Elizabeth is sick with the stomach flu and is running a high fever.  Mark is tending to Ella.  Elizabeth is supposed to go to work, but Mark calls in sick for her and tells her to stay in the bed and rest.  They do not know how they are going to take care of Ella, since Mark has to be at work.  Rachel tells them that she will watch Ella for them.  Kerry sees Dr. Romano and Susan enjoying a conversation.  Kerry asks Haleh if Dr. Chen has come in to work yet, and Haleh tells her that she has not.  Dr. Romano begins to talk to Weaver about the bad year she has had and Kerry tells Susan that she would like to speak with Dr. Romano privately.  He asks Susan to stay for a moment and then he tells Kerry that he is making Susan Lewis her assistant.  Kerry gets defensive and asks Susan to leave, which she tells them she has a patient to tend to anyways.  She apparently felt uncomfortable with Kerry’s reaction.  She continues to argue with him, but he walks away telling her to quit showing displays of affection in public, which Frank comments on.  Frank tells Kerry that she is going to Hell for being gay.

Carter arrives to work and shares with Susan the details of his mother and her Xanax and drinking fiasco.  Susan and Mark chat while she looks over some paperwork.  Jing-Mei returns for her first shift back.  Everybody, but Kerry seems to be happy to have her back.  Frank explains to her that she will have to keep her things in a box, because Susan has already taken over her old locker.  The paramedics bring in a man who had opened a letter bomb.  His name is Donald Brower and his daughter Jessica is brought in behind him.  He is severely burned and Kerry, Mark and Jing-Mei work on him.  Carter and Susan tend to six-year-old Jessica, who has almost lost her arm from the blast.  They ask Mr. Brower what happened and he mentions something about his wife and then he crashes.  Kerry tries to take over, but Jing-Mei stands her ground.  Mark hints to Kerry that she should go help Carter and Susan with Jessica.  Kerry tries to take over in there also, but Susan stands her ground.  Kerry takes the blood pressure cuff off of Jessica’s arm and it begins to squirt blood.  The paramedics had placed it there to control the bleeding.  Susan hints for Kerry to leave also.  Abby comes to tell Carter that his mom has brought in a kid from the Leukemia Center.  The kid’s name is Mickey and he started feeling bad when they were taking some photographs.  She tells her son that he is the “Child of the Year” and is an orphan.  She tells Carter that he might be better off in a private room and Carter rolls his eyes at the suggestion.  Jing-Mei and Mark’s patient is not doing well at all.  His vital signs are bad and they need to do a thoracotomy.  Jing-Mei has to open his chest and she is nervous about it.  The wife and mother of the two victims makes it to the ER.  She goes in to see Jessica, who is on her way to surgery.  She then goes in and checks on her husband.  Mark learns that she is also a doctor of research and she watches as he dies.

Gallant takes care of a blind diabetic man named Manny Kindlevich.  He has large toenails and they are giving him trouble.  Gallant tells him to remove his shoes and he sees that the man’s toenail are extremely too long.  He has his dog stinky with him.  Gallant gets to meet Dr. Chen.  His patient seems to have a sixth sense.  Kerry walks up and sees the dog.  They tell her that he is a seeing-eye dog.  Kerry asks to speak with Dr. Chen privately.  Kerry tells her that her attitude is going to have to change if they are going to be working together.  Kerry doesn’t want her staff to be defensive and Dr. Chen tells her that maybe she should quit then.  Mrs. Brower is with her husband before he is taken to the morgue.  Mark tells her that the police are wanting to speak with her.  He tells her that he has asked them to wait for her daughter’s surgery to be finished first though.  She tells Mark that she has received threats and the letter bomb was meant for her.  She was working on creating stem cells for cloning.  She wants to observe her daughter’s surgery.  Gallant clips the guy’s toenails and one flies into Frank’s coffee has he walks by.  Abby draws Mickey’s blood for Carter as Eleanor watches on.  Carter tells his mom that he has called Oncology to take care of Mickey.  Elizabeth gets out of bed and goes to check on Ella and Rachel.  She sees Rachel playing and taking care of Ella.  Rachel offers to get Elizabeth some tea.  Rachel tells her to be careful not to get Ella sick.  Jing-Mei complains to Carter about taking Kerry’s side when she discusses a problem about Jing-Mei prescribing a certain antibiotic for a patient.  She also tells him that her shoes are bothering her.  She tells him that he must have a thing for older women and that he had better take her side from now on.  Chuny tells Carter that his mom is asking for him.  Doris brings in a woman and her daughter.  The mom is Leslie Miller and she is drunk.  They have been in an accident.  Carter tends to the mom.  He asks her where it hurts and she tells him that it is her heart.  She tells him that it is her broken heart.  Abby and Susan tend to the daughter, Stacy.  She was injured by the seatbelt.  She tells them that she was driving and that she is only thirteen.  She has had to drive before and this was her first accident.  Susan and Abby discuss the drinking issue.  Elizabeth wakes up to Ella’s excessive crying.  Rachel runs into the room with her.  Ella throws up on Elizabeth's bed and can see that there are pill fragments in it.  She tells Rachel to hand her the phone, but Rachel runs out of the room.  She then returns to tell Elizabeth that she may have gotten some ecstasy out of her backpack.  Elizabeth calls for an ambulance.  Rachel tells her that two of the pills are missing.

