05x18 - Above and Beyond...Nearly

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Emergency!". Aired: January 15, 1972 – May 28, 1977.*
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05x18 - Above and Beyond...Nearly

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[sums]

Marco, yeah, I gotta admit.

You were right, I was wrong.

Spaghetti and chili
is incredible.

Thanks, John. It was kind of tasty,
if I do say so myself.

Well, let's get
the place cleaned up.

We got work to do.

Hey, Cap! You know that green
car the chief engineer drives?

What about it? It just drove in.

You're kidding me!
You're not kidding!

Look at the mess!
Let's get it...

No, forget it!
Come on, let's go.

STANLEY: Come on,
line up! Line up!

[ALL CHATTERING]
This isn't my hat.

STANLEY: Will you guys
knock that off? My hat!

That's not my...
This is not my hat!

Station 51, "A" shift on duty.

Captain Hank Stanley, Chief.

Captain,
good to meet you. Thank you, sir.

This is Firefighter
Specialist Mike Stoker.

Stoker. Good to meet
you. How do you do?

Firefighter
Chester Kelly. Kelly.

Firefighter Marco Lopez.

Lopez. Good to see you.

Firefighter Paramedic
Roy DeSoto.

DeSoto, it's a pleasure.

And Firefighter
Paramedic John Gage.

Gage,
good to meet you. Thank you, sir.

By the way, get your hair cut.

Yes, sir. It's...

This is not my hat. It's...

Stand easy, men.

Would you like to inspect the station now,
sir?

Well, actually, Captain,
this is not a routine inspection.

I have letters here

for Roy DeSoto and John Gage.

Normally, you'd receive them
through regular department channels,

but frankly, I wanted
the privilege of meeting you

and giving them
to you personally.

"On behalf of the Los Angeles
County Fire Department,

"I commend you in the
highest possible terms

"for courage and dedication.

"On August 9th,
you responded on a rescue call.

"Before other units
reached the scene,"

"and showing complete
disregard for your own safety,"

"you and your partner
with great difficulty"

"extricated the victims,"

"unquestionably
saving their lives."

"Your coolness, bravery
and persistence"

"in the face of intense
personal jeopardy"

"reflect great credit
on yourself"

"and are in the finest
tradition of this department."

"Richard H. Houts,
Chief Engineer."

DeSoto. Gage.

Congratulations to you both. Thank you,
sir.

Oh behalf of Station 51,
I'd like to congratulate you, also.

Thanks. John.

Sorry, Chief.

It's all right. Thank you.

[CLEARS THROAT] Would you

like to inspect the station now,
sir?

Is there any coffee around here?

Of course, it's a fire station.

Yes, sir. Let's go.

Congratulations.
Congratulations.

[CHUCKLES]

This is great.

Yeah.

What...

What did we do to get this?

Well, I was just about to
ask you the same question.

[sum-nus]

Well, what do we do?

Why don't we check the log?

Good idea.

[ALARM SOUNDING]

DISPATCHER ON RADIO: Squad 51. Man down,
unknown injury,


2732 North Claymore.

In the rec room.
Cross street, Lincoln.


Time out, 14:08.

STANLEY: Squad 51, KMG 365.

[SIREN WAILING]

[ALARM SOUNDING]

[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.


[MUSIC PLAYING]

ROY: That's kind of incredible.

[sum-nus]

JOHNNY: I don't
believe I saw that.

Now, this goes to show
you're never too old.

What place is this?

[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

MAGGIE: Over here.

What happened? Well,
I took a little tumble.

A little tumble?

Almost pulled me down with him.

If I could have gotten you down,

you wouldn't have
got up in a hurry.

Oh, Amos.

All right, it's
the leg here, huh?

AMOS: Yeah, that's it.

Okay, let me take a look at it.

Tell me when it
hurts, all right?

A little higher, little high...

[EXCLAIMS] Oh, there, there.

Yeah, he's got some swelling
here. It's black and blue.

A possible fracture.

You might have a possible
fracture here on your ankle.

[GROANING]

Oh, poor dear.

[INTERCOM BEEPING]

JOHNNY: Rampart,
this is Squad 51.


Go ahead, 51.

Rampart, we have a male,
approximately 70 years old...

Wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait.

