Rescue: HI-Surf (2024) s01e08 Episode Script
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[MELLOW MUSIC]
♪
Ready to fly?
- Why are we doing this again?
- [LAUGHS] I tried surfing.
- It's your turn to try my thing.
- Not a fair trade.
You like the ocean.
Heights freak me out.
At least there's no sharks up there.
Come on, it's insane
like those flying dreams
you have when you're a kid
- but for real.
- Yeah, I never had those.
[TAVANA'S "IN THE WATER"]
♪
You see? It's not so bad.
♪
Whoo!
♪
Isn't it so beautiful up here?
It really is.
They ♪
They were waiting in the water ♪
- Whoo-hoo!
- I told you.
♪
Flames ♪
Flames were getting hotter ♪
♪
The night was getting cold ♪
- [LAUGHS]
- That's not funny.
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
But they did not give up the hope ♪
They were waiting in the water ♪
♪
[CHUCKLES]
Hold on ♪
[GRUNTING FEARFULLY]
Sisters and brothers ♪
Kurt? What's happening?
It's a downdraft.
[WHIMPERING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
- Kurt?
- Hold on! Hold on!
[whimpering, screaming]
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Welcome to the North Shore.
District 7.
♪
Getting dangerous.
♪
Go, go, go!
♪
Kurt. Kurt?
Kurt!
Kurt! Kurt!
♪
- Morning, Chief.
- Morning.
- Ah.
- You're welcome.
- Thanks.
- Not for the coffee.
For your new tower.
Uh, that was me, not you.
Hiring the mayor's son paid off.
Yeah, it did.
Kid's turning out to be
a decent lifeguard, too.
I'm glad it's working out.
Of course, if it didn't,
I would have fired you.
- Nah, you wouldn't have.
- Try me.
[CHUCKLES]
I'm gonna save you the trouble, Chief.
I'm retiring.
It's time.
I want Em to take my job.
She's the best guard
I've ever seen, all right?
A little rough around the
edges, but she'll learn.
Look, plenty people are
going to want your slot.
Kenji would take it in a heartbeat.
It should be Em.
You played your political hand already.
I got backs I got to
scratch, too, Sonny.
Take my advice, for once.
Accept the certificate of appreciation
the county is gonna give you
and go fishing.
[CHUCKLES]
[LIGHT MUSIC]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Whoa, Kainalu Emerson?
- Malika.
- Hey.
- Hey, how you been?
- Great.
Just, you know, school, work, life.
- Yeah, law school, right?
- Yep.
We're at my parents' summer
place for a couple days.
I-I heard you're getting married?
I am.
To Forrest, of all people.
Yeah, kind of just happened.
I hear you're lifeguarding?
Uh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Uh, well, I'm off today.
They got us on 4 10s now.
- So
- That's amazing.
Hey, we're having lunch at
the club in a couple hours.
You have to stop by.
Come on. I'm only here for the weekend.
I got a clerk position for Kagan,
and I leave in two days.
Forrest will be there,
the whole gang my mom.
She'd love to see you.
I think she took our
breakup harder than I did.
[CHUCKLES]
Yeah, for sure.
You still have my number, right?
- I do.
- Well, just text me.
Yes.
Can't wait.
[BOTH SMOOCH]
[UPBEAT ISLAND MUSIC]
Hmm.
♪
- Not where it goes.
- [REFRIGERATOR DOOR OPENS]
Fridge, or it gets moldy.
[SIGHS] It dries out in the fridge.
Lasts about five minutes
around here anyway, so
don't worry about it.
You know, I figured you guys
would've worked this stuff out
when you were living together.
All right. Tough room.
- Morning, Cap.
- Morning.
Careful. Trouble in paradise over there.
Dispatch to District 7.
Uh, District 7.
A driver on Farrington Highway
reported a paraglider
with a yellow canopy
getting into trouble
somewhere near Naehu Point.
Okay.
That's all we got.
10-4.
Yeah, paragliders you'll
never catch me doing that.
Yeah, bet they say the same about us.
So we're gonna check it out?
Yeah, they could be anywhere out there.
We'll take two trucks,
cover more ground.
You and me
I'll I'll take Will to the west end.
You take Em to the east.
Trust me. Just trust me.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Okay.
You see anything?
[SIGHS] Nope.
Is, uh, everything
with you and Will okay?
Fine. Why?
You seem a little tense this morning.
Why do you care?
Well, I'm just asking about my team.
It's duties of a captain.
We're good.
You want to double back, keep searching?
Yeah, let's do it.
- How'd your date with Jenn go?
- Solid.
Got her home before 9:00.
Doesn't sound like you.
I'm trying out a new game plan.
Oh, yeah? What plan is that?
It's, uh, playing it
long and taking it slow.
Really?
- Yeah, I can pivot.
- [LAUGHS]
Is, uh, you and Em doing all right?
- Uh, she's not happy with me at the moment.
- Hmm.
Julie doesn't want to
invite her to the wedding.
Hey, can you blame her?
- Got a visual on anything?
- Negative.
Just an empty ocean on a windy day.
- False alarm?
- Yeah.
Probably landed safe
on the field somewhere.
- All right, let's head back.
- Yep.
Em.
Yeah?
See that?
- Where?
- Inch below the horizon.
- Yellow canopy.
- Yeah.
Hey, we got something.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Hey!
I got somebody under the canopy.
Rescue 2 to Mobile 1. We got a somebody.
