Third Watch · Season 5, Episode 15
Kim (to Doc): Why are you in your blues?
Hey, Kimmy, I'm not going on the street today. Excuse me.
Wait, listen, Doc I need to talk with you, just... (Doc pulls out a gun and shoots Steeper in the stomach)
Like I said, I'm not going on the street today.
Kim (when Steeper is shot): Let me help him.
15 minutes.
What?
15 minutes.
Please!
What are you talking about?
Hey, hey, when he closes this house the people in this community will have to wait at least 15 minutes for medical or fire response. See, I did the math, calculated the response times. Isn't that how you do it, Jack?
He doesn't listen, Kim, so we gotta put it in terms he can understand.
All right, well, we're all listening, okay? We're all here. We're all listening. So why don't we just...just calm down, okay?
No. I'm... I'm calm.
All right.
I told you I wasn't gonna let this house close.
By letting a man die?
No, no, he doesn't have to die. All he has to do is see what 15 minutes feels like when you need help!
This is Doc we're talking about? Doc Parker?
Yes, Doc Parker!
Crazy.
(voice breaking) Well, he really hasn't been all right lately.
Where in the hell is he gonna get a gun?
Oh, guns are hard to get all of a sudden?
Shouldn't we just knock on the door first?
We don't wanna tip him to anything.
We're talking about a guy we know here.
We're talking about a guy with a gun. We gonna hang here and head over there later with a mop and bucket?
And your way of handling it no one gets hurt, right?
Carlos (to Doc): Do you understand what you've done?
Yeah, yeah. I'm keeping them from closing the house, just like I told you I would.
You shot a man.
Yeah, I had to.
Had to? That's...you might need real help.
It's gotta be eight more minutes, and I thought you'd understand.
Here's what I do understand: I'm not letting this man die on the floor of my firehouse.
Hey, you better sit back down, Carlos.
If he dies, you're a murderer.
Sit down!
You wanna shoot me? Shoot me.
(seeing Steeper on the floor of the firehouse) Oh my God. Doc did that?
Not the Doc we know.
(in the ambulance on the way to the hospital) I went to funerals...hundreds...the families...I didn't know them. I never was in the field.
I'm losing his pulse.
We're almost there.
I only knew how to work the numbers...but the numbers never balanced that day...
It's okay, Cap.
They never balanced...
I don't think they're gonna close it now.
What? This house?
Yeah.
No way. No way they're gonna close this house. You saved it.
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