"R.I.P."

Meanwhile, Dalgety and the Scarecrow are in the morgue. Dalgety warns her that the old boyfriend won't be too fresh, since he's been in the meat locker for a couple of weeks now. She assures him that she can handle it. Dalgety opens the door, slides out the slab, and unzips the body bag. The Scarecrow starts sobbing and calling him a "son of a bitch" and a "stupid son of a bitch," which doesn't seem like much of an apology to me. But then, I don't move in biker circles, so what do I know? The Scarecrow asks to be alone with him. Dalgety hesitates. She begs. He points out that they're not supposed to be there, and then inexplicably relents and says he'll be right outside. Scarecrow says, "I can't believe you'd leave me like this. This is your fault." She pulls out an enormous jackknife and opens up the blade.

There's a bit of a disturbance down in admitting, where a frat brat in one of those stupid jester hats is being dragged into the ER in cuffs. Thor asks the cop what the story is, and she fills him in that the Joker got into a scuffle with a couple of "drag queens over a parking space." Thor mutters, "You gotta be kidding me." I feel you, brother.

Outside, a second squad car containing the drag queens pulls up. A cop escorts Coones and his boyfriend out of it, despite Coones's protests that he's fine and he doesn't need a hospital. Chip snarks, "Speak for yourself, Frank," and cradles what appears to be a wrist injury. The cop explains that if he takes Coones to the clink, and Coones kicks it because of internal bleeding, the cop's out of a job. Coones puts on the brakes and pleads with the cop to take him to any other hospital, but it's not going to happen. Coones mutters to Chip not to draw any more attention than necessary. So naturally, Chip starts mouthing off to the frat brat the minute he sees him. Although, in fairness, the frat brat starts it by saying, "You know, we're very tolerant of your type, but that parking space was ours." They bandy the insults back and forth, and we get a pretty good idea that Chip has a bit of an anger-management problem. The frat brat decides that the only way to win the argument is with a show of logic. "Homo!" he yells. "Yeah, well this homo just kicked your ass!" Chip shouts back. Coones tries very hard not to pass out from mortification.

Meanwhile, the pregnant woman is getting wheeled into surgery. Kellerman has to stop her along the way so that she has a chance to plead, "Whatever happens, don't let my baby die. Please!" The woman's husband kisses her forehead and says he'll see her after the surgery. The orderly wheels the gurney away, giving the husband his chance to make the requisite "whatever happens, please save my wife. She's all I've got" spiel. So now Kellerman has no choice but to save both the woman and the baby. He assures the husband that things will be all right, and heads into surgery. The camera pans back from the man as the door to the OR swings shut behind Kellerman. We're supposed to get that the man is small and alone and helpless. Oh, and I guess we're supposed to care.

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