Elaine comes to the ER to see Carter.  Mark is at his parent's house with Rachel.  His mother's funeral is over and his dad is out in the garage building a linen chest that he had been promising to make for his wife.  Mark asks his dad, David, if he would like him to stay longer, but he doesn't.  There is a new second year resident working in the ER now.  His name is Dave Malucci and he has been there for 3 days and everybody has already figured out that he has a smart mouth.  He tells everyone to call him "Dr. Dave".  An announcement has been made that Romano is promoting Elizabeth Corday to Associate Chief of Surgery; she is surprised because he neglected to even ask her.  Mark has returned back to work and doesn't say much of anything about his mother.  Department of Children and Family Services (D.C.F.S.) is coming to pick up the Ortega baby who has HIV.  Jeanie finds out that his mother had died the day before.  Jeanie really wants him to go home with her.  Carol asks Luka where is from.  He tells her that he is from Croatia.  Peter and Carla have to see a therapist as part of the custody case.  Carter goes up to radiology to check on something.  He see that Elaine is up there and wonders why.  He sees her later and asks what she has been doing and lies about not being up there.  Jeanie tells Paul from D.C.F.S. that she is interested in taking the Ortega baby.  Dave and Carter run to a construction site and they grab the supplies from an ambulance that was parked outside of the ER.  The paramedics get really mad at Malucci for stealing their gear.  Kerry gets on to both Carter and Malucci telling Carter that he knows better than that.  Carter learns that he needs to steer clear of Dr. Dave.  A young woman tells Mark that she doesn't want to die today.  She has cancer and has a Do Not Resuscitate Order.  Mark has her put on a ventilator without the father knowing.  When the father finds out he gets furious.  Kerry intervenes and steps on Mark's toes because she is the Chief.  The girl crashes and Mark tells Carter to start compressions.  Kerry tells Carter not do listen to Mark and he gets caught in between the twos orders.  Mark threatens to walk out and goes ahead with treating the girl.  She dies.  Jeanie gets in trouble for having had the Ortega baby tested for HIV without any ones consent.  Paul from D.C.F.S. tells Jeanie that she will not be able to take the baby.  Carter learns from Dr. Corday that Elaine has breast cancer and will be having a mastectomy.

Jeanie tells Reggie that she isn't going to get the baby, but she wants to marry him any ways.  Carol treats a woman who is in the final stages of death.  She tells Carol that she wants to speak to a priest after having told her earlier that she didn't want to.  It is now too late for Carol to get one, so Luka goes to the woman and poses as a priest.  The woman dies.  Luka asks Carol if he can touch her belly to feel the babies and she lets him.  Elaine and Carter get together and she figures out that he knows about her cancer.  She tells him to leave.  Carla meets with Peter and during a heated discussion, she tells him that Reese may not even be his son.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 09-23-2000