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Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: 24 Hours

Original Air Date—19 September 1994
The pilot for the popular TV series is set during 24 frantic hours in the lives of a group of doctors, nurses, and staff members of a busy emergency room at a Chicago hospital. They deal with the seemingly endless casualties that stumble into their place of employment. The central characters are the chief resident and family man Dr. Mark Greene, who is considering a job in private practice due to pressure from his demanding law student wife Jennifer; outgoing Dr. Doug Ross, who deals with cases in his own personal way; straight-arrow Dr. Susan Lewis, trying to get by another long 36-hour shift; inexperienced third-year med student John Carter; cocky surgical resident Dr. Peter Benton; and troubled chief nurse Carol Hathaway.

Season 1, Episode 2: Day One

Original Air Date—22 September 1994
Mark's wife arrives in the ER with the news that she has passed her bar exams but several members of the staff interrupt their intimate celebration. Greene treats an elderly woman whose husband isn't ready to let her go. It's been eight weeks since Hathaway's attempted suicide, but Doug Ross has yet to bring himself to visit the woman he went out with for two years. Susan Lewis saves a newborn who is brought into the ER choking. She also argues with the psychiatric attending who refuses to admit a patient suffering from dementia. Carter finds himself having to care for a group of German tourists who are suffering from food poisoning. He also treats a young flirt with a rash. Benton treats a recent surgery patient and finds his correct diagnosis overturned by the man's physician. Susan Lewis treats a family struck by a drunk driver. The husband and daughter will survive but there is little hope for the woman. The drunk driver is also brought in suffering from only a few scratches.

Season 1, Episode 3: Going Home

Original Air Date—29 September 1994
Carol Hathaway returns to work after her suicide attempt. Doug Ross still feels guilty about what happened. An ER patient found walking he streets takes to singing, constantly. Susan Lewis has a run-in with the cardiologist on duty, Dr. Kayson, when he disagrees with her treatment of a heart attack victim. At a case review session, she gets very little support from her colleagues. She also treats a woman who is dying of leukemia and who has good advice for Hathaway. Greene treats a woman who has obviously been beaten by her husband but can't get to agree to get help.

Season 1, Episode 4: Hit and Run

Original Air Date—6 October 1994
Drs. Benton and Langworthy are unsuccessful in reviving a teen-aged boy involved in a traffic accident and it's left to Carter to determine the boy's identity and notify the parents. Unfortunately, he tells the wrong parents that their son is dead. Dough Ross tells a young patient that he will not be separated from his schizophrenic mother knowing that she will likely be hospitalized for a long time. Susan Lewis tells Mark that she is dating the psychiatric attending physician Div Cvetic. She also treats a salesman whose cell phone is having an odd effect on hospital equipment. Benton forgets that he was supposed to sit with his mother while his sister and brother-in-law were to go out for their tenth anniversary dinner.

Season 1, Episode 5: Into That Good Night

Original Air Date—13 October 1994
Mark Greene's wife Jen gets a position clerking with a Federal judge. Unfortunately, it's in Milwaukee, 2 hours away and she wants Mark to look for a job there. Greene and Susan Lewis treat Samuel Gasner, a man who has been waiting for a heart transplant and who will not survive the night unless a donor can be found. John Carter is worried that his latest paramour may have left him with a souvenir of their sexual encounter. Doug Ross treats a young girl suffering from severe asthma but whose mother can't afford her medication. Benton treats Ivan the liquor store owner who is shot for the third time in as many weeks.

Season 1, Episode 6: Chicago Heat

Original Air Date—20 October 1994
The realities of the ER may be too much for a child, but circumstances force Greene to bring his daughter Rachel with him on a day when the outdoor temperature tops 100 degrees and the air-conditioning doesn't work. Benton and Langworthy try in vain to save a boy shot in self-defense. Meanwhile, Lewis's broke sister, Chloe, steals Lewis's TV and VCR. After Ross crosses the line with Hathaway and Taglieri, Hathaway slugs Ross.

Season 1, Episode 7: Another Perfect Day

Original Air Date—3 November 1994
Doug Ross' hopes of renewing his relationship with Carol Hathaway take a positive turn after the two of them kiss following a particularly stressful trauma, but his hopes are dashed when she decides to move in with boyfriend Tag. John Carter has a particularly good day when Dr. Green successfully walks him through a complex procedure. Haleh takes Dr. Benton to task when he refuses to act as a role model for a young gangbanger she has an interest in. Benton is also competing with Dr. Langworthy for a prestigious fellowship. It's Susan Lewis' birthday and her sister Chloe shows up at the ER drunk.

Season 1, Episode 8: 9 1/2 Hours

Original Air Date—10 November 1994
Susan Lewis' boyfriend Div Cvetic, a psychiatric resident at County General, seems to be under a great deal of stress regularly lashing out at everyone. Doug Ross takes over for Mark Greene who takes a day off to be with his wife. He has a hard time keeping up with all the paperwork. John Carter is increasingly frustrated with Peter Benton who never seems to invite him to participate in surgeries. Benton learns the result of the fellowship he applied for and his mother shows up in the ER with a sprained ankle. Carol Hathaway treats a patient who was raped. A new ER aide, Bob, start work.

Season 1, Episode 9: ER Confidential

Original Air Date—17 November 1994
Carol Hathaway faces an ethical dilemma when a patient admits that he, and not his friend, was driving the car that ran a red light and killed a pedestrian. She decides to tell Tag about kissing Doug Ross. It's Thanksgiving and the doctors treat an animal rights activist who was attacked by the turkey he was trying to save. Doug Ross is going to the Bahamas with Linda Farrell and he is very much feeling like a kept man. Carter has to treat a transgendered man who has now reached an age where he can no longer pass as a woman. Carter's indifference is the final straw. Susan Lewis continues to worry about Div Cvetic, whose condition seems to be worsening.

Season 1, Episode 10: Blizzard

Original Air Date—8 December 1994
On a snowy Chicago day, all is quiet in the ER and the staff amuse themselves. Mark Greene and Susan Lewis put a cast on Carter's leg as a practical joke while Malik tries his hand at rap. Carol Hathaway announces that she and Tag are engaged. Dr. Angela Hicks joins the hospital staff. A major traffic accident on a local highway leads to a flood of patients. Doug Ross misdiagnoses a patient with tragic results. Bob the ER aide shows off her skills in an emergency situation.

Season 1, Episode 11: The Gift

Original Air Date—15 December 1994
It's Christmas-time and the expected range of emotions is to be found among the ER staffers. Susan Lewis treats a middle-aged woman who is overjoyed at finally getting pregnant. Susan is also shocked to hear that her boyfriend Div Cvetic has quit his job and moved out of his apartment. Mark Greene treats a young drowning victim. Doug Ross takes Greene's advice and decides to tell Carol Hathaway that he loves her; unfortunately he chooses to do so at her engagement party. Peter Benton jumps the gun and arranges for transplant teams to harvest an accident victims organs but the man's wife is now refusing to give consent. Susan's sister Chloe announces that she is pregnant.

Season 1, Episode 12: Happy New Year

Original Air Date—5 January 1995
Susan Lewis has a run-in with Dr. Jack Kayson, the cardiology resident, when he accuses her of not providing him with all necessary information on a patient who subsequently died. He makes it very clear that Susan will bear all responsibility for his death. Her sister Chloe informs her that she and her boyfriend are moving to Texas. John Carter is still frustrated by Peter Benton's apparent lack of interest in teaching him anything but a new go for it attitude leads to an invitation to assist in a surgical procedure. Benton's sister suggests to him that the time has come for them to put their mother in a care home.

Season 1, Episode 13: Luck of the Draw

Original Air Date—12 January 1995

Season 1, Episode 14: Long Day's Journey

Original Air Date—19 January 1995
Dr. Kayson becomes Lewis' patient.

Season 1, Episode 15: Feb 5, '95

Original Air Date—2 February 1995
Dr. Greene gets offered a new job by Morgenstern.

Season 1, Episode 16: Make of Two Hearts

Original Air Date—9 February 1995

Season 1, Episode 17: The Birthday Party

Original Air Date—16 February 1995
It's a day of birthdays. Peter Benton's mother is celebrating a birthday and he tries desperately to find someone to cover his shift. He makes a choice however when Dr. Hicks suggests that he's been absent too often and may wish to consider a leave of absence until his mother's situation is resolved. Carter thinks it's Benton birthday and has a surprise for him. Mark Greene's daughter is also having a birthday but he misses that due to an emergency at the hospital. An elderly, solitary man in the final stages of cancer arrives in the ER on his birthday. Carol Hathaway suggests to her fiancé that they adopt little Tatiana, the AIDS patient abandoned in the ER. Ross has to deal with a young child who was kicked out of a window.

Season 1, Episode 18: Sleepless in Chicago

Original Air Date—23 February 1995
Carol Hathaway goes ahead with her plans to adopt Tatiana, but her past history makes her ineligible. Benton continues to trade shifts so he can spend time with his mother but it all catches up with him and he has a run-in with Dr. Hicks. Doug Ross treats an abused child. Green, Benton and Carter take extraordinary measures to save a man they later learned had signed a DNR. A consultant arrives to study procedures in the ER, but all is not quite what it seems. Mark Green's wife Jen has an important announcement. Benton's mother has a serious accident when he falls asleep on the couch.

Season 1, Episode 19: Love's Labor Lost

Original Air Date—7 March 1995
Dr. Benton has to deal with the aftermath of his mother's fall and crosses the line with the surgical attending when he insists on scrubbing in for her operation. Dr. Greene deals with Jodi O'Brien who is two weeks away from giving birth. With the obstetrics attending unavailable, he decides to try to deliver her baby in the ER, with tragic results.

Season 1, Episode 20: Full Moon, Saturday Night

Original Air Date—30 March 1995
Dr. Greene is still haunted by the death of Jodi O'Brien and isn't sure he can function as a doctor. At Susan's urging, he takes the night off but unfortunately for him, the new head of the ER Dr. 'Wild Willy' Swift arrives unannounced. Susan impresses Swift with her handling of many cases on a busy night. She also has to deal with the case of a young man who has had the hiccups for two days but may in fact be suffering from something far more serious. Nurse Hathaway and fiancée Tag are still working out the details of their wedding. Peter Benton's mother is still hospitalized and he will not accept that her age and her injuries mean that she will need permanent nursing care. Dr. Ross is now dating Diane Leeds. John Carter and Deb Chen's attempts at oneupmanship is starting to take on ridiculous proportions.

Season 1, Episode 21: House of Cards

Original Air Date—6 April 1995
Dr. Greene is still having trouble dealing with cases in the ER and the new Chief of Staff is growing increasingly concerned. Greene also faces a difficult peer review to examine his handling of the Jodi O'Brien case. Dr. Benton takes on the difficult task of telling his mother that she must be placed in a home with full-time care. Susan's very pregnant sister Chloe returns to live with her. Dr Ross deals with the case of a young girl with a heart condition while Ross and Carter encounter a patient who refuses treatment for tuberculosis. When Benton asks Deb Chen and Carter to submit their procedures book in a few days, Deb feels she has to get a few more procedures under her belt if she's to best her fellow student. Unfortunately, her eagerness leads to near tragedy for a patient.

Season 1, Episode 22: Men Plan, God Laughs

Original Air Date—27 April 1995
Greene finds his marriage falling apart and is concerned at how little time he's spending with his daughter. He also treats an eight week old child with a heart murmur who requires surgery. Susan tries to get her pregnant sister Chloe to take her pregnancy seriously, but her head isn't quite into it. Benton tries desperately to find a surgeon who will operate on a 16 year-old with a severe brain aneurysm that could burst at any time. He's also concerned at his mother's care and is growing ever more attracted to Jeanie Boulet. Doug Ross' commitment to Diane Leeds gets more serious when he agrees to be an assistant coach for her son's little league baseball team.

Season 1, Episode 23: Love Among the Ruins

Original Air Date—4 May 1995
Doug Ross and Nurse Hathaway treat a girls' basketball team from a local catholic school for meningitis. Their teachers also need to be tested but one of them confides in Hathaway that she may have a particular problem. Green and the Chief of Staff have a disagreement in the middle of a procedure. With the wedding only two weeks away, Tag and Carol Hathaway have to deal with all of the final preparations, not the least of which is writing their own marriage vows. Susan deals with a suicide victim who is using emotional blackmail to keep his girlfriend from leaving him. Susan reaches the breaking point with her sister Chloe and tells her she has to move out.

