Shep wakes up at Carol's house and it is freezing.  The snow is falling inside from the hole in the roof that he had left while getting rid of some old shingles.  The recovery room staff come down to the ER to Carroll.  The ER staff is suppose to go up later to return the favor.  Mark goes for a deposition regarding the O'Brien case.  A woman is brought into the ER after her car is carjacked.    She is a survivor of a Jewish Holocaust camp.  Her name is Hanna Steiner and she asks Mark where her granddaughter is, she was in the back seat of the car.  The police go search for her.  She asks Mark to say a prayer with her.  Carter talks to a patient's wife who is nervous about a surgery with Vucelich.  He is able to calm her down so that she will agree to the surgery.  Vucelich is impressed and tells him that he can scrub in.  Susan invites Mark to go to Cookie and Henry's with her and Suzy for the holidays.  A man comes in looking for Kerry.  It is an old African friend of her's named Mlungisi.  They have a passionate kiss and she leaves early.  Al and Carter both buy ear rings for their girl friends for Christmas.  A priest has been shot and brought in by some young men.  A baby is found and brought in.  It is the granddaughter of the elderly woman.  The whole family comes and Mark celebrates Hanukah with them.  Carol goes upstairs to sing by herself since nobody else wants to go with her.  While she is singing "The Twelve Days of Christmas", the others come up and join her in butchering the song.  Mark tends to a man and his sick wife.  They are Mr. and Mrs. Rubadoux.  He tells Carter to call him Ruby.  He tells Vucelich that she would be good for his study.  The ER gang goes to Carol's for a Christmas party and Shep tells her that he loves her.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 09-29-2000