Intrigue

When Colleen, who is working on a college paper, asks Dr. Mike to recall her most memorable case, Dr. Mike looks back on the five turbulent years she's lived and loved in Colorado Springs. As they sit with Andrew, who is mysteriously ill at the clinic, Dr. Mike reminisces about her tumultuous career -- its successes and its failures -- and realizes how many divergent cases she has seen and treated. When Andrew's condition takes a turn for the worse, Dr. Mike warns Colleen about the fine line between emotional involvement and professional detachment, an issue with which she has long struggled in the frontier town that's now her home.

Colleen Cooper (Jessica Bowman), who is working on a college paper, asks Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) to recall her most memorable case of illness, its treatment and the result. Colleen has this assignment, to write a paper about this subject, from college and she is supposed to interview a physician about this subject. Since her mother, Dr. Mike, is a physician , Colleen has chosen her for this assignment.

At the clinic, they sit with Andrew Cook (Brandon Douglas), who fell mysteriously ill, and Dr. Mike reminisces with Colleen about her tumultuous career - its successes and its failures - and realizes how many divergent cases she has seen and treated in the time she has been living and working as a physician in Colorado Springs.

When Andrew's condition takes a turn for the worse, Dr. Mike warns Colleen about the fine line between emotional involvement and professional detachment, an issue with which she has ample experience and therefore has struggled with on numerous occasions. It seems obvious that now that Andrew is severely ill, with a small however realistic chance of dying, Colleen is going through this process of being the more or less professionally detached 'doctor' versus being the friend with emotional involvement towards the patient.

While mentoring Colleen through this process as well as monitoring the process of Andrew's illness, which turns out to be black spotted fever, most likely brought on by a bite of a tick, Sully (Joe Lando) stands firmly with Dr. Mike in this tense time and reminisces with her of some other cases of illness involving close friends and family.