Stone Cold offered a storyline that I just couldn't understand. The writers always mess
up badly on conditions and diseases. They try to pretty them up and shouldn't. Well anyway, it gave us a chance to see Jason
"fall in love," if you could call it that. Actually, people like Jason don't really fall in love. He loves himself too much and
I am afraid that those types don't make good mates. This girl just didn't fall all over him. Types like Jason figure
that she would be more of a challenge to get. He was more attracted to the rejection. Women approaching him was what
he expected, and it didn't happen here.
It also brought heart patients to our attention and the need for heart donors. Unfortunately,
Maya came off as looking like a super-healthy athlete, training for a volleyball championship. She also drank alcohoI
and ate rich foods. Not a good message to send. If she had been in deperate need for a heart, that picture would
have been a different one. This storyline misrepresented heart patients and how people should see them. It made Maya look
as if she didn't need one at all. Those who are uneducated in this area would not even take a patient seriously in need.
The story opens with Jason patroling the beach. In the vollyball area, Maya
Morgan, a tall, healthy volley ball player was training for a championship game. His aatention rested on her.
Their eyes meet and it was clear that there was some interest. Sean, who was nearby, saw this and waved the rescue tube
in from of Jason's face. He told him to keep his eyes on the water. Jason told him that he was going. He picked up his
tube and began to patrol the beach with Sean.
Sean told Jason not to worry. He was just "busting his chops," so to speak. Jason asked
him what was up. Sean to him that he was going to do some Jet Ski pick-ups with half the trainees. He wanted Jason
to be his guide here at base and take the other half of the trainees. They would be able to do the needed training
and learning here with him. Jason told Sean that he kept piling on the responsibility. It was time to grow up. Sean told
Jason that he was growing like a weed. He just didn't see it happening.
Carrie was with a group of trainees and saw the vollyball player who
Jason had eyes for earlier. She made her way toward the athlete named Maya Morgan. Maya used to babysit
Carrie and was her sister's friend. Carrie had always looked up to Maya as her role model. Jason saw her too. He was
attracted to the lovely athlete. Maya was attracted to Jason, but she did not fall all over him. He was put in his place when
he though that he was going to have his way with her. This was one girl who called her own shots.
Meanwhile, young thieves, Danny and Mark were trying to steal a car
that belonged to Skipper, a local fisherman. While Skipper's attention was averted, Danny got into the car and started
it up. He backed it up off the edge of the dock. Mark, who realized that the plan had failed, ran to call for help. Sean
and Jason answered the call. They dove into the water to save Danny while Mark looked on nervously. Jason had a hammer.
He used it to break the rear window to get the boy out. He managed to get Danny out in order for him to get pulled to
safety. Jason realized that he was caught. Sean didn't see Jason when e had surfaced. He sensed that something was wrong,
so he went back in to get him out.
Once it was over, an angry Skipper expressed that he wanted to press charges
against the boys. He made a big fuss as to how they robbed him. In their own defense, Danny and Mark told Sean that Skipper
had hired them. And since Sean took a liking to Danny, he agreed. Sean firmly told Skipper that knew for a fact that he had used
the boys for many odd jobs. The man was stunned and couldn't deny that he had. And since he had hired them
before, it was his word against theirs that the kids were trying to steal the car.
On the mainland, it wouldn't matter if you worked for someone. If you stole
anything from them, not only would you get fired, you would have charges filed against you. Some employers will send the recently
fired employees to prison, dependent on how serious the crime was. The boys did try to steal the man's car and he should
be compensated for it. Those boys are just bad. Extremely bad.
Sean took a liking to an innocent-looking Danny. The boy was capable of
making people see who he chose to let them see. He tried to persuade and manipulate. But Sean felt that he could
reform the boy. Leigh, who knew well of Danny's act, warned Sean. She told him about the boy and for him not
to trust him. Because Sean allowed his vision to get clouded, this caused friction between the two. Jenna, who saw this,
was in glee over the disaster. She told Leigh about her past relationship with Sean. She needed Leigh on her side.
