By Nicole
So the show starts out with the station bell ringing, and the doors to the fire station open, and there is a Lincoln Town Car parked in front of the truck.
An ambulance arrives at the scene of the fire; people are filing out of the building. Bobby and Kim ask a man coming out of the building if everyone has gotten out. The man tells them that Martha and William Green are still in the building. A boy runs out, and Kim asks if he is William. He is, and he says that his mother went back to get their cat. Martha smashes out a window and starts screaming for help because she is burning up. Kim yells up to her that the fire truck with a ladder is on its way, and then wonders to herself what is taking the fire truck so long.
Jimmy smashes the window of the Town Car and tries to put it in gear to move it, but it isn’t working. Someone tells the captain that the closest truck to the scene can get there in five minutes. Jimmy says they can make it in three minutes, so they start the truck and drive it into the Town Car to push it out of the way.
Martha is standing on the windowsill and screaming for help, and that her hands are burning. She tries to climb further out of the window, but she trips and falls flat on her back onto the sidewalk. As Bosco would say, "Oops!" Bobby and Kim run over to her to see if she’s okay, but she is dead. The credits roll. ["Hey -- what about the cat?" -- Sars]
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Ty and Sully are coming out of a convenience store. Ty took a flyer off from the wall in the store, and now he gives it to Sully. The flyer is for the St. Edward’s Singles Mixer. Sully asks Ty how desperate he is. Ty reminds Sully that he himself has a girlfriend. Huh?! Since when? Does his mother know about this? Sully is all, "I know, so why would you --" and Ty gives him this sheepish look. Damn, Ty, that was harsh. You’ll do anything to keep Sully away from your mother, huh? So then they get a call about a disturbance and they get back into their car. Ty tells Sully he’s only trying to help Sully out, but Sully tells him he doesn’t need any help. I agree that the last thing Sully needs is dating advice from Ty.
The fire truck finally gets to the scene, and Kim sees William and goes over to him and hugs him. Jimmy is yelling for everyone to get to the sidewalk. Kim asks him what took him so long, and then Jimmy notices Martha’s dead body sprawled out on the sidewalk.
Carlos and Doc are in a hallway of an apartment building. A Chinese girl opens her door and tells them to come in. She leads them into the living room, where there’s a woman lying on a table with acupuncture needles sticking out of her face and lit candles all over the room. The girl tells them that her sister is burning up but her hands and feet are freezing, and that she has been throwing up and has diarrhea. Everyone else in the room -- including the girl’s mother, another sister, and an old man -- is speaking in Cantonese. Carlos and Doc check out the girl, and as they try to take the needles out of her face, the mother starts freaking out. Doc tells the girl who can speak English that her sister is very sick, and that she needs to get everyone out of the room so they can get her sister ready to go to the hospital. The family all freaks out some more, and the girl says that if they take her sister to the hospital, she will die; she asks the paramedics to stay until her father comes home. They take the sister anyway, telling the girl that they will be at the only hospital in New York -- Angel of Mercy.
Carlos and Doc are in a hallway of an apartment building. A Chinese girl opens her door and tells them to come in. She leads them into the living room, where there’s a woman lying on a table with acupuncture needles sticking out of her face and lit candles all over the room. The girl tells them that her sister is burning up but her hands and feet are freezing, and that she has been throwing up and has diarrhea. Everyone else in the room -- including the girl’s mother, another sister, and an old man -- is speaking in Cantonese. Carlos and Doc check out the girl, and as they try to take the needles out of her face, the mother starts freaking out. Doc tells the girl who can speak English that her sister is very sick, and that she needs to get everyone out of the room so they can get her sister ready to go to the hospital. The family all freaks out some more, and the girl says that if they take her sister to the hospital, she will die; she asks the paramedics to stay until her father comes home. They take the sister anyway, telling the girl that they will be at the only hospital in New York -- Angel of Mercy.
