Garrity has to deal with having released a patient who went on to shoot five people in Times Square. She must decide whether or not to continue her pregnancy after the developing fetus suffers an accidental head trauma. Banger battles his ex-wife in a competency hearing for custody of his two sons. Matthews, whose own marriage is troubled, must counsel a man who has become suicidal because his wife is leaving him.

As Garrity is hounded by the media, a peer review panel censures her for misdiagnosing Rickle, the Times Square gunman. Banger fights to put the man in treatment rather than in prison.