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Stock Shot: Outside Lanier house. Day.

Scene: Lanier Kitchen.

(Val and Brooke are there. Joanna enters.)

Joanna: I'm home. Val, Brooke, honey, guess what? Great news. The doctors say Dad can come home on Monday.

Brooke: (Excited.) Monday? That's great. (Hugs Joanna.)

Val: (Worried.) Are they sure that's not too soon?

Joanna: Absolutely. And boy is he ever ready. He wants to clean the garage, re-seed the lawn and organize his office all on his first day back.

Val: Well he, he can't. That's too strenuous.

Joanna: (Laughs.) Tell him that.

Val: His heart needs time. . . (Cut off by beeper. Checks it and runs out the door.)

Stock shot: Ambulance driving. Sirens and horns. Day.

Scene: Inside ambulance.

(Hank is driving.)

Val: So all we know is an unconscious adult male?

Hank: Yeah, somebody found him in the park. We don't know if he's hurt, sick, or drunk.

Val: Oh man, I hate these calls.

Tyler: Val, gloves. (Hands a pair to her. There's writing on the inside of her wrist.) Ah, new tattoo. (Jamie's watching the conversation.)

Val: Oh, it's a reminder to buy lawn bags. I wanna get the yard work done before my dad gets home.

Tyler: He's coming home? Val, that's so great!

Val: (Doesn't sound convinced.) Yeah it is, I hope so.

Scene: Park.

(Hank is walking toward the victim.)

Someone Off Screen: I got it.

(Hank leans down to check breathing.)

Tyler: How's he doing?

Hank: He's not breathing!

Someone Off Screen: This is bad.

Tyler: Not getting a pulse

Val: And he feels awfully cold.

Tyler: Too late.

Val: Too late? Are you sure?

Hank: It's not our call. Give me a number ten oral airway and start resuscitation protocol. (Supplies are passed. Shot of another ambulance arriving.) Start compression.

Val: And one, and two (Continues off screen. Shots of other ambulance unloading. Older paramedics.) And three, and four, and five, and six. . .

Jamie: (Overlapping Val. Off screen. To the crowd that's started to form.) Okay folks, move out of the way please. We've gotta let these guys through, okay? (Says something else covered up by Val.)

Val: . . .and seven, and eight, and nine, and ten, and eleven, and twelve, and thirteen, and fourteen, and fifteen.

Hank: Stop compression. (Takes pulse.) Start compression.

Val: And one, and two (Continues off screen. Shots of the other paramedics unloading a gurney.) and three, and four, and five, and six, and seven, and eight, and nine, and ten.

Paramedic: We'll take it from here.

Hank: Yeah, I think he's gone. (Val looks upset. Our team starts packing up. Val holds back a little and watches the paramedic make the call.)

Paramedic: (Into radio.) Home base, this is five-one-eight. We've got a code five: Obvious dead. (Shot of Val looking near tears.)

[Opening Credits]

Scene: Lanier Kitchen.

(Brooke's at the counter with the laptop and Val walks in with clean laundry in a basket.)

Val: Brooke, I really need the computer. Now. I have to do my history paper footnotes.

Brooke: As soon as I finish proofing mom's résumé. She's got a huge job interview today.

Val: Hmm, okay. A job for mom beats my footnotes. (Digging through the laundry basket. Holds a shrunken cheerleading sweater up to her chest.) My cheerleading sweater! What happened?!

Brooke: (False hope.) It might still fit.

Val: Who? Mini me? How, how can a computer guineas be so clueless about washer/dryers.

Brooke: Don't know, I just. . .freeze up.

Val: (Groans.) I need a new sweater before the game. (Puts sweater back in the basket and rests hand on either edge of it.) Where's my list? Ay. (Sighs.)

Stock shot: Outside station. Day.

Scene: Jamie and Hank at a counter. Music: "These Are The Days" By Quistaday

Jamie: (Sifting through papers.) Ugh, I can't do this anymore, my head is throbbing. (Picks up a video game.)

Brooke: (Comes in.) Hey, no paperwork, no video game. (Reaches over counter and takes it.)

Jamie: (Mad.) Can she do that?