Carter and Abby discuss the girl and her mother.  Carter tells Abby that she will need to tell the police what happened and will have to call social services.  Carter checks on Mickey and speaks with Eleanor.  Oncology has never come down to check on him and this upsets Eleanor.  Carter tells her that she can go on home.  She doesn’t want to leave him and Carter seems put off by it.  He asks her if she really wants to stay involved?  Mark and Mrs. Bower watch Jessica’s surgery.  Romano speaks with her.  Abby comes to get Mark.  She tells him that his daughter is being brought in after a drug overdose.  He thinks Rachel is the one being brought in to the ER.  He gets off of the elevator and takes the stairs.  He is told that they are in Trauma room one.  He walks in to see that it is Ella.  Elizabeth is with her and she frantically tells Mark what happened.  Jing-Mei is working on Ella.  She is in heart failure.  Mark wants to give her adenosine, but Jing-Mei disagrees.  Elizabeth and Mark do not like how Jing-Mei is doing things, so Jing-Mei tells Abby to get Weaver.  Kerry is with the blind man looking for his dog.  Gallant has taken him out to do his business and Gallant is sneezing.  Abby tells Weaver what has happened and she runs to Ella.  She tells Mark to step aside.  It is not good for him to be treating his own child.  His emotions are too involved and he is not thinking clearly.  Mark ignores her and continues.  Kerry checks on Elizabeth.  Elizabeth looks awful, but will not leave her baby’s side.  She tells Kerry to worry about the baby and not her.  Elizabeth agrees to lie down as they treat Ella.  Ella is in respiratory distress and needs to be intubated.  Mark steps back as Kerry and Jing-Mei work on her.  Susan and Carter watch on.  They see Rachel walk in.  Susan goes to see her.  Carter and Eleanor go to the lounge for coffee.  He looks at Mickey’s charts, which Eleanor has taken without asking.  She is upset that nobody has checked on Mickey yet.  Carter can see that his leukemia has returned.  Carter gets on to her.  He wants to know why she is doing this.  He wants to know why she wants to relive all of this.  He tells her that he has already made peace with his brother’s death and will not go through it again.  Mark and Elizabeth are with Ella.  She is intubated and is stable.  Kerry tells them that she will have to stay overnight in the Pediatric ICU.  Susan brings Rachel in.  She asks if she is going to be okay and Mark takes her to the hall.  He tells Susan to stay out of it.  Mark gets on to her and she tells him that she is sorry.  Sorry isn’t going to work this time though.  She tells him that the drugs did not belong to her.  He tells her that Ella may die.  She tells him that she is sorry and starts to cry.  She hugs him and he finally gives in and returns the hug.

Dr. Babcock comes to check on Ella.  He is on duty in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.  Elizabeth tells him that he will not be her doctor.  Elizabeth fights him off as Romano helps.  Mark tells Kerry about Ella’s condition.  Kerry tells them that her prayers are with them all and Mark sincerely thanks her.  Abby is getting off.  She sees Carter and he asks if she has called the police about the girl driving.  She tells him that he is mistaken.  She never said Stacy was driving.  The girl thanks Abby for her help.  Abby sees Gallant’s diabetic patient still waiting in chairs.  She walks over to him and sees that he has died.  She points him out to Gallant.  Elizabeth is asleep with Ella.  Mark quietly wakes her up and tells her that Rachel is there.  She wants to know if he has called the police.  She can’t talk to Rachel.  Romano and Susan chat.  Kerry is on her way out and Susan tells Kerry bye and so does Jing-Mei.  Kerry sees Gallant still taking care of Stinky.  She doesn’t want to see him taken to the pound, so she takes him home with her.  Joyce comes knocking on Abby’s door.  She is scared.  Her husband is after her, so she and Abby turn off the lights and hide until he leaves.  Carter checks on Mickey.  Eleanor is asleep beside him.  Mickey tells Carter that she is tired.  Carter asks Mickey if he knows what has happened.  Mickey tells him that he knows that his cancer is back.  He tells Carter that it is better this time, because this time he will not be alone.  Rachel is crying in the hall.  Elizabeth and Mark are with Ella.  Mark tells her that Ella will be fine, but she knows that he may not be true.  Elizabeth and Mark cry.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on February 22, 2002