Mark is competing with Kerry for the tenure review.  It doesn't help that he has just been written up for not signing off on the charts.  Carol meets with the re-engineering department and is told that she will have to let two of her nurses go.  She has to pick Chuny, Malik, or Conni; they are the newest of the nurses.  Doug and Carol volunteer to help with the safety inspection check.  Kerry needs to do a study to help her get the tenure slot, so she and Wendy go around looking for a night shift volunteer.  The ER is really slow and Carter is done with his charts.  Gant wants Carter to go on break with him, but Carter makes up an excuse because he is tired of hearing about Gant's problems.  He tells Gant that he is not finished with his charts, but it is a lie.  Kerry finally finds a volunteer for her study, Jeanie Boulet.  Charlie comes in to the ER while Doug and Carol are doing the safety inspection.  She asks Doug for some money to pay off a pimp, but Doug thinks she is lying so he doesn't give her anything.  She runs out angry after yelling that Doug tried to molest her and stuff.  Carol and Doug end up in a part of the hospital where they use to sneak off to.  This brings a lot of bad memories for Carol, but good memories for Doug.  Mark takes care of a woman who was found unconscious in Doc Magoo's with no ID on her.  Her name is Shelly and she talks in rhyme.  Mark things she may have meningitis.  Shelly is afraid of needles, so she tells Mark that she does not want the spinal tap that he says she needs to have done.  Mark thinks that because of her mental status, she can not give consent for the treatment, but the legal department says she will need a psych consult done to confirm it first.  Benton wants to talk to a Dr. Kenner about doing another pediatric rotation with him, but is unable to get in touch with him.  He gets on his schedule to do rotations on the pediatric floor so that he might get a chance to speak to him.  He has Gant help him during rotations, but can't find him later.  He finds Gant in the cafeteria with Carter later and chews him out in front of everyone, this makes Gant angry.  He tells him that if he makes another stupid, lazy mistake like that, then he will be out of there.  Gant had neglected one of the patients of Dr. Kenner and this was making Peter look bad.  Charlie comes walking back in to the ER.  She is all beat up and bleeding.  Doug picks her up and takes her to an exam room.  Carol thinks that she may have been raped, so Doug asks her privately and she says that she had been.  She doesn't want the police or social services involved though.  Doug tells them anyway.  Kerry has Jeanie ride a bike and run around the outside of the hospital.  Gant goes to Anspaugh about what Benton had done to him earlier in the cafeteria.  Anspaugh wants to know what Carter thought about the incident.  This puts Carter in a bad spot and he takes Benton's side.  He later apologizes to Gant and Gant says that it is okay.  Shelly passes the test that the psych intern gave her.  She is competent enough to say no to the spinal tap.  Mark gives her the test anyway and she does have meningitis.  Her brother shows up later and thanks him for doing the test.  Mark gets written up again, but earns the respect of Chuny, who seems to be attracted to him. Carol is still concerned about the budget figures and is worried about who she is going to have to let go.  Randi tells her that she went through the figures and found a solution.  She tells Carol that if she lets the overtime go and puts the nurses on 8 hour shifts, then it will save the hospital budget $100,000 a year.  Carol is shocked.  Carol tells the nurses about it, but they are upset about having their over time cut.  This is not a good situation for them and they are going to write something up for their new contracts coming up.  Kerry has one more thing for Jeanie to do for her study to be complete.  She wants her to go into a small space to measure her lungs.  Jeanie is afraid of small spaces, so she quits the study.  This puts Kerry in a bind again.  Kerry makes Wendy take over as the volunteer.  Benton catches Carter and Abby Keaton together.  She will not recommend him for another pediatric rotation.    Mark and Chuny end up in bed together.  A man is brought in to the ER after being hit by a train.  They are not sure if he accidentally fell into it or did it on purpose.  Peter and Carter start to work on the mangled body.  His face is all messed up and one of the eyes are gone.  Benton tells someone to page Gant to come help.  A few seconds later a beeper goes off.  It is the patient's beeper.  They look at the number on the beeper and it is coming from the ER.  The patient that they are working on is Gant.  They work faster and harder, but they can not save him.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-15-2000