Hank: (Amused. Gets up and walks away.) She just did.

Brooke: (Camera follows her. Her face drops in shock a little. Cut to Val walking in looking kinda bad.) Val, uh did you get a new sweater in time. . . (Val holds up the shrunken sweater. Cut back to Brooke) Never mind. (Hurries away.)

Tyler: You look kinda bummed.

Val: Yeah, major. The team won. (Sets bags down and starts trying to stretch out the sweater.)

Hank: We thought that was a good thing.

Val: Usually. But I don't have time for a playoff game that's a three hour bus ride away. I've got, I've got a paper due, a Spanish midterm, a house to get ready before my dad comes home and a sweater so tight that my arms fell asleep. (Crossing the room. Puts sweater over the door handle to try and stretch it out.)

Tyler: You know Val, you don't have to do everything. (Hank's pouring himself more coffee behind Tyler.) We could help you.

Val: (Leaning back to stretch the sweater.) Oh thanks, but no. I've pretty much got things under control. (Pulls a little more, then falls on her butt. The guys laugh. Tyler moves to help her.)

Brooke: (Enters. Sounds worried.) Hey you guys, there's a hurt kid out front.

Scene: Outside station on the sidewalk.

(The squad plus Brooke and the kid (Nick) are all there. Nick is in roller blades and he's on the ground. We can assume he fell.)

Nick: Ow.

Hank: Okay, take it easy. What's your name.

Nick: It's Nick. I fell.

Brooke: I turned to empty the trash and when I turned back he was on the ground.

Hank: Did you hit your head?

Nick: No, it's my knee.

Tyler: Nothing seems to be broken.

Nick: Who are all you guys?

Tyler: We're an Emergency Medical Services team.

Hank: Can you move your leg?

Nick: Yeah.

Hank: Do you think you can stand?

Nick: I guess. (Tyler and Hank help him up.)

Hank: Now tell me if you feel dizzy.

Val: No contusions or abrasions.

Nick: (Taking off the helmet.) I don't get this, I mean you guys are just in high school. (To Brooke.) You look like you're only fourteen.

Brooke: Actually, I'm twelve.

Nick: Twelve? Wow, me too. They let you do medical stuff?

Brooke: No, I do office stuff. Like file reports. I don't read them of course, they're confidential. I just file them. By date.

Nick: Reports, sounds interesting.

Jamie: (Sarcastically.) Oh it's our favorite, most thrilling part of a job. She's gonna want a report on you now.

Nick: (Puts helmet on.) No need for that. Feeling much better now. Thanks.

Scene: Walking inside. Through garage.

Jamie: (Throwing gloves away on the way in.) I say we shouldn't have to do any paperwork because that was not a real call.

Hank: He sure wasn't hurt as far as I could see. I think he faked the whole thing.

Brooke: Any why would he do that?

Val: Oh, maybe because he has a crush on someone.

Tyler: (Mocking.) Twelve? Wow, me too.

Jamie: (Mocking.) Reports, oh, sounds interesting.

Brooke: You know, you all owe me paperwork from yesterday. (Starts handing out stuff. Turns to Val.) And you still owe me the supply inventory. It's your week.

Val: I know, I know that Brooke. I just haven't had time.

Brooke: Well it's a little hard to ride Jamie when my own sister's behind on stuff.

Val: Okay, I'm sorry. I'll do it, I promise. (Adds it to the list on her wrist.) See, it's on the list. (Holds arm up.) See?

Scene: Val's Spanish class.

Senorita MacKenzie: (Handing back papers) Lanier, rough. (Puts a paper on Caitie's desk.) Mejor.

Caitie: (Happy.) A 'C'? (Loudly.) Alright!

Senorita MacKenzie: (Taps Caitie's shoulder.) Shh. Shh. (Bell rings. People start to leave.)

Caitie: My mom will be so happy I finally made it up to average. Could probably squeeze a toe ring outa her for this. (Noticing Val's silence.) Hey, what's the matter?

Val: I got a D.

Caitie: Yeah right, a D?

Val: It's the worst grade I've ever gotten in my life. (She and Caitie are on their way out of the room now.)

