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STUART: Car 978 to Base. We're on site, code 9.

Two patients trapped, requesting...

MAN: I've gotta help Megan. Yeah, yeah.

The only way you'll help anyone right now is by keeping still.

I'm Lorraine. Can you tell me your name?

Please. I've gotta help my girlfriend.

We'll get you both out of here soon.

What's your name? Craig.

Hello. Can you hear me?

She alright, mate?

What's her name?

Megan.

Craig, listen. Tell me where it hurts.

STUART: Megan? Megan, can you hear me?

You right? Allergic to anything?

SAUNDERS: Requesting assistance. CRAIG: Nah, nah.

Thank you.

Take this. It'll help with the pain.

Give it to Megan. I will. Grab it.

That's it.

Anything I can do to help?

Hey, release your grip, mate. Just settle down.

You're not helping anyone. Craig!

Please, you've gotta help her. She's pregnant.

LORRAINE: Watch the gutter. SAUNDERS: Got it.

MAN: Right. Here we go.

Megan, are you with us?

Can you open your eyes?

Open your eyes if you can hear me. Pulse 110.

Is she going to be okay? If she's dead...

You wanna help her, then shut up.

What's his problem? Cop-hater.

Right, she's got lap sash ecchymosis and abdo tenderness.

Can you tell me how many weeks pregnant you are?

Talk to me, babe. Megan?

Compound fracture to the right femur, some possible rib fractures,

probable right forearm fracture.

We need a traction splint and a forearm splint.

How fast were they going on impact? 90, maybe 100.

We've got to scoop and run. Come on.

I'll be right behind you, babe.

LORRAINE: Car 978 to Base...

Bloody copper. You're gonna pay for this!

You are hopeless. Oh, really?

Yeah. The hot water system breaks down, I've got soap in my eyes,

I'm calling out

and you sleep through the whole thing.

Maybe I just wanted to see you run through the house naked?

Any other tricks I should know about?

If you're really lucky, I'll let you look up my sleeves later.

I will definitely take you up on that.

See you later.

Frank. (grunts)

How's the new place?

A bit of a disaster zone, but, no, it's fine.

Well, we miss having you round.

Right. I'll get to work.

How long has this bloody machine been buggered again?

Has it ever worked properly?

Don't stand there like a bloody demented goldfish.

Get on to maintenance and have the bandit fixed.

We've got a multi-vehicle MVA coming in.

Just what I need on an empty stomach.

Cafe's got frittata for brekkie.

I said I was hungry, not suicidal.

What have we got?

Megan Harris, age 22, front-seat passenger in high-speed MVA.

Car versus telegraph pole. Major defamation of the vehicle.

The patient's pregnant.

How pregnant? We couldn't confirm.

Right, on three. Is everyone set?

One, two, three.

Got a left temple contusion with initial LOC.

GCS was 9 on arrival, but it's now 12.

Megan. Hi. I'm Dr Beaumont.

I'm going to shine a light in your eyes for second.

Compound fracture right femur and probable fracture right forearm.

Lap sash ecchymosis with abdo tenderness.

BP 110/70, pulse 120, SATS 96%. IV Hartmann's and oxygen on board.

Okay. Pupils equal and reactive.

Megan, can you tell me how pregnant you are?

Megan? How much have you had to drink?

I need you to tell me...

She may not be able to answer if it's a head injury.

Maybe she's just pissed, Vincent.

Either way, we're looking at a possible intra-abdominal injury,

so let's get an obstetrics consult and organise a foetal ultrasound.

I'll get on to Obstetrics.

Jessica, can you get a Doppler?

We've gotta check the baby. It had a big night, too.

AMBO: We have Craig Mendelssohn, age 24,

driver in single vehicle high-speed MVA.

Car into pole and major defamation.

Had to be extracted.

Nil LOC. GCS 14.

Where's Megan? Is she here?

Possible pelvic and rib fractures. Flank tenderness.

Deep laceration to right anterior forearm...

Tell me. Is she okay? Nil distal neurovascular deficit.

JACK: On three. One, two, three.

(screams)

Watch him - he's a bit aggro.

Just tell me. Is my baby okay?

We don't know, but we're trying. How pregnant is she, mate?

About five months. Why? What's that mean?

