Mark and Carol start the day off by going jogging.  Mark has read a letter that Carol wrote Doug.  He tells her that it sounds good.  She is going to fax it to him later on during the day.  She does not want Doug to run back just because she is pregnant.  Roxanne and Lucy meet to discuss Carter.  Lucy tells Roxanne that nothing is going on between the two of them.  Carter is on his way in to work.  He is on the train and he watches two people making out as the power goes off.  Another passenger tells him, "It's spring".  Lucy tells Carter that she is doing another ER rotation and Carter gets to supervise her again.  Romano s spending the day in the ER, since Kerry is off.  He tells Mark that he doesn't want to see any patients though.  Roger brings Reese to daycare, where Peter gets him.  Carol and Lucy take care of an elderly woman who has fallen, Mrs. Armstrong.  Carol points out her bed sores and tells Lucy to take her to X-ray.  She was brought in by her husband and a hard of hearing neighbor named Gladys.  Gladys tells Mark and Romano that she heard a loud bang and went to check on them.  Lucy thinks that Mr. Armstrong needs to speak to psych. about his depression and Alzheimer's.  A woman named Phyllis Farr comes in.  Lucy is tending to her.  She sells perfume sprays that contain pheromones.  Carter comes to check on her and sees that she is having shortness of breath.  She also tells him that she had a mild stoke a few yeas earlier.  A woman is being brought in after falling down an escalator at the airport.  Her name is Ms. Price and she has a bad head laceration.  Elizabeth comes down to take a look at Ms. Price and sees someone leaving a body on a gurney in the hallway.  She asks him if it is her laceration patient, but it is not.  She finds the patient in the room with Mark.  Mark and Elizabeth take care of her as the power cuts on and off.  Carter finds Roxanne with Mrs. Farr.  He tells her not to be selling insurance to his sick patients.  He ends up breaking up with her, to Jerry's disbelief.  Jerry tells him that she was nice to have around to look at.  Elizabeth comes back to the hallway after tending to Ms. Price to find that the gurney is still in the hallway.  She goes to check it out and the woman has been beaten and she is not breathing.  She does not find the person who had left her there.  She was a patient in the hospital and she has been raped.  Her name is Laurie Heller.  Elizabeth feels guilty about not recognizing the man who had left her there.  The power goes out in the ER.  Carol was in the middle of trying to fax her letter to Doug.  Jerry later gets it out, without reading it.  The rapist is still at large.  Mrs. Farr crashes and needs a CT.  Elizabeth and Romano have to operate on Laurie's spleen in the dark.  Peter goes to be with Reese in the dark.  He does not want him to be frightened.  Lucy's elderly patient that she was tending to does not have bad bed sores as she had thought.  Her husband has shot her in the lower back.  Peter gets paged to come to the ER.  A man has been brought in by ambulance after being struck by lightening.  His name is Mr. Joiner.  He was brought through a window, since the door could not be opened due to the power outage.  Peter comes to the ER with Reese strapped to his back.  Jerry is going to take care of him while Peter works on Mr. Joiner.  Kerry comes in for her shift.  She has cleaned out her refrigerator and has cooked a lot of food to bring in.  Everyone seems to like her fried chicken, especially Carol.  Romano compliments Elizabeth for her operation on Laurie Heller.  He thinks that she would be great to stay in surgery.  Elizabeth identifies a man that has hung himself in the hospital.  It is the man who had raped the woman.  Mark and Elizabeth go to the arcade to unwind after work.