TEMPORADA 4:
1) Ambush
Written- Carol Flint
Directed- Tommy Schlamme
This episode was shot live. Greene is still recovering from his attack, more so emotionally. This is quite clear when he gets upset with the camera crews because they inquire about his attack. We see deep into Greene's fears, and his changed attitude about the ER. Carter finds out he must now start over as an intern, although he thought he was second year. He loses a patient. Benton snubs him. Dr. Corday joins the team. Hathaway and Ross are getting back into their romance again, and they can1t even hide it from the cameras, when their mics are picked up accidentally during a private conversation. Dr. Morgenstern suffers a serious heart attack. Dr. Benton suffers from sleep-deprivation because he stays awake with his newborn son. Jeanie calms a bloody man who will not let anyone touch him because he is HIV positive.
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2) Something New
Written- Lydia Woodward
Directed- Chris Chulack
Dr. Weaver takes over the role of administrative leader because of Dr. Morgenstern's incapacity. Carter is still annoyed that he is only a first-year intern, and he must take direction from someone less experienced. He has to supervise an intern who is more interested in medical research than in clinical practice. Benton struggles with the acceptance of his new son, as his prognosis for survival improves. He and Carla argue over what the baby should have for a last name. They finally compromise and name the baby "Reese Benton." They agree that living together would not be a good idea. Greene chooses a new desk assistant, Cynthia Cooper, after she cries her way into the job. He thinks her unorganized, but cute. Ross and Hathaway's relationship is flourishing. This is marked when Doug gets his own drawer at her place. Jeanie argues with Al, after he shows a lack of concern about getting the afternoon off of work to go to the AIDS clinic.
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3) Friendly Fire
Written- Walon Green
Directed- Felix Alcala
Doug Ross is continually urged by Hathaway that the relationship must remain a secret. She has to learn to trust him after Corday flirts with him. Weaver is named Chief of Emergency Services, and her new position makes everyone else miserable. Jeanie convinces Al to reveal his HIV status to a fellow worker who may have been infected with his blood after a construction accident. Carter and Del Amico get closer, but he refrains to tell her that he comes from a wealthy family. Benton is upset after Carla had the baby circumcised without his consent. He says he thinks it should have been his decision. Jerry gets himself into trouble when a patient who is a weapons salesman leaves his products lying around. Jerry decides to try out a rocket launcher, and proceeds to demolish an ambulance.
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4) When the Bough Breaks
Written- Jack Orman
Directed- Richard Thorpe
Greene's ex wife is putting a stop to weekend visits with his daughter because his strange behavior is affecting her schoolwork and sleeping patterns. She consents to resuming the visits when Mark can get his life back together. Jeanie treats a patient and must place her hands inside his body cavity. The procedure makes Weaver uneasy because of Jeanie's HIV status. Al tells Jeanie that he has lost his job because of his own condition. Ross is continually annoyed that he has to compete with Del Amico for patients.
He is informed by Weaver that he must start research again on his fellowship and get scholarships to pay his salary. Benton's son comes home from the hospital. Carter and Benton finally get their pent-up anger out on the table, after Carter refuses to put up with Benton's tirades. Benton reveals that he is upset that Carter went into ER instead of surgery. Hathaway is accused of dropping Doris's (a crack addict) still born baby. She asks for Greene's for support even though he did not witness the incident. She is eventually cleared of the accusation.
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5) Good Touch, Bad Touch
Written- David Mills
Directed- Jonathan Kaplan
Greene and Cynthia become more flirtatious, but his positive attitude declines once again by the thoughts of the deposition he must give on his wrongful death lawsuit. Hathaway struggles to find federal funding for the clinic she wants to launch, and Carter suggests that his family may want to subsidize it. Ross and Del Amico argue once again over a patient, but when Del Amico discovers the diagnosis is testicular cancer, she appeals to Ross for help. Benton continues as a struggling father, but doesn't let it affect his work, for fear of Corday looking better than him. Carter saves a patient's life. Jeanie's Al gets beat up by the co-worker he may have exposed to the HIV virus.
