Abby and Luka (both looking totally hot in black turtle necks) at home in a little tiff because Abby has called a patient at home and left a message for him. Guess which patient..... 

Tony is packing his room and Meg is talking to him about telling Sarah that he is leaving. He promises to do it that night.

Ray and Gates are looking over the patient board and commiserating over the lack of trauma patients. Sam says the chopper is bringing in two boys from a snowmobile accident. They hightail it for the elevator and begin assessing the 15 year old boy. Paramedic says the older brother carried the kid a mile to the road to get help. Arguing over who should go to the roof for the next one, Luka comes along and tells them both to go. He and Abby take over the more critical victim.

Gates is that the home of Edgar Dixon, his deceased church clinic patient. The Reverend is there and waxing poetic over the deceased. Pratt extends his condolences to the widow and leaves. The Rev follows him out and tells him the state medical board called him and he told them to go to hell. He tells Pratt they really have no case and Pratt tells him they do...and they need to stop the clinic. The Rev says he isn’t going to do that and Pratt walks away.

Abby and Sam are working on the more critical - and younger - snowmobile accident victim and their banter is very tenses. Abby wants to put in a chest tube and Luka tells her to wait. She is peeved.

Ray and Gates are sparring over a surgical consult on the older boy.

Luka tells Sam to pass the chest tube tray to Abby and Abby looks at him. SHE wanted to do it 15 minutes before. Sam says “ Looks like Abby was right...Luka confirmed the diagnosis radio graphically...Nice work team.” They both ignore her and Ben rolls his eyes.

Gates is calling for a surgical consult in the hall and sees a very cool acting Neela approach. He is teasing her and she reminds him that the last time they saw one another the woman he lives with practically assaulted her and her daughter called her a whore.”

Abby is taking the kid up for an x-ray ‘in case he crashes’. Luka stalks out of the trauma room. Ben says that it was a little uncomfortable and Sam agrees. She says it’s more proof that workplace romances don’t work. Tells him his kiss caught her off guard but she has a rule about getting involved with anyone from work.

The step dad steps into the trauma room where Ray is working on the older boy. Reams him out and tells him that ‘Clark had better be all right’ and that he is going to be with his son.

Grandma Gracie brings a sullen and reluctant Alex to the admit desk. They are there to sign Alex up for the volunteer program. Alex doesn’t need a tour...knows the place better than Ben. Ben takes a firm grip on the back of Alex’s jacket and drags him off. Grandma Gracie is very impressed. Tells ‘Sammy’ she needs to go after that one....that all the women in their family are the same - ‘very fertile, allergic to chestnuts, prone to bladder infections and have the same damn gene that predisposes them to bad boys.”...LOVE Grandma Gracie.

Ray confronts Neela about having sex with Gates and she says it is not true and NONE of his business. Gates comes out of trauma room and says they might need to consult Kovac. Neela and Gates both say “NO!’ just as Pratt approaches. He listens to the case and tells Gates that it was not his call. That Ray is a step up.

Pratt snags Luka to see if he has talked to Angela about his clinic patient yet. Luka says that she said she would look into it. Timmy tells Abby has hasn’t gotten anything from the patient she has been waiting to hear from. Abby and Luka exchange looks and then Abby moves off to take a patient who was hit in the mouth with a hockey puck. Abby asks Pratt if he wants a ‘piece of this?’ Pratt looks at Luka in surprise and then follows Abby. Luka watches them go with Timmy by his side and then the two of them exchange looks. Timmy is quite discerned with him.

Ray and Dennis - the older snowmobile victim - have a chat about being in an unhappy step situation. Dennis likes Clark a lot...Dad is strict on him and Dennis lets him do things the dad wouldn’t like. Did not say that Clark was driving the snowmobile because the dad would get made at him. Better to keep Clark out of trouble.

Abby and Pratt are working on their hockey puck guy when Angela comes in and asks Pratt to meet with her at 4 about the clinic situation. Abby over hears that it was Pratt who dispensed the meds. She is clearly upset and tries to talk to him but is interrupted.

Alex and Grandma return from signing up to volunteer and Alex is even more sullen. He smarts off a couple of times and Grandma says they need to head on home.

