The next morning
Carter: So this is your new office, top floor with furniture and bathroom for yourself! In case you need to stay longer, believe me there will be nightshifts. Anything else you need?
Carrie: Perfect, so you really want me I mean
Carter: I thought that already clear. You are staying?
Carrie: Well it was my typical self but I never applied I mean with an interview and you are the new boss.
Carter: You were one of the best teachers I ever had, this is where you belong and I need you to help me getting governmental funding and private and donors and all these things
Carrie smiles: So that we will be the best in the country?
Carter: Yes and you know what?
Carrie: What?
Carter: I was thinking of calling you but I thought you being in Florida, I mean this means ice and snow and runny noses again.
Carter: I know and I missed it and I want it all back. I think that we are going to be a good team!
Carrie hugs him: Yes and we were always a bit like mother and son!
Carter: Yes and I am honoured to have you. Can you start coordinating staff between the ER and the Centre?
Carrie: Of course, go out save some lives. Give me 2 weeks and we are able to start rolling, opening the doors for the poor, taking time, giving out pills...
Carter: You wasted your talent in Florida, operating on old ladies and stitching up people that fell from their surf boards.
Carrie laughs because he knows that her student is right
Carter: Oh I know that s what I told them, I need some blood and here when I am sick of kissing some asses I am going down, picking up a shift. Thanks Carter, this is really great!
Carter: Hey, Carrie you are a great doctor. When you were head of the ER everything was running, you are good with people, staff and the guys who have the money. I want you and I need you, now go what you can do best and I am getting down getting a bloody shirt ok?
Carrie with tears in her eyes
Carrie: Yes! Yes!
Carter: Hey don't cry. You, you got your team back!
Carter hugs her!
Carrie: Thanks, I needed that. Go, go out!
Carter leaves and Carrie is standing alone in this big office stunned and excited by the things she just said, realizing that even without her girlfriend this is where she always belonged. Smiling at herself, she picks up the phone, gets out her black book and starts to work.
Outside the ER
Morris: So the old crew is coming back?
Carter: Yes, good or bad what do you think?
Morris: You are asking me that? I am
Carter: Of course, why not?
Morris: If you re asking, I think great doctors should always come back and hey if they are anything like you...
Carter: Better but maybe you wanna be a bit careful around Carrie, she is even tougher then Benfield although she has a good heart if you are a bit too snappy she might fire you! And only if you are reaaaaaally good she might take that back.
Morris: Good to know...
In the ER
Rachel glows: I am Dad I mean he was my dad, this is so great!
Elisabeth: You are, you are here like he was, let me show you something!
Junie: Only for those who...
Elisabeth: She is
Junie: Oh I know! Come on Rachel.
Elisabeth: Here, this is the legend wall, my name, your dads, some people on this wall died like Chaz brother Greg Pratt or Michael Gallant, he died as a doctor in Iraq, Lucy was killed when a patient freaked out, Carter survived this incident, and your dad here that was his name plate...
Rachel: Dad...
Rachel touches the label
Elisabeth: He was happy here and you will be too! And you know what, because we are back, I am taking my name plate with me, because I am back.
Elisabeth takes her name plate from the wall.
Junie: Neela left us a few days ago to be together with Ray Barnett, he was a doctor here as well, lost both legs after an accident, Carol Hathaway and Doug Ross, you met Doug before and then there is Susan Lewis that comes back as well, she was,
Rachel: I know Susan; she was the woman before Elisabeth
Elisabeth: How do you know that? I thought nobody ever
Rachel: Hey I am a grown-up now!
Junie: Well, not for all of us. Anyway, Carrie Weaver will be back as well as the new almighty boss, maybe one day she might replace Dr. Anspaugh... There are more and I will tell you there stories or you can ask them yourself, we are a big family again and you are now part of it, I think you always were. This wall is for those who have worked here and for their families only, ok?
Rachel: Yes, clearly understood... can I be alone for a few moments? Please, I want
Elisabeth: Of course! Just come up when you are ready...
Pictures of Mark Greene moving over the screen...
Susan: Hi Doctor Morris I am Susan Lewis your new boss, new head of the ER.
Morris: Pleasure to meet you, I know everything about you, you are the new girl that worked here before am I right?
Susan: Yes and I will be your boss together with Doctor Carter and Doctor Weaver as Dr Benfield is leaving county?
Morris: Really?
Carter: Yes, she adopted a child and told me she wants to be a stay-at-home- mom.
Susan: Great for her!
Carter: Yes, how is Claudia Morris?
Morris: She is doing great, although I am always worried when she is out there, especially when I see what scumbags we are getting in every night!
Carter: She is a cop!
