Carter enjoys his ride-along with paramedics until they rescue an injured landlord who turned off the heat in his building. Tenants mob the ambulance and endanger all inside. Carter climbs to the driver's side and tries to depart. The ambulance runs over a 17-year-old male, crushing his pelvis. Rushed to the hospital and treated, the teenager survives. On another run, paramedic Audia dies from a gunshot wound received while driving the ambulance. Carter believes the bullet was intended for him.

Hathaway complains about her headaches to Greene. He worries that she may have a brain tumor or carbon monoxide poisoning. But Hathaway knows the real cause of her headaches--she's pregnant--and confides her secret to Corday. Weaver treats Kornberg (NILS ALLEN STEWART - "Barb Wire"), a huge, muscular professional wrestler with a knee injury who graciously signs autographs and visits children in the pediatric ward.

Now working on her medicine rotation, Lucy administers to an old Chinese woman, Chan-Yu Fong (BEULAH QUO), experiencing seizures. Tests reveal that Chan-Yu has advanced lung cancer that has spread to her brain. The patient's son and daughter-in-law refuse to let the woman know her true diagnosis. Lucy reluctantly obeys their wishes. Jeanie receives a copy of Al's lab test results proving he did not give her Hepatitis C. Jeanie concludes she contracted the disease from a patient. She tells Dr. Baker and Reggie that she is dating someone else. And a county jail sheriff transports a dehydrated Mobalage to the emergency room. Kubby awakens from a coma and explains that she stabbed herself. The District Attorney dismisses the charges, but Mobalage, who was tortured in his native country of Nigeria, awaits a deportation hearing for forging his visa.