A boy named Zavery is brought
in after falling out of a tree that he climbed.
He is acting like a monkey and his mom tells
Abby that he is acting out and that it is okay.
Abby asks Dr. Lewis to help her with him.
Susan tells her to take him and that she will be
right with them. Susan checks on her other
patient, Aidan. Susan sees his letterman
jacket and sees that he is a wrestler. He
asks her what she does to stay in shape and she
tells him that she does bicep curls. He
then asks how much she can lift and she tells
him that sometimes she can lift a whole pitcher
of margaritas.
Luka is with a patient who
has trouble breathing and his lungs are bad.
The man blames the cigarettes that he has been
smoking for his ailments. He wants Luka to
write up a full disclosure, so that he can file
a lawsuit against the tobacco companies.
Luka tells him that he should spend his time
more productive and try to enjoy the time that
he has left. He tells him that he needs to
take responsibility for it, since he has been
smoking since he was a teenager. The man
gets offended and tells Luka that the HMO's and
the tobacco companies are all in this together
and that he will see Luka in court. Luka
tells him that no he will not, and the man
replies, "You don't think I will take you to
court?" Luka tells him that he won't live
that long. Kerry sees Luka walking away
from the patient and she asks him what that was
all about? Luka tells her stupidity.
"On whose part, his or yours"?, she asks.
Luka asks what is it with this country?
Everybody is always looking for someone else to
blame and to sue. Frank hears him and
replies, "If you don't like it, go back to
Croatia. Not near as many lawyers.
Lot more land mines though". The
paramedics bring in Brenda Walton. She is
a twenty-two-year-old with a hand injury.
Luka tends to her.
Romano comes down and heads
to Kerry. She thinks that he is wanting to
argue about something, seeing how he just storms
down right to her yelling her name. She is
really surprised, as is everyone else standing
around the admit. desk, when he plants a long
kiss right on her lips. He tells her that
she has "Out-Weavered" herself this time.
The hospital was just allotted 2.4 million
dollars in new funding. Kerry is
surprised, but not as surprised as when she
finds out who it is from. Romano tells her
that Alderman Bright is responsible for it and
that he will be coming to the ER for some photo
opportunities. Kerry assures Romano that
he awarded the money solely on the way that he
was treated and the way he saw the other
patients treated. Romano doesn't care why,
he is just glad that he did and tells Kerry not
to ruin the moment for him.
Pratt is working out in his
apartment when Leon comes and bangs on the door
telling him to let him in. Pratt opens the
door to find Leon's thug friend on the floor up
against the wall. He has been shot and
Leon wants "G" to go get his doctor stuff and
fix him up like he did for him. Pratt
tells Leon that Biz has a chest wound and will
need to go to the hospital. Biz tells him
no hospitals, that they will be looking for him.
Pratt learns from Leon that they were holding up
a liquor store and that a security guard showed
up and started shooting at them. Pratt
tells Leon to go inside and shut the door.
Do not look out the windows and do not open the
door if anyone comes by. "You understand
me? Leon!"
Romano walks into the lounge
and is happy to see a med. student hitting the
books. He asks Gallant what he is reading
and Romano knows the material well. Romano
grabs his cup of coffee, that he has just
prepared, and tells Gallant that nothing has
changed. Just then, Romano drops his cup
of coffee to the floor. Gallant stands up
and asks him if he is okay? Romano tells
him that he has got it and Gallant leaves and
tells him that he will get someone from
housekeeping to come and mop it up. Romano
stands there for a moment and stares at his
hand.
Luka, Carter and Abby are
working on Brenda's hand. It has been
caught in a trap. Abby explains that she
was demonstrating the cruelty of fur trapping at
the university. As Carter is helping Luka
remove the trap, Luka asks him if he has made up
his mind between Chechnya or the Congo?
Carter looks a little funny, but not as funny as
Abby looks when she hears this. Carter
tells Luka that he is still thinking about it.
