The Kids Are Alright – As the third episode of SkyMed begins, two men walk through the woods. The older man intends to chop down a few trees so they’ll have a few of the lake. When he cuts his leg with a chainsaw, the other man has to carry him out of the woods. However, he hurts his ankle and collapses to the ground too. The signal on his phone comes back so he manages to call for help. Crystal (Morgan Holmstrom) and Tristan (Kheon Clarke) work on the men in a plane. The men argue about the father leaving his family when his son was young. Crystal threatens not to give them tramadol unless they shut up so the pilots can hear themselves think. The father asks Crystal if she knows of any cottages for sale in Gimli. When they reach the hospital, Crystal has to rush away because she is late for her practicum.

Trevor (Patrick Kwok-Choon) walks in on her when she is changing clothes. She goes to work and runs into Tyra who remembers her from high school. Tyra can’t believe Crystal is working as a nurse now. Crystal checks her before quickly saying she is going to need stitches and her nose is broken. Once Tyra begins discussing old times, Crystal asks her not to start telling stories. Tyra reveals she fell off her front step and did a face plant. She goes on to say she doesn’t party anymore and instead was going to a job interview. When she tried to grab the railing, it wasn’t there. Trevor joins them and suggests sending her to Winnipeg for the surgery so plastics can consult on the cut. He says you can’t mess around with a face that pretty.

Trevor believes Crystal will put him out of a job when she gets back from med school, but she admits she hasn’t had time to apply yet. Tyra confesses that they called her Trainwreck Tyra, but Crystal was even wilder. Trevor learns that Crystal went to a teacher’s house to flip his outhouse while he was in it because she was mad at him. Once Tyra learns that Crystal is no longer with Jeremy, she believes there is something going on between Crystal and Trevor. Trevor leaves to get her a bed for the night. Crystal tells Tyra that this is her job and not a high school reunion. Bodie (Aason Nadjiwan) meets with Madison (Emilia McCarthy) to tell her he’d like to make it right. He is applying for a job at West Jet and could start sending her money. She reminds him of the time he said being with her was like home.

She believes he is just afraid that it’d make things real if she moved with him to Toronto. Mads says he can’t handle real and just wants to be free to fly. As Chopper (Praneet Akilla) comes back from a run, Tristan talks to Nowak (Thomas Elms) and Lexi (Mercedes Morris) about making a sandwich. Chopper enters and learns that the mechanic got him what he needs to finish his CB radio since he has been wanting one. Lexi and Nowak joke around about shaving. She asks Tristan if she looks better in a flight suit only for Tristan to declare it a tie. Lexi asks when that started happening, but Nowak doesn’t know what she is talking about. She says he is cute and wonders if Tristan knows about him. Nowak still doesn’t know what she is talking about. Hayley arrives to pick up Nina who had a seizure at a baseball game.

Hayley is surprised that Nina is going to be traveling alone. While they fly back, Hayley talks to Nina about baseball even though she isn’t a big fan. She lets Nina listen to the pilots. Nina learns they’re going to Thompson although she wanted to visit Winnipeg. She makes more complaints to try to go to Winnipeg instead. Hayley knows she isn’t Nina because Nina had a ganglion removed two years ago. The girl admits she is Erin, Nina is her older sister, and she is only 15. Hayley tells the pilots and they radio it in. They learn about another patient experiencing acute abdominal pain at Prospect River. When they pick up the other patient, Hayley admits it will be touch and go because of the detour they took. The new patient, Rachel, receives medication on the plane. Erin says she wasn’t faking for fun before revealing her best friend is dying.

Sabrina has leukemia and she is in Winnipeg getting chemo. She has been there for months and her parents won’t tell them anything. Erin knows she may never get to see Sabrina again if she doesn’t see her now. Hayley apologizes before she is shown a picture of Erin with Sabrina from before. She offers to take Erin to see Sabrina since she’ll find a way anyway, but she has to call her parents on the way. Emma (Rebecca Kwan) talks to someone on her CB while calling herself Bride007. She tells them how Devon (Gino Anania) loved making big love gestures before med school. Now, he is all about studying and forgetting to eat. Chopper cuts in to tell her she shouldn’t get married at the barn like she planned. Instead, she should do it on the rooftop of the Broadview or the Brickworks.

