Baywatch (1989) s01e04 Episode Script

1 - Some people stand in the darkness afraid to step into the light some people need to help somebody when the edge of surrender's in sight don't you worry it's gonna be all right 'cause I'm always ready I won't let you out of my sight I'll be ready I'll be ready never you fear no, don't you fear I'll be ready forever and always I'm always here 'Cause I'm always ready I won't let you out of my sight I'll be ready I'll be ready never you fear no, don't you fear I'll be ready forever and always I'm always here Come on, we gotta have it.
-No way.
-Get in the spirit of giving, b.
J.
No board, no ceremony.
No ceremony, no waves.
-But it's new.
It's never even been in the water.
-That's the point, man.
If the surf sacrifice's going to work, it's gotta be a virgin board.
You want the waves, don't you? -Virgin surfboard or virgin surfer It's your choice.
-Take it.
Take the damn board.
That's weak, man.
That's all a bunch of superstitious junk.
-Would you get with the California swing? Virgin surfboard burning is a well-respected custom.
So start respecting it.
-What spit! Like you burned a lot of surfboards in phili.
-No, we didn't burn boards exactly, but we had our fair share of customs.
- All right, la, it's a fantastic hour -Hi, honey.
Morning.
-Don't.
-Why? It's the fourth time this week.
It's becoming a routine.
-It takes fourteen or fifteen at least to make a routine.
Good morning.
-Hi.
I'm really sorry to bother you, but I seem to be out of sugar, can I borrow some? -No bother.
Come on in.
-Oh, great, thanks.
Your coffee smells a lot better than mine.
-Have some.
-Really? Great.
-Want some eggs? Pancakes? -That would be great, if it's no bother.
-No bother.
Wednesday it was a black suit.
I didn't say a word.
-Me neither.
-Yesterday it was your best sports jacket and that green tie your mother gave you for Christmas.
-I didn't say a word.
-Me neither.
-Today, it's a shirt, a tie, and shorts.
I'm not going to say a word.
I figure you'll get around to opening up to me.
-Me too.
-What? I'm going through a little culture shock.
Working at home is an idea that's new to me.
I thought maybe I'd ease into it until I'm comfortable enough working on a brief in my shorts.
If anybody needs me I'll be in my office.
-Like drums in the jungle, word gets out fast when the surf's up.
Don't mind me.
I'm making my rounds on foot this morning.
-Oh.
This is the first good swell in weeks, can I give the guys just a little bit longer? -No.
Winning most congenial lifeguard award isn't important.
It's time to turn the water over to the swimmers.
Raise the blackball and bring them in.
-Hey! Why are you doing this? -Lieutenant's recheck on Wednesday.
I want to make sure I'm in shape.
-Good luck.
They've but the flag up, we've got to go back.
-This stinks, man! How can they blackball us now! -They can't.
I'm not going in because of some squid sucking flag.
Oh! Wow! -What do you think you're doing, cutting me off like that? -Who you talking to, grandpa? -A brain-dead punk, that's who! -Why don't you take the clue, grandpa, and get your ugly elephant gun out of my water? Maybe you ought to take up another sport.
I could give you a few tips about boxing.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
-Hey, guys, flag's up! Take your boards out of the water! -No way, blondie.
Come sit on my board, I'll take you for a ride.
-Hey! You've heard the lifeguard.
Surfing and swimming don't mix.
Let's move it.
-What the hell are you doing in those silly shorts? -Are you okay? -Yeah, I'm fine.
-I guess all that chatter back in Philly paid off.
Looks like we both made it to the beach boy coast.
-Do I know you? -You want to play make-believe, it's fine with me.
-All right.
Surfing is through for the day.
Let's go.
-Watch my board.
-Who was that guy? -How should I know? -He sure acted like he knew you.
-I'll check with you later.
-Me and you, we have some serious catching up to do.
-Game's over, man.
We don't have nothing to talk.
-What's with the attitude? It's been years since I've seen you.
-Find another beach.
Go hang out at Zuma.
-Look, on Lincoln, there's a bar called Abel's.
The kind of place we used to trash on a Friday night.