Abby asks, "Thinking about what?" Luka
happily fills her in on what they are
discussing. He tells her that Carter is
going away with Alliance de Medicine
Internacionale. Carter tells her that it
is something he is thinking about doing in the
spring. Carter seems to be a little upset
with Luka and asks if he is finished with the
hand and then leaves the room. Abby
quickly follows after him.
Romano speaks with his doctor
about the problems he is having with his arm.
The doctor tells him that it is to be expected.
His limb was severed and he is lucky to have
what he has. Romano finds this hard to
accept. Abby finds Carter and wants to
know why he didn't tell her about
Chechnya? Carter tells her that they
had discussed it. She tells him, "No we
didn't". He reminds her that he mentioned
that he would like to practice medicine abroad.
She replies that she thought he was talking
about in Paris or something. He tells her
that they desperately needs doctors there and
she lets him know that they desperately need
doctors here also. Carter smells something
bad and Frank tells him that Dr. Lewis got hit
with flying feces. Jing-Mei loans Susan
her sweater to wear. Susan asks Abby to
set up a Wood's lamp so that she can check the
"monkey boy's" eye for a cornial abrasion.
Abby asks her if he is still armed and
dangerous? Susan tells her that she thinks
he is out of ammo. Gallant tells Carter
that he saw his doctor friend in triage.
Carter asks, "McNulty"? Gallant tells him
that he looks altered. The paramedics
bring in a thirty-two-year-old woman named
Doreen Brant who took a header down a flight of
stairs. Susan tells Abby to give her to
Luka, so that she can go and change her sweater.
The police asks Susan if she
knows where Sutter is? She is not sure who
he is and they explain that he was shot during a
robbery attempt and is suppose to be on his way
in to the ER. Susan asks Frank and he
tells them that a shooting victim is on their
way in, but they didn't say anything about him
being a cop. He will call dispatch to find
out. Romano comes down for a surgical
consult. This surprises Susan and she
tells Romano that she didn't know that he was
doing consults again. He smarts off to her
and she takes him to her patient, Aidan Finwick.
Romano sees that he has used steroids and Susan
tells him that he has quit. Romano tells
him that it is a good thing. If he
doesn't, his testicles are going to shrink down
to the size of raisins. Susan tells Romano
that upon examination, she felt a perirectal
component. Romano tells the patient that
infection has spread up along his rectum and
that he will need surgery to have the infection
cleaned out. Romano takes the patient
toward the elevator and Susan is concerned about
who will perform the surgery. Romano tells
her that he will supervise one of his residents
during the surgery. Susan replies, "That
is what I was afraid of." Officer Jason
Sutter is rolled in. He is
thirty-nine-years-old and he heard four shots
and felt two hits he tells them. Kerry
tells Susan to page Corday.
Gallant and Carter check on
Dr. McNulty. Carter sees that he is not
well and needs to be treated. Malik tells
Carter that another GSW is rolling in.
Abby is trying to get Zavery down from jumping
on the bed. Susan walks in and he heads
under the bed. Susan tells him that she
won't be able to use the "Gorilla scope" if he
doesn't come out. Zavery immediately comes
out from under the bed and lies down as told.
Susan takes the Wood's lamp and Abby turns the
lights out. She sees that his eye is okay
and that there are no abrasions. Abby
looks at Susan's sweater and sees a glowing
spot. Abby asks her if it is semen?
Susan tells her that it is not her sweater and
then says, "Oh Gross"!
Carter goes to the ambulance
bay for the GSW. The door opens up from
the ambulance and Carter sees Pratt with the
victim. As they head in to the ER, the cop
looks at Pratt, as Pratt looks back at him.
Carter asks Pratt if it is a friend of his and
Pratt replies, "We're not all related you know".
Pratt follows Carter into the trauma room as
they work on the victim. Carter asks Pratt
if he knows his name? Pratt tells him that
he doesn't know, "Cops got his wallet".
The cop tells Carter that he is Biz Cummins.
"What's with all the boys in blue?", Pratt asks.
Malik tells him that a cop got shot and that the
victim may have been the one who shot him.
