It's another busy day at Richmond Trinity Hospital. In the main storyline Hawthorne takes in a patient named Fred Barnes (played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner) with a cerebral aneurysm. He's so tangled up neurologically that he mistakes Hawthorne for his wife Lindsey and begs her to stay with him from diagnosis to shaving him for surgery to helping him decide which surgery to get. Everyone kids Hawthorne about her new husband except Dr. Wakefield who thinks it's borderline behavior for Hawthorne to pretend to be his wife and gets really angry when she sides with another doctor about what kind of surgery Barnes should have.