NARRATOR: Previously on Off The Map: - What are we doing?
We're friends who are having sex.
- You're a doctor? - Mm- hm.
- Mateo. - Hey.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
My parents told me to be a man, be someone that--
"A son that we can be proud of."
And I tell them to get out of my life.
Somebody is gonna be on dental duty.
I don't hold hands.
[OTIS GROANS]
I say we call it.
- What? - It's not a fight we can win.
- We've been at this for hours. - Give up?
These are kids that we're talking about.
We penetrate the overlap.
- That's a long shot. - Yeah, but it's a shot.
And we're not the kind of crew that doesn't take a shot.
All right. Work hard, work fast, stay focused.
- And you, start using your head, okay? - Yeah.
[UPBEAT SALSA MUSIC PLAYING]
MAN: Go! Let's go, everybody!
You're going down, amigo.
[BLOWS WHISTLE]
OTIS: Come on.
Go, man, you're safe!
Take it, Fuller.
- There you go, Minard. There you go. - Whoo!
All right! Go!
- You okay? - Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Kids, come on. Get out of here. Get out.
[LAUGHING]
Brenner! Use your head, Brenner.
- Your head. WOMAN: Oh, my God!
- Oh, Brenner! - Nice.
MAN: Nice. OTIS: That's what I'm talking about.
Can you tell these are broken?
No.
So I was thinking maybe we could hit the cantina tonight.
Celebrate our narrow loss?
You just wanna see your mystery dude.
[SPANISH ACCENT] "Hello, my name is Mateo and I'm a very sexy farmer."
He's not a farmer. His parents are.
My parents are gonna love this.
Look at this.
My arm is around a child and I'm not even wearing a HAZMAT suit.
[IN NORMAL VOICE] My parents would think I'm on some vacation
- with all my illegitimate children. - They don't know you're here?
Never told them.
Did you see Cole hug me?
So?
People don't hug me. I'm not a person that invites hugs.
Or any overture of affection.
He's clearly uncomfortable about the whole dentist thing.
They held hands during his tooth extraction.
- No. It was nothing. - Aw.
But now he's acting like it was this big thing
and that we're best friends now. It's weird.
What happened to your glasses?
It's just...
Hey, Alma's here. She wants to thank you.
For what, all the amazing sex she's having with her stupid boyfriend
- because I fixed his penis? - What should I tell her?
You're welcome.
Okay.
Really?
I got this celibacy thing going on now.
Which is great, because I'm way more focused and stuff.
Uh- huh.
Fuller, Minard! Grab your med bags, come with me!
Everyone else, go back to the clinic!
Come on!
Two Americans were scuba diving in a sea cave
when there was an underwater rockslide.
Fisherman here found one of them on the surface,
- a 40- year- old male. - What about the other?
His daughter, 17 years old.
Coast guard is still searching for her.
They want doctors on the scene when they find her.
[MAN SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
NICK: Get your hands off me. I'm an American citizen.
Get your hands off me.
I'm not leaving here without my daughter. Comprende-- Hable English?
He got scraped up by the coral. Maybe a broken wrist, nothing too serious.
NICK: I'll call my lawyer. Understand me? - Hey. Hey.
Have you located the daughter?
It's a little more serious.
She's trapped.
How much do you make being a doctor?
A lot less than you make being a bookie.
Any news on the girl?
She's still down there.
Coast guard called for a winch to move the rocks,
- but they're three hours away. - She have enough air to last that long?
They have backup tanks.
Um, you said you'd stop by last night.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
I was busy with patients, and by the time I left, I was tan cansada.
"Santiago de los Caballeros."
Angus!
Zita.
ZEE: Oh, my God. It's been so long.
Who is that?
Angus Sinclair.
He's a cultural linguist or some pompous crap.
Shows up once a year to try and get in Zee's pants.
ZEE: You cut your hair. - New tribe, new customs.
- Okay, what did you bring me? - Hmm.
Manaca?
Named after the most beautiful girl in the Tupi Indian tribe.
I thought it was appropriate.
And what did Santa Claus bring me?
I'm sure I could scare up a lollipop. You still suck, right?
[CHUCKLES]
Yeah, tell me, what will we have the honor of removing from your butt today?
I think last year's tape worm was our longest on record.
- No, just a little skin rash. - Oh, so syphilis then.
Okay, you both have huevos gigantes.
Now can I please get back to work?
Sure thing, loca.
Let's go look at that rash.
MINA: We're gonna start taking the coral out piece by piece.
It's gonna be painful.
It's potentially toxic, so if you feel nauseous or short of breath, let us know.
