"O.K. everyone, gather around. There's someone I want you to meet." Sean said. A blond woman came out of the pool. She walked toward the team. "Dawn Masterton."

"Hi everybody," she said.

"Dawn's going to be joining our team." He said. "She comes from the University of Florida, where she's an expert in the human body. She's gonna make us stronger, faster...better."

 

Dawn started right in while staring at J.D. periodically. "We're going to be doing some hypostic training. Some of you are probably familiar with the concept. Basically with repetition, hypostic training teaches the body to use less and less oxygen. Underwater, especially with big wave conditions, there are always advantaged to better utilize the oxygen supply in your lungs." Dawn said. "It gives you more time underwater. A life can actually depend on those extra seconds. An example is when I am at rest underwater, I can hold my breath for three minutes and twenty-two seconds."

Sean stared at her sternly in his drill-Sargent sort of way. He did not appear to like her from the start.

"Now if I swim as fast as I can, that same supply of oxygen wouldn't last me thirty seconds. So the critical choice I have to make is, how fast do I swim? How long do I choose to make my supply of oxygen last in order to get to the drowning victim? Or stay under the wave to get to the victim? Choice!" She said. J.D. kept looking at her as she continued. "It's all about choice. So we're going to do a drill called "cold counts." Thirty seconds is the amount of time tyou have for each lap. Choice! You can swim in length as fast as you can for ten seconds, come up and catch your breath for twenty seconds, swim, breathe fifteen, or swim of twenty and breathe for ten. The more laps you do, fatigue becomes a factor."

 

"All right, let's go!" Sean said. the group got into the pool. Then Sean looked at Dawn and said, "You too, Dawn!"

She was shocked. "Me?"

"You're on the team, you participate in the drill." He barked.

"Yeah, but I..." she tried to explain.

Sean threatened her with either she participate in the drill or the next Hawaiian flight going out was in a few minutes. He extended the fins and goggles. She hesitated before grabbing them from his fingers.

"O.K., underwater 'til the end." Sean said. "Come up and I'll count for about as long as it takes the next wave to hit. "We'll do it again."

"How many laps?" Dawn asked.

"Ten," he said.

"Ten?"She questioned.

"White zone is the..." Sean shot out.

"O.K., O.K.," she said.

 

With Sean monitoring, they started the exercise and anbout half way through, Dawn blacked out. Sean jumped in to save her. he swam her toward the others and handed her upward to them. After telling them to watch her head, whild lowering her to the ground, he realized that she had a pulse and that she was breathing. He told the others to give her some air. She then came to.

"Hey, you blacked out," Jessie said.

"Whoa, take a minute," Sean said when Dawn tried to get up.

"Should we go again?" Dawn asked, not yet fully recovered.

"Nah, we're through with this." Sean said with frustration. He got up and walked away.

 

A Hawaiian flight was ready to land at the airport. "ALOHA! ON BEHALF OF ALL OF US AT HAWAIIAN AIRLINES, WE'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR FLYING WITH US TODAY. WELCOME TO HAWAII. MAHALO!"

A young woman and tanner Sloan started to alight the plane. Tanner just rattled on to this woman. "I'm meeting my "dad" up here. We're gonna go camping and surfing, fishing, horseback riding and everything! We're gonna have the greates adventure ever! He's a lifeguard." The eleven year-old kept rattling on more like he was an eight year-old. Then he spotted Mitch. "There he is! Dad! Dad!"

Mitch picked him to to whirl the boy around. After putting him down, Mitch asked Tanner what he did with his hair. Tanner remarked that he woke up one morning and it was spiked. Mitch then said, "Aloha" and welcomed him to Hawaii. He took the lei from his neck and placed it around Tanner's.

 

Tanner introduced Mitch to the young blonde woman Carla. Carla stated that Tanner was no trouble and made the flight go a lot faster. As Carla walked away, Tanner told Mitch that he tried to talk her into having dinner with them. Carla gave him her phone number. Carla kept looking back at Mitch, as she was interested. Afterward, Mitch pointed to the helicopter with Allie waiting for them. Mitch introduced them and Tanner got a tour.

 

Soon, they spotted a woman waving a red blanket. It was obvious that she was signaling for help. Mitch told Allie to get him down there. Mitch and Tanner were soon out and running toward the woman.

"Oh, thank God you saw me," she cried. "Hurry!'