We need to know so she and the baby can be treated.

I'm going to shine this light in your eyes

to check everything's okay with your head.

BP is 120/85. Heartbeat is 110.

Okay. Good, Craig, good.

Let me know if you feel any pain.

(screams)

Full set of trauma X-rays, full bloods, group and hold.

We'll need a blood alcohol and urgent UA.

Mate, you might have fractured your pelvis

so what I've done is ordered some tests, X-rays and a surgical consult.

I want to see Megan now.

It's not possible, mate, but I'll find out as soon as I can.

Let go, mate. Come on. Let go.

Missed me, did you, Curtis?

If you say so, Denis.

Denis.

McMasters.

Well, what am I to do? Use my psychic abilities, am I?

You're required in the waiting room.

Frank said something about the vending machine.

Oh, the vending machine.

We wouldn't want our precious ED staff

going without their morning tofu bars, would we, hey?

Denis, If you wanna take it up with Frank,

just be my guest, mate.

I tell you what I want, mate - a little bit of courtesy, Curtis.

Curtis-y.

Courtesy? That's right, mate.

Yeah. Someone goes out of their way for you, most people say thanks.

Thanks.

You're welcome.

Are you really going out of your way

or are you just doing your job, Denis?

You see that, Curtis?

That's your influence, mate, that cheek.

I know where it is. Don't start with me, girlie.

You'll get on my list before you know it.

LOUD KNOCKING

Excuse me.

Hey!

Aye? Do you mind keeping it down?

I'm not disturbing you, am I, princess?

Not me. The patients.

Oh.

Sorry about that.

That's fine.

It's stupid my even being here.

I haven't worn stilettos in 13 years and I do this to myself.

Ow!

Can you try extending and flexing your foot for me?

Ow.

I don't know what I was thinking.

It was just a silly breakfast meeting.

Can you put any weight on it?

Ooh.

Okay.

I'm ordering an X-ray to see if it's fractured.

Do you think I have? Broken it, I mean?

It looks like it.

You have to wait out there before you can see a doctor,

which might take a while.

I understand.

In the meantime, if you need pain relief, just let me know.

Just try to keep your ankle up.

Do you need a hand there?

Let me help you out of that. Thanks.

There you go.

You right?

Thank you.

No worries.

Baby's heart rate's 90. It's in distress.

How much morphine has she had?

2.5mg.

Alright. Hold off on giving her any more.

I'll get back onto Obstetrics.

I think we should consider an emergency caesarean.

Charlotte...

Where are we? Mother's stable, baby's in distress.

We should consider a caesarean.

Obstetrics estimates the baby to be 20 weeks.

Confirmed by the boyfriend.

Still too young to be viable,

and I have concerns over Megan's possible intra-abdominal injuries.

She's stable.

The best chance for this baby

is staying here while we treat the mother.

The mother who got drunk last night?

That's a great idea.

That's enough.

Jack needs a surgical consult in Acute.

And as for you, just...

Hey, Charlotte.

If you're blaming me for what happened to your dogs, I'm sorry.

I take full responsibility.

Give me some credit.

Not everything is about you and your lunatic girlfriend.

Just leave it alone.

Don't start, Frank.

It's only about what's best for that patient.

Glad to hear it.

Frank, that baby has a chance, if we do something now.

We ARE. We're looking after the mother.

The way that heart rate's falling, that's not enough.

If we deliver the baby now, we could lose them both.

So we're just going to let a perfectly healthy baby die

because it's too risky?

No, we're gonna look after the mother

'cause that's its best chance.

We don't know that.

But we know if we deliver a baby before 22 weeks,

they almost always die.

Unless we know the exact time of conception, Frank,

the baby's age could be out by up to two weeks.

It could be 22 weeks

and this conversation wouldn't even be happening.

Or it could be 18 weeks.

Either way, it would be very lucky to survive.

Can we at least start continuous CTG monitoring of the baby

so we know what we're dealing with?

We know everything we need to.

Vincent is right. There is nothing more we can do.

So either accept it or step aside.

Your X-rays have confirmed you've got a stable pelvic fracture,

but that should heal itself with bed rest.

No free fluid.

Is that good or what?

It just means that you're not bleeding internally.

