111. More Monsters
gs: Gene Simmons (Donald Mann) Patti D'Arbanville (Rose Boscorelli) Joe Lisi (Lt. Swersky) Bill Sage (Orland) Tim Kang (Kent Yoshihara) Cassidy Hinkle (Jasmine Weaver) Joe Badalucco (Jelly Grimaldi) Sakina Jaffrey (Dr. Hickman) Saundra McClain (Mary Proctor) Darien Sills-Evans (Dr. Fields) Matthew Arkin (Surgeon)

After a fierce gun battle and some hand-to-hand combat, Mann's gunmen are finally subdued by the members of the 55 in the E.R., but not before Orland is murdered and Bosco is critically injured; after Kim heroically puts herself in the line of fire to save Holly and a little girl, she realizes that her days as a paramedic are over, and that her future lies in being a wife to Jimmy and a mother to their children; Grace and Dr. Fields patch up their differences and come to an understanding about her out-of-protocol field procedures; Maritza uncovers the traitor in their midst, who leads her to Mann; Faith steps over the line to avenge her partner.

b: 17-Sep-2004 pc: 177901 w: Edward Allen Bernero d: Christopher Chulack

NOTE: Music: Nickelback did "Someday" from their "Long Road" cd.

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112. Alone Again, Naturally
gs: Aidan Quinn (John Miller) Charles Haid (Cathel T. Finney) Chris Bauer (Fred Yokas) Patti D'Arbanville (Rose Boscorelli) Joe Lisi (Lt. Swersky) Elizabeth Regen (Val) Joe Badalucco (Jelly Grimaldi) Matthew Arkin (Surgeon) Todd Williams (Det. Barlow)

After she realizes that telling the truth will mean and prison sentence and never seeing her children again, Faith reluctantly agrees to go along with Maritza's cover story that she shot Mann as he was trying to stab Maritza; Yoshi slips out of the cuffs and into the wind; Sasha and Ty hook up; Maritza gets a tough new boss who's been charged with keeping her on a very short leash to curb her renegade ways; Faith goes ballistic when Fred has her served her with divorce papers at the station house; Swersky shuffles the partnerships, and assigns Faith to ride with Sully and Sasha to ride with Ty; Maritza gets an anonymous call that there's an I.A.B. plant in the house who's after her, and she immediately suspects that it's her new boss; Faith decides to turn down the promotion to detective that she's offered for saving Maritza's life until Sully reminds her that the new assignment will improve her chances of getting custody of her children; Bosco's surgeon gives Faith a devastating prognosis about his recovery; after Ty refuses to listen to Sasha about how they should handle a car stop and the situation goes south, Sasha refuses to back up Ty's decision to make things right by falsifying the paperwork; the I.A.B. captain in charge of the Mann investigation doubts that Faith and Maritza are telling the truth about what really transpired, and has an after-hours meeting with his plant, who isn't Maritza's new boss after all.

b: 24-Sep-2004 pc: 177902 w: Janine Sherman Barrois d: Paul Michael Glaser

NOTE: Music: Saliva did "Razor's Edge" from the "Survival of the Sickest" cd.

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113. Last Will and Testament
gs: Aidan Quinn (John Miller) Chris Bauer (Fred Yokas) Joe Lisi (Lt. Swersky) Amy Ryan (Dr. Jenny Hanson) Gordana Rashovich (Jizebe) Armand Schultz (Dr. Chris Hanson) Charles Haid (Cathel T. Finney (voice) (uncredited))

Finney continues to press an increasingly reluctant Sasha for information on Faith; Carlos gets nowhere trying to put the moves on Grace; Ty gets promoted to a Field Training Officer and is forced to contend with Brendan, an impulsive and hot headed new police officer who also happens to be Finney's son; after Faith is unsuccessful in getting any of her family members to attend her promotion ceremony, a wired Sasha takes her out for a drink afterward and tries to engage her in conversation about Mann's death; after complaining of boredom, Brendan is forced to watch in horror as a woman is broadsided by two different cars in a terrible car accident; Carlos is spooked after he suffers a series of minor mishaps in the wake of an irate fortune teller's putting a curse on him, and Grace has a little fun with him when she takes full advantage of the situation; Sully tells everyone who'll listen that Finney is a corrupt cop, and that his son doesn't belong in their squad; Holly does a ritual to remove Carlos's curse and seals it with a passionate kiss; Brendan is shaken when the dying woman in the car crash asks him to transcribe her will and pass on her final messages of love and support to her husband and young child; Miller comes to an appreciation of Cruz's professional talents and knowledge of the precinct when she closes the case of a woman accidentally wounded during an drug related shootout.

b: 01-Oct-2004 pc: 177903 w: Simon Mirren d: Matt Earl Beesley

NOTE: Music: Godsmack did "Running Blind" from their "The Other Side" cd; The Turtles did "Happy Together" from their "20 Greatest Hits" cd; The Four Tops did "Baby, I Need Your Loving" from their "Ultimate Collection" cd.
The book in which Brendan writes Dr. Hanson's last will and testament is Alice Sebold's heart-breaking "The Lovely Bones: A Novel", the 2002 best-seller narrated by a murdered teenaged girl as she looks down from heaven on her grieving family and friends.
Carlos says he's a Virgo, but in a previous episode his birthday was given as May 11th, which would make him a Taurus.

