By Nicole
Okay, first off, since this is the first show of the series, I thought I would just give an overview of what it is about. I went to the NBC site to get some info on the show and characters.
Kim Zambrano and Bobby Caffey are paramedic team 55-2. Young and tough, they work well together and are both devoted to the people they help. Their counterpart is the battle weary Monte "Doc" Parker, who must show the new guy, Carlos Nieto, the ropes, from dealing with the daily tragedies of the job to going beyond the call of duty to helping people in the community. Kim's ex-husband is firefighter Jimmy Doherty, whose tenacity is contrasted with his reckless personal life. From blazing buildings and car accidents to crime scenes and domestic emergencies, these unsung heroes are often first on the scene.
Meanwhile, just across the street, the police of the 55th Precinct show up for their daily tours of duty. Maurice "Bosco" Boscorelli's glory-hungry "supercop" mentality annoys his long-suffering partner Faith Yokas, a married mother of two. Bosco's flashy law enforcement style doesn't go over well with the streetwise veteran cop John "Sully" Sullivan, who wrestles with the assignment of his green, by-the-book partner Ty Davis.
This tightly knit group of cops and emergency personnel knows each other well -- sometimes too well -- as they work side-by-side in harsh urban conditions.
WHATEVER! The show is about plots and ideas stolen from every cop, emergency, and hospital show you have ever seen, as well as various other shows that already came up with original stories. If you watched Third Watch and thought to yourself, "I know I've seen this story/character/plot line somewhere before," chances are, you have!
So let me stop procrastinating and get down with the recap. Be warned -- you might need a glass of wine and some crackers while reading this. It's gonna get cheesy.
So the credits start and a cop car comes flying down the street. In the car, Bosco is driving and Yokas is yelling, "You're giving me whiplash! Slow down!" The car screeches to a halt at the corner store, where some ethnic kids are standing around. One of the kids starts running, and Bosco runs out of the car while Yokas is all "please don't jump out of the car and leave me sitting here." She gets out of the car and sees Bosco running down the street and yells out, "We have a car!" and she gets into the driver's side of the car and follows them. Bosco throws down his nightstick and starts taking off his jacket while running after the kid. Whatever. In case you were wondering, yes, Bosco was Colin, Kelly's coke-snorting boyfriend on , and no, his acting skills have not improved.
Cut to Officer Sullivan sitting in his car. The kid runs past him, with Bosco in pursuit.
Cut to Bosco chasing the kid with Yokas driving behind them. The kid runs down a street, another cop car comes from a side street and Sullivan gets out of the car and opens up the back door of his car. The kid runs into the cop car and Sullivan closes the door, and Bosco slams into the car and starts screaming at the top of his lungs, "OPEN THE DOOR!" Sullivan and Yokas tell him to calm down, and the kid is yelling, "I didn't do nothing!" and Bosco is all, "MY ASS!" which is also what I'm thinking about this show making it through mid-season. So Bosco shows Sullivan why he was chasing the kid -- on the side of his car, "BOSCO IS A DICK" is written in big black letters. Hee hee. They showed the word "dick" on network TV. I wondered why they showed the series premiere at ten on Thursday night, when it usually will be aired at eight on Sundays -- I guess they didn't want to offend those godly folk who enjoy watching people get shot or burned to death every Sunday night. So anyway, Sullivan is all, "Pee Wee did that?" and Bosco is all, "I popped him for curfew twice this week -- the last time, THAT WAS HIS EXACT WORDS" and starts slamming his car. Then Sullivan is all, "A lot of people might have written that." I would have written "BOSCO IS AN OVER-ACTOR," myself. And who in the hell "pops" someone, and how in the hell does someone "pop" another person? So then Yokas hears something from their radio and tells Bosco they have to go to the scene of an accident, and Bosco is all, "What, do we work traffic now?" and gives Sullivan a big "whatever" face (tm xix). Yes, Bosco, you work traffic and anywhere else police are needed. It's your job. Suck it up. And I see that you still remember how to use the "whatever" face you picked up from working on -- too bad you couldn't have picked up some talent at the same time. So Sullivan asks Yokas how she does it every day, and she tells him she thinks of Bosco as one of her kids and it puts it all in a whole new perspective, and as she is about to explain how Bosco really isn't that bad, Bosco starts pounding on the car and screams, "IF WE'RE GONNA GO, LET'S GO!" like some snot-nosed adolescent, and Sullivan looks at Yokas and says, "Most kids grow up." Hmmm...the tough but loving mother/wife cop, and the loud and obnoxious cop -- nope, never seen that on TV or the movies before.
