Because John keeps losing at cards and being stuck with doing the dishes at the station, he creates his own card game. Off-duty, Dr. Brackett and Dixie spend time to unwind, who also meditate on the people that want to die rather than live, and the people that want to live rather than die. Roy talks down a boy in a plane after the pilot (his father) has a heart attack. The paramedics respond to an attempted suicide, an overturned truck and a teenage overdose victim. Drs. Brackett, Early and Morton, even Dixie, all take care of a husband who is suffering from a severe hemorrhage

John is envious of the publicity given to another paramedic. John later becomes seasick after he and Roy have rescued a man in ship's rigging. A powerful tycoon threatens to take Dr. Brackett to court because of the tycoon's son's diagnosis; however, with his and Dixie's help, Dr. Early eventually successfully calms the tycoon down. Dixie takes care of an already taken lady, whom John was going to see. The paramedics rescue a horse from a ditch and a child stuck in a well.