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Here's my write up of the spoilers. I estimate we have about 2/3rds of the episode.
The Honeymoon’s Over is going to be a very intense episode with at least one tragedy for our regular characters and one very serious issue for a patient, all while there is a peace rally in Chicago. And there also seems to be some sort of police presence in the ambulance bay – a transport van is stopped at the arch to show ID.
Moretti seems to be everywhere, observing, like a fly on the wall. He’s questioning the staff about procedures, seems to know lots about the current staff (where Sam worked before, that Abby was once a nurse), and generally tries to take stock of the competencies of each of the staff.
He tells Abby that he’s the replacement for her husband. Of her request for clarification, he adds “as ER Chief.” He observes that her prior experience as a nurse gives an interesting perspective, and being married to an attending must be challenging. The notes say they are like fighters sizing each other up.
There is no Luka in the material here, and the only possible reference is that Frank says, “Hope he’s not flying today.” Abby asks why, but Pratt seems to cut off conversation, but we don’t learn any more because a patient arrives.
That patient is Kyle, an Army vet who worked for intelligence as a translator in Iraq. He learned Arabic while doing a Mormon mission in Jordan for two years. Kyle somehow put his hand through a glass coffee table. He asks for pain killers, but Abby learns that he has a “no narcotics contract” with the VA. The staff worries about how to get him treated with the long waits for help through the VA. Moretti orders a patient transfer to the VA hospital so that Kyle will be seen immediately.
The staff uses a nerve block to numb Kyle up in order to stitch up his cuts, but he insists he can still feel the pain. When the staff refuses any drugs and while attending to other patients, Kyle steals Sam’s swipe card to the drug lock up, barricades himself inside, and swallows anything he can open.
The docs pump his stomach and he lives. But because they treat Kyle without anesthesia in order to work before the drugs enter his system, from Kyle’s POV, it feels like torture. The staff learns Kyle witnessed the torturing of Iraqi prisoners by Army intelligence officers and is suffering mentally because of this. Morris decides to keep Kyle at County rather than transfer him to the VA, at least for a few days.
Sam, Gates, Abby and Moretti treat a woman who thinks she has the flu, or maybe food poisoning, but she is diabetic. It doesn’t seem serious until the woman crashes. As the staff struggles what to do, Moretti talks to the woman, and then gives her something which solves the medical issue. He challenges the staff to figure out what medicine he gave.
Abby and Pratt treat two men brought in. One has hurt the other, claiming they were putting up a satellite dish on a building two stories high. Turns out, the man most injured had overheard what he interpreted to be a violence rape inside an apartment, and broken into to stop it. In fact, the two people inside the apartment were engaged in consensual bondage sex. Seems the guy runs the “adult service” out of his apartment. After some loud words, it all gets settled.
But later, Pratt and Abby look at the videos from the adult service website. When they are called away, Morris continues watching. Then he leaves as Moretti comes to get coffee, and he wonders where the sound is coming from.
Neela is at work, treating several of the patients. She tells Kyle (see above) about her husband and how he died just over a year ago. He learns from Morris that Ray has called in asking for some time off; she’s confused because she can’t find him – he’s not answering her phone calls. She even called his parents. Meanwhile, Neela talks with Gates, and he knows they have broken up, but hopes they can still be friends. He asks to talk to her on the phone sometime.
At the end of Act II, Neela arrives at another hospital – to visit Ray it seems. He must have called her to say he was in an accident. A horrible accident and Neela’s not quite prepared to see that Ray’s legs were both amputated below the knee. Katey is there helping him.
Ray and Neela talk; Ray tells her of how he loves her, but she always runs back to Gates. Neela protests, saying she and Gates are really over, broken up. Ray realizes that it all doesn’t matter, especially now. Ray’s parents come to take Ray home to recover. Neela watches them go and Katey gets very angry with Neela, saying that Neela “did this.”
Meanwhile, Gates is called at work by Sarah. The plan, it seems, was that her grandparents were to take her for the weekend, but they’ve shown up with a court order giving them custody, and despite Gate’s protests, Sarah leaves with them.
Towards the end of Act IV, Sarah is leaving town, Ray is leaving town, Neela going home in a taxi, and Gates looking at his empty apartment, pondering if he’s been a good friend to Keith.
Note: there was an additional side that I don’t think belongs to this episode as it is entirely unrelated. Or, it is just the audition for a character we have not yet met, but there is no reference to him in the material we have.