By Nicole
So the show starts off with Bobby going into the visiting room of a prison. He walks up to some guy and gives him one of those "I'm not gay" back-slapping hugs and then sits down at a table with him. Apparently, from the way they are talking, I gather that the guy is Bobby's brother and has been in jail for the past year and will be getting out week. The brother asks if their mother will let him stay with her, and Bobby tells him she said no. His brother says that he has been staying with the program and that he needs to stay with their mom because he can't do it alone. Bobby says he'll ask their mother again. Um, okay, like that scene made any sense.
Katie Holmes Wannabe -- a.k.a. Sunny -- is outside Kim's apartment waiting for her. As Kim is leaving the building to go to work, Sunny comes over to her and asks if she can crash at Kim's place for a while. Kim tells her that she doesn't trust her to stay in her place while she is out, but offers to help her contact her family or find a shelter. Sunny just runs off.
Bosco is waiting for Yokas at the bottom of a flight of stairs leading to a train platform and as Yokas makes it to the bottom of the stairs, Bosco tells her that he thinks they should get their story straight in case anyone asks. Yeah, like anyone would care if some gang leader was killed. She tells him that if anyone asks he should just tell the truth.
Sully is about to walk into the precinct to start his shift, when Ty's mom drives up with Ty. She gets out of the car to say hello to Sully. Ty's mom is pretty -- she looks like one of those moms that is cool, but if you cross her she'll kick your ass. And she looks like someone who would party after midnight. She and Sully realize that they haven't seen each other in six years, and that they should grab a coffee sometime and catch up on old times. Do I see a plot twist in the future? Cop dating partner's mother? We'll see. As Ty walks away from the car and his mom is about to drive away, she yells out from the car, "Hope I put enough starch in your shirt!" Ty has to explain to Sully that, because he never does the laundry right, his mom does it for him. Sully asks him if she still cuts the crusts off his sandwiches too. Ty tells him they're better that way. I knew he was a mama's boy. A rookie cop living with mommy, and he busts Sully's chops about dating?
Doc and Carlos are putting an old lady on a stretcher in the ambulance, and Doc is telling Carlos that Jerry is going on disability. Carlos thinks that it's a scam that citizens and the city pay for Jerry to sit around and rent videos and watch hockey on TV. Doc informs him that Jerry would rather be working than shuffling around with a colostomy bag. Carlos gives Doc a full-body whatever, and then starts to go to the driver's side of the bus. Doc asks him what he's doing, since Doc always drives. Carlos tells him in a snotty tone that he is in training and he needs to learn how to drive the bus. Carlos is getting a little cocky -- I think he needs to be reminded that he is no longer in the Marines. So Carlos starts driving, and as he's turning a corner, he turns around to look at Doc while he's telling him something, and he smacks the ambulance into a man trying to cross the street. Carlos, your job is to help people, not hurt them! Now you know why Doc does all the driving!
The opening credit music plays, and I pour myself a glass of wine, because I just know this is going to be a long show.
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Kim and Bobby in their ambulance. Kim is telling Bobby about Sunny appearing at her apartment. Bobby randomly says that his checking balance and monthly statement is three dollars off and that he will have to call the bank about it. Kim tells him that if she has money in her account by the end of the month, she says a novena. I'm surprised she didn't inform us of the fact that she has no money is because she has a six-year-old and an ex-husband who doesn't pay child support, because she has not failed to mention that at least twice every episode. Bobby doesn't like to keep on one track of thought for very long, because he asks if Sunny was strung out. Kim tells him that she tried to get Sunny to call her family or a shelter but Sunny just blew her off. All of a sudden, the ambulance dies. It has run out of gas! Oh, those pesky guys on the shift before her -- they leave the bus dirty, and then don't fill the tank up for them! Okay, with my cars, if the gas tank gets low, a light goes on and a sound goes off; what was Kim paying attention to? Isn't the amount of gas something you just automatically check before you go off driving around the city, especially if you drive an ambulance? It isn't hard to do -- just look at the gauge, usually located right to the speedometer. Anyway, Kim throws a hissyfit, and then decides that they are going to push the ambulance to a gas station a few blocks away and then fill the tank only halfway, because that should get them through the day and they won't be helping out the other shift because they didn't help her. Um, Kim, aren't there three shifts? And aren't you pissed at the second shift? If you only fill up the tank for your use, you will be shafting the first shift.
