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In Short: Dr. Geiger prepares to transplant a baboon heart into a dying patient, but runs into opposition from the executive committee again, and Dr. Thurmond, who wants the baboon's bone marrow for an AIDS patient. Angela finds herself in a compromising position with the hospital's chief of staff.
Guest Starring: Earl Billings (as Mr. Leniere), Elaine Kagan (as Vickie Hackett), Arthur Taxier (as Dr. Austin Hackett), and Melinda Culea (as Dina Russell)
Story: David E. Kelley
Teleplay:
Directed By: Jeremy Kagan
TOP Summary:Phillip and Aaron get word that Chief of Staff Austin Hackett is dead--he got caught doing it with Angela in a MRI machine. Phillip informs Jeffrey he's been appointed interim chief of staff. Geiger has to tell his patient, Mr. Leniere his donor heart has been given to another patient. But a baboon heart could last him at least a week. Danny hesitates when he has to treat a hooker with AIDS. Angela apologizes to Phillip who is put out that the MRI machine now does not work but she senses he's really upset about a friend's death. Arthur challenges Danny regarding his treatment of the woman with AIDS. Arthur connects with the woman.
Jeffrey takes Mr. Leniere to meet the baboon. He warns him about tabloids and dignity, buy Leniere agrees to the procedure. Danny tries to apologize to the woman but she yells at him--why should he be so upset when he has a perfec life. Angela thinks about resigning--Aaron tries to convince her it's OK, bot then she meets Mrs. Hackett. She tells her it wasn't a long term thing. Reporters and animal rights activists start hounding Geiger. Arthur tells Danny he's ging to recommend his termination. Then he says if Danny can come up with a better reason than he just froze he might reconsider. Camille walks in on Alan crying for Hackett. She came to cry about the baboon. Then Angela comes in crying hysterically. The executive committee has problems with Jeffrey's procedure because it's too experimental. Aaron wonders if he just wants to do it for his own gains. Arthur comes in saying he wants the babook to use its bone marrow on the AIDS patient.
Jeffrey asks Leniere to appear before the committee to convince them he really wants it while Arthur explains his procedure to the AIDS patient. Alan finds out the baboon is missing--Camille took her to ceer up some sick children. Leniere tells them he wants it but one of the board members tells him they can't risk the reputation of the hospital for one patient.
Alan and Angela say goodbye to Hackett. Alan was grateful because he stood by him when no one else respected him. Angela is upset because she killed him. Winn informs Phillip that if he wants to be permanent chief of staff he shouldn't consent to the two baboon procedures. Then he'll make a lousy chief of staff, Phillip tells him.
Danny visits the woman again and tells her he always assumes trauma patients have AIDS, its just that she was also a prostitute and maybe a junkie, why save that? He apologizes to her. Angela tells Aaron Hackett wasn't making love to her but to the hospital. And she did it because being with the COS would put her higher up on the food chain. Danny tells Thurmond he doesn't have a satisfactory answer--that explanation was owed to her. Arthur asks him to assist on the surgery. Thurmond goes ahead with the bone marrow transplant and then the heart is handed over to Geiger.
TOP Facts:Star Trek fans may remember Melinda Culea - she played the androgyne Com. William T. Riker fell in love with in the episode The Outcast (TNG)
TOP Quotes:ANGELA: If it means anything, I don't think he suffered. He just let out this kind of...yelp. I had thought he arrived, but instead he went.
REPORTER: How large is a baboon's heart?
JEFFREY: Small, tiny--like a lawyer's.LENIERE (a patient, to Phillip): Could you try to speak in shorter sentences? I could be dead before you get through the next one.
ALAN: Everybody here always calls me "The Eel" -- no respect.
ANGELA: I killed him.
ALAN: This place killed him. You just happened to be on top of him when it happened.ARTHUR: Scrub, you can assist on the marrow.
DANNY: What? I mean, really?
ARTHUR: Hurry, I'm old, I change my mind a lot. Go!
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