Dr. Daniel Auschlander hires Joan Halloran as his assistant. Dr. Peter White has a reunion with his wife and kids. Though a disturbed Nurse Shirley Daniels flirts with White. A cop has his gun stolen from the ER. Dr. Elliot Axelrod becomes a hypochondriac while disagreeing with Dr. Jacqueline Wade over a patient. Nurse Helen Rosenthal begins an extra-marital affair. Manny, one of the firefighters being treated with a new face is happy with the results of his plastic surgery performed by Dr. Robert Caldwell, while Jerry, another firefighter, develops claustrophobia and cannot wait to leave the hospital.