♪
Copy that, Rescue 2.
♪
Unresponsive.
- Go!
- 10-4.
Single unresponsive
victim recovered male.
Drop-off location Naehu Beach.
ETA, two minutes.
Uh, Mobile 7-1, request
fire and EMS support
for unresponsive male at Naehu Beach.
10-4, Mobile 7-1.
Available units responding.
[TIRES SQUEAL, SIREN WAILING]
♪
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Ready, ready, come on.
All right.
[ENGINE REVVING]
♪
All right, take the shirt off.
Nice. Okay.
- [AED CHARGING]
- Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
- Clear.
- [AED THUDS]
- [SIRENS APPROACHING]
- Go.
- [VAN DOOR CLOSES]
- Two, three
All right, Em.
Unresponsive no idea
how long he's been out for.
- Clear.
- [AED BEEPING]
[THUDS]
♪
- [COUGHING]
- Oh!
- Sit him up.
- We got him.
- One, two, three.
- Yep.
Oh, nice.
- Yeah, man.
- [EXHALES DEEPLY]
Sir, sir? Nothing.
Let's go.
I told you paragliding was dumb.
Hey, you good, Cap?
Yeah.
So are we out of here, then?
Yeah.
♪
[SIREN WAILING]
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
♪
Hey, hey.
Hey, yourself.
Oh, it looks fun out there.
Yeah, good enough to
get wet on my day off.
I figured you weren't working today.
We had a big one this
morning. I didn't see you.
Yeah, if you would've called,
I could've just told you.
[SIGHS] Right, I know.
Well, see, I'm restraining myself,
trying to be respectful, you know?
Yeah, playing it cool,
that sort of thing.
Exactly, yeah.
[CHUCKLES]
I like that.
Yeah, that's the idea.
Anyway, I, uh
I better get out there.
Right. Yeah.
I will call and ask you out
to dinner that I pay for.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it.
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
[FUNKY MUSIC]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV]
Oh, what?
Juiced! [DOOR OPENS]
[CHATTER CONTINUES]
Did you finish off the cereal?
- Yeah.
- How? There's no milk.
You don't need milk for cereal.
Yeah, you do.
You've been brainwashed by Big Milk.
- [CELL PHONE VIBRATES]
- [SIGHS]
Hey, uh, you got any plans today?
Obviously.
- Come to a party with me.
- What?
I mean, it's not really,
like, a party, really.
It's more like a lunch thing.
A lunch thing?
Yeah, couple people from high school.
Sick club it's right down the road.
A Punahou lunch thing.
Oh, let me think.
Um, no.
Come on.
The girl that's throwing
it is a family friend.
And if I don't go, then
it'll get back to my family,
and I don't want to
have to deal with it.
What do I get out of it?
It's catered, guaranteed.
Fine.
- But I'm not dressing up.
- Shoots.
[UPBEAT ISLAND MUSIC]
♪
[CELL PHONE CHIMES]
[CELL PHONE CLICKING, BLOOPS]
Em.
- Got a minute?
- Yeah.
Hey, uh
you know, Will missed
his re-cert the other day.
Oh. News to me.
Yeah, he hasn't called to
schedule for another time.
Well, he's been really busy
with his new surf-lesson business.
- Might have just forgot.
- Okay.
Either he gets it done
by the end of the week,
or you write him up. Let him know.
Don't you
normally do the disciplinary stuff?
Yeah, but I'm asking you to.
It's been a little
complicated between me and Will lately.
Okay, well
uncomplicate it.
Is that a problem?
Not a problem.
- I'll handle it.
- Okay.
- Not bad.
- Told you.
All right, you ready?
Ready? Rich people from town love me.
- Watch.
- Okay.
[LAUGHS] You're the
one who looks nervous.
I'm not.
Yeah, you are. We drove my car.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[TRUCK DOOR OPENS]
Hey.
You busy?
You, um, here to talk it out?
No.
Uh, you missed your re-cert.
[SIGHS] Yeah, damn, I, um
I spaced it. I had a
lesson that morning.
Well, you need to get it done this week.
Mm-hmm.
Or you're getting written up.
[CHUCKLES] "Written up."
Are you serious?
Right.
This 'cause you didn't get
invited to the wedding, huh?
- Mm, nope.
- Sure.
Whatever you say, Em.
Look, I'm your lieutenant,
so it actually is whatever I say.
I couldn't care less about your wedding.
You found a sugar mommy,
great. I'm happy for you.
But I need you to do
your job here, got it?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
- Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.
You don't know what I'm
talking about, do you?
Look, it's basically a Bitcoin exchange,
but the commerce is definitely there.
We did 320 in revenue last year.
320,000?
Million.
- Whatever.
- Whoa.
I'm really about the
BioDeg work right now.
- The what?
- BioDeg.
It's the environmental
nonprofit I founded.
It actually came out of
the senior research project
we did on biodegradable
microplastics, remember?
And you turned that into
an environmental nonprofit?
Yeah. You should've paid more attention.
It's a really special project.
When I finish up at the Court,
I'm coming on as head legal.
You know, I'm still trippin'
seeing you guys together.
- How'd that go down?
- Oh, you know, Paris.
Frites at Parcelles.
We've known each other
since middle school.
But, you know, all of a
sudden, it's like, hey.
[BOTH CHUCKLES]
How long have you two been dating?
- Oh, we're not dating.
- Oh.
Um, yeah, we just work together.
