This episode starts when we hear African music, on an El
train. The camera swoops past people, and then focus's on Dr. Luka Kovac. Luka
is looking at an add. The camera then goes to the next scene, where we see Luka
in County General, back from Africa. When Luka comes in, Chuny greets him with
her smile. He just smiles back, and he says something. Frank looks at Luka, and
tells him to 'Call Weaver.' As soon as Malarkey hears Luka's name, he jumps over
and introduces himself to Luka. As Luka walks on, a lady brings her baby up to
him, asking him for help. Apparently, she did not strap her child in the cart
good enough, and so Luka takes him off to trauma.
Chuny
and Dr. Pratt are staring at this guy, who is ranting about evil messengers. One
of the security guards wants to spray pepper spray into the room, but Pratt
tells them it would cause mayhem in other parts of the hospital. So, Dr. Nick
Cooper and Dr. Pratt go into the room with a gurney, and strap the guy down, do
Malarkey can give him a nice shot of calming Haldol. But, Malarkey is busy doing
something else, so he doesn't do it. Finally, a new nurse, by the name of
Samantha Taggart, walks in, grabs the needle, and gives it to the guy. After
she's done, Romano walks by, and questions her about if she works there. She
politely introduces herself to him, and tells him she is a new nurse. Next, an
African-American woman taps on the window, and asks Sam how much longer the wait
is going to be. Sam answers her, but the lady does not understand. Romano starts
talking out loud about which attending is going to be his daily rage. In the
trauma room, Luka is taking care of the baby, when Malarkey walks in, and tells
Luka Weaver is waiting for him outside, in the hall. He leaves Malarkey in
charge, promises the mother they will get a head CT, and goes outside to talk to
Weaver. Romano is now demonstrating his new mechanical arm, and Pratt is calling
him RoboDoc. As Romano turns, his rubber fingers brake some glass. It is pointed
out to Malarkey that the baby's stats are dropping, and then he notices it. He
wants to intubate, and Chuny runs out and tells Luka about it. Luka comes in,
and tells Malarkey STOP twice, the second time, forceful. He explains that the
correct procedure is to bag the baby. Susan leads the mother and the other child
to the waiting room, where the other child goes to get water for the mother.
While he is away, Susan is questioning the mother, on if she has been drinking
or not. The mother replies no, but Susan tells the mother that she can smell is
on her breath. She wants the mother to take a blood-alcohol test, when the
mother admits she made a little mistake. Next, you see Ben Hollander (played by
Bob Newhart) get wheeled into the ER. His neighbors called 911 when he didn't
answer the door. Ben is crabby, and makes some comments that he wants to get out
of there. A nurse tells Susan his levels are weird, so Susan hooks him up to an
IV, for fluids. She tells Ben it's almost like Gatorade. Next, Susan is outside
telling Luka about the mother, and about how she is drunk. Luka tries to tell
Susan he doesn't think so. Susan is worried the kids will come back tomorrow
with worse injuries, when Luka acts like he doesn't care. Next, you see Neela
presenting a case to Luka, when Romano walks by and questions if that is Susan
and Pratt working on a case together, but Neela tells him he is looking at
Gallant. Luka tells Neela to just discharge the patient, and call him if labs
come back abnormal. You then see Abby in the background, and Romano says a few
words to her. Abby and Susan go out to Lunch, and talk about Abby in med.
school. Abby is going to med. school to become a doctor.
Romano
comes in, and asks Abby a question about surgery, and Abby answers him. He then
turns to go to the phone, to call Elizabeth. The patient is a surgical
candidate. They call for a nurse, and they want Abby. Abby rolls her eyes and
walks away, as Samantha Taggart comes into the room to help. The next scene, you
see Henry, the little baby's brother, whispering that the baby is going to be
ok. The mother is standing beside him, when Susan brings the news. She tells the
mother it looks good, but only time will tell. Romano is now trying to rush Luka
and Abby through things, and is complaining that the surgery wait is taking too
long. Luka is attracted to a woman named Athena. Kerry Weaver and Luka have to
talk about Luka’s schedule, since he is now back from Africa. Luka lets Weaver
know that in two months, he is going back to Africa, when Weaver complains to
him, for not letting her know 2 weeks earlier, last time he went. The woman from
earlier, the baby's mother, has come back to the hospital, claiming that Henry
burnt his hand. Her husband was supposed to pick the kids up, but didn't do
that. Susan calls Social Health Services down, and a lady tells Susan that they
are going to place the kids in the hands of their father, because the mother has
a severe alcohol problem. The mother tells Susan she doesn't want that, and
Susan assures the mother that its only until she can get back on her feet again.
