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ER Season 11 Episodes
Season 11 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2004 - 2005
Episode 1
One for the Road
Thu, Sep 23, 200460 mins
After being shot at, Pratt, Jing-Mei and Elgin are trying to get out of their sinking car. Sam took Alex with her while fleeing from Steve. Kovac is considering going after them. Abby wants to go to bed since tomorrow is her first day as a doctor, but is thwarted by Weaver, whose custody battle might take a dramatic turn. A young drug dealer is brought in with "a foreign object" in her tunnel of life.
Episode 2
Damaged
Thu, Oct 7, 200446 mins
Carter suffers with insomnia and depression missing Kem and is sent home by Luka, slapped in the face by deranged patient and getting too emotional while treating an injured Iraq War veteran who fears his beloved won't get over his horrible facial deformation. Abby has trouble acting and being accepted as the doctor by ex-fellow nurses, minding Weaver's advice while tending to Mexican teen Tesoro Delgado kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery, sparing her long foster care by sending her home illicitly. A gay-bashing crime unites the medical team. Luka honestly confesses his romantic hopes to returning Sam. Neela gets a surprise visit but little support from her domineering, old-school parents and Can't even get a menial job at County, so acts as immature Tesoro's travel companion.
Episode 3
Try Carter
Thu, Oct 14, 200445 mins
Neela is trying to find a job, but it turns out be rather difficult to find something. Meanwhile, Carter is the only attending on a busy Fourth of July and Pratt is no help either since he can't put his mind to the work. Carter convinces Corday to do an illegal organ donation procedure between two men who both are HIV positive. Alex tells Luka he already has a father and Abby thinks new intern Howard may be obsessive compulsive.
Episode 4
Fear
Thu, Oct 21, 200460 mins
Despite Carter's volunteering and plea, he's denied extra shifts as ex-addict and Corday is disciplined by the board for her the still illegal transplant between two AIDS patients, and instead of taking a non-tenure track position, which Kerry offers as best deal, decides to return to England. Luka invites Sam to move in with Alex, who is keen to work out the modalities. Manic Howard resigns his ER position after Abby tries to discuss his OCD. Two small children are rushed to the ER after falling from a third story window, allegedly escaping their hysterical mother's violent, abusive ex-husband; however, the boy sort of confides into Pratt the mother is the real, mental problem. Lewis takes the vacant ER chief position and offers Neela, whose sales job is humiliating misery, an ER internship at County.
Episode 5
Intern's Guide to the Galaxy
Thu, Nov 4, 200445 mins
Neela starts a new job in the emergency room after working at the convenience store near the hospital. On Neela's first day, Pratt expects the interns, Abby, Ray and Neela, to take on a large patient load during their shifts. Pratt turns processing the patients into a competition, in which Ray is clearly going to be the winner.
Episode 6
Time of Death
Thu, Nov 11, 200446 mins
An ex con and alcoholic patient, Charlie Metcalf (Ray Liotta) passes out in the waiting room and is brought to the emergency room by the doctors. It shows the real time of 45 minutes with an patient of his life story and his final days in the ER, which touches the doctors treating him.
Episode 7
White Guy, Dark Hair
Thu, Nov 18, 200445 mins
Carter is rebuked by the shrink when he treats and tries to talk over a Korean teen to stop denying her newly born baby, still in pain from his son's death. Luka and Sam treat a critically injured woman who has been brutally beaten and raped by a serial predator. Wanting to help police identify the perpetrator, Sam gets the woman's consent for a risky procedure to help her describe the rapist, but it backfires fatally. Lewis schedules a JCAHO emergency drill without telling the staff, creating chaos.
Episode 8
Shot in the Dark
Thu, Dec 2, 200445 mins
When beat cop Escobar is brought in by his colleagues, one of whom accidentally hit him, son Arlo is the legal next of kin, so must decide whether to risk surgery which may be fatal, as he would have chosen, or none, likely to leave him a plant. Ray finds the smart knave capable to decide and encourages him to speak up for surgery, but as Ray can't get out of his band gig, only Neele stands by the boy, who lets his mother talk him over. Luka talks to Alex's principal "loco parentis" as the precocious kid risks suspension for bringing porn to school, where a dumber mate masturbated with it. Keith Trager insists to transfer his teen daughter, whose appendicitis diagnosis is stumbled upon to, out of the hospital which 'killed' his father.
