| Day for Knight (season premiere) | Lucy Knight (Kellie Martin) gets off to an inauspicious start as she tries to help an elderly man who is lying on the pavement, bleeding, near the hospital. Her inept attempt to take control of the scene leaves her dejected even before she reports for work. But that's just the beginning. Before the day is over, she offends Carter, stumbles upon a private romance and is left speechless in the presence of a widow-to-be (Maricela Ochoa) and a pregnant woman (Barbara Whinnery) who may have miscarried for the third time.
| Split Second | Greene considers taking a part-time position as an EMS medical director; Corday is asked by her father (Paul Freeman) to join his practice in England; Benton grows concerned that Reese may have a hearing problem; Carter finds his resident advisor's position is taking up too much time.
| They Treat Horses, Don't They? | A hostage-taker and a horse make for an unusual day at County General in this solid episode. Greene (Anthony Edwards) responds to an emergency at a factory, where a hostage-taking gunman is severely wounded after a shoot-out with the police. The man has chicken-wired dynamite to his body and the detonator is caught up in his open wounds, making it next to impossible to remove. Later, Greene's daughter (Yvonne Zima) ropes him into aiding a colicky horse, whose owner drove the animal to the hospital. Meanwhile, Weaver is upset by Ross's surprising news and Carter gets involved with a patient.
| Vanishing Act | Hathaway tries to prevent a wounded gang member (Jermaine Montell) bent on retaliation from leaving the hospital; Weaver interviews for the chief of emergency-medicine job; Corday becomes painfully aware that her position as an intern isn't just a formality; Lucy misplaces a corpse she was transporting to the morgue.
| Masquerade | Greene aids a schizophrenic woman who claims she is pregnant, and he receives some surprising news from his daughter, Rachel (Yvonne Zima); Lucy attends a Halloween dorm party that gets out of control and gets Carter in trouble.
| Stuck on You | A gay teen (Chad E. Donella) is severely beaten and left for dead in the street, and Greene risks his life to reach the boy amid gunfire; Carter finds a new place to live; Corday suggests that she become Benton's intern; brothers become stuck together with carpet cement.
| Hazed and Confused | Greene reacts strangely when the paramedics he supervises try to initiate him into their group by hazing him; Anspaugh interviews a sharp candidate (Mare Winningham) for E.R. chief; Hathaway's upset to discover she isn't pregnant.
| The Good Fight | This episode focuses on one riveting story: a 7-year-old girl in dire need of a blood transfusion. Corinna (Nicolette Little) is wheeled into the hospital following a car accident in which her spleen was damaged. She's accompanied by her father (John Thaddeus), who suffered only minor injuries. As the doctors attend to Corinna, they discover she is in desperate need of blood. Unfortunately, she has a rare blood type---a one in 50 million match. The only perfect donor is her father---who has mysteriously disappeared. Carter and Lucy race off to track him down, but they encounter more than a few obstacles.
| Good Luck, Ruth Johnson | Carter serves as a reluctant tour guide to Ruth Johnson (Anne Pitoniak), who was born in the hospital 100 years ago; Hathaway cares for an 8-year-old boy who may have been stalked in a park by an unidentified man suspected of murdering the boy's best friend.
| The Miracle Worker | Carter tries to work his own miracle in this emotional holiday episode. An 18-year-old boy who suffered a brain hemorrhage that caused his heart to stop is brought in on Christmas Eve. The paramedics revived him once, only to lose him. Ross's luck isn't any better when he attempts to get the teen's heart started again, but Carter (Noah Wyle) wants to keep trying. "You got a reason to keep floggin' this kid?" Ross asks. "Yeah," says Carter. "He's 18, he's his mother's only child, and it's Christmas." But, as Carter learns, miracles don't always turn out quite as expected. Meanwhile, a pregnant 13-year-old must decide whether to keep her baby.
