Mark's dad is staying with him now and the neighbors are complaining about the loud noise from the television.  He is use to living in a house and not an apartment.  Luka treats some circus performers and gets to see part of the show from a girl he helps.  There is a water shortage at the hospital. Carol is back from her maternity leave.  Lucy's patient Valerie is in for heart transplant surgery.  A woman brings her mother in with Parkinson's disease.  The real problem is that the woman is too tired to take care of her mother and she wants them to admit her so that she can get some rest.  Jing-Mei tells her that she can't.  Valerie is running a fever and it jeopardizes her transplant surgery.  Mark takes care of 2 men (gay couple) that were in a car accident.  The driver had taken too much of his asthma medication.  Everyone is concerned about Carol being back at work.  Elizabeth finds her in the lounge crying.  Lucy talks to Romano about Valerie and they agree to do the transplant.  Mark learns that the man who took too much of the asthma medicine was being abused by his boy friend.  He suggest to him that he needs to speak with a social worker, but he will not.  Linsey comes in to thank Elizabeth for getting Dean to tell them where her sister's body was.  Elizabeth goes to see Dean.  He is mad because she did not give him enough morphine to let him die.  She tells him goodbye, her job is done.  Dr. Dave finds out that some Mexican patients have been receiving drugs at an illegal pharmacy.  He goes to investigate it and comes back with a black eye.  Mark discharges the men and while outside, one (accidentally?) runs over the one who had been abusing him.  Lucy's patient Valeri crashes and ends up rejecting the new heart.  She will be a vegetable and Lucy has to tell her family.  She also gets consent to take the heart so that another person on the transplant list can get it.  Benton gets the nerve and he asks Cleo out.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-01-2000