Mark
is doing another ride along with the
paramedics. They are stuck in traffic,
so they walk to the accident scene. A
man is unconscious in his vehicle and his dog
is with him. The dog does not want
anyone near his owner. Mark takes care
of the dog as the paramedics help the man.
Mark ends up back at the ER with a dog bite.
He will be okay, but he needs an updated
tetanus shot. Randi comments to Kerry
that she has the perfect interviewing outfit
on. She must have read the Cosmos
Magazine. Kerry denies it. Carol
tells Doug that she is three days late and has
not gotten her period yet. Doug gets
worried. Carter and Lucy take care of a
magician named Jeff Whitcher who has inhaled
flash powder. Elizabeth learns who her
new boss is. It is Dale Edson and he
seems to be a bigger pain than what Romano
was. Lucy has to take a body to the
morgue. She gets him on the elevator,
but then she gets off to help someone
and the elevator doors close. When the
elevator comes back to the floor she is on,
the body is gone. Jeanie takes care of a
little boy whose mother doesn't speak English.
His name is Angel Munoz. His mother's
relative tries to use her own social security
number so that he can be seen. Jeanie
tells her that the county hospital treats
everyone. Jeanie has Dr. Kayson look at
his charts and he sees that the boy needs
surgery. Lucy doesn't want Carter
to know that she has lost the patient.
His twin brother shows up to get some jewelry
off of him and she gets nervous. She
tells him that she will go to the morgue to
get him. Doug goes up to see Dana before
she has her leg amputated. Romano will
be doing the operation. Lucy goes to the
morgue to see if the body has shown up and it
has not. Jeanie helps a man who looks
like he has jaundice. He tells her that
he has had a liver transplant and is on the
list for another. Doug speaks to
Anspaugh about Dana. He is concerned
about the pain she has in her leg and that she
may still have pain after the surgery.
Romano tells him to stay out of it. A
young man has come in after being stabbed in a
gang related fight. His name is Bo and
he is eighteen years old. They can not
keep him there, but Carol is concerned that if
he leaves, he will fight again. Lynette
wants to sedate him so that he will not leave
to act out his revenge on the gang member who
stabbed him. Carol tells her that it is
unethical. She has a guard placed in
front of the exam room so that he will not
leave until his mother arrives. The
guard does not do a good job watching him and
he leaves. Peter takes Reese to therapy,
but Peter was not prepared of what his role
would be in helping him out. Kerry is
interviewing for the Chief position today.
The other person who interviewed has the same
looking outfit on as Kerry. Lucy has to
ask Carol for help again doing an IV.
The kid is dehydrated and she does not want to
hurt him. Doug gives Dana an epidural
without Romano knowing. He later tells
him that this causes the surgery to have to be
delayed for a few days. Doug tells him
that this gives her enough chance to decide on
the procedure. Lucy finally finds her
dead patient. A work crew had used his
gurney as a table top to place their equipment
on. Doug has Carol do the IV for Lucy.
Jeanie tells her jaundiced patient that his
lab results are back and she sees that he has
been drinking. This disqualifies him
from getting on the list for a new liver.
Mark tells Kerry that her interview went
great. Randi helped her dress. Dr.
Kayson tells Jeanie that he can not help her
with her young patient. He is not a
legal citizen and does not have any insurance.
Carol's stabbed patient comes back in.
This time he has been shot. Lucy admits
to Carter that she can not do an IV. She
tells him that she has not done one yet.
Jeanie tells Doug that she wants to be his
full time PA. She will speak with
Anspaugh about it. Carter finds Lucy on
the roof. He tells her to never lie to
him again. Carol tells Doug that she is
not pregnant and he seems relieved.
Reviewed
by Tony Conner on 11-10-2000

NBC Review
VANISHING ACT -- In her
campaign to be chief of ER, Dr. Weaver (Laura
Innes) begins to sweet-talk Dr. Greene (Anthony
Edwards ). Dr. Ross (George Clooney) hinders Dr.
Romano's (guest star Paul McCrane) attempt to
perform an amputation on a young cancer patient
(guest star Ashley Johnson). Hathaway (Julianna
Margulies) and Evans (guest star Penny Johnson)
disagree on whether to sedate a young gangbanger
to keep him from pursuing revenge. Meanwhile,
Lucy (Kellie Martin) manages to lose a dead body
in the hospital while Dr. Carter (Noah Wyle)
learns some unsettling information about her
abilities with basic procedures. Dr. Corday
(Alex Kingston) is assigned as an intern to the
obnoxious surgical resident Dale Edson (guest
star Matthew Glave). Eriq La Salle, Gloria
Reuben also star.