Let's get that right, young man.

Stand by, Rampart.

I'm sorry, sir. How old are you?

Rampart, correction.

The gentleman is 94 years old.

Yeah, I was born during
the administration

of President Chester A. Arthur

and I was with Teddy
Roosevelt in San Juan Hill.



[GRUNTS]

All right, you've
got normal respiration.

He's got a pulse of 75.

Rampart, victim has a possible

broken left ankle on the right side. Oh,
here she is!

I thought you'd never come.

BP is 150 over 80.

This hot water bag
will stop swelling.

Pulse,


Respiration seemed to be normal.

We'll just put a splint on it,
all right?

Anybody knows you don't
put heat on a thing like that.

Well, I do and I raised four
more children than you did.

And buried two more husbands.

Girls, girls, cool it.

It's very sweet
of both of you but...

[PEOPLE CLAPPING]

The guy's 94?


what's your patient's overall condition?

Rampart,
I would say he's in very good condition.

Here's my heart's true love!

I got here as quick as I could.

What are they doing here?

Oh, hush up and
give me some sugar.

Excellent shape.
He's in excellent shape.

How bad is it?

Oh, he says it's broken, maybe.

He has a possible
fracture in the ankle.

It's nothing serious.

[STAMMERING] Excuse me,
are you in any kind of pain?

Only when I dance.

We had to help him to the chair.

Half carried the poor soul.

You've been dancing
the hustle again, huh?

No! No, honest,
honest. That's out.

[LAUGHING] Now,
it's the roller coaster.

You know, I'm gonna have to
see that you move from here

to some place where
you can get a little rest.

[GRUNTS]

Away from these bad influences.

Ladies, I think it's time
for your afternoon nap.

Yeah, that's right, ladies.

Toddle along home now
and try to control yourselves.

Bye-bye.

Yeah, we're going to have
to take you in the hospital.

Oh, that figures.

Rampart,
we'll let you know when an ambulance comes.



Can I go with him?

Are you a relative?

Well, not yet.

The fifth of next
month. Mmm-hmm.

Oh, you're gonna
get married, huh?

[CHUCKLES] Yep.

[CHUCKLES]
Well, that's something.

[LAUGHING] Oh, not to him.

To his grandson.

Oh, I thought you guys
were getting married together.

You were thinking it was me?

Yeah, well, you know...

Well, now, that
was a kind thought.

Now, if I was


Oh, 10, even.

Oh, she's a great woman,
isn't she? Yes.

A terrific liar and
she's only got one fault.

What's that?

She hates to see me dance.

[ALL LAUGH]

There's the ambulance.

I'll go guide him in.

Okay, here we go.

WOMAN ON PA: Dr. Baker,
outside call, please.


Dr. Baker, outside call please.

Oh, John.

Congratulations.

Oh! I couldn't be
more pleased for you.

Thank you. It's just great.

Oh,
thank you very much. Yeah. Yeah.

I just think it's so super.

Oh, oh, yeah.
Thank you very much.

I appreciate that.

Oh,
I see you showed them the letter. Yeah.

Oh, I just... Can I
talk to you for a second?

Why are you showing the letter?

I just thought they might be
able to tell us something about it.

I didn't know they'd make
such a big deal out of it.

Well, why didn't you tell me that
you were going to show the letter?

They're going around shaking
my hand. I don't know what this...

Hey, John? JOHNNY: Yeah.

This letter's really very
nice but it's not very detailed.

Yeah, I know.

Yeah, and Roy won't
tell us anything.

[COUGHS] Well, you know, Dix,
there's really not that much to tell.

Well, it must've
been a terrible fire?

A fire!

It was. It was terrible.

The victims,
were they very badly hurt?

Uh...

[STAMMERING] You know,
you'd know more about that than me, Doc.

You know, I can't
quite place it.

It must've been burns or smoke
inhalation or something like that.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
yeah. Burns and smoke inhalation...

Of course,
I could have been off that day, too.

Yeah, they probably took
them straight to the burn ward.

Yeah. Right. Yeah...

Straight to the burn ward.
Yeah. We better get going...

No, no, no, no, no. Stick
around. This is all very interesting.

I wanna hear some more about it. Oh,
come on.

Quit embarrassing them.

