Carter arrives home from Africa and heads to Abby's
apartment. He goes inside and sits down beside her
as she is lying asleep in her bed. He gently
kisses her on her forehead and she wakes up. He
tells her hi and she says hi back. "When did you
get back?", she asks him. He tells her just now.
She reaches over and pulls out a pack of cigarettes from
the nightstand and tells him that it is 5:30 in the
morning. His flight from London was delayed.
He tells her that he missed her. "Did you just let
yourself in?", she asks him. "I'm sorry about how
I left", he explains. Can I have my key back
please?", she replies. She lights up her cigarette
and Carter takes the keys off of the key ring and tosses
them in a bowl on his way out.
A woman is bringing her daughter named Hannah out to
meet the carpool. She gets in the car with Katie
and Matthew. Pratt rushes toward work. The
woman driving the carpool gets stuck in traffic.
Pratt just makes it on the train. "if I'm late
again my boss is going to kill me", he tells the young
woman sitting next to him. "You're a doctor?", she
asks him. He looks at her and replies, "Yeah, yes
I am" and gives her a big smile. Katie asks her
mother where they are going and then the cell phone
rings. The woman answers, "Denise Johnson", and
then passes out. The kids in the back begin to
yell as the car keeps moving, knocking off a car's door
and then going upside a car and flipping over. The
car lands on it's roof and Denise begins to come to,
just in time to see a big truck coming right at her.
The train has to stop because of the accident, causing
Pratt to be late. Gallant has graduated from med.
school and was fourth in his class. A lot of
construction is going on and it has Kerry upset, causing
her to yell and scream at the construction workers.
The who waiting area is in disarray. A young woman
arrives and introduces herself to Frank as Neela
Rosgotra. Frank walks away and asks, "Don't we
hire Americans anymore"? Abby searches for Susan
to assist with the woman and three kids. She
locates her in the Unisex bathroom with her ex-husband.
She tells her that the MVA has almost got the people out
and there will be three adults and three kids being
brought in. She tells Susan that she thought she
was divorced and Susan replies, "We are". Abby
then tells her that Carter is back. She then tells
him that he tried to apologize. Kerry continues to
argue with the workers. Frank tells Dr. Lewis that
she has another TWA. Neela introduces herself as a
third-year medical student and Susan tells her that she
may want to wear something different next time.
Neela is dressed nicely. The paramedics begin to
bring in the accident victims. The computers go
down and Kerry gets her eyes full of 'plumber's crack".
Pratt arrives and sees that Carter is back. Kerry
gets on to Pratt for being late. Carter walks in
and asks Frank where the doctor's lounge is. Kerry
asks him if he brought Kovac back with him and he tells
her nope. Carter walks in to the lounge and finds
his things in a bag. Abby has emptied his
belongings from her apartment and left them for him
there.
Dr. Gallant assists Matthew who has a hurt arm.
Pratt asks Haleh who the young woman is in the next room
with Dr. Lewis. Haleh tells him that it is a new
med. student. Pratt doesn't wait too long before
he goes over to check her out. Pratt introduces
himself to her and starts the flirting. Susan is
with Neela and Pratt. They are working on Denise,
the mother who was driving the car. Frank tells
Carter that an attorney called everyday that he was gone
and that he wants him to call him back. He is the
executer of his grandmother's estate. Carter goes
in to see if Susan and Pratt need any help. They
are doing okay, so he goes in to check on Dr. Chen's and
Abby's young patient. Jing-Mei excuses herself so
that he and Abby can catch up. Abby and Carter
begin to disagree on the patient's care. Jing-Mei
walks over to assist Pratt and Susan and sees that Pratt
is getting friendly with the new med. student.
Pratt introduces Jing-Mei to her. Carter tells
Abby that he found his present hanging on his locker.
