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Pratt and Inez go out into the cold to wait for an ambulance who is bring in Martin "Marty" Trudeau who is having shortness of breath.  He had a cardiac transplant in 2001. He wonders if the Mayo Clinic gives refunds on bad hearts. Neela is doing her paramedic ride-along and is with paramedics Zadro and Tony Gates.  Pratt asks Tony how the rookie (Neela) is doing and he replies, "She could smile more".  Neela tells them all of the medications that Marty is on.  Pratt asks her how she is really doing and she tells him, "Gates is like a dog in heat".  Tony has given Neela a nickname, "Mayday", and she is not too fond of it.  Sam comes and gets Pratt to help with his patient and Ray comes to see how his "roomy" is doing.

Neela checks out Ray's cuts and bruises from his interaction with Zoe's father at the end of the previous episode.  She helps in with some new bandages and tells him that he got off easy.  He could have done jail time for statutory rape.  He asks her if she has heard from Gallant and she tells him that he is stuck in Iraq.  He thinks it is good because he wants to come back home.  Neela tells him that he can come home under certain conditions.  Ray spots Zoe at the admit. desk, so he sends Neela over to get rid of her.  Neela tells her that Ray is off, but she knows his schedule and doesn't believe her.  She has made Ray a "make-up mix" CD.  She asks Neela to give it to him.  Tony tells Neela that they have to go.  Neela throws it into the garbage and Jerry picks it out.

Jerry asks Neela where Abby is because the Residency office is phoning for her.  Neela tells Jerry that she is on nights.  Abby wakes up and has an arm around her and she is holding a hand.  We see that she is lying in bed with Luka after spending the night together.

Pratt confronts Mr. Trudeau about why is lung's are wet.  Marty has quit taking his meds.  He tells Pratt that he can't afford to take all the medication.  Pratt tells him that he is wasting a good heart.  Pratt tells him that he will die if he quits taking his medication, but Marty does not care.  Eve is on her way out of town and is worried because the ER is short nursing staff.  Malik is at a funeral in Detroit and Lily is off.  Sam assures Eve that they will be okay.  Ray tends to a large man who thinks that he is a samurai.  Is name is "Kobayashi".  Jerry has taken several phone messages for Dr. Clemente.  They are all from the same woman.

Luka wakes up to find nobody beside him in his bed.  He looks up to see Abby naked and wrapped in a blanket.  He asks her what she is doing and she tells him, "looking for my underwear".  He wants to know if she is on tonight and she tells him no.  Luka asks her why she is leaving and tells her that she should stay.  He finds her bra and panties and throws them to her.  He asks her is she still likes ketchup on her eggs and she shakes her head yes.  He gets up and tells her that he will fix some breakfast.  Abby tells him that they slept through breakfast and lunch.

Liza Trudeau has arrived at the ER to check on her husband.  She tells Pratt that she can't believe that her husband is doing this to himself.  She wants to know if Pratt can stop him.  "He's my life.  I'm not ready to let him go", she tells Pratt.

Zadro, Neela and Tony were called to tend a homeless man, but there wasn't anything wrong with him.  He had called 911, but was only wanting a ride.  Tony gives him cab fare and tells him, "Next time fake a seizure".  Tony asks Neela out for sushi and she asks Zadro what she has to do to keep Tony from bothering her.  Zadro tells her that Tony is afraid of married women and Neela tells Tony that she has a boyfriend.  Tony asks about him and Neela tells him that Michael is in the Army over in Iraq.  Tony tells her that he was a medic in Desert Storm over in the 101st Airborne.  Tony has Zadro ride in the back of the ambulance and he lets Neela ride up front with him.  They are going somewhere to get free coffee.  Pratt has arranged for Mr. Trudeau to be taken to the Mayo clinic by helicopter.  He is putting him back on his meds to help his heart from being rejected.  Marty is not too crazy about it, but Pratt tells him to do it for his wife.  As Pratt is watching the helicopter left off and take flight, he notices an explosion in the distance.  He see that a plane has torn apart and is going down.  Abby and Luka can hear the explosion from his apartment and Neela and Tony see the explosion nearby.