Stop by sometime.
Buy me a drink.
Buy me three years' worth.
That's what you cost me -we both did our time.
All I've got to say to you, is see you in the next life.
-Now that I know the color of your shorts, you can't hide, man.
- Hey, guys! Sorry, no inflatable devices allowed in the water.
-Where are they supposed to go floating? The sand? You tell her, Trevor! He's our lifeguard.
-He's right.
-Your private club ends at the water, you know it.
-Morning.
Hey, guys! You can't take that raft in the water! They're not allowed.
Ah! -Take it up to the clubhouse.
You county lifeguards really know how to sift the last grain of fun from a beach day.
-You take some time to learn the rules, follow procedures, you'd make everybody's beach day a lot more fun.
-There's only one rule on my beach, nobody drowns, and so far that's never been broken.
So you can take your procedures and shove them.
-As usual, professional to the core.
-Recheck, huh? -Don't worry.
It's only for lieutenants.
Do you have any ideas what Thorpe has in mind? -You know Thorpe as well as I do.
-Yeah.
It's going to be hell -Oh.
-Hello.
- Hi, it's Jimmy roche.
Eddie's friend.
He said I should meet him here.
-My food's burning-- okay, come on up.
In the kitchen.
-Nice digs.
I appreciate you letting me in.
It's Mrs.
Pomeroy, right? -Gina.
-Gina.
Okay.
Eddie said you were cool.
I wonder where he is? He told me to be here six sharp.
-The market.
I love cooking.
I hate food shopping.
I do anything to avoid it.
There's beer, wine, help yourself.
-I don't drink.
Goes straight to my head.
-Do me a favor, will you? Get all the lumps out of this.
It's my first time with the wok it's making me crazy.
The place was jammed.
Like they're giving the stuff away for free.
-Stores never give things away for free, Eddie.
It's bad for business.
You were right about Gina.
She's a real piece of work.
-I didn't know you talked about me to your friends.
I'm flattered.
Piece of work -Your change.
I got everything but the artichokes.
They were too soft.
Jimmy, let's hit the road.
-Heavy duty canvas.
Do you like it? -Yeah.
Must've cost major bucks.
- I like this guy.
- I really like this guy, even if you told him I'm an artist.
-Jimmy, let's go.
-No, no, he didn't tell me that.
It's just that I appreciate fine things.
In Philly, I'd hang around the galleries all the time.
Best place to find great looking chicks.
-Oh, so this is the Philly connection.
Eddie and me hung together all the time back then, right? But life goes on, though.
Friends get separated You're welcome to stay for dinner.
That's very kind.
-We can't.
We got big plans for tonight.
We're running late.
-Nice meeting you.
Come back and visit.
-Thanks for the hospitality, Mrs.
Pomeroy.
See you again.
-See you.
What do you think you're doing, man? -Nice digs.
Respectable job.
Sweet life you made yourself.
-I'm warning you, Jimmy.
Keep your face out of my life.
-Or what? Are you gonna cry? Oh.
It's payback time.
And up there, just a taste of things to come.
The California dream is over, Eddie.
The walls will be tumbling downs.
-Up before eight, that's not your style.
-Daddy's idea.
A little business before breakfast.
He likes me there, says I make him feel young.
-Young, huh? We should be spending more time considering how you make me feel.
Like tonight.
We'll dine, we'll dance, we'll -Let me check with-- -daddy? You're not jail bait.
You don't need daddy's consent.
Does this mean we are on for tonight? -Daddy, do you remember Trevor? -Hello.
-Mr.
Peters, how are you? -They are waiting for us.
-Okay.
Call me later.
-I'm having a cocktail party on the boat.
If you're free, I'd like you to attend.
If that's okay with you.
-Sounds absolutely perfect.
-Consider me there.
Hope you win your game.
- I'll win, Trevor.
- I always do.
-"Good morning, Shauni.
" "Hi, Eddie.
" It's hardly a discussion, and certainly not enough to carry the last five hours.
-I got things in my mind.
-Great! Let's hear about them.
It's better than listening to the wood rot.
-I'm gonna take a patrol.
