Jordan and
Dr. Cox are preparing to throw a party for their son Jack's first birthday. Dr. Cox advises J.D. not to attend the party because Jordan's sister Danni, whom J.D. has recently broken up with, is also coming. Jordan and Danni's brother Ben (
Brendan Fraser) comes back to visit after 2 years. Ben’s
leukemia has gone into remission, but he has neglected to have routine screenings, and Cox advises him to get checked out. Meanwhile,
Turk and
Carla argue over removing a
mole from Turk's face and about Carla taking Turk's last name after they marry, and one of
Ted's band members quits. Meanwhile, J.D. is taking care of an elderly man with an
irregular heartbeat when Dr. Cox instructs him to run tests on Ben while Cox runs an errand. Twenty minutes later, J.D. is called to resuscitate a patient who has gone into
cardiac arrest. When Dr. Cox returns, J.D. hands him a chart and informs him that the patient died. Dr. Cox angrily blames J.D. and sends him home, despite Ben's efforts to convince Cox that it wasn't J.D.'s fault. Two days later, Cox has been at the hospital for sixty straight hours, and it is apparent that Jordan is worried that he won't show up for their big event later that day. Ben follows Cox around the hospital, apparently trying to convince him to go, but Cox claims that he's against attending "parties where the guest of honor has no idea of what's going on". Meanwhile, Carla annoys everyone by seeking advice: first she is upset because she doesn't know how to repay Turk for having his mole removed—but when he asks her to agree to take his name (hoping she would say no so he wouldn't have to have the surgery), she gladly accepts his terms, but subsequently becomes angry that Turk is "forcing" her to take his name. She asks an annoyed
Dr. Kelso for advice; he responds that she may end up missing the mole after it's gone, even though she thinks she hates it. She finally decides that Turk shouldn't have to have his mole removed, and Turk respects her wishes to keep her own last name. Ben finally convinces Dr. Cox to leave the hospital to attend the event, and to apologize to J.D. for blaming him for the patient's death, also advising him to forgive himself. After Dr. Cox asks why Ben doesn't have his camera with him, J.D. arrives, bringing Cox to the realization that he isn't attending his son's birthday party, and that Ben isn't present. Cox and J.D. are revealed to be at a cemetery, where they are joined by Jordan, Danni, and many of the hospital staff for Ben's funeral. In reality, Ben was the patient who died under J.D.'s watch. Cox, unable to accept the death of his best friend, had been seeing Ben's
spirit as if he were alive. The episode ends as a devastated Dr. Cox uncharacteristically allows those around to comfort him. ==Homage to
The Sixth Sense==