Luka helps Abby carry her things back to her apartment.  He tells her that he will be right back.  Abby walks to the bathroom and sees the bloody rag still sitting on the counter where she had left it after being beat up by her neighbor Brian in "A Simple Twist of Fate".  In the ER, Pratt flirts around with Jing-Mei.  He asks her if she likes Macaroni and Cheese.  She tells him no and he tells her too bad.  It is all that he has for dinner.  She asks him if he is asking her out and she lets him know quickly that she is not making him dinner.  Jing-Mei asks Pablo if he likes Macaroni and Cheese and he tells her yes.  She tells Pablo that he has himself a date, with Pratt.  Abby is cleaning out old food from her refrigerator, while Luka installs new locks on her front door.  Someone knocks on the door, so Luka opens it to see John Carter standing there with flowers in his hand.  He looks in and sees Abby with a drink in her hand.  She sees him and tells him hey.  Luka asks him if he would like some pizza, but he tells them that he was just stopping by to see if she was settled in.  She tells him that she is getting there and he tells her that he can see that.  He sits the flowers down and tells her that they are just a housewarming gift.  He heads out the door and tells her, Welcome Home.

Pratt and Abby take care of a young man who says that his belly hurts.  He tells them that is brother is inside of him and that he wants to get him out.  Abby asks Pratt if he would like her to call for a psych. consult, get some help, maybe some restraints, but he tells her that he flies the plane and she serves the coffee.  Carter walks in and asks Pratt about another patient.  As they are talking, the young man pulls out a switch blade and says that he has to get him out before he kills me.  Carter is able to knock the knife from the man's hand and he tells Haleh to get some restraints, haldol and a psych. consult.  Romano is with Kerry and he tells her how lesbians are at risk for several health problems because they are afraid or embarrassed to seek health care.  He tells her that he wants her to be the poster child for the hospital's new Center for Lesbian Excellence.  She tells him NO! and he tells her that there will be a news conference later and that she had better read the press packet.  Susan walks in and sees Carter in the lounge.  He is trying to pry out a pop tart from the toaster with his newly acquired switch blade.  Carter asks her if he has heard about a replacement for Dr. Greene.  Susan checks her phone messages and there is one from her niece Suzy.  She sounds frightened and says that her mom is really sick and that they are in a hotel.  She can't get her to wake up.  Suzy thinks that her mom needs a doctor.  She then whispers that she's got to go and she hangs up the phone.  Susan calls Chloe's house, but only gets the answering machine.  Susan calls the police and Officer Wilson comes to speak with her.  Carter suggests that they should trace the call.  Nurse Dori comes to get Susan to answer some questions for a patient and Carter tells her that he will take care of it.  Carter sees Luka in the hallway and asks to speak with him for a minute about Abby.  Luka asks him what about and Carter tells him that she is drinking again, or did you not notice.  Kerry walks up and asks Luka for help with a seven-year-old boy, named Alan, who fell from a tree on a class filed trip.  He has spinal fluid and blood coming from his ears.  Carter goes with him and Kerry tells him that they have got it.  Carter gives Luka a mad look and walks out.  Jing-Mei sees Pratt and she asks him how his date with Pablo went.  He tells her that it was pretty interesting.  He tells her that Pablo use to be with the Mexican circus and that he was even shot by border patrol once.  Jing-Mei seems surprised that he and Pablo actually had a date.  He tells her that Pablo was hungry, so they went to Doc Magoo's.  Carter asks Pratt where a patient is and he tells Carter that he sent her home.  Carter did not sign off on her chart, so this upsets him.  Susan learns from Officer Wilson that Suzy's call came from a cell phone in New York.  He tells her that he has contacted the 55th Precinct district and that they are expecting her call.  Susan calls and speaks with Lieutenant Swersky.  He puts Officer Maurice "Bosco" Boscorelli on the phone with her to take a missing persons report.  He tells Susan to calm down and to tell him when the last time was that she spoke to her sister.  Elizabeth comes down to do a consult on the injured boy.  Kerry asks her how Mark is doing and she tells her that he is in Hawaii with Rachel.  He is showing her where he grew up.  Kerry tells her that it is nice.  Luka tells Elizabeth that he didn't know that Mark grew up in Hawaii.  She tells Luka that Mark grew up all over the place.  The young boy is not doing well at all.  Susan comes in to the room and tells Kerry that she has to leave.  She has to catch an 11:30 flight out to New York.  Carter asks what she is going to do and she tells him that she is going to find them.