Pratt looks over into the next trauma room and
sees them working on the cop.
Luka, Corday and Kerry are
working on Officer Sutter. Elizabeth is on
the phone telling the OR that they have two
criticals coming up and that they will need a
vascular surgeon. A cop comes in and asks
Sutter if he got a good look at the guy who shot
him? Sutter tells him that there were
three of them, but he doesn't know which one
pulled the trigger. The cop asks him to
look over at the victim in the room beside him
to see if he is one. Pratt is in the way
and the officer tells him to move. Pratt
tells him that they are busy trying to save his
life. Luka tells the cop that he isn't
going anywhere. The cop replies, "But his
other two buddies are on the loose".
Corday goes in to where Carter and Pratt are and
tells them that only one OR is available and
they assess the patient to see which is more
critical. It will be thirty minutes before
another OR is available. Pratt seems to
want the cop t go up first. As Sutter is
taken up to the OR, the cop asks Pratt when Biz
will be able to talk with them about what
happened and answer some questions? Pratt
tells him that he will let them know.
Abby and Susan tend to a
young girl named Helen who is complaining of
abdominal pain. Helen tells them that she
thinks that it is a tumor. Abby asks Susan
if she is going to ask about the sweater?
Susan doesn't want to, but Abby wants to know.
Susan tells Helen that they think she may have
gallstones and that she will need to have some
tests run. Abby tells Susan that the real
question is who it (the spot) belongs to?
"Pratt? Frank? Jerry?" Susan
gets disgusted.
Romano is assisting his
resident in the OR with Aidan. The
resident isn't doing to well under his guidance
and Shirley asks Romano if he would like her to
call Corday? He tells her NO! Corday
is in surgery with Sutter and she is wondering
where the vascular surgeon is. She is told
that Dr. Dorset is on his way and Corday wonders
who he is. He is the new guy, she is told.
Dorset arrives and Corday fills him in on the
patient's condition. She tells him that it
is going to take a lot of time to work on.
He replies, "They call me "Fast Eddie" for a
reason". Corday is surprised that he wants
to perform a Fogarty Embolectomy. He tells
her that he prefers to call it the "Dorset
Bulletectomy". He explains the procedure
with Corday and is a bit flirtatious with her.
She can see that he is very arrogant.
Erin Harkins is in the ER and
Gallant and Susan are speaking with her.
Susan asks Gallant to check on a patient for her
and he and Erin walk down the hall. As
Gallant turns to go and check on the patient,
Luka catches up to Erin. Luka asks her if
she is feeling better? She tells him that
she is better than the last time that he saw
her. She asks him that she needs his
signature for her resident's review and he signs
it for her. He tells her that he is sorry
about what happened. He was having a bad
time. He asks what her next rotation is
and she tells him pediatrics. She doesn't
really want to chat with him, so she leaves.
Pratt tries to get Leon on
the phone, but doesn't have any luck. The
cops come down the hall and ask Pratt how Sutter
is doing? He tells them that he is still
in surgery. They also ask him about how
and where he found Biz. Malik comes after
Pratt and tells him that Biz's pressure is
dropping. Pratt runs to him and tells
Malik to go and get Carter.
Abby asks Carter when he is
leaving her to run off to the jungle? He
tells her that he really hasn't decided what he
is going to do. Carter tells her that she
was excited when Luka did it. She tells
him that Luka went home to his own country and
he didn't have a girlfriend asking him not to
go. Carter tells her that she should go
with him. "Like I don't have enough drama
in my life already", she sarcastically replies.
Gallant is checking McNulty's pressure as Abby
and Carter walk up. "Well, well, well...If
it isn't the Ken and Barbie of the medical
world", Mcnulty exclaims as Carter and Abby walk
up. Carter tells him that he is looking
better. Gallant tells Carter that his
blood sugar level was over six hundred.
