After being turned down for the fellowship she was hinging her future on, Dr. Zoe Hart decides to take a stranger up on his offer to work at his small Alabama medical practice.
A new doctor arrives in Trinity in the midst of an outbreak of a disease causing uncontrollable bleeding and sending residents into a state of panic.
Gail (Paige Turco) learns she is pregnant with Lucas' (Gary Cole) baby and has a dream that the baby is actually a devil.