Life Flight: The Movie (1987) - full transcript

(orchestral music)

(helicopter whirring)

(snowmobile revving)

(uplifitng acoustic guitar music)

(gasping)

- What's happening?

- Not much.

How are you and Michael
coming with the kit car?

- Pretty good actually.

What's this about?

- You really wanna know?



- Just making conversation.

You know, I can't believe CJ gave that up.

It's amazing.

- When did you become interested

in collecting things like that?

- I started collecting bottle caps when

I was a kid, marbles, that sort of thing.

I just never outgrew it.

Seriously though, if you run into another

one of those, give me a call, will you?

- [Voiceover] Attention
Life Flight personnel,

you have a scene flight in Urbandale.

- [Voiceover] We've tried everything we

can think of to get them out.



The ice is too thin.

- Yes, we are available, I'll get

my crew started immediately.

- What can we do to assist
a rescue of this kind?

- The best we can with what we've got,

grab the life jackets from the shed.

(dramatic orchestral music)

(helicopter whirring)

- [Rob] It's gonna work, Gary?

- [Gary] No, let's get
that ladder in here!

Urbandale rescue, Life
Flight ETA is three minutes.

Can you tell me what the situation is?

- [Voiceover] We made attempts with a boat

and with the sled, but
the ice is too thin,

we can't get to them.

- Where's your volunteer?

- There's no one available.

- Just pick one up at the site.

- Please, God, let me
get a full time crew.

- You okay?

- Oh yeah, I'm fine.

(dramatic music)

- Urbandale Rescue, we're gonna need

an EMT assist, a rope, some men

to help remove a door.

- Affirmative.

- Have you identified a landing site yet?

- We have an ambulance to the North,

we also have a fire truck to the South,

we have a gravel road on your East side,

we have train lining from the North

around to the East and onto the South.

We'll be on the East side
of (mumble) reservoir.

- [Voiceover] Kelly, we have a multiple

car accident coming in and we need

more help in ER, do you have anyone

that could assist?

- No, but I'll be glad to
help until I got a call.

- They're been telling me they'd like

increased hemodynamic
monitoring capabilities.

Of course I can support that.

We need it now.

That's because the current bedside

monitoring system is antiquated.

(helicopter whirring)

(dramatic sting)

Okay, bye bye.

- Well, ready to call it a day?

- What are you doing here?

- I just happened to
be in the neighborhood.

- Well what a nice surprise.

- Yeah, I've got a better one at home.

- My running shoes.

You finally picked up my running shoes!

- How did you know that?

- 'Cause that's the only
thing that would surprise me.

- Wanna go try 'em out?

- Come on, old man, try and keep up.

- It's those new shoes.

- Nah, it's because you're old!

- Old, huh?

I'll race you to the bridge!

- You'll never make it to the bridge.

- I won't?

Ever since I've been to the doctor,

I won't have trouble keeping up with you.

- What are you talking about?

- Oh, didn't I tell you?

I went to see Doc Richards and I

told him I was having trouble keeping up.

He said no problem, here's what you do,

you run 10 miles a day
for eight days alone

and then you won't have any problems.

Then call him and tell him what happened.

- Really?

- Yeah, so eight days later I called him

and he said well did you
run your 10 miles a day

for eight days like I
told you, I said yeah.

He said well how'd you do.

I said how would I know,
I'm 80 miles from home!

(laughing)
- Oh, you smarty pants!

You're on the bridge!

- Okay.

(jovial piano music)

(laughing)

- Glad to see you could finally make it.

- I hate it when you do that.

It's those shoes.

- Nah.

- Yeah.

- It's just 'cause you're old.

(giggling)

- I'm gonna get you next time.

Come on, tell me the truth.

- What?

- You took the shortcut.

- I did not!

- Eric, you're going nowhere!

You're such a loser, Eric, you know?

Ever since you started
hanging around with Brian.

Every time you're with him, you're wasted.

And I'm sick of it!

Just don't call me anymore, okay?!

Just don't call me anymore!

- [Martin] ER, Nurse Martin speaking.

- Hi, this is Kelly down at Life Flight.

Do you have anyone who could cover

for us between seven and midnight?

- [Martin] Bob and Michael are available.

- If you could send Michael down, we could

give him a page and orient him.

(suspenseful synthesizer music)

- Think there'll be anything in here

that I could use to help Rob?

- I don't think Rob is interested

in finding God's will in his life, do you?

- Yeah, you're probably right.

- One thing he might relate to

though is the kit car you're building.

Does Rob has a blueprint or plan?

- Yeah, but he never uses it.

He thinks he knows more than
the people who designed it.

