[rock music]
♪ ♪
- You gonna be OK out there, son?
- Yeah.
- We're going to go clean up the Airbnb
and get ready to check out.
- Meet you right here in two hours.
- OK.
- Go get 'em, Tiger.
- Reef?
Be careful.
- OK.
♪ ♪
[crowd exclaims]
- Whoo!
- Hey!
Morning, Cap.
- Morning, lieutenant.
[cheering]
Phew.
How are we doing?
- Six rescues already, and the waves are getting bigger.
- All right.
- I did most of them too, so it's somebody else's turn.
- Getting dangerous.
Tide's dead low right now.
Only a couple of feet deep in the takeoff zone.
- High diving into a kiddie pool.
- Yeah, that's-- that's pretty good.
You make that one up yourself?
- Oh.
- Yep. - Here we go.
♪ ♪
[crowd exclaiming]
- He's down. Count it.
- Three, four, five, six.
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
He's up. - All right.
- Hey.
- Surfed Pipe before?
- No.
- Paddle straight out as hard as you can.
The current's going to drag you north.
Just keep paddling.
- Don't get caught inside.
- And don't get in anybody's way.
- Scared, man?
- Yeah.
- Good.
♪ ♪
- Whoa, all right,
move everybody back before someone gets sucked out.
It's getting lively.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, let's go, guys.
Everybody move back. Move back.
Come on. Let's go.
- Em? - Yeah?
- Get ready.
- I think he got knocked out.
- I see him.
- The ski's going to need help.
- Go.
- Yep.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Damn it.
♪ ♪
- OK, we're set.
Go, go, go!
♪ ♪
Rolling in three, two,
one. - [grunts]
- You good? - You got another 10, 15 feet.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Keep going.
- Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Take the head.
- Yep, got him.
- Nice and slow.
- Get on those compressions.
- One, two, three--
- Come on. Come on.
Come on, man. Breathe.
Come on.
- Eight.
- Breathe. - [coughs]
- Roll him. Come on.
- OK.
- Bring him back down, OK?
- Good. - I've got it.
- All right, guys, on me.
One, two, three, up.
Let's go.
- Male, was unconscious.
Did one cycle of CPR.
Came through A&O times three.
- Hey, can you hear me?
Can you push against my hands?
Great.
Now pull your feet towards your head.
Great. OK.
- Can you lift your arm up?
- Any numbness or tingling?
- You're going to be fine.
Hey, what's your name? - Reef.
That's a cool name.
Where are you from, Reef?
- Florida.
- OK.
- Hey, you got lucky, Reef.
Welcome to the North Shore.
- We're ready.
- Take a deep breath, Reef.
[siren wailing]
[rock music]
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- Welcome to the North Shore.
District 7.
♪ ♪
- Getting dangerous.
♪ ♪
- Go, go, go!
♪ ♪
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- Zion!
Zion!
- [inhales sharply]
[sighs]
- You look tired.
- Wow.
Thanks.
- You sleeping OK?
- No, not really.
Bad dreams.
- Well, it's only been a month since Zion died.
How are you holding up?
OK.
Probably not what you want to hear right now,
but me and you are up for recertification.
- Yeah?
- You want me to push it?
- Nope.
- Are you sure?
- I'm all good.
By the way, I got a plate lunch says I beat you.
- You wish.
- I already told you, I can't pick them up today, Mom.
- Hey, I'll meet you over there.
- It's my last day of training, Mom.
If I fail, I'm out.
- How are your sisters getting to school?
- Well, they can take the bus. I don't know.
I don't know what to tell you.
I gotta go. Bye.
- Hey.
- Hi.
- Any other women in your recruit class?
- Nope.
- Where are you from?
- North Shore.
- Right on.
Good luck.
- Thanks.
- OK, this is when it really counts.
1,000-yard run, 1,000-yard swim in 25 minutes.
Run, swim, run, 100 yards each in three minutes
and a 400-yard paddle in four minutes, no breaks.
Pass, and you're a lifeguard for the city
and county of Honolulu.
Fail, see you next year.
- Every lifeguard, including these guys,
has to pass this test annually to recertify.
Ready? - Good luck.
[Wet Dreams' "Boogie"]
- Go!
♪ ♪
[singer vocalizing]
♪ ♪
- Whoo!
[applause]
[panting]
- Welcome to Ocean Safety, everyone.
These are the captains and lieutenants
from the seven districts on O'ahu.
Together they lead the best Ocean Rescue teams
on Planet Earth.
You are now a part of that.