Pratt and Ray are talking in the ambulance bay as they wait for an ambulance. Pratt asks if Ray wants his advice and Ray tells him no...he did that already....left her alone......long enough for her to start seeing someone else. Alex comes out the ambulance bay doors and kicks a trash can. He smarts off to Grandma and she slips him. He slaps her back and she grabs his face in her hands and tells him that if he ever hits her, his mother or any woman ever again she will break every bon in his sullen little body. Hee.... Pratt and Ray are watching and Pratt nods and says ‘Grandma’s got game....’ Lily calls Ray in because his snowmobile kid isn‘t doing so well.

Sam is on the floor in the break room picking up a stack of files. Ben comes in and they sit at a table and he tells that he was raised by a single mom as well. He was delinquent kid of trouble for about 10 years but is now best friends with his mom. He tells Sam it will happen for her as well.

Abby is looking for Pratt when Gates asks for help with a frozen jaw on a ‘professional’. A couple of sexual innuendos that fall kind of flat here. Abby is checking the patient out when Sam enters with a very agitated Sarah. She tells him she went up into his room and saw all of his boxes. Sarah turns and runs and Abby tells him to go ahead and go. She cracks the patients’ jaw and asks if she is okay.

Sarah is stalking through the ambulance bay and Gates stops her. She is very angry and when Gates follows her and tries to stop her she yelps that he isn’t her dad and he says that he is her friend. She stops...and then presses her forehead against his chest and cries.

Ray and Neela are dealing with the snowmobile kid.

Gates and Sarah are in the break room. He giggles her out of her anger and they have a serious talk about him moving out. Meg appears outside the door and Sarah is pissed that he called her. Gates says that she was worried.

Abby catches up with Pratt in the hall and says she is the one that called the state board about the church clinic. Apologizes. Thought it was being run by a quack doctor. They go to the admit desk and two detectives are waiting to talk to Pratt. Luka says that he has called Angela and she is on her way down. Pratt says it’s okay and takes the detectives to another room. Timmy approaches and hands Abby a message that she has been waiting for. She rounds the desk and asks Luka if he is jealous. They head toward the break room together and are pissy with one another before they realize that Kerry is there cleaning out her locker. Luka looks at her and then Abby and then leaves. Abby hangs her jacket in the locker and tells Kerry they are at odds about a patient. Abby watches her for a moment and then says she can’t believe that she is leaving. Kerry says it’s scary but also exciting. They stumble over one another trying to say something and Abby finally says, “You have seen me at my best....and at my worst....You have taken me from a nurse to a med student to a doctor.....to a mom. I am going to miss you.” Kerry counters with ‘ You have always been there as a nurse and a doctor....and mostly as my friend.” Aww...they hug....and then Abby asks if guys do this when one of them leaves. Kerry says that she heard Carter cried like a baby when he left. Hee...

Meg, Sarah and Gates are walking through the ambulance bay talking about growing up and moving on.. Gates assures Sarah that he will be around for her....and she asks if she can stay the night at his new place. Nice, nice scene. Fun. As they walk away, gates says ‘eeehh....’ and Sarah turns around and runs to him for a hug. He kisses her and calls her ‘baby girl’ as Meg glances back with a sad smile.

Ray, fresh from a confrontation with Neela and Gates has it out with the snowmobiler dad. Tells him he better shape up and treat his stepson better because one day he is going to be bigger than him and will kick his a$$. He stalks away. Way too personal here. Something about Ray’s history...I am sure.

Pratt is being interrogated by the detectives.

Kerry approaches Ray at the admit desk and tells him she may have robbed the rock world by keeping him there but he was going to be a great doctor. He asks if they should hug or kiss or something and she holds her hand out for a shake.

Pratt is escorted down the hall with his hands in cuffs...on his way to jail.

Sam approaches her apartment door with a bag of groceries and unlocks the door. Grandma Gracie is holding court with Ben and an elderly neighbor guy. Ben says Gracie invited him for dinner and she says she is making fish and chips. The neighbor leaves and Grandma says Alex is in his room doing homework.

