by Hal Erickson
synopsis
When Chet (Tim Donnelly) chides John (Randolph Mantooth) for playing his bagpipes at the station house, John gets even by assembling several other musical instruments and transfomring himself into a one-man band. On a more serious note, a hostile backwoods family refuses to allow the Ramparts staffers to treat their child, who is suffering from lead poisoning. Elsewhere, a glider pilot is injured in a crash, a man is trapped under his own rapidly collapsing house, and a woman refuses to accept the fact that her daughter has died of a drug overdose. Kathleen Kelly Wiget, who appears in other Emergency! episodes as the wife of paramedic Roy DeSoto (Kevin Tighe), is here cast as Betty Snyder.

