Abby and Susan are waiting on Luka as he arrives
for the Morbidity and Mortality meeting with his
peers. Gallant follows in behind them.
As Dr. Kovac enters, Dr. Anspaugh reviews the
case out loud to the others in regards to the
patient, Rick Kendrick.

Sandy is working in a room
and Kerry asks her if she needs any help.
Sandy tells her nope, that she's got it.
She tells Kerry that she will need to stay out
of the room for a few days while she is
painting. Kerry accuses her of "nesting"
and Sandy tells her that she is just painting a
room. Kerry teases her until Sandy throws
a stuffed animal at her. Kerry jokingly
tells her that she hopes that she doesn't treat
the baby that way.
Dr. Anspaugh questions the
staff that treated Rick Kendrick. He asks
both Abby and Susan about what they had seen and
they answer him, covering as much as they can
for Luka. Luka gets tired of the way Abby
and Susan are trying to take up for him and he
begins to tell them all what happened. He
tells them that he only had two hours of sleep
and was hung over. He ignored Abby when
she told him about the patient and he should
have listened to her. He admits to the
crowd that he killed the patient. Abby
replies that the patient is not dead. Luka
walks out and Romano makes a statement. He
wants to know if anyone ever verified that there
are really medical schools in Croatia?
Susan and Luka go to the lounge. He thanks
her for sticking up for him and she tells him
that he needs to go back to work. Luka
isn't sure if he still works there and Susan
tells him that Weaver has already asked for him.
The paramedics bring in a
twenty-eight-year-old man named Chip Mealy, who
has not had any sleep in three days. He
also complains of obsessive thoughts.
Susan tends to him and learns that he took five
over-the-counter sleeping pills. She asks
him if he was trying to hurt himself and he
tells her that he was just trying to get some
sleep. She then learns that he has been
having problems with his girlfriend. She
tells him that he needs to talk with a
psychiatrist and then she can give him something
to help him sleep. Susan asks Chuny to
call psych.
Pratt is on his way in to
work and he triggers the metal detector and the
alarm goes off. The officer, not knowing
or caring who he is, pulls him aside.
Pratt tells him that it is just his cell phone
and that he is a doctor there. The officer
wants to check his bag. Carter sees the
scuffle and comes over to see what is going on.
The security guard finds a gun and Pratt begins
to explain. He tells them that he found it
outside on his way in. It was behind the
dumpster and he was afraid that whoever left it
went inside and would come back out after it.
Pratt wanted to give the gun to a real police.
The security guard tells him that he is going to
have to call the Chicago P.D. to come.
There is a patient being brought in and Pratt
runs to assist. The guard doesn't want him
to leave, but Carter tells him that Pratt is a
doctor there and he isn't going anywhere.
A woman has brought in a worker named Jose, that
has fallen from a tree to the top of her house.
She tells them that she has hired them to cut
down the tree and that he fell about twenty
feet. He is with his nephew, another
Hispanic man, who was not injured as seriously.
Carter and Pratt have a hard time asking what is
wrong, because they both only speak Spanish.
An elderly man is brought in
by the paramedics. His name is Mr. Gilman
and he is complaining of chest pain and
shortness of breath while having sex with his
wife. Kerry is a little shocked when she
finds out that he is ninety-three. Kerry
asks Luka to give her a hand and he helps get
the man off of the gurney. They man is
asking about KoKo, his wife. Gallant is
also assisting her. Chuny comes in and
hands Gallant a note. Kerry asks what they
are doing passing notes and he tells her that
the note is from Harkins and that she is getting
out of the hospital today. He tells them
that he has been helping her with her reading
assignments while she has been out. Luka
seems uncomfortable about the discussion and is
ready to leave the room. Kerry asks him to
go upstairs to ICU and check a post-intubation
film for her and he gladly leaves.
Pratt, Carter and Abby are
working on their injured patient as the woman
and his nephew are watching on. He has
several broken bones and has a lot of abrasions.
