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Lockdown

Carter bursts through the crowd and reaches Chen, who looks exhausted as she tends to Lenore. He presents her with the Dopamine, but by now, she's realized she doesn't need it. Carter's sort of surprised at her fumble; Chen is pale and looks exhausted. Lenore feels her forehead and prattles in Mandarin. Chen distractedly refers an eager-to-help Carter to an old guy named Mr. Meyers, who points to Lenore and bitches that she's a foreigner who needs her own bus. "It's probably what set the driver off," he bitches. "All that gibberish. Marge was twitching, she was so mad." Carter stops and digests this. It goes down like a year-old Wheat Thin. "She was twitching?" he chokes. "Like a Holy Roller," Mr. Meyers announces cheerfully. Carter nervously excuses himself...

...and bursts into Trauma Yellow to tell Luka that Large Marge might've suffered from a seizure while driving. "Before or after the accident?" Pratt asks. "Before," Carter says. Luka sends Pratt to check her belongings for a Medic-Alert bracelet. Shouldn't they have done that already? They've been treating her for half an hour. Gallant enters and nervously tells Carter that he needs to see a pair of sick kids. "I'm a little busy right now," Carter brushes him aside. Gallant shares that the kids came in with fevers a week ago, and have since developed nasty rashes. Carter's trying to check out Large Marge; Luka's all, "Remember how I've been doing this longer than you have?" So Carter reluctantly leaves and follows Gallant to the sickly family.

The Sick Family Robinson stares straight into the camera. There's the father, Craig; the mother, Robin (played by Heidi Swedberg, best known as George's envelope-licking fiancée Susan on Seinfeld); and the kids, Adam and Bree. They're swaddled in blankets. Gallant politely introduces Carter. The parents nervously explain that they had initially assumed it was chicken pox, but the disease then got too shockingly bad. Doom and Gloom in A Minor plays as horror washes over Carter's face. He has seen the future, and it looks like oatmeal. He asks to see Bree's chest; Robin confirms that her child has no torso rash. We then see Adam, whose face is sparsely covered in tiny wads of paper towel that we're supposed to think are pustules. Bree's face is worse; it looks like she face-planted in the Grape Nuts this morning. Carter learns that the "rash" -- which so obviously isn't a rash -- started three days ago. "How long have you been waiting?" Carter sputters. "Too long," snorts Craig. "We tried to tell the nurse, but she said she was busy." Carter turns to see that Craig is pointing to a far-off Abby.

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