You have got blood in your urine,

which could indicate some trauma with your kidneys.

So I've got to go under the knife?

No, that's unlikely.

You will need some further tests, though.

The abdominal and renal CT are booked.

Let's keep him nil by mouth,

keep a close eye on his output and serial UAs,

and give me a yell when the scans are done.

Great.

Hey, what about Megan? What's going on?

Still working on her, mate.

I can't believe this has happened.

I swear, everything I touch turns to crap, man.

The important thing now is to hold it together for your girlfriend and baby

because they need you.

Yeah. Thanks, man.

I swear, if we get through this today,

I'm going to make everything alright.

Hi, Pete. How are you going?

Yeah, g'day. You seen Campion?

Ah, Constable Saunders. What can I do you for?

When can I speak to the MVA couple?

They're being treated and assessed as we speak.

I still need to interview them.

They were cut out of a wrecked car this morning. I think that can wait.

They wouldn't have been in a wrecked car

if they hadn't tried to evade police.

Another pursuit? You know what they say about bad habits?

I know what I have to do

when a driver ignores directions to pull over.

No option but to run kids into poles, eh?

We've had this conversation before, mate.

Yes. It doesn't seem to have made much difference.

He could have killed someone else.

They wouldn't have been speeding if you idiots weren't chasing them.

So I'm going to need his blood alcohol content...

Zero. Next question?

To do my job, I need to interview them.

What for?

I don't have to explain myself to you, mate.

I don't know about you,

but I could go a bucket-load of caffeine right about now.

Pete? Come on. Let's go, get out of here.

Does he actually think I get off on doing this?

No, I'm sure he doesn't.

He thinks I'm a bloody cowboy, which is a lot of bullshit!

My dad used to cop exactly the same reaction

when he was involved in high-speed chases.

Yeah? Yeah. It's a no-win situation.

You chase, someone could get killed.

You don't chase, someone else could get killed.

Someone die on him, Cate?

No.

He have a death on his hands?

No.

No. He was lucky, I guess.

He was lucky, was he?

I have been to more than my share of MVAs. I know how you're feeling.

But they didn't happen in front of you, and you didn't cause it.

You didn't cause this either. He had a choice to stop.

I had a choice not to chase.

He seemed to be handling that car alright.

We hit a corner, I thought he could take it.

The car started to wander, went into a skid and...

You don't forget that, Cate.

You don't ever forget it.

Pete, maybe you need to see a counsellor.

I've done the bloody counselling. I've taken time off.

But you can go surfing all you want,

it doesn't help,

because there will always be another idiot out there waiting for you.

Look, shit, Cate, just ignore me, alright?

Nothing a couple of beers after work won't fix.

Well, a heart attack doesn't tickle.

But, you know, they're alright in here. They fixed me up.

You certainly look healthy now.

Oh, yeah. Right as rain, love. Fit as a trout.

We all need a bit of maintenance from time to time, don't we?

You're a very perceptive woman, Jacqueline.

Ooh.

Sore, is it?

Yeah, but it'll be fine.

I bet you didn't know

I was the first-aid officer for the Finsdale Linedancing Troupe?

No.

I can tell that needs to be elevated. Hang on a sec.

Okay.

Hey! Hold your breath.

There you go.

Mate, what are you doing?

Just making sure people are comfortable, princess.

Jacqueline needed a little bit of help.

Leave treating the patients to the medical staff, okay?

It's fine, really. Actually, it's a lot better, Denis. Thank you.

See?

Ha.

Jacqueline.

Here you are.

Thank you.

Thank you, Denis, for all your help.

Yeah, no worries.

You take care now.

Hey, tell them I sent you - you might get a discount.

What?

She'll be coming back.

So?

I just thought you'd like to know, that's all.

Drug check?

Please. Okay. Tet-Tox 0.5mg, expires 2007.

Tet-tox 0.5, 2007.

How is he?

Craig.

As you'd expect.

Okay. Cephalexin, 1gr, expiring 2006.

2006. Beautiful.

Thank you.

Von...

(sighs) ..just...

..Kerry says you've hardly said two words to her.

I've been busy moving, remember?

It wasn't something that we planned. I told you, it just happened.

Yes, yes. So you said. (sighs)

You're the only family she's got

and she's afraid she's going to lose you, too.