McNulty tells Carter that he gave a patient his
medicine because the patient couldn't afford to
buy his own. Dori comes and tells Carter
that he is needed by Pratt. Carter arrives
to find that Biz is crashing. Leon shows
up and brings him to where Pratt is. He is
asking to speak with Pratt and that it is very
important. Pratt tells him that he
shouldn't be there. He tells Abby to take
him to the suture room and Abby asks him what
for? Pratt tells her that he is there for
a wound check. "Make sure you put a gown
on him", Pratt tells her. "Is he going to
die "G", Leon asks? "Get him out of here
NOW!", Pratt tells Abby again.
Pratt and Carter are still
working on Biz. He has been down for
thirty-five minutes. Pratt asks Carter if
he is ready to call it? Pratt calls the
time of death and then he goes in and tells
Leon. Romano and his resident, Jensen, are
still working on Aidan. Elizabeth comes in
and checks on them. She tells Robert that
she heard they were having some difficulties.
He tells her that she was misinformed. She
tells Robert that she didn't realize that he was
back on surgical rotation. He tells her
that he is just assisting Jensen. Corday
asks Jensen how it is going? She is
concerned that the nerve that runs along side
might get cut by accident. She asks Jensen
if he would like her to scrub in? Romano
quietly tells her no and then to leave, which
she does.
A girl named Sydney is being
treated by Kovac, Susan and Abby. Her
friend Fiona arrives and they ask her what
happened? The tox screen was negative and
there wasn't any pill fragments found.
They pumped her stomach and all they found were
some nuts and the smell of chocolate.
Fiona tells them that Sydney found out that her
boyfriend was cheating on her, so she went on a
banana-split spree. Sydney called 911, so
that she could get her stomach pumped.
Fiona tells them that sometimes Sydney binges
and purges. Luka is upset about it and
tells Fiona, "She just cost the hospital three
hundred bucks for what? So she doesn't put
on a pound?" Susan tells Luka that she
obviously has an eating disorder. Luka
storms out and Fiona says, "It's cheaper than
liposuction".
Pratt walks up and sees
Carter in the room with Leon. Pratt asks
him what he is doing there? Carter tells
him that he was just checking on Leon. He
seems to be a little shaken up about Biz.
Pratt tells Carter that Leon is his patient and
to leave. Carter tells Pratt to see him
when he is finished and then Carter leaves the
room. Pratt asks Leon what all he told
Carter. Leon tells him that he don't know.
Pratt is afraid that Leon is going to tell too
much information. Pratt questions Leon
about what all happened and Leon is too confused
to remember. Leon cries and repeatedly
tells "G" that he doesn't want to go to jail.
Susan talks with Luka about
why he is having such a bad day. Luka
seems to be fed up with everything. Susan
sees Abby and tells her that she needs to have a
talk with him. Abby is mad at Luka for
putting the whole "adventure doctor" idea in
Carter's head. Corday comes down and tells
Susan and Abby that Mr. Sutter is going to be
okay. Dr. Dorset comes down and finds
Elizabeth. She doesn't recognize him at
first without his surgical mask. She asks
if everything is okay with Mr. Sutter and he
tells her yes. He just came down to ask
her if she would like to go out for coffee or
something with him? She hesitates and then
tells him that she appreciates the offer, but
she is swamped at the moment. "Perhaps
some other time", she tells him. "I'm
going to hold you to that", he replies as he
walks away. "I like coffee", Susan jokes
as Abby chuckles with her. "Was I rude?",
Elizabeth asks. Abby and Susan
simultaneously respond, "No". Elizabeth
explains that when she goes home, she expects to
find Mark in the back yard playing with Ella.
It has been a long time since she has spoken
with another man. "I think Mark would want
you to get on with your life", Susan tells her.
"I also think if a good looking guy is
interested in you and you're not interested in
him, the least you can do is introduce me",
Susan jokes. Elizabeth smiles and walks
away and tells them thanks.
Alderman Bright arrives to
find Kerry trying to get Mrs. Hughes, an
Alzheimer's patient, back to her bed. She
gives him a very big thank you for allotting the
hospital all of the money. She tells him
that she just hopes that the hospital earned it
on merit and not for any other reason.
