NCIS: Sydney (2023) s03e16 Episode Script

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San Cisco's "Fred Astaire" ♪
[PEOPLE CHEER AND CHATTER]
[SAILOR] Let's go!
[PEOPLE CHEER AND CHATTER]
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
[AUSTRALIAN SAILOR]
You Yanks have no hope.
[US SAILOR] How hard can it be?
Cricket's baseball's slow cousin, right?
[US SAILORS CHANT] USA!
Okay, babe, like we practiced.
Nice firm grip. Don't strangle it.
Didn't I say that on our first date?
You wish. And don't chase the
wide balls. You'll look desperate.
- Yeah, too late. I married you.
- Please.
We both know you're batting
above your average.
Well, I can't argue with the truth.
Make me proud, Bradman.
Mwah!
No idea who that is.
Take him down, Aussies!
Get in there, come on!
- [BAT WHOOSHES]
- [ALL] Ohhhh!
- Focus, babe. Eyes on the ball.
- Oh.
You'd better be Fred Astaire ♪
He could take you anywhere ♪
If you ask him to ♪
[SAILOR] All right, you got this.
- And God knows ♪
- [CRICKET BALL THUDS]
[ALL] Oooh!
- [WINDOW SMASHES]
- [ALL] Oh!
[US SAILOR] Yeah! Yeah!
- Yeah! Yeah!
- [SAILORS CLAP AND LAUGH]
Congrats, mate.
Six and out. Go fetch.
[MATT SIGHS]
[AUSTRALIAN SAILOR]
Go and get the ball, mate!
Sorry, babe.
But he could take you round the ♪
[DOOR CLUNKS]
[SONG CONTINUES FAINTLY]
[HEARTBEAT THUDS]
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
- [SAILOR] Ooh, what's
- [MUSIC STOPS]
[SAILORS MUTTER]
Matt?
[TENSE MUSIC]
Matt!
[ELECTRICITY BUZZES]
Matt!
Would someone call an ambulance?
[THEME MUSIC]
- [HEART MONITOR BEEPS]
- [RESPIRATOR HISSES]
[POIGNANT MUSIC]
Matt hated hospitals.
[STEPHANIE SNIFFLES]
He said he didn't trust a place
that served jelly with meatloaf.
Smart man.
[STEPHANIE BREATHES SHAKILY]
They said his heart's strong.
It's a match for someone
who needs a transplant urgently.
I'm not sure I'm ready.
What would Matt want?
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
He lived to serve.
He wouldn't hesitate.
- [SOMBER MUSIC]
- [DISTANT SIREN WAILS]
[ELEVATOR CLANKS AND BEEPS]
Uh, just this this way.
[CART RATTLES]
How about a cup of, um,
hospital coffee for the road?
Never fails to disappoint.
Do you want a a cappuccino,
flat white?
Full disclosure,
I can't tell the difference.
I'm American, so it all
tastes the same to me.
It's okay, Agent Mackey. I saw it.
What you're doing here, it
..it takes a lot of courage.
I don't know about courage.
It feels good knowing
that Matt's saving a life.
Even dead, he's still showing me up.
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
- [AMBULANCE DOOR CLOSES]
- [ELEVATOR DOORS SHUT]
I'm here for the organ transfer.
I just did that with Dr. Wilcox.
Transport for donor ID NSW2615?
Hey, uh, NCIS.
Donor organ as in
A heart, but
..I've no idea who Dr. Wilcox is.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- [TIRES SCREECH]
- [MACKEY] Hey!
Ah!
[TIRES SCREECH]
Stealing a heart.
It doesn't make any sense.
[MACKEY] We're gonna
make this right, I promise.
- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]
- [EVIE] Hey, boss.
Our heart thief.
Dr. Lyle Wilcox.
Cardiothoracic surgeon,
president of the Medical Board,
ex-president of the Society of Surgeons.
He runs a booming clinic.
So a stand-up citizen
steals a heart. Why?
Pfft!
Wilcox is an elite surgeon. There's
no way he's doing this for money.
- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]
- Anything?
I'm afraid so.
Hi, munchkins. Daddy's
getting a new engine today.
That's the heart recipient, Jonah?
Yeah.
Be good for Nan and Pop.
I love you to the moon and back.
He's already on the operating table.
Pre or post?
Mid. He's on a bypass machine.
- So he's okay for now, right?
- I'm afraid not.
His heart is failing
beyond the point of no return.
