Mark Green has had company over night.  It is Heather Morgan who he had met at the hospital.  He also gets a phone call from Polly McKenzie, who he met. Dr. Hicks tells Carter that he is going to have to get Benton to sign off before he can start working on her team.  Haleh is acting as the nurse manager until Carol returns.  She seems to be having a hard time with ordering supplies.  Doug and Kerry work with a little boy who has swallowed a ball.  Doug is able to remove it by injecting a needle in his throat to move it up and out.  Kerry is impressed.  Jackie comes to see Peter.  She tells him that she knows that Carla is pregnant.  She calls him stupid and wants to know what he is going to do about it.  She wants to know if he is going to marry her and be a father to the child.  Peter doesn't know what he is going to do, but he will handle it.  Peter is hurting in his side.  Some ER patients have come down with staphylococcus and Greg Fischer has asked Jeanie to help him find out which employee has been spreading it around the ER.  It is cause from someone not washing their hands after using the bathroom.  Doug takes care of a teenager named Jad Hueston who has cystic fibrosis.  His girlfriend Katy has brought him in on their way to Mexico.  They had stolen his mother's car and Katy tells Doug he is nineteen and has a Do not resuscitate (D.N.R) order on file.  Peter comes in and Carter has him sign his paper so that he can go with Dr. Hicks.  Doug finds out that Jad is not nineteen, but only seventeen.  He is not old enough to sign his own do-not-resuscitate order.  Doug immediately puts him on a respirator.  Carter's first blue team case is with a patient with AIDS who has been shot.  Maggie Doyle is with him and tells him to be careful because the bullet is razor edged and he can get cut.  Dr. Hicks invites her and Carter to scrub in with her on his operation.  Carter doesn't seem to mind.  Mark gets interested in a new hospital psych attending.  Her name is Nina Pomerantz.  She seems interested in Mark also and she asks him out.  Mark has already lied to Polly about being sick so that he can go to a Bull's game with Heather.  He tells her that he can meet with her later (before the Bull's game).  Peter is still having pains in his side.  Kerry later catches him in an exam room giving himself an ultrasound.  Kerry tells him that it is his appendix.  Dr. Hicks tells Carter that he will need to scrub in on a appendectomy.  Carter seems upset until she shows him who the patient is.  He sees Benton on the table and he is happy.  Greg and Jeanie muffle through all of the workers in the ER.  They all have been swabbed and tested.  They notice the handwriting on all of the forms and it belongs to Jerry.  He is the only one who has not been tested.  He is the one causing the spread and they have to teach him how to wash his hands properly.  Jad's mother shows up in the ER.  She wants Doug to keep him intubated.  She later listens to Doug and says that it is okay to have a D.N.R. order.  Carter is excited about Benton's surgery and he takes photos for all to see later.  Poly comes in to check on Mark after he tells her that he is sick to break their date.  Nina has come down to see why Mark had paged her and she ends up knowing Polly.  Heather has come by to tell Mark about the Bull's tickets and the good seats they will have.  All three are in the ER at the same time and Mark is in trouble.  Mark has Heather sitting in the waiting area.  Poly comes out as he is talking with Nina and they happen to know each other.  All three women find out what Mark did and now he is dateless.  Jad starts crashing and can't breathe.  His mother and girlfriend get scared and tell Doug to put him back on the respirator.  Doug had promised him that he would not, but he does.  They wheel him upstairs and he gives Doug the finger.   Greg has enjoyed working with Jeanie, so he asks her out again.  She tells him no.  Carter asks Maggie out and she invites him to go with her to the firing range.  While they are there, Maggie sees her ex-girlfriend, Amy Elliot, who she had broken up with three months earlier.  She tells Carter that she is a cop and is very jealous.  This causes Carter to shoot even worse than he was before.  Jeanie sees Greg giving stitches to a man with AIDS.  This makes her change her mind about seeing him.  They end up kissing.  Mark and Doug end up at a fancy restaurant together after is fiasco with the three women.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-16-2000