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Sam walks back in to her apartment
with Groceries. Alex is playing a guitar for his father, Steve. Dad walks
over and gives Sam a wad of bills, calling it "guilt money". He walks back
over to Alex and plays "No Rain" for him. Morris and Kovac disagree on
how to treat Mrs. Garrison, who's in the ER and off her meds. Kerry and
her lawyer talk about Kerry's case as Kerry walks into the ER. She vows to
spend any amount needed to get her son Henry back. Sam cleans Kovac's
wound . They talk about Alex, and that Alex's father is in town. Kovac tells
Sam that he thinks the boy should see his father. As they clean and talk, Abby
walks in, having just begun her psych rotation. Luka walks out. Pratt
and Neela walks in on Morris and (glasses wearing med student) arguing over
who gets to treat a patient. Pratt asks who it is, and he's pointed to
Miss Campbell, a woman in a black dress complaining of back pain. Pratt says
he'll settle the argument by taking the case. Neela criticizes the students
for their chauvinistic candor, and is rewarded with the case of a woman on a
gurney, puking.
Abby walks out of Mrs. Garrison's
room, telling Kovac that she likes her psych rotation. She walks over to
Jing-Mei, standing next to a gurney with her father on it. Jing-Mei's dad has
his right arm in a sling. Jing-Mei complains that her father has been through
4 home care workers. Abby offers to take the nursing shifts to make extra
money. Jing-Mei follows her father, arguing with him as his gurney is
wheeled down the hall. Abby turns to Carter and asks about Kim's belly.
After taking a history from Miss
Campbell, Pratt calls Sam over so he can perform a breast exam. After some
male humor with Campbell and Sam, which neither of them find funny, Pratt
begin the exam as Sam turns to take a phone call. Pratt continues the exam,
narrating to the patient the area that he's touching. Pratt finishes just as
Sam finishes with her phone call.
We see James, 28 years old,
wheeled in kicking and screaming with a head brace taped to his backboard, a
victim of a car accident. James is so wild that the paramedics say they
haven't gotten his vitals . Pratt runs over to take the victim from Kovac's
care, as Kovac attends to the second victim, Rena Carlson, who's being wheeled
right in. Pratt fixes James' shoulder, which causes him to stop screaming.
Rena keeps asking for Dr. Pratt, who walks over from the adjacent trauma room.
Rena asks Pratt if he remembers her, since they "hooked up" last year. Pratt
acknowledges Rena, with a look that indicates he doesn't remember her.
Abby is complimented for handling Mr. Rosenbloom, which she credits to her
nursing experience and family background. She walks into the psych ward
with her instructor, who offers her a reward for her work by leading the day's
group therapy. Abby, stunned, walks into the group therapy room. James
gets his prognosis from Pratt, who says James will need physical therapy.
James says he doesn't want to stick around for Rena, since he just met her,
despite sleeping with her. Pratt walks over to the other trauma room to see
Kovac, working on Rena. Rena will need an operation, but Rena wants Pratt to
see her after she's out of surgery. Luka asks him if she's a friend, which
Pratt says "not really". Luka walks off. A nurse hands Pratt the labs on Miss
Campbell, and says that Mrs. Sussman is starting to get some memory back.
Neela says she's going to start a rotation in the lab soon.
Neela's new patient, Denise,
complains the boys call her "Smurf". Her skin is blue, due to a ventricular
arrhythmia. Pratt tells Miss Campbell to take a warm bath. She is
surprised by Pratt's mild treatment plan. He is called away as Joanne Dunn, a
29 year old female is wheeled in by the paramedics, with a sync opal episode.
Pratt escorts them over to trauma one. Miss Campbell calls Sam over and asks
to speak with Pratt's supervisor. Sam is surprised by Alex and Steve, who has
just bought Alex a new guitar. Neela and Pratt spar over Mrs. Dunn's
treatment. Carter asks Jing-Mei for help on picking out nursery themes, and
forgets that Jing-Mei has given birth before, but gave her baby away. Jing-Mei
realizes that once her dad passes away, she will be alone. Abby takes a
unique approach to solving a disruptive therapy session. Miss Campbell
complains to Weaver over Pratt's breast exam. Weaver asks Sam about the breast
exam, and learns from Morris that Pratt may have performed a TUBE, or totally
unnecessary breast exam. Pratt is sitting by Mrs. Dunn when she wakes
up. We learn she has a daughter, and she used to take Phenobarbital when she
was younger, for a suspected case of epilepsy. Pratt is pulled away from his
chat with the patient by Weaver, who questions his handling of Miss Campbell.
