Roxanne wakes up at Carter's apartment.  She wants him to go off with her and some of her friends tonight, but he already has plans to help Lucy on presenting the next day.  Amanda comes to work to find Mark shoveling snow.  They end up playing in it.  Doug and Carol are in the hospital cafeteria and a woman there faints.  Doug and Carol take her to the ER.  Jerry and Randi have both called in sick, so a guy named Tony is covering the front desk.  Reggie the cop brings in a boy who hurt his arm while bumper skiing.  Reggie has hurt his hand and wants Jeanie to take a look at it.  Carol and Amanda take care of Joi Abbott.  She is the lady who had fainted in the cafeteria.  She tells them that her eight year old son Ricky is in the hospital getting an M.R.I..  He goes to the genetic clinic for his advanced ALD.  Carol later learns that Joi had another son die of the disease.  Carter tells Roxanne that he will meet her later.  He tells Lucy that he can not help her tonight because something else came up.  Carter has to be treated for TB because of his exposure at the woman's house in the projects.  After treating Joi, Amanda speaks to Carol about Mark.  They are having a double date with her and Doug tonight.  Amanda wants to know if Carol and Mark have ever been together.  She then tells Carol that Mark is wild in bed.  Carol wants to know if they are talking about the same Mark Greene.  Dr. Parks brings her granddaughter in.  Peter is taking care of her.  Dr. Parks is concerned that she may have an appendicitis, but Peter tells her that it is probably just the stomach flu.  The girl signs for Dr. Parks.  Dr. Parks wants an ultrasound done, but Peter tells her that it is not necessary.  She wants one anyways.  Reggie wants to go out with Jeanie, but she is not interested.  He tells her that he does not care that she is HIV positive.  This seems to offend her, so he later apologizes.  She tells him not to feel sorry for her.  Carter tells Kerry that her mom called.  Kerry seems surprised and she tells Tony to page her if anyone calls for her again.  A small plane has crashed and the ER staff get prepared to handle the survivors, but there are not any.  Elizabeth has written a paper about her error with her patient that she injured sue to her lack of sleep.  Peter tells her that it is not a good idea and Anspaugh tells her that he will not support it.  Lucy meets Dale Edson.  He would like her to go with him to a riverboat casino in Elgin.  Carter tells her that she will need to study for rounds.  Dale tells her that she can study on the way.  Lucy says that she will go and Carter doesn't seem too happy about it.  Mark gets a phone call and a package from NASA.  It is regarding his application for the space program he filled out before Jen went to law school.  A forty-two year old woman named Edie is brought in after having a chimney fall down on her.  She had not been out of her house in over five years and her psychologist had just been able to get her to come outside when it happened.  He tells Mark that she is agoraphobic.  Mark assures her that she will be okay now that she is in a hospital.  Peter tells Dr. Parks and her granddaughter that she was correct and that he granddaughter does have an appendicitis.    The mother has arrived and she is deaf also.  Benton learns how to sign father.  Edie is still very frantic, but Amanda is able to calm her down.  She tells Mark that she had written a paper about phobias when she was a student.  It was published in the Cornell Medical Journal.  Mark would like to read it, but she tells him that it  has been filed away.  Peter has to go up to daycare to get Reese.  He had bit another child and has been acting out.  The instructor tells Peter that Reese should be in a special needs class.  A twenty-eight year old woman named  Robin Gambrell is brought in.  She is in active labor and has been in a car accident with her husband driving.  Mike is the husband and he had been out with friends when a call came saying that her water had broke.  The man they hit is in the next exam room.  Mark has Tony look up the article on the internet that Amanda had wrote.  The author is A.W. Lee and he is an Asian man.  Amanda tells him that Cornell had made a mistake and corrected it in a later issue.  Mark has the hospital library send over some other books by the same author.  Peter starts the appendectomy without the hospital interpreter.  He would like for Dr. Parks to scrub in.  Anspaugh mentions that it must have been difficult for her to go through medical school being deaf.  Peter tells him that it is not appropriate for them to talk about Dr. Parks as if she were not in the room with them.  Anspaugh agrees and apologizes.  The other driver of the car that Mike hit is a private in the Army.  His name is Aaron Drane and he does not survive.  Mark finds out that all of the other books by A.W. Lee have been checked out.  Mark asks Anspaugh how well he knew Amanda before he hired her.  He had never spoken with anyone at Cornell about her before he hired her.  Carol sees Amanda and she is cutting out articles from the hospital's journals.  She tells Carol that they are copies.  She also tells her that she has a migraine and will not be able to join her and Doug later for dinner.  Kerry learns from Reggie that Mike's blood alcohol level is over the legal limit.  The other driver, Aaron, is dead because of him.  His parents come to the ER and Reggie has to tell them about their son's death.  Reggie tells Kerry that he will need to arrest Mike.  Kerry wants him to wait until the baby is born and Reggie reluctantly agrees.  Lucy gets stuck with a needle while helping Carter with a patient named Mr. Wong.  Carter tells her that they will do a rapid HIV test on him.  Carol learns that Joi is anemic and so she goes up to bring her vitamins.  She sees her taking care of Ricky.  Carol asks her if she has any help with him, but she wants to take care of him herself.  Lucy learns that her patient's HIV test is negative, but Carter reminds her to get tested again in six months.  Mark has to take Edie up to have a CT.  They have a hard time getting her to go, but she does.  Edie goes through the testing very well and the technician leaves Mark with her.  After the technician leaves, Amanda comes in and locks the door.  She tells Mark that she thought he was different.  He tells her to unlock the door, but she won't.  She tells him that she loved him more than any man has a right to be loved.  She then leaves Mark and Edie locked in the room.  Mr. Drane, the father of the man that was killed in the car accident, accuses Mike of killing his son.  Mike tries to apologize, but Robin gets upset and Kerry asks Mike to leave with Reggie.  They can post bail so that he can be back in time for the delivery.  Mike has to stay in jail.  Kerry ends up delivering their daughter without him.  Mark and Edie finally get out of the room and Mark learns the truth about Amanda.  She is not even a real doctor.  All the staff seemed to believe that she was a doctor by the way she acted and treated the patients.  Edie seemed to be able to overcome her fear from the whole incident.  She is cured and is able to walk home.  Amanda had left Mark a poem in his locker.  Yosh tells Mark that she did not write it.  She had plagiarized someone else's work.  Doug finds this very funny.  Lucy decides that she will go with Dale to the casino.  Carter tells Dale to be nice to her.  Elizabeth  goes to see Anspaugh to tell him that a patient died while under her and Amanda's care.  She also tells him that she is going to pursue publication for her paper.  He tells her that he will attach a cover letter to any publication she chooses to send and that he admires her directness.  Reggie comes back by the ER to get news on the baby so he can call Mike at the jail.  Jeanie agrees to go to a movie the following night with Reggie.  Back at Kerry's, she tells Carter that both of her adoptive parents have been dead for a year.  Carter seems surprised.  She tells him that she had recently placed her name on the Internet and wonders if her birth mother tried to call her.  Peter goes to pick up Reese from daycare.  He teaches Reese how to sign father and Reese does it.  Peter looks around to see if anyone sees, but they have not.  He continues to play with him. 

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 12-09-2000