Upon discovering Cate in the arms of Artie - Paul's successor at the newspaper - Bridget and Kerry decide to blow off their planned trip to their grandmother's and take to the open road to sort out their feelings. But after meeting up with C.J., the girls find themselves at a familiar location that was beloved by Paul. Meanwhile, Rory continues to pine for Rachel Sharpe, who confesses her true feelings for him.

The team is looking for an ex-SEAL who escaped from prison in search of revenge. He is determined to find the real murderer of his wife.

The field is narrowed down to 9 as the contestants battle it out hoping to stay in the competition. This weeks theme: Elton John.
Preforming tonight: Fantasia Barrino, Diana DeGarmo, Camile Velasco, LaToya London, John Stevens, Jasmine Trias, George Huff, Jennifer Hudson, and Jon Peter Lewis.

Turk has to confront a young patient of his, when he accidentally cuts a nerve and the boy (who happens to be a concert pianist) loses use of one of his hands.

Meanwhile, one of Elliot's patients unintentionally teaches her a lesson about her relationship with J.D.

Saunders begins making demands on the President. He forces Palmer to hold a strange press conference and then orders the death of the CTU agent who can trace him.



Jack learns of a woman who can lead him to Saunders, but a surprise attack shifts the balance of power.



As Gael's symptoms get worse, Michelle devises a way to relieve the suffering of the victims at the hotel.

Cheryl ask Jim to use his truck to transport a giant paper-mch grizzly bear the girls made for "spirit week" to their school except Jim just lost his truck in an arm wrestling match and, in a gesture of macho pride, refuses to ask for it back.

The gang hits the road to Charlotte where Brooke is determined to win first place at the annual cheerleading competition. But when one of her squad member falls ill, Peyton begs Haley to step into the cheerleader's shoes for a day. Meanwhile, after Whitey assigns Lucas and Nathan to the same room, tempers flare and Haley is caught in the middle.

Martin worries about a visit from Ronee's mother. She dislikes him because she once saw Martin innocently comforting the teenage Ronee and assumed he was trying to "take her virtue". Meanwhile, Frasier continues to find himself consumed by thoughts of Charlotte. Roz recommends that he get over it by going to a bar and picking up someone. Frasier quickly makes a connection with a woman named Kim, and they go back to his apartment.

When the death of a prosecutor is staged using information gleaned from a co-worker's caseload, Novak endangers her career to obtain a confession.

When Shane fails to show up at the hospital to see how Tavon is doing after his shocking car accident, Vic pays a visit to his apartment and immediately notices something amiss. Shane and Mara lie to cover up the fact that a violent fight between Shane and Tavon occurred. But Vic is on to Mara and Shane's involvement and soon gets the confession he expected. Vic keeps his cool and decides to take charge and help Shane and Mara further cover up what happened to protect the Strike Team. In the midst of the Tavon crisis, Claudette decides to appoint the Strike Team to a routine hooker sweep, despite Vic's protests. When Vic and his team flip a collar who's smuggling contraband into local prisons, they decide to abandon their routine hooker sweep to follow the lead on this bigger case. They're sidetracked when there's word that David has discovered a perp who may know something about the Money train heist and the men responsible. The strike team races to get David off the scent, but not before David gets himself in serious trouble with the darker side of Farmington. Meanwhile, Dutch discovers the Cuddler rapist has struck again. Danny and Julian take on a stalker case of a woman being harassed by her ex-boyfriend.

Coming Soon...

Guest: Matthew Perry (The Whole Ten Yards) + Bruce Willis

Segments: Protests in Iraq

Bob Wiltfong (Youth Ministers in Las Vegas Pornography Convention)

Back in Black (Athens Still Not Ready for Olympics)