No, no, no. Please, Nelson, leave it.

Nelson, Frank needs you in Resus.

We need another abdo ultrasound. Get on to Obstetrics.

I paged them. They haven't responded.

What am I telling them?

Tell them the patient they reviewed earlier

has developed PV bleeding and cramping.

And keep them on the phone until one of them is standing in front of you.

Can you get the Doppler back?

My stomach hurts.

Is there a foetal heartbeat?

I can't find one.

Is Charlotte okay?

I don't know. She's not exactly talking to me at the moment.

That makes two of us.

Oh, dear.

Catching up on a bit of light reading?

No. Not exactly.

Homework on Beth?

Perhaps I should have done some of that

before I handed Charlotte's dogs over to her.

(sighs)

Hey - are you okay?

Yeah.

JESSICA: BP is 100/65.

Hang another litre of gel.

Charlotte.

Obstetrician's travelling.

Come on, Charlotte, that's enough.

Megan, can you hear me?

Megan?

We can't find your baby's heartbeat anymore.

There were some earlier signs of distress

and we think the placenta was probably damaged in the accident.

I'm very sorry. There's nothing we could do.

I'm afraid your baby's died.

Good.

Harris, Megan.

Put her on the theatre list for a D and C this afternoon. Cheers.

She didn't even bat an eyelid.

She could still be out to it. Shock of the accident, maybe.

I wish that were true.

Her boyfriend's on his way back.

Oh, man. He's going to be crushed about the baby.

According to the police, it was his fault.

What?

It was a police pursuit, Jack.

This just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it?

Why were they being chased?

What does it matter, Jack?

MACHINE BLEEPS WILDLY

Megan. Come on, open your eyes, Megan.

SATS have dropped. She's tachypnoeic.

Come on, sweetheart. I need you to open your eyes for me.

Come on.

That's a good girl.

I need you to breathe deeply for me, okay?

Breathe in...

..and out.

And in... and out.

Reduced breath sounds, dullness of percussion.

Haemothorax? Or an embolus.

I need a portable X-ray straightaway.

Sit her up? Yep.

Scrub her up for a chest tube.

Megan, we think you're bleeding into one of your lungs

and that's what's making breathing so difficult for you.

So we're going to put a chest tube in to fix it, okay?

Don't worry, you'll be okay.

Alright?

Whoa. What are they doing to her?

They're just doing their job. Megan!

Stop!

Take me over there.

Listen, there's nothing you can do. Just let them do their job.

Take me over there! Come on, mate. Come on.

Megan!

Stop!

Take me over there! What's going on with her? What are they doing?

BP's dropping, 85/45. Pulse is 120. Megan!

Megan, can you hear me? Stay with us.

JVP is low. Talk to me! What's going on?!

Get O-neg blood up.

Pump that gel through.

Frank - are you guys right here? Yeah, we got this.

Where is she bleeding from?

She's in VT. Defib.

Charge 200.

(Craig continues yelling) Megan!

Charged.

Clear.

Still VT. Go again. 200. Charging.

Clear.

CONTINUOUS BLEEP No output.

(Craig yells) What's going on?

Get that blood in now.

Jessica, 1mg adrenaline, please.

What do you mean, the baby's dead?

It can't be! You're lying!

I'm sorry, Craig, there wasn't anything anyone could do.

(cries) Oh, no!

I wanted that kid!

And Megan?

Still working on her.

Don't give me that crap. I saw what's going on.

Tell me the truth.

Craig, calm down, alright?

I want to see her. I want to see her now!

You're being no good to yourself or your girlfriend like this, alright?

I've lost my baby. I don't want to lose her, too.

There's another milligram of adrenaline in.

How long's she been down?

About 40 minutes.

Stop compressions. Any output?

Asystole. Resume compressions, Nelson.

She's been down too long, Charlotte.

Come on, Megan.

It was a high-speed accident. She's obviously got some internal injury.

That we didn't find.

That we couldn't find, Charlotte.

We've done everything we possibly could, and you know it.

It's time to call it.

CONTINUOUS BEEP

Time of death, 14:25.

Craig, I'm sorry.

No!

You were supposed to fix her!

I'm afraid, Craig, the trauma...

You did it.