Senorita MacKenzie: Val, it's not like you to blow a midterm. It is thirty percent of your grade and these are the years that go on your permanent record. (Val looks near tears.) This is no time to let your grades slide, hmm. Bien.

Caitie: How freaked are you?

Val: (Looks a little better. Clearly an act.) I'm fine.

Caitie: You're not. Huh look, Val, I just got a better grade than you did okay, so either you're not fine or we just stepped into an episode of the X-Files.

Val: It's no big deal, I just need to budget my time better. (Walking in the hallway now.)

Caitie: What time? Do you even sleep anymore?

Val: I'll sleep on the bus to game.

Caitie: Oh, forget the game, you're exhausted. You've lost weight. Anyway, don't they have those, um, cheerleader clones standing by?

Val: Yeah, they're called alternates.

Cindy: Hey Val, here's the new cheer against the Bulldogs. And the tune is "Livin' La Vida Loca"

Val: (To herself.) Beating those Bulldogs cross-eyed.

Caitie: Encouraging violence with a salsa beat, huh. That's really sick.

Cheerleader: It's not violence, it's football. (To Val, who's taking notes on her arm again.) We have practice Wednesday, spirit meeting Thursday. (Walks away.)

Caitie: Okay, look. Let one of those alternates cheer this game okay, you need a day off. Just catch up on some sleep, maybe even hang out with your best friend. . ."

Val: Caitie, I can't let the team down.

Caitie: Why, because you're hooked on being Super Val?

Cindy: Val, I almost forgot, you're still helping with the bake sale, right?

Caitie: (Whispered to Val.) Look, just say no.

Val: (Whispered to Caitie.) It's too late, I already said yes. (To Cindy.) Sorry, when, when do you need me?

Cindy: Um, I don't know, lets go check the schedule.

Val: Okay.

Caitie: Val, this is a sickness okay, you need help.

Val: Bye. (Walks away.)

Caitie: (Left in the hallway. Calling after her.) Look, I'm not kidding.

Scene: Outside station.

(Nick is crouched down outside a window with a camera.)

Nick: (Talking into camera.) It's called Emergency Medical Services. (Switch POV so we see what the camera is filming.) But in this reporter's opinion it's a disaster waiting to happen. No no, cut. (Waves hand over lens. Beep. Every beep is another try.) No no. (Beep.) It's a scandal about to explode. (Beep.) Take three. It's a catastrophe. (Beep.) Cut! Okay, it's something I'll think of later that means really bad. (Turns camera on Caitie walking down the sidewalk. Still camera POV.) Here we have total proof of the unsavory type seen entering the station.

Scene: Caitie walking through the garage.

Caitie: (Approaches Tyler who's working at a gurney taking inventory or something like that.) Uh, Tyler?

Tyler: Hey Caitie, Um Val's not here. (Crosses floor and sets a clipboard in the back and take out a container of something.)

Caitie: Uh yeah I know, uh actually I kinda. . . (Sees what the container says.) Medical waste? Uh, I really didn't need to see that before breakfast.

Tyler: Breakfast? It's one o-clock.

Caitie: So? What, don't any of you people on the super squad ever sleep? No wonder you're wound so tight.

Tyler: Super squad? Well that's a nice attitude from a goth sloth. (Walking away.)

Caitie: Okay, wait, look, it's about Val! (Stops and turns.) I'm worried. She's been in such, like hyper-drive lately, it's like she's not there.

Tyler: Yeah, well she's had a lot of extra stuff to do at home. You know since her dad and all.

Caitie: Yeah, exactly, so why didn't she un-volunteer for like, the bake sale? I mean she blew a midterm. And like, and yesterday, she was walking around the whole day with the back of her shirt untucked. Val.

Tyler: I know. I know, she's gotta slow down.

Caitie: Yeah well, I mean I told her and she totally didn't hear me, you know?

Tyler: Well, what did you say?

Caitie: Slow down, basic English. You know I'm different, not stupid.

Tyler: Okay, you know what? Take it easy. I mean, I thought you were worried about Val?

Caitie: Uh, yeah. No, I am. Which is why I want you to talk to her.