- But a car just doesn't happen.

And if he doesn't follow the blueprint,

the chances are the
car will be built wrong

or at least it won't be designed

as good as it could be.

If you could just make him realize

that life doesn't come together

very well either without God's blueprint.

(suspenseful music)

(loud crash)

- [Voiceover] Attention
Life Flight personnel,

you have a scene flight in (mumble)

on Gulf View Road a quarter mile

North of Highway 101.

(helicopter whirring)

- [Michael] When we get there,

what will you want me to do?

- [Kelly] You can hook the
patient to the monitor,

start IV, take a pressure.

- [Voiceover] Got pulse 120.

- Respiration's at 30 seconds (mumble).

- [Rob] Hope County 203,
this is Life Flight.

Our ETA to your destination
is nine minutes.

- I'm gonna start an IV here, guys.

- Go ahead.

- Hope County 203, can you
tell us about your patient?

- We have one victim, male, approximately

16 years of age, he
has a BP of 90 over 40.

Glasgow of seven, his heart rate is 120,

respiration 36 in labor.

He has head to chest injuries.

- Dispatch, this is Life Fight,

we have one male patient with a

Glasgow of seven, head and chest injuries.

We'll be landing in one minute.

- Life Flight, this is dispatch,

I show you landing at 22:30 hours.

- What do we got?

- Here, put this on your leg and

you write vitals down on him.

- [Rob] Kelly, where's the IV equipment?

- [Kelly] Over here in the
back of the pilot's seat.

- [Rob] How about the
blood pressure cuffs?

- [Kelly] Oh, the cuffs
are in the trauma bag.

(glass breaking)

- John, I heard something.

John.

Someone's in the house.

(suspenseful music)

- Be careful.

(cat meowing)

- Daddy, I have to go to the bathroom.

- You know where the bathroom is, honey.

(cat meowing)

- [Voiceover] Is everything okay?

- Yeah, it was just the cat.

(dramatic music)

- Boy, I don't know, Kelly.

- You were great.

- I wish I could do it all the time,

but I just felt like I was in the way.

- I couldn't have done it without you.

- You shouldn't have to worry about

the patient and training
me at the same time.

- I'm trying to get that corrected.

Oh, Michael, I've been meaning

to ask you something.

I'm moving into a new apartment

and I really need someone to take

care of my fish, could you do that for me?

- I guess so, but I don't
know anything about fish.

- [Kelly] I know that you want what's best

for the patient, Mr. Overton, but look,

how can you offer the best for the patient

when my flight nurses are busy

monitoring the skill levels of volunteers?

- The volunteer program is
working very well for us, Kelly.

- I agree, but that's not the issue here.

- Then what is the issue here?

The original program
called for a helicopter

with a pilot and one nurse on board.

- But the program was
new all over the country,

it hadn't even been tested!

Now we found we need two full time people

with advanced life support skills.

- If you can convince Linda that this

program deserves priority
over other programs --

- I have tried on several occasions.

- Kelly, I really think you're gonna

have to take this up with Linda Reynolds.

- You have all the people that you need.

You seem to forget that they
put this program on the map.

Those volunteers come from every

recuse discipline in the area.

- Linda, we're putting primary medical

care in the hands of
volunteers too many times.

All I'm asking for is just to have someone

whose skills we're all familiar with.

- Kelly, are you trying to say that

our volunteers are not competent?

- I don't think that at all, Linda.

- Kelly, this is really
beginning to grate on me.

You seem to think that I don't want

what's best for the patient.

The Life Flight program, as you

very well know, is not
a profitable venture.

Look Kelly, there are other programs

here that need money.

Now I just can't see pouring money

into a program that is working fine.

We provide the service
because there's a need.

- Hi, Eric, remember me?

My name is Michael, I'm one of

the people who came out to pick you up.

Those of us who were on your flight

will be dropping by from time to time

just to see how you're doing.

- Okay, how do you wanna set the timing?

- It should be set at four degrees before

top dead center according to the book.

- I don't know what the book says,

four degrees is too low.

You sure it says four?

- Mmhm, according to this the combustion

runs hotter and you get less emissions.

- We get less power too.

- Look Rob, all I'm saying is according

to the book, the timing should

be set at four degrees.

Did you hear Kelly's
getting a new apartment?

- Really?

- Yeah, she wants me to take care

of her fish for a weekend, I don't

know anything about fish.

- Tell her I'll take care of them for her.

- You will?

- Sure.

You know what I really
think we oughta set this at?

- What?

- About 12 to 14 degrees.

- Come on, you can't set it that high.

- Why not?

- Well five or six degrees maybe, but 14?

