Carter’s shift is over and he is ready to get out of the ER. Abby’s shift has ended also, but Haleh wants her to help out with Pablo. Abby tells her that she is leaving, and Pablo tells them that he has to go to the restroom. Elizabeth comes in with the baby in her arms and she is hunting down Mark. Dr. Chen checks with Kerry about a patient who has been waiting too long and is ready to leave. Kerry tells her that she needs to keep the patients flowing; she is now the Chief Resident and she does not need to check with her on every patient. Elizabeth finds Mark and she is upset because she has been waiting a long time outside for him to take the baby. She is now late for her shift, but Mark makes her wait longer because he is still with a patient. Elizabeth tells him that she isn’t going to be doing this anymore and she is ready to get a weekend nanny. Mark tells her that he wants them to raise their own kid. Abby and Carter finally are on their way out of the ER. Abby is telling him how stubborn he is being. He only has six weeks left on his residency and he doesn’t even have a job lined up anywhere. She tells him that he needs to quit being stubborn and talk to Weaver about the Attending position. Carter tells Abby that Weaver should ask him. Chuny comes running out asking Abby to come back and help, but Abby tells her that she is off and keeps walking. She has to be back at 7:00 and she is going home. Abby tells Carter to talk to Weaver, then she heads home. Carter turns around and heads back into the ER. He finds Weaver and asks her about the position. She tells him that she has been running a classified ad for the position. He tells her that he is thinking about applying for it. She looks surprised and says that they were hoping to have someone with at least five years post residency to apply, but okay. Jing-Mei sees Carter and begs him to stay long enough to assist with one patient. It is only a hurt toe and he should be done soon. Carter gives in and agrees to help, but only the one. Carter looks at the chart and tries to figure out which exam room the patient is in. As he does this, Pablo finally gets to go to the restroom, right there in the hallway and on Carter. Carter looks at the patients toe and sees that it is going to take more than an hour to fix it. It is lacerated and will need to be cleaned and sutured. The patient’s friend, Vincent Newberry, is with him and they had just been at the Metallica concert where he dropped a volcano on his toe and cut it. They are roadies for the opening band, “Touching Wood”. Chuny seems to be excited because she has heard of the band and knows one of their songs. As Carter gives a shot to numb the toe, the other guy passes out and falls to the floor. Carter thinks it is from the sight of the shot, so he asks Chuny to check his vitals. She does, and he is not breathing. Elizabeth is upstairs with her crying baby in her lap as she is talking to a patient’s mother. Mark comes up the hallway and takes the baby from her. She is angry and tells Mark that she is not doing that anymore, they are going to never schedule their weekend shifts so close together. She gives Mark instructions about feeding Ella and then storms off. Carter finds out from his patient that his friend has taken some drugs. He sees Cleo and tries to talk her into taking care of him, but she tells him that she is busy with other patients that were involved in a stampede at a concert. A guitarist collapsed on stage at the concert and everyone stormed the stage, which caused the stampede. Several people were injured. Kerry is tending to one when Frank comes in and tells her that there is a guy at the front desk with a ponytail that is asking for her. She tells Frank to take is name and make him wait. Peter and Cleo work on a seven-year-old boy who was at the concert. A cop comes in looking for a Dr. Benton. He tells him that they have his son Reese at another hospital and that he needs to go with him. Cleo tells him to go and she will take care of the seven-year-old. Abby goes to Luka’s new apartment to find him playing a video game. She thought he bought some furniture, but all he has bought is the Sony Playstation and a large fish aquarium. He is too pre-occupied with the game that he is ignoring her. She tells him that she is hungry and will just leave. He finally gets his player killed and decides he is ready to go eat also. Carter is ready to go, but he cannot find Jing-Mei anywhere. Elizabeth comes to check on Cleo’s young patient. The boys name is Kevin and his babysitter had taken him to the concert. Elizabeth sees that he will need surgery, but they are having a hard time locating his parents. Malucci comes in for his shift and Weaver gets on to him for still