Mark comes downstairs to find Elizabeth holding the baby and dozing off.  She tells him that she was up from 3:30 AM to 6 AM.  Mark tells her to take a nap.  She really doesn’t want him to go to work.  He really doesn’t want to go, but he has to.  He tells her that he will leave her the van and then she falls asleep on the couch.  Mark takes the El in to work.  He sleeps on the train, but gets woke up by a loud booming noise.  Someone on the train tells him that there is a demolition crew blasting a building down the street.  Mark arrives to work to find ambulances bringing in kid after kid.  Mark is told that a shooter is loose and shot up a foster care facility.  A woman was shot and she asks Mark if they have caught the shooter yet.  She tells him that the man was mad at Mrs. Buckly, the person in charge of the foster home.  Mark wants to know how Mrs. Buckly is and he is told that she was D.O.A.  Jing-Mei sees Carter and wants to know if he turned in her peer reference for her resident application to Weaver yet.  He tells her that he hasn’t, but that he will.  Kerry sees Kim with one of the social workers from the foster home.  Kim tells her that she read the letter that Kerry had given her.  She appreciates her sentiment, but nothing has changed.  The ER staff work on one of the shooting victims, but the little girl dies.  Mark calls the time of death.  A man, Mr. Jeffries, is brought in after being car-jacked and shot.  As Peter and Cleo unload him from the ambulance, they are warned that he has HIV.  A man walks up to Peter and hits him in the face.  It is Roger, Carla’s husband.  He tells Peter that Carla told him everything.  Security takes Roger off the property.  Peter tells Cleo that nothing happened between him and Carla.  The police learn that the car-jacker is probably the same man who shot up the foster care facility.  Luka tells Abby that he turned in her med-school application and she gets angry.  She did not want it turned in.  She did not tell him to turn it in for her.  Romano exchanges some harsh words with Kim Legaspi.  He tells her that she can gather her things and leave.  An ambulance brings in a woman who was shot.  It is the same woman who brought in Mark’s young patient last week that was abused by his father.  She tells Mark that the shooter is Derrick and that he was for Ben.  He saw her and her son and he decided that he wanted him to be taken from her like he caused his son to be taken from him.  She was protecting Ben when he shot her.  Ben was shot in the neck, but it is not serious.  She then spews out about 2 liters of blood.  Mark tells the police that the shooter is Derek Fossen.  Peter tells his HIV patient that he will need surgery.  Mr. Jeffries tells him that he would rather not.  He has suffered with HIV since 1986 and he is ready to die.  Romano is not able to save the woman who was shot by Derek Fossen.  Carter is taking care of a twelve-year-old boy who was injured at the foster care facility.  Carter thinks the boy may have cancer.  Abby sees Carter and tells him that she took a call for him earlier.  It was Dr. Rosen from Northwestern.  Carter has applied for an Attending position there.  Abby encourages him to speak with Weaver about the same position there.  Luka ask Abby if she is still mad at him.  She tells him again that he should not have sent the paperwork in and that they will be wanting her $40,000 for tuition again.  He tells her that he will help her pay it and then she asks if her being a nurse isn’t good enough for him.  Frank hears Mark and the policeman discussing Derek Fossen.  Frank speaks from his police background and says that the gunman will come to the ER for Mark.  This man is responsible for 14 shots and 6 deaths so far.  Mark is nervous, but Kerry assures him that he is safe.  Frank tends to disagree.  Peter explains to Cleo about what happened with him and Carla.  She thinks he should have trusted her and told her about it earlier.  Their HIV patient still does not want surgery.  Mark speaks with the young boy whose mom just died.  He tells him that she is in surgery.  Robert and Kerry discuss Kim being fired.  He tells her that she had thirty delinquent charts and has been nothing but trouble.  Kerry accuses him of just trying to find a reason to get rid of her, just because he found out her sexual preference.  Another patient is being brought in after being shot at her house.  It is Adele Neuman.  She is unable to move her legs.  She is wondering how the guy knew where she lived.  Mark tells the police to send someone to his house and then he calls home.  Elizabeth does not answer the phone and Mark is worried.  The cops knock on her door, but they do not get an answer.  Mark tells them to break the door down and search the house.  Romano is worried about her also and has her paged.  Mr. Jeffries will need to have the surgery or he may not pull through.  Peter wants Cleo to sign a consent with him so that they can operate on him, but Cleo will not sign.  She wants to respect the patient’s wishes.  Peter has to have two doctor signatures, so he has Romano sign the form.  Cleo is getting some of the HIV patient’s blood ready for a transfusion when Abby walks through the door.  The door bumps into her and the vile of blood breaks in Cleo’s hand.  She peels the glove off at the sink to check to see if it broke the skin, and it did.  Peter gets concerned and orders some medicine for her to take and has Abby flush and irrigate the area.  The cops tell Mark that Elizabeth was not found at the house, but the van is still there.  This worries Mark even more.  Carter learns that his young patient has a rare form of cancer.  He is lucky that he was injured, because they would not have found out about the cancer if it did not happen.  Mark sees the young boy whose mother died earlier.  Mark has to tell him the truth about his mother.  Kerry goes to see Kim.  Kim tells her that she does not want to work somewhere and for someone who doesn't want her there.  Kerry tells her to fight this, but Kim is tired of fighting.  She is ready to move on and Kerry should do the same.  The police tell Mark that they got the shooter and they are bringing him to the ER.  He had been shot by someone in the park.  Abby and Carter are outside and they discuss several things.  She starts to tell him about Luka, but Carter tells her to stop.  He does not want her to talk about her boyfriend in front of him.  He doesn’t want to be her friend.  Mark and Luka work on the gunman.  Mark has to sedate him.  Carter tells his young patient about his cancer.  He will have a 70% chance of survival.  Carter sees Jing-Mei and tells her that he turned her reference in and that it was good.  He jokingly tells her that he didn’t like having to lie about it.  Mark gets a call.  It is Elizabeth and she and the baby are okay.  Mark assures her that he is okay and will explain everything later.  Kerry speaks to Romano again about firing Kim.  He doesn’t want to hear it, but she follows him into the bathroom.  She tells him that the only reason he is doing this is because she is gay.  She reminds him of Maggie Doyle and the trouble he gave her.  She tells him that she will start trouble for him if he keeps this up.  If he fires Kim, then she will leave also.  She tells him that she is a lesbian also and he better choose his battles carefully.  She walks out of the room and into the elevator realizing what she had just said.  Mark and Luka are on there way to take the gunman to surgery.  They get into the elevator, but they left something behind.  Mark ends up in the elevator alone with Mr. Fossen.  He begins to crash, so Mark gets the paddles out.  He rubs them together and says clear, but does not put them on the patient.  Mark stops the elevator and continues to do this.  He is going to let the man die.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 05-18-2001