Reverend Ed is in the ER preaching to the patients in chairs.  Kerry tells Gallant to get rid of him, it is bad for business.  Gallant asks him to leave, but gets called away to work on a trauma.  Stanley Sherman, a security guard, is brought in after being shot.  Pratt tells Gallant to pay attention.  Carter walks up and see Abby with them.  He tells her that he hasn't seen her all morning.  She tells him that she has been busy.  Carter tells Pratt that the gunshot patient is all his.  Pratt tells Gallant that he will let him do the rectal.

Susan has arrived in New York and is at the 55th Precinct police station.  Bosco is surprised that she has come all the way from Chicago.  Bosco's partner, Officer Faith Yokas, gets filled in on what has happened.  Susan tells them that she has called Suzy's school and that she hasn't been there for several days.  They learn from Susan that they live in South Orange, New Jersey.  They tell Susan that they will call the police there, but Susan plays the answering machine message for them to hear.  They asks her if she has any pictures and Susan pulls them out and shows it to them.  They tell her that they will canvass the local hotels and Susan asks if she can go with them.  Bosco doesn't want her to go, but Yokas tells her yes.  Carter tells Gallant that he can intubate the gun-shot victim that he and Pratt are working on.  Pratt tells Gallant not to chip his teeth.  Carter walks him through it and he does a good job.  Pratt tells him that it was an easy intubation.  Luka's young patient, Alan, is on a ventilator.  His parents are in the room with him.  He tells them that the ventilator is breathing for him and without it he would die.  The officers and Susan canvass the streets looking for Chloe and Suzy.  Bosco assures her that this sort of thing happens all of the time and not to worry.  People go on vacation without informing other family members where they are going.  They ask Susan about Chloe's marriage and Susan tells them that it is great.  Chloe's husband Joe is who helped her when she had a substance abuse problem.  This surprises them when they hear it, but Susan tells them that Chloe has been clean for five years.  Pratt and Gallant are still with their gun shot patient.  Pratt makes a bad comment about Veterans and Gallant takes offense to it.  As they are arguing, the security guard crashes.  Gallant tells Pratt that he wants to call Carter.  Pratt tells him that there is no time.  He pulls out his notebook to see what to do and this worries Gallant.  Pratt cracks the guy's chest open and Gallant starts hollering for Abby.  Abby finally comes in and runs to tell Carter.  Carter runs to the room and sees what they have done.  Pratt doesn't even know the names of the clamps that he needs and Carter scolds him and Gallant both.  The officers pull up to the side of the street and Bosco gets out to ask a junkie named Daryl if he has seen the people in the picture.  Daryl acts like he has no idea, so Bosco knocks him out of his chair and roughs him up.  Officer Yokas gets out of the car and tells him to behave, Susan can see him from the back of the patrol car.  He tells her that Dr. Lewis is wasting their time.  A guy on a bicycle comes up and speaks to the officer.  He is the neighborhood watch guy.  He tells the officers about the prostitution problem on the streets and Bosco sends him on his way.  Romano sees the damage of the patient that Pratt and Gallant butchered up.  Pratt tells him that they saved his life.  Romano asks him who he is and who does he think he is speaking to him.  Carter is there and Romano tells him that he had better keep his eyes on his medical students before they kill someone.  Carter tells them to both go to the lounge and wait for him.  Gallant goes, but Pratt doesn't.  Susan and the officers find out where Chloe was staying.  They go through her apartment and they find drug paraphernalia.