Cut to an ambulance, where Kim is complaining about the mess that the guys in the shift before them have left. They're on their way to an accident. Bobby gets on the speaker and tells a car in front of him to move to the right. Kim then gets on the speaker and yells out, "Your other right!" and it is about time I heard a television character tell a stOOpid driver what's what. So they hit a traffic jam, and they have to stop and take their equipment to the accident victims on foot. A bunch of cars start honking their horns and Kim is all, "Oh, yeah, the horn! Why didn't I think of that?!" and I'm all, "Amen, sister!" As they head down the street, Bobby asks Kim to accompany him to his brother's wedding, and I don't know what that had to do with the price of tea in China, but she accepts. Then they find out who was blocking all the lanes in the street -- why, it's Bosco! What a coincidence! Not! Kim yells out at him, "Ever occur to you that we might need to get through?" and Bosco gives her a "yeah, whatever" face. I think Bosco was the valedictorian of his class at the Spelling School of Bad Acting. Anyway, apparently a Jaguar ran a red light and hit a minivan full of people and then drove off, and there's lots of shattered glass everywhere and bodies thrown around, and a young rookie paramedic is walking around trying to help out.
Cut to Bosco, acting like a dick. A businessman steps out of his car and says to Bosco, "Excuse me, I have to get through, I live just on the other side." And Bosco yells over to Yokas, who is directing traffic, "Hey, Yokas -- YOKAS! We have ourselves a big problem here. This guy -- he lives just on the other side and he has to get through. Hey, everybody! Get the hell out of the way! This guy needs to get through! Come on! You'll drive, I'll shoot anybody who gets in your way!" And as he is about to rip this guy a new asshole, some random guy runs over to him and tells him there is a lady bleeding in a bar on the corner, so Bosco tells the random guy to call 911 because he's busy. Um, Bosco? YOU ARE 911! Just a reminder, buddy. Then the random guy tells Bosco that he thinks the bleeding-in-a-bar woman is the one who hit the van.
Cut to the paramedics, who have bleeding people lined up on the street. The new guy is trying to help, and is told to run to the ambulance to get IVs. Kim calls in the patients to the ER, and the nurse at the ER asks if Bobby is working, and Kim is all, "You called her, right? What's the matter with you?" to Bobby, and before Bobby can tell her what's wrong with him, one of the bleeding women starts throwing a fit, and Kim is asking for IVs, and meanwhile the new guy is in the ambulance looking all over for the IVs and not finding them, and Bobby runs over there and finds the IVs instantly, of course, and he tells the new guy, "If you don't know, ASK," and the new guy feels all sheepish, and Bobby says, "What's your name?" and he says, "Carlos Niero" and Bobby introduces himself. Hmmm…paramedics having relationships with ER employees -- never seen that one before either.
Cut to the bar, where Bosco and Yokas walk in to find a middle-aged woman with a bloody head and a bottle of vodka. Hey, I wonder if her name is Mary. Bosco asks her if she owns the Jag out front, and Bloody Mary is all frazzled and freaked out and she can only manage to say, "My husband is on his way. He said I should tell you that I came in here to call for help." And then Bosco accuses her of drinking as much as she can after the fact to screw up the breathalyzer, and the woman keeps saying that her husband should get there any minute, and as Yokas handcuffs the woman, she's all, "We'll wait outside. We'll pass the time watching them bag the bodies of the people you just killed." Hmmm, middle aged woman who may have been drunk gets into car accident that kills people…now I know I've never heard of that story before. Also, I'm surprised that Bosco didn't pound on the bar, because it seems like he really likes to pound on things to indicate that he is an intense person. Or something.
