The best episodes of Nightwatch
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- 01
Emergency medical responders on the New Orleans night shift race to save victims of a drive-by shooting and a serious car accident, all against the backdrop of the continuing pandemic.
- 02
EMS responders face an unpredictable night of crises including a violent facial attack, a high school football injury, and a heroin addict's emotional vow to get clean.
- 03
The unexpected reigns in the city of New Orleans as EMS responders answer calls about a child shooting, a multiple-vehicle car accident, a reported suicide attempt, and a veteran struggling with a drug overdose. It is a night shift where things are not always what they seem.
- 04
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.
- 05
EMS first responders keep their cool and maintain their spirits as they face a series of challenges across New Orleans, including a shooting and stabbing victim and a woman whose slot machine experience takes a bizarre turn.
- 06
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.
- 07
An EMS captain juggles the challenges and rewards of being a wife and mother of twins with the never-ending drama of the job, as the night shift includes a bloody car accident, a major apartment fire, and multiple victims struggling to breathe.
- 08
New Orleans first responders battle freezing temperatures as they treat a driver trapped after a serious car accident, a man hit by a streetcar, a delirious patient who doesn't want to part with his dog, and a woman with a surprisingly poignant backstory.
- 09
The EMT team must band together to treat multiple major vehicle accidents, patients losing consciousness and facing breathing and heart ailments, and a woman who has been assaulted by her significant other.
- 10
An EMT first responder juggles the joy of family with the pressures of the night shift, which includes a gunshot victim, a motorcyclist hit by a car, a man in custody, and a Vietnam veteran with a grisly finger injury.
- 11
The team faces a slew of dramatic night shift calls including a pregnant woman who was assaulted, a four-year-old boy with abdominal pain, a gunshot victim, and a potentially devastating car accident involving the St. Charles trolley.
- 12
A strange Mardi Gras sees the cancellation of traditional parades--but not the end of emergencies, as the EMT crew responds to a vehicle-streetcar collision, a motorcycle accident, a house fire, and potential cardiac arrest.
- 13
Strange events are afoot across New Orleans, as the first responders must treat a stabbing and a dog bite on Bourbon Street, a pregnant woman in distress, and an overturned vehicle that could go from bad to worse.
- 14
The New Orleans EMT team treats a motorcycle accident victim in danger of losing a limb, multiple seizure sufferers, a young child with a breathing obstruction, and a perpetrator with a dangerous condition.
- 15
The first responders treat a series of major car accidents, a Brazilian soccer player with a knee injury and a hallucinating man with chest pains.
- 16
EMT first responders must expect the unexpected as a wild series of calls include a man stabbed in the head, a screaming woman who has stumbled onto a New Orleans levee, and a car accident that has resulted in an overturned vehicle with a victim trapped inside.
- 17
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.
- 18
New Orleans EMT responders face the darkness of death and the joy of life in one whirlwind episode. They go from treating gunshot victims and car accident patients to delivering a baby - with one of the technicians expecting a baby of her own.
- 19
Saturday night fever grips New Orleans as the EMTs respond to a gruesome stabbing, an assault with a beer bottle, a car accident involving an infant, and a combative patient who tries biting the hands that treat him.
- 20
During National EMS Week, the New Orleans emergency response technicians face challenges including a car accident victim trapped beneath a vehicle, another pedestrian hit by a car, and a man with a prior cardiac history experiencing worrying chest pains.
- 21
The New Orleans EMS team is in the middle of a French Quarter shooting with multiple victims, treating a suicidal patient, and helping a child battling an asthma attack.
- 22
Challenges face the first responders in a wide variety of forms, including a shooting, an assault, a multi-vehicle accident, and a trapped woman who becomes increasingly combative.
- 23
The city is in mourning after a well-loved Police officer is shot and killed on duty. Vic and P chase a suspect following an altercation with another officer. The dangers of the job become even more real when Vic and P are called to assist other officers who were shot at by a suspect while serving a warrant. Titus and Dan deal with a resisting patient who takes a swing at Titus. Holly and Nick treat a woman whose leg is mangled in a bicycle accident.
- 24
It's all about new partnerships and life lessons. Gavin returns from work offshore and is assigned to a new partner Ted. Together, they treat a woman on busy Bourbon Street with a badly broken ankle. In the meantime, our SWAT guys head out to serve a high-risk warrant and Holly, Nick and Keeley respond to a flipped car where the driver's arm is cut to the bone. Later in the night, we return to Ted and Gavin who work to rescue a man who has fallen off a ladder and landed on a roof. Justin is assigned to a new partner and tries to maintain his track record of 100%.
- 25
Titus and Dan treat a woman who was viciously stabbed in the face, and Holly and Nick tend to an emotional young transgendered woman who was assaulted. A wild police chase ends with a major car accident, and the firefighters of SQURT 16 race to put out a structure fire. Throughout the long night the character of New Orleans' residents shines through in dramatic and quirky ways.
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