And we live together. [LAUGHS]
Um, but not dating.
Uh, so I hear you're lifeguarding now?
Yeah.
- Your dad pissed or what?
- Forrest.
Come on, it's a killer job, right?
But where much is
given, much is expected.
There's no "but" about
it. It is a killer job.
He saved three people's
lives last month,
which is three more than your
plastic environmental nonprofit
ever will.
We should bounce. I got stuff to do.
- Thanks for lunch.
- Yeah, thanks.
$320 million trading fake money.
I'm taking his booze.
Hello.
Do you by chance have any sunscreen?
Yeah, it's, uh it's up in the tower.
If you stop by, though,
we can help you out.
Do you work with a lifeguard
named Laka by any chance?
I'm Laka. Do we know each other?
Mm-mm.
You remember Sarah Mitchell?
Long blonde hair from Tucson?
Yeah. How's she doing?
- Great.
- Good.
She told me I should find
you when I'm out here.
Said you were, uh, worth the trip.
Tucson, huh?
Mm-hmm.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
♪
You know, thanks, but I-I got to go.
What?
I came all this way.
Yeah, got it.
How was it?
- I had fun.
- Yeah?
- Looks like you did, too.
- Oh, no.
I'm I'm gonna throw this away.
I was just not trying to be
rude or anything like that.
Come on.
You loved it.
The Laka legend grows.
Jenn, I [STAMMERING]
You know what? Just stop.
I liked you.
But I'm looking for someone
a little more serious
about everything.
[TRUCK DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
How did it go with Will?
Uh
not great.
Why'd you ask me to pull
rank on him like that?
Because I didn't want to.
- [CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
- [CHUCKLES]
Hey, this is Sonny.
Yeah, okay.
What?
Our paraglider victim just
woke up in the hospital.
That's great.
- He wasn't alone.
- What?
He was flying tandem
with a female friend.
She went down with him.
- What happened to her?
- No one knows.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
All right, Cassandra Dillard
35, single, former collegiate swimmer.
Family and friends say she
lives an active lifestyle
surfing, hiking, running. She's fit.
So she could have made it to shore.
Maybe. We know she
got out of her harness
so she wasn't knocked out on impact.
She left her friend and swam for it?
Well, maybe she thought he was dead
and couldn't swim him in.
Okay. So now what?
Uh, HPD is checking her phone records.
Maybe she had something on her phone.
If they went down right
after the call came in,
the tide was filling in pretty fast.
The way the current
moves down the coast,
she probably ended up around here.
[CELL PHONE VIBRATES]
Okay, HPD got a signal
from her smartwatch.
Last pinged here.
Watch couldn't make it to
shore that fast by itself.
Yeah. Okay, let's prep for
a rescue and recovery, yeah?
Let's get going.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SIRENS WAILING]
♪
All right. This it?
Yep.
- Cassandra!
- Cassandra!
Yell out if you can hear us!
♪
Damn it.
Hey, wait.
What if she's underneath them?
You know, the caves run pretty
far underneath the shelf.
What if she got washed in?
Well, then it is a recovery,
and we can wait for the tide to drop.
I don't know I think we should
jump in, check out the caves.
There's plenty of pockets
she could have slipped into
that would still have a
little air, even in this tide.
It's true.
Right. You know your
way around down there?
Yeah, we dive them in the summer.
Cap
we got to try before the tide comes up.
When those pockets
fill up, she'll drown.
We can jump in, check
the spots we know
in and out real quick.
All right, I'm down. Let's do it.
Yeah, me too.
She's right. We should try.
♪
Okay.
Two people go in.
Two people stay on top, just
in case we have to pull you out.
- I'm going.
- Yeah, I'm with her.
I knew if I volunteered first,
you'd end up doing it.
♪
All right, channel 9. In and out.
You hear me?
Stay together and stay safe.
Wrong line of work, Cap.
♪
Trail you a body length?
♪
[GASPING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Ah, it's a maze down here.
Yeah.
- You good?
- Yeah.
- Yep.
- [CHUCKLES]
Let's keep looking.
Okay.
Yeah?
- Yep, after you.
- [INHALES DEEPLY]
Cap, you got comms?
Rescue 2, come in.
- [GASPS]
- Rescue 2, come in.
♪
Cap, we're good.
Nothing yet. Couple more
spots I want to check.
Uh, 10-4, couple more, then out.
Yeah?
Em?
It was always a long shot.
♪
Em?
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
- [GASPS]
- [GASPS]
Damn it.
I was hoping this is where she was.
So many ways in.
And it's a lot harder to get out.
Yeah. Okay.
Radio Cap, tell him there's
one more spot I want to check.
What spot?
Remember, there's that
tunnel down by the right?
Ah
- Em.
- Just do it.
♪
Rescue 2 to Mobile 1.
Yeah, 10-4, Rescue 2.
What's going on?
- Where's Em?
- We're good.
She's just checking one more spot.
What?
The tide's coming up fast.
Get out now.
♪
Yeah, 10-4.
You got your people down there?
Yeah.
♪
[SIGHS]
You heard Cap, all right? Don't.
We're here. I'm going.
It's tight up there, all right?
You might not be able to turn around.
Well, then I can scoot my way back.
[INHALES DEEPLY]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
♪
- [GASPS]
- Hey.
It's okay.
We're gonna get you out of here.
How?
♪
Take this fin
And this mask.