A lot of tradition, a lot of responsibility,
so don't screw it up.
Hina Alexander, get over here.
This wahine just made the rest of you
look fat and out of shape.
Hina put in for District 7, the North Shore,
and because she finished first, that's where she's going.
- Yes.
[applause]
- Uncle Sonny, she's all yours.
The rest of you will hear from HQ in a couple days.
- Hey, I thought I had you there for a second.
- Really?
I didn't.
[Taz Vegas' "Don't stop the Children"]
- ♪ Taz Vegas ♪ - Ya, mon.
- ♪ N-N-N-Notch ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Irie Love ♪
♪ ♪
[music continues in background]
- [chuckles]
- Ugh, that's hilarious.
- [laughs]
I thought so.
- I get it, mate.
- You're pissed.
- I'm not pissed.
I don't blame you for wanting to be a fireman, Will.
You're a good cook.
[clears throat]
- You're on patrol, Laka.
So you're serious about this fireman thing, huh?
- Yeah, I'm gonna give it a go.
They make more money.
- It's not about us, is it?
- I love how you think that two years and me being engaged
is just still not enough to get over you.
- Wow. - Uh-huh.
- OK. I was just asking.
I didn't mean to make it weird.
- Oh, it's too late now.
- Uh-oh, here we go.
Swell's coming back up.
We should get the ski in the water.
- Yes, ma'am.
- Will, you're going to miss this.
- I'll get over it.
[mellow rock music]
- [breathing forcefully]
Councilman.
- Captain Jennings.
- Yeah.
- You recognized me.
- Well, it's not too hard.
Your campaign posters are pretty much everywhere.
- This place could use a facelift.
- Yeah, well, you know, we take what we can get.
- Working with some old equipment.
- Thin on personnel too, if you're asking.
- I have a son who just finished Ocean Safety training,
Kainalu Emerson.
- That's your boy, huh?
Yeah, did well.
- Yeah, I'd rather he'd stay in college,
but he's got his heart set on doing this
and working on the North Shore in particular.
I was hoping you could give him a chance up here.
- Councilman, I'll be honest.
I'd like to, but we've got a tradition in Ocean Safety.
The first in class gets to pick their assignment,
and your boy came second.
- Second.
Ocean Safety has to fight for its funding every year,
and you are the busiest division in emergency services.
- Yeah, we are, and we do.
- I'd like to help with that.
- That would be great.
- Well, we need to do better up here, clearly.
- [whispering] Yes!
[Rootdown's "All I Wanna Do"'
- ♪ Come on now, girl, let's hang out ♪
♪ The sun is sweet, the shade is soft ♪
♪ And your kiss is mine ♪
♪ I wanna kick it like we did in the summertime ♪
- What's up, Uncle?
- What's up, boys?
- Want to buy a watch?
It's $50 bucks.
- If you guys are ripping off on my beach,
I'ma slap the dumb out of both of you.
- We just found them on the shore break.
Found this too.
- Let me see this.
Here.
All right, you guys are done.
Go home. Get out of here.
Go home.
Stay out of the shorebreak too.
- Bit harsh, mate.
- Oh, whatever, I let him keep the ring.
- All you.
- Mm-hmm.
Morning, can I, uh, help you?
- I think so.
Room and cell number's on the back.
- Don't do it, mate.
- Bro, this job is wasted on you.
See, you got the accent and everything.
[light percussion music]
♪ ♪
Oh, my God.
I'm in love.
- [yelping]
- Are you all right?
Oh, my God. What happened?
- [indistinct] Ow!
- [chuckles]
Duty calls.
- Ow, ow, ow!
Ow! Ow! Ow!
- Are you all right?
- Hey, hey, hey, hey.
- Ow, ow, ow. It burns a lot.
- Come on. - It's burning.
It's burning. - You'll be fine.
- Why won't it stop?
- Come on, don't touch it.
Let me take a look. All right.
You're gonna be OK. It's just a jellyfish sting.
It's not the bad kind. You'll be all right.
- A sting? - Breathe.
- I can't get sting-- you don't understand.
I have a bee allergy.
Ow!
- It's gonna be OK.
- Call an ambulance now.
[gasping] Ow!
- Requesting EMS support.
- Ooh.
- Yeah, 10-4.
Hey, mate,
she's a keeper.
- Kainalu Emerson?
- Yeah, that's me.
- Captain Jennings.
Welcome to District 7.
Excited to have you.
- I'm excited too.
This is where the action is, right?
- Yeah.
