A retired policeman comes to the aid of a young man after his car careers off a ferry and sinks in the harbour. A climber falls in the Cairngorms, but bad weather makes rescue difficult, and a British pilot must evacuate his plane after a massive engine explosion on take-off.

Nick tells the moving story of a police motorcyclist, responding to help at an accident, who crashed and became the patient himself. Plus a conservationist describes what happened when he was attacked by the very elephants he campaigns to save.