TEMPORADA 2:
1) Welcome Back Carter
Written - John Wells
Directed - Mimi Leder
The opening scene is of a gang land shooting in the street with multiple casualties, including bystanders and a pregnant woman. There is Chaos in the ER, Mark and Doug are both taking Traumas.
Benton takes the Pregnant woman, she is full term, there is an entry but no exit wound. Carter is on his way back from his holidays, Hawaiian shirt, suitcases and all. To top it off he is stuck in a traffic jam and he is already two hours late for the start of his Surgical Sub Internship 'Benton's going to kill me.....'. All this has happened before the music, GREAT start to a new series.
Harper Tracey and three other new medical students arrive, Harper is sent of to take a history from a woman with a psychiatric disorder, whilst the other three are shoved into a room with a pile of textbooks.
The pregnant woman is taken up to surgery for and Emergency Caesarean section, Carter finally arrives and Benton isn't too pleased. The other surgeon gives Carter a grilling on basic anatomy and Carter gets it all wrong. The baby girl is OK. Benton tells Carter they have a Thyroidectomy, Carter desperately revises the anatomy of the neck. Mark is now attending and has a number of new responsibilities, he has to decide who is going to be chief resident as well as going to his first staff meeting. He finds out that Paediatrics don't want to renew Dougs contract next year. Doug has to deal with a rather attractive flight attendant who has twisted her ankle, she makes numerous propositions towards Doug :-). Carol has to do a Paramedic ride along in the next ten days, she arranges to go with Shep and Raul. Also the dreaded peach outfits are out much to the pleasure of the nurses.
Bentons's Thyroidectomy is called off after Carter has revised the neck, Benton is now doing a Hernia. The Air conditioning is broken. A man is brought in by his brother not breathing, he is shocked several times with no effect. Then a ventilation repair man falls through the ceiling onto the patient, his heart starts working again!!. We meet Carrie Weaver for the first time, Morgenstern is pushing Mark to recommend her for chief resident, he does so against Dougs advice. There is a retaliation for the gang shooting earlier, a young man is brought in. Benton and Carter handle it. His chest is cracked, Carter feels Nauseous, the internal paddles are used. On Maliks comment 'Smells like a BBQ' Carter passes out. The patient dies and Carter has to sew him up. Mark just manages to catch the train back to Milwaukee.
Susan picks little Susie up from the creche, Chloe is living with Susan and is attending college. At the end we see Jeanie and Peter sleeping together, Jeanie wakes up, she is late Al finishes work in 10 minutes. Jeanie tells Peter she loves him.
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2) Summer Run
Written - Lydia Woodward
Directed - Eric Laneuville
Hathaway is out with the Paramedics. They arrive to find two teenagers with Gun Shot Wounds, one has 'brain on the Asphalt', he is dead. The other has multiple Gun Shot Wounds, he is not breathing.
Benton is looking for Carter, It is Carrie Weavers first day as Chief Resident. Hathaway and the Gun Shot Wound arrive, Susan takes it. He is shocked 200, 300, 360 joules, no rhythm is present. Blood is being lost into the chest. Dr Weaver arrives and pronounces him dead to Susans annoyance.
Benton finds Carter, he is asleep. Harper is just getting dressed, as she leaves she tells Benton to thank Carter. Benton yells in Carters ear to wake him. Carter embarrassed tries to deny everything to Benton.
Both Dr Lewis and Hathaway are annoyed by Dr Weaver. Dr Morgenstern is back, it turns out the job that he left for never got past the planning stage. Benton and Jeanie are having problems and are trying to arrange a time to meet.
Carter has to hold a man's arm in the air for an entire operation because he overslept. Little Susie is dumped on Big Susie to take to day care, Chloe is late for School. Mark is also late, he comments that he is not set out for commuting. Jeanie rings Al and lies to him telling him she will be late, so that she can spend time with Benton. Marks PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease) is back, she knows more about her treatment that the students Mark is quizzing (Harper and someone else). Doug takes a young boy with a burnt arm, Byran, he had burnt down their motel room.
Big Susie is called to the creche because Little Susie has a temperature, Doug checks her out. Dr Weaver annoys Carol, she forces Carol to tell the parents of the 14 year old boy that he is dead. They are foreign and Shep has to translates. Carter gets a 'pick up' right, Both Benton and Morgenstern are pleased with Carters work. Little Susie is OK. Big Susie finds out that Chloe hasn't been to school for 3 weeks.
Harper Tracey is practising putting drips in on Carter, Benton walks in and is puzzled. A Bank robber is brought in, he has been mowed down by an old lady. Susan gets squirted by exploding bank notes, she is having a BAD day. Carol and Shep go up in a Ferris wheel, Shep is afraid of heights !! but Carol has a good time. Byrans mum goes to leave, Weaver has upset Doug by calling a Psych Resident instead of waiting for a Child Psychologist that owed Doug a favour. Byran is momentarily left alone, he sets the room on fire, Doug puts it out. He finds Byran huddled behind the door.
Benton see's that Jeanies Car is broken down, he offers to help but then sees that Al is there. He is shaken, Al suspects nothing. A (American) Football player comes in, he has been hit in the chest by another player. He has Pericardial Tamponade (Blood in the pericardial space around the heart which squashes it and stops it pumping properly.) Susan confronts Chloe about skipping school, Chloe tries to explain but Susan doesn't want to know.
Mark rushes to the Station but unlike last week he misses the train. It's raining and Benton is waiting for Jeanie on her doorstep, the relationship is not working, Benton wants Jeanie to tell Al. Fade out on the rain.
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3) Do One, Teach One, Kill One
Written - Paul Manning
Directed - Felix Enriquez Alacala
Mark and Jen are in the Shower kissing. Carter complains that he never gets his own patients, Benton gives him one 'Ed'. Carol is out with Shep and Raul again, they visit a very large simpleton man (Mitchell), he has lots of Rabbits, he smells and goes to the loo on himself. His blood pressure is very high. Shep doesn't want to take him but Carol persuades him to. Mitchell continually sings a repetitive song. Susan arrives with Little Susie, Mark arrives and takes Mitchell, Mitchell is worried about his Rabbits.
Doug takes an unconsciousness chinese boy with aids, he has overdosed on one of his drugs (AZT). With treatment Dougs kid comes around. Carter is removing fluid from Ed's lung, Harper is watching. The needle stops going in Carter thinks it is fibrous tissue and goes further in, Ed starts bleeding, Harper rushes to get Benton. Carter has hit the Hepatic Vein (passes from the liver to the Inferior Vena Cava). Dr Hicks and Benton are repairing the Damage, Carter is really worried. Dr Hicks reveals that her best student (i.e. Benton) had once punched right through the Sigmoid Colon when he was doing a Sigmoidoscopy and could see the Appendix !! Mitchell is ceasing, he has a Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (Bleeding into the space around the Brain) and dies. Shep arrives back with one of Mitchells Rabbits. Shep and Carol start singing Mitchells song.