Carter is in the lounge with the refrigerator
door open. As he closes it, he sees Abby
leering at him. She has brought him an
envelope that was delivered and was told to give
it right to him. She asks him about why he
is wanting to leave and he tries to explain as
they walk out to see Dr. McNulty. When
Carter gets to McNulty, he hands him the
envelope. He opens it to see a check.
McNulty tells Carter that he can not accept it.
Carter asks him why and he tells him because
there are too many zeros at the end of it.
Abby peeks down to see if she can see how much
the check is for, but Carter gives her a stern
look. Carter tells him to use it to buy
some new equipment, hire a nurse or a
physician's assistant. He thanks Carter
for the money and then asks Abby if she would
like a job. Abby asks him if he has
dental?
Luka and Weaver are arguing
about Luka taking some time off. Weaver
tells him that he has already had plenty of time
and that he cannot have any off. Luka
tells her that he needs some time to get himself
straightened out. She tells him again, NO!
Luka decides that he will just leave then and
heads toward the ambulance bay doors. On
his way out, Gallant asks him to help him with a
patient, Steven Rafferty, who is
sixty-five-years-old and is having chest pains.
Luka tells him no and keeps on walking.
Carter goes to assist Gallant with the patient
and Abby goes after Luka. As she heads
outside, she sees her brother Eric. He
tells her that he has been waiting out there for
two hours and knew that she couldn't be too long
from taking a smoke break. "What are you
doing here?", she asks.
Abby and Eric go to Doc
Magoo's. He orders coffee and she doesn't
want anything. He tells her good, that
will save him some gas money. He asks her
how Carter is? He likes Carter and she
tells him that she does too. There is a
moment of silence and then the following
conversation takes place: "It was the
disease. I was scared. I was afraid
I was going to end up like mom. I didn't
want you to see me like that. Like Maggie.
I never meant to hurt you. If it wasn't
for you, I don't know where I would be."
Eric finishes and Abby replies, "It wasn't your
fault, you couldn't help it". He tells her
that she protected him for so long that it felt
like he had let her down. She tells him
that it could never be true. He wants her
to know that sometimes he wishes that he was
eight-years-old again. Whenever things got
bad, and they did get bad, he always knew that
she would be there for him. "And I always
will be", she tells him with tears in her eyes.
He apologizes for not being there for her when
she needed it. He tells her that she
deserves a better family and she smiles and
chuckles. He tells her that he is okay and
the he had to get bad before he could get
better. "It's not over you know", she
reminds him. He asks her if she would like
to see a picture of his new girlfriend? He
pulls out a picture and hands it to her.
"It's a plane", she says. He tells her
that he bought it after selling almost
everything he had. He wants to start up a
fishing and hunting charter in Wisconsin.
Susan speaks with Helen, her
young patient with abdominal pain, and tells her
that she probably just has a virus. She
will need to go and visit her family doctor.
Jing-Mei sees Susan and asks her if she would
like to go and get some dinner with her?
Susan tells her no, that she is going home to
soak in the tub for three hours. Susan
hands her the sweater and thanks her for letting
her borrow it. She then tells Jing-Mei
about using the Wood's lamp and finding some
kind of stain on it. Jing-Mei tells her
that she had splashed some club soda on it
earlier that day and that is why she had taken
it off, so that it could dry. Jing-Mei
acts offended and asks Susan what did she think,
I was the ER slut? Jing-Mei heads into the
lounge and throws the sweater into the garbage.
Nobody has claimed Biz's body
and Carter stops to speak with Pratt. He
is concerned about Leon. "He's a scared
little kid, except he's not a little kid", Pratt
tells Carter. Carter tells Pratt that he
thinks the cops are going to blame Biz for the
cop shooting. "If Leon went away for a
while, I doubt anyone would go looking for him.
You ought to learn to let go. Stop blaming
yourself. Tell Leon I said goodbye",
Carter tells him. Pratt sees Gallant and
tells him that he needs a favor.