He tells her "it was subtle, very subtle". The
doctors have to stabilize Denise's pelvic fracture, so
they leave Neela in the room with her holding the sheets
tightly to keep the fracture stable. Susan sends
Pratt over to assist Jing-Mei. She asks him if he
is sure he can tear himself away from the new med.
student. Chuny walks in to get something from the
room that Neela is in and Neela asks her if they are
together, referring to Jing-Mei and Pratt. Chuny
tells her yes. Neela's hands are beginning to
cramp from holding the sheet up for the fracture
stabilizing. Chuny leaves the room to get some
towel clips to assist her in holding the sheets.
Denise begins to tell Neela what happened during the
accident. She asks how Matthew and Katie are.
Neela struggles to hold the sheet. Hannah is in
the next room with Carter and Abby. She goes into
V-tach and Denise can see from the next room that
something is going on. Mrs. Johnson starts to
crash and Neela begins to yell for some help.
Elizabeth walks in and sees that she is bleeding out.
Jing-Mei and Pratt come in to the room to see what is
going on. Jing-Mei points to Neela and says, "You,
go pick up her labs". "Right now?", Neela asks and
Jing-Mei replies in a smart tone, "no, next Thursday".
Neela heads out of the room. Neela searches her
way to the elevator. Carter and Abby continue to
work on their young patient. Neela gets up to the
lab and finds Dr. Shine. He has the lab work for
Denise Johnson. He tells her that it is an
unusually smear. Neela runs downstairs and tells
the doctor's that Denise is anemic and saves her.
Pratt is impressed, but Jing-Mei isn't.
The phones are all messed up and Jerry and Frank are
getting calls for all of the hospital instead of calls
just for the ER. Frank tells Jerry not to answer
the phones anymore. Gallant sees the new med.
student and asks her, "Are you Indian"? "Yeah,
Punjabi", she replies. Frank overhears and says
"Perfect". She tells him that her family moved to
London when she was eleven. She went to Yale for
molecular biology and biophysics and Chicago for medical
school. Gallant takes a chart and follows her to
assist. Romano comes down to see what is going on
and he has just returned to work. Frank and Romano
chit-chat. Frank asks him how the arm is and
Romano tells him that it is gone. Romano asks
Frank how his prostate is and Frank tells him that it is
four times the size of Romano's head and he is up four
times a night to pee. Frank also comments about
Romano's beard. He wants someone to page Weaver
for him.
Pratt goes in to where Abby and Carter are working and
he asks Carter for a minute. Carter tells Abby to
call him if she needs him and she replies, "I won't".
Pratt tells Carter about an HIV patient that has
returned and has sores in his mouth. His condition
has worsened. Pratt asks Carter what all the with
Abby was about and Carter can't answer him. He
tells Carter that Jing-Mei is upset with him too.
Carter asks him what Jing-Mei is upset about and he
tells Carter that it was a misunderstanding.
Carter sees that the HIV patient isn't on Medicaid and
that he is uninsured. Pratt tells him that he
referred the patient to ADAP. ADAP is out of money
and it will be at least two months before they can get
him started on his med's if he is only HIV positive.
Carter and Pratt go in to check on Mr. Williams.
He has been HIV positive for two years. He isn't
on any medications. Carter tells him that he has
good news and bad news. The infection that he has
now qualifies the patient for Medicaid. The
patient has AIDS. The bathrooms are under
construction, so Susan and Abby go into the men's room,
as they discuss Carter. Gallant and Neela assist
an older woman. She tells Neela that she has
beautiful skin, "What a lovely color". She will
need to go up to the O.R. and Gallant tells Neela to
check her vitals every fifteen minutes and to get
another patient chart. Susan is upset to see that
Romano is back. Kerry and Romano argue about the
condition of the ER. Frank tells Carter that the
guy from the foundation will be coming by with some
papers. Carter doesn't want him coming to his
work. Carter and Abby decide to get a cup of
coffee later. Mr. Williams stops Carter in the
hall and tells him that he filled out the paperwork and
went to the pharmacy, but can't get the medicine until
he gets his card. Carter will call the pharmacy.
