ER Episode 12.04 Blame it on the Rain

A big thunderstorm hits outside the hospital and the ER braces for the onslaught of traffic accidents.

Paramedics bring in a patient and Luka immediately assists. He finds out quickly that the woman, Claire, has been in a coma for six years.

While helping a man with a spike through his leg, Abby asks Dr. Lucien Dubenko if he's okay because she saw him up in oncology for his annual screening. He tells Abby he has prostate cancer and needs to have surgery. Abby offers him some time if he wants to talk.

Meanwhile, the fender benders begin piling up and a woman, Judy, and her baby daughter, Grace, are brought in from an alleged hit and run/carjacking. The baby is in bad shape and Neela questions Judy about what happened. She tells Neela that she didn't need to go out in the rain, she could've waited, but someone simply ran her off the road.

While Grace is still being looked at, a police officer brings in mug shots for Judy to go over. Judy doesn't want to look at the books because she didn't know that her daughter's car seat was clicked in. She made up the story about being carjacked and she deliberately got in the accident. Neela asks her if she purposely hurt her daughter. Judy vehemently denies that she would do anything to Grace, but Neela thinks she has postpartum depression.

Neela asks Brad, Judy's husband, if Judy drinks or does drugs or if there's been any change in her mood. Brad flies off the handle and demands to get their daughter back so they can leave. Neela has a hospital psychiatrist check on Judy, but she denies that she talked to Neela at all and as a result, the psychiatrist can't do anything. Judy and Brad leave with Grace, despite Neela's protestations.

Later, Abby treats a man, Lee, having serious heart pain. All his tests turn out negative; however, Abby finds out that the woman Lee was brought in with, Shauna, is his "satisfaction facilitator."

Afterwards, Lucien and Abby go for coffee. She tells Lucien that she's kept his cancer quiet. He says he appreciated her saying anything at all to him. He tells her about the surgery he's going to get, and then about the 25% chance of erectile dysfunction. Abby listens uncomfortably as he tells her how daunting it is to think he may never have sex again. He then asks Abby if she would be interested in having sex with him — he wants to go down swinging. Abby says she's flattered but she can't. Nothing personal.

Another fender bender comes in. It's a man with internal bleeding. His kids arrive immediately after. Even though Sam is off the clock, she helps anyway. The man has also broken his pelvis. Sam tells his kids that it's very serious. Jason, the man's son, spots the other motorist who ran into his father on the road. He lunges at the man because he was talking on the phone when he hit his father.

Luka, meanwhile, is furious that someone would simply drop off a coma patient with no information. Finally, a woman from a nursing home named Trish arrives to get her. But when he brings Trish to see Claire, she's no longer in her coma. Claire immediately asks where her mother is, not knowing she died in the car accident that left her in the coma. She has no movement at all because in six years, her muscles have atrophied. The last thing she remembers was going to the mall with her mother, and they had an accident.

Abby returns to check on Lee and Shauna. Unfortunately, Lee's wife arrives and wants to know who Shauna is. Shauna is able to recite Lee's diagnosis that she just heard from Abby, providing the illusion that she's Lee's doctor.

Abby takes Shauna outside the room and realizes that her services might be perfect for Lucien.