A gas explosion injures a newlywed couple, because the wife had lied to the husband about his cigars, and this leads Johnny on a crusade to be honest in any situation. A boy is brought into Rampart choking to death for no apparent reason; Dr. Morton's brutal honesty about the situation sends the boy's mother into hysterics, which leads Dixie and Johnny into calming her; a boy is critically injured diving off a roof; Johnny and Roy rescue a family of three from a burning house; and Dixie and Dr. Early treat a man who "might" be having a heart attack because his father had died from one at the same age. Kelly lies to Johnny about a woman that keeps calling for him.

The paramedics are concerned about their dog, Boot, who isn't eating, who discusses the staff at Rampart, about their mascot. Part of that problem is Kelly has been yelling at their dog, who observes the temperature from Drs. Brackett and Morton, from Dixie. A woman who got her hair caught up in a mixer, is being helped by John and Roy, where her hand got stuck in a bowl, and catches her stove on fire while making dinner; a woman trapped in her car under a gas truck; and an explosion at a Rampart Hospital lab endangers the workers and important records stored there.