A man, Dan Harris, and his son, Paul, are in an automobile accident.  They are hit by a big garbage truck.  Mark and Elizabeth are still in New York and Mark is going to be having his surgery.  He tells Elizabeth that he has never been operated on before.  She can tell that he is afraid.  The paramedics use the "Jaws of Life" to get Mr. Harris and his son out of their vehicle.  Malucci is on his paramedic ride-along, so he is assisting also.  Malucci can see that Adam has a head trauma and he is pulled out first, then they get Mr. Harris out.  Back at the ER, Kerry works on Adam, while Carter works with Mr. Harris.  They insert a tube through the father's chest to help him breathe because of a collapsed lung.  He sees Kerry working on his son in the next room and he yells for him to be strong.  Mark has Elizabeth sign some papers that say that he does not want any heroic measures done if something goes wrong during the surgery.  He does not want to be left in a vegetative state.  Elizabeth signs them and tells him that he will be fine.  Mr. Harris learns that his son, Paul, will need surgery on his leg.  The bone has broke through the skin.  Abby asks Carter if he has told Weaver yet about the drug incident a week earlier.  He tells her that he has not, but that it is one of his New Year's resolutions to do so.  Elizabeth shaves Mark's remaining hair off, until she makes a mess.  Mark asks her if she will be in the room with him and she tells him that she will wait outside the room.  Mark finishes shaving his head as she cleans up.  Mr. Harris goes to have a head CT done to see if he sustained any head injuries during the accident.  They tell him that Paul had head injuries also.

Mr. Harris tells Abby that his wife is going to be mad at him and blame him for everything.  He tells her that they had lost their first son to S.I.D.S. and that she probably still blamed him for that.  Mark sees a young boy in the room with him.  He is going to have an operation to remove a growth off of his heart.  Mark tells him that they are going to remove one off of his brain.  They boy seems to pretty worried about it, as does Mark.  Mr. Harris is in the hallway waiting as they wheel Paul down the hall.  He has become unresponsive and they are having to work on him.  Mr. Harris watches as they try to save his life.  They tell him that he may have bruised his brain and that this has caused his son to go into a coma.  An officer comes to question Mr. Harris about the accident.  The officer tells him that several witnesses saw him run the red light.  The accident was his fault.  This makes him feel more guilty about his son's injuries.  Mark tells Elizabeth that he loves her as they wheel him into the OR.  He tells her that he has left the house to her and his unborn baby if he does not make it.

Mr. Harris goes in to check on his son.  Kerry tells him that he can talk to him and that he can probably hear him.  He speaks to his son and hold his hand.  He tells him that it is time to wake up now.  As the anesthesiologist works with Mark, he hears Elizabeth's voice.  She has come to look after him in the OR.  Mr. Harris' wife comes in to find her husband sleeping and holding her son's hand.  He wakes and tells his wife that it was his fault and that he ran the light.  He tells her that he is sorry, but she doesn't seem to interested in his apologies.  He begins to have chest pains, so Kerry has Luka come and check him out and take him out of the room.  As the doctor's are working on Mark and as he is being questioned, he starts to have seizures.  As he seizes, we can see that he is having flashbacks of Jen, Rachel, his father and mother.  The doctor tells Elizabeth that they will have to stop the procedure and finish it another day if he does not come to.  Mark has been down a little over thirty minutes, when he finally comes to and they are able to finish.  They want him to name all of the "B" words that he can.  He says, baby, boy, and he also tells Elizabeth baby boy names that begin with the letter "B".  Mr. Harris learns that he has had a heart attack.  He will need to go and have more test done.  After Mark's surgery, Dr. Burke tells him and Elizabeth that the surgery went fantastically.  He will need to keep a positive outlook for everything to be successful.  Mrs. Harris comes in to check on her husband.  She tells him that Paul is awake and this makes him feel a lot better.  She apologizes for what happened earlier and then she leaves as they work on him.  Elizabeth is with Mark and she sees that he has become altered and confused.  He keeps talking about haven left the stove on and he needs to get dressed and go.  Romano comes in to see Mr. Harris and sees that he will need open heart surgery.  The really starts to make him worry.  He does not want the surgery, but Romano tells him that he will die in a few minutes if it is not done.  Dr. Burke tells Elizabeth and Mark that his medication had caused him to become altered.  He should be okay now.  Mark watches as his young room mate bleeds out and the doctor's work on him.  Elizabeth closes the curtain.  Romano and Peter scrub in for Mr. Harris' bypass surgery.  We see Peter call the time of death over his patient.  I think it is Mr. Harris, until the camera angle comes across and we see Mr. Harris watching.  Mr. Harris' surgery went well.  His son is wheeled up beside him and he is doing well also.  Mark asks about his young room mate and Elizabeth tells him that he is back in surgery.  He wants her to take out his catheter, so that he can go to the restroom.  The hospital staff are busy, so she does it and she watches as he gets up to walk.  He tries to walk on his own, but he gets light headed, so she helps him.  We watch the fireworks outside as he and Elizabeth head to the restroom.                       

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 01-05-2001