The woman sees that he is in bad shape and needs
to call her husband. Jerry comes in with
the security guard and a cop. They are
insisting on speaking with Pratt he tells them.
Carter tells Jerry to get them out and that
Pratt is busy with their patient. The
police tells Pratt that Officer Robbins as told
him what happened and Carter insist that they
leave the room and wait. He tells Jerry to
take them out and bring back someone who can
speak better Spanish than they can. As
they leave, Pratt tells Carter, "It's not what
you think."
Susan finds her patient Chip
crying. He just wants to sleep he tells
her. Susan tells him that she will get
somebody down to speak with him soon. A
girl comes up to Susan and is speaking very fast
about how Susan's face is shaped like a square.
She continues on until Jing-Mei comes to get
her. She explains that she is a "Mathlete"
and was brought in after acting hyper.
Jing-Mei tells Susan that she is on a math team
and Susan tells her that they use to call kids
like that geeks.
Luka has gone upstairs to get
the film for Kerry. Luka asks the nurse
there about Rick Kendrick. She tells him
that he will probably need dialysis. Luka
goes in to speak with his mother, who is there
by Rick's bedside. He introduces himself
to her and then sets down beside her. He
apologizes for Rick's condition and she asks him
about what her son was like before this all
happened. She wants to know if
he knew he had leukemia and Luka tells her know,
that he thought he had the flu or something.
Was he afraid, she asks? Luka tells her
that her son was joking with his girlfriend and
did not seem frightened at all. Romano
comes in and asks to see Luka out in the
hallway. Romano asks him what he is doing
and Luka replies, "She needs to know how her son
died". Romano says, "One word, Peacefully.
Leave it at that". Romano doesn't want
Luka to speak with the family again. If
they find out what really happened, the hospital
could be sued for millions and the other
patients would suffer because of it.
Romano says, "If I see you with this patient or
his family again, you're fired". He then
tells Luka to go home.

Susan is getting her patient,
Chip, a soda. She explains to him that
Psych. is backed up and that it will be a while
before they can send somebody down to see him.
He begins to cry again and he tells Susan that
everyone is going to hate him. She asks
him why? She then asks if he did something
to his girlfriend? He tells her no.
She asks him what happened, and he tells her
that she walked in on him. She wants to
know if it was with another woman and he tells
her no. Then she asks, another man?
He tells her that he is only ten. He tells
her that it was his girlfriends ten-year-old
son. He didn't do anything to him, but he
would have if she hadn't walked in on him.
He tells Susan that he doesn't want to be like
this.
Weaver walks in on Gallant
shocking Mr. Gilman. Gallant is able to
get his heart rhythm back. Kerry asks if
his wife has been located yet and is wondering
how she survived the sexual encounter.
Haleh tells Weaver that she must have brushed up
against some blood, she has some on her lab
coat. Kerry excuses herself and leaves the
room as she orders some test for Gallant to run
on Mr. Gilman.
Pratt is suturing one of the
workers that were injured. Chuny is
helping him translate and interpret to see what
had happened to his uncle, Jose. Chuny
tells Pratt that they are in the US illegally.
Pratt tells Chuny to tell him that they can have
their care free of charge.
Susan calls up to Psych.
again. They quickly put her on hold.
Chen's patient,
Anastasia, comes up to the board
where Jerry is standing, and begins to erase all
of the patient's names. Dr. Chen catches
up with her and confronts her about taking
Ritalin to help her stay up to study for the
math competition. She tells her to put the
names back on the board, and she proceeds to do
it from memory to Jerry's amazement. The
officers come to speak with Pratt about the gun.
Susan gets disconnected from Psych. and notices
that her patient, Chip, is missing.
Kerry has gone into an empty
exam room to do a sonogram on herself.
Abby comes in looking for the Sonosight.