This scene proves that the writers of this show read my recaps, and are paying me back. Bosco and Yokas are in their car. Bosco has a two-day hangover. Yokas asks Bosco why he drank so much, and he tells her that it’s because of the new girl in his life. Nicole drinks like a sailor and he can’t keep up with her. She is also insistent and aggressive, especially when it comes to cars, and he is exhausted. Yokas is all, "Way more information than I needed!" and I’m all, "D’oh! Karma’s a bitch!" Then they get a call about a possible DOA in a car. Yokas mumbles, "Stiff in the car." Bosco mumbles back, "Probably dated Nicole." I mumble, "The writers will pay. Oh yes, they will pay."
Jimmy finds a kitten and brings it over to William, who is sitting on the curb with Kim. Kim tells William they will contact his father. William tells her that his father lives in St. Louis. Kim is thinking to herself, "Hmmm… I wonder if his father is a dead-beat dad. I bet he’s really good-looking, too. Gotta make sure to meet him when he gets into town." Kim then tells William that there are people who will take care of him until his father gets to New York, and he asks her if he can keep his cat. Kim doesn’t know, but if he can’t she tells him she will take care of his cat until his father gets him. Before I can come up with some jokes about the father coming to her house to get some pussy . . . cat, a woman from children’s services walks up to them and takes William for some hot chocolate.
Doc and Carlos bring the Chinese girl into the ER and give Morales all the medical information. They then usher the mother and sisters into the waiting room, and then call in to get another assignment.
Ty and Sully are at the stairs of an apartment building, and Sully is complaining about having to go up and down stairs all day. Ty tells him it’s good exercise and Sully comes back with, "That’s why everyone keeps mistaking me for Jack LaLanne." And Ty is all, "Who is that?" Duh! I grew up in the tri-state area, and there was a big chain of fitness centers named after the man! I guess the writers are trying to show the age gap between the two of them, but they really should have used someone other than a cultural icon like Jack LaLanne. Hell, I just saw the guy on Good Morning America a few months ago. Anyway, a woman sees them and calls them over to tell them there was a loud noise, like an explosion, from Mr. Knight’s apartment across the hall. She then tells them that Mr. Knight is a big drinker because he stumbles in late at night, and he has no friends and he doesn’t seem to have a job. Sully asks her if she knocked on his door to ask about the noise, and she tells them she doesn’t want to seem nosy. Oh, the comedy! Not. So they go across the hall and knock on the door.
Bosco and Yokas drive up to a car in a parking lot, and it looks like an old Mustang. They get out of their car and walk over and look into the car, and they see a man behind the wheel who looks dead. Yokas thinks that it’s a lousy way to die, and I think that Bosco must still be drunk because he has the flaps of his hat pulled down over his ears so he looks like an evil Elmer Fudd, and he blurts out, "What, are you kidding? This is a GTO!" Oh, okay. Yokas meant that it would be lousy to die all alone, but since the guy bit the dust in a classic car, it makes it so much better. Someone remind me when I’m in my later years in life to go get myself a classic car and give everyone directions: if it looks like I’m about to die, put me in the car and park it in an empty parking lot, because that would be the "cool" way to go. So Yokas knocks on the window of the car, and she gets no reaction from inside. Bosco opens the car door, and the guy wakes up and starts yelling and jumps out of the car. He asks them what they want, and Yokas tells him he looked dead and asks if he is all right. He tells her he was fine until he was woken up from a good sleep. They find out that the man has just been living in his car. Bosco asks if his car is a ’66. The guy tells him it’s a ’67 and gives him details about the engine. Then he tells Bosco to keep his hands off his car. Ha! Tell him, old homeless guy!
Sully knocks on the nosy woman’s door and tells her that no one answered the neighbor’s door, and asks if the guy could have left. She tells them that the man’s TV was still on, and he always turns it off before he leaves. Ty offers to kick in the door, but Sully suggests they go to the super to get a set of keys. I would say that Ty was channeling Bruce Lee, but Ty probably doesn’t even know who Bruce Lee is.
Carlos and Doc are bringing some man into the ER when they hear another man screaming and throwing stuff in the waiting room. They run in there, and a Chinese man is yelling at Morales that they killed his daughter; then he runs out of the room. Morales is clearly shaken, and she tells them that the girl had an anaphylactic reaction to the antibiotic (try saying that five times fast) and they couldn’t get her back. The man is running around the ER smashing things, and Carlos wants to call security. Morales tells him it’s all right, and she follows the man into the room where his dead daughter is, and he starts to cry. Morales is about to cry too, and she runs off past Doc.
