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ER Season 10 Episodes
Season 10 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2003 - 2004
Episode 1
Now What?
Thu, Sep 25, 200345 mins
On his return to Chicago, Carter gets a downright chilly reaction from Abby who asks him to return her apartment key. At work, they tip toe around one another, neither really willing to discuss their feelings. A new med student, Neela Rasgotra arrives for her ER rotation. Dr. Pratt is paying too much attention to her for Dr. Chen's taste. A woman passes out at the wheel of her car severely injuring herself and the three children in the car with her. Neela makes a good call in the case. Carter treats a man whose HIV has become full-blown AIDS. The ER itself is a bit chaotic due to major reconstruction. The ER desk receives a call from Africa saying that Luka Kovac has been killed. Carter decides to return to the Congo to retrieve his body.
Episode 2
The Lost
Thu, Oct 2, 200346 mins
John Carter returns to the Congo to retrieve Luka Kovac's body. He finds however that the area where was killed is still too dangerous to enter. He and Gillian finally manage to hitch a ride with a Red Cross worker, Debbie, who is going to the area. In flashbacks, we learn how Kovac and his fellow aid workers were taken prisoner by rebel troops. They are shot, one at a time, until only Luka is left. Amid the destruction of the eastern Congo, we learn his fate. Carter also makes a fateful decision.
Episode 3
Dear Abby
Thu, Oct 9, 200345 mins
Luka Kovac arrives safely at County General and is hospitalized for treatment. His friend Gillian delivers John Carter's letter to Abby. Pretty much everyone gets to read it when Frank retrieves it from the garbage and passes it around. Greg Pratt has dinner with Chen and her parents. The dinner goes well but they have a serious argument afterward. Dr. Romano is unhappy with his prosthetic arm which makes him even more difficult to deal with. Some of the more senior nurses find their hours being reduced as a cost-saving measure and stage a walkout. Romano's response is to fire them all. Dr. Lewis treats a teenager with a serious heart problem but her parents insist that she not be told immediately. A new group of second year residents arrive.
Episode 4
Shifts Happen
Thu, Oct 23, 200345 mins
Confident second-year resident Pratt wants to prove his abilities when he works the graveyard shift (11 p.m. to 7 a.m.), but his heroics sometimes backfire. Pratt shows contempt for a man, Ed Gamble, who presents no symptoms of disease but temporarily loses his speech. Chen continues to get in the way of Neela's progress as her jealousy regarding Chief Playa Pratt's flirtations with everyone who wears a skirt reaches new levels of ridiculousness.
Episode 5
Out of Africa
Thu, Oct 30, 200345 mins
Emmy nominee Bob Newhart guests as Ben Hollander, a distraught architect whose degenerating eyesight causes him to be despondent while a spirited new nurse, Samantha Taggart, joins the staff. Elsewhere, disaster strikes when the doctors suspect a mother is abusing her child while Dr. Corday learns something shocking about the charismatic Dr. Dorset, and Dr. Archie Morris is overwhelmed by the chaos and grisly conditions of life in the E.R.
Episode 6
The Greater Good
Thu, Nov 6, 200360 mins
Pratt and Kovac clash over a miscarriage-prone young woman who arrives to deliver a premature baby. Pratt wants to make heroic efforts to save the unborn child, while Kovac is adamantly against spending vast amounts of money to keep the forever sickly baby alive.
Episode 7
Death and Taxes
Thu, Nov 13, 200345 mins
Alex has no minder, so Sam leaves him in ER, where he eagerly tails amused Luka, who finds him as curious as fearless, even with a dying patient, and treats him to a cool skull scan. Luka persists in avoiding unnecessary, expensive tests, even after in his student Cooper's unclear appendix patient's case that happens to force Corday to perform heavier surgery. A juvenile convict brought in after a fight is reluctant to have his wounds examined, which indicate rape, and the tests conclude AIDS. Lewis's terminal senior patient Ben Hollander is delighted with the puppy she gave him but after she finds regular treatment is no longer required, he cancels the dinner he promised and shoots himself in the brain, she respects his DNR. Romano's rule of terror inspires Lewis to hide his hand prosthesis, he openly works on a case file to have Pratt fired 'before he infects all staff'.