District boundaries are Kaumana to the east
and Nakoa Point to the west,
which means we're the largest district on the island
in terms of coastline and the most remote, all right?
We're short staffed.
Winter, got the big surf contests, all that stuff.
Summer used to be slow, but not anymore.
- Awesome.
I'm ready for it.
- Well, I hope so.
You come highly recommended.
- You mean, my dad's Clayton Emerson.
- All right.
Memorize these, response locations.
You start tomorrow.
- I'm stoked.
You won't be sorry.
- Man o' war get her?
- Yeah, thinks she's allergic.
Elevated heart rate, mild arrhythmias, trouble breathing,
and some swelling, so we just gave her oxygen, hot compress.
- When I was a kid, they said you were supposed to pee on it.
- Oh, maybe later, right?
- Yeah.
Here.
Hey, don't-- don't listen to him.
He's--he's descended from convicts.
But are you, like--are you new?
- From Kaua'i.
Came to O'ahu last year and trying to get into med school.
Was driving out to the North Shore to surf,
figured I might as well work out here too.
- Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure, for sure.
Hey, um--[clears throat]
We should-- we should probably grab
a beer sometime since we're--
we're colleagues.
- Yeah, OK.
- All right.
Cool. Cool.
See that?
- Colleagues? [siren blaring]
- Shut up.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- All right, listen up, everyone.
- Sorry.
- This is Kainalu Emerson.
New to Ocean Safety and new to District 7.
All right, let's help him out, show him the ropes.
Y'all got your assignments?
Let's get out there.
- Hey, Cap? - Yeah.
- What happened to Hina Alexander?
- Well, we got Emerson instead.
- But Alexander won her class.
And she's born and raised here, and she's a woman.
I don't think we should pass her up.
- It's my call, Em.
- But why?
- Because his dad is Clayton Emerson.
- The guy running for mayor.
- No, the guy who's going to be the next mayor.
Em, we need more towers, all right?
We need more guards, we need new equipment.
And his dad is the guy that's going
to make that happen or not.
- Yeah.
OK.
- Look, I don't love it either, but this is an island
and it's who you know.
It's the same it's always been.
[DENM's "My Wave"]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Put the chair on my front lawn ♪
♪ Let the party go on ♪
♪ I could sit here all night long ♪
- Thanks for filling the cooler, big guy.
- Oh, good, we're friends again.
- Depends.
You still taking the fireman test?
- Yep.
Well then, it looks like I'm just going
to keep drinking your beers.
So I heard we're getting a new guy?
- Yeah, political hire.
I guess Cap thinks it's going to solve all of our problems.
- What's his story?
- Mayor's kid or something.
- Hey, did you hear that?
Kissing this kid's ass is going to be
your best chance of getting into the fire department.
Lucky you, man.
- ♪ You already know ♪
♪ ♪
Well, team, team, it's been fun.
I gotta beat.
See you. You know what?
Here. Thank you!
- ♪ You already know ♪
- You are a patient man.
- Yeah, well we sit in a 6x6 tower together all day.
We gotta get along. - Mm.
[music continues in background]
- I--I lied, you know.
You are one of the reasons I'm joining the fire department.
- Come on, dude.
- It's not me, it's Julie.
She's--[sighs]
she hates that we work together.
- Really?
Still?
- I know.
She just can't get past it.
- Bummer.
- Mm-hmm.
- Well, you want me to talk to her?
- Hell no.
[both chuckle]
[people laughing, screaming]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
You look rested.
- I should have stayed with you guys.
- What, she wasn't worth it?
- No idea.
- Do you even remember her name?
- Will, Laka,
this is Kainalu Emerson.
He's with us today.
- Good to meet you.
Yeah, don't mind him.
He just can't take his medicine.
- Just so you know, he's only being nice to you
because you're the mayor's kid and he wants to be a fireman.
- Well, my dad's on the city council,
but the mayor's election is a month away.
You should vote for him.
- I don't vote.
- You still complain though, right?
- You better be good.
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- Let's go right here.
- [whistles]
Hey, man. I got something.
Check it out, a gold chain.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[grunts]
♪ ♪
- Josh?
Josh?
- So let me get this straight.
You got beat by a girl in training?
It's your first day as a lifeguard,
and you got assigned to the North Shore.
It really does pay to know people, huh?
Let me guess.
Punahou?
- Yup.
Buff 'n Blue, 2018.
- Rich kid.
How'd I know?
- Yeah, where'd you grad?
- Roosevelt.
- Right on.
We should have a spelling contest.
- Swimmers in distress near Keiki Beach.