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6) Ground Zero
Written- Samantha Howard
Directed- Darnell Martin
Greene is upset to learn that the lawsuit for wrongful death is filed against him personally, and not the hospital. Dr. Ross approaches him to talk about his attitude problem, but Greene gets angry and storms off. Cynthia comforts him, and he finally opens up to her about his attack. Del Amico agrees to be the doctor consult at Carol's clinic, and they both go to Carter's aunt to ask for the grant. She learns of Carter's wealth, and realizes he has been lying to her the whole time. Benton continues to clash with Corday. She blames him after she gets caught performing a surgery alone. To his surprise, she asks him out to drinks, and lets him know that she finds him attractive. He is speechless. Weaver attends a seminar and hits it off with the speaker. He convinces her that to be a good administrator, she must let go of unnecessary physician assistants. She takes his advice and fires Jeanie.
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7) Fathers and Sons
Written- John Wells
Directed- Christopher Chulack
Ross and Greene step out of the ER, as they drive across country so Ross can identify the body of his dead father. Ross discovers that his father died in a car accident, and that he was driving drunk. He also discovers that his father killed a father of 6 in the accident. They go to where his father was staying, and find lots of old stuff, including pictures of Doug as a child. They also find his car and decide to take it on a joy ride. In rummaging through his father's belongings, Ross is led to discover that he has an infant step-brother, who he originally thinks may actually be his half-brother.
He must deal with all of these findings, and in the meantime, realizes that he is in love with Carol, and confesses the fact to Greene. We get a glimpse into Greene's life as well, when he mentions that his parents live close by. He pays a visit, and we see how dysfunctional his childhood must have been, and how his parents' health is worsening. Mark and Doug argue about their not-so-perfect childhoods. In the meantime, Carol realizes her own strong feeling for Doug, and pays him a surprise visit. The two embrace as Mark looks on, and then the three of them go to scatter Doug's father's ashes. Doug stays on the west coast to complete the search for his step-mother.
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8) Freak Show
Written- Neal Baer
Directed- Dean Parisot
Greene returns from the other side of the country without Ross, but with a love note for Carol, labeled "CH." Cynthia later finds the note and assumes it is for her. In his return to the ER, he treats a lawyer who agrees to fight his case for him in exchange for some observation time in the ER. Hathaway's clinic is jump-started when the newspaper misprints the opening date (the fault of Cynthia1s), and she is left with a clinic full of needy people and no one to help her. A busload of homeless people arrive, and Carol realizes it was Cynthia who OK'd the arrival. She yells at her in front of everyone, and Mark reprimands her.
Carter and Del Amico head-butt over patients and treatments. They work together to save a patient from a near-death experience, after trouble with their interns. Carter repeatedly asks Del Amico if she is upset about his family's wealth, and she denies it. Weaver's crush on the seminar speaker thrives. She is upset at Carol for skipping out of her duties at the ER to run the overcrowded clinic. Jeanie decides she will fight for her job. She goes behind Weaver's back to fight it, and Weaver is obviously angered by this move. Benton and Corday treat a patient with a rare disorder with extremely difficult surgical procedures. It seems successful at first, but the boy ends up dying. He later learns that the patient is the son of a former high school classmate, and refuses to pressure the father to give permission for an autopsy.
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9) Obstruction of Justice
Written- Lance Gentile
Directed- Richard Thorpe
Jeanie goes into the hospital, demanding her job back, and does not leave until she gets it. Administrators don1t want it to look like she was fired because she has AIDS, so they convince Weaver to rehire her. Meanwhile, Al tells her he is moving to Atlanta, and she decides not to go with him. Carter and Del Amico treat an intoxicated couple. Police claim the wife tried to run the husband over, and they demand that Carter pump her stomach for blood-alcohol levels. The woman refuses, and Carter won't give up the details in the interest of doctor-patient confidentiality. He even goes so far as to rinse the patient's vomit down the drain. He is arrested for obstruction of justice. Anna bails him out and they share a kiss.
