Kerry is in an exam room and she is having an ultrasound.  We can see the baby's heartbeat and Kerr is all smiles.  Harkins and Gallant are with Dr. Chen and she is asking them questions regarding the patient that she is tending to.  They are answering her as if they were in a competition.  Jing-Mei tells them, "Settle down, this is a teaching hospital, not medical Jeopardy".  Susan comes in and asks Jing-Mei where are all of the doctors?  JIng-Mei tells her that Carter is stuck in triage, Pratt is on at midnight, and Weaver is M.I.A., which doesn't surprise Susan.  "Kovac is sleeping", Jing-Mei adds.  "With who?  I thought he was suspended", Susan replies.  Susan grabs Harkins and they go to check on a cranky old lady named Beth Garrison.  When they get to her to put on a cast, she is unresponsive and already cold.  Susan calls for someone to get a crash cart and a nun comes in to the room.  "Sister Beth?", the nun asks.  "She was a nun?", Harkins asks surprisingly.  "She is", the sister replies.  

Malik goes in and wakes up Paul Nathan and tells him that Corday is asking for him.  Susan is at the admit. desk and Frank tells her that he doesn't want her anywhere near him when God strikes her dead for killing the nun.  Susan tries to explain that she didn't kill her, she was just sick and old.  Chuny tells the doctors that there is a G.S.W. ten minutes out.  Nathan asks Frank if Corday is still there.  The paramedics bring in a "John Doe" that was found in the park and is altered, but no signs of trauma.  Harkins and Jing-Mei go to him and he attacks them.  Nathan walks over to him and punches him in the face and they look at him in surprise.  Nathan blames it on his condition and asks Harkins if she is okay.  She asks him if he is okay and he tells her, "Nothing ten hours of sleep can't help".

Carter is in with a patient and sees Jody walk up.  He is surprised to see her and she tells him that she is looking for Eric.  Carter takes her out to where Abby is.  She is with Luka at the ambulance getting the G.S.W. when they walk up.  She is surprised to see Jody and asks her where Eric is?  Jody tells her that she doesn't know.  They were in Indiana on there way back from visiting Jody's parents and they got into an argument.  She then tells Abby that Eric is U.A. (Unauthorized Absence) for two weeks from the Air Force.  "He's AWOL"?, Abby replies.

Nathan and Corday are tending to a sixty-seven-year-old man named Joel Seaton.  Susan comes in and assist them with him.  He is in a lot of pain and was diagnosed three months ago with pancreatic cancer.  His treatment is not helping him and there are not any other alternative options to make him better.  Corday had Nathan explain what will happen without treatment and the man seems to be ready to die and be with his wife.  Dr. Corday explains to him that after he goes into a coma, there will be no more pain.  He tells Dr. Corday that he is no longer interested in further treatment.  Nathan seems to be upset about this.

Luka, Weaver, and Abby are tending to the gun shot victim who was shot in his eye by his ten-year-old brother named Tommy.  The young man was trying to get the gun away from his brother before he hurt himself, and he was accidentally shot by him.  He tells the doctors that the gun belongs to his father.  As Nathan is walking out of the room with Susan, he tells her that Dr. Corday should have tried harder with their old patient to find another alternative to keep him from dieing.  A man comes down the hallway and calls out to Dr. Kovac.  He introduces himself as Mike Dobbs, but Luka does not recognize him.  He tells Dr. Kovac that he knows his wife Heather.  Luka then realizes that this is the husband of the woman he has been having an adulterous affair with.  He asks Kovac if he is married and he replies, "I was".  Mike tells him that he would appreciate it if he would stop seeing his wife.  He has two daughters at home and he doesn't want to explain his wife's absence to them each night.  Luka tells him that maybe he should be speaking with his wife.  He tells them that he has and they are trying to work things out.  He then tells Luka that he is just trying to keep his family together. 

Abby tries to reach Eric by phone, but has to leave him a message on his answering machine.  She tells him that he doesn't have to come see her, but she just wants to know that he is okay.  Susan tells her that she must be having a bad day like her, but at least she hasn't anyone.  She is 0 and 2, she tells Abby.  Susan is more picky about which patients she wants to treat next.  She doesn't want anyone else to die under her care.  Susan finally decides to treat an obese patient.  Carter asks Abby if she has had any luck finding Eric.  Erin comes up and asks Carter about her patient who has had an allergic reaction.  She tells him that nothing they have tried is working.  Carter goes with her and Abby heads into the lounge.  She picks up the phone and makes a call to the medical facility at the Air Force base.  She tells the man who answers that she is from a hospital in Chicago and that they are treating Eric Wyczenski and they would like to have his medical records faxed over to them.  The man asks who the doctor is that is treating him and Abby tells him to hold on for a moment, she hesitates and pauses and then comes back and tells him that the physician is Dr. John Carter.

