06x22 - Upward and Onward

[bunniefuu]

Anyway, like I was saying,
I saw Martinez over at 8's.

He was telling me what it
was like to work for the Chief

when the Cap was his engineer. Anyway,
he didn't seem to think...

What are you doing?

Oh, I'm polishing
the nozzle, Cap.

On Henry?

Why not? I mean, it works,
and Henry kind of enjoys it.

It's not in the book,

and if it isn't in the book,
there must be something wrong with it.

If the fire department had wanted
us to polish nozzles on a dog,

they'd have put it
in the book, wouldn't they?

Polishing nozzles on the dog!

How long before
the chief's test?

Oh, we got another month.

He's been getting meaner
ever since he decided to take it.

Yeah, I don't know if we're
going to survive it either.

See, that's what ambition does to some
people. Let it be a lesson to you, Marco.

[EXCLAIMING]

Hey.

[ALARM SOUNDING]

DISPATCHER ON RADIO:
Squad 51, man down.

Studio G, Broadcast Center,


Studio G, Broadcast Center,


Cross street, Fifth,
Use the gate at Melrose and Pennington.

Time out, 0955.

STANLEY: Squad 51, KMG 365.

[SIREN WAILING]

Please, we're going live
this afternoon.

Just get him back on his feet,
that's all we ask.

JOHNNY: We got a report
that a man was down.

Down? He's gone out of his mind.

Well, who are you talking about?

Doctor Ned! Now, hurry.

All right, just relax.

Could you just take it easy
and try to relax?

Take it easy,
he said. Civilians!

ALEC: I'm dying, Arnold.
I can't help it. I'm dying.

Alec, don't say that. You can't
be dying. We've got a show to do.

Now, think about the audience.
They'll bury us with hate mail.

Would you do something
with this guy?

Okay. He's out of his mind.

He thinks he's got a
terminal disease or something.

Will you just take it easy?
You're gonna need to relax.

You people don't
need to be on this set.

Just clear out,
this is none of your business.

Who are these men
with badges? I want you...

Would you please get me another
doctor? I'm a very sick man. I'm dying.

Okay. Why don't we just try breathing
into this bag, all right? It'll help you.

Not in that thing. I'm not
gonna put my face in there.

What's his name?

Alec Sudhoff.

Alec, do you
see this badge here?

It says "firefighter" on it.
Oh, I don't believe this.

What a farce! Now,
what I want you to do is...

Come on,
Dr. Ned. I want you to try to relax...

They just want to help you.
Your breathing a little bit.

Doctor? You're a doctor?

JODY: You don't
know who he is? No. I...

He's an actor.
He plays a doctor.

Oh! Well... Well, Doc.
Now, if you're a doctor,

[STAMMERING] you have to understand
that you can't hyperventilate yourself.

You have to relax
your breathing.

I know that.

Here you go.

Excuse me,
do you have any idea what brought this on?

Oh, I know what brought this on.

He's been feeling puny
for the last couple of weeks,

so this morning, the knot-head
takes a couple of amphetamines.

Look, he has to go on this
afternoon. Is he gonna be all right?

Yeah, right. Just... Just...

ARNOLD: I gotta know!

Okay, just...
Will you relax, please?

ARNOLD: All right.

Okay, we're going to take
your pressure with the BP cuff.

I know what a BP cuff is. You're
supposed to call it a sphygmomanometer.

Yeah, I could never get
the hang of that myself.

Why don't we take off your coat?

I'll take it off myself.

All right.

[SIRENS WAILING]

DISPATCHER ON RADIO:


toxic chemicals are stored
in a tanker.

Use caution.

KELLY ON RADIO: Squad 51,
this is Rampart. Can you send me some EKG?

JOHNNY ON RADIO:


We're sending you a strip.
Vitals to follow.

Pulse is 160. The victim
is in extreme pain, Rampart.

[INTERCOM BEEPING]

This patient is in V-fib.

Rampart, we have lost the
victim's pulse. Beginning CPR.

[RAPID BEEPING]

We're defibrillating victim,
Rampart.

Rampart, we've defibrillated
victim. Decent sinus rhythm.

JOE ON RADIO: Administer 2 amps
sodium bicarb and insert an airway.

KELLY ON RADIO: Start an IV,


DIXIE: Squad 51, continue monitoring
Vitals and transport immediately.

JOHNNY ON RADIO:
We're on our way, Rampart.

Rampart, this County 51,
how do you read me?

Go ahead, 51.

Rampart, we have a male,
approximately 60 years old.

We found him hyperventilating.
We're in the process of treating that now.

He's also hyperactive,
diaphoretic. He's also extremely agitated.

An informant says that...

An informant?

I'm not an informant! I'm the
producer of A Doctor Faces Life.

