Ride Along Page #16

Dispatch:

Copy, ambulance 96.

Miller:

Alright Kevin, behind your seat there

is a reflective traffic vest. Put it

on.

Kevin reaches behind his seat and pulls out the REFLECTIVE VEST.

It has EMT printed on the back of it.

Thompson parks a safe distance down from the power line.

95. EXT. RANDOM STREET- DAY.

The three of them get out of the ambulance. Kevin and Miller get

the stretcher.

Thompson:

Alright. Let’s see what we got.

They start walking towards the overturned car. Thompson pulls

out his flashlight. He kneels down next to the driver’s side and

shines inside. The body hanging upside down does not come into

focus, but you can tell it’s grim by Thompson’s facial

expression. You can also start to faintly here the engine truck

in the distance.

Thompson:

Yeah so he’s definitely dead.

Miller:

The police are talking with the guy

from that other vehicle. Let’s check

him out.

They walk over to the police officers and the man.

Miller:

You were in this car, sir?

Uninjured Man:

Yeah, I was. I’m fine. One minute I was

driving to the store, and the next I

see a car rolling towards my car, and

then BAM. I was lucky I guess.

Miller:

Very.

Cut to minutes later. The engine has arrived and they are

dealing with the two cars. The power has been shut down to the

power line as well.

Thompson:

That was a whole lot of nothing. (Turns

to Kevin, smiling) You alright?

Kevin shakes his head in disgust.

Kevin:

This is annoying. But I gotta stay

positive. I have like four more hours.

Thompson and Miller work on getting the stretcher back on the

ambulance. Kevin walks towards the side of the ambulance. He

sees something out of the corner of his eye. He turns his head

and sees a bike off the road in the grass. He starts to walk

towards it. When he gets to it he sees it’s badly mangled.

Kevin:

Hey guys.

Miller and Thompson are talking at the back of the ambulance.

They don’t appear to hear him. Kevin looks around. He sees the

ancient, run down cottage, with what appeared to be fresh debris

in the front of it, and a good sized hole in the front. He

starts to walk towards it. He stops about five feet from the

hole. He sees what appears to be a person.

Kevin:

HEY GUYS!

Miller and Thompson turn, and see Kevin.

Thompson:

What do you have?

Kevin:

I think we have another victim.

They start to walk over. Kevin suddenly sees the person’s foot

shake. His eyes open wide. He runs inside the house to check on

them.

Thompson:

Kevin, wait!

Kevin ignores him. He sees a young girl with a biking helmet on

covered in some moldy wooden debris. She has cuts all over her

body and has a chunk of wood impaled in her stomach. He kneels

down to her to check for a pulse, but instead sees her looking

at him. He jumps back and falls on his back. Suddenly the

cottage starts to shake, and then crumble. The second floor

comes crashing down on top of Kevin, and the first floor

collapses into the basement. Screen slowly fades to black as we

faintly hear Miller scream “Kevin”.

96. INT. LOUNGE ROOM OF FIRE STATION 2- DAY.

Fade In to a lounge area. You see Chloe, and two woman EMTs

sitting on couches and chairs.

Lady Preceptor 1:

. . . So what’s the worst that will

happen? Your class ends at the end of

the week, and if anything goes wrong,

you just go to college, or get a job,

and move on.

Chloe:

I don’t know. I’ve never really

considered it until this year. Kinda

scares me to be honest. I don’t want

anything to change, but at the same

time I want everything to.

Lady Preceptor 2:

Chloe, life’s too short to let fear get

in the way. Just look into your heart

and you’ll find the answer. You can

never be angry if you do that.

Chloe:

Yeah, I guess so.

The alarm rings.

Chloe:

Sweet. Number eleven.

Automated alarm:

Engine 22, Ambulance 26, Tower 7,

Ambulance 56, Tower 5, Engine 52,

Battalion Chief 2, Battalion Chief 7,

Battalion Chief 9. Rescue. Intersection

of Ellicott National Pike and Dorsett

Road.

Lady Preceptor 2:

Holy sh*t!

Lady Preceptor 1:

Damn, we got ourselves an AHOD.

Lady Preceptor 2:

This day just got interesting.

Chloe:

What’s an AHOD?

Lady Preceptor 1:

All hands of deck.

97. INT. CRUMBLED COTTAGE- DAY.

FADE TO BLACK. You can faintly hear people shouting. The screen

starts to get hazy. You see that this is POV Kevin. He sees

beams of light through the cracks. He is face up, and sees wood

everywhere. POV ends. Kevin has cuts on his face, including a

large one on his forehead. His right leg is pinned underneath a

large chunk of wood. He tries to escape but can’t. The biker

girl is to his left, almost out of reach. She has some medium

sized pieces of wood on her, but nothing too heavy. Kevin lifts

his head up, but coughs due to the dust.

Miller:

KEVIN! Kevin! Can you hear me?

Kevin:

Yeah. . .

Miller:

Don’t worry Kevin. We’re gonna get you

out of there.

98. EXT. RANDOM STREET- DAY.

You see the cottage is still standing, but it is tilted heavily

to one side, and looks like it’s about to come all down at any

minute. There is a few more police squad cars, ambulance 26,

engine 21, and battalion chief two on scene now, but you can

hear a lot of sirens in the distance. Battalion Chief Miller,

who was driving Battalion Chief 2, a balding man in his 50s,

walks towards Miller and Thompson.

Battalion Chief Roberts:

What the hell happened?

Thompson:

Our ride-along is trapped in the

building there. He spotted someone’s

bike over there in the grass and walked

over to it. Once he was there he

spotted its rider in the building. He

walked over to check on them and then

the building collapsed. He’s conscious

and talking to us now, but we can’t see

him.

Battalion Chief Roberts:

What’s his name?

Miller:

Kevin. Kevin Starr.

B.C. Roberts walks over towards the cottage. He looks up and

inspects it for a second. He then kneels down close to the front

of it.

Battalion Chief Roberts:

Hello, Kevin? Can you hear me?

Kevin (O.S):

Yes sir.

Battalion Chief Roberts:

Hello Kevin. My name is Tim Roberts.

I’m the Battalion Chief over at station

2. How are you?

Kevin (O.S):

I’m ok I guess. My head is killing me,

so I might have a concussion, but I’m

awake and talking to you, so that’s

good, right?

Battalion Chief Roberts:

Absolutely. Can you move at all?

99. INT. COLLAPSED COTTAGE- DAY.

Switch to Kevin. He tries to wiggle free, but his leg is pinned

pretty well.

Kevin:

No, my leg is pinned pretty badly. I

can’t move it at all.

Battalion Chief Roberts (O.S.):

I was told that you ran into the house

because you found the rider of the

bike. Are they still with you?

Kevin:

Yeah, a young girl. She’s lying right

next to me. She’s injured pretty

severely, so we need to get her out

soon.

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