She sees that Kerry is concerned and she helps
her. Kerry tells her that she can't find
her baby's heartbeat. Abby asks her how
far along she is and Kerry tells her fourteen
weeks. She asks her if she has been
bleeding and Kerry tells her a little. She
thought that she was just spotting. Abby
tells her that she is sorry. Abby wants to
know if she can call her OB? Kerry tells
her that she prefers that it happen naturally.
Abby tells her that she should go home, but
Weaver just asks her to bring her some scrubs
when she gets a chance. Abby leaves her
alone in the room.
Daniel Gilman's wife, KoKo,
has arrived and has all the men at the front
desk staring. She is a lot younger than
they had been expecting. Gallant takes her
to her husband and Abby calls all of the men
pathetic. Dr. Kayson and Gallant explain
to her about her husband's serious heart
condition. Mr. Gilman whispers to Gallant,
"When can I bang her"? Dr. Kayson is
curious as to what the old man asked and Gallant
embarrassingly explains. KoKo tells
the men that she and her husband are trying to
have a baby. Dr. Kayson tells him that
when he can walk up two flights of stairs
without getting winded, then he can start having
sex with his wife again.
A nurse finds Weaver in the
room getting into her scrubs and tells her that
the officers are wanting to speak with her.
Carter goes into the lounge to get a cup of
coffee and finds Anastasia building a dome like
model out of empty coffee cups. Jing-Mei
finds her and removes her from the lounge.
Kerry walks in and sees Carter accidentally
demolishing the dome of cups and tells him to
quit playing with his Lincoln Logs. She
tells him that she heard about Pratt and the gun
and that he is suppose to be supervising him.
Pratt needs to be suspended for his actions.
Kerry tells him that he needs to monitor his
students better and that they are his
responsibility. Carter looks out of the
lounge window to see Pratt standing in front of
a car trying to get away. Carter runs
outside and sees that the woman who brought in
the Hispanic workers are trying to leave.
Pratt is trying to prevent her from leaving.
Carter tells him to get out of the way and let
her leave. The workers know where she
lives and to let the police take care of it.
He tells Pratt that he has noticed all of his
problems and that he has seen his kind before.
Pratt tells him that he doesn't know anything
about him. Carter replies, "I know what I
see". Pratt says, "What"? " Someone
throwing their career away", Carter answers.

Kerry walks in to a trauma
room where an eighteen-year-old deaf girl has
been brought in. Her id says that her name
is Rosemary Bell. She had passed out and
hit her head. Kerry wants to know why they
have her restrained. They tell her that
she was found flailing and incoherent.
Kerry wants the restraints removed. She is
able to communicate with her through sign
language. They learn that she has been
there before and that Susan was her doctor.
Abby offers to go and get her for Kerry, but
Kerry tells her no.
Dr. Chen is trying to treat
an older gentleman who prefers seeing a male
doctor. His name is Jim McNulty and he has
a woman with him. He sees a man doctor
walk by and tells Dr. Chen that he would rather
be seen by Junior, who happens to be Dr. Carter.
They learn from the lady that is with him that
Mr. McNulty is a doctor and was attacked at his
clinic by a baseball bat. He was struck
over the head and he fell down on some broken
glass and hurt is leg. Carter tells him
that he needs a head CT, since he lost
consciousness. Carter sees Abby and tells
her what tests need to be run on him. Abby
is with a young man that has to pee in a cup.
Abby asks Dr. McNulty when the last time was
that he had a tetanus shot and he replies,
"October....1949". The boy asks her if the
man will have to pee in a cup too and she tells
him yes.
Carter finds Pratt and asks
why he dispo'd the tree trimmer without asking
him first? Pratt tries to explain
everything to Carter, but Carter is still upset
about the whole gun issue. Abby takes the
little boy to the bathroom. She tells him
that she will wait right outside. Abby
sees a man go into the restroom right behind
him, but doesn't think anything about it.