Susan grins: I see...
Morris: She was a patient here, undercover cop
Susan: Morris, quite the charmer.
Morris: Well, I think she is the one!
Susan: Good for you!
Jerry interrupts them for a new patient
Jerry: Trauma one, guy pukes pink stuff all over the floor hurry!
Susan laughs: I am getting that, pink looks like a job for a woman.
Jerry: Great, Trauma two, men and woman and you should go together, they gave up on them in shift one!
Morris: Why?
Jerry: You ll see!
Carter: Let's go then, Morris
Morris: Ok boss!
Carter and Morris are opening the doors to Trauma 1
Carter: Hi I am Doctor Carter, this is Doctor Morris what do we have here?
You ll see 1 couple, naked stuck to each other with mouth and penis in cramp
Morris: What the hell is that?
Junie: The two had a bit too much fun!
Male Patient: We played little Vampire but now she is stuck to me, totally cramped and nothing helps.
Peter opens the door
Peter: Someone called for a surgeon?
Morris: Obviously we don't know what to do, Jerry, why
Peter: Carter, what do you don't know give them a muscle relaxant and release them, I thought you are better that's not a surgical case...
Junie interrupting: That's not working Peter, we tried that in the last shift and it doesn't help, here it's on the chart, have a look!
Peter examines the patient
Peter: Wow! So what do you want me to do?
Male Patient: Free me without breaking my best bit, it's like sucked into her body and it hurts, my shoulder hurts as well, I feel, this is so horrible and I need to pee
Female patient mumbles: Don't you dare...
Peter: Well, well
Carter: Any ideas? Because I haven't seen something like this like, I think I have seen something like this never in my life. I think we should go and call one of the Gynaecologists.
Peter: Yeah because she, is that a spasm?
Carter: Yeah but what about the spasm in her jaw. Do we need a dentist as well?
Peter: I am, really, wait if a muscle relaxant isn't working than it,
Carter: Then it is probably
Peter: What about
The doctors are discussing silently different treatment options.
In the Carter Centre
Doug: Carrie we need to open as soon as possible and I don't bloody care if we
Carrie: Doug, I am the boss and you need to listen to me. I did that in the ER, I know what I am capable of doing or better I know what I am doing so
Doug: I want
Carrie: Listen, I am going to open the clinic in a few days and you can have Junie as a nurse, Sam is starting in a few days as well but you have to coordinate as well as being a doctor that is really important!
Doug: But that's what I wanna do Carrie. Treating the little ones in the best way possible!
Carrie: Then wait what comes and I ll let you do everything possible, find research projects for you, get you the funding, wonder how Carol keeps up with you!
Doug grins: She loves me!
Carrie: Without that you would be dead by now.
In the doctors lounge at County General in the middle of the night
Rachel and Chaz are sitting on the sofas both exhausted from the day.
Rachel: I never thought I would make it to this day; I wanted that from the first moment I walked into the ER visiting my dad for the first time...
Chaz yawns: I thought, I wouldn't make it either, my brother taught me everything and I miss him a great deal but
Rachel: I still miss my dad after all those years but Elisabeth is great, better than my real mom, she is still a successful lawyer and hated my dad for his job which I never understood because what is better than helping people and saving lives?
Chaz: Yep! I know what you mean because I started as an EMT and after Greg died I decided that I wanted to become a doctor like he was, to honour his memory and to do more, to be able to save a few people that might die if I am not there.
Rachel nods: I have a little sister, Ella and she wants to be a doc as well.
Chaz grins: Family destiny, are you happy to work here? I mean
Rachel: This is my home; it feels home, home than in any other place I have lived in, or universities I have studied. I spend so many hours in the waiting room or here in the on-call room when I was a child that for me this is a place where I feel safe, where I can do good and where I am happy, needed and loved. Nobody understands besides the people working here. We are like a little family that sticks together. Do you know what I mean?
Chaz: I do, I really do, I was an EMT before like I just told you and started to become a doc later because I wanted to be a part of the team. These people care for each other, that's why they are all coming back it's a great camaraderie.
Chaz takes her hand and put on his heart
Chaz: And if I wasn't gay I would immediately fall in love with you!
Rachel laughs: You re gay?
Chaz: Yep! Greg had a problem with that at first but we had straightened things out before he died. So, you have a problem with that?
Rachel laughs: Nope, I think it's fantastic! We have to go shopping together please! Please because I need some new stuff that is not, I mean Elisabeth has great taste but I need something more my age, modern, cool and easy to wear for this job.
Chaz: Hey not all gay guys love shopping that's prejudicial. You know!
Rachel: Really, is it? But you do, don't you?