Cut to the 55th Precinct. Sullivan gets PeeWee to give him the marker he used to write on Bosco's car. PeeWee tells him it will wash off, and Sullivan tells him he can test that theory weekend, when he'll have to come in at seven in the morning to wash thirty or forty cop cars. Sullivan then puts Pee Wee in a cell, and Pee Wee is all, "That's not fair!" and you can tell the whole time that Sullivan is thinking he should give Pee Wee some kind of prize for putting in writing what everyone has been thinking instead of punishing him, but he just keeps PeeWee in the cell for a few hours and then lets him go. So then Sullivan sees the captain, who tells him that he has a new partner. Sullivan is not happy, and gets really annoyed when he finds out who it is: Ty Davis, a young black man three days out of the academy. Hmmm, an older white cop paired up with a young black cop…how many different tired story lines can we steal from other shows? So the captain is all, "You know Officer Sullivan?" and Ty is all, "Most of my life, yes sir." And Sullivan is all, "Crap." Coincidentally, that's what I'm thinking this show is. Sullivan walks off and Ty follows him and says, "You're not very happy to see me." Ty picks up on things so quickly -- he'll be top cop in no time! Sullivan ignores him and gets a box of day-old Dunkin Donuts from another cop (no comment) and brings it outside. A Dalmatian runs up to him and he gives the donuts to the dog. So Ty says, "My mom wanted me to say hello." And Sullivan is all, "How she doing?" and Ty is all, "Fighting with my sisters." An uncomfortable pause, probably because Sullivan wonders, like I do, how the hell "fighting with my sisters" answers the question of how someone is. So Sullivan points at the dog, who is chowing some pink frosted pastry, and says, "Fire dog. Name's Mad Tooth." And Ty is all, "Mad Tooth. Nice looking Dalmatian." And Sullivan is all, "Stupidest dogs on earth." I don't know what the hell he meant by that, since the dog clearly has Sullivan trained to feed him donuts and all. And who would have thought that the Fire Department would have a Dalmatian for their dog? What a concept.
Cut to the ambulance, where Kim is saying, "I can't believe you didn't call Dana," and Bobby is all, "She's not my type." And Kim wonders, "You couldn't figure that out before you slept with her?" and Bobby protests, "I didn't sleep with her!" Kim: "Bobby, I saw how mad she was -- there was no way you didn't sleep with her!" Bobby brings up Jimmy Doherty, and Kim explains that she married Jimmy Doherty in a weak moment, and then their radio goes off and they have to go to a subway. Whatever.
Cut to Sullivan and Ty, sitting in their car. The ambulance goes by, and Sullivan tells Ty that they should follow it, because Bosco should show up on the scene, but he won't, because he only likes to follow the action and he won't answer calls if he thinks they'll turn out to be boring. Dispatch calls them, and Ty can't get the radio on his jacket to work, and Dispatch makes fun of him, and Sullivan is all, "Give us a break! I've got a brand new spankin' newbie on board!" and then Ty says, "10-4. Over and out." Sullivan gives him a "what are you, retarded?" face. And all I have to say about those radios is that they better be Ericsson radios. Not that my husband and I are employed by Ericsson, the number one maker of Private Radio Systems in North America, or anything. I'm just saying.
