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Friends, Family & Guests: Heather Hess & Jane Mortifee (Katherine Jamieson and Nurse Sullivan), James Purcell (Dr. Resnick), Candace Churchill (Mrs. Williams), Gerry Nairn (Gerald Hudapp), Alfonso Quijada (Gonzales), Troy James (Mikey), Nurse (Karin Konoval), Jacques Lalonde (Young Man)

Joey feels responsible for a baby girl he is taking care of in a experimental program and tries to find her drug addicted mother.

Opening Scene: Hoffs and Joey are making an undercover drug buy, with Mac in the doorway. The guy selling them the drugs is nervous about Mac, and he takes out a knife to open a big box, which he says contains enough to get three high schools high. Joey asks him politely to put the knife away, and he does, while Hoffs wets her finger and tastes the powder. She smiles and goes to pay him - and brings out her badge along with the money. The guy yells that they're cops, and a bullet is fired from a distance - almost hitting Joey, who ducks quickly. Mac yells for Joey that he will get this one - go get the shooter. Joey and Hoffs take off separately into the darkness after the other one, guns drawn. Everything is quiet, and Joey continues after him, seeing him running in front of him and hiding behind something. They both emerge from their hiding places, and the guy shoots at Joey - and Joey fires three times, killing the guy, who falls to the ground in slow motion. Mac, the other guy and Hoffs catch up to Joey, and the other guy starts yelling "You killed him! You killed him!" at Joey. Hoffs looks over at Joey to see if he is okay, and Joey stares down at the guy he just killed, remaining calm but looking very freaked out.

In a brick building (Joey's apartment building) it's nighttime, and Joey is asleep, having a nightmare about the shooting. He hears everything in slow motion - the guy yelling "They're cops!", Mac's voice, the gunfire, and the accusing voice of the other suspect. He sits up, sweating and breathing hard. He has the necklace Doug gave him around his neck. The next day, at the Chapel, Fuller asks how he's doing. Joey says that Fuller's the tenth person to ask him that, and Fuller asks what he's told the others. Joey says he's good, but he'd be better if they'd give him his weapon back. Fuller says he can't do that until OIS gives him their final report, and until then, Joey's on desk duty. Joey says that's a waste of taxpayer's money. Fuller reminds him that it's standard operating procedure. He says he doesn't need a desk, he needs work. Fuller doesn't think so. Joey asks him if he's ever heard of climbing back on the horse. Fuller says seriously that it's not that simple, and he's been there - he's killed men in the line of duty - "it's slow, it's steady, it ripples. It comes at you when you least expect it." Joey says he doesn't expect it, and Fuller says that's why he's on the desk and that's also why he's got a meeting with the psychologist. This is news to Joey, who says emphatically that he doesn't need that B.S. Fuller says that Joey can tell the psychologist that at his 10 AM meeting, which is mandatory. Joey repeats that he's fine. Fuller says the sooner Joey sees the psychologist, the sooner he can be back undercover. Joey dramatically gestures his reluctant compliance and walks out.

Joey arrives at the psychologist's office and immediately asks if he has to lie down. Dr. Resnick is messing with the thermostat on a wall full of plaques and says Joey doesn't have to lie down, he can sit, whatever. Joey says that what he wants is to leave, and Dr. Resnick closes the blinds, saying that he'll give him the express treatment. He looks at Joey's file and says "Ooh. You killed a man in the line of duty." Joey sits on the arm of the couch and fidgets, saying that he's fine. Dr. Resnick says that some guys get cartoon thoughts about running out and doing the same thing to the next guy who double-parks. "Not me," Joey replies, answering Dr. Resnick's questions about his sleep and breakfast by saying that after the neighbors quit fighting, he slept great, and that he finished off last night's pizza. Then Dr. Resnick asks if, given the same situation, has he any concerns about freezing? Joey says there is no such thing as the same situation, and Dr. Resnick agrees that he has a point. Then he asks if Joey thinks shrinks are nuts? Joey frankly says, "In four words, yes." Dr. Resnick hands him the address to a hospital. "You committing me?" Joey asks. Dr. Resnick smiles and says no, it's a neonatal care unit. He says that Joey needs something life-affirming to counterbalance what he's done and that these babies need special attention. Joey incredulously asks him, "You want me to go to the hospital and watch babies?" Dr. Resnick says, "nuts, right?" Joey says "Yeah," and Dr. Resnick laughs. Joey asks if it will get him back undercover, and Dr. Resnick's smile goes away as he says "No guarantees. No, this one's for you." Joey asks if it's an order, and he says no, but it will help heal his psyche heal from the trouble of the shooting. Joey considers this a second and then sits down in front of Dr. Resnick, frustratedly explaining that his psyche is fine, what he needs is work, and until then he'll be at Desk 5 at Jump Street. Dr. Resnick waves good-bye, and Joey leaves, saying sarcastically that he feels a lot better about himself now.