- So how long's he got?
- Without the new heart? Pfft!
Four hours tops.
And according to the transplant team,
the longer he's on bypass,
the less likely it is he will survive.
[PHONE BUZZES]
Blue.
Still working on traffic cams
and Dr. Wilcox's phone is off,
so I can't trace it.
But I've got something
on the heart's transport unit.
- Talk to me.
- So the hospital gave me access.
Kinda. Because the heart's still alive,
the tech streams
a ton of data to doctors
in real time, including GPS.
Send the tracker feed to our phones.
- On it.
- Okay, D, E, follow the heart.
JD, we'll take Wilcox's house.
See if we can find out
why the hell this is happening.
[SIREN WAILS]
Straight up ahead, two blocks.
Wilcox is running parallel to us.
[SIREN WAILS]
[HORN HONKS]
- [HORN BLARES]
- [SIREN WAILS]
Come on, people.
Wilcox has pulled into an alleyway.
- Can we cut him off?
- Go straight ahead. Then take a left.
[SIREN WAILS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SIREN PIPS]
NCIS! Stop!
I only had a few.
You two related?
Mrs. Wilcox, Jim Dempsey again.
When you get this, please call me back.
[SIGHS] Wilcox has a wife, kids.
Big home in Coogee.
Why throw all that away?
Maybe he snapped. Pressure got to him.
You're under pressure, you take up golf.
You don't steal a major bodily organ.
[PHONE BUZZES]
Hey, did you find the heart?
No, just the tracker from inside
the heart's transport unit.
According to Blue,
it's a telemetry unit.
It's what sends the data.
[EVIE] Wilcox must have removed it.
- Used it as a decoy.
- Where'd you find it?
[EVIE] With a food delivery guy.
He made a toilet stop
and left his bag unattended.
- [MACKEY] Anything else?
- Yeah.
Never order with Food Dood.
[LAURA] I don't understand.
It was a school sports carnival.
Didn't anybody do a head count?
Well, has anybody gone back and checked?
Uh, sorry. I'm I'm gonna
have to call you back.
- [SEAGULLS CHIRP]
- [WAVES ROAR IN DISTANCE]
Have you found them?
Mrs. Wilcox, Sergeant Jim Dempsey, AFP.
Special Agent Mackey, NCIS.
Where are my children?
Um, we're not here about
your children, ma'am.
How long have they been missing?
Since 11:00.
I tried the babysitter,
but I can't get on to her.
- What about your husband?
- Lyle's not returning my calls.
- He's probably in surgery.
- [PHONE RINGS]
Hello?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[MOUTHS WORDS]
[MAN] I know this must be
really upsetting, Mrs. Wilcox.
- Who is this?
- I have Ruby and Ollie.
[LAURA] What have you done with them?
Your kids will be safe,
as long as your husband
plays a good game.
You just keep your phone on.
[INTENSE MUSIC]
The phone used to call Mrs. Wilcox
was attached to an unknown number.
Can you trace it?
I am performing
a malicious call trace now.
- But it will take time.
- We don't have time, Blue.
Jonah's only got three hours left.
Why all the questions about my husband?
He stole a donor transplant
heart en route today.
He what?
We believe whoever has your kids
forced your husband to do this.
Does your husband owe anyone any money?
Does he gamble?
Has anything happened recently?
Anything unusual?
[BREATHES SHARPLY]
A few months ago,
Lyle came home.
He was really shaken up. Someone
Someone had accosted him
at work. It was about a heart.
Do you have a name?
[EVIE] Meet Gary Simms, aka Simmo.
He attacked Wilcox
three months ago in his clinic
after his daughter, Violet,
was taken off the heart transplant list.
Violet was diagnosed with an
aggressive cancer two years ago.
She's a patient at
St. Christopher's Hospital.
Doctors went in hard with the chemo.
Stopped it in its tracks.
Things were looking good
until she developed side effects
from the meds.
What are we talking?
Drug-induced cardiomyopathy.
Her heart was too weak to do its job.
Wouldn't that make her
a prime candidate for a new one?
Why was she taken off the list?
We don't know yet. Files are inbound.
Sounds like Simmo's taken
matters into his own hands.
Which means somewhere in Sydney,
an off-the-books
heart transplant is happening.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[KNOCKS] Gary Simms, open up!
Sergeant Jim Dempsey, AFP.