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114. Obsession
gs: Charles Haid (Cathel T. Finney) Ethan Suplee (Aaron Gordon) Joe Lisi (Lt. Swersky) Joe Badalucco (Jelly Grimaldi) Tony Crane (Hershel)

Faith gets an earful from her daughter for not being around, and discovers that Emily's decision not to attend her mother's promotion ceremony was calculated to drive home a point about all the events Faith missed over the years; Finney threatens to blow Sasha's cover if she doesn't get the goods on Maritza; Sully and Sasha get more than they bargained for when they investigate a domestic and discover a decomposing corpse in the apartment directly above the quarreling couple, leading Sully to teach Brendan a lesson about the less glamorous aspects of police work; starting her career as a detective by partnering up with Jelly, Faith pursues her hunch that there's something more to what appears to be a simple suicide, and uncovers the deceased's plan to commit murder with a mail bomb; Grace teases Carlos about dating Holly, while expressing some interest in Brendan; Ty tries and fails to get more information from an uncooperative Sully after Brendan tells Ty that their fathers and Sully once worked together; Sasha and Ty resolve their differences and make a date to spend the evening together, but their discovery in the station house dumpster of a body wearing a note addressed to Miller casts a pall on their plans for the evening.

b: 15-Oct-2004 pc: 177904 w: Siobhan Byrne O'Connor d: Stephen Cragg

NOTE: Music: Ana Johnsson did "We Are", which can be found on her "Way I Am" cd and the "Spider-Man 2 - Music From and Inspired By" cd.

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115. The Hunter, Hunted
gs: Aidan Quinn (John Miller) Chris Elliott (Jeffrey Barton) Joe Lisi (Lt. Swersky) Joe Badalucco (Jelly Grimaldi) Lothaire Bluteau (Jasper)

When it becomes apparent that the body in the dumpster is connected to a series of homicides that Miller investigated on his previous tour, he teams up with Faith, vowing to catch the serial killer and expose the commanding officer who transferred him to prevent him from working on the case; Brendan and Grace hook up; Carlos's plan to visit Holly and tell her that they're not dating doesn't exactly go the way he planned, not that he's complaining; after junkies trying to get the morphine on the bus hold them up at gunpoint, Carlos sustains a head injury trying to protect Grace before Ty and Brendan come upon the scene and Brendan guns down the thief holding a gun to Grace's head; Faith discovers that Miller's situation at home parallels her own; the serial killer stalks and captures his next victim, then arrives at the station house to confess his prior crimes and tell Miller that his latest victim only has twelve hours left to live.

b: 22-Oct-2004 pc: 177905 w: Edward Allen Bernero d: Paul McCrane

NOTE: Anthony Ruivivar, who plays Carlos Nieto, has been married to Yvonne Jung, who plays Holly Levine, since 1998. They are the parents of a son born in 2002.
On the night this episode originally aired, life unfortunately imitated art when a Toronto paramedic was tricked into helping someone in an attempted drug robbery and threatened with a syringe before he was able to fight off his attackers.

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116. The Greatest Detectives in the World
gs: Aidan Quinn (John Miller) Chris Elliott (Jeffrey Barton) Charles Haid (Cathel T. Finney) Joe Lisi (Lt. Swersky) Joe Badalucco (Jelly Grimaldi) Yvonne Jung (Holly Levine) Ned Luke (Ron Connelly) Heather Fairfield (Sandra Connelly)

Miller goes on the hunt for Tara Connelly, and Faith tries a series of approaches to get Barton to reveal the girl's whereabouts, until Miller returns to finish off the con that gets Barton to give it up; although they're both still shaken up by the shooting, neither Brendan nor Grace is willing to discuss it or get some counseling; Finney makes sure that his son's shoot comes up clean in the IAB investigation; at Sasha's house, a picture of the knife that Maritza planted on Mann accidentally falls into Ty's hands, but he doesn't realize the implication of his find; over his protests, Carlos gets admitted into Mercy for overnight observation of his head injury, with Holly vowing to stay by his side; a guilty Faith looks on as Finney arrests Maritza for Mann's murder

b: 29-Oct-2004 pc: 177906 w: Edward Allen Bernero d: Ernest Dickerson

NOTE: Music: Green Day did "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" from their "American Idiot" cd.