He calls himself Orion24. Emma asks his advice on tuxedos before he recommends going with three-piece suits. She has to return to work. Emma visits a man in the woods who complains about nausea and chest pain. Since it is cardiac, she intends to grab some nitroglycerine from the truck. Once she steps outside, she finds herself face-to-face with a wolf so she can’t access her truck. The man inside tells her he skinned a deer this morning and the wolf must smell it. She can’t call for help using her SAT phone because she left it in the truck as well. The man has a CB radio so she decides to use it to call for assistance. Orion24 recommends using a bear bang to scare the wolf off. He walks her through making something to get rid of the wolf. When Bodie arrives at the hospital to see Wheezer (Aaron Ashmore), he finds that he is talking to Lauren Dumont with the Aviation Authority.

Lauren tells Bodie he’ll be coming around the hangar to speak with him and his crew about the crash. Once Lauren leaves, Wheezer confesses he can’t remember what happened before or after the crash. He has to have one more surgery before he is finished. Bodie gives him a Nintendo Switch. Wheezer learns that things aren’t going well between Bodie and Madison. Bodie asks if they’re supposed to just get back together because she is pregnant. Wheezer thinks there is a reason they dated for so long. When Bodie says he can’t be someone’s dad, Wheezer tells him that horse has already left the stable. Wheezer goes on to say his son Caleb is the best thing to ever happen to him so it could be good for Bodie too. Emma prepares to scare the wolf away from the house. Orion tells her it’ll work and he knows because he had to study Reactions Engineering.

It works and gives Emma enough time to get her supplies from the truck. When Erin asks Hayley did this for her, Hayley tells her that her mother died of cancer. Bodie arrives because Hayley called him for a ride home. He tells Hayley that they weren’t together then and he didn’t know about the baby at the time. He thought they just clicked when they first met. Hayley thinks they should just keep things professional between them. Crystal brings Tyra a sandwich from the dinner next door. Tyra tells her to leave it since she wouldn’t want to embarrass her in front of her coworkers. Crystal tries to explain herself and says she doesn’t necessarily need help making herself look bad. They joke and laugh about her flashing the doctor earlier. Tyra admits things aren’t good because she got fired from her job when the numbers for mixed up in her head.

She worked so hard to turn her life around, but it is turning into crap again. Crystal thinks it could be worse since she could be Mr. Davis in an upside-down outhouse. Emma continues talking to Orion as she admits she had forgotten about the wedding for a minute. She asks if it is normal to wonder if she is getting this wrong. Orion says he was married before he came up here. When she asks what happened, Orion tries to convince her to pull over for a minute. Once she does, Orion instructs her to look up at the Pleiades. He wants to be up there someday because he feels like there are no mistakes when he looks up there. Orion says she’ll be where she is supposed to be no matter what she does. Tristan gives Lexi another sandwich as she strikes to start a conversation between Nowak and Tristan.

They get a call from Camille about a fisherman catching a man. They worry that the man might have hypothermia. Tristan says they can warm him up slowly with heat packs on the way to Thompson. They wonder what he was doing down there and why he didn’t just come up as the man begins yelling for Alice. When he begins having a seizure, Tristan asks Camille to get some midazolam. He believes the man is experiencing decompression sickness. They’ll have to get him to the hyperbaric chamber the Air Force has at Winnipeg Airport. Tristan warns Nowak that he’ll have to maintain the same atmospheric pressure or he’ll get an embolism and die. On the plane, the man wakes up and learns he has the bends. He admits he had to keep diving before they could figure out what he was up to.

He reveals he works for the dam and they’re manipulating the water flow beyond the guidelines to the point that it kills the fish. He had to stop them before it was too late to reverse because the community relies on the lake for food. Tristan asks if he got everything he needed. The man begins freaking out and asking for his bag. Tristan gives it to him. After Lexi turns on the ice lights, they learn that they’re picking up ice. Nowak tells Tristan that they’re picking up ice so they’ll need to change altitude. If they descend and the ice keeps building, they may not be able to regain altitude. Tristan warns them that climbing is not an option since it could kill Mark. They decide to descend to see if they can deal with the ice. They agree to do a low approach at Bear River since they might have to land. It works so they can begin climbing again.

