TEMPORADA 3:
1) Dr Carter, I Presume
Written - John Wells
Directed - Christopher Chulack
It's 5:45am July the 4th and it is Dr Carter's first day as a Surgical Intern, he meets the other Interns. The previous years Intern tells them that Dr Benton is an Interns worst nightmare he finishes with 'Welcome to Hell'.
6:55am, Benton is outside the ER, Jeanie catches up with him, she tells Peter she tested positive for HIV. Benton hasn't got his results back yet. Benton has breakfast with his Interns, he assigns Carter to the ER and gives him the first on call shift tonight. Carter is a bit annoyed at being 'dumped back down in the ER'. Susan says it is because Benton trusts you.
Weaver is back to her usual self annoying everyone again, she wants to protect patient confidentiality by using codes on the board. Carters first consult is a woman with abdominal pain, Carter diagnoses a small bowel obstruction and that she will require surgery, without doing a rectal examination. Lydia disagrees, she is impacted. Benton makes Carter disimpact her. Carter has to draw up a central line in Trauma 1. He has trouble getting it into the Internal Jugular Vein so goes for the Subclavian vein. Whilst doing this he punctures the lung. The patient now needs a chest tube as well. Benton comes in and takes over, Carter leaves, annoyed that he screwed up.
5:45pm Susan is looking at various tropical holidays but she is afraid of flying. Weaver has changed the board to codes, nobody can understand it. An outside lab has called with test results for Benton (His HIV test). Benton rings up, it is Negative. Jeanie goes up to the HIV clinic, she is warned off and told not to tell anyone she works with. She cannot be fired but her job could be made so bad that she has to quit.
The ER are playing the Paramedics at a Baseball game. The nurses say that Carter might need a little Midnight Potty Training. We see Benton at a BBQ, he meets an old friend Carla, she comes onto him. Jeanie tells Carrie that her HIV test was Negative. At the baseball game, the ER is losing, Carol sees Shep he has a new Girlfriend. They all stand and watch fireworks.
The nurses wake Carter three times with trivial questions and bleep him. Carrie suggests that Carter should apologise anyway. A drunk comes in who has fallen through a plate glass window. He needs multiple sutures. A man with Alcoholic Liver Cirrhosis comes in, throws up on Carter. Carters bleep goes off, it is surgical ITU.
It is 3am, a 66 year old man who had an abdominal aneurysm repair two days ago has dropped his Haematocrit to 30. Carter is not sure what to do, he wakes the resident Dr. Karubian (We never see his face but it is David Schwimmer of Friends Fame!). The Cirrhosis man has a GI bleed, he is Tachycardic (fast heart rate) at 200, Carter shocks him, 50 then 100 joules. It takes Carter a second to realise that he is in charge and he has to figure out what to do.
Gant arrives early to help, Carter and Gant stitch up the drunk man who went through a plate glass window. July 5th, 7.55pm Carter is outside, he is knackered and still has another two hours to go. Mark comes out and tells him that he will make it. They light sparklers. Carter bleep goes of, Mark takes it for him.
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2) Let the Games Begin
Written - Lydia Woodward
Directed -Tom Moore
Jeanie is at the doctors she is being started on a three drug cocktail, she is warned there might be some side effects. Carter is at home asleep, he is woken by his neighbour banging on the door, she smoking heavily and complaining of being short of breath. Carter realises he is late and rushes out. Benton is looking for Carter, he has to decide what speciality he would like to specialise in. Mark arrives on his motorbike, talking to Susan about how bad both their dates have been. Jeanie gets a bill for Al's treatment, Al had missed one of his repayments.
Carter arrives late, Gant is already in surgery. Benton sends Carter down to cover the ER. Suggestion that Benton investigates a Paediatric fellowship. Two fifteen year olds, won't call their parents. Mark has said he will see them, but never quite gets round to it. Eventually Susan and Carol see them, they have lost their Condom. Carol's car is repossessed, she has missed three payments. Mr Heath an 81 year old man with abdominal pain arrives. His private nurse is stuffing his face, he is dumping Mr Heath for the weekend. The old man is calling for Thomas. He arrests, Carter does CPR, he breaks a rib but gets a pulse. We find out that Thomas was his dog.
