Peter helps a stabbing victim by performing a procedure to help him breathe.  Morganstern comes in and praises him for a good job.  Carter replies, "Pretty Cool" and Peter rolls his eyes at him as he walks out.  Peter is awaiting an interview with Morganstern for the Starzl Fellowship that he and Sarah Langworthy are competing for.  Carter is looking for a one bedroom apartment.  Jerry helps him out by telling him his strategy.  He tells him to wait for some of the patients who are dying and try for their place.  It has worked for him.  It is Susan's birthday and everyone surprises her.  Everyone seems to know about her and Div dating.  A cop named Al comes in with a street punk kid named Mookie.  It is someone that use to be a sweet kid when he was younger.  Haleh knew him and wants Peter to work with him.  Peter brushes him off on Carter.  Later Haleh tells Peter that she hired the boy as a volunteer to keep him out of juvenile hall and that she has put him down as his supervisor.  Al asks Carter who the nurse on the phone is and he replies that it is Lydia Wright.  Al rushes out to meet with her.  Tag asks Carol again to move in together.  Doug is looking around for Linda Farrell.  Dr. Div gets very rude with Malik when he asks him for help with a patient.  He has kind of a Dr. Heckell and Mr. Hyde thing going in my opinion.  Doug and Carol both assist a boy that was in a boating accident.  They save his life and while caught up in the moment they kiss.  Doug apologizes to her and she tells him that he didn't do it alone.  Later, Doug sees her and Tag kissing.  Peter goes to his 3 pm meeting with Morganstern.  Langworthy is their too for her meeting.  Peter and her joke about the person that is inside interviewing.  She gets her interview first which takes over an hour.  Peter then gets to go in and his interview takes less than 10 minutes.  Morganstern tells him he did very well though.  Mark shows Carter how to do a lumbar puncture on a patient they believe may have meningitis.  Carter did the procedure perfect his first try.  Mark tells him that is worth a bottle of champagne.  Mark meets Jen at Doc Magoos.  She tells him that she has to go back to work earlier than expected.  They try to figure out the next time they are going to be able to see each other.  They don't come up with any time.  Chloe shows up in the E.R. drunk with a bunch of her friends.  She is there to wish her sister a happy birthday and brings her vodka.  She soon comes down from her high and starts arguing with Susan.  During the argument she puts her hand and arm through the glass window.  Div finally takes the time to talk with her as Benton stitches her up.  She has ruined their night out.  Susan goes to the roof for some fresh air.  Linda has a cardiologist convention to attend, but Doug doesn't seem to mind.  He tells Mark that he finds her just a little too perky.  Carol tells Doug that she is going to  move in with Tag.  Doug wants to know if she decided this prior to their kiss earlier or afterwards.  Carol seems to be torn between the two.  Carter goes up to the roof to see Susan.  She seems to be the only one he would like to share is champagne with since it is her birthday and since he has a dysfunctional family also.  He tells her that it has been a perfect day for him.  He tells her that he got the champagne from Dr. Greene for doing a perfect lumbar puncture on his first try.  She tells him that he can use their first name.  He reminds her that she calls him Carter.  She replies okay John and he responds Susan.  She says it just doesn't sound right.  He replies, "Just call me Carter".

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 09-10-2000