Al is in a good mood.  He has talked with a guy named Tommy in Atlanta, and he has a job there for Al.  Al wants Jeanie to go with him, so that they can have a fresh start.  Nobody in Atlanta would have to know that they have AIDS.  Carol is nervous about the Carter Family Foundation meeting tonight.  Mark is looking forward to having three days off for vacation.  It will start as soon as his shift is over.  Carter goes to meet Anna at her apartment to work on their journal.  She lives in a roach invested apartment and Carter is not too comfortable there.  He tells her that they can continue at a restaurant over breakfast, his treat.  An artist was accidentally shot in the leg during a gallery showing and he will need surgery.  A surgery had been reschedule and Peter was not notified.  Corday took his place, but she offers to let Peter take one of her patients that same day.  He agrees that this would be acceptable.  Anspaugh wants Kerry to go to a meeting with S.P.G. (Synergix).  They are an ER management group and he wants her to go find out as much as she can about them.  A teenage boy is brought in handcuffed after having seizures on his way to juvenile hall.  Doug thinks he is faking it, so he gets Carol to follow along with a scare tactic.  This convinces the boy to stop playing around.  Jeanie takes care of a man named Matthew Lindermulder.  He was working out and his spotter fell asleep and dropped a free weight on his head.  Jeanie notices a Klan tattoo on his chest.  Anna takes care of Vinnie.  He has gonorrhea.  Carter tells Carol that he will miss the meeting tonight, because he is going out with Anna.  Marked gets sued again.  This time, he it is a civil suit for him personally by Chris Law.  Kerry attends the Synergix meeting.  The speaker is Ellis West.  Jeanie goes to stitch her patient up.  He tells her that he is a born again Christian and has left behind that part of his life.  Ellis invites Kerry out for lunch to answer some of the questions she has about Synergix.  Mark and Carol take care of a woman with Environmental allergies.  Mark sees her has a nut case and does not take the time to listen to her problems.  She ends up walking out without getting any treatment.  Anspaugh tells Peter that Romano is looking for a new surgeon for his team.  Kerry tells Ellis that she is going to have to get rid of two PA's to save the ER's budget.  This means that Jeanie Boulet has to go.  Corday and Romano draw a large crowd and a news crew.  They are performing a rare surgery that has never been done at County before.  Peter watches on and is upset.  An elderly man named Vincent Scarleti is brought in.  His wife is with him and she is hard of hearing.  Mark has a hard time working on him with her in the room asking questions, so he asks Carol to take her out.  Carter tells Anna that he is going to have to cancel for their getting together tonight.  Something else has come up.  Lydia tells them that a patient is down outside and it is Mark's allergy patient.  Mark learns that Mr. Scarleti has been sick for some time and is going to die.  He learned this the last time he was seen at the ER, but he had lied to his wife.  Mark has to tell her the truth, but she can not hear him.  He yells it at her, just as everything gets quiet.  Mark runs out of the ER.  Cynthia runs after him.  Anspaugh gets mad at Corday for doing an appendectomy without his supervision.  Peter had led her to believe that this was acceptable.  He was paying her back because he thought she had caused him the opportunity to do the surgery with Romano.  Carol tells Anna about the Carter Family Foundation and how rich Carter is.  Anna is surprised and she offers to go with Carol to the meeting.  Mark tells Cynthia about his attack and she feels bad for him.  He kisses her.  Kerry tells Jeanie about the ER's budget problem and how she has to lay her off.  Jeanie was the last one hired, but she is still very upset about it.  Anna and Carol go to Millicent Carter's humongous home.  It is a mansion.  A butler answers the door and offers them drinks.  They see a painting of Carter on his horse, Merigold.  Carter sees that Anna is there and is surprised.  Doug gets a phone call.  He looks upset and Lydia asks him if he is okay and he says that he is.  Millicent wants to talk to Carol alone, so Carter takes Anna on a tour of the estate.  Anna is not very happy with Carter.  She feels that he has lied to her by not telling her about his family's fortune.  Benton asks Romano if he could use some extra hands on his team.  He tells him that he will think about it.  Doug goes to Mark's to check on him.  Cynthia answers the door in his robe.  He tells him that his dad has died and he will need a few days off.  Millicent tells Carol that she reminds her of herself.  She gives her $75,000.00 to get her clinic started.  Kerry meets Ellis again for a drink.  Mark is going to go with Doug to take care of his father's things.  He tells Carol that he loves her.  As he drives off, she tells him that she loves him too.  

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-25-2000