♪ Rah, rah, ah-ah-ah-ah, roma, roma-ma ♪
♪ Gaga, ooh-la-la ♪
♪ Want your bad romance ♪
♪ I want your ugly, I want your disease... ♪
All right, you've got 20 minutes to convince me
this was a good idea.
Excuse me. Negroni.
-WAITRESS: Coming right up. -Thank you. I don't usually
have time for blind dates, but they kicked me out of the lab
for some kind of facilities improvement.
It's very inconvenient. We're trying to push the boundaries
of human knowledge and we got to stop for what, maintenance?
It's ridiculous. Thank you.
Now, tell me about you.
What do you do? What makes you love it?
Me? It's-it's my turn?
That's why we're here, isn't it?
Well, I thought you was just gonna be monologuing all night,
the way you came in like that.
Excuse me? Like what?
Like someone who doesn't have time for anybody.
I don't sound like that.
You've got 20 minutes to convince me this is a good idea.
I sound like that.
You sound like you're about to snap somebody in half
with that tongue of yours.
♪ Roma-ma, Gaga, ooh-la-la ♪
♪ Want your bad romance. ♪
So, you're trying to become an astronaut, then?
Well, they don't let people like us go to space.
-Hmm. -But it's fine. I like the lab.
♪ No matter what I do... ♪
I'm really glad my friend was a no-show tonight.
Your friend?
Yeah, I was supposed
to meet my friend here for a drink,
but he didn't show up.
Y-You're not my blind date?
And you didn't think to mention that earlier?
I was having too much fun.
Me too. Oh, my God.
I can't believe I got stood up.
I'm gonna kill Howie. (chuckles)
Wait. Did you say Howie?
Yeah, my neighbor.
Howie Han.
Hey, Hen.
Drinks must have gone well.
-Han, what did you do? -What needed
-to be done. -Set me up on a date
without even talking to me about it?
Well, when you put it like that...
-That's psychopathic. -Listen.
Hen, you need to move on from Eva.
You weren't gonna do anything
yourself, so I just gave you a little...
-nudge. -I don't-I don't need
a nudge, and that woman is not even
my type.
Hen, your type is losers. You need to make
a change. Just give this one a chance. I know
Karen can be kind of intense,
but after a couple of a tequilas, she's kind of funny.
This could be a really good rebound for you.
Listen, she's-she's obnoxious.
That woman thinks she's God's holy gift to the human race.
You should have heard her when she sat down, like I was some
charity case that she was taking pity on.
Yeah. That sounds awful.
So when are you seeing her again?
Friday.
They want to know how long you've been doing your job.
(laughs) Are they trying to make me feel old?
(laughs) Listen, just be flattered
that our son thinks your job is cooler than mine.
How many careers beat firefighter?
Your job is cool, too, Mama. I just can't go to work with you.
Oh, okay. I guess that makes me feel a little bit better.
Plus, you're not really a firefighter anymore.
Yeah.
-Oh. Oh. -Oh. Oh, sorry.
It's-it's okay. I got it. I got it.
Oh, oh, oh. All right.
Here we go.
What...
These are your resignation papers.
-Yeah. -I thought you resigned already.
Turning in those papers...
makes it real.
Well, the longer you put this off,
the more you're gonna torture yourself.
Go talk to Bobby.
Then we can move on to the next chapter.
Dr. Wilson.
I'll go this morning.
Eat up, Denny. We got to get going.
When did you know you wanted to work in space exploration?
July 18, 1983.
My parents woke me up at 4:00 in the morning
so I could watch Sally Ride become the first American woman
to fly in space.
-Did you want to be an astronaut? -Thought about it.
Just wasn't in the stars.
That was really bad, Mom.
-(laughing) -(laughing) I know. I know.
You could have humored me a little bit, though.
-Tough crowd. -Way too early for that.
