Previously, on Tomorrow
Waits For No One: Cole shared with his partner
Det. Ginny Riley that he doesn't believe that "Gian" (Marcus) is faking
his amnesia.
DA Philip Benton and Cole clashed over protocol. Cole
admitted to Det. Riley that he's hoping DA Benton will not be
reelected. Philip apologized to Rhonda over their argument.
They left for lunch, planning to make love.
Dr. Martinez introduced Dr. Margaret Park to "Gian" (Marcus).
She made plans to work with him to regain his memory.
Det. Washington returned to see "Gian" (Marcus).
Their mutual attraction was palpable as the detective
took fingerprints. Later, Cole ran the fingerprints
but there was no match in the national database.
Cole received the crime scene report showing that Frank was not at
fault in the accident that put Marcus in the hospital.
Frank was relieved that he was no longer a figure in the
investigation. He vowed to find a way to profit from Marcus's
situation.
That night, a man entered Marcus's room and injected something
into his IV.
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Installment
4:
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Sept. 4
University Hospital:
Patient Room
“He’s in V-fib!” shouts Dr. Martinez.
Gail applies gel to the defibrillator
paddles and hands them to the doctor.
Dr. Martinez grabs the
paddles. “Set it at 200.”
Gail adjusts the defibrillator controls.
“Clear!” shouts the doctor as the other
clinicians step back from the patient.
Marcus’s body seizes as 200 joules of
electricity courses through it.
Dr. Martinez waits momentarily for a
response,
staring at the heart monitor. But Marcus’s heart rate is
still
dangerously sporadic. “300,” he instructs.
Gail adjusts the controls again
“Clear!”
Another jolt of electricity surges
through Marcus’s body. Again, no change.
“Give me 360. Clear!”
After a few seconds, Marcus’s heart rate
begins to stabilize but is still irregular.
“He’s stopped breathing!” Gail
cries. “Pulse ox is 88 and falling.
The medical team works feverishly to
keep Marcus
from slipping into a coma. He is intubated to allow Gail to
pump
air into his lungs. After several tense minutes, Marcus is
resuscitated. The team breathes
a collective sigh of relief.
Upon
receiving the results of Marcus’s blood tests showing an abnormally
high potassium chloride content, Dr. Martinez administers calcium
gluconate, sodium bicarbonate, glucose, and insulin, which stabilizes
Marcus’s heart.
Marcus begins to rally and is rushed to
the ICU.
“Odd,” comments Dr. Martinez.
He examines the
IV bag, suspiciously. “Nurse Renwick.”
“Yes, Doctor.”
“Please have the lab test the contents
of this IV,
the bag and the tube, and have them report their findings to me ASAP.”
“Certainly, Dr. Martinez,” Gail responds
quizzically.
SMPD: Detectives Squad Room
Before
leaving
for the day, Cole sits at his desk to read the San Marcello Bulletin
online. He becomes
infuriated when he discovers ‘Gian’s’
picture on the front page with the headline, “Mystery
Man Attacked at University Hospital,
Police Baffled.”
The phone
rings.
“What!”
shouts
Cole into the receiver.
“Detective,
this is Dr. Martinez.”
“What the
hell
is going on over there, and why wasn’t I called earlier?!?” Cole
demands.
“I assume
you’ve
learned about the attack,” the doctor responds.
“The news media has descended on the hospital.”
“What
happened?!? The
Bulletin says that
Gian may have been intentionally poisoned.”
“That’s what
I
suspect,” confirms the doctor. “We’re
testing his IV for potassium chloride.
I’m waiting for the results.”
“How did the
Bulletin even know?” Cole demands.
“Apparently,
a
reporter happened to be in the hospital at the time John Doe went into
cardiac
arrest,” starts Dr. Martinez. “He
overheard me share my suspicions of an attack with a colleague, and
called in
his report to the paper.”
“I’ll be
right
there,” Cole tells the doctor.
University Hospital:
Nurses Station
Cole returns
to
the hospital to find a media circus.
He
quickly orders officers to secure the ICU.
Dr.
Martinez informs the detective that ‘Gian’s’ heart attack was indeed
the result
of foul play. “John Doe’s IV
was injected with potassium chloride, which caused hyperkalemia.”
“English,
please,
Doctor,” pleads Cole.
“Someone
poisoned him. He
nearly died,” Dr.
Martinez states.
“This is
deadly
serious now,” Cole says, vowing to get to the bottom of this mystery. “We’re looking at
attempted murder.”
