Roback, Davis, and Petrocelli make their way back to base through treacherous desert. Roback makes a grand gesture to help out Alvarez, complicating things with Durkin. Holloway takes a special interest in one of her patients.

Alvarez and Roback adjust to cohabitating, a communications blackout comes at a bad time for Davis, and Holloway proposes a plan to extend her deployment.