Pratt
passes off his charts to Abby before he leaves to go to the charity bachelor
auction. Abby Morris wonder where Dr. Clemente is because he has missed 4
shifts in a row. Victor and Jodie are sitting in Victors apartment doing a
crossword puzzle. There are girls bidding to dine with Pratt, one woman bids
490 dollars before a guy bids 600 and the smile on Pratt’s face fades.
Morris and Dr. Jessica Albright argue about surgical patients that are being
kept in the ER. Kerry is covering and she tells Luka to page her if there is
anything serious because her hip is bothering her and she needs to stay off
her feet as much as possible.
Jerry has a post card from Carter. Morris and Jessica
continue to argue. Pratt comes back into the ER he says that the only
problem was that the winning bid was a guy. Dexter Jenkins gets wheeled into
the ER, he had gotten beaten up by some kids.

Victor
is shopping with Jodie. Abby is nervous about her test results because she
wants to have a normal baby, she calls in and finds out that the baby is
perfectly normal and healthy. Victor goes home and they discover that Bobby,
Jodie’s husband is there. Jodie is scared and Bobby wants her to leave with
him. She tells him that she filed for a divorce and Bobby gets upset because
he flew from New Jersey to get her but Jodie simply tells him that its too
late. Victor finally gets Bobby to leave and he calms Jodie down a little
but Bobby comes back in and shoots them both. Pratt asks for a scrub top
because he spilled bedadine on his shirt but they say that a scrub top isn’t
good enough for a "man date". Victor drives to the ER with Jodie, Abby
and Luka were talking about if they should tell anyone about Abby’s
pregnancy when Victor pulls up. Once she’s inside Luka Sam Abby and Ray
begin working on her.
Ray is talking to Jenkins about music and he tells
Ray about the piano he found that the kids destroyed that day.

Victor
keeps thinking that he has to do something, Luka tells him to go away when
Jodie says "he shot me". Everyone assumes she meant Victor shot her but
Victor quickly adds that her ex-husband had done it. Pratt comes in and
calms Victor down and brings him into the other room to clean up his gun
shot wound. Kerry comes in and tells Luka that he should have paged her.
Dubenko and Neela get paged down to the ER, Dubenko works on Jodie and Neela
goes to see how Victor is doing. No one can calm Victor down and he keeps
fighting to get up and go try to help with Jodie but Kerry puts restraints
on him. Jodie is in the OR, Dubenko is questioning Neela as to what should
be done first. Jessica comes in and answers Dubenko’s question. Morris comes
into the OR to get Jessica to re-write some orders, she argues but Dubenko
tells her to scrub out. Meanwhile the staff try’s to decide if Victor shot
Jodie or not. Victor goes into the OR and keeps telling them what they
should and shouldn’t do, Dubenko sends him outside to watch but he keeps
talking.

Morris
tells Jessica to change more of her orders while Abby watches them argue.
Haleh and Abby talk about how Jessica refuses to learn anyone’s name because
of Morris driving her crazy. Morris asks Abby why she is still there and she
says she’s hungry and her fridge at home is empty. Morris tells her that he
thought he saw her eating an ice-cream 20 minutes ago and she says that its
her third. He comments on how she’s eating like she’s pregnant, she brushes
the comment off but he figures it out. She tells him that he loves Jessica
and they both decide to drop the conversation and forget about it.
Ray brings in the black guys daughter Sarah, she offers
him a room in her house but he doesn't want to take it. Neela is still
working on Jodie when Pratt joins Victor, Jodie’s drug test came back and
Pratt asks Victor if there is anyone who can back him up but only Jodie can
back him up.
Luka
gives Alex a hockey puck and goes to tell Sam that he is here. Pratt’s date
arrives and the staff is wondering why it’s a woman instead of a man but
Pratt just pretends that it was all a joke. Jessica gets mad at Neela for
"crowding her out of the OR" and walks away. Victor comes up and thanks
Neela before he goes to sit by Jodie. Luka follows Sam to the drug lockup.
He tells her about him and Abby and that Abby is going to have a baby. Sam
congratulates him but seems upset by the news after he leaves. Victor is
talking about the quintessence of dust to Jodie even though she is asleep.
Kerry comes in and tells him that they were able to salvage her kidney and
that the police want to talk to him. They haven’t found a gun in his
apartment yet and he still has his job.
Pratt is with Debbie and we find out that Henry her
ex-boyfriend bought her the date. Ray talks the black guy into letting Ray
buy him something to eat, in the store he sees a piano, he sits down begins
to play and sing ‘Many Rivers to Cross’. Abby calls her mom with good news,
Victor talks to the police, Sam leaves with Alex, Luka reads Carters post
card, and Carter is shown flying around Africa in a helicopter.
Reviewed by
Deidre on February 14, 2006

NBC Review
THE HONEYMOON IS OVER-- Dr. Clemente (John Leguizamo) and
his girlfriend Jodie seem to be living the highlife together, when they are
suddenly interrupted by Jodie's husband Bobby (Shea Whigham). When Jodie
threatens divorce, Bobby takes matters into his own hands. Abby (Maura
Tierney) and Dr. Kovac (Goran Visnjic) anxiously await the test results
determining the health of their unborn baby. Meanwhile, when Dr. Pratt is put
on the auction block for a bachelor charity event, everyone is surprised when
a man wins the bid. Laura Innes, Parminder Nagra, Linda Cardellini, Shane West
and Scott Grimes also star.

TV Guide Review
February 09, 2006: Quintessence of Dust:
When Clemente's married girlfriend finally seeks
a divorce, her husband vows revenge. Meanwhile,
Luka and Abby await test results on their unborn
child; and Pratt ends up with an unexpected
suitor when he participates in a charity
bachelor auction. Jodie: Callie Thorne