An informant says...
That's who I am.

All right, will you just
settle... Go away!

"Informant." What do
you know about television?

An informant says that he was extremely
agitated. He was feeling very, very bad...

[MUTTERING]

Could you tell me in a few seconds
or a few hours or something?

He's got to be on...
Do you wanna quiet down?

We got to make a lot of cuts.
Take a lot of sharp pencils...

We're gonna have to make some cuts,
we'll have to add some scenes.

ARNOLD: What do you mean,
add some scenes? BP is 190...

ARNOLD: Why? JODY:
Because we have no other choice.



ARNOLD: No,
I don't have time to... Extend the scene.

No, you can't extend the scene.

Pulse is 160.

With Ellen and Toddy...

Respirations are 40.

Rampart, BP is 190 over 110,
pulse is 160

and respiration is 40, Rampart.

My hands and feet
are tingling. Sir?

I'm lightheaded
and seeing spots.

I took the amphetamines to
counteract the effects of tuberculosis

I contracted about two
weeks ago. JOHNNY: Sir...

I also think I'm having
a heart att*ck.

Who am I talking to, please?

Who am I talking to?

I've got a patient on here,
he's telling me he has nine fatal ailments.

Look, will you put
the paramedics back on?

Come on, Dr. Ned. Would you...

Come on, come on.
Take him back, please.

Sorry... Sorry,
Rampart. Stand by, Rampart.

Sir... Now, look,
you can't do that again.

Don't you have
any control over him?

Listen, can he go on? Will
someone just tell me if he can go on?

Look,
will you just calm down just for a second?

Now, sir, do you have any...
I mean... Sorry, sir. Do... Do...

Do you have any chest pains?

They go with a heart att*ck,
don't they?

Could also be WPW syndrome, but that's
something you wouldn't know anything about.

Okay, look...

All right,
look... Why don't you just lie down?

Lie down.

Attach some electrodes to you.
We're gonna do an EKG on you.

Rampart, this is County 51
again. ALEC: Where's my plasma?

ROY: Hold the plasma.

We're gonna hook him up to
the EKG. This will be lead two.

Look, please. He has to go on in a few
hours. Now, is he gonna be all right or not?

Look, all I wanna know is
what is he going to do?

He's going on television!

This is Dr. Ned Tuttle!

It's the biggest daytime
serial in television.

Where do you live? In a tree?

Look, do you mind? Just...

Hey, hey, hey. Hell-

Look, this gibbering idiot
has to perform a laparotomy

on Ellen Rockstraw's
illegitimate son today!

Well, you're gonna have
to find somebody else

to open the little fella up,
you know what I mean?

What are you telling me?

Arnold... What?

How can I operate when I got
TB and a heart att*ck?

Just lie back.
Just... Just lie back.

Why is my whole world
crumbling in front of my eyes?

Would you quit riling him up?

Sinus tachycardia, 51.

Start an IV, D5W TKO,

and give 10 milligrams diazepam IV push,
then transport.




and transport.

Transport? Are you...

You mean you're going
to take him to the hospital?

Look, he's still a little rocky
from the amphetamines.

We're going to get him
into the hospital,

then they'll try to find out
what else is wrong...

ALEC: They're going to find out plenty,
believe me.

All right, let's have
a staff meeting.

We'll prolong the goodbye scene between
Ellen and Toddy because Bozo can't operate.

Who are you calling Bozo?

All right, just relax, okay?

I hate him. I hate you!

[GROANS]

Now, look, just try to settle down. Now,
come on, Mr. Sudhoff.

Why don't you... Why don't
we get you into the gurney here?

Call me Dr. Ned.

Okay, Dr. Ned.

Okay. There.

There we go.

You got him?

[GROANS]

That's it.

Treatment 4.

[WOMAN TALKING ON PA]

Hey. Hey-

Is that who I think it is?

Well, now, who do you
think it is?

Oh, the guy from TV, Dr. Ned.

Yeah.

Oh, neat!

Hey! Come, look,
see who they're bringing in.

He's all yours.

I've had enough excitement
for one day.

Thanks.

[CHATTERING]

Who do we have in here,
Joe Namath?

Oh, you should have
seen his last show.

All right, all right,
all right. Let's everybody cool it.

Come on, now, back to work.

Okay.

It's a zoo around here.

You seem to have quite
a following out there.

Yeah, I'm a star.

I see.

You also seem to have
overdone it with amphetamines.

Which, in my opinion,
brought on the WPW syndrome.

The what?

You don't know what
Wolff-Parkinson-White is?

Of course I do.

I just never had a patient lie
there and tell me he's had it before.

Pulse is 100,
respiration is down to 24.

Why do you think you have WPW? Have
you had episodes of palpitation before?

