Mark's dad had pneumonia and he brings him in to the ER.  Cleo eats breakfast with Peter and Jackie and plays basketball with her kids.  Jackie tells Peter that Cleo is not ready to settle down.  Kerry is back after her suspension.  Carol is looking for a new used car and Luka offers to help her.  A girl is brought in with her father after a car accident and Abby learns that she has leukemia.  Carter assists Luka in giving a boy a lumbar puncture.  It reminds Carter of Paul Sobricki.  Mark and Elizabeth steal supplies for Mark to take home to care for his father.  Elizabeth sees that this is really causing Mark a lot of pain to see his father like this.  Carol and Luka end up at Wrigley Field and they talk while they eat a hotdog.  She tells him that she really never knew her father because he died when she was a little child.  Luka tells her about how his family died.  Carter goes to the records room and pulls Paul Sobricki's file.  Carter goes to see Dr. Carl DeRaad, who asks him if he is curious about Paul, but Carter tells him no.  Abby asks the father of the girl who needs a bone marrow transplant if there is any one in the family that can be tested.  He tells her that there is a half-sister.  Abby goes to the home of the man's ex-wife and she is asked to leave.  Carol ends up buying a small station wagon, but it breaks down.  Luka has to push it.  Mark takes his dad to the water.  He tells Mark that this has been the fastest year.  Carter speaks with Samantha Sobricki.  She tells him about how Paul is doing and that she is expecting his child.  Carol and Luka are waiting for a tow truck and they kiss.  The half-sister comes in to be tested for the bone marrow, but Kerry tells Abby that she can't without her mother's consent.  Abby contacts the mother and brings her in. 

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-12-2000