Season 1, Episode 24: Motherhood

Original Air Date—11 May 1995
On a fateful Mother's Day, several staffers in the ER face possible life-changing events. Susan Lewis' sister Chloe gives birth to a beautiful - and healthy - baby girl. Things start to go wrong however when their mother Cookie - who had agreed to take in Chloe and the baby - suddenly decides she's done enough and Susan will have to take care of it. Carter turns down an offer for an ER sub-internship in the hopes that he'll get an offer in surgery. Dr. Hicks has news for him however. Benton's mother takes a turn for the worse. Carol Hathaway is overwhelmed with the final preparations as her wedding day approaches.

Season 1, Episode 25: Everything Old Is New Again

Original Air Date—18 May 1995
It's Carter's last day in the ER and finally fed up with Dr. Benton's apparent indifference, rejoices when he learns that he gets to write an appraisal on him. He subsequently regrets his negative input when he gets offered the surgical sub-internship he'd hoped for and learns that Benton gave him a glowing appraisal. He also spends a good part of the day with young leukemia victim who is fed up with life. Benton and Jeanie Boulet's relationship reaches a crossroads. Mark Greene is offered an attending position at the hospital but also learns that he is being sued for malpractice over his handling of the Jodi O'Brien case. The big day for Carol Hathaway and Tag is here but doubts creep in and one of them gets left standing at the altar.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Welcome Back Carter!

Original Air Date—21 September 1995
While victims of a gang shootout are being brought in, Carter is late and a new group of third year medical students arrives.

Season 2, Episode 2: Summer Run

Original Air Date—28 September 1995
It's Weaver's first day and she doesn't exactly make a lot of friends. Carol rides along with the paramedics.

Season 2, Episode 3: Do One, Teach One, Kill One

Original Air Date—5 October 1995
Carter gets his first official patient while Doug treats a four-year-old Asian boy who has AIDS.

Season 2, Episode 4: What Life?

Original Air Date—12 October 1995
The feud between Susan and Weaver gets to the point where Mark has to step in.

Season 2, Episode 5: And Baby Makes Two

Original Air Date—19 October 1995
Doug treats dying Chia-Chia. Mark however feels he's not doing the right thing for Chia-Chia.

Season 2, Episode 6: Days Like This

Original Air Date—2 November 1995
Doug and Harper had sex. Mark finds out about this. So does Carter.

Season 2, Episode 7: Hell and High Water

Original Air Date—9 November 1995
Doug saves a kid who's stuck in a flooded culvert and becomes a local hero when a TV helicopter films part of the rescue operation.

Season 2, Episode 8: The Secret Sharer

Original Air Date—16 November 1995
Doug gets the opportunity to stay at the ER thanks to the publicity surrounding his rescue of a drowning boy the week before.

Women: Season 2: Episode 9 -- A new doctor at Rampart suddenly disappears.

Season 2, Episode 9: Home

Original Air Date—7 December 1995
Jennifer and Rachel have been involved in a car accident and Mark rushes to Milwaukee where they're in the hospital.

Season 2, Episode 10: A Miracle Happens Here

Original Air Date—14 December 1995
Mark has to deal with the fact he can't see Rachel during the holidays and takes care of a Holocaust surviver whose grandchild is missing.

Season 2, Episode 11: Dead of Winter

Original Air Date—5 January 1996
Shep and Raul enter a house with about a dozen abandoned and ill-fed children and bring them to the ER.

Season 2, Episode 12: True Lies

Original Air Date—25 January 1996
Benton has to attend a banquet at Vucelich's home and asks Jeanie to go with him. Mark hesitates to tell Rachel about the divorce.

Season 2, Episode 13: It's Not Easy Being Greene

Original Air Date—1 February 1996
It's his day off, but Mark shows up for work anyway. After a patient dies and Morgenstern wants to speak to him, Mark soon regrets coming in after all.

Season 2, Episode 14: The Right Thing

Original Air Date—8 February 1996
Rumour has it there's something going on between Mark and Susan while Benton questions Vucelich's study and confronts him.

Season 2, Episode 15: Baby Shower

Original Air Date—15 February 1996
Benton tries to save someone who, according to the other surgeons, can't be saved while the ER gets crammed with pregnant women.

Season 2, Episode 16: The Healers

Original Air Date—22 February 1996
Shep and Raul go in a burning house without the proper equipment to save three children.

Season 2, Episode 17: The Match Game

Original Air Date—28 March 1996
Carter is very nervous because he's about to get his residency match. Mark changes his look.

Season 2, Episode 18: A Shift in the Night

Original Air Date—4 April 1996
Mark has to work for the fourth night in a row while a lot of the staff are absent and the number of patients is towering.

Season 2, Episode 19: Fire in the Belly

Original Air Date—25 April 1996
Benton dismisses a patient he hasn't seen who should have been admitted. Carter competes with Dale, a new surgical resident-in-training who once slept with Harper.

Season 2, Episode 20: Fevers of Unknown Origin

Original Air Date—2 May 1996
In order to avoid having to deal with her personal problems regarding little Susie, Susan wholly absorbs herself in her work.

Season 2, Episode 21: Take These Broken Wings

Original Air Date—9 May 1996
Susan has therapy to get over losing little Susie and Jeanie's ex-husband is brought in.

Season 2, Episode 22: John Carter, M.D.

Original Air Date—16 May 1996
Mark Greene strikes a deal with Kerry Weaver - he will support her application for an ER attending position if she in turn will support Susan Lewis for Chief Resident. When Susan doesn't get the job, Mark is told to go ask her why. Carter is finally going to graduate and wants Benton to attend the party his family is throwing for him. Unfortunately, Carter decides to sit with a young patient awaiting a liver transplant and misses his own graduation ceremony. With the news she has received about her former husband Al's health, Jeanie Boulet decides to have herself tested. Doug Ross' girlfriend Karen forges his prescription for percodan. Hathaway's boyfriend, Shep, is refusing to undergo his anger management treatment. Mark's ex-wife Jen tells him that she is going to re-marry. Loretta Sweet asks Greene if he would become guardian to her kids.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Doctor Carter, I Presume

Original Air Date—26 September 1996
It's the first day of Carter's internship. He has a 36 hour shift and overnight he has to cover the ER, the ICU as well as the surgical patients.

Season 3, Episode 2: Let the Games Begin

Original Air Date—3 October 1996
While the whole staff is worried the ER might close, Jeanie has her own problems in dealing with being HIV-positive.

Season 3, Episode 3: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Original Air Date—10 October 1996
Donald Anspaugh has a new method to increase the staff's efficiency, new intern Maggie Doyle joins the ER and Susan asks Mark to come along to Hawaii.

Season 3, Episode 4: Last Call

Original Air Date—17 October 1996
Doug's one-night-stand has a seizure and he brings her to the ER.

Season 3, Episode 5: Ghosts

Original Air Date—31 October 1996
While Mark is anxious about Susan's return from her holiday, Doug and Carol ride along with the health mobile.

Season 3, Episode 6: Fear of Flying

Original Air Date—7 November 1996
While on their helicopter flight rotation, Mark and Susan find an injured family of four who they bring to the ER.

Season 3, Episode 7: No Brain, No Gain

Original Air Date—14 November 1996
Encouraged by Carol, Mark finally asks Susan out. Benton tries to save a boy, despite the fact Doug thinks he's brain dead.

Season 3, Episode 8: Union Station

Original Air Date—21 November 1996
It's Susan's last day. Carol stands up for her nurses when one of them is being rotated to another department.

Season 3, Episode 9: Ask Me No Questions, I'll Tell You No Lies

Original Air Date—12 December 1996
Carol worries about her physics exam while Mark is heart-broken about Susan's departure and focuses solely on his job.

Season 3, Episode 10: Homeless for the Holidays

Original Air Date—19 December 1996
Mark and Kerry have to create a policy regarding HIV-positive employees, which leads to gossip amongst the nurses.

Season 3, Episode 11: Night Shift

Original Air Date—16 January 1997
Carol has to fire two of the nurses. Meanwhile, Gant feels Benton is too hard on him.

Season 3, Episode 12: Post Mortem

Original Air Date—23 January 1997
Carter feels guilty about Gant's death. Benton doesn't want to talk about it.

Season 3, Episode 13: Fortune's Fools

Original Air Date—30 January 1997
Benton can't keep his mind on the job, Mark and Chuny break up and Carol does what she needs to do regarding the fatal error she has made.

Season 3, Episode 14: Whose Appy Now?

Original Air Date—6 February 1997
Doug treats a dying 17-year old cystic fibrosis patient who doesn't want to be resuscitated. Carter gets to operate Benton.

Season 3, Episode 15: The Long Way Around

Original Air Date—13 February 1997
Nurse Carol Hathaway is held hostage during a convenience store robbery, then befriends one of the gunmen.

Season 3, Episode 16: Faith

Original Air Date—20 February 1997
Carol will hear whether her suspension is permanent or not. Mark and Doyle do what they can to get a patient with Down syndrome on a heart transplant list.

Season 3, Episode 17: Tribes

Original Air Date—10 April 1997
Race relations become an issue in the ER when Mark Greene treats two injured teenagers, one black and the other white, and assumes the black kid was a drug dealer. It turns the white kid was the drug dealer and the black kid is a high school basketball star and an innocent bystander. When the black student's older brother confronts him, he begins to question his own impartiality. Carol Hathaway helps a young woman who was drugged with Rohipnol and raped. Benton gets an interesting offer from Dr. Hicks. He also learns that Carla Reece has been admitted to the hospital. Dr. Carter treats a woman with a serious condition but he seems to be the only one who sees it. Mark Greene's daughter ends up spending the day in the ER when her mom has to rush to Florida to deal with a family emergency.

Season 3, Episode 18: You Bet Your Life

Original Air Date—17 April 1997
Benton tries to find out if everything's OK with Carla's baby. Carter tries to get a man operated, despite the fact Anspaugh thinks he will die no matter what.

Season 3, Episode 19: Calling Dr. Hathaway

Original Air Date—24 April 1997
Benton takes a day off to help Carla. Carter finds out Edson falsified a chart.

Season 3, Episode 20: Random Acts

Original Air Date—1 May 1997
Jeanie asks Greg to help Al get into a special AIDS-program at the hospital. Olbes brings in her grandfather, who had a stroke.

Season 3, Episode 21: Make a Wish

Original Air Date—8 May 1997
It's Carol's birthday, Mark is returning to work after being assaulted and Carla goes into premature labor.

Season 3, Episode 22: One More for the Road

Original Air Date—15 May 1997
Anspaugh is furious when Carter tells him he wants to quit surgery. Charlie is brought in with an overdose. Mark keeps struggling with his beating.

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Ambush

Original Air Date—25 September 1997
While a film crew is filming in the ER, it's Elizabeth Corday's first day.

Season 4, Episode 2: Something New

Original Air Date—2 October 1997
Carter is exited about getting his own med student and Mark and Carol interview candidates for the desk clerk position.

Season 4, Episode 3: Friendly Fire

Original Air Date—9 October 1997
Cynthia Hooper starts as the new desk clerk. Benton and Carla disagree over whether or not their son should be circumcised. Al gets in an accident at work.

Season 4, Episode 4: When the Bough Breaks

Original Air Date—23 October 1997
His ex-wife Jennifer tells Mark he can't see Rachel until he's got his act together. Reece gets to go home. Al has lost his job.

Season 4, Episode 5: Good Touch, Bad Touch

Original Air Date—30 October 1997
Carol would like to have a women's and children's health care clinic within the ER. Benton has trouble combining work and fatherhood.

Season 4, Episode 6: Ground Zero

Original Air Date—6 November 1997
Al wants to move to Atlanta where he got a job offer. Jeanie however isn't keen on moving. Carol talks to Carter's grandmother about the clinic.