Doug's Kid with Aids 'Che Che' vital signs are back to normal. It turns out that Che Che's perscriptions were wrong and Che Che's mum had done exactly what she was told to do. Doug tells her to bring Che Che to the ER in the future and to see him. Doug then has a go at Che Che's Doctor.
Carters first patient dies on the operating table from a heart attack, and although this is separate to Carter puncturing Ed's Liver Carter is visibly upset. Randy the new clerk arrives. A man has broken out of his restraints and is on a rampage on the roof of an Ambulance, Shep climes on the roof and sedates him whilst Carol distracts him.
Susan has a prisoner who has swallowed razor blades, Susan is removing them by Endoscopy (A Fibre optic tube into the stomach). Carrie challenges her saying that the room is needed, Mark is called, he agrees with Weaver. Carter is given Ed's Cirrhotic (Fibrous damage caused by Alcohol abuse) liver to take to Pathology. Doug finds out that his job is on the line and that it was Mark who saved it last time. Raul and Shep are mending their rig. Shep asks Carol out, she tries to say no but ends up saying yes.
Benton and Jeanie meet, Benton is upset that jeanie is 45 minutes late. Jeanie isn't ready to walk out on her marriage. Mark and Doug go home, Mark is staying with Doug. Big and Little Susie are going home, Chloe calls out from the other side of a fence, she is loaded. Chloe says that she is leaving, she drives off with some guy leaving Big and Little Susie. Carter and Harper take 'Ed' (well his Liver at least) out for a last drink at his favourite Pub. The Blues song playing in the background is Mitchells song.
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4) What Life?
Written - Carol Flint
Directed - Dean Parisot
Dougs air hostess 'friend' wakes Mark up (he is at Dougs), Jenn is on the phone for him. Susan is looking after Little Susie, she is out of dippers and is late. Bentons car has broken down, he is upset, his sister tells him to stop messing about with a married woman. Carter is waiting for Dr Benton, Weaver is annoying Harper about the number of earrings she is wearing.
Benton has to take the knackered out lone car, someone in the garage steals his space. He gets into a fight with the man. Multiple casualties come in from a road accident. Carol arrives in Sheps truck, Doug sees. Susan is seeing an Attorney about abandonment. Susan sees a man with Gastrointestinal trouble, he is constantly eating. Benton has arrived, he has dislocated his finger, Carter has to put it back. Carter then has to do a cut down to get a line in because Bentons hand is still numb.
Little Susie is left in day care, the bill is overdue and Susan is stressed. Dr Ross's aids patient Che Che is back with an ear infection. Benton has to avoid the guy he beat up earlier. Susan has to check out and abdominal pain of a 14 year old girl. She has to talk the mother out of the room, the girl does not want her mum to know that she is Pregnant. An old lady is delivered by taxi with Pneumonia, Dr Greene tries to get her a Bed but nobody says that they have any space. Carter takes Bentons place in a Gastroplasty, Benton has never done one.
The man with GI trouble has ordered take out. Weaver is annoying Susan again. The lounge is full of nurses, Doug does an impression of Dr Weaver, everyone is laughing, the phone is of the hook and she hears what is going on. Unit 47 (Shep and Rauls Ambulance) are bringing in a GSW, they get stuck in a gun fight and the Radio goes dead.
Carter and Dr Hicks are doing the Surgery, Benton can only watch, he then has to change the tape !! Carter staples his first stomach. Susan mentions that she is thinking of adopting Little Susie. Susan's GI patient is still eating. Shep's GSW arrives, the radio had been shot out, it is a twelve year old girl, Doug takes it. She has a Pneumothorax. It turns out that the girl is carrying a kg of drugs, her uncle arrives, snatches the drugs and runs. Shep chases him, he brings him down breaking the bag of drugs creating a cloud of drug. Carol is not impressed. Mark takes the Old lady with Pneumonia and goes in search of a Bed, he finds a free one in a nice side room.
Susan tells the nurse to give the GI patient 30ml of GI cocktail, she leaves the bottle and the man drinks the whole thing, this puts him into respiratory arrest. Weaver and Mark handle it, Weaver yells who's patient is this. Weaver publicly blames Susan, Mark says he will see both of them in the lounge. Carter is stitching up a Patients face (His face is covered with a cloth). Harper comes in, Carter has to call of tonight's date he has to watch the Surgical patient from earlier. They end up kissing, the patient is unaware of what is going on. Mark agrees with Kerry in front of Susan but then has a private word with Kerry.
Doug has another Girlfriend. The Old ladies husband turns up, he tried to get rid of her because he cannot care for her properly, but he missed he to much. Susan and Weaver work together on a patient with a crushed arm, it is stuck in a machine, Weaver removes the machine, Susan get the diagnosis of Cyanide poisoning correct. Mark finds out that Chloe has left, Susan has not told him.
Raul radio's in to tell Carol to pick up the phone, it is Shep. He tells Carol she was worried about him, she laughs but looks happy. She moves away to have a private conversation with him. Mark gets back to Doug's to find Doug's Air Hostess girlfriend is still there, he tries to get her out of the house before Doug arrives back with Linda. Doug and Linda arrive back before they have left, they joke about the two girlfriends situation. Mark rings Susan, he gets the answering machine, he offers to help her out, Susan is listening but does not pick up the phone. Susan rings the Doctor up in Neuro who she had heard was looking to adopt another child.
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5) And Baby Makes Two
Written - Anne Kenney
Directed - Lesli Linka Glatter
It is morning, Mark has stayed at Dougs again, they eat Bagels together. In the ER Jerry is handing out popcorn, everyone is happy since it is Weavers day off. Carter and Harper meet, Carter is saying how great it is that Benton has dislocated his finger because it means he can do loads of procedures, he doesn't realise Benton is standing behind him. Benton then gives Carter a foreign body removal, a flashlight from a naked mans Rectum !! Susan is at the adoption agency with little Susie, they are meeting a couple called Kevin and Lisa who want to adopt another child. Che Che, Dougs four year old patient with Aids is back, he is very sick and cannot sit up, Doug needs to do a Lumbar Puncture (Using a needle to take some of the fluid out from around the spinal cord).
Carol and Harper see an old lady with a migraine, she tries to persuade Carol which drugs to give her. She is a known junkie and has been in before under various other names. Carter walks in to find Benton removing his splint early. Carter is holding a flashlight 'Flashlight still works' he comments before revealing that it is a different one.
A Lady is brought in with multiple contusions, she is conscious but she does not response to questions. In the process of treating her Benton hurts his finger. X rays show she has 2 cracked ribs, many healed fractures. She has been in three times before. Benton calls the social worker and puts the splint back on his finger. Eeray the trainee nurse arrives, he is told to shave a drunks head and to clean and irrigate the wound. We see later on that he has shaved the man's whole head !!
Doug needs help doing a Lumbar Puncture (remove fluid from around the spinal cord with a needle) he asks Mark, Mark suggests Harper. Susan wants to adopt Little Susie but she doesn't think that she would be a good enough mother. Susan goes to see Mark, she wants to know if it is possible to work part time so that she can look after Susie.
