ANNOUNCER AVERY BEACHGOER_1 BUNNY_RUEBENS BURT_RUEBENS CAPTAIN_MASSEY CATHERINE CREW_MEMBER_1 CREW_MEMBER_3 FIRST_OFFICER_MUNROE LEO LIFEGUARD MARY MAX NEWSCASTER NURSE PASSENGER_1 RHEA RHONDA RODNEY_AIRINGTON SEBASTIAN TAMARA_AIRINGTON TRISTAN WALLA TRISTAN You're kidding, right? I'm a nurse, I've worked here for three years. You really don't recognize me? RHONDA It's not the issue, baby doll. You're not getting on without a crew ID. TRISTAN I had it. I just... I lost it. Come on. I gave you that corticosteroid cream last summer when you got sunburned in Ensenada. I remember that spot on your back where you couldn't reach. RHONDA Mmm. RHONDA Yeah, I remember. But you not flirting your way onto my ship, Romeo. I'll lose my job 'cause you're not responsible. TRISTAN Avery, she's a nurse, she can vouch for me. AVERY Hi, Rhonda. RHONDA Hey. RHONDA Unless she got a crew badge in her back pocket with your picture on it-- TRISTAN AVERY You left it at the grab and go. It was on the counter by those weird boner pills. TRISTAN She's joking. Thank you, Rhonda. TRISTAN I loathe you. AVERY You're obsessed with me. TRISTAN By the way, it was not by the boner pills. AVERY So, you ready? The Three Amigos back in action for another season. TRISTAN More like the two amigos and Mr. Magoo. AVERY AVERY Speaking of Magoo, have you heard from Dr. Campbell at all? TRISTAN No. I was waiting for his usual preseason protocol manifesto email, but I never got anything. You don't think that he... AVERY Kicked the bucket? TRISTAN Yeah. AVERY Magoo? No. He's a cockroach. He could walk out of a plane crash without a scratch. TRISTAN You, my friend, are bad. CAPTAIN MASSEY Hello, gang. Welcome back. Take a walk with me. CAPTAIN MASSEY Six hours to showtime for this season's maiden voyage. Still about a day and half's worth of work to do. CAPTAIN MASSEY Catherine. CATHERINE Captain. CAPTAIN MASSEY But it all comes together. Somehow, it does every year. AVERY Captain, sorry. Where's Dr. Campbell? CAPTAIN MASSEY Oh. He's no longer with us, I'm sorry to say. CAPTAIN MASSEY Thank you. CAPTAIN MASSEY Relax, guys. He's not dead. I had to let him go. CAPTAIN MASSEY Thanks, Alan. CAPTAIN MASSEY After that debacle that happened last year where our special guest came aboard. AVERY Hmm. TRISTAN Bacterium Yersinia enterocolitica. CAPTAIN MASSEY Yeah, well, you don't have to remind me of the gory details. TRISTAN I saw a lady using a sun hat as a vomit bag. CAPTAIN MASSEY Charming. TRISTAN Sorry, Captain. CAPTAIN MASSEY Refunds all around. Two more voyages canceled while we cleaned and sanitized. And the contact tracer said if we'd just caught it one day earlier... AVERY I told Dr. Campbell that guy did not have appendicitis. CAPTAIN MASSEY Which is why he is no longer in charge of the health on my ship. WALLA CAPTAIN MASSEY The cruising world of today has to exceed passengers' expectations. We live in very uncertain times. Wars and worldwide pandemics. And nobody is gonna venture out for anything less than total perfection. CAPTAIN MASSEY Or we get replaced by virtual reality GoBot sex dolls on a virtual cruise, on a virtual Pacific, where there are no diseases and no employees. CAPTAIN MASSEY Mary. MARY Captain. CAPTAIN MASSEY Dear, you got a little something right there. CAPTAIN MASSEY Bottom line is we in this business have to be at the apex of our game. No more mistaking bacterial outbreaks for appendicitis. CAPTAIN MASSEY Sebastian, right? You're new up here. SEBASTIAN Yes, sir. CAPTAIN MASSEY Let me show you how to fold these towels. TRISTAN I can't work under some new old quack. AVERY We should be running this department. Us. We're the only ones who care. TRISTAN I know. Tell him. AVERY Captain, you made the right call letting Dr. Campbell go. TRISTAN Uh-huh. AVERY If I may, I'm a nurse practitioner, I've had the same amount of training as a doctor, I'm legally