Carter checks out of the clinic. "Checking out?" asks Nurse Bitchy. Well. Yes. Sitting on that same bench Carter did three months (or twelve minutes, depending on your perspective) ago is a doctor with an aquiline nose and slightly curly hair who bears a striking enough resemblance to Rick Rossovich that everyone in the Game Room asked, as if in one voice, "Is that Tag?" By which, of course, we meant Dr. Taglieri, Carol's ultimately jilted fiancé from the first season. He never speaks and we never get a good enough look at his face to tell whether it's him or not. I like to think it is, and that the ER writers are trying to show that it is still possible for them to be subtle sometimes. Nurse Bitchy hands Carter a piece of paper and says that Benton called to confirm Carter's flight, and said that he'd pick Carter up at the gate. Tag and Carter exchange a look, but it isn't clear whether they recognize each other. Carter signs himself out and says goodbye to Nurse Bitchy. He'll be back. Or will he? Should we start a pool on that, too? ["I'm in for five bags of Combos: he goes back on the junk but doesn't go back to rehab." -- Sars]

After the break, Lisa is in the trauma room putting a sheet over Mrs. B.B. Luka asks where B.B. is, and she doesn't know; Luka steps out into the hall and sees B.B. barrelling up to him with the requisite sad little baggie of medication. Luka suggests that B.B. sit down, and gently breaks the news that Mrs. B.B. didn't make it. B.B. cries, but tries to be strong. It's sad. Flustered, B.B. quavers, "You see? I should have called the ambulance sooner. I should have gotten her here quicker!" Luka gently says, "There is nothing you could have done differently that would have saved her. It was just her time." He asks B.B. whether he'd like to see his wife. B.B. nods, and starts to get up, but loses his strength and falls back down into his chair. Luka helps him up by the arm...