Towers and mobile units, please respond.
- 10-4, responding now.
[dramatic music]
What, are you ready?
♪ ♪
- Grab the backboard.
Come on, move!
- Come on!
Em and Will is going to meet us on the skis.
- Where's Keiki Beach?
- It's 1,000 yards west.
- 1,000 yards?
- Yeah.
We're the closest tower.
Hang on, let's go.
- You put your budget requests in?
- It's a waste of time.
I never get a damn thing I request.
- You gotta keep asking.
- Yeah, I heard you took on a new hire to help you with that.
- I'll put in a good word for you.
[laughter]
[hip-hop music playing]
- There goes somebody's daughter.
♪ ♪
- Yeah, mine.
- How's she holding up?
How are you holding up?
- Swimmers in distress near Ke Ike Beach.
Towers and mobile units, please respond.
- All right.
- It'll be great, they said.
You get to work on the beach, they said.
[siren wailing]
[dramatic music]
- I can't feel my legs.
- Just try and-- just try and float, OK?
OK?
Just hold on.
The lifeguards are coming.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Hey, call it in,
then get down there.
Tower 76, mobile 2 requesting EMS support.
Location 2-5-6-alpha.
- Here, get on the ski.
- He can't feel his legs.
- All right, you get on.
I've got him.
Here, hold this.
[siren wailing]
- What the hell?
♪ ♪
- All right. Get him on the rescue board.
There's too much reef.
I can't beach the ski here.
- One, two, three.
Roll him. - All right, I got him.
- Good? - Yeah.
- Come on.
- Set! - OK!
- Come on, come on!
- Come.
Go get the backboard. Go.
Get the med kit. Hurry!
You're all right, you're all right.
Hurry!
Get the strap, come on. - Put the C-collar on.
- You're all right, buddy. You're OK now.
- Take off his mask, please.
♪ ♪
- Just give us a little bit of space.
Thank you.
Hey, what month is it, mate?
- I'm not sure.
- When's your birthday, buddy?
- January 11.
- There we go.
- The white. The white, man.
Strap him.
- Did you call it in?
- Yeah, 2-5-6-alpha.
- That's 100 yards away, my guy.
What are you doing?
- Let's go. Let's grab him.
- Can you come here for a second?
- We gotta get going. - We're carrying him.
Up in three, all right?
One, two, three, up.
♪ ♪
- What the hell?
- Hold on. Just hold on.
Come on, let's get him on.
Come on.
You're going to be OK, you hear me?
Hang in there, buddy.
- What the hell happened?
[panting]
- That's 100 yards away, my guy.
What are you doing? Let's go, let's grab him.
- Can you come here for a second?
- We gotta get going. - We're carrying him.
Up in three, all right?
- I won't read you the comments,
but they're not good. - It'll blow over.
- He didn't know the response locations.
- It was the kid's first day, all right?
Laka should have called it in himself.
- We have to know the person sitting next to us
in the tower knows how to do their job.
- OK, when it's your turn to be captain,
you can do it your way.
Until then, we're doing it mine!
- Uncle Sonny, I'm on your side.
- Sorry.
- It's OK.
If you need me, I'll--
I'll be around.
- [sighs]
- Sorry I missed Darren's party.
Work's been nuts.
- What's going on at work?
- I don't know.
I guess I'm mainly worried about Uncle Sonny.
- Yeah? Why?
- Well, you know those kids who got
lost swimming out from Yokohama last month?
- The one where the search and rescue helicopter crashed?
- Well, one of them was Uncle Sonny's nephew.
I know, and when I say nephew, I mean it was like his kid.
I mean, Zion idolized Uncle Sonny.
- Ouch.
- Yeah.
You know, Sonny has always been steady.
You know, no drama, no surprises.
Lately, he's just...
he's been making decisions that--
- That what?
- That I wouldn't make.
- There it is.
- What?
- Come on, you've been wanting to be captain
since the first time you climbed into a tower.
Is it possible that maybe all of this
worrying about other people is to distract you?
- From what?
- ♪ Down here in the rain fields ♪
[Tom Rhodes' "Low Tide"]
♪ Outside of the glow ♪
♪ ♪
♪ My world's getting smaller ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Oh, no, oh, no ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Blue skies in daylight ♪
♪ ♪
- We're doing OK.
Ocean, Auntie Jarrah.
Ocean could be doing--
doing better.
I just wish you were here to set her straight.
She'd listen to you.
She doesn't listen to me.
Your mom still won't talk to me.
