Barely in bed after a grueling crash patients night shift, Carter returns to act as Chen's birth coach, and mediate with the Afro-)Asian adoptive parents, who see reason to doubt she's going through, but Carter smooths it all. Corday accompanies Mark to New York, inspiring hope specialist surgeon Dr. Burke can work a miracle, and he declares Green operable with real hope. A little boy is helped after a dog bit him, then worries for the canine and his sneaked Chrsitma present. Cleo wants Kynesha out even before her car is stolen, allegedly by her gang mates, but Benton promises to help both, and a kid who feels like the spare to help out her leukemia-sister. Back on duty with a van-load of kid patients, Carter is relapse-tempted by pills, but vomits them stat and takes Abby's advice to shove his next night shift to Malucci.
—KGF Vissers