qualified to be head medic. I want to nominate myself for the position. TRISTAN I very highly second that nomination, Captain. CAPTAIN MASSEY Thank you, Avery. Tristan. I'm very well aware and very grateful for your years of service on The Odyssey. But in this case, the decision's already been made. Out of 110 applicants, we found him. Dr. Max Bankman. CAPTAIN MASSEY Graduated Yale, top of his class. Served four years in the Peace Corps in West Africa. He developed some sort of new technique for, uh, cleft palate surgery. CAPTAIN MASSEY Won a prize from the UN for humanitarianism or something crazy. And he served on the pediatric board for Johns Hopkins. AVERY Captain, with all due respect, he sounds overqualified. CAPTAIN MASSEY Yeah, well, after last year, I'll take overqualified as to under any day. Now, he's arriving shortly. So, I trust that the two of you will make it a smooth transition. TRISTAN AVERY This guy must be a hundred years old. TRISTAN This is a nightmare. MAX Hi. I don't have my badge yet. I'm Max Bankman, the new doctor. RHONDA I'm Rhonda Cole. Go ahead, baby. I got you. MAX Thank you. WALLA CAPTAIN MASSEY And there he is now. CAPTAIN MASSEY Doctor. Welcome aboard The Odyssey. And since they're seemingly catatonic, allow me to introduce you to Avery and Tristan. MAX You must be my brilliant and capable nurses. AVERY We are the ship's brilliant and capable nurses, yes. I'm in fact an NP. MAX Nurse practitioner, of course. I'm sorry. Max Bankman. AVERY Um, do you have any bags? MAX I do, but they come with their own guys. CAPTAIN MASSEY Perfect. Shall we? MAX It's going right in there. CREW MEMBER 1 Sir. MAX When I was working in Tanzania, in the villages there, kijiji they call them, I learned two things. One, what you can do with a rudimentary setup. MAX And two, what you can't do. Which is why I've asked to make a couple of modifications around here. AVERY Uh, yeah, everything here is state of the art. MAX Nice. TRISTAN What the hell? Bankman, is this a-- MAX Dialysis machine, yeah. In a major hospital, they'd only ever use it for patients with kidney failure, but let me tell you, it is a Swiss Army knife. You can use it for anything. MAX Hemoperfusion for toxic ingestions, managing fluid overload in patients with heart failure, CRRT for the critically ill. It's amazing. TRISTAN When I was working in the "vanini" of Africa... What is he? Bruce Banner? Bruce Wayne? AVERY He's not wrong. I've been saying we should have a dialysis machine for years. TRISTAN No, but this guy could be practicing medicine anywhere on earth, but he wants to practice it here? On a floating theme park? Mm-mmm. MAX It says here my cabin's on the Pelican Deck. MAX It's Tristan, right? TRISTAN Yes. MAX You think you could show me the way? TRISTAN Uh, it would be my utter delight. Please. ) AVERY WALLA MAX This is not a corner of the world I'm used to practicing medicine in. TRISTAN So, what does bring you to this corner of the world? I mean, a guy like you could practice anywhere, right? MAX It seems like it has its perks, I don't know. What do you like about it? TRISTAN You know the secret that they don't want us to tell all the guests? She belongs to us. This ship, this life. It's ours. We just let them try it on for a week. When the sun goes down, we get back to port, it's our turn. TRISTAN Work like a captain, play like a pirate. The Odyssey philosophy. MAX She's ours. I like that. Oh. MAX Wow. I could get used to this. TRISTAN Captain's dinner is at 8:00. It's formal, which does not mean Hawaiian shirt. I found that out the hard way. Black tie. MAX MAX Thank you. TRISTAN Yeah. MAX And thanks for showing me around. TRISTAN Hmm. MAX I'm excited. TRISTAN Yeah. It's a big ol' bucket of fun. MAX MAX Why am I here? Truthfully, it's the same as you. It's work-life balance. I've always been really good at the work part, but now it's time