Carter talks with Anspaugh about the death of Dennis Gant.  All of the blue team is having to talk with him.  He wants to know what could have been done to prevent something like this from happening and ever happening again.  Mark brings Chuny roses.  The nurses have staged the "pink flu" and are calling in sick for the day.  Carol ends up working alone in the ER for the day and night.  They end up having to close the ER to trauma.  Doug goes to see Charlie.  She is all upset with him for telling about her being raped.  She asks Doug to be her foster parent, but Doug tells her that he can't.  This makes her even more upset with him.  A man is brought in after collapsing at the airport.  He is from or has been in a different country and may have an infectious disease.  Dr. Greg Fischer is called in to help with the matter.  Carter wants to know if Peter wants to speak at Dennis Gant's memorial service, but he does not.  Carter goes to get his mail out of his hospital mail box and sees that Dennis has some mail in his.  It is his evaluation from Benton.  Jeanie works with Dr. Fischer to find out what is making her patient sick.  Kerry tells Jeanie that he would be a good doctor for her to start seeing, so that she doesn't have to go across town for her HIV appointments.  She tells Jeanie that his partner had died of AIDS last year.   Social Services have found Charlie's mother.  She only lived a few blocks away and Charlie had been lying about it.  Doug sees that the woman has been a bad influence on Charlie, but it would be best for her to go with her.  Carter and Benton are in surgery with Dr. Hicks.  Carter tells Peter off about Gant's evaluation and how Benton had never let him know how well he was doing.  He causes a big scene and then dismisses himself.  Carter is feeling guilty also for not haven been there for Dennis.  Fischer and Jeanie see that her patient has malaria and can now be treated properly.  He asks Jeanie to come over to his place early to watch a comet that they are both interested in.  Jeanie feels safe with him so she agrees.  Jeanie tells Kerry about it and she thinks it is great.  Jeanie tells her that it is not a date because he is gay, but Kerry tells her that he is not gay.  Jeanie thought that when Kerry told her that his partner had died of AIDS that he was his lover, but he was his business partner.  This makes Jeannie nervous, but she still goes.  A homeless man is brought in by his friend after being crushed by a dumpster.  Carol is the only nurse to assist and has her hands full.  The man dies.  Carol and Kerry are cleaning up and they see that Carol accidentally hooked up the wrong blood type to the patient.  Carol feels bad about it and wants to be written up, but Mark and Kerry tell her that it was because they were so understaffed.  This does not make Carol feel good so she tells her supervisor Mary about what happened.  Carter speaks at Dennis Gant's memorial service and everyone thinks he did a great job.  Benton arrives too late to attend.  Carter introduces him to Gant's father.  He tells him he is sorry and that he had a great son.  He says that he was a little tough on him, but his father replies that it is good to be tough.  Jeanie and Greg go to Doc Magoo's after having seen the comet.  Greg goes to kiss her and she pulls away.  She tells him that she is HIV positive.  Greg gets quiet and Jeanie feels awkward.  Carter runs in to Benton waiting for the train.  Peter doesn't know what to think about Gant's death.  Carter tells him not to be telling him how he should feel.  He never cared about Gant.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-15-2000