Ross volunteers his time at Carol's clinic, and Weaver is upset that she is taking doctors away from the ER. Greene leaves his daughter Cynthia's care. She returns with dyed hair, which prompts Mark to call off the date they planned for that night. Corday and Benton treat a young girl who was in a car accident. They must decide whether to amputate her leg or operate. Corday argues to operate. The girl goes into a coma, and Corday wonders if she made the wrong decision.
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10) Do You See, What I See?
Written- Linda Gase
Directed- Sarah Pia Anderson
Benton touches a blind patient and he miraculously gains his sight. The man leaves the ER, and the word of the miracle spread. Soon the ER is crowded with sick people hoping for a chance at Benton's "magic touch." The blind man returns soon with a loss of vision again, and Benton realizes the man has a brain tumor. Carter's rich grandmother comes for a tour of the ER, and is so impressed that she gives Carol a huge check for the clinic. Carter discovers that his cousin is using heroin. Hathaway admits to her co-workers that she and Doug are together, to no surprise to them Ross surprises Carol with a public marriage proposal.
Greene learns that Cynthia has a son she has not seen in years. He goes to see the Law family(the family of the boy that died under Mark's care). Although the case is dropped, Mark appologizes and has a heart to heart with the boy's brother, who Mark accused of attacking him. ER Patients: An elderly rape victim is brought in with the word "Whore" written across her chest. The girl in the coma from the leg surgery awakens.
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11) Think Warm Thoughts
Written- David Mills
Directed- Charles Haid
Ross and Hathaway decide that their wedding will be a simple one. Carol's mother is upset that the two are back together because of the pain he caused her in the past. Anspaugh gets an offer from Ellis West (Weaver's flame) that his company, SPG, take over the ER. His young son comes into the ER with severe pains which are later diagnosed as stomach cancer. He notices Jeanie's warm and caring demeanor with his son. Carter gives a presentation to med students, and is disappointed that he is not more inspiring to them. The experience prompts him to wonder if he made the right decision to leave surgery for the ER. Corday and Romano butt heads over treating the girl from the car wreck. ER Patients: Another rape victim is brought in with the word "whore" written on her chest.
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12) Sharp Relief
Written- Samantha Howard Corbin
Directed- Chris Chulack
Weaver ends her relationship with Ellis. Carol spends the day riding along in an ambulance, and gets close to Powell. In the meantime, she skips out on meeting Ross, who had planned an impromptu wedding for that night. Powell and Carol kiss, and she begins to doubt her commitment to Ross. Corday supports Allison, the car wreck victim through her larynx operation. She and Benton have a semi-date at a bar. Del Amico develops a crush on one of her students.
ER Patients: Yet another rape victim is rushed to the ER with "Whore" written on her body. She dies after Greene attempts to save her. Carter's cousin Chase is clean for two days and comes to Carter for medication to help him with the withdrawal. Carter refuses, but he goes to Chase's apartment and agrees to stay with him. Anna shows up with medication to help him, because she had to deal with this kind of situation with her old boyfriend. Anspaugh's son undergoes surgery, and Jeanie supports him through it. She helps him hang on by promising him hockey tickets.
13) Carter's Choice
Written- John Wells
Directed- John Wells
The serial rapist is caught and is discovered to be a 19-year-old boy. In his last rape attempt, a security guard stopped him, and the boy shot and killed the guard. Carter decides to perform an unorthodox procedure on the boy to overcome the hospital's problem of the dwindling blood supply. He wanted to save the blood for a more deserving patient. Carter's cousin is clean and thanks him and Anna.