The book says four, Rob.

- Guess I should know better than

to argue with you about a book, huh?

- What do you mean?

- Well you practically live by

what it says in your bible.

- All I'm saying is that the guy

who designed this gave us a book

of instructions, it's a little silly

for us to try and do it our own way.

- I always do things my own way.

- Fine, do it your own way, all

I'm saying is things might not run

as smoothly as they were designed to.

- Are you talking about the
instruction book or the bible?

- I'm talking about the car.

- No you're not, you're
talking about the bible.

And you're trying to convince me that

the bible is the answer
to every conceivable

problem I could come up against in life.

I'm telling you that while that's a very

attractive fantasy, life
just doesn't work that way.

- All right, if you wanna
talk about the bible

I can tell you that all the principles

you need to guide you
through your problems

are in the bible, and if you run into

a problem, you can call the designer

'cause He knows what you're trying to do.

- If He already knows
what I'm trying to do,

then why do I have to ask?

- I love what I do, it's just
not enough of a challenge.

- Why don't you go out
and find something more?

Oh hun, that goes over here.

- The question is where do I go.

The only people doing what I

wanna do is Life Flight.

- I think it'd be great
if you could join them,

but the way things are
now, it could take awhile.

- I guess I'm not in a big hurry.

I've got some things
that I gotta work out.

- You mean what happened in Vietnam?

- Yeah.

- You know, other than the fact that your

helicopter was shot
down, you've never really

said much about what went on over there.

- Well I've been wanting
to talk about that.

Just wanted to forget it.

- Well you have to face
that and deal with it

if you're gonna get
serious about Life Flight.

- The question is how.

- We'll do it together.

We'll ask God to show
us how to deal with it.

If Life Flight is part of
God's plan for you life,

then I figure He'll help us sort it out.

(military drum music)

(crickets chirping)

(helicopter whirring)

- [Fire Bird] War Wagon,
Fire Bird's in orbit.

(loud explosions)

(gunfire)

- [Voiceover] Go for it!

Go for it!

(gunfire)

(helicopter beeping)

- [Linda] What happened?

- I kept waiting for the
impact, but it never came,

at least I don't remember it.

I was holding this in my hand so

tight it actually cut my palm.

Then I looked outside and we were

sitting in this rice patty.

- How'd you get back to base?

- Well another helicopter came in

a matter fo minutes to
pick up the wounded.

We were near the base by that time.

I kept hearing the pilot joking.

- Joking?

- Yeah, he said there were only two

things you couldn't
afford to lose in combat.

Sense of humor and your main rotor.

- I guess he was trained
for that sort of thing, huh?

- Yeah.

And I wasn't, that's why he can get

back in a helicopter and I can't.

- I see why you're not too thrilled

about getting back in a chopper.

- But I am.

That's what I don't understand.

I mean, I'm not happy
doing what I'm doing.

Here I am being pulled toward a

job in a helicopter for a company

that isn't even hiring.

Figure that one out.

- [Kelly] After the tank's filled you just

check the PH balance
of the water with this.

- That's before I add
this and after I add this?

- Wrong.

- This way.

- Right.

- Okay.

- All you have to do is just read the

instructions on the side,
you're gonna be fine, Rob.

But you do have to check the water

temperature if you add any water.

I guess that's just
about the extent of it.

- I'll do my best.

(dramatic music)

- [Voiceover] Shannon, mommy's

still waiting for the (mumble)!

- How are you and Kelly's
fish getting along?

- They're fine.

What's the big deal, they're fish.

You feed them, they're fine.

- I wouldn't want the responsibility,

those fish mean an awful lot to her.

I gotta run down to the car for

a minute, I'll be right back.

- Okay.

- [Voiceover] Are you born again?

It is not enough to say
I belong to a church

or I suppose I'm a Christian.

My friends, thousands
say they are born again.

A man who is truly born
again believes that

Jesus Christ is the only
savior who can pardon his soul.

We have this phrase many
places in the bible,

I'm reminded of the meeting between

Nicodemus and Jesus Christ.

- How come you did that?

- I don't wanna listen to that.

- Why not?

- Because either they're telling you

that I go to Hell, or
they want all my money.

- That's not true.

- Sure it is.

They're always putting
you on a guilt trip.

And you know what really bothers me?

If I don't believe the way they do,

then I'm the one who's wrong.

What makes them so sure they're right?

- But being born again,
that's in the bible.

- I've never seen it.

- You ever read it?

- Of course I've read the bible.

I just don't remember
anything about born again.

- It's in there.

- Where?

- The New Testament.

- Where in the New Testament?

- Matthew, no...