♪ Mustang Sally ♪
-♪ Guess you better slow your Mustang down... ♪ -(shutter clicks)
(indistinct chatter)
♪ What I said, now ♪
♪ Mustang Sally, now, baby ♪
♪ Oh, Lord ♪
♪ Guess you better slow ♪
♪ Your Mustang down ♪
♪ Oh, yeah... ♪
-Denny. -What are they doing?
Our drivers must be testing out programming for our vehicles.
We work very closely with the Rover projects with them.
You call them drivers?
KAREN: They're the ones who figure out
the right sequence of maneuvers
to get the robot to do what we want it to.
What do you want this robot to do?
Detect the presence of extraterrestrial life.
♪ Is ride around, Sally ♪
♪ Ride, Sally, ride... ♪
The Galilean Moons Sample Collection and Testing Robot.
We call it "Beaker."
It's a mobile chemistry lab.
The robot will be able to take water and soil samples.
Then run tests to detect the presence
of the elements needed to support life.
-Good morning, Zainab. -Morning. Hey, Denny.
-Hi. -Ready to see some science happen?
I got permission from the folks over at ADAM
to take us over there to see a simulation later this afternoon.
An asteroid diversion mission.
They want to move an asteroid? Like Armageddon?
Yes, but maybe don't say that when you see them. (laughs)
Hey, you can put your stuff over there. Alvin won't mind.
(sighs) How is Alvin this morning?
Then you drop it.
-(indistinct chatter) -What?
What is that?
BOTH: Science fight.
Guess I got to go break it up. Again.
Can I watch?
-No. No kids in the lab. -(phone chimes)
Oh. And also... no phones.
VICTOR: Everybody else is your problem.
I've been working on this project for five years now.
I'm telling you we cannot do that.
All I'm saying is this is our future, and we're gonna
-get left behind if we don't do something big. -VICTOR: No.
That's not that way it works. I think that policy should...
What are they arguing about?
...Troposphere.
♪ ♪
-Hey. -(muffled arguing continues)
-VICTOR: ...the stated purpose of our mission! -ALVIN: Well, maybe we should
change the purpose of our mission.
KAREN: Guys, guys, lower our voices.
Hitu is trying to work.
She's not even paying attention to us.
(laughing): If it were only that easy.
KAREN: Hey, what's the problem this time, Victor?
-Nothing. -Alvin reconfigured
the collection compartment. He removed
-the witness tubes. -HITU: Okay.
Now I'm paying attention. The witness tubes are a crucial part
-of the testing protocol. -What are the witness tubes?
They test the atmosphere at the collection sites
for contaminants that might
-interfere with our test results. -KAREN: We've already
-signed off on the interior dimensions. -VICTOR: Wait for it.
Look, I-I want to include a storage compartment.
-In case we find something cool we want to retrieve. -VICTOR: Hmm.
He's hoping to find an alien
and then bring it back to Earth.
KAREN: Alvin,
why don't you get back
to the clean room and let everybody
here get back to work?
I promised microdevices we'd have those numbers
over to them by 11:00.
Thank you.
HITU: So I'm guessing
no alien compartment, right?
Correct.
(knocking)
-(laughs) -Oh. Deidra, hi.
-Hi. -It's been a while.
-Good to see you, Hen. -Yeah, uh, come on in.
(chuckles)
Um, I don't
see any foster kids,
so I guess you're not here to do an emergency placement?
No, Karen already explained your situation,
and I've taken you off of our emergency placement list.
And I've told her
that I would drop this off.
She expressed some interest in hosting
some outreach events even though you can't foster anymore.
-Wait. What? -Mm-hmm.
Karen told you that we weren't fostering any more children?
She said you're starting your third year at medical school.
And that's a demanding schedule.
Yeah, but it's just another year or two.
And then, start your residency.
Life as you know it is about to change.
When do you send it into space?
Not for a few more years. We have to make sure every
little thing about it is in perfect shape,
and then we have to figure out
the best way for it to complete its mission.
-Karen? -Hmm?
I just experienced something odd with the high pressure tank.
-What happened? -I was extracting a sample,
but when I went to open the valve, I got shocked.