It could be coral poisoning.
Three hours for a winch. Why can't they just lift the rock off her?
Well, they don't wanna risk another rockslide.
Better to use controlled force.
Okay, on one, two...
- Aah! - Wait. Good.
Good. Okay, good.
So where are you from?
D.C. I have an accounting firm there. Shannon is from Boston.
Her mother and I divorced when she was 4.
You must be close, then.
What makes you say that?
Last time I vacationed with my parents, I was 12.
We're not close. Not at all.
Just do it. Get it over with.
- Aah! - Good, good, good.
Great.
Cole? You picked Cole?
This isn't a rash, it's an infection. I'm gonna have to drain the abscesses.
Of all the yohos to choose for a boyfriend--
- He's not my boyfriend. - Oh, so, what, it's just sex?
No intimacy, no connection. Sums up Cole perfectly.
Leave him alone.
[SIGHS]
Besides, it's early. It could grow into something.
Oh, okay. So it wouldn't hurt to see if the ground is fertile, right?
Why don't you ask him something personal about you?
Something a man who cares should know.
I guarantee you, he won't have a clue.
Stop acting like mi madre.
[SHOUTS]
Stop being such a baby.
Ha, ha. Thank you.
[GROANING]
Hey, what the hell is that?
It's a larva. They're botflies.
- They're maturing inside your skin. - Ew, how did they get there?
They land on mammals and lay their eggs.
Typically, you see it in cattle and horses.
- And apparently, Scottish linguists. - Apparently.
[GROANS]
That one was on the surface, but these look like they're gonna be deep.
I'm gonna have to put you under so I can cut them out.
I've gotta get back to my fieldwork tonight, I can't have surgery.
Is there another way?
I could try to draw them out.
Sounds like a plan, doctora.
I haven't told you how I'm going to do it.
LILY: So you keep the wound dry, okay, with this.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
I think you mean séquese con esto.
Dry with the gauze?
- Yeah. - You told him to marry the gauze.
Oh. Ha, ha.
Uh, what he said. Okay?
Mateo, what are you doing here?
Well, it's a little embarrassing.
I know we-- We've only just met,
but I've been shot.
How is she? How's Shannon?
She has a rib fracture and a torn bronchus.
Her chest is filling with air. It's collapsed her lung.
We need to get her to the clinic now.
Soon as the winch gets here, we free her leg.
We don't have time to wait for the winch. The winch is still two hours away.
Now, her oxygen levels are dropping. She won't make it that long.
How are you gonna get the rock off of her?
We need to amputate.
- What? BEN: I'm sorry. We don't have a choice.
God, no. I'm sorry. I can't let you cut her leg off.
- I won't let you do that. - Sir, it's her leg or her life.
Who shot you?
You think I was crazy if I said I shot myself so I could come see you again?
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
Well, the truth is a little more humiliating.
Try me.
There's this animal, the capybara.
[GROANS]
They eat all my family's crops, so we set rifle traps all over the farm.
Me, I've been a city boy for so long, I walked right into it, tripped the wire.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
- There's no exit wound. - What does that mean?
Well, we're gonna have to operate, see what kind of damage the bullet did.
Just try to relax, okay?
You're gonna be fine.
How will you see what you're doing with all the blood?
We use tourniquets and clamps to control the bleeding.
Will she be in pain?
We're gonna block the nerve.
She won't feel a thing.
But she'll be awake, she'll know what's happening.
Yes.
Wait. Wait.
Wait, you could write her a note.
- Let her know that you're thinking of her. - What would I say?
Your feelings.
Or so-- I don't know.
I'm no good at this stuff either.
I should call my client at Walter Reed.
He could recommend a good prosthetics specialist.
You know, they say sometimes the fake ones are even better.
Remember, uh, the double- amputee? He was disqualified from the Olympics
because they said his fake legs gave him an unfair advantage.
I think he was South African.
Wonder if I could arrange a meeting.
You believe this guy?
People show concern in different ways, Fuller.
I'm gonna bring back your daughter.
Wait. Uh...
"I'm here. Dad."
That's fine. That's super.
Right.
Be ready with an IV and pressure dressings when she surfaces.
There's gonna be a lot of blood loss.
So these botflies are big breakfast fans, then.
The bacon starves the larva of oxygen,
and it creates a more attractive host for it to migrate towards.
Old field doctor's trick.
How long do I have to lie here?
Mm, few hours should do the trick.
We got a gunshot wound. I'm gonna need you for an EX LAP--
Is that my bacon?
It's okay. You can have it back when we're done.