Luka checks on Greg, the fourteen-year-old who was shot in the eye.  The boy is concerned because he cannot see.  Chuny comes in to the room and Luka tells her that he is sorry about everything that happened recently.  She tells him, "me too" and smiles and walks out of the room.  Greg tells Luka that he is worried about his dad.  Luka tells him that his dad will be happy that he is still alive.  He could of shot his head off.

Abby sees Carter and she asks him to speak with her for a moment, but Haleh calls for Carter before they can talk.  A young woman of Asian decent is brought in with a small child who is around three-years-old.  She was found in the backyard by a neighbor.  They think it may have been an overdose.  They are not sure what her name is, because she doesn't have any identification on her.  Luka is on the phone and is trying to get an eye specialist down to the ER, but he isn't having any luck.  Abby, Carter, Gallant and Erin are working on the young woman.  Carter can smell alcohol on her breath.  The phone rings and Abby answers it.  It is Eric.  Before she can find out what is going on, she drops the phone and loses him.

Corday finds that Nathan has called down the on-call psychiatrist to speak with Mr. Seaton.  She asks him if he told Susan about it and he tells her that the doctor was already down for another consult.  Elizabeth is aggravated with Nathan.  Nathan has discussed a procedure called a Whipple with him and she tells Nathan that it is a six hour operation and will take months of recovery.  He will probably not be able to pull through it.  Nathan doesn't mind though because at least he will have more time.

Carter's patient has tested positive for barbiturates and she is also pregnant.  Carter apologizes to Abby for her dropping the phone and losing Eric.  Frank walks up the hall and introduces Abby and Carter to Sargent Andrews.  He tells them that he is from the Air Force Office of Special Investigation.  He is looking for a patient named Eric Wyczenski.  Carter's eyes get big and Abby tells the officer that they were treating him, but he left against medical advice.  She then tells them that she is sorry, but they are unable to help.  They ask about the doctor who was treating him and she tells them that he had to take a trauma upstairs and she and Carter walk off.  Carter asks Abby what is going on and she hands him a chart.  She tells him that it is Eric's medical records.  Carter starts to open them and then tells her that he can't read those.  He says that a doctor had to sign for those and then sees that his signature was forged.  She reads the charts to Carter.  She is concerned that he might be bipolar, but Carter tells him that he has already passed the age, but Abby still thinks it to be so.  She says that the Air Force thinks that it is post traumatic stress following a near miss incident.  Eric had lied on his medical records about his family illness.

Nathan goes in for a consult for Susan, but it is too late.  Her obese patient has already died.  Susan and Malik joke about it, but Nathan does not find it too funny.  Luka drives on to a gold course where two men are.  They call Luka an idiot and tells him to get off of the course.  He tells the men that he is looking for Dr. Abrams.  He then tells Dr. Abrams about his fourteen-year-old patient with the shot eye.  Luka tells Dr. Abrams to come with him.  The man with Dr. Abrams tells him not to listen to him.  Luka asks him if he is a doctor and he tells him that he is an oral surgeon.  Luka tells him to shut up.  Dr. Abrams reluctantly gets into the car with Luka.

Kerry tells Susan that she is doing a good job clearing patients today.  "Easy to be fast when your just killing them", Frank replies.  Kerry tells Susan that she is taking some time off for a while for some personal things and that Susan will probably be picking up the slack in Romano's and her absence.  Frank smarts off again about what a bad idea that is and Susan tells Frank to mind his own business.  Chuny comes to get Susan to tells her that her patient that she intubated wants the tube removed.  As Susan goes with Chuny, Jerry bets Frank twenty bucks that she kills that patient too.  Abby asks Frank if her brother has called.  He tells her nope.  Carter and Gallant walk up to Abby and Gallant explains some ways that they can help Eric.  Abby takes Carter aside and is upset that he has been telling the medical students about her brother.  As they are talking, Mr. and Mrs. Yeung are brought to him.  They are the parents of the three-year-old boy, Aidan, that was brought in with Carter's patient.  Carter was thinking that the boy belonged to her, but she is only the Yeung's nanny.  Carter tells them that their son is fine and the mother goes to him.  Carter speaks with Mr. Yeung about Tong-Yi.  He asks him if she has been depressed or anything lately.  Mr. Yeung tells him that she is not suicidal.  Carter asks him if she has a boyfriend and he tells Carter no, that he doesn't think so.  She has been living with their family for four years.  He asks Carter to take him to her.