Carter asks Harper out but she cannot go because she is watching Che Che. The Lab has run out of CSF (Cerebrospinal Fluid) from Chi Chi's Lumbar Puncture and cannot complete the tests. Doug has to do another Lumbar Puncture. Loretta (Greene's PID from a few weeks ago) is back, she has injured her back. It is a muscle strain, she is annoyed as she has a job interview today. Lydia goes of to look for some more suitable clothes for her to wear.
Benton talks to the lady with multiple contusions who has been beaten, he gets nothing from her. Her husband arrives, he is a police officer. Benton tells another police officer what has happened. Doug is in the Lab with Harper, Che Che has Meningitis and is near the end. Doug wants to administer drugs directly into Chi Chi's Spinal fluid. A Lady runs in screaming, her husband has been injured in a motor cycle injury, his arm is missing. He is bleeding heavily, Mark has to take him because of Bentons finger. He is taken to the OR to try and reattach the arm. Susan goes to see her Mum and Dad, she wants them to help her look after little Susie.
Carter is sewing up a man's finger, he notices and removes a mole. The mole turns out to be malignant, the man has melanoma (A Cancer). Mark disagrees about Che Che's treatment, it is a tough procedure for a young child and would not prolong his life very much. Mark tells Chi Chi's mother that she has the option of making Che Che comfortable and taking him home. Che Che only has days to live with or without treatment. The motorbike accident man's arm is able to be reattached, his wife is upset. Their insurance runs out in three days.
Masovich the lady that has been beaten is brought in by other police officers with a broken jaw. Harper is telling stories to Che Che. Doug wants to get started with the treatment but Che Che's mother wants to take him home. Doug agrees, he realises that he is getting carried away with treating Che Che. He is mad that Mark went behind his back.
Carol has lost 5mg of Morphine, the wife of the motorcycle accident has taken it (A drug similar to Heroine with a similar effect). In a doped up state she reveals that she chopped of her boyfriends arm with an axe to claim the insurance. Loretta comes back in, she got the job. Lydia thinks it was because of the smart clothes until she reveals that she 'had to do the guy'!!! Harper is upset and crying, she has had a very hard day. Doug comes in, they talk about how to cope before going off together for a drink. Mark stops by Susan's apartment, he finds her outside on the swings. Morgenstern is looking into Susan's request. Susan reveals to Mark that she is keeping Little Susie. Susan swings on the swing, Fade out.
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6) Days Like This
Written - Lydia Woodward
Directed - Mimi Leder
Mark rings Doug from a phone box, he has left important paperwork at Doug'. There is no answer so Mark goes back to Doug's to get the papers. This wakes Doug, Mark offers him a lift in. Then Harper comes out of Doug's room. Mark is mad at Doug. The ER is in Chaos, there are multiple gang related casualties. Carol is buying a house, Mr Zimble has brought in a whole load of papers for her to sign. It is Jeanie's first day as a physicians assistant. Benton takes a GSW to the neck, he tubes him. Mark and Susan are both busy on a patient, Doug arrives and wants to talk to Mark, Mark tells him to go away he is busy.
Carol is very busy and has not finished signing all her papers, Mr Zimble collapses. Benton snaps at Carter since he is finding it awkward working with Jeanie. Carter and Harper meet, she says she has to talk to him privately but want to talk later, Carter insists she tells him now. Harper tells Carter she slept with Doug, he is devastated. Doug has a disagreement with his Superior about a young boy who was knocked unconscious when he cycled into a car. Doug admits him even though his superior told him not to. Doug's superior has a go at Doug and tells him that his fellowship will not be renewed. Benton is trying to get Dr Vucelich a patient so that he can get in on Dr Vucelich's study (Clamp and Run surgery on Aortic Aneurysms). Doug and Harper meet, there is a brief awkward conversation.
Mr Zimble is awake and Carol is signing her papers. Mark finds Doug up on the roof, he offers to talk but they end up arguing. Someone has found out that randy was in jail, everyone is trying to guess why. Dr Vucelich arrives, he has talked to the patient and he agrees to surgery. Susan still thinks that he should be treated medically. Benton and Carter watch Dr Vucelich's surgery, Carter has read Dr V's research and has to repeat it to Dr Benton.
Jeanie has someone be sick on her, she is having a bad day. Jeanie catches up with Benton, she did not want to do her ER rotation here but she had no choice. Harper tries to explain to Carter but he doesn't want to know and walks of saying nothing. An unconscious girl is brought in, she has no identification, possibly epileptic. Mark, Morgenstern and Dougs Paediatric Boss meet, it looks like Doug will be getting the sack. Harper and Mark meet, Harper doesn't want it to get out otherwise it will affect her future. The epileptic girl wakes up, her seizure was caused by her not taking her medicine. Doug and Weaver are getting on!!
Doug is alone thinking, Carol comes in, Doug says he is not having a good day. Carol says he can call her if he wants to talk. Carol is on the phone to Shep, Mr Zimble has arrested before she finished singing the papers, the man dies moments after she signs and stamps the last paper.
Carter is outside playing Basketball, Doug comes out, he tries to apologise. They play 1 on 1, Doug tries to persuade Carter to stay with Harper, Carter says he needs more time. Carol takes Shep to see her new house, he says 'It needs work' but Carol is happy. Shep carries her over the threshold. Mark and Doug meet at the El station, Doug is not sure why he is behaving like he is, pushing everyone. Fade out.
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7) Hell and High Water
Written - Neal Baer
Directed - Christopher Chulack
Doug is in the childrens waiting room of a private hospital, he is waiting for a job interview. A young girl is bothering him he frightens her of by saying that his job is 'giving big shots to little girls' (unlike Doug to be nasty to a child). They offer Doug the job and he accepts it. He will be getting paid 90K a year and nobody will die on him. When Carol asks if he wants the job Doug replies not really but he doesn't have a choice. Molly Phillips a 10 year old girl is brought in unconscious by paramedics following a hit and run accident as she was riding her bike. Her BP is 190/40, Respiratoions 10 and she has a fractured Right Femur (Bone in the upper leg).
Benton handles her case, he quizzes Carter and Harper, Harper spots the pneumothorax so Benton shows her how to put in a chest tube whilst Carter has to take the bloods to the Lab. They stabilise Molly, her X Rays come back, Jeanie reports on them infront of Benton, Carter and Morgenstern. Morgenstern is impressed. Molly regains consciousness, Harper comforts her and Carter extubates her. She is sent for a head CT scan. Mollys mum and Dad arrive they have split up, Harper cleverly defuses a potential argument. Doug sees Mrs Rible, she is smoking Marujana (for her Glaucoma) and has been feeling light headed ever since. Mark takes her Marjuana away. Linda Farrell arrives in the ER with Dougs costume for the Charity ball, she also fixes the computer that Jerry mucked up. Dougs costume is Don Juvane (sorry I have no idea how to spell that :-) he has to wear tights, Jerry gives him the marjuana joking he will need it.