Mitch asked what happened. She told them that their boat overturned. Her friend was still down there. She would drown if not helped. As Mitch ran toward the ocean and swam out toward the cictim, Tanner told her that his "dad" was a lifeguard. He was the best of the best. He rattled on about his being a junior lifeguard too, but Mitch was a professional. He got the woman to sit down. Meanwhile, Mitch found the woman and swam her to shore.

 

Allie made her way toward them.

"She's not breathing," Mitch said.

"Oh my god!" The woman screamed.

"Keep back, keep back!" Allie warned.

"No pulse," Mitch said. "Begin CPR!"

Allie began chest compressions. "1-2-3-4-5, breathe!"

Mitch gave a breathe.

"1-2-3-4-5, breathe!" Allie said. Mitch breathed. the woman was coming to.

"Thank God, Terry! Thank God, Terry!" The young woman said, embracing her. "I'm glad you're O.K."

Tanner told Mitch that he had told the girl that he would save her friend. Mitch hugged Tanner.

 

Later that evening, we see two silhouettes. A man stood by the shoreline and a woman was walking toward him. She touched his shoulder.

"Thanks for meeting me," said Dawn.

"I couldn't believe it when you stepped out of the pool." J.D. said. "What are you doing here anyway? And how did you arrange this?"

"Through one of the international organizations. I'm sort of on loan." She said.

"Dawn, this isn't your type of game. it's a very motivated, structured, disciplined team. this guy Sean, he's tough!" J.D. said.

"I miss you J.D." Dawn said. "Let's do a room."

"I'm involved with someone." He said.

"You still haven't been able to separate emotion from what's otherwise," she said, letting her hand slide down the fron of his body and stopping with suggestion. J.D. had been looking downward at her hand and where it rested. "It's just as well. No one here at Baywatch can know about us."

"I got that message at the pool," he said.

After she brought her face close to his, Dawn finally pulled away and left.

 

There was a knock on Sean's door.

"Come in," Sean said. "It was Dawn in a tiny robe. She just strted right in. "When the others arrived, they were given an orientation, right?"

Sean just looked at her.

"Right?" She insisted. She wanted an answer from the Drill Sargent.

"That's right!" He said with irritation.

"You told them what was expected, set up ground rules." She said sternly. "I didn't get the benefit of that." She said.

"What I don't have time for is excuses." The extremely heartless Sean said.

"I went from the airprort to the swimming pool after a fourteen-hour flight from Shrilacka before which I had taken serious quanties of a native anthihistamine after being bitten by a Grinomica spider. I was sandbagged. I assumed tomorrow that you were going to tell me that I was no longer a part of the team. You are a bona fide hard ass! And that's great! But what I want to know-is it also fair?" Dawn said.

"No!" Sean said, "But if you want another chance, you can go back into the pool in the morning."

"Done,' she said. "You and me." Dawn turned to leave.

"Oh, and Dawn, Next time, if there's a next time. Come to my office. Not my bedroom."

"Don't worry," she said. "I will never be in this room again unless I'm invited. I came here because I think that this Training Center can make a difference." She just came on into his room from the hallway entrance where she had been standing the whole time. I want to be a part of that difference, a part of something good and valuable, positive. Something that helps people. I'm here to help out any way I can. You know, in addition to a degree in physiology, I've studied in India. I've learned how to achieve amazing things about the human body. She got up from sitting on on the opposite end of the bed and started to leave. "Amazing. Thanks."

With her out of the room, he mumbled under his breath, "I'll bet you have!"

 

The next morning, Sean told the team, "O.K., you need to familiarize yourselves with the local beaches. J.D. has the assignments of the regular shifts of the local lifeguards.

If things couldn't get any worse, J.D. showed up with versions of the schedule for training and duties.

 

J.D. told Sean that he had a situation. Sean asked what kind of situation. J.D. told him that a friend of his, Kal Thomas of UCLA with the Americas Cup wanted him to try out for the team. One of the crew members had dropped out. This would give him a chance to try out and make the team.

"When?" Sean asked.

"Today!" J.D. said.

Sean seemed a bit irritated and inconvenienced, but still told J.D. to make them proud. He would appeciate that.

 

Mitch took Tanner tot he beach. Tanner was impressed. Mitch introduced the boy to Rock. Rock (Vince Klyn) let the boy use a board since he din't have one. Mitch had to fill out an incident report so, he warned Tanner to stay close, it wasn't like L.A. They did the Mitch/Hobie secret handshake.

