When
Carter wakes up in the morning Kem is not in the bed. He seems worried. He
goes downstairs and his maid Emily says she's in the kitchen and again has
offered to make breakfast for her. She tells Carter to tell Kem to stop doing
this, but carter says she's just trying to be nice. He proceeds to the kitchen
to say hello to Kem and tells her that Emily his maid feels "her job is being
threatened", but he's just joking around with her. Carter tells Kem that soon
she'll be walking around the house in just her socks. Kem wants to know if
this isn't going to upset anyone and Carter says no, because she's already one
of the family. So Kem grabs the socks he was wearing, puts them on and sets
off running to the bedroom, Carter following her.
Back in the hospital, Kerry says that things are pretty
much settled down so she allows Gallant to leave earlier. When he gets home,
Pratt is with his sister Valerie. They argue, and when Pratt leaves, Val
confesses that he's already been around a few times. Gallant seems very pissed
off that Pratt was with his sister.
Meanwhile, Luka informs Kerry that he is going back to
Africa and his last shift is January 18th. Weaver wants him to put it in
writing and leave it in her office a.s.a.p. A while after Kerry has already
left, Malik and some nurses tell Abby to talk to Weaver about the ending time
of their shifts. They aren't allowed to leave until they find a missing valium
pill. Abby calls Weaver and unexpectedly finds the valium in Weaver's lab
coat. She tells her that they have found it and hangs up. The nurses leave,
but Abby has to stay.
Mrs. Webster a patient comes in suffering from dementia;
Luka takes her as his patient, while Pratt develops some kind of affection
towards her when she thinks he is her son.
Carter
and Kem go to the hospital and they're received by Sam, who didn't know him
yet, so she thought he was another patient. When he introduced himself, she
said that it was nice to finally "put a face to the name". When they get in,
Malik, Frank, and the nurses walk over to greet him, and they meet Kem. Carter
then announces that they're having a baby. Everyone is excited and
congratulate Carter. Carter meets Morris and Neela while they're doing rounds
with Pratt, and there's an incoming trauma that they have to work in together.
The victims are Mr. Brodie and his son Martin, who has a spinal weakness that
seems to make the case even more difficult. Carter and Abby keep avoiding each
other unexpectedly, although they don't really mean to. Carter goes up to the
OB with Kem and finds out that the baby is a boy. Abby sees him at Admit when
he comes back from OB, and she approaches to say hi. She meets Kem for the
first time, and things are pretty awkward between them. Its eating her up that
he is with another girl. Abby tells Carter that she's back in MED school, and
in return, he gives her the news that he's having a son.
Abby
sees the ultrasound and congratulates them. Then Luka walks by and meets Kem
for the first time as well, she says that if it wasn't for him, she and Carter
would have never met at all. Carter says that he has to get back to work so he
and Kem leave. Abby asks Luka did Carter "knock her up the minute he got
there", and Luka just shrugs. He asks if she's going home, but she says she
has to be there, so they both get back to work.
Pratt finds Mrs. Webster out of bed, and he takes care of
her, afraid that something might happen to her if she is walking around the
hospital such a mess. The lady says Pratt is a good boy, and he jokingly
answers that most women tell him that.
Mrs. Hurlsey comes in with migraine, and Carter takes her
along with Morris and Lester. She asks him if there's any chance that her
children could be fed there, and when she mentions the food both students
throw up. Carter says that they should be working, so they apologize and
leave. The woman says that even a sandwich would be enough because they are
not picky, and Carter discovers that they haven't eaten enough in a long time.
He admits the kids at Peds and takes care of the mother.
Elsewhere, Mr. Brodie needs a scan, and as Pratt is about
to do it his pressure goes down. They page Corday, but Pratt decides to do the
scan anyway because he has no time. When Corday gets there, everything is
fine, and she then knows where Mr. Brodie's problem is exactly.