Later both Carol and Mark are seen playing Doom II against the medical staff at Mount Cyanide. It is raining heavily, Doug is on his way to the charity ball when he gets a flat tyre, he is just about to smoke the marjuana Jerry gave him earlier when a young boy 'Joey' bangs on the car window, he is shouting for help, his brother Ben is trapped in the storm drain they were playing in. Doug goes with Joey, Ben has his leg trapped in grill in the storm drain, the water level is rising due to the heavy rain.
Doug sends Joey to find a phone and call a rescue team. Doug tries to find another way in but the grate where light is coming in is locked. Ben is becoming cold and drowsy, Doug is trying to lever the grill apart with no luck. Doug has to go to his car to get a jack, crow bar and torch. Joey cannot find a phone so Doug smashes a shop window so that Joey can use the phone inside. Back in the drain Ben is barely conscious, the water level is now up to his chin. Doug jacks the grill apart to get Bens leg out whilst talking about Baseball to keep Ben awake.
Ben is free but still trapped the wrong side of the grill, Doug is smashing the rusty bolt with the crow bar, it eventually breaks and with the pressure of the water both Doug and Ben get washed out of the tunnel. Doug searches for Ben before pulling his unconscious body from under the water. He is not breathing, Doug does CPR as a news helicopter hovers overhead.
Jeanie has done all the work Benton requested and suggests a diagnosis (early as well) Benton is not thankful. Doug is still doing CPR when Joey arrives back with a policeman. Ben's airway is blocked, Doug does a Crichothyroidectomy using a penknife and biro, he suchs out some of the water, Ben finally starts breathing on his own. The paramedics arrive, Ben is Hypothermic, has a fractured left leg and possibly Cardiac arrhythmias. The news crew has landed and is filming. The closest hospital does not have and ICU so Doug persuades the Paramedics to let him take Ben in the Helicopter stright to County, he grabs supplies and a defibrillator from the Ambulance. In the chopper Ben is doing OK, the news man is transmitting live picture to Channel 5, the ER is radioed 3 min ETA.
Mark organises the ER to warm saline, blankets and call Benton. Meanwhile in the Helicopter Ben goes into Venticular Fibrillation, Doug goes to shock him but the defibrillator has not been charged. Doug does CPR whilst the news reported bags him. Molly is OK, she is playing cards with Harper but complains of stomach pains, Benton asks for an Abdominal CT aswell.
The ER is now swarming with reporters. Mark and Carol meet the Helicopter on the roof, they defibrillate Ben, 100, 150, 200, 200 Joules but no rhythm. Doug continues CPR as they wheel Ben inside.
Molly has crashed in CT, her blood pressure is low, she is probably bleeding internally from one of the mesenteric arteries. Benton is doing CPR. Ben is shocked again in the ER 200 then 300 Joules before they get a rhythm, his temperature is 82oF and he is Hypoxic. They start warming Ben. Mark orders Doug to go and put some dry clothes on and warm up.
Ben's temp has risen to 85oF but he is not wrming fast enough, they need to warm his blood. Benton stops Molly's bleeding by cross clamping the aorta whilst Carter performs in ternal Cardiac massage. She has had 4 units of O neg blood. Benton goes next door to do a femoral cut down to enable Bens blood to be warmed. Mark takes over Molly, she is shocked with the internal paddles at 10, 20 and 20 joules, ther is no rhythm, Mark eventually pronounces her dead, Carter goes to tell the parents as Harper cries. Later Ben wakes, his temp in 93oF and his vital signs are stable.
The news crew pounce on Molly's distraught parents mistaking them for Ben's parents, Carter rescues them by telling the news crew that they 'are NOT talking to them'. Mark patches up Dougs cuts and orders him to go home, as they leave the ER Doug is swamped by newscrews. He is a hero.
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8) The Secret Sharer
Written - Paul Manning
Directed - Thomas Schlamme
After becoming a hero last week Mark, Morgenstern and Doug's Boss (Neil) are grovelling for Doug to stay on. The hospital is giving him an award. Carter sees a young boy, his face feels funny. Carter diagnoses inflammation of the facial nerve (Bells Palsy). The boys mother wants to see a real doctor.
Shep brings in a young girl who has overdosed and her brother. Mark and Carol take her. She struggles and won't take a tube, they have to put a Nasogastric tube in, Carol hates doing this. Shep comments that most Overdoses are looking for attention and that 'Pills are for people who don't really mean it'. Carol is not impressed she says 'I meant it' and walks of saying nothing. Shep is stunned.
Susan has to work tomorrow night, she is looking for a babysitter. Harper asks Carter out but he avoids it. Susan is looking after a lady who feels fatigued, she is making herself at home. Doug talks to Carter about the Bells palsy boy, Carter may have missed something. Doug looks after a young boy having an Asthma attack, he is put on a Nebuliser. The boy starts to recover, he is allergic to dogs. His gran (?) is more interested in the fact that Doug was the doctor from the TV. Doug does not want the boy to be moved so he falsifies the chart which annoys Mark. Shep tries to apologise to Carol but does not succeed. Carter is desperately trying to get his Bells Palsy patient back.
Susans ladies X-Rays are back, they are OK. The lady is looking after a baby, she is a nanny, Susan is buttering her up. Her references look good but she has got aplastic anaemia. It is a terminal condition but she doesn't want to stay. OD Girl and her Brother, there Mum was killed in a car crash last week. The girl is pregnant which is why she took the pills. When her mum died she comforted her brother, but ended up getting pregnant, the boy is afraid his dad will shot him. A man from a war reenactment has had his foot run over by a canon, he doesn't want any anaesthetic since they did not have any in the past. Mark has to grind away some of his bone!!! One of Vucelich's patients come in with chest pain, Carter overdoes the tests. Vucelich is happy because one of the tests spotted something, Benton is not impressed. Carter gets to assist in a Femoral bypass.
Benton and Jeanie are stitching up a 25 year old man who had got drunk on his birthday and walked through a plate glass windows. The teenage girl and boys dad arrives, he is filling out paperwork at the desk. Lydia and Carol are talking about the girl becoming pregnant by her brother, their father overhears and storms out. Two motorcycle injuries are brought in Mark and Doug take one each, they both want to go to X-Ray and CT. Mark wants his kid to go first, Doug disagrees. They argue and Mark orders Doug to go home.
Doug's dad rings the ER, Doug is surprised, he hasn't spoken to him since he was 12. Benton finds out from Carter that Jeanie is divorced. Benton is sewing, Jeanie comes in, Benton wants to know why she didn't tell him she was divorced, Jeanie corrects him, they are separated. Susan's father is at the Creche with little Susie, he has changed his mind and wants to help Susan look after her.
Carter and goes to see the Bells Palsy boy, Harper goes with him after offering to cook dinner. Carol finds the teenage boy and girls dad, he is upset. He brings out a gun, but asks Carol to take it away from him. Doug is late for his reward, Mark finds him in the bar playing pool, Doug is annoyed with everyone. The Bells Palsy boys ears are OK, Carter and Harper kiss. Mark is presenting the award to Doug, he praises him highly. Doug accepts his award with a revised speech thanking the people who have influenced him. Shep is at Carol's trying to mend the roof but ends up wrecking it, Shep and Carol make up. Fade out with Shep and Carol sitting on the roof watching the trains.