Okay? And then we're
gonna swim out together.
I can't. I can't.
I hit the reef. I
thought I was drowning.
- I can't.
- No, you can do it.
You made it this far.
I know you can do it.
My partner is just on the
other side of that tunnel.
We just have to get to him.
Hey, hey, hey, hey. Look at me.
If you stay here, you'll die.
We have to do this.
Me and you, we got this.
- Okay.
- Okay.
♪
Deep breath.
[BOTH BREATHING DEEPLY]
One more. [INHALES DEEPLY]
♪
[GASPS]
Radio up top.
Rescue 2 to Mobile 1. We got her.
She's alive.
Yes.
Copy that, Rescue 2.
She's cut up and hypothermic.
All right, 10-4. Uh,
EMS and fire standing by.
♪
Laka, they found her alive.
They're coming to you.
Copy.
- Okay?
- Okay.
- You ready?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- One, two, three.
- [INHALES DEEPLY]
♪
[LAID-BACK MUSIC]
♪
You did it.
♪
Good job.
- [VAN DOOR CLOSES]
- Yeah, hell of a job.
- Well
- [SIREN WAILING]
Thanks for letting me keep looking.
"Let you"? [CHUCKLES]
Uh, that is not how I remember it.
- [CHUCKLES] Fair.
- Uh-huh.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
- Please don't be mad.
- I'm not mad.
Uh, I'm just here to
give you a heads-up.
There is a bunch of reporters
at the end of the road.
Huh.
- You should put a hat on.
- [CHUCKLES]
Well, they don't want to talk to me.
They want to talk to you.
♪
I didn't think we could get it.
It's the most popular wedding
venue in Santa Barbara.
[SIGHS] Well, that's awesome.
It's more than awesome.
It's a freaking miracle.
People wait five years for the Miramar.
Sweet.
You okay?
Uh, yeah.
Yeah, just, uh
uh, we had a little
miracle here today, too.
Two people should be
dead, and we got them.
That's amazing.
It was crazy.
I'm still tripping out a little
bit, to be honest. I was
Baby, hold on a sec.
The venue's calling.
I got to go.
Okay.
- Love you, love you. Bye.
- Yep.
[LINE CLICKS]
- So how are you feeling?
- Physically okay.
- And your boyfriend?
- Kurt?
He's going to be okay.
Kurt was rescued offshore
after the accident,
but you were found
in an underwater cave.
- Is that right?
- Yes, I was washed in.
I thought nobody knew where
I was or how to find me.
I was waiting to die.
And then Em showed up.
You mean Emily Wright,
a lieutenant with Ocean Safety?
Yes. She was amazing.
They all were.
I'll never forget them.
And I can never thank them enough.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
[GIGGLES]
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE CONTINUE]
Oh, my gosh.
- Hey. Thank you.
- Nice work.
Thanks.
You're nuts. You know that?
- No, in a good way.
- Uh-huh.
But for real, that was one
of the most badass things
I've ever seen in my entire life.
So, respect, yeah.
I appreciate that. Thank you.
Your friend Jenn, though?
Oh, no. What?
Cold, mean, not cool.
What happened?
I'll tell you later.
[LAUGHS] Deal.
- Let's take a walk.
- Yeah.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Not bad out there.
Thanks.
Only one I know who
would have done that was,
ah, me way back when.
Now, see? That
that's a real compliment.
I'm proud of you
and what you do here.
I mean that.
- You dying or something?
- [CHUCKLES]
Nope.
Good.
Just retiring.
Come on.
No, I mean it.
I don't have an exact
timeline, but, uh
soon.
But all the new stuff we're getting
the new equipment, the
new tower, the new hire.
Always leave a place
better than you found it
which I hope you do as a captain.
Yep.
You're up.
You've tamed a little of the attitude.
The stuff with, uh with Will
well, now that's the past.
That's why you wanted me to
talk to him about the re-cert.
Just keep it quiet for now, okay?
Congratulations.
Go home and get some sleep.
[STEADY MUSIC]
♪
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
♪
Let's make some cocktails
or something at least.
- No, why?
- Because it's 150 bucks a bottle.
Yeah, then why mix it? Just drink.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
Ahh.
Ooh!
That's next level.
See? The scene ain't that bad.
No, it is.
So you think I'm a good lifeguard, huh?
- [LAUGHING] Oh, here we go.
- [LAUGHS]
I was making a point, okay?
Don't get all puffed chest on me.
All right, all right.
Hey, mahalo for going with me, though.
It was kind of fun.
So
that was your ex-girlfriend?
And those were your friends?
- Mental.
- Ah.
Road not taken, I guess.
Yeah.
Better road, better friends.
Mm. All right, one more.
Nope, I got work in the morning.
I'm going to do an early
run-swim if you're up for it.
- Let's do it.
- Okay.
- See ya.
- Okay.
♪
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
Hey, wait up.
Are you out of here?
Yeah, yeah. Big day.
Yeah.
What's up?
Uh
I owe you an apology.
[CHUCKLES] For what?
I get why Julie doesn't
want me at her wedding.
I mean, I'd probably feel the same way.
I'm sorry.
Appreciate it.
Hey, hey, wait.
Uh
things are about to change between us.
I-I mean, I know that now, and I
I'm okay with it, I think.
What are you talking about?
I had my chance, and I blew it.
[SERIOUS MUSIC]
♪
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
♪
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
[SIGHS]
Get in.