Season 4, Episode 7: Fathers and Sons

Original Air Date—13 November 1997
Ross and Greene travel to a near-deserted stretch of California to investigate circumstances surrounding a death in Doug's family.

Season 4, Episode 8: Freak Show

Original Air Date—20 November 1997
Benton has a very extraordinary and interesting case when he comes across a boy with reversed internal organs.

Season 4, Episode 9: Obstruction of Justice

Original Air Date—11 December 1997
Jeanie believes she's been fired because she has HIV and fights her dismissal.

Season 4, Episode 10: Do You See What I See?

Original Air Date—18 December 1997
Mark treats an old lady who has been brutally raped. Carter's grandmother visits Carol's clinic. After he's touched by Benton, a blind man can see again!

Season 4, Episode 11: Think Warm Thoughts

Original Air Date—8 January 1998
Dr. Anspaugh's 13-year-old son is brought in and Anspaugh asks Mark to look after him. Another old lady who has been raped is brought in.

Season 4, Episode 12: Sharp Relief

Original Air Date—15 January 1998
Kerry starts to doubt the methods of Synergix. Carter tries to help his cousin beat his drug addiction. Jeanie becomes Scott Anspaugh's part-time caregiver.

Season 4, Episode 13: Carter's Choice

Original Air Date—29 January 1998
Another elderly rape victim is brought in. So is the rapist.

Season 4, Episode 14: Family Practice

Original Air Date—5 February 1998
Mark rushes out to San Diego when his mother has a serious fall and is hospitalized. When he gets there, he finds her suffering from mild dementia and questions the care she is receiving. To his surprise, Cynthia Hooper follows him unannounced and uninvited, leading for them to come a conclusion about their relationship. Mark also learns a lot about his parents' relationship and while he continues to struggle with his difficult relationship with his father, he also learns of some of the sacrifices the man made for his family.

Season 4, Episode 15: Exodus

Original Air Date—26 February 1998
Because of benzene that's been spread, the ER has to close. Weaver gets felled and Carter has to take the lead.

Season 4, Episode 16: My Brother's Keeper

Original Air Date—5 March 1998
Mark finds out Cynthia has moved. Carter's cousin Chase is brought in because of a heroin overdose. Doug and Kerry clash after she found a flaw in his study.

Season 4, Episode 17: A Bloody Mess

Original Air Date—9 April 1998
Dr. David Morgenstern returns after a six-month absence recovering from his heart attack. His new outlook on life however has Kerry Weaver questioning his abilities. Elizabeth Corday decides to start a study on the use of artificial blood in the ER, but the only problem is that she fails to discuss it first with Rocket Romano. Doug Ross decides to apply for an ER attending position. Scott Anspaugh suffers a major relapse. Anna Del Amico is confronted by an irate husband who wants his ill wife to terminate her pregnancy. At the free clinic, Carol Hathaway has to deal with the case of an underage high school student who is sleeping with her 40-year-old teacher. Peter Benton hits a pedestrian with a car but Carter helps him out with an important piece of information.

Season 4, Episode 18: Gut Reaction

Original Air Date—16 April 1998
When a compatible bone marrow donor cannot be located, Scott Anspaugh agrees to undergo a new round of chemotherapy, even though there appears to be little point. Doug Ross suggests to Jeanie Boulet that Scott may have agreed to the therapy because of her. Mark Greene has taken on the task of organizing the annual ER banquet only to find that Jerry, on whom he had been relying for much of the preparation, hasn't quite delivered. John Carter confronts his grandmother when he learns that she has cut off funding for Carol Hathaway's free clinic. In the OR, Peter Benton has a major confrontation with Dr. Morgenstern, pushing him aside and taking over an operation. Greene and Weaver criticize Doug Ross over his handling of a sick child and her mother.

Season 4, Episode 19: Shades of Gray

Original Air Date—23 April 1998
Following the incident in the OR, Drs. Morgenstern and Benton present the case to their colleagues. As a result, Peter Benton finds himself suspended for insubordination pending a full inquiry. Jeanie attends Scott Anspaugh's funeral and has some information to share with the boy's father. Anna Del Amico finds herself ethically unable to perform an abortion and is taken to task by Dr. Weaver. John Carter gets the hospital to take legal guardianship of a patient he feels has been subjected to elder abuse, but subsequently doubts that he made the right decision.

Season 4, Episode 20: Of Past Regret and Future Fear

Original Air Date—30 April 1998
Benton and Elizabeth Corday spend the night together. Corday is shocked when Rocket Romano suggests that they go out on a date. John Carter and his grandmother clash over the future of Chase Carter; she wants him cared for at home while John feels he should remain institutionalized where he can continue to receive therapy. Carol Hathaway finally gets around to inviting her mother to a Sunday brunch with her and Doug but is a bit surprised when she shows up with her boyfriend. In the ER, Hathaway comforts a man is going to die from chemical burns.

Season 4, Episode 21: Suffer the Little Children

Original Air Date—7 May 1998
Assisted by Carol Hathaway, Doug Ross decides to detoxify a drug-addicted infant in the ER without telling anyone. Jeanie Boulet is feeling rundown and fears that her health may be deteriorating. John Carter is less than pleased when Anna Del Amico's former boyfriend shows up in the ER conducting a study on the need for a pediatric attending physician. Del Amico also has to treat a televangelist who is using her health issues to raise money. Elizabeth Corday is worried that Rocket Romano may be aware of her affair with Peter Benton and that it will affect her fellowship.

Season 4, Episode 22: A Hole in the Heart

Original Air Date—14 May 1998
At the hospital daycare, one of the child-care workers suggests to Peter Benton that he may want to have baby Reece's hearing checked. Doug Ross dodges a bullet by admitting upfront his error in detoxifying a baby without permission. Having been acting Chief for over 6 months, Kerry Weaver puts her name forward to replace David Morgenstern as Chief of Emergency Medicine only to be told she will have to compete for the job. The doctors treat a couple of Elvis impersonators who sky dive into Lake Superior. When drugs go missing from the ER, John Carter suspects Anna Del Amico's ex-boyfriend.

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: Day for Knight

Original Air Date—24 September 1998
Third-year med student Lucy Knight reports to the ER for the first day of her rotation. Greene takes a paternal interest in her, helping her get acquainted, but she gets off to a bad start with the irritable Carter. The rest of the day finds her informing a wife of her husband's terminal condition, comforting a pregnant woman, getting locked on the roof and trying to figure out Weaver's "Tour on Tape."

Season 5, Episode 2: Split Second

Original Air Date—1 October 1998
Dr. Corday's father visits from overseas in an attempt to convince her to join his medical practice. Lucy continues learning, earning more respect from Carter, who is having trouble being an RA in the dorms. Meanwhile, Peter takes Reese in for another hearing test, Carol hires a nurse practitioner to help out in the clinic, and Weaver continues to remind Doug of the way he bypassed her authority.

Season 5, Episode 3: They Treat Horses, Don't They?

Original Air Date—8 October 1998
Benton performs dangerous surgery on a bomb-carrying man who was shot at a factory. Dr. Ross receives some good news that Dr. Weaver doesn't embrace, but she has no recourse. Rachel encourages Dr. Greene to help a horse that is in pain. Jeanie Boulet returns from her vacation.

Season 5, Episode 4: Vanishing Act

Original Air Date—15 October 1998
Lucy finally admits to Carter that she doesn't know how to start an IV. Weaver interviews for the job as the ER Chief. Benton keeps his son's disease a secret. Jeanie intervenes when she finds out a liver transplant candidate is drinking again, and later asks Doug if she can be assigned to work for his pedes project in the ER. Corday gets stuck as the intern of dismissive and insulting Dr. Dale Edson.

Season 5, Episode 5: Masquerade

Original Air Date—29 October 1998
It's Halloween in the ER, and the medical students throw a party; as a result, Carter decides that Lucy isn't mature enough to take responsibilities. A candidate for the ER Chief position arrives from New York and drives home disappointment for Kerry. Mark screws up when he doesn't recognize a homeless schizophrenic woman is pregnant before treating her. Benton treats Corday to a fun Halloween.

Season 5, Episode 6: Stuck on You

Original Air Date—5 November 1998
The board decides to extend the search for a new ER Chief, leaving Kerry waiting for a decision. Benton visits a doctor who is deaf/mute and he realizes that there is nothing "wrong" with his son. Mark saves the life of a gay prostitute and then tries to get the kid to avoid reckless behavior. Carter loses his Resident Advisor job because of Lucy, then blames her for not going along with his plan to defraud an insurance company, but she inadvertently leads him to shave off a nasty-looking beard he'd been growing. Corday saves two lives and impresses Benton enough that he decides to request she be his intern instead of Dale's. Carol tries to help an elderly Jewish guy find a place to live.

Season 5, Episode 7: Hazed and Confused

Original Air Date—12 November 1998
Carter and Weaver become unlikely roommates. Lucy is having problems with Carter, and Greene picks up on their squabbling. Corday works long shifts which leads to her exhaustion and a critical medical error, causing a rift with Dr. Anspaugh and problems for Benton. Greene has unpleasant flashbacks when he's hazed by the well-meaning paramedics. Jeanie worries when she and Doug treat a young boy whose childlike mother clearly depends on his 6-year sister to make all decisions. Kerry rediscovers her joy of practicing medicine and decides not to pursue the open ER Chief job, which goes instead to a Dr. Amanda Lee.

Season 5, Episode 8: The Good Fight

Original Air Date—19 November 1998
A man arrives at the ER with his daughter who is gravely injured, then leaves the ER leaving his daughter in a critical situation because her father is the only one who is a match for her blood type. Carter and Lucy alternately bicker and work well together as they try to track down the father, and put their problems behind them at the end of the day. Meanwhile, snafus involving the blood supply lead Benton to perform an unprecedented operation to save the little girl.

Season 5, Episode 9: Good Luck, Ruth Johnson

Original Air Date—10 December 1998
Corday faces M&M where the board were discussing about the mistake that Corday made after she gave the wrong diagnosis to a patient. She decides to take the offensive and let the board know how wrong it is for her and any other doctor to work 36 hours. The board decides to do nothing about it, and she later decides to amicably end her relationship with Benton. At the hospital arrives Ruth Johnson who was born 100 years ago in that same hospital and shares some experiences with Carter. Carol is horrified by the true story behind a young boy's fatal shooting.

Season 5, Episode 10: The Miracle Worker

Original Air Date—17 December 1998
It's Christmas day in the ER. An 18-year-old boy arrives brain-dead, and Carter has to convince his parents to donate his organs, since a 16-year-old girl needs a liver. Benton risks his career by preventing Romano from operating under the influence. Ross and Hathaway have a religious dispute over how to deal with a pregnant 13-year-old. Corday is charmed by a musician who is facing surgery for testicular cancer. Dr. Lee flirts with Mark but turns out to have some major issues and strange story-telling habits.

Season 5, Episode 11: Nobody Doesn't Like Amanda Lee

Original Air Date—7 January 1999
Dr. Greene discovers that Amanda Lee is a fake and Anspaugh never saw through her credentials. When Lee finds out that Greene is suspicious, she locks him with a patient inside. An old friend of Greene's recommends him for a NASA mission. Benton's son is having difficulties in day care. Doug and Carol help the exhausted mother named Joi of a little boy named Ricky who has a terminal illness. Carter is jealous when Lucy goes on a date with Dale.

Season 5, Episode 12: Double Blind

Original Air Date—21 January 1999
Lucy begins her surgical rotation under Benton and Corday. Romano offers to get Corday's fellowship reinstated and asks her to assist him in surgery. Weaver interrogates Corday, asking if Romano ever sexually harassed her. Corday denies it and concludes that Doyle must have filed charges. Ross jeopardizes a liquid pain medicine study by surreptitiously giving some of the drug to Joi's son, Ricky. Greene discovers the secret and informs Weaver. They decide not to tell Anspaugh because, by violating protocol on a federally-funded trial, the hospital would be unable to obtain research money and Medicare payments for years.