John --

- Michael, when was the last
time you read the bible?

- [Michael] Kelly!

- Hi, Michael, how you doing?

- How's it going with the Life Flight

staff thing, you making any headway?

- Oh Michael, it is so frustrating,

I have tried everything, I have typed

proposals, I have retyped
and I am getting nowhere.

- I heard you went to Mr. Overton.

- I think I made things worse.

- He's usually pretty sympathetic.

- Well I'm gonna keep pushing.

Oh Michael, you look terrible,

I mean you haven't start your shift yet,

what have you been doing?

- Rob and I are still
working on the kit car.

I've been trying to share Christ with him,

but it seems like the more
I try, the more I mess up.

- What do you mean?

- He asks some very tough questions and

I don't think he really
wants to know the answers.

- You know what I think?

I think you're trying too hard.

You can't agitate someone into
a relationship with Christ.

- I guess I've been doing that.

- Are you relying on the Holy Spirit,

or are you trying to do it yourself?

- That's a good point.

- You know what my problem used to be,

I thought I had all the
answers about Christianity,

but I didn't.

People would ask me questions, I'd give

my opinion or some kind of pad answer

instead of biblical
truth, and the one thing

we have to learn,
Michael, is to discipline

ourselves in God's word and the wise

behind the faith before
we can tell anyone.

Oh come on, cheer up, Michael.

I know you did better than you think.

- But those are real tough questions.

- At least he's asking the questions.

- That's true.

I gotta go.

- Hang in!

- Hey, where does it talk about

born again in The New Testament?

- In John.

- Where in John?

You're looking better every time

I come in here, buddy.

I understand the nurse came in

yesterday, flipped on
the Cubs game for you.

Should have won.

Should have won.

I was over at Rob's
working on the kit car,

boy were we disappointed.

You know anything about starters?

We're having trouble with one.

I'm gonna tell you the truth, starters

aren't the only thing
we're having trouble with.

See, Rob has a lot of
needs in his life, Eric.

That he doesn't even know about.

Needs only Christ can meet.

Some of his flights are
in marginal weather,

what if his helicopter goes down?

Where will he spend eternity?

Rob doesn't know Christ.

How can I get him interested in finding

the answers to questions
he's not even asking?

Did you ever have a
friend you really loved?

I do.

I want all my friends to meet Him.

Christ has made such a
difference in my life,

I really want Rob to know Him.

Hi.

- Hi, Michael.

- Are we working on
the car tomorrow night?

- Sure, what time do you wanna start?

Oh, I can't, how about Wedesday?

- Wednesday's fine, just let me know.

- I watched Sergeant
York on TV last night.

Gary Cooper.

Did you ever see it?

- Yup.

- You remember the scene where the army

sent Sergeant York home to work

out his problems about fighting?

Why did he have to pray?

- 'Cause he wanted to know God's will

in regards to his killing enemy soldiers.

- Yeah, but if Sergeant York already was

a religious man, God knew
what his problem was.

So why did he have to pray?

- When you were a kid, did
you ever have an Erector Set?

- Yeah.

- Did you ever have any problem
putting the pieces together?

- No, actually, I was pretty
good at the mechanical stuff.

- Come on, there must have been some time

when you have some problems.

- What are you getting at?

- When you had a problem, what'd you do?

- I asked my dad.

- That's my point, did he help?

- Yeah, why wouldn't he?

- Yeah, why wouldn't He?

- But if God already knew what

Sergeant York's problem was, why

did he have to spend so much time

going up to the mountains to ask for help?

I mean if my dad knew that I had

a problem, he'd come and help.

- I'll bet your dad didn't do that.

- What makes you say that?

- Because if your dad
helped you with everything,

you never would have learned
to do anything on your own.

And you're too good with
gadgets and stuff to

make me believe that your dad
helped you with everything.

- What does it say in
the bible about prayer?

- What was wrong with my answer?

- Actually, it kinda made sense.

But that's just your opinion.

I mean that is your opinion.

Isn't there anything in
the bible about prayer?

- Sure.

- Where?

(military trumpet music)

(car revs)

- Oh, what is this?

(glass shatters)

(phone ringing)

Hello?

Well I think I wanna call it off.

There's just too much going on.

Okay, take it easy now.

- Hi, honey.

CJ, what's going on?

- Not now, Linda, I'm not in the mood!

- Well that gives us something in common.

Are you gonna clean up that mess?

Okay old man, you want war, you got war!

The loser cleans up the mess!

(laughs) Oh!

(shrieks)

Don't you dare use my decorative pillows!

- All is fair in love and
war, and you are in trouble!

(jazzy music)

- Gotcha!

- Ah!