 

As Jessie knocked on Dawn's door she said, "Knock ! Knock!" She had a net bag with her. "I brought your equipment by. Your fins and your goggles." Then Jessie showed her a new piece of equipment, a cell phone/two way radio.

"It's Jessie, right," Dawn said.

'That's right, Jessica." Jessie said.

"Owens?" Dawn stressed. "Like Jessie Owens, the runner?"

"Exactly like the runner." She said. Jessie then explained how to use the phone. It had tied them all together. All you had to do was highlight whom you wanted to talk to and then press the button on the side.

"Hi Dawn, what's up?" Jason asked over the phone. He had Allie and local lifeguard Brian (Brian Keaulana) with him.

"He knows it's you because it has caller ID and your name is in the windo." Jessie said. Her attention then returned to Jason. "Hey, Jason, it's Jessie." She said. "What's goin on?"

"I'm just watching the water in Waikiki in front of the Hilton with Allie and Brian." Jason said.

"You can also get the Coast Guard, fire rescue, Honolulu police of use it as a regular cell phone." Jessie said.

"You guys are a pretty tight group." Dawn said.

"Are we?" Jessie asked.

"To someone just coming in." She said.

"Actually, we're all a bunch of strangers." Jessie said.

"Except for you and J.D." Dawn said.

"Yeah," Jessie said. She had paused. "Except for me and J.D."

"Don't worry, he's not my type." Dawn said.

"Wow!" Jessie said sarcastically. "Lucky for me!"

"I didn't mean it the way it came out." Dawn said.

"Good," Jessie said. She then left.

Dawn smiled to herself and then used the phone.

"Hi Dawn, what do you need?" Sean asked.

"I just wanted to see if this phone worked." She said.

"It's working fine," Sean said.

"Thanks," Dawn said, displaying a faint, wicked smile.

 

Tanner looked at the surf and his eyes rested on a young teen named Tami. He dragged the board to the water, and soon saw that the young girl was coming in. he over-enthusiastically kept commenting how great she was. She seemed irritated. He apologized and then went for his board. She felt guilty and told him that she would get him into the line-up.

 

Mitch pulled up in a lifeguard truck. Since Sean had things covered, Mitch told Sean that he was going to spend some time with Tanner.

"Listen," Sean said. "I wanna talk to you about Dawn Masterton."

"What?" Mitch asked.

"She's not on the level of the others, and I think it could hurt the team to wait until she catches up wtih the others." Sean said. "Later, on, I'm giving her a test, and if she fails, I'd like to send her home."

"Give her some time," Mitch said. "She had skills we need. Figure out how to keep her."

Sean paused for a moment, a bit disappointed. But he took the order seriously. "All right."

 

Meanwhile, Tami asked if Tanner had Rock's board. Tanner told her yes, that he knew his "dad." His "dad" was here to tdo the International Training Center. 

 

A woman was caught in a rip. She was struggling to keep herself from going under. Jason made his way out toward the girl (Iwalani Isbell).

"Help me," she cried. "Someone help me!"

"hang on, relax," Jason told her. They had to swim out before they could swim in. The wave would help them get to the shoreline. When the wave came, he took her under and swam her in toward shore.

 

Newmy, Jessie and Kekoa sat on the rocks near the temporary Headquarters.

"Newmy, you know about this stuff. Does J.D. have a chance at making the team?" Jessie asked.

Newmy told her that a couple of thousand guys start out racing. They trained and they worked out. If they're good enough, they made it to the next level. He told them that the very top of the heap of the international guys and above them, the elite. Those were the guys who made it to the Americas Cup team. They then took the scarab out to watch the team and for J.D. to make his bid for a spot.

 

Tanner's friend encouraged him to take a wave. Tanner assured her that he was waiting for the right one. Tami told him that it was O.K. to be afraid. He admitted that he didn't want to "eat it" in front of everyone. Tami told him that they could go together and she would wipe out with him if he does.

 

With Mitch and Jessie looking on, they both wiped out. Hmmmm...how in the world did Jessie get out of the scarab so quickly? This storyline was happeining at the same time as J.D.'s Americas Cup plot. The writers must have forgotten who Jessie was. Both Tanner and Tami were fine. Tanner had found a new friend. Mitch told Jessie that the boy had had a tough time. One of the reasons why he brought him to Hawaii. Mitch told Jessie that the attempt to adopt him was taking forever because he was single. Tanner was still living at the foster home. Mitch bragged that Tanner was the most resilient kid he had ever seen. All he needed was a chance! He wanted to get him out of the system before it ate him up.

