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Complications, January 7, 2003 |
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By Michele Blackburn
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Complications, January 7, 2003 |
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By Michele Blackburn
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self-inflicted wound, a malpractice suit, a postcard and Singer's baby
highlight this episode formerly titled Mortal Enemy, but renamed
Complications. 
When I
came into the show Mac was questioning doctors about the death of General
Cuban's daughter. She died on the operating table while Commander Bartel
was operating on her. Commander Ashley was the anesthesiologist. When it
is discovered that General Cuban used his rank to scare doctors and
nurses, Mac has to handle his court-martial hearing as well. One night,
Mac spends some time with the General and they go over the facts. The
facts sends them to the hospital where both discover that the daughter's
blood had traces of Hepatitus in it. The General is adamant in his belief
that his daughter didn't have hepatitis. Mac goes back into court and
questions some more people. It is then found that because of an excess of
medicine administered to the girl another sample of blood was mixed with
her blood to get the high concentration of medicine in her blood to return
to normal levels. Mac pulls a fast one on Harm and Commander Ashley, the
anesthesioligist, is found to be in the wrong. 
Bud is
working on disability forms and finds himself investigating an eye
disability in a Lieutenant Keefer. Bud does the leg work and after
checking with Keefer's doctor several times finds that instead of staying
the same or getting better Keefer's eyes are getting worse. He follows
Keefer home and finds the Lieutenant using a form of lasers used as a
Korean torture device to make his eyes worse. The Admiral applauds him on
his good work. 
Meanwhile,
Singer has decided to give the baby up for adoption rather than abort it.
I guess the talk she and Harriet had a couple weeks ago did the job. Harm
doesn't want the baby given up for adoption and asks for the baby. Okay,
there's a couple small problems with this. If (and that's a big if) this
baby is Sergei's, Harm is the only blood relative which makes his chances
high, but with his background not many people would give him a baby.
Another factor against Harm is the risk factor he has in his life. Danger
seems to follow the man around like a rain cloud. Harm gives Singer the
number where Sergei can be reached and asks her to talk to him. They both
leave and Jennifer Coates is seen at a table. From the look on her face, I
can't tell if she knows something about Singer and her baby or she thinks
Harm is the father of the baby. 
At the
end of the show, it is revelead to Harm through a postcard that Renee is
pregnant with twins. (In real life, Cindy Ambhuel is close to delivering
her twins.) I guess this is how TPTB is setting her up to come back on the
show for a while. When a poll was done, it was shown that viewers would
rather have Renee back for an episode than Mic, for obvious reasons. Well,
at least we know that the twins aren't Harm's kids unless Renee has the
gestation period of an elephant LOL!!! (The gestastion period of an
elephant is two years.)
Harm
isn't the only one that gets mail at the end. Bud gets his PEB results
back. Earlier, he told Tiner he wanted to be alone when he got the results
but Tiner called it out in the bull pen and everyone rushed over to hear
the results. WIth a grin on his face, everyone knew the news. Bud is back
on active duty. There's nothing more Bud wanted than to stay in the Navy
and from the looks of the job he did in this episode he deserves to be
back. He did a great job.