- Ah!

Evening, Mrs. Nelson!

Linda and me, we're just
having a little pillow talk.

- Looks to me, young man, like Linda's

doing most of the talking.

- Oh she's got the artillery,
and I've got the strategy!

(laughing)

Boy Linda, you're really out for blood.

- Well you win a few,
you lose a few, huh CJ?

- Why is it every time I
compete with you I lose?

- (laughs) Now I want you to remember that

even though you're not the boss at work,

you're still second in command at home.

(laughing)

- So now he wants to know why Sergeant

York prayed if God
already knew the problem.

I gave him a good answer, Eric.

I gave him a very good answer.

He still wouldn't accept it.

I'll find him answers.

It won't just be opinions either.

(dramatic music)

- [Rob] No, you can't do
this to me, don't die!

(sighs) What did mom used to do?

Warm water and salt, that's right, okay.

Come on, it worked for mom.

Don't let me down, guys.

(phone ringing)

Hello?

Kelly, hi!

A few days earlier,
good, glad to hear that.

Yeah, they're fine.

Listen, I have something on the stove.

Okay, good, okay, bye.

(wacky trumpet music)

(dramatic music)

- Mommy, come see what I found!

- [Voiceover] Just a minute, honey!

What'd you find, hun?

- Will you help me find my dolly's head?

- Oh, remember we lost the
dolly's head at the lake.

She doesn't have a head anymore.

Just find something
else to play with, okay?

(helicopter whirring)

(helicopter beeping)

- One of the most life changing things

that can ever happen to you or me

is that we come to a place of personal

faith in Jesus Christ as our savior.

Jesus is our savior, we
are the children of God,

Heaven is our home and we have an eternal

reason and purpose for this
life right here on Earth.

(dramatic music)

(heart beating)

- Mommy, I want a drink of water!

- [Voiceover] I'll get it
in just a minute, honey!

(gunshot)

(siren ringing)

- [Milo] Resident is filing a 239,

requesting Life Flight for a gunshot

wound to the left chest, is it available?

- I'll check with the pilot, Milo,

weather conditions are marginal.

(dramatic music)

- We can't go across
county because of the fog.

(mumble) only 600 feet
with one mile visibility.

(siren ringing)

- [Milo] Hope County,
this is Milo, Unit 239,

we're having mechanical problems

in need a mutual assist from Indianola.

Our location is...

(siren ringing)

- [Indianola] This is Indianola 248.

Be advised, we're two miles South of town.

ETA is two minutes.

Have you called for Life Flight?

- Yes, but the weather's too bad to fly.

- [Weatherman] patchy
fog in these areas could

dissipate if the wind
pattern continues to change.

- [Milo] Dispatch, this is Milo.

The Indianola Unit has just arrived,

but the patient is in distress,

she has a rapid heart rate, shallow

respiration and may be
developing a collapsed

lung, request that you
dispatch a Life Flight unit,

we need a paramedic assist immediately.

(siren ringing)

(dramatic music)

- [Weatherman] The fog is dissipating

rapidly now in metropolitan areas.

- [Dispatcher] Indianola,
this is Life Flight dispatch.

The (mumble) has lifted and it looks like

we can now rendezvous at South Ridge Mall.

Life Flight will meet your
unit, ETA five minutes.

Also, be advised that Life Flight

is still in route with the paramedics

to cover until the aircraft arrives.

(sirens ringing)

- CJ, I have a potentially
dangerous situation

here, I need a paramedic,
would you fly with me?

(dramatic orchestral music)

- How is she?

- You did it.

- I didn't have much choice.

- Were you afraid?

- I was too busy to think about it.

- It's strange, isn't it?

How God works?

I mean I know that woman wasn't

injured tonight for your benefit,

but of all the men who could have

responded to that call, you were the one

that was forced to come
back in the helicopter.

Aren't you excited, you did it!

- I think I'll get nervous first.

- Is that woman gonna make it?

- Yeah, I think so.

- Good.

- She wouldn't have had much of a

chance if it weren't for Life Flight.

- Yeah.

- Linda, I wanna be part of that program.

That woman would have died if it

weren't for that helicopter.

- Hey, you don't have to sell me on it.

Honey, I know this has
been really tough on you,

but I just want you to know that

I am so proud of you.

- I forgot to feed the fish.

Nice going, Rob.

Kelly trusts you with her fish,

two boil to death, two starve to death.

Man.

- Now Kelly, I have been having this

strong feeling that God has a future

for me in Life Flight, and I know

that you and Linda are working

out this full time staff situation.

- Do you ever wonder though if God

really is concerned about our problems?

- Hi, guys.