The news is on in the ER and we can see that a plane has crashed in Chicago near the ER.  Dr. Clemente and the ER staff are preparing for a lot of patients.  A man walks up and is upset about how long he has been waiting six hours to have his dislocated finger treated.  Dr. Clemente tells him that he is not a critical patient, but the man disagrees.  Dr. Clemente grabs the guys finger and pops it back into place as the patient is screaming in pain.  Jerry tells them to be quiet so that he can hear what the news anchor is saying about the crash.  A single-engine craft struck a passenger plane in mid-air at low altitude moments after takeoff.  Jerry wonders if it could have been terrorist and Sam is wondering what plane Eve was suppose to be on.  The pilot lost control soon after takeoff.  Clemente turns the television off and tells the staff to be prepared for the patients.  Pickman comes in and tells them that she needs a doc to go out to the crash site with her to assist the victims.  Both Pratt and Ray want to go, but Clemente decides Pratt will be better suited.  He tells him to be back in an hour.

Tony, Neela and Zadro arrive at the crash site.  Zadro and Tony explain to Neela the triage tags to place on the victims, "Green is nothing, yellow is urgent, red is critical, black is dead".  The scene is chaotic and they can't believe their eyes.  Buildings are on fire, people are walking around in a daze, people are lying motionless on the ground and there is screaming and yelling of agony throughout the crowd.  Chief Bukata tells the three where to go to do triage.  Neela sees a red carry on bag on the ground and it looks just like the one Eve was carrying through the ER earlier.  Neela goes to her first victim who is in a crushed car and there is no pulse and he isn't breathing.  Tony tells her to black tag him and move on one person at a time.  Tony and Neela look up at each other as they go through the crowd of people realizing that many of them are already dead.

Ray is still wanting to go to the crash site, but Clemente tells him no.  Clemente is outside the ER doors and is assessing the patients before they enter the ER.  Abby and Luka have come in to help and tell Clemente that they can see the patients in the waiting room, but Clemente tells them to triage them outside.  Sam is on the phone and is trying to get information about Eve.  Ray is moving patients to make room for more and sees Zoe hiding in a curtain area.  He tells her to leave him alone, but she still wants to see him.  He is adamant about not wanting to have any dealings with her and is afraid of going to jail.  She tells him that she loves him and he tells her that she is too young.  "Kobayashi" comes by Ray and knocks him to the floor.

Pratt arrives at the crash site an finds Neela.  Tony is tending to Woody Evans, 85, auto versus pedestrian.  He has a blunt chest trauma.  Neela assists him and the man asks about his dog.  Woody tells them that he was walking his dog when he was hit.  She is a cocker spaniel and he is really concerned about her.  He yells for the dog whose name is Riley.  Pratt and Pickman head to the plane to tend to Baxter Yee who has a facial trauma and projectile to the right chest.  He asks if someone could call his fiancée.  "Lila Frankfurt is her name" he tells them.  Pratt is surprised by what good condition he is in after such a trauma.  Pratt tells him that he is one lucky guy.  Pickman yells for Pratt to come check on another patient who has crushing substernal chest pain and high blood pressure.  He can't feel his arm because it is buried under the ruble.

Neela and Tony are tending to Woody when a woman named Alice Watson walks up with her daughter, Olive, in her arms.  She tells them that her daughter was cut from the window exploding and that her son is still on the second floor of the apartment building.  He can't walk because his legs were cut also.  Tony tells her that they will evacuate the building and she tells him that her building isn't on fire and she can go back and get him.  Tony stops her from leaving and tells her that he will go to get him.

Paramedic Olbes has brought Baxter Yee into the ER and Dr. Clemente and Luka check him out on his arrival.  Luka is upset to learn that Pratt is out in the field.  "We need doctors here, not off playing in a field" he tells him.  Pickman and Pratt are still tending to their patient, Adrian, who has his arm stuck in the ruble.  It is taking time before Chief Bukata can get his men to lift the ruble.  Pratt speaks with the man and learns that he was there to visit his girlfriend in the neighborhood.  Pickman tells Pratt that the patient is in V-tach!  Pratt charges the paddle and gets sinus and a good pulse.  Adrian comes to and is alert.  Alice is upset that her son has not been rescued yet.  Neela and Zadro tell her that Tony has gone to get him.  Woody tells them not to worry about him and to help her, but Neela is concerned that Woody's aorta has been damaged.  Alice takes off into the building and Neela chases after her.  As Neela enters the building, a big explosion occurs.

Neela is okay and is communicating with the chief over the walkie-talkie.  She has found Tony who is with Alice who is impaled and he tells Neela that he has a femur fracture.  Tony tells Neela to get out of the building.  Alice yells to her that her soon is in apartment #207.  "Help him!", she yells.  Tony tells her to leave the building now.  Neela runs to the boy.  Greg grabs the walkie-talkie and tells Neela to get out of the building.  Neela finds the boy and grabs him.  She drops her walkie-talkie and Pratt is unable to know if she is safe.  They are finally able to remove the ruble off of Adrian's arm, but he goes into V-tach again.  Pratt doesn't get a response after shocking him with the paddles, so he starts doing compressions.  As he is working on Adrian he can hear someone over the walkie-talkie say that they have found a female in the burning building with no vitals.  Neela has the boy in her arms and is trying to get out of the building.

