonight." "Two more, Frankie." "Coming right up, dear." "I just..." "I just think you're this fascinating character, and I want to get it right." "Here you go, guys." "Get it right?" "Mmm-hmm." "Get what right?" "The book." "The book?" "I'm writing a book." "About, like, street medicine." "Things I see." "Like, what I experience." "I'm..." "That's my thing." "Oh, Glenn." "You were 15 minutes away from getting laid."