Mark and Doug discuss Mark's relationship with Chuny.  Mark has ran out of things to say and is ready to break up with her.  He wants to know how many people know about the whole thing.  Doug tells him what do say, but Chuny ends up using the same line on him and breaks up first.  The "pink flu" went well and management is going to work on the nurse's working conditions.  Then a newspaper article comes out about how a nurse killed a patient due to being understaffed when he was brought in.  Carol goes to the snowy grave site of the homeless man she accidentally killed.  She brings flowers and is feeling really guilty about what had happened.  Carol comes in to work and tells the nurses that it was her that killed the patient.  She goes upstairs to see Mary Cain about the article.  She tells Carol that it was not her that talked to the reporter.  The nurses are mad at Carol and management now.  It is a prospective intern day and six of the brightest med student applicants tour the ER.  Anspaugh wants Mark and Kerry to show them around.  Mark is to take three and Kerry will take three.  Kerry is well prepared with handouts and everything; Mark isn't.  Mark decides to let his follow him through the trauma rooms.  Mark's group gets to help out in the trauma rooms.   Carter and Benton are preparing for a presentation for later.  It is scheduled for 3:00.  Peter does not seem too interested in it as Carter is.  Jeanie takes care of a young man, Mike Patterson, who is brought in by his new wife Cindy.  He has been having bad headaches and has been walking in his sleep and talking out of his head.  Benny Miles, a six year old, is brought in by his mother after he hurts his arm.  She tells Doug that he thinks he is Superman.  His mother tells Doug that he has been like this ever since he saw his father die five months earlier.  The mother works upstairs in the hospital, so Doug watches the kid while they wait for a psych consult.  Benny ends up missing.  Jeanie has Greg Fischer take a look at her patient per Mark's request.  He has neurosyphillis. Jeanie wants to tell the wife about it, but Greg tells her that it is a private issue.  They go in to the room to ask the wife to leave as they tell him the news, but she wants to stay.  It ends up that Mike has been faithful and Cindy is the only person he has ever been with.  It is Cindy who has cheated on Mike.     Mark takes care of a third grade teacher named Heather Morgan.  She has hurt her thumb while playing on a singles water polo team.  She and Mark flirt with each other.  She wants him to meet her at Finch's Bar after work, but it is against hospital policy.  She asks for another doctor so that Mark will not be hers and can meet her.  Benton is in surgery with Morgenstern.  Carter talks with Dr. Hicks about Peter not signing up for many surgeries lately.  Dr. Hicks tells Carter that he can assist her on a portacaval shunt.  She wants him to sign Peter up for a splenectomy later during the day.  Carol and Maggie Doyle take care of a Sgt. Mattimore.  He is a fifty five year old cop who got shot by a young kid.  His partner shot the kid.  Maggie tells Carol that Sgt. Mattimore had helped her cousin when he was a juvenile.  Her cousin is now a locksmith.  Carol notices that Sgt. Mattimore has a twitching hand, but he denies it.  Peter sees where Carter signed him up for a surgery and he gets mad at him.   Doug finds Benny in the waiting area fighting with a grown man.  Doug pulls him away and gets on to him about how dangerous it is.  He didn't like seeing the man being mean to his girlfriend.  He has his Superman costume out and Doug tells him that he is not Superman.  Carol checks on Sgt. Mattimore and tells him that he needs a CAT scan to see what is casing the twitching.  He tells her that he will think about it.   Hicks invites Carter to switch internships from Peter's blue team to her red team.  Carter thinks this is a good idea, especially after the way Peter has been treating him.  Greg tells Jeanie that he is sorry about what had happened at Doc Magoo's the morning after they looked at the comets.  Jeanie tells him that he doesn't owe her any explanation.  Doug tells Benny that he is sorry for yelling at him about not being Superman.  He tells him to always do what is right and don't listen to people when they tell him not to help someone as he did.  He tells him that his father would be very proud of him and he gives him a hug.  Benton see Carla in the OB department of the hospital.  She has an appointment with Dr. Coburn.  She tells him later that she is pregnant.  This is all going on while Carter is given his and Peter's presentation.  Peter doesn't make it and Carter looks foolish.  This makes him very mad at Peter.  Carter tells him about Dr. Hicks asking him to be on her team.  Peter doesn't seem to mind, even after Carter tells him that he taught him everything he knows about surgery.  Dr. Anspaugh comes to tell Kerry and Mark about how the tour went with the applicants.  Kerry tells him that she was disappointed with her group and he tells her that he knows.  None of them even applied, but all of Mark's team did.  They loved what all Mark showed them in the ER.  He thinks Mark deserves the tenure spot.  Mark meets  Heather Morgan at a bar when he gets off of work.  Carol goes to the Sun-Times with her story about the death of the homeless man.  They call Mary to confirm it and she has Carol go to  Roger Drummond's office about it.    Carol comes back downstairs and gets some things together and gives Haleh some instructions.  Haleh tells her that it is not her job and Carol replies, "It is now, I have been suspended" and she walks out.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-16-2000