As our story opens a camera zooms around and zeros in on a morose and emotional Abby cuddling a crying Joe on her lap in the waiting area of an airport. A tear slips down her cheek and we see the words ‘Fifteen hours earlier…’ across the bottom of a dark screen.

There are fans everyone around the ER admittance desk. Ribbons have been tied on the fan to indicate that they are blowing with less than full power. Frank and Moretti are working on side by side computers conversing about the media using global warming as a reason for the power shortages in Chicago. Frank refuses to feel guilty for using the spray deodorant that is causing the resurgence of malaria in Kenya. Morris says that cow farts will be the death of us. Abby questions that and Morris goes on to explaining the reasoning for eating too much beef and releasing certain gases into the atmosphere. They are way too serious to be having this kind of a conversation. Morris goes on to congratulate himself for getting smart and getting a car that gets 40 miles to the gallon…a real chick magnet. Sam and Abby are a little grossed and ask about Hope. Morris says they have broken up…mutually. However it was her idea and he tried to talk her out of it. Frank interrupts and hands the phone to Moretti. It’s a lady claiming to be his ex and has news bout their son. Moretti leaves to take the call in another room. Abby watches him go and then chuckles as Morris and Sam comment on the fact that he…was married? Neela and Harold approach and follow Morris to the ambulance bay. He promised Neela she could use his car to give Harold a driving lesson. Morris protests that it was before he scored his sweet new wheels.

Out in the ambulance bay Harold is thrilled and climbs into Morris’ new car. Morris is protesting that he had to pull strings to get it and doesn’t want Harold driving it. Neela promises to get him the number of a staff member he has been attracted to. He agrees and then Neela climbs into the car in beside Harold. Morris is aghast after Harold careens out of the bay and chases after them shouting directions about being a ware of his surroundings and runs smack into the open door of a Hummer.

Abby is standing in front of a blowing fan and gazing out into the waiting room of the ER. She is opening and shutting the blinds slowly. Cut to Gates leading the scantily clothed and sweating nurses in the hall. He is talking bout pain and giving them a protocol for providing children with medication before they have seen a doctor. Chuny mutters that someone has been ‘Morettisized.’ They look up as two parents bring their crying child through the ER doors. Abby comes out of the break room and says she has them. They follow her toward an exam area. Gates and the nurses lookup as paramedics push a gurney with a protesting Morris strapped to a backboard. He is arguing as they tell Gates the patient has a possible blunt head trauma. Morris is straining to get off the gurney as Pratt falls in alongside. They are very serious about the paramedics’ rally and Morris is furious. The gurney is pushed into a trauma room. Morris wrenches himself off the gurney as Gates and Pratt treat him as a regular patient threatening to sign himself out. Morris moves to the door whipping the neck immobilizer from his neck and arguing with them. He turns to leave just in time to crash into the door with Chuny on the other side. Pratt tells the paramedics to give Morris a foley in the field the next time this happens. They are all laughing and snickering. Gates’ smile fades as he sees Julia (the chaplain) with a patient in the curtain area. He goes out to join her just as she is saying goodbye in Hebrew to a patient. Gates tries to converse in Hebrew and Julia tells him the Jewish New Year was two months ago. She tells him that she got something to brighten up the place. She introduces him to Ken and Willow – the most obnoxious pair of hippie singers ever. They have been to oncology and mostly pedes but never the ER. Gates is dubious but tells them to make themselves at home. Gates grabs a chart and asks where Julia found them…God Camp?

Morris is standing in the bay with Grady and Sam waiting for a patient arrival. He checks his watch and realizes that it is ‘the day’….expecting the results of their Board exams. Morris tells Sam not to push him because it’s hot and he has no idea where is car is at. Neela and Harold come sauntering into the bay and Morris demands to know where his car is. Neela says they parked it around the corner. The ambulances arrive and Morris is desperate to know if they hurt the car. He hurries to help unload the ambulance full of nursing home residents. One is on a gurney…the room mate of a fussy guy able to walk. He says the nursing home turned off the AC and tried to cook him like a strudel. They created Kentucky Fried Old Folks. He is worried about the guy on the gurney as they are room mates. Willow and Ken are singing away to patients oblivious to the obnoxious noise.

