A school shooting has taken place and Kovac and Benton are being flown there by helicopter.  Three kids have been shot and the gunman is still on the loose.  Luka helps a boy who has been shot in the groin and may lose his leg.  As he is helping him, the gunman exits the school while shooting his assault rifle.  A sniper shoots him down, but he is still alive.  Benton tells Luka that he needs to go by helicopter, but Luka already has the boy on board and will not let Benton in.  Luka wants to save the victim and not he shooter.  The gunman dies on the way to the hospital and the boy is okay.  Benton and Kovac argue about it later when Benton arrives back at the ER.  Carter, Abby and Kerry are helping a patient.  Carter sneaks a needle as he is working with the patient and no one sees him do it.  Carter stays behind as they take him up to radiology.

Carter starts shooting pain medication into his wrist and Abby walks back in to get the patients chart.  She sees what he is doing, but she doesn't let Carter know that she did.  Malluci is hunting for a screwdriver so that he can remove a screw from a man who seems to like a lot of pain.  Mark asks Carter if he is seeing anyone yet (a shrink) and Carter tells him that he is.  Carter later gets nervous when he sees Abby speaking with Greene alone.  Abby tells Mark what she caught Carter doing.  A pregnant woman is brought in after being stabbed.  She is almost 8 months pregnant, but she didn't even know it.  She has been stabbed near the baby and the placenta has been damaged.  Luka tells her that she needs an operation and the baby needs to be delivered.  She doesn't want the baby; all she worries about is herself.  Mark talks to Kerry about Carter.  Malucci and Carter walk in as they are talking.  They ask Malucci that they want to speak to Carter alone, so he leaves.  Carter denies everything and says that  Abby must be seeing things.  They know he is lying, so Mark takes him off patient care and has him do nothing but paperwork.  Dr. Coburn and Luka do not see eye to eye on the way the pregnant woman needs to be treated.  She tells Luka that he can not operate on her without a court order.  Luka works with Kerry to get one, but it is not going to be easy.  Kerry and Mark want to get Carter some help.  Mark talks again with Carter alone.  Carter tells him that he is going to be fine for someone who was stabbed by a 6 inch butcher knife.  He still feels responsible for Lucy's death.  Peter and Elizabeth have been working on the boy who had been shot at the school.  The bullet that hit him had been caught in his artery and rushed up to his heart.  They saved his life.  As they are laughing and feeling good about the surgery, Cleo walks up.  She doesn't seem to happy about the two of them getting along so well.  Mark plans an intervention.  Kerry gets Carter and brings him to the lounge.  When he enters he sees Jing-Mei, Benton, Anspaugh and Mark.  They have a ticket for him to go to Atlanta for a rehab hospital for doctors.  He can either go to Atlanta or he will be fired.  He feels ganged up so he quits and walks out.  Peter runs after him and talks with him.  Peter gets punched in the face by Carter after he tells him that he is going to end up a vegetable like his cousin Chase.  Carter then breaks down in his arms and cries.  Peter goes with him to Atlanta.  The woman that was stabbed delivers her baby after Kovach nearly scared her to death about her health.  The baby is a boy and he is already dead.  Later, Kerry gets a phone call from a judge saying that it is okay to go ahead and save the baby without the mother's consent, but of course it is too late.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 09-16-2000