No, but my heart's racing,
I'm lightheaded.

On top of the TB,
what else could it be?

You're not dealing with some
simpleton who'll take the word

of another doctor as gospel.

I read. You don't do Dr. Ned for 11
years without having some credibility.

I know what I'm dealing with.

Look, Dr. Ned, just because
you have palpitations,

it doesn't necessarily
mean you have WPW.

Your EKG shows
no evidence of it.

Oh, what about my chest pains?

Well, my opinion is that you
confused palpitations with chest pains

while you were hyperventilating.

You hyperventilated because the
amphetamines got your system all wound up.

Do you take them often?

No, but I took them to get my
system wound up so I could work.

In daytime television,
you don't get sick.

BP is 160 over 90.

[EXHALES]

Okay, now, tell me
about your TB.

Could you get me a tongue depressor please,
Mary?

Something any med school
sophomore could see, Doctor.

Poor appetite, weight loss, slight fever,
fatigue. Two weeks duration.

Open your mouth, please.

[MUMBLING]

Uh-huh.

Sore throat, too, huh?

Yeah, definite throat infection.

Lymph nodes swollen.

Enlarged spleen.

Lymph nodes? Lymphatic TB?

Good Lord, it's really
serious, huh?

Dix, will you draw bloods for a white
count, differential and mono spot test?

Mr. Sudhoff, I think I'm pretty certain
I know what's the matter with you.

The blood test will confirm it.

[HESITATING]

Do you have to tell it
to me like this?

Well, don't make a big thing
out of it. You're not dying.

I'm not?

Not from mononucleosis, anyway.

Mononucleosis? You're joking.

Scout's honor.

The kissing disease? That's
absurd. Are you positive?

Well, I won't be positive till I
see the results of the blood tests,

which will be
in a couple of hours.

But I'd sure bet on it.

Mononucleosis,
what a nothing disease.

You thing mono is a joke,
Mr. Sudhoff?

I should think you'd know
from the way you've been feeling

that it's a very
serious viral infection.

Oh, I guess I should stay in the
hospital for a couple of weeks then, huh?

It's your money. You
can do what you want to.

We can't do anything
more for you here.

I suggest you go home, go to bed
and stay there until you're well again.

I've got to perform a laparotomy
on Ellen Rockstraw's illegitimate son.

No, I want a second opinion.

You have two opinions,

mine and yours.

I'll see what I can
do about it, okay?

Oh, man...

Oh, you know...

A lot of people really think
I'm a doctor, you know?

Well, just as long as you know
who the doctors really are.

Don't worry. I know
mononucleosis is out of my sphere.

Well, I'm certainly glad
to hear that.

Actually, I'm a surgeon.

Mmm-hmm, and I'm Wonder Woman.

[MOUTHING]

Dr. Early, I'm Arnold Myers,

the producer of
A Doctor Faces Life.

How's our Alec doing?

Well, he's recovering
from the amphetamines.

Marvelous! Oh, good.

Then he can operate
this afternoon.

Oh, you mean the laparotomy on
Ellen Rockstraw's illegitimate son.

Yes. Right.

That's where he opens up
the abdominal cavity.

Thank you very much.

You know, I seem to recall hearing that some
place before, possibly in medical school.

Maybe you saw it on television.

Maybe I did. Right.

Then we can take him with us,
right? Absolutely not.

He's a very sick man. No?

I told you he was,
Arnold. I told you.

You see,
despite Mr. Sodhoff's conviction...

"Sudhoff." It's Alec Sudhoff.

Oh, excuse me.

Despite Mr. Sudhoff's conviction,
he has something really desperate.

What I think he has
is mononucleosis.

[CHUCKLING] Who's
he been kissing?

Unless you want him
to collapse completely,

he's going to have to have two
or three weeks' rest in the bed.

What? What?

What are we supposed to do?

Well, fortunately, that's your problem,
not mine. Will you excuse me, please?

We can talk to him, can't we?

Yes, as soon as he's
moved into a room.

Are you thinking
what I'm thinking?

[CHUCKLES]

Well, let's just wait to see what
kind of shape Bozo is in, huh?

Could you hold it down to a
dull roar there, please, DeSoto?

Oh, I'm just going to log in
a run. It was a real weirdo.

Had an actor who thought
he was a doctor.

Well, actually,
he was a doctor...

Could we talk about this later?

I'm really trying to concentrate on this,
if you don't mind.

Sorry, just take me a minute.

I've got to figure out
this list.

What list?

It's a chief seniority list.

I've really run
into a lot of frustration.

This is very interesting, look.

Suppose there are 16 chiefs who
have enough time on the job to retire

before the new
exam list expires.

Now, if I slip into the top 16,
then fine, I get the promotion.