♪
[VAN DOOR CLOSES]
♪
[MELLOW MUSIC]
♪
Ready to fly?
- Why are we doing this again?
- [LAUGHS] I tried surfing.
- It's your turn to try my thing.
- Not a fair trade.
You like the ocean.
Heights freak me out.
At least there's no sharks up there.
Come on, it's insane
like those flying dreams
you have when you're a kid
- but for real.
- Yeah, I never had those.
[TAVANA'S "IN THE WATER"]
♪
You see? It's not so bad.
♪
Whoo!
♪
Isn't it so beautiful up here?
It really is.
They ♪
They were waiting in the water ♪
- Whoo-hoo!
- I told you.
♪
Flames ♪
Flames were getting hotter ♪
♪
The night was getting cold ♪
- [LAUGHS]
- That's not funny.
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
But they did not give up the hope ♪
They were waiting in the water ♪
♪
[CHUCKLES]
Hold on ♪
[GRUNTING FEARFULLY]
Sisters and brothers ♪
Kurt? What's happening?
It's a downdraft.
[WHIMPERING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
- Kurt?
- Hold on! Hold on!
[whimpering, screaming]
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Welcome to the North Shore.
District 7.
♪
Getting dangerous.
♪
Go, go, go!
♪
Kurt. Kurt?
Kurt!
Kurt! Kurt!
♪
- Morning, Chief.
- Morning.
- Ah.
- You're welcome.
- Thanks.
- Not for the coffee.
For your new tower.
Uh, that was me, not you.
Hiring the mayor's son paid off.
Yeah, it did.
Kid's turning out to be
a decent lifeguard, too.
I'm glad it's working out.
Of course, if it didn't,
I would have fired you.
- Nah, you wouldn't have.
- Try me.
[CHUCKLES]
I'm gonna save you the trouble, Chief.
I'm retiring.
It's time.
I want Em to take my job.
She's the best guard
I've ever seen, all right?
A little rough around the
edges, but she'll learn.
Look, plenty people are
going to want your slot.
Kenji would take it in a heartbeat.
It should be Em.
You played your political hand already.
I got backs I got to
scratch, too, Sonny.
Take my advice, for once.
Accept the certificate of appreciation
the county is gonna give you
and go fishing.
[CHUCKLES]
[LIGHT MUSIC]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Whoa, Kainalu Emerson?
- Malika.
- Hey.
- Hey, how you been?
- Great.
Just, you know, school, work, life.
- Yeah, law school, right?
- Yep.
We're at my parents' summer
place for a couple days.
I-I heard you're getting married?
I am.
To Forrest, of all people.
Yeah, kind of just happened.
I hear you're lifeguarding?
Uh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Uh, well, I'm off today.
They got us on 4 10s now.
- So
- That's amazing.
Hey, we're having lunch at
the club in a couple hours.
You have to stop by.
Come on. I'm only here for the weekend.
I got a clerk position for Kagan,
and I leave in two days.
Forrest will be there,
the whole gang my mom.
She'd love to see you.
I think she took our
breakup harder than I did.
[CHUCKLES]
Yeah, for sure.
You still have my number, right?
- I do.
- Well, just text me.
Yes.
Can't wait.
[BOTH SMOOCH]
[UPBEAT ISLAND MUSIC]
Hmm.
♪
- Not where it goes.
- [REFRIGERATOR DOOR OPENS]
Fridge, or it gets moldy.
[SIGHS] It dries out in the fridge.
Lasts about five minutes
around here anyway, so
don't worry about it.
You know, I figured you guys
would've worked this stuff out
when you were living together.
All right. Tough room.
- Morning, Cap.
- Morning.
Careful. Trouble in paradise over there.
Dispatch to District 7.
Uh, District 7.
A driver on Farrington Highway
reported a paraglider
with a yellow canopy
getting into trouble
somewhere near Naehu Point.
Okay.
That's all we got.
10-4.
Yeah, paragliders you'll
never catch me doing that.
Yeah, bet they say the same about us.
So we're gonna check it out?
Yeah, they could be anywhere out there.
We'll take two trucks,
cover more ground.
You and me
I'll I'll take Will to the west end.
You take Em to the east.
Trust me. Just trust me.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Okay.
You see anything?
[SIGHS] Nope.
Is, uh, everything
with you and Will okay?
Fine. Why?
You seem a little tense this morning.
Why do you care?
Well, I'm just asking about my team.
It's duties of a captain.
We're good.
You want to double back, keep searching?
Yeah, let's do it.
- How'd your date with Jenn go?
- Solid.
Got her home before 9:00.
Doesn't sound like you.
I'm trying out a new game plan.
Oh, yeah? What plan is that?
It's, uh, playing it
long and taking it slow.
Really?
- Yeah, I can pivot.
- [LAUGHS]
Is, uh, you and Em doing all right?
- Uh, she's not happy with me at the moment.
- Hmm.
Julie doesn't want to
invite her to the wedding.
Hey, can you blame her?
- Got a visual on anything?
- Negative.
Just an empty ocean on a windy day.
- False alarm?
- Yeah.
Probably landed safe
on the field somewhere.
- All right, let's head back.
- Yep.
Em.
Yeah?
See that?
- Where?
- Inch below the horizon.
- Yellow canopy.
- Yeah.
Hey, we got something.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Hey!
I got somebody under the canopy.
Rescue 2 to Mobile 1. We got a somebody.
♪
Copy that, Rescue 2.