Abby’s infant patient is screaming on the gurney as she examines her. She is asking the questions about vomiting and diarrhea. Asks if any noises helps sooth her – car rides or vacuum cleaner? The dad says nothing soothes her…and glances toward Ken and Willow…not even music. Mom tells her the pediatrician recommended some scope test, but everything was normal. Abby says they need to rule out a few things before calling it simple colic. Dad says this has been going on for a while. Abby asks how they are holding up and reassures them that it gets easier. She is going to run the case by her supervisor.

Pratt is wrapping the hands of an amateur electrician who was trying to use his jumper cables to juice the wide screen and massage chair with the same battery. Willow and Ken have moved closer and are serenading two kids on the gurney behind them. Abby approaches with the baby’s chart and says she has a three month old with three months of crying. Pratt thinks it’s normal and is clearly frustrated with the singing. Abby waggles the chart in his face and he agrees to look at her after he gets rid of the singers.

Pratt heads to the desk and Morris catches up. Wants to know where their board results are. Pratt tells Frank to find Gates and get rid of ‘The Captain and Tenille’. They hurry down the hall and Pratt asks if Morris is worried about his tests and asks if he got the old folks fixed up. Moretti ordered evaporative cooling and Morris has Javier babysitting for them. Ken and Willow are singing to a patient that is ignoring them as Abby and Grady come of an exam room into the curtained area. Grady is running his presentation past Abby and she tells him to be more assertive, more focused about what he thinks the issue is with his dehydration patient. Abby stops to play with the baby a second and touch base with her parents. She tells them her supervisor is on his way. She heads for the desk and asks Grady to run his presentation one more time as she examines the patient board. Grady is better this time and she tells him that’s what she is talking about. Gates approaches and is soon surrounded by Abby, Sam, Pratt and Chuny and told to get rid of the singers. Gates tells them to live with it for a while and says some people like it. Sam asks who and he gestures toward Frank, who is working on his computer, swaying and singing along with the singers. Chuny retorts that Frank is nor people and rolls her eyes. Morreti passes in a suit and tells Grady it’s time to present. Grady is nervous and Abby watches him go with a smile. Frank gives everyone a rundown of the electrical issues and other news. Pratt is frustrated and shakes his head as we see Willow p bounces along with her tambourine in the background. Frank makes an announcement and hands Morris and Pratt large white envelopes with their test results. Both hang up the phone, exchange their envelopes and rip them open. Frank asks if the medical board has made another deadly error in judgment. Pratt says they have because he passed. Frank laughs and shakes his hand as Chuny and Sam hug him. Morris is looking over his results and is stunned. Pratt asks if it’s okay and Morris says it’s good. Pratt hugs him and then Morris pulls away as they make plans for drinks after work, on them. The camera zooms in on Morris’ still stunned face as Willow and Ken are bouncing and singing behind him.

Morris makes his way to the room where the elderly patients from the nursing home are cooling off. He opens the door and Javier is trying tot get the VCR and television to work. Morris makes the rounds as Chuny and Grady do the same. Mr. Perkins is not responsive and his temp has not come down even with a cooling blanket. Morris tires to wake him up as his disgusted room mate tells him they don’t need any more ‘witchy medicine’. Morris and Grady become concerned because of his neck stiffness and stiff muscle tone. Morris thinks they may be missing meningitis and they wheel the gurney out of the crowded room calling for blood cultures and a head CT. His roommate is agitated and Javier calms him down.

Neela and a round of surgical interns – including Harold – are watching as Dubenko examines a possible appendectomy patient. Dubenko looks over the x-rays and tells the patient they need to get him into surgery. He says they will take it out laproscopically and the patient will be home tomorrow. Harold is leaning over his shoulder and asks some questions and makes comments that contradict Dubenko’s diagnosis. Neela is nervous as she watches this happen. The patient is confused and would rather not have the surgery. They walk away and Neela tells Harold to stop contradicting the chief of surgery. The interns move off as Neela and Dubenko head toward the desk. Chuny passes and tells them drinks at Ike’s on Morris and Pratt because they passed their boards. Dubenko tells Neela he wants to discuss Harold’s progress with her. She putters and then he says not now but tomorrow. He doesn’t want to say anything to cruel which is in danger of happening right now so they will discuss Dr. Rain Main tomorrow. He leaves and Neela is dumbfounded.