[GLASS SMASHES]
[DOOR LOCK CLICKS]
[TENSE MUSIC]
Clear!
Clear.
JD?
Whoa.
He's been planning this for months.
[JD] He's been stalking
the whole family.
Here. Look.
It's a recipient list.
This is how Simmo knew a
compatible heart became available.
He had access to the database?
Letter from Wilcox
telling Simmo
his daughter's been taken off
the transplant waiting list.
And the fuse is lit.
[DINERS LAUGH AND CHATTER]
[NIA] Ahh. [LAUGHS]
Well, that was a textbook
incision on that steak.
No sign of post-cut bleeding.
Cause of death?
[LIVELY PIANO MUSIC PLAYS FAINTLY]
Blunt force flavor.
Oh! Manner?
Homicide. It was
definitely premeditated.
Yeah, well, I was an accessory.
I'd do it again, you know.
Mate, the verdict's in.
This was a This was a lovely date.
[SIGHS]
Uh, I I thought I thought
we weren't calling it a date.
[SIGHS] Fine.
A lovely, mutually agreed
social autopsy.
[LAUGHS]
[NIA CHUCKLES]
I'll toast that.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
Very good.
Mm.
You know, uh,
I've got a pavlova back at mine
that's begging to be examined.
Oh, fresh cream, passion fruit.
Meringue that'll melt in your mouth.
And I'll even let you
take the first bite.
[PHONE BUZZES]
[PHONE BUZZES]
[WHISPERS] Sorry.
[PHONE BUZZES]
[CLEARS THROAT] Jim.
Rosie, if you're gonna perform
a backyard heart transplant,
where would you do it?
You've been on the turps, mate?
It's a bit early, isn't it?
One of Sydney's top heart surgeons
just walked out of a hospital
with a donor heart.
Oh, bloody hell.
Uh, well, bare minimum, you'd need
an operating theater,
transplant team and pavlova.
[DOC ROY CLEARS THROAT]
Um, look, it sounds like
I'd I'd better come in, mate.
Bye.
Uh
[SIGHS]
Sorry, uh, duty calls.
[NIA] Yeah.
[DOC ROY CHUCKLES AWKWARDLY]
[PIANO FLOURISH PLAYS]
- [GRIM MUSIC]
- [DISTANT SIREN WAILS]
[BOTH CHAT INDISTINCTLY]
[KNOCKS]
Well, her stuff's still here.
[EVIE] According to this,
Violet was admitted overnight
with abdominal pains.
Excuse me. We're looking for
a Violet Simms.
- Uh room six.
- We just came from there.
She might be in the garden.
A lot of patients go there.
- Where's that?
- Down the corridor, on the left.
- Thank you.
- [NURSE] Mm-hm.
[DOOR BUZZES]
[DOORS CLUNK]
I'mma catch you up.
[BUTTON BEEPS]
[ALL CHATTER INDISTINCTLY]
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]
[DOCTOR] I'm calling the police.
Do exactly what I tell you
and you won't get hurt.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Do what he says.
[SIMMO] Let's get prepped. Come on.
Quick. Let's go!
[PHONE RINGTONE PLAYS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[SIMMO] There's always one straggler.
Let's go. Out.
Are you deaf?
No, I hear you. I'm not
Just, I'm scared.
Come on.
Come on, let's go.
[DOOR SLAMS]
Keep going.
Wilcox.
Put this on that door. Lock it.
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
[EVIE] Hey! Hey!
AFP! Stop!
[METAL CLANGS]
[EVIE BANGS DOOR] Police! Open the door!
[SIMMO] Spray this on the windows.
- [SPRAY CAN CLATTERS]
- [EVIE] Open the door!
- [GRUNTS]
- [SPRAY CAN HISSES]
[SPRAY CAN HISSES]
Bring me that spray can.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[METAL CLINKS]
[SPRAY CAN HISSES]
[SPRAY CAN DROPS AND CLATTERS]
Okay. You're the anesthetist?
Dr. Harvey?
- Yep.
- [SIMMO] Okay.
Don't be nervous, right?
This is just like any other day.
You just take good care of my daughter,
and there'll be no dramas, yeah?
- Mm-hm.
- [WATER RUNS]
Surgeon, anesthetist.
You must be the theater nurse?
Yeah. Deshawn Jackson.
A Yank?
I'm on transfer from
Johns Hopkins
Cardiac Transplant Unit, sir.
But you do have operating experience?
Two years in theater.