But if there's only 15 guys
who make it, then I'm dead.

Well, maybe you'll be
in the top 15.

Yeah, yeah. Suppose I'm 20th.

Suppose I'm eighth
and only seven guys retire.

Well, the suspense
could k*ll you.

Well, maybe one of the guys
who's promoted ahead of you

will flunk his physical exam
or something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that'd help. That'd help.

Or they could create
some more staff openings.

They could always use a couple
more chiefs up in administration

or in operations
or janitorial...

[STANLEY MUTTERING]

Cap, wanna be quiet, please?

Sorry.

[WOMAN ON PA] Doctor Marcus,
admission desk...

Well, he seems coherent
for an actor.

That's nice.

Listen, Arnold,
we have two choices.

We can go back to the studio and
rewrite Ellen's goodbye scene with Toddy

so it takes a week
instead of five minutes,

or we can treat this
whole thing as a godsend,

which would get us a year's
full of super publicity!

It's your decision.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Look, I've been waiting two
days for those reports. Kel.

I want them on my desk
by 3:00 this afternoon.

Hello, Joe.

Boy, do I have
a surprise for you.

Oh, yeah, what's that?

Yeah, we got a new patient
I want you to meet.

When I first heard about it, I said to
myself, "Kel is really going to be thrilled."

Joe, not Raquel Welch.

Now, would I share
Raquel Welch with you, Kel?

No, it's not Raquel Welch.

Who then?

Okay, now, brace yourself.
Dr. Ned.

Who?

I knew you'd be excited.

Joe, what are you talking about?

Look, it's not to be believed.

He's an actor who plays
a doctor in a soap opera.

Neither you nor I know
anything about him,

but apparently he's one
of America's major idols.

The whole place has gone
bananas since he came in.

Oh, what's wrong with him?

Well, I'm waiting for the test results,
but I'm quite certain he has mono.

He took a couple of amphetamines
this morning, got very agitated,

and then started
hyperventilating.

Well, I think I can live without
meeting him. You handle it, huh?

Yeah, but, look,
this whole thing has him unhinged.

You know, being 11 years
a doctor in a soap opera.

He's diagnosed things
as the WPW syndrome and/or TB.

Where'd he come up with WPW?

I guess he reads
his medical journals.

But, you know, I thought since he's
been demanding a second opinion...

Oh, he has, has he?

Yeah, I thought that
you'd give it to him.

Because after all, Kel,
how often do you get an opportunity to meet

a really famous colleague?

Like Louis Pasteur,
Christiaan Barnard, Marcus Welby...

Very funny, Joe. Would you please
get out of here and let me finish all this?

Okay, if he comes up with a new diagnosis,
I'll let you know.

Okay. You do that.

No, No, Hedwig,
just Ellen and Toddy.

Yeah, have them get over
here as soon as possible.

And tell them that Jody is
going to have a revised script

waiting for them
when they get here.

Right.

Now, the whole scene takes
place in Dr. Ned's hospital room.

And here's how the story goes.

Dr. Ned has collapsed from fatigue
on his way to do Toddy's laparotomy.

Of course it's brilliant.

[LAUGHING] What can I tell
you? When you got it, you got it.

Right... What?

The remote unit. Oh,
yeah. The remote units.

Get the live remote truck
and the camera trucks

and have them unload
in the emergency entrance.

Hedwig, sweetie,
that won't be a problem.

They'll think
it's a fabulous idea.

Listen, already they love
the fact that Alec is here.

Right. Now, get
on it right away.

[sum-nus]

Why aren't you writing?

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

Morning, boys.
Is that coffee hot?

Morning, Chief. Fresh pot.

Hello, Henry.

[WHINING]

Oh, Henry, you handsome devil.

Oh, I see Henry knows who
the boss is. Morning, Chief.

Morning, Hank.

Well, anything special going on?

No. Just stopped by to see if
the station was still standing,

and to get some of this good
coffee to take downtown with me.

Hey, what's for dinner?

Oh, Marco's Irish stew.

Marco's Irish stew.

Well, now that
I've gotta sample.

Tell me, Lopez, is it all right if
a bona fide Irishman buys in?

Oh, it'll be a pleasure, Chief.

CHIEF: Good. I
look forward to that.

Morning, Chief. Morning, DeSoto.

But tell me, boys, what's new and
interesting around this nut hatch?

Nothing much.

Nothing much? We're
all sneaking around

like we're walking
on eggs around here, Chief.

See, the Cap here is
studying for his chief's test,

and, well, I guess he kind of
thinks he's a little tired of us now

and wants to go on to bigger
and better things. Right, Cap?

Well, actually...

So, you're studying
for the chief's exam, Hank?

Thinking about it,
Chief. Just thinking about it, that's all.

ROY: Only thinking about it?

