Mark goes golfing with Doug.  Dr. Hicks offers Peter a chance to do a transplant with two specialists named Dr. Fecteau and Dr. Loesch.  Benton asks Dr. Hicks if Carter can assist also and she agrees.  Jeanie has slept over at Al's.  She didn't want to be alone.  Jeanie is worried about Al's health.  She wants to try to get him an interview for a study being done at the hospital for a new AIDS treatment.  Someone has written a trashy novel based on the people who work in the ER.  Nobody confesses to be the one who wrote it.  Carla tells Peter that she is firing him.  She does not want him to be her lamaze coach because he is so bossy.  A teenage girl is brought in after cutting her leg in shop class.  The father gets upset with Mark because he is leaving his daughter with a student, Maggie Doyle, to take care of his daughter.  Mark has to go to Rachel's conference, so he leaves the patient with Maggie anyways.  Chris Law comes in looking for the white, bald headed doctor and Randi tells him that he has left.  Doug finds out that Anspaugh is a member at an exclusive country (golf) club and he wants an invite.  Jeanie asks Greg Fischer if there are any interview openings for the AIDS study and he tells her that he will find a spot for Al.  Anspaugh asks Doug to look at a boy who was hurt.  The boy is nine and his name is P.K. Palmer.  His father is also a member at Fair Oaks, and Dr. Anspaugh makes Doug believe that he will give a good reference if he takes good care of his son.  The nanny brings him in.  Chris Law speaks with Mark in the parking deck.  He tells him that Kenny's body was lost for two days after being taken to the morgue and that they had to delay his brother's funeral.  His mother has received a bill from the hospital for $19,000.00 and he doesn't think she should have to pay for them killing her son.  He tells Mark to take care of it and make sure his mother doesn't get another piece of mail from the hospital unless it is an apology.  Mark tells Doug about it and Doug tells him that he should report it to security.  Carter gets to meet the two patients invoved in the transplant.  One is a thirty-five year old woman, Jean Twomey, who has lupus and her brother Carl is the one who is giving her one of his kidney's.  Carl tells Carter that his sister raised him and is gladly giving the kidney to her.  Carter got to assist on the removal of the kidney transplant and he gets to take the kidney from the transplant to the receiver in the next OR.  This makes Peter very nervous to watch.  He then gets to scrub in on the recipient.  After a while, the donor of the kidney starts to hemorrhage.    Carol reads the novel and thinks that Kerry Weaver wrote it.  Pam, the paramedic, brings her grandfather in after suffering a stroke.  Mark is on the "stoke team" and Pam wants to know if her grandfather is a candidate for the medicine being studied.  Doug examines the Palmer boy, and he learns that the boy has a lot of accidents.  He calls in an opthamologist to test his eye sight.  He learns that he has retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disorder that causes blindness.  Al interviews with Dr. Fischer.  He tells him that he will need support if he was to start the new medicine trial.  He wants to know if he has any support at home and Al replies that his ex-wife is back in his life.  Kerry tries to convince everybody that Carol wrote the novel.  Carter goes to see the lady who received the transplant.  He tells her about her brother's complications after surgery, but that he will be okay.  A new ER Resident named Anna DelAmico comes in to work.  She is starting her emergency pediatrics elective.  She is already a pediatrician.  Greg tells Jeanie that Al qualified for the treatment and that he thinks that she and Al are still involved.  She tells him that she doesn't know if she is still in love with Al or not.  Mark goes to the restroom and after Jerry leaves the room, he gets brutally beat up.  His head is smashed into the porcelain sink and then shoved in the glass mirror.  He is then thrown in to the bathroom stall.  Just when he thought it was over, he gets attacked again.  He is left there bleeding.  We do not know who the assailant is.  People begin wondering where he is.  Benton gets upset with Carter for walking out of the room when the transplant team were discussing the procedure.  Carla is brought in to OB.  She has started having contractions.  Doug walks in to the restroom and finds Mark.  They rush him to the exam room and everyone crowds around to see.  Carla's contractions stop, but she is going to have to have bed rest.  She has 8 weeks left before her due date.  Jeanie goes to see Al.  He tells her that he misses her laugh and then they kiss.  She stays the night with him.  Pam's grandfather is doing well now that he received the trial medication.  Mark has got some bruised ribs and a concussion.  He doesn't remember what happened to him.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-20-2000