for-- TRISTAN TRISTAN A life? MAX Yeah. TRISTAN Yeah, you'll get it all right. It will throw itself at you when you least expect it. Watch your back. MAX Maybe we can watch each other's back? TRISTAN Yeah, I'm not gonna be, like, your wingman, dude. Sorry. It's nothing personal, it's just maths. The guy-to-girl ratio here is, what? Like 3-to-1. It's every man for himself. TRISTAN Come on. I mean, you've already got this suite. You're a doctor. You have a head start. TRISTAN Into the wild blue yonder. Good luck with everything. BURT RUEBENS AVERY This is a cutting-edge ring, it wirelessly monitors your vitals. AVERY Get a 500-ml saline bag. He needs to be rehydrated. And 4 milligrams of Zofran. TRISTAN On it. MAX Sorry I'm late. AVERY Where were you? MAX I got turned around. MAX Ma'am, is that your husband? BUNNY RUEBENS Uh, yes. MAX I need you to tell me everything that's happened right from the very beginning. AVERY She's already given a statement. It's in his chart. BUNNY RUEBENS We were at the Margarita Mixer, the send-off, and Burt said he was feeling funny, and then he just started... doing that. MAX Okay, team, how are we gonna tackle this? First things first, differential diagnosis. List the symptoms, name the associated conditions, narrow it down from there. MAX Excuse me, sir. MAX We have conjunctivitis. A rash. That would be symptomatic of allergic reaction. The vomiting would seem to suggest something ingested. MAX Food allergy maybe? BUNNY RUEBENS He doesn't have food allergies. BURT RUEBENS The margaritas at the send-off mixer tasted weird. Like pennies sort of. MAX Interesting. Margaritas don't have any common allergens, but metallic taste can be associated with certain medications. Antibiotics like azithromycin. MAX So what do we have? An allergen. Something ingested. Metallic taste. MAX Adverse reaction to an oral antibiotic is where I'd put my money. AVERY Nice. A reasonable deduction if the patient were in fact taking any antibiotics. MAX Which he is not. AVERY Mr. and Mrs. Ruebens, before going to the mixer, did you by any chance stop by the seafood buffet? WALLA BURT RUEBENS Oh, honey, you know I love a cocktail. A shrimp cocktail. This is the life. Have I died? Have I died and gone to hog heaven? Cheers. BUNNY RUEBENS BUNNY RUEBENS BUNNY RUEBENS Cheers. BUNNY RUEBENS We had some shrimp. But he's not allergic to shrimp. We love seafood. BURT RUEBENS AVERY He's not having an allergic reaction. Not to the shrimp nor to any antibiotics. TRISTAN This happens at least once a trip. AVERY Shrimp contain iodine. You eat too much shrimp too quickly, and it can lead to iodine poisoning. MAX Iodine poisoning? You'd have to eat a hell of a lot-- TRISTAN It happens to baby seals too. Which is why we call this little ailment seal disease. BURT RUEBENS Huh. AVERY Give him two milligrams of Ativan. TRISTAN Mm-hmm. BUNNY RUEBENS Oh, my poor little seal pup. BURT RUEBENS BUNNY RUEBENS So, what are you gonna do? MAX Well, Mr. Ruebens, we are gonna have to pump your stomach. But don't worry, we're gonna have you feeling great by tomorrow morning. BURT RUEBENS BUNNY RUEBENS MAX Quick deduction work back there. Well done. AVERY We see a lot of different things on cruises. We also see a lot of the same things. Your office has a library with a good section on maritime medicine. You may wanna study up. MAX Will there be a quiz? AVERY You're living it. WALLA MAX Sorry I'm late, Captain. I'm catching up on the various cruise ship maladies that afflict cruise ship people. CAPTAIN MASSEY Cruise ship people? You mean as in people having too much fun? MAX MAX Never in my life did I consider that it was possible for a human to eat enough shrimp to give themselves iodine poisoning. CAPTAIN MASSEY CAPTAIN MASSEY Now, Doctor, you cannot judge our passengers. We're tending to their dreams. We have folks on here who've saved for years, sometimes