Morgenstern wants Carrie and Mark to attend a meeting at 5pm about which hospital is going to close down. Morgenstern thinks that Anspaugh the chief of Southside is 'Completely Lumpy'. Carters neighbour is in the ER, gets an Oxygen tank, tries to smoke Carter stops her (Likely to explode). The private nurse is back, this time he is throwing up. Jeanie has to stitch a cut, she is freaked out by the needle.
A man due for a Hernia repair, he is very talkative and a bit worried about having a general anaesthetic. Carter suggests an epidural. Says that the man can talk to Dr Benton during surgery to get Benton back for sending him down to the ER. Mark and Carrie are at the meeting, Southside is closing down in two weeks. Lots of new staff are joining including Donald Anspaugh as the new Chief of Staff. Party in the ER that they are staying open. Morgenstern is not happy, Carrie and Morgenstern arrange to go out. Malik has saved the private nurse who dumped Mr Heath for Carter and Carol.
They wind him up with a list of things that could be wrong before deciding it will be necessary to do a Barium Enema. Mark and his date, an architect, are at the fairground, they bump into Susan and her date. It turns out the two dates know each other, they start chatting and get on really well. Mark and Susan do a runner, they take photo's in a booth. Man aged 35 arrives, he has fallen on the El tracks. Benton arrives and pushes Jeanie out of the way. The man dies. Jeanie is mad at Benton, Benton doesn't want Jeanie anywhere near his patients since she is HIV positive.
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3) Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Written - Paul Manning and Jason Cahillo
Directed -Perry Lang
Mark and Susan walk in together, Susan is of to Maui on holiday tomorrow. New residents are arriving from Southside. Meet Maggie Doyle, new resident. Anspaugh wants to make changes, doctors are to see a minimum of 2.5 patients and hour. A drunk tramp comes in with a cut head, he claims he was attacked by a Kangaroo.
Doyle's first day, Mark wants her to stay supervised. Doyle has parked in Carol's parking space, Carol and Doyle do not get of to a good start. Mark on Anspaugh's orders is doing chart review, he has not seen a patient yet. Susan suggests to Mark that he comes with her to Maui, Mark is not sure, says they will talk later. Elderly man with Kidney stones, turns out to be Carol's old Chemistry teacher, he thinks she is a doctor, Carol says she is a nurse.
Mr. Johnston and 89 year old man is crashing, BP of 50/30, no response to pain, cannot find out if he has a DNR. Mark starts CPR. He has Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease, Renal Failure, Diabetes, Prostate Cancer and a pH of 6.97 (Don't usually survive with a pH of below 7). Mark calls it, stops CPR, he has a rhythm. Stops breathing , Mark puts him on a ventilator. His son arrives, a simpleton who smokes hams. He cannot understand that his father is dying.
A trauma comes in, a motorcyclist who has hit a glass truck, glass sticking out of the chest. Carrie tells Jeanie to grab hold of the glass, she cannot do it and runs out. Benton is investigating a Paediatric fellowship. Carter and Gant are the only Interns not in surgery. We hear on the Radio that there is a kangaroo on the loose. Both Mark and Susan don't know what to do, they feel really awkward.
Carter has admitted a woman with a Lipoma who wants it removed today, Benton tells Carter to book and OR and that he can assist. All OR's are full, Carter lies saying the patient has a life threatening condition to get and OR. Carrie confronts Jeanie about earlier, Jeanie says she was feeling well. Benton and Carter are in the OR, Anspaugh comes in asking about the Phaeochromocytoma that Benton is meant to be operating on. Carter gets sent out and put on report.
Mr. Johnston has a Tachycardia (Very fast heart beat), Mark shocks him 200, 300, 360. He gets a Rhythm, Mr Johnston is still on the Ventilator. A DNR has been found at his nursing home, it was signed by the son. Son still thinks his father is going to be OK. Benton is trying to talk to Abby Keaton about doing a Paediatric Surgery Rotation. Carter is vomiting because he has screwed up, Gant gives him Comprazine to stop the vomiting. Mark and Susan meet, they have an awkward conversation, Mark asks how much a hotel room for him would be.
