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8:45 a.m.

Thursday.

September 13th.

We've got a… situation down at Gander Academy.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have an indelicate request.

We need volunteers to help clean the bathrooms.

As you can imagine, with 700 adults in a primary school...

Health Canada needs us to clean them every… hour and a half.

We just don't have the people. So we're asking for your help.

But no one volunteers.

No one comes. And we're run off our feet with everything else.

And then…

Sweet Jesus in the garden!

This line of men comes walking down the hall.

The top six cardiologists from all over the world,

on their way to a conference.

Highly qualified cardiologists.

And they know about the importance of cleanliness.

If we don't get these bathrooms clean, we're going to have…

bigger problems.

Anyway, I get lunch set up,

labeling anything that'll go bad with the date and time.

I let the pants out for one of the pilots who's been enjoying our cooking,

make a balloon animal for a crying toddler,

and then I check on Hannah, talking to anyone she can reach.

I am here

I am here on an island

Hello? Hello. It's me again.

Yeah, my son. He's with Rescue 2.

Any news?

I am his mother I'm far away, stuck here

I'm trying to find out if...

Fine, I'll hold again.

I should be down there and checking the hospitals

Putting up signs, doing something

Instead, I am here

I am here in Canada

I am telling you, listen My son, he takes risks

He's not missing. He's helping or hurt

He'll get out of this

Yes, I'll keep trying And, yes, here's the number

And, yes, at the grade school in Gander

I'll be here

I should be there when it's over and done

When he comes through the door and says, "I'm home, Mom"

I should be there for my son

But instead I am here

I am here

She leaves message after message for her son

until there's no more room on his answering machine.

All I know

Is you are there

You are there

And I am here

She finally got some news.

They said it was Kev's day off.

But someone else said there were more men down there than were scheduled.

I should be looking for him.

He's always there for me, trying to make me laugh.

Tells me stupid jokes. He loves jokes.

Tells 'em to the kids at the firehouse as he fixes their bikes.

I should be there.

I know there's nothing I can do to help.

But I do know a few jokes.

There was this sailor who was stationed in the South Pacific,

far away from his wife, who he'd just married.

And when he was away, he wrote her a letter.

He said, "We're gonna be apart for a long time,

and this island is full of young, attractive local girls.

I need something to take me mind off 'em."

So his wife sends him an accordion

and says, "Why don't you learn to play this then?"

So finally he comes home from his tour of duty

and he says to his wife, "I can't wait to get you into bed."

And she says, "First, let's see how well you play that accordion."

That was a really stupid joke.