9) Home
Written - Tracey Stern
Directed - Donna Deitch
Susan wakes Doug, she wants him to take a look at little Susie. She is not finding the 'mother thing' easy.
An unresponsive 2 month old infant is brought in, Doug and Susan take him. They do cardiac massage but the infant is dead. Susan is upset. Carter and Harper are desperately trying to find somewhere where they can be alone together, in the process Carter knocks over 2 nurses and the Christmas tree. Later we see them kissing in the chapel but they have to dive for cover when some nuns enter.
Doug can't swap a shift for tonight he has 'something he cannot move'. A hit and run victim is brought in (Ethan Brown), his injuries are not life threatening, his wife arrives and panics. The police identify the car that hit him was his wives. They rush in to find his wife trying to suffocate him.
Shep brings in a man with no name (also played Eddie from Friends), Carol calls psych. His name is Josh, he is a diagnosed schizophrenic and it is the third time he has run away. Nobody will take him. He was training to be an architect when he had a breakdown, he is a superb drawer and knows all about houses.
Riba was treated at another hospital for a skating accident and sent home, on the way she had a seizure. They do a head CT but find nothing, she comes round but has another seizure. Susan figures that it could be Lidocaine (Lignocaine/Novocaine) toxicity from the treatment she received at St Anne's.
Carter and Vucelich are in the Loo. Carter claims that it was his fault for not signing Benton up to Vucelichs study. Vucelich notes that Carter has a Hickey on his neck before saying that Bentons interview will be at 6pm. Phone call for Mark, a hospital in Milwaukee. Jenn and Rachel have been involved in a car accident. He leaves immediately in Doug's Car. Josh's mother turns up. She cannot take him home. Can't get Josh in anywhere but he has already left.
Mark arrives in Milwaukee to find Jenn being wheeled into surgery. He finds Rachel and meets Greg who were all in the car. Greg was driving. Susan gets a letter from Chloe, it contains 30 100 dollar bills. Susan is not impressed. Benton's interview turns out to be assisting during surgery. Everything goes OK and there are no complications.
Everyone thinks that Doug is going out on a date but he is meeting his mum. His mum is disturbed that Dougs father has rung. Carol is out in the snow, she finds Josh under an Arch that he was drawing earlier. She gives him the pencils that he forgot and a blanket. On Josh's advice Carol and Shep rip down a wall in Carol's new house to find a fireplace. They dance together to some old rock and roll music. Mark sees Jenn after her surgery. Jenn admits that she is having an affair with Greg. Mark is upset.
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10) A Miracle Happens Here
Written - Carol Flint
Directed - Mimi Leder
It's 5.45am, Shep wakes up at Carols. It is freezing cold and Carol is trying to light the fire. It's Christmas and the recovery room Choir are down in the ER, Carol cannot find anyone to sing in recover at 4pm.
Mark is at his attorneys, he bumps into Mr O'Brien and his little boy, there is a brief awkward conversation. Multiple injuries are arriving at the ER and it is in chaos. Cut to Mark outside in the calm, cold snow.
Benton won't let Carter watch Vucelich's surgery since Carter spent last night talking to patients and not writing up notes. Benton and Vucelich go to talk to the patient and try and persuade them to have surgery. The patients wife is worried so he will not undergo the surgery. Just then Carter and the patients wife come in, he had bumped into her and persuaded her that the surgery should go ahead. Carter is asked to assist.
Carol is cleaning up a wound on a Santa look a like. A woman is brought in her car was stolen and she was pushed out hitting her head pretty hard. She is a jewish survivor of the concentration camps. When she wakes she asks how her granddaughter is, she was in the car with her. Nobody knows anything about the baby, the lady refuses to go to have a CT scan until she hears that the baby is OK. Jenn is on the phone, she wants Rachel to stay with her for two more days. Mark is mad but doesn't want to upset Rachel. There is still no news on the baby, Mark and the lady have a touching talk, she reveals that it is the first time she has prayed in 50 years. It is snowing outside and Carol still can't find anyone to go up to recovery and sing carols. Carter has bought some really nice and expensive earrings for Harper, they are real gems.
A vicar is brought in with a Gun Shot Wound to the chest, whilst they are taking X-rays he tells one of his young parishioners that it wasn't a gang that shot him. He crashes, Susan starts compressions, has to do a Thoracotomy, she finds that the bullet has severed the Aorta. Jeanie rushes back in with the X-rays to find that the priest has died. His young congregation are devastated, they comment that 'they' will pay. The police are on their way in with a child matching the description given by the grandmother, the baby is screaming but otherwise OK. They are reunited. Carol goes of up to recovery on her own to sing christmas carol's. Carol is singing away on her own when Doug brings up a whole load of doctors and nurses.
An elderly lady is brought in, her ECG is normal so it is not a Heart attack. She has a dissecting Aneurysm (the wall of the Aorta is tearing). The odds of a normal operation are 50/50 or she can have the Clamp and Run procedure. Vucelich says that surgery is OK, but he has had a drink so Benton will have to perform the surgery. The Christmas party has been cancelled because of the snow. It is quickly rearranged to be at Carol's house.
The Grandma and Baby's family come into the ER and have Honica at the hospital. Bentons first Christmas without his mum, he recites the prayer his mum used to like to hear at Christmas. Shep tells Carol he loves her and tries to ask Carol to spend the rest of her life with him. Fade out on a snowball fight outside the ER.
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11) Dead of Winter
Written - John Wells
Directed - Whitney Ransick
It's Snowing, the ER is quiet and Susan is asleep. She is woken, there is a baby coming in in Respiratory arrest.
Shep and Raul arrive at the scene of domestic violence, there is a man passed out on the stairs, it is not him they have come for, upstairs in a small dirty flat they find upwards of a dozen children. There are 22 children from 6 months to 9 years old, they are suffering from malnutrition, parents are unknown. One of them 'Tre' has Cerebral Palsy and a number of cigarette burns. They all have lice.
Dr's Vucelich and Benton plus Carter and a whole load of other students go to see Mrs Reubedue, she has got multisystem failure. Vucelich tells Carter to sort out her drugs. Mark gets a summons at work, Jenn is suing him for divorce.
The 22 childrens child benefit payments are paying for the parents drug habits. Loretta brings in one of her kids 'Jimmy' with a sore throat, she still has her office job. Loretta has also been bleeding from her genital tract. Peter is called down from surgical rounds to examine Micheals (one of the 22 children) hernia, it needs surgical repair. Benton is annoyed at something and takes it out on Micheal, handling him roughly.
Jeanies first evaluation as a Physicians Attendant is not brilliant, she is upset. It turns out that it was Carol who wrote the assessment, she is not sure if Jeanie can 'cut it in the ER'. The Grandmother of some of the children turns up. She had tried to look after the children, it sounds like she looked after them well but their mother kept on taking them away. They are taken into emergency care.