[INTERCOM BEEPING]

Excuse me. John. Oh, great job.

Thank you very much,
sir. I appreciate that, Doctor.

Dix, see you later.

Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

Bye-bye. See you later.

I couldn't come
right out and ask them.

Well, at least you could
tell me what you're gonna do.

You remember anything?
I don't remember anything.

You know,
if you don't remember something like that

people are gonna think
you're kind of weird.

Yeah, but that was,
what, two months ago?

Well, we get a couple dozen runs a week,
it's understandable.

Yeah, well,
Joanne's gonna wanna know something

and the kids are gonna
wanna know something and...

I mean, I don't know what
the heck I'm gonna tell them.

Well, I wanna know just for
my own personal satisfaction.

[sums]

What about the captain?
He's gotta know.

Yeah, but we don't
even know that

the engine was on
the run with this.

STANLEY: There they are. Well...

How does it feel to
be heroes? Great.

I don't want to promise you guys
anything but from what I understand

you got a pretty good
sh*t at the Valor Award.

[LAUGHS] That's great.

Well, look, Cap,
we didn't get a chance to thank you before.

We really wanna thank you.

For what?

Well, turning us in
for that commendation.

I mean, it must have really been
something that stuck in your mind, huh?

You know,
they check these things out very thoroughly

before they go handing
out these awards

but I had nothing to do with it.

As a matter of fact,
what rescue was it?

Why don't you grab a chair?
I wanna hear about this.

Oh, well, we gotta go wash up...

Oh, well, we gotta go
out there and check...

Yeah. We have to go out there and
check... Go out there and wash up.

We'll see you after
supper probably.

Yeah and we'll let you...

Maybe there's been
some kind of mistake.

Well, you heard what he said. They
really check these things out. Besides,

I really feel that deep down,
we really deserve it.

Yeah, for whatever
it was we did.

That's true.

[PHONE RINGING]

Rampart Emergency, Ms. McCall.

I see.

What seems to be wrong with him?

What room are you in?

We'll be right there.

Put that down, stat.
Get a crash cart.

Dr. Brackett, we've got a
possible Ml in the dental clinic.

The patient's unconscious. Yep.

Hurry up with that crash cart!

Sorry, folks, we've got an
emergency upstairs. We need this.

Everybody off,
emergency upstairs.

Bring a stretcher,
dental clinic.

How long has he been out?

It just happened.

As soon as he went,
I hollered to Beth, told her to call you.

I ran next door and
grabbed the oxygen.

What's the flow?
About eight liters.

Oh, real good.

Here, let me get out of your way. Sir,
can you hear me?

Sir? [GROANING]

Let's get an EKG.

Figured it could be an Ml.
Didn't want to take any chances.

Is that what it is, his heart?

What,
did he complain of chest pains? Well, no.



[MACHINE BEEPING]

KELLY: Dix,
let's get an IV with D5W TKO.

What's up, Kel?

He's been out for a few minutes.

Pressure's low.
Pulse is about 52.

EKG seems to be all right.

He's perfusing poorly.

Yeah, let's get his legs up.

Can you get this up any
higher? DENTIST: That's it.

You wanna hand me
that pillow, please?

Thank you.

Okay, Dix?
DIXIE: Yeah, go ahead.

[MONITOR BEEPING]

Did you give him anything? Yeah,
I just started the local.

JOE: Lidocaine? Yeah.

I don't think it's anaphylaxis.

I'd hardly started when he
shoved my hand out of the way,

started breathing fast
and he passed out.

His chest seems clear.

Dix, get another BP.

Did you get a medical
history on him?

Yeah.

He's taking hydrochlorothiazide
and methyldopa.

He's hypertensive?

Mild hypertension.

BP's 100 over 70.

This guy's been
nothing but trouble.

Oh? My assistant had
her hands full last week.

[GROANING]
just getting his x-rays.

He's coming around. JOE:
Let's get him downstairs.

Let's get that gurney in here.

What's wrong with him?

Well, I'm not sure.

He may have had a vasovagal
att*ck but we'll check him out.

Let me know what
you find out. Sure.

JOE: Let's keep
his feet elevated.

Did you find it?

August 9th. No, not yet.

Yeah, I know, I got that part.

It happened in the evening
according to the letter.