Carlos and Doc on the street, putting the guy Carlos hit onto a board and getting his neck stabilized. A witness says that Carlos hit the guy in the head with his side mirror. Carlos is checking out the guy's vitals and whatever, and says that the guy's left pupil is fixed and dilated. Oh, no! What could that mean? Kim and Bobby would have been there to take the guy to the hospital, but since they are out of gas they couldn't make it, so some extras make an appearance.
Bosco and Yokas stop at a cemetery; a man had called about a mausoleum being robbed. The man shows them that a Tiffany stained-glass window and a cherub worth over $500,000 were stolen. ["Who would spend half a million bucks on grave statuary? And who sculpted the cherub, anyway -- Rodin?" -- Sars] Yokas asks for a description, and the guy goes, "Short, chubby, about twenty inches tall." Yokas is all, "No, the thieves." Haw! You see, the guy was describing the cherub and -- oh, forget it. Anyway, the guy gives them a very detailed description of the thieves, and he also got part of the license plate of the van they drove away in. I think this guy has a little too much information about the thieves, if you ask me.
Doc and Carlos's ambulance and the "extra" ambulance arrive at the ER at the same time. Carlos gets out of his bus and runs over to the other one. Hey, Carlos, did you forget you had someone in the back of your ambulance? Are you just going to leave that old lady in there to rot? Morales comes out and Carlos gives her all the info on the guy and tells her about his left eye being fixed and dilated. Morales looks at the eye, and then pulls it out of the guy's head. EEEEWW! She says, "Great diagnosis, Kildare!" and as she puts the guy's glass eye in Carlos's hand, she gives him her own stink-eye.
Jimmy is in a fire truck on the way to a fire. He is placing a multiple hundred-dollar bet on a Giants game with another fire fighter. From the dialogue at the beginning of the show, it seems like this episode is the "day after" last week's episode, so I'm hoping that Jimmy is betting on the Monday Night Football game, or the writers need to learn about consistency. So they get to the fire, and Jimmy and three other firefighters go into the building to look for people, splitting into two groups of two. They don't find anyone, but Jimmy loses his partner because the smoke is so dark and thick, and when they finally find each other, the ceiling falls on them. In the immortal words of Bosco, "Oops."
Disney wants you to start a new tradition of buying Mickey Mouse Christmas videos. Um, like buying a Disney video isn't what every parent of children between the ages of two and twelve does every year around this time. Michael Eisner sucks.
Ty and Sully are in their car, and Ty asks Sully if he ever took the test to be a sergeant or detective. Sully tells him that when his shift is over, he goes home, and he likes it that way. He then asks Ty if he is thinking of moving on. Ty tells him he is just thinking about his options, and Sully tells him that the jury is still out on whether he'll last six months. If Ty wants to become a detective, he better learn to do his own laundry and make his own sandwiches himself first. Mommy can't do everything for him.
Jimmy gets up from under the debris and keeps looking for his partner. He finally finds him under a large piece of furniture, like a bookcase or something. Jimmy pulls him out from the furniture and smashes out a window and yells for help. That Jimmy -- what a hero! Luck always seems to be on his side. For now.
A young woman is standing by a bus stop and telling Ty and Sully about a guy who she thinks is stalking her. She tells them that the guy knew everything about her and her family and kept asking her out and then asked her to marry him. She then tells them that the guy was in his forties, had a receding hairline and always carried around a black-and-white marbled notebook like kids use in school.
