Cut to the door leading from surgery. Crenshaw is whining about the difficulty of the surgery and tells Neela he never should have promised the guy he would make it out to see the Packers game. Neel asks about family and Crenshaw says there is a son – Jeremy – who has just driven up from Notre Dame. Neela heads for the family room to find him. She approaches a young man sitting on the couch listening to an ipod. He takes his ear phones out and stands up with a smile. He says he has been waiting for her. She explains the complications in his ‘father’s’ surgery and the kid is nodding. She is surprised at his reaction to bad news about a heart attack and subsequent treatment for complications. She asks if he is all right and the kid says he is a little bit nervous but psyched to be there. Neela tries to explain that his father is in critical condition and calls him ‘Jeremy’. The kid grins and says he is Harold Zelinsky, her new intern. Neela is disbelieving and another guy approaches with flowers, He asks her if she has news about his dad. Neela is dumbstruck as she looks back at Harold.

The phone is ringing and Joe is wailing from his nursery as Abby awakens from where she has passed out on the couch. There is an empty wine bottle and glass on the table next to her. It’s Luka. He says he has been calling for three hours. She tells him she turned off the ringer so she could get some sleep. The scene shifts to a house under construction. Luka is talking to her while trying to deal with a carpenter. The scene moves to a split screen set up as they talk to one another. Abby picks Joe out of his bed and carries him down the stairs to the kitchen. He is still crying as she takes a sippy cup of milk out of the fridge and settles him in his playpen. Luka asks if it’s Joe crying and she says he just woke up. He apologizes for not being around. He got stuck at the hospital. Says he tried calling her at work and they filled him in about the MRI being normal. He tells her that with the spinal fracture, even after surgery his dad can’t move his legs. They are fixing his house with ramps and handrails in the bathroom. Abby is oblivious to what he is saying and asks him when he can fly home. He says there is a lot of work. She says he can fly on standby bit Luka tells her he knows there would be a seat but he is going to be there at least another week. She is having a tough time with the baby crying and her head. She is furious and ask why his brother can’t finish up. He tells her he doesn’t like it ether but he needs to do this. She drops into a chair and rubs her head as he ask her not to make it any harder than it is. She pulls her hair out of her face and leans in to the playpen. She tells him it's okay but they miss him. He says he misses them too and she adds that they miss him a lot.

Cut to Pratt , who is injecting a pain killer in Theo thigh of a guy lying on a gurney with a pencil sticking out of his leg. He tells the nurse to set up for irrigation and he will be back once the skin is numb, Morris rounds a corner with another medical question for him. Serum osmlality calculations. Pratt answers but is obviously perturbed. Morris compliments him as they head for the desk. Frank says someone is waiting for Morris. It’s a hot chick - a pharmacologist - with an invitation for him to her art opening. Just him. No one else. ‘Assess THAT, Dr. Pratt” he says ash she walks away. Neela approaches with her new intern and introduces Pratt, Morris and the ‘grouchy clerk, Frank’ to him. Sam tells her not to go too far because they have two car crash victims enroute. Neela tells Harold to get his coat and meet her outside trauma. He is excited and tells them it’s going to be awesome working with them. Morris says he looks like he is 12. Pratt says that interns are getting younger and younger and Morris adds that they are getting older and older. Neela says she asked and he told her he was 25. Morris sets a kidney pan on the desk and says first one to verify his age wins the pot and ask who’s in. Pratt, Frank and Sam think for a second and then pull out their money.

Cut to the back door of an ambulance being opened and Gates there to assess Bevin Guang, car versus a utility pole. He has no memory of what happened. The woman in the ambulance next to them – Traci Martinez, his passenger and pregnant girlfriend – says he fell asleep at the wheel and went off the road. Pratt is there to assess her and Abby ambles up in sun glasses and drinking form a water bottle. Traci says she should have been driving because he works too much but Bevan says he doesn’t like her driving while she is pregnant. She is 20 weeks along. Abby tells Pratt that she has it and ask Traci if she was wearing her seatbelt. She says they will check her and the baby out and make sure everyone is healthy.

Cut to Neela and Crenshaw walking in the hall. He tells her that she needs to remember that she isn’t her intern’s friend but his taskmaster. Interns need to be whipped. Neela says that isn’t her style. Crenshaw says to make it her style. She needs to be Lou Gosset to their Richard Gere. She is frowning and then says he is from Connecticut, right? He says yeah and she suddenly steps in front of him and does the bit of a scene from “An Officer and a Gentleman’ in the Gosset persona. Crenshaw is stunned but she frowns and says that it doesn’t quite work with Connecticut. There is a funny little smile on her face (as if she is remembering watching the movie with Ray??) Crenshaw tells her that he’s not joking. Without discipline an intern will screw up. Crenshaw tells her to bring him to his knees. Cut to Harold watching through the trauma room door. Neela frowns and approaches with a few stern questions for him. He tells her he was waiting for her and she tells him he could have been halfway through his assessment.