Cut to the paramedics taking groceries out of their ambulance. Carlos asks if the cops keep an eye on their stuff since they are across the street from the precinct, and Jerry tells him he'd be safer parked in front of a Dunkin Donuts. Yeah, yeah, cops and donuts. I think we get it. So anyway, apparently Jerry is a gourmet cook or something, and he buys expensive low-calorie high-protein-and-fiber dog food for Mad Tooth, but of course Mad Tooth, won't eat it because he just ate a box of donuts. Oh, the high-larity! And I guess the writers were trying to be funny with the dog's name, because the dog is very quiet and docile -- how wacky! What's , A Chihuahua named Spike? And that dog could teach Bosco a thing or two about subtlety and timing; I hope the writers give Mad Tooth some good storylines -- maybe even a love interest. So anyway, Carlos is watching some guy pressing a lot of weight and Jerry comes over to Carlos and is all, "That's Jimmy Doherty. Impressive, isn't he? You look like you work out." And then he pats and squeezes Carlos's ass. What the hell was that about?
Cut to Sullivan and Ty going down the stairs to the subway, and Ty is all, "This wasn't my idea, you know, our working together. My mother requested this -- she called the Borough Commander." Gee, first she tells him to say hello, then she picks his partner for him -- what's , his girlfriend? What a mama's boy. So anyway, Sullivan is all, "The Borough Commander? If anything big happens, your ass is definitely staying in the car!" And they get to the subway train and there is a woman giving birth, and the driver is telling them that he has trains backed up and that they need to get her out of the train so he can get moving. The paramedics tell him to move the train to 125th Street, because the baby's head is crowning and the mother needs to be close to a hospital. Sullivan tells everyone on the train what is going on, and he makes Ty hold the pregnant woman's hand as she screams, and we get a totally unnecessary close-up of the woman's mouth as she is screaming.
Cut to COMMERCIAL! Thank god! Will this ever end?
Cut to Bosco and Yokas sitting in their car, hiding somehow but watching from the side mirrors and waiting for two guys to break into a Ford Bronco. Yokas complains that they've waited for half an hour and they should go and give Sullivan a break. How about giving the audience a break? Out of nowhere, a cyclist comes over to them and says loudly, "Officer!" and the two guys run off and Bosco makes a face and then starts beating on the steering wheel. Mature much, Bosco? And the cyclist asks where FDR Drive is, and Bosco snarls, "Do I look like an information kiosk to you?" and Yokas gives the guy directions and then asks Bosco what his problem is, and Bosco is all, "They were gonna go for it!" and Yokas is all, "Oh, God forbid we prevent a crime." And I'm all, "Yokas -- will you beat his head into the steering wheel and knock some sense into him please?" And then Dispatch calls asking for assistance with two drunks fighting outside a bar, and Bosco tells Yokas that if they don't answer the call, Sully will, and they won't have to bother, and a few seconds later Sullivan answers the call like the type of cop that actually, I don't know, does his job or something.
Cut to the paramedics at their station; everyone is all, "What's that smell?" and they all look at their shoes, and Kim has a pile of something on her shoe, and she looks at Carlos and then swipes some of whatever is on her shoe and eats it, and Carlos is totally disgusted, and everyone starts laughing. You see, it was just peanut butter -- they were playing a prank on the new guy! Those paramedics -- what a group of crazy kids! Playing jokes on the new guy -- I never would have thought of that! But the hijinks don't last for long -- they get a call to go to a fire.
Cut to Sullivan and Ty, with Ty trying to break up the fight between the two drunks. Ty asks Sullivan if they should file cross complaints and Sullivan says, "Cross complaints?" and shows the drunks his radio and says, "This is a new mobile lie detector. This is going to tell us who is telling the truth." He puts the radio up to one of the drunks and asks, "Did you hit this gentleman first? Yes or no?" and the guy says no, and Sullivan turns up the squelch on the radio so it seems like the guy is lying. Hey, I never heard of any type of urban legend about someone being "hooked up" to a copier and told it's a lie detector or anything, so I'm sure the writers came up with this funny concept all on their own. What a novel idea! So anyway, Ty is trying to frisk the drunk guy and Sullivan suggests he stand farther away, and Ty is all annoyed and tells Sullivan that he doesn't have to tell him what to do, and then the drunk barfs on Ty. I didn't see that coming at all!