As Crystal checks on Tyra in the morning, she learns that she is unable to see. Crystal catches up with Trevor to suggest that Tyra may have MS. He wants to order a lumbar puncture to see what they can find. Trevor says it is a good thing to catch it this early since Tyra can get the treatment she needs. A man taking a picture of a bird nearly falls from a rock. Instead, he sees a woman under a vehicle after a crash. Tristan rushes in to help Sera who has been in and out of consciousness. The kindergarten teacher is a good woman. Tristan and Bodie manage to put her on a stretcher. Tyra tells Crystal that her vision came back. She makes Crystal tell her that they think has multiple sclerosis. With the right treatment, most of her symptoms can be managed. Tyra was worried that she was becoming trainwreck Tyra again. They’ll send her home until they can get her an appointment with a neurologist.

Tyra asks if it is weird that she is relieved and scared, but Crystal says it would be weird if she wasn’t. When Sera begins speaking, Tristan tries to translate what she is saying. Trevor asks Crystal about that Jeremy guy and whether he is taking her to dinner tonight. When Trevor offers to take her to dinner, Crystal offers to take him although she expects him to put out a good reference letter since she is going to med school after all. Hayley calls her father who says the oncologist’s office in Winnipeg called him after she missed her appointment. She tries to change the subject only for her father to say she can’t put this off because she has the BRCA1 gene. Hayley doesn’t know why they can’t just talk about her mom instead of the cancer. Her dad suggests it would’ve made a big difference if her mom had access to early intervention techniques.

As Sera arrives at the hospital, Tyra is allowed to go home. Crystal listens to Sera and immediately tells Tristan that her son was on the ATV with her so he might still be out there alone. Tyra is taken to Emma. Hayley talks to Emma about the wolf in front of Chopper who learns he was talking to Emma that night. She finds out that he is Orion24. They have to leave to search for the kid named Ian who has been missing for at least four hours. They spread out and begin searching for him. Tristan splits with Bodie when someone faints. Bodie goes off alone and begins finding sticks to mark someone’s trail.

He follows them until he finds the little boy they’re looking for. Ian says he wasn’t lost and instead was following the river like his mother said. Bodie agrees to take Ian to his mother. Ian makes him hold his hand. He takes the boy to the hospital where he reunites with his mother. Back at home, Hayley learns that Crystal gave Tristan homework so he can try to learn some of the language to ensure nobody else gets lost. When Chopper goes for a run, he stops to look at the stars above him. When Trevor picks up Crystal, she finds that she is underdressed. She changes before they listen to music together and she cries. She tells him her people aren’t ashamed to cry because it is healthy and people. They begin making out. Bodie meets with Madison and invites her inside.

He shows her a house that is available for rent. Bodie says they can change whatever she doesn’t like. He confesses he broke up with her because he was scared. He is still terrified because he only knows that his birth parents didn’t want him. He doesn’t want his kid to feel like that. Bodie says they can do it before asking her to forgive him. They hug as Mads says they’re going to be a family.

 

SkyMed Review

SkyMed’s third episode focused a lot on an old relationship between Tyra and Crystal while developing new relationships for Chopper and others. Chopper may have found love with Emma who is set to marry Devon. That could create an interesting situation in future episodes. As for Crystal, she has decided to move on from Jeremy and date Trevor. The series is more about the characters and their love lives than rescuing people although some viewers may enjoy this aspect of the show.

This episode in particular was slightly worse than the other two because some of the characters were just annoying. It is really a shame that SkyMed didn’t try to separate itself from other television shows in this genre because it likely could’ve been more memorable.

Instead, pretty much everything has already been seen and done before. This doesn’t mean that people won’t enjoy SkyMed because it is competent and watchable, but a little originality could’ve made it a much better medical drama. The episode scores a 5.5 out of 10. Recaps of SkyMed are available on Reel Mockery here. Want to support our independent website? Follow this link to learn how.