Richmond Trinity Hospital's chief nursing officer Christina Hawthorne tries to stop an end-stage cancer patient's attempt at suicide.

A patient with a potentially fatal aneurysm believes Christina is his wife and confesses to having an affair.

Christina creates a makeshift ICU bed for a woman whose son isn't ready to let her go; Bobbie helps Kelly with a case involving an infant swallowing rubbing alcohol; Ray tries to spend time with Candy.

Christina tries to save a Korean woman and her little boy after a car accident; Bobbie helps a young woman on the verge of losing her arm because of gangrene.

Christina spends the day with a young heart patient who is beginning to suffer from seizures; Ray is assigned to be the personal nurse to Christina's mother-in-law, Amanda.

The hospital director agrees to take on patients who would normally go to a now-closed ER at another hospital; one of Camille's study partners is brought in to the ER; Christina wonders if Camille is doing drugs.