Carol is trying to adopt Tatiana. It has reached the stage when she is able to tell Tatiana that she will be coming to live with her.
Mark is expecting to be attending, after Morgenstern offered it to him in 01.14. He's more concerned about Jen's announcement. He throws a wad of paper into a bin, telling Doug that if he makes it then his marriage will survive.
An experimental drug patient comes in. Drug trials have just hit the news over here, but the details of the real life side-effects are probably too terrifying to ever be in ER. This guy just acts like a stoner.
A guy with no voice box and terminal cancer comes in with a heart attack (trauma 2). After they save him, they get his file. He was DNR. He'd been trying to tell them that in trauma 2 but they were so focussed on their job - saving lives - that they have gone against his express wishes. I think I'd like to be DNR: I can't imagine how hateful it would be to be so helpless, so reliant on machines. Based on this, I feel like I should maybe have it on a necklace or wristband, in the same way that my ex-partner has a necklace detailing their diabetes so that if they collapse and cannot communicate, their condition is known.
A scrounger and con man comes in, managing to nick petty cash off Jerry, and Mark's wallet. An MIT guy also appears, researchng how the ER works.
A mother brings in her daughter, who has a star-shaped burn on her palm. It turns out the mother is punishing the daughter for "touching herself, down there", just as she was punished as a child. Carol and Doug stage an intervention, taking the child away. The mother attacks Doug, scratching his neck. Carol treats the scratches and Doug tells her that he approves of her trying to adopt Tatiana. Very sweet moment between them: "you would be a great mother".
Mark suggests Doug askes out Diane, but Doug says Diane will turn him down so he's not going to bother.
A shot kid (trauma 2) and a cop (trauma 1) are brought in. Mark calls for Benton, who is asleep over a suture on an equally asleep drunk.
Doug, prompted by Mark, asks out Diane. She turns him down.
Morgenstern is leaving to be at Harvard. In passing, he tells Green that the attending position is nearly Mark's. So all that bust up with Jen is based on a maybe. Oops. (I should maybe point out I've been watching ahead and typing up from notes when I have time, so I know this is the first tiny crack in Mark's world and that things are going to get much, much worse.)
Diane finds Doug and agrees to go on a date after all.
Carter reads Whitman to the DNR as he dies. Later, Benton questions why Carter is putting in for surgery.
Benton: You don't think like a surgeon.
Carter: Why? Because I don't think like you?
Carol is told she can't have Tatiana because of her suicide attempt back in the pilot. Carol, upset, goes not to Tag but to Doug i.e. the guy who caused her to overdose. She wakes him at his apartment in tears and he comforts her, assuring her that it is not her fault that Tatiana will stay in the home (no, it's Doug's, for making her that desparate). She wants to stay the night, leaning in to kiss him, but he turns her down.
The MIT doctor is a FAKE! He's a pyschotic patient who pretends to be doctors. Susan is the most annoyed as she liked his theories about a non-confrontational, feminine system of working.
Getting home, Mark finds Jen there. He outlines the idea of them both commuting from a midpoint (Kenosha) but Jen tells him that things are working. She's leaving him because his only focus in life is his career. Told you things were about to get worse for Doctor Green. Aw. Anthony Edwards does a great job of showing his optimism over saving his marriage die.
Peter has been left to care for his mother whilst his sister's family have a break ice-fishing. He's told to be awake at 6am, as she'll need her medicine. He falls asleep on the couch, waking only when his mother - trying to find him or her medicine - falls down the stairs. He takes her in (trauma 2) and has to stand back as Susan and Carter work on her.
The whole Benton storyline is pulling together nicely, after me at first thinking they just had him as the stereotypical hard-hearted surgeon. He's been so driven by his career that he's guilty over not being home for his mother enough, so his attempts to make it to her party (01.16) cause his exhaustion here, an exhaustion which has far more severe consequences than him falling asleep over an unconscious drunk.
The Mark storyline? Well, it's going to get a whole lot worse...
Which trauma room is unlucky? A running total of doom...
trauma 1: 4
trauma 2:
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