You killed her!

You're a bloody murderer!

It wasn't my fault!

It was him! He's a bloody murderer!

It was the copper!

You're a murderer!

The man of the moment.

That's one less interview you'll have to conduct.

But never mind, maybe next time if you play your cards right,

the punters won't even get this far.

TENSE TROUBLING MUSIC

Pete.

Pete, come on, don't listen to Frank.

You right? Pete?

How do I get out of here?

Come on. Open the door, Cate.

Open the door. Alright, alright.

Pete...

Get out of my way! Listen to me.

Denis, why...

Ms McMasters... Get out of my road!

Pete!

ELECTRONIC KEY BLEEPS

GUNSHOT

Somebody help!

DRAMATIC MUSIC

What am I going to tell her family?

You don't have to worry about that stuff now, man.

(Craig continues) I should make that cop do it,

make him see what he's done.

I never meant for this to happen.

I know.

WOMAN: Quick!

I just wanted to make her understand, you know -

having the baby was a good thing.

Megan didn't want the baby?

No.

We'd been fighting about it all the time lately, mate.

It's not her fault. She was just scared.

What about last night?

She wanted to go down the club with her friends.

I said to her,

"You've been good lately. You don't need to do all that."

Come on, mate.

She went anyway? When I found her, she's pissed as.

She's saying, "Oh, my life's over.

"We can't afford to have a kid. We should get rid of it."

You guys were arguing pretty hard?

Yeah, she's screaming at me,

"No job, no say in it."

So I whacked her in the car and I went to get some money.

Jewellery store. Stereo shop.

In the end, we ended up in a chemist.

Broke into a chemist?

No, mate, we just drove there.

That bloody cop must have been waiting around the corner.

We could hear him before we left.

That's why I put my foot down.

Why didn't you stop?

She wanted to get rid of our kid, mate.

What do you want me to do, nothing?

She grabbed the bloody wheel.

No, it wasn't the copper's fault.

He didn't put Megan in the car, did he?

He didn't try and run, did he?

You made those decisions, Craig.

Not the cops.

Constable Peter Saunders, 33.

Self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at close range.

Right occipital region.

GCS is 6.

BP is 130/70, pulse 110.

Both pupils are equal and reactive.

He was intubated and cannulated at the scene.

NELSON: Right. On three. One, two, three.

Constable Saunders, can you hear me? His name's Pete.

Pete, I'm just going to shine this light into your eyes.

Pupils size 3, reactive to light.

Tube position confirmed.

So we've got a gunshot. What happened?

Hang in there, mate. Come on.

I need full bloods, coags and cross-match. Portable X-ray.

I'll need his head raised about 30 degrees.

Jess, we're going to need Mannitol, 0.5gr bolus per kilo.

Get him in for an urgent CT, possible cerebral angiogram.

Notify the neuro team.

What happened here?

Looks like your motivational speech went down well, Frank.

Why don't you go and get cleaned up?

Go on.

Hey.

There's no way you could have predicted this... okay?

(sighs)

CT are ready for him.

Hook him to the vent, let's go. What about an art line?

No time. Theatre can do it. I'll page an orderly.

No - I want him there now.

I'll go with him. No, I'll do it.

Come on. Neurosurgeon's on stand-by.

I hope you suffer, you bastard!

Someone shut that idiot up.

He took her away from me.

No, he did his job. Crap.

I don't want to hear one more word out of you, mate.

I want another nurse.

Yes, I'm sure you do.

Hey, Jacqueline.

There you go, my lady.

Denis, can I have a word?

Excuse us a second.

Yeah?

You can't feed the patients. We're in a hospital, not a zoo.

She has to stay nil by mouth until she's seen a doctor.

She might need surgery.

You're kidding me, aren't you? No.

This is bigger than nil by bloody mouth.

This could be the real thing. Cut me some slack.

I can't do anything.

If you want to impress her, just find another way.

Hang on, don't eat that just yet.

No? No.

You're nil by mouth. Oh.

Any word from theatre?

He's still on the table.

He's got a compound skull fracture and cerebral contusion.

What's the neurosurgeon saying?

What can he say?

Look what's just arrived.

It says, "Thinking of you all."

Stay away from me, Cate. Stay away!

