Abby grabbed Ryan and pulled him aside. She took him into the suture room and began to tell Ryan the story of Michael and Ray and Tony. Abby filled in the detail as best she could, but there was a lot that Neela had not told her. Abby told Ryan that Ray and Neela had been roommates and were very close. Abby didn't tell Ryan exactly why Neela left Ray's but she didn't know. Ryan began to feel very bad about all of the things he had said to Ray and all of the things he assumed about Neela. He had no idea that Neela had been married or that Ray actually did talk to Neela and he really was just wanting to watch out for her. He absentmindedly walked out of sutures to find Neela. What was he going to say when he got there?

Neela stumbled out of Ike's and walked down an alley next to the restaurant. She had never walked this way before and she didn't have a clue to where she was going. The alley was dark and littered with beer cans and other garbage. A few homeless people walked up to Neela and asked her for something to eat, but she was too disoriented from the lack of sleep to understand their words. The alley was dark and was getting darker the further she went into the alley and the further she got away from the restaurant. Just when Ike's was out of sight and the alley was almost pitch black, Neela tripped on an old box and a stranger came out of the shadows and grabbed her arm.

"Thanks," Neela said to the very tall man with pointed eyes and wide figure. His eyes followed her as she tried to remove her arm from his firm grip.

"No Problem. By the way, My name is Max," he replied to Neela. He still had a tight grip on her arm.

"I'm Neela and it's nice meeting you, Max, but I really have to be going. Would you please let go of my arm?"

"I know," Max bellowed.

"Know what?"

"That your name is Neela."

"Wait, what? How?" Neela tried to pull her arm away, but he only firmed his grip. Neela tried to fight back but she was still weak from the lack of sleep. She tried to strike him, but just then Max caught her arm and hit her head. Neela was now unconscious.

Ryan looked all over for Neela. He checked the trauma rooms, he went up to the surgical floor, and finally he checked the roof of the hospital. Ryan began to look for Ray, but then he remembered that he was off today. Ryan's face began to feel red and he was starting to feel nauseous. He wondered if he was really sick, or if he just felt bad for how he had treated Ray the past month. Ryan had wanted to take Neela out for Valentine's Day tomorrow, but now he was kind of hoping Neela would end up with Ray. He felt sorry for them. Ryan looked until he saw Dr. Kovac.

"Dr. Kovac, do you know where Neela is?"

"She said that she needed some air about forty five minutes ago. She said that she was going to take a little walk. She should have been back by now, though. Have you tried paging her?"

"No, I thought she would be here in the ER, but I guess she isn't. Do you think I should be worried?"

"Not yet. Try paging her and come and find me in a half an hour or so," he told Ryan. Dr. Kovac hadn't really talked to Neela for a while and the pair of them had never been close. He honestly didn't know if they should be worried or not.

Ryan went to the phone and dialed Neela's pager number and then decided to wait. He went to Curtain Area One and checked on his patient. Ryan finished and then did chart work for the next half an hour. When he still had no sign of Neela, Ryan told Dr. Kovac. Dr. Kovac wasn't sure what to do either, and he didn't give very good advice. Ryan was worried and he decided to call Ray.

Ray received Ryan's phone call. It was dark outside and he knew that Neela wouldn't just run off during one of her shifts. He knew that he had to go out and look for her. It was late and the only place he could think to check was Neela's newly rented apartment off the EL tracks. He quickly dressed and headed out the door.

Ray rode the EL until Neela's stop and then got off. When he got to Neela's apartment, he knocked and a strange man opened the door.

"Oh, just the person I was hoping to see," Max said to Ray as he opened the door.

"Who are you?" Ray began to question him until he saw Neela on the bed asleep with her hands tied in front of her. He stumbled over a chair rushing to Neela's side. The sound woke Neela up and she scanned the room. Her eyes first floated past him, but then she saw him and he was the only person Neela wanted to see right then. The only person that mattered at that moment. She tried to sit up in her bed and spoke his name for the first time in a while.

"Ray," she said.