The paramedics are at the fire scene, and Jimmy is talking to Kim. Kim makes him let her check out his wrist, because he was cradling it. Jimmy acts all cool and thinks it is nothing serious, because he is such a butch guy. Whatever.
Ty and Sully in their car again; Ty thinks the girl they just talked to was cute. Sully says Ty should have asked her to marry him; it wouldn't be the first time someone had asked her that today. Good one, Sully! Ty asks Sully about some woman he remembers Sully dating. Sully tells him that the woman married a detective. Ty is all "a detective???" like he is inferring that if Sully had only taken the test to become a detective, he could have married that woman. Sully tells him to lay off, and then tells him that the woman has five kids and is now the size of a double-wide. Oh, okay, Sully, I see. Now that the woman had children and is no longer skinny, you wouldn't want her anyway. Like you are such a prize with your donut gut and happy-go-lucky attitude. Yeah, women are standing in line to get a piece of you, and if that woman saw you today, she would go running to Weight Watchers to shed those extra pounds so she could win you back. Not. So they see a man walking down the sidewalk fitting the description of the guy who was harassing that woman, and they stop and go up to talk to him. They ask him if he was harassing a woman at the bus stop and ask what's in his notebook. He tells them that he didn't think it was against the law to talk to a girl, and that his notebook is private. They ask him his name, and he tells them it's Leroy Brown. They tell him to leave the girl alone, and then they leave.
Kim is wrapping up Jimmy's wrist and telling him that he takes too many chances. Um, Kim, the fact that he is a FIREFIGHTER pretty much means that his whole workday involves taking chances. Jimmy didn't know she cared, and she tells him that she doesn't care but her kid needs a father. Thanks, Kim, I had not heard you mention that you were a mother and Jimmy was a father yet this episode. It took you long enough. Bobby is watching the whole conversation over by Doc's bus, and Doc says to Bobby, "Why do you do this to yourself?" Bobby didn't know it showed. Doc tells him to make a move. Carlos comes over and is all "make a move on who?" but they just blow him off.
Bosco and Yokas are in their car and they are talking about all the stained glass and statues made for dead people. Bosco thinks it's a waste, but Yokas thinks it's for the people who are alive, to help them deal with the grief.
Kim and Bobby in the ambulance, going to a call. Kim is bitching about how Jimmy wasn't going to get help with his wrist and it could have gotten worse and he would have problems with it in the future, blah blah blah fishcakes (tm Sars). Bobby and I wonder why she is so wound up about a man she repeatedly says she hates. Once again, she tells him that Jimmy is the father of her son. Yes, we know! No need to keep reminding us of this fact! Bobby asks her if she still loves Jimmy, and she tells him that it was hard enough to leave Jimmy once, and she doesn't want to do it again. Yeah, that was a straight answer. They get to their call and find Bosco and Yokas already there. Sunny is lying by the side of some stairs leading into an apartment building and has OD'd again. Kim starts CPR on her, but everyone else knows that Sunny is dead. I guess Sunny's sun has set. Now she can go back to Dawson's Creek.
After all the times I have been to Wal-Mart, I have yet to see a smiley face wearing a cowboy hat and holding a whip while it rolls back prices. If someone does see one, please contact me.
Ty and Sully are in their car, and Ty starts singing that "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" song. Sully joins in. My ears start bleeding. They are interrupted by a call about a family dispute.
Kim and Bobby are sitting on the back bumper of their ambulance. Bobby tells Kim that the coroner is on his way, and Kim is feeling all guilty. Bobby tells her that it wasn't her fault and that she did everything she could. She says that Sunny is dead, so she could have done a lot more. Like what? Kidnap Sunny and hold her hostage until she detoxed? Whatever.