You've been studying around
here like crazy. Only thinking about it.

Looking in a couple
of manuals, that's all.

Well, well, well.

Well, that's interesting,
Hank. That's really very, very interesting.

Well, boys, I've got to get downtown
to a meeting, but I'll be back for dinner.

Oh, you know,
I'd better warn you, Hank.

Lot of meetings
when you are a chief.

Lot of paperwork, too.

Hey, Cap,
you know Lee Martinez over at 8's?

Hmm?

Lee Martinez?

Yeah. Hell, Lee Martinez,
I used to work with him.

Yeah. Well, we were
talking to him last week,

and he said that before
McConnike became a chief

and you were still
his engineer...

What?

It explains things.

Explains what? What
are you talking about?

The way you react to McConnike.

What'd Martinez say?

Well, he said that you
set fire to McConnike's hat.

Did you really do that?

Did you really set fire
to McConnike's hat, Cap?

"Gotta warn you, Hank. A lot of
paperwork when you get to be a chief."

Know what he meant, don't you?

He meant writing evaluations of
subordinates who are up for promotion,

that's what he meant.
Now, I get it.

Cap,
he's got to evaluate you. That's SOP.

Well, I tell you
something, if he thinks

I'm going to bust my
tail studying for this exam

just so he can evaluate me down the tube,
he can forget about it.

He isn't going to be my
chief forever. I can wait.

Hey, Cap. What are
you talking about?

What does that have
to do with his hat?

McConnike never forgets.

I'm sure battalion chief can wait
for another time and another place.

Who would be crazy
enough to carry a grudge

over a dumb thing
like burning a hat?

Thing is, you got to be
pretty crazy to think

someone's going to hold a grudge
about a dumb thing like burning a hat.

Well, how'd it happen, anyway?

Well, Martinez says it
was a simple case of arson.

Well, Cap took McConnike's hat
out to the parking lot,

poured lighter fluid on it and
made a little bonfire out of it.

He really did that?

Well, that's insane.

He did what? That's insane.

The nurse just called down.

He's bringing his entire crew.

The office staff is up there now,
and his camera crew is on the way.

Over my dead body.

Well, I'm sure he'd be
very happy to oblige.

Ellen can be on the edge of the bed. I don't
care what Standards and Practices says.

Now, look,
one camera goes over her shoulder onto him,

the other one reverses,
goes over his shoulder onto her.

Arnold, I don't feel very good.

You shouldn't plan
on doing this.

I've talked to Dr. Brackett.

Plan on it? Sweetie,
we are doing it.

Arnie, I don't think
I can learn all these lines.

Alec, if you can
perform a laparotomy,

you can learn a half
hour's worth of dialogue.

Look, it's mostly the same
stuff you said yesterday.

How do I remember what I said
yesterday? I was sick yesterday.

You people shouldn't
be here at all.

Sweetie, you are
getting on my nerves.

[WHISTLING]

Jimmy, get downstairs
and wait for the trucks.

Show them where to set up,
will you?

[PHONE RINGING]
Now, if we could... Oh.

No, no, no. Those camera marks are too
close. I have to put some lamps in there.

Hello. Myers, here.

[WHISPERING] Right. Oh,
good. Okay, put him on.

It's the network.

Oh. Hello, hello.

Hello, Sid. Yeah.

[LAUGHING] No, Sid. Uh-uh.

You got to remember,
I cut my teeth on live TV.

Sure. The hospital
administration?

Oh, they love it.

Well, there is one doctor here
we might slip into a small part,

you know, give him
a couple of lines. Yeah.

He's a quiet, gray-haired type.

Uh-huh.

Oh, yeah. He reeks of empathy.

Kel, I hadn't any idea that character
had anything like this in mind.

I think he's a little hack.

Arnold, do you want a dry run?

What's going on in here?

Sid, a much more dynamic one
just came through the door.

I want all of you people
out of this room right now.

Sid, what about a good-looking nurse,
huh?

A little bit part. Walk-on.
She's got a fabulous bod.

There is not going to be any
television broadcast from this room.

What makes you people think you
can walk into this hospital and take over?

Well, for one thing,


are waiting to watch
Dr. Ned operate.

On Ellen Rockstraw's
illegitimate son, Kel.

Right. A laparotomy.

You know, that's where they
open the abdominal cavity.

Come on, you guys, help me.

If you people don't get
out of here right now,

I'm going to call security and
have you kicked out on your rear.

What are we going to do
about A Doctor Faces Life?

KELLY: I don't know
and I don't care,

but you're not going
to disrupt this hospital.

We could give you
some old EKG strips.

That could be very dramatic.

That's not very cute. Joe!

I'm going to call the network.

Call from the reception room.

Now, everybody out of here,
now! And I mean right now!