Mr. Reubedue and Carter are together, Mr Reubedue is reminiscing about his wife, they seem to be getting on well. Mr Reubedue isn't ready to let her go yet. Vucelich wants to exclude Mrs Reubedue from the study because things weren't going to well and she was an emergency procedure. Benton is not happy with this but seems to forget it when Vucelich makes him a research associate and gets him an office, parking space, etc.
A 51 year old female who is grossly overweight come in with abdominal pain. Mark says it is not the appendix, but get a surgical consult anyway. Benton arrives and clicks that she is having a baby !!! He hasn't delivered a baby since Medical school. She has twins, a boy and a girl.
Carter goes to see Vucelich about Mrs Reubedue. Vucelich admits that 'she is a sinking ship and you have spent all day rearranging the deck chairs'. He tells Carter to give her Dobutamine, knowing that she will be well enough to leave hospital but will soon decompensate and be back in. But then she will be somebody elses problem. Mr Reubedue thinks that his wife is getting better, Carter doesn't tell him that she is dying. Mr Reubedue comments that Carter is the only person around here who gives a damn.
Loretta's biopsy result come back, she has stage 1b Carcinoma of the Cervix. Her phone has been disconnected. Mark says he will go and see her after work. Jeanie and Al meet, he wants to give 'us' another try. Jeanie leaves without answering, we take it she means No. Mark goes to Loretta's address, there is nothing but a pile of rubble left, the building has been knocked down.
Benton goes back to see Micheal, talks to him and comforts him, explains what is going on. He stays with him for a while. Mark goes round to see Susan with Pizza and Beer, she invites him in. Carter's beeper goes of in the middle of the night, it is Mr Reubedue, Carter assures him everything is normal.
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12) True Lies
Written - Lance Gentile
Directed - Lesli Linka Glatter
Rachel wakes up at Marks, Jenn rings to make sure that she is OK. Mark promises to take her ice skating. Mrs Reubedue is being discharged, Vucelich doesn't seem to care. Mr Reubedue still thinks that Carter is 'the only doctor worth anything'. Carter assures Mr Reubedue that she will be back on her feet in a few days. Carter is now glad that she is not his responsibility.
Mark arrives at the ER with Rachel and Susan arrives with Little Susie. Rachel is happy to see Little Susie, it is her first smile all day. They arrange to go skating together. Doug's dad has called three times. Doug doesn't want to know. Benton has been invited to a dinner party with Vucelich. Benton asks Jeanie if she want to go, she says yes.
Rachel, Mark, Susan and Little Susie are skating, Rachel is still annoyed at Mark and Jenn about their separation, she is abusive to Susan. A man is brought in after an RTA, he has railings and a chair still attached to him. The chair is cut of with a hacksaw. Carter is not allowed to go up to surgery because he hasn't finished his paperwork.
The remaining bit of railing is removed up in surgery, it has damaged the Aorta, Benton convinces Hicks to do a clamp and run. Mrs Reubedue is brought back in, Mr Reubedue calls for Carter. She is not doing well and might have had a stroke. Carter avoids answering Mr Reubedues questions.
Lady brought in with Pulmonary Oedema. Her heart stops, she is defibrillated and has a feint pulse. It is her 50th birthday but she looks older. Her past history shows that she has had many detoxifications and has Cardiac and Liver disease. Morgenstern is in the suture room, apparently dressed in a skirt, blouse and socks. It turns out to be a kilt, he was at a Burns evening. Benton is getting into trouble with the clamp and run, Vucelich arrives. He shoves Benton out the way and takes over.
Benton tells Jeanie dinner is of, he will be doing Post Op observation. Two young boys come in, they were playing by getting cars to pull them along on the ice. Noah has a few cuts and bruises. Kenny is seriously injured, he is bleeding internally and needs surgery. The 50 year old lady with Pulmonary Oedema has a DNR in her notes, Susan wants to remove it but the woman will not let her. Benton finds out from Vucelich's secretary that he cannot cancel going to dinner short of being dead. He tells Jeanie it is back on. Morgenstern has a broken foot, he is annoyed that he will be late for the cutting of the haggis. He starts practising the bagpipes.
Kenny has a ruptured spleen and two broken thighs. The boys father is on his way in, he has been in previously himself as an alcoholic but has been through rehabilitation and is trying to hold down a job. Doug does not want to release the kids to him. Carter is avoiding Mr Reubedue, he still hasn't told him that his wife is dying. Mark talks to Rachel, he tells her that Mummy and Daddy aren't going to live together anymore. Jenn arrives (late) and Rachel is upset, she doesn't want to leave.
Benton arrives at Vucelichs, Jeanie is already there. They have a good time. Doug gives Noah and Kennys father a hard time as to why his kids aren't at school, Carol drags him away. The ER is invaded by Scots with Bagpipes and the Haggis for Morgenstern to cut. The 50 year old's daughter goes in to see her mother, she is in Respiratory failure, she is dying. The daughter is upset and wants something to be done. She dies.
Vucelich keeps Benton behind, Benton apologises for earlier but Vucelich is not angry, he wants people who are willing to try out new techniques and take risks. It is snowing outside, Doug rings his dad but hangs up before he answers. Susan and Mark come in, all three have had a bad day. They drink whisky. Mr Reubedue goes to see Carter, he is mad that Carter has lied to him. Carter yells back that she is dying.
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13) It's Not Easy Being Greene
Written - Paul Manning
Directed - Christopher Chulack
Mark is out running in the snow, he arrives at the ER, it is his day off but he has come in anyway. Carrie is trying to persuade Susan to apply for Chief Resident next year. Carol is annoyed that she has been cut back to 3 shifts but Jeanie has been put up to 6.
Vucelich wants Benton to go to Paris and present the Clamp and Run study, he is one person away from statistical significance so he needs to find another patient soon. Carter has called in he will be late, cut to Carter and Harper together in Bed :-). We find out that Jenn is now suing Mark for full custody of Rachel.
A Lady that raises worm comes in, the job pays really well. She is going up to CT which will take an hour. She asks Carol to get her worms in from her van so that they don't freeze. The Interviews for next years residency are today, Carter is trying to get one.
Harper finds and Abdominal Aneurysm, she shows it to Carter but he is not sure. Susan says that it is an aneurysm. Carter shows it to Vucelich and Benton, they are pleased. Carter doesn't tell them that it was Harpers find and that she should get the finders fee.
A 32 year old man comes in, he has had a seizure. He also has an abnormal heart rate and a murmur. Mark sends him up to CT. On the way his heart stops, could be due to drugs, he is shocked twice to get his rhythm back, it doesn't work. Tox screen is negative, his Potassium is normal. They try to pace him but it doesn't capture. They shock him again. He has been down twenty minutes. Is he acidotic ? pH is normal. Multiple shocks and every drug they could think of. He dies, Mark does not know why. Benton and Vucelich are rushing to do the clamp and run on the patient that Harper found, the patient has a drug allergy, but they had no way of knowing that since he had never had an operation before.