Apparently, Wal-Mart is the best place to go to decorate your bathroom. From what they showed in this ad, you’d really have to want to decorate your bathroom in a cheese motif.
Kim and Bobby at a restaurant, talking about William. Bobby’s mom joins them. I now realize that this actress may not have been Mrs. Walsh’s maid on , but she was definitely Julia and Mateo’s mother on All My Children. So Bobby’s mom asks him why he invited her to lunch, and he tells her that Matt, whom he is now calling "Mateo" (shout out to AMC), is going to receive his 90-day coin from AA that night, and he wants her to come to the meeting. They start to discuss it when Matt/Mateo walks in. Mom gets up and leaves, and Matt/Mateo gets pissed off because Bobby told him that his mom wanted to meet with him, so he leaves too. Kim is all, "That worked like a charm." Word, Kim. I think schemes like that only work on Aaron Spelling shows.
The super lets Sully and Ty into the apartment, and they walk in to find a man who has blown his head off with a shotgun. Again, some TW people snuck onto the ER set and stole a few buckets of fake blood, because it is EVERYWHERE. ["Hey, head wounds bleed a lot -- especially head wounds in the 10 PM time slot." -- Sars]
Jimmy is directing the fire truck as it backs into the station garage; a man runs up to him and asks about his car. Jimmy starts going off on him about parking in front of a fire station, but the guy doesn’t care -- he just wants to know where his car is. Jimmy tells him the police towed it after the firemen plowed into it with the truck. The guy and Jimmy talk back and forth like they’re going to fight, but the guy backs down because all the other firemen are watching. Jimmy looks all smug. Yeah, Jimmy, talk tough when you have half a dozen guys ready to back you up. Go calm down and place a bet somewhere.
Yokas is watching Bosco check out the undercarriage of the car for serial numbers. All the serial numbers on the car are the same, and Bosco nearly blows his load when he finds this out. While he is still stroking himself and looking at the car with loving eyes, the homeless man comes running up to them with a grocery bag in his arms and starts yelling at them. Bosco must have been doing crack on top of drinking, because he offers the homeless man fifty bucks for the car -- in cash, no less. The guy goes off on Bosco about the car being worth more than twelve-point-five, not to mention serving as his home, finishing up his tirade with, "Thanks to you, officer, my crappy life has suddenly turned a corner!" Hee hee! Bosco just. Doesn’t. Get it. And offers the guy $300. The homeless man tells Bosco that the car is not for sale, and Bosco just gives him this dopey look, which looks even dopier with the dumb earflaps hat he has on.
Ty and Sully wait in the apartment for the detectives to arrive. Ty asks Sully how long they are going to be, and Sully tells him a half-hour to an hour. Ty then asks how long it has been since they called, and Sully is all, "What are you, six?" I bet Ty is one of those people who asks, "Are we there yet?" like a hundred times when he goes on long drives. Ty is uneasy about sitting in an apartment with a headless man, so Sully tells him to go into the guy’s bedroom to look for ID. When Ty walks off, Sully looks over at the corpse and says, "Kids, huh?" What wacky stuff!
Jimmy is asking everyone in the station if they want to play football outside, which is pretty unbelievable if you ask me, since last Sunday there were football playoffs on TV and you know Jimmy would be attached to his La-Z-Boy worrying about the big bets he placed on the games. So no one wants to play, because it’s so cold outside, except for some guy named Manny. How many names can they give to men on this show that have a "y" at the end? Carlos tells Jimmy he played football on his high-school junior varsity team, and Jimmy is all condescending and says, "Junior varsity? Wow!" I wonder how Carlos had time to play football for a team since he claims he was shuffled around from one foster parent to another, unless he was shuffled around in the same school district. Manny tells Carlos that Doc was first-team All-American for two years. Carlos is in awe for a moment, and then he starts making himself a sandwich, and Doc asks him if he has ever looked into alternative medicine, and Carlos asks, "Like voodoo and incense?" Carlos, I dare you to not utter one dumb-ass statement for an entire episode. I double-dog-dare you. Doc is also annoyed with Carlos, and Carlos then tells him that he only believes in "real medicine." Doc is thinking twice about it, because the Chinese girl died from of the medicine she was given in the hospital. They get a call, and as they are leaving, Carlos says, "First team, all-American?" and Doc replies with, "You must be the most gullible person I’ve ever met!" If Carlos had a computer with Internet access and e-mail, he would be one of those people forwarding e-mails to everyone he knows so he could get free M&Ms, gift certificates to The Gap, a free trip to Disney World, credit towards a new Honda, and a thousand dollars from Bill Gates.