Tyler: Me?

Caitie: Yeah, you know, I figure maybe you can get through, like, you know, perfect person to perfect person.

Tyler: Yeah, well uh, I'll try. You know, anything for Val.

Caitie: Since she likes ya so much she might actually listen. (Smirks and walks away.)

Tyler: Really? Why, what did she say?

[Commercial Break]

Scene: Outside Lanier House.

(Val is practicing her cheer with the words in one hand and a broom in the other. Tyler and Hank are doing yard work.)

Val: (To herself.) Beating the Bulldogs. Pivot. Turn. Pivot. Turn. (Does the moves as she says them.) Beating the Bulldogs. And step, and turn and shake, shake, shake.

Brooke: (Enters with a shovel held out in front of her.) Why is it the bigger the dog the less they like to poop in their own yard?

Val: The same reason the dumber the cheer the harder it is to learn. Hey, we still have to get dad's welcome home present. How's tomorrow after school?

Brooke: Soccer practice. Thursday?

Val: Cheerleading. Friday?

Brooke: Computer lab and piano.

Val: Oh which you gotta practice. Now. (Walks a little.) Oh wait, Friday's no good, I have to help Cindy price the bake sale.

Brooke: And Saturday morning's the game.

Val: Okay, you make the card, I'll buy the gift. I thought maybe a new robe, kinda encourage him to take it easy?

Brooke: As if.

Val: Well he might, if we can get everything done. (Something buzzes in the background.) Oh, that's the laundry. (Runs inside.)

Scene: Lanier yard.

(Hank is raking leaves and Tyler us supposed to be helping him, but he's just leaning against the rake and watching Val.)

Tyler: Caitie is right. I mean Val doesn't stop.

Hank: Yeah, I wish I could say the same about you. Hey since you're the one who volunteered us, how come I'm the one who's doing all the work?

Tyler: Sorry, I've just been trying to find a chance to talk to Val.

Hank: Fine. But now you be the one to haul lawn bags and I'll be the one to watch Val. Let you know when she's open. (Val exits the house.) She's open.

Tyler: (Runs to Val.) Hey, how bout a break?

Val: Oh sure, you want some lemonade? I can go make some.

Tyler: No no no, I meant you should take a break. Just relax.

Val: Yeah, give me four more hours in a day and I'll relax.

Tyler: Val. . .

Val: What?

Jamie: (Rides up. Gets off his motorcycle and takes his helmet off.) Sorry I'm late, I overslept. (Fixes his hair.)

Val: Oh, that's okay. Helping with the yard work is such a total favor.

Jamie: I did the supply inventory last night so you can cross it off your arm. (Hands Val a piece of paper.)

Val: Jamie, thank you. I'll pay you back.

Jamie: It was fun. I got a box of expired IV bags. They splatter pretty good if you drop 'em off a building.

Tyler: Now how come I never thought of that?

Hank: What's up?

Val: Jamie did my paperwork for me.

Hank: Now that is a true friend. Just like a true friend wouldn't let another friend do all the heavy work. (Glances at Tyler who just laughs.)

Val: With the inventory out of the way I can get the yard work done today.

Tyler: Today?

Val: Oh no, you guys, you don't have to stay, you've already done so much. (Challenging.) Besides, I doubt you'd be able to keep up. (Elbows Tyler in the side and walks away.)

Music: "It's All Been Done" by The Barenaked Ladies

Montage of shots.

Tyler pulls at a weed in a planter, it's stuck. Val, Tyler and Hank are raking. Jamie's watching. Hank, Tyler and Jamie pick up a bunch of twigs, getting to them before Val does. She's left with an empty bag. Hank opens up a bag of fertilizer. He falls over from the smell. Tyler pulls at the weed again. It's still stuck. Val, Hank and Tyler are raking. Jamie steps on a rake and gets hit in the face. They play this part three times. Tyler's back to pulling out the weed. Val digs it up for him while he's pulling. He gets dirt in his face. The guys put up an umbrella over a patio table. The four sit

Scene: Nick is filming the station through the window. Hank's asleep on the couch, Val's resting her head on her arms at a table, Jamie's in a chair with his feet on the table.