being in his workout clothes. She tells him that he should come to work dressed properly and he responds that he just got there and hasn’t had time to change. The man that has been looking for Weaver is a private investigator. She does not want to talk to him, but he tells her that they finally found the woman she had been looking for. He double checked this time and it is really her; he had found her mother. He hands her his business card and tells her it will be $400.00 if she is interested. Luka takes Abby to a restaurant where he seems to know everyone. She is starving and is ready to eat, but the waitress tells her that they quit serving already. Since Luka knows the waitress, he is able to talk her into bringing Abby some soup. The patient that Carter is working on gets two female visitors. One is the girlfriend named Harmony and the other is her friend, Diana. Diana is high on something and acts very strange. She stairs at the ceiling tile and thinks she sees blood. She says that that place is full of the death. Harmony is having trouble breathing and Carter takes a look at her. Peter finally arrives at the hospital where Carla and Reese were brought. He finds Reese and sees that he has a minor head injury, but doesn’t see Carla. Peter asks about where Carla is and learns that she had died in the accident. Carter learns that Harmony has a piercing that is infected which is causing her breathing problems. The piercing is in a private area and Carter tells her that he will need to drain it. This freaks Diana out and she hops on Carter’s back and tells him not to drain Harmony. They spin around a few times and she then gets slammed up against the window, where she slides to the floor. Yosh, who has been assisting Carter, tells him that he will get another chart. Back at the restaurant, Luka is playing pool and Abby is talking with another patron at the bar. He is telling her about all of his health problems and offers to give Abby a cigarette. She tells him that she is trying to quit. Carter calls his father to cancel their plans that they had made. He now has several patients that he is tending to. He yells for someone to “GO FIND CHEN”! Carter calls Abby to yell at her for talking him in to going back in to speak with Weaver. Abby is surprised that Carter is back in the ER working when he was suppose to be off. Luka walks up and finds Abby on the phone outside talking with Carter and smoking a cigarette. Weaver sees Carter and tells him that she will be at Doc Magoo’s. Carter tells her that he isn’t even suppose to be there. She yells to him to go sing out and go home. Abby tells Carter that she has to hang up. Luka tells her that she doesn’t have to hang up; he is mad. Peter goes to see Carla. He is looking in at her through the window when Roger walks up. Peter tells him how sorry he is. Roger wants to know what happened and what he should expect from the doctor. Peter tells him and then the doctor shows him in. Peter watches as Roger holds Carla’s hand and kisses her as he cries. Peter goes to check on Reese. Peter explains to Reese that his mommy is gone. “Mommy went bye-bye”. “She went to be with God”. “She is sleeping forever”. “She won’t wake up”. “Mommy died, mommy’s dead”. Reese seems to understand what his daddy has told him. Back at the ER, another patient is brought in with chest pains. He is 27 years old and his name is Paul; he is unresponsive. His brother, Glenn, is with him and Malucci asks if his brother has done any drugs. Glenn says that he doesn’t think so, he is just visiting and this is the first time he has seen him since he moved to Chicago. It looks as if Paul is having a heart attack. Malucci thinks it is due to cocaine abuse. Romano checks in on Corday who is doing surgery on the seven-year-old. She is leaking breast milk and Romano tells her to step out and go pump. The ER is swamped with concert fans. He goes to work on the toe again and Malik brings in Vincent’s mom. She tells Carter that she has told her son not to be doing the drugs, but he just does not listen to her. As she speaks, her nose begins to bleed. She says that it happens a lot when she is worried. Lily gets an X-ray of Paul and Dr. Dave orders drugs to bust the clot. Haleh tells him that he needs to get an attending or the chief resident to order thrombolytics. He tells her to find someone quick. Jing-Mai comes and asks for Paul’s history and Malucci tells her that Paul’s tox screen hasn't come back yet. He has not had any surgery recently that anyone knows about. Jing-Mei would like to have Kerry’s advice, but she is not answering her pages. Malucci wants to use the drugs before the patient dies and Chen finally agrees. The tox screen comes back and shows no cocaine in his system. Paul