their whole lives, just to pay for this experience at sea. CAPTAIN MASSEY And other than the birth of their child or, in some cases, their weddings, this will be the most exciting week of their entire lives. And it's our job to guarantee that. MAX Understood. CAPTAIN MASSEY CAPTAIN MASSEY See, our mission is to preserve the dream. And you're here to keep these dreamers safe. You might think of yourself as, um, guardian angel. MAX A guardian what now? CAPTAIN MASSEY Guardian angel. We make it look perfect so that resistance isn't even a possibility. And why should it be? There should be zero guilt on a pleasure cruise. CAPTAIN MASSEY Now, you may think that, um, the staff we have up here in the white shorts running around are glorified extras from the country club. But make no mistake about it, they are certified the best. CAPTAIN MASSEY You don't get to be on my ship without hours and hours of intensive training in hospitality, in scuba, in CPR. The best of the best. CAPTAIN MASSEY Sometimes, we even apply sunscreen because out here, there are no sunburns. MAX CAPTAIN MASSEY This is about as far from hell as you can get. CAPTAIN MASSEY This ship... This ship is heaven. CAPTAIN MASSEY Usually, we're about three hours from land. So medevac in the deep ocean is not even a possibility. So, it'll be your job to keep everyone alive. That's a terrifying burden that comes with enormous responsibility. CAPTAIN MASSEY So, we have to be prepared for terrible things to happen. And you can't begrudge these mishaps and these accidents. MAX Uh, speaking of mishaps and accidents, I have to go. CAPTAIN MASSEY Ah. MAX But, Captain, I hear you. And thank you. TAMARA AIRINGTON TAMARA AIRINGTON He's... MAX What happened? RODNEY AIRINGTON It-It broke. MAX He's in shock. MAX What broke, Mr. Airington? Is it a bone? RODNEY AIRINGTON TRISTAN MAX Hmm. AVERY Penile fracture. TRISTAN Uh, you can't fracture your It's not actually a bone. MAX Broken fascia. The membrane beneath the skin that connects the erectile chamber to the fascia. RODNEY AIRINGTON MAX The only treatment is surgery. MAX It's a quick procedure, 15 minutes, I'm in and out. Local anesthetic. TRISTAN Uh, we can't do surgery onboard. It's against code. AVERY Policy is we coordinate with the nearest port-- MAX Except in cases of emergency. MAX Every second that you lose blood is a second you lose the opportunity for a full recovery. We need to act now. RODNEY AIRINGTON Uh, do what you need to do, Doctor. MAX Get him prepped. MAX We got this. TRISTAN MAX The blood from his erection has pooled at the base of his penis. We can't do anything until we evacuate the hematoma. MAX Scalpel. MAX Generally speaking, penile fracture happens during intercourse when the receiving party is on top, vigorously moving up and down. And then they pull out too far, and when they sit back down, they miss. RODNEY AIRINGTON TRISTAN And you learnt this in the Peace Corps? MAX Absolutely not. Premed. Leandra. Suture. TRISTAN Who's Leandra Suture? AVERY Sutures. Stitches. TRISTAN Oh. MAX Leandra is the woman who taught me about penile fracture. My sophomore year. Toga party. TRISTAN I'm sorry, wait. You broke your... TRISTAN MAX Before you get too excited, I should probably tell you it really only happens to the larger, firmer members. AVERY TRISTAN That's wholly inappropriate. AVERY Knock, knock. Room service. Leftovers from the captain's dinner. MAX How you feeling? RODNEY AIRINGTON Like I snapped my pee-pee in half and had it stitched back together. MAX Unfortunately, we are gonna have to keep you in here overnight, and then monitor that throughout the rest of the week. TAMARA AIRINGTON Well, how long until he can, you know... RODNEY AIRINGTON Yeah. MAX Yeah. Sorry, no more knocking boots or booties for at least four to six weeks. TAMARA AIRINGTON / RODNEY AIRINGTON RODNEY AIRINGTON Man. I'm sorry, babe. I