Cut to Gates and Julia talking in the hall about the singers. She is aghast that he wants her to fire the volunteers. He is looking around furtively and says yeah….in a nice way. She says they love them in pedes. They are a hit in oncology. She wants to know why the ER types are such snobs. He says it’s what God would do…..cast these people out. She snorts and tells him the mocking use of religious imagery is always a hit with her. As she walks away he says he is only trying to use words that she would understand…that’s all. He rolls his eyes, settles his chin in his hands on the counter and sighs in frustration as we see/hear Willow and Ken waving their arms and wailing away in the background.

Grady, Dawn and Morris are working on Mr. Perkins. Moretti is standing next to the gurney going over some of the orders on a patient in another bed. He says the drugs and EKG were cancelled by the resident - Abby - and wants to know if Morris signed off on that. Morris says if Abby cancelled it there must have been a reason. Mr. Perkins’ roommate is brought in and Morris asks if they got any new pills at the home. Mr. L says they are always giving them new pills. Says his roommate got feisty because of the heat and they gave him a pill. Morris pulls open a book and ask him to identify the pill he was given. After one is pointed out Morris says he has neuroleptic malignant syndrome and orders Dandrolene. Cut to Pratt working on a screaming baby. He says he is pretty sure they have a beautiful little girl with a bad case of colic. Abby is standing by and listening as the Pratt tells the mom not to wrap her with the blanket because she is sweating. The mom says she always sweats like that when she feeds. Pratt calls Abby aside and tells her to find a referral for a new parent support group for them. He says it’s lasic for colic but she disagrees. Says that when she worked in OB they did a lot of anticipatory guidance about this and colic did not usually start until 6 weeks and the dad said the baby had been like this since birth. She says has a feeling….Pratt says to let the baby go and tell the parents to follow up with their pediatrician. He tells her she shouldn’t argue adding with a grin that she is not talking to a board certified ER attending. She grimaces and says he still has to pass his oral boards. (Why do I feel like our Dr. Pratt is going to pass one and fail the other???) He wants the baby discharged and after asking if they will see her at Ike’s, he walks away. Sam approaches for the chart and asks if they are done with them. Abby says yeah and hands the chart to Sam….and then she stops her to add two more tests. Sam takes the chart and asks if Abby is coming to Ike’s. It’s brown out Thursday and they get drinks half price if they come with a candle. She says Morris and Pratt are too cheap to spring for more than one drink. She cajoles Abby to come and get loose for one night for a change…. Abby say she will think about it.

Frank is standing under one of the air ducts with a guy holding a gun monitor. He tells him the AC is fine and the air quality is fine. Sam approaches and Frank introduces her to the ‘Green Nazi’….checking on their energy resourcefulness. Sam is clearly attracted to him. She tells him she had spoken with his office and had their incandescent lights changed. They walk off together and Frank says he is going out back to burn some tires with kerosene. Abby signs some charts and tells him she is leaving them for Sam. Frank asks if she is leaving already – what about the party – and Abby says it’s like junior high around there. She passes Moretti as they walk through the door. He asks if she is leaving already and she says Frank is up to speed on her stuff. He tells her that her intern presented to him and she asks if he forgot to kiss the ring. Moretti says he was letter perfect and he is sure it had nothing to do with her. “Absolutely nothing,” she says as she turns and swings out the door. Moretti watches her sashay through the waiting area and then follows her out into the bay to stop her. He calls her on canceling his preemptive orders and she says that she has; on selected cases. He tells her it’s the system and the system is working. She says not for her and as she turns and heads away she tells him that she didn’t go to med school to check boxes and push papers. Moretti stops her by asking when she is going to stop the end runs. He wants to know if she just likes Pratt because they have worked together longer or if she just doesn’t like him. Abby is pissed and he tells her it doesn’t matter. She interrupts to say she doesn’t like him and he tells her to do whatever the hell she wants and he hopes it works out for her. They both storm away from each other.

