Gannon gets a mysterious turndown when he asks the mother of a girl needing a kidney transplant to become her daughter's donor. He then discusses the case with the girl's father and begins to unfold tne reasons for the mother's strange attitude.

Fans see another side of hero Doc Gannon in this episode when he puts up a runaway kid in his apartment. Gannon displays sympathy listening to the youngster's complaints, while hunting for an answer to the blackouts suffered by the kid.