When Jeanie learns that Al's medicine is not benefiting him much, she helps him get accepted into a new drug study conducted at the hospital by Fischer. Fischer learns that Jeanie and Al are seeing a lot of each other. Eventually, Jeanie and Al have sex. Benton acts as Carla's partner when she takes a birthing class, but he is unreliable and too strict, so she tells him that she wants another partner. Later, she is admitted to the hospital due to complications in her pregnancy and must remain lying down.

Benton and Carter assist on a kidney transplant from a brother to a sister. The brother suffers complications, but the surgery is a success. Later, Carter astounds Benton by leaving a discussion among prestigious surgeons to check on the transplant patients. After his mother gets a bill from the hospital, Chris Law threatens Dr. Greene. Chris' brother, a black student and innocent bystander shot during a drug deal, recently died in the emergency room while the white drug dealer was successfully treated. Greene also has hostile encounters with a doomsayer and the father of an injured drum majorette (HEATHER MATARAZZO - "Welcome to the Dollhouse"), who wants his daughter to have unnecessary plastic surgery. Later in the hospital bathroom, Greene survives a brutal attack by an unknown assailant.

Meanwhile, everyone wonders who is writing the romance novel found under the admissions desk and less-than-loosely based on members of the emergency room staff. Ross transfers his obsession with sex to golf. Greene learns that Doyle is a lesbian. And a new emergency pediatrics intern, Anna Del Amico (recurring guest star MARIA BELLO - "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"), joins the staff. Ross is somewhat intimidated by her.