[MUTTERING] Except you.

It really would
have been exciting.

Civilian.

You know, you could
have been in this, fella.

Yep, you could have been
on national television,

live with Dr. Ned.

Out. I'm going.

Out! Now! All right.

Okay. Keep your dander down.
Don't worry about it.

Just take it easy...
I'm leaving. I'm leaving!

[SIGHING] Oh,
it's just as well. I don't feel very good.

Mr. Sudhoff,
we got the results of your blood tests.

I have Wolff-Parkinson-White?

Mononucleosis.

Win some, lose some.

So you rest here today,
and we'll send you home tomorrow, okay?

Well, it wasn't a total loss.

He said I had a fabulous bod.

[sum-nus]

Cap. Hmm.

I just had a thought.

What's that?

Maybe McConnike hasn't
been your chief long enough.

What are you talking about?

Well, supposing,
I mean, just supposing

that McConnike became the head
of the battalion yesterday,

and you're going to take
your chief's exam tomorrow.

How can he evaluate you?

Doesn't there have to be some kind of
minimum time for him to be your boss?

Yeah, yeah, sure.
Makes sense, doesn't it?

I know the guy who'd know, too.

It's only been a couple
of months, right?

Operations, please.
Captain Suggs.

[KNOCKING ON TABLE] And here it is,
here it is.

Charlie, Hank Stanley.

Hey,
listen. I got a quick question for you.

For a promotion evaluation,
captain to chief,

how long does your chief have to have
been your chief before he can evaluate you?

All right, he's asking.

Cap Hmm?

Why'd you set fire
to McConnike's hat?

What?

Huh? That was quick.

Yeah.

Is that right?

Charlie, I really
appreciate that.

Yeah. Thanks a million.
I'll be talking to you.

Roy, you were right. McConnike
can't rate me. Miller's gotta do it.

All right. So, you're going to
take the chief's exam, right?

Better believe it.
Roy, thank you.

It's all right. It's all right.

Why'd you set fire
to McConnike's hat?

What would you have
done under the circumstances?

Well, I... Huh?

[ALARM SOUNDING]

DISPATCHER: Station 51,
possible heart att*ck.

205 West Allen. 205 West Allen.

Apartment 5-B as in ”baker.”

Cross street, Harvey.
Time out, 1445.

STANLEY.' Station 51. KMG 365.

[SIRENS WAILING]

[HORN BLARING]

STANLEY: Here we go.

Marco, when we get upstairs, I'll punch 1,
the elevator will come on back down.

You stay here. Don't let
anybody use the elevator.

Okay, Cap. I'll take it up.

Sir?

Just take it easy. We're Los
Angeles County Fire Department

paramedics.

I'll get on the landline. Now,
young man,

I'm a retired doctor, and I believe
I'm suffering from an aneurysm.

[BREATHING HEAVILY] You have
got to get my blood pressure down.

I have no history of heart trouble,
but I do have high blood pressure.

Okay, all right. Doc,

my partner's
on the phone to the hospital.

This oxygen should help you out.

I've got to know right now
where you hurt

and exactly when it started.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]
It's a very bad

tearing sensation, mid-scapular.

There's less in my chest,

and it started 30 minutes ago.

[GASPING]

Rampart, we have
a male, mid-60s.

He's complaining
of severe mid-scapular pain,

with less pain in his chest.

The duration
of the pain is 30 minutes.

His pulse is 90.

We have a pulse of 90.
The patient is diaphoretic.

Stand by for the rest of vitals.



All right, take it easy now. Try to
breathe as calmly as you can, all right?

You'll patch him in?

[COUGHING] All right,
pulse is 90, respiration is 22.

Rampart, the respiration is 22.

The patient is
a retired physician.

He believes he's suffering
from an aneurysm.

He's in pain, but coherent.

He has a high BP,
but no history of heart trouble.

ROY: Stand by for BP.

All right. Take it easy.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]



No, that's not right.

All right. Okay, all right, take it
easy. I'll take it on the other arm.

Take it on the other arm.

Rampart,
the BP on the right arm was 110 over 70.

We're taking another
blood pressure on the left.



Would you give me cardiac
cath on the other line?

[LOUD NOISE OUTSIDE]
Take it easy.

Take it easy.

You were right, Doc.



[sum-nus]

Rampart,
the BP in the left arm is 210 over 110.

MARCO: Over here, guys.

I'm going to go up with you.

Bounding left carotid
and left radial.

Diminished right carotid
and right radial.

Rampart, we have a bounding
left carotid and left radial,

and a diminished right
carotid and right radial.

EKG.

Rampart, we're going to start an
EKG here. This will be lead two.




tachycardia so far.

It could be a dissecting
aortic aneurysm.

