Susan wakes to find Div recording memos about how much he dislikes his patients.  She is disturbed at what she hears.  Doug has had company overnight, it is Linda.  They are going away for the weekend and Doug is feeling bad about her spending so much money on him.   Doug goes in to work to find Bob putting up the Halloween decorations that were just taken down.  He tries to tell her that she should be putting up Thanksgiving decorations, but she does not understand.  Carter is practicing his sutures on a pig's foot.  Susan takes care of a very unpleasant man in need of dialysis.  His name is Edgar and the clinic no longer wants him to go there for treatment.  Nobody wants to be around him.  Carter asks Peter if he needs to bring anything to dinner.  Peter wants to know what he is referring to and Carter reminds him that Peter's mother invited him over for Thanksgiving dinner.  He tells Peter that his parents are in Switzerland visiting his sister.  Peter doesn't pay him no mind.       Carter and Peter take care of a woman who has ran her car into a bridge.  She is going to need stitches and Peter and Carter examine her.  As Carter examines her, he sees that she happens to be a he.  A teenager is brought in after a car accident that he and his friend were in.  His name is Andy and his friend's name is Larry Park.  They had ran a red light and hit a young lady and decapitated her.  Andy has a broken right femur and will need his spleen removed.  Carol is helping Peter and Mark with him.  Larry is being treated by Sarah and Doug.  He has brain matter everywhere and they are unable to save him.  The car was registered in his name, so the police think that he was the driver.  Andy tells Carol that it was he who was actually driving the car.  Carter's patient's name is Henry Colton.  He has been dressing as a woman for a very long time.  He tries to talk to Carter, but Carter does not respond.  He is starting to feel the disgust of the people who see him dressed as a lady.  An animal rights activist named Frances is brought in by officer Al.  He was attacked by a turkey that he was rescuing.  Susan discusses Div's condition with Mark.  Mark tells her that he needs psychiatric help.  Tag sees the larger turkey that Frances killed.  He says that it would make a great one for the ER's Thanksgiving party.  He is going to pluck it.  Frances can't watch the plucking, but he tells Mark that it felt good breaking the bird's neck.  Andy's mother comes in looking for him.  Carol tells her that he is okay, but is in surgery to remove his spleen.  Larry's mother comes in and Carol has to tell her that her son died.    Carol takes Andy's mom to see him.  He tells his mom that Larry was driving and ran a red light.  Carol hears him tell his mother the lie.  Mark feels bad because he felt he was not more adventurous before he got older.  He wishes he was more irresponsible and had a woman to keep him like Doug had Linda keeping him up.  Carol tells Lydia about Andy driving the car.  She tells Carol that she needs to tell the police because it is two people that were killed.  Carol doesn't feel that it is her place to tell.  Mark takes care of a woman who was brought in by her husband.  She is having chest pains and was diagnosed with Lupus a year earlier.  Sara and Peter help Mark with her.  Susan goes to see Div.  He admits to her that he has been depressed lately, but he is feeling better.  He is looking forward to having dinner with Susan, Chloe and her new boyfriend.  Carol sees Mrs. Parks.  She has just been to see her cold, dead son.  She tells Carol that she just wanted to slap him and tell him how stupid he was for running the red light.  Carter returns to check on his patient and he/she is gone.  Sara walks Peter through a very difficult procedure with their patient.  Peter does a great job and her heart gets a steady rhythm.  Carol speaks with Andy and tells him that he needs to tell the police the truth.  She tells him that she has been keeping a secret for a long time and now she feels that she needs to tell the truth about it also.  Carter learns that his patient is on the roof.  He runs up to find her/him on the edge of the hospital.  He tells her/him that someone will be there to talk to him/her and not to jump.  He tells Carter that he can't pass as a woman anymore and that is all that he is.  Div shows up, but Henry jumps anyways.  Carter looks down at the street to find him dead.  At the Thanksgiving dinner Carol tells Tag that she wants to go for a walk and talk.  She tells him that she slept with Doug while they were together.  It was right before she took the pills.  She also tells him that she let Doug kiss her two weeks ago.  Tag does not take this well and he walks away.  Peter sees Sarah and he thanks her for all her help.  She will be leaving for her Starzl Fellowship.  She tells him that it is a teaching hospital and that is what they are suppose to do.  Peter then sees Carter sitting alone upset about Henry's suicide.  Peter invites him to go with him to his family Thanksgiving dinner.  Susan is trying to locate Div Cvetic.  He will not answer the phone.  Susan is probably dreading spending time with Chloe and her new boyfriend without him.  She calls him again and then we see him in the middle of traffic in the rain.  He seems to want someone to hit him with their car. 

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 11-29-2000