♪
Unresponsive.
- Go!
- 10-4.
Single unresponsive
victim recovered male.
Drop-off location Naehu Beach.
ETA, two minutes.
Uh, Mobile 7-1, request
fire and EMS support
for unresponsive male at Naehu Beach.
10-4, Mobile 7-1.
Available units responding.
[TIRES SQUEAL, SIREN WAILING]
♪
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Ready, ready, come on.
All right.
[ENGINE REVVING]
♪
All right, take the shirt off.
Nice. Okay.
- [AED CHARGING]
- Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
- Clear.
- [AED THUDS]
- [SIRENS APPROACHING]
- Go.
- [VAN DOOR CLOSES]
- Two, three
All right, Em.
Unresponsive no idea
how long he's been out for.
- Clear.
- [AED BEEPING]
[THUDS]
♪
- [COUGHING]
- Oh!
- Sit him up.
- We got him.
- One, two, three.
- Yep.
Oh, nice.
- Yeah, man.
- [EXHALES DEEPLY]
Sir, sir? Nothing.
Let's go.
I told you paragliding was dumb.
Hey, you good, Cap?
Yeah.
So are we out of here, then?
Yeah.
♪
[SIREN WAILING]
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
♪
Hey, hey.
Hey, yourself.
Oh, it looks fun out there.
Yeah, good enough to
get wet on my day off.
I figured you weren't working today.
We had a big one this
morning. I didn't see you.
Yeah, if you would've called,
I could've just told you.
[SIGHS] Right, I know.
Well, see, I'm restraining myself,
trying to be respectful, you know?
Yeah, playing it cool,
that sort of thing.
Exactly, yeah.
[CHUCKLES]
I like that.
Yeah, that's the idea.
Anyway, I, uh
I better get out there.
Right. Yeah.
I will call and ask you out
to dinner that I pay for.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it.
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
[FUNKY MUSIC]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV]
Oh, what?
Juiced! [DOOR OPENS]
[CHATTER CONTINUES]
Did you finish off the cereal?
- Yeah.
- How? There's no milk.
You don't need milk for cereal.
Yeah, you do.
You've been brainwashed by Big Milk.
- [CELL PHONE VIBRATES]
- [SIGHS]
Hey, uh, you got any plans today?
Obviously.
- Come to a party with me.
- What?
I mean, it's not really,
like, a party, really.
It's more like a lunch thing.
A lunch thing?
Yeah, couple people from high school.
Sick club it's right down the road.
A Punahou lunch thing.
Oh, let me think.
Um, no.
Come on.
The girl that's throwing
it is a family friend.
And if I don't go, then
it'll get back to my family,
and I don't want to
have to deal with it.
What do I get out of it?
It's catered, guaranteed.
Fine.
- But I'm not dressing up.
- Shoots.
[UPBEAT ISLAND MUSIC]
♪
[CELL PHONE CHIMES]
[CELL PHONE CLICKING, BLOOPS]
Em.
- Got a minute?
- Yeah.
Hey, uh
you know, Will missed
his re-cert the other day.
Oh. News to me.
Yeah, he hasn't called to
schedule for another time.
Well, he's been really busy
with his new surf-lesson business.
- Might have just forgot.
- Okay.
Either he gets it done
by the end of the week,
or you write him up. Let him know.
Don't you
normally do the disciplinary stuff?
Yeah, but I'm asking you to.
It's been a little
complicated between me and Will lately.
Okay, well
uncomplicate it.
Is that a problem?
Not a problem.
- I'll handle it.
- Okay.
- Not bad.
- Told you.
All right, you ready?
Ready? Rich people from town love me.
- Watch.
- Okay.
[LAUGHS] You're the
one who looks nervous.
I'm not.
Yeah, you are. We drove my car.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[TRUCK DOOR OPENS]
Hey.
You busy?
You, um, here to talk it out?
No.
Uh, you missed your re-cert.
[SIGHS] Yeah, damn, I, um
I spaced it. I had a
lesson that morning.
Well, you need to get it done this week.
Mm-hmm.
Or you're getting written up.
[CHUCKLES] "Written up."
Are you serious?
Right.
This 'cause you didn't get
invited to the wedding, huh?
- Mm, nope.
- Sure.
Whatever you say, Em.
Look, I'm your lieutenant,
so it actually is whatever I say.
I couldn't care less about your wedding.
You found a sugar mommy,
great. I'm happy for you.
But I need you to do
your job here, got it?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
- Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.
You don't know what I'm
talking about, do you?
Look, it's basically a Bitcoin exchange,
but the commerce is definitely there.
We did 320 in revenue last year.
320,000?
Million.
- Whatever.
- Whoa.
I'm really about the
BioDeg work right now.
- The what?
- BioDeg.
It's the environmental
nonprofit I founded.
It actually came out of
the senior research project
we did on biodegradable
microplastics, remember?
And you turned that into
an environmental nonprofit?
Yeah. You should've paid more attention.
It's a really special project.
When I finish up at the Court,
I'm coming on as head legal.
You know, I'm still trippin'
seeing you guys together.
- How'd that go down?
- Oh, you know, Paris.
Frites at Parcelles.
We've known each other
since middle school.
But, you know, all of a
sudden, it's like, hey.
[BOTH CHUCKLES]
How long have you two been dating?
- Oh, we're not dating.
- Oh.
Um, yeah, we just work together.