Abby and Pratt are working on Traci. Neela introduces Harold all around. Abby calls for a fetal Doppler and surgilube. Pratt notices and comments on Harold’s ipod. Pratt remembers when you had to go to the record store to buy music. Harold says he bought his first CD when he was 10. In hopes of dating him he asks Harold what kind of music is on it, what his first CD was…Eminem? Spice Girls? Harold responds that it was ‘Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major, Richard Stoltzman, soloist”. Neela says there is no sign for an abruption and Abby says that it’s very good. She calls for a serial crit and a fetal monitor. Chuny is confused so Pratt steps in with the name. He asks Abby if she is okay and she says she didn’t sleep well, was up all night with a bad stomach – probably a virus. Pratt tells her to go take a nap. She protests but he says it’s slow and to go before they get slammed. She nods and leaves. Neela is taking a cross off Traci for the x-ray and she asks her not to lose it because it belonged to her grandma.

Cut to Gates, Moretti and Sam working on Bevan. He says he forgot to eat breakfast and wonders if that is why he got dizzy. Sam asks if he wants a head CT, says he will get a better image in radiology. Gates says the dizziness only lasted a few seconds and to leave him there. It might be cardiac arrhythmia. Moretti grins a little and says it’s a valid point. Bevan is worried but Sam says they are just going to keep him in the cardiac monitor for a bit. Chuny opens the door and asks about the Woods’ lamp. Bevan calls to Traci and asks if she is all right. Traci tells him he is working too hard. Moretti tells him to rest and that they will let them chat in a few minutes. Bevan says he doesn’t feel so good and passes out. He is in V tach and they shock him back into normal sinus. Gates says hat he is healthy 22 year old.

Cut to Abby trying to sleep. Chuny turns on the light and comes in to search for the Woods lamp. She apologizes and says she will put up a do not disturb sign. She turns off the light and leaves. Abby tosses and turns in the dark and finally just stares at the ceiling as she hold her head.

Gates enters with Bevan’s chart and asks him family history questions. Sam throws in a drug use question. He is hesitant but then tells them he is working two jobs to save up enough for a bigger place. Two nights ago he took a pill to stay awake. He got it from a friend. He wants to know if it messed up his heart. Gates tells him his EKG shows a different abnormality…a condition he was probably born with. He glances through the door at Traci and tells Gates that he wants to be a good dad and is really trying.

Cut to Harold coming down the stairs and Morris calling after him. Morris tells him that security needs a copy of his driver’s license. Harold says he doesn’t have one. He took driver’s ed in high school but never got around to taking the test. He rides the el and his bike if the weather is good. He wants to know if Morris could use his hospital id? Morris is deflated. They enter Traci’s room and Chuny mutters asking if Morris found out. Morris says he is crafty. Harold is examining the ultrasound screen with Neela. She is concentrating on the placenta but Harold notices pleural effusions. Traci wants to know if her baby is okay. Neela explains that there are some fluid collections. Harold asks if she is with children a lot. Traci says she is a preschool teacher. Neela is aghast as Harold rips off the statistics and percentages of complications to a pregnancy caused by fifth disease. Traci is getting distressed and Neela steps in between them. Traci starts to cry because he said she could be losing her baby. Harold is upbeat and says she won’t with UV transfusions. Neela calms her down and says they will do everything they can to help her and her baby. Harold grins and gives her the thumbs up. Neela glares at him.

Cut to Abby coming out of the drug area tossing some pills back. She approaches a hunky patient with a skin infection. He is a personal trainer and she grimaces and tosses her head back as Chuny turns on a light. Moretti passes and asks if she had a good name. Abby says yeah and thanks him. Moretti and Pratt talk about the patients on the board and Pratt tells him cardiology is on their way for Gates’ v tach guy. Morris approaches and demands a question from Greg. He decides that it too easy so he makes up new rules. Only tough questions and only when they are stressed. Frank asks Morris to hurry up with the computer and then sees that Morris is looking at coldshower.com… for anaphrodesiac herbal remedies. Frank tells him that if he wants to lose his libido, get married and have a kid.

