Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT April Showers
By Wing Chun | Season 7 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.18.2001
Mark hangs up, and Amira chirps, "Smart move!" Mark asks what she means, and she replies, "Not telling her about the tow truck. Don't need to stress out brides any more than you have to!" "Especially pregnant ones," Mark agrees. She offers an umbrella. He accepts.
Ambulance bay. Luka runs out, scolding guards for transporting crash victims in a van, without backboards. A guard claims that medics cleared the necks on-site. Luka asks whether they were transporting prisoners for a work detail, but the guard replies that it was a busy court day. A woman climbs out and flirtatiously tells Luka, "I'll work for you, honey!" There is much tittering among the fallen women as another one hits on Luka, and still another -- her vision (and judgment), perhaps, clouded by the rain -- hits on Yosh. The walking wounded head inside, and Luka jogs over to an ambulance, containing a nineteen-year-old named Tammy, complaining of belly pain and a scalp laceration. As paramedics pull her out of the rig, Tammy squeals, "I need to call Joe!"
Luka heads inside just as Mark walks out, carrying Amira's polka-dotted umbrella. He makes for the El, but it's closed because a tree fell on the tracks and shorted out the red line. He heads for a bus instead, but the bus is full. He sweet-talks his way on by telling his fellow passengers that he's on his way to his wedding.
Carter's still flogging the guard. Luka comes to the trauma-room doors with Tammy and tries to hurry Carter along: he asks whether the guard ever had a rhythm, and Carter says he did, for five minutes. Luka asks how long the guard's been down, and before Carter can think of a way to spin it, Lisa pipes up, "Thirty minutes. No response to defibrillation times five." Luka tells Carter to call the time of death and take Tammy. Carter clenches his jaw, looking from Luka to the fellow guards watching through the window. Carter ignores Luka and charges the paddles again. Luka yells at him to knock it off. Carter whispers, "He's a cop!" "He's brain-dead!" Luka yells back. Carter pissily calls the time of death. Luka gives some last-minute orders about Tammy. Carter shoots Lisa a reproachful look and huffs on out of there. Shut up, Carter.
Weaver is drinking a glass of wine in an airport bar when a dude -- let's just call him Red Herring -- sidles up beside her, orders a beer from the bartender, reads her crossword puzzle over her shoulder, and points out, "'Shady.'" She's all, "Huh?" He elaborates, "Five down." Weaver spots it, fills it in, and thanks him. Red asks whether she's there on a layover (in a tone that suggests he'd like to get her on a layover, if you know what I'm saying), and she tells him her flight's delayed. "You mean 'cancelled,'" Red corrects her. She glances at the monitors on the wall and tells him her flight's still delayed, and not cancelled. Red calls her an optimist, and asks where she's going. She tells him she's bound for Las Vegas. He jokes that she's not an optimist, then -- "it's a compulsion" -- and asks what she plays. She tells him she's going on business. The bartender sets Red's beer before him, and he orders another of "whatever the lady's drinking." She demurs, but he points out that they may be at the airport a while. She's all, no, really, it's fine, and Red tells her that either the bartender's getting a very big tip, or she's getting a free drink. He raises his glass to her as he moves away, and Weaver shrugs good-naturedly. But, but -- she has a girlfriend! But not really. Who can keep track, anymore? Who cares to?