Benton and Jeanie talk, Benton is not planning to tell anyone Jeanie is HIV positive as long as she stays away from his patients. Carter is on a Grand ward round with Anspaugh, he gets neck muscle spasms as a side effects of the Comprazine. Trauma, Jeanie and Carol are working on it. Lacerated Femoral Artery, Benton arrives. Jeanie and Benton work together to stop bleeding from the Nasopharynx. Carrie tells Jeanie good work. Marks DNR is conscious, wants to be taken of the ventilator. Talking to Mark about his life saying how good it has been.
Betty, Carters neighbour, is in the ER suffering from smoke inhalation, there was a fire and her apartment block has burnt down including Carters apartment. Benton meets Abby Keaton, they share Pizza and talk. Jeanie and Carol are talking outside, Carrie has guessed that Jeanie is HIV positive, she is really supportive and is glad Jeanie has decided to keep working. Mark has decided to go to Maui with Susan. Mr Johnston arrested in the elevator, he was still Marks patient so Mark signs the death certificate. Susan saw the most patients, Mark only managed to see one patient in twelve hours. Susan apologise for the invitation, Mark lets her go on her own. Carol is walking home, she sees the Kangaroo in a side alley.
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4) Last Call
Written - Samantha Howard Corbin
Directed - Samantha Howard Corbin and Carol Flint
The morning after Ross drinks alcohol heavily and has sex with a woman whose name he doesn't even know, she dies from a seizure. Greene detects cocaine in her blood and angers Ross by demanding a urine sample from him. Cocaine is not found, but Weaver orders Greene to test Ross' alcohol level. After Greene and Ross have a nasty public argument, the police question Ross. When the dead woman's sister arrives, Ross pretends he didn't know the deceased. Hathaway refuses to console Ross, and the staff gossips.
Benton doesn't know that the slides for his lecture burned up in Carter's apartment until after he begins speaking to the audience. Anspaugh and Benton are upset with Carter, but Keaton sympathizes. Later, Carter impresses Keaton by subduing a rebellious teenage patient, drawing Keaton's attention from Benton, who is skillfully operating. Keaton invites Carter to assist in the colostomy, which annoys Benton. When the patient's mother asks Benton for guidance, he refers her to the psychiatric department. Keaton patiently rebukes Benton, reminding him that the focus of pediatric surgery is on the child, not just on the illness. He apologizes. Gant allows Carter to move in with him.
Weaver continues to clash with Greene. She reverses their duties, taking surgical cases while Greene does boring medical matters. It doesn't work. Meanwhile, Jeanie's medication for HIV is making her nauseous. When a handsome construction worker, Mikey (BRIAN WIMMER -"China Beach"), who brought in an injured friend, flirts with her, she reluctantly rebuffs him.
A young Korean girl who is afraid of men needs a pelvic exam. Nurse Hathaway and new female intern Doyle are the only ones she'll allow near her. Unfortunately, Hathaway must teach Doyle the procedure. Hathaway considers studying to become a doctor. Hathaway's mother, Halyna, offers to pay rent if Hathaway will let her live in her house one night a week.
Benton visits a former lover, Carla Harris (recurring guest star LISA NICOLE CARSON), at her restaurant.
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5) Ghosts
Written - Neal Baer
Directed - Richard Thorpe
On a stormy Halloween, a huge man dressed as a monster is shot in the chest. Gant impresses Weaver with his work on the victim. But Gant doubts himself when Benton arrives, and Benton replaces him with Carter. Later, Gant discovers that Benton is making him work harder than the other interns because people might think that Gant was given preference due to his race.
In another case, Carter treats a young girl and her father who were both hit by a car. When the man dies, Carter decides not to inform his daughter until after her operation. But when Carter later tells her the truth, she says that she already knew--her dad communicated with her during surgery.