Ty finds the headless man’s wallet with ID in it, and a framed picture that he brings to Sully. Ty recognizes Sully and his father in the picture, but can’t figure out who the third man could be. Take a wild guess, Ty. Use your great powers of deduction, and think. Three men in a framed picture. You recognize two of the men. Could the third one be the owner of the framed picture? You have the man’s wallet with a picture ID in your other hand, Ty. Why don’t you check that out? Sully looks at the picture and tells him it was taken during a fishing trip at Lake Saranac seventeen years ago. Sully then looks over at the dead man and grumbles, "Oh, damn it."
Doc and Carlos bring a man to the ER, and Morales takes them to one side. She tells them that they need to get a prescription for Refimapin because the Chinese girl had meningitis. Doc asks about the girl’s family, and Morales tells him that she put in a call to the health department. Doc tells her that it’s Sunday, so they won’t contact the family until tomorrow, and who knows how many people they might come in contact with in that time. Doc volunteers to go over to their apartment and ask them to come back to the hospital to get the prescription. Why doesn’t Doc just take a container of pills over to the apartment instead? He’s going to be sending them a bill for his services anyway and he can just add the prescription to the bill.
Sully starts reminiscing, and tells Ty that Tommy The Headless Guy was the first guy he rode with, and Ty’s dad first rode with Candyman, and eventually Tommy and Candyman became partners and Ty’s dad and Sully became partners. Sully first learned about "solving problems" from Tommy; at the time, he thought Tommy was just a lazy old man who was full of crap and he couldn’t wait to get rid of him. Ty, looking like he just got caught with his hand in the cookie jar, tells Sully that he doesn’t feel that way, and Sully tells him he knows Ty does feel that way, and that he should feel that way. I’m not sure what Sully meant by that. Sully starts reminiscing some more.
Jimmy is playing ball outside with Manny, and the guy with the beat-up car comes back, but this time with a baseball bat. Man, he brought the wrong equipment -- didn’t anyone tell him they were going to play football that day? Jimmy provokes the guy, and he smacks Jimmy in the ribs with the bat and Jimmy falls to the ground. Manny tries to pull the guy away from Jimmy and the guy cracks Manny in the head with the bat and then runs off.
Okay, it is a conspiracy. So this commercial starts off with a young woman coming home from shopping to find a note by the door addressed to Nicole, and it’s from her husband, and the note tells her to grab some Michelob Lights and come to the living room. She looks in her shopping bag and gets an idea. scene is Nicole going into the dark living room wearing sexy lingerie and high heels with a bottle of Michelob Light in each hand, and when she turns on the light a big group of people yells out, "Surprise!" -- it’s a surprise birthday party for her. She’s looking all sheepish, and her father is giving her husband the stink-eye.
Bobby and Kim load Manny into the ambulance, and Kim tells Jimmy to get in the ambulance too so he can get his ribs checked. Before he climbs into the ambulance, Jimmy tells Bosco to get the address of the guy with the bat, and give it to him.
Detectives arrive at the scene, and Sully tells the one detective that comes to all of Sully’s cases that Tommy was a cop who retired last year. The detective asks if Sully knows of any family they can get in contact with, but Sully doesn’t. Sully offers to get in contact with Candyman to see if he knows of anyone, and then walks into the bathroom and looks into the mirror and says "Candyman" three times. No, not really, but he did offer to get in contact with Candyman and get back to the detective with any info.