Cut to the paramedics outside the burning building. Another fireman at the scene tells them that the fire started in the kitchen of a restaurant in the building and that the sprinklers put most of it out, but some people inhaled smoke and need help. Doc, Jerry, and Carlos stay to help the people suffering from smoke inhalation. Those people are on the forty-sixth floor, but the elevators won't run until the fire is declared controlled, so they have to go up the stairs. Can you see the joke coming?
Cut to Sullivan putting the drunk in the back of the car and Ty cleaning off his shoes. Dispatch on the radio asks for assistance -- there is a man with a gun on a street corner. Ty asks if they should take it, and half a second later Bosco's car goes flying by.
Cut to Bosco yelling out, "220 HORSES, I'VE GOT A GUN AND A TANK FULL OF CITY GAS! DON'T YOU LOVE IT!" Um, no, I don't love your dumb overacting and the fact that you cannot say a word without screaming or making a face of some sort. You aren't in Beverly Hills anymore. Shut. Up.
Cut to Kim and Bobby at a park. Hospital EMTs are working on a teenage girl but have no intention of bringing her to a hospital since she has no insurance. Some witty banter between the EMTs and Kim and Bobby, and then Kim injects something into the girl and the girl starts vomiting. Okay -- this scene scene was thrown into the show because…? This has to do with the rest of the stories because…?
Cut to Doc, Jerry, and Carlos going up the stairs. And getting tired. Can you see the joke yet?
Cut to a woman running out her house and flagging down Bosco. She tells them that a man was by her basement window, and Bosco asks her what kind of gun the guy had. The woman tells him that the guy didn't really have a gun, and that she was told if she mentioned a gun when calling for help, it would cut down on the response time. Of course Bosco gets all annoyed because now he has no reason to shoot anyone. So the woman tells them that a man was watching her as she was getting out of the shower, and when they asked her what he looked like, she told them he looked like a clown -- red hair, yellow jacket, striped pants. So Yokas asks the woman how old she thought the peeping Tom was, and Bosco chimes in with, "In clown years." Woo Nellie! The comic lines are flying now! Maybe the writers should stick to stealing from other shows, because the lines they come up with themselves blow.
Cut to Doc, Jerry, and Carlos going up the stairs. Still. Then Jerry says to Carlos, "When was the last time you were with a man? Don't worry -- everyone's nervous the first time. You'll get used to it." Again, the hell? Is this supposed to be funny? I don't get it, and I don't want to get it.
Cut to Sullivan and Ty in their car, where Sullivan is "explaining" to Ty that they are out there to solve problems and not arrest everyone they come across. Dispatch calls them for help with an auto break-in. Sullivan asks why Bosco can't do it, and dispatch tells them Bosco is still searching for the clown. ("Bosco is the clown." -- Sars.) On the way to the break-in, they stop at a red light and the clown walks past them. As they are watching the clown, dispatch calls again for assistance with a robbery at a jewelry store. Sullivan goes, "3,2,1…" and Bosco's car goes flying by. So if Sullivan knows that Bosco pulls this shit all the time, why doesn't he just bust his ass for it? Hi, my name is Sullivan, and my goal in life is to be a martyr.
Cut to Bosco and Yokas at the jewelry store, taking down a description of the people who broke into the store. The owner tells them it was three black teenage boys, and one of them had a jacket on that said "Pervert." Um, okay. So Sullivan drives up, takes the clown out of the back of his car, and puts him into Bosco's car. Then he walks over to Bosco and takes his handcuffs, goes back to his own car, and leaves. Bosco, the master thespian, makes a "whatever" face. Yokas is all, "You think he's pissed? I think he's pissed." I think I'm pissed that I agreed to watch this crap and write about it.
Cut to Doc, Jerry, and Carlos finally making it to the forty-sixth floor. They ask where the smoke inhalation people are, and they are told that the people were sent down the elevator ten minutes earlier, after the chief declared the fire under control. Oh, how funny! The guys take all that time and energy to go up the stairs, only to have everyone go down the elevator! What a funny plot twist! Except, of course, for the "funny" part!