Yeah. Okay.

This has got to be it then.

Okay, now this is logged
at 5:20 in the afternoon.

[STAMMERS] Yeah. Right,
okay, but read this. It says,

"Extra engines"

"were called to the scene."

"People were evacuated
from the burning building."

Now,
we could've been there for an hour or more.

That would explain
the evening part.

I think I remember it.

It's a two-story
frame house, remember?

Right. In the middle
of the block, right?

In the middle of the
block. That's right.

Well, what else?

I don't remember
anything, do you?

No.

Darn.

Why, it's nice to look back on something,
you know.

Especially when it's something,
you know, that...

[CHUCKLES] Outstanding?

Go ahead. You can
say it in front of me.

I understand.

It's a good feeling, isn't it?

Yeah.

If we can remember. Know what...

Well, look,
we're gonna be thinking of something else

and then all of a sudden,
the whole thing

is gonna come back to us
just like that.

Roy, there's one
problem with that.

It says here that the
engine responded with us.

So, why doesn't
the captain remember?

WOMAN ON PA: Dr. Mendes,
outside call, please.


Dr. Mendes, outside
call, please.


Mr. Wyler. How are you feeling?

Kind of shaky.

[STAMMERS] What happened?

It's something serious,
isn't it?

I'm about 99 percent sure
you had a vasovagal att*ck.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Going to the dentist kind of bothers you,
doesn't it?

Me? No way, not at all.

When was the last time
you went to the dentist?

I was in the service.

How long ago was that?

Like, 25 years ago.

[LAUGHS]

Why'd you wait so long?

I've never had any
trouble with my teeth.

Yeah, but they're
bothering you now?

Well, I got a couple
that hurt a little bit.

You know, once in a while

and I guess I'll just have to
hang on to them for a while.

No, no, no. I wouldn't
recommend that, Mr. Wyler.

I think you should have them
taken care of as soon as possible.

Oh, I will as soon as I get this vaso
thing, whatever it is, taken care of.

No, no, I mean right now.

No, no, no, no.
I just had one att*ck.

I gotta get cured first.
The teeth can wait.

Look, if dental
work bothers you...

Doesn't it bother everybody?

There's nothing to it. You can
go under a general anesthetic,

they put you to sleep,
you wake up and it's all over with.

I can arrange it if you want.

No, no, no, no.

Why do you keep
talking about my teeth?

You're not a dentist.

What's wrong with me?

What brought on this att*ck?

That's what I want
to talk about.

Mr. Wyler, I'm afraid that's
what we've been talking about.

You see, a vasovagal
att*ck is simply

a physical reaction
to extreme emotion.

You fainted.

There's nothing
else wrong with you.

Oh, Lord, I was hoping that...

I'm sorry, but you're fine.

Please, Doc, I can't
go back up there.

Are your teeth hurting you now?

I got one back here
that's just k*lling me.

All right, look,
just relax and take it easy.

I'll get a nurse to come in and
give you something for it, okay?

You mean, they can knock
you out before they do the work?

Right now.

Well, at least I can
think about it.

I'll check back with you later.

Thanks a lot, Doc.

Are you guys kidding?

No. No.

Oh, you can't be serious.

I swear, it's the truth.

Look, I know we get a lot of runs,
everything sort of runs together,

but you got to remember
something about it.

We can't, I swear.

You mean, you don't
remember any of it.

All I remember, it's a two-story
framed house in the middle of the block.

No, I remember. It was a
stucco house on the corner.

No,
it was a Spanish type with a tiled roof.

No, you're right, Chet.

Yeah,
cause you guys got the call about 7:30.

No, you're wrong about that.

Squad got the call at 5:20 and
the engine rolled on it at 5:28.

I looked it up in the log.

Yep. Well, at least
we got the time right.

[ALARM SOUNDING]

DISPATCHER ON RADIO: Station 51,
man stranded on the cliff with injuries.


Try to remember this. Maybe
you ought to write it down.

On the Mount Waters fire road,

two and a half miles
north of Topanga.


Mount Waters fire road,
two and a half miles north of Topanga.


Time out, 17:06.

STANLEY: Station 51, KMG 365.

[ENGINE STARTING]

[SIREN BLARING]

What happened?

