"I know that now," I said. The light she was referring to was a huge klieg light, which lay on the set of her son's sitcom, Workin' Out! The light casing was heavily dented and th e lens was shattered and strewn like jagged jewels across the floor, nestled up to the weights and exercise equipment that made up the health club local e set . "What parts of her brain do work?" I asked. Roughly twenty minutes later, a medical helicopter screams overhead, droppin g dramatically into the Pomona Valley parking lot, as Pomona Valley has no h elipad. The doors to the emergency entrance burst open, and a stretcher race s to the helicopter, orderlies and doctors in a full sprint. On the way, a w oman's arm slips off the stretcher and dangles, her IV tube fluttering with the speed of the stretcher's journey. As the stretcher approaches the helico pter, the side doors launch open; in one unbelievably smooth motion the stre tcher is lifted into the helicopter and the doors slammed shut.