Cut to Bosco and Yokas in the car with the clown, and the clown is being all obnoxious, kind of like the way Bosco usually acts. And Bosco is all, "Waffle?" and Yokas is all, "Don't bother." And I'm wondering why Bosco would suddenly want breakfast food. And then the clown says, "You tell him sir! Oh my god -- you're a woman! I'm sorry, it's just with those broad shoulders and moustache I got kind of thrown off!" Oh, the barbs this clown can throw -- he is just so mean! Yokas is not that large and has no visible facial hair, so that jab must hurt about as much as someone calling me a dumb blonde. I have no idea why Yokas gets pissed off, but she does, and so Bosco asks her again if she wants a waffle, and she says, "Oh, absolutely. Watch out for that dog!" and then Bosco slams on the brakes and the clown flies forward and his face slams into the grate between the front and back seats. You see, "waffle" means that one cop pretends to see a dog, and the cop driving slams on the brakes so it won't hit the "dog," and then the person in the back seat smashes his face on the grate, and his face then looks like a "waffle." Oh, those wacky cops! Hurting a suspect by "accident"! What will they do ?
Cut to commercial, and I run to the kitchen and pour myself a large glass of wine to dull the pain.
Cut to Bosco and Yokas driving past a burning building. How convenient. Yokas calls Dispatch to tell them about it, because with all those people in the street watching, you just know no one bothered to call 911. Bosco jumps out of the car and runs into the building, like the moron he is. An ambulance and a fire truck arrive, and explosions go off inside the building. Yokas goes into the building to look for Bosco, and she finds a man lying on the floor and pulls him out of the building. I guess Bosco figured that the guy was close enough to getting out on his own and didn't bother with him. Bosco goes up a few flights of stairs and starts busting through doors looking for people. He finds a woman and a child in a bathroom and the boy is in the tub. Hey lady, right then would not be the best time to give your kid his weekly bath.
Cut to the outside of the building, where a woman is holding a baby out of her window and she is freaking out and she tosses her baby. Doc just happens to be standing under the window, and he catches the baby perfectly in his arms. I guess he finished first in his Tossed-Baby Catching class at the academy. Meanwhile, two firemen smash the windows of a Town Car parked in front of a hydrant and thread the hose through the car while the owner of the car yells at them. That scene seemed familiar to me, and my friend Ariel reminded me that I'd seen it before in Backdraft.
Cut to Bosco and the woman and child, trapped in the building and inhaling smoke. A fireman finds them and takes them out of the building. I'm not even going to go on about what a dumb-ass Bosco is, except to say, "Way to try to kill yourself while killing others, Bosco."
Cut to the outside of the building, now night-time, and the car with the hose in it is now all filled with water. I guess that means that hours have elapsed or something. Whatever.
Cut to Carlos giving CPR to some guy, and Doc is telling him that the guy is dead and that he can stop the CPR, but Carlos keeps trying for a minute or two more. When I took a CPR class, it took a hell of a lot of energy to perform CPR, and I think if someone had been giving someone CPR for a while and were told they could stop, they would stop pretty quickly. But I guess that wouldn't make for good drama. Not that this is good drama -- I'm just saying.
Cut back to Bosco at one of the ambulances, getting checked out to see if he is okay. He's acting like he is a hero or something, but everyone is telling him he's a moron. Bosco, knowing is half the battle. Jimmy Doherty is there with Kim and says to her, "You're looking good. Why did we ever break up?" and Kim reminds him, "You slept with my sister." Oooh, the plot thickens. Well, no, not really.
Cut to Bosco and Yokas, going into an apartment. Yokas gives her husband a kiss and goes to see her kids, who have just gone to bed. She plays with them a little. Completely random scene.