Season 5, Episode 13: Choosing Joi

Original Air Date—4 February 1999
Ross helps the mother of a dying boy; Benton attends a parent/child signing class. Corday doesn't give her account in the case against Dr. Romano. Romano blackmails Corday into dropping her support for Doyle's harassment lawsuit against Romano, but Kerry gets Romano to rewrite his insulting and inaccurate review of Doyle's job performance. The ER unites to help an injured woman who needs to find temporary homes for her many dogs as she gets treatment. Mark treats the hospital janitor, Mobalage, whose injuries suggest he has been tortured in the past. Carter discovers something with one of the med students he is mentoring.

Season 5, Episode 14: The Storm: Part 1

Original Air Date—11 February 1999
Doug faces possible criminal charges after Ricky Abbott dies when Ross shows Joi how to give Ricky a lethal dosage of medication. Doug is delegated to desk duty, Carol's clinic is shut down for acquiring the P.C.A. machine for Ricky, and Greene and Weaver face future disciplinary action for not reporting Doug's earlier mistakes. Meanwhile, Carter and Lucy discover a mutual attraction, Benton studies with a sign language instructor, and Romano begins his first day as acting ER chief.

Season 5, Episode 15: The Storm: Part 2

Original Air Date—18 February 1999
Greene assists paramedics in treating injured children at a school bus accident. En route, Doug and Jeanie survive their own accident. Kerry stops Doug from treating Jeanie... or any other patient. But when Jeanie is treated, Kerry and Peter realize she has hepatitis. Doug decides to resign and leave Chicago for the Northwest and asks Carol to come with him. Meanwhile, Carol steps down from running the clinic so that Anspaugh will keep it open.

Season 5, Episode 16: Middle of Nowhere

Original Air Date—25 February 1999
Benton travels to a Mississippi clinic during his vacation time to earn money for his son's therapy, and becomes a local hero when he uses his medical knowledge to help several residents.

Season 5, Episode 17: Sticks and Stones

Original Air Date—25 March 1999
Carter deals with tenant drama at an apartment tower during a ride-along that later has deadly consequences, Lucy has to hide a cancer diagnosis from an ill woman at the behest of the patient's family, Carol finds out she is pregnant, Kerry reflects on her own family issues when an injured wrestler comes to the ER, and Greene continues to help Mobalage, who may be deported if he can't tell the INS about the abuse he suffered in Nigeria.

Season 5, Episode 18: Point of Origin

Original Air Date—8 April 1999
Greene uses a past trauma to help Mobalage save himself from deportation. Carter applies for chief resident and spends the day in charge of the ER, where he misunderstands a case involving the many broken bones of a baby, while Lucy begins her first psych rotation. Weaver may have found her biological mother, but defies a DNR order to find out for sure. Benton and Corday clash over a surgical fellowship.

Season 5, Episode 19: Rites of Spring

Original Air Date—29 April 1999
Carter mentors a talented teen from a very rough neighborhood. Romano is upset about Benton's interest in the fellowship. Lucy continues impressive work in her Psych rotation, treating a law student with homicidal impulses and an angry youngster who is being severely over-medicated. Jeanie continues to grapple with her Hepatitis-C but gets a huge boost from a kindly minister. Hathaway reveals she is pregnant after a kid kicks her in the stomach, risking her baby. Greene and Corday attempt to go to a ball for trauma physicians but end up getting lost repeatedly while having a lot of fun hanging out together.

Season 5, Episode 20: Power

Original Air Date—6 May 1999
Romano observes the ER, and rubs the staff the wrong way. Lucy finds out that an elderly patient's bedsore is really much more. Carter breaks up with his girlfriend. The power goes out at County General, and the doctors must keep critical patients alive. Corday investigates the rape of a comatose patient.

Season 5, Episode 21: Responsible Parties

Original Air Date—13 May 1999
The ER has to deal with a stripper and some shady dealings from apparent FBI agents. Lucy reveals to Carter that she's still on Ritalin. Hathaway begins to reveal her pregnancy to those closest to her, including a fax to Doug. Dr. Anspaugh decides that the trauma fellowship will go to Benton, who then faces anger from Romano and Corday. A car accident involving teenagers may have been alcohol-related and leaves one teenager with grievous third-degree burns.

Season 5, Episode 22: Getting to Know You

Original Air Date—20 May 1999
The rest of the staff finds out that Hathaway is pregnant. Benton begins a custody battle for his son when Carla Reese reveals an intention to marry Roger and take the child to Germany. Weaver rescues a toddler that has been drugged. Carter's protégé is mugged and beaten up. Greene and Corday fall in love.

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: Leave It to Weaver

Original Air Date—30 September 1999

Season 6, Episode 2: Last Rites

Original Air Date—7 October 1999

Season 6, Episode 3: Greene with Envy

Original Air Date—14 October 1999

Season 6, Episode 4: Sins of the Fathers

Original Air Date—21 October 1999

Season 6, Episode 5: Truth & Consequences

Original Air Date—4 November 1999

Season 6, Episode 6: The Peace of Wild Things

Original Air Date—11 November 1999
Benton struggles with the idea of taking a DNA test to determine whether or not Reese is actually his son. As the signs continue to pile up, Kerry and Mark use a fake patient to convince Dr. Lawrence of his Alzheimer's. Carter has trouble persuading a woman from a nursing home fire to sign a DNR for her husband and later is asked to forge charts for a family with no insurance. Carol continues to meddle in Meg's life, having her arrested so that she can be detoxed. Cleo is blamed for an explosion in the suture room but it may actually be Dr. Dave's fault.

Season 6, Episode 7: Humpty Dumpty

Original Air Date—18 November 1999

Season 6, Episode 8: Great Expectations

Original Air Date—25 November 1999

Season 6, Episode 9: How the Finch Stole Christmas

Original Air Date—16 December 1999

Season 6, Episode 10: Family Matters

Original Air Date—6 January 2000

Season 6, Episode 11: The Domino Heart

Original Air Date—13 January 2000

Season 6, Episode 12: Abby Road

Original Air Date—3 February 2000

Season 6, Episode 13: Be Still My Heart

Original Air Date—10 February 2000
The Staff is having a Valentine's Day party while Carter and Lucy get stabbed by a patient.

Season 6, Episode 14: All in the Family

Original Air Date—17 February 2000
Carter and Lucy are discovered and the staff struggles to save them and go on with normal patient care.

Season 6, Episode 15: Be Patient

Original Air Date—24 February 2000

Season 6, Episode 16: Under Control

Original Air Date—23 March 2000

Season 6, Episode 17: Viable Options

Original Air Date—6 April 2000

Season 6, Episode 18: Match Made in Heaven

Original Air Date—13 April 2000

Season 6, Episode 19: The Fastest Year

Original Air Date—27 April 2000

Season 6, Episode 20: Loose Ends

Original Air Date—4 May 2000

Season 6, Episode 21: Such Sweet Sorrow

Original Air Date—11 May 2000

Season 6, Episode 22: May Day

Original Air Date—18 May 2000

Season 7


Season 7, Episode 1: Homecoming

Original Air Date—12 October 2000
Dr. Carter struggles with his drug dependency; a custodial strike leaves the ER cluttered with garbage; a riot at a high-school football game leaves several wounded.

Season 7, Episode 2: Sand and Water

Original Air Date—19 October 2000
A young couple cope with their baby being premature; Greene and Corday struggle with their relationship.

Season 7, Episode 3: Mars Attacks

Original Air Date—26 October 2000
Dr. Carter is allowed a cautious restart with small steps. An extremely blond Dr. Malucci is very curious who's made Dr. Chen pregnant. Dr. Benton has been written out of all the hospital's systems and is stunned by Dr. Romano. An unfortunate incident at a Science Fiction convention makes it look like scenes from the movie 'Mars Attacks'.

Season 7, Episode 4: Benton Backwards

Original Air Date—2 November 2000

Season 7, Episode 5: Flight of Fancy

Original Air Date—9 November 2000

Season 7, Episode 6: The Visit

Original Air Date—16 November 2000

Season 7, Episode 7: Rescue Me

Original Air Date—23 November 2000

Season 7, Episode 8: The Dance We Do

Original Air Date—7 December 2000

Season 7, Episode 9: The Greatest of Gifts

Original Air Date—14 December 2000

Season 7, Episode 10: Piece of Mind

Original Air Date—4 January 2001

Season 7, Episode 11: Rock, Paper, Scissors

Original Air Date—11 January 2001

Season 7, Episode 12: Surrender

Original Air Date—1 February 2001

Season 7, Episode 13: Thy Will Be Done

Original Air Date—8 February 2001

Season 7, Episode 14: A Walk in the Woods

Original Air Date—15 February 2001

Season 7, Episode 15: The Crossing

Original Air Date—22 February 2001

Season 7, Episode 16: Witch Hunt

Original Air Date—1 March 2001

Season 7, Episode 17: Survival of the Fittest

Original Air Date—29 March 2001

Season 7, Episode 18: April Showers

Original Air Date—19 April 2001

Season 7, Episode 19: Sailing Away

Original Air Date—26 April 2001

Season 7, Episode 20: Fear of Commitment

Original Air Date—3 May 2001

Season 7, Episode 21: Where the Heart Is

Original Air Date—10 May 2001

Season 7, Episode 22: Rampage

Original Air Date—17 May 2001
The ER is flooded with foster care home residents, attacked by a shooter bent on tracking down his son, who , with the help of Dr. Green, was put into the foster care system amid allegations he was being abused by his father.

Season 8


Season 8, Episode 1: Four Corners

Original Air Date—27 September 2001

Season 8, Episode 2: The Longer You Stay

Original Air Date—4 October 2001

Season 8, Episode 3: Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic

Original Air Date—11 October 2001

Season 8, Episode 4: Never Say Never

Original Air Date—18 October 2001

Season 8, Episode 5: Start All Over Again

Original Air Date—25 October 2001

Season 8, Episode 6: Supplies and Demands

Original Air Date—1 November 2001

Season 8, Episode 7: If I Should Fall from Grace

Original Air Date—8 November 2001
A new medical student, Michael Gallant, arrives in the ER. He's supposed to be working under Dr. Carter's supervision but his grandmother is unwell. Elizabeth Corday is convinced that other doctors are refusing to work with as a result of the mysterious deaths. Mark Green thinks she's overreacting but she's determined to find out what happened to her patients. Abby and Luka argue over the attention he is paying to a trainee nurse's aide. Dr. Benton's finds himself in court to retain custody of his son, Reese. Carter and Susan Lewis treat a young woman who is both a law and a medical student. Green has to collect his daughter at school when she is suspended.

Season 8, Episode 8: Partly Cloudy, Chance of Rain

Original Air Date—15 November 2001

Season 8, Episode 9: Quo Vadis?

Original Air Date—22 November 2001
Peter Benton continues his court fight against Reese's stepfather, Roger, who seems to have the upper hand. When a woman is accidentally shot during a gas station robbery, Dr. Corday tries to convince the husband to let them harvest her organs. A 15 year old boxer is brought in with a head trauma after sparring with his older brother. Newlyweds are having trouble when she constantly breaks out in a rash; Carter thinks he knows the cause. Luka tells Abby hat he may marry Nicole, who has told him she is pregnant. Dr. Green lays down the law when the police bring in a high school student and he learns that his daughter is outside sitting in the police car.

Season 8, Episode 10: I'll Be Home for Christmas

Original Air Date—13 December 2001
Peter Benton's court battle enters its final stage and his lawyer advises him that if he wants to retain custody of Reese, he needs to re-evaluate his priorities. As a result, he puts his career on the line and presents Dr. Romano with an ultimatum. Kerry Weaver goes out on a date with a paramedic. With his grandmother still recovering, Carter is pleased that his father will be spending Christmas with them. He's not too pleased when he learns why his mother won't be joining them. Abby learns that Nicole may not have been lying to Luka after all. Green treats a young boy who was accidentally shot by his mother.

Season 8, Episode 11: Beyond Repair

Original Air Date—10 January 2002
Abby helps a distraught boy whose mother died of a stroke; a man with schizophrenia, who once stabbed Carter and killed a doctor checks into the ER.

Season 8, Episode 12: A River in Egypt

Original Air Date—17 January 2002
An injured and condemned murderer wants to die in the ER rather than await execution; Abby advises a neighbor to seek shelter from her abusive husband.

