Schedule

Josh Drucker is a preacher's son with a calling to the ministry. Andrew Robertson a bouncer and construction worker with a taste for motorcycles. Both have dark pasts that they're trying hard to leave behind.

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.

Gerry Scotti and Barry Feldman are living the good life in Los Angeles. Gerry is a high-powered defense attorney, Barry his brilliant paralegal. They become best friends, each complementing the other's strengths and weaknesses.

At the world's top university for the Deaf and hard of hearing, college freshmen Eric Plunkett and Joseph Mesa live across the hall from each other. Eric is an outgoing film buff with a preference for horror movies..

Any time best friends turn on each other, it's a tragedy--years of love and trust swept away in a moment of anger, jealousy, or greed. But some cases are so shocking that nobody sees them coming.

Dean Allen is a clean-cut carpenter in east Texas, a young man who always follows the rules. Dean befriends a newcomer, Robert Pogue, a butcher who never met a rule he couldn't break.

Attacked and abducted by a church handyman, an elderly woman is left in the trunk of her car to die. A miner and eight co-workers survive 77 hours trapped in a rapidly flooding coal mine.

A young girl is abducted and brutally raped in her car. A diver on a boat trip has a terrifying accident in the middle of the night.

A young mother is attacked and strangled by a man she meets at a party. A snowmobiler survives a series of avalanches but loses eight of his friends. A 14-year-old boy and his best friend are attacked by a 17-year-old who cuts their throats.

A man survives 23 hours in the ocean after he gets separated from his dive partner. A woman is robbed and threatened by her best friend and her brother. And, a woman is shot and blinded by a man who then holds her captive in his home.

In Baton Rouge, a brawl erupts in the back of Meghan and Dee's ambulance when an overdose patient wakes up swinging.

In Austin, Texas, a man is shot by someone he trusts and Kim and Audrey must wait until the gunman is apprehended before they can begin treatment.

Baton Rouge paramedics rush to the aid of a man attacked by his girlfriend with a box-cutter knife. Gunshots fired in Yonkers send Ariel and Cunningham to save a man down.

Patrick and Danelle from Yonkers, New York, go above and beyond to help a schizophrenic patient who's had a hard time being taken seriously in the past.

Chaos erupts when shots are fired and a teenager is wounded while Will and Dimitri are on patrol at a high school football game.

On the Nightwatch, you can't save everyone--but you try. New partners Tommy and Arkady join a desperate search for a victim who went under in the river; Holly and Nick rush a motorcyclist with devastating injuries to the hospital.

Titus and Dan treat a woman who was viciously stabbed in the face, and Holly and Nick tend to an emotional young woman who was assaulted.

It's New Year's in New Orleans and gun violence is rampant as Police and EMS deal with armed robberies and shootings. Plus, EMT Gavin returns to the job, and everyone celebrates a new addition to the family.

Tampa first responders have a chaotic night treating seizure and overdose patients, while the ROC Squad Task Force tracks down suspected armed robbers in a high-speed chase.

On a night that leaves the EMT crew holding its breath, the first responders aid patients suffering from a strange assortment of afflictions, from being impaled by wood to getting thrown from a moving vehicle.

Police officers Victor and Lejon join a SWAT team operation hunting a homicide suspect. The fire department tries to save a man who fell into the Mississippi River. And for the EMT's, the calls tonight are as much about comforting victims.

As anyone in New Orleans could tell you, when times are toughest, family and friends are more important than anything in the world.