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Can guys and girls ever really be best friends? It's a question Alphonze Fitzhugh and Britani Coberly hear many times--and they always shrug it off. These Northern California teenagers are more like brother and sister, sharing a passion for sports and meeting up with their friends for bonfires in the local vineyards. But like a grape that isn't picked, this friendship withers on the vine. Hidden attraction turns into jealousy, which then sets off a chain reaction of anger and revenge.

Can we ever escape our past? An organic farmer (Patrick Drum) meets a lumber mill worker (Gary Blanton) in Washington's Olympic Peninsula. They become close friends, and when Gary has to move out of his house, Patrick invites him to share his cabin in the woods. But one of them is hiding a dark secret. And when the other finds out, it begins a spiral of anger and vengeance... leading to a killing spree and an intensive manhunt. With two bodies already found, police race to find the suspect before he kills again.

Alabama party boys and best friends Butch Hampel and Richard Terry meet while working at the local paper mill. The two are inseparable bachelors and roommates living the good life, until a woman comes between them. When one best friend falls for the other man's wife, all bets are off. It's a violation of an age-old code, a code their friends call "Dude Law." But will this be a crime of passion, or a crime of jealousy?

Two West Virginia girls, best friends since third grade, turn on each other when a third girl transforms their solid duo into an unstable trio. When one of the girls goes missing, police focus in on her BFF and eventually prove that she's the killer.

Whoever said there's honor among thieves... never met this group of best friends. Michael Falco, Gary Evans, and Tim Rysedorph all come from working-class South Troy, NY. Friends since childhood, they dream of careers in music and the arts. But to survive in this Rust Belt town, they turn to small-time criminal activity. As the crimes get bigger, so do the stakes. The police are closing in, and one of them turns on his friends, murdering them one by one. Can he be stopped before he kills them all?

When retired rodeo champion Bob Huber takes a young, aspiring cowboy named Ryan Bryant under his wing, it seems like a perfect match. The two start running a business and coaching a little league team. Yet slowly but surely, one man begins to chafe under the yoke of their friendship and hatches a plan to rid himself of the other... forever. In a ruthless competition between the wily older man and the strong young buck, who will win?

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Lonnie plays dead for four agonizing hours after her boyfriend chokes her and shoots her four times in the head. Rulon, a super-strong Olympic wrestler, gets stuck in a semi-frozen stream when he goes snowmobiling and faces a big decision -- should he wait to be rescued or submerge himself in the freezing water to save his snowmobile and find a way out? And when a wise-cracking federal prosecutor is abducted by men with machine guns, he uses his unique talents and personality to show rapport with his captors in hopes they'll release him.

Christine's and Heidi's trip on a Greek ferry becomes a nightmare when the boat begins to sink and the crew abandons the ship, leaving the panicked passengers to fend for themselves. Debbie suffers a five-day ordeal at the hands of an attacker, who keeps her blindfolded and gagged, rapes her, and forces her to sleep next to him. And a simple act of kindness results in a vicious assault for Jim when he is brutally attacked in his apartment by his neighbor after inviting the young man into his home to chat.

A single mom is attacked by an old classmate after spurning his affections. A gold prospector survives five days in the Australian Outback. And a woman is left for dead after being carjacked then shot several times at close range.

Wayne and Mary woke up to find their farm house surrounded by a cloud of lethal chlorine gas following a rail derailment. Thus began a harrowing six hour ordeal until emergency services arrived, where they struggled to take a breath, coughed up blood and watched their metal appliances literally melt before their eyes. While Holly and her boyfriend Chris were taking a quiet stroll near the railroad tracks, they were accosted by a man demanding money. Both were bound, gagged and then brutally bludgeoned. Chris died at the scene, but miraculously Holly survived the assault and was able to seek help. Linda was driving to her lakeside cabin when she was run off the road in the middle of the night by four strangers. High on drugs, they viciously attacked her, demanded money, set her car ablaze, and left for dead in a deserted field. She was rescued by two teenagers in a passing car who saw the fire and dragged her to safety.

With Covid-19 raging across the city, the New Orleans EMS responders face an unfolding series of crises that include a vehicle rollover from a police pursuit, a victim with close-range gunshot wounds, and a heart-wrenching race to save a woman in respiratory distress.

After a quiet beginning of the evening, multiple calls virtually explode across the radio at once--and the alarming code heard is for "Officer Shot." The overwhelming response to that call leaves EMT's Titus and Dan to endure an agonizing wait for police backup at the scene of a stabbing at a birthday party. Meanwhile, fire fighters respond to the scene of a burning car.

If every night in New Orleans is an adventure, this one is filled with characters in situations unlike any other. A woman in a disagreement with her boyfriend tells police he once brought her back to life after she was murdered; a purse-snatching suspect stops running away from authorities so he can finish eating some chicken strips; and a tarot card reader gets dehydrated after a long day working on Bourbon Street.

Halloween provides a fitting backdrop to a night on the job that includes some chilling calls. Captain Kevin leads the fire fighters battling a blaze that's engulfed a house, and hopefully nothing more. Police officers Victor and Cedric hunt through a neighborhood in "the country" for a burglary suspect. And on the EMT Sprint Unit, Becca responds to a call she hoped to never get.

The team celebrates the opening of its new headquarters, finally complete after 10 years of working out of trailers. Meanwhile, Titus has his own new beginning as he's received his paramedic's license and he and long-time partner Dan must adjust to their new shared roles in a variety of calls. And the new team, Arcady and Ted, get to know each other's styles in their first shifts together.

On Nightwatch not all tragedies are created equal and tonight, when the men and women serving New Orleans get word that one of their own has been critically injured, they reflect on the risks they all take. The other calls of the night mirror that reality - including a scene where a small party was thrown into chaos by armed intruders, and a bar where a fight ended with a good Samaritan getting seriously wounded while trying to break it up.

The EMT's recall and reflect on their craziest and most memorable calls on the Nighwatch shift in New Orleans.

The EMT's recall and reflect on their craziest and most memorable calls on the Nighwatch shift in New Orleans.

First responders bring a combination of professionalism and passion for the job as they encounter a gunshot victim, a drug overdose, a reported strangulation, a seizure and a house party threatening to spin out of control.

Working together for years has turned Titus and Dan into great friends. But on their shift, they inevitably come across folks who are the victims of crimes perpetuated by those closest to them. It's on calls like these when they become more than just emergency medical technicians; they're also therapists and counselors, doing whatever they can to steer some troubled people back in the right direction.

Officers Roni and Cooper find themselves in a breathless foot chase after people are stabbed at a nightclub. Fire Rescue's Doug and Stokes desperately try to save the life of a young man shot in his throat. Meanwhile, the ROC Squad's Will and Dimitri go on a manhunt after a carjacking leads them to the roof of an apartment complex.

Officers Robb and Bethany are helped by the K9 Unit to corral a suspect who takes off running after a car chase. Fire Rescue's Rush and Rutledge struggle to convince a man with heart problems to go to the hospital. Mayville and Doug are called in when a car careens off a bridge--and the driver can't be found.