Season 8, Episode 13: Damage Is Done

Original Air Date—31 January 2002
An accidental overdose brings Drs. Green and Corday's baby into the ER.

Season 8, Episode 14: A Simple Twist of Fate

Original Air Date—7 February 2002
Greene confronts Corday when she orders Rachel out of their home; Abby tries to protect a battered neighbor who refuses to press charges against her husband.

Season 8, Episode 15: It's All in Your Head

Original Air Date—28 February 2002
After Dr. Corday moves out, Dr. Green fights loneliness and pain by immersing himself into his work. Dr. Chen discovers that a comatose teen is ready to give birth.

Season 8, Episode 16: Secrets and Lies

Original Air Date—7 March 2002
After some staff members are caught going through a dominatrix's bag, Weaver makes them attend a sexual harassment seminar, where they learn about each other.

Season 8, Episode 17: Bygones

Original Air Date—28 March 2002
Drs. Corday and Greene are awkward when working together in the ER. Dr. Weaver treats victims of an intense fire that may take the life of a dear friend.

Season 8, Episode 18: Orion in the Sky

Original Air Date—4 April 2002
As Dr. Greene's brain tumor begins affecting his coordination, he becomes concerned that his fate will be similar to the terminally ill patients he treats.

Season 8, Episode 19: Brothers and Sisters

Original Air Date—25 April 2002
When Dr. Lewis gets a hysterical call from her niece, Susie, she hurries to New York to search for the child and her sister Chloe.

Season 8, Episode 20: The Letter

Original Air Date—2 May 2002
Dr. Carter reads a letter from terminally ill Dr. Green to the ER staff. Dr. Weaver lashes out at a mentally challenged patient. A terminal, homeless man continues asking for Dr. Green.

Season 8, Episode 21: On the Beach

Original Air Date—9 May 2002
Dr. Greene's final days are spent in Hawaii with Rachel, teaching her to drive and surf. When he suffers a seizure, Elizabeth is called. Mark refuses to go home. He manages to make amends with his daughter before his eventual death.

Season 8, Episode 22: Lockdown

Original Air Date—16 May 2002
Just when the ER is understaffed and swamped, two children who were brought in turn out to have full blown smallpox. The entire ER must be locked down. The staff needs to improvise while they battle not only the disease but also frayed tempers.

Season 9


Season 9, Episode 1: Chaos Theory

Original Air Date—26 September 2002
Dr. Carter, Abby and other staff of the ER are quarantined as the CDC investigate a mysterious, deadly outbreak.

Season 9, Episode 2: Dead Again

Original Air Date—3 October 2002
After another hospital shuts down, the ER is flooded with patients. Dr. Pratt resuscitates a heart-attack victim who had been pronounced dead.

Season 9, Episode 3: Insurrection

Original Air Date—10 October 2002
Dr. Carter leads a walk-out of staff protesting lack of security in the ER.

Season 9, Episode 4: Walk Like a Man

Original Air Date—17 October 2002
Carter is concerned when he learns that Abby is drinking socially when the girls from work get together. Abby however doesn't appreciate his concern. Dr. Weaver embarrasses herself on television. Michael Gallant is frustrated when the resident cardiac specialist, Dr. Kayson, dismisses his diagnosis of a patient who subsequently dies. Dr. Pratt decides to report an Army Ranger who tried to commit suicide even though Gallant had decided to give the soldier the benefit of the doubt. Dr. Corday has deal with a severely injured woman who is more concerned about her Alzheimer's afflicted husband. Dr. Kovac's sex-addiction extends to having sex in a supply room with a young patient's mother.

Season 9, Episode 5: A Hopeless Wound

Original Air Date—31 October 2002
On a busy Halloween night, Carter and Abby are the only staffers in costume when victims of an apartment building fire pack the ER. Corday takes on a new med student for a surgical rotation - Paul Nathan, who suffers from Parkinson's disease and decided to pursue medicine after being diagnosed. Despite a difficult first day, both professionally and medically, Nathan makes a difficult diagnosis. Romano's rehab lags behind his expectations, and he begins to doubt his role in surgery is no longer an option. In a moment of personal weakness, he tries to express his feelings for Corday. Weaver continues to display erratic behavior, raising staff suspicions about her menopause. Luka's burgeoning sex addiction worsens, as an affair with Chuny is revealed, and tensions rise when he treats a patient with a perpetual erection.

Season 9, Episode 6: One Can Only Hope

Original Air Date—7 November 2002
Corday clashes with new surgical resident Paul Nathan regarding his intervention into the treatment of a sickly young woman, Alison, who has signed a "do not resuscitate" order. Abby wonders about the erratic behavior of her visiting brother Eric, and feels conflicted over a nurse's official complaint against Kovac, Abby's former lover. Meanwhile, Pratt comforts Chen after a patient threatens her, and Corday suspects that an unconscious 14-year-old female patient has been sexually assaulted.

Season 9, Episode 7: Tell Me Where It Hurts

Original Air Date—14 November 2002
Abby fears the worst when her brother Eric suddenly disappears. He is actually AWOL and she forges Carter's name to obtain his medical records. Carter and Chen treat a frightened Chinese immigrant nanny, Tong-Yi, whom they suspect was impregnated by her employer. Meanwhile, new surgical resident Paul Nathan, who is struggling to overcome a physical disability, tries to help in the emergency room but his fellow doctors do not appreciate his advice to patients. Unable to quench his sexual appetite, Kovac also gets into trouble in his professional life, despite his admirable resolve to find an eye specialist to treat a young gunshot victim. Gallant and fellow medical student Erin Harkins engage in an escalating competition of medical knowledge. And Weaver gets some much-needed good news.

Season 9, Episode 8: First Snowfall

Original Air Date—21 November 2002
Abby's family nightmare continues as she and her mother Maggie search for Abby's missing brother Eric, who Abby suspects is suffering from serious mental problems. The two women go to a Midwestern air force base, hoping to prevent Eric from being court-martialed for being absent without leave. Carter struggles to get out of Chicago to join Abby. Meanwhile, Corday treats a family of patients who, while building a snowman, were severely injured after being struck by a truck driver. She must help the father, Stuart, make a life-or-death decision. Corday also sympathizes with troubled surgical resident Paul Nathan as he struggles with the increasing symptoms of his physical handicap.

Season 9, Episode 9: Next of Kin

Original Air Date—5 December 2002
Harkins faces a tough call while treating a troubled teen involved in a car crash with her dad; Abby races to stop Maggie from taking manic-depressive Eric out of treatment; and Kovac hits a new low when an elderly woman tips him for his medical services. Meanwhile, an abandoned baby dredges up painful memories for Chen; and Pratt goes to bat for Leon after he's fired for stealing from his job.

Season 9, Episode 10: Hindsight

Original Air Date—12 December 2002
Dr. Kovac's speeding causes a crash on an icy road. The ER staff treats angry elves and a female hockey player with a head injury.

Season 9, Episode 11: A Little Help from My Friends

Original Air Date—9 January 2003
Dr. Pratt brings a gun into the ER; Dr. Weaver tries to conceal her pregnancy; a woman plots against her dying husband; Dr. Chen treats math students who overdosed on an unknown stimulant.

Season 9, Episode 12: A Saint in the City

Original Air Date—16 January 2003
Dr. Weaver is in a difficult situation when an alderman tests positive for syphilis. Dr. Carter is impressed when he meets a man who runs an inner city clinic.

Season 9, Episode 13: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Original Air Date—30 January 2003
Dr. Pratt's disabled roommate leads him to a wounded thief. Dr Carter decides to practice medicine in Africa. A doctor makes a pass at Dr. Corday.

Season 9, Episode 14: No Strings Attached

Original Air Date—6 February 2003
Abby's troubled brother is missing. A car runs into a crowd of teen girls. The alderman with syphilis gives Dr. Weaver a promotion. Dr. Lewis looks forward to a blind date.

Season 9, Episode 15: A Boy Falling Out of the Sky

Original Air Date—13 February 2003
Abby comes close to breaking down trying to deal with her mother. Dr. Pratt goes for his required paramedic ride-along. Dr. Weaver confronts the man who stole her purse. Dr. Lewis has a teen admirer.

Season 9, Episode 16: A Thousand Cranes

Original Air Date—20 February 2003
The police question Drs. Pratt and Gallant about a rampage at the diner across from the ER. Dr. Lewis befriends her teen admirer, a cancer patient.

Season 9, Episode 17: The Advocate

Original Air Date—13 March 2003
Dr. Weaver bends the rules and treats the Alderman's lover for syphilis. Dr. Kovac's patient claims she was sexually abused at a boot camp for troubled youth. Dr. Carter treats a women with a nasty personality.

Season 9, Episode 18: Finders Keepers

Original Air Date—3 April 2003
Dr. Romano seizes control of the ER and manages to offend everyone. Dr. Kovac asks Dr. Corday's help in the quest to bring a sickly Croatian boy to the U.S. for medical treatment.

Season 9, Episode 19: Things Change

Original Air Date—24 April 2003
A psychotic patient threatens Abby. Dr. Weaver suspects a woman poisoned her own baby. Dr. Romano continues to make rash judgments.

Season 9, Episode 20: Foreign Affairs

Original Air Date—1 May 2003
Dr. Carter tries to prevent a grieving gang member from going after vengeance. Dr. Kovac races against time to save a Croatian boy's life. A baseball player gets treatment for a heart problem.

Season 9, Episode 21: When Night Meets Day

Original Air Date—8 May 2003
It's Greg Pratt's last shift at County General and he treats a number of cases that were started by John Carter on the day shift. They treat a 12 year-old near drowning victim who has little chance of recovery; a Buddhist nun who has a special gift of seeing another's inner self; a woman who is convinced that that day's solar eclipse signals the end of the world; a drug addict who scams both of the for pain medication; and a pregnant woman who had her baby torn out of her her womb. Dr. Romano has his re-attached arm amputated. Carter receives a call from Luka Kovac asking if he can come to the Congo and help out. Abby is none too pleased. Meanwhile Doc Magoo's burns to the ground.

Season 9, Episode 22: Kisangani

Original Air Date—15 May 2003
John Carter arrives in the Congo to find that Luka Kovac is away at a distant clinic administering vaccinations to the local population. He also finds appalling medical conditions. Too few nurses and doctors, limited equipment and few medical supplies are par for the course. That aside, he gets s great deal of satisfaction from the work he does. He meets Gillian, a Canadian nurse, and learns that she and Luka have become close. He tries desperately to save the life of a severely wounded man which pays later dividends when their camp is invaded by rebel troops and their lives are threatened.

Season 10


Season 10, Episode 1: Now What?

Original Air Date—25 September 2003
On his return to Chicago, Carter gets a downright chilly reaction from Abby who asks him to return her apartment key. At work, they tip toe around one another, neither really willing to discuss their feelings. A new med student, Neela Rasgotra arrives for her ER rotation. Dr. Pratt is paying too much attention to her for Dr. Chen's taste. A woman passes out at the wheel of her car severely injuring herself and the three children in the car with her. Neela makes a good call in the case. Carter treats a man whose HIV has become full-blown AIDS. The ER itself is a bit chaotic due to major reconstruction. The ER desk receives a call from Africa saying that Luka Kovac has been killed. Carter decides to return to the Congo to retrieve his body.

Season 10, Episode 2: The Lost

Original Air Date—2 October 2003
John Carter returns to the Congo to retrieve Luka Kovac's body. He finds however that the area where was killed is still too dangerous to enter. He and Gillian finally manage to hitch a ride with a Red Cross worker, Debbie, who is going to the area. In flashbacks, we learn how Kovac and his fellow aid workers were taken prisoner by rebel troops. They are shot, one at a time, until only Luka is left. Amid the destruction of the eastern Congo, we learn his fate. Carter also makes a fateful decision.

Season 10, Episode 3: Dear Abby

Original Air Date—9 October 2003
Luka Kovac arrives safely at County General and is hospitalized for treatment. His friend Gillian delivers John Carter's letter to Abby. Pretty well everyone gets to read it when Frank retrieves it and from the garbage and passes it around. Greg Pratt has dinner with Chen and her parents. The dinner goes well but they have a serious argument afterward. Dr. Romano is unhappy with his prosthetic arm which makes him even more difficult to deal with. Some of the more senior nurses find their hours being reduced as a cost saving measure and stage a walkout. Romano's response is to fire them all. Dr. Lewis treats a teenager with a serious heart problem but her parents insist that she not be told immediately. A new group of second year residents arrive.