- ♪ We're falling down ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ ♪
- I'm sorry I wasn't there for you.
- ♪ Ooh ♪
♪ We're falling down ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ We're falling down ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ We're falling down ♪
♪ Alone ♪
♪ ♪
[Sydnee B's "Revelation"]
- ♪ Tell me, what is up with the hating? ♪
♪ We preach peace, but it's war that we're making ♪
♪ Let one love be our destination ♪
♪ I think what we need is a revelation ♪
[music fades in background]
♪ Tell me, what is up with the hating? ♪
♪ We preach peace, but it's war that we're making ♪
♪ Let one love be our destination ♪
♪ I think what we need is a revelation ♪
♪ ♪
- Yes, I've seen the videos.
- Maybe you can explain to me just what the hell
happened out there.
- Well, EMS got called to the wrong location.
- Do you know how bad this looks?
- Yes, sir. I know exactly how this looks.
- [indistinct speech over phone]
- Look, I called it in.
- You called it in?
[indistinct]
- Yes, I'll make a full report.
- [indistinct]
- Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
- That the chief?
- Yeah.
- Well, he sounded pissed.
- Oh, he was.
- OK.
Why are you smiling?
- Because he approved a funding request for a new tower
and two new rescue skis.
- What? - Yeah.
He's no fool.
He knows who the next mayor is going to be.
He also approved a additional hire,
and I requested Hina Alexander.
- That's great.
OK.
Thank you.
Cap?
You OK?
- It's my job to be OK.
There anything else?
- I scheduled our recert 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
- Still got a plate lunch says I beat you.
- Good work, Cap.
[mellow music]
♪ ♪
You ready?
- Yeah.
- Hey, guys.
Come here.
I want you to meet Hina Alexander,
the newest member of our team.
This is Will, Laka.
- Good to have you on.
- Where you from?
- Right down the road.
- You grad Kahuku?
- Yeah.
- I forgive you.
- Hina Alexander, Kainalu Emerson.
- Yeah, we've met.
- Hello, hello.
Some lunch from Reef for you guys.
- Aw. - Hey.
- We're headed back to Florida and wanted to say thanks.
- You didn't have to do that. Thank you.
- We're glad you did. Thank you.
- Thank you. Thank you so much.
- Thanks a lot.
- Thank you. - Aw, you're the best.
- Thank you.
Can we--can we get a picture with you all?
All of you? - Yeah.
- Please, right here.
- Come on, everybody.
Reef, get in the middle.
- Let's get you in the middle, mate.
- Yes.
- All right, guys.
- Looking good.
- Stop. Easy.
- [laughs]
- Oh, that's perfect.
Perfect.
[camera shutter clicks]
- Thank you.
Thank you all so much.
- Right on. Thank you guys.
- You take care, all right? - Yeah.
- Mahalo. Bye.
- Safe flight back to Florida.
- They brought it for you too, bro.
- It's good to see you.
- Is it though?
- Ooh.
[chuckles]
Looks like you're in for a good time, bro.
- So you both know the drill.
Let you guys slide on the run-swim-run
if you want, let the 1,000 yards count.
- Hell no.
- Ready?
- Yeah.
[The Crutch's "Keep On Risin'"]
♪ ♪
- Go.
- ♪ Whoo ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Everybody knows ♪
♪ Where I'm gonna go ♪
♪ Take a thousand roads ♪
♪ Just to find the show ♪
♪ Yeah, take what I see ♪
♪ You can take from me ♪
♪ Feel that ocean breeze, baby ♪
♪ And that desert heat ♪
♪ ♪
♪ The rising line, yeah ♪
♪ Oh, no, no, no ♪
♪ And I'll keep on keepin' on ♪
♪ Until the morning comes ♪
♪ Tryna end the night ♪
♪ ♪
♪ All right, whoo ♪
- Nice.
- Come on, Captain. Come on.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Gotta keep on keepin' on ♪
Still the boss, bro. [chuckles]
- Oh.
- Man. - Animal.
- Nice. - Nice.
- Come here.
Whew.
All right.
Get out of here.
- Hey, it's easier to break off an engagement
than get a divorce, am I right?
- Shut up. - [laughs]
- All right, party's over.
- Good job.
- Oh.
Thank you.
- Mm.
Em, good job.
[mellow music]
- So, breakfast on you?
- Wait, no.
You're paying.
Plate lunch says I beat you, remember?
- Ow.
- Oh, come on.
Will, back me up.
- He's still my boss.
[soft music]
[mellow music]
♪ ♪