[TENSE MUSIC]
He's one of our best theater nurses.
I promise to take good care
of your daughter, sir.
You have my word.
[INTENSE MUSIC]
Okay. Welcome to the team.
All right, let's go.
Come on.
Oi! Come on, let's go.
Hey, thanks.
[WHISPERS] Hope you know
what you're doing.
I've been asking myself
the same question, D.
[SOFTLY] Making it up as I go along.
What's it look like?
[MACKEY] Hey, D,
we're all here on comms.
Two years at Johns Hopkins, eh?
You kept that quiet.
Rosie will be your eyes and ears.
You just keep your cover until
we know where Wilcox's kids are.
You're armed, right?
[SOFTLY] No. I had to leave it.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Gotta go.
Uh, just one small problem.
I didn't wanna worry Deshawn,
but I cannot play
Nurse Cyrano De Bergerac.
I was a field doctor.
There's no choice, Rosie.
You'll have to wing it.
Mate, if it was triage,
battle patching, sure,
I could talk him through
the bare minimum, but
..I could wheel in someone
who actually knows
what they're talking about,
with real operating expertise.
[HEART MONITOR BEEPS]
Okay, we got things a-beepin'.
Okay, the lights are on.
That's good. Okay.
Oh, charts. [CHUCKLES]
So, hey, Violet, how are you feeling?
Great. Never better.
[CHUCKLES]
You know what's gonna happen today?
Uh yeah.
You're gonna crack my chest open,
rip out my heart,
and then put in someone else's.
Am I missing anything?
No. Sounds about right.
Did you, um
Did you sign a consent form?
My dad has a gun to that surgeon's head
and you're worried about paperwork?
Look, my job is to look after
the patient. That's you.
I get what your dad wants.
That's pretty clear.
I'm asking what you want.
You're asking me if I want to live?
[DOOR THUDS]
[SOFTLY] Good.
[CLICKS FINGERS]
[MEDICAL CHART CLATTERS SOFTLY]
[JD] Okay. Let's take a beat, Macka.
This is a hospital, not a war zone.
We've got Deshawn in theater
scrubs with the jump on Simmo.
Push comes to shove,
I vote Deshawn takes him out.
Yeah, after we negotiate, right?
Our job is to talk him down.
That is literally my gig.
This is a desperate man
who's kidnapped kids
and has hostages at gunpoint.
He's the bad guy. My gig is to
make sure we get the bad guy.
Same. But it's about how many
bodies we leave in our wake.
[SCOFFS]
You better make some calls, then.
Okay.
- [HEART MONITOR BEEPS]
- [INSTRUMENTS CLINK]
[DR. WILCOX] Nurse,
do you have my cannulas ready?
[SIMMO] You right?
Nurse.
Yes, uh, Doc.
My aortic and venous cannulas,
where are they?
Coming right up. Man can't have
his aortic without his venous.
I know they're around here somewhere.
Uh uh
I've got them here, Doctor.
Do I need to remind you both
there is absolutely
no room for error here.
No more than I need to
remind you, Doctor,
that we're working with half a team.
Well, then you'll need to
work twice as hard, won't you?
[TENSE MUSIC]
You heard him. Take the wig off.
Put the cap on.
[DOOR OPENS]
Now.
[NIA] Well, do we know why Violet
was taken off the recipient list yet?
The cancer returned, and since then,
she's gone 10 rounds of
Muhammad Ali nonstop chemo.
[NIA] What? While getting a transplant?
[DOC ROY] Yeah.
- Sorry, I just gotta
- [VIOLET] Hmm.
[HEART MONITOR BEEPS]
[POIGNANT MUSIC]
You know, not everyone
can pull off the bald look.
Believe me, you don't want
to see this without hair.
I look like a thumb with eyes.
[DESHAWN CHUCKLES]
Serious, I look like a whale's nipple.
[DESHAWN LAUGHS]
But you, on the other hand
We'll just get you here.
Got it?
Totally pulling it off.
You look great, kid.
[DESHAWN CHUCKLES]
[DESHAWN SIGHS]
What was their name?
Who?
The person who was supposed to,
you know, get the heart.
A guy called Jonah.
Does he have kids?
Two.
Well, I'm sure he'll stay
at the top of the list
for the next one, then.
It's a little too late for that now.
He's already on a bypass.
There's no going back for him.
Your dad didn't tell you, huh?
He he said no one would get hurt.
Look, kid.
