Unfinished Business

8:55 PM. Monday night. Omar's house.

The doorbell rings. Omar answers it.

Omar: Hi. Can I help you?
Enya: Oh, hello. I was just in the neighborhood. May I come in?
Omar: Who are you?
Enya: I'm Irish New Age pop singer Enya. You know, "Orinco Flow," "Sail Away"?
Omar: [starts to slam door shut]
Enya: Wait! I wanted to watch Third Watch with you! I hear it's really good this week!
Omar: Wha--...Why? Who, with the how?
Enya: I'm a big fan of the show. I'd really like to watch it with you.
Omar: [long silence] Just don't touch me, okay? My cat will attack.
Enya: Deal.

Previously on Why Enya is in My House, I Have No Idea: Bobby's mom informed him that his old teenage flame, Gina, was looking for him. Turns out she needed Bobby to help her with Paulie, her brother and Bobby's best friend. Paulie's a junkie and he needed help. Paulie (Kirk Acevedo from Oz) ended up stealing from Bobby's mom to buy drugs.

The episode begins with the last five minutes from last week's episode. Recycle footage, much? ["Maybe the TW producers originally assembled this as a two-hour episode for sweeps, but NBC wouldn't bump anything to give them the extra hour and they had to pad this one out?" -- Wing Chun] You can check out the last recap for the blow-by-blow, but basically Bobby busts in on Paulie's junkie hole. He confronts him about the theft at his mom's house. Paulie denies it. Bobby grabs the drugs and throws them in the toilet. Paulie, clearly perturbed by the taking of his smack, shoots Bobby in the chest. With a gun. He pulls the gun on Kim before running away. Kim comes to Bobby, trying to revive him, but as her voice fades, it looks like Bobby is slipping away.

Enya: Ohh hoooo, Boooooobbbeeeee...
Omar: Okay, now, you're gonna have to shut it. Right now. Do you always carry a harp around with you?
Enya: I'll put it away.

The episode begins more properly with a blackout. We light up on Bobby, in his paramedic's uniform, calling out to the darkness. "Hello? Is anybody there?" Enya starts to answer, but I give her a dirty look first. We hear warped voices -- Doc and Kim, it sounds like -- reading off Bobby's stats. Bobby is suddenly standing in a boxing ring, lit in tones of sepia. He calls out that he needs to go and that they need him "up there." Is he in hell already? We tried to warn you about sleeping with Kim, Bobby. "I'm a paramedic!" he cries. Then, we get a close up of his face tilting and turning into red flashing lights. Oh, hello, Satan, my old friend.

We cut to an overhead view of Bobby, his chest looking like a blood pond, his eyes wide open, being wheeled on a stretcher through the hospital. Doc, Carlos, and Kim are pushing him in with a bunch of nurses. "Bobby, you stay with me," Kim says, upside down. Bobby is alive enough to look at her wearily and move his eyes around. Doc and Carlos look extremely shaken. Bobby is wheeled into an exam room (we get a recurring shot of a stretcher wheel, like it was a stray caster on a shopping cart) and is transferred from the stretcher. His chest is a hairy, bloody mess. Kim looks around like Little Kim Lost. A nurse exchanges a look with her. Doc exchanges a look with her. Kim has officially opened a Foreign Look Currency Exchange in the ER. Close-up on Bobby's face. He is starting to shake. His eyes are open, and as they say, the lights are on, but no one's home. Flashback to sad music and Young Bobby. Young Bobby is running up some stone stairs outside while Young Paulie is egging him on, calling him from the top. Bobby climbs and climbs, smiling. Back in the ER, Bobby is crashing. He grabs a doctor's hand and clings to it as everybody, including Kim, tells him to let the hand go. Bobby is clinging for dear life. Except the "dear" is the doctor and "life" includes sitting to Kim every day. Perhaps it's best just to give up the ghost. "We got you, we got you, we got you," someone says as Bobby lets go. Carlos is suddenly shown turning around and leaving the room. Kim gets a close-up. She looks completely shattered. Doc watches Carlos leave and looks sad, running a sleeve past his nose. A chest tube is inserted into Bobby's chest. Doc comes over to Kim and leads her out. She walks away with him, dazed. She keeps looking back over her shoulder. One more close-up on Bobby's face. His eyes are closed. His body is convulsing.

Cut to opening credits. Enya sits back, wiping tears from her eyes. She's humming something, and this time I let her. Besides, it's time to go get a beer from the fridge.

Omar: Hey, uh, Enya, is it? Want something to drink?
Enya: Perhaps a chateau bordeax with some brie?
Omar: Budweiser it is.

At the hospital, Bobby's mom is rushing in. She asks for her son, "Roberto." She's told he's upstairs, fourth floor. She rushes over to the elevators.

Flash to Bobby sitting in one corner of a boxing ring. Another man is at the opposite end. The man tells Bobby he looks good. "Go to hell," Bobby tells him. Aren't they already there? The man says Bobby looks like his mother. "Don't talk about her," Bobby warns the man. The man says that Bobby's mother was a beautiful woman. "Is a beautiful woman." Then Bobby warns the man -- a middle-aged-looking black man -- not to talk about his mother.