The Hospital has worked out a settlement for the O'Brien case (the pregnant lady who died whilst giving birth last series). Mark does not want a settlement he wants a court case. Carol has brought the worms inside and is feeding them old food from the fridge. Harper is annoyed at Carter because he didn't tell the Vucelich that it was her who found the Aneurysm. The worm lady has had palpitation so has gone to have a chest work out. The worms have gone missing.
Doug is trying to find out why a teenage boy has been getting headaches. His CT scan is OK, but the boy says that there is 'something wrong with him', he thinks that he is gay and doesn't know what to tell his dad or brothers. Doug calls psych and goes to lunch. Carter explains to Vucelich that it was Harper who found the aneurysm, Vucelich says that a secondary condition meant that the patient will be excluded from the study and that there will be no finders fee. Benton is disturbed by this. Mark has got a copy of the O'Brien notes, it is the first time he has seen them since she died. He admits that he missed the possibility of Pre-eclampsia. Carol has found the worms, they were outside by the bins and have frozen solid. She desperately tries to defrost them.
Susan takes a collapse in the lobby, Harper screws up and arterial tap, she hits a vein. Susan diagnoses fluid around the heart, Carrie wants to wait for an ECG but Susan goes ahead and tries to drain it, Susan is right. Susan starts asking Carrie questions, Carrie doesn't know the answer. Mark is down at the autopsy of the 32 year old man, the heart is of normal size, shape and weight. All structures are normal, the preliminary results are that there is no known cause of death. Psych still haven't come down to talk to Doug's boy. Haleh suggests that Doug could go and talk to him himself, when Doug does go to talk to him he is just leaving with his father. The worm lady is back, Carol has to break the bad news that despite all medical efforts her worms are dead !!
Benton is looking at Vucelichs study parameters, he is worried that Vucelich is excluding the bad outcomes from his study. Susan snaps at Carrie, Carrie is pleased. It is the first time she has acted like chief resident. Benton goes up to get Mrs Reubedues notes, Vucelichs secretary opens the 'failure' draw and leaves Benton to find what he wants. Benton takes a whole handful of notes. He is studying them. Most of the worms have survived by moving to the middle of the bin, Carol is taking them home to start her own wormery, she needs the money. Mark is wallowing, Susan arrives and assures him that he is a good doctor. Mark jogs home in the snow.
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14) The Right Thing
Written - Lydia Woodward
Directed - Richard Thorpe
Starts with Benton, he has stayed up late looking through Vucelich's study note and has fallen asleep on his desk, he is late for surgery but finds that he has been taken of the schedule. Mrs Reubedue has died, Mr Reubedue invites Jeanie to the funeral, Carter sees Mr Reubedue and avoids him. He later finds out from Jeanie when the funereal is but says he is busy and cannot go. Carter sees Susan and Mark on the El together, they are going shopping for Doug's birthday present. Rumours start flying about the ER that there is something going on between them.
A motor bike with a stuck throttle comes flying through the ER doors with a 17 year old boy riding it. He breaks his leg but is terrified of what his dad will do when he finds he bought a motorbike. Mark buys the bike of him. Benton confronts Vucelich about excluding patients from the study, he is then thrown of the study. Benton is not sure what to do, he talks to Mark and Dr Hicks. At the end we see him waiting to see the Dean but he can't risk ending his career. Loretta and her two children come back in, everything is going well and she has still got her job. Mark has to tell her that she has early Cervical Cancer. She agrees to the treatment including radical Hysterectomy.
Doug's father shows up at the ER, it is Doug's birthday. He gives Doug two tickets to the Baseball game. 'T Ball' comes in with stomach ache, he is known to Carol as a drug seeker, she tells Jeanie to leave him for an hour and he will go away. Jeanie looks up his file, he usually complains of back pain. Jeanie goes ahead and orders blood tests, there is something wrong with him.
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15) Baby Shower
Story - Belinda Casa-Wells and Carol Flint
Directed - Barnet Kellman
It is valentines day and a 30 year old man has jumped on the El track in front of a train. He has multiple fracture and head trauma. He crashes and is shocked back into a sinus tachycardia (normal but fast heart beat). Benton takes him straight up to the OR, the man is in serious trouble, almost dead. Benton continues anyway. Little Susie is crying, she wakes Susan up. The lady from social services arrives to check out Susan for adoption.
Carter is going for the Surgical Internship, he wants Benton to rewrite his reference. Harper tells Carter that she might be pregnant. The sprinklers on floor four have gone mad, about ten ladies in labour are being brought down to the ER.
Harper draws her own blood for a pregnancy test. A young girl delivers twins in the ER, the second is a breach (coming out the wrong way i.e. feet first) Mark delivers it). Tina a pregnant thirteen year old is in Labour. A man and woman arrive, they are to adopt the baby. The baby is born and the thirteen year old wants to keep it, the adoption parents are devastated. A baby is born that is not breathing, Mark and Doug do CPR. It may have developed gestational Diabetes. Doug and Mark 'save' little Rene. Dad is videoing everything.
A pregnant doctor comes in in Labour, she has Stage Three Carcinoma of the breast. She has suspended her own ttreatment to eneble the baby to survive. The baby is delivered, it is perfect, Mother is crying with joy. Benton is still in OR trying to save the 30 year old man. Harpers test comes back negative, but she had sent it away with a patients name on it. By complete coincidence it happens that the pregnant lady who's name she had put on the test is not actually pregnant. Weaver does not realise that the test result is not the patients.
Carter is having his intern interview, it is going well. The panel are impressed with the good letter from Benton, a very rare thing. Doug goes to see his dad, he finds out that he owns a very posh hotel. He returns the tickets to the ball game, they end up drinking and playing table football. After a whole day of people saying that Beet soup will induce Labour the overdue Connie goes over to the dinner to get some beet soup. Everyone jumps out and gives her baby presents.
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16) The Healers
Written - John Wells
Directed - Mimi Leder
Shep and Raul respond to a house fire, they are the first to arrive on the scene, there is an explosion followed by another. People come running out, there is another explosion and a man comes running out on fire. There is a mother and her baby, her three other children are still inside. Shep goes in after them Raul follows.
All the victim from the fire are coming into County. Susan is at the adoption agency, she is told that there should be no problems. A male with extensive second and third degree burns, pulse is weak. We find out that Shep and Raul are still in the building. The mans heart stops, he is down for 22 minutes, pronounced dead. An 8 year old girl arrives from the fire. Carol is worried about Shep.
Benton and Susan are not in the ER yet. Benton arrives, someone from unit 47 (Shep and Raul) is injured, we are not sure who. Carol runs outside and waits. Susan arrives, Mark is annoyed that she is late. Shep arrives in unit 92, he saved two children before falling ten feet, he has a burnt right arm and hand. They have not found Raul yet, he was still in the building after the floor collapsed. Doug ventilates and shocks a young boy, three, four times. His Carbon Dioxide is high, he is ceasing. He is flown by helicopter to a Hyperbaric Oxygen chamber.
