Mark is asked to go on a transport to pick up a guy who needs a heart transplant.  The guy is in his early thirties and his name is Tom Coggins.  The ER is chaotic, as usual, and they are understaffed.  Dr. Kovach did not show up for his shift and Kerry Weaver is off.  Peter is back on the job and working in the ER.  Mark takes a helicopter ride to Indiana.  Elizabeth reminds him of the wedding coordinator's visit later and he tells her that he will call her and keep her informed about what is going on.  Cleo seems to be insulted by Peter working in the ER.  She tells him that she feels as if he has dumped her.  Peter tries working on a little boy and Cleo has to come and help him with his bedside manners.  A man with a pencil in his chest comes in and it looks like a surgical case.  Peter is ready to jump right on it, but Romano comes in and reminds him that he is not on as a surgeon.  Romano takes care of the man instead.  Carter sees Peter helping a man that is vomiting in the hallway and he finds it very funny.  Carter takes care of a young man named Trent Larson, who needs stitches.  Chuny comes in and tells Carter that the young man's grandmother would like to speak to him first.  She tells Carter that her grandson is HIV positive and to be cautious.  She also tells him that her grandson is not aware of it.  Carter tells her that he is concerned that she has not told him.  He could be sexually active and could infect someone.  The grandmother tells Carter that he is not sexually active.  Carter calls his doctor and speaks to him about it.  Mark arrives by helicopter to pick up the transplant patient.  They share a common interest, he is engaged also.  Abby is concerned about Luka, because nobody seems to know where he is.  He has gone to see a detective to find out if they have found any family members of the mugger he killed.  The detective tells him that he is better off if they do not find any family members.  Carter has a talk with Trent.  He asks him if he knows anything about his mother and how she died.  He knows that she was a heroin addict.  Carter tells him that he has HIV, but he is healthy.  Trent is surprised and shocked.  He is feeling betrayed by his grandmother for not telling him.  He has been lied to his whole life.  The helicopter is twenty minutes from the hospital.  Tom starts having chest pains and Mark tells him that he is having a heart attack.  Mark tells him that he will get him to the hospital.  Trent gets his things together and his grandmother and him leave.  She thanks Carter sarcastically for helping him.  Mark's patient is an English teacher and has been for ten years.  They are five minutes out and Elizabeth tells Mark that his fiancée, Janet, is on her way to meet them at the hospital.  A loud noise is heard and the helicopter starts swaying.  The main rotor is quitting.  The pilot calls mayday and starts on an emergency descent.  Elizabeth is still on the phone with Mark and then loses the line.  She is back at the hospital concerned.  The pilot lands in a nearby junkyard and they are all okay.  They all leave the helicopter in case it explodes.  They give Tom medicine to relax him.  The ER is really getting busy, so Peter takes charge.  Luka goes around the area he and Abby were mugged to ask around about the mugger.  Nobody seems to recognize his picture.  Mark goes back to the helicopter to get some flares, so that the paramedics can find them.  As he runs to the helicopter they arrive.  Abby calls Luka's place and leaves a message for him to call her.  A young child comes in to the ER and needs to be intubated.  Peter feels uncomfortable to do it, so he asks Cleo to.  Peter thanks her.  Haleh tells Peter that they need to close to trauma, since the ER is so busy.  Peter does not know what to do.  (Haleh must be charge nurse now that Carol has gone?)  Trent comes back to see Carter.  He has brought his girlfriend Emma with him.  When the paramedics arrive, Mark wants to ride with them.  He tells them to take Tom to county, but they tell him that another hospital is closer.  Mark tells them to take him to county anyways.  Janet arrives at the ER.  Elizabeth feels her in on what is going on.  She tells her that she and Tom have been engaged for three years.  They got engaged right before he got sick.  On the way to the hospital they lose Tom's pulse.  They should have went to a closer hospital.  When they arrive at the ER, he is in bad shape.  Kerry comes in to work.  She is upset with Peter for letting the ER get out of control.  Romano isn't too happy with him either.  Carter gets the lab results back on Trent's girlfriend Emma.  He has infected her with the virus and she is HIV positive also.  Carter wants them both to speak to a counselor.  Janet wants her and Tom to get married in the ER now, before he dies.  Tom wants to wait until his heart transplant before he marries her.  Abby sees all that Carter has been going through and asks him if he needs to take a break.  He tells her that he is okay.  Kovach goes to view the autopsy of the man he killed.  As Carter is walking up the hallway, he hears that Trent and his girlfriend had a fight and he ran out in the street and got hit by a car.  Janet is having a hard time getting a marriage license on such a short notice.  Elizabeth found a priest who would marry them, but it will not be legally binding.  Luka makes it down to the ER and Kerry speaks to him.  She tells him that leaving them short staff without calling in is grounds for dismissal.  She knows that he has been through as lot and tells him to go home and rest.  Abby chases after him.  She tells him that she is concerned about him, but he does not want to talk.  He walks away.  Carter learns that Trent died.  They were unable to save him.  Emma is upset with Carter.  It was his fault that they had the fight.  He should have never told him that he had HIV.  Tom and Janet tie the knot with Mark and Elizabeth looking on.  Elizabeth tells Mark that she could care less about the fancy wedding plans, she just wants a nice ceremony like theirs.  Kerry tells Peter that ER management is not his best skill.  Peter goes to tend to an elderly black woman who has waited three hours to see a doctor.  She talks to him for a while and tells him that she would prefer to see a white doctor.  He tells her sure, but it will be another three hour wait.  Kerry sees Carter and is concerned about him.  She does not want him going home alone after such a hard day.  She tells him to wait a few minutes and they can go get something to eat.  He agrees.  Peter goes to Doc Magoo's to eat and joins Cleo there.  He tells her that his day in the ER was a bad reflection on him.  She tells him that she has been having a hard time lately, but she hasn't had anybody around to talk to.  He has not been there for her.  She would rather not even listen to his problems.  Abby goes to see Luka.  He opens the door and she tells him that they do not have to talk.  They then kiss.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 11-15-2000