Brodie's
son is hypoxic, and he is having trouble to breathe. More over, Neela is alone
and all doctors are busy. Some minutes later Pratt comes along and decides to
intubate the boy. Neela asks him if he's sure about it and he says yes, that
the boy needs oxygen as soon as possible. Carter comes in just in time to see
Pratt perform the intubation and accidentally break the kid's neck in the
process. Pratt gets out of the room, and Mrs. Webster (who is walking around
again) tells him "it is ok" when she sees that he's a bit down. He tells her
to go back to bed, and orders a nurse to take her back to her room. Before
leaving, Mrs. Webster says "but momma still loves you", and leaves Pratt
thinking. However, there's another trauma coming in and he has to work side by
side with Gallant. As they work, Pratt asks about Val, but Gallant refuses to
say anything to Pratt about his sister.
The woman they're working on has cancer, and Luka tells her that she should go
up to the OR for surgery. She tells him that it's too late to save her and
that they'd better save the money for another patient who's worth it.
Alex sutured himself up after cutting his leg, and Sam asks Carter to check on
the wound. Carter fixes the problem and leaves. Sam goes back to Admit, where
she finds Abby looking for some charts. She asks if her shift has already
started but Abby says that since she couldn't sleep she decided to "make
herself useful". Sam asks Abby if the insurance policy covers psychological
therapy, and Abby says she thinks most of it, but there's an annual maximum of
interviews. Val shows up at the hospital, and Gallant thinks she's there
to see Pratt, but she reassures him by saying that she didn't want to leave
things like that with him after what she'd done. She tells Gallant that she'll
be more considerate the next time, and he says yes, then she tells Gallant not
to be so serious all the time.
Corday
gets back from the OR and tells Pratt that Mr. Brodie's aneurism has been
taken care of, and he's in recovery. When she asks about his son, Pratt sadly
tells her that he accidentally broke his neck. He looks out of the window
thoughtfully, and spots Val getting into a cab so he runs down to catch her
before she leaves. When they're finally together, he tells her he has four
days off the next week and suggests to go and visit her in Washington.
However, Val refuses and says that although she's had a lot of fun, this has
been no more than a vacation for her. Pratt is fairly surprised and hurt at
Val's comment. Meanwhile, Sam and Luka seem to be getting along better when
Sam confides in him some of her issues. She tells him how hard it is to be a
single mom and that she's afraid of doing everything on her own and taking
responsibility for everything. *wink*wink* (is something happening here) Luka
tells her she'll be fine.
Pratt's shift doesn't get any better when he finds out that
Mrs. Webster is dead, so he goes to see her one last time before the people
from the morgue take her. Right after, he accepts the hard challenge of
telling Martin Brodie that there was a problem in his spine and he'll probably
end up paralyzed. Pratt's day couldn't suck more. After a trauma, Carter
and Abby stay in the room, making small talk. He tells her he is glad she's
back at MED school, and she says she is too. Then he says she seems happy, and
Abby answers with a friendly "right back at ya". When Carter asks if their
friendship is okay, she says yes, but when he asks her to join him and Kem for
dinner, she laughs and says that they're "not that ok". When Carter leaves the
ER, he finds Kem waiting for him outside. She tells him she's never seen snow
since she was a kid, and then asks him if he arranged for it to snow. Carter
says yes and asks if it was too much, but she says no.
Alex
had fallen asleep in the lounge, so Luka told Sam to move the car into the
ambulance bay and he would carry Alex to the car. Sam accepts the offer and
thanks him. Once they're outside, she offers Luka a lift, but he says he has
to do something first. Luka breaks into Kerry's office to postpone the day of
his last shift, and Kerry finds him. She asks him why he was in her office and
he tells her about how he wants to postpone the date. She asks if he's leaving
sooner, but Luka surprises her and says he's going to leave later, but is not
sure when. (hmm..I wonder why...) Kerry tells him to inform her when he's sure
about it.
Pratt is having a beer at Ike's, when Gallant comes in and
starts talking to him. Pratt tells him he's not in the mood, and so Gallant
tells him that his reaction was the result of her sister being the only girl
in the family. He says that he and his brothers have always been very
overprotective with Val. Pratt says that Valerie played him, and Gallant tells
him not to say that he didn't warn him. Then he grabs his things and goes out
of the bar, leaving Pratt to his thoughts of the day and Val.
Reviewed by Kimberlee
on
May 24,
2004