[CHUCKLES]
OTIS: Liver is repaired, small bowel looks good.
Stomach, colon, all intact.
Now, my bacon, which I ordered from San Miguel and spent a small fortune on,
not intact. Very much compromised.
ZEE: Is that right? OTIS: That's right.
ZEE: What's my middle name?
OTIS: What, you're asking me?
ZEE: I think you should know.
OTIS: Give me a clue.
ZEE: It's not loca. LILY: Any sign of the bullet?
ZEE & OTIS: No.
LILY: Okay.
OTIS: Pick- ups and suction.
How do you know this kid?
LILY: Oh, we met at the cantina the other night. We just started talking.
ZEE: I can remember what that's like.
Meeting someone, staying up all night, asking questions,
wanting to know everything about each other.
OTIS: Staying up all night asking questions.
Sounds like a hell of a boring date.
Now, this kid shot himself setting a hunting trap?
LILY: That's what he said. Yeah. OTIS: He lied.
ZEE: What?
OTIS: Farmers use hunting rifles, and this bullet
- is from a .40-caliber Glock. LILY: So?
OTIS: The kind cops here use. To shoot criminals?
Maybe you should've asked a few more questions.
OTIS: Bag it. Call the police.
ZEE: It's clinic policy. All suspicious gunshot wounds.
LILY: How do we know it's suspicious?
OTIS: He was shot by a cop, Brenner.
LILY: Right.
OTIS: I know he's your friend, but come on.
LILY: It's okay, it's policy.
I get it.
- Good hemostasis. OTIS: Let's close the deep fascia.
They're coming.
How do you know?
Fuller! You've got the leg!
Minard, you're gonna tape up the chest wound!
I'm on it.
Oh, my God.
- Shannon? TOMMY: Ready.
- Dude! - It's coral poisoning.
Or he's the worst father ever.
All right.
You okay?
[RYAN COUGHING]
You all right?
- Yeah, I'm fine. BEN: Really?
We have patients to worry about.
I'm fine.
Okay, let's move! We gotta get to the clinic! Let's go, go!
Oh.
Tell Cole that's twice the protein.
This feels familiar, doesn't it?
Me lying in this bed, you extracting creatures from my flesh.
It's like we're old dance partners.
Look at you, so many scars.
So many dances.
Dances?
Surucucu bite.
If I didn't have Eclipta alba in my garden, you would have died.
You were wearing yellow that day.
Necrotizing fasciitis. I had to carve a section out of your calf.
You had your hair short then. It was cute.
I like it long better.
Buruli ulcer.
Six years ago. The day we first met.
You read my name off that little clipboard of yours. That's it.
I was slayed.
You need to leave the jungle. It's eating you alive.
I'd quit for you, come live in this metropolis.
You will be miserable.
So come with me.
I wish I could give you what you want.
Who cares what I want or what he wants? What do you want?
Zita Alareina Toledo Alvarez?
[SIGHS]
I'm not dead.
Well, you lost a lot of blood, but we got the bullet out.
- You're gonna be all right. - In your hands, I knew I would be.
I just called the police.
The bullet we found in your abdomen wasn't from a hunting trap.
It was from a police revolver. And it's clinic policy to report it.
- What are you doing? - I can't be here when the police come.
They're looking for me.
You just had major abdominal surgery. You can't just leave like that.
Mateo. Stop. Stop it.
Look, tell me what happened and maybe I can help you.
You can't help me. If you do, they'll hold it against the clinic, against you.
- I won't have that. - You're weak from blood loss.
If you go now, you could die. Okay?
I won't bother you anymore.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
So that's it?
No explanations, just goodbye?
No.
That's goodbye.
Okay, I'm bleeding again.
NICK: Shannon, I'm gonna buy you the best prosthetic money can buy.
You won't even know the difference.
BEN: All right, Shannon.
We've got a tube re- expanding your lung. It should make it a little easier to breathe.
RYAN: Dr. Fuller is gonna finish taking care of your leg now.
That wasn't easy down there.
You did good.
BEN: All yours, Fuller.
So I freed up a flap of skin and I sealed it over the bone.
You wanna look?
Why would I wanna do that?
TOMMY: Well, I know it sounds weird,
but I worked with a lot of amputees in residency.
The theory is that the sooner you look at it and accept it as normal,
the better.
I lost my leg because Nick made me go on this stupid trip.
It's not normal and it's never gonna be.
BEN: Wait, she said he was her friend?
[COUGHING]
That's the word she used. But I'm guessing it's more than that.
Oh, and police are on their way.