- Hi, Rob.

- Hi, Rob.

- Here.

- Oh, thank you.

- How goes the battle for more staff?

- Well we were just talking about that.

In fact I was just about to share

something with Kelly that might

encourage both of you.

She asked me if I ever wondered

if God was interested in our problems.

I was about to show her this.

- It's a Maltese cross!

- [Kelly] Beautiful.

- [Rob] Do you know the
history of this thing?

- Only as far back as 1969.

- This piece goes back
to the 11th century.

They were used as badges
for the Hospitallers.

They took care of the wounded knights.

They were the first medics.

- I didn't know that.

- I've been looking for
one of these for years.

CJ, would you sell this?

- Look, I know you're
interested in this as a relic.

But let me share something with you

that's really important to me.

(military drum music)

I was with the 87th
medical group in Vietnam.

We were stationed in Da Nang.

Up until that day, I never did believe

that there really was a God.

(loud explosion)

(heicopter whirring)

- [War Wagon] Fire Bird 2-2,
this is War Wagon 6-0-5,

we're going in on low
levels from the Northwest.

Appreciate you guys staying on our tail.

- [Fire Bird] Roger, War Wagon.

We'll be orbiting East West at 2,000 feet.

If you take fire, say
distance and direction.

- Let's just stay here
'till things cool off a bit.

Okay, Dan.

- [War Wagon] We're coming out of

the Northwest into a hot LZ.

- [Fire Bird] Roger, War Wagon.

We got your covered.

- (mumble).

- CJ!

My badge.

- Your badge?

- My cross.

Will you get my cross?

- Danny, you gotta be kidding, I'm not

going out there to get
some good luck charm!

- CJ, it's more than that, please.

- Dan, that doesn't matter!

What matters is I get you
out of here in one piece.

- CJ, please!

- I gotta be nuts.

- If I don't make it...

I want you to have it.

- Don't worry, Danny,
you're gonna make it.

- I want you to have it.

- Danny, you're gonna make it!

(dramatic music)

(gunfire)

- [CJ] You see, Danny Kellogg was killed.

And I struggled with that for months.

Then one day this Chaplain said

something to me that made me realize

that God's ways are not our ways.

He said CJ, if you had
died instead of Danny,

and you went before God and God said

to you CJ, why should I
let you into my Heaven,

what would you say?

I didn't have an answer.

But I knew that Danny Kellogg did.

'Cause he was a personal friend

of God's son Jesus Christ.

So I've kept this not
as a good luck charm,

but as a reminder of who God really is.

Whenever I get discouraged or lack

the faith to go for it, I use this to

remind me to go to God's word

and claim His promise.

Then one day I just
dropped it in a shoebox.

- That's one heck of a story.

- Now Kelly, I know how you're

struggling with God's
will for Life Flight.

I want you to have this.

- I can't take that.

- No, you take it.

On one condition, that if you ever get

to the place where you think you're

gonna drop it in the shoebox, that you

pass it on to someone else who

might benefit from it.

- [Kelly] Thank you, CJ.

- Well, more coffee?

- No, I'm coffeed out.

- You know, I was just wondering.

What if I could get Linda just to

consider maybe using some of

our people on a full time basis?

- You mean like Michael?

- [Kelly] Yeah, like Michael.

- Never hurts to ask.

- Well then what'll I do?

- Well...

I'd go for it.

- I've just read through
your new proposal.

I think it was very well stated.

I was impressed, you covered
a lot of good points,

but you've gotta realize --

- Linda, are you really giving my

request serious consideration?

- What kind of question is that?

- Linda, we're not talking about

a piece of equipment or new uniforms,

we're talking about quality care,

we're talking about everything that

Life Flight stands for,
we're talking about lives!

- You know, I am beginning to get very

uncomfortable with what it is I think

you're saying, you act as though I'm

opposed to all these things!

- I just think there's something else

behind the decision
besides budget priorities.

- Oh, and what would that be?

- I don't know!

I just know that for someone who

initiated this program that you don't

understand what I'm trying to do here!

- Kelly, you are way off base on this!

I don't like the way you're
handling this at all,

now you don't understand
where I'm coming from on this!

- [Voiceover] Attention
Life Flight personnel,

you have a scene flight
three miles north of Adele

on Highway 33, 10-51 Central.

(dramatic synthesizer music)

- Kelly, is there anything I can do?

- Yeah, pray.

Call dispatch, tell them
I'm gonna start CPR.

- Dispatch, this is Life Flight,

Kelly's too busy to talk to you right now,

we've got a head injury
on the way to Methodist,

we've initiated CPR.

- One and two and three and four!