Jeanie clashes with new intern Doyle, who wants to obey a terminally ill patient's "do not resuscitate" orders and let her die. Jeanie follows the wishes of the patient's husband, saving her life. Also, Jeanie must take a second mortgage on her house to pay her and Al's bills for HIV treatment.
Hathaway enrolls in a pre-medical school physics class. Her lab partner is 15 years old and knows a lot more about physics. She also rides with Ross in the health mobile, Anspaugh's ill-conceived idea, which travels through poor neighborhoods giving free medical treatment. Wearing bulletproof vests, they are more like ambulance workers treating crime victims.
While Benton and Carter examine a two-year-old patient, they are quizzed by Keaton on child development. Benton's answers are very wrong, while Carter, who is naturally at ease with children, answers them all correctly. Benton's efforts to make the children like him fail.
Greene and Ross are still tense around each other. Also, Lewis, who never went to Hawaii because she is afraid of flying, still wonders if Greene is romantically interested in her--and vice versa. At a Halloween party, Greene dances with Lewis. Finally, rumors circulate about the ghost who inhabits the fifth floor of the hospital. Greene and Lewis venture upstairs. While there, they feel a strange rush of cold air.
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6) Fear of Flying
Written - Lance Gentile
Directed - Christopher Chulack
Lewis momentarily overcomes her fear of flying when she and Greene travel in a rescue helicopter to help a family of four, the Herlihys, who were in a gruesome traffic accident in a rural area. When Lewis and Greene bring the victims back to the hospital, the father suffers temporary memory loss from severe head trauma, and the mother's condition stabilizes. Their two children--seven-year-old Zach (recurring guest star JONATHAN PATTERSON/JOSHUA PATTERSON) and infant Megan--are seriously injured but expected to live.
With one of the nurses on vacation, nurse Rhonda Sterling (recurring guest star JENNY O'HARA) is brought in from another department.Because of Sterling's complete lack of experience in the emergency room, the other nurses expect the worst, but Hathaway gives her a chance. Unfortunately, Sterling proves not only incompetent but annoyingly lazy. When Sterling carelessly almost kills Zach with the wrong medication, Hathaway orders her to restock supplies and stay away from the patients.
Under Keaton's supervision, Benton performs exploratory surgery on Megan. Assured of Benton's competence, Keaton leaves for another emergency, allowing Benton to finish operating on Megan without her.However, Benton becomes overconfident and bungles the surgery, leaving the baby in extremely critical condition. Keaton castigates Benton, saying that it will be her responsibility but Benton's fault if the baby dies. Although Benton insists--erroneously--that he followed correct procedure, he is extremely agitated.
Elsewhere in the emergency room, Greene and Lewis continue to behave awkwardly around each other due to their mutual attraction. And Jeanie must deal with an elderly man's dying wish--to be cryogenically preserved with his deceased wife.
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7) No Brain, No Gain
Written - Paul Manning
Benton is obsessed with Megan, the infant whose condition is critical due to Benton's surgical error. Keaton orders Benton to observe the dying baby to learn patience. Miraculously, Megan's condition improves. Benton tries to regain his dignity by relentlessly attempting to revive a young shooting victim. Keaton lets him continue so that he will learn another lesson.
Meanwhile, Mr. Percy (WILLIAM SANDERSON), a mentally impaired man, sneaks away from Dale before an operation. After Carter locates the man and saves his life, Anspaugh allows Carter to work on the operation with a visiting surgeon. To no avail, Carter warns Dale and the others that Mr. Percy is not competent to sign his own surgical consent forms. During the surgery, Carter notices a hole in Mr. Percy's lung, causing Anspaugh to compliment Carter and reprimand Dale, who is also present. This later leads to a fight between Carter and Dale that is stopped by Keaton. Also, Carter and the older Keaton finally act on their attraction toward each other.
The incompetent nurse, Sterling, returns to the emergency room. When Sterling commits another grave error while caring for an accident victim, Hathaway vows to report her. But Sterling insists that she was unfairly assigned to the emergency room because the administration wants to force her out before she can collect her pension. She quits. Hathaway believes Sterling after another nurse who is almost eligible for a pension is temporarily transferred out of the emergency room to do unfamiliar work.