-You do that.
Help! Help me! Help! -We've got a phone off the hook at tower eight.
-Okay, sid.
We're on our way.
Give me the can.
There's a guy in trouble out there, come on! -Love the floatie.
One of these days we'll get you on a surfboard.
-Give me the can! -It's too bad.
You don't get to be a hero today.
I'll take the water! -Hey! Hey! Easy! Easy! -This guy is crazy.
I wanna file a complaint.
Trevor, tell us another one.
He said he'd come to discover his true self.
-He even changed his name, "from now on, I am crocodile rabinowitz.
" I said, "crocodile? You're not even a koala.
" -You've got to tell them the story about new Guinea.
I can't tell my good stories in one day.
Oh, no.
-All right.
-Having a good time? When I hire a lifeguard, I expect him to stay sober.
-Hired? -Don't do this.
-Here's sixty dollars.
Isn't that what the club pays you for a day's work? -I am an invited guest and you know it.
-You did this just to humiliate me.
-Humiliate you? -I just wanted to show you what it would be like going out into society with a lifeguard on your arm.
-You wanted to show me? No, daddy, I don't think so.
Let me show you.
Let me show you.
-Hey, Trevor.
-Don't! Look at that! -Somebody get the life preserver! -Come on in! The water is perfect.
Lisa, kick your boots off and take your clothes off now! -Daddy! Trevor! -Get your boots off, they're pulling you down! -It's okay, I'm here.
-I got you.
Come on.
Take some air.
-Thorpe-- -why so surprised? This is a serious offense.
I wanted to be here, myself.
-"I'm walking along, and this crazy lifeguard tackles me and beats me with his floatie.
" You want to explain this? -I was on a rescue.
He was in my way.
-Shauni said he was deliberately trying to block you.
-It's one thing to shove a guy like that out of the way.
It's something else to pound on him until another lifeguard peels you off.
-Shauni said you had trouble with him before.
Who is he? -I don't know.
-Eddie, level with me.
Is there anything else you want to tell me? As of now, you're on suspension.
Thirty days.
-Thirty days? -You got it.
-The summer will be half over! -You're lucky I'm not your lieutenant.
I'd drop-kick you right out of here.
-Hit the showers and think about what he just said.
Because next time, we'll do it his way.
Clear? -Yes, sir.
-I warned you about him when he was in rookie school.
We don't have room for loners, we don't have room for hotheads! I don't know why you didn't just fire him.
-Because I think he can pull it together.
-You think.
-Yeah.
-Mitch, you've got to stop trying to be everybody's friend and start being a leader.
-Captain Thorpe? About this recheck tomorrow, could you give me a preview? -Just be there.
The weight room.
Ten-thirty.
-The weight room? -Oh! And the hot water? -What's the idea of leaving me out in the cold? You want to brood and simmer, that's fine.
But I got to haul-in a three hundred pound body-surfer by myself, that's where I draw the line.
-I didn't know that was going to happen, okay? -Who is that guy, Eddie? You know him.
-Do us both a favor and stay out of it.
-How? You keep dragging me in every time we share a tower together.
-Then your worries are over.
- You're gonna push me right over the edge like an animal in a cage lock me down and tie me up I will break free from these chains you know I'm plotting my sweet revenge gonna bite the hand that feeds I gotta trace it back and face the past before the future is mine to see seeing red every time I close my eyes feel the rage when it's building up inside I will soldier on never walk away I will right this wrong battle through the pain through the pain haunted by the tortured past I never could escape I will soldier on never walk away walk away oh.
Seeing red oh.
Feel the rage the rage I will soldier on never walk away I will right this wrong battle through the pain through the pain haunted by the tortured past I never could escape I will soldier on never walk away walk away nice shot.
-Well, well, look who showed up.
-Mr.
Lifeguard.
-If you came to buy me that drink, you're a couple of days late.
-Let's talk.
-Fine.
Let's talk.
Pick a subject.
How about the slammer? You never asked me what it was like.
-How about the future? What state you're going to spend it in? -Eddie, jail was a real drag.
It's like being a rat locked in a steel box with a whole bunch of other rats.