Raul has been found and is being brought in, he has severe burns everywhere. Very bad, a jugular line is put in. Shep is worried Carol goes to find out how Raul is, he has 85-90% burns mostly third degree, Carol is shocked. The mother of the three trapped children was cooking Amphetamines in the same room as the children. The boy is OK he wants his mum. The police are also looking for her but she has disappeared.
Benton and Carter have to cut away dead tissue from Raul, Carter cannot do it. Chloe turns up at the ER, she is going up to day care. Randy has to give a message to Susan. The Mother and Baby arrive, baby is not breathing. Oedema (Inflammation and Fluid) in the epiglottis, the baby also has burns. Doug manages to get a tube in, the baby is OK. Raul is scared, he doesn't want to go on a ventilator. He is pleased that the kids are Ok. Doug's dad doesn't turn up to the ball game. Randy tells Susan that her sister has been here for hours. Susan rushes up to day care, she finds Chloe sitting playing with little Susie. Susan is mad at her.
Doug finds his dad having dinner with a woman, he throws the tickets back at him and walks off. Doug realises that like his dad he has never been committed to anything in his entire life. Carol persuades Shep to go and see Raul before he dies. Shep goes to see Raul, touching conversation, Shep cries. Fade to black.
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17) The Match Game
Written - Neal Baer
Directed - Thomas Schlamme
Mark arrives on his new bike with a goatee and contact lenses!!! Carter is throwing up in the loo, he is worried that he is not going to get the Internship. Susan and Chloe meet at the dinner, Chloe claims that she has been clean for five months and that she is getting married. Susan storms out when Chloe says that she wants her baby back.
Susan is worried about leaving little Susie at the creche she is afraid Chloe will try and take her. The results of the Internship are late. Shep and his new partner bring in a boy and his grandfather, the boy has a fractured leg. He was in recently with an injured knee, they get his old notes. Trauma, Susan takes it. The driver of a car that knocked down the boy and killed another. He is a drug addict and tests positive for cocaine and alcohol. He crashes, X-Ray shows a ruptured Aorta, Susan and Mark clamp it.
Another boy that was hit down come in, ruptured spleen ? Doug and Mark stabilise him. Asthmatic, wants to leave but Carter persuades him to stay for a complete examination. Carter gets the Internship. Blood results are back. He is severely Anaemic. Carter and Harper go of to celebrate. 3 Hours later when the man has become fed up and tries to leave Susan finds out that he has got Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.
The boy with the broken leg has a osteosarcoma (a malignant bone tumour). It was present on his X-Rays last time he was in but it was very small and Doug missed it. Doug decides not to tell the family about the previous X-Ray. 'Hugo' a large dirty tramp comes in needing to be cleaned up. Carol gets the short straw. The mother of the Drug addict driver comes in, she is mad at Susan for informing the police and slaps her.
Carol is spraying Hugo clean, she accidentally sprays Jeanie. Susan notices that Marks eyes are now blue not brown, it is the contact lenses. Susan is bleeped, it is day care. She rushes upstairs thinking Chloe is up their. Little Susie is taking her first steps.
Doug talks to the Grandfather, tells him about the bone tumour. He does not mention the previous X-Ray. Later Benton tells the Grandfather the truth. The family have no insurance and cannot afford to pay for treatment, Doug offers to work in his spare time to pay for it. The Grandfather confronts Doug, tells him to stay away from his grandson. Carter and Harper are celebrating in a hotel room with Champagne and a Bubble bath. Carters bleep goes of, he drops it in the bath. When he gets back to the ER he is in trouble for not answering his bleep and drinking on duty. Carter throws up in the loo again. Benton and Doug get into an argument over the boy with the Osteosarcoma.
Sheps partner backs over Hugo in the parking lot fracturing his Tibia and Fibula (Lower Leg). Chloe is outside Susans flat, Susan tells Chloe that she is adopting Little Susie. Susan rocks little Susie to sleep.
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18) A Shift In the Night
Written - Joe Sachs
Directed - Lance Gentile
It's raining, Mark arrives home wet, he has been to Milwaukee to see Rachel only to find that she is away at Brownie Camp. Carrie rings up, she needs him to work overnight, Mark has already worked three nights in a row. Doug cannot work he is in a neck collar for whiplash. There are patients everywhere, only Mark and Carter are left in the ER, Benton is in the OR. There are no beds left in the hospital. Mark orders everyone to see as many patients as possible. 15 year male comes in drunk ?, he is tied down. Tox screen comes back negative, he has not drunk Alcohol. Mark checks for Ethyl Glycol (Antifreeze), he is right, there is a risk of Renal Failure, the treatment is Alcohol IV but Pharmacy is out. Mark tells Carol to use the 70%ish Alcohol from a drunks shopping trolley.
Carter is off the Surgical Service since he drunk on duty last week. Greene wants to close to trauma, Morgenstern says no. 32 patients in the ER, 42 waiting. 18 months old with two Gun Shot wounds to the legs, hit the femoral artery, no pulse and the foot is cold, taken up to the OR. Chloe is in the ER looking for Susan, she wants to tell her she is different now. Still more casualties arriving.
A young boy brings in his dad with chest pain, the boy has blood on his shirt. The boy says it is not heart trouble but won't say what the problem is. The man is an alcoholic, his wife (who is being beaten) has been putting anti-abuse in his coffee whilst he is still drinking, this could kill him. Mark eventually gets time to go over the road and get a sandwich, he witnesses a car crash. He puts out a fire and tries to get the casualties out, Firemen take over.
The entire hospital is running behind schedule. Jenn is on the phone, Rachel has a stomach ache. Girl from the car crash is brought in, she has a dislocated leg, Mark puts it back without an X-Ray. Another man is brought in, fractured left femur, rigid abdomen and chest trauma. Carter is doing his best at treating him, he crashes, shocked back into a sinus bradycardia (slow heart beat), crashes again, Mark arrives. He is bleeding into the pericardium, a rib has punctured the heart muscle.
Carter is doing cardiac massage whilst covering the hole. They put a foley catheter into the hole and fill it with saline to block the hole. He crashes again, shocked back into a sinus rhythm, taken up to the OR. Benton arrives late, Mark has a go at him. The wife of the alcoholic with chest pain is in, she has been beaten, the blood on the sons shirt is because he got in the way of his father. Her Facial abrasions are cleaned up and X-Rays taken.
Mark is legally obliged to tell the police. Boy that came in hours ago needing stitches in his hand, Mark is ready to do the stitches but the injury was over 6 hours ago so Mark has to leave it open for 3 days. Mark is in the store room grabbing trolleys full of supplies, he gets as many nurses as possible, they go round the waiting room, no charts and rapid treatment. Tetanus booster, draining abscesses, etc. Mark is having fun.
A boy has fed his little brother two button batteries, Carter uses a metal detector to find that they are below the diaphragm and will pass in the stool. A lady vomits onto the shoes that Mark borrowed from Doug !!. Carter uses a stethoscope so that a deaf patient can hear him. Mark rings Rachel, she is OK, up watching telly. Mark, Carol and Lydia eat breakfast from the vending machine, the ER is now empty. It is morning, it is still raining, Mark and Carter go home.