It's outside the parameters of my experience so I just...
-so, I wasn't sure if I... -We need to stop using that tank
immediately until the techs can get a look at it.
-Did you tell anyone? -I just came to find you.
Okay, let's go.
Denny, let's go.
(muttering)
(machine whirring down)
Interesting.
(phone ringing)
Hi, Mama.
Oh, oh, hey, honey.
You having fun down there?
It's been pretty cool, except they want
to catch an alien, and Mom won't let them.
Well, I'm sure your mom has her reasons for that.
Hitu, don't!
Aah!
D-Denny?
Den-Denny, are you there?
(helicopter blades whirring)
(indistinct chatter)
YIM: Barry, Nina, I want you to start
at the southwest corner and work your way up.
-Hey. Captain Nash, 118. -Byron Yim.
-I'm the captain here on campus. -What's your status?
YIM: Evacuation's in process. Damage seems
to be confined to one of the labs
on the southeast corner of third floor.
We don't know exactly what might have gone wrong at this point.
-Where do you need us? -Split our manpower.
PFD will clear the rest of the building
while your team contains any fires at the origin
and sweeps for casualties from the initial blast.
Copy that. All right, guys, suit up. We're heading inside.
Isn't this where Karen works?
-Yep. -Do you guys think Hen knows?
Yep.
-Oh... -Mama!
Are you okay?
I-I'm okay, but Mom didn't come out with us.
I didn't want to leave, but Zainab said we had to go.
It's okay.
It was the right thing to do.
She was in the lab?
-I think so. -Okay.
I'm gonna go inside and find Mama, okay?
You stay with Zainab.
-What do we know? -Not much. We're headed
inside now to put out some fires and look for survivors.
Okay. I'll suit up.
Hen, no, you're not going inside.
What? My wife is in there. Of course I am.
You are not a firefighter anymore
and you're too close to the situation.
I love you. Now let us do our jobs.
Bring her back to me, Cap.
Guaranteed.
(knocking)
(door opens)
KAREN: Where were you?
Hey. I'm sorry I was late.
The traffic was, you know, traffic.
I was starting to think I really did get stood up this time.
♪ Troubled mind ♪
♪ Troubled mind all time ♪
♪ Troubled mind... ♪
Hen?
Are you gonna come in?
Okay. The truth is I was actually
sitting outside in my car,
trying to decide if I should come in.
Ah.
And...
it took you 26 minutes
to decide you should?
-Am I really that terrible? -No.
No. No.
Well, then what took 26 minutes?
You know, someone like you--
you seem... serious.
I'm-I'm... I'm not sure I'm ready for serious.
Well,
I don't have to be serious.
("Crimson and Clover" by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts playing)
♪ Now I don't hardly know her ♪
♪ But I think I can love her ♪
♪ Crimson and clover... ♪
(panting)
Oh!
♪ I've been waiting to show her ♪
♪ Crimson and clover... ♪
(door opens)
Hen.
Ooh!
-Shut up. -(laughing)
Hey, where you going? Don't you want to carpool?
BOBBY: Guys, keep your eyes peeled for any victims who didn't
make it all the way out.
(alarm blaring)
(woman shouting in distance)
Okay, everybody be aware, we are entering an area
with toxic gases, pressurized oxygen and organic peroxides.
All right, once we're inside, everybody keep
a close eye on your air.
Eddie, I want you to get the saw. We're gonna have to
-cut through, piece by piece. -On it, Cap.
BUCK: Looks like the sprinkler system
was destroyed in the explosion, Cap.
We got spot fires everywhere.
All right, Buck, I'm gonna put you in charge
of coordinating putting those fires out.
-I'll grab CO2s. -All right, go, go, go.
All right, guys, get in, get in, get in, get in. Let's go.
♪ ♪
We're in, Cap!
All right, let's move.
All right, go, go, go, go.
Chim, clear.
No pulse. Brain matter's on the ground. He's gone.
All right, Chim, you keep looking for survivors.
