A Bloody Mess
After recovering from a heart attack, Morgenstern returns to work and has difficulty adjusting to the demands of his job. Consequently, Corday finishes a procedure Morgenstern can't. Meanwhile, Jeanie rushes an agonized Scott to the hospital. Ross performs a painful bone-marrow biopsy that reveals the return of Scott's cancer. Hathaway opens her clinic and solicits the staff to be tested as possible bone-marrow donors for Scott.
With Corday and Reese as his passengers, Benton drives Corday's car and accidentally backs it into a pedestrian, Sally Ingram (SHERRI LUBOV-RIPPS), who suffers minor injuries. After Corday confronts him, Benton admits he has an issue about dating a white woman.
A panicked husband, Dave (TROY RUPTASH), ushers his pregnant wife, Karen (KIMBERLY RUSSELL), into the e.r. Her risky pregnancy threatens her life. Del Amico suggests drug treatment to alleviate Karen's severe nausea and vomiting, but Karen flatly refuses to try it and put the baby at risk. Dave accuses Del Amico of placing the baby's life ahead of his wife's.
Corday brings her study of artificial blood to the e.r. with Greene as her faculty advisor--much to the chagrin of Romano. Ross decides not to renew his pediatric emergency room fellowship because he's applying for an attending position.
At the clinic, Hathaway administers birth control medication to 16-year-old Natile (MORGAN NAGLER). Later, the girl returns to the clinic with her irritated mother, and Natile confesses to Hathaway that she is having sex with her 40-year-old married teacher. Hathaway reports the teacher to the authorities.
Carter visits Chase at the neurology center where Chase remains unable to speak.