Mr. Seaton is going in to surgery and Nathan finds Corday scrubbing in.  He tells her that he was asked to come and see her.  She tells him that the family has asked them to perform the Whipple on him and that she wants him to scrub in to assist.  She tells him that he got them into the mess.  She calls Nathan the patron saint of the terminally ill and she heads in to the OR.  Nathan goes to scrub in and his hands are shaky.  He removes his medicine from the bottle and takes it.

Carter is in with Tong-Yi and Mr. Yeung.  Susan comes in and tells him that they need two trauma rooms to make way for two M.V.A.s coming in; auto. versus motorcycle.  Carter tells Mr. Yeung that Tong-Yi will need to stay overnight for observation.  He tells Carter that he wants her taken to a private facility.  He speaks Chinese to her and she answers back in a short Chinese sentence.  He tells Carter that she said that she's not depressed.  It was an accident.  She had taken a couple of sleeping pills with a glass of wine to help her sleep.  She is sorry to have caused you any trouble.  Carter says, "She told you all of that"?

Corday and Nathan are in the OR with Mr. Seaton.  Nathan is wobbly and he tells her that he has been up for twenty-four hours and his meds. are off.  She tells Shirley to take over the suction from Mr. Nathan.  He tells her that it will pass in about an hour, but she still insists that Shirley do suction.  Nathan accidentally knocks over the tray of instruments and causes more of a disturbance in the OR.

Susan, Gallant, and Erin  are out at the ambulance bay where a thirty-two-year-old man, named Carl Vanosh is brought in by ambulance.  He was in a motorcycle accident and had to be extracted from underneath a truck.  He is purple and unable to breath for three to four minutes.  Susan tells Gallant to take him in to the trauma room, while she and Erin go to the next ambulance.  She asks if the other driver is in there and sees a little boy being brought off.  It is Quinn Vanosh, who is the eleven-year-old motorcycle passenger.  She tells them that she was expecting a kid.  Susan tells Harkins to go and get one of the other Attendings.  Erin asks which one and Susan tells her that she doesn't care.

Mr. Yeung sees Dr. Carter and asks him who that is in there will Tong-Yi?  Carter tells him that it is Dr. Chen and that she is translating for him.  Jig-Mei learns that she did not know that she was pregnant.  Carter asks Jing-Mei to ask her if she is sleeping with her boss.  Tong-Yi nods yes.

Kerry and Gallant are working on the motorcycle driver and Susan and Erin are working on his son.  Susan asks Kerry to come in and help her.  She tells Susan that she will be fine and to just take a deep breath.  Carter sees that Mrs. Yeung is upset with her husband.  As Carter approaches, she takes her son Aidan and walks away.  Carter asks him what his relationship is with Tong-Yi and then asks if he is sleeping with her.  "Are you having sex with her"?, he asks again.  "She is pregnant and she says that the baby is yours", he tells him.  He tells Carter that it is none of his business.  Carter tells him that she is his patient and that makes it his business.  Mr. Yeung tells him that he has another doctor coming to get her.

Eric has shown up and finds Carter.  Carter tells him that they have been looking for him.  Eric is wound up and Carter can hardly get a word in, as he tells him all about Jody and her family and other things Carter did not care to know.  Luka sends his patient, Greg up for surgery with the retinal specialist.  He tells him that he will talk with his dad for him and make him out to be the hero.  Abby tells Luka that Dr. Lewis needs him in Trauma One.  Abby sees Carter and Eric coming up the hall.  She can see right away that he is wound up and she takes him aside.  She asks him about why he left and he starts in on the Post Traumatic Stress stuff.  Abby tells him that she has got his medical records and you knows that he didn't tell them about Maggie being bipolar.  "What are you, the KGB"?, he asks her.  The Military Police come down the hall and arrest him.  He tries to explain to them what happened, but it is all lies.  Abby watches as they hold him down as he tries to fight them off.  She tells them not to hurt him.  She wants to give him a shot to calm him down, but they will not allow her to.  "Is this what you wanted Abby?  Are you happy now?  Lock me up and throw away the key, Eric's been a bad boy.  Thanks a lot Abby, Thank you", he tells her as they haul him away.

Luka is assisting Susan with her young motorcycle victim.  Jing-Mei comes in and asks if she needs any help and Luka tells her no, but Susan tells her that she can do suction.  Susan is nervous and is having a hard time visualizing the cords for her to be able to intubate the patient.  She finally gets him intubated and Dr. Chen tells her that she did good.  Susan tells them that they can take him now and she heads for the door.  They ask where she is going and she tells them that she has other patients.  Dr. Weaver watches from the other trauma room as Susan leaves.