Del Amico approaches Carter about this decision, suggesting his feeling toward the rapist got in the way of his professsionalism. Weaver tells Ellis she thinks he used to her to land the hospital account. This makes her dead against the SPG takeover.Corday suggests to Benton that they move their relationship to another level. Cynthia suggests to Greene that they move in together. He offers to help pay her rent instead.
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14) Family Practice
Written- Carol Flint
Directed- Charles Haid
Greene goes to San Diego to visit his sick mother. She is worse-off than he thought. Cynthia flies out separately and surprises him. His mother acts very strange, and Mark is critical of the doctor's treatment. He has his own tests done and gets a second opinion. The tension builds between him and his father, and it results in his father being hospitalized for respiratory distress. Mark also breaks up with Cynthia.
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15) Exodus
Written- Walon Green & Joe Sachs
Directed- Chris Chulack
A chemical plant explosion sends fumes and chaos into the ER. The hospital must be decontaminated. Corday rescues a fireman under a pile of rubble. Weaver collapses from the fumes, and she suffers a seizure. Hathaway and Ross are trapped in an elevator with a dying patient when the power in the hospital is turned off. When all is returned to normal, they agree to stop arguing. Carter restores order in the ER.
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16) My Brother's Keeper
Written- Jack Orman
Directed- Jacque Toberen
Greene returns from San Diego to find that Cynthia has moved and quit her job. Weaver, Carter, and Del Amico treat 6 heroin addicts, and Carter realizes one of them is his cousin Chase. Chase is left in a coma, and the prognosis is that he will suffer brain damage. ER Patients: a young girl is transferred to the ER because she is thought to be without insurance. Del Amico thinks her condition worsened as a result. She is angered when her colleague hesitates to treat her because of this.
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17) A Bloody Mess
Written- Linda Gase
Directed- Richad Thorpe
Anspaugh's son Scott returns to the ER. This time it is for bone marrow cancer. Jeanie and others organize a bone marrow dirve for him. Hathaway gives a teen girl contraceptives in her clinic, and later finds out she is having sex with her 40-year-old coach. Carol has to face the girl's parents who blame her for encouraging their daughter. Ross decides he will not renew his fellowship, but will instead pursue a pediatrics attending positon in the ER. Morgenstern is back at work, but freezes up during an operation and walks out. He confessses to Weaver that he is in constant fear of another heart attack, and in weary of stress and overexertion.
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18) Gut Reaction
Written- Neal Baer
Directed- Babu Subramaniam
Anspaugh wants his son to try a procedure never before performed on humans. Scott agrees, but later confesses to Jeanie that he doesn1t want to. Hathaway's clinic returns to financial hardship when Carter's grandmother decides she doesn't want to fund a clinic with a "contraceptive scandal" surrounding it. Carter agrees to talk to his grandmother about the situation, but in the meantime, he writes Carol a check for $35,000 so she can keep the clinic open. He and Del Amico share their first kiss.
Ross loses his temper with a patient's mother, and Weaver suggests that they leave their options open for the pediatrics position. He has a fist fight with Romano over a disagreement about a patient's care. Benton helps Morgenstern with surgery on a pathologist. When the surgery goes awry because of Morgenstern's shakinees, the pathologist dies. Morgenstern blames Benton, but says he will cover for him.
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19) Shades of Gray
Written- Samantha Howard Corbin
Directed- Lance Gentile
A women's clinic is bombed, and the victims are brought to the ER. Scott Anspaugh is dead, and Jeanie sings a hymm at the funeral. Ross must tell the family of a 17-year-old girl that she is brain dead. They have to make a decision about what to do with the baby. Weaver suggests that Anna is letting her personal views about abortion get in the way. Carter reports the negligence of an elderly man, and it backfires when the man is removed from his family and sent to a state home. Benton is suspended because of the pathologist case, but Morgenstern soon reverses his decision, reinstates Benton, and resigns. Greene discovers a paramedic who was injured from the bombing. It is Allison, the girl from the car wreck who Corday was helping. Corday finds comfort in Benton, and he confesses his feelings for her. They kiss.