Come on, Shawn!

Five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10,

11, 12, 13 and 14 and 15,
come on, Shawn, breathe!

Come on, breathe, baby,
breathe, you're almost there!

(dramatic synthesizer music)

(military drum music)

- Go for it!

- What did you do after you
lost pressure and heart rate?

- I...

Inflated the (mumble), I pumped up the IV

and I initiated CPR.

- Did you give him epi or (mumble)?

- I couldn't, I was alone.

- Well you did what you could.

- Yeah.

- [Voiceover] I want you to think for

a moment about what you're trying

to accomplish in your life right now.

Remember last week we talked about

Matthew where Jesus says to him

who knocks, the door will be open?

Well that's a promise.

But if we kick the doors down in trying

to create our own opportunities,

then we're not allowing
God to pave the way.

God promises that He'll give us

the desires of our heart if
we commit our ways to Him.

Have you committed it to God?

And have you left it there.

I want you all to just think for a minute

about what you're trying to accomplish

right now in your life.

(soft acoutic guitar music)

Have you committed to God?

And have you left it there?

- [Rob] Penny for your thoughts?

- I'm sorry, I guess I was daydreaming.

- Well if you're gonna dream, my daddy

always said to dream big 'cause

it doesn't cost any more.

- I don't know, I guess I was remembering

my favorite verse I learned
as a little girl in camp.

- I'd like to hear it.

- Would you really?

- Sure.

- It's written in Proverbs.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

lean not on your own understanding,

and always acknowledge Him and you'll

make your path straight.

That's a beautiful promise, Rob.

I don't know, I just believe that somehow

God's gonna work it out where
we get a full time staff.

- Well that'll take an
act of God for sure.

Who knows, maybe we'll luck out.

- I'm ready for him, Eric.

I'm doing what I can do, and
if the Holy Spirit leads,

maybe we can convince Rob that the one

who designed the instruction book

really does know what He's talking about.

I know how he feels.

People used to try and share with me,

I wouldn't listen either.

Then one night I was
watching a movie in church

and I knew I was missing something.

I sat on the back of my dad's tractor

in the middle of the night.

You know what I had to do?

I just said Lord, I know I'm a sinner.

And I believe that Jesus is your son

and died on a cross for my sins.

And I ask you now to forgive me

and be my savior.

Boy did my life change.

Of course my problems didn't go away,

but at least I had someone to

understand them and guide me through them.

You wanna know something, Eric?

We don't have to make a big production

out of accepting God's gift of

eternity into our lives.

He hears the quietest whispering words.

So do you think we can have
it finished by this weekend?

- Sure, give it a shot anyway.

- How are you and Kelly's
fish getting along?

- Don't ask.

She's coming by to pick them up tonight,

boy did you luck out on that one.

Don't ever ever offer to take care

of anyone else's fish.

- Finally met your match, huh?

- Yeah, I guess.

That reminds me, did you ever find

out any of those answers to the

questions in the bible?

- Yes I did.

But I'll tell you the truth, I didn't

think you really wanted to know.

- If I didn't wanna know,
I wouldn't have asked.

What does it say about born again?

- In John 3:5, Jesus is explaining

to Nicodemus about the requirements

for getting into Heaven.

- Okay.

- One of those requirements
is being born again.

- But what's it mean?

- Well modern Christians have adopted

the phrase to mean anyone who acknowledges

their sins, confesses them to God,

and takes Him up on His
offer to pardon them.

- But what does it say about why I have

to pray to God if God
already knows what I want?

- Prayer is our way of maintaining

our relationship with God.

- But what does it say in the bible?

- In First John 5, 14
and 15, it says prayer

is the assurance we
have in approaching God.

In other words, if we
ask Him for something,

according to His will, He hears us

and we know that if He hears us,

whatever we ask will be given to us.

Until you know the Lord,
Rob, you're not in His will.

And the promises that apply to Christians

don't apply to other people.

That wouldn't give me much peace of mind.

- I have peace of mind.

- Fine, but why have peace of mind for

70 years or so and then go into

eternity without God?

- Kelly, hi!

- Hi Rob, I came for my fish.

- Great.

- Rob, what happened?

God, they're beautiful, they look

better than when I left them,

how did you do it?

Oh I was so afraid that
they might get the ick.

- Ick?

- Yeah, it's a common
disease fish can get,

kinda like a cold and there's nothing you

can do about it unless you catch it.

They die.

You're such a sweetheart, I hope

they weren't too much trouble.

- Trouble?

What trouble could little fish be?

- Well I inflated the (mumble),

initiated CPR, it was so frustrating Betsy

because if I had someone with me

it could have gone better.