LARRY: Mike's still up there...

JOHNNY: Were you hurt?

Don't worry about me.
You gotta get Mike.

Okay, tell me what happened.

STANLEY: On the cliff, can you
hear me? This is the fire department.


This is the fire department.

Wave if you can hear me.

Come on. Come on. What happened?

[PANTING] Mike and I were
coming down from the top

and he skidded down
about 30 feet right into me.

ROY: Yeah.

LARRY: He nearly
took me off, too.

How long ago was it?

[ALARM SOUNDING]
Must be about an hour.

I tied him to a drill bit

with rope I had left over.

And I scrambled on down.

Listen, was he bleeding?

Not much, no.

But he's in bad shape.
He hurt his head.

He hurt his head? Yeah.

I got a collar in here for
him. What do you think?

How did you get up there?

The trail around the back.

It took us a couple hours.

Now, that's rough.

We've only got 20
minutes of light left here.

You're gonna have
to go up the face.

Free climbing? Yep.

Okay.

Got the air ambulance
on the way for you.

JOHNNY: Yeah, okay.

Make sure he only has
one victim to take out.

We'll do our best.

ROY: Free climbing this thing,
it's gonna be rough.

ROY: God, he could have picked
an easier spot to be trapped in.

JOHNNY: Step right here
at the base of this overhang.

Start there and work
our way up the surface.

See if we can get up like that.

JOHNNY: Well, I'll just climb on up
and then throw the rope down. Okay?

[MEN GRUNTING]

ROY: That's it.

[MEN PANTING]

Okay.

PILOT: Engine 51, 'Copter 14.

My ETA is one minute.

You on?

Okay.

I'm ready.

I'm just gonna
keep the slack up.

Okay.

Here.

[PANTING]

Okay.

[HELICOPTER APPROACHING]

Yeah, now I have to tie up.

You know, Roy,
if you were leading and you fell

and I couldn't hold you,
I'd go with you.

Yeah. Well, that's reassuring.

Okay.

STANLEY: How you doing?
PILOT: Pretty good.

What have we got, Hank?

Well, the paramedics are
trying to free climb up the cliff.

Ah-ha. Is there anything
we can do to help you?

Well, so far I only need you

for evacuating the
victim, but who knows?

Okay. Boy,
he sure got himself into a mess, didn't he?

He sure did, didn't he?

[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]

[MEN PANTING]

JOHNNY: Roy, there's
a real steep part here.

Be careful.

Oh, man.

Roy, I'm losing it.

[JOHNNY SCREAMING]

STANLEY: Are you all
right? You guys all right?

JOHNNY: We just can't
get to him from here.

STANLEY: We'll use
the copter then,

you can rappel down
to him from the top.

ROY: Cap,
we don't have enough daylight left.

I mean, there's no way we
can pull him off during the dark.

STANLEY: I'll have LA
respond a Light unit.

You guys arrived just in time.

Is there any way we can get
a chopper up there on the top?

PILOT: When we flew over it,
it looked all right.

Well, I'll need
the night goggles.

STANLEY: All right.

Hey, Kelly,
you and Lopez go along for some man power.

LA, Engine 51. Request
Light Unit 103 at our location.

DISPATCHER: Engine 51.

We'll just have to
wait for it to get here.

Light Unit 103,
assist Engine 51 at Mount Waters fire road,

two and a half miles north
of Topanga. Time out, 17:40.

[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]

STANLEY: LA,
Engine 51. What is Light Unit 103's ETA?


DISPATCHER:
Standby 51. Light 103,


Engine 51 requests your ETA.

Engine 51, Light 103
reports five minutes.


“M. STANLEY: 'Copter 14,
Engine 51. Go ahead.


Light 103 will be at
scene in five minutes.


PILOT: 10-4, Engine 51.

We're ready to go, I guess.

Do you want to read off the
instruments? I'll go ahead and lift off.


in with the power.

[HELICOPTER WHIRRING] Okay,
charges 35, 36, 37.

Headed out now. What's
the airspeed? Can you read it?

Okay, just coming up on 25, 30.

Okay, you're clear
left of this mountain.

All right, turning left.

Left on the ridge.

Okay.

Okay, we'll just
go on in and land now.

Okay. I'm reducing
power. Clear left?

