Peter drops Reese off at Jackie’s.  Jackie still is not 100% after her son’s death and is still walking around like a zombie.  Carter is lounging at his Gamma’s estate listening to “Blood Sugar Sex Magik”.  Gamma has come to give him some aspirin for his back pain.  She tells him to go see her orthopedist today.  She doesn’t want him to end up hunched like her uncle Everette.  His back is killing him, but he tells her that it is because he was stabbed.  She reaches to give him his glass of water for his aspirin and she drops the glass to the ground.  He tells her that he will pick it up.  Abby goes to pick up the rest of her things from Luka’s apartment.  She also takes the CD’s that belong to her.  She is ready to head out and she gets her sweater off of the coat rack.  The rack falls and bumps into the large aquarium Luka had bought.  She picks the rack up and notices that the tank is now leaking, slowly.  Mark and Elizabeth are heading in to work.  Elizabeth has been up all night with the baby.  When they arrive in the ER, Randi tells them that Weaver is on the warpath.  The ER is full of patients because Kerry is being thorough, because she doesn’t want any more mistakes.  She is still upset about the Malucci and Jing-Mei mistake that was made days earlier.  Abby is at work and is on the phone about buying a new aquarium.  She can’t believe how much a 300 gallon tank costs.  Luka walks up, so she has to hang the phone up.  She avoids any contact with Luka for as long as she can.  Mark begins making the rounds so that he can “treat and street”.  He sees a prostitute named Candy, who has been bitten on her rear.  She tells him that the boys can’t get enough Candy.  Kerry explains to Mark that they need to be more thorough with the patients.  As she is talking, he removes a piggy bank from a boy’s hand.  Peter tells Cleo that Reese is having nightmares about not being able to find his mommy. Malucci comes in to tell Cleo that he has discharged one of her patients.  This upsets her, of course.  She tells him to keep his hands off of her patients.  Abby is trying to avoid Luka and ends up hiding out in an exam room.  Carter is already in there trying to remove glass from his foot.  He had gotten the glass at his foot at his Gamma’s house.  Abby stops to help him and she lets him know that she and Luka have split up.  Carter asks why and she tells him that it was just not working out.  She then begins to tell him about the incident with Luka’s fish tank, but Haleh comes in and tells him that he is needed in Trauma One.  Jing-Mei is working on the newborn baby that was abandoned in front of a church.  She had sent Haleh to get Carter.  As Mark is heading to treat Candy, he sees his daughter Rachel.  Malucci needs to ask Mark something, but is distracted by a female paramedic heading for the elevator.  He runs and gets into the elevator with a lot of people in it, so that he can flirt with the paramedic.  The elevator stops between floors and they all end up trapped inside.  Rachel tells her dad that her mom has kicked her out of the house and that is why she is there.  Jing-Mei tells Carter that they need to do put a central line into the baby’s umbilical cord, but she is hesitant because she has never done it before.  Carter has and begins to proceed.  Jing-Mei thinks they should have someone from pediatrics come and do it, but Carter assures her that he can do it himself.  Carter does the procedure and the baby starts to show improvement.  Malucci tries to flirt, but keeps on getting interrupted by the frightened and sick patients.  One of the patients on the elevator has a bleeding ulcer and he begins to spew out blood from his mouth.  Rachel is sitting listening to her music as Mark gets some sandwiches and drinks from the vending machine.  He offers her a sandwich and she reminds him that she is a vegetarian.  They start to discuss the reason she left.  Elizabeth comes looking for Mark for a consult on a patient and finds Rachel there with him.  She tells Mark that she didn’t know about her visit.  Mark walks with Elizabeth and tells her about the issues with Rachel and Jen.  The man with the ulcer falls to the elevator floor and Dr. Dave and the paramedic work on him.  He asks for the other passengers on the elevator to assist him, even though they do not want to.  Luka and Abby end up working on a patient together.  He apologizes for everything, but she says she is doing fine.  He wants to know if she had found her sweater and she says that she did.  Malucci does a procedure on his patient that impresses the others and he also saves the man’s life.  Romano and Kerry discuss the incident of the patient that died while under Malucci and Jing-Mei’s care.  He tells her that she needs to find a “scapegoat” for the incident instead of making excuses.  At this time, the elevator doors open and Malucci comes out with his new paramedic friend.  Two ladies form the church that brought the baby girl in want to see the baby.  