Buck, start spraying.
I'm on it, Cap!
-EDDIE: Got a live one. -BOBBY: Sir, are you okay?
Can you walk?
All right, Ortiz, evacuate this man.
-Sir, you're gonna go with him. Go, go, go. -I got you.
Check over there.
Okay, first fire's out.
BOBBY: Hey, LAFD. Anyone hear me?
-LAFD. -KAREN: Here. Over here.
Here.
We got someone missing arm.
Karen, are you all right?
I want you to take this. Breathe in and out.
Denny was here today. Is he okay?
Denny is fine. He's with Hen.
Hen's here already?
Yeah, they're good, they're good. I got her, Karen.
Get in here, guys.
CHIMNEY: Complete amputation of the arm. We got to clamp
that artery and make a junctional tourniquet.
-Karen, are you injured? -Oh, nothing serious.
Just some bumps and bruises, a couple of cuts.
Hitu got the worst of it. Just focus on her.
She's tachycardic and hypotensive.
BP is 60/30. It's dropping fast.
EDDIE: Brachial artery's retracted
up into the shoulder. I'm gonna have
-to go searching for it. -BOBBY: Okay.
How soon do you think we can move her?
CHIMNEY: We'll work as fast as we can,
but we got to clamp this major artery first.
BOBBY: All right, let's make it happen.
Karen, can you help me? Keep her head steady?
Okay. Tilt it that way. There you go.
Nice and steady.
Okay.
Eddie, how we doing with that clamp?
Still looking for that artery.
BOBBY: Buck, what's your ETA? Karen needs an escort out.
-On my way, Cap. -BOBBY: All right. Karen?
-Karen, it's time to go. -No. I'm-I'm not leaving.
I'm not asking. Buck is gonna take you down.
Denny and Hen are waiting for you outside. Let's go.
Well, I should stay with her. She's my responsibility.
She is in the best hands, and we're gonna be
right behind you. Let's go.
Let's go.
(Eddie grunting)
I got it!
Okay, you guys got the tourniquet on,
now let's get her ready to move.
Copy that.
On it, Cap.
Hen?
Athena. What are you doing here?
Toni called me.
She was afraid you might do something fool-headed
and try to force your way inside that building.
Bobby wouldn't let me.
How long have they been inside?
20 minutes. Feels like forever.
-It'll be soon. -WOMAN: This guy's bleeding.
MAN: We need some help over here.
-WOMAN: Oh, my God. -(grunting)
-WOMAN: Somebody, please! -What the...
Oh, my goodness.
(gurgling, grunting)
Hey, take it easy. Hold on, hold on!
Take it easy, easy. Take it easy.
Take it easy. Okay, hold on. Take it easy.
-Take it-take it easy. Calm-calm down. -Easy, easy.
We're looking at cranial and facial fractures.
Coolant...
He wants-he wants to write something.
-Okay. Okay. -(groaning)
I need a paramedic and a med kit.
Here. Here.
(grunting)
-Oh... -Whoa! Sir. Sir.
-What does is say? -Okay.
ATHENA: "Coolant danger. Warn them."
Then I come home from work the next day, and discovered
she'd stolen all my shoes.
-Your shoes? -Mm-hmm.
All of 'em?
Even my slippers.
Well, if that's your craziest ex story, you're doing good.
Why?
You got better than stolen shoes?
Lying facedown, handcuffed in front of my apartment
while a cop searched it for drugs.
Eva.
My first love.
My only love, I guess.
And you know the thing that I remember most
about that morning?
The whole time
they were searching...
she never looked at me.
Not once.
Uh...
did you not know?
I mean, I suspected she was using, but I...
(scoffs) I had no idea she was dealing.
I-I'm sorry. I know it's a lot.
I would understand if you wanted to, uh...
...break out now.
-(alarm blaring) -MAN: Help!
Did you hear that?
Probably nothing. We-we already cleared this floor.
Well, I... I swear I heard something.