Episode 9
Twas the Night
Thu, Dec 9, 200445 mins
On Christmas Eve the hospital is overrun by homeless people trying to stay warm, so Ray lures the 'profiteers' to the Holiday Inn, one fake patient robs the pharmacy. Pedantic Dubenko's secret Santa gift is too absurd to pretend accepting, Carter witnesses Kerry repackaging an unwanted gift for himself as she clocks out. When Chen can't find someone to cover her shift, as even Luka insists to spend his first Christmas with Alex and Sam at home, she quits, leaving Carter as the only ER attending. Carter and an off-duty Ray save a critically injured boy, and Ray learns the real story of his injury from his little sister. Abby and volunteering new medical student Jake Scanlon treat a dialysis patient who is in critical condition, but when she can't reach his attending, she breaks the rules to save the patient's life. Pratt heads to Chen's house and finds she is about to euthanize her father, a doctor, who has begged her in his lucid moments to do so and return his corpse to China.
Episode 10
Skin
Thu, Jan 13, 200545 mins
Even Carter and Luka's patience is stretched when Lewis lets Kerry inspire her to 'pull rank' and put statistics over patients. Ray is told to drop his rock star act, as fitting attire is required from all; a trans patient mistrusts him and gets misdiagnosed based on hormones. Neela ignores the obvious emotional cause of profuse crying. Abby goes missing, abducted by a car full of drug thug knaves who expect her to save a shot cousin, hopeless as they refuse to bring him to hospital, where an ingrate other mobster gets life-saving care.
Episode 11
Only Connect
Thu, Jan 20, 200560 mins
Blamed by Kerry, Lewis assigns Luka to teach the residents how to communicate more effectively with their patients. Still, Pratt and Neela direct the families of two unidentified teenagers, who were brought to the ER with gunshot wounds and had different outcomes, to the wrong people, the only person aware of all the facts being medical student Jane, whom everyone ignored. Lawyer Herb Spivak shows up at the ER and tries to generate lawsuits against County, bribing staff with gifts, but ends up a patient himself. Pratt dazzles interns with speed and medical skills but struggles with his teaching role, as he rarely trusts any to try in order to learn. Abby returns to work while still recovering from her post-abduction trauma too soon and must walk off again, but med student Jake helps her deal with it.
Episode 12
The Providers
Thu, Jan 27, 200545 mins
When a 16-year-old girl who had received a kidney transplant from her father arrives at the emergency room feeling dizzy, Carter traces the problem to a new drug that the girl was taking to control seizures related to her kidney dysfunction.
Episode 13
Middleman
Thu, Feb 3, 200545 mins
While examining a young boy, Pratt finds a suspicious gash across his chest and calls Wendall for a consult. Kovac and Pratt examine a man who was shot when he confronted his boss with a gun. Jake tries to convince Abby to date him despite his being her student.
Episode 14
Just as I Am
Thu, Feb 10, 200545 mins
Resuming temporary day to day control of ER, Weaver annoys everybody, constantly overruling and picking on students, especially Jake. She treats an evasive patient, who turns out Kerry's long-searched birth mother Helen Kingsley. Spending time together, Weaver learns the story of her birth, when Helen was 15, and unaware of her hip birth defect, which is why she needs a crutch. Abby and Jake adjust to their changed relationship. When Weaver reveals to her mother - an evangelical Christian - to be is gay, their meeting turns rocky. Jane impresses Pratt by handling an agitated patient and is the only one cooperating when Lewis seeks to collect data for a scientific publication.
Episode 15
Alone in a Crowd
Thu, Feb 17, 200545 mins
Carter is happy jogging and in bed with Wendall, but when he gets called by Kem from Africa, she jealously walks out and he admits he can't proclaim love. Ryan and Neela help a little boy brought in by his kid brother who turns out to have paid a stranger to play their nonexistent father. A stroke leaves Ellie Shore conscious but losing ability to communicate, diagnosed by Luka who need the husband's consent to risk the all or nothing surgery she needs, to be there for their three kids. Pratt refuses to be made head resident, Morris applies by bribery while rudely assuming a victim of street violence partook in plundering.
Episode 16
Here and There
Thu, Feb 24, 200545 mins
While Luka and Ray keep treating patients admirably, Pratt must rebuke perfectionist Neela, who fails ti use her vast theoretical knowledge practically and suggests she needs an outlet, which she finally seems to find in Ray's hunky band buddy Bret, who comes wash as his apartment has no hot water, and proves a hottie even to her taste, and a goo enough towel-only listener to get intimate. Deployed in Iraq, Gallant isn't content to help wounded soldiers, but show Hippocratic devