S03.E08: In The Unlikely Event Of An Emergency

[SuzieQ]

20 hours ago, eel21788 said:

The 911 call in the opening was about her. The bike messenger ran her down, but she pushed the baby's stroller out of the way.

Thank you!!  I must have been multi-tasking😄

[Raja]

59 minutes ago, iMonrey said:

 I don't understand how TK was still employed as firefighter/EMT since he was so addicted to drugs that his mother knew to find him sleeping in a drug den? 

 

59 minutes ago, iMonrey said:

Best guess: he never tested positive for drugs on the job, and never did anything that required a drug test (he pointed out to his mother he had never missed a shift or been derelict on the job) so nobody knew, and then Owen managed to provide a cover while he was in rehab. That said, if he was that far gone that his mother had to search seedy, run-down drug dens to find him, it's hard to believe none of his co-workers knew about his drug problems. 

My best guess would be that most employers give a second chance, especially if you take yourself to rehab before getting caught a second time. Now maybe an agency with security clearances might have a problem but with every third TV detective being a recovering addict of some kind T.K still being a medic and firefighter rings true to me.

[eel21788]

On 3/1/2022 at 7:10 AM, marceline said:

When Carlos came running onto the tarmac telling TK "I thought I was never going to see you again!" I thought "Shouldn't you be used to that feeling by now?" I mean TK has spent half this show nearly dying. 

Shouldn't Carlos have already been on the 11o'clock flight by the time this drama started? He wouldn't have known what was going on until he arrived in NYC, and they weren't there.

[eel21788]

20 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

It sure looked like they were going to have to amputate the victim's arm. Glad this show doesn't go there.

The severed artery was in her armpit. Amputating her arm wouldn't have helped.

[eel21788]

28 minutes ago, Raja said:

My best guess would be that most employers give a second chance, especially if you take yourself to rehab before getting caught a second time. Now maybe an agency with security clearances might have a problem but with every third TV detective being a recovering addict of some kind T.K still being a medic and firefighter rings true to me.

If you're a nurse in the state I live in, you have a hearing in front of the board where you explain how you intend to rehabilitate yourself. The board decides if your plan is acceptable.

[possibilities]

2 hours ago, eel21788 said:

Shouldn't Carlos have already been on the 11o'clock flight by the time this drama started? He wouldn't have known what was going on until he arrived in NYC, and they weren't there.

They missed the earlier flight because of TK going to the fire station, so Owen and TK were on the 11 o'clock flight, but since they were last minute, there were only 2 tickets. Carlos was going to take a later flight, so he hadn't left the ground yet. I don't think they said what time his flight would be, but it was going to be later. They made it deliberately vague, I think, what time anything happened. 

[eel21788]

1 minute ago, possibilities said:

They missed the earlier flight because of TK going to the fire station, so Owen and TK were on the 11 o'clock flight, but since they were last minute, there were only 2 tickets. Carlos was going to take a later flight, so he hadn't left the ground yet. I don't think they said what time his flight would be, but it was going to be later. They made it deliberately vague, I think, what time anything happened. 

I thought they all chose to be on the 9:30am flight, instead of the 11:00am. When they missed the 9:30am, Carlos got them seats on another flight that he had rejected previously because it only had two seats available (and magically those two seats were together and right over the wing; not the two middle seats in the two back rows, which is what I have always encountered when I buy the last seats on the plane). Carlos was then moved to the 11:00am. 

[gonzosgirrl]

3 hours ago, eel21788 said:

I thought they all chose to be on the 9:30am flight, instead of the 11:00am. When they missed the 9:30am, Carlos got them seats on another flight that he had rejected previously because it only had two seats available (and magically those two seats were together and right over the wing; not the two middle seats in the two back rows, which is what I have always encountered when I buy the last seats on the plane). Carlos was then moved to the 11:00am. 

I guess they weren't that long in the air since they turned around and went back to Austin. I imagine people started calling from the plane as soon as the window went out  so word spread around the airport and Carlos would have chosen to stay even if his flight wasn't grounded while they waited for the emergency landing to either work out  or not.

[Demian]

On 2/28/2022 at 11:23 PM, anna0852 said:

I give it one more season before baby brother comes to Austin for Reasons and we get TK and Carlos as parents. Because this show runs on soap.

I give it one episode.  And in that episode, the baby, like, chokes on something so 9-1-1 must be called, and TK has to perform a tracheotomy on his little half-brother that might result in TK's little half-brother ending up with permanent brain damage, just so TK can suffer some more.