There's always a cost.
The heart that goes into you
means it doesn't go into someone else.
Let's get you ready.
[DOC ROY] There you go. Now
..this is linked directly
through to Deshawn's earwig.
Okay, Deshawn, it's Nia here.
I need you to read me violet's stats,
starting with blood pressure.
Just call it BP.
[DESHAWN] Okay.
We've got BP at 120 over 80.
Oxygen sats?
Oxygen sats.
It'll be on a monitor next to the bed.
[DESHAWN] Oxygen sats
- What are you doing?
- [DRAMATIC STING]
Well, just doing my job.
What, stating the obvious?
In my game,
you don't get what you expect.
You get what you inspect.
This is me inspecting
the patient's stats and sats.
And?
Just say she's stable.
She's stable, considering her condition.
- Keep her that way.
- That's the plan.
[INHALES SHARPLY]
What do you reckon, V?
Pretty solid, this bloke?
Maybe play forward pocket?
Pretty small forward pocket.
[NIA] Okay, Deshawn, I need
more details on Violet's bloods.
Hemoglobin and white cell count.
Um bloods, bloods,
checking the bloods.
Hemoglobin count is 73.
White blood cell count of 4.
Say again?
Just double-checking
you heard that, Doc.
We've got a hemoglobin count of 73.
White blood cell count of 4.
Yes, I've read the chart.
Then we're all good.
We're so not good.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[MEDICAL CHART CLATTERS SOFTLY]
What can I do?
Double ristretto stat.
I need to make a call.
Doctor, I need to talk to you
about Violet's white blood cell count.
I'm a cop.
Look.
My team's out looking
for your kids as we speak.
Well, I don't need a cop.
I need someone who knows their
way around an operating theater.
[DR. WILCOX]
Or I'll never see my kids again.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[EXHALES] I'm just on hold
with the Staties.
Someone saw Wilcox's kids get
taken away in a white hatchback.
- You get the plates?
- No.
But I've contacted the school.
We're running through
their pick-up registry,
cross-referencing with white hatchbacks.
JD. I sent you a number
for Mr. Simms' burner phone.
- Get it?
- Got it.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC BUILDS]
[PHONE RINGS]
[PHONE CONTINUES RINGING]
[PHONE CONTINUES RINGING]
[PHONE CONTINUES RINGING]
[RINGING STOPS]
[SIGHS] If he's not picking up,
he's not leaving us any choice.
Trigger, find Wilcox's kids.
We do that, we remove Simmo's leverage.
D, we're heading your way.
Can I confirm you've been fasting?
You've had nothing to eat
or drink in the last six hours?
I ate I ate some rice custard.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You what?!
How long ago?
A few hours.
We spoke about this.
You knew you had to fast.
Anything else?
Some toast.
OJ.
We have one shot at this.
The nurse brought in the tray.
I was hungry, I wasn't thinking.
You asked me to look after
your daughter.
I don't think
we should go ahead with this.
Absolutely. Anything in the
stomach presents a major risk.
[DR. WILCOX] It's fine.
Couple of mouthfuls of toast
won't make a difference.
- Doctor
- We do rapid-sequence inductions
in emergency surgeries all the time.
[NIA] It could cause
pulmonary aspiration.
It could cause pulmonary aspiration.
[SHOUTS] In which case,
we will apply pressure
to the cricoid cartilage
to occlude the esophagus!
[TENSE MUSIC]
There's no reason to stop now.
What do you want to do, Violet?
[POIGNANT MUSIC]
[MONITOR BEEPS]
I just want this to be over.
[SIMMO] All right, let's go.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[DR. HARVEY] Vital signs stable.
BP, 138 over 90.
Oxygen sats, 98%.
[DESHAWN] Instruments ready and sterile.
Um chart's verified.
[INTENSE MUSIC]
- Testing saw.
- [SAW WHIRS]
[INTENSE MUSIC]
Hey, it's all right.
It's gonna be over soon.
Love you.
[PHONE RINGS]
[RINGING STOPS]
[TENSE MUSIC]
Blood type confirmed. Uh,
four packed cells in the fridge.
Patient stable. All checks complete.
- Preparing for induction now.
- [PHONE RINGS]
What?
Simmo, my name is Jim Dempsey.
I'm a negotiator with the AFP.
How are you going in there?
I'm not here to negotiate.
Okay? I'm tired of people
telling me how things are run.
Hey, I've had it for years.