Maya, who had heard about the rescue, invited Jason to dinner. At the nice restaraunt,
the two were seated at their table. Jason was approached by a lovely girl who had easily given in to his intimate desires.
Jason just pretended that he didn't even know her. The two laughed after the girl left in disgust. And so that particular
event revealed as to what type Jason was. It was amazing that some of the girls hadn't shown up by now with his babies.
That would have been interesting. Having to take care of them would have been a real wake up call and would have turned his
loose life around. Carrie just didn't like what she had heard from Maya. She later confronted Jason and told him that he just
had to ruin everything for her. His using the person who she had always looked up to.
Well, Maya had an intimate one night relationship with him. Jason claimed that he was in love.
Maya on the other hand, didn't seem in love at all. She was distant. It was a one-niter as far as she was concerned.
She left. This left Jason confused. Later, when Maya took her board into the water, Jason tried to talk to
her. Why was she doing this? She told him flat out that he couldn't talk or point any fingers. She saw what
he did to that girl in the restaraunt. He was a player. She then suffered a heart attack. Jason
carried her to shore and got help. At the hospital, he learned that Maya was waiting for a donor heart transplant. She didn't want
anyone to know that she was sick. She wanted to stay on the team and help win the chanmpionship. She acted stilted toward Jason
because she didn't want him to get attached to her.
Danny was once again accused of stealing items. Leigh confronted him. She
knew that Danny was a fake. He couldn't fool her. He acted as though he was "reformed." Danny stuck
to his lies and denied it, insisting that he had changed. Leigh knew that since Sean was attached to him, that he
would not trust her on this one.
A plane carrying a donor heart went down into the ocean. The team rushed
to the rescue. They went in to reach any survivors. It was clear that Jason had no interest in the rescue. All he could think
about was the heart that was going to the hospital. And that was what he got out. He started to swim it out to the boat. Sean
told him that there was someone else in the plane. The medical technican, who was carrying the heart although the
pilot was dead. While Sean rescued the man, Jason just thought about Maya and took care of swimming the heart out. They
heart was brought to the hospital in time. To Jason's disappointment, the heart's blood type did not match Maya.
Fortunately, it was used for a little girl named Hiwa. Maya had taken a liking to her. Maya was soon packed
up and was moving on. She was happy that the little girl was able to get a heart that matched.
Leigh confronted Sean on his past fling with Jenna. He never mentioned that
he had anything to do with her. She felt that he had been dishonest with her. Sean was not sure what to make of this
current situation. Three months later, Hiwa came by Jason's tower to visit him. Carrie asked him if he was O.K.
Looking at the little girl reminded him of Maya. He and Carrie agreed that Maya would have loved to have seen the
way things turned out, and would have enjoyed the sunset.
The story here wasn't well thought out. As I mentioned earlier, Maya looked
perfectly healthy to me! If she needed a heart so badly, she would not have been been out playing and training hard for
a volleyball championship. That is too much stress on the heart in the first place. I have seen the condition of people who
actually need organs from a donor. Believe me, they do not look like the picture of health. I thought that there should have
been research done on heart patients, donors and the fact that organs deteriorate rather quickly once outside the body. They
have certain amount of time to get it to the hospital. The episode could not give viewers a true sense of what heart
patients go through.
The second storyline was about a young boy named Danny who
Sean got attached to. This boy is bad. He could be reformed, that is if Danny really wanted to reform. Sean can't
change him. He can only lead by example and it would be up to Danny if he wanted to follow.
And as for Jenna. Yes, Jenna, who turned incredibly bad this season. She
didn't show any class by trying to use her past relationship with Sean in order to get Leigh on her side. It's not
as if Sean had abused her in any way. He just broke off their relationship. It happens to a lot of men and women. She should
be woman enough to accept that and walk away. Instead, she became bitter and tried to destroy him. Just because he broke up
with her.
I could only give this episode 1 rescue can because the writing was not strong enough to pull
the viewer into the storylines with the characters. And I didn't think that it was convincing.
My Score: 1 Rescue Can
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