Joe (Flatliners)

Joe

Background

Joseph "Joe" Hurley is a medical student at Taft University in Chicago, Illinois. His uncle is Uncle Dave and he is engaged to Anne.

During the events of Flatliners (1990) played by William Baldwin

While they are in class, Joe flirts with Rachel until Nelson pulls her away and asks her about helping out that evening. The Professor tells the class that their upcoming exam grades will be scaled. While Joe is having sex with Bridget while also secretly recording them having sex, Nelson calls him and reminds him to bring his camera. In the evening, Nelson, Rachel, Joe and Steckle come together to test an experiment on life after death. Nelson explains to Joe and Steckle the steps he wants them to take to make him brain dead and then bring him back to life. Joe starts to film as Nelson is given nitrous oxide by Rachel and shortly after, Labraccio walks into the room. They stop Nelson's heart and Nelson is brought back to life and they celebrate the successful experiment.

Nelson tells them the experience was great and Rachel and Joe say they want to go next and Joe wins the bidding war due to the length he is willing to be brain dead. Joe watches a tape of his engagement party where Uncle Dave wishes Joe and Anne a toast. Joe calls Anne and tells her that he looks forward to seeing her and that if anything should happen, before trailing off and hanging up. Joe does the experiment and sees a light at the end of a tunnel and is then born. He then has images of multiple women of different ages. Joe describes his experience to the others as erotic and the Waitress tells Steckle to watch his language when he cusses and tells them Elvis was in the diner the night before. Nelson challenges Labraccio to go next and Labraccio accepts after taking Rachel's spot. Nelson then asks Joe if there was anything negative about his experience.

Joe flirts with Terry and brings up that he also had a near death experience. While he is flirting with her, the image on the common room television changes to one of his sex tapes. On Halloween, it is Labraccio's turn to die. Labraccio is brought back after some effort and Steckle thinks they should not do the experiment anymore. Nelson tells the others that he wants to go again and Rachel threatens to stop helping if she doesn't go next. As Joe and Steckle are walking home, Joe has another vision of multiple of Joe's Women asking him why he filmed her during sex without telling her.

Rachel goes through with the experiment and Labraccio runs into the room and tells them to bring Rachel back, and the circuit breaker blows as they are trying to bring her back. They manage to bring Rachel back and Labraccio tells the others about seeing Winnie Hicks, and Joe tells the others about seeing women from his past and Nelson tells them about Billy Mahoney. Beth walks up to Joe and starts flirting with him using stereotypical lines, followed by others. He walks into his apartment and finds Anne sitting in front of his television watching his sex tapes. Anne starts to leave his apartment and tells him that she can't trust him and their relationship is over.

During class, Rachel runs out of class. Labraccio drives back to the school and Joe and Steckle tell him about Rachel's incident in class. Labraccio tells Joe and Steckle to help Nelson find where Billy lives. Nelson has Joe stop at a location and then takes the keys and runs off. Joe and Steckle follow him and end up at a cemetery. They then find Nelson standing next to Billy's grave. He tells them that he and Young Nelson's Friends were throwing rocks at Billy who was hiding in a tree when Billy fell out of the tree and and a large branch landed on Champ, mortally wounding them both. Nelson steals Joe's car and drives away. Labraccio picks up Joe and Steckle and Labraccio figures out that Nelson is going to flatline by himself. Labraccio, Steckle and Joe find Nelson and try to bring him back. Rachel arrives and tells them that it has been over nine minutes since he flatlined. Nelson fails to come back no matter what Labraccio tries and everyone tells him that Nelson is dead. Nelson then regains conscious and tells Labraccio that today wasn't a good day to die.