Coburn comes around a corner with Neela and Harold. She tells them she is impressed because it usually takes an OB to assess hydrops. She looks at the ultrasound and tells Traci that there is evidence of a parvovirus in the fetus and it indicates that the bay is anemic. They need to do a blood transfusion directly into the umbilical cord. Coburn is irritated that Harold keeps interjecting comment and stat numbers to the conversation. Traci asks if Bevan can be with her when they do it. Coburn said he can if Kayson okays it. Coburn says she will get things set up. Neela says that Dr. Zelinsky will assist her and Coburn is not happy. He follows her out. Traci looks at Bevan and tells Neela that when she first found out she wasn‘t sure she wanted the baby. Bevan stepped up and said they would do it together. It brought them closer, but now she is not so sure.

Cut to a wound surrounded by blue toweling and Abby asking if it is sharp as she pokes the skin with a knife. She tells him to let he know if anything hurts. She makes a tiny cut and thick, creamy pus pours out of the infected site. The nurse assisting says it smells anaerobic and asks if Abby wants a wound culture. Abby nods and looks away. (Note to director: With the safety glasses on it’s difficult to see that Abby is having trouble not gagging with this patient.) Cut to Morris entering the curtained area , calling a name and pulling back a curtain. A very young and pretty woman is sitting on a gurney. She asks if he is going to be her doctor. Morris studied her for a moment, says he is not, turns round, sees Abby and leaves the room. He steps up next to her and tells her there is a woman with foot pain he needs her to see. The pus is still pouring. She is good to go.

Gates and Kayson are with Bevin. Gates tells him the stats and says he is thinking Brugada Syndrome. Kayson tells Bevin that gates will be back after he has discussed his recommendations. Gates follows Kayson into the hall. They argue about the test findings. Kayson tells him to repeat his enzymes and then he will be cleared for discharge. Kayson points out the amphetamines I his urine tests. Gates tells him he hasn’t had anything in three days. Kayson disagrees. As they are arguing, Traci hears them in her room. Gates says he needs an implantable defibrillator. Kayson says he is not admitting a speed freak and tells gates he had better learn to take the recommendations of senior attendings if he has any hope of finishing his residency. He stalks off. Gates watches him and then turns to look at Traci, who is clearly distressed about what she heard.

Morris approaches the pus patient and asks if he has any more pain. The guy says no and introduces Morris to his very hot looking daughter. He avoids looking at her as he stumbles around with after care instructions. He goes off in search of additional dressing and the daughter follows him asking what kind of car he drives. She sells luxury cars and can see him in a Z4. Morris is trying to get away form her but she follows him. Sam is watching and listening and starts to laugh. Morris tells her he needs tape. The woman asks about his wife and Sam approaches with 3 inch and tells him he can make that work. Morris scowls at her and leaves. Sam passes Moretti and gates as they are heading to Bevan. Moretti is aghast that Gates wants him to over ride the head of cardiology. Morretti says they have to think about working with Kayson in the future and Gates says they have to save patients now. Morretti tells him to ‘get creative’.

Neela is explaining Traci’s need for a transfusion to Bevan. He wants to talk to her but Neela says no. Bevan asks if it’s because of the speed. He is angry and says it was only once….not like he is a tweaker. Cut to Gates talking to Traci. She says she isn’t going to take any more of his crap. He used to DJ warehouse parties and would be out all night with his boys and she thought he was different now. Gates gives her the ‘people change/not all black and white’ spiel. She brushes him off with the thought that her baby is sick. She can’t think about it any more. Gates exits into the hall where a woman is looking around kind of confused. She is looking for Traci. She is Julia Dupree, the on call chaplain. Gates in interested as he watches her go in to Traci

Abby is examining the foot of the Morris trade off patient. The woman is aghast when Abby tells her to lay off the high heels for a few months. In the next bed a little girl is banging a basin against the bars on the bed. Abby asks the mom to make her stop doing that. Mom says the little girl is venting her frustration. Abby says ‘well, so am I.” The mom takes the pan away and the little girl starts with a high pitched shrieking. Abby says she will be right back and goes out in the corridor. As s walks by him she tells Morris his patient has Morton’s neuroma and Morris says he guessed as much. Morris is examining the pus guy’s x ray when another hot girl approaches. It’s the twin of the first girl. She sells cars too. When they are both standing there they tell him they do everything together.

Cut to Coburn and Neela doing a blood transfusion on Traci’s fetus. Julia is sitting near her head talking her through it. She says they will pray together. Harold is raving about hitting a millimeter vein with a 20cc needle. Aggravated, Neela send him out to do a rule out appy. Coburn assures Traci that everything has gone perfect.

