While victims of a gang shootout are being brought in, Carter is late and a new group of third year medical students arrives.

It's Weaver's first day and she doesn't exactly make a lot of friends. Carol rides along with the paramedics.

Doug treats dying Chia-Chia. Mark however feels he's not doing the right thing for Chia-Chia.

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

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

Mark has to work for the fourth night in a row while a lot of the staff are absent and the number of patients is towering.

In order to avoid having to deal with her personal problems regarding little Susie, Susan wholly absorbs herself in her work.

Susan has therapy to get over losing little Susie and Jeanie's ex-husband is brought in.

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.