It took forever to get through a day.
I was there three years.
I owe you for that.
-Blame me until the day you die.
I really don't care.
-Oh.
We were brothers, man.
Brothers! -Stay away from me.
Permanently.
Okay.
Hey, Randolph, come.
-Come inside, punk.
- All right.
- The police is coming.
-Let's get out of here, man.
-Everybody, let's go! -Are you okay? -He's not saying much.
The owner of the bar isn't going to press charges as long as Eddie covers the damages.
-I'll cover them.
-He doesn't have the money.
-I'll get it.
-Let me see the cut.
-I'm fine, okay? -I'll help you with the money.
Now, what's going on? -Nothing is going on! Let's just drop it.
-Let's not.
-This is great.
Let's have a party, huh? Let's call captain Thorpe and the chief.
-No, stick around.
We've got a lot to talk about.
-How about Jimmy roche.
I got his name off the police report.
The bartender says that's the guy you fought with.
-That's funny.
I saw that name on a lifeguard report.
You punched him out yesterday.
You said you didn't know him.
-And the guy who was here the other day.
His name was Jimmy too.
-Okay.
So I know the guy.
But that was a long time ago.
It was like in another life, you know? We met in a foster home and We were tight.
We use to run together, we went to the movies together.
We used to hung out.
We even talked about coming to California together.
We cut class.
We busted stereos, picked fights.
And then one day, we went into a liquor store.
I wanted to buy a bag of chips and And then Jimmy pulled out a gun.
I didn't even know he owned one.
He said, "this is a stickup".
I said, "what do you think you are doing?" He shoved me and I shoved him back.
The guy behind the counter pulled out a gun of his own.
Next thing I knew, I was taking a lice bath at county jail.
-How old were you? -Sixteen.
-Didn't it matter to anybody that you tried to stop him? It mattered to Jimmy.
He got three years in juvenile hall.
He blames me for it.
I was put into an institutional foster home.
-I'm sorry, Eddie.
Sorry you had to go through that.
Yeah, well There are Things in life you wanna put behind you forever.
I guess it's not possible, is it? -Maybe not.
But you can start over.
-Time to hang up the gloves, champ.
-You're right.
Suspension's over.
You're back on the beach.
-You're kidding -No, I'm not kidding.
Eddie you came clean with me.
You've come a long way since Philadelphia.
I want to see you go the distance.
I got it.
-Garner? - Yeah.
-He was at the station with us.
I asked him to run a check on Jimmy.
-This is turning into a party.
I guess I'll make the coffee.
-Come on in.
-Bad news, Craig.
That roche kid, there are warrants out on him in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Eleven counts of armed robbery, and one count of attempted murder.
He shot a gas station attendant in the stomach.
Okay, sweetheart, party is over.
Daddy is gone home.
We're out of here too.
You know, I think he's actually starting to like me.
That stunt you pulled was pretty stupid, but You can't knock success you awake? Lisa.
Lisa, wake up! Lisa! -What have we got? -Respiratory distress.
We almost lost her on the road.
This guy pulled her out of the ocean this afternoon.
-Is she going to be all right? -Possible hypoxia.
Check on her blood gases and a high flow tko iv.
-What's wrong with her? -She's drowning.
-Drowning? That's impossible! She was sound asleep! How could she be drowning? -Yeah.
- She lied, man.
Californian dreaming bites.
-Then leave, man.
- That's the idea.
As soon as I can scrape a few bucks together.
Hey, buddy Wonder if I have any friends out here who might lend me a couple hundred? -You cost me too much already.
-Hey, no sweat.
Money's easy to come by.
I can get it from you, or from that nice little neighbor lady of yours.
-I've got to hit the bank machine first.
-Okay.
Meet me in an hour.
-Where do I find you? -The park in the Marina, by the footbridge.
-All right, I'll be there.
-We've finally had Lisa stabilized.
I think she's going to be okay, but it was close.
-This doesn't make any sense.
There was nothing wrong.
-She almost drowned.
-Almost.
But I saved her.
She only swallowed a little water.
-She inhaled enough to cause secondary drowning.