Neela is sitting with Henry, and is making conversation with him. The husband
arrives, gets filled in, makes the mother mad with a question why its never her
fault, and then the mother leaves. Meanwhile, Corday and Diego are in surgery
together.
The
next scene shows Ben Hollander again, using a huge
magnifying glass to read the paper. When Susan Lewis
asks him about it, he admits he has a macular
degeneration. Sadly, none of the new treatments would
help his disease. Susan tells Ben that is he does not
get help for his disease, she will call psychiatric
services down for three days for him.
Malarkey
and Cooper are outside talking to each other, when the
mother of the baby, drives up in a SUV, pours gas all
over herself, and then strikes a match after Henry calls
her name. Luka, Cooper, and Susan all run to get a
gurney, run outside, get a blanket, shatter the window,
and try to save her. They get her out, and Susan asks
her if she can hear her. Over ninety percent of her body
is burned, and they roll her into the ER, and they give
her morphine. She has a ten percent chance of living.
Dr. Diego walks up to Jacy, and asks her where Corday
is.
Next, Corday is getting mad at the coffee machine. Its
broken, and she cant seem to use it. Susan walks into a
trauma room, where the father and Henry are sitting
down. Henry has his head in his dads lap. His dad had no
idea that she would do anything like this. Malarkey and
Cooper are gossiping about the mother at the front desk.
Pratt makes fun of Romano for trying to do something
with his robot arm. So, Romano makes Pratt take over.
Ben
is now complaining to Chuny that he is waiting too long, so out of
frustration, he unplugs himself and sneaks out of the hospital. Luka and Sam
are now wheeling a woman strapped to a gurney who's left pupil is blown, into
a room. Luka notices the woman was there, but hasn't been treated. He figures
out Malarkey was treating her. Her name is Athena. Her brain is massively
bleeding. The scene shows Paula in the hospital room. She wants to touch the
baby Adam, but doesn't get to, because he pulls his hand away. She asks about
Henry, but Susan tells her that he’s pretty upset and doesn't want to come in.
Athena, the woman Luka, Coop, and Malarkey were working on dies. Luka blames
it on Malarkey for him not moving faster. When Malarkey walks out the room, a
guy is screaming to get out of there. Malarkey runs him outside of the glass
doors, and then screams he quits. Pratt walks by and makes a comment, but Coop
tries telling him that Pratt was just teasing. Susan is worried about Ben. She
knows he left, and she tries to reach him at home, by the doesn't pick up the
phone. So, she and the ambulance crew go into the ambulance to go to Ben's
house. Before leaving, she tells Neela to page her is anything happens with
the mother. When Susan and the ambulance crew break into his door, Ben looks
up and asks if there is a problem. Samantha is sitting outside of County
General Hospital staring into the sky, when Abby and Elizabeth approach. Abby
introduces Elizabeth to Samantha. Luka rounds up Coop, Gallant, and Neela,
wanting to let them know that they need to treat three patients in an amount
of time, so that everyone will have seen the patients by ten o'clock. Ben and
Susan are talking, and Ben is complaining to Susan that he had waited three
hours and no one came to see him. Susan and him talk about other things, too.
We go to the scene where Luka is watching Coop, Gallant, and Neela, and then
Romano walks by, and wants to know what they are doing. Luka tells him"
Providing better triage." We then fade to black as we see Luka’s pleased face.
Reviewed by
ERisTHEbestTVsho on
March 24,
2004
