- While Jack fights for his life, the team takes on a case involving the disappearance of a teenage heart transplant recipient who was looking for information about the boy whose heart she received.
- A teen girl goes missing. She turned from model student to erratic after receiving a life-saving heart-transplant which became her obsession. The team finds she posed as school reporter, after blackmailing the real one to get her the address of the donor's family, but ended up coming clean to the mother and elder brother, who never got over being unable to help his kid bro when they were hit by a stray car.—KGF Vissers
- The second half of a two-parter starts with Jack, who was shot last week, being wheeled into surgery.
It's not looking good, but Anthony LaPaglia's contract on the show isn't up, so you know he'll pull through.
Cut to high school cheerleading practice, where a girl named Diana gets called out for botching a tower. She walks off and disappears.
Back at the hospital, Martin goes out on a call and a nurse asks for Jack's medical records for next of kin and DNR info. Just to make you worry.
Martin talks to Diana's parents. He learns she had a heart transplant a few years ago. Her parents describe a formerly shy girl who is now out all the time and headstrong, because she knows she only has 10 or 20 years left, as her dad puts it.
Cut to: Sam waits at the hospital. Elena calls for an update and tell Sam that Brian Donovan (her baby daddy) called.
Danny talks to Diana's friend, Kelli, at school. She's initially not helpful until he threatens her with juvie. Kelli describes a "thing the other day" with Craig, in which she started a rumor about Craig because he wouldn't lend Diana his take home Spanish test.
Back in the hospital, Jack flashes back to the case that got him there in the first place, crying over the girl in the cage.
At the office, Martin reports that Craig didn't show up at school. Elena finds a nasty blog post about Diana by her ex-boyfriend Joe. He says that now that she's a cheerleader, she doesn't have time for him.
He describes how he snuck out of his house when she asked to meet him, but she never showed. Flash to a party where Diana was freaking out with Kelli after having done E, even less recommended for heart transplant patients than regular people, and they brushed Joe off.
Danny reinterviews Kelli, with her lawyer present. After more threats, Kelli tells the truth.
Flash to: Diana, better the next day, telling Kelli she thought things would be "less sucky" after the operation. They walk back to her car, which is smashed up. Kelli asks if Diana hit someone and she says no. Kelli says that's the last she saw of her.
Back at the hospital, Brian Donovan shows up saying he hasn't signed the form to release his parental rights. Not what Sam wanted to hear. As a monitor hooked to Jack starts beeping, Sam yells at Brian for showing up if he wasn't going to sign the form.
In the office, Craig has been tracked down. Danny asks him what happened. Craig says he's the editor of his school paper and Diana wanted an unlisted address.
Cut to, Craig telling Diana there's a ticked off dude in the office waiting for her. The dude, Roy Jenkins, comes around the corner, asking her what she was thinking sticking her nose in his family's business, telling her she's messing with his family and if she ever comes around his house again, she'll regret it. Craig tells Danny that Diana was so upset she clipped a post driving out of the parking lot.
Martin finds a newspaper article about a kid, Paul Jenkins, who was killed by a drunk driver on the same day Diana got her new heart. Her donor.
Elena talks to Diana's parents and tells them about Roy Jenkins, and that his son is possibly her heart donor.
Her dad says the identity of the donor came up at her last check-up, where she learned it was from a healthy 17-year-old boy, which she was upset about.
At the hospital, Jack is twitching and mumbling in his bed as Sam worries over him.
Vivian visits the Jenkins. Cut to Diana interviewing Mrs. Jenkins, under the pretense of writing about him for Mothers Against Drunk Driving. She tells Diana how the accident affected their other son, who was driving at the time.
After Vivian says Diana's car was just discovered down the street, Mrs. Jenkins adds that Diana came back and 'fessed up about her connection to Paul. But his brother overheard and learned that his parents had donated Paul's organs.
He grabbed one of Roy's guns and took her. Roy is still out looking for them.
In the hospital, Jack is awake, but groggy. FBI boss Olczyk stops by to check on him. Jack tries to tell him all the corners cut in the kid trafficking case were his, and not Vivians. Olczyk tells him the file hasn't been opened yet, and not to worry about it.
In the office, Elena and Martin catch each other up on the search for Tim Jenkins. They get a call that his car just busted through a toll near where Paul died.
Tim tells Diana about the accident, how Paul took his seatbelt off to get a mix he'd made out of the back seat. As he screams at Diana about how hard this has been on him, Danny and Vivian drive up. Diana promises to do right by Paul's heart. As Tim holds the gun on her, Diana tells him that even though she didn't know Paul, she knows this isn't what he would have wanted. After a few tense moments of yelling. He puts down the gun.
They take Diana back to her parents. Happy, hugging reunion. The usual.
Sam goes to meet with Brian to have the world's most awkward conversation. She tells Brian he doesn't have any obligation to her or to him. It's a boy.
She tells him he doesn't want the kid to grow up and get attached to him only to have him leave. Brian says he's figuring that out, but he'd like to try.
Brian asks her if she needs to get back to the hospital. She says no. "So," he says, "where are you from?" Lovely post knock-up pick-up line. Fade out during flirting.
Cut to Vivian with Jack at the hospital. She feeds him ice chips while he apologizes for going rogue. She cuts him off, saying that can wait. She starts reading to him from People magazine. Fade out.
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