Hey, you sure you're okay? You've been short of breath since we--
Will you stop worrying about me? I'm fine.
- Could it be the bends? - She must've been underwater too long.
- Let's get her on oxygen. - I'll set up a chamber.
Keeton wants to talk to you.
That's great, but I don't have time for that right now.
My patient, who is most likely a serial killer, just busted his stitches.
- Awesome. - No, no, no. Not awesome.
- He just kissed me. - The serial killer?
- Yeah. TOMMY: Wait, wait.
While he was bleeding?
[CHUCKLING]
That's smooth.
You're both so unhelpful right now.
When did your life become a Spanish soap opera?
TOMMY: Celibacy, yo.
All this could've been avoided.
It's true.
I'm giving you a transfusion. You're not tolerating the blood loss.
And jumping out of bed to go on the lam didn't exactly help.
- You're angry. - I just like to know the person I'm kissing,
because I'm old- fashioned like that.
A few weeks ago, I wasn't a guy with a bullet in his gut.
I was just a law student.
So, what happened?
They knocked on my family's door,
them and 30 other people who work that land,
said they were evicting them from the property.
No reason, no legal foot to stand on, just, "Move in a week or we'll move you."
Why do the police want land?
No, it's not the police.
They're corrupt. It's the people lining their pockets.
So I left school, came home to help my family.
And the gunshot wound?
A cop was threatening my sister.
And I got angry and threw a punch.
Maybe not the best move.
I'd do it again.
They can put a million holes in my body, I'm not going anywhere.
This is my family and I'll fight if I have to.
Good radial pulse.
- How do you feel? - Stronger.
So the doctors said the surgery went well.
Talked to a friend of mine at Walter Reed. He's, uh, on the board there, bigtime.
- He gave me a list of specialists. - You didn't write that note.
- What note? - On the slate.
It wasn't your handwriting.
Shannon, I know it's difficult to grow up without a father--
You left when I was 4.
I barely even remember you.
And then one day, an expensive pair of boots shows up on my birthday
- and suddenly I have a dad again? - I was trying to have a relationship--
You just wanna stop feeling guilty.
That's what all these big gestures are about.
The gifts and this trip.
So now I'm stuck in the middle of the jungle without a leg,
trying to make a stranger feel better about himself.
You want me to look at my stump?
There. I looked at my stupid stump.
Just don't make me look at him.
- Shannon-- - Get him out of here!
- Please-- - Get him out!
Hey.
How's Clark?
Well, she's off gassing the nitro, but she should be fine in a few hours.
[SIGHS]
How are you doing?
Loca is giving me the how- well- do- you- know- my- soul quiz.
How are you scoring so far?
- I'm not taking it. - Bold.
Yeah, well, am I supposed to play games because Scottish McAssface shows up?
- What am I, 15? - No, no, no, you're very mature.
- Damn right. - Hey, uh...
- I take it that's her friend? - That's him.
[CHUCKLES]
The hives have all cleared up.
You okay?
When we first saw the coral,
before the rockslide,
Shannon's eyes lit up like a Christmas tree.
She had that smile.
I know that smile, like when she was 4 years old.
She just needs time. It'll be okay.
It's not okay. She's...
[SOBBING]
For that poor girl to grow up with me as a father, it is not okay!
It is not okay! It is not okay.
This was my chance to fix things and I blew it.
[CRYING]
Here.
It's okay. Her mother is coming in. She'll fix everything.
She'll take care of her. I'm not equipped. I'm an accountant.
Are you Dr. Brenner?
- Yeah. - Officer Reyes.
I'm here about the gunshot wound you reported.
Right.
You said that the bullet you found came from the pistol of a policía.
I did say that.
Where is your patient?
It turns out I was wrong.
The man I treated was, uh, just a farmer.
Yeah, he was setting, um, a hunting trap and he shot himself in the hand.
So I just released him a few hours ago.
So were you lying then or are you lying now, doctora?
BEN: She's not lying.
She made a mistake.
Dr. Brenner is still working on her Spanish. She misunderstood the patient.
So the patient you treated was not this man?
No.
Bueno, because he attacked an officer today.
He's a wanted man.
Maybe I'll just take a look around in case he slipped through the cracks.
All due respect, officer, I'd rather you didn't disturb our patients.
I'll be rápido. Don't worry.
OTIS: Toledo.
Your middle name is Toledo.
[CHUCKLES]
I looked at your file.
Also saw that you make 50 bucks more than me.
Remind me to talk to Keeton about that.
Lindo, I'm done.
What are you talking about?
I'm done.
What, because I don't know your middle name?
