Elizabeth is sleeping, until the phone rings.  It is her 6:30 AM wake-up call.  She gets up and glances over at Ella sleeping and then heads to the bathroom.  The scene changes and we are looking in the bathroom mirror at Mark shaving.  He cuts himself with the razor on the neck.  Elizabeth is helping Ella with a puzzle when someone knocks on the door.  Elizabeth answers it and it is the baby-sitter.  She is early.  Elizabeth goes to write her a check, but she tells Elizabeth that Dr. Greene has already paid her up for the month.  Rachel looks in on Rachel who is finishing up her homework.  Mark asks her to be ready in 20 minutes.  Mark has gotten off of the El and is heading down the stairs of the platform.  We can see Elizabeth looking down at him, trying to avoid any contact.

Elizabeth is upset because Romano has scheduled her to cover the ER.  He tells her that is has been over a month and he is tired of having to do it.  She tells him that she will start covering it next week, but he tells her no.  Mark takes care of Joanne.  Her husband Paul brought her in after she felt lightheaded and tingly.  They have been tracking down a black-crowned heron.  Mark asks her if there have been any other problems and Paul tells him that she has had an upset stomach, but she blames the food he prepared the night before on it.  Paul also tells Mark that Joanne is prone to panic attacks, but she denies it.  They remember that they have some wood duck eggs with them that they had found and they ask Mark if he can find somewhere warm to keep them while he sends Joanne off for some tests.  They think that the eggs are about ready to hatch.  Mark walks up to the front desk and Jerry offers him a vegetarian brownie that he sister has baked.  She is going to be opening up her own pastry shop.  Mark tells him no thanks.  Gallant has arrived to work and is still in uniform.  He has been at a recruitment breakfast and did not have time to change.  Mark hands him the eggs and tells him to take care of them.  Dr. Weaver and Dr. Chen hand him two patients and he exclaims that he is there to serve.  Abby tells Weaver that a stabbing victim is rolling up.  Susan asks Mark if he has tried one of Jerry's brownies, she does not like them.  Dr. Corday has been called down to the ER for a surgical consult.  Dr. Chen signs for a package that has been delivered for Dr. Kovac, who is not scheduled to work.  The delivery man just stands there and will not speak.  Dr. Chen thinks that something might be wrong.  She looks at his name tag and sees that is name is Martin.  The paramedics roll in with a teacher who was in a fire at a local elementary school.  Kerry thinks that she is the stabbing victim, but they tell her that she was at the school fire saving all of the kids when she got smoke inhalation.  Dr. Chen takes a look at her.  The stabbing victim is brought in.  Her name is Diane Hayes and she is nineteen-years-old.  Abby tells Carter that she has finished up on her patient that was bitten by a German Shepherd and now she is going home.  Carter asks her why she is still working vampire hours.  He tells her that he has several spare rooms at his house if Luka is keeping her up all night.  He tells her that a girl needs her beauty sleep.  Susan sees Carter talking with Abby.  When Abby leaves, she asks him if he is having any luck.  He tells her to stop it.  As Susan backs away from Carter, she bumps in to Elizabeth, who is working on a patient.  Susan apologizes and walks away.  Elizabeth's patient is her surgical consult, Nelson.  He has glass in his head from a candle that was thrown at him.  Haleh sees Corday and tells her that Weaver needs a surgeon in Exam One.  Gallant sees Haleh and asks her where the baby warmers are.  He is still trying to take care of the eggs that Mark had given him.  When Elizabeth arrives in Exam One, she learns that the stabbing victim had been stabbed in her bed.  Marks is already working on the girl.  He tells Elizabeth that he thought Edson was the surgical consult covering the ER.  Haleh tells them that the girl has defensive wounds on both of her arms.  Kerry asks Shelley, the girl who is with the victim, what time she found her.  She tells Kerry that when she found her, she thought she was dead.  She also tells Kerry that everyone likes her.  She doesn't think that the victim had any enemies.  Susan comes in to get Mark.  Elizabeth sees the interaction.  Mark tells Susan to call and see if she can get him another time for his appointment.  Elizabeth notices the Band-Aid on Mark's neck.  Mark tells her that her Mom called and woke him up at 4:00 AM.  She still hasn't got them time difference down.  Elizabeth apologizes to him.  Carter is at the vending machines waiting for Dr. Chen's patient, Martin, to make a decision on what he wants to buy.  Dr. Chen sees him there and tells Carter that something is just not quite right about him.  Carter wonders if he might be deaf, but he isn't.  Dr. Chen asks him if different things hurt, and he nods his head yes when she asks him if his stomach hurts.  