ER, Reason to Believe

While the ER recovers from the shootout, Steve, Mary and Rafe proceed to Canada with Sam and Alex; Weaver finds Abby in poor condition.

Abby's overbearing mother arrives at the hospital to comfort her and Dr Kovac as their son's life lies in peril; Sam fears she will be arrested; Tony Gates makes a risky decision with an overdosed teen; Neela gets drunk.

Pratt assumes his new role as attending but must deal with the new interns; Gates' patient is an older man with congestive heart failure, whose partner fights with the man's family to keep him alive.

Gates is stuck in a complicated living situation; Abby and Kovac consider hiring help as they juggle work and the new baby; Neela is disappointed when Dr Crenshaw assigns menial jobs instead of surgical procedures.

Abby prepares to return to work; Kovac tries to recall his treatment of stroke patient Curtis Ames as he prepares for court.

Dr Kovac fears for the worst as he awaits the jury's decision between himself and Curtis Ames; Ray gets jealous when he sees Neela and Gates flirting.

Abby and Kovac hire a nanny to care for their son; Morris and Sam treat a belligerent patient who seemingly has the flu, but he refuses treatment when they discover his condition is more complicated.

Abby and Kovac argue about a diagnosis when a woman comes to the ER with signs of spousal abuse; Gates, Abby and Neela must quickly determine a child's ailment when a group of confused homeless kids enters the ER.

Abby responds to a bus crash; Neela accepts an invitation from Gates; Pratt confides in Dr Weaver about his brother.

Dr Pratt has a hard time coming to terms with his brother's newly-discovered sexual orientation; Kovac spots Curtis Ames outside his apartment but does not tell Abby.

Gates betrays the trust of a homeless boy seeking help for his friend; Curtis Ames gets a restraining order against Kovac; Neela gets the chance to be part of a special holiday miracle.

Pratt and Hope question whether they are responsible when a patient dies after being prescribed the wrong medication; Meg comes to County General and angrily confronts Gates and Neela about their relationship.

Kovac is jealous when Abby pays a lot of attention to a patient; Meg pulls a stunt when Gates moves out of the apartment; the authorities want to arrest Pratt after one of his patients dies.

Gates and Neela try to revive Meg after they find her unconscious in her car; Sam thinks she knows who set fire to her home; tensions mount as Ames gets more desperate for revenge.

Abby and Sam treat an obnoxious aspiring comic who has mysterious symptoms; Pratt finds himself in trouble as he is questioned about the death of a patient; Neela scrubs in on a kidney-donor surgery.

Gates and Kovac find themselves in a moral dilemma when a woman comes in with acute liver failure; Manish decides to give up a kidney for a stranger; Ray fights to find out the truth about a cheerleader's fall.

Family members have frostbite after being stuck in the snow; Neela is jealous when Dr Dubenko brings in a new surgical intern; Gates deals with the reappearance of his father.

A photographer comes into the ER with a terminally ill patient; a new surgical intern, who appears to be Dr Dubenko's new favourite, upstages Neela.

Kovac and Gates must deal with the frightened father of a young man with heart failure; a man risks his own life to be a good Samaritan; Pratt tries to make up with his brother.

Kovac feels the pressure of a busy emergency room; Sam befriends a terminally ill photojournalist; tension between Gates and his father reaches the boiling point.

Arriving for the department dinner, the staff learns that surprise nuptials are about to take place; Ray cannot handle seeing Neela and Gates together.

Kovac and Abby acclimate to their new roles as husband and wife; Hope and Morris enjoy the honeymoon suite; Pratt hopes to win over a new woman; a new doctor in the ER means business.

The new chief prepares to make changes in the ER; Kovac postpones his honeymoon to travel to Croatia to be with his ailing father; Sarah fears she might be taken away.