When I finally saw a promo for last night's episode (on Wednesday!!!) I was excited and curious. The promo showed Abby and Luka in bed, and the voice over said something about them making a decision about the baby. Very cute, love these too. And then it showed Gallant and Neela in a dark room and she's crying and says something like, "But you asked me to marry you?!". Yeah, drama with the newlyweds. The only problem with this is that scene NEVER happens in the episode. What the hell? In the previews for next week they tease that scene again, so I don't know what's going on. We have to wait another week. Whoever does their promos effed up, and I'm pissed. Why is Gallant being an ass? Maybe he's not being an ass, but I WON'T KNOW until next week!
On to the show. This is going to be short because I have work to do here in the office and it's almost lunch time. Plus my back hurts from Lord only knows what and I need to take some Vicodin or something which means I'll be no good in about an hour.
Luka and Abby are discussing her pregnancy throughout the whole episode. More on that later.
I tell ya, this guy's a mystery
Dr. Clemente is having lunch with his hooker, oh, I mean married girlfriend. She annoys me, and he annoys me for not slapping her. I mean, I'm not for men slapping women, but sometimes there's an exception, and this is one of those times. She insists that her cop husband won't find them, and scoffs at Clemente's paranoia. She wants to use her credit card and go shopping. He slaps her upside the head and says, "He's a cop you dumbass, he'll track you on your credit card. Don't you watch movies?". Okay, he doesn't do that, but tells her not to do it. She pouts and asks for cab money. Later he's working on a stabbing victim who begs him not to call the police. He fibs to him to make him feel better and the police show up. He goes out there to tell them the patient can't talk right now, way to look out Vic. The police tell him that they're not there for that. They're there for him. Surprise! Surprise! The slutty chick's husband has figured out that she's in Chicago and is also bright enough to figure out that hey, her ex lives there too. The cops trump up some bogus charges. (You like my Usual Suspects lingo?) Clemente gets reasonably upset and yells at them that he's saved enough cops in his life that they better not piss him off or he won't try as hard next time. Or something like that. Dr. Pratt sees this exchange and is concerned. Clemente goes to the drug cabinet and takes a pill, we don't know which one, I'm thinking Viagra, since he probably needs it with that slutty nympho he's seeing. Pratt walks up but we're not sure if he saw him. Clemente tells everyone that if anyone asks, they don't know him, or Jodi, the slutty girlfriend. Later, up on the roof (oh yeah, 100% proof, oh yeah. If anyone can guess that movie I'll be really impressed) Clemente is standing out in the cold. Pratt comes up to talk, all we learn is that slutty girlfriend is a troublemaker. Clemente comes outside later and sees his car has a bunch of tickets on it and the boot. Slutty girlfriend comes running up, happy go lucky because she just bought up a few stores. He grabs her and runs off to the elevated train.
While all of this is going on, Carrie slips on the ice outside of the bay and is brought in on a gurney. She insists she's okay and tries to get some work done while the other doctors test her hip to see if it's broken. Eventually we discover that she has something wrong with it. I was doing something else at the moment, so I didn't hear, and really wasn't interested in what they told her. The sum of it is that she has to get her hip replaced. She finally mentions Henry, her son, after months of not talking about him. She even mentions his mother (RIP Firefighter Sandy).
Ray is being super nice to Carrie while she's on the gurney and she wants to know why. Ray says that his band got a record deal. All they have to do is fly to LA for a few weeks and record the album. Carrie laughs at this silly hetro and tells him no. He keeps begging and sings a sad song of dreams never fulfilled and that this is his chance. She compliments him on what a good doctor he is, and that he should basically stick with that. Yeah, his voice during the auditions during the Christmas episode didn't impress me. Although girly-voiced Dr. Morris had some chops. Ray tells Carrie that he believes in this enough that he's willing to quit his job. She's impressed with his enthusiasm and says that she'll accept his resignation. He walks away, having basically just quit his job. Later, his bandmate shows up and breaks the news to Ray that, because he's so focused on that whole, saving lives, doctor thing, they're going another way with the band. Damn, lost two jobs in the span of about ten minutes. Of course his gig at the hospital is still on, at least we hope so. I'm sure Carrie was just joking, she's such a kidder that Carrie.
Neela is interested in doing a surgical elective. I don't know why because the surgical resident is a big biatch. She was on last episode where she back talked Carrie until she realized she was Chief of Staff. Ha-ha, in your face! This time she comes in with her panties in a bunch over a surgical consult that Morris has called her down for. She wastes time telling Morris how he wasted her time with this consult and is about to hurry out when Neela comes in and impresses her. She tells Neela to give her a call about that elective. I'm just going to call this show, EWB, Every Woman's a Bitch. Seriously, I like them all, love them dearly really, but they all seem to be PMSing constantly.
Luka and Neela get a fifteen year old patient who's pregnant. She wants to have an abortion, but her parents are strict Catholics, or some religion that doesn't believe in abortion, and she can't do it. Her parents finally arrive and the girl asks Neela to tell them. They ask for alone time with their daughter. Later, they tell the docs that they're ready to go, and they're going to need the baby vitamins. Neela's confused because the girl obviously doesn't want the baby. She and Luka go in to talk to her and find out that she was raped, probably gang banged when she drank a bit and was most likely drugged at a party, and that's how she got pregnant. Appalled, Neela tells her she needs to tell her parents that, that she's sure that would change their mind. Silly Neela, she did tell them that, they just don't care. I mean, I'm sure they care about their daughter, they just don't care that she was raped. Neela wants to go behind the parents back. I guess in Illinois when someone is pregnant it makes them an emancipated minor, and Neela says that it's her choice. She tells Luka that he's not the right person for her to talk about this. Damn, Abby's got a big mouth. At least that's what I was thinking. Neela was talking about his religion. She says she wants a doctor who isn't Catholic. Luka thinks nice and hard about this and eventually goes into the girl's room. He has some sort of stick thing and tells the girl that if she wants to abort the baby, he can do it with his magic stick. He says that it'll look like she's having a miscarriage. She agrees to it and he does the procedure. When Neela asks what he did, he doesn't say anything. Hello, she can look at the chick's chart.
I'm demanding this man be cloned, IMMEDIATELY!
Onto the Abby/Luka struggle. She's discusses with him why she thinks she should and shouldn't have the baby. She says she's at that age when a baby would be a good idea, but at the same time she comes from a bunch of looneys and she doesn't want her kid to turn out to be bipolar like her crazy ass mother Sally Field, or her crazy ass brother, Tom Everett Scott. Throughout the episode she keeps getting reminders of why it's a bad idea to procreate in this society. A man comes in with cancer who blames it on some chromosome that was passed down from his mother. Then this kid comes in who has been living on the streets and fell off a bus. He was hanging onto it because he didn't have money to actually go inside. I know here in LA we have this policy that if you're homeless you can ride the bus for free. At least that's what I was told by some crazy homeless person. He didn't necessarily tell me, he was sorta talking to his invisible friend, James Brown, but I overheard it. Of course she's worried that her kid will be an ass and run away from home. Hey, at least he's not a crazy ass. You can see that Luka just wants to scream at her to keep their baby, but insists it's her decision. Seriously, can they clone this man please? Eventually Abby makes an appointment with Dr. Coburn, the bitchy OBGYN who now has her own practice. She goes to the appointment and in true reality TV fashion, they lead us to believe she's having an abortion. Later, when Luka finds her in the park, he assumes that's what she's done, and tells her he still wants to be with her. She stops him and says that she didn't get the procedure, and she wants to have the baby. I think these two will make a cute baby, as long as she doesn't pass on the looney gene.