Sept. 5
University Hospital: ICU
Marcus
regains
consciousness and begins to recover his strength.
Cole stops by to visit.
“How are you
feeling?” he asks tenderly.
“Like I was
hit
by a speeding car…” Marcus replies weakly.
“…Again.”
Cole
smiles. “Well,
you’re strong enough to
crack jokes. That’s
a good sign.”
“What
happened?” asks Marcus.
“You just
concentrate on getting better,” Cole evades.
Marcus sees
through his ruse. “Detective,
something
big happened to me last night. Just
tell
me the truth.”
Cole sighs
and
his demeanor becomes dour. “You
were
poisoned.”
Marcus
appears
confused as he props himself up in the bed.
“Someone
made
an attempt on your life last night, Gian.”
“What?!?”
Marcus reacts, becoming agitated.
“What
do you mean?”
“Someone
slipped into your room and injected your IV with potassium chloride,”
Cole
explains. “Your
heart rate wigged out for
awhile and you stopped breathing but Dr. Martinez was able to bring you
around.”
“I…I almost
died?”
“You came
pretty
close. But you
survived,” Cole
supportively adds.
“Someone
tried
to kill me? Why
would anyone want me
dead?”
“That’s the
latest in a long line of questions that surround you,” Cole gravely
states. “And, I
gotta let you know that I still don’t
have any leads on your identity.”
Marcus sighs
weakly and frowns.
“And, given
that you are now the victim of an attempted murder, I’m focusing my
investigation
on finding who tried to kill you.
But
don’t worry. I have
an officer guarding
the ICU door,” offers Cole. “You’ll
be
safe now.”
A dejected
Marcus implores Cole not to stop trying to discover who he is. “Please don’t give up on
me, detective. I
have to know who I am, where I come
from…how I got here.”
“I didn’t
say I
was giving up on the search for your past,” Cole assures him. “You’ll have to just trust
me, okay? I’ll keep
you safe—and answer all of the
questions about who you are.”
Frank Cain’s Apartment
Sitting at
his
kitchen table, wearing nothing but an old bathrobe, Frank reads in the
Bulletin
about the commotion at the hospital and is amazed when he realizes that
Marcus’s
identity remains a mystery to the authorities.
“Wow. This is bigger than I
imagined,” he thinks to
himself. “If
someone’s trying to kill
this Marcus guy, knowing his identity could be valuable.”
Frank gets
up
and walks to a desk in his living room, retrieving Marcus’s wallet from
a
drawer. He sits at
his computer and
looks up the address on Marcus’s driver’s license.
“195 Colonial
Drive, Twin Creeks,
Virginia,”
Frank murmurs as he types in the information.
A map of Marcus’s neighborhood comes onto the screen. “Hoo.
Looks like a nice ’hood.
Country
club right there. Oh
yeah, this guy’s
loaded.”
Frank
decides
to pay Marcus a visit in the hospital to see if he can determine if
Marcus’s
amnesia is a scam or not.
As Frank
chuckles to himself, a mysterious man peers at him through the window. *possible
cliffhanger*
University Hospital:
Nurses Station
Gail files
patient charts in the nurses office behind the reception desk.
Rhonda
strides
in. “I’m here for
my appointment with
Dr. Riley,” she announces to the nurse on duty.
“I’m Rhonda Lynn.”
Gail’s ears
perk up and she peaks around the corner to assess the woman occupying
Philip’s
time.
“Yes, Ms. Lynn,”
starts the
reception nurse. “I’m
sorry to inform
you, now that you’re here, but Dr. Riley had to drive to El Camino
Hospital for
an obstetric emergency.”
“What?!?”
bellows Rhonda.
“We tried to
phone you but your assistant told us that you were on your way.”
“This is
outrageous! Do you
know how long it took
me to get this appointment?!?
“Yes, Ms. Lynn——”
“Do you have
any idea what I had to do to juggle my schedule to fit this
appointment?!?”
“I really am
sorry. I——”
As Gail
listens
to the commotion, her blood begins to boil.
“This is
unacceptable. I’d
like to speak to your
supervisor,” Rhonda continues.
“Ms. Lynn,
there really isn’t anything anyone can do about this now. Dr. Riley——”
“Are you
telling me that you refuse to allow me to speak to your superiors?”
“No, Ms.
