The episode opens with a couple in bed and a periodically chirping smoke alarm. The lady says she changed the battery only yesterday, but it keeps chirping, and she can’t “get into it.” When it chirps again, her partner knocks it off the ceiling. Pruitt is giving Andy instructions on how to manage the team from his hospital bed while Andy is ordering him a healthy meal from the cafeteria. Ben is dropping his stepson Tuck off at school, and Tuck is having hard time adjusting to Ben’s new shift schedule and not being there all the time for him. Dean is woken up by Charlie, the dog he rescued in Episode 1. He says the only reason why the dog is there is because his owner’s new place doesn’t allow pets. What kind of anti-pet place does she live in, for Pete’s sake? How can you not like dogs? Back to Pruitt and Andy bickering. He wants to be released today, not tomorrow. Back to Ben and Tuck bickering. Ben suggests Tuck come to the Station after school. Tuck, being a typical kid not bei
A woman is on her laptop in bed, cyber stalking her ex-boyfriend. She calls her friend who convinces her to log off the computer. She puts the lid down, while keeping the laptop on her pillow, and goes into her bathroom. Sparks begin to fly from the power cord … and the pillow ignites. A voice-over begins in a woman’s voice. This is the first clue that we have entered Shonda-Land! Fire engines are racing to the scene in all their fire-engine glory. They arrive at a home with smoke billowing out while the voice over continues, talking about the legendary fire pole that we all imagine fire fighters slide down with every call. The crew rushes to put the fire out, while Captain Obvious orders, “Contain the flames and get the hell out!” I could have called that play, and I don’t even have any fire training. He barks some other orders and assignments for his team to pair up. The crew enter a smoky house looking for the victim and the source of the flames. Quite naturally, they find the c