ruined our honeymoon cruise. AVERY You know, intimacy is infinitely nuanced. We're in Manzanita the day after tomorrow. I know a woman there, a tantric therapist. She works with couples, helps them explore deeper levels of connection through touch, breath work, pleasure centers. TAMARA AIRINGTON Pleasure centers? RODNEY AIRINGTON I mean, I'm not not interested. TAMARA AIRINGTON / RODNEY AIRINGTON AVERY Okay. Wonderful. Enjoy your dinner. RODNEY AIRINGTON Thank you. WALLA BUNNY RUEBENS Help! He's not breathing! He's not breathing! TRISTAN Back! Back! Get everybody back! LIFEGUARD Hang in there. Help's on the way. Help's on the way. BUNNY RUEBENS Help. Help. He can't breathe. He can't breathe. LIFEGUARD Lady, give him some space. TRISTAN What happened? LIFEGUARD I told her to wait, one at a time, but she jumped in right after him. BUNNY RUEBENS Oh, no. I-I-I wanted to do it together. BUNNY RUEBENS BUNNY RUEBENS Is he gonna be okay? BUNNY RUEBENS Burt. Burt, can you hear me? Burt, breathe. Breathe, Burt! Burt. Burt, hang in there, buddy. Hang in, Burty Bird. TRISTAN Uh, no, you didn't kill him, madam. When you knocked into your husband, his clavicle separated from his sternum, it punctured a hole in his windpipe. It's why he's having trouble breathing. BUNNY RUEBENS BUNNY RUEBENS What, a hole in his windpipe? TRISTAN We're inserting a tracheal tube to make sure he gets all the oxygen he needs. He'll be breathing in no time. BURT RUEBENS BUNNY RUEBENS I know we were supposed to lay low after he caught the seal disease, but we were just so excited to be here. Just to have more fun. MAX Don't worry, ma'am. We've got it from here. BUNNY RUEBENS BUNNY RUEBENS But how will you make him better? For-For good. AVERY He needs advanced thoracic surgery to put his clavicle back in place. We're not equipped to do that. This isn't stitching up a penis. TRISTAN Well, we're in Puerto Vallarta in six hours. I can contact EMS there. AVERY We can't just keep him here all night like this. Any delay in treatment could cause serious vascular damage. TRISTAN We have to do something. AVERY MAX In certain cases, the sternoclavicular joint could be manually manipulated. TRISTAN Mmm. That sounds extremely risky. AVERY If it doesn't work, it could severely exacerbate his condition. It would mean significantly longer recovery time. But it's your call, Doctor. MAX No, it's not. This procedure would take all of us. The decision has to be unanimous. If anybody has any reservations, speak now. TRISTAN TRISTAN MAX Avery, will you make a ramp, please? MAX Tristan, I need you to grab him under the shoulders and brace his back with your knee. TRISTAN MAX Now, on the count of three, I want you to rotate his shoulders counterclockwise. One. Two-- TRISTAN TRISTAN But then I'm pushing against you. MAX That's the point, Tristan. Rotate him. One. TRISTAN It's gonna snap his shoulder blade. MAX Do it. MAX Are you ready? TRISTAN MAX One. Two. Three. TRISTAN / BURT RUEBENS TRISTAN BURT RUEBENS MAX MAX You good? TRISTAN Crapped my pants, but I'm alive. And I just don't do well being bossed around. MAX Well, I am your boss, bud. TRISTAN Yeah. And who has more experience on this ship doing this? AVERY Guys, not in front of the patient, please. WALLA MAX Any signs of life in the great beyond? AVERY Oh, just a big swirling ball of hot air directly overhead. Sorry. MAX MAX AVERY So, is it ever the same? Or is it always, like, a little bent? AVERY Your penis. After you broke it. MAX AVERY MAX The body is a miraculous healing machine. AVERY MAX That was good work today. The tantric therapist in Manzanita. AVERY Lani. She's amazing. She saved my life after a breakup a couple of years ago. Besides, it's not enough just to fix them up here. You have to also-- MAX Preserve the fantasy. AVERY Always. All the time. AVERY Tristan. He's a good nurse. Don't get hung up on first impressions. He's