A night rescue gone wrong at an amusement park leaves Buck doubting his place on the team. Athena is called out to an unusual home break in and a lover’s fight leads to a dramatic rescue. Athena comes home to a heart-stopping discovery.
Tropes featured in the episode:
- The Caretaker: Carla takes over as Abby’s mother’s day nurse.
- Chekhov's Gun: The man who reported being attacked by rabid dogs leaves his number with Athena, she is able to use this to track him down and arrest him when it’s discovered that he was actually robbing the place when he was attacked.
- Coincidental Broadcast: As Abby is getting ready for work, the news she was watching shows an interview with Buck, after the roller coaster accident. Giving Abby her first look at Buck, as she had only spoken to him over the phone in the previous episode. Happens again later in the episode, Abby is speaking with Carla when Buck appears on the news again, his interview having gone national. Carla then convinces Abby to get into contact with Buck
- Cruel and Unusual Death: While on a rollercoaster, the safety lap restraint snaps open, causing one of the riders to be flung from the ride, he dies as he hits the ground.
- Driven to Suicide:
- After agonizing over failing to save a victim stuck on a broken roller coaster, Buck learns the young man had been suicidal and likely chose to die.
- Athena comes home, only to find that her daughter May has taken a whole bunch of leftover pills and attempted to kill herself due to being bullied at school.
- Dynamic Entry: Buck, after regaining his confidence, repels down the side of a building and swings through the open balcany to stop a man from jumping.
- Foreshadowing: May being “sick” and not wanting to go to school. The lack of communication between her and her family, all signs that something else is going on with her. Later revealed that she is being bullied at school.
- Funny Background Event: While Athena is writing her report dealing with the rabid dog attack, Chimney can be seen cringing badly as animal control leads the dogs into the back of his van.
- Heroic BSoD: Buck suffers from one after he loses his first patient on the job, he is unable to do the more dangerous rescues until he has a heart-to-heart with Bobby. By the end of the episode he is working through it.
- It's Not You, It's Me: Buck says this to Abby when she asks him out on a date. He has come to realise that he has issues when it comes to intimacy and doesn't want to ruin the thing between the two of them by sleeping with her on the first date. They decide to keep talking together on the phone, like the olden days.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Responding to an unusual home invasion of rabid dogs, Athena and Hen rescue a sink-top cowering man from being mauled in his home by luring and trapping the dogs. After the rescued man escapes, the real homeowner shows up. Athena quickly realizes that the perpetrator called 9-1-1 to get himself out of the home robbery situation that he committed when he didn't account for homeowner's attack dogs. For Athena’s sake, she quickly redeemed the situation later using the cell phone number of the perp.
- Of Corpse He's Alive: One of the riders of a rollercoaster dies as he was flung out of the moving ride and hit the ground, in order to keep the remaining riders of the stuck roller coaster calm, Bobby tells Hen and Chimney to pretend that he survived. They put him on a gurney and wheel the body to the ambulance.
- Playing Sick: Athena thinks that May is pretending to be sick, because she hasn’t studied for a test at school.
- Psycho Psychologist: The therapist Buck goes to isn't crazy, per se, but she did sleep with Buck and then toss him out without referring him to another, which is a massive violation of ethics and shoddy practice, respectively.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Upon seeing the two angry guard dogs, Chimney slowly backs away from the situation and allows Hen to deal with it. Claiming that if she thinks he’s a coward, she is 100% correct.
- Second Episode Introduction: Carla the nurse is introduced in this episode.
- Social Media Before Reason: Instead of clearing the area when the roller coaster gets stuck and allowing the first responders to do their job, bystanders stand around with their phones out recording the situation. This doesn’t help, as Devon, the man hanging from the ride doesn’t want his situation to be put onto the internet and this just cements his decision to let go and fall to his death.
- Spotting the Thread: While filling out her report about the dog attack, Athena asks Hen if the house’s slide door was open or closed. Hen says it was closed. With the front door also closed, Athena figures out that the only way the dogs would have gotten in the house was if they already lived there.
- Take My Hand!: As Devon barely hangs on to the roller coaster’s lap restraint, Buck reaches out and tells him this.
Buck: Reach up your hand. Come on, it’s like three inches. You can do this, I got you. Devon. Devon, I need you to trust me. Give me your hand, I will not let you go.
- There Are No Therapists: Averted Buck attempts to see a therapist about losing his first patient on the job. However, instead of helping Buck, he and the therapist end up sleeping together. She then kicks him out without referring him on to anyone else.