Luka and Corday speak with Alan's parents.  They make a decision to remove the ventilator.  As the boy stops breathing on his own, Corday gets upset and has to leave the room.  This must remind her of how badly her husband, Mark, is doing.  Carter goes to the lounge and only sees Gallant there.  He asks where Pratt is, but Gallant doesn't know.  Carter tells him what he and Pratt did was a stupid thing.  He asks Gallant if he knew Dr. Malucci.  Gallant tells him no.  Carter tells him that is because he was fired for doing a stupid thing.  On Carter's way out, Gallant tells him not to confuse him with Pratt.  Weaver is upset that Reverend Ed is still in the ER.  Gallant tells her that he got called on the trauma and couldn't get rid of him.  Kerry tells Pratt to take care of it.  Corday scrubs in with Romano to operate on the security guard that Pratt and Gallant butchered up.  Corday asks what happened to him and Romano tells her that he is another unfortunate patient to pass through the ER.  Nurse Shirley comes in and tells Corday that she has a phone call.  It is Rachel calling from Hawaii to tell her that Mark isn't doing well.  Back in New York, the officers chase down a drug dealer named Oleg.  Yokas chases him on foot, while Bosco and Susan fly around in the patrol car to block him.  When they catch him, they rough him up and show him the pictures to see if he has seen Chloe and Suzy.  Bosco finds illegal narcotics on him and slams him on top of the patrol car.  He tells the officers that he may have seen them and tells them where.  When they get back into the car, Susan tells them that they may have broken the guy's nose.  Bosco tells her no, he was always that ugly.  Jing-Mei tells Carter that Pratt just did a perfect tap.  Carter congratulates him and then tells him to go home.  Pratt argues with him a while and Carter tells him that he will have to do what he tells him, when he tells him if he wants to stay.  Carter tells Pratt that he can teach Gallant how to drain an abscess.  Carter tells Jing-Mei that they need to keep their eye on Pratt.  She tells Carter that Pratt is good, but Carter tells her that he is dangerous.  Carter sees Abby head outside to the ambulance bay, so he goes out to speak with her.  He ask her if she wants to talk about it and she tells him that there isn't anything to talk about.  She tells him that she doesn't need any help.  He tells her that she through away six years of being sober.  She assures him that she has it under control.  A patient is brought in by an ambulance after a car accident, in which he was drunk.  Carter, Luka and Abby tend to him.  Elizabeth sees Romano and tells him that she is going to need some time off.  He starts to give her a hard time about it, until she tells him that it is Mark.  She has to go to Hawaii to take care of him.  He has gotten worse and will not be able to return home.  He tells her to go and asks what he can do to help.  She tells him to pray.  The officers and Susan go to where the dealer said he thought Chloe might be.  It is a nasty part of town and there is an abandoned bus with a bunch of junkies around it.  Bosco goes in and sees someone who fits her description.  He calls for Susan to come and see and she verifies that it is Chloe.  Suzy is nowhere around and Chloe is not doing well.  They call for an ambulance.

Chloe is barely breathing and Susan is not able to help her.  She is not licensed to practice medicine in New York.  Susan wants to ride in the ambulance with her, but the paramedics will not let her.  The officers tells her that they will follow the ambulance to the hospital, but the paramedic decides to let Susan ride along with her sister.  The guy who was driving under the influence dies.  This makes Carter mad.  Carter tells Luka that it was a waste.  Luka knows what Carter is upset about and he tells him that Abby is a big girl.  Carter tells Luka that if he isn't helping Abby, then he is hurting her.  Susan is in the ambulance with Chloe.  She asks her what drugs she was taking so that they can help her, but Chloe is unresponsive.  Susan tells the paramedic that they need to intubate her, but they will not.  Kerry is upset to see that Reverend Ed is still preaching to the patients.  Jerry tells her that the preacher cured his sciatica.  Kerry goes to kick him out herself, but he starts to lay hands on her and pray.  Pratt gets a good laugh about it.  Carter tells Pratt that his patient will live.  A woman from the Illinois Women's Health Coalition comes in looking for Dr. Weaver.  Abby sees Carter and speaks to him about what they had discussed outside earlier.  She apologizes for being abrupt and tells him not to worry about her.  He tells her that somebody should.  She tells him, not you.  She says that it is to complicated.  He says what and she says Us.  Us is too complicated?  There's an us?  She appreciates his concern, but she is okay.  Chloe wakes up in the hospital and sees Susan there.  She tells her that she was just dreaming about her.  Susan asks her where Suzy is and Chloe tells her that she is with her.  Susan asks her again and asks if she is with Joe.  Chloe tells her that Joe broker her heart and starts to realize what is going on.  Chloe has no idea where Suzy is.  She tells Susan that she is sorry and that she screwed up.  Susan agrees with her and says, yeah Chloe, you screwed up.  Abby is at home and she seems to be frightened.  She checks the door to make sure it is lock.  She goes to the sofa and stares at a beer bottle and then reaches for the phone.  She picks it up to make a call, but she hangs the phone back up.  Back in New York, Susan looks across the harbor.  Officer Yokas comes up and tells her that the other officers are out canvassing the precinct.  She tells her that the detectives want to speak with Chloe, but Susan tells her that Chloe doesn't remember anything.  Susan mentions that it is bad if they don't find a missing child within the first twelve hours.  Susan asks her how much longer her shift is and Officer Yokas tells her that it was over a few hours ago.  Susan starts to cry and says that she is only six-years-old.  Yokas tells her, yeah, we are going to find her.