At the Chapel, Hoffs and Mac are trying to get Joey to eat some chicken, and he's keyed up and not hungry at all. He says he knows what they're trying to do, and Hoffs softly asks what that is. He says, stammering a bit but playing it cool, that they're trying to get his mind off what he did - he "killed a bad guy," and he'll live. He puts on his coat and then stops and turns back to them, saying "What?" Mac gently points out that they prepare for it at the Academy, and they practice for it at the range. Hoffs interrupts, saying "and it happened to you." Hoffs meets Mac's eyes nervously, and Joey says "Yeah. So?" Mac says that when he got shot working in Newark he was almost glad, because the thing he feared most had happened, and he didn't have to wonder anymore. Hoffs says that even after all this time she still worries about what could happen. Joey says that he gets it - they want to know what it's like to go all the way. He says that all the Academy stuff comes back like it's in slow motion. "They say that we blink so many times a second? I didn't blink," he says matter of factly, walking off with a grin. They look like they're sorry they asked. At home, he tosses and turns in his bed, having the same nightmare, and he wakes up abruptly, sitting up and wiping his eyes.

At the Chapel, Joey is sitting at his desk in a black overcoat and ponytailed hair, drinking coffee with his feet up. Fuller comes in and hands him a folder, and he quickly sits up to sign the OIS ballistics report, asking about his weapon. Fuller says that his stuff cleared, but he has to wait till the final report. Joey jokes about how there are two L's in "Penhall" and how he just screwed up signing his own name. He hands him back the file, and Fuller reminds Joey that he knows where he is, if he needs anything, but the phone rings and Joey answers it, effectively cutting him off. It's an armed robbery, and he tells whoever is on the other line "Send him right over." He then covers the mouthpiece, thanks Fuller and tells him he will. Fuller walks off, looking unsatisfied with the conversation. Another Jump Street officer brings in a young kid to sit at Joey's desk so that paperwork can be filled out. The kid gets cocky with Joey, making fun of the fact that he's typing papers and calling him sweet pea. Joey rolls his chair over and lowers his voice, telling the kid that he can either talk to him or he's going to take out his teeth one row at a time. The kid gives him his name, "Gonzales." Joey asks for his age, and the kid says he's eighteen and asks sweetly if Joey wants his phone number too, or is he not his type? Joey leaps up out of the chair and picks up the kid by his jacket, yelling at him and shaking him. Hoffs and Mac come in and tell him to let it go, and Joey ignores them, calling the kid a knucklehead and yelling "you don't mess with the police!" Mac tries to separate them, and Joey punches Mac in the face as hard as he can. Joey backs away, saying he's sorry and Mac yells for him to just let it go and get some help, bending over and holding his face. Hoffs asks if he's okay, and Mac says he is, looking up at Joey. Joey reels slightly as he looks back at Mac, and then he pounds his own forehead lightly with his fist, stepping backward again, looking up at Mac one final time as if he's trapped.

