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a few hundred yards above them.

NANCY:

No...

Terry... No...

The NEWS COPTER drops. Somehow, Rotor keeps some sort of

control. The EMT COPTER SPIRALS, spinning horribly right

toward the top floor.

The EMT copter punches in right in front of Tyler, Boone and

Nancy. Rotors and skids shearing off, the hull of the copter

flames out, sliding across the roof.

No one could survive that crash. Nancy watches. It sinks in.

She runs forward as flames engulf the copter.

NANCY (CONT’D)

Terry!!! Terry!!!

(CONTINUED)

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Boone grabs her, holding her back. Sobs rip through her body

as she watches the inferno take lovers and patients.

NANCY (CONT’D)

Rabbit...

END OF COLD OPEN

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ACT ONE:

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EXT. 1012 MONTGOMERY - DAY 21

The NEWS COPTER burns on the ground. Firefighters put out the

blaze, tend to the injured, the terrified. Up on the roof,

RABBIT and ROTOR’S EMT COPTER smolders.

It’s a scene from hell. Strangely, a VOICE sounds out.

NEWSCASTER:

... today is the one year

anniversary of the worst rescue

disaster in San Francisco history.

A helicopter crash that took seven

lives in the air and on the

ground...

PULLING BACK the disaster footage glimmers on a SMALL

TELEVISION SCREEN in a cozy North Beach apartment.

22 INT. MARISA’S APARTMENT - MORNING 22

TV humming on the dresser, MARISA BENEZ (28) - petite, a mass

of muscle and street smarts - fingers a ROSARY.

MARISA:

Santa María, Madre de Dios, ruega

por nosotros, pecadores, ahora y en

la hora de nuestra muerte. Amen

By the TV, a PHOTO shows Marisa in uniform, posing by an ARMY

ATTACK HELICOPTER. She sets down the rosary beads, reapplies

lipstick, grabs her cell phone.

As Marisa heads out the front door, the phone rings.

MARISA (CONT’D)

Hey Mom...

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EXT. NORTH BEACH - MORNING 23

Hipsters and workers jam the sidewalk. Marisa nods to the

news vendor as she heads out.

ILENA BENEZ:

You watching the news?

MARISA:

I was.

ILENA BENEZ:

Every channel. All about last

year’s crash. Makes me worried for

you Mari.

Marisa jaywalks across the street, maneuvering between moving

cars. She scoots her ass away from an oncoming TAXI.

(CONTINUED)

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MARISA:

Mama, I made it through Baghdad,

San Francisco’s nothing.

SMASH CUT TO:

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INT. PARAMEDIC VAN - DAY 24

BLOOD splatters. Lots and lots of blood. A siren screams.

Up front, a new face drives. SAM BAILEY (30s), a couple steps

past metrosexual. Screams come from the back, where...

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