Luka has to open the boys chest as Kerry, Chen and Erin watch in amazement.  He is able to save the him,  Carter has Jing-Mei translate for him again to Tong-Yi.  Carter wants her to know how much better off she would be away from the Yeungs.  Tong-Yi surprises them both when she speaks in English, "I can't leave my baby".  Carter tells her that she can keep her baby.  She replies, "Not this baby, Aidan".  She tells them that the three-year-old belongs to her.

Corday has Kit extubate Mr. Seaton to see if he will breath on his own.  Nathan watches and sees that he cannot.  Nathan tells her that he will tell the family, but Corday tells him that she will get to do it.  Abby is worried about Eric.  She has no idea where they took him.  She is afraid that they may have put him in a V.A. "Looney bin".  Carter tells her to go home and get some rest.  He will talk to her later.

Kerry is on her way home and sees Susan outside sitting alone.  Kerry updates her on their young patient and tells her that Luka performed a life saving procedure.  Susan tells her that she didn't want to watch another one of her patients die.  Kerry tells her that she has seen her save twice as many without braking a sweat.  She tells Susan to go home and have a drink or maybe two.  "Tomorrows another day".  Kerry adds with a smile, "But if you lose more than one patient, your fired".  Sandy walks up and says hi and gives Kerry a hug.  As they are walking away Sandy asks Kerry, "Did you"?  Kerry replies, "No".  "Are you going to"?, Sandy asks.  "No, you can", Kerry replies.  "No you should", Sandy tells her as they head back on over to Susan.  Kerry tells Susan some news, "We're going to have a baby".  Susan is surprised and looks over to Sandy and says, "You're pregnant"?  Sandy quickly tells her no and Susan goes up to Kerry and gives her a hug and Congratulates them.

Carter sees Tong-Yi and Mr. Yeung walking toward the exit.  He tells Carter that she is signing out against medical advice.  Jing-Mei comes over to assist Carter.  "All right Deb, call the police", he tells her.  Mr. Yeung tells her not to bother, because Tong-Yi will not press charges.  Carter tells him that there are laws against slavery in this country.  Mr. Yeung leaves to pull the car around.  Tong-Yi tells Carter and Jing-Mei that she needs her job and that she has family back home who needs the money.  She wants to be near her son.  Aidan doesn't even know that she is his mother.  She spends more time with him than the Yeungs.  Jing-Mei and Carter tell her that they can help her, but she leaves.

Nathan goes in to check on Mr. Seaton.  Dr. Corday tells him that he will have to stay on the ventilator.  She tells Nathan exactly what she thinks about him being a medical student with his disease.  She tells him that she would fail any other student with similar performances.  She makes him a bargain; she will pass him if he promises not to practice clinical medicine.  He tells her no, that he can't do that.  "Then you will fail Mr. Nathan", she replies as she walks out of the room.

Susan is home alone and she sits down to eat her dinner and drink some wine.  Kovac is sitting in a bar alone for a moment, until a tall, blonde woman sits down beside him.  She asks him what he does and he replies, "I'm a jockey".  She tells him that he is one with a sense of humor and Luka's phone rings.  It is Mrs. Dobbs and she asks Luka about her husband visiting him earlier.  He tells her that he can't talk right now and hangs up his phone.  Before he can start the conversation up with the woman at the bar, his phone rings again.  Luka just hangs it up without answering it this time.  The woman at the bar tells him, "Why don't we get out of here and see what trouble we can get into"?  Luka asks her where they would go and she tells him that she will leave it all up to him.  She then tells him that it is three hundred an hour.  He chuckles and stands up and walks toward the door.  He sways back to the bar and finishes his drink and replies, "You coming"?

Carter arrives at Abby's and tells her that he has been calling, but she must have been on the phone.  She has been unable to contact Eric and she is worried.  He has brought her some fish from a fast-food place, but she tells him that she isn't hungry.  He heads into the kitchen and sees a glass of wine on the table.  He sees the bottle on the counter and she tells him that she bought it on the way home from work.  It took her over an hour to get it out of the bag and another forty-five minutes to pour it into the glass, but she hasn't had a drink.  She just wants everything to stop.  Carter holds her and she tells him how glad that she is that he is home.  She and Carter sit down at the table and they discuss their messed up families.  Carter tells her that they should get them all together for the holidays, His mom and dad, Gamma, Maggie.  Abby starts to smile and finds it a little amusing.  Abby pauses a moment and says, "I'm really scared for him.  It is so unfair and he was such a good kid".  She thought he had made it passed the age, but apparently he didn't.  Eric was the only consistent thing in her life.  He was the only thing that she could count on.  "That's not true anymore", Carter tells her.  "Promise?", she replies.  She adds, "Because I really need something to hang on to right now".  Carter softly tells her, "I'm not going anywhere".

Reviewed by Tony Conner on February 06, 2003