 Emmy winner Bob Newhart guest stars as Ben Hollander, a distraught architect whose degenerating eyesight causes him despondent while a spirited new nurse, Samantha Taggart (Linda Cardellini) joins the staff. Elsewhere, disaster strikes when the doctors suspect a mother (Allison Elliott) is abusing her child while Dr. Corday learns something shocking about the charismatic Dr. Dorset, and Dr. Archie Morris is overwhelmed by the chaos and grisly conditions of life in the E.R.