(groaning in distance)
Oh, I-I heard that, too.
Hey, hey, wait, K-Karen, stop!
-(man groaning) -BUCK: Hey, let me go first, okay?
Just-just stay behind me.
-KAREN: You okay? -I fell, hurt my leg.
-BUCK: Can you stand? -I hit my head.
I could only make it in here.
I tried to get up, but I'm... I'm too dizzy.
Okay, I'm gonna carry you out,
and the paramedics outside will take a look at you, okay?
All right. Just get in here.
-Okay... -(Colton groans)
ATHENA: Captain 118, this is Sergeant Grant.
-Go for Captain Nash. -We have a young man
out front who seems to have been in one of those labs.
-Wait, wait, wait. Stop. -He's got on a white
plastic suit.
KAREN: That's Alvin. Is he okay?
ATHENA: Hen is working on him now.
He kept trying to warn us.
Athena, what did he say?
He said, "Coolant, danger, warn them."
The clean room.
Bobby, you need to get to the clean room lab
and make sure nobody opens that door.
With the coolant system disabled, there's no control
on the combustion systems inside the device.
An infusion of oxygen will cause a dangerous fluctuation.
What does that mean, Karen?
The room is a bomb and the door is the fuse.
Copy that. Soon as you can get her out, you move.
You do not wait for me. All right, Karen, talk to me.
Where am I going?
I'm trying to do a blind intubation,
but I... I can't see the cords.
I need you to put pressure on the cricoid.
Right here.
-The-the what? -Adam's apple.
Then half an inch below.
You put pressure there.
Good. Okay, let's try this again.
Cricoid pressure. Now work and release.
There's just too much blood. I can't see a thing.
Mm-mmm. I'm gonna try to do one more thing,
and if that doesn't work, we're gonna have to trach him.
I need a bougie.
One down, one to go.
All right.
We got it.
(alarm blaring)
BOBBY: Captain Yim, This is Captain Nash,
come in.
Anyone got eyes on Captain Yim?
FIREFIGHTER: He's not responding.
YIM (in distance): All clear!
PFD.
BOBBY: You okay, Captain?
YIM: How'd you know it was gonna do that?
BOBBY: Inside information.
(indistinct chatter)
Oh...
You're okay.
Oh.
DENNY: Mom!
I'm okay, baby.
KAREN: A baby?
Yeah, Eva was, uh... pretty sketchy
with the details on the father, but she's...
...definitely pregnant.
Definitely looking at about
at least three to five years in prison...
I don't understand. Why would she call you?
Well, she wants me to take the baby.
To adopt him.
It's a boy.
(scoffs) Wow.
That's a hell of an ask.
How did she react when you said no?
Hen.
You told her no, right?
I... I-I didn't say yes.
(scoffs) But...
you didn't say no.
After everything that woman did to you...
Why would you even take the call?
What?
"An inmate is calling from blah-blah wherever..."
You knew it was her
and you chose to accept the call.
Yeah, she doesn't have anybody else, Karen.
She doesn't have you either.
Or least she's not supposed to.
I thought we were building a life together.
We are.
We're here.
In this house.
And we have all this space...
That you want to fill with your ex-girlfriend's kid.
Do you know how insane that sounds?
Can you put your jealousy aside for one minute?!
This it's jealousy, Hen.
You always said
that you regretted not taking a stand with Eva earlier.
Well, this is me.
Taking a stand.
You need to tell her no.
And what if I can't?
Then she walked out.
CHIMNEY: So, what are you gonna do?
HEN: I don't know.
It's so messy and complicated.
We bought a damn house together.
I never imagined that I'd need a lawyer
to break up with my girlfriend.
(short chuckle)
Hen, I know you don't want to hear this, but...
This is not about Eva.
Not in the way that you think it is.
Okay, so, how is it?
(sighs)
Eva's using--
it didn't come from a recreational place.
The wounds she was trying to block out
are old and deep.
I couldn't heal her
and I couldn't save her.
But you can save the kid.