I'm running things now.
Oh, you know it's not that simple, mate.
Why not?
Because you've got innocent people
at gunpoint, for starters.
Yeah, and they're all gonna be fine
if you just let me get on with it, okay?
I don't wanna talk deals.
I don't I don't want any pizzas.
I don't want a chopper. I just
want to get this over with.
Hey, I hear you, mate, okay?
Let me do my job.
I just need to know that
everyone's okay in there.
Mate, everyone is fighting fit,
okay, except my daughter.
That's why I'm here!
You know what? I have a kid myself.
Spare me the rapport-building, will you?
You know, if I was gonna do that,
I'd tell you that I backed the Swannies
to win the final this year,
but I'd be lying to you.
I'm a Giants fan through and through.
[SIMMO] Then you're deluded.
Mate, you sound like a decent bloke.
But there are two children
locked up somewhere,
scared for their lives right now.
Now, you tell me where they are,
I'll try to buy you some time.
I need your help here, mate.
They're gonna kill you otherwise.
Kill me, and you'll never
find the doctor's kids.
[GRIM MUSIC]
[JD SIGHS]
[WEAPONS CLICK]
Listen to me.
They start launching gas in there,
this is gonna go pear-shaped.
Special Agent Mackey, NCIS.
I need to speak with your boss.
- That's me, ma'am.
- [MACKEY] Okay, great.
Just wanna check you're good
with breaching the UN protocols
on gassing friendlies?
Come again?
My guy's in there. US Federal Agent.
Just wanna be sure you've
run that up the flagpole.
I don't want anyone's ass
hanging out on this one.
Article 13B, subsection 9.
Article 13B, subsection 9?
[EVIE] Keep us informed. Thanks.
Evie, you got a sec?
For you? No.
This guy's a legend.
Tactical Response begs to differ.
Well, he raised over three million bucks
for his own charity.
Yeah, for before or after
he locked two kids in a basement?
See, I don't think he did.
I mean, why call their mum?
What if he was just trying to
put her at ease?
Why would he do that?
Because he's not the bad guy
we think he is.
I'm telling you, he's not
gonna hurt those kids.
He's just trying to save his own.
And he needs someone to
babysit while he does.
[EVIE] Does the babysitter
drive a white hatchback?
- [TRIGGER] That's right.
- With me.
What are you doing now?
[DESHAWN] We're preparing the sedatives.
In a moment, you'll go to sleep,
and you'll get your new heart.
It's not my heart, though, is it?
[SIMMO] No, no.
That's your heart right there.
That's yours.
What about the guy
whose heart you stole?
You tell her that?
She asked. I wasn't gonna lie.
[VIOLET] It's his heart, Dad.
Not mine. He should get it.
No, you were in line before him, okay?
So why should he get it and not you?
[VIOLET] Because he'll get
to use it longer than me.
- [SIMMO] No.
- [VIOLET] You know that.
- No, no, no.
- This whole thing, Dad.
It's just a gamble,
and I'm not a good bet.
[SIMMO] You are.
[VIOLET] He took me off the
transplant list for a reason.
Why? Why did you take me off the list?
[POIGNANT MUSIC]
He took me off
because there's no guarantee
I'm gonna beat the cancer,
good heart or not.
Sweetheart, I know this is scary, okay?
I get it. I get it.
But you've beat it before
and you'll beat it again.
But you just can't do that
with a dodgy heart, okay?
And and the best thing is
once that new heart's in you,
no one can take it away from you.
Dad!
Enough!
We're gonna to do this, okay?
We we stick to
the game plan, all right?
- What do you always say?
- No.
When we're losing a game. Come on.
- No.
- Don't be a sore loser.
Just take it on the chin.
And and what do I say
when you're down in the
..in the third quarter?
What do I say?
It's not over until the final siren.
There, that's my girl.
Okay, good, good.
I love you. We're we're doing this.
[SIMMO BREATHES HEAVILY]
Put it on.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[HEART MONITOR BEEPS]
Put it on!
Do it!
[TENSE MUSIC]
[AIR HISSES]
[SOFTLY] Hear all that?
[DESHAWN] What's the play?
Jonah has one hour left.
His chances of successfully
receiving that heart
are dropping by the minute.
It's not like there's another option.
There is, actually.
D, you're not seriously suggesting
we let the operation go ahead?
That is insane.
[DESHAWN] Is it?
We're looking at a situation
where no one gets the heart.
