St. Mary was a modern hospital and emergency care center in Staten Island, New York City in the 1990s. In April 1992, Dr. Jeffers was on duty in the urgent care area. He was about to tend to a bee sting injury on Indiana Jones when several paramedics arrived, bringing in several gunshot victims, including a little girl who had been an innocent bystander. Jeffers went to treat the girl, while Jones and Mike, another walk-in patient waiting for treatment, got into an argument on the life potential of the bystander. Jones related a story of serving in German East Africa and his encounters with an orphan who later grew up to become Barthélemy Boganda. This story changed Mike's point of view enough that Mike volunteered to donate his matching blood for the girl when Jeffers came out to ask for