Episode 8
Freefall
Thu, Nov 20, 200345 mins
A Thanksgiving tragedy. Romano catches Morris with cannabis and declares the brash Pratt is as good as fired at the impending board meeting, but Dr. Donald Anspaugh sides with the junior and when a crashing medical helicopter who initially didn't hit Robert crashes, the County staff races to aid the survivors, long unaware the hated head is fatally squashed by the debris. Lewis fears the worst about her husband, but Chuck Martin didn't board as scheduled. After they work well together in handling the crisis, Luka enjoys Thanksgiving dinner with Sam and her son Alex, who invited him and seems to act as mother's Cupid, yet claims he just found a good friend.
Episode 9
Missing
Thu, Dec 4, 200344 mins
Sam initially clashes with sympathetic Luka for paying too much, indulgent attention to her doting but trouble-prone son Alex, who dodges class to avoid painful wrestling class and keeps pilfering, allegedly even severed finger, but she ends up realizing a reliable father figure may be just what the rascal cutie needs. Neela treats two Amish teenagers involved in a car accident while on "rumspringa" (test of sinful mundane life), deciding whether they return to the closed community. Only Corday mourns the death of Romano, the others are either respectfully or openly (like Pratt) glad he's no longer terrorizing everyone. Gallant is happy when his sister visits but annoyed about her hanging out with bad boy Pratt. Abby is pained when an unconscious 5-year-old girl cannot be traced to any parent or guardian, so bugs social worker Ken Sung.
Episode 10
Makemba
Thu, Dec 11, 200346 mins
At Christmastide, everybody reminisces Carter's seven months in Congo. After working out how to run the clinic with Red Cross support, joining an expat network, not spared of jealousy and geopolitical rivalries, he fell in love with Franco-Congolese AIDS worker Makemba, who vilified him for personally financing a single mother's expensive treatment US-style, as all must give way to her project for affordable 'mass' treatment. In Chicago, where Luka is itching to resume NGO work, Christmas presents are collected for Carter's clinic, but Makemba tops it all with 'noel baby', which John feels should be raised in the US, so he finally decides to return, at least to handle his inheritance, and asks her along, to decide about heir future as a family.
Episode 11
Touch & Go
Thu, Jan 8, 200445 mins
Carter returns to County General to hearty welcomes. Although Abby is shocked to learn that Carter's beautiful African girlfriend, Kem, is already pregnant with Carter's child, Abby has moved on with her life as well, going back to medical school.
Episode 12
NICU
Thu, Jan 15, 200445 mins
Third year student Matt Gilespie's humor, although not appreciated by sour Neonatology chief Dr. Rabb, is needed as antidote for her and sad cases weighing on morale with month-long rotation students Abby and Neela. Shuang Tseng and his wife arranged for their twins to get born in Chicago, not native China, and get a healthy son Dirk, but his sister seems a hopeless case, so they leave her and return to the PRC. Kyle and Helen Kolber's premature baby boy seemed healthy, but several problems are found, the last fatal. Even helping deliver Kerry's partner's baby can't convince either student to opt for this specialism over ER.
Episode 13
Get Carter
Thu, Feb 5, 200445 mins
Carter's girlfriend 'Kem' steps on many few toes while spending a day observing County in action, asking too many questions, even shaking Luka's confidence attending his lecture to warn med students against superfluous tests. Burly victims of hockey hazing need help. Carter boosts Pratt's shaken confidence now his broken neck incident is under review give the victim's huge care cost, doubting his abilities as he treats a variety of patients. Gallant accompanies the paramedics and is almost shot in a violent domestic dispute when he befriends and comforts frightened little Rudy, who clenches the gun he tried to defend his badly beaten mother with against his own father. Lewis turns down a promotion due to pregnancy. Weaver cynically uses late bigot Romano's financial bequest to the hospital to start a gay and lesbian health program he would have hated.
Episode 14
Impulse Control
Thu, Feb 12, 200445 mins
After a multi-vehicle accident caused when a man with heart troubles passes out and hits two other cars, it proves fatal for him and one of two children, the other and mother pull through. Carter shows Kem the city's winter mode, reminisces and proposes they move into a townhouse he bought for them, but she decides to fly back to Africa. Pratt wants to just treat a patient with a badly swollen knee and release him, as the cue needs speedy action, while Abby insists to run tests 'to be safe', both must restrain a TB patient. Sam gets personally involved in the case of an abused, newly pregnant teen. An HR consultant, evaluating work conditions as part of a lawsuit settlement prompted by Dr. Romano's behavior, bothering everyone with impertinent questions, and urges Weaver to fire 'unruly staff', but is ultimately told to shove it and leaves.