In Fuller's darkened office, Fuller asks him to talk about it, and Joey yells that he can't think. Joey is bouncing off the walls and rejects Fuller's suggestion that he talk to Dr. Resnick, saying that he doesn't trust psychologists. Fuller points out that Dr. Resnick has seen it a hundred times, and Joey yells that he hasn't seen what's inside of him. Fuller again offers to listen, and Joey paces and angrily explains, "They drill you at the Academy and they say 'control the situation. Shoot to kill. Shoot to kill.' But they don't tell you that the guy's not gonna get up again. I mean, you shoot somebody's kid, and he's not gonna get up again!" Fuller asks him if he is getting any sleep. Joey looks around frustratedly and then looks back at him, admitting that he doesn't know what to do. Fuller says quietly, "You've taken a life, Joey. All right? Maybe what you need to do is give one back." Joey, exasperated, looks away and laughs, but Fuller continues, saying that Resnick told him about the county hospital program. "Not that baby crap," Joey says scornfully. Fuller says the desk isn't doing it, and he can't go back out on the street - does he have any better suggestions? Later, Joey enters the hospital and goes to the nurses' station. Everyone ignores him totally, they're too busy to talk to him. A third nurse comes through with a baby in a neonatal crib and tells him to step aside, and he says loudly "You nurses ought to take decaf," and then he asks if anyone knows where Nurse Sullivan is. "You're talking to her," the nurse says, continuing to walk the baby down the hallway away from him. He runs to catch up. She's all businesslike - she was told to expect him - and she tells him to take off his watch, scrub down and follow her. He goes to wash his hands but can't find the handle- it's on the floor. She shows him, telling him to wash all the way up to the elbows, and then she tells him, "Pull that hair back." He takes off his coat and then takes out a ponytail holder from his chest pocket with a flirty silly grin. She finally smiles and laughs. He puts his hair up and asks if she really thinks he equipped to do this. "Are you drunk or high?" she asks, and he says no. She says he's equipped, let's go, and he washes his arms quickly.

They enter the neonatal nursery, where almost all of the babies are crying inconsolably. Joey asks what's wrong with them, and she says their mothers had AIDS or drug addiction. Joey says they're only babies, and the nurse says that so were most of their parents - most of the mothers have in fact abandoned the babies, and the rest of the babies can't be allowed near their parents. She says they need to be held - they are literally dying for affection. Joey naively asks if that's all they need, and she says no, but it helps, no matter how hokey it sounds. She puts a blanket over his left shoulder and picks up a little baby girl who is crying frantically. Her name is "Shaun," the nurse explains. A page comes for Nurse Sullivan, and she quickly shows a very unsure Joey how to hold a baby, adding that Shaun was born addicted to crack cocaine and hasn't had any visitors at all for two months. After Nurse Sullivan leaves, Joey, holding the screaming baby gingerly in outstretched arms, goes to ask one of the nursing aides, Mrs. Williams, to help him. She firmly but kindly leaves it up to him, saying that Shaun's talking to him, and that all she needs is a little company and a little food. She tells him to just use the common sense God gave him, and he grins a little bit, commenting that Shaun is so small. Mrs. Williams smiles and says to just keep holding her - she'll get bigger. Joey holds her and gives her a bottle, beginning to enjoy it. "Hello, brown eyes," he says, smiling at her. A little while later, Joey is walking around trying to burp Shaun, and then she burps, and he laughs out loud, saying it was like a 9.9 on the Richter scale. Mrs. Williams looks at him approvingly as she holds another baby. Joey keeps looking at Shaun and then begins to panic, yelling that she's turning red and can't breathe and for somebody to help her. Mrs. Williams smiles and says she's just taking her after-feeding constitutional. It slowly dawns on Joey what that means, and he wrinkles his whole face up, saying, "Oh, man!" Mrs. Williams tells him he's going to learn how to change a diaper. He lays her down and opens her diaper - and yells "It's green! That's disgusting!" Mrs. Williams advises him to use a little baby powder, and he accidentally shakes out a whole lot, getting it all over the baby and finally accidentally wiping it onto the left side of his face. Shaun looks up at him then, watching him as he unfolds the new diaper and looks completely baffled. He puts it on her. Then he sits down in the rocking chair, singing Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock And Roll" to her. He continues rocking her back and forth and singing to her. "She sleeps," he announces softly when she finally nods off.

