A new medical student makes his way through the ER.  His name is Michael Gallant and he is looking for a Dr. Carter.  Haleh greets him rudely and tells him to wait.  He sees Susan and thinks she might be Dr. Carter, but she tells him differently.  Susan takes care of Mr. Hopper, who complains about not being able to eat or sleep.  He tells her that a girl had bitten him and Susan assures him that it is just a hickey.  He is concerned that the girl may have been a vampire.  Elizabeth and Luka are in the hallway discussing a patient.  Luka apparently called for a surgical consult, but he isn't ready for Elizabeth to see the patient yet.  Mark walks by and intervenes.  She is concerned that the patients appendix will rupture.  She thinks Luka just doesn't want her to tend to his patients due to her recent post surgical deaths.  The new med. student is still searching for Dr. Carter.  Abby assures him that he will be in in a few minutes.  Abby overhears Susan talking to Frank about her patient who thinks he was bitten by a vampire.  Susan tells him that the patient will need a psych consult and Abby asks her if it is Count Fred.  Susan seems a little surprised that Abby knew the patient.  Abby asks if she had left someone in there to watch him while she was gone, but Susan didn't.  When they return to the exam area, the patient is finishing up a bag of blood.  Susan responds, "That's nasty"!

Carter's Gamma is upset about being told that she is not able to drive the Jaguar.  She is told by Alger, that it is still in the shop, but she knows better.  Carter is on his way down to leave for work and hears her complaints.  She does not like being chaperoned.  As they start to discuss this, Gamma falls to the ground.  She has fainted again.  Abby sees Malik help Nicole out.  He is showing her how to take a blood pressure.  Nicole tells Abby that she is training to be a nurses aid.  Abby doesn't seem to like the idea.  A young man is brought in and Luka asks for Abby to help him with the patient.  He also wants Nicole to follow along and watch.  Cleo is there to assist with the patient also and the med. student wants to watch.  The boy's name is Jeremy Norris and he has been in a skateboarding accident.  They can not believe that he was not wearing a helmet.  His head and chest are both injured.  Luka asks Abby to show Nicole what to do.  She has a hard time getting the pulse-ox taken and does not understand what the numbers mean.  Luka wants Abby to be more patient with her.  Carter and Gamma have arrived in the ER.  Susan tells him about the new medical student looking for him.  Gamma continues to faint.  Susan and Carter go out to the hallway to discuss what might be ailing his Gamma.  Carter is going to continue to run tests to find out what the problem is.  Peter comes to check on Jeremy.  Jeremy need to be intubated and the new med. student wants to do the procedure.  Cleo doesn't think that he is ready for it yet, so she tells him next time.  Luka wants Nicole to bag him.  Abby looks at him with surprise and disapproval.  Peter gets upset with all of the questions the new med. student is asking.  Peter tries to find out how to stop the boy's bleeding.  Peter takes Jeremy to the OR.  Luka brags to Nicole about how well she did.  He tells her that he will see her later.  Abby then goes up to Luka and tells him that what he just did was not right.  She tells him that it was inappropriate.  He needs to understand that what she does in the trauma rooms is just as important as what the doctors are doing.  She is there to save lives also.  On their way to take Jeremy to the OR, Peter is handed an envelope by a man.    Cleo looks on and Peter tells her that it is a subpoena; Roger is suing Peter for custody of his son Reese.  Michael, the new med. student, sees Luka and asks about Jeremy.  A mall security guy named David Hilliker limps in to the ER.  He asks them about the boy that was brought in from the skateboarding accident.  Luka thinks it is Jeremy's father, but he tells him differently.  He is actually the man who called for the paramedics to assist with Jeremy.  Luka offers to help him with his hurt leg, but he thinks he is okay.  Luka talks him into letting him check his leg out anyways.  Abby tends to two nuns who would prefer to be seen by Dr. Carter.  Their names are Sister Helen and Sister Monica.  They tell her that they do not mind waiting for him.  Abby sees Carter and he wants her to take care of the nuns.  He tells her about Gamma and she shows concern.  Frank announces that a nurse need to clean up a patient.  He has thrown up and is filthy.  Haleh and Chuny insist that it is Abby's turn to do the bathing.  She sees Nicole and has her clean him up.  Elizabeth goes to Romano's office to complain about Dale Edson and the other surgeons taking her patients.  He reminds her that she will be back on the surgical services soon enough.  He is waiting for the Centers for Disease Control to release her.  Elizabeth sees that Kit is injecting one of her patients and she flips out.  Kit is just trying to draw blood from the patient and Elizabeth apologizes and walks out of the room.

