It is a slow snowy night and Carter is coming in to work.  Jerry tells him that he is tired of having to work the night shift.  He has been working it for over four months now, since Kerry is punishing him for blowing up the ambulance bay.  Carter finds Anna sleeping in an exam room.  He covers her up to keep her warm and she wakes up.  She asks him about Chase and Carter tells him that he is doing good.  A man is brought in with multiple gun shot wounds.  It is a security guard that was trying to help a woman that was being raped.  They are not able to save him.  Kerry meets Anspaugh coming in to work in the parking deck.  He tells her that the board will be meeting about accepting Synergix as their ER management.  They approved it with Kerry's urging, but now Kerry does not want it.  Cynthia hints to Mark about moving in with him.  She tells him that her rent is going up, but Mark offers to help her out with the rent.  Jerry talks to Kerry about coming back to days.  She agrees to let him, but he will have to pull a double because Randi called in.  He tells her that he will do it.  The rape victim is brought in.  She is has been thrown down a flight of stairs and was being strangled, however, she was not raped.  She has the word WHORE carved in her chest by a knife, not his usual magic marker.  Doug comes in to work and finds Cynthia in the lounge crying.  She is upset about Mark.  Doug has to listen to her whine about it.  Peter is asking around about daycare and babysitters for Reese.  He thinks that it is too soon for that, but Carla wants it.  Doug sees Carol with Greg Powell.  He asks her if that is the paramedic she kissed and she tells him yes.  Doug gets upset and so does Carol.  Carol tells him that she still needs time.  Kerry asks for Marks help when meeting with the board about not wanting Synergix anymore.  He agrees to help her.  The rapist is brought in.  He is only a nineteen year old man.  He has been shot several times and is bleeding badly from dog bites.  Nobody seems to want to take care of him.  Mark gets called out to work on another patient, so Carter takes over his care.  A woman named Mary is brought in by her husband Robert.  They are both mentally retarded and she is having a baby.  Carol and Jeanie are taking care of her.  She is seven centimeters dilated and she is going to have the baby any time now.  Carter's patient, Jack Miller, the rapist, needs a blood transfusion.  The blood supply is low and Carter decides to auto transfuse him with his own blood.  This is very risky and Anna does not think that it is a good idea.  Carter does it anyways.  The patient ends up okay and they are able to take him to the OR.  Anna is upset with Carter now though.  Ellis West comes to talk with Kerry.  He is upset with her about wanting to go to the board about not want S.P.G. involved with the ER management.  He tells her that he has wasted his time there if that happens.  She tells him that she does not like being used.  Carol comes to get Kerry to see her pregnant patient Mary.  She is wanting to leave the ER.  She is afraid that they will take her baby away from her.  Kerry sees that she is nine centimeters dilated now and there is no time.  Corday asks Peter if he would be interested in perusing more in their relationship.  He tells her that he would not be comfortable with that.  Mary's sister Judy comes to see her.  She is just in time to see her have the baby and it is a healthy baby girl.  They name her Madison.  Her sister asks Carol  when social service will be there.  Carol tells her that they do not call social services when there are loving parents.  She does not know how they can take care of a baby when they can't really take care of themselves.  Carol works with the new mother and father to teach them some parenting skills.  Mark finds out that Cynthia has left work upset.  Carla comes to get the paperwork from Peter for Reese's daycare, but he hasn't made up his mind yet.  He asks her where Reese is and she tells him that he is in the car with her friend.  Peter goes outside to see him and gets to meet Carla's new boyfriend, Roger.  Chase comes to see Carter.  He thanks him and Anna for their help.  Anna is still upset with Carter.  Kerry runs in with Ellis West again.  He tells her that he has withdrawn the contract.  He does not want her to think he was using her.  Peter ends up waiting for Corday to get off of work.  He wants to know if she wants to go play darts, but nothing else.  She accepts and the leave together.  Doug sees Carol taking care of the parents with a new baby.  He tells her to take as much time as she needs, he will wait for her.  Carter goes to Anna's place.  He tells her that she was right.  He did want the rapist to die.  He did not want to waste the good blood on him and now he feels bad about it.      

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-31-2000