All clear.

Okay, we're on the ground.

Can't see a thing.

Engine 51, this is Squad 51,
we're ready to go.

Light Unit 103 is just arriving.

ROY: All right,
we'll go ahead then.



Put your light up on that cliff
as high as you can there, okay?

HT 51, Engine 51,
you're 20 feet too far to the left.

JOHNNY: 10-4. Chet,
did you hear that?

CHET: Got you.

Okay, can you lower
me about three feet?

CHET: Right.

Hold it. Hold it.

[MEN GRUNTING]

JOHNNY: All right,
down a little more.

[RUMBLING NOISE]

JOHNNY: It's good.
ROY: Watch it.

Okay, straight down,
Chet, just lower us.

That's it, more slack.

More slack, more slack.

Little more.

Yeah, good, all
right, keep coming.

What we need is
to get him on this.

On his left there,
I'll get over on his right.

All right.

You need a little more? No,
I'll be fine.

BOTH: A little more.

Okay.

He's hooked in
there pretty secure.

Little more. Just
about another two feet.

There we are, hold it.

[EXCLAIMING]

What you got?

Strong and steady pulse.

Okay, let's set up
some blankets here.

Get your cervical collar.

All right.

I got to get down.

He feels real cold.

All right.

I got the collar now. Huh?

Okay. Got the collar. Okay.

I got the airway standing by
when we're... When we need it.

Got it?

Yeah.

Okay, I'll tilt a little bit.

Okay.

Okay, here goes.

[MEN GRUNTING]

Ready, one...

Careful, let me unhook him.
Okay.

I'll help bring this
over for you a little bit.

Can you pull from that side?

Come here.

Can I lift it up for you
a little before you...

Come on.

Okay. I got it.

All right, what we got?

All right, pull up a little,
just a little bit.

Okay, okay, it's good.

[EXCLAIMING]

ROY: Okay, here's the airway.

Okay, there we are.

All right, now,
just get him to take us up about

a foot once we get over
that ledge there.

Okay, up a foot!

Okay, all right,
Stoker. Pull it.

[MUMBLING]

Okay, drop it, Chet. All right.

ROY: We got it.

Keep it coming. Come on,
keep coming, good.

JOHNNY: Stoker, give us a hand.

Okay. They're all in and ready.

Everything looks green,
so we'll just go ahead and lift.

Okay, approaching now. Okay.

About 50 feet in front of
us and about 50 feet over.

Okay, we'll go ahead and let
down and land in the clearing now.

Johnny, meet you
at the hospital.

JOHNNY: Yeah, all right.

Okay, let's go.

You did a heck of a job.

It doesn't seem like
much just to say thank you.

Well, that covers it just fine.

Rampart, we have a male,

approximate age,
about 40 years old,

he was involved in
a climbing accident,

ETA is about five minutes.

Boy, I don't want to go through

too many more
rescues like this one.

This was a rough one.

Yeah, that's not the only
thing that's going to be rough.

I'm starved and
Stoker's cooking.

[LAUGHING]

You guys want to step
into the office for a minute?

Sure.

[sums]

Oh, hi, Chief.

Hi, Chief.

Well, anything wrong?

Well, we do have
one small problem.

Well, I think I'll go see how Stoker's
doing with supper. I'm starved.

[CLEARS THROAT]
Excuse me, Chief.

About those commendations.

[sums]

It was a mistake?

To put it briefly, yeah.

Apparently what happened,
the victim told the doctor in the ER,

who wrote a report to his boss,

who wrote a report to his boss,

who sent it to
the Fire Department.

It came to me through the regular channels,
which...

Well, anyway, the bottom line is
that somewhere along the way,

a clerk made a
simple typing error.

It was Squad 15, not 51.

That makes sense.

Well,
it makes a heck of a lot more sense

than us not
remembering the rescue.

Yeah.

[sums]

Well, what happens now?

Well, I don't know
about you, but I'm hungry.

Okay if I buy in for dinner?

Well, yeah. No, it's...

I mean, you see,

Stoker's cooking

and his food is a little hard to take,
you know what I mean?

Gage, you don't get to
be chief of this department

without having
a very strong stomach.

Okay. Let's go.

By the way,
don't forget to get your hair cut.
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