Abby approaches Eddie, who is shooing pool in a smoky bar. She gives him the rundown on his deteriorating lung condition and he seems oblivious...and kind of rude. Tells her enough with the dr. stuff...he wasn’t coming to see her about that anyway. He reaches out and brushes the hair from the side of her face and she freezes and then stalks out. Eddie follows her out into the street and she tells him to stay away. He tells her that it’s not what he thinks.....that he lied to her...his name isn’t Jackson....it’s Wyczenski....he is her father. Abby freaks and pushes toward the street to hail a cab. He follows and tells her that he was curious and tracked Maggie down about three years ago and caught up on her and Eric....and then Maggie started screaming......that he found out then Abby was a nurse in a Chicago hospital...that a nurse at the triage desk pointed her out to him once...and that when she came into the bar one thing led to another and he just wanted to know her more. ‘After 30 years?” she asks. He was afraid she would tell him to go away. She tell him he was right and to GO away. He tries to stop her but as she climbs into the cab she tells him that he doesn’t get to do this....it’s not fair.

Kerry is leaving through the ambulance bay and Luka catches up with her. She says she was hoping to say good bye to Pratt and Luka tells her that he is on his way to bail him out. He stops Kerry and tells her that she hired him to work there and changed his life.....maybe even saved it. He didn’t know where he would be right now if he hadn’t found this place. He holds out his hand to shake hers and she sets her box down. “Come here, you big Croat,” she says and they hug. Luka lifts her off her feet and grins. He sets her down again and she picks up her box. She tells him not to get too caught up in politics...that it’s a good hospital and it’s all about the people and the medicine. Luka nods and smiles. As they turn away from one another she stops and calls back. He turns. “Take care of this place for me,” she says. He grins and nods.

Pratt is locked behind bars.

Sam and Ben are sitting on a couch after dinner. They are talking and Sam invites him to spend the night. He asks if Gracie and Alex would care. Sam nods a bit and blows out the candle. She smiles and takes his hand as they leave the living room. Alex is drawing an intricate typical preteen drawing as he lays on his bed. He looks up as he hears muffled noises and then shakes his head.

Gates and Neela are at her place. He is looking at ads for apartments. He teases her about sharing the cost of a place with him. His cell rings and it’s Sarah. She is hysterical. Says her mom is sick and she can’t wake her up. She has no idea where they are because they are in the car. Cut to Sarah shaking a comatose Meg behind the steering wheel and Tony trying to talk to Sarah on the phone.

Alex meanders through a darkened living room and plops onto the couch to watch an M-TV type show. He fiddles with a match and lights one. He drops it into the wine glass and watches the flames, a bit mesmerized. He picks up the glass...which is now hot...burns himself and drops the glass. The flames spread in a wide swath across the coffee table and he is still - panic stricken.

Abby carries a crying Joe into the apartment in a baby carrier. She is talking to him , apologizing and crooning. She sets the carrier on the table and watches him as she picks up the phone and dials. She calls Luka and tells him to pick up the phone.....she has picked Joe up from Ellen’s and she is home and to please call her as soon as he gets this message because it’s kind of urgent. She pulls Joe’s hat off and then picks him up from the carrier and pats his back. She turns around and is startled to see Curtis Ames seated on the couch across the room. He tells her quietly - and deadly - to call her husband. She says that she did but he is not picking it up. He tells her to call him again. 

Credits roll….YIKES!

Reviewed by Lynda Foote on June 30, 2007

NBC Review

AN ARGUMENT OVER A PATIENT LEAVES A COUPLE IN DISTRESS- FOREST WHITAKER, PAULA MALCOMSON, AND FRED WARD GUEST STAR-- Kovac (Goran Visnjic) gets jealous when Abby (Maura Tierney) gives too much attention to a patient. Meg (guest star Paula Malcomson) pulls a deadly stunt when Gates (John Stamos) moves out of her place. As a result of one of his patients dying, Pratt (Mekhi Phifer) finds that police are anxious to arrest him. Meanwhile, Dr. Weaver (Laura Innes) makes a decision that will change the ER forever. Parminder Nagra, Linda Cardellini and Shane West also star.

TV Guide Review

January 11, 2007: A House Divided:

Luka reacts negatively when he sees Abby giving extra attention to a patient; Meg becomes infuriated when Gates moves out; Pratt is questioned by the police after one of his patients dies; Weaver makes a pivotal decision.