After Greene overrides some of Ross' decisions concerning patients, Ross confronts Greene about his recent sanctimonious behavior. Greene admits that he has been judgmental since the recent incident when Ross' date died in the emergency room after using cocaine. When Greene apologizes, Ross confides that he is consulting a therapist about his promiscuous lifestyle.
Greene worries that Lewis is dating Morgenstern. He's astounded when she tells him that Morgenstern is only helping her transfer to a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona so that she can be near her niece.
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8) Union Station
Written - Carol Flint
Directed - Tom Moore
This was the most watched episode of Series 3 in America. Drs. Carter and Keaton are desperately trying to hide there romance from an unsuspecting Dr Benton. Mark is making everyone's life miserable because Susan is leaving. Lydia is angry at Al because he keeps putting off getting married. Carol half jokingly suggest that the hospital has a Chaplin. Al and Lydia then have their marriage in the ER, with the odd call for stool cultures!
Notice the massive flows of Electricity between Mark and Susan across the Room. A leaving party for Susan is prepared, a large MVA (RTA) happens and everyone is suddenly busy.
Susan leaves without saying goodbye to Mark (Who is in love with her).On Dougs encouragement Mark makes a frantic dash to catch Susan before she leaves to tell her he loves her and ask her to stay. He eventually catches up with her at Union Station just before the train leaves. He tells her he loves her and asks her to stay, she says she already knows but she has to go anyway. They kiss for the first and last time, Susan leaves.
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9) Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies
Story - Neal Baer and Lydia Woodward
Directed - Paris Barclay
Without Lewis, the emergency room is even more understaffed. Greene calls a staff meeting and outlines a new scheduling system. He seems to be dealing with his heartbreak over Lewis leaving by taking on more responsibility at work.
Meanwhile, Hathaway studies hard for her pre-medical school midterm test in physics, and she scores fairly well. Hathaway also gains a minor victory by convincing the hospital administration to stop transferring the emergency room nurses. Weaver inadvertently insults Hathaway by saying that she is acting like management.
Worrying that he is not succeeding in his pediatric surgery elective, Benton works hard at developing his visualization skills to impress Keaton. Unfortunately, during an operation observed by Keaton, Benton is called away by Morgenstern and Carter is allowed to finish the surgery.
Keaton surprises Carter by implying that their relationship is strictly for fun. He is sad to learn that she will soon be traveling to Pakistan for a few months to teach. Later, she comes to the Carter family farm with him to cut down a Christmas tree, and they have sex again.
Gant is overloaded with work, but he refuses Carter's help, wanting to prove his worth to Benton. Gant blames Carter for helping Benton on a surgery instead of allowing him to help.
When Greene treats Jeanie's ex-husband Al for HIV, he wonders if Jeanie may be infected as well, although Jeanie denies it. Weaver, who knows the truth, tells Greene to believe Jeanie. Even Anspaugh orders Greene to leave the situation alone. Breaking hospital rules, Greene checks Jeanie's confidential medical records and confirms his suspicions. He berates Weaver for not sharing the information with him and possibly making the hospital liable for a lawsuit should Jeanie spread the disease. When Jeanie finds out Greene violated her privacy, she furiously confronts him.
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10) Homeless for the Holidays
Written - Samantha Howard Corbin
Directed - Davis Guggenheim
With rumors abounding about her HIV-positive status, Jeanie finally tells her co-workers the truth. Meanwhile, Greene and Weaver clash over how to institute policies regarding HIV-infected employees. Also, Doyle helps an abused woman escape from her husband.
Charlie, the 14-year-old girl who convinced Ross to immunize a baby that she cares for, brings the infant to him again. Ross determines that the baby has a tumor. The mother, Gloria (TIA TEXADA), is missing, so he operates without her consent. When Gloria finally arrives at the hospital, she is on illicit drugs and is furious about the surgery. When Ross threatens to call the authorities, she leaves. Charlie is upset because she was staying with Gloria.