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20) Of Past Regret and Future Fear
Written- Jack Orman
Directed- Anthony Edwards
This episode was directed by Anthony Edwards. Carol and Mark treat a chemically-burned patient. Carol visits his ex-wife to garner a visit from his estranged daughter, Molly. She never comes, which reminds Carol of her father's death, as she wonders if the circumstance was the same. John favors aggressive therapy for Chase. He tries to show Chase1s improvement, only to find otherwise. Later, he and Anna treat a disabled man, whom they take for a bum, but is an expert on heiroglyphics.
Peter receives heckling about his new "girlfriend" at Reese's baptism. He feels upstaged by Carla's new boyfriend, but eventually goes to Reese's party. Meanwhile, Dr. Romano professes an interest in Elizabeth, and she replies she has a policy against dating colleagues. Kerry diagnoses a woman with pneumonia, but accidentally authorizes an HIV test, which returns positive. She choose ethics over law and tells the patient. Her fiancee is responsible. Doug makes breakfast for Carol, her mother, and her mother's boyfriend. In the ER, he encounters a mother who feeds her drug habit with her baby's prescription, a child addicted to heroin. He challenges her to make the right choice, and she leaves the child in the ER.
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21) Suffer the Little Children
Written- Walon Green
Directed- Christopher Misiano
The ER is abuzz with activity. Jeanie awakes to a cough, slight fever, and forgetfulness. Has it begun? After x-rays and blood work--it1s the flu. Close call. Anna treats a tel-evangelist, who hosts a live broadcast in the ER. Her ambiguous companion, Max, studies the feasibility of a Pediatric Unit. Kerry wants to bog Max down with charts, while Mark wants to prove there's no need for a Pediatric Attending. Max meets John, who feels contempt and jealousy, and tells Max he's trouble.
Elizabeth has a dangerous liaison with Peter, and Dr. Romano happens to find them. Elizabeth believes they've been seen, because Romano threatens her job. Peter hears of this, and confronts Romano, who explains this isn't the case. Either way, Elizabeth and Peter are now on the auction block. Doug lies to DCFS, and keeps his drug baby to perform a 12-hour-detox. He lies to Mark, who eventually finds him, with Carol at his side. The baby begins to crash, and Doug and Carol are left on the firing line.
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22) A Hole in the Heart
Written- Lydia Woodward
Directed- Lesli Gatter
Ross follows Weaver as she rushes baby Josh up to the pediatric intensive care unit. They encounter Dr. Babcock (DAVID BRISBIN), a Pediatric Anesthesiologist, who continues Ross' rapid detox procedure on the baby--much to Weaver's surprise. Later, the treatment proves successful. But even though Ross saved the little boy, he may lose his job. Romano informs Corday--via letter--that he won't sponsor her next year. Reese's day-care worker thinks Reese might have a hearing problem. Carter suspects Rosher stole a missing vial containing a pain killer. Rosher tells Del Amico that if he recommends an e.r. pediatric department, he might like to stay and manage it. Weaver asks Anspaugh to appoint her as permanent Chief of Emergency Medicine, and he informs her that there will be a national search for the best candidate per county policy. An insurance company refuses to allow a 50-year-old man, Mr. Wass (ROGER ROBINSON), to get the anticoagulation medicine Weaver prescribes.
A furious Weaver vocally resigns as Acting Chief. A wife (CARRIE SNODGRESS) must decide whether to keep her terminally ill husband in a coma or order surgery that will wake him up but not save his life. To Hathaway's chagrin, a psychiatric resident interviews and releases Victor Nable (MICHAEL RISPOLI), a 40-year-old man brought to the e.r. with superficial lacerations on his wrist. Later, when a bloodied Nable returns to the e.r., Hathaway discovers Nable's wife and two children shot but all still alive. The entire e.r. crew works feverishly to save the family.