Start an IV with D5W TKO,

give him 8 milligrams MS
IV and transport immediately.

What's your ETA?

ETA is 20 minutes, Rampart.

That's an IV D5W TKO
and 8 milligrams MS IV.

Okay, Doc, it's gone
down to 200 over 100.

You let us know
if the pain eases up, okay?

Well, it seems to be easing now.

It does seem to be easing?

It's easing,
but it's still intense.

Okay. 200 over 100.

Pulse is 110.

JOHNNY: I'm ready to go.

Rampart, the BP is now
down to 200 over 100.

The pain is easing,
but still somewhat intense.

We're ready to transport.


for you. Transport immediately.

10-4, Rampart.



There's not going
to be enough room

for all of us in there. Why don't
you just let us take him down?

You guys meet us downstairs.

Don't let this pull.
ROY: All right.

JOHNNY: Don't put him all the
way up against that wall there

'cause I gotta
get in behind him.

Can you get
that stuff for me, Marco?

[CLATTERING]

[CHATTERING]

[ELEVATOR CLANGING]

NIPPERT: What happened?

Must be a short. Thing stopped.

It stopped? All right.

It's stuck again. Calm down. All right,
calm down.

Engine 51, this is HT 51,
how do you read me?

Just calm down,
all right. There's no problem.

You don't know this
elevator. Engine 51,

this is HT 51,
how do you read me?

Nothing.

Rampart,
this is County 51. Do you copy?

I survived two wars, I


and I'm going to die in an elevator.

Doc... Rampart,
this is County 51. Do you read?

Look, of all the people
I know, you should know

that you can't keep on
agitating yourself like this.

Not in your condition. So calm down,
okay? Uh-huh.

Just calm down. You're
going to be all right.

We're not getting anything.

Where are they?

[STANLEY SIGHING]

You know what?
That elevator is stuck.

Marco, you better go stay by the rig. I'll
be on the horn to you in about a minute.

Right. Kelly, let's go up to 4.

Chances are we might have...

We might have jammed ourselves
right on a landing.

Can you see out there?

No. It's just solid wall.

How about going up through here?

Well, we can get up,

but we can't take him.

Get down low.

Got it? Yep. Wait a minute.

All right. Okay.

Cap, is that you?

STANLEY: Yeah. Yeah.

We need to get him
out of here right away.

Yeah, I know it. Listen,
we'll have to crank you down by hand,

down to the next
landing, all right?

Cap, he's not going to be
able to take all that bouncing

down three flights of stairs.

Okay. We'll have to crank you
down to the ground floor then.

Let me have the Biocom. I'll
have Chet out here in the hall

open the line to Rampart for
you. What else do you need?

Just speed.

Here you go.

Okay.

Looks like the works are
up on the roof.

[SNIFFS]

There's smoke up there, too.

Rampart, this is County 51,
how do you read me?


this is Rampart. I read you loud and clear.

Stand by, Rampart.

We got Rampart on the line.

Tell Brackett that we got a new set
of vitals coming his way. Hang on.

CHET: All right.

Engine 51, HT 51.
We have the elevator stuck

between the third
and the fourth floor.

There's a malfunction with some
smoke showing at the top of the shaft.

Have Lopez go on up to the roof with a
hose pack and some forcible entry tools.

LA, Engine 51, I want a full first
alarm assignment at this location.

DISPATCHER: Engine 51.

[ALARM SOUNDING]

Engine 8, Engine 32,
Engine 36, Battalion 14.

Structure fire with Engine 51.

2751 West Allen.

[SIREN WAILING]

2751 West Allen.
Cross street, Harvey.

Time out, 1510.

[SHUDDERING] It hurts.

Why aren't you trying
to get us out of here?

All right, Doc.
Now, just calm down.

We're trying to get you out now... Oh,
please. Please!

Doc, you're going to have
to settle down now. I mean it!

I'm going to die
in this elevator.

Doc, you are going to have to
quit agitating yourself now. I mean it!

Just hang on.

Chet!

Ask Rampart for more morphine.

[PANTING]

[sum-nus]

BP is 220 over 110.

Firemen are working just as
hard and as fast as they can

to get us down from here.

Pain's still bad.

Doc, just take it easy.



DeSoto, give 5 milligrams MS IV

and monitor
respirations closely.

[PANTING]

[EXCLAIMS] Whoops.
How you doing?

[GRUNTS] Well, it looks as though
they don't want us on their roof.

[WOOD CRACKING]

I smell smoke.

I smell smoke!

It's nothing. It's just

a little ozone from the electrical short,
that's all.

[GASPING]

[INAUDIBLE]

STANLEY: There you go. Okay.

Marco, forget it. We don't need
the water. Just come on in here.

Yeah.