And we live together. [LAUGHS]
Um, but not dating.
Uh, so I hear you're lifeguarding now?
Yeah.
- Your dad pissed or what?
- Forrest.
Come on, it's a killer job, right?
But where much is
given, much is expected.
There's no "but" about
it. It is a killer job.
He saved three people's
lives last month,
which is three more than your
plastic environmental nonprofit
ever will.
We should bounce. I got stuff to do.
- Thanks for lunch.
- Yeah, thanks.
$320 million trading fake money.
I'm taking his booze.
Hello.
Do you by chance have any sunscreen?
Yeah, it's, uh it's up in the tower.
If you stop by, though,
we can help you out.
Do you work with a lifeguard
named Laka by any chance?
I'm Laka. Do we know each other?
Mm-mm.
You remember Sarah Mitchell?
Long blonde hair from Tucson?
Yeah. How's she doing?
- Great.
- Good.
She told me I should find
you when I'm out here.
Said you were, uh, worth the trip.
Tucson, huh?
Mm-hmm.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
♪
You know, thanks, but I-I got to go.
What?
I came all this way.
Yeah, got it.
How was it?
- I had fun.
- Yeah?
- Looks like you did, too.
- Oh, no.
I'm I'm gonna throw this away.
I was just not trying to be
rude or anything like that.
Come on.
You loved it.
The Laka legend grows.
Jenn, I [STAMMERING]
You know what? Just stop.
I liked you.
But I'm looking for someone
a little more serious
about everything.
[TRUCK DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
How did it go with Will?
Uh
not great.
Why'd you ask me to pull
rank on him like that?
Because I didn't want to.
- [CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
- [CHUCKLES]
Hey, this is Sonny.
Yeah, okay.
What?
Our paraglider victim just
woke up in the hospital.
That's great.
- He wasn't alone.
- What?
He was flying tandem
with a female friend.
She went down with him.
- What happened to her?
- No one knows.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
All right, Cassandra Dillard
35, single, former collegiate swimmer.
Family and friends say she
lives an active lifestyle
surfing, hiking, running. She's fit.
So she could have made it to shore.
Maybe. We know she
got out of her harness
so she wasn't knocked out on impact.
She left her friend and swam for it?
Well, maybe she thought he was dead
and couldn't swim him in.
Okay. So now what?
Uh, HPD is checking her phone records.
Maybe she had something on her phone.
If they went down right
after the call came in,
the tide was filling in pretty fast.
The way the current
moves down the coast,
she probably ended up around here.
[CELL PHONE VIBRATES]
Okay, HPD got a signal
from her smartwatch.
Last pinged here.
Watch couldn't make it to
shore that fast by itself.
Yeah. Okay, let's prep for
a rescue and recovery, yeah?
Let's get going.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SIRENS WAILING]
♪
All right. This it?
Yep.
- Cassandra!
- Cassandra!
Yell out if you can hear us!
♪
Damn it.
Hey, wait.
What if she's underneath them?
You know, the caves run pretty
far underneath the shelf.
What if she got washed in?
Well, then it is a recovery,
and we can wait for the tide to drop.
I don't know I think we should
jump in, check out the caves.
There's plenty of pockets
she could have slipped into
that would still have a
little air, even in this tide.
It's true.
Right. You know your
way around down there?
Yeah, we dive them in the summer.
Cap
we got to try before the tide comes up.
When those pockets
fill up, she'll drown.
We can jump in, check
the spots we know
in and out real quick.
All right, I'm down. Let's do it.
Yeah, me too.
She's right. We should try.
♪
Okay.
Two people go in.
Two people stay on top, just
in case we have to pull you out.
- I'm going.
- Yeah, I'm with her.
I knew if I volunteered first,
you'd end up doing it.
♪
All right, channel 9. In and out.
You hear me?
Stay together and stay safe.
Wrong line of work, Cap.
♪
Trail you a body length?
♪
[GASPING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Ah, it's a maze down here.
Yeah.
- You good?
- Yeah.
- Yep.
- [CHUCKLES]
Let's keep looking.
Okay.
Yeah?
- Yep, after you.
- [INHALES DEEPLY]
Cap, you got comms?
Rescue 2, come in.
- [GASPS]
- Rescue 2, come in.
♪
Cap, we're good.
Nothing yet. Couple more
spots I want to check.
Uh, 10-4, couple more, then out.
Yeah?
Em?
It was always a long shot.
♪
Em?
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
- [GASPS]
- [GASPS]
Damn it.
I was hoping this is where she was.
So many ways in.
And it's a lot harder to get out.
Yeah. Okay.
Radio Cap, tell him there's
one more spot I want to check.
What spot?
Remember, there's that
tunnel down by the right?
Ah
- Em.
- Just do it.
♪
Rescue 2 to Mobile 1.
Yeah, 10-4, Rescue 2.
What's going on?
- Where's Em?
- We're good.
She's just checking one more spot.
What?
The tide's coming up fast.
Get out now.
♪
Yeah, 10-4.
You got your people down there?
Yeah.
♪
[SIGHS]
You heard Cap, all right? Don't.
We're here. I'm going.
It's tight up there, all right?
You might not be able to turn around.
Well, then I can scoot my way back.
[INHALES DEEPLY]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
♪
- [GASPS]
- Hey.
It's okay.
We're gonna get you out of here.
How?
♪
Take this fin
And this mask.
Okay? And then we're
gonna swim out together.