Nurse Sullivan returns and finds him asleep in the rocking chair, still holding Shaun. "No napping on the job, Joseph," she chides him gently, and he wakes up, apologizing quickly. She says that she's not the one he needs to apologize to, and he stands up, following Nurse Sullivan as she carries Shaun back over to her crib. She tells him to get a good night's sleep because his shift begins at 8 AM sharp. He leaves and puts his gown in a laundry bin, looking back at Shaun as he puts his watch back on. He goes back out into the hallway, putting on his coat and shaking his hair out of its ponytail. He stops by the nurses' station and asks what is going to happen to Shaun. One of the nurses says doubtfully that there's always a chance that the mother might clean up and get straight. Joey leans over the desk, smiling, and asks if she's ever met the mother. The nurse tells him that actually, Shaun's mother punched her in the face when she had to take Shaun away from her. She says some mothers don't care what you do with the babies, but this one cried and swore she'd stay straight and come back for the baby. Joey asks if she thinks she will, and the nurse says "put it this way, I haven't seen her since." He asks for the mother's name, and she says she can't give it out, and he apologizes, saying it's no problem, he was just trying to help. They get a Code Blue for the ER, and she is called away. He softly says, "whoops," sneaks a quick peek at the files and gets the mother's name. "Hello, Katherine Jamieson," he says. Outside the hospital, Mac pulls up to pick Joey up, and Joey asks if he found the address. "Yeah, Hoffs did. Get in," Mac replies. Joey gets in and begins to apologize, and Mac waves him off, telling him not to worry about it. Joey asks how's the jaw, and Mac says it only hurts when he talks. "Then shut up," Joey says teasingly to test his reaction, and he offers him a pack of gum. Mac smiles magnanimously and takes a stick of gum, saying that Joey's pushing it. He smiles and floors it, making Joey's head fly back against the seat.

Mac and Joey are in a really bad neighborhood. "This, Mac, this is my youth. My beginning," Joey says enigmatically. They enter the building, and Mac tries to talk him out of doing this, saying that he feels for what he's going through - he got attached to the baby - but he's only supposed to visit her at the hospital. Joey says he's just going to tie up some loose ends and is Mac in or out? Mac sighs and says he guesses he's in. They continue up to Katherine's apartment, where there are rats in the hallway. Joey points out that someone stole the numbers off the doors, and Mac sarcastically says "The mind boggles." They hear a man slapping a woman around and yelling about how she should have gotten two or three hundred dollars for whatever it was she sold, and they go up to the door. Mac's gun is drawn, and as the fight continues, Joey reminds Mac quickly that he doesn't have any gun. Mac yells for them to open up, it's the police, and counts to three. Joey kicks the door in, and Mac tells him to get the door to his right. Mac runs to the window, where the man has run out and down the fire escape, and Joey goes over to the woman, who is collapsed on the floor, asking "You all right, honey?" Mac asks if she knows the guy that scrammed. She says she doesn't know them, and Joey tells her they're the cops and they're looking for Katherine Jamieson - does she know where Katherine is? Maybe, she warily admits, and when Joey asks if her mom is home, she snaps that her mom is dead and wants to know what she did. Joey asks if she is Katherine and they ask if she has a baby daughter. She knows Shaun's name and asks loudly if Shaun is okay. Joey asks how old she is, and she says she's fifteen and asks again if Shaun is okay. Joey says yes but that they need to talk. Then he notices something on the table. Mac says it looks like crack. Katherine says it's her boyfriend's crack, and Joey handcuffs her, overwhelming her struggling and telling her this is the least of her problems. Mac follows them out the door.

Joey is impaling pink message slips on a spike, and Hoffs comes up to him, saying she hopes she heard wrong about Joey putting up the bail money for Katherine. Joey says it was only $200 and they made a deal - she would go into rehab and get straight. Hoffs says that she's read Katherine's file. Joey already knows - drugs since junior high, soliciting, shoplifting - but he says she loves the kid and even the hospital admits it. Hoffs says there is something else that Katherine loves more. They are interrupted by Katherine herself, who tentatively approaches the desk and thanks Joey again. Joey introduces her to Hoffs, who doesn't exactly look welcoming. Hoffs asks if she's going into rehab, and Katherine says yes, first that and then job placement, and then maybe the judge will go easy on her at her hearing. Joey says that then she'll get Shaun out. Katherine says "Officer Penhall's the first person who's given me a break in a long time." Hoffs says that Joey's a softie, but she herself has been on the force a little too long - if Katherine did crack while she was pregnant, how is a little talk with Joey going to make her change? Joey says "Hoffs," and Katherine says she's blown it before but she's going to try again. "Well, trying's nice," Hoffs says coolly. Joey asks Katherine to leave them alone for a minute, and after she goes outside, he asks Hoffs if Katherine is ever going to get some slack. Hoffs says she's sorry, but Joey sees a screwed up kid, and all she sees is a junkie. Joey says Hoffs ought to see Shaun. Hoffs asks if he would be so willing to get behind Katherine if there weren't a baby in the picture, and Joey realistically says that there is a baby in the picture, putting on his coat and walking away. He goes out into the Chapel parking lot, where Katherine is pacing and smoking a cigarette. When he apologizes for Hoffs, Katherine says she's sorry she can't tell Joey Hoffs is wrong, not yet anyway. Joey says, "let's not pretend, do I believe you? I do believe you your daughter." Katherine says that they won't even let her see Shaun. She says she wants to hold her again so bad. Joey asks when her rehab is, and she says 1:00, and she's taking the 11:25 AM bus just to be sure. He tells her if she needs anything to call him, and she says she doesn't know how she can ever thank him. "Just get straight," he replies, going back up to the Chapel.