Pratt corners Gates about spending too much time with one patient. Tells him he needs to get back into the ER way of things. Morris steps up and peppers Pratt with a medical test question. Chuny passes with a file and tells him that Kayson is discharging Bevan. Gates storms off after her and Morris asks Pratt to name three bacteria for neonatal sepsis. Pratt responds with ‘Kiss My Ass’ and stalks off. Abby is sucking on a water bottle and rattles the bacteria off as Morris tells her not bad. Abby sticks her head into the trauma room and tells Coburn she needs to talk to her. Coburn asks if it’s another consult and she says no but to find her when they are done. Coburn studies her for a second with a worried look.

Cut to Abby and Coburn coming out of the Jumbo Mart with coffee cups in hand. Janet says she heard Luka is in Europe, something with his dad? Abby tells her its multiple myeloma and Janet groans. She says she is sorry. She asks if Abby is managing with Joe. Abby tells her that Joe is amazing…walking, babbling, feeding himself….and he loves the books she got him for his birthday. ‘Goodnight Gorilla’ has to be the last one every night. As they cross the street Abby turns away and Janet slows. “You drank?” she asks. Abby nods and tells her last night. Janet asks if she wants to get to a meeting. Abby says she hasn’t got time for a meeting. It’s was only once and she had a bad day…a very bad day. She isn’t going to start drinking again. Janet asks her if she is an alcoholic and Abby responds ‘Yes, but…” Coburn is doing a stunning job being compassionate, but firm. She tells Abby to keep drinking and do the research. Abby is getting mad. She tells her she can handle this. Coburn looks at her watch and tells her that she has a clinic full of patients. She starts to leave and Abby stops her with ‘Janet, you’re my sponsor.” Coburn stops and turns back to her. She says she was her sponsor but it’s very simple now. If she has decided she is not an alcoholic she can’t help her. If she IS an alcoholic she will support her in recovery. “Let me know what you decide,” she says. Abby watches her walk away.

Abby enters the break room and heads to her locker as Moretti is sitting at a table finishing up a phone call. He is talking to his son at college. He hangs up as Abby is getting ready to go home and tells her his son is in Rhode Island and having a hard time with college. He doesn’t know if it’s normal school stress or something more. He feels like he isn’t telling him stuff. He says it’s hard to know what is going on with somebody even if it’s your own kid. Abby turns around and smiles and tells him they are waiting for her to sign out. He tells her good night and then takes a deep breath..worried about his phone call.

Abby comes out of the break room and heads for the desk. Frank is in front of the computer and Pratt, Morris, and Sam are gathered around him looking at the screen. She asks if he has heard anything from ortho. Frank says he can’t find any information on him, not even a birth certificate. No credit cards…not even a student loan. Abby interrupts forcefully and they all look at her. Ortho? Frank says not yet and goes back to the computer. Abby asks what they are doing and Pratt tells her a background check on Neela’s intern. They are trying to get an age on him. Abby is pissed and says she is there late because he can’t get CT results or call for a consult and her attendings can’t hear about (she slaps files on the desk) a migraine, a broken femur, a DK, an incarcerated hernia because they are busy playing a game of ‘how old is the intern?” These are her pass ons. Neela and Howard approach from the swinging doors. Abby turns to him and says, “Hey, Howard, how old are you?” He responds that he is 25 and she asks how old he was during the OJ trial. Howard stops to think and says that was like 1995 or something. Abby snickers and says “you are not 25.” He falters and says ‘you’re right, I’m 19.” The crew around the computer groans and he goes on to say he started college when he was twelve…med school when he was 15. Abby shakes her head and leaves. Howard says he got a perfect score on the SATs when he was 11 so he knew he was ready for college. Neela tells him they need to go check on the rule out appy and they walk away. Moretti moves to the desk and pulls Gates aside. They head toward the trauma room and he says he understands Kayson signed discharge orders for Bevan and Gates cancelled it. Gates nods. Moretti asks if that is his idea of creative problem solving. Chuny sticks her head out of the trauma room and says their patient is V tach again. Gates and Moretti run in. Moretti tells her to call Kayson.

Cut to the twin daughters of the pus guy walking toward the desk in unison. They are grinning at Morris who stiffly tells them their dad was moved upstairs. They both kiss him and tell him they are sorry it didn’t work out because they could have had some…fun….together. Pratt is grinning slightly as Morris watches them walk away. Morris frowns and growls at Frank about some test results. Pratt sidles close with a question for him about the Ottawa ankle rules. Morris who snaps that he doesn’t have any time for games and stalks away.

