A Call For Help (Third Watch)
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| “A Call For Help” | |
|---|---|
| Third Watch episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 11 |
| Guest stars | Warren Blosjo Adam Sietz |
| Written by | Edward Allen Bernero |
| Directed by | Edward Allen Bernero |
| Production no. | 176761 |
| Original airdate | January 9, 2004 |
| Episode chronology | |
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| "The Spirit" | "Black and Blue" |
"A Call For Help" is the 99th episode of the television series Third Watch and the 11th episode of the 5th season. This is considered the 100th episode as the creators of Third Watch don't refer to 'In Their Own Words' as an episode.
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[edit] Plot Summary
The 55 receives an anonymous call asking for help from an open neighbourhood but when they get there they realise that this isn't a joke.
[edit] Plot Details
An anonymous caller informs police that someone is screaming for help. Bosco and Sasha are called to a quiet neighborhood by an anonymous caller who says he heard a call for help from below his window. They discover a 21-year-old boy named Tommy with a bad cut on his hand and call an ambulance to check him out even though he says he'll be fine. Cruz happens across them and lends a hand. Kim arrives with a bad-tempered Doc and they bandage Tommy's hand. In the meantime, Bosco and Sasha discover a huge amount of blood on the side of a building. Bosco searches Tommy and discovers that the boy is carrying two knives. Doc is furious that Bosco didn't search the guy before, and becomes livid when Bosco handcuffs Tommy to Doc's bus. Ty and Sully arrive to help out, as does Carlos with a second bus. Sasha thinks she sees a body in a shed, and Bosco uses Tommy's keys to open it. A badly disfigured bloody body rolls out of the shed door. Bosco and Sasha take a handcuffed Tommy to the hospital. Tommy just keeps making up new lies. Cruz seems to be softening around the edges a bit, asking for Sully advice and thanking people for doing things.
[edit] Trivia
- This was in fact the 100th episode aired, since the Special "In Their Own Words" was considered a Third Watch episode.
- Instead of the usual "Previously on..." the episode opens with the caption 'While the following story is inspired by actual events, it has been fictionalized, characters, scenes and events have been created, and names and locations have been changed.
- This episode was filmed in ten minute loops without cuts, and is based upon an incident which occurred while Edward Allen Bernero, the episode's writer and director, was a member of Chicago's police force.
[edit] Quotes
- Bosco: You need about a thousand stitches.
Tommy: My mom’s a nurse.
Bosco: She better be a surgeon, man. I can see your bones in there. - Bosco: Do you just sit up nights thinking about ways to mess with me?
Monroe: No, it’s much easier than that.