Chuny tells Jing-Mei and Carter that the ladies think that the baby is a miracle baby because of a birthmark that looks like the Virgin Mary.  Everyone seems to get better when they see and touch the baby.  Abby is finally able to remove the glass from Carter’s foot.  She explains to him about what happened with Luka’s aquarium and he tells her that she needs to tell Luka about it.  He reluctantly offers to help her replace Luka’s aquarium.  Jing-Mei learns that Weaver gave Carter one of her patients.  Carter tells her not to be mad, that Weaver hired her as the new Attending and that she is still the “chosen one”.  Mark and Elizabeth do a consult on an elderly woman who has Alzheimer’s and appendicitis.  She is treatable, but her husband doesn’t want her to continue on.  Mark tells him that they can make her comfortable, but Kerry insists that she is treatable and should be taken care of.  Rachel ends up calling her mom and tells Mark and Elizabeth that he mother is very upset.  Mark speaks to Jen and gets a tongue lashing also.  Jen is on her way to come and pick Rachel up.  Rachel doesn’t have anything good to say about her mother.  Rachel tells Mark that she is not going back to her mom’s.  Kerry later finds Malucci and the paramedic in an ambulance making out.  She tells him that he is fired.  Malucci laughs it off and continues with his business.  When he returns to the ER from his “break”, he sees that his name has been removed from the patient board.  He takes it upon himself to put it back up on the board.  Malucci asks Mark to talk to Kerry for him, which he does, and Kerry tells him that he is fired.  Mark tells her that she can’t just go around firing people she don’t like.  Cleo learns that she was not exposed to HIV.  The baby starts to crash again and gets a high heart rate.  Jing-Mei thinks the baby might be anemic and she is correct.  Carter brags about Jing-Mei’s accurate diagnosis to Kerry, but Kerry is not impressed.  Mark and Kerry’s patient seems to be improving after seeing the baby.  The husband decides he wants her treated.  He says that she is better and calls him Lloyd.  It has been over two years since she has said his name.  She deserves to have everything done for her.  Mark discusses Malucci with Kerry.  Jen arrives and wants to know where Rachel is.  He tells her that it is good to see her too.  Carter and Abby arrive at Luka’s apartment to find out that Abby forgot her key.  She tells Carter that they can get into the window.  She tells him to bend over and he jokes about it as she climbs on his back.  Jen and Mark go to the lounge and discuss the issue with Rachel.  Jen and Rachel argue like children, as Mark sits watching.  Mark gets called back to the exam room.  A young homeless woman has been hit by a car and appears to have had a baby.  Abby and Carter get in and replace the tank, with only a few of the fish dieing.  Someone knocks on the door and Abby peeks out to see who it is.  It is a policeman.  Mark’s patient denies that she had a baby.  The woman needs her spleen removed.  Mark brings the baby to Anna, she tells them that she can’t have a baby right now.  The woman asks to touch the baby, after Jing-Mei tells her about people thinking the baby is a miracle worker.  Abby and Carter end up in the back of a police car.  They officer tells them that they are free to go; Luka does not file any charges.  They both get out and say nothing to Luka.  Rachel and Mark discuss her moving in with him and Elizabeth.  She tells him that she wants to spend more time with Ella.  This would make it real convenient for them to have a live in babysitter, so Elizabeth should love the idea.  Elizabeth performs surgery on Mrs. Tanzi, who has Alzheimer’s and a bad appendix.  She dozes off in surgery, but denies it when confronted about it.  Dr. Benton is called out as he is scrubbing for a surgery.  Jackie ends up bringing Reese back to the ER for Peter.  She tells him that it isn’t fair. Romano tells him to get his home life figured out and to go home.  As Peter is walking away with Reese, Romano signs, “"take care of your father”.  Jing-Mei sees Malucci outside and they chat about what is going on.  He tells her that all he wants to do is to be a doctor.  Carter walks Abby to her noisy apartment building.  She asks him in, but he tells her that he has to get up early and declines the invitation.  Mark sees Elizabeth later and tells her the news about Rachel moving in with them.  She doesn’t appear to be too happy, but accepts that she is his daughter and she should be able to stay there.  Malucci goes back to working in the ER.  Kerry sees him and tells him to go home.  He tells her that he needs the job to support his son.  Everyone looks surprised, because they did not know that he had a son.  They exchange some hard words and he then throws his badge down to the floor and he walks out.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on October 19, 2001