been my right hand for three years, he knows a lot. He's a valuable tool. MAX Oh, he's some kind of tool all right. AVERY You respect him, he'll respect you. We're all here for the same reason. MAX Work like a captain, play like a pirate. AVERY Yeah. Also that. MAX So, what about you? What are your first impressions of the new doctor? AVERY Well, admittedly, it was a little low after his misstep with the iodine poisoning. But good recognizes good. The penile fracture, the clavicular relocation, that was... decent. MAX Well, I try. AVERY AVERY Bedtime. You too. First port tomorrow. The passengers are out of sight and mind for five hours. MAX Thank God. All of which I will spend napping. AVERY No, you won't. If you thought today was a big day... WALLA MAX Is this a don't-tell-Captain kind of thing? 'Cause I'd really rather not get fired on my second day. TRISTAN You're not gonna get in trouble, dude. Be cool. Bonfire basically is captain's orders. AVERY AVERY As long as we're back by dinner when the cruisers are done at port, we're good. TRISTAN Hey, wallflower, you good? MAX Just digesting the scenery. TRISTAN You need to loosen up, Doc. And that means one thing. Shots. Come on. TRISTAN All right. TRISTAN Okay. Okay. I see you. I see you, Doctor Odyssey, huh? Big kahuna. Whoo-hoo. MAX AVERY Playing nice, boys? TRISTAN Yes, Mother. Yes, we are. TRISTAN Oh, man, I have a secret. But I can't tell you. Ever. Sorry. MAX Is it that you're in love with Avery? TRISTAN No. No. Oh, my God, dude, no. No. Don't ever say that to anyone. MAX You know, I'm pretty good at keeping secrets. Hippocratic oath and all. TRISTAN MAX Step into my office. TRISTAN Oh, boy. TRISTAN MAX Talk to me. TRISTAN It is not good. I like her so much, man, you know. Like, I've had it bad for, like, two years. It is rough. TRISTAN But she always says to me, like, "Oh, you're like my little brother, you know." You know what, man? I'm never gonna give up hope. I refuse to move on. Ever. MAX That seems healthy. TRISTAN Hmm. TRISTAN Till then, I must tend to my admirers. TRISTAN Hi. MAX I think she's looking at me. TRISTAN Yeah. TRISTAN Hey. Hi. TRISTAN Are you looking at him or me? BEACHGOER 1 Uh, sorry, I was looking at him. But you're cute too. TRISTAN No. No. No. TRISTAN Uh-uh. Get up. Get up. Had to happen sooner or later. Let's go. MAX What are you doing? TRISTAN Dance-off, Doc. Dance-off, pants off. TRISTAN Deejay. WALLA TRISTAN Who's cute now, Doc? TRISTAN Come on. TRISTAN TRISTAN Doc! Doc! Doc! Doc! Doc! Doc! Doc! Doc! WALLA Doc! Doc! Doc! Doc! Doc! Doc! Doc! Doc! Doc! AVERY MAX / AVERY AVERY This is wrong. MAX Mmm. But it feels so good. AVERY MAX / AVERY MAX But it's wrong. We just met each other. AVERY And yet, we feel as if we've known each other all our lives. MAX / AVERY MAX But it's wrong. AVERY I know. I know. I know. MAX MAX AVERY MAX AVERY We need to be professional. MAX Mm-hmm. AVERY This is the day drinking talking, not us. MAX Yeah, definitely not us. AVERY MAX Please, don't tell the captain. AVERY Yeah, I was just about to text him. AVERY Guests are back soon. Here. Sit up. MAX What are you doing? AVERY Nutrient drip. Electrolytes, B vitamins. This will do you a whole lot better than that nap you wanted. MAX MAX AVERY A doctor who's afraid of needles? AVERY So, where did you learn to dance like that? MAX MAX You know, I always wanted to take dance classes as a kid. But it's not really something that boys did where I grew up. MAX And then one day I got tapped on the shoulder and gently reminded that life is fleeting and unbelievably fragile. MAX March 2nd, 2020. I was working at a hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. AVERY Yeah, we know you went to Yale. MAX Actually, I was the attending physician General Internal Medicine, but who's counting? MAX MAX One day, I get a cough. No big deal, but abundance of caution, I ask