Sully and Ty go to the disturbance and find a man and a woman outside. The woman is hitting the man with a broom handle or something similar -- it looks like the woman is trying to play stickball with the man's head. Ty and Sully break them up and ask them what happened. The woman tells them that she was doing laundry and found rubbers in her husband's pants pockets, and her tubes are tied, so they don't need any birth control. Bosco and Yokas enter the scene, which confuses me, since in the past Bosco would usually just blow off calls that he thought would be boring. Consistency please, writers! The husband wants to press charges against her for hitting him. Sully tells him that his wife was hurt and upset that she found out that he was "catting around" and anyone would go a little crazy if they found that out, and he talks the husband into not pressing charges. Bosco calls Sully a social worker, and Sully tells him that they are out there to solve problems. Bosco does the "White Man's Overbite" and looks at Ty and then walks away.
Doc and Carlos are at a park, and there is a little boy having an epileptic seizure. They argue over what drug to administer. They argue over whether Carlos got the IV needle in right, and then Doc takes over. You just know Doc and Carlos want each other.
Kim and Bobby are talking about how the coroner will take fingerprints and dental info from Sunny and send it out across the country to missing persons, and if no one claims her she'll be cremated and put in a city plot. Bobby suggests they find her pimp and see if he has any information about her family. Yeah, I'm sure he has a file containing her personal information, along with her tax forms and copies of her ID.
Ty and Sully at a woman's apartment; the woman says her daughter is never so late coming home and that something is wrong. Since she's only two hours late, Sully thinks that something just came up and that the daughter is probably fine. He gives the mother his card, and as he and Ty are leaving, the woman tells them about a man who has been bothering her daughter at the library. He keeps asking her out and has a notebook that he constantly writes in. Oooh! The plot thickens!
Doc and Carlos are outside the ER, and Carlos decides to pick a fight about Doc making him look incompetent in front of the kid's mother. Doc tells him that he didn't have to make Carlos look incompetent, because he was being incompetent all on his own. Carlos starts shoving Doc, and Doc calls Carlos a "little Mexican" and then starts beating on Carlos's face and ribs until Morales comes out and breaks it up. Yeah, Carlos. You know how to make yourself look good in front of the ladies.
Go away, Andie MacDowell! I don't care how you color your hair! Just go away!
Bosco and Yokas are in their car and Yokas asks Bosco if he wants kids. He says maybe, if he finds the right woman, he'll pass along the Boscorelli genes. I guess he'll be passing those genes into the receptacle of a blow-up doll, because I don't think there is a woman on this earth that could deal with his bullshit. Yokas tells him that when you have kids, you look at the things differently, and you wonder what kind of world you are leaving them. As Yokas is pontificating, they drive past a van that looks like the one described by the cemetery guy. The van has a flat and is abandoned. They look inside the van and find the cherub and the stained glass window.
Ty and Sully are walking into a library. They go to the front desk and ask the woman there for any information on Leroy Brown. They want to see what kind of books he takes out. There is no information on a Leroy Brown. Ty describes the guy they want info about to the woman, and she tells them that that guy's name is actually Chester Dennis. As in Chester the Molester, maybe? He has taken out books on female anatomy and gynecology, and he hangs out in the periodical section and harasses women all day.
Doc and Carlos are in the ER. Doc has an ice-pack on his hand, and Carlos has gauze over his eye. Carlos tells Doc that he isn't Mexican -- his mom is Filipino. Doc assumes that since Carlos's last name is Nieto that he is Hispanic, and of course if you are Hispanic, you must be Mexican. It's good to see that a black man is so educated about other races besides his own, and that he doesn't stereotype. Not. Carlos needs to explain to Doc that the Philippines was a Spanish colony for hundreds of years, hence the Hispanic name. His father could have been Mexican for all he knew, but he never met him, and his mother bailed out on him when he was three so he was a ward of the state for fifteen years. Doc apologizes -- for what, we don't know, he just says he is sorry. Carlos asks him where he learned how to hit like he did, and Doc tells him he learned from his brothers. Now it is Carlos's time to be ignorant, and he is all, "Brothers? Like brothers or brothers -- younger or older." Doc tells him he has three older brothers and one younger brother. Morales comes over and breaks up the Ignoramapalooza and looks at the cut on Carlos's face. She tells him he needs stitches and tells him to go to one of the open rooms. Carlos acts like he's hot to trot and tells Doc that Morales wants him, but she's afraid of being hurt. No, Carlos, I think she is just afraid of your stupidity.