Doc and Carlos go to the Chinese family’s apartment. The English-speaking daughter answers the door and tells them that her parents are at the hospital, trying to get her sister’s body from the coroner. I guess that makes it two family members down, two to go, since the parents have already gone to the hospital, so someone at the hospital would know to give them the prescription. Doc tells the girl that her sister had a serious disease, and they need to get medication so they don’t come down with it too. The girl tells them that her father wants to kill them and the doctor. Doc tells her she needs to trust him, and he gives her the address where they can be reached.
Sully finds Candyman and tells him about Tommy -- that he had been living in a little one-bedroom in a crappy part of town. Candyman tells him he heard that Tommy had moved after he was forced into retirement. Candyman tells Sully that police work was all Tommy knew, and then Candyman channels the spirit of David from Real World Seattle and says, "He was good people." Sully asks if Tommy had any family, and Candyman tells him he thinks Tommy had a brother, but he wouldn’t know how to contact him. Candyman starts babbling about how Tommy never socialized and how a big night was his La-Z-Boy and a ball game. Sully has a look on his face like, "Um, that’s a big night for me, too." Candyman goes on about how Tommy was a loner, and that in a room full of people he was all by himself. The man sounds like he was an enigma wrapped in a riddle.
Bosco and Yokas drive up to the precinct with Bat Guy in the back of the car in cuffs. When they take him out of the car, Jimmy runs over on the attack, but Bosco stops him and tells Yokas to take the guy inside. Jimmy tells Bosco that if the guy attacked a cop, they would have taken him to a back alley. All of a sudden Bosco is "good cop" and tells Jimmy that it isn’t going to happen.
Carlos and Doc are in their ambulance, and Carlos asks if the Chinese guy is really going to go after them. Doc tells him that the man is just grieving. Carlos tells him that lots of grieving people go out and shoot others. Doc offers to take Carlos back and he can go on sick leave. Carlos says he just should have talked to him first before giving out info on where they’re located. Look, if this guy really wanted to them, he would just wait at the ER and follow them in -- that way he could get the two of them and Morales all at once. Anyway, Doc tells Carlos he’s right, and Carlos doesn’t know how to react because this is the first time he has ever been right about anything.
Bosco is at the precinct, finishing up a telephone conversation, and it sounds like he’s made some sort of deal. He tells Yokas that the homeless guy will get an offer he can’t refuse; two grand and an apartment for six months. He tells Yokas that he can get the apartment since it’s his cousin’s, and Bosco gave him money for renovations that his cousin hasn’t paid back yet. Yokas is all happy he got a homeless man an apartment. So what’s going to happen after the six months is over? The man will wind up homeless again, and this time he won’t have a car to live in.
Ty and Sully are in the car, and Sully tells Ty all about his sister in Orlando. I guess he wants Ty to know who to contact in case he dies, but Ty already knew about his sister because Sully kept making calls to her on Thanksgiving. I guess Sully is losing his memory in his old age. So Ty tells Sully that Tommy was in a deep depression and Sully couldn’t have done anything about it. Sully tells him he didn’t think there was anything he could have done. Ty then invites Sully out for drinks with his friends from the academy that night, and offers to pay for the drinks. Sully declines, but promises that he’ll go time. Ty has a look on his face like he doesn’t believe him.
Bosco and Yokas go back to the parking lot, but the car is gone. Yokas thinks the guy must have gotten gas money somehow and left. Whatever. He could have had the gas to begin with but just chose not to tell Bosco and Yokas -- it’s not like they asked about it. Bosco feels bad that he couldn’t give the guy the apartment. Well, maybe Bosco can use it whenever he’s on duty and wants to get it on with some chick, so he won’t get caught doing it on camera in some convenience-store parking lot. Again.
Morales and Doc are outside the hospital by the ER entrance, and she tells him that the Chinese family got their prescriptions, and one of the daughters showed early symptoms of meningitis so they put her on an IV of antibiotics. Doc asks how Morales is, and she tells him she’s upset about giving the girl the right treatment and the girl dying anyway. She tells him she moved to New York from Philadelphia because there were no spots in the ER in the city, and she didn’t want to work in the suburbs because it would be boring. Doc tells her it wasn’t her fault, and she tells him she’d be okay if she kissed him. They kiss a little. Well, maybe a little tongue, but no tonsil hockey going on. Yet. Ooooooohhhhhh! Carlos is gonna be pissed! Morales leaves and walks past Carlos as he is coming outside. Carlos tells Doc that Morales’s hard-to-get game is getting old and calls her an ice princess. Carlos, the clue train is about to leave! Get on board!