Susan walks by and asks her if she has seen her
patient Chip? Abby tells her yes, he just
went into the restroom. Susan is relieved
that she saw him. She asks Abby what she
is standing there for? Abby tells her that
she just sent a young boy in there for a urine
specimen. Susan runs into the restroom and
Abby follows in behind her. Susan bangs on
the stall and the boy comes out. They send
him out into the hall. They find Chip a
few stalls down. He is huddled up into the
fetal position with the word EVIL scratched out
into his forehead.
Weaver sutures Rosemary's
head. She tells her that she has a bladder
infection and that it has spread to her
kidney's. She passed out because of the
fever and infection and that is how she hit her
head. Weaver asks her if she is sexually
active and Rosemary tells her yes and that she
only has one partner. She was afraid to
let her parents know, because she doesn't want
them knowing that she is having sex. Kerry
tells her that they don't need to know, but they
do need to know that she is sick. Kerry is
cramping and has to leave the room.
Gallant sees her and wants to ask her something,
but she tells him that he will need to find Dr.
Carter and she walks away. Gallant turns
to see Koko on top of Mr. Gilman. He runs
in and tells her to get off of him. Mr.
Gilman doesn't want her to go and yells for his
Viagra. Out in the hall, Mr. Gilman's
adult son and daughter show up. The
daughter has Power of Attorney and wants the
slut out of there. The son comforts KoKo.
Susan and Abby speak with Dr.
DeRaad about Chip. He tells them that
until Chip states that he is going to do
something wrong, he cannot hold him. He
cannot hold him for thoughts about doing
something. Susan tells him that she will
get him to say it.
The Math team coach shows up
and takes the students. Chen learns that
they have a five hour drive ahead of them and
they should be calmed down by then. Pratt
calls Chen a hot nerd. Jerry tells Pratt
that he has a phone call. Pratt answers
the phone and then tells Chen that he has to
leave and for her to cover for him. This
isn't the first time she has had to cover and
she is upset.
Abby finds Kerry sitting down
in the drug lockup. Kerry is cramping and
bleeding and has already filled four pads.
Abby asks her how long and Kerry tells her for
about an hour. Abby asks her if she wants
her to call Sandy and Kerry tells her no, that
she is at work. Abby tells her that she is
going to call Maynard, Kerry's OB, on her way
out.
Carter walks up and sees Dr.
McNulty suturing himself. He tells Carter
that he has been waiting too long. Carter
tells him that he cannot do that. Gallant
pulls Carter away for some help with the Gilman
family. He tells Carter that he can't find
Kerry anywhere and he needs help. A
hospital attorney is on the way down.
Gallant explains that KoKo wants to get some
sperm from her husband. She is trying to
get pregnant and has a short time to do it.
She has an electroejaculation technician there
ready to collect the specimen. Gilman's
daughter doesn't want the procedure done,
because she thinks KoKo is only doing it because
she will only inherit his money if she is
pregnant before he dies. Carter gets
called away and leaves Gallant to tend to this.
A patient is brought in after a three story fall
through a skylight. Chen and Carter are
with the patient. Carter needs more help
and asks where Pratt is? Chen tells him
that he had to leave and that she is covering
for him. This upsets Carter.
Pratt arrives home to find
Leon on the floor. He has been stabbed in
the buttocks and is bleeding pretty bad.
Pratt tells him that they need to go to the
hospital, but Leon is too scared to leave.
Leon tells him that Dukey came to get his gun
and couldn't find it. That is why he
stabbed him.

Jing-Mei and Carter are not
able to save the man who fell through the
skylight. Carter walks out of the room and
Chuny tells him that Dr. McNulty is MIA and that
he is diabetic. Carter tells her to get
him back in there.Kerry is up
in OB and Dr. Maynard has checked her out.
Abby is with them. The doctor tells her
that everything looks okay, but she wants Kerry
to take some time off and come see her again in
three days. Abby asks Kerry if she would
like to call Sandy, but Kerry shakes her head
no. Abby heads for the door and Kerry
stops her. Abby offers to give her a ride
home later and walks out of the room. As
the door is closing, Kerry's patient, Rosemary,
walks by and sees her, without Kerry knowing.