| Nobody Doesn't Like Amanda Lee | A revealing hour focuses on new ER chief Amanda Lee's obsession with Dr. Greene. Lee (Mare Winningham) shocks Hathaway when she says she suspects Greene is a Don Juan and then brags about his sexual aggressiveness. Later, Greene, who is unaware that Lee is in love with him, incurs Amanda's wrath when he questions her about the validity of a journal article she wrote. Meanwhile, Carter discovers he may have contracted tuberculosis from a former patient; Jeanie sidesteps the advances of a police officer she aided; a young soldier fights for his life; and everyone prepares for incoming victims from a commuter-plane crash.
| Double Blind | Ross breaks protocol---and the law---when he gives pain medication to a kid who was targeted for a federally funded research project; Greene considers taking a position with NASA. Meanwhile, Benton treats an elderly man (Bill Henderson) who claims he's 140 years old and cannot die; Romano claims he's trying to get Corday's fellowship reinstated; and Hathaway confronts Evans about obtaining a grant from the clinic without her consent.
| Choosing Joi | Greene approaches Ross with a proposal that will keep the latter's illegal drug prescribing quiet; Joi (Valerie Mahaffey) brings Ricky to the hospital in critical condition; Romano threatens to get Corday in trouble if she continues to assist in the sexual-harassment case against him.
| The Storm Part 1 | In George Clooney's penultimate episode as a series regular, his troubles as Dr. Ross deepen. Doug's maverick ways catch up with him when the case involving ALD patient Ricky (Kyle Chambers) takes an unexpected and devastating turn. It creates a crisis that threatens to engulf not only Ross, but Greene, Weaver and Hathaway as well. Meanwhile, Carter and Lucy begin flirting with each other; Benton meets with an experienced---and expensive---sign-language tutor (Marlee Matlin); and Mobalage (Djimon Hounsou) allows Greene (Anthony Edwards) to tell his wife (Akosua Busia) what's really wrong with him.
| The Storm Part 2 | The fallout from Ross's controversial treatment of a dying ALD patient leaves virtually no one unscathed, including Hathaway, who helped Doug treat the boy.
| Middle of Nowhere | Benton (Eriq La Salle) gets a taste of country medicine and an hourlong spotlight in this episode, a change of pace for the hospital drama. To earn some extra cash, Benton signs on to help out at a northern Minnesota hospital during his vacation. But much to the rigid doc's dismay, his plans are altered at the last minute and he's assigned to a rural clinic in a backwoods Mississippi town. The facility, run by a feisty nurse, doesn't have much need for an ambitious surgeon---just an old-fashioned country doctor. And preferably a white one, as Benton quickly discovers.
| Sticks and Stones | A professional wrestler (Nils Allen Stewart), who twisted his knee during a match, comes in for treatment; Carter takes matters into his own hands when a riot occurs outside of a run-down apartment building where disgruntled tenants attacked their landlord.
| Point of Origin | Weaver encounters an elderly, dying woman (Connie Sawyer) she believes to be her mother; Hathaway decides whether to keep her baby; Carter takes over for Greene for a day; Greene tries to help Mobalage remember the painful details of what happened to him in Nigeria.
| Rites of Spring | Carter plays mentor to a high-school student (Corey Parker Robinson) on a study program; Hathaway encourages a schizophrenic (Sheila Kelley) who's been allowed to care for her baby; Jeanie administers to a minister (Roscoe Lee Browne); Corday prepares for a conference.
| Power | Periodic power failures wreak havoc in the hospital, where a rapist is on the loose. A neighbor (Jean Sincere) brings in the couple (Ford Rainey, Anne Bellamy) next door after the wife has suffered an accident.
| Responsible Parties | Teens on their way to a prom are victims of a fiery crash; an AIDS patient (Moira Walley) and her young son are brought in by helicopter after a fishing-boat accident; a stripper arrives under a cloak of secrecy; a decision is made on the recipient of the trauma fellowship.
| Getting to Know You (season finale) | A patient (Teri Garr) claims to be able to see what's happening inside others; Corday tries to talk to Greene about their relationship; Weaver finds a little boy on the street; word spreads about Hathaway's pregnancy; Benton receives disturbing personal news. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
