Carol has her paramedic ride along today.  Dr. Romano meets Jeanie Boulet.  Benton tells her that Scott Anspaugh will need surgery.  Dog tells Mark that he has bought the rings for him and Carol and he is going to surprise her tonight with a wedding 1 minute after midnight.  Doug asks Mark to be the best man.  Jeanie is the one to tell Scott that his tumor is back.  She promises him hockey tickets, which she has to pay Mailik highly for.  Elizabeth wants to do the larynx surgery on Allison.  Romano tells her that it will be okay for her to assist Dr. Kotlowitz.  Chase comes and pays Carter a surprise visit in the ER.  He is wanting medicine and Anna over hears their conversation.  She tells him that she knows what he is going through because she went through it with an old boyfriend of hers.  Carter tells her that she doesn't know how the Carter family is and to mind her own business.  Carter tells him that he needs to go to a detox facility.  Kerry is figuring out all about S.P.G. and she doesn't like what she is learning.  She figures out that Ellis West is only concerned about the money and not the patients.  Another elderly woman is found with the word WHORE written across her chest.  Carol and Dean Powell are called to the apartment where she is found.  Dean does not like what he sees and gets very upset.  Carol has to calm him down.  They take her to the ER where Mark tends to her, but she dies.  Allison has her surgery and is able to tell Elizabeth "Thank you".  Carter goes to see Chase at his apartment.  The place is a mess and his maid has quit.  Carter is there to help him detox.  The door bell rings and a "upper class" drug dealer is there.  Carter tells him to leave.  Anspaugh asks Jeanie to be Scott's part time private care giver.  He thinks very highly of her and Scott does also.  Elizabeth and Peter go out.  She shows Peter how to shoot darts.  Powell and Carol go to the roof of the apartment building that the elderly woman lived in to find her cat.  While they are up there, he tells her why he freaked out at the sight of the woman.  He tells her that it reminded him of when his mother hung herself.  He was the one who had found her.  Carol tells him about her attempted suicide.  He calls her "Super Nurse".  Carol let's Powell kiss her.  Anna shows up at Chases.  She has the medicine that Carter had phoned in.  Anna stays around and helps them out.  Carter appreciates it.  Elizabeth gets Peter slightly drunk and asks him back to her place, but he turns her down nicely and gets in a cab to go home.  Carol comes home late to find Doug worried and mad.  She had ruined his plan for a surprise wedding.  She tells him about Dean Powell and he leaves.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 09-19-2000