crashes and has no pulse. Jing-Mei shocks his chest and yells for someone to find Weaver. Abby finds Luka sitting at the bar talking Croatian with another person. She tells him that she is going to get a cab and that she is tired of having waited outside all this time. Luka follows her outside and tells her that he is sorry. The waitress that Luka knows runs out to tell him that he had left his credit card or wallet. This angers Abby to have to see her again. She tells him that she will just take the El. Carter finally finds Jing-Mei. He sees her frantically helping Dave with their patient. He tells her that he is leaving as soon as he is done taking care of his patient’s mother’s nose. Malucci tells Carter what has happened and carter notices on the X-ray that their patient has Marfan's Syndrome. Jing-Mei is flabbergasted and can’t believe what has happened. Carter works with them on Paul. As Luka and Abby are on the El, they are still fussing with one another. She is mad about being left alone on the street while he was inside playing pool and flirting with the waitress. They get off of the El and continue their fight. He calls her a choice word and she tells him to grow up. He tells her that she is not that pretty and not that special. She tells him that he is still married to a ghost. Carter is helping with Paul and gets splattered by his blood. He is losing blood rapidly and Carter tells them that Kerry was going to Doc Magoo’s. Luka and Abby continue arguing as they go down the street. Abby suggests that he just break up with her. Luka agrees and tells her that he gives up. He tells her that Carter can have her now. She says okay and then walks away. Carter runs to Doc Magoo’s to get Weaver, because Chen doesn’t want to open the guy’s chest without her. On his way, he slips and falls on the wet ground.

When Kerry arrives, she can’t believe the mess. She tells Jing-Mei to put the scalpel down and to stop doing compressions. “You’ve killed him”. Roger finds Peter with Reese. Roger asks Peter if he can take Reese for a few days, and Peter replies that he was planning to anyway. Reese signs “I love you” to Roger and Roger tells him that he loves him too. Kerry looks at the X-ray and wants to know if Dave knows anything about Marfan's Syndrome. Malucci says that he assumed that it was just related to cocaine abuse. Kerry then learns that Jing-Mei didn’t even look at the X-ray before ordering the thrombolytics. She reprimands them both. Malucci tells her that they had to act quickly because she was not answering her pages. Carter tries to take up for the both of them, but it does not help. He says that the patient may have died anyway, and Kerry says that they will never know. Dave thinks they should go ahead and tell the family, so that they can be screened for the disease. Kerry tells them NO and that they better keep it all quiet and to speak to nobody about this case. She leaves the room and Malucci slams the tray to the floor as Jing-Mei fights back the tears. Back at the Greene’s home, Elizabeth comes upstairs to see why Ella is screaming her head off. She wakes Mark up from a hard sleep and tells him to get up. The baby’s diaper has leaked and she is a mess. Elizabeth is really angry and Mark takes the verbal abuse. Carter finally goes to finish up his patient’s toe. Kerry goes back to Doc Magoo’s and finds her pager in a restroom stall. Dale Edson sees Carter and tells him that he took care of his nose bleeding patient. She had been abusing cocaine. Carter’s shift is going to be starting again soon, so he just sticks around and finds a place to sleep. Reese has had a bad dream, so he goes and gets in the bed with his daddy.

NBC Review

OFF-DUTY CARTER CAN'T ESCAPE DESPERATE E.R. WHILE BENTON IS JOLTED BY ACCIDENT; JULIE DELPY GUEST-STARS -- Just when Dr. Carter (Noah Wyle) thinks he's done for the day, the ER sucks him back in frenetic fashion as he is swamped with problematic patients -- including several heavy metal roadies and musicians after concert accidents -- while Dr. Benton (Eriq La Salle) is shocked to hear the full report when his young son (guest star Matthew Watkins) is involved in a car accident. Newly appointed chief resident Chen (Ming-Na) panics when she is overwhelmed with patients -- one of whom she misdiagnoses -- while Dr. Weaver (Laura Innes) is suddenly AWOL on personal business just as several lives are in the balance. Meanwhile, Abby (Maura Tierney) feels neglected by a distracted Dr. Kovac (Goran Visnjic) on an ugly night out, and she especially resents his flirty relationship with an attractive French waitress (guest star Julie Delpy, "Killing Zoe"). Anthony Edwards, Alex Kingston, Paul McCrane, Michael Michele and Erik Palladino also star.