Greene treats an accident victim. He learns from a policeman that the victim's wife hit him with her car. Suddenly realizing that it may not have been an accident, Greene hurries to the patient's room and stops the wife from using a pillow to smother her unfaithful husband.

Hathaway pities a paranoid schizophrenic architect who refuses to take his medication and leaves his residential care facility. When she finds him living on the streets, she brings him pencils and blanket.

A man whose wife admitted him for detoxification escapes through a bathroom ceiling.

Hathaway doesn't know what to do with all of her childhood belongings when her mother sells the family house. Shep thinks she should keep everything.

Carter and Harper try unsuccessfully to find time alone with each other. Greene asks Ross to work a night shift, but Ross refuses, citing an important personal obligation--later revealed to be dinner with his mother. Carter and Benton find a strong supporter in Vucelich.

Greene rushes to his wife, Jennifer (recurring guest star CHRISTINE HARNOS), when he hears that she was in a car accident. She's okay--and so is her lover, Craig (BRUCE NOZICK).