Amira greets Dr. Weaver as she comes in to work.  The weather was too bad for her to drive, so she took the El.  Carter has been working the night shift while Mark and Elizabeth are in New York.  They have gone to see a specialist, Dr. Burke, about his tumor.  Carter is on his way home to get some rest.  As he gets in the bed, his pager goes off.  Dr. Coburn is with Jing-Mei, who is in labor.  Carter was paged to come in to help her with the delivery.  Cleo and Peter are in bed sleeping, when she is awoken by some people speaking.  It is Kynesha and her friend Tiny babbling back and forth.  The adoptive parents have arrived for the birth of the baby.  They tell Carter that they came all the way from Portland to be there for the delivery, but Jing-Mei prefers that they not watch.  They are worried that she may be changing her mind about putting the baby up for adoption.  Dr. Legaspi comes down to take a look at a patient.  Kerry hands her a Christmas present.  Dr. Kim hasn't gotten her a present, but she has caused her to get the hiccups.  Cleo is tired of Kynesha staying with her.  She has been there for over a week and Cleo tells Peter that she has to go within the next two days.  A woman brings in her son after he is attacked and hurt by a neighbor's dog.  Jing-Mei finally delivers a baby boy.  They ask her if she would like to hold him and she replies that she does not.  The dog owner comes to the ER with her son to check on the boy who was bitten.  The boys mother tells her that the dog will need to be put down.  The dog's owner can't believe that the dog would do that and her son is upset about his dog having to be put down.  Peter sees a little girl hiding in a closet.  She tells him that she has hurt her foot.  Peter tells her to come out and that he will look at it.  She tells him that she is hiding because she is afraid of needles.  She is at the hospital to have a blood transfusion for her older sister who has leukemia.  Carter gets called to come and check on Jing-Mei.  She is getting dressed to go home because they are telling her that she needs to hold her baby and say goodbye.  She does not want to, so she wants to go home.  Mark goes through some testing to see how bad his brain tumor is.  Cleo gets a call from Kynesha telling her that her car is missing.  Cleo calls and reports it to the police.  Carter talks to the adoptive parents and explains Jing-Mei's reservations for not wanting to hold the baby.  He carries the baby in to see his mother.  Jing-Mei holds her baby boy and cries.  Mark paces around the room as he and Elizabeth wait to hear from the Tumor Board.  Mark asks Elizabeth if she will still have the baby if his prognosis is not good and she tells him that she will.  Abby mentions that Luka has gone to visit family in Croatia for the holidays.  The adoptive father comes down to tell Carter that Jing-Mei is breast feeding the baby.  Dr. Legaspi and Kerry speak to the boy who was bit by the dog.  He tells them that his dad was going to be mad if he found out that he opened his Christmas present early.  He tells them that it was a B B gun.  He then admits to have been shooting at the dog.  That is why the dog attacked him.  Carter goes in and speaks with Jing-Mei.  He asks her if she is having second thoughts about giving the baby up for adoption.  Cleo's car was found.  The clutch is burned out and has some other problems with it.  Who ever took it did not know how to drive a stick shift.  The mother of the little girl that Peter is taking care of comes down.  She speaks with Peter and wants to know where her daughter is.  He explains that her foot is hurt and how scared she is of the hospital.  The mother takes offense to it and is tired of everyone thinking that she had the younger daughter only to help save the older one.  She then asks where her daughter is and walks away angry.  The adoptive parents come in to see Jing-Mei and to get their baby.  Jing-Mei asks if they have picked out a name yet and they tell her that it is Michael Alexander.  Jing-Mei hands the baby to the new mother and she begins to sing to him, "Baby Mine".  Mark and Elizabeth finally get to meet Dr. Burke.  He has looked at Mark's test results and agrees that he can operate on him.  The operation could help him to live two more years.  The procedure will be done on New Years Eve.  Mark looks as if he could cry.  Randi wakes Carter up, yet another time, to have him take care of a man that was in a motorcycle accident.  He ran into a van of kids who were on their way to a Christmas Pageant.  Kynesha apologizes to Cleo for all the trouble.  She admits that Tiny must have taken the car.  She really wants to stay with Cleo because nobody is home to take care of her.  Carter goes in to clean up an exam room and sees a bottle of Vicodin that belonged to the guy in the motorcycle accident.  He reaches up quickly, opens the bottle, and pops 2 pills into his mouth.  He then gets up and goes to the bathroom and puts his fingers in his throat and throws them up.  He then reaches into the toilet and fishes the 2 pills out.  He goes to Abby and tells her that they need to talk right now.  He tells her what he did and she tells him that he needs to tell Kerry.  He thinks that it would be the end of his job there and that he would have to go back to Atlanta if he did that.  He tells her that the pills did not really get into his system.  She then tells him to tell Kerry that he is sick and that they will go to a meeting immediately.

Mark and Elizabeth watch as people ice skate.  He tells her that he has decided to tell Rachel and Jen about his tumor.  Elizabeth learns that Mark and his family lived in New York awhile when he was younger.  Malucci is on his way home when Kerry asks him to stay and work four more hours, since Carter has left sick.  He doesn't want to, but he does.  Dr. Legaspi thanks Kerry for the first edition book that she gave her as a gift.  She does not think that she and Kerry can just be friends.  Kerry asks why, and then Kim kisses her and tells her "That's why".  Jing-Mei gets a call from her mother, but she has the nurse tell her that she is asleep.  She then tells the nurse to put a hold on her calls.                    

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 12-15-2000