City boy Evan starts his first shift in Richmond on the rural fringes of Sydney. He's worked in IT for the last 8 years but it's out on the road that he's finding job satisfaction. On a nearby highway, a car is wrapped around an electricity pole. The driver, Guy, is stable but extracting him from the wreck brings its own risks. It's almost midnight when Jenna and Cleone are called to a suspected epileptic seizure. As the patient swings in and out of consciousness it proves a tricky case to solve. After mid-term exams the students are about to get their first taste as front line paramedics. They're about to spend 3 days observing on the road. The first job Reynir will attend as a student paramedic is one that even seasoned paramedics find confronting. A young man has tried to hang himself.