Back in the ER Sam has called Haleh back in to work.  Abby and Luka are working on Baxter.  Haleh comes in to assist and they are both glad to see her back.  Baxter goes unconscious and stops breathing.  He seems to be choking.  Back at the crash site Pratt and Pickman are wheeling Adrian toward an ambulance.  He learns that the female that they found in the building was an eighty-year-old woman.  Neela is still trying to escape with the boy.  Adrian is coming to and they stop compressions.  He is still V-tach and has no pulse, but he is conscious.  Pratt continues CPR and tells Adrian what is going on.  They are going to get him to a hospital.  Neela and the young boy are rescued.  She has had a lot of smoke inhalation.  She is reprimanded by the chief.  Neela notices that Woody has found his dog, but it is too late.  Woody has died from a blown aorta.  Zadro prepares to take Alice and her two kids to the ER for treatment.  Alice thanks her.  Tony is strapped to a gurney and is not doing well.

Abby finds that Baxter was choking on a tooth that he had swallowed.  Luka and Clemente are still disagreeing about patient care.  Neela opens Tony's belly out in the field.  He asks her to go out with him before he gives her permission to cut.  Pratt has Adrian in the ER and Sam and Ray are assisting him.  Ray is upset that Pratt left Neela out in the field and let her go into the burning building.  Greg and Ray take turns doing CPR on Adrian, who is still conscious.  Sam holds up a card for Adrian to point to, so that he can communicate with them.  He points to the card and tells them that he wants his family.  Sam tells him that she has called them and that they are on their way.

Neela and Zadro arrive in the ER with Tony.  They can see that she has cut him open and they take him up to the OR for Dubenko and Abby checks on Neela's condition.  She sees that Neela has singed nasal hairs, which indicates substantial smoke inhalation.  Neela tells Abby that she is okay, but Abby insists on checking her out.  Neela feels good about her day and wants to go back out.  Abby learns that Alice Watson died.  Neela wants to go find her kids.  Luka is on the way to take Baxter up to ICU.  Baxter thanks them for his second chance.  He is happy and he is ready to call off the wedding.  He has a chance to do what he wants to do and say how he feels.  "Carpe Diem", he tells them.  Abby tells him "good luck with that".  He replies, "Besides, I'm pretty sure I'm gay".

Ray is still doing compressions.  Adrian's family and girlfriend have arrived.  Ray can see Neela in the exam room next to them and he and Pratt are happy to see her.  Eve has arrived back in the ER and sees that Haleh is back.  She tells Sam that it was a "good move" bringing her back.  Neela is on her way out and heading home.  Abby is concerned about her being alone.  Abby asks her if there is anything that she can say to convince her not to go home alone.  Abby tells her that she slept with Luka, but Neela replies, "Nice try".

Sam comes in to bag Adrian.  Pratt explains what will happen when they stop CPR.  He tells the girlfriend that he is not in pain and that they have done everything.  Adrian looks up to Pratt and is ready for them to stop.  Adrian dies as his family and friends look on.  His girlfriend moans and sobs.  "9:42 pm", Ray calls the time of death.  Pratt tells them that he is sorry and walks out of the room.  "He was a lucky guy", Sam tells Pratt.  He replies, "He's dead".  "A lot of people loved him.  They all got a chance to say good-bye", she replies.

Clemente is on the phone with a woman.  He is tired of her calling him at work constantly.  He tells her, "I..don't...love...you.  Go back to your husband" and slams down the phone.  Clemente sees Luka and tells them that they need to talk.  Luka tells him that they can talk tomorrow.  Luka runs in to Abby on his way out.  They discuss the rough night and she asks if Baxter was okay.  They talk about what happened between the two of them.  "It was nice", she tells him with a smile on her face.  Luka agrees, but he thinks they would be better off as friends.  She is the one person that he can out on.  She agrees.  "Maybe we should just leave it at that then", she suggests.  Abby heads back inside and Luka walks away.  Both turn back at different times to glance at each other.

Neela arrives home after a long day and night.  She turns around to see Michael Gallant get out of a cab.  She runs to him and they embrace each other in the middle of the street as the cars blow their horns at them.                

Reviewed by Tony on November 19, 2005