Nightwatch (TV Series)

Dreams and Nightmares (2016)

Arkady Hennessey: Self - EMS

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Quotes 

• [talking with a veteran who attempted suicide by taking lots of lithium pills] 

  Patient : I'm gonna keep trying 'til I make it. 'Til I succeed.

  EMT Arkady Hennessey : [emphatically]  No. Why ya gonna do that to your mama? You worried about everything she got goin' on already. Look at me. I lost my mama three years ago to suicide... you know what ya doin' to your mama?

  Patient : I know what I'm doin' to me.

  EMT Arkady Hennessey : I know, but you gotta think about the other people around you, okay?

  [holding, stroking patient's hand] 

• [For two-alarm blazes, the fire department requests an ambulance in case a firefighter gets injured. EMT Arkady's father is a New Orleans firefighter] 

  EMT Arkady Hennessey : [narrating]  I like being on fire standby calls 'cause I burn up with it...

  [on scene] 

  EMT Arkady Hennessey : Oh my god, my favorite smell in the world.

  [narrating] 

  EMT Arkady Hennessey : When I was little, the smell of a house fire was my comfort smell because I knew that my dad had been in a fire that night, that he had saved somebody... and he still came home at the end of the night.