Doug and Harper had sex. Mark finds out about this. So does Carter.

Doug gets the opportunity to stay at the ER thanks to the publicity surrounding his rescue of a drowning boy the week before.

Jennifer and Rachel have been involved in a car accident and Mark rushes to Milwaukee where they're in the hospital.

Mark has to deal with the fact he can't see Rachel during the holidays and takes care of a Holocaust survivor whose grandchild is missing.

Shep and Raul enter a house with about a dozen abandoned and ill-fed children and bring them to the ER.

Benton has to attend a banquet at Vucelich's home and asks Jeanie to go with him. Mark hesitates to tell Rachel about the divorce.

It's his day off, but Mark shows up for work anyway. After a patient dies and Morgenstern wants to speak to him, Mark soon regrets coming in after all.

Rumour has it there's something going on between Mark and Susan while Benton questions Vucelich's study and confronts him.

Mark Greene strikes a deal with Kerry Weaver - he will support her application for an ER attending position if she in turn will support Susan Lewis for Chief Resident. When Susan doesn't get the job, Mark is told to go ask her why. Carter is finally going to graduate and wants Benton to attend the party his family is throwing for him. Unfortunately, Carter decides to sit with a young patient awaiting a liver transplant and misses his own graduation ceremony. With the news she has received about her former husband Al's health, Jeanie Boulet decides to have herself tested. Doug Ross' girlfriend Karen forges his prescription for percodan. Hathaway's boyfriend, Shep, is refusing to undergo his anger management treatment. Mark's ex-wife Jen tells him that she is going to re-marry. Loretta Sweet asks Greene if he would become guardian to her kids.