Flash back to the hospital and the woman in question. Kim greets the tiny woman and hugs her. She asks Kim if Bobby's going to be all right. Kim nods, not very convincingly. She asks what happened. Kim tells her that Paulie shot Bobby. "Ay, dios mio," Mama Caffey says, sitting down heavily. Carlos and Doc look on.

Yokas and Bosco are heading up some stairs in a dingy apartment building. Yokas asks how many crack houses they plan to hit. "All of 'em," Bosco answers, all Terminator-like. Bosco kicks a door in and waves his gun around, telling people not to move. Don't worry -- everybody's too drugged out to move. He calls them "fags," because he's been listening to Eminem, and finds some drugs lying around. "Please man, I need that," one guys says. Bosco tells the guy they're looking for someone and need help as Yokas plays along.

Cut to Paulie on the street in a hooded sweatshirt. A guy in a suit taking out the garbage spots him. "What are you looking at?" Paulie asks the guy, menacingly. Innocent Business Man goes back inside. Paulie goes to the door of a guy who doesn't seem to want to be disturbed. Paulie asks him for some drugs. "You come to my house?" the pimp-looking tough guy tells him. Paulie says he just needs some replacement stuff until his current stash dries. Ahhh. I see, now. The guy pulls out a gun and aims it at Paulie's chest. "You havin' trouble hearing me?" he asks. Paulie apologizes and leaves. "Never come to my house again," the guy -- who looks like a strung-out Michael Douglas -- tells him. "You know if the Greeks are out?" Paulie asks. Drug Man closes the door.

We come back to Bobby, lying on the table. We blur out to commercial.

Enya: I think --
Omar: Shut up, Enya.

Dream Bobby in the boxing ring. He's pacing. The man asks about Bobby's last name, Caffey. Bobby says that his mother remarried when he was sixteen. To an English man. He died because the paramedics took twenty-five minutes to get there because they came with police backup. "Why did you take his name?" the man asks. "Because it wasn't yours," Bobby answers. Dis.

At the hospital, Bobby's mom is telling Kim that he's a good boy. She says she always thought Bobby's brother Matty would end up in a situation like this, not Bobby. "Is it bad that it's taking so long?" she asks. Kim says no. Mama asks if there's a chapel and if there are candles. Kim says she'll come find her if anything happens. Kim still looks lost.

At the station, Alex is staring at the phone. She picks it up and puts it back down. "Who's that?" Jimmy asks. Alex says she's just making sure it's working. Lame. Alex is putting up that tough-girl front again with Jimmy. It's annoying as all-get-out. Jimmy suggests maybe she should ask if she can leave and go to the hospital. "I'm fine," she says, answering she'd just go crazy there, too. "Come on, Bobby," she says to the phone.

In the boxing ring, Bobby asks if Papa Was a Rolling Stone is there to apologize. "I'm not sorry," Papa says. "I had to be happy. I had to live." Bobby accuses him of abandoning them. "I just wanted a life of my own," Papa says. How dumb is that? Papa asks whether Bobby ever fought after that day. Flash to Young Bobby training with Papa.

Cut to Bosco and Yokas arriving at "Dollar Bill"'s house. It's the neighborhood where Paulie was looking for drugs earlier. "Get away from my door!" yells the guy inside. Yokas says they heard he had a visitor. "I'm gonna kill that little son of a bitch," Dollar Bill laughs. He says that Paulie is looking for the Greeks. Bosco gives the guy bad news: Narcotics plans to sweep his place in the morning. The guy says he keeps no drugs at home. But still. It sucks.

The thing we see is Paulie approaching a bunch of druggies who look like extras from a Heart video. He asks everybody for drugs, and they shun him, like Heart would shun all those extras. They walk away and he gets nothing. Except maybe a worthless autograph from one of the Wilson sisters. He shuffles off.

Hospital. Kim is standing around when Gina bursts out of the elevator asking if Bobby's all right. "The hell are you doing here?" Kim asks her. "You don't belong here." Gina asks again about Bobby. Kim gives her a long look, gives another look to Ty and Sully, who are standing nearby, and walks off. Kim is in Silent But Deadly mode.

Doc and Carlos are giving blood. Doc says the boss said they can stay as long as they want to. Carlos says he needs to go get coffee. Huh?

In the hallway, a huge ass is skirting the top of the screen. Turns out it's Sully, approaching Kim, who is sitting alone. Sully sits to her. It's Kim's big acting scene, but she doesn't say much. Sully says that Bobby always seemed like a nice guy who always helped people. Kim agrees. "He's a nice guy," she says, as if scorning him. "If he dies on that table, what did being a nice guy get him?" Probably a better show. D'oh, did I say that out loud? Kim walks away, probably to bitch at her agent for not ensuring she'd get more juicy scenes in this episode.