Mark is up at 5:30 AM playing Tetris on the computer.  Elizabeth wakes up and wants to know if he is up so early because his father is arriving today.  He is coming for Thanksgiving.  Haleh wakes Peter up to tell him that a choir bus from Louisville got hit by a semi-truck and the passengers are being brought in.  Carter is giving orders in the ER for the day.  Carol is helping out at the front desk, since she is too big and the babies are due.  Luka is back at work.  Lucy helps with a young man that is brought in by his mother.  She wants him tested for drugs, but Lucy thinks that it is the boy's choice.  Cleo oversteps her boundaries and takes over care of this patient.  Lucy is upset about it.  Elizabeth goes to the scene of a traffic pile up.  Detective Cruson from Violent Crimes is at the scene.  Elizabeth has to help a man, Dean Rollins, who had carjacked a woman and left her somewhere.  Elizabeth threatens to let him die if he does not tell the officers where the woman is.  He tells them that she is in Lincoln Park.  Meg's prison nurse comes to see Carol.  Meg has requested for Carol to come see her.  The lady that was left in Lincoln Park by Dean Rollins has been found.  She has been stabbed multiple times and has been raped.  Carter donates blood for the woman since the blood supply is low.  Her husband comes to the ER and watched his wife die.  Carol gets sent home due to the fact that her blood pressure has dropped and she needs bed rest.  Marks dad is missing and has never showed up at the airport.  Lucy tends to the choir director who has health problems, but he wants to go to a concert that he and the choir need to attend.  The man leaves without Lucy's approval.  Cleo's teenage patient was not doing drugs, but he is a heavy drinker and she tells his mother that he is an alcoholic.  The mother is an alcoholic also and does not think that it is bad.  Dr. Lawrence goes through some memory testing and gets very aggravated.  His son is coming after him and he will be staying with him.  Elizabeth gets in trouble for telling Dean Rollins that she will let him die unless he tells her where the girl was.  Carol goes to see Meg.  Meg wants Carol to talk to Social Services about letting her keep her baby in jail.  They won't let her and Carol just wants to get out of the room with her.  Before Dr. Lawrence leaves the ER, he gets to help Carter out with a patient.  David Greene finally shows up.  His flight was overbooked, so he took standby and made some money.  Kerry asks Dr. Kovach to work in the ER.  Dr. Lawrence is leaving so there is a position available.  He accepts without even knowing how much money he will be making.  

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-01-2000