I can't. I can't.
I hit the reef. I
thought I was drowning.
- I can't.
- No, you can do it.
You made it this far.
I know you can do it.
My partner is just on the
other side of that tunnel.
We just have to get to him.
Hey, hey, hey, hey. Look at me.
If you stay here, you'll die.
We have to do this.
Me and you, we got this.
- Okay.
- Okay.
♪
Deep breath.
[BOTH BREATHING DEEPLY]
One more. [INHALES DEEPLY]
♪
[GASPS]
Radio up top.
Rescue 2 to Mobile 1. We got her.
She's alive.
Yes.
Copy that, Rescue 2.
She's cut up and hypothermic.
All right, 10-4. Uh,
EMS and fire standing by.
♪
Laka, they found her alive.
They're coming to you.
Copy.
- Okay?
- Okay.
- You ready?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- One, two, three.
- [INHALES DEEPLY]
♪
[LAID-BACK MUSIC]
♪
You did it.
♪
Good job.
- [VAN DOOR CLOSES]
- Yeah, hell of a job.
- Well
- [SIREN WAILING]
Thanks for letting me keep looking.
"Let you"? [CHUCKLES]
Uh, that is not how I remember it.
- [CHUCKLES] Fair.
- Uh-huh.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
- Please don't be mad.
- I'm not mad.
Uh, I'm just here to
give you a heads-up.
There is a bunch of reporters
at the end of the road.
Huh.
- You should put a hat on.
- [CHUCKLES]
Well, they don't want to talk to me.
They want to talk to you.
♪
I didn't think we could get it.
It's the most popular wedding
venue in Santa Barbara.
[SIGHS] Well, that's awesome.
It's more than awesome.
It's a freaking miracle.
People wait five years for the Miramar.
Sweet.
You okay?
Uh, yeah.
Yeah, just, uh
uh, we had a little
miracle here today, too.
Two people should be
dead, and we got them.
That's amazing.
It was crazy.
I'm still tripping out a little
bit, to be honest. I was
Baby, hold on a sec.
The venue's calling.
I got to go.
Okay.
- Love you, love you. Bye.
- Yep.
[LINE CLICKS]
- So how are you feeling?
- Physically okay.
- And your boyfriend?
- Kurt?
He's going to be okay.
Kurt was rescued offshore
after the accident,
but you were found
in an underwater cave.
- Is that right?
- Yes, I was washed in.
I thought nobody knew where
I was or how to find me.
I was waiting to die.
And then Em showed up.
You mean Emily Wright,
a lieutenant with Ocean Safety?
Yes. She was amazing.
They all were.
I'll never forget them.
And I can never thank them enough.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
[GIGGLES]
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE CONTINUE]
Oh, my gosh.
- Hey. Thank you.
- Nice work.
Thanks.
You're nuts. You know that?
- No, in a good way.
- Uh-huh.
But for real, that was one
of the most badass things
I've ever seen in my entire life.
So, respect, yeah.
I appreciate that. Thank you.
Your friend Jenn, though?
Oh, no. What?
Cold, mean, not cool.
What happened?
I'll tell you later.
[LAUGHS] Deal.
- Let's take a walk.
- Yeah.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Not bad out there.
Thanks.
Only one I know who
would have done that was,
ah, me way back when.
Now, see? That
that's a real compliment.
I'm proud of you
and what you do here.
I mean that.
- You dying or something?
- [CHUCKLES]
Nope.
Good.
Just retiring.
Come on.
No, I mean it.
I don't have an exact
timeline, but, uh
soon.
But all the new stuff we're getting
the new equipment, the
new tower, the new hire.
Always leave a place
better than you found it
which I hope you do as a captain.
Yep.
You're up.
You've tamed a little of the attitude.
The stuff with, uh with Will
well, now that's the past.
That's why you wanted me to
talk to him about the re-cert.
Just keep it quiet for now, okay?
Congratulations.
Go home and get some sleep.
[STEADY MUSIC]
♪
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
♪
Let's make some cocktails
or something at least.
- No, why?
- Because it's 150 bucks a bottle.
Yeah, then why mix it? Just drink.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
Ahh.
Ooh!
That's next level.
See? The scene ain't that bad.
No, it is.
So you think I'm a good lifeguard, huh?
- [LAUGHING] Oh, here we go.
- [LAUGHS]
I was making a point, okay?
Don't get all puffed chest on me.
All right, all right.
Hey, mahalo for going with me, though.
It was kind of fun.
So
that was your ex-girlfriend?
And those were your friends?
- Mental.
- Ah.
Road not taken, I guess.
Yeah.
Better road, better friends.
Mm. All right, one more.
Nope, I got work in the morning.
I'm going to do an early
run-swim if you're up for it.
- Let's do it.
- Okay.
- See ya.
- Okay.
♪
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
Hey, wait up.
Are you out of here?
Yeah, yeah. Big day.
Yeah.
What's up?
Uh
I owe you an apology.
[CHUCKLES] For what?
I get why Julie doesn't
want me at her wedding.
I mean, I'd probably feel the same way.
I'm sorry.
Appreciate it.
Hey, hey, wait.
Uh
things are about to change between us.
I-I mean, I know that now, and I
I'm okay with it, I think.
What are you talking about?
I had my chance, and I blew it.
[SERIOUS MUSIC]
♪
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
♪
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
[SIGHS]
Get in.
♪
[VAN DOOR CLOSES]
♪