Luka and tends to the mall security guard.  He tells Luka that he use to be a police officer for twenty-six years.  Luka tells him that he needs to stay off of his ankle.  Haleh comes in and tells him that Jeremy's mother is there.  Luka goes to tell her what has happened to her son.  He tells her that her son has a bad head injury.  The mall security comes out to speak with her also.  A boy that is with Mrs. Norris is upset to see the guard there.  He says that the guard was chasing Jeremy through the mall.  That is why Jeremy wiped out on the skateboard.  They begin to argue and Luka has the med. student take him back to the exam room.  A minute later, he comes to tell Luka that he thinks the guard is having a heart attack.  This makes Jeremy's friend happy.  Elizabeth finds Dr. Zagerby and asks him about her patient, Mrs. Taylor.  She saw that he was on the chart for her care also.  He tells her that he was actually off the day her patient died and that Dr. Babcock was filling in for him.  Peter and Romano have finished Jeremy's surgery.  Romano senses that Peter is not his usual self.  Peter asks a nurse if he has had a call from Jackie.  Peter goes to talk with Jeremy's mother to let her know how the surgery went.  He tells her that it will be a waiting game.  The medical student is following Mark around and asking a lot of questions.  Mark seems to be bothered by it, but tells him some stories anyways.  He wants to know about some of the most unusual medical cases Mark has seen.  Mark has him look at a patient and then runs over to speak with Susan.  She reminds Mark that it is a teaching hospital and that he needs to teach the medical student.  She brings up how well Carter did as a student and Mark comments on their relationship.  The student catches up with Mark again.  Susan sees Carter and she asks about his Gamma.  He tells her that it is not looking good.  Carter has not told his Gamma that she has a type of disease.  Mark sees Carter and introduces him to his new medical student, Michael Gallant.  Mark seems anxious to let Carter start looking after the student.  Carter explains that he has had a family emergency and then heads to the bathroom, without Gallant noticing.  Abby is there to tell him where Carter went.  Elizabeth sees Kit and tells her that she is sorry for the earlier accusation.  She then begins to question Kit about some of her patients.  Everything she asks always points back to Dr. Babcock.  The medical student is taking care of an elderly woman, Mrs. Reynolds.  She has taken penicillin that he husband had at the house.  He had taken it earlier for an ear infection.  He tells her that it is not good to take someone else's medicine.  He assures her that she will be okay.  A 2nd year medical student is in the next bed and hears the diagnosis.  She tells Gallant that he needs to get a CBC on the patient first.  He tells her to mind her own business.  Carter walks up and agrees with her diagnosis.  The 2nd year student is Grace and Carter tends to her.  He has Gallant to order the test for his patient.  Grace tells Carter that she is also a law student.  She thinks she may have caught the flu.  Gallant sees Nicole and wants her to assist him in getting the CT for his patient.  She tells him that she is not a nurse and that she is just learning.  He responds that he is learning also.  Luka walks up and Nicole tells him that Abby had helped her learn how to bathe a man.  He suggests that she better hang out with the other nurses and leave Abby alone, she is too busy.  Gallant and Luka discuss the guard and that he will be okay.  He did not have a heart attack.  Gallant goes to tell the man the good news.  Luka gets paged for a trauma, so Nicole goes with Gallant.  When they arrive in the exam room, they find the security guard hanging from a suicide attempt.  He tells Nicole to go and get help and then he cuts the man down.

