Welcome to Camelot (Third Watch)

Infobox Television episode
Title=Welcome to Camelot


Caption=Bosco chasing a suspect.| Series=Third Watch
Season=1
Episode=1
Airdate=September 23, 1999
Production=225301
Writer=John Wells
Edward Allen Bernero
Director=Christopher Chulack
Guests=Monica Trombetta
Maria Elena Ramirez
James Rebhorn
Michael Rispoli
JD Williams
Prev=
Next=Anywhere But Here

"Welcome to Camelot" is the first episode of the television series "Third Watch" and the first episode of the first season.

Plot Summary

Two new recruits join the emergency services - Tyrone Davis, Jr joins the NYPD, where he is partnered up with his dad's old partner John 'Sully' Sullivan. Carlos Nieto becomes a FDNY paramedic. Both of them make mistakes on their first day. The paramedics are distraught when one of their number is shot, and Maurice 'Bosco' Boscorelli, a cop, finds offensive graffiti on his squad car.

Plot Details

The episode opens with Bosco and his partner Faith Yokas chasing a suspect who has painted "Bosco is a dick" onto their squad car. Sully catches the guy instead, annoying Bosco. Back at the station, Sully learns that he has got a new partner - Ty Davis, Jr, the son of his deceased ex-partner. Annoyed, but not being able to do much about it, Sully takes Davis under his wing.

The paramedics also have a new member, Carlos. He rides in the ambulence with Monte 'Doc' Parker and Jerry Mankowitz, the senior paramedics. At an accident caused by a drunk driver, Carlos is overwhelmed. Fellow paramedics Bobby Caffey and Kim Zambrano turn up to assist. Bosco and Faith arrest the driver in a bar.

Kim is amazed that Bobby hasn't slept with girlfriend Dana Murphy, a nurse at Angel of Mercy Hospital, yet. Bobby insists she's not really his type, then brings up Kim's ex-husband, firefighter Jimmy Doherty. They attend to a woman giving birth on a subway train, where Sully and Davis are trying to persuade the driver to get to 125th Street where there is a hospital nearby.

At the firehouse, Carlos is subject to a practical joke by the others, after seeing Kim eat what appears to be mud off her shoe, but turns out to be peanut butter. Jerry pinches Carlos on the bottom after asking if he's ever been with a man. They are about to eat when there's a call, and they go back to work. it turns out the firefighters are no longer needed as the fire is under control, but paramedics are - unfortunately for Doc, Jerry and Carlos, this means walking up 46 flights of stairs as the elevators have not yet been deemed safe.

Sully and Davis break up a fight between two drunk men, one of whom then pukes on Davis. Later, Sully tells Davis that they are "solving problems" rather than "enforcing the law". Kim and Bobby attend to a homeless teenager who has overdosed on drugs, named Sunny- "like sunshine". Sully and Davis arrest a guy who looks like a clown, who was earlier reported looking through a woman's bathroom window. The guy annoys them, so they put him in Bosco's car instead.

Later, at a burning building, whilst the firefighters put out the fire, Bosco runs in to help get people out. Doc manages to catch a baby thrown out of the window by his trapped mother. Afterwards Kim and Jimmy talk, where it revealed that she divorced him after he slept with her sister.

Towards the end of the shift, Doc, Carlos and Jerry are called to a gunshot wound, As they enter the building, the shooter shoots Jerry in the chest and threatens to shoot the others if they go to help him. Doc tries to, and Jerry gets shot again. Carlos hides behind a wall. Sully and Davis arrive and instead of securing the perimeter, Davis goes chasing after the shooter, allowing him to escape. Doc tries to help Jerry but he needs to be taken to the hospital. As Sully yells at Davis for his mistake, and revealing that he doesn't want to tell his mother he's dead (as he's already made a similar call when Ty Sr died), the paramedics wait for any news on Jerry at the hospital.

Notes

*For some reason, Chris Bauer is not credited as Fred Yokas for this or the next episode.

Quotes

*"{Yokas referring to Bosco}"
Yokas: I just think of him as one my kids.

Music

*The Crystal Method
*Hooverphonic
*Peggy Lee
*Fatboy Slim

ee also

* List of Third Watch episodes

External links

* [http://www.tv.com/third-watch/welcome-to-camelot/episode/2509/summary.html?tag=ep_list;title;0 Welcome to Camelot] at TV.com
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0721000/ Welcome to Camelot] at the Internet Movie Database