Plot

Dr. Carter tries to prevent a grieving gang member from going after vengeance. Dr. Kovac races against time to save a Croatian boy's life. A baseball player gets treatment for a heart problem.

Dr, Kovac tries to arrange medical care for a young boy in urgent need of an operation and who is arriving that evening from Croatia. John Carter makes arrangements for his grandmother's funeral and he advises his father that the will stipulates that John is in charge of the family fortune. Abby has returned to Chicago with her brother Eric in tow. She makes the mistake of taking him to the funeral, with disastrous results. Romano and Kovac treat an up and coming baseball player who is seriously ill. Dr. Lewis and her husband Chuck decide to go ahead and have their quickie Las Vegas wedding annulled. The team treat a mother and her two children who were shot while sitting in their home, It was obviously a gang shooting and Carter tries to keep the oldest son from seeking revenge. Dr. Romano has a serious accident at home further damaging his re-attached arm. Kovac leaves for Africa to do volunteer work.—garykmcd

Carter's grand funeral for his grandmother is disturbed by Abby, who found her mentally troubled brother Eric, as he leaves the limousine, further damaging their ailing relationship. Luka calls markers and tries everything to get a dying Croatian boy to Chicago in a race to save his life, despite the bard refusing to pay for a foreigner, with Kerrie arranging an emergency way around. Lewis and "husband" Chuck melancholically end their Vegas marriage but renew close friendship. A minor league baseball player with a serious heart ailment is patched up, not yet properly treated, on the eve of his pitching debut with the Chicago Cubs. Romano decides, against Corday's advice and Gallant failing to keep his secret ordered to clean to burns, to have his ruined arm amputated after accidentally setting it on fire. Luka leaves for the Congo after saying goodbye to Abby, Carter remains undecided. As a family of three are rushed in after a drive-by shooting that leaves the kid daughter crippled, big brother Curtis rejoins his former gang for bloody retaliation despite Carter attempting to dissuade him, resulting in more gun shot victims at the ER.—KGF Vissers