Carter says that he may be hungry.  She asks how many days has it been since he has eaten and he holds up two fingers.  Romano and Corday are operating on the stabbing victim.  He says that she must have made someone really angry when he sees that she has fifteen knife wounds.  Romano tells Corday that she missed a lot on her assessment of the girl and wonders where her mind was at.  He asks her if she and her hubby are still fighting and she ignores him.  She doesn't want Romano's advice when he offers it.  Mark has the results of Joanne's lab results.  She is having liver problems and he wonders what might have caused it.  They name off some of the things she has eaten and find out that she has eaten some bad mushrooms.  This is probably what has caused her liver damage.  He asks if she has any family that she can call, she may need to have a transplant.  Another stab victim was found and is brought in to the ER.  She is a female in her twenties.  A knife was found at the scene.  She was found in the University Science room.  Police are still there searching for the assailant.  Lily runs in to the exam room and tells Weaver that a wall has collapsed at the school that is on fire and wonders how many victims they can take.  She tells her that they can handle three critical and four minors.  As Weaver and Chen are working on the stabbing victim, Chen notices her patient Martin looking in the exam door window.  She asks for someone to take him in to Curtain area one.  Dr. Chen tells Kerry that they are going to have to tube the girl, but Kerry says to wait.  She is trying to say something.  The girl mumbles to Kerry, I loved her.

Elizabeth walks up and sees Susan putting drops in Mark's eyes.  Elizabeth is there to go with Mark to talk with his patient's sister about the transplant.  Elizabeth asks him about a charge on their credit card to New York.  He tells her that it was for a phone order.  They bring in Terry Welch to see her sister Joanne.  Terry is surprised to see her there.  She doesn't know what is going on.  Paul did not fill her in on the phone as to what is going on.  Joanne tells her that she may need a liver transplant.  Terry tells her that she is in the playoffs and doesn't want to miss it.  Mark tells her that they might not have much time.  They only need the right lob of her liver and it will grow back.  There will be a recovery period and she wouldn't be able to play in the playoffs.  She tells them to stop and let her think about it.  Kerry walks by and sees Shelley in the exam room with Renee.  Kerry tells her that she should be lying down.  They are monitoring Shelley because she passed out in the exam room earlier.  Shelley asks Kerry what Renee Carlson is doing there.  Kerry tells her that she was also stabbed.  Shelley tells her that Renee is Diane's roommate.  Kerry asks her if they were close and she tells her no.  Renee is kind of weird and Diane was going to be moving out in a couple of weeks to live with her.  Kerry tells Shelley that Diane has died.  Jing-Mei goes to speak with Martin.  She tells him that she called his house and heard his voice on the answering machine, so she knows that he can speak.  She tells him to quit playing games with him and he gets upset.  Elizabeth walks outside to talk with Terry about helping her sister.  She tells Corday that she is a senior and this will be the last time that she will be in the playoffs.  Elizabeth tells her that she is her sister's best chance and this lets Terry know that she is a match for the transplant.  Elizabeth tells her that her sister would do it for her and Terry responds to her that she would not.  As they are talking, a car runs head on into the vending cart and knocks Charlie, the vendor, to the ground.  Elizabeth rushes to help him and he tells her that he has been covered in hot water.  Mark hears the noise and runs outside.  Elizabeth tells him to help the people in the car.  It is a boy, his parents, and his doctor.  They tell Mark that the boy, Viktor has been unconscious for about twenty minutes.  He was under water in the tub for two minutes.  He is only eight-years-old.  In the exam room, Jing-Mei asks the doctor if they tried to resuscitate him on the way to the ER, and she tells them no.  Dr. Chen rolls her eyes and looks at Mark.  Kerry and Corday are in the next exam room tending to Charlie.  Lily comes in to get Corday.  Her baby-sitter is outside in the hall with Ella.  Mark asks Felicia Kind, the doctor that is with his patient's family, if she is a real doctor.  She tells him that she is a Socialization therapist.  Her cell phone rings and Mark tells her that she has to take it outside.  Mark sees Elizabeth with the sitter and Ella.  The sitter tells Elizabeth that they were on their way back from the baby gym and Ella just said it.  Ella opens her mouth and tells Elizabeth, Dada.  Mark is still with Viktor and he wants to know why three adults were giving an eight-year-old a bath.  The father tells him that they were recreating the womb by playing a bonding game.  