Hey, did you know that if you drink Coke, you instantly have rhythm? I need to get my husband to start drinking Coke.
Kim comes into the station, and the captain gives her a box with the kitten in it. Apparently, the woman from child services brought it over and said that William’s father will call when he gets to town. Kim cackles, "Mwa ha ha haaa! My plan is working perfectly!" No, not really, but you could tell she was thinking that.
Not even my statue of St. Clare, patron saint of television, could help me stomach this scene. Bosco and Yokas are leaving the precinct to go home for the night, and Bosco tells Yokas that he just wants to crash and stop partying. They look up and see Nicole, who is a woman in her late twenties with long blonde hair, and she is sitting on Bosco’s car hood wearing a full-length mink coat. Yokas asks Bosco if the coat is real, and Bosco tells her Nicole has money, and Yokas is all, "And she wants you?" Well, she is a blonde. They walk over to her and Bosco introduces Nicole to Yokas, and then Yokas leaves, giggling. As Yokas is walking away, music starts playing with some woman singing, "I see you, baby. Shakin’ that ass! Shakin’ that ass! Shakin’ that ass!" I see myself. Hurling my wine. Hurling my wine. Hurling my wine. Nicole opens up her coat, and all she’s wearing is a bra, panties, and a garter belt and stockings. They start going at it to his car. Dude, you have a free apartment -- take it there!
Bobby is at Matt/Mateo’s AA meeting, and Matt/Mateo comes over and introduces his brother to his sponsor. Bobby apologizes about their mom, but Matt/Mateo is okay with it and starts philosophizing about people making decisions on their own. He leaves to go sit in the special 90-day-medal section of the chairs, and Bobby turns around and sees their mother walk in. She meets up with Bobby and they go to sit down. Their mom is weak. One minute she can’t stand to be in the room with her son, and for good reasons, and the minute she is out supporting him. Maggie would have none of that shit.
Kim is leaving the station with the kitten and she passes Jimmy sitting by the fire truck. They talk about the kitten and how Joey will react to it. Then Kim asks Jimmy about his ribs. He says they feel okay, but he feels bad about the way he acted that day and the consequences of his actions. It’s about time he learned that his macho-man actions have consequences. He deserved the crack to the head -- maybe it knocked some common sense into him. Kim sits with him and they both look sad together.
Sully knocks on Maggie’s door; Maggie answers in her pajamas and robe, and when she sees Sully she asks if Ty is okay. Sully tells her Ty is fine, and then tells her about Tommy. He says that he wanted to tell her about Tommy because there was no one else to tell, and he thought that wasn’t right. Maggie tells him to hold on, and then she comes out with a big comforter and she sits on the stairs with Sully. Sully starts babbling something about fishing, and he tells Maggie that when you deal with so much tragedy you lose feelings, and the better cop you are the less human you are, and he is just like Tommy (well, except he still has a head). He tells Maggie that he is almost forty-five and he’s all alone, and he won’t see his wife holding their baby or tell his kids not to play ball in the house, and he doesn’t even own a house. Buddy, you’re only forty-four. You have plenty of time to plant your seed into a nice, fertile young woman. Some women can’t resist a man in a uniform -- go out to parties wearing your blues! Hell, if you’re that desperate to have a wife and kids, get a mail-order bride! You’re not dead yet -- start procreating! So Sully keeps whining about not having anything he thought he would have had, and all of a sudden twenty-five years are gone. It’s no one’s fault but your own, Sully. No one locked you in your apartment when you weren’t working. Maggie feels bad for him and tells him that nothing is over and that there’s always time. Yeah, there’s time before Ty comes home from drinking with his friends, so if Sully really wanted to take charge of his life he would have started crawling under that comforter with Maggie and really warming her up, if you know what I mean, and I think you do. But he just gives her a sad look, and she takes his hand and holds it. Fade to black.