Feels like someone in this story should get a happy ending.
Zainab, thanks for looking after Denny.
I was so worried.
Of course. I'm just glad you're okay.
-Yeah. -I just...
I just got lucky.
Are you okay? You sound a little...
Oh, I'm fine. I'm fine.
I just... I have to catch my breath.
ATHENA: Oh, thank God.
Captain Nash?
-Thanks again. -Take care. You bet.
-(hyperventilating) -Kar-Karen?
Ka-Karen, Karen. Karen!
Karen. Karen.
Karen, can you hear me?
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, Karen.
She's in V-tach. Pushing epi.
Let's shock her.
BOBBY: All right. Okay, clear.
CHIMNEY: Karen, are you there?
What do you want, Howie?
Karen,
-I don't know how to say this. -What, Howie?
Karen, Hen is dead.
♪ ♪
What? Wh...
What are you talking about?
Okay, okay, she's not. I'm sorry. Hen is not
actually dead, but-but she had
a pretty bad near-miss accident
-last night. -What the hell, Howie?
You can't just say stuff like that.
I know. I just, I...
We had a really tough call.
And it was rough
and there was a minute when I thought Hen was dead,
and it scared the crap out of me.
KAREN: And
you decided to pay that experience forward?
Yes.
-Look... -(sighs)
look, I know you two broke up.
And I just thought you needed to know
what it would feel like
if you woke up tomorrow and you found out
Hen wasn't in this world anymore.
-Howie. -Karen,
you think about that before you get
on that plane, okay?
Goodbye, Howie.
And I'm so sorry, Karen.
I'm so sorry.
WOMAN: Attention, passengers on the flight 2112 to Houston.
This is your last call for final boarding.
Flight 2112...
HEN: Karen! Come on, baby.
You can do this.
-Okay, let's go again. -Clear.
Nothing.
Come on.
Come on, baby, you can do it.
-(exhales) -Uh. Hi?
Oh, my God.
Are you okay?
Never better.
Hen, what happened to you?
What are you doing here?
You don't live here anymore.
-Howie said you got hurt. -(groans)
I'm gonna kill him as so...
soon as I can get back on my feet.
-Don't touch me. -Let me help you.
I don't need your help.
I don-I don't want you here. Just go.
I'm sorry.
I made a mistake.
I was calling you, you wouldn't answer.
And now... (scoffs)
Why are you here?
Because I thought you were dead.
When Howie called,
there was a moment when I thought
you died in that accident.
When I felt like
I'd lost you forever.
And it scared me.
To think of you being gone.
Never having a chance to
fix things or try again.
Karen, it's too late.
It's not.
As long as we are both here on this Earth...
As long as we have tomorrow,
it's not too late.
Okay, we've got a normal rhythm.
(sobbing)
(indistinct chatter)
(panting)
Oh... How's she doing?
Karen's out of surgery. They removed her spleen.
It must have gotten nicked
when the tank shrapnel pierced her abdomen
and then it burst when she got outside.
But you can live without a spleen, right?
Yeah, people do it every day.
She's gonna be okay.
They're gonna hold her for observation,
but she should be able to go home
in a couple of days.
(indistinct announcement over P.A.)
Hey, hey, there, hey, there.
-(groaning) -(chuckling)
Oh, thank God.
We were so worried about you.
Uh, is...
is everyone okay?
-Hitu. Uh, my team? -Yeah, yeah.
Alvin and-and Hitu--
they'll-they'll need some time to heal,
but they're gonna to be okay.
Oh, yeah?
And-and everyone else, they...
they got out with minor scrapes and burns.
And Zainab, she's...
she's in the waiting room.
She was so concerned about you.
Victor?
I'm sorry.
-He died in the initial blast. -Oh, God.
-I'm so sorry. -Oh, God.
Denny?
Denny-- what did he see?
He's fine. He's fine.
He's fine. He's sleeping over at Toni's till we're back home.
Was he scared?
Just worried about you.
We all were.
Right.