Malik calls Pratt over to take care of Neela's patient (Denise) who has passed
out on the floor and is crashing. While resuscitating her, Pratt chastises
Morris, whom he suspects told Weaver of his "tube-ing" Miss Campbell.
Alex and Sam have lunch with Steve, who wants to know all
about their lives. As Pratt and Kovac debate the treatment plan for Mrs.
Dunn, Pratt asks Kovac how he can perform a breast exam on an attractive
patient . Kovac replies that it's a medical procedure, and Morris offers a
suggestion he picked up in his OBGYN rotation: treat the patient as though it
was your own mother. Neela begins her research rotation with a tour of
the lab. She is introduced to Yuri, another research associate, who she will
help in his study on ketamine. Pratt walks Mr. Dunn (who's carrying his
infant daughter Caroline) over to his wife's room. She is sleeping through an
EEG exam . Pratt argues with Sam over the breast exam. Sam tells Pratt that
all men are alike, they think about food, sports, and sex. Pratt is
called back to Mrs. Dunn, who appears to be seizing. Kovac says she's faking
it. Abby shows off her knowledge of Klingon with a group therapy
patient. Pratt shows Weaver how he examined Miss Campbell, using Jerry as a
prop. Neela knocks over coffee on Yuri's sample, setting him back 6 weeks.
Mrs. Dunn tries to leave just as Abby comes down from
psychiatry. Abby thinks she's suffering from post-partum depression. Despite
some persuasion from Pratt, Joanne leaves AMA. Luka gives Sam some pictures of
the camping trip that he, Sam, and Alex took a few weeks ago. Sam tells Luka
that the ex-visit was a surprise. Corday tells Pratt that Rena Carlson
had her spleen removed during surgery, but came out of it fine. Corday
introduces her current boyfriend, David Spencer, to Dr. Jeremy Lawson, who
Corday has had a fling with recently. Spencer has come up and surprised
Corday.
Abby walks into the doctor's lounge and sees a crying
Weaver, who has just learned that she will have custody of Henry for 2 days.
Abby learns her tuition has been paid for the semester by an anonymous donor.
Weaver learns that Sandy's brother doesn't think like his parents - he is
sympathetic to Kerry's cause. Abby learns that Carter is the anonymous donor,
but is hesitant to take the money. Pratt sits by Rena's bedside.
Reviewed
by Harry Peltz on August 29, 2004
NBC Review
WILL QUESTIONS OF HAZY SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLOUD DR. PRATT'S
CAREER? -- Dr. Pratt's (Mekhi Phifer) reputation as a flirt catches up to him
when an attractive woman (as Campbell, Ashley Laurence) informally accuses the
young doctor of sexual harassment while Pratt also struggles to diagnose a
woman who suffers mysterious chronic seizures. Meanwhile, Abby (Maura Tierney)
ponders how to get the attention of her contentious patients during her psych
rotation and Neela (Parminder Nagra) finds herself studying strokes in a lab
populated by brainy but bizarre graduate students. Elsewhere, Sam (Linda
Cardellini) tries to resist the appeal of the "reformed" father (guest star
Cole Hauser) of her son when he temporarily moves into her apartment -- giving
a concerned Kovac (Goran Visnjic) something to think about. In addition, Dr.
Weaver (Laura Innes) vows to fight for her baby son and Dr. Chen (Ming-Na) is
at wit's end when she brings her combative and ailing father home. Noah Wyle
and Alex Kingston also star. TV-14
TV Guide Review
April 22, 2004: Just a
Touch: A breast exam lands Pratt in hot
water; Weaver scores a minor win in the fight
for her son; Sam is baffled by her ex's return —
and Kovac's take on the new man in Alex's life;
Abby proves her mettle during a psych rotation;
and Corday scrambles to keep two of her new
romances from running into each other.
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