Neela's patient tells her about her late husband and how
they met. Neela draws some blood as she talks.
She tells Mrs. Ferguson that she is all done and that
she will be back soon. The workers are going home
and this upsets Kerry even more. The phone's are
ringing and nobody is answering them. Neela
decides to pick the phone up. "Hello, Emergency
Department. I'm sorry I can't hear you very well",
she replies. She tells Frank that it is long
distance for a Dr. Carter. Frank tells her to take
a message. "Yeah can I take a message", she
replies to the person on the other end of the phone.
Neela tells Frank that they say it is important, someone
has died. "Someone named Kovac, a Dr. Luka Kovac".
Jing-Mei, Chuny, Gallant, Frank and Jerry look at her in
surprise.
Carter and Abby are on their way back from getting
coffee. He tells her about what Africa was like
and how it was a life changing experience. She
asks him where Luka is. "Is that what this is
about", he asks her. She replies, "No". He
tells her that Luka is fine, "He's more than fine".
She asks him what that means and he tells her nothing.
This aggravates her because she doesn't think that they
talk anymore. She didn't want him to go, but he
went anyways. She asks him if he even thought
about her while he was gone and he tells her that he
did. She then wants to know what he thought about,
but Carter pauses and doesn't know how to reply.
Abby walks away and Carter tells her to "Walk away, that
is what you do best". Abby storms back and tells
Carter that he has big problems too. As they are
arguing Chuny comes out and tells Abby about Luka.
Carter calls to Africa to find out what happened.
Frank asks Kerry if he had family here. She tells
him no. Neela asks Gallant who Luka was and he
tells her that he was an Attending. "Friend?", she
asks him. "No. not really", he replies. He
asks her how her elderly woman patient with the shunt is
and she tells him that she is going to go and check on
her. "Surgery should be down soon", he tells her.
Neela doesn't find her in the room where she was, so she
goes to locate her, but Pratt stops her and asks her if
she is ready to present the patient in Curtain One.
She begins to tell him and Jing-Mei comes up. She
questions her on her presentation and she tells her that
she needs to do a bowel prep on the patient to be safe.
Pratt tells Jing-Mei that she has been too rough on
Neela. "you were all over her and it is
humiliating and embarrassing", Jing-Mei replies.
Malik comes out of a room and tells Pratt and Jing-Mei
that there is an old lady bleeding out and they run in
to see Gallant's elderly woman. She is not
bleeding and there is no pulse. Neela goes in to
see what is happening. She tells Jing-Mei that she
was suppose to be checking on her every fifteen minutes.
Gallant tells her that it was his responsibility.
She explains that she looked for her, but didn't see
her. She thought she had been taken up to surgery.
Malik tells Jing-Mei that he moved her into that room
for more privacy and changed it on the board.
Carter is still on the phone trying to learn more about
Luka. Abby walks in and asks Abby if he knows
Luka's father's first name. Carter gathers some
supplies and tells Abby that he is going to go and find
him. He left Luka at the clinic in Matenda and he
should have stayed there with him. Kerry sees him
taking supplies and he tells her that he will inventory
it and that she can bill him.
Pratt walks in to see Neela with her elderly patient.
She asks Pratt what a TWA means. He wants to know
where she heard that from? She tells him that the
old guy at the front desk with a flat head called her
that when she arrived this morning. "Third World
Assassin", he tells her. He tells her that he
wants to show her something. He takes her to the
room where Denise Johnson is. As they look at her
Neela asks, "Was that today"? "Thirty-two year old
mother of two with a rare blood disorder. Still
alive tonight", Pratt replies as he points to Neela and
she smiles. Carter heads out of the hospital and
Abby tells him to just stay, she doesn't want him to go.
"I can't leave him there", Carter replies as he walks
away. "Please just stay, I can't keep doing this",
she yells, but he continues to walk away.
Reviewed
by Tony Conner on October 12, 2003