- It's a city in Spain. - It's a city in Ohio.
Where my father is from.
My American father, who had his fun with mi madre, then left.
Toledo was her way of reminding me not to make the same mistake that she did.
She had a dark sense of humor.
I'm from Poughkeepsie.
And I'm just a fling.
If McBacon- Thief hadn't shown up today--
We'd still be having this conversation.
Officer, we have a nursing mother in the last bed.
I'll let her know we're coming so she can cover up.
Where is your nursing madre?
She must have been discharged.
Thank you for your time.
I think I've seen enough.
Your dressing is dry. That's good.
What?
Your dressing is dry.
[UPBEAT POP MUSIC PLAYING ON HEADPHONES]
You're wrong about your dad. It's not just guilt.
He's an idiot.
- Hey. - He's an accountant.
He thinks in terms of money. That's why he buys you stuff.
His way of telling you he cares.
Normal people say they care by saying they care.
Well, sometimes they can't say it.
Sometimes it's been so long, it's easier to just
buy some boots or book a trip,
or go off the grid and be a doctor in the middle of the jungle.
I haven't spoken to my parents in over a year.
Now I'm down here in the middle of nowhere, trying to prove something.
I don't even know what it is, but I know that I'm trying to prove it to them.
It's all for them.
So maybe all that stuff,
booking this trip,
maybe he's trying to prove something to you.
Why can't you talk to your parents?
They're a million miles away.
Nick is just down the hall.
Thank you.
For protecting him.
He's not a bad guy. He's just--
Everybody has got a story down here that will make them sound like a hero.
I wasn't protecting him, Brenner.
Just be careful.
You wanna tuck me in?
I checked the dive tables.
At 30 feet,
you should've been good down there for another three hours.
[SIGHS]
I came up too fast, then.
No. Pulmonary embolism manifests immediately, and you know that.
Now, yours started hours after we surfaced.
You were short of breath at the soccer game too.
You're being paranoid.
I wanna run an EKG and a chest x-ray.
Ben, it's late.
If you wanna sing me a lullaby, you can stay.
If not, buenas noches.
If you wanna stay the night, we can find you a bed.
No, my ex- wife is coming in and Shannon--
Yeah, I think she'd rather be alone.
I'll just crash at the hotel.
I'll call you a taxi.
Thank you.
Hey, Nick.
How you feeling?
You wanna see it?
[MELANCHOLY ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh, Shannon, I'm so sorry.
It's not your fault.
It's really gone, huh?
You know, he could've come to her. She is the person with one leg.
You don't know how hard that is for him, just sitting there, holding her hand.
That's huge.
Until next year, then.
Please, come back with something less repugnante.
I'll do my best.
Okay, if you're gonna grab me and beg me not to go,
now would be a good time.
Go back to the jungle where you belong.
You don't even know if we'd have any chemistry together.
Zita...
I think we'd do just fine.
I have something to say.
No. Uh...
It's actually easier if you keep it on your face.
In med school, they called me the ice queen.
They'd go, "Oh, look, one of the cadavers got loose."
[CHUCKLES]
It's kind of mean.
But, anyway, uh...
The handholding and hugging wouldn't mean anything to most people.
But I don't do that.
Not with patients or boyfriends.
Or even when I was little, crossing the street with my mother.
I just wanted you to know that I...
It wasn't nothing.
To me, it was something.
So...
Hello?
Minard?
[LATIN ROCK PLAYING ON SPEAKERS]
Fuller, you're just in time for a toast.
TOMMY: To what? LILY: Celibacy.
Because living in a Spanish soap opera is overrated.
And a little bit humiliating actually.
Don't even get me started on humiliation.
I just had a conversation with a hat.
What?
I don't wanna talk about it.
Cheers.
Alma. Hi. Um...
How is your novio?
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
Good, good.
Well, you know, if anyone else needs help with their penis, just send them to me.
Yeah, you don't want me to say that.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
CHARLIE: She broke up with her boyfriend.
Oh, real--?
Um, I'm sorry. Are you okay?
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
She wants to buy you a drink.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
CHARLIE: To thank you for helping him.
Dude, I just think she wants to buy you a drink.
TOMMY: Yeah, I'd...
I would love to do that.
[CHARLIE SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
But I'm just trying to focus on my medicine right now, so...
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
[GROANS]
- What are you thinking? - You gotta hit that.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, we just did the celibacy toast.
- Who cares? - What?
- Go, go, go. - Okay, okay.
Alma.
I...
- Aw. - Ha, ha.
[BOTH SPEAKING IN SPANISH]