Season 10, Episode 4: Shifts Happen

Original Air Date—23 October 2003

Season 10, Episode 5: Out of Africa

Original Air Date—30 October 2003
Emmy nominee Bob Newhart guest stars as Ben Hollander, a distraught architect whose degenerating eyesight causes him despondent while a spirited new nurse, Samantha Taggart joins the staff. Elsewhere, disaster strikes when the doctors suspect a mother is abusing her child while Dr. Corday learns something shocking about the charismatic Dr. Dorset, and Dr. Archie Morris is overwhelmed by the chaos and grisly conditions of life in the E.R.

Season 10, Episode 6: The Greater Good

Original Air Date—6 November 2003

Season 10, Episode 7: Death and Taxes

Original Air Date—13 November 2003

Season 10, Episode 8: Freefall

Original Air Date—20 November 2003
On Thanksgiving Day, a helicopter crash outside the ER leaves several injured, and kills Dr. Romano. Alex tries to bring Sam and Luka together.

Season 10, Episode 9: Missing

Original Air Date—4 December 2003
Neela helps treat two Amish teens who were in a car crash. Sam argues with Dr. Kovac when he pays too much attention to her son.

Season 10, Episode 10: Makemba

Original Air Date—11 December 2003
Dr. Carter celebrates Christmas at a clinic in the Congo dealing with low supplies and anti-Americanism, but in the meantime, falling for an AIDS worker named Makemba.

Season 10, Episode 11: Touch & Go

Original Air Date—8 January 2004

Season 10, Episode 12: NICU

Original Air Date—15 January 2004
Abby and Neela are assigned to a month-long rotation in the neonatal intensive care unit where they experience emotional roller coasters while caring for the sick infants.

Season 10, Episode 13: Get Carter

Original Air Date—5 February 2004
Dr. Carter's girlfriend makes an impression as she observes ER operations. Dr. Gallant is almost shot during a domestic incident. Dr. Weaver dedicates a center to the memory of Dr. Romano.

Season 10, Episode 14: Impulse Control

Original Air Date—12 February 2004
Sam treats an abused, pregnant teen. Dr. Carter introduces African girlfriend Makemba to wintertime. ER chaos shocks a risk-assessment expert. Dr. Pratt and Abby restrain a man who has tuberculosis.

Season 10, Episode 15: Blood Relations

Original Air Date—19 February 2004

Season 10, Episode 16: Forgive and Forget

Original Air Date—26 February 2004

Season 10, Episode 17: The Student

Original Air Date—1 April 2004

Season 10, Episode 18: Where There's Smoke

Original Air Date—8 April 2004

Season 10, Episode 19: Just a Touch

Original Air Date—22 April 2004

Season 10, Episode 20: Abby Normal

Original Air Date—29 April 2004

Season 10, Episode 21: Midnight

Original Air Date—6 May 2004
Carter takes Kem to the hospital to check on their baby since it's not kicking anymore.

Season 10, Episode 22: Drive

Original Air Date—13 May 2004
Kovacs stops to help a woman and her son whose car broke down. Steve is getting close to Alex, and Sam panics. Abby is looking for her letter whether to see she passed her boards. Pratt shows off his new Chrysler. Elgin tries to build a connection between him and Pratt. Jing-Mei might be battered by her senile father.

Season 11


Season 11, Episode 1: One for the Road

Original Air Date—23 September 2004
After being shot at, Pratt, Jing-Mei and Elgin are trying to get of their sinking car. Sam took Alex with her while fleeing for Steve, Kovac is considering to go after them. Abby wants to go to bed since tomorrow is her first day as a doctor, but is thwarted by Weaver, whose custody battle might take a dramatic turn. A young drug-dealer is brought in with "a foreign object" in her tunnel of life.

Season 11, Episode 2: Damaged

Original Air Date—7 October 2004
Neela is still struggling with her decision not to continue becoming a doctor. We discover that Ray is in a band. Kovac and Sam are amoureux, but where does that leave them? Carter takes Abby to dinner in a restaurant he hired off for the evening.

Season 11, Episode 3: Try Carter

Original Air Date—14 October 2004
It's a busy Fourth of July and Carter is the only attending working.

Season 11, Episode 4: Fear

Original Air Date—21 October 2004
Carter, Pratt, Kovac and Abby are dealing with a woman and her three children who've jumped from a three floor apartment trying to escape from the father. Meanwhile Dr. Lewis becomes Chief of Emergency Medicine, Howard quits his internship and Dr. Corday is facing dismissal.

Season 11, Episode 5: Intern's Guide to the Galaxy

Original Air Date—4 November 2004

Season 11, Episode 6: Time of Death

Original Air Date—11 November 2004
From 11:22 to 12:06 we can follow everything that happens to Charlie Metcalf (played by Ray Liotta), a patient who is at death's door. We are shown the minutiae of a treatment which are usually glossed over in the "regular" episodes, interlaced with images from Charlie's delusions which give an insight into the regrets he has about his wasted life.

Season 11, Episode 7: White Guy, Dark Hair

Original Air Date—18 November 2004
A rape victim, barely able to speak, does all she can to help police find her attacker.

Season 11, Episode 8: Shot in the Dark

Original Air Date—2 December 2004
A wounded police officer's teenage son must make a life or death decision. Abby tries to convince a girl needing appendicitis surgery to stay at County, but her fathers wants her transferred to another hospital.

Season 11, Episode 9: Twas the Night

Original Air Date—9 December 2004
Abby has a dialysis patient in critical condition, but she cannot find his physician, who does not want to be bothered during the holidays.

Season 11, Episode 10: Skin

Original Air Date—13 January 2005
Gang members kidnap Abby hoping she can save one of their members with a gunshot wound. Ray starts treating a patient, but when she requests a new doctor, he gets offended.

Season 11, Episode 11: Only Connect

Original Air Date—20 January 2005
Two teens enter the ER with gunshot wounds. When one dies, Neela botches telling the next of kin, making the woman hysterical.

Season 11, Episode 12: The Providers

Original Air Date—27 January 2005

Season 11, Episode 13: Middleman

Original Air Date—3 February 2005

Season 11, Episode 14: Just as I Am

Original Air Date—10 February 2005
Dr. Weaver meets her birth mother, but their relationship changes when Kerrie reveals she is gay. Dr. Carter causes a commotion when he confronts a couple hoping to scam some painkillers.

Season 11, Episode 15: Alone in a Crowd

Original Air Date—17 February 2005
A soccer mom finds herself completely aware of everything going on around her, but is unable to move or speak after suffering a stroke.

Season 11, Episode 16: Here and There

Original Air Date—24 February 2005
Neela (who's in Chicago) and Gallant (who's in Iraq) miss each other and write letters. Gallant also tries to save the life of a little girl.

Season 11, Episode 17: Back in the World

Original Air Date—24 March 2005
Sam's ex-husband shows up and wants to take Alex on a trip. Gallant is back and Neela hopes to see him before he goes back to Iraq.

Season 11, Episode 18: Refusal of Care

Original Air Date—21 April 2005
A woman on a hunger strike refuses treatment until the INS give her son another deportation hearing. Abby searches for proof when she suspects a patient is the victim of elder abuse.

Season 11, Episode 19: Ruby Redux

Original Air Date—28 April 2005
Jules 'Ruby' Rubadoux is back in the ER. He's still angry with Carter about the death of his wife.

Season 11, Episode 20: You Are Here

Original Air Date—5 May 2005
Morris is named the new chief resident, which makes nobody really happy, except Morris. Meanwhile Luka and Sam are having communication problems, Carter gets a promotion Susan really wanted and Ray finds out a 14-year old who always comes in for free drugs has been raped.

Season 11, Episode 21: Carter est Amoureux

Original Air Date—12 May 2005
After Carter finds out Kem's mother is hospitalized in Paris he decides to go there to tell Kem how he feels about her. Meanwhile, Ray makes a fatal error.

Season 11, Episode 22: The Show Must Go On

Original Air Date—19 May 2005
Casualties of a disaster flood the ER, which is short-handed because everyone is at Dr. Carter's going-away party because he's leaving the ER after 11 years. Dr. Pratt looks for the courage to confront his father, Charlie.

Season 12


Season 12, Episode 1: Cañon City

Original Air Date—22 September 2005
Sam and Luka go on the search for her runaway son, Alex. Meanwhile, Pratt and Lewis guide Abby, Neela and Ray, who have become R2's, on how to teach the new interns.

Season 12, Episode 2: Nobody's Baby

Original Air Date—29 September 2005
Much to Ray's dislike, a surrogate mother in labor doesn't want to have a C-section and endangers the life of the baby. Meanwhile, Sam tells Luka she and Alex move out, Pratt meets his half-brother and -sister and Abby makes a difficult decision on a young boy.

Season 12, Episode 3: Man with No Name

Original Air Date—6 October 2005
Luka has a very bad day: New nurse manager Eve Peyton notices he doesn't want to work with Sam and tells him so. At the end of the day he's drunk and Abby takes him home.

Season 12, Episode 4: Blame It on the Rain

Original Air Date—13 October 2005
The rainy night brings in diverse patients including a mother involved in a car accident with her baby, a man with a satisfaction facilitator, and a comatose patient who suddenly wakes up. Also, Sam steps up to Eve and her strict ways and Jerry gets struck by lightening!

Season 12, Episode 5: Wake Up

Original Air Date—20 October 2005
A new attending, Dr. Victor Clemente, comes aboard and quickly makes a stir on the ER. Abby's breast cancer patient convinces her to take a long awaited test. Luka befriends a young woman who awakes from a six-year coma. Also, Weaver shows Clemente who runs the ER.

Season 12, Episode 6: Dream House

Original Air Date—3 November 2005
Pratt's half-brother tries to get him to make ends meet with his estranged father. Clemente treats an infant chimpanzee and involves Abby and Neela on the secret case. Eve promotes Sam and her first tasks is to fire a beloved nurse.

Season 12, Episode 7: The Human Shield

Original Air Date—10 November 2005
A kidnaped girl is the victim of police shooting. Abby is stuck in the middle of a disagreement between Luka and Clemente. Neela receives a phone call from Iraq. Later, Luka and Abby share a kiss.

Season 12, Episode 8: Two Ships

Original Air Date—17 November 2005
The ER prepares to take in victims from a plane collision, while Neela and Pratt head out to the crash site where Neela makes heroic efforts. At the end of the day, Neela gets a surprising visit.

Season 12, Episode 9: I Do

Original Air Date—1 December 2005
Gallant impulsively asks Neela to marry her that exact day, she says I do but soon gets cold feet. Morris stands up to Weaver on a patients course of treatment. Luka, Sam and Clemente treat a boy who contracted HIV from his mother. Also, Abby and Luka redefine their relationship and Luka is named the new Chief of Emergency Medicine.

Season 12, Episode 10: All About Christmas Eve

Original Air Date—8 December 2005
Pratt and Weaver try to create a Christmas miracle when they work to save a girl wounded from gunfire. Eve gets into trouble after punching a disruptive patient. Also, Abby has a special gift for Luka.

Season 12, Episode 11: If Not Now

Original Air Date—5 January 2006
Neela treats a religious teenage girl who turns out to be pregnant. Abby and Kovac struggle to figure out what to do with her unexpected pregnancy.

Season 12, Episode 12: Split Decisions

Original Air Date—12 January 2006
Ray helps an old friend escape from her abusive father. Dubenko volunteers in the ER but can't seem to handle a slow day. Abby and Kovac go baby shopping, while Neela gets unexpected and upsetting news from Gallant.

Season 12, Episode 13: Body & Soul

Original Air Date—2 February 2006
Dr. Nate Lennox, a former professor with ALS, is brought in as the progression of his disease is chronicled through his own flashbacks as he is treated by each of the doctors at one point. As Lennox wants to give up, Abby fights to convince him to keep on fighting.

