04x22 - 905-Wild

[bunniefuu]

[SIREN WAILING]

Please hurry. Oh, please.

He's in there. ROY: All right.

Oh, hurry, please.

Right in here. Yes,
ma'am, just a sec.

Please hurry.

Right over here.

How did he get cut up?

Well, it had to be
some maniac with a Kn*fe.

I've warned him about opening
up at 5:00 in the morning.

Hundred and strong. All right.

He was unconscious
when I got here.

What do you think, back wounds?

WOMAN: Is he gonna be all right?

ROY: Yes,
ma'am. He hasn't lost much blood.

[GROWLING]

Oh, boy.

All right, take it easy.

Atta boy.

[GROWLING]

Just take it easy. Atta boy.

Take it easy.

Atta boy.

We've got a 500-pound
tiger back here,

and he's working
on a piece of meat.

I don't think we want to be
around when he gets through.

Okay, come on up.

LA, this is Squad 51.
DISPATCHER: Go ahead, 51.

On our Crescent Street response.

Get Animal Control out here.
Tell them to hurry.

We got a tiger in a building.

10-4, 51.

Rats, that's what they are,
ma'am. Just rats.

Rats my foot.

Don't tell me.
That's a prowler up there.

I ought to know.

It's been trying to cut
a hole in the ceiling

of my bedroom.

Officer,
could you swing that light up here

a little bit
to your left, please?

Sorry, boys.

Did you see a man try to
cut a hole in your ceiling?

Well, you know I didn't.

If I had, I'd have sh*t him.

[CATS MEOWING]

[WOMAN CHATTERING ON RADIO]

Hang on. It's a real
family affair.

GIGGLING.

Hang in there, partner,

it's cat city.

[LAUGHING]

[CATS MEOWING]

How many more?

Just about a few.

[DAVE LAUGHING]

DAVE: Okay. LES: Coming to the end,
I think.

[CAT PURRING] Here's Mama.

All right. Okay, okay.

Yeah, I hear you.

[WOMAN CHATTERING ON RADIO]

Phew.

Fourteen of them.

Yeah, ever hear
of a litter this big?

No. Not in an attic.

These are your prowlers, ma'am.

Well, it wasn't rats,
was it? No, ma'am.

You fellas call
yourselves Animal Control.

Well, I don't see
much control around here.

Getting a party out of her
bed at 5:00 in the morning

so you can get a cat
family out of her attic.

Yes, ma'am.

Now I suppose you're
just gonna walk away

and leave me
to put that ladder away.

And it's gonna rain.

PATTY ON RADIO:
Unit 60, Unit 6-0.

Go ahead. We'll handle it.

Thanks a lot.

The ladder goes
in the garage, boys.

Yes, ma'am. We know.
We got it out, remember?

This is 60.

PATTY ON RADIO:
Unit 60, 905 wild.

Grocery store,

406 Crescent Street.

Meet the fire department.

They have a tiger.

Code 2. ETA?

Unit 60, 10-4. ETA 15.

Tiger my foot.
That'|| be a prowler.

Anyway, it's gonna rain.

[GROWLING]

Be a shame to have to sh**t him.

That's up to the cat.

[GROWLING]

[SIREN WAILING]

[GROWLING]

It's a Bengal.

Yeah, I'd make it
about 450 pounds.

[GROWLING]

You won't need that, Officer.

That could be
a matter of opinion.

We'll take him alive. You
figure to tranquilize him?

How many exits on this building?

Two, front and back.

There's two men
stationed at the rear.

And the roof? Skylight on top.

There's a way up around back.

That rear door unlocked?

Yeah. We figured
that's how the cat got in.

Then that's the way we'll go.

I'll ride shotgun.

You fire only if I tell you.

I fire if that cat makes
a break out of that store.

Sec dart.
Loaded and ready to go.

Which way to the roof? Garcia.

Let's go around the back.

Flop our plan,
we're going in the front.

You ever go after
a tiger before?

Friend of mine did.
Did he make out?

Got his right arm torn off.

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]

We gotta k*ll that music.

Over there on your left.

[MUSIC STOPS]

Hold it. He's pricing the meat.

Behind the counter,
up in the mirror.

[GROWLING]

Watch it. He's coming at you!

[GROWLING]

Which way? Down that aisle.

[GROWLING]

He's coming up the other aisle.

You're the expert. Would that cat
go back to the same place twice?

What do you mean? Paramedic
said the first time he spotted him

he was on top
of the refrigerator there.

Maybe.

[GROWLING]

Get that g*n up to me.

I'm on my way.