Kim and Bobby go to the park to find Sunny's pimp. He is there with a bunch of teenagers, hanging out on a bench. Bobby tells him that Sunny is dead, and they ask if he knew what Sunny's real name was. Of course, the pimp misplaced the file with Sunny's personal information in it, but one of his girls speaks up and tells them that Sunny's name was Julie Burke and that she was from Pittsburgh.
Ty and Sully at the sleazy guy's apartment; they hear classical music blaring from the room. They knock on the door, and when Chester answers the door they ask if they can talk to him. Chester tells them that he is going to turn down the music, and they follow him in. They question him about the missing girl, and he tries to run away. Ty tackles him to the floor. They hear thumping in the bathroom, and they unbolt the door and find the missing girl in her underwear, with her wrists and ankles tied up with duct tape, tape over her mouth, and her wrists tied to the shower rod. There's blood all over the floor and they shower curtain. Sully unties her and tells Ty to get something to cover her up. That plot twist was a surprise. Not.
Bosco and Yokas are in the car waiting for the owners of the van to come back. Yokas wonders if anyone is going to do anything for the little boy who was shot in the park to make sure he is remembered. Bosco tells her that when he told her about getting their stories straight that he meant that he was her partner and will always be there for her. I wonder if he wants to "pass along some of his genes" to Yokas. Before anything else can be said between them, a detective arrives and tells them that he will take over.
Kim and Bobby are sitting outside the station. Kim wonders if she should call Sunny's parents and tell them everything that happened. Bobby tells her that he thinks that Sunny's parents really don't want to know everything. Then he decides that he is going to tell Kim how he feels. He says he wants to tell her, but instead of saying anything, he leans over and tries to kiss her. She moves away, and the awkward feelings are flying.
Ty and Sully are all happy and telling each other how great they feel about what happened. I don't know about you, but I would be feeling very upset if I found a woman bound and gagged in a wacko's apartment. "Good" would not be the feeling I had, and I would not be grinning like a Cheshire cat thinking about it. Their happy time is cut short by a call about a shooting.
Kim and Bobby are in the ambulance, and Kim asks if they should talk about what happened. She tells him that she is "incredibly attracted" to him, but she says that she is not a good person and that he deserves better. She's right; Bobby does deserve better. She goes on to say that she will hurt him, and then she would hate herself for it, and then resent him for making her feel so bad. Before she can make things any more confusing, the ambulance runs out of gas again. Apparently, she can't do intentionally mean things right, either.
Ty and Sully get to the scene of the shooting -- the same place where the woman was hitting her husband with a stick -- and Bosco and Yokas are there to meet them. Bosco tells them that the wife shot the entire clip of her gun at her husband at point-blank range. Bosco the sensitive guy looks at Sully and says, "Congratulations, Sully. Problem solved." Not feeling so great now, are you, Sully?
Bobby and Kim push the ambulance into the gas station and get it to a pump. Kim goes into the station to pay for the gas and get a drink while Bobby pumps the gas. A car parks on the other side of the pump and there is old R&B music coming from the car. Two women get out of the car, and one woman starts pumping gas while the other one starts dancing in front of the car while holding a bottle of beer. Oh, yeah, that's smart -- come out of a vehicle with a beer in your hand. So she starts dancing in front of Bobby, and he starts dancing with her. Kim comes out of the station and watches Bobby and the drunk woman dance, and she has this smirky look on her face. I dance a little jig with a big smile on my face and my wine glass in my hand, because the show is over for another week!