(Cut to Nick in a dumpster holding the camera above his head. Cut to inside station. Brooke looks up and sees it and looks mad. Cut to Nick outside.)

Nick: (Talking into the camera.) Proof that it's a teen crash pad, paid for with our tax dollars. Ahhh! (Camera POV of his feet slipping off the dumpster he was standing on.)

Brooke: (Coming out the back door.) What do you think you're doing?

Nick: (Pops up, puts is camera away.) Nothing. Tripped.

Brooke: Yeah, right. Your hand's bleeding.

Nick: Is it? (Looks away.) Awh, eww. I can't look, I hate blood.

Scene: Brooke and Nick inside the station.

Brooke: Nothing serious. If you want I can unofficially clean it up and give you a bandage.

(Alarm goes off. Everyone wakes up and starts leaving and putting on jackets. Nick looks a little awed.)

Hank: Let's go.

Tyler: On it.

Brooke: (Dumps the First Aid kit in Nick's arms.) I'll be right back.

Scene: Outside.

(There's a woman in labor.)

Woman: (In pain and labor.)

Hank: Ma'am, my name is Hank, we're emergency Medical Services.

Val: (Kneeling in front of her.) Okay, ma'am, take quick shallow breaths like this. (Demonstrates typical labor breathing.)

Jamie: (Looks scared.) The paramedics are still working another call, they want us to take her in.

Woman: I thought I could drive myself, but. . . (Cut off by a contraction. Grabs Tyler's arm. It looks painful.)

Hank: Whoa, whoa another contraction?!

Val: That was less than thirty seconds.

Tyler: Lady, you're squeezing my arm just a little bit too hard.

(The group looks like they're in over their heads.)

Woman: (To Hank.) Can you get me to the hospital in time?

Val: Hank, the baby's crowning.

Jamie: Ohhhhh. (He spins around in a circle between the rest of the squad and the crowd.)

Hank: No Ma'am, we're gonna have to deliver this baby right here.

(Woman and Tyler are both in pain, woman because of labor and Tyler because the woman still hasn't let go of his arm.)

Scene: Camera POV of the station. Empty.

Nick: There's sofas, a cot, and no chaperones. (POV back to normal.)

Brooke: What are you doing? (Nick spins around in shock and knocks his bad off a stool. Brooke goes to help pick up papers. Reading the title of one.) Teen Emergency Medical Services. (Nick has a 'D'oh', expression on his face. He knows he's busted.) A time bomb for tragedy. What is this?

Nick: It's. . . uh. . .It's an exposé.

Brooke: You've doing an exposé on the squad? Who are you?

Nick: A future TV journalist. See, I'm gonna be the youngest reported ever to get on 20/20. Okay, it's an English assignment, a video essay. But it fits right into my plan to uncover a scandal.

Brooke: There's no scandal here.

Nick: Hello? Where are the adults? Everyone knows you can't trust kids.

Brooke: Nick, you are so way wrong. If you wanna write about the squad, why don't you start with some actual facts? (Camera cuts to the squad on the call, while Brooke continues her voice over.)

Scene: Outside. Same as previous scene with woman in labor.

(Val, Hank, and Tyler are helping with the delivery and Jamie is doing crowd control.)

Val: (Says something to the guys.)

Brooke: (Voice Over.) Kids like us all over the country have been doing emergency medicine for like, thirty years. A lot of towns, like ours, can't afford their own paramedics, so they use teen volunteers.

Val: Head's out.

Hank: Is the cord clear?

Val: Clear.

Brooke: (Voice Over.) A lot of times we beat the county paramedics to a call by like twenty minutes. That's a big difference. Sometimes a life or death difference. Pretty intense for a bunch of kids.

Val: Okay Ma'am, one more push. (Woman screams.)

Brooke: (Voice Over.) Pretty intense for a bunch of kids.

Val: (Grinning.) She's out.

Brooke: (Voice Over.) They have to take all kinds of courses and pass all kinds of tests. And that's pretty amazing.

(Val hands the baby to the new mother, crowd is clapping and 'Ooh-ing' and 'Aww-ing'.