Joey is wearing a clown nose and hangs a mobile over Shaun's crib, calling her "funny face." Mrs. Williams greets him and says she wasn't sure they'd see him again. He asks how that would be possible and picks Shaun up, talking to her the whole time, He bounces her gently and talks to her about eating and how they need to get her out of the flyweights in a big way. She whimpers, and he notices that her face is getting red again, but this time he doesn't panic, telling Mrs. Williams that she can watch his diaper-changing progress. He walks Shaun over to the changing table, commenting that she's shaking a little bit and asking Shaun if she's cold. She yawns, and then Joey asks Mrs. Williams if this is normal - she's shaking quite a bit. Mrs. Williams runs to put the other baby in a crib, and Joey yells that Shaun's eyes are rolling back. Mrs. Williams says that Shaun is having convulsions, and Joey blurts "What did I do?" He pushes the emergency button like Mrs. Williams tells him to, and then Nurse Sullivan comes in, ordering Joey out of the room and saying Shaun will need an injection. Joey points out that she's shaking and can't take it, and Nurse Sullivan snaps that Shaun is in drug withdrawal - of course she's shaking and orders him out of the room again. He leaves, watching through the door as the doctors and nurses work over Shaun. Trying to catch her eye, he raises his finger up to the window and waves at her hesitantly. The doctor says to give her one milligram of Diazapam. Out in the hallway, Joey sits, holding the necklace Doug gave him and rubbing his head. Mac comes to sit with him. Joey tells Mac that they took Shaun down to the OR. Mac asks how he is, and Joey says sadly, "You kidding? I'm fine." Mac takes a teddy bear out of his jacket and says it's from Hoffs, and then he gives him a "wind-up thingy" for Shaun. Joey looks at it and laughs, saying that's great because Shaun doesn't have many toys, and he begins to say that he'll give it to her when she's... and then he just puts it in his pocket and thanks Mac. Nurse Sullivan comes out, and Joey springs up, asking if Shaun is okay. Nurse Sullivan says he can see her in the morning. He asks if she is going to be normal, and she tells him that what these girls put in their bodies goes straight to the womb, adding that Shaun's brain is damaged, to what extent they don't yet know. Joey says, shaken, that's something. He thanks her as she walks off. Mac comes up and says that he's sorry - it's a tough break. Joey calmly replies that Shaun is a tough kid. Then Mac says there's something he's got to tell Joey. Joey says yeah yeah, he knows - Mac doesn't believe in Katherine either. Mac says that the rehab center called Jump Street, and Katherine never showed up or checked in. Joey stands there, and when Mac says he's sorry about it, he says, sounding tough, that so is he - he lost $200 bail on her. He walks over to get his coat and Mac asks where he's going. "Kid's gotta have decent parents, right? I'm gonna find her one decent parent."