There he goes. He's
headed back to the other side.

Do you see him?

Over there in the corner. Yeah.

[GROWLING]

He's heading for that billboard.

Can you tag him from
here? I can hit him.

Make it good, pal.

That cat tries
to leave this roof,

he's dead before
he hits the street.

[CRACKING]

Let's move.

[sun f*ring]

[GROWLING SOFTLY]

LES: It's all right.

Beautiful thing, isn't it?

It is now.

Looks like it's gonna be
a real nice day, partner.

There you go, pretty girl.
You'll be all right in no time.

You know, Doc, one of these
days you're gonna have a kind word

for us working slobs.

What for? You
wouldn't appreciate it.

Police Department,
animal control, paramedics.

All after one poor,
defenseless animal.

Look, Dad, no cavities.

Somebody's mistreated this cat.

She's at least


Somebody's starving her.

You're the great animal
detectives. Any idea who?

He going to be all right? She.

She'll be all right as soon as
somebody starts feeding her.

What about the coyote?

Yeah. That whole bunch can go.

When that helicopter unloads
you way up in the woods,

you're sure gonna wish you
were back here at the coyote Hilton.

Mr. Marsh. What's going on this morning,
Patty?

Well, there's a cat stuck
in a tree on Plummer.

There's a rattlesnake in a sewer
on Winnetka. Your wife called.

And there's a little


who's madder than a wet hen.

Something about her
tiger. Tell her I'll be right out.

Walt, we'll get
that rattlesnake.

But this cat in the
tree is the same cat

we had to pull out of
that drain pipe last week.

It's the Plummer Street cat.

He's a rotten cat, Walt.

You two are paranoiac, you know?

You actually think these
animals are plotting against you.

Man, I know they are.

Other cats chase rats.

That thing sits around
making out a list,

"How am I gonna
bug those clowns today?"

Walt, we're thinking
of our image.

Oh, please.
Don't start that again.

But you know it's true.

As far as the public
is concerned,

we're nothing but a bunch of
dog catchers and cat catchers.

So, go catch.

What have you
people done to her?

Nothing wrong with this animal,

except the mistreatment
she's had.

Right now, she's just sedated.

This tiger belong to you,
young lady?

It's from Emil Gower's compound.

She works for him after school.

You work for Emil Gower?

Now we know why
this animal's underfed.

Gower's been cited
at least a dozen times.

We've got three warrants
outstanding on him right now.

He knows more about animals
than you dog catchers.

See what I mean?

Walk right this way, young lady.

Let me tell you something, miss.

We deal in a lot more
than dogs and cats.

Seventy-five years ago,
mountain lion,

deep

bobcat,

coyote,

raccoon,

fox,

possum.

They all lived in the
mountains and canyons

that we've chopped up to
make the city of Los Angeles.

Now, despite the freeways,
the sub-divisions,

the shopping centers
and eight million people,

they still live around here.

Right in the metropolitan area.

Right alongside
those eight million humans.

That fellow came down
from the foothills

and wound up in a
backyard in Chatsworth.

That one tried to set up
housekeeping under a guest house

on Mulholland Drive.

Now, that sort of socializing
presents a problem.

But fortunately we have
the men who can handle it.

Men of the Department
of Animal Control.

Men like Les and Dave here.

If it hadn't been
for these dog catchers,

that tiger would've been k*lled.

I could've handled her.

That's Gower's job, isn't it?

Where is he? She doesn't know.

Gower's taken off again.

You two run out there and
check that compound again.

DAVE: Let's go, miss.

Your wife called again.
You forgot your lunch.

I just don't know
where Mr. Gower is.

I've been at the beach
for four days.

This morning when I heard on
the radio that you'd captured a tiger,

I went straight to your shelter.

That tiger broke out
because he was starving.

Just like the rest
of these animals.

And from the looks of them,
it's been a long time

since they've been
watered or fed.

[ELEPHANT TRUMPETING]

What's missing here?

Shaggy, a Tibetan yak.

I wonder where he is?

I'll call Walt, get
the truck out here.

I won't let you take them.

Mr. Gower says
you'll destroy them!

You know better than that, miss.

We'll put them some place
where they'll get good treatment.

No you won't. You'll
put them to sleep.

All of them.

Well,
this is one you won't have to worry about.

I'm sorry.

[SOBBING] I didn't know.

I just didn't know.

I just didn't know.

DAVE: Les!

PATTY ON RADIO:
Unit 60, Unit 6-0.

This is 6-0. Unit 6-0.

Fire in Haynes Canyon.

Report to command post,

Paddock Ranch.