one of my residents to give me a strep and a flu test. MAX And that night, cough gets a little worse, but both the strep and flu tests come back negative. MAX Then everybody gets worried that I've had a pulmonary embolism. So, they give me a CT scan, check for a blood clot. But they also give me a new test. The coronavirus test. MAX Now, at that point, there were barely any cases in the US. So, I didn't even think about it as a realistic possibility, but as I'm sitting there waiting for the results of the CT scan, I found out on the news, actually. NEWSCASTER A hospital in New Haven reporting Connecticut's first ever case of the novel coronavirus. A physician who was admitted last night in JD Memorial ultimately testing positive for the virus. MAX MAX After that, everything moved very fast. They put me in a negative pressure isolation room, cut me off from all human contact. My blood oxygen dropped to 85% and then kept on dropping. I refused to sleep 'cause I was afraid I wasn't gonna wake up. MAX And at that point, in China, they were giving patients with advanced cases second CT scans, right? So, they could chart the progression of the virus. Only way to ensure proper treatment. MAX But there was a problem. I was in isolation on the ninth floor, and the CT scanner was on the fourth floor. And they were afraid to move me. Didn't wanna risk exposing the rest of the hospital. NURSE We're following CDC and evidence-backed protocols. You are staying in this room. MAX Yeah. And after that, I was just in total darkness, just black. MAX I thought I was dead, but dead people don't pray. 'Cause somewhere in the recesses of my consciousness, there was a voice... my voice, very faint, and I knew that I needed that second scan. So, I just focused on that all day every day. And I prayed. I prayed for them to give me the second scan. NURSE / DOCTOR MAX And they did. And the results from that scan got me approved for Remdesivir for compassionate use, and that turned the tides. So, against all odds, and despite being patient zero, I lived. And because I lived, and because I went through hell, I decided that I was gonna pursue joy. At all costs. MAX Which I guess is a very, very long-winded way of saying that I finally enrolled in a dance class. AVERY MAX AVERY And then you came here? AVERY AVERY Thank you for sharing that. I will caution you, joy at any cost is its own kind of hell. WALLA RHEA / LEO LEO Babe, do you, um... Do you wanna... Do you wanna go to my cabin? RHEA No, I'm good here. Why? Are you scared? LEO No. No, no, I'm not scared. I'm just, like... like... like, shy. Like, a little shy. RHEA Yeah. Uh-huh. RHEA I'm not really into shy guys. LEO No. I'm not. Um... RHEA LEO Um, there's no shyness. No shyness at all. LEO Whoo! RHEA What are you doing? LEO I am Leo Brandt. RHEA Oh, my God. LEO The Western Surfing Association champ of Huntington Beach. Not shy! RHEA Come on. Get down from there. LEO I'm king of the world! LEO RHEA Leo! RHEA Help! Help! Somebody help! LEO RHEA Leo! LEO LEO Hey! I'm right here! Wait! CAPTAIN MASSEY Full stop. Execute a Williamson turn. Man overboard. CAPTAIN MASSEY Get medical and security up here right away. CREW MEMBER 3 Yes, sir. CAPTAIN MASSEY Go ahead and drop the buoys and the flares. ANNOUNCER Attention all guests... MAX Hey, is this real? Man overboard? TRISTAN Yeah, it's real. Thought your cabin was on the Pelican Deck. What brings you to this side of crew quarters, Doc? House call? Bad call, man. You're her superior. You understand? That's like a fireable offense. MAX MAX We didn't do anything. And... And even if we did, what are you gonna do? Tattle on me? TRISTAN I don't know what I'm gonna do, Judas. In case you haven't noticed, there's more important things going on right now than your job. LEO AVERY Please tell me what you guys took tonight. I'm a nurse. You're not in trouble. RHEA Molly. Just