KoKo is on her way out of the ER with her
specimen. Gallant asks her about her
husband, but she is no longer concerned.
She got what she came for. She tells him
that his kids, Mattie and Bob are with him and
she leaves with the
electroejaculation
technician. She is in a hurry because she
ovulated that morning. Gallant returns to
the admit. desk and the rest are joking about
the whole thing. Jerry tells Gallant that
Pratt is on the phone for him. Carter sees
that he is on the phone with him and grabs it
from Gallant. Pratt hears Carter and hangs
up. Pratt hears a knock at the door and
assumes that it is Gallant. When he opens
it, he sees Carter standing there. Carter
wants to know what is going on. Carter
sees Leon injured and Pratt explains what had
happened. Leon tells Carter the true story
about the gun situation.
Susan has convinced Chip
to speak with
Dr. DeRaad. It looks as if he will not
tell, but just as Dr. DeRaad is getting ready to
leave, Chip slowly begins to tell him what will
happen. He says that if he leaves the
hospital, he will pick up his girlfriend's son
from school and will have sex with him behind
the baseball field. Now Dr. DeRaad agrees
to admit Chip to the psych ward.
Dr. Weaver looks in on
Rosemary. Rosemary asks her what is wrong
and why she was a patient. Kerry did not
realize that she had seen her in a hospital gown
earlier.
Kerry takes her hand and cups it together.
She then pulls the hand through her other hand
and pulls it downward. This illustrates a
baby leaving the womb. The
sign language tells her that she had a
miscarriage. Kerry begins to cry and
Rosemary gently comforts her.
Carter and Pratt are outside of Pratt's
apartment building. Carter asks about how
Leon is related. Pratt explains that Leon
moved in with him and his mother when Pratt was
only six-years-old. When Pratt was
fifteen, his mother died of cancer and Leon took
care of him. Leon was eighteen and took
good care of Pratt. Leon got into a fight
one night and was shot in the head. This
caused his IQ to drop and made him slow.
Pratt had to start taking care of Leon at this
time. Carter tells Pratt that he should
get some help with him. Pratt tells him
that he has been doing fine on his own all of
this time. Carter tells him, "We
work as a team. We cover for each other. We lean
on each other. The job's too big to do solo, and
if you can't get that maybe you should be a
surgeon or a super hero or something else that
doesn't require trusting people". Pratt
tells Carter that he has never been big on
trust. Carter tells him that if he can't
trust people, then nobody will be able to trust
him. Carter tells him that he shouldn't be
afraid of asking for help. It doesn't make
you weak. Carter walks away and Pratt
thinks about what he has said.
Reviewed
by Tony Conner on January 18, 2003

NBC Review
GUN-TOTING
DOCTOR'S BEHAVIOR CONCERNS CARTER WHILE WEAVER
CONCEALS SECRET -- When Dr. Pratt (Mekhi
Phifer) is caught bringing a gun into the
emergency room, Dr. Carter (Noah Wyle) feels
compelled to defend him -- but his colleague's
erratic behavior makes even Carter have second
thoughts. Meanwhile Dr. Weaver (Laura Innes)
hopes to keep her pregnancy a secret, but
physical complications might compromise her
plans. Elsewhere, Dr. Lewis (Sherry
Stringfield) keeps a wary eye on a
self-destructive patient (guest star Rob
Moore) who admits to molesting young boys; a
guilt-stricken Dr. Kovac (Goran Visnjic) is
warned by Dr. Romano (Paul McCrane) not to
admit his fault to the grieving relative of a
patient he treated; Dr. Chen (Ming-Na) treats
some student math whizzes who overdosed on
Ritalin; and Dr. Gallant (Sharif Atkins)
confronts a scheming young wife (guest star
Sofia Milos) who has designs for her dying
husband. Maura Tierney also stars.