Carter goes to check in on his Gamma.  He tells her what her problem is with her health and why she has been fainting so much.  He tells her that she could have a heart attack or stroke if she doesn't get her condition under control.  She tells him that it is because she hasn't had any lunch, but he tells her that it is Shy-Drager Syndrome.  She wants to know how long she has and he tells her up to ten years.  This does not bother her.  She doesn't want or expect to live that long anyways.  She tells him that she is ready to go home.  Abby finds Nicole crying in the ambulance bay.  She knows that she must be upset about seeing the man hanging in the room.  Nicole wonders if he will die, and Abby assures her that he will be okay.  Nicole tells Abby that her father hung himself when she was only eight and she was the one who found him.  Abby apologizes to her and tells her that it will get better.  Elizabeth sees Mark and tells him about what she has learned about Dr. Babcock.  Frank interrupts and tells Mark that he has a phone call from Rachel's school.  He then cheerfully tells him that she has been suspended and that it is probably drug related.  Luka is with the security guard and he removes the tube from his mouth.  The guard apologizes for what he has done.  Michael tells him to relax.  He is worried that the cops he use to work with will find out about his suicide attempt.  Michael tells Luka that the man's wife died of breast cancer last year and the cops that he use to work with would not understand.  Luka tells him to get a psych. consult on the man.  Carter continues to work with Grace.  He takes her temperature and tells her that she needs to slow down.  He can sympathize with her on the way her parent's push her.  She tells him that she just needs some Halcyon and she will be better.  He tells her just this one time.  Susan sees Carter and asks if his day is getting any better.  He tells her that Gamma will not be able to drive and that she is not going to like being told.  Susan reminds him that Gamma already doesn't like her, so maybe she should be the one to break the news to her.  Abby tells Carter that Grace has collapsed.  Carter sees that she has marks on her arm.  Elizabeth finds Romano and starts to tell him about what she has learned about Dr. Babcock, but she sees that he is right there, so she stops.  Peter meets Jackie to see what she has found out about the custody battle for Reese.  She has a friend at the courthouse who told her that he should not fight for the DNA testing.  He tells her that he may not be Reese's real father.  Elizabeth goes and snoops around Dr. Babcock's office.  She looks inside the refrigerator and desk.  She sees a bunch of lab rats and then starts snooping through the file cabinet.  Babcock walks in and catches her.  She tells him that she wants to talk to him about a couple of his cases.  She gets a page and has to leave, but he keeps her from walking out with a vile that she had picked up.  Carter and Susan speak with Grace about the marks on her arm.  She explains to them that she use to be a cutter, but she no longer does it.  She also tells them that she also use to have an eating disorder.  She says that she has received treatment for the disorders and that she is better now.  Susan sees that she has new cuts and decides that she needs to be sedated.  All they want to do is help her.  She does not want to get a psych. consult, so they inject her with droperidol.  She tells them that they are going to ruin everything.

Mark goes to pick Rachel up.  She had threatened a student with scissors and that is why she was suspended.  She tells him that it was not serious and Mark tells her the new rules.  She can not have anymore rides to school, no going out on a school night, and she will have to start working around the house.  She is not happy about these rules and he replies that she will end up back in St. Louis if she is not careful.  He is doing this because he cares.  Cleo finds Peter with Reese in the hospital daycare.  He tells her about what is going on and that he will need to have a DNA test.  She invites them to come over for fish sticks later.  Reese is ready to go home, but Peter still has work to do.  Reese signs that he wants his other daddy to come and pick him up.  Carter calls his Gamma and tells her that she does not need to be driving.  Susan listens in on the conversation.  He tells Susan that he was talking to her on the cell phone from her car.  She is driving around and doesn't need to be.  Susan offers to go with Carter to Gamma's to wait for her to return.  Elizabeth goes to Romano's office and finds that Dr. Babcock is already there.  She explains to Romano that Babcock has worked on all of the cases that she has been inquired about.  They begin to argue back and forth and Romano tells them both that they are out of the OR until this situation is resolved.  They storm out of the office and Romano tells then, "God is love."  Michael's shift is over, but he tells Abby that he will just stick around and study.  He sees Grace and she apologizes to him for the way she had treated him earlier.  They decide to study together.  Peter goes to get his DNA test.  It is an easy procedure.  All she does his swab the inside of his cheek.  Susan and Carter are at Gamma's waiting for her arrival.  He has just told Susan about his previous drug addiction and she is surprised.  He asks her if she is disappointed in him.  She just can't believe that he had been stabbed.  She asks to see his scars.  She tells him that she feels like a school kid sitting out there with him.  He admits to having a crush on her years earlier.  She tells him that she had one on him also.  He is glad that she came back to town.  Gamma arrives home.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on November 14, 2001