Wed, Apr 19, 2000
While US Marines Captain Paul Davis, Lieutenant Richard Martinelli -an MP- and Lieutenant Jean Romanski are eating at BBQ Bob's during Jesse's shift, a fourth, Captain Hank Thomas, bursts in saying "You'll all be sorry" and shoots himself in the head. Steven has barely started his investigation when female NIS agent Warrant Officer Hannah Bernstein bursts in and claims the case for the military, illegally, yet he gentlemanly accepts to collaborate; even after they know he used the wrong hand base commander Colonel Lucien Chandler orders her to close the case as suicide, but she continues helping Steve 'on her own time'. They discover some suspicious things, such as an affair between one Davis, the colonels adjutant, and his wife Susan Chandler, and Mark figures out how everything fits together.
Wed, May 10, 2000
Two weeks later, Brett Hayward murders Dr. Hjortsberg, the plastic surgeon who created his present identity, knowing him as patient Eddie Dagabosian, and as such harbors a grudge against Madison, with whom he moves in, but Steve's LAPD team finds the drugs the killer 'stole' in a nearby dumpster. Meanwhile a 'Dr. anonymous' publishes a sleaze bestseller book version of the Community General sleuths, entitled Big City Hospital, for which half the staff mistakes Jesse, even Amanda. Although everything goes wrong now in Madison's life, she resents Mark for running a check on Brett, which finds little, even suspiciously so. Steve questions in vain the real, clueless Eddie, a fence in prison. Brett cleverly arranges Madison to seem gone mad, but the Sloanes get back to Eddie and work out his past connection with Madison and ...