a little. MAX So he may still be alert as long as he survived the fall. AVERY She needs hydration. RHEA He's not even into drugs. It was me. I mean, it was all my fault. I told him to. I just... He teaches special ed kids. RHEA That's his job. He's a good person. Is he gonna freeze to death? Like in Titanic. MAX That's a very good question. MAX What is the water temp tonight? TRISTAN You're supposed to know that, Doctor. It's in the daily weather briefings. Surface temp is 83, maybe 80. MAX So, anywhere between two and 12 hours before hypothermia sets in. TRISTAN It is unlikely that this is anything but recovery. Only 15% of people that go over survive. The fall alone usually kills them. CAPTAIN MASSEY Well, let's hope he's part of that 15%. FIRST OFFICER MUNROE Captain, if he is out there, category 4 waves at night, it's gonna be like finding a needle in a hundred square miles of hay. CAPTAIN MASSEY Sure is. Alert all the other ships in the vicinity. The current was headed east off the port side. So that's the direction he will have drifted. CAPTAIN MASSEY Let's get this guy. TRISTAN We're over an eddy. AVERY What? TRISTAN Those buoys. They were port side, but they've come back around starboard. The current's moving in a circle. We're searching the wrong area. MAX There. LEO TRISTAN / MAX TRISTAN He's not responsive. TRISTAN We got him. MAX Come on. LEO TRISTAN He's good. We are en route. CAPTAIN MASSEY Thank God. AVERY Oxygen. Get him oxygen. TRISTAN On it. MAX He's conscious, breath is rapid and irregular. He aspirated a lot of water. Could be ARDS. AVERY Definitely ARDS. We need to get him intubated. MAX His left arm's in bad shape, possible proximal fracture. I'm gonna get him prepped for an X-ray. MAX Avery, you and Tristan get him on low tidal volume. Prepare to assist on ventilating using ARDSnet protocol. Utilize the high PEEP, low FiO2 table and closely monitor his peak inspiratory pressures. TRISTAN Okay, Leo. It's gonna be all right. LEO TRISTAN Hey. That was good work out there. And that dive was pretty epic. MAX Well, if you hadn't seen the buoys, I... MAX Look, uh... Tristan, I'm sorry about, you know. I shouldn't have done that. Even though nothing happened, but... TRISTAN She's beautiful. MAX Yes, and smart. TRISTAN MAX And maybe I'm just a little-- TRISTAN Screwed up? Hmm. MAX Yeah. TRISTAN Who would wanna work on a floating circus but someone who's screwed up? TRISTAN Besides... comebacks are cooler anyways. MAX PASSENGER 1 What's the first thing you said when you realized you'd been rescued? WALLA LEO I think I said, um, uh, "Sorry I'm naked." PASSENGER 1 RODNEY AIRINGTON We wanted to let you know that we met with your practitioner in Manzanita. AVERY Was it okay? TAMARA AIRINGTON It was not okay. It was amazing. Mmm. RODNEY AIRINGTON Yeah. Thank you. This trip was awesome. AVERY You are so welcome. BUNNY RUEBENS Do you totally hate us? MAX Of course not. Guests like you keep us sharp. AVERY BURT RUEBENS Well, despite everything, we had a blast. Can't wait till next year. BUNNY RUEBENS Yeah. Who knows? Maybe you'll get your leg chewed off by a shark. Exciting. BURT RUEBENS AVERY Bye. TRISTAN Take care. CAPTAIN MASSEY I thought I picked up on a little something the other night. Some tension in the medical suite, Doctor Odyssey? MAX Absolutely not. It's a lovefest, sir. CAPTAIN MASSEY Good. I love hearing that. Love is in the air, just not too thickly or quickly. AVERY A lovefest, sir? Interesting. MAX About the other day, I shouldn't have done that. I enjoyed it, but I shouldn't have done it. And I am your superior, so-- AVERY We're good. Won't happen again. You were great this week. A real emergency doctor. On it. And, uh, yeah, we're good. Won't happen again. Besides, you'll have plenty of other distractions next week. It's singles week. MAX Singles week? Is every week a theme? LAST FRAME OF PICTURE