-What? -All you need is a trace of sea water.
The body floods the lungs to flush out the salt.
That's why county lifeguards always bring in a drowning victim no matter how well they say they feel.
You can see Lisa now if you like.
-Thank you.
Thank you.
Maybe the club should hire a county lifeguard Instead of an amateur.
-Morning.
-Yeah.
-Something wrong? -No, I'm just not cut off for this police informant stuff.
-You're doing the right thing.
-I know.
So why do I feel so wrong? -Don't you have any easy questions? -What am I supposed to do? -Simple.
Just wait for him.
There's plenty of backup, so no heroics, okay? -Don't worry.
The gloves are off.
Never mind.
Okay.
-Morning.
-Hi.
-I owe you an apology.
-Trevor, you saved my life.
-Twice.
Once from the water, and once from my own stupidity.
-What about my stupidity? I was the one who jumped in.
-Yeah.
Thing is I'm supposed to know all that stuff.
-Trevor, I'm leaving la.
It's time for me to spread my wings, right? -What are you talking about? -Modeling.
New York.
I know I can cut it.
It's 3000 miles away from daddy! That's why he's been fighting it for so long.
-Until I came along.
I help you give 'daddy' a good scare, in more ways than one, and now he is a believer.
Because New York is also 3000 miles away from me.
-You're making it sound like I used you.
-It was dumb of you to pull that stunt yesterday.
It was dumb of me not to know about the after-effects.
It was dumb of both of us to think anything could come out of this in the first place.
-I'm not going to be there forever.
-Send us a postcard.
And always swim near a county lifeguard.
-Hey! Ready for your recheck? -You better believe it.
-Good luck.
-Thanks.
-Now that you're all here, some more appropriately dressed than others, we can begin our recheck exam.
Since you are all clearly in top physical condition, we wanted to test your qualifications in other areas.
A simple calculation of wave vectors and tidal drift.
Gentlemen, you have ten minutes.
-Two hours is long enough.
It's not gonna happen.
-Now what? -I'll put out an apb.
He's not your problem anymore.
-I've heard that one before.
-Yeah.
All right, gentlemen, let's call it a day.
-They run out of day-olds at the club? -A guy can only take so much caviar.
-Yeah, I know what you mean.
I'm getting tired of fish sticks.
-Pretty backward, mate.
We've got five masseuses, a jacuzzi, a steam room.
An olympic class gymnasium and a staff of fitness experts.
What do you got? Co-ed showers, a couple of barbells, and a water fountain.
-We have charm.
They let you use all those fancy facilities at the club? -Of course not.
I'm just hired help.
-You know, Trevor, we all work the same beach.
Anytime you want to use the barbells or the water fountain, or ask a question or two, just stop by.
-Hi, Mitch.
-Hi, Jill.
-You're out of your element, aren't you? - Thanks for the offer.
- I might take you up on it.
But I'm never going to carry one of those stupid cans.
How much do I owe you for the donut? -Twenty-five bucks.
But the lifeguard manual is free.
-Congratulations on the recheck.
-I passed? -Not exactly.
Everybody flunked.
And since I can't run my beaches without lieutenants, I guess I have to grade on a curve.
-Closing time.
-Busy day.
-Yep.
-Doing anything tonight? -Nope.
-I keep asking myself where does he get all that charm? -I guess it just comes naturally.
-Do you want to grab some dinner with me? -Sure.
But you have to carry the conversation.
-No kidding.
-The phone.
-It's dead.
Adioós, Eddie.
See you in the next life.
-Line's dead at tower 34.
-That's Eddie's tower.
Try 33 and 35.
-Everybody's closed up for the day.
-Call garner.
We're out of here.
Come on, Jimmy, let's get out of here.
Come on! -I got it.
-Use the chair.
-Watch out.
-Try the other window! Yeah, burn, buddy.
-Ah! -Put your jacket on! We'll be all right.
-We'll never get out of here.
-I'm not gonna lose, not to that bastard! Okay.
Ready? -Uhm.
-All right.
All right, let's go.
-Are you okay? -Medium rare.
-All right.
He's all yours.