Carter asks Abby to go out
with him for a romantic dinner. She tells
him that she can't. Eric is here and he is
on his meds, she tells him. She is going
with him to see his airplane. Carter is
shocked and surprised. Carter doesn't want
her to fly with him. She tells him that
she is supportive and not stupid. He tells
her that he has to drop off a prescription at
McNulty's clinic and that he will talk to her
later that night. "Don't go flying with
him", he tells her again. "Don't go to
Chechnya", she replies.
Romano walks in to find
Elizabeth checking on his patient, Aidan.
He asks her what she is doing and she tells him
that his resident asked her for a curbside.
She tells him that there was some nerve damage
done, but he should only have some numbness in
his thigh. Romano walks out and asks
Shirley, "Where's Jensen"? She tells him
that he is on the roof. "To get a
patient?", he asks. "No, to jump", she
replies.
Gallant has taken Leon to the
bus station. He is leaving to stay with
Greg's Aunt Rose. Leon is upset to find
out that Pratt isn't going with him or that he
didn't even come to say goodbye. "He's mad
at me", Leon tells Gallant. "He's sending
me away because I messed up", he says with tears
in his eyes. Gallant tells Leon that he
has to get on the bus. After telling him
several times, Leon gets on and Gallant tells
him to be safe.
Romano finds Jensen on the
roof. He tells Jensen not to jump, his car
is down there, he jokes. Romano tells him
that he will do better the next time.
Jensen replies, "You're right, because I won't
go into surgery with you". Jensen heads to
the elevator as Romano reflects on what he said.
Romano gets uneasy as a helicopter passes above.
He steps to the edge of the roof and looks down.
He tosses his bandana down and watches it float
to the street.
Carter goes to McNulty's
clinic, but can't get him to come to the door.
Carter bangs on it and yells his name, as a cop
drives up and shines his light at Carter.
Carter explains that it is his patient inside
and that he thinks he could be in danger.
The cop help Carter get into the building.
When they get in, they find the place abandoned,
dirty and empty. Carter tells him that
McNulty has been a doctor there for over twenty
years. The officer tells him that it isn't
possible, he has been patrolling the area for
years and he was only there for a few weeks.
It was a Christian bookstore before that and
something else before that. The cop asks
Carter if the guy was even a real doctor, as
Carter stands in shock and confusion.
Pratt arrives home to an empty apartment.
Everything is still there, but it is empty
without Leon. Pratt sits down on the couch
and reflects on what has happened.
Reviewed
by Tony Conner on February 02, 2003
NBC Review
OVERMATCHED DR. PRATT TRIES
TO PROTECT SELF-DESTRUCTIVE FRIEND; EMMY WINNER
ED ASNER ALSO GUEST-STARS -- The protective Dr.
Pratt (Mekhi Phifer) is overwhelmed when his
mentally challenged roommate Leon (guest star
Marcello Thedford) leads him to treat a gravely
wounded suspect who was responsible for a
robbery and holdup -- which also involved the
easily duped Leon -- while Dr. Carter (Noah
Wyle) stuns Abby (Maura Tierney) when he decides
to go to Africa where the medical needs are
greatest. Elsewhere, Carter attends to the
sickly Dr. McNulty (Emmy Award-winning guest
star Ed Asner, "Lou Grant"), the curmudgeon he
recently met who runs a storefront medical
clinic; the emotionally fragile Dr. Romano (Paul
McCrane) teeters on the brink of disaster and
receives negative news regarding his recovery;
Dr. Kovac (Goran Visnjic) intends to carry out a
threat made to Dr. Weaver (Laura Innes), who
also re-encounters a grateful alderman (guest
star Bruce Weitz, "Hill Street Blues") who
returns bearing financial gifts; and a skilled
and bold doctor (guest star Bruno Campos) makes
a pass at a shocked Dr. Corday (Alex Kingston).
Ming-Na, Sherry Stringfield and Sharif Atkins
also star. TV-14