Gates and Morretti are shocking Bevan back into normal sinus. Kayson enters the room and asks what is going on. Morretti says he was pulseless v-tach and Kayson looks at the monitor strip. He says Bevan may be a candidate for a n implantable defibrillator. Chuny says it’s a good thing she didn’t discharge him because he would have died on the way home. Kayson says he will go prep the EPS lab. Morretti looks up, asks Gates if he is okay and then follows him out. Kayson agrees and says they don’t want to listen and don’t want to learn. Morretti smiles a bit and says pointedly to Kayson that the worst part is sometimes they are right.

Cut to Abby riding on the el. She is tired and looking around. Her eye catches a passenger who is drinking from a bottle in a paper bag. She watches him and her thoughts are interrupted by a woman asking if something on the ground is hers. Abby looks down and picks up a plastic key ring with keys. She studies it for a bit. Cut to Abby heading down some steps toward another el turnstile. She pauses a moment before going through and then turns and heads back up the steps.

Cut to Morris lounging on a gurney behind a curtain talking to Hope on a cell phone. He is asking her about the weather…what she is wearing… He starts as a nurse pulls the curtain back and says she needs the bed. He straightens and makes like he is talking to someone about something medical. We follow Morris through the halls as he continues the conversation about what she does to cool off. He tells her he wouldn’t mind skinny dipping with her late at night and then sneaking her back into her tent. He is looking around the ambulance bay frantically and spies a paramedic wheeling a stretcher into the hospital. He asks if he can use the rig for five minutes because he has an administrative tour. Bardelli tells him yeah so Morris climbs into the ambulance as he continues his conversation with Hope.

Neela and Gates are with Traci . her hydrops will clear up with the transfusion and Gates tells her about Bevan and the ‘shock box’. She asks if Gates thinks he was serious about not taking drugs again. Gates nods and she says she needs to see Bevan. They are wheeling her out when Julia (the chaplain) enters. Traci tells her that Robert Frost guy was right. Gates tells her that she did great with Traci. She says she just held her hand and said it was okay to be mad at God…she was all the time and didn’t get struck by lightening. Gates ask about her training to be a chaplain and Julia says it was no worse than med school. Gates wants to know if she had to take vows…and she says she isn’t a nun. She is a woman who happens to be a chaplain. He is quizzical and she says that he doesn’t get that she has a spiritual life and a spiritual career but that she lives in the real world. She tells him he ought to try it sometime.

Cut to Harold talking on his cell phone telling someone he may have made a mistake That it’s not too late to change. He looks up and sees Neela watching him. He disconnects the call. She approaches and asks if he is okay. She tells him that she is not really a mean person but her boss said she had to be in order for an intern to work harder and learn more. She is not used to being tough. it's not her style and it’s not working. Harold agrees. She tells him that from now on, things will be different. She will be more supportive and won’t take credit for his good ideas. She sees Crenshaw approaching and tells Harold to play along. She starts barking orders to him and Harold is confused. He suddenly takes off up the stairs per her directions and Crenshaw watches him scurry and tells her “Nice!” Neela rolls her eyes as he walks away.

Cut to Abby walking down a strip of Chicago sidewalk under the el and past what looks to be church steps. She eases her way through a small crowd gathered around a door. She goes inside. Is it an AA meeting place?

Cut to Gates coming out of the ER doors into the ambulance bay. Morretti is standing there and Gates asks what he has. Morretti tells him it’s a stab wound under the left nipple. Gates offers to stay but Morretti tell him no…to go home. As he is walking away he tells Gates he did good work today and it’s good to have him back. Gates looks back in disbelief and keeps walking. Morretti begins to examine the patient coming out of the rig when Morris steps out of the other ambulance. He passes Morretti and tells him it’s a beautiful night and Morretti asks if he is all right. Morris saunters past with a satisfied grin and says everything is good….real good.

HUGS NOT DRUGS-STANLEY TUCCI ("THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA") GUEST STARS-- Moretti (guest star Stanley Tucci) decides that Gates (John Stamos) has done an impressive job in the ICU and is now ready to return to the ER. Neela (Parminder Nagra) learns how to manage people when she is assigned to mentor Harold, a young genius intern (Steven Christopher Parker). With Hope (Busy Phillps) away, Morris is having a hard time resisting the ladies. Meanwhile, Abby (Maura Tierney) struggles to keep her life together with Kovac (Goran Visnjic) gone to Croatia. Mekhi Phifer and John Stamos also star.