Season 12, Episode 14: Quintessence of Dust

Original Air Date—9 February 2006
An unexpected visitor puts Clemente in the middle of a domestic dispute. Meanwhile, Luka and Abby await test results on their unborn child; Neela struggles with her surgical elective and Pratt ends up with an unexpected suitor when he participates in a charity bachelor auction.

Season 12, Episode 15: Darfur

Original Air Date—2 March 2006
In the Sudan, Carter and a colleague struggle to save a woman who was raped by a band of militants. Back in the ER, Clemente asks to return to work after the shooting incident, but Kovac refuses. Meanwhile, Neela and Pratt have a work dispute, and, in a related incident, K.J.'s father shows up again in the ER.

Season 12, Episode 16: Out on a Limb

Original Air Date—16 March 2006
Weaver contemplates hip replacement surgery after she finds it hard to do her labor intensive job. Meanwhile, Kovac tries to ease Abby's fears about raising a child together. Neela decides to attend a support group for military spouses but when she offers her opinions on the war, the meeting turns into a debate. And after Sam treats a fainting victim, she finds herself with an intriguing job offer.

Season 12, Episode 17: Lost in America

Original Air Date—23 March 2006
Abby and Luka desperately try to keep a young woman brought into the ER with stab wounds to the neck alive. As her condition begins to worsen, Clemente steps in and tries a risky procedure on the girl in order to save her life. Meanwhile, Neela pulls an all-nighter in preparation for a speech at a surgeon's convention, Ray treats a man claiming to have swallowed a bottle of pills, and Sam decides to take a part-time job with Richard to help her with childcare expenses.

Season 12, Episode 18: Strange Bedfellows

Original Air Date—30 March 2006
When two teens are in a car accident, Abby and Morris struggle to figure out what is wrong with the unconscious girl. Meanwhile, Neela gets a visit from her in-laws and discovers some troubling news. Kovac tells Abby that he plans to go to Africa and help Carter, but when he realizes Abby is not crazy about the idea, he decides to send someone else in his place. Sam starts her new job with Elliot and quickly starts to love the the perks.

Season 12, Episode 19: No Place to Hide

Original Air Date—27 April 2006
Abby senses something not right when a grandmother and granddaughter are brought into the ER. Sam's jailed ex-husband Steve is brought into the ER and everyone but Neela assumes he is faking sick. Meanwhile, tensions grow when Morris and Albright argue over a patient, Pratt heads to Africa to help Carter and quickly realizes how difficult life will be, and Weaver finishes physical therapy.

Season 12, Episode 20: There Are No Angels Here

Original Air Date—4 May 2006
Pratt gets to work in Darfur alongside Carter and his co-workers, but is troubled by astounding number of people needing care and finds himself making a dangerous journey.

Season 12, Episode 21: The Gallant Hero & the Tragic Victor

Original Air Date—11 May 2006
Pratt struggles to get a straight story when two abused boys come into the ER with their father. Two U.S. Army officers enter the ER.

Season 12, Episode 22: 21 Guns

Original Air Date—18 May 2006
Chaos reigns in the ER when two prisoners are brought in for treatment, but instead plot a violent escape. Their desperate actions place one doctor in harm's way, and forces one nurse to become a tool in their plan.

Season 13


Season 13, Episode 1: Bloodline

Original Air Date—21 September 2006
Weaver, Kovac, and the other doctors work frantically to try to save Jerry and a pregnant Abby, who were both critically injured during the shootout that left the ER in shambles. Meanwhile, Sam tries to escape from her ex-boyfriend and his criminal accomplices as they head north, but things quickly turn violent.

Season 13, Episode 2: Graduation Day

Original Air Date—28 September 2006
As Abby and Luka cope with their newborn's life and death struggle, the couple is shocked to receive a surprise visitor: Abby's mother Maggie. Meanwhile, Sam fears the prospect of criminal charges; Neela discovers that Tony Gates will be joining the ER team as an intern and Morris gets his job back while Weaver gets demoted.

Season 13, Episode 3: Somebody to Love

Original Air Date—5 October 2006
Gates is assigned to the case of a closeted gay man whose partner clashes with his family; Neela meets her new surgical chief, Dr. Crenshaw; and Pratt must cope with the flood of new interns.

Season 13, Episode 4: Parenthood

Original Air Date—12 October 2006
Abby and Kovac discover both the joys and difficulties of raising a newborn; Morris is wrongfully accused of being a child molester; Pratt has his trial-by-fire when he has to handle the ER alone, juggling multiple traumas, teaching duties and a troublesome intern. Neela continues to be the target of her difficult supervisor, and Sam discovers her sons latest extra-curricular activity.

Season 13, Episode 5: Ames v. Kovac

Original Air Date—19 October 2006
Curtis Ames, a carpenter who suffered a stroke under Kovac's care, sues him for malpractice. Kovac and Ames square off in court as each man's recollections of Ames' treatment are recounted via testimony and flashbacks. Meanwhile, Abby returns to work and must adjust to the dramatic changes in her life, and Pratt's early morning trip to the barbershop results in a new awareness of community need. Also, Abby and Pratt try an unconventional method for treating a heart patient and Neela tries a risky procedure which doesn't sit well with her chief.

Season 13, Episode 6: Heart of the Matter

Original Air Date—2 November 2006
Kovac anxiously awaits the verdict between himself and Curtis Ames but fears the worst. Meanwhile, Neela disobeys her chief's orders and also questions her feelings for Gates, and Weaver unwittingly steals the spotlight from Morris in his big television debut.

Season 13, Episode 7: Jigsaw

Original Air Date—9 November 2006
A belligerent young man with the flu turns out to be more than he seems, and presents a challenge to Morris and Sam when he refuses treatment. Abby's chance encounter with Curtis Ames leaves Kovac uneasy. Meanwhile, Pratt discovers a local church's risky drug exchange program, Neela and Gates square off, and Weaver gets an interesting offer.

Season 13, Episode 8: Reason to Believe

Original Air Date—16 November 2006
A mysterious illness leaves little hope when a group of homeless kids enter the ER and one of them believes that Neela is a guardian angel in blue; Abby and Kovac clash over a possible case of domestic abuse; Pratt makes a shocking discovery about his brother, and Weaver is unexpectedly called into action when her television appearance becomes a real emergency.

Season 13, Episode 9: Scoop and Run

Original Air Date—23 November 2006
Thanksgiving at County is quiet, with the normal number of routine (or nearly so) emergencies. But Abby makes up for the lack of excitement while returning to the hospital as the doctor on a helicopter transport.

Season 13, Episode 10: Tell Me No Secrets...

Original Air Date—30 November 2006
Kovac and Gates treat a girl who appears to have been assaulted. When the police are no help with Ames, Kovac decides to confront the problem himself; Morris and other doctors work on a patient with an ice pick in his ear. Meanwhile, Ray tries to keep his new relationship a secret and Pratt can't fully deal when his half-brother officially comes out. Also, a new male nurse arrives.

Season 13, Episode 11: City of Mercy

Original Air Date—7 December 2006
It's Christmas in the ER. A homeless boy sends Gates and Ray on a mission. Meanwhile, in the ER, Neela oversees an unusual kidney transplant case; Sam takes a stand when a patient is dumped in an alley by another hospital; and Morris plays Santa for a special girl and learns the meaning of Christmas.

Season 13, Episode 12: Breach of Trust

Original Air Date—4 January 2007
Weaver cares for a Katrina survivor who's reluctant to having surgery on her foot; budget cuts force Luka to make a difficult personnel decision. Also, Gates' home life intrudes on the ER; and Pratt and Hope are shaken after a patient in their care dies needlessly.

Season 13, Episode 13: A House Divided

Original Air Date—11 January 2007
Kovac reacts negatively when he sees Abby giving extra attention to a patient; Ray and Gates clash over a patient, pinning Neela in the middle; and Ben takes things to the next level with Sam. Meanwhile, Pratt is under investigation and Weaver says a final goodbye to the ER.

Season 13, Episode 14: Murmurs of the Heart

Original Air Date—1 February 2007
Kovac finds himself in a tense confrontation with Curtis Ames, and Abby must act to protect her family. Meanwhile, Neela and Gates rush to get Meg to the hospital while Sam's new home is soon under threat from fire.

Season 13, Episode 15: Dying Is Easy...

Original Air Date—8 February 2007
Abby and Sam try to treat an obnoxious, aspiring comedian with mysterious symptoms; Pratt must defend his actions in front of the medical board; Neela scrubs in on a kidney donor transplant; and Morris, as the lone attending, must run a busy ER. Also, Kovac gets a surprising proposal from Abby.

Season 13, Episode 16: Crisis of Conscience

Original Air Date—15 February 2007
Kovac and Gates find themselves with a moral dilemma when a woman comes into the ER with acute liver failure; Neela finds herself questioning what is right when Manish decides to give up a kidney to a complete stranger. Meanwhile, Ray fights to get to the bottom of a cheerleaders accidental fall; Abby gets a prediction for her future; and Alex's troubles continue to intrude on Sam's work life.

Season 13, Episode 17: From Here to Paternity

Original Air Date—22 February 2007
A blizzard strands a family in the snow and Abby and Pratt quickly try to save the family. A gang shooting challenges Morris and Pratt. Meanwhile, Kovac and Abby begin making wedding plans, but their engagement might not be very secret; Gates struggles with the reappearance of his father and the possibility of losing Sarah; and Neela becomes jealous when Dubenko brings in a new surgical intern.

Season 13, Episode 18: Photographs and Memories

Original Air Date—12 April 2007
It's Sam's birthday, but she finds it hard to be away from her son Alex. Meanwhile, Sam meets a photographer taking pictures of a terminal patient and she gives Sam a new perspective on life. Dubenko's new surgical intern unsettles Neela during a trauma; Gates is shadowed by a new and nerdy intern and later must tell Sarah the truth that he may be her biological father. Also, Morris and Hope annoy Kovac and Abby when they try to help with their wedding preparations.

Season 13, Episode 19: Family Business

Original Air Date—19 April 2007
Kovac and Gates deal with a hopeless father whose son succumbs to heart failure; Pratt tries to resolve the tension between him and his brother; an Armenian man tries to be a good samaritan but ends up crashing near the ER; Abby sneaks in baby Joe when she worries his sickness may be worse than it seems; Also, Sam injures the instructor of a self-defense seminar.

Season 13, Episode 20: Lights Out

Original Air Date—26 April 2007
In 12 hours, the ER will shut down. As Kovac is under pressure to take care of the patients before the final hours, he makes a pivotal decision about his future. Meanwhile, Sam befriends a photojournalist who returns only this time she's terminally ill; Pratt is concerned when his brother ends up in the ER drunk; Morris confronts Gates when he ignores his orders and angrily sends him home while Gates tries to defend his actions.

Season 13, Episode 21: I Don't

Original Air Date—3 May 2007
What is suppose to be a departmental dinner organized by Kovac turns out to be the surprise of a lifetime for Abby when she soon learns it's a surprise wedding, secretly planned by the eager groom. Meanwhile, at the wedding, ER staffers enjoy themselves with music and booze while Neela finds herself the center of unexpected attention between Gates and Ray, which leads to a drunken fight and a shocking conclusion.

Season 13, Episode 22: Sea Change

Original Air Date—10 May 2007
The ER reopens with new changes. However, the ER is not the only thing that's changed; Kovac and Abby adjust to being newlyweds; Morris and Hope enjoy themselves at the honeymoon suite; Pratt attempts a change for a woman; Neela worries when Ray goes missing; Meanwhile, there's a new doctor in the ER and he means business; and another change may come when Kovac receives a phone call.

Season 13, Episode 23: The Honeymoon Is Over

Original Air Date—17 May 2007
The ER is now in the hands of a new chief, Dr. Kevin Moretti, who is bent on major changes. Meanwhile, a phone call leads Neela to a hospital where awaits a major shock and a final farewell from a friend and colleague. Gates urgently goes home to stop Sarah from being taken away from him. A GI patient baffles Morris and Sam. Also, Kovac postpones the honeymoon and says goodbye to Abby and his son, for the meantime, while he travels to Croatia to visit his ailing father.