Episode 15
Blood Relations
Thu, Feb 19, 200444 mins
Carter misses his pregnant girlfriend who has returned to Africa. A family of four is rushed to the emergency room after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning from their faulty furnace--forcing the claustrophobic Neela to accompany a newborn baby into an extremely uncomfortable hyperbaric chamber.
Episode 16
Forgive and Forget
Thu, Feb 26, 200445 mins
Dr Morris agitates a patient who then leaves, steals a tank, and rampages through Chicago on his way to County General. He makes it all the way to the ambulance bay before the CPD finally stops him. Sam tries to figure out her relationship with Kovac while Gillian shows up at the ER to cement plans for dinner with Carter, Kem and Kovac - making things that much more difficult. Neela confronts Frank about his arrogant bigotry, bluntly telling him she wants nothing from him but silence from this point forward. During the initial onrush of patients due to the tank rampage, Frank has a heart attack which is, thankfully, caught. Frank's wife and daughter show up and are rushed up to the cath lab where Dr. Pratt is helping Dr. Kayson keep Frank alive. In the end, Neela winds up in the family room with Frank's family listening to them describe a side of Frank that no one has ever seen. Meanwhile Kovac treats a 13 year old with chlamydia and counsels him to contact his sexual partner - which turns out to be quite a few teenage girls.
Episode 17
The Student
Thu, Apr 1, 200445 mins
Carter defends his protégé Neela when Weaver and other doctors rate the residents. Carter urges his student to be more proactive in the emergency room, but Neela goes too far in treating a patient with a brain injury--and sympathetic Gallant errs further by falsifying a medical report. Meanwhile, Chuck protects pregnant Lewis from a pervert who is harassing her. Kovac treats a disoriented young boy whose dad fears that tests will reveal he is not the boy's biological father. Chen is unable to find a caretaker for her combative father. And Corday is uneasy about dating two men at once.
Episode 18
Where There's Smoke
Thu, Apr 8, 200460 mins
Luka and Sam are surprised by the arrival of Alex's dad. Tension remains between Gallant and Neela as an investigation begins into the suspicious death. Gallant reveals he is being deployed to Iraq. Corday suddenly becomes the new Head of Surgery. Lewis is confined to bed rest by labor pains. Weaver rushes to the aid of her lesbian partner Sandy, who is badly injured fighting a fire.
Episode 19
Just a Touch
Thu, Apr 22, 200445 mins
Pratt struggles to diagnose a woman who suffers mysterious chronic seizures. An attractive woman, Campbell, informally accuses flirtatious Pratt of sexual harassment. Abby ponders how to get her contentious patients' attention during her psychiatric department rotation.
Episode 20
Abby Normal
Thu, Apr 29, 200445 mins
Carter impresses a returning Kem, but annoys his father and the board with a shake-up at his family's foundation, diverting part of the assets from culture, as meant by his grandparents, to care. Luka's relationship with Sam and her son Alex continues awkward as Alex's father continues his stay. Weaver almost moves out of state, kidnapping baby Henry, to keep Lopez's folks from taking custody of Henry as she's not even granted regular visits. Abby tries, in the midst of her psychiatric rotation, to help a seizure-prone mother with a controversial drug treatment. Pratt lays into Neela for avoiding the ER to work in a lab.
Episode 21
Midnight
Thu, May 6, 200450 mins
Neela, Abby and Lester graduate and Neela has 19 family members flying over from London. Frank is back from his bypass operation. Steve still tries to get back to Sam and Alex and visits Luka at the hospital. Rachel, Mark Greene's daughter, is visiting and asks Corday for a favor. Pratt doesn't believe a 17-year old kid is in congestive heart failure, even though Neela keeps telling him. Carter and Kem go to the hospital since the baby stopped kicking.
Episode 22
Drive
Thu, May 13, 200445 mins
Kovacs stops to help a woman and her son whose car broke down. Steve is getting close to Alex, and Sam panics. Abby is looking for her letter whether to see she passed her boards. Pratt shows off his new Chrysler. Elgin tries to build a connection between him and Pratt. Jing-Mei might be battered by her senile father.