After performing well in the child's successful surgery, Benton asks Keaton to recommend him for the next pediatric surgery rotation. She refuses because she feels that Benton's remote manner would not make him a good pediatric surgeon despite his excellent technique.
A critically burned homeless man is rushed to the emergency room,accompanied by his dog, Nick. Greene promises the dying man that he will take care of the dog. While washing Nick in the emergency room, Greene falls and gashes his forehead. Jeanie is the only qualified staff person available to treat him. Reluctant because she is HIV-infected, Greene allows her to stitch his injury.
After inviting Gant to attend a family holiday party with him, Carter reneges to be with Keaton. Gant is depressed because his girlfriend ended their relationship. Meanwhile, with nowhere else to go on Christmas Eve, Ross brings Charlie to Hathaway's home. Hathaway, who is celebrating a Ukrainian Christmas with her family, lets a now-homeless Charlie stay overnight.
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11) Night Shift
Written - Paul Manning
Directed - Jonathan Kaplan
Greene prepares for his tenure review next week, hoping to join the faculty. His main competition is Weaver. When Weaver tries to recruit subjects for a grant to study the physical behavioral patterns of night-shift workers, Jeanie feels obligated to help Weaver, so she joins the study.
Hathaway and Ross volunteer to perform a designated safety check to help Greene. They make a good team as they round up dangerous equipment. The former lovers stumble upon a room where they used to meet, and they recall old memories.
After stealing expensive silverware from Hathaway's home on Christmas Eve, Charlie comes to the emergency room to get money from Ross to pay her pimp. Not believing her claim that she is in danger, Ross refuses her. Later, Charlie returns to the hospital, beaten and raped.
Benton finds Keaton cuddling with Carter on her couch just before she leaves the emergency room to go work in Pakistan. The mortified Keaton assumes that Benton will blackmail her in order to get another rotation in pediatric surgery. But Benton's ethics will not allow him to do that.
Gant feels Benton is being too tough on him. But when Gant's mistake nearly causes a young patient to die, Benton gets even tougher.
Greene puts his career in jeopardy when he treats a woman who refuses to give her consent. Later, he and nurse Chuni Marquez (recurring guest star LAURA CERÓN) subtly flirt during the night shift. After work, they consummate their attraction to each other in Greene's bedroom.
Benton, Carter and Doyle feverishly work to save a victim who either tripped or threw himself in front of a subway. Although the patient is unrecognizable due to the injuries, they soon realize the victim is Gant.
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12) Post Mortem
Written - Carol Flint
Directed - Jacque Toberen
Carter feels sorrow but also guilt about Gant's death even though the police rule it an accident. He wonders if it was really suicide and thinks that he wasn't a good enough friend to Gant. He also feels that Benton, who will not discuss the matter, may be partly responsible due to his harsh treatment of Gant. Later, Carter reads Benton's most recent evaluation of Gant, which was positive. Unfortunately, Gant never saw it. Carter rebukes Benton for his seeming lack of concern.
Meanwhile, Charlie asks Ross to be her guardian, and Charlie's mother whose former boyfriends have abused Charlie, agrees to it, claiming she can't control her daughter. Ross refuses.
To protest cuts in their overtime pay, the nurses call in sick. Hathaway gets temporary employees and closes down part of the emergency room. However, a deathly ill patient from West Africa needs treatment. The doctors worry that he might have the highly contagious ebola virus. Jeanie is willing to treat him, helped by Dr. Greg Fischer(recurring guest star HARRY J. LENNIX) from Infectious Diseases, who discovers that the man has malaria.
Fischer invites Jeanie to look at the stars with him through a telescope. She mistakenly thinks that he is homosexual, but when he kisses her she realizes her mistake. She tells him that she is HIV positive. Meanwhile, Greene overzealously courts Marquez, who wants to let their romance develop more slowly.
When a homeless man dies in the emergency room, the overworked Hathaway takes responsibility for giving him the wrong blood. Due to the lack of nurses, Weaver and Greene don't think it is important to report the incident, but Hathaway insists.
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