Carter is still having trouble sleeping.  He gets up and goes outside for a smoke.  He is not the only one having sleeping trouble though.  Tess is keeping Carol awake also.  Haleh  comes and wakes Abby up.  A patient is coming in with abdominal pain.  Mark goes through his father's things.  He comes across a picture of his mom and dad and then he goes over to Rachel as she is sleeping and tells her how much he loves her.  Luka is shooting hoops as Carol and the twins come up at the hospital.  He asks her if he has done something to make her angry.  They talk about Doug.  Weaver has been working a double and she is on the war path.  A new temp named Frank has been sent down from personnel to help out at the desk.  Weaver is upset at the 7am staff for coming in late.  She blows a whistle to wake up Malucci.  A woman with liver failure has been brought in, Mrs. O'Brien.  She has a Do Not Resuscitate order.  Her husband and 2 daughters are with her.  Carter is simultaneously helping 2 patients.  One has asthma and the other one is having chest pains.  Jing-Mei comes in to help, but Carter tells her he has it under control.  Weaver tells Mr. O'Brien that his wife will not be around much longer.  He tells her to do everything that they can.  The nurses discuss Benton and Cleo being off at the same time.  Abby's patient is released and the paper work is handed to her teacher Malucci to sign off on.  Later on she is found collapsed outside at the hospital bay.  Kerry talks to Mr. O'Brien about home hospice care for his wife.  Carol disagrees with her about it.  Carter gives the woman that he is taking care of the antibiotic that she previously told him that she was allergic to.  Carter panics when she has a bad reaction and rips the IV out of her arm and reverses the incident with medicine.  Malik and Jing-Mei come in to see what is happening.  Jing-Mei sees blood and Carter covers up by saying that the patient must have ripped it out herself.  

He then goes into the bathroom and cries.  Jing-Mei goes and asks Mark about him.  She thinks he might be bipolar.  Mark tells her that he will talk with him.  Carol goes in and speaks with Mr. O'Brien.  He tells her that he wishes that he would have spent more time with her in the past 2 years.  Mrs. O'Brien stops breathing and Carol convinces Luka into clearing her airway so that the daughters can say their goodbyes.  Kerry comes in and she is mad that they did it.  Luka did not know that she was Kerry's patient.  Elizabeth comes down to see Mark.  She asks him how he is doing.  She gives him back the necklace that his father had given her.  She thinks Rachel should have it.  Carol finds Luka and apologizes.  She thinks that it is funny that he got mad at her.  She thanks him for helping Mrs. O'Brien.  He kisses her.  They make plans to go out for dinner.  Carol goes to get the daughters to see their mother.  Mark finds Carter and asks him how he is doing.  He tells him that everyone is worried about him.  Mark asks him if he seeing a doctor and Carter tells him no.  Mark refers him to one and Carter thanks him.  Mrs. O'Brien dies.  Mr. O'Brien thanks her for everything she did.  He tells her that she was his soul mate which gets Carol to thinking.  Carol runs to find Mark to tell him that she is leaving and will speak to him in a few days.  She goes and tells Luka that she can't go to dinner and that she is sorry.  She has to go find out if Doug is still in love with her.  Doug is everything to her and she feels empty when they are apart.  He is her soul mate.  She tells Luka that he will find someone to love him as much as is wife did.  She kisses him and then leaves.  She drops the twins off at her mom's and then leaves to catch a plane to Seattle.  She runs through the airport and barely makes it on board in time.  Mark takes Rachel to see her grandfather's favorite spot in Chicago.  He invites her to go with him to lay his father's ashes next to his mother.  He also gives her his mother's necklace.  Carol arrives at Doug's and finds him out on the dock.  He comes up to meet her and he asks where the girls are.  She replies and then they kiss.  

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 09-09-2000