Joey gets out of the elevator in the hospital lobby, shoving the teddy bear into his jacket and looking determined. Katherine hides along the wall, watches him pass, and goes for the stairs. Joey heads to Dr. Resnick's office, and is asked what credentials he has to be a parent. Joey says he's got more than her mother does, and Dr. Resnick says that's not saying much. "I could do it," Joey insists, and Dr. Resnick points out that he's going through something called transference, a simple therapy term, and Joey interrupts him, telling him to cut the mumbo-jumbo and asks him to give him a letter of reference. Dr. Resnick says okay and asks if he's got day care and insurance. Joey says he'll get it, and then Dr. Resnick asks him what about shopping, feeding, clothing, reading, teaching, not to mention braces, video games and reoccuring problems from her birth? Joey frustratedly asks who's supposed to take care of her? Dr. Resnick says, "It's not your problem," and Joey repeats this back to him incredulously, adding, "you sent me in there." Dr. Resnick says that Joey was supposed to get perspective and that saving Shaun's life is not going to bring back the guy Joey killed. Joey gets right in his face and growls that he doesn't want to bring the bastard back, he wants to give Shaun a chance, and then he says "your system stinks." Dr. Resnick says he knows it does, and Joey goes to leave, but at the last second he turns back, rushing back to Dr. Resnick, and he asks him how he can collect his paycheck. Dr. Resnick remains silent, and Joey leaves, slamming the door behind him.

Nurse Sullivan, some other nurses and two uniformed police officers are gathered around talking about how the other nurse only turned away for a moment, and then Nurse Sullivan points out Joey as he comes in the door. Joey strolls in, carrying in the teddy bear, and Nurse Sullivan immediately asks if he's seen Shaun and tells him that somebody stole her from recovery, probably Katherine. Joey explodes, demanding an APB, and the cop does so, as Joey stands there. In the morning, Joey and Hoffs come to Fuller's office, reporting that they've been up and down every street in the city and haven't found Katherine or Shaun. Fuller asks if they checked her apartment, and Joey says they went every hour on the hour. Mac says there's been nothing on the radio. Joey begins to go into Fuller's office, sees Dr. Resnick waiting there, and he turns away, saying, "Awwww, man!" Fuller says he's been there since roll call and wants to talk to him. Joey goes in, full of attitude, but Dr. Resnick makes him slow down and listen - even though drug babies are almost impossible to place, he has found a home for Shaun if everything turns out all right. Joey says he wants to meet them, and Dr. Resnick admonishes him not to look a gift horse in the mouth. "She's the gift," Joey points out strongly, "they're lucky to have her, not the other way around." Dr. Resnick says "I can't do anything right by you, can I?" and Joey stares back at him, realizing that he isn't being fair. He thanks him. As Dr. Resnick goes to leave, Joey stops him and asks why he's doing this favor for him. Dr. Resnick smiles and says it's payday - he wants to earn his check. As Joey leaves Fuller's office, Fuller tells him he's been up all night - go home and get some rest. Joey thanks him and says he will rest when he finds Shaun. Fuller tells Mac and Hoffs to stay with him because he doesn't think Joey realizes what he may find. Mac checks out Hoffs' reaction, which is a cynical frown - she obviously does realize. They both leave.

A guy gets his mail out of the mailbox, and Joey stands right in his face when he turns around, asking if he's the father of Katherine Jamieson and asking where she is. He says if Joey finds her, tell her the rent's due, and Joey grabs his collar, slamming him back against the wall. The guy yells "Are you deaf?" and Joey says just a little bit in one ear from the gunshot, but his vision's 20/20 and his memory's sharp as a tack. Then he says "knock wood" and bangs the guy back against the wall twice, telling him that he recognizes him from the other night when he was beating up Kathy. The guy belligerently says Joey didn't see jack, and Joey says it's his word against his and he'd bet the guy's parole officer would love to hear about it. The guy asks how Joey knew he was on parole, and Joey says he didn't, and where are they? Joey goes downstairs into an almost completely dark basement, and says "Beat it, police," flashing his badge, and some other people run out. Katherine sits still, saying that she caught the wrong bus to rehab. He tells her to save it, he just wants the kid. Katherine says that she's gone. "Gone? What do you mean gone? Where is she gone?" Joey asks, and she says brokenly that she can't get straight, so she found Shaun a decent home, that a lawyer's handling it and it's all legal. Joey looks back at her unsmilingly and says "You sold her, didn't you?" He leans down and sees the drugs next to her on a metal table and says, "You sold her to buy drugs," and then he stands up, knocking the table onto the foor and yelling, "You sold her to buy drugs!" Katherine whines that they gave her the money - she didn't ask for it. He grabs her by the collar and holds her against the wall, yelling that she's a real poster girl for birth control, and she screams, "He said it was legal!" He says it's not and forces her to come with him.