[Demian]

On 2/28/2022 at 9:48 PM, gonzosgirrl said:

Perils of Pauline TK

P.S.:  The above is brilliant.

Edited March 3, 2022 by Demian

[eel21788]

On 3/2/2022 at 7:44 AM, Trillian said:

That pissed me off. When the call taker found out she wasn’t breathing, she should’ve talked him through compressions, not just given up.  

I'm thinking she probably did still have a pulse; the messenger just wasn't able to find it. You need a beating heart to have blood streaming out of your wound. If your heart has stopped, there is nothing pumping the blood anymore. It just pools and coagulates.

Chest compressions would have just made her bleed out faster.

[possibilities]

Didn't he say she wasn't breathing?

[eel21788]

5 hours ago, possibilities said:

Didn't he say she wasn't breathing?

Your heart can keep beating for a few minutes after respirations have ceased. That's how you get "brain death."

[ninjakid]

TK is just taking up the mantle of John Gage from the original Emergency! My sister used to call that show "John Gage: Paramedic in Jeopardy"

[Raja]

34 minutes ago, ninjakid said:

TK is just taking up the mantle of John Gage from the original Emergency! My sister used to call that show "John Gage: Paramedic in Jeopardy"

I remember Gage getting bit by a rattlesnake. And being with DeSoto recovering from something at Rampart .

[Bruinsfan]

Some very good acting out of Ronen Rubenstein and Lisa Edelstein.

On 3/2/2022 at 8:50 AM, tennisgurl said:

Really, if this is what TK's entire life has been like, he cant even go on a plane without it almost falling out of the sky, no wonder he ended up doing drugs. The universe is clearly out to get him. 

I'm waiting to see if before Rob Lowe's departure from the show we get a flashback to Owen pissing off an old Romani witch and getting cursed like in Drag Me to Hell. I mean, we've seen cancer, a Caddyshack-style electrocution by lightning, a firefighter getting killed by a volcano in Texas, Grace and Judd being T-boned, an arsonist blowing up the Firehouse, a murderous sheriff hunting Owen's new illegal immigrant friends in the middle of the same snowpocalypse that TK almost froze to death in, Gwyn being killed by a bicycle, and now not only is there an engine problem and an explosive decompression on the way to her funeral but the window that blows out just happens to be on the row where Owen and TK are sitting.

Edited March 4, 2022 by Bruinsfan

[Demian]

On 3/2/2022 at 9:50 AM, tennisgurl said:

Really, if this is what TK's entire life has been like, he cant even go on a plane without it almost falling out of the sky, no wonder he ended up doing drugs. The universe is clearly out to get him. 

Hee!  Absolutely agree -- I'd be hiding in hard-to-find drug dens and mainlining heroin too, if the universe planted so obvious a target on my back.

[mojito]

On 3/1/2022 at 8:53 PM, juliet73 said:

Why didn't Owen just facetime Tommy about the Genevieve's injuries?  He wasted precious time trying to explain to her what was going on, then filming a video, sending it to her, having her watch it, etc.

He didn't have the app on his phone, I guess. I would've been in the same predicament.

Was anyone grossed out when TK put his hand in the toilet bowl, pulled out the bottle, and started drinking? Ugh. 

Remember a time when we were afraid to go near anyone else's blood? Glad we're past that. For now.

Could not believe how I reacted as the plane was landing. Until the moment when they showed the passengers in the plane when the plane thumped only once and then rolled, I didn't feel necessarily caught up in the tension. 

 

[TVForever]

On 3/1/2022 at 1:15 AM, possibilities said:

I'm surprised a bike is enough to knock over and kill someone. Are NYC delivery bikes motorized?  

I grew up in NYC. Trust me, those bike messengers were SCARY. They go at top speed (no motor required) and have the added advantage/menace of being able to weave in-between the cars. You don't want to be a pedestrian getting hit by one.

On 3/1/2022 at 12:30 PM, Lady Calypso said:

 

The plane stuff was alright. I would have expected that lady to be more injured, to be honest. 

Thinking the same!  Being sucked halfway out of such a small opening, and then spending several minutes on the outside of a plane traveling at 500 MPH? 

That's got to cause some serious damage...

[Raja]

1 hour ago, TVForever said:

 

Thinking the same!  Being sucked halfway out of such a small opening, and then spending several minutes on the outside of a plane traveling at 500 MPH? 

That's got to cause some serious damage...

I do believe that the victim of Southwest 1380 survived long enough to make it to a hospital

Edited March 8, 2022 by Raja