Love Takes Flight

In Savannah, newly-divorced former OBGYN Dr. Lizzie Beauman moves into the role of Chief Operating Officer at St. Carmen's to be a greater presence in her five-year-old daughter Quinn's life; Quinn's father Luke was too unreliable a presence. Against her better judgment, Lizzie hires Charley Allen on a short-term probation to be the hospital's new EMS helicopter pilot, that function vital in Lizzie trying to woo Dr. Stadler to choose St. Carmen's as the hospital to perform a revolutionary procedure in live-tissue transplantation. Despite Charley being the most qualified candidate on paper, Lizzie was hesitant because of his "cowboy" personality, such a cavalier attitude not meshing well with her controlled needs of running a hospital; Charley has moved from job to job since he returned from military service a year ago. Lizzie eventually learns that Charley, a Savannah native, came back to town largely to assist his father, Walter Allen, the kind old gentleman she and Quinn had befriended earlier, with his affairs following the death of Walter's wife/Charley's mother a year ago; Walter is still grieving and father and son's strained relationship has something to do with her passing. It seems that Lizzie and Quinn meeting Walter was fate as they, especially Quinn, help Walter open back up to life, and Walter somewhat fulfills what Lizzie learns is Quinn's secret quest to find a friend. Deeper connections could form between the Beauman and Allen families--if Lizzie and Charley will open their eyes to it as they try to balance their work/home lives and the differences in their outward goals.