Episode continues on Third Watch episode "Unleashed" 04-29-2002

The officers continue looking for Suzy.  Susan asks Bosco if there is any signs of her niece and he tells her no.  Bosco tells Yokas that the New Jersey officers will try to locate the husband.  Susan tells Yokas that Bosco is wound a little tight.  Yokas tells her that she has two kids and that if one of them ever comes up missing, Bosco is the one she wants looking for them.  Susan tells her that Chloe is a good mother, but Yokas doesn't want to hear it.  She is not interested in a person who would hurt their kid.  Yokas tells Lieutenant Swersky that the marriage is rocky.  Bosco speaks to another junkie about seeing the missing girl, but he swears he has no idea.  Bosco gets a call and tells Susan that a girl has been found that she needs to identify, she is at the morgue.  Susan goes to identify her and is relieved to see that it is not Suzy.  Lieutenant Swersky tells the officers that another missing girl has been reported from the same neighborhood.  Bosco thinks that they need to speak to the other kids because they may know something.  When they arrive in the neighborhood, Yokas tells Bosco to let her talk to them, they are just kids.  She knows how he is when speaking with people.  She asks the kids what their names are and they tell her.  She shows them the pictures and they recognize Suzy.  They tell Yokas that the policeman took her yesterday.  She offers to take the kids for a bite to eat, since they haven't eaten, but they will only go if they turn on the sirens in the police car.  Bosco and Yokas think that if they find Joe, then they will find Suzy.  Joe comes in to the police station and he is looking for Bosco and Yokas.  Susan sees him and asks him where Suzy is.  He has no idea, he has not seen her.  Bosco takes him in for questioning, as Susan watches and listens in the next room.  The last time Joe has seen them was last Wednesday, a week ago.  They have been moving around a lot.  Phoenix, St. Louis and now New Jersey.  Every time something starts going good, Chloe starts to get high.  He tells Bosco that he has started dating a bank teller named Janice and Chloe found out and kicked him out.  He was with Janice in Atlantic City when all this happened.  As Bosco speaks with Joe, Yokas holds up the two kids they picked up to see if they can identify the policeman.  Both of the kids say that he is not the one Suzy went with.  She went with the policeman on a bike.  Susan tells Yokas that she feels bad for what Chloe did and not knowing what a bad shape she was in.  She didn't want to see the signs of drug abuse.  She always looked up to her big sister and she adored her.  Joe offers to hang around town to help the officers out.  He tells Susan that he is sorry.  As Bosco is speaking with Lieutenant Swersky and Yokas, he gets an idea of who the officer on the bicycle is.  They ask around town to see if anyone knows where the neighborhood watch guy lives and they finally find out.  They knock on his door and he tells them that he can't let them in because he is not dressed.  Bosco opens a window and goes out on the ledge and peeks through the windows.  He sees that the guy is dressed and is not telling them the truth.  He looks through the other windows and sees a girl fully dressed on the bed sleeping.  He jumps through the window and tackles the guy and beats him up.  Yokas goes to the ledge and goes in to the window and stops him.  The man tells them that he was only trying to help.  Bosco goes to get Suzy and tells the man that she had better be alright.  Back at the police station,

Reviewed by Tony Conner on May 13, 2002