Carter must wrestle with a scared patient and has mixed feelings about the return of know-it-all former fellow surgical trainee Jing-Mei 'Deb' Chen, now as full resident. Dave volunteers to fix Weaver's car and treats a pre-teen, who he must tell his previous cancer is back, now inoperable. Luka realizes treating the kitchen burns of a dropout who cares for his halfwit brother won't really help, so seeks to fix jobs, but behind his back Weaver informs Social Services, who takes the junior into 'protective care', a trauma like the family breakup preceding Kovac's family's murder in the Bosnian civil war. Mark must find his father, who 'escaped' from his seniors residence. Romano orders Elisabeth to use her unique rapport with serial rapist-killer patient Dean Rollins to reveal a last victim's whereabouts to the family, which he sets testing terms for.
—KGF Vissers