Elizabeth comes in and tells Mark that he should get out there with his daughter.  She has something to tell him.  Corday goes back in to tend to Charlie.  Kerry is with him and he tells Elizabeth that she deserted him.  Corday tells him that he is in perfectly good hands.  He doesn't like Weaver because she doesn't shop at his vending cart.  Weaver tells him that it is because he is over priced.  Haleh comes to get Weaver.  Weaver goes to speak with Mrs. Carlson, Renee's mother.  Kerry tells her of her daughter's condition.  She will be going up to the Intensive Care Unit soon.  Kerry tells her about Diana's death.  This upsets her, because Renee and Diana were such good friends.  Kerry asks her if Renee has been having any trouble at school.  Mrs. Carlson is tired of people asking her that.  She tells Kerry no.  Kerry tells her that Diana had defensive wounds on her hands and that Renee didn't.  Mrs. Carlson tells her that Renee didn't hurt her or hurt herself.  Kerry replies that she is sure that Renee will tell them what happened when she wakes up.  Mark tells Viktor's parents that their son is stable and that a social worker will be coming down to speak with them.  The father tells Mark that they adopted Viktor in Prague last year, but he didn't connect with them.  That is why they hired the therapist to help him to bond with his new family.  Mark tells him that they put their son in a lot of danger.  Carter comes down the hall and he is with Stan.  Stan is still seeing things.  He is seeing pink flamingos and Kerry tells him that when she spoke to him he was seeing butterflies.  Corday is looking for Mark.  Jerry tells her that he checked out for an hour and that Dr. Lewis is covering for him.  Gallant sees Lewis and asks where she is going with the baby warmer.  She tells him, but he doesn't see the eggs he was supposed to be watching.  Corday sees Susan and asks to speak with her.  She wants to know where her husband is.  Susan tells her that she needs to talk with him.  What would be going on that he wouldn't want Elizabeth to know about?  What would he be protecting her from?  Elizabeth catches the hint and heads to Radiology.  The nurse there tells her that his treatment has just started.  She takes Elizabeth to him.  She sees her husband getting his treatment and he see her looking on.

Carter is taking care of a firefighter that was at the school fire.  Kerry assists him.  She asks if they got everyone out and he tells her that there are still three firefighters missing.  She pries more and learns that Lopez is one of them.  Elizabeth speaks with Mark about his condition.  She asks him how much time he has.  He tells her that if the treatment works, he has about ten months.  She says that they should go see Dr. Burke, and then it clicks that is why there is a charge on the Visa card to New York.  She asks him why he didn't tell her, she could have been helping him.  She doesn't want him to be alone.  Mark gets up and is heading back to work.  She can't believe that he is going to work after his treatment.  He tells her that he doesn't know what else to do.  Dr. Chen sees Martin and asks him if he has spoken to the lady from the Psychiatric department.  Martin begins to cry.  Whatever it is making him cry has to do with the scarf and hat that he is wearing that someone had knitted for him.  Kerry checks on a little boy named Danny Barnett.  He is a kid from the school fire.  He tells Kerry that a fire lady road in the ambulance with him.  She asks if the lady was hurt and he tells her that he doesn't think so, she was telling him jokes.  Kerry tells Jerry to call Unit 38 and see if all of the firefighters are accounted for.  He tells her that they are probably still busy with the fire and she tells him to just do it.  Carter asks Susan if she has seen Dr. Greene.  Susan tells Carter that she can help him with his patient.  He tells Susan that he scoped a lighter from a kid's belly and he is going to keep it with all of the other things he has scoped out.  She can't believe that he has kept all of the disgusting things.  She even sees a pen that she has been missing.  She wants it back, until he tells her that he scoped it from the other end.  Elizabeth gets off of the elevator and sees Terry.  Terry tells her that she has decided not to do the liver transplant for her sister.  This upsets Elizabeth, but Terry is sure that she isn't going to do it.  Elizabeth goes in to Dr. Romano's office and begins to cry.  He walks in and thinks that she is hiding out from the ER.  When he sees her crying, he goes over to see what is wrong.  She tells him that Mark's tumor is back.  From what she tells him, he knows that it is the worse.  He tells her that he is sorry.  She tells Romano that Mark has known for weeks and didn't even tell her about it.  There is so much that they haven't been worked out.  She is sick and tired of being the strong one.  Is she supposed to just go back home to watch him die?  Romano tells her yes.  He asks her if he is her husband and if she still loves him.  She tells him yes.

