The MRU is called out to a suburban street where a woman, Sharon, has been knocked down and seriously injured by a drunken driver, Carson, also injured. As Mike goes back to the ED with Sharon, Steve and Jo remain to tend to Carson as Rescue attempt to extricate him from his car. Sharon’s husband Adrian arrives at the accident site in a distraught state, and as a result of his anguish attacks Carson, and has to be pulled away. Although he wants to go to his wife, he collapses with an asthma attack, and, being in no fit state to drive, is forced to wait until Constable O’Donnell can give him a lift in.

At the ED, Sharon’s condition is pronounced critical, and although Charlotte, Gabrielle and Claire work on her frantically, it is expected that she will die. When Carson is also brought in, Claire reacts to the fact that he is drunk, and her disapproval causes Gabrielle to reflect on Steve’s circumstances.

It is revealed that Carson knows Sharon through work, but the extent of their relationship is only revealed when Adrian, in the ED, uses Sharon’s mobile phone to return an anonymous text declaring love for his wife. As the phone rings in Carson’s cubicle, Adrian grasps the connection and discovers that maybe his marriage was not as strong as he thought.

Gabrielle goes to Steve and tells him Claire needs to know the truth about his past alcohol problems. After much inner turmoil, Steve finally does as Gabrielle has suggested and tells Claire, with devastating results.

Meanwhile Katerina, smarting under the assessment requirements of being an intern, manages to persuade Frank that she is capable of performing a tongs procedure on Damien, a surfer who has spinal damage from a spill in the surf. Not only does she perform the procedure perfectly, she shows human skills in dealing with Damien, a congenitally depressed loser.

Adam, Damien’s attending doctor, is also impressed, but he and Von have their own difficulties on their mind, in the shape of Debra, who is leaning on him for a closer relationship, one he’s not ready for. Debra not only leans on him, but also accuses Von of trying to take her son away from her.

Bart too has personal issues. When Frank, on the rampage, discovers that Bart is not up to date with his skills tests, Bart worries that he is changing. Bart’s patient, Sophie, a girl who presents with appendicitis but proves to have a devastating form of cancer, is someone who, like Bart, thinks she can plan her whole life. But Amy shows Bart that not everything can be predicted or planned, and if, through his relationship with her, he is learning that, then it is not necessarily a bad thing. Equally, Amy’s relationship with Bart is also beginning to change her, letting her see that sometimes his ways of thinking have their benefits.