Brooke: (Voice Over.) But all you need to know is because of kids like Hank, and Tyler, and Jamie, and my sister, a lot of people are alive today.

Nick: (Cut to him for a split second.) Whoa.

Tyler: (Back at call. Mom and daughter are on a gurney ready to go to the hospital.) You're gonna be fine. (Walks over to Val, who's packing up stuff.) It was so amazing. I mean, it was like, life. Man, right there, wasn't that incredible.

Val: Yeah. (Unconvincing.) Yeah I know it was, it was amazing.

Tyler: You okay?

Val: Yes, I'm fine, I'm fine except I don't know why I'm crying.

Tyler: It's okay.

Val: No, it's really not. (Walks away.)

Tyler: Val. (She looks.) Cut yourself some slack, I mean you've had a lot to deal with lately. I just think that you're on overload. So does Caitie.

Val: Caitie! You talked to Caitie about me?

Tyler: We were trying to help.

Val: Well don't! I am the one who helps, and shows up and comes through! (Turns and leaves, upset. Tyler follows her. They wind up sitting in the back of the ambulance.)

Tyler: And does what? Saves your dad, saves the team, saves the world? I mean Val, you will hit a wall trying to do that and I don't want to lose you. (Make eye contact.) You know, 'cuz we make such a good team.

Val: You know that guy in the park? He could have been my dad. Sometimes when I'm washing the dishes or getting the mail or maybe brushing my teeth, I get these, um, flashbacks of my dad's heart attack, of him just lying there on the floor.

Tyler: Yeah, I mean, it was pretty scary.

Val: I can't believe that really happened, my dad almost died. I feel like I'm living somebody else's life, and I don't know how to work it.

Tyler: I think you're doing great. . . amazing.

Val: Really?

Tyler: Yeah. But you've got to learn to admit when you need help. I mean you can't do everything.

Val: I know but. . . it's hard.

Tyler: You know, I think that if you slow down to human speed you'll be just fine. And uh, it's okay to be scared. I mean I was scared that night with your dad. It felt like my first call all over again.

Val: Well, I've definitely got scared covered. Yo tengo miedo. Oh, see, now I remember.

Tyler: Val, I just want you to know that you know, no matter what happens, day or night you can call me.

Val: Thanks. (Cries more.)

Tyler: You know, that was supposed to make you feel better.

Val: And it did, I swear, really, it made me feel much better. It did.

Stock Shot: Outside Station. Day.

Scene: Inside station.

(Val is washing her arm.)

Val: So soap does absolutely nothing.

Tyler: Okay. Let's try this. They say that it will take green off of a frog. (Val holds her arm out and Tyler puts some on her arm.)

Val: So I called and told them I'm not going to cheer on Saturday.

Tyler: That's good.

Val: Yeah it is. And we've got three alternates who are as good if not better than I am so. . . they deserve a shot.

Tyler: Well, it works. (Val's arm is clean.)

Val: Hey, yeah. Thanks.

Nick: Uh, well, see ya later Brooke. (To Tyler and Val.) And dudes, all the stuff you do here, it rocks. Wait, no no, what it is, it's impressive, no no, wait wait it's. . .

Brooke: Nick, are you still planning to write the exposé?

Nick: No, the real story's good news, which is boring. I still gotta uncover a scandal if I wanna make my mark.

Tyler: Yeah, sorry we couldn't help you with that.

Val: Got it covered. See, look, how's this for a headline: The dirty little secrets of your school cafeteria? I'm gonna release a mouse. Picture it, running through the macaroni and cheese, there'll be screaming and fainting. It'll be chaos.

Brooke: And a good day to bring my lunch from home.

(Val and Tyler laugh.)

[Fade Out]

Transcribed by: MM

Written by: Marcy Vosburgh
Original Air Date: September 9th, 2000

Cast Info
Lori Hallier- Joanna Lanier
William Greenblatt- Nick
Jeremy Harris- Paramedic
Beatriz Pizano- Senorita MacKenzie
Dana Fernald- Cindy
Megan Fullerton- Pregnant Lady

Music:
These Are The Days- Quistaday
It's All Been Done- Barenaked Ladies