Cut to Ike Ryan’s and Moretti is sitting at the bar with Pratt. Others from the ER are there. Morris comes in to a round of cheers and says he can’t stay long because someone needs to mind the store. He leans across a table and mutters to Harold that they are going to talk about what he did to the CAR. Harold asks Neela if Morris is mad at him. Neela says no….but indicates Dubenko….and says he is. Moretti makes a toast about the newly minted Board certified emergency attending physicians. Morris ponders them all seriously and nods.

Julia and gates are playing pool and talking about her chaplain thing being a hobby and she is really a hustler. Gates is interested in her tats. The one on her wrist is a labyrinth, a common symbol from Native American culture that signifies one’s journey to inner spiritual growth. She says it reminds her everyday that she has to be seeking and not to be lost. He asks if she has ever been lost and she says coyly, ‘Haven’t you?” Gates watches her sink yet another ball and then says ‘So…uh….what other tats you got?” She grins at him.

Cut to the bar where Harold hands an old guy some money and walks away with a drink. The camera swings to a table where Neela and Dubenko are talking about Harold. He says he thought they weren’t going to do that and she doesn’t know why he doesn’t like him. Dubenko says he is unshaped and immature. Neela responds that he is smart…hung up about presentation. Dubenko says he is not ready to be a surgeon on his team but she says he wants to be there so badly that she thinks he can do it. Dubenko is disbelieving that she really wants to mentor this kid. She challenges Dubenko to give her one month to whip him into shape. He tells her that it’s not just turning him into a doctor; it’s turning him into an adult. They are interrupted as Harold is being dragged away with the drink k in his hand. He tells them good night and he will see them on the flip side. Nice shot as Dubenko turns to Neela with a little smile and tells her she has a month.

Cut to Chuny, Sam and Dawn sitting at a table together. Chuny is in disbelief that Morris and Pratt would be on the top of the heap. She can remember when Mark green and Doug Ross ran the place. Both Sam and Dawn say ‘who?’ Same looks up as her ‘green nazi’ guy from earlier approaches them. She introduces a dumbfounded and skeptical Dawn and Chuny to him. He asks if anyone wants something from the bar. Dawn tells him an apple martini and they all eye him as he walks away. Sam is immediately razzed about the fin brother. She says he wanted her to get a drink after work so… Chuny asks about the hunky beat cop and Sam is razzed further. She says it’s not like that and goes on about how when you are in your 20’s and have a chance to explore and check out what you really like…well, she never got a chance to do that. Dawn says the boy in blue wasn’t hitting the buzzer and Sam is embarrassed. Ethan approaches with the drinks and they are laughing. He asks if he missed something and Dawn says that they hope he doesn’t. They are laughing as Abby approaches. She grins as she passes and heads for the bar. She says it doesn’t look very festive in there and hands Pratt a hat from the bag she is carrying. She puts another on Frank’s head as he protests. Abby is very loose….a little more friendly and physical than w have ever seen her before. She says she loves Frank, as she wraps an arm around him. He never misses a party. She notices Sam and tells her how nice she looks. She circles the table. Really, really hot and slips Sam’s bottom as they all laugh. She studies Sam and says ‘wait a minute…you’re getting some, aren’t you?” Sam is embarrassed and laughs as she pushes Abby away. Abby looks up and sees Ethan. She wants to know who he is and then circles Sam with a low growling sound. Dawn, Chuny and Sam laugh.
Abby blows a party horn at Pratt and he wraps an arm around her shoulders and says they need some coffee. She says no, that it’s a night to celebrate. She approaches the table again and asks Chuny what Chuny is short for anyway. Chuny tells her it’s just Chuny…that her real name is Ethel. ‘Get out!’ Abby says. Frank hands her the hat back and she tells him to put it back on. Neela calls to her and Abby grimaces at the nurses and says that the surgeons are there. She turns back and tells Neela and Dubenko that they’d better be careful because they are out numbered and if there is a throw down they are going to kick their ass. Neela is stunned but smiling. Dubenko asks if there is going to be a throw down and Abby says they never know. She tosses him a party horn. She asks if anyone wants a drink but they all say they are good. She glances around and tells them to cheer up because it’s a party after all. She puts Greg on the shoulder and moves through the crowd. Neela asks the others if Abby is all right and Sam says she’s fine…just letting off a little steam. Abby is trying to get someone’s attention at the bar and sees Moretti looking at her from his seat at the end. She tries to ignore him but he is watching her so she laughs and then says hi. She is trying to ignore him but he finally says he didn’t expect to see her there. Abby slides onto a stool and says that she had a babysitter so she figured what the hell. She bangs on the bar to get some service and grins broadly as king if she can get something. Moretti leans toward her and brings up their conversation from before. She tells him shouldn’t do that. He is confused. She tells him ‘playing the tyrant and then….flirting.’ Moretti gulps. Flirting? He says he wasn’t aware that he was flirting. She tells him she is not stupid. He sputters all over himself denying it. She tells him that he comes in on his white horse and then figures….. “What?” he says. “What do I figure?” She stops and studies him and then looks around. “Nothing,” she says. ‘You just…figure.” Pratt steps up and she swings around. He starts reaming her out about the baby they were treating. He was called form the hospital because the baby had been screaming for an hour. The baby he discharged but was still at the hospital because of some tests that were ordered. Does she have any idea who could have done that? She shrugs and then coyly asks ‘was it me?’ Pratt sighs and tells her they are taking it outside. She grimaces in mock fear at Moretti and follows Pratt out of the bar.
Outside she is telling him that if she ordered the tests she had a very good reason. A chest x-ray shouldn’t take very long but Pratt said it did because half the machines in the hospital are down. He is angry because she disregarded his orders. She tells him that if the power trip is what he wants she will go discharge them. He tells her no…she is not going anywhere near the ER like this. Abby is instantly defensive and wants to know like what? He doesn’t say anything and she starts to walk away and he pulls her back. They are practically nose to nose in anger and he sighs and tells her she needs to take a cab home, right now. She scowls and watches him walk away. She stops, frowns, runs her fingers through her hair and says ‘whatever.’