Not Jonah. Not Violet.
[PLASTIC CRINKLES]
Time to call the ball, Macka.
[AIR HISSES]
[HEART MONITOR BEEPS]
[POIGNANT MUSIC]
[NIA ON COMMS] Call it off!
I've just heard back from the path lab.
All of Violet's transfusions
have resulted in a massive spike
in antibodies.
They'll attack the donor heart
before it even starts beating.
[WHISPERS] Say again?
[DOC ROY] The heart won't save her.
It'll kill her.
- [SIREN WAILS]
- [TIRES SCREECH]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[EVIE] Babysitter, two o'clock.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[EVIE ON COMMS] D, we've got the kids.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
- [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
- [SIMMO GROANS]
[SIMMO] Oh! Oh!
Let him go! Let him go!
We're doing this.
I'm getting my kids back.
It's okay. They're safe. We got 'em.
No, no, no. Don't listen to him.
He's lying.
Names are Ruby and Ollie.
[SIMMO] He's lying.
I may have lied on my CV.
[RUBY ON COMMS] Hi, Daddy!
Ruby, Ollie, you okay?
[BOTH] We're okay.
Dr. Wilcox?
It's Constable Cooper here.
Simmo paid the babysitter $5,000
to turn off her phone
and take care of the kids.
Oh, thank God you're safe. I love you.
[DR. WILCOX] I love you so much.
- [DESHAWN] Oh!
- You, get there.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Get down!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Pick up the scalpel
and and we're doing this.
- No.
- Pick it up! Now!
- It's over, man.
- No!
- It's not. It's not over.
- It's it's
All the transfusions. All the chemo.
Her body's gonna reject the heart.
No. You're lying.
No.
If you go through with this,
Violet doesn't wake up.
She doesn't wake up.
He's right, Simmo.
[SIMMO] No. No.
The heart isn't gonna save her.
It's gonna kill her.
[SOBS]
I'm sorry.
[SIMMO SIGHS]
[SIMMO MOANS]
[TENSE MUSIC BUILDS]
[TENSE MUSIC SUBSIDES]
[SIMMO SOBS]
I'm sorry.
[SIMMO SOBS]
[SIMMO SOBS]
[SIMMO SNIFFLES]
[SIMMO] I'm sorry.
[DESHAWN] Friendly! Don't shoot!
Don't shoot. Friendly!
Opening the door! Friendly.
[EMOTIONAL MUSIC]
[OFFICER] Police! Police!
Hands in the air!
[EMOTIONAL MUSIC CONTINUES]
Well, I reckon
you make a very good Cyrano.
[NIA LAUGHS]
With a better nose, mind you.
Yeah, well, you make
a semi-decent ristretto.
[DOC ROY CHUCKLES]
Go well with a little pavlova.
Mmm. [CHUCKLES] Mm.
Hmm. Just on the, um, pavlova thing.
What pavlova thing?
What we were talking about earlier.
Pavlova.
The meringue-based dessert?
- Pavlova?
- Yeah.
[DOC ROY] Mm.
I would love
..to have some of your pavlova.
Righto.
Mm.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[SIGHS] Got you dinner.
Yeah!
What's left of it.
Come on. I only had a few. [LAUGHS]
[DESHAWN] Hey, D.
Got a visitor.
[GENTLE MUSIC]
Violet.
Hey.
You okay? Sit right here. Come on.
Thanks.
I got it. Don't worry.
[DESHAWN SIGHS]
You come from the court hearing?
Yeah.
It's been a big day.
The judge is gonna sentence Dad
tomorrow.
The lawyers reckon
he's got a pretty good chance
of being granted supervised
compassionate leave.
So have to wear
an ankle bracelet, but
But he gets to hang out with you.
Those letters of support
you wrote really helped.
The guy who who got the heart
He's doing well.
What?
Signed by the Swannies.
Wow. All women?
It's a women's team.
What are you trying to say?
I gotta join a girls' club
'cause I'm not tall enough for the guys?
[DESHAWN CHUCKLES]
What does a small
forward pocket do, anyway?
Apart from being a short-ass?
Well, you gotta be fast.
And mobile, and
..I guess you kind of look
for opportunities
to put other people into space.
I'm starving. You fancy a burger?
Is it all right
if we just stay here for a bit?
Look at the lights?
Yeah. All good with me, kiddo.
[TENDER MUSIC]
[THEME MUSIC]