I thought I'd lost you.
(laughs)
Nope.
Still here.
(both laughing)
(Karen groans)
I asked the nurse to, uh...
to give me some kind of a cot or something so that I could...
stay here with you tonight.
No. Go home.
No, Karen. I'm not...
Denny...
needs you.
He comes first.
Mama?
Oh, hey.
Hey, sweetie. You couldn't sleep?
No.
When's Mom coming home from the hospital?
I think it's gonna be at least another day or two before that.
But she's okay, right?
Oh, yeah, she's gonna be fine.
Little bit of rest and she'll be back to herself.
I was really scared.
I'm glad you were there to save her.
Me too.
Okay. You want some cocoa?
Yeah.
You get the cups and I'll get the milk started.
Okay.
(cupboard opens)
(cupboard closes)
Mama? You coming?
Yeah. I'm coming.
(baby cooing)
Are we supposed to take him out of the carrier?
Uh...
Feels weird to have him on the coffee table.
You know, I don't....
He doesn't seem to mind.
I mean, or we could call your mom and-and ask her.
No, no.
She will take that as an invitation,
and we will not be rid of her until he leaves for college.
(giggling)
We can figure this out together.
Yeah.
(coos)
-(phone dings) -And with the help of Google. -Yes. Yes.
-(cooing) -Google.
Okay.
Hey.
-It's official. -What?
Senate votes 63 to 31 to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
-(chuckling) -(gasps)
-Finally. -So, what--
does this mean I'm about to be living with an astronaut?
Oh...
Do you have any idea
what that would entail?
There's no way I can do that with a baby.
But Karen, this was your dream.
It was.
Now I have a new one.
Here on Earth.
With you.
And Denny.
-(Denny crying) -Oh. Uh... -Oh, oh, all right.
-I-I'll grab the bottle. -I'll grab the baby.
-Okay. -See?
Teamwork.
We got this.
-HEN: All right, easy. -(grunts)
Slowly.
-Oh... -Here we are.
We got you set up on the couch.
We made you a little recovery room
-(chuckling) -so that you don't have to get up
and move around as much.
Hen, I'm fine.
You are not fine,
and don't try to argue with me about it.
♪ And when your hope ♪
-♪ Starts to fade... ♪ -(door closes)
You heard your doctor.
You're on strict bed rest.
Don't make me give him a call.
♪ Don't be afraid... ♪
Oh. (groans)
I hate this part.
(Hen chuckles)
And blowing up would have been a better part?
You know what I mean.
Endless hours of TV, book after book,
magazine after magazine, just...
waiting for the body to heal itself.
Waiting is mind-numbing.
(chuckling) My wife.
The Eveready Bunny. (laughs)
Well, I have to be.
'Cause my wife is starting year three of medical school.
And somebody's gonna have to pick up the slack around here.
I'm not.
I'm going back to work,
not med school.
H... Hen,
I-I'm gonna be back up on my feet soon.
-You don't have to quit... -Listen, someone told me,
recently, that my life as I knew it
was gonna change completely.
Oh, okay. But we knew that, didn't we?
I'm not sure I did.
I mean, I was-I was dreaming
of being a doctor, but I don't think
I really considered the reality
of what I'd have to give up
or miss out on.
Being a firefighter, being a mom,
being your wife?
That's what matters to me.
Grammy helped me make you a cake.
(chuckles) Thank you, sweetheart.
Come here.
I-I need another hug.
Are you gonna hug me every time I come into the room?
Yes. Yes, I am.
Did Mama tell you she's gonna be a firefighter again?
Oh...
Yeah, she did.
How do you feel about that?
I think her uniform's cooler than scrubs.
I mean, so, clearly, I've made the right decision.
(chuckles)
Hen, are you sure?
That was your dream.
♪ You're not alone ♪
♪ No matter how ♪
♪ Far away ♪
♪ Look to the sky... ♪
I love you.
I love you, too.
♪ Right there by your side, oh... ♪
This.
This is my dream.
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