Cut back to the bar where Sam is taking money from everyone to pay their bar bill. They are trying to decide on another place to go when Chuny says she knows of a little place that has salsa night on Thursdays. They invite Abby to join them but she says she is going to finish up and get out of there. Neela sidles up and asks if she drove there. Abby says no and then frowns a little as she watches them leave. She glances around and sees Moretti still sitting in the same place. There is a martini glass next to him. He says that he got their attention. She groans in relief and drops on to the stool next to him and says thank you. He asks if she is okay and she says the work thing…fixed….and takes a drink. She scratches her forehead and tucks her hair behind her ears and he asks where her husband is…Croatia? She nods. He asks when he is supposed to be back and she says he will have to ask him that. He was supposed to be home weeks ago. Moretti says it’s…um…complicated trying to balance all the…um..kids, work. Abby says if he wants to know about a complicated life, she will make him cry. Really, he says. She takes another sip and chuckles. “I’m not kidding,” she says. He brings up what she said before and she tells him not to listen to her because she is an asshole…and he says he knows. She chuckles and he says not really. Uncomfortable silence and then they toast Pratt and Morris. The light flickers and someone puts a candle on the bar between them. They cast sidelong glances at one another in the dim light. She smiles a bit and then looks away as she takes another drink.

Cut to a darkened apartment and Abby’s hand outstretched amidst sheets on a bed. (a camera shot reminiscent of last season’s ‘Two Ships’ with Luka’s hand holding her’s.) The camera slowly pans upward to her face and she blinks as there is a thud. She presses her fingers to her forehead and slowly comes awake and then suddenly sits up in bed. Her eyes dart from a half empty liquor glass in the bedside table, to her clothing on the floor in the shadows and then to a watch on the table on the other side of the bed. She looks up and sees herself reflected in the mirror. She groans softly and then the lights come back on and she squeezes her eyes shut. She puts her hand to her head and then looks up when someone says that the power is back. Moretti is standing in the next room behind a serving bar with no shirt on and a glass in his hand. Abby closes her eyes slowly and is still.

