The Lennon Report Page #5

right now, we still

have a chance.

- Fellas, I just don't know.

I'd like your opinion.

I can't see this game

situation allowing for

that news flash, can you?

- Absolutely, I can see it.

- You can?

- You betcha. If we know it,

we gotta do it.

- All right.

- Don't hang on it.

It's a tragic moment and...

This is going to shake

up the whole world.

-All right.

Let giff call this next

play and I'll get it in.

- The patient hasn't had

circulation for 30 minutes.

I'm concerned about

hypoxic brain injury.

- I agree, but that is not a

guarantee, and it's something

we can deal with in

living patients.

- Even if we found the

problem right now I'm not

sure what we could do, but

are we any closer than

we were 15 minutes ago?

Do you think it's time?

11:
15 pm.

Time of death 23:15.

I know that emotions

are running high right now,

but I want us all to be

clear on one thing.

We did exactly the right

things here tonight.

Does anyone have thoughts

of anything else

we should have done?

Then let's start

the follow-up.

Does the patient have any

family waiting for him?

- Yes, doctor, his wife is

in the OBgyn exam room.

- All right, I'll go talk

to Mrs. Lennon.

Nurse Kammerer, come with me.

- I can't. I gotta

change my shoes.

- You're covered in blood.

Nobody is going to be

looking at your shoes.

- But it's suddenly been

placed in total

perspective for us;

I'll finish this, they're in

a hurry-up offense

-third down, four.

On the field, running back

Chuck foreman.

He takes a hand-off and

charges up the middle

going down just short

of the first down.

Foreman. It'll be

fourth down.

Cavanaugh will let it run

down for one final attempt.

He'll let the seconds

tick off to give Miami

no opportunity whatsoever.

- Time-out is called with

three seconds remaining,

John Smith is on the line.

And I don't care what's

on the line, Howard,

we've got to say

what we know in the booth.

-Yes!

- Yes, we must say it.

Remember, this is just

a football game, no matter

who wins or loses.

An unspeakable tragedy

confirmed to us by ABC news

in New York City:

John Lennon, outside of his

apartment building on the

West Side of New York City.

The most famous perhaps,

of all of the Beatles,

shot twice in the back,

rushed to Roosevelt hospital,

dead on arrival.

-Mrs. Lennon.

-Tell me he's all right.

Please. Tell me

he's all right.

- I'm sorry.

I can't tell you that.

- No, John!

It's not true!

It's not true.

-I'm sorry.

- Hard to go back to the game

after that news flash,

which, in duty bound, we

have to take. Frank?

-Indeed, it is.

- David, did I ever tell

you about the time

I almost left the army?

-What? No, dick.

Well, you might have but

I don't remember.

You got a lot of stories.

-Well, this is a quick one.

- Dick, let's be honest.

None of them are quick.

So, how about we skip all the

details and just get to

the lesson of the story?

-Another day then.

Just bear in mind, in this

profession we can afford

to be dented, we can't

afford to be crushed.

-Thanks.

- Does anyone else know?

-No.

The hospital hasn't

released a statement yet.

- I need to speak to the

person in charge, please.

Dr. Lynn do you

have the medical report?

-I'm getting it now.

- The hospital's going

to secure it.

-That's fine.

Nobody's going to read it

after tonight anyway.

They'll hear it on the news.

- About that.

- What?

- The hospital wants you

to do the statement

to the press.

-Me?

I figured PR would be

jumping all over this.

- They'd probably love to,

but the hospital wants

you to do it. You're the

director of the e.D.

- I'm aware of my title,

what does this got

to do with the press?

- The whole world will be

looking to this hospital

for answers. They are going

to be scared, confused,

broken-hearted. They don't

want a press release.

They want to know what we

did here, and the hospital

wants you to tell them.

- All right. Yeah.

Give me half an hour.

When you were

looking for me, did anything

stick out to you? Anyone

behaving differently?

Give me something.

I heard a scream,

was it Yoko?

Did you see Yoko at all?

- What are you so

worked up over?

- I tipped them off

that he was dead and

they were still working on him.

- Think you could be wrong?

- If I am, I'm done.

I'm completely done.

Yeah, sorry, pal.

- Yeah, me too.

- I love how I'm being treated

like a criminal. I love it.

Just handcuff me to the

bed. Finish the job off.

- Press can be seen as a

problem sometimes.

- Oh, I'm sorry, do you

watch the news at night?

Do you read the paper

in the morning?

Do you think it's an

accident why I'm still here?

- Well...

- Why I'm here in the

first place? You know what

I'm talking about.

You wouldn't be here

yourself if you didn't

want to know what was going on.

- Alan, you're right. Okay?

- Thank you.

- Definitely a part of

the reason why I'm here.

It was definitely

an accident that

brought you here, though.

- We're gonna need an

obit for the broadcast.

-I'm writing it?

- I can get somebody else...

- I want it.

- Well, you better get to it.

- David, is the medical

report ready?

- He just finished them

up now, Steve.

- I've just been informed

that the hospital

is going to make

an official statement.

- Well, my notes are

all in that file.

- And you saw that I checked it.

They are detailed and accurate.

- They asked me to

make this statement.

- Makes sense.

It's your department.

- I suppose. Would you

like to attend?

-No, thank you.

- David, maybe you should.

You did the surgery.

If they have any

questions you could...

- Dick, thank you, but no.

-Why not?

-I had a long night.

Good night, Dr. marks.

Dr. Lynn.

- If that surgery were a

success, he'd be chomping

at the bit to attend.

- Steven, a lot of things

would be different if

the surgery was a success.

Mrs. Lennon would

like to speak with you.

She's signing for her

husband's effects.

-Thank you.

Mrs. Lennon.

- I need you to do

something for me.

If you could give me thirty

minutes to get home.

I need to be the one

to tell our son.

I don't want him to hear

it from the news.

- Unfortunately, I'm not

confident if that is going

to make much of a difference.

With the police response,

and the growing commotion

outside the building.

I'm certain that we can hold off

making the official statement.

-Thank you, doctor.

-Pardon me.

-Thank you.

- Please do not

block the street.

There's gonna be a

public statement in the

Winston lobby shortly.

- Go outside and go help the

cops handle the situation.

- Is the street clear?

- No, sir.

There's a swarm of

press out there.

You open that door and

it's a stampede.

- You assured me you

would take care of it.

- We are extremely

understaffed for

this kind of response.

- Didn't you tell them

that there would be a

statement in the lobby?

-Twice. The lobby's full.

So is the ambulance yard

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