Peter calls around trying to find a new job, but Romano has been telling everyone not to hire him.  Cleo tells him to be patient, but Peter don't want to hear about it.  Kerry tells Carter that he can handle a few traumas now.  His first patient is a large sized homeless man who is suffering from hypothermia and has fallen out of a tree in the park.  Malucci is needed someone to play hockey for his team.  He asks Carter, but he is not interested.  Mark tells him that he can play, but Malucci isn't interested.  Carter's patient crashes and they have to shock his heart.  When they do, pigeons fly out of his coat.  A bunch of young contestants from the Miss Tri-State Beauty Pageant are brought in after a beauty salon explosion.  Mark takes care of Miss Skokie, Audrey, who is concerned about the burns on her leg and her swim suit modeling.  Jing-Mei's mom calls and she tries to avoid her, but she has to speak with her anyways.  Benton is told by Dr. Gottschalk, with whom he wanted a position, that he will have a hard time finding work locally because of Romano.  A 72 year old man named Archie Mellonston is brought in from a nursing home and is confused and disoriented.  Kerry tends to his care.  Jing-Mei takes care of a young boy, Kenneth Stein, who is brought in by his mother.  His liver and spleen are enlarged and he is terminally ill.  She knows that he needs surgery, but the hospital will not do it because it would probably kill him.  She tells the mother that if they could remove his spleen that he might be better for a while.  Luka sees Abby again in the drug lockup room.  He picks a pigeon feather out of her hair.  She asks him out and he tells her that tonight would be good.  Peter comes to speak with Romano.  Romano offers him a per-diem job, but Peter "kindly" tells him that he is not interested.  Kerry speaks with Dr. Kim Legaspi about her patient Archie.  Peter goes to Kerry about wanting to work in the ER as a surgeon, but she tells him that Romano would have to find the money for it.  Romano tells Jing-Mei that he will not do the surgery on her young, terminally ill patient.  He tells her that he needs to die in piece.  Jing-Mei tells the mother and she will not accept that for the answer.  Luka and Carter work on a woman with multiple gun shot wounds to the chest.  Kerry sees that Archie is watching them work on the patient.  She goes out to speak with him and tells him that he has lost his bed at the nursing home.  Dr. Kim Legaspi is going to try to get him in to the Veteran's hospital, but Archie tells her that he will not go.  He hugs and begs Kerry not to let them take him there.  Carter saves the patient that he and Luka were working on.  She is going to be okay.  Kerry  learns from Kim that Archie is AWOL from the Korean war.  If he goes to the VA, then he will most likely be court marshaled.  Peter goes to speak with Elizabeth.  She apologizes for dodging his phone calls, but she didn't know what to say to him about losing his job.  He wants her to put in a good word for him around Chicago.  As they are talking, Shirley tells him that he is needed in the ER.  Jackie has brought Jesse, his nephew, in to be seen.  He has been in a fight.  A young girl comes in to the room where Carter is looking after the woman whom he had saved.  She asks how she is doing and Carter tells her that she is improving.  She tells him that she is her sister and then the girl pulls out a gun and blows her brains out.  Carter gets splattered with blood, but he did not get hit.  The girl ran out of the room as the others come to see what has happened.  Carter walks out of the room.  This was another brush with death for him and he is shaken and upset.  Luka finds Carter in the restroom cleaning off the blood.  Luka tells him to take the rest of the day off and to go home, Carter does.  Jackie tells Peter that Jesse is not the same good kid he use to be.  He is fighting with Walt and disrespecting the family.  She wants Peter to have a talk with him.  Malucci goes to Mark and tells him that he can play in his game.  Mark must have impressed him by playing hockey in the ER with a pair of crutches with him.  Kim has good news for Kerry.  She has taken the social security number off of a cadaver and gave it to Archie.  He is able to get into a home now.  Kerry does not want to hear anymore about what she has done.  Mark has a makeup artist come to work on his pageant patient.  She is use to working on dead people, but she will probably do a good job on her.  Carter is punching a bag at home.  He is still staying with his Gamma and she is concerned about him.  She wants him to leave the ER and start a practice, but Carter is not interested in that.  He tells her that he is going to be okay.  She replies that he does not owe the ER anything.  Luka and Abby go on their date.  They end up at a bar playing foosball, which Abby beats him in.  They have a drink, she has club soda, and Luka tells her that he lives in a hotel.  He treats tourists that come in and he gets his room for free or at a cheaper rate.  He reaches over and kisses her, then they go play some more games.  Peter talks with Jessie.  Jesse tells Peter that he is a man now and peter tells him that he needs to still treat his parents with respect.  Elizabeth comes in and tells him that she has found him a job at Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia as an attending.  He thanks this is great news and he hugs her.  Cleo walks up and wants to know what the good news is about and he tells her.  He tells her that it is only a one hour flight away, but she is not happy about it.  Luka and Abby leave the bar after he loses to her again.  As they are walking down the sidewalk a man comes up behind them and clubs Luka over the head and knocks him down.  He asks for Abby's purse and Luka gets up and knocks the mugger down to the ground.  He continually beats his head against the pavement until Abby tells him to stop.  Carter comes back in to work to finish his shift out.  Kerry tells him to take it easy and no more traumas for the night.  Luka and Abby come in with the paramedics and the mugger he has beaten.  He has a major head trauma and Carter goes to take care of him.  Peter goes to see Carla at her restaurant.  He tells her about his new job and that he wants to work out Reese's visitation schedule.  Carla tells him that he can not get visitation rights if he leaves Chicago.  She reminds him of the trouble he caused when Roger was wanting to move to Germany.  The police come to speak to Abby and Luka about what had happened with the mugger.  The police tell him that it looks like self defense.  Cleo comes to take a look at Luka's head that was cut, but he does not want nobody touching him.  Peter gives in and goes to see Romano about a job.  Carter and Elizabeth do all that they can, but the mugger dies.  Luka walks out and Abby goes after him, but he leaves the ER. 

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 11-03-2000