Adele comes down and is talking with Dr. Chen.  She tells her that the police had found Martin's mother dead on the bathroom floor and Martin was the one who found her there.  She must have been the one who knitted him those items.  He has been traumatized by the incident and has not spoken since.  Martin has a sister in Louisville coming to take care of him.  Adele goes in to speak with Viktor's parents.  Mark stands outside of the room and speaks with their Socialization doctor.  He tells her that she is lucky that Viktor didn't die.  She tells him that she has had a good record of helping families connect.  Haleh gets Mark and tells him that Viktor is moving and waking up.  They run in to see him.  Viktor reaches for his mother's hand and they all see that the bonding exercise must have been a breakthrough.  Mark and Adele look on and see that what was done was borderline abuse.  Dr. Green begins to feel bad and tells them that he has to go.  He tells Kerry that he will finish up his paperwork on his next shift.  She tells him that this shift isn't over with yet.  He replies that he has just went for his first Chemo-therapy treatment and is going home.  Kerry, Carter and Gallant look shocked as he walks out.  Luka comes home and sees Abby sitting drinking a beer and looking through the paper for a new place to live.  He calls her a couch tomato and she corrects him and tells him that it is a couch potato.  She then tells him that a girl named Michelle called.  He had already forgotten about giving her his number.  Abby reminds him that he is supposed to be taking Michelle to the Ice Capades.  She then tells him that she tried to explain to Michelle that they were just roommates.  Luka is not sure if he likes Michelle anyway.  Abby hasn't had any luck finding her a cheap place to live.  Luka tells her that he is going to jump in the shower.  She tells him that he doesn't want to keep Tai and Randi waiting.  Carter is on his way out and sees Susan outside.  He knows now why she has been spending so much time with Dr. Greene.  Gallant is on his way out also and is back in his uniform.  They see that he is hiding something in his coat and he opens it to reveal some baby ducks.  As they are looking at them, Susan causes him to drop one of the eggs.  She then apologizes.  Kerry is standing by Lopez's car when she walks up.  Kerry tells her that she has been looking for her.  When she heard that she was in the fire, she was worried.  Lopez tells her that she is touched.  Kerry tells her that she was right before to do her the favor (referring to the time that she ousted her by kissing her in front of the staff in the ER).  Kerry leans over and kisses Lopez.  Lopez then starts to speak about the fire and Kerry leans over and kisses her again and hugs her.  Elizabeth and Ella have gone back home to the Greene house.  She sees Rachel and asks her where her dad is.  Rachel tells her that he is upstairs.  She asks Rachel if she could watch Ella and she hands her to her, thanking her as she walks up to see Mark.  Rachel remarks to Elizabeth, he is sick again isn't he?  Elizabeth goes upstairs to find Mark on the bathroom floor.  He has been vomiting severely.  He tells her that he has been doing it for an hour.  She gets him a cold cloth to put on his forehead.  She tells him that she tried for weeks to get Ella to say Mama or moon.  He tells her that they always say Dada first.  She says that it is because it is easier today.  He tells her that maybe she just likes him.  She replies that maybe she is just a good judge of character.  He starts to throw up again and Elizabeth offers to go get him something, but he tells her to stay.  It will pass.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on April 08, 2002