Cut to Doc and Carlos at the station. Doc asks Carlos how he is feeling after seeing all the dead bodies that day. Carlos is all, "I didn't feel anything. I kept thinking that it should really bug me, but I felt nothing." Didn't Morales in A Chorus Line sing a song called "I Felt Nothing"? I'm just saying. Doc explains that since Carlos didn't know those people in real life and didn't know who they were, he couldn't feel a loss when they were gone. Foreshadowing, maybe? So then a call comes over the radio about a possible GSW (gunshot wound, in other words), and Jerry, Doc, and Carlos have to go, and Jerry gets all bent out of shape because he was cooking a gourmet dinner of some sort and now he can't eat it.
Cut to Sullivan and Ty in their car. They see a guy in a "Pervert" jacket and they spotlight him, and the guy runs away, and Sullivan tells Ty to stay in the car but Ty doesn't listen -- he gets out and chases the guy to an elevated subway platform, and the guy jumps and falls to the street and splatters himself right in front of Sullivan standing by his car. How convenient. And why doesn't Ty ever listen to Sullivan? Know-it-all momma's boy.
Cut to commercial, and I get myself another glass of wine to try to stay numb.
Cut to Kim and Bobby walking into some fancy apartment building and talking about how expensive it would be to live there, and they go into the elevator that has a man operating it. Whatever.
Cut to Carlos, Doc, and Jerry going into a different apartment building and Jerry complaining that his food will be ruined. A woman on one of the upper floors hangs out of her window and yells, "Up here! He's bleeding!" They go whaling up the stairs, and a guy shoots Jerry point-blank three times, and all three of them fall down the stairs. Jerry is moaning, "Oh, Doc, he shot me. Oh God, Doc, he shot me." And Doc tries to get to Jerry, but the gunman is still on the stairs and he shoots Jerry in the arm, and Jerry is still saying, "He shot me. He shot me." Which reminds me of Mustafa in Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery, when he gets thrown into the pit of fire but he doesn't die, and then someone goes over to him and shoots him and he is all, "Oh! I've been shot! Why did you shoot me? Oh no! I've been shot again!" Nice to steal from a comedy when you're trying to do drama (and I use that term loosely).
Cut to Kim and Bobby taking an old lady out of their ambulance on a stretcher into the emergency room, and Dana is standing there waiting for them. Kim asks, "Guess who's waiting in the dock -- does she look mad to you? She looks mad to me." Why do the women have to ask the men if people look mad or pissed off? So anyway, Bobby is all "Hey, Dana," and Dana cuts him off with, "Not another word, Bobby," and Bobby says, "I was going to call you," and then Dana slaps him and walks away, and Kim goes, "Ouch! That's gotta sting!" And I just want to know what the hell he did to her. I need to watch some romantic dramas to see what kind of stories the writers might have stolen.
Cut to Sullivan and Ty going to the aid of Jerry, and Sullivan tells Ty to stay in the car until backup arrives, and of course Ty doesn't listen and he goes in and runs up the stairs to try to catch the gunman, and Sullivan goes in after Ty. While running up the stairs, Ty drops his nightstick. Why do these guys keep dropping stuff while chasing someone? Didn't they learn to run with their equipment in the academy? So anyway, Ty ends up running up to the roof of the building. Sullivan catches up with Ty and asks if he saw the guy run up to the roof. Ty said no, the door was open so he just assumed the guy was up there. Sullivan radios that they're on the roof and that they've lost the suspect, and then he goes off on Ty, asking him if he thinks that after eight hours of being on the job he is a pro or something, and that he could have gotten himself killed, and Ty shoots back, "You're not my father!" and Sullivan is all, "No! I'm your partner! And I'm not about to call your mother and tell her you're dead! I made that call once already." Woo hoo! A new plot twist -- the newbie is the son of the guy's dead partner! I'm floored! I don't know what to say, except "whatever."
Cut to the ambulance with Jerry in it, and he's bleeding all over and what have you, and they wheel him into the emergency room and Dana says, "We'll take care of him now," and everyone in the cast is in the room and looking very concerned, and while Bosco looks around for something to bang his fists on, the screen says:
TO BE CONTINUED ON SUNDAY
I think I'll need some hard liquor to be able to sit through the conclusion.