Code 2. Your ETA?

Unit 60, Code 2,
ETA approximately 20 minutes.

10-4, e-o.

I'll look around.

I'll see if I can find Shaggy.

Maybe he got lucky
and found a grocery store.

Haynes Canyon.

It's all zoned M-2
up in there, isn't it?

Dog breeders, horses, livestock.

Surrounded by 35 miles
of dry brush.

I don't know. Maybe
Carol was right.

My girlfriend.

She keeps telling me I ought to
sign on with the Department of Parks.

You know,
they make more than we do.

Yeah. And they just got
another raise.

I keep telling her
I don't want to prune trees.

Well, think of the advantages
over this job, partner.

Name one.

Trees do not bite.

The wife read
my horoscope for today,

and it's a mess.

She's got a point.

[cows MOOING]

[SHEEP BLEATING]

[HORSE NEIGHING]

[SIREN WAILING]

MAN 1 ON RADIO: Copter 10,
cancel your response.

Assistance 6,
repeat your destination.

MAN 2.' 10-4, 7-6.

Yeah, we can handle it. 10-4.

Jim, the Grover Ranch
just checked in.

You and Fred better get
there and help them out.

How's it going? Claude and
Vince are on their way out

with some dogs for a breeder.

Most of the livestock
is out of the fire area.

Old man and little girl over
there. See if you can help.

All right, all right,
now just relax.

[HORSE NEIGHING] 5-8.

Come on now, Mr. Paddock,
you need this.

You tell your grandpa that he's
gonna have to stay out of that fire.

Never mind me. Get William out.

If you don't, I will.

Mr. Paddock, you can't
go back up in there again.

You'll never make it
and you know it.

Grandpa's sorry, honey.

[SNIFFING]
The fire's gonna get William.

He'll die, Grandpa.

My granddaughter's pet.

He ran off.
I tried to follow him.

Yeah, nearly got himself
k*lled doing it, too.

Where did you see him last?
What makes it so bad is

the doctor says William is
the best therapy she's got.

[SHEEP BLEATING]

We'll get him out.

By the way, sir,
just what are we looking for?

A six-month-old baby goat.

And his name's William.

[cows MOOING]

I thought goats were
supposed to be smart.

They don't chase tigers, pal.

Yeah, or small goats.

[HORSE NEIGHING]

[GOAT BLEATING]

Hold it.

[GOAT BLEATING] Hear it?

Yeah, I think so.

This way.

I don't hear it anymore. Do you?

No. Not now.

What are you guys doing up here?

We're looking for a baby goat.

You crazy? If there's a goat around here,
he's barbeque by now.

Get out of here and quick. This
fire's spotting all over the area.

[GOAT BLEATING]

That's a goat, isn't it?

If it ain't, it'll sure do.

At least he's still alive.

Just hang in there,
William baby.

It's William! They found
him! They found him!

Is he okay?

LES: Yeah.
Looks like smoke inhalation.

Why don't you put him down here?

It's William! It's William!

Take it easy now, honey.

Not responding.

How do you make it?

Well, it's kind of hard to tell.
You better get me your vet quick.

The question is how long will
he last. We're 12 miles away.

Please, fellas, do what you can.

I'll pay for it.

Please don't let William die.

Well, I'm not sure.

It could be cardiac.

Lungs sound wet.
Could be a machinery murmur.

Wanna try EKG? Yeah.

Okay.

Rampart, this is Squad 51.
How do you read?

Go ahead, 51.

Rampart, we're sending you an
EKG reading. This will be on lead 2.

Go ahead, 51.

[MACHINE WHINING]

It looks like a right ventricular
overload. What's your BP? Quick!

Rampart, we're unable
to get a reading.

What do you mean?

Rampart, we have a goat here.



We have a baby goat, Doc.

It's a little girl's pet.

The pulse is bounding, we have a
machinery murmur over the precordium,

rates in both lungs.

We don't think it's gonna
make it to the animal shelter.

How busy are we down there?

We're not! And you people know
we can't treat animals here.

Have somebody get it to a vet.

Rampart, looks like
he's cyanotic.

We don't think it's
gonna make it to the vet.

What's your appraisal?



Have somebody get it
to a vet as soon as possible.

Sorry, that's
the best we can do.

10-4, Rampart.

Sounds like a
Patent Ductus to me.

And it's in a goat.

Why not? They get them.

No fooling!

Well, you heard the man.
I'm sorry.

Thanks anyway. We'll
try to make it to the shelter.

Here, why don't we
wrap him up in this?

At least it'll keep him warm.