Cut to the hospital corridor with Morris and Pratt headed toward the trauma room. Morris says the plan was a chest x-ray and EKG with discharge if the test were normal. Pratt says it was Abby’s plan, not his. They enter the room and Pratt asks the parents how it’s going. The baby is sweating and breathing really fast. She doesn’t have an IV because the nurse was told the baby was going home. Haleh comes in with her chest x-ray and says they might want to look at it. Morris says the heart is really big. The nurse caring for her is new and hasn’t done the EKG Abby ordered because they didn’t have infant leads. She put an order in for the pediatric leads from central processing. The baby is going south fast and Haleh reams the new nurse out for not getting the leads herself. She tells her to RUN to NICU and get the lines herself. They push the gurney from the room to Trauma one.

Cut to a dressed Abby sitting on the floor and zipping her boots up. She gets up and holds her head as Moretti tries to talk her into having a cup of coffee. She is pointedly not looking at him as she frantically searches for her purse. She says she has to go and wants to know what happened…how did she get there. Moretti is smiling a little and says “well….” He wants her to stay for a little bit...not drive…it’s late. She pulls her phone out of her purse and grimaces in panic as she looks at it and then tosses it into her bag. She is desperate as she gets to the door and he tries to stop her. “Don’t drive right now, Abby…..honey…please…’ he says. She stops abruptly and holds her hand up to him. She tells him firmly and emphatically - ‘don’t’. He apologizes and looks down as she opens the door and leaves. He rubs the back of his neck.

Cut to Haleh pulling out the baby’s EKG report and ripping it off, hands it to Morris. He asks if the leads are reversed and she says no. The parents are distraught and Pratt tells Haleh to call cards and tell them they are on their way up. He tells the parents their baby shows signs of acute MI….and then that she is having a heart attack. The mother screams as the father tightens his hold on her. She yells at Pratt that he wanted to send them home as he pushes the gurney with the baby from the trauma room. The parents fall into each other’s arms sobbing.

Cut to Abby’s apartment as the very young babysitter is talking into the phone. She is desperately telling the police that she doesn’t know where Abby is just as the door opens and Abby hurries inside. She tells the police that she is there now and hangs up. Abby apologizes to Doris and rummages through her purse and asks if Joe is okay…that he slept the whole time, right? Abby hands her some money…and then some more money. Doris wants to know if Abby is okay. Abby is worrying her. She can call her mother and stay the night but Abby tells her to leave. Finally she tells her to get OUT. Doris turns on her heel and leaves. Abby heads up the staircase. She enters Joe’s room and smiles and whispers softly as the baby wakes up. She tells him they are going to see his daddy. Cut to a screaming Joe as Abby is buckling him into his car seat. She gets behind the wheel and turns to dig her keys out of the bag next to the crying baby. She stops to reassure Joe and rubs a hand over the side of his face. She starts the car and pulls onto the street behind another car. She swings the car around and jerks the car to a stop and then sighs. She takes a deep breath and then says slowly…okay. The baby is wailing away. Cut to Abby holding Joe and her bag, standing on the dark street waiting for a cab. A cab stops and she opens the door. She settles Joe into the cab and bangs her head on the door as she gets in herself. She tells the driver she wants to go to O’Hare international and he tells her that the kid can’t ride like that. She screeches at the cab driver that it will be okay and to go…just go. Cut to Abby at the ticket counter in O’Hare, pulling one thing after another out of her purse, talking rapidly and wanting to buy a ticket to Croatia…Zagrib…Dubrovnik…through London or Frankfort…okay, London. Joe is wailing away and the ticket person is telling her there is no flight to Croatia that night and Abby doesn’t care if it’s that day, just sell her a ticket. The ticket person says that because of the blackout…Abby interrupts…and the ticket person tells her she needs to calm down and Abby responds that she needs to do her job and sell her a ticket. Abby doesn’t understand why this is so hard, she has a passport and she has a credit card and she is not a terrorist…she doesn’t look like a terrorist, does she? The ticket person mutters that she thinks Abby has been drinking to the manager and Abby says she doesn’t have to be so bitchy and the ticket person says she can’t call her a bitch and Abby responds that she didn’t call her a bitch. She said she was bitchy and that’s not the same thing. The manager steps in and tells Abby that this is how it’s going to go. She is not getting a ticket or boarding a flight to anywhere as long as she keeps behaving like this. She needs to go sit down and get herself together so he doesn’t have to call security. Abby is holding Joe’s face and is calmed a bit. She gathers up her paperwork from the ticket counter and nods slightly. Cut to her open bag being dropped to the floor and she tosses her passports and papers inside. She sits down and shifts Joe in her lap as he continues to cry.