 

I wonder if Mitch would feel the same way if Tanner didn't remind him so much of Hobie when he was a little guy. After all, Mitch walked away quite easily from a baby. And babies are hard for people to let go without a fight. And then there was cutel little Joey (Ashley Gorrell) whom he gave to her grandparents when they could have shared custody. You just can't keep any women in that Buchannon home, can you?

 

Tami wanted to go off to herself to surf. Tanner wanted to come with her but the girl told him on. He sat there for a moment before tailing after her.

 

Sean got out of his lifeguard truck when he spotted J.D.

"How did it go?" He asked.

"I am whipped!" J.D. said. "Those guys were incredible! It was so hard, and that was just practice. I wonder what it was like in a race."

"Well, I admire your guts. Taking a shot trying out for something like this." Sean said.

"And the most amazing thing? Sounds of sails cracking, lines creaking! All that noise!"

"At least you did what most of us dream about. You sailed in an Americas Cup boat, right?" Sean said, assuming that the didn't make it.

"More than that," J.D. said. "I made the team!"

"What?" A stunned Sean asked.

"I made the team!" J.D. repeated.

"That's great! J.D., you made the team. My God!" Sean said. "Congratulations! That's amazing! I'm thinking I came out here to cheer you up and now I gotta throw you a going away party." Sean seemed disappointed under that stilted exterior and didn't seem to really be that happy for J.D.'s leaving.

"I turned them down!" J.D. said.

"You turned them down?" Sean asked, a bit stunned.

"I made a commitment here first. Mitch, the team," J.D. said. "To you."

"All right, fine. I won't try to talk you out of it." Sean said.

"You couldn't," J.D. said. "Like it or not, I'm on this team until we officially start. Let's get out of here."

 

Mitch walked toward Allie.

"Hey you!" He said.

"Heyyy! Mitch!" Allie said. "You should have been out there today."

"Have you seen Tanner in the last hour or two?" He asked.

"Yes," she said turning to the point. "He's over there surfing with that pretty little girl, or was. You want me to help you look for him?" She asked offering.

"No, no, no!" Mitch said. "It's nothing. It's just that he's on vacation, I'm working...and I'm a..."

 

Oh give us all a break here! Ten years and twenty-five plus pounds later, should let David Hasselhoff realize that this tired remake to hand onto a youthful image doesn't work. Mitch looks a lot more MATURE and HEAVIER than when the seried first aired. He should stay out of the shorts too until he starts doing some crunches. Mitch should be moving forward instead of backward.

 

"How sweet," Allie. "I'm sure he's O.K."

"I'm sure you're right!" Mitch said. "If you see him, will you let me know?"

"O.K.," She said.

"O.K." Mitch said.

"See ya!" She said as she returned to her work.

 

Tanner came running up to Mitch out of breath. he told Mitch that Tami wanted to die. That she told him that she was going to Houston for treatment. She was scared, he would be too. Mitch asked if she had any family. Tanner told Mitch that she had no mom or dad. Tanner also told Mitch where Tami was suring. Mitch told Tanner to go and get back  up as he may need it. Mitch assured him that he would talk to her. Mitch picked up Rock's board and headed out to the ocean.

 

She was found floating on her surfboard. Mitch sat on Rock's board beside her as he started a conversation. Tami was afraid of dying. Mitch told her that what was happening now was important. He reminded Tami that she taught Tanner how to surf the waves today. Now it was her turn to be brave and "ride the wave." To "face your fear." She now understood.

 

The next day, Mitch and Tanner went to the airport to see Tami off. She gave Tanner a kiss on the cheek. Tami was leaving her surfboard with Tanner and she wanted him to take good care of it because she would be back for it soon.

 

The next morning, while the other team members watched, Sean and Dawn faced off under water, pulling a rope while sitting to see who could hold their breath the longest. Dawn looked as though he was winning and she noted that it appeared as if Sean had blacked out. She quickly surfaced, told the other team members that she needed help because Sean had blacked out and then went back down to save him. As she tried getting a hold on him suddenly, Sean's eyes popped open. She showed the wide-eyed expression of surprise as he led her up to the surface. Dawn told Sean that he had scared the heck out of her. This had been a test for her. She realized that he didn't black out after all. She let out an exasperated sigh and displayed disappointed expression. Dawn knew now that she had failed the test and was now off the team. Sean told her that she reacted as she was supposed to. Her first concern was the victim. She would be able to stay on the team...for now.