Lynn. I’ll be happy
to——”
“Then I
expect
to be speaking to someone who will rectify this deplorable situation
immediately,” demands Rhonda.
Gail steps
out
from the nurses office to face Rhonda.
“Ms. Lynn. May
I help you?”
University Hospital:
Hallway
Frank
arrives
and heads straight for the ICU but is prevented from entering by the
police
officer guarding his room.
“I’m here to
see, uh, the patient,” he begins.
“Um,
John Doe.”
“This
patient
is not allowed visitors.”
“Well, I’ll
only be a minute,” argues Frank. “I
just
want to see how he’s doing.”
“I’m sorry
sir,” states the guard. “This
patient is
not allowed any visitation. Police
orders.”
“Oh, come
on,”
Frank smiles with a wink. “It’s
not like
he’ll be in any danger. You’ll
be right
outside this room. No
one will ever know
you…bent the rules.”
“I can’t
allow
that,” the guard pointedly tells him.
“Only
authorized personnel allowed in.”
“Yeah, I
understand,” Frank bitterly agrees.
Turning around, he leaves.
University Hospital:
Nurses Station
“Uh, oh,
um…” a
startled Rhonda stutters. “Are
you the
supervisor on duty?”
“I’m nurse
Renwick,” she greets before turning her attention to her coworker. “Why don’t you take a
break. I’ll take
over now.”
The other
nurse
mouths the words “thank you” to Gail and quickly exits.
“Oh, this is
ridiculous,” carps Rhonda. “First,
you
people cancel my appointment without notifying me in advance, now I
have a
revolving door of incompetent peons to deal with.”
“Now, Ms.
Lynn,
again, we do sincerely apologize.
I’m
sure that you can appreciate that Dr. Riley had to scrub in on an
emergency
fetal surgery for a patient of hers.
You
would
want her to be at your
disposal if ever you
were in dire need, wouldn’t
you?”
“Well…why,
of
course——”
“And you do
realize that Dr. Riley is one of the top obstetricians in the nation. Well, I’m sure her
reputation was one of the
reasons you’ve
chosen her as your
gynecologist.
An accomplished woman of distinction, such as yourself,
will only have
the best medical care available. Am I right?”
“You’ve made
your point,” Rhonda acquiesces.
“Well, now
that
we’ve established that, let me reschedule your appointment,” assures
Gail as
she sits in front of the computer.
“I
see here that this was for a routine checkup?”
“Yes,”
Rhonda
replies, mollified.
“I’m sure
you
have a very demanding schedule. Why
don’t I call your assistant and work with her to get you in as soon as
possible?”
“Uh…yes. Yes, that would be
acceptable.” Rhonda
agrees.
“Thank you,
Ms.
Lynn. I’ll get
right on it.” Gail
picks up and begins dialing, smiling at
Rhonda who simply turns and slinks away.
Frank’s Apartment
When Frank
returns home, he is horrified to find his home in shambles.
“What
the…?!?”
he exclaims. “Who
the hell——”
From behind, a man attacks
Frank. The two
scuffle, and Frank rips the man’s jacket. Neither of them
notices
a small black book fall to the floor from the man’s pocket.
They
continue to struggle, all the while, Frank tries to get a glimpse at
the man with whom he’s fighting. But the stranger keeps Frank
faced away from him.
As they tussle, a lamp is knocked to the floor. The
man
picks it up and bashes it over Frank’s head, knocking him
out.
Frank slumps over, face down on the debris-strewn floor.
The man rifles through Frank’s pockets
as he lies
motionless on the floor. He rises and gives the apartment
another
inspection, looking for anything he may have missed. While
looking through the drawers of Frank’s computer desk, he comes across
Marcus’s wallet. The stranger gazes at the ID with a look of
hatred.
Having found
what he sought, the stranger escapes, leaving behind Frank’s lifeless
body.
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On the next installment of Tomorrow
Waits For No One:
Cole to
Frank: “Could it be that there’s something you’re not telling me?”
Rhonda to
Philip: “I’m serious, Philip!. You can’t keep blowing me
off. I simply won’t have it!”
Officer
Hardwick to Cole: “Boss, I’m at SFO now. Cain’s on his way to
Twin Creeks, Virginia.”
Det.
Riley to Cole: “CSI discovered a coded journal at the scene
of the crime. The man who tried to kill Gian may not be
working
alone.”
Frank to
himself: “Either you’re a ghost, Marcus Aurelius Lazano, or you pulled
quite a scam.”
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