The governor's discretionary budget cuts require closing down whole sections, but last minute Kit decides to keep ER open, for which many patients have no realistic alternative. The team is excited by the arrival of cardiac crisis patient Dr. Leonard Perry, who keeps self-diagnosing and instructing how to treat him, being an innovative expert and professor in cardiology, who asks for his favorite former student James Yamada, who sides with AJ advising against Perry's signature surgery, but it's pulled off at request, only to lead to a fatal complication. An even bossier patient was purse-robbed but is pulled trough. After Cade confesses her secrecy about pa Ian to Conrad, he comes clean about his kiss with Billie, and is instantly dumped, an awkward way to clear to path for him and Billie as well as James and Cade. Padma nearly commits suicide as bridge jumper but Leela steers her home and to postnatal depression therapy.
—KGF Vissers