An unlikely duo, Lieutenant Tom Royko of the Seattle Bomb Squad and renowned heart surgeon, Dr. Gillian Hayes, find themselves in a race against time to track down a disturbed bomber who is inexplicably causing Dr. Hayes' patients to explode.
Dead in a Heartbeat is a television film that originally aired on TBS on March 3, 2002. In it, Dr. Gillian Hayes, a heart surgeon, and Tom Royko, a bomb squad lieutenant, try to stop her patients' artificial pacemakers, containing grieving father Zachary Franklin's bombs, from exploding.