Cut to Morris pushing open the door of the trauma room where Mr. Perkins is sleeping. His room mate, Mr. L, is sitting next to him. Morris tells the nurse to recheck some labs in 6 hours and then tells Mr. L that he will have his room mate back tomorrow. Javier says that he doesn’t trust doctors or lawyers or anyone with a degree but he appreciates what Morris did. Morris nods and heads out of the room. Mr. Leftkowitz stops him and tells him that as far as doctors go…he seems to be a pretty decent one….so thanks. Morris nods as Javier pats Mr. L’s shoulder. Morris and Pratt end up in the hall together and Pratt says he just came from the cath lab. The baby was born with an anomalous coronary that was diverting blood from the heart to the GI tract. When ever she fed she was having angina. She is in surgery and cards said the prognosis was good. Morris says that they did have any questions like that on the Boards. Pratt tells him that the coffee is on Morris as they head out into the bay. Pratt looks up at the dark and says Commonwealth Electric has the problem almost solved and Morris hands a wadded paper to Pratt. He tells him he failed the Boards. Pratt asks him why he didn’t say something and Morris said he was ashamed and everyone was there and…. Pratt tells him it doesn’t mean he can’t keep working. He can just take them again. Morris asks that they keep it between the two of them. He doesn’t want anyone to know…especially Abby. She coached him a little when he had a family thing and he kind of feels like he let her down. Greg says he doesn’t think she will see it that way but they won’t tell anyone. “Thank God for Abby, huh?” Morris says as they continue out of the bay. “She saved that baby’s life.” Pratt nods and says a little worriedly, “Yeah…Thank God for Abby.”

Cut to a quieter and calmer Abby, still sitting in the waiting chairs at the airport. Joe is still crying as he chews on a finger in her lap. She holds him closer and then smoothes his hair as the camera zooms in on her face. A tear slips down her cheek and shakes her head slightly. She wipes it away with a shaking hand and then rubs her other eye as well. Cut to a close up shot of Abby and Moretti kissing furiously with light from the window casting shadows as he pulls her shirt from her. Back to her distraught face and then back to his, still in the dark, as she draws him closer for a kiss. She squeezes her eyes shut and we see her remembering his hands pulling down the zipper of her skirt and slipping inside. Cut to a shot of Moretti’s hands sliding over her bare shoulders to her back. Her eyes cast aside and tears run down as she sees herself running her hands over his shoulders taking his shirt off and then moving beside and half under him in the bed…..her wedding ring gleaming in the dark as she smoothes her hands closely down his back. Her face is deadened and devoid of emotion as the camera pans back and Joe continues to whimper. She whispers for him to ‘shhh…’ and rocks him gently as her eyes close. She hugs him close and her heads drops in despair as the lights shut off and she begins to weep. Blue lights from the departure/arrival board flicker behind the profile of her face and the top of Joe’s head and then go off completely.

Reviewed by Lynda Foote on November 11, 2007

ROLLING BROWNOUTS HIT CHICAGO - SPECIAL GREEN WEEK EPISODE - STANLEY TUCCI ("The Devil Wears Prada") AND REIKO AYLESWORTH ("24") GUEST STAR --In an effort to go green, Morris (Scott Grimes) buys an energy efficient smart car. Abby (Maura Tierney) and Pratt (Mekhi Phifer) try and treat a fussy baby but disagree on the diagnosis. Meanwhile, Abby falls back into old habits and gives into temptation while Kovac (Goran Visnjic) is in Croatia. John Stamos, Linda Cardellini and Parminder Nagra also star.