Mark and Jerry are planning the annual ER banquet this year.  Jerry’s mother is cooking a smorgasbord. A deposit was not put down for a band so they end up with a one man orchestra.  Elizabeth is still concerned about her sponsorship in the US.  Peter suggests her to speak with Morgenstern about sponsoring her.  She tells Peter that she has been offered a position of senior lecturer at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital back in the UK, but that she doesn't want to go back there.  Doug is interested in being a pediatric attending.  Carol suggests to Carter that he should ask Anna out.  He does not want to ruin their friendship.  Carol tells Carter that his grandmother stopped payment on a donation check to the clinic.  Jeanie learns from Anspaugh that the final two bone marrow donors did not match Scott. Anspaugh tells him that he could try a new Phase I Chemotherapy trial. Scott agrees to do it even though it is very experimental, with possible severe side effects that could kill him.  Allison Beaumont is back in the ER again, this time as a paramedic.  She has a seventy one year old man with her named Lyle Swanson.  He was in an automobile accident. Elizabeth is happy to see how well Allison is doing.  Swanson is having chest pains and he tells Kerry, Peter and Elizabeth to order a chest X-ray.  He tells them he has a parasophageal hernia.  They are surprised to know he is a pathologist.  Carter goes ahead and takes Carol’s advice and asks her out and she accepts.  Mr. Swanson ends up having a volvulus and he needs a gastrectomy.  Morgenstern had him in school and tells him that he can do the surgery laproscopically.  Morganstern wants Elizabeth to assist him.  Mark tells Anna that she has matched for a bone marrow patient out of state. Anna wants Carter to do the procedure on her and he agrees to.  She will be sore and will not be able to go to the banquet with him.  Carter's grandmother tells him that Carol will have to find other funding for her clinic. Carter thinks that she is retaliating because of what happened to Chase.  Doug arrives to adjust Scott's pain medication and asks him if he's sure about the chemotherapy. Doug later tells Jeanie that Scott has a crush on her, and is doing the chemotherapy for her.  Elizabeth ends up letting Peter scrub in with Morganstern.  She tells him that she will meet up with him in the OR later.  He tells his Gamma that he is not interested in the family anymore and she tells him that he will not need his trust money anymore then.  He walks out.  The surgery doesn’t go as planned and Morgenstern accuses Benton of cutting the gastric artery.  Benton has to push Morgenstern out of the way to save the patient.  Elizabeth is there to witness that part of the procedure.  Benton is glad that the operation was videotaped, but the tape is already gone.  He goes to see the autopsy.  Jeanie really feels bad after Scott’s heart stops and is finally brought back.  She tells him that she will love him no matter what.  He does not have to take the chemo treatment just for her.  Scott tells her that he doesn't want any more chemotherapy and Jeanie kisses him.  Morgenstern threatens Peter if he goes around telling his side of the story.  Carol tells Carter at the banquet that a new check has come.  Anna made it after all.  She tells Carter that she is still not over her ex-boyfriend in Philadelphia, the one who had the drug problem.  The place where the banquet is being held is like a lodge.  Mark does it all so that everyone knows how much he really cares for them and how he appreciates how they have treated him since his attack.  They are his family.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-24-2000