- Kelly, these things take time and

patience to work out --
- Oh Kelly!

Kelly, excuse me, could we talk?

- I'll talk to you later, Kelly.

- You lost a patient on Saturday.

- Yes.

- And you think that if you'd had

another nurse on board you would

have had a better chance?

- Yes.

- Kelly, for the record, I know that

you handled the situation the best

way you could under the circumstances.

I wanna know, why were you flying alone?

- It was busy in ER, it was busy in ICU,

it was a weekend, there was no

volunteers signed up.

- I'm sorry, Kelly, you know that

doesn't happen very often.

- That doesn't help that boy, does it?

He was my responsibility!

- You don't know that having a second

crew member would have
made the difference.

- And you don't know that it wouldn't.

I'm gonna be candid with you, Linda.

I think I know what's clouding the issue.

I think that somewhere
in your subconscious

you're afraid to recommend my suggestions,

it just might appear to
be a conflict of interest.

- A conflict of interest?

- Linda, your husband wants to be

in the Life Flight program, and if you

recommend my suggestions it just might

appear you're serving your own

self interest and not the hospital's!

Linda, what's it gonna take?!

- Excuse me, Linda, Mr. Overton

would like to see you.

- [CJ] Whenever I get discouraged

or lack the faith to go for it,

I use this to remind me to go

to God's word and claim His promise.

(dramatic orchestral music)

- Ready?

- Got it.

- Set it clear over there.

(dramatic synthesizer music)

- [Kelly] Rick, we're running out of time.

Look, I'm lighter than you are,

you just hold onto me, I'm gonna go out.

(dramatic orchestral music)

- Hiya, Eric, how you doing?

Five, please.

- He starts therapy today,
he's doing real well.

- Well Michael's kept
me informed about you

and I'm happy you're doing so well,

keep up the good work.

Bye, Eric.

(knocking)

- [CJ] Come in.

- Hi, guys.

- Oh hi, Kelly.

- They're so pretty.

- Well I thought I'd come by to

see if you could still wiggle your toes.

- Oh I think mine is still thawing out.

- I couldn't believe my eyes when

I saw you two in the water.

CJ, you've pulled enough people

out of situations like
that to know better.

- Kelly, I don't know how
to say this, but thank you.

- Well that's just what we do Linda,

but not quite so dramatically.

(knocking)

- [CJ] Hi, Frank.

- How's everybody doing?

- Great.

- Kelly, we sure appreciated
your efforts yesterday.

I heard all about it and
you're to be commended.

- Well it was really a
team effort, but thank you.

- Kelly, I know that you've been making

a great deal of effort to try to get

additional full time crew.

I know you understand that the reason

that your request was denied was

just a matter of priority.

In spite of what happened yesterday,

those priorities haven't changed,

but there may be something that

we can still do to help meet

your realities as well as ours.

Our current line of thinking is this.

We could hire paramedics from other

rescue units on a part time basis.

Since they normally work 24 hour shifts

every three days, we could hire them

to work for us in-between.

- That's great!

- Actually, it was Linda's idea,

and we feel it may have some merit.

- That'll give you the consistency that

you want with a price
that we can live with.

- I love it.

I just love it!

Any chance of me getting a couple

of male nurses on board?

- That depends on their schedules.

- How about a frostbitten paramedic?

- Well if he wants to
fill out an application.

- I just knew God had big plans for me.

I knew it.

(soft piano music)

- Hi!

- Hi!

- What's with the happy face?

- What is that supposed to mean,

I walk around grumpy?

- No, you just look extra happy.

- We got our people.

- We did?!

- Yup.

- When did you find out?

- Five minutes ago.

- You're something else,
you know that, Kelly?

- I didn't do it alone.

- I'm talking about yesterday.

- You weren't so bad yourself.

- Did turn out okay, didn't it?

- Yeah.

- Kelly, I have a confession to make.

- I didn't know you were
into that sort of thing.

- My conscience has been bothering me.

You know those fish that you took home?

They weren't the ones
that you brought over.

- I know.

- You do?

- Of course.

- Now I'm embarrassed.

- Don't be.

The question is did you learn
anything from the experience.

- I think you know I did,
or you wouldn't have asked.

Those fish just showed me how really

vulnerable you can, how helpless you

can be in a situation
that you can't control.

It's kinda scary.

- I know.

- You think that God had anything

to do with what happened
at the lake yesterday?

- Do you really wanna know what I think?

- (sighs) No, I'm just
making conversation.

- Goodnight, Rob.

- Kelly!

- Yeah?

- What do you think I should do?

- I'd go for it!

(uplifting orchestral music)