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11th Episode: "Judgement Call"
Aired week of Nov 25, 1996
and week of Apr 14, 1997

When tragedy hits the family of an astronaut while on a space mission, Bull must decide how to proceed.

Plot: (pasted from the official "The Cape" Web Site)

While astronaut Sam Blake is on a pioneering mission for the new International Space Station with Jack Riles, his pregnant wife Kathy experiences a ruptured placenta during a visit to NASA with her old friend, Ellen Eckert, Bull's estranged wife. Kathy is quickly rushed to the hospital, but valiant efforts to save her prove futile. Kathy dies, while her prematurely born baby barely clings to life.

While efforts to save Kathy are still underway, Bull begins arrangements to abort Blake's mission and bring him home. Once she is gone, however, scrapping the important work being done no longer makes sense, especially with only two days left to go. Bull is faced with the difficult decision between informing Blake of his wife's death immediately and leaving him to suffer for two days in outer space, or waiting until he returns to inform him. Bull chooses the latter, but Riles soon learns the truth. Though upset about Bull's decision to keep Blake in the dark, Riles is forced to go along with his supervisor's decision.

Breaking the news to Blake's older children and looking after them, Bull and Ellen re-establish much of the marital closeness they had lost, though it is bittersweet as concern for the baby and doubt about his decision that weighs heavily on Bull.

Meanwhile, the news of Kathy's death is all over the media, but Sam Blake floats blissfully unaware in space, thinking up names for his new baby.

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