Not this time. Talk to me. Talk to me!

If you don't talk to someone about what you're going through...

What is wrong with you bloody men?

You keep everything bottled up inside and then you...

..and then you go and do something stupid.

Cate.

I'm sorry.

It's going to be alright, okay?

It's going to be alright.

Which one's Jacqueline Cahill?

She's not actually ready yet.

What do you mean? She's next to be seen.

I think he's making a breakthrough.

The footpath was fine, and I wasn't walking.

I was running. After someone.

Oh. Oh, right.

No, no.

I was supposed to have breakfast with somebody that I met...

Yeah, yeah. Fair enough.

..through an introduction agency.

Oh.

He got up to go to the bathroom and I saw him trying to slip away.

The goose did what?

It wasn't his fault.

I wasn't exactly who he was expecting.

Bloody oath. He couldn't be that lucky.

Suave, Denis. Suave.

No, I mean... I sent a picture of my sister when I signed up.

That's alright.

I mean, you know, every family's got one, haven't they?

You know - a star, I mean.

Most women think my brother Trevor is some kind of love God -

"Trevros".

They don't know he farts in the bath. Habitually.

I just couldn't sit there

and watch my life slipping through my fingers anymore.

Hey, listen -

a lot of people come through this place,

you know, in a pretty bad way.

Some, their lives are totally stuffed.

Whereas you've got the courage

to get up and do something about your life.

That counts for a lot in my book.

Hi, Jacqueline. I'm Jess.

Hi.

KNOCK ON DOOR Come in.

Oh, Cate.

You wanted to see me?

Yes. ICU called.

And?

He's stable.

They can't be sure if there's any permanent damage until he's awake,

but they're cautiously optimistic.

And the neuro guy told me

that the man owes a lot to being found and treated early.

Look, Frank, um,

I'm sorry about the way I spoke to you before - I was in shock.

Oh, come on. Don't be a bloody wimp now.

No, no, I pushed all the wrong buttons with Saunders

and you had the courage to say so, and that's something I admire -

people that have the courage of their convictions.

Alright?

Go on.

But, Cate...

..you only get away with it once.

This is just to tide you over, Jacqueline.

We can't put a full plaster on it until the swelling's gone down.

So I'll have to come back?

Yeah. The fractures clinic will want to see you in a few days.

Okay. That'll be fine.

G'day. Thought I'd just pop in, see how it's all going.

She doesn't have to go to the chop shop, does she?

No, Denis.

Good.

You left this behind.

Thank you.

Okay. I'll organise crutches for you.

Do you need a hand getting home? A cab, maybe?

Yeah, actually. I'm going to need...

I could give you a lift home, if you like.

I mean, if you like. It's probably on my way.

That would be lovely.

Yeah?

Good. Okay.

I'll just...

..I'll go and get the car.

Back in a sec.

KERRY: I was hoping I'd catch you.

I need to talk to you about Nelson.

He values your friendship so much, Von, and he misses it.

I'd hate to be the person who came between friends like that.

Well, speak of the devil.

Von, please?

This is important.

Everything alright?

Yeah. Let's go home.

Looks like my work here is done.

I didn't know you were a romantic, Dan.

I have a lot of love to give, Jessica.

(laughs) I bet you have.

What you need is a nice home-cooked meal.

You cook as well?

Yeah. Do you like steak diane?

Hey, Denis.

Denis!

We're not watching that old chestnut, are we?

Chestnut? I'm used to Sale.

Anyway, don't change the subject. We're not watching that.

No, no, no. It's a classic, sorry.

(laughs)

Victor Charlie Foxtrot, help me!

Breaker, breaker, breaker, breaker...

Breaker right there.

That's not fair.

DOORBELL RINGS

You expecting anyone?

No.

Ignore it.

DOORBELL RINGS AGAIN

Nup.

Von. VON: Hi.

Hi.

Have you eaten? We've got some leftovers.

Yes, I've already eaten.

I'll open the wine, then.

Good thinking.

So...

Oh, God!

Not watching that old chestnut again, are we?

CONSTABLE SAUNDERS' VOICE: There are no winners in my game, doctor.

FRANK'S VOICE: A bad call is a bad call.

Around here, we try to make the right call every time.

And do you? You make the right call every time?