Season 14


Season 14, Episode 1: The War Comes Home

Original Air Date—27 September 2007
Abby, Pratt and Morris clash with Moretti's strict new ER procedures as victims of an anti-war rally roll in, including Neela. Gates manhandles a patient he suspects set off the explosion that disrupted the protest. A worried Dubenko lets his emotions for Neela take over during Neela's surgery. Meanwhile, the rest of the staff worry over Neela's condition.

Season 14, Episode 2: In a Different Light

Original Air Date—4 October 2007
Patients include a Pregnant teacher whose student/lover was critically injured while driving; a man who is hiding a gunshot wound and a brilliant young boy who knows he is dying, but hides it from his mother. Dr. Moretti continues to remake the ER to his liking, Nila is recovering, Luka's absence is reinforced (back in Croatia and not coming back) and Sam may be starting a new relationship with a police officer.

Season 14, Episode 3: Officer Down

Original Air Date—11 October 2007
Abby and a distracted Morris work to save two auxiliary cops brought in with gunshot wounds. Pratt treats a teen wrestler with severe vomiting, but the problem is much more serious. Sam worries over her new beau Litchman. Gates tries to help a young boy in the ICU with a deadly disease. Also, Dubenko visits Neela while she babysits baby Joe.

Season 14, Episode 4: Gravity

Original Air Date—18 October 2007
When Baby Joe is injured by a fall at the playground and rushed to the hospital, Abby is unable to reach Luka to tell him.

Season 14, Episode 5: Under the Influence

Original Air Date—25 October 2007
Moretti reassigns Gates back to the ER and treats a couple involved in a car accident. Morris prepares to take his written board exams. Neela is assigned a young genius intern. Kovac plans to extend his stay in Croatia while Abby struggles with single parenthood.

Season 14, Episode 6: The Test

Original Air Date—1 November 2007
Moretti brings in new attending Skye Wexler to help with the patient load. Morris and Pratt cram for the medical board exam. Gates treats a returning patient from the ICU whose condition has worsen. Sam tends to a teenage girl who is feeling neglected by the staff. Neela's intern, Harold, seeks her advice on a personal matter. Abby struggles with her relapse.

Season 14, Episode 7: Blackout

Original Air Date—8 November 2007
The city suffers power outages during an unseasonably hot spell. Nursing-home patients are brought into the ER suffering from hyperthermia. Abby and Pratt disagree on the diagnosis of a fussy baby. Abby falls back to old habits and quickly down spirals to rock bottom on a night she'll forever regret.

Season 14, Episode 8: Coming Home

Original Air Date—15 November 2007

Season 14, Episode 9: Skye's the Limit

Original Air Date—29 November 2007
Dr Wexlar is made interim ER chief while staff deals with an industrial accident that leads to a hate crime.

Season 14, Episode 10: 300 Patients

Original Air Date—6 December 2007
Morning shift begins. The night shift treated 142 patients - a new record. Dr. Morris is confident that by the end of the day the ER can set a new record of 300 patients. Frank reminds him that there has never been more than 250 patients in a day. Dr. Morris bets $300 that they can reach 300 by the end of the shift. Frank, Dr. Gates and Dr. Pratt each bet $100 against him. But will the game be fair? Also, when chaplain Dupree arrives announcing that she's doing a round of the hospital, holding blessing ceremonies and memorials, the guys are against it, except for Dr. Gates, which makes the others suspicious. Frank goes straight to the point. Then there is the accident involving a camel.

Season 14, Episode 11: Status Quo

Original Air Date—3 January 2008
Dr. Pratt applies for the job of ER Chief and gets turned down. This causes him to give 2 weeks notice. A female soldier, home 2 weeks from Iraq is 2 months pregnant and her husband demands an explanation. Neela's cousin has arrived from London for an extended visit and gets pursued by both Dr. Morris and Harold Zelinsky, much to Harold's chagrin. After 9 years absence, a fall in gym by her son brings Jeanie Boulet back to the ER. Not only is she troubled because of her son, but the disorientation of knowing virtually no one on the current staff does not help. ***spoilers*** Having lived with HIV all of these years, it turns out her adopted son, also HIV positive, has a head tumor and AIDS . Dr Pratt pursues the possibility of going to another hospital where he might get more respect from management. The female soldier, it turns out, is pregnant by being raped by her sergeant in Iraq and has to decide whether to keep the baby.

Season 14, Episode 12: Believe the Unseen

Original Air Date—10 January 2008
A firefighter is brought in after being injured at a fire that is blamed on a young girl with genetic problems. Abby decides to prove the girl did not cause the fire. A disfigured man saves his anti-social neighbor. An old woman dies unattended at the ER while the staff are waiting for a psychiatrist. Pratt backs up Abby in an administration meeting. Neela's cousin apparently chooses Harold.

Season 14, Episode 13: Atonement

Original Air Date—17 January 2008

Season 14, Episode 14: Owner of a Broken Heart

Original Air Date—10 April 2008
Abby deals with her upcoming reunion with Luca in Croatia, a heart transplant patient is admitted when her body rejects the new heart, and a new doctor ruffles feathers.

Season 14, Episode 15: ...As the Day She Was Born

Original Air Date—17 April 2008
Neela's marathon shift begins to affect her, and her demeanor isn't helped when she learns the med student she is mentoring is abandoning her specialty.

Season 14, Episode 16: Truth Will Out

Original Air Date—24 April 2008
Abby returns to work; Luca applies for a job elsewhere; the reason behind a brash doctor's being at County is revealed.

Season 14, Episode 17: Under Pressure

Original Air Date—1 May 2008
A young couple are choppered to County after a car accident,and one of them has a gun. A boy who wants to be a clown is injured in a unicycle mishap, but his father considers him a mathlete and wants him to go to MIT. Pratt visits Bettina in the hospital, but she tells him off.

Season 14, Episode 18: Tandem Repeats

Original Air Date—8 May 2008
A young woman with a failing liver has a difficult reunion with her parents, whom she has not seen in six years. Abby receives a job offer. Brenner isn't nice to Laverne after they sleep together.

Season 14, Episode 19: The Chicago Way

Original Air Date—15 May 2008
In the season finale, an ER patient with a mysterious past is afraid that people are trying to kill him. Dr. Moretti returns, trying to make amends for wrecking the marriage of Abby and Luka. Neela makes her way through a difficult M&M conference. Morris treats a woman with lupus who has an attractive daughter.

Season 15


Season 15, Episode 1: Life After Death

Original Air Date—25 September 2008
The ER staff deals with the aftermath of the explosion including a severely injured doctor.

Season 15, Episode 2: Another Thursday at County

Original Air Date—9 October 2008
The ER is on guard as Gates gathers the new interns to treat a terrorist, but it's the new doctor and her tough disposition that has everyone on the defensive.

Season 15, Episode 3: The Book of Abby

Original Air Date—16 October 2008

Season 15, Episode 4: Parental Guidance

Original Air Date—23 October 2008
When a thirteen-year-old gymnast is brought into the hospital after having supposedly fallen off a wall, Dr. Banfield and Dr. Gates must sort out whether abuse is involved.

Season 15, Episode 5: Haunted

Original Air Date—30 October 2008
Patients include an 18-year-old who was stabbed with a fork at his school, and a man shot by a cop at a Halloween party. Meanwhile Sam is annoyed by Gates and Daria.

Season 15, Episode 6: Oh, Brother

Original Air Date—6 November 2008

Season 15, Episode 7: Heal Thyself

Original Air Date—13 November 2008

Season 15, Episode 8: Age of Innocence

Original Air Date—20 November 2008
A woman who broke her leg while trying to escape a house fire is brought in with her husband. The husband, Mr. Lotery did not let the paramedics to check him over. Then his brother-in-law arrives, saying that he predicted that something like the house fire would happen - it was actually an arson. Mr. Lotery's brother-in-law becomes aggressive and accuses him of being a pervert, specifically a pedophile. Mr. Lotery denies the accusations. He was sued but found not guilty. When Mr. Lotery is waiting for his wife who's in line for X-ray, he has the chance to calm down a young girl who is afraid of needles. When his brother-in-law sees this, he brutally assaults him, while Dr. Brenner calmly watches nearby... Meanwhile, Neela gets sued for malpractice.

Season 15, Episode 9: Let It Snow

Original Air Date—4 December 2008
As a snowstorm hits Chicago, Sam's son Alex crashes a car and ends up in critical condition in the ER. Neela gives a deposition in the malpractice suit against her. Dr. Morris and Dr. Banfield are both at a medical conference in Omaha, and when the snow cancels all flights out they share a memorable and surprising evening.

Season 15, Episode 10: The High Holiday

Original Air Date—11 December 2008
The Last One Before Christmas Break. The one in which Frank and Drs. Sanchez and Wade accidentally get cake with cannabis in it. The one with the Christmas party. Archie's cousin brings Archie's dead father's storage container to the ER bay. An injured pregnant Latino woman is brought in. There is something wrong with her baby. Plus, the Immigration Office wants to deport her. How's it end? It's Christmas - what do you think?

Season 15, Episode 11: Separation Anxiety

Original Air Date—8 January 2009
The police wheel in a casualty of a drug deal-turned-shoot-out. They also bring in an injured woman who was the shooter, plus a pair of wounded brothers who were shot by the man who was shot dead. A 13-year old girl with sickle cell disease is brought in because of abdominal pains; Neela takes her case while Tracy learns from her. Banfield's pregnancy test is negative, which leads to a discussion with his husband and a visit to a specialist.

Season 15, Episode 12: Dream Runner

Original Air Date—15 January 2009
Neela experiences alternate versions of the same day.

Season 15, Episode 13: Love Is a Battlefield

Original Air Date—22 January 2009
A girl who was hit by a car while driving a bicycle is treated in the ER. When her boyfriend turns up it turns out it may not have been an accident. While a lottery has made millionaires of several nearby convenience store workers, Dr. Banfield and her husband are at the fertilization clinic hoping for their one in a million chance. And as an older woman is brought in assisted by her on-and-off husband, three love stories continue in the ER: Dr. Morris meets policewoman Diaz again, Sam discovers that Tony has been seeing Daria, and Neela plays it cool with the returning Dr. Brenner.

Season 15, Episode 14: A Long, Strange Trip

Original Air Date—5 February 2009
An elderly man is brought into the ER after being mugged, and sees things as if it were the 1960s.

Season 15, Episode 15: The Family Man

Original Air Date—12 February 2009
A single mother is hurt in a car accident, and must find someone to take care of her daughter. Gates treats a 78-year-old man who refuses surgery that would save his life. Meanwhile Morris's afternoon date with Claudia is not what he expected.

Season 15, Episode 16: The Beginning of the End

Original Air Date—19 February 2009
Dr. Carter returns to Chicago and talks Dr. Banfield into allowing him to pick up a number of shifts (without pay). Other happenings include Banfield's dogged pursuit of motherhood, Neela's intensifying personal relationship, and Archie's involvement with a patient who was probably beaten while in police custody - with his new girlfriend the detective standing by.

Season 15, Episode 17: T-Minus-6

Original Air Date—26 February 2009

Season 15, Episode 18: What We Do

Original Air Date—5 March 2009
Carter's illness overtakes him during a critical procedure in a trauma room as a documentary film crew spends the day interviewing the health care givers.

Season 15, Episode 19: Old Times

Original Air Date—12 March 2009
A girl drops off a sick baby at the ER and then leaves; Carter may get a kidney transplant; Gates and Daria care for an elderly woman with multiple sclerosis; Neela and Sam are in Seattle to transport a heart for Joanie Moore, while Doug and Carol are concerned that the donor's grandmother might not consent.

Season 15, Episode 20: Shifting Equilibrium

Original Air Date—19 March 2009
On Neela's last day at County, she has doubts as to whether she is making the right decision.

Season 15, Episode 21: I Feel Good

Original Air Date—26 March 2009

"ER" (1994): Season 15: Episode 22 -- "The Insider" was there as the current and past cast of "ER" gathered in celebration of the show's passing.

Season 15, Episode 22: And in the End...

Original Air Date—2 April 2009
As Carter prepares to open a new hospital, some old friends/colleagues gather. Rachel Greene, Mark Greene's daughter, applies for an internship at County.

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Original Air Date—2 April 2009
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