The two patients brought in by ambulance this week that prompted Liz being called in for work were a gunshot wound and car accident. Liz was surgical nurse to the gunshot wound, a result of gang violence. The conversation with his pregnant girlfriend served as a parallel to Liz and Jason's situation. The young woman told Liz she would not and could not hang around to raise a child in the world her boyfriend insisted on living in. She asked Liz to tell him, if and when he woke up, that his girlfriend and baby were gone. You could see the reflection on Liz's face, the identification. The fear and violence are why she's living a lie and raising her son with Lucky instead of Jason, even though at the very same moment Jason was cradling his son lovingly in his arms and showering him with affectionate hugs.

The second patient fell to Dr. Patrick Drake. He was rushed into the emergency room shortly after Patrick threw one of his patented fits about his father stepping in and over-ruling him on a patient. He was pulled away from his attempts to call him up and out (disappointing this viewer who was hopeful for a split second we might get a bit of Dr. Drake Sr. on the night shift) to attend to the eighteen-year-old boy who had crashed his brand new Porsche. When Patrick asked if his parents have been called while examining him, the boy flew into a rage threatening to leave if they were. He doesn't, and they did call the parents.

His parents consist of an over-protective and extremely distraught mother and an angry and fed-up father who has no clue how to relate to his son any more. When Patrick explains his diagnosis of a cerebral edema (the same affliction that turned Jason Quartermaine into Jason Morgan, by the way) and says if he recovers they may see a completely altered personality in their son, the father seems almost hopeful – infuriating Patrick.

He later tells Robin for all the fights he's had with his father he never once felt like his Dad hated him. "That's because he doesn't," was Robin's simple reply. But it becomes very transparent that Patrick is also drawing parallels to his patient's relationship with his father and the rocky one he has with Noah.