He won't die, will he, Grandpa?

He won't die.

Les, we'll never gonna
get him to our place in time.

Then we'll try another place.

Rampart General.
That's three blocks away.

NEWSCASTER: All the animals at
the Gower compound have been

without food and water
for at least four days.

The owner of the compound,
Emil Gower, has been cited

for misdemeanor
cruelty to animals,

which carries a maximum
penalty of six months in jail.

Cruelty to animals is one thing

this reporter cannot condone.

They ought to give him life.

Can you imagine anybody leaving poor,
helpless animals to die?

No.

No, I can't.

How's he doing? Don't ask.

Just hurry.

Doctor, we got a little
problem here. Can I help you?

Are you in charge?

No, that's the man
you want to see right there.

Thank you very much.

Are you in charge here, sir?

Yeah, Kelly Brackett.

Doctor,
we got a real problem and it won't keep.

Animal Control?

You guys aren't
by any chance involved

in a call that came in
about 15 minutes ago?

Something about a goat.

Yes, sir, that's us.

But from what we understand, the goat won't
make it unless it gets treatment, quick.

I told our people out there
to tell you we're sorry

but we can't treat animals here.

He'll never make it back to the shelter,
Dr. Brackett.

And we sure don't
wanna lose him.

Now, he's out in the truck.

I'm sorry. Can't you do something
temporary, a sh*t, maybe?

Look, I wouldn't know
where to begin.

I've had no veterinary training.

And that little animal
won't know the difference.

Something's better than nothing.

I'm sorry, gentlemen. No!

[GOAT BLEATING]

[GOAT BLEATING]

If you won't treat this little animal,
I will.

[GOAT BLEATING]

You, too.

All right, we'll use three.

Let's hope it's a ductus.
Let's hope we can find it.

And let's hope we can ligate it.

Somebody set it up.

EKG monitor, thoracotomy airway,
all the hardware.

By the time you count to 10.

By the time I count to 9.

And you shut up.

Quiet as a mouse.

What shelter you work out of?

Carter Street, sir.

Just in time.

The disaster net,
Carter Street Animal Shelter, ASAP.

Carter Street Animal Shelter?

Yeah. Let's move it!

What's your vet's name?
Dr. Coolidge.

Soon as you raise them,
I want the vet out there. Name's Coolidge.

Let's go, mouse.

What's your disaster call?



That table's on wheels.
Let's move it in here.

PATTY: Carter Street
Animal Shelter. Over.

This is Carter Street
Animal Shelter. Over.

Get that vet on the line. Quick!

You're on.

Patty, Dave and I are
at Rampart General.

Put Dr. Coolidge on and hurry!

Will do.

Dr. Coolidge at the link,
and hurry, please!

What do you need?

Taylor and Gordon,
they're at Rampart General.

What, are they sick?
Dr. Coolidge here.

Doc, we got a little goat down.

What are you doing there?

Dr. Coolidge,
my name's Brackett,

thoracic and cardiovascular
surgeon at Rampart.

We have a small goat here.

Doctor, maybe I can help you.
Please do.

Doctor, we have an African Pygmy,
male, about 6 months.

I repeat. What's he doing there?

We can't be sure, but it appears
to be congestive heart failure.

Possible Patent Ductus.
Are PDAs common in goats?

Everything's common in goats.

Can we reach the ductus
with a left thoracotomy?

I've never tried it,
but that's the route.

You might try
the fourth intercostal space.

Kel, murmur's getting shorter.
Only systolic now.

Pulmonary artery
pressure's sky high.

We better cr*ck the chest
before we lose him.

Mask him down with 5% halothane.

When he's induced, intubate him.

All right, stand by, Doctor.
I'll be back to you.

Standing by.

You ever hear of a Brackett
over at Rampart?

Yeah. He's the guy that started
the county paramedic program.

One of the leading
heart surgeons.

Well now, what do you
know about that!

What's the matter
with that hand?

Oh, nothing to it.
I cut my palm. It'll keep.

You go on ahead. I can wait.

He can't.

They should have him
intubated by now.

KELLY: The animal is intubated.

Response?
Down to the third plane.

Remember, a goat has
a fenestrated mediastinum.

Be sure to get that airway
in before you open

or you'll collapse both
the animal's lungs.

Will do.

Make sure both lungs inflate.

They are, Doctor.

All right. Let's go in. Scalpel.

[MACHINE PUMPING]

You haven't said anything.

What's to say?

African Pygmy goat.

They're pretty delicate,
aren't they?

When they're that young,
they weigh a fast 12 pounds soaking wet.

