Episode Report Card 17 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT All In The Family
By Wing Chun | Season 6 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.16.2000
In chairs, Mama Corday and Holling each enjoy a cold drink. Holling tells MC that Elizabeth's great, and MC says she wishes she could take the credit, but that "the boarding school raised her." Holling makes a disappointed noise, and MC says she was teasing. Holling asks whether Elizabeth's father is deceased, and MC snorts, "He was still alive the last I heard." Holling perks up a little (God knows why) and says he's sorry. MC tells him not to be, since "it wasn't [Holling's] fault." They both look up to see....
....Lisa and Chen hurrying out the ambulance bay to meet the pedestrian victim of the car accident. As they go, each asks the other about Lucy and Carter, but neither has heard anything. At the ambulance, the paramedic gives them the bullet: He's a John Doe hit while running across Michigan Avenue; he's suffered no apparent head trauma, but he's "repeating questions." When the gurney emerges from the ambulance, it's shown to contain Paul, and I have to say, I did not see that coming AT ALL. He's telling everyone there's a cab waiting for him. Lisa and Chen look meaningfully at each other over Paul's stretcher as the second paramedic tells them that the patient was "buck naked in the freezing cold," and Chen yells to Lisa, "Get Weaver, now!" Lisa takes off running.
In a trauma room, Paul is saying, "You're not allowed to be doing this to me." Yosh asks Malik, "Are you sure it's him?" and Malik replies in the emphatic affirmative. Weaver, now in scrubs, enters as Chen yells meds orders; Chen concludes by saying, "He's combative. He's agitated. I'm not taking any chances." Paul is still babbling incoherently. Weaver yells for someone to bring in the police detective. Paul yells, "I won't talk! I won't talk! I made promises to people!" and in his paranoid, delusional state -- coupled with his dark eyes and hair and prominent nose -- he really looks a lot like one-time West Wing recapper Sugar Larry. Weaver leans in to ask, "Paul, do you know where you are?" Paul demands, "Who told you my name?! I don't even know you!" Weaver asks, "Do you remember what happened?" Struggling with his restraints, Paul yells, "You can't trick me! I don't even know you!" Weaver leans back. Malik, conducting the physical exam, calls out, "No deformities," and Paul yells, "I'm not deformed!" Lisa, with a thermometer in his ear, calls out his temperature, and Paul manages to rear all the way up and growl, "Don't stick me!" Lisa jumps back a bit. Paul yells, "Don't stick me! They wouldn't stop sticking me!" Yosh comes forward and asks whether Weaver wants Haldol, but she's backed all the way to the door and doesn't say anything. Lisa watches her, looking alarmed. Yosh says Weaver's name again, and she orders both Haldol and saline and then pushes through the doors into the adjacent trauma room, where Mark is working on the industrial-trauma victim about whom no one, including Mark, cares. Because he isn't doing anything important, Mark asks Weaver if she's okay, and she tells him that the stabber is in the next room. They both look up to see Paul, still so juiced-up on adrenaline that he looks like he could easily break his restraints. Mark starts to ask her what's wrong with Paul, and she very firmly asks him to take it. Mark's patient is going to surgery, or somewhere -- whatever, so Mark goes in to work on Paul, who is still begging everyone not to stick him, and not to cut him.