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Carter is back from Africa, and goes straight to Abby’s apartment from the airport. He walks in hoping to be welcomed with opened arms by Abby after leaving abruptly last season during the finale without talking it over with her nor listening to her request for him to stay. He stands over her while she is sleeping, caressing her face and kissing her on the cheek. She wakes up, surprised to see Carter there. He tells her he missed her, but she does not care, she asks if he just let himself in. He then apologizes, saying he’s sorry for the way he left, but again, she ignores him and asks for her key to her apartment back while smoking a cigarette. Carter gets up to leave and drops the keys on her dresser without saying a word.

Cut to a Mother driving her kids and her friend’s kids to what seems to be a field trip. On the way there, she is on the cell phone, cursing the fact that she is stuck in traffic. Now the Mother looks weak and breathless on the phone and then passes out while the car is still moving. It runs into another car and flips over, the Mother is able to open her eyes in time to see an oncoming car slam into her car while everyone is still inside.

Meanwhile Pratt is late for work, rushing to catch the L train. He sits down next to an attractive female, exclaiming to himself that if he is late, his boss will be upset. The female asks him if he is a doctor, and Pratt, now noticing her, transforms into his flirtatious self and proudly answers yes he is a doctor. Opening credits.

After a lame ass campaign ad from Ah-nold (for us Californians), we’re back to Pratt in the L train explaining his job to the attractive female. There is a delay, and he gives a look disbelief.

The accident that happened earlier is right in front of County General, you can see the firefighters trying to pry the victims out, as Chen, Gallant, Abby, Haleh, Jerry, Malik, and Chuny walk by. Here we find out that Gallant has graduated, fourth in his class, and he is now officially a doctor. Inside the ER, we see that they are making some renovations, and its causing havoc. The computers go dead. Weaver is screaming at the top of her lungs, its noisy, and a new med student is trying to check in with angry Frank, who exclaims “Don’t we hire Americans anymore”. See, the med student, Neela, is of Indian descent from England, and I guess angry Frank doesn’t approve. Abby is looking for Dr. Lewis, and finds her in a room with her ex-husband who were probably doing you know what in there. When Lewis comes to the front desk, Frank announces that she has another TWA, referring to Neela. Weaver is now looking for Pratt and tells Jerry to page Pratt until he answers.

Carter and Pratt walk in together, and immediately Weaver is on Pratt for being late, admonishing him as he says he was helping the paramedics outside and assisting on an incoming trauma. As Carter walks in, he is surprised to see the ER under such renovation, asking Frank where the lounge is, which has been moved. Weaver sees Carter and asks whether he brought Kovac (who was in Africa with him) back with him. He says no and just walks off. In the lounge, he finds a plastic bag full of his stuff, courtesy of Abby, who left a note that said “You forgot your stuff”. He scoffs and we head to commercial break.

One of the kids from the accident is grimacing in pain, asking for his Mom. Gallant comforts him, saying don’t worry, I’m doctor Gallant, and a surprised Pratt asks “Doctor? When did this happen”. Pratt then notices the new med student through the window helping Dr. Lewis with the Mother, who was driving the car. He walks in offering to help, and is shamelessly flirting with Neela. Carter walks in, seeing if they need help, but isn’t needed, so he walks into the next room where Chen and Abby are attending to the daughter of the driver. You can sense the tension between Abby and Carter as Chen leaves to attend to another kid that was removed from the accident. Chen walks into the room where Pratt is and sees him flirting with Neela. Noticeably bothered by this, she calls upon Malik for assistance.

Outside where Chen is taking care of her patient, Pratt is told to assist her by Lewis. As soon as Pratt helps out, she coldly asks how he was able to pry himself away from the new med student. In his defense, he explains that he was just helping her out. Through the window, Neela can see the two and asks Chuny if those two are together. Chuny replies with an “Oh yeah.”

For some reason, Neela is left alone in the trauma room with the Mother as she begins to crash. She calls out for help and Corday walks in. Now Chen, Pratt, and Chuny come in to help, and they need her labs. Chen orders Neela to retrieve the labs and isn’t very nice about it. Upstairs now, Neela is looking for the labs, and they are still pending. She walks in to find the doctor completing the labs even though she is told she is not allowed to, and is able to get the results. Because of this, she is able to come up with a diagnosis and save this woman’s life.

Now the phone lines are messed up, and Frank is going nuts. Pratt brings Neela over to the charts and tell her to choose one to assess. She looks at the charts a little overwhelmed when Gallant notices that she is having some trouble. Gallant is making small talk with Neela, and finds out she’s Indian, moved to England when she was eleven, and went to Yale. He helps her choose a chart while Frank makes more racist comments and Romano is back with a beard.

Pratt asks to speak to Carter, so Carter tells Abby if she needs anything to call him. She dryly answers with “I won’t”. Outside, Pratt asks what that was all about, and Carter says its probably because he left. Pratt says there might be something out there because Chen is pissed at him too, his explanation is simply just a misunderstanding, without elaborating. The reason Pratt needed to speak to Carter is because a patient with HIV needs medication but cannot afford it, his insurance won’t cover it unless he has AIDS. Carter checks on the patient and confirms that he now has AIDS and can get his medication.

Abby and Susan are discussing Carter and whether he should be forgiven. The women’s restroom is not available so Susan uses the men’s restroom. Susan tells Abby that she should just give Carter a chance to make it up.

Since the ER seems to be so busy, no one is around to answer the phones. Neela takes it upon herself to answer it, and the call is long distance for Carter. Frank tells her to take a message, but its important, someone has died. Jerry asks who, and Neela replies “A doctor Kovac, Luka Kovac”. Chen, Chuny, Jerry, and Frank are around to hear and they are stunned.

Outside, Carter and Abby are finally talking. They are walking, drinking coffee, and Carter is talking about his experience in Africa, stating it’s a life changing experience. Abby asks where Luka is, and Carter just answers that he is fine. Abby is upset because they don’t really talk, even though his mouth is moving, she walks away not knowing what he is really feeling. She asks if he wanted to hurt her when he decided to go to Africa, since he wasn’t even going to tell her about it. She is upset and walks away, and Chuny is there to tell her the news about Luka. Inside, Abby is being consoled by Susan and Carter is on the phone trying to find out more information.

Gallant and Neela are checking on an older female patient where Neela has to check on her vitals every fifteen minutes. She comes back to check on her but cannot find the patient, someone must have moved her to another room. Neela then helps Pratt with another patient with Chen there to give her a hard time. Neela gave the wrong diagnosis, and Chen let her know it. Pratt confronts Chen, telling her that she was too harsh on the med student, telling her that he was just trying to help her, but Chen says that he is humiliating her. During their argument, Malik comes out telling them that there is an old lady bleeding out. Gallant is in there giving CPR, and Chen comes in to admonish him. Neela comes in saying its her fault, but Gallant takes the blame. Chen still gives Neela a hard time, telling her she should have checked the board to see if her patient had been moved. The patient dies, and Neela takes it hard. She stays next to the patient’s body, and Pratt walks in to comfort her. She asks him what a TWA is because that’s what Frank called her earlier but she doesn’t know what it means. Pratt explains it means Third World Assassin, and seems disgusted that Frank said that. To make her feel better, Pratt asks her to follow him to check on the Mother that was involved in the accident earlier. She is still alive because of Neela’s diagnosis and persistence on retrieveing the lab results.

Carter decided abruptly that he needs to go back to Africa to retrieve Luka’s body and find out what really happened. Abby can’t believe that he is just going to leave like this again, begging him to stay, but Carter is adamant about going back, and does, leaving Abby standing there alone.

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