And goats do have
cardiac failure.

Goats do?

Goats do.

Retractor.

Hemostat.

Hemostat.

Swab.

Clamp off that bleeder.

This one?

What did you do, sleep
through your animal medicine?

That one.

Collapse the left upper lobe.

Done.

Retract the aorta.

Swab.

I can't pull any harder,
it's too delicate.

I don't see the ductus,
do you? No.

Where is it?

Why isn't it where it's
supposed to be?

Because God didn't
make it that way, pal.

Re-inflate the lungs.

We gotta try and keep this
little guy in a holding pattern.

MIKE: Airway resistance is
going up. I'm hardly bagging now.

He won't hold much longer.

What do you know about goats?

About as much as you do, Doctor.

Thanks. I needed that.

KELLY: Coolidge. Right here.

We've explored.
We can't locate the ductus.

All right.

The ligamentum is more
proximal on the aorta.

Try to work your way
around the arch.

You got that? Not quite.

How hard can we
pull on the aorta?

Well, you shouldn't have to pull
too hard if you retract superiorly.

Got it.

This will never make
the hit parade.

Remote control surgery.

[MACHINE BEEPING]

He's drifting on us.

We're gonna lose him.
You better ligate and fast.

Eighty million bucks worth of hospital,
$150,000 worth of talent,

and we can't save
one damn little goat.

Hang in there, Doctor.

I think I just
located the ductus.

But you'll have to lower the
pressure to get better exposure.

You sure?

Why don't they give us a report?

Take it easy, Doc.

If you were there, you wouldn't
be any farther along than they are.

How do you know
how far ahead they are?

I'll tell you what
I'd like to know.

I'd like to know
if they located the ductus,

and if they did.

Will they want to lower
the animal's blood pressure

so that they can
get a better exposure?

That's what I'd like to know.

That's what you'd like to know.

Well, yes.

All right, let's
infuse nitroprusside.

We gotta lower the pressure.

Nitroprusside.

No, they wouldn't
use nitroprusside.

If they did use nitroprusside,
they'd let me know first.

Nitroprusside could
k*ll that goat.

COOLIDGE: Brackett!

Go ahead with the infusion,


He's sliding fast.

Brackett here.

If you're ready to infuse
a hypotensive agent,

nitroprusside's no good.
Animals can't handle it.

It could be terminal. Joe!

Not a drop went in. I just
remembered my animal medicine.

We are ready for
a hypotensive agent.

What do you prescribe?

I'd use trimethaphan.
And make it very dilute.

We're dealing with
a small animal there.

Hey, you want some coffee?

Me, too.

DISPATCHER ON RADIO:
Squad 51. What is your status?

Squad 51, available.

10-4, 51.

Got it ligated.

Piece of cake now.

You men like some coffee?

Later.

Later.

Dr. Coolidge,
we have a pinked up baby pygmy goat.

Vital signs normal.
We're closing now.

Well 2-0 silk on an
atraumatic needle should do it.

Yeah, Doctor, that much we know.

Of course you do.
Of course you do.

Those people over at Rampart,
they did all right on this.

I'd like to meet that fella,
Brackett, one of these days.

Well, why don't you
give him a call?

No, they're busy over there.
I wouldn't want to bother him.

Oh.

Tidy bit of surgery, Brackett.

We do good work, Early.

I agree.

[GOAT BLEATING]

That vet, Coolidge, I'd sure like
to meet him one of these days.

Why don't you give him a call?

I wouldn't wanna bother him.
He must be a pretty busy guy.

The court handed down the decree,
and the chimp is at the children's zoo,

and they were glad to get him.

This good-looking girl
is going to Animal Land,

and Emil Gower's going to jail.

[PURRING]

This is from Dr. Brackett
and all of us.

Now, you make sure William
wears it so he won't get lost again.

[BELL RINGING]

Thank you very much, lady.

Thank you so much.

Who's that?

[WILLIAM BLEATING] It's William.

We're gonna miss you, William.

William, William,
I love you, William.

KELLY: I had no idea the
tuition had gone up that much.

COOLIDGE: Oh, yeah.

My youngest girl wanted
to go to veterinary school.

I tell you, I've got
two other girls, you know,

I just couldn't afford it.

And you say
it takes eight years?

Pre-med, med, intern.

Same length of time to be
a DVM as it is to be an MD.

That's why there's
such a shortage.

Not anymore, Doctor.

You've got Brackett and Early.

Jim and Fred found him.
Vacant lot out in the valley.

It's Shaggy!

Are you sure, miss?

"Are you sure, miss?"