Grab that extinguisher. Yeah.

[MEN GASPING]

How's he doing? It's going up.

It is smoke.

That's smoke. I've
got to get out of here.

All right. Just calm down,
okay? Just relax. Calm down, all right?

Relax! That's it.

[RUMBLING]

I think we're moving.

[CREAKING]

Yeah, we are.

But it's just slow.
We're moving.

We're moving? Yeah.

Think so.

Rampart,
we got the elevator moving manually.

It'll be a couple
of minutes now.

[sum-nus]

Okay,
Captain. Let me take a cr*ck at that.

I'm just going to hold the brake up,
just keep spinning that thing.

Okay. You have to take it all
the way down to the ground.

All the way down
to the ground. Right.

Wait a minute... Yeah.

Got it.

[ENGINE APPROACHING]

LA, this is 51. We've had an electrical
short here, which we've corrected.

Cancel other units
except Engine 36.

DISPATCHER: Engine 51.

All units responding with Engine


[GRUNTING]

Run out of gas, Marco?

Oh, yeah, Cap.

Okay. Okay. There you go.

Oh, boy! Am I going
to feel this tomorrow, Cap.

I got muscles in here
I never knew I had.

Yeah.

[WIRE CREAKING]

Well, we should be down
in just a minute.

Good.

I'm not ready to die yet.

Man! This thing is
moving awfully slow.

How are you doing, Glen?

We just had an electrical short back there,
but you guys better poke around

in case anything caught on fire.

And have one of your guys
take over on this flywheel for me.

Okay. Just hold her up
and keep spinning that wheel.

Come on, Marco. Yeah.

You're pretty close.

You want the Biocom down there?

JOHNNY: Yeah.

[METALLIC CLANKING]

Have you out in just a minute,
Dr. Nippert.

Rampart, this is
County 51, do you read?


I read you loud and clear.

Rampart, we've just extricated
our victim from the elevator.

The ambulance is at scene.
The ETA is about 10 minutes.

We have our victim
on six liters of O2.



[EXHALING]

STANLEY: Thank God
he made it, didn't he?

JOHNNY: Boy, you're no more
surprised than we are, Cap.

[GRUNTS]

Okay.

Here's the rest of it.
Thanks, Chet.

Okay. Thanks, Dan.
Keep me posted, huh?

Well, the aortic arch study
confirmed the dissecting aneurysm.

He's in surgery,
and he's got a pretty good chance.

Super. Well,
that sure makes my day.

Frankly, I think the old guy
was just a little too stubborn

and a little ticked off
to die in that elevator.

Yeah. And you get some that make

all the blood, sweat
and tears seem worthwhile.

See you guys later.
All right. See you later.

Are you waiting for me?

Look. Before I tell you the latest,
Kel, it is not my fault.

She's talking about
Dr. Ned, of course.

What's he done now?

Well, evidently what he's been
doing is practicing medicine.

He's been holding an open
aches and pains clinic

for six or seven of our most
suggestible little old ladies.

You know, getting them to say
"Ah" and being very charming,

but nevertheless, there he was.

I want him out of this
hospital now. Kel...

All he has is mono,
right? Right.

I want him out of here now!

Kel? What?

It's been taken care of.

What do you mean? How?

Okay. First of all, I told him he was
not covered by malpractice insurance.

He absolutely panicked.

And then what?

Well, then I told him that he'd
never recover in the hospital.

You know, too many sick people
needing his help and everything.

Good thinking. So we decided

he better go undercover.

Undercover?

Home.

Where he wouldn't be pestered
by his patients and his fans.

He left an hour ago.

Problem solved.

Lopez, you fine broth of a lad.

That's the grandest
Irish stew I've ever had.

MARCO: Oh, thanks, Chief.

I wouldn't give him
all the credit, Chief.

Actually, the recipe's been
in his family for generations.

CHIEF: [LAUGHING] Great.

And what's your specialty,
Kelly? Mexican food?

Hey, believe it or not, Chief,

Kelly here makes the
finest chili I have ever tasted.

I believe it. You know,
I used to be famous

all over the county for my Indian
curry. Remember that, Hank?

I remember that. It was so hot,
it would take the top of your head off.

But good.

More coffee, Chief?

Oh, no, thanks.

Hank here's got to study,
and I promised 36 I'd be there for dessert.

Thanks for dinner, boys.
Glad to have you, Chief.

Glad to have you.

Oh, Hank. Here's something you'll be
interested in. About the chief's exam...

What's that? Well,
I just found out today

that I'm going to be on the
board for the oral examinations.

[STAMMERING] On the board?
For the orals?

That's right. I've really
got some zingers for this guy.

For example, Captain Stanley,

we have a hypothetical
situation here.

You have this burning hat...

[LAUGHING]