Kerry is making copies and some painters come in and she leaves.  She thinks that it is unusual that they would be doing construction in that room.  Mark tries to have a conversation with Rachel about a party she attended, but Rachel doesn't really want to share with him.  The phone rings and it is her mother, Jen, and she tells her all about the fabulous party she went to.  Kerry gets a new title that she is not too happy about, Interim Chief.  She thinks that the title Acting Chief sounds a lot better.  Dr. Morganstern has been gone for ninety days and she is wondering about the position.  Anspaugh tells her that there are four other people interviewing for the position of Chief of the Emergency Medicine other than herself.  This makes her nervous.  She hands him an evaluation on Doug, this is what she was copying in the room before she was kicked out by the painters.  Carter is having plumbing trouble again.  This time his toothbrush gets flushed down the toilet.  Carter comes in to work and Randi tells him that he is starting to look mythical with his beard and everything, Carter takes it as a compliment.  Mark has been asked by Anspaugh to be on the hiring committee for the new Chief of the ER.  This too makes Kerry nervous.  He tells her that he decided that he would not be on the committee.  Jeanie is back from vacation.  It has done her a lot of good, but she is ready to get back to work.  Carol introduces her to Lynette Evans.  Jeanie has come in early to help out in the clinic until her shift starts.  Peter speaks with an audiologist about Reese's' hearing condition.  He agrees with the results of his previous hearing tests.  He will need hearing aids and he tells Peter that surgery will not work for his son.  Doug has some news to tell Mark and Carol, so he has invited them out to a nice lunch.  Roxanne comes back to the ER trying to sell insurance, but she is really wanting to see Carter.  She has him re-tape her toes.  One of the painters brings some copies out of the room that Kerry had left and he hands them to Jerry.  Jerry looks them over and then has Randi put them in Doug's box to read.  Today is Elizabeth's last day on her surgical fellowship and she is feeling a little sentimental about it.  She will now be a surgical intern, again.  She wants to hear Peter's opinion about it and he tells her that he could have never stepped back like that.  A man is brought in with a carving knife through is forehead.  He is agitated, as I would be, and he has to be restrained.  Carol, Mark and Lucy are tending to him.  Carol tells Lucy to tie him to the bed, but she doesn't do it well enough and he breaks loose.  They finally sedate him.  Doug has a young lady come in after a soccer injury.  Her name is Dana and she is in a lot of pain with her leg.  She kicked the ball and her bone cracked.  Peter learns that his medical insurance will not cover Reese's hearing aids.  Mark goes on a paramedic run to where a shoot out occurred.  Lucy gets to put in an IV on the wild man they have sedated.  She goes right through the vein and it did not work.  Malik helps her to do it right.  Mark arrives at the shootout scene and the man he needs to help is covered in dynamite.  The chicken wire that it is connected to is cutting through his small intestines.  He will have to carefully be transported to the ER.  An elderly woman brings her elderly neighbor in.  She is seventy seven years old and her name is Emily Holmes.  She has arrested and the woman seems concerned.  Carter asks her about her neighbor and she tells him that she hasn't picked up her newspaper in a few days, that is how she new something was wrong.  She then asks Carter if he knows if she will make it, her sister is on a waiting list for an empty apartment in her building.  Doug and Jeanie tell Dana's parents that she may have cancer in her leg.  They need to run some more tests.  Peter goes to see Carla about Reese.  He tells her about the insurance not covering his hearing aids and she tells him that she will pay for half of the cost of $5000.00.  Elizabeth sees them chatting with each other and wonders what it is about.  Carter learns that his elderly patient is a D.N.R. and that he should not have resuscitated her.  Her insurance will not cover for her to stay in the hospital, so now he has to find a place for her to stay.  Mark arrives with the man that was covered in dynamite.  They have removed the explosives, but he still has a black box attached to him.  Peter knows that he needs immediate care, so he decides to take the black box off of him.  All the people clear the room except for Peter.  He throws the black box down and it explodes.  He is okay and he hollers for the rest to come in and help him with his patient.  Doug is unable to take Mark and Carol out for lunch, so he has ordered a pizza and they meet in the lounge.  He reads them the evaluation that ended up in his mail box.  It is from Kerry and it is not good.  He does not care, he has been approved as a new ER Pediatric Attending.  Carol is proud and Mark is shocked.  He never thought that he would have been approved.  Rachel comes in to get Mark.  She tells him that there is a horse outside in a trailer that needs help.  The horses name is Cherry Blossom and it is impacted.  The nearest large animal hospital is two hours away and the horse would probably not make it there in time.  Roxanne asks Carter out on a workout date.  He declines.  Kerry takes care of a large man who is having trouble breathing.  She can not see is cords and can not intubate him.  Mark comes in and is able to.  The painters come to have Kerry sign off on the work that they have done.  They are converting the room into a pediatric exam room and waiting area.  Kerry is upset and wants to speak to Anspaugh right away.  Peter and Corday speak about what him and Carla were discussing earlier.  She is upset to hear about Reese.  Jerry goes out and help with the horse.  He is asked to get into the trailer with the horse and to help bring him out.  As soon as they get the horse out, it relieves itself on Jerry.  Rachel finds this funny.  Doug goes to see about Dana.  He tells her about her condition.  She has heard her parents talking about having her leg amputated and she is concerned.  Carter has to take his elderly patient off of life support.  Lucy watches on as he does it.  Kerry is upset to learn that Mark knew about Doug's new position and that he did not tell her.  He tells her to accept it and move on.  Mark ends up telling Anspaugh that he has decided to take part in the hiring process for the new Chief.  Dana's parents are upset with Doug about speaking with their daughter.  They tell him to keep away from her .  Roxanne ends up at Carter's place.  She helps with installing a new stereo system for him.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 11-10-2000