Outside in the rain, a guy comes out to a car and opens the door. Joey asks if Katherine is sure it's him, and she says his office is on the second floor of the building he just came out of. Hoffs says she's going to call for backup, and Mac suggests an ambulance as well. Mac and Joey get out and approach him, asking where the baby is. The guy asks who they think they are, and Mac says they're the last people he wants to see, and Joey gets in his face, demanding again to know where the baby is. He says she's been remanded to him, and Mac handcuffs him. He asks if they have a search warrant, and Joey tells him to shut up, going around and opening the right rear door. Moving some dry cleaning, he finds boxes of books and some other things, and then he looks behind the box. Mac leans in and asks if Joey found her, but Joey isn't listening - he found her, and he just says "oh" a couple of times, in shock over how she looks. He cradles her and says her name, trying to get her to respond and totally ignoring Mac. She whimpers, and he grins at her, saying "Hiya, Brown Eyes." He tells Mac she's alive, and the ambulance pulls up. She is weak and limp in his arms, and Joey hands her to the EMT. He gets in the ambulance with her and holds her, and they put an IV in her head. He talks to her and laughs, rocking her and singing to her as the siren blares and they race to the hospital. Then he tells her they're taking her to the hospital and pleads for her to just hold on for him one more time. She looks up at him, and he says he's going to dance at her wedding, repeating it more strongly and saying that's a promise.

Closing Scene: Fuller tells Joey that he's sorry how things worked out. Joey points out that Resnick placed Shaun with a nice couple and asks quickly why, doesn't Fuller like them? Fuller says he meant that he's sorry that he ever let Resnick send Joey to the hospital in the first place. Joey says that the guy he shot must have made a thousand bad choices to end up doing what he did, and Shaun never had a choice, so he made a few for her. He starts to leave, and Fuller says that Joey forgot something the other night. He opens his filing cabinet and hands Joey the teddy bear. Joey grins and takes it, and Fuller says one other thing - and he gives him back his gun, saying it's good to have him back. "Glad to be back," Joey says, putting the gun in his holster right next to where he's holding the teddy bear.

Cyndi Glass: Great episode, which focuses almost exclusively on Joey, showing yet again how deeply things affect him and how hard he tries to cover it up. He almost succeeds, but he can't quite do it here - and we see an almost instantaneous deepening of his relationships with his co-workers, particularly Captain Fuller and Mac. Perhaps from talking to Doug, he knows that he can trust Fuller and talk to him. Mac and Hoffs know Joey well enough by now to realize he's not dealing with it well, but the real event that finally shakes him into admitting that he has a problem is his violence toward Mac, which even he has to confess was totally out of control and unprovoked. Seeing him gradually loosening up around the babies, I have to agree that this was exactly what he needed. Reading back through the episode summary, so much of what Joey says sounds completely cocky and smart-ass, even mean - but you have to see the episode to see the delivery of these lines - they just don't translate well into print, especially DeLuise's habit of using several distinct little laughs to soften the dialogue and convey things that aren't in the dialogue, or the intense emotion conveyed by his eyes.

I also wish they had gone just a little further with the dialogue, maybe even exploring how Joey felt about Doug's shooting causing Doug to move away, or having Joey talk about what Doug said about it all. Or, later in the season when he goes on vacation to Philly to see Doug - and never returns - maybe they could explain that the shooting made Doug ask him to quit police work as well. Maybe he could have even suggested to Dr. Resnick that he could move to Philly with his brother, who is already raising a little boy on his own. But we get none of this, though it would have explained a lot and added even more depth to the scenes. Joey's comment about the filthy and dangerous apartment building being "his youth" makes us wonder even more about how he had to live during his five years as a runaway. And Mac's driving the Jeep, not the Mustang! Hoffs shows even more how her experience and knowledge has taught her not to be so trusting, while everything is still new to Joey and Mac - but they're learning. Hoffs and Mac are good friends to Joey, supporting him and helping him because they know that his anger and violence are a reaction to the pain he feels. I do wish that TPTB had made the guest stars' names be used more - in an episode like this, I don't know, for example, who is "Young Man" and who is "Mike" - I'm assuming that they are the drug deal kid and Katherine's boyfriend - on the basis that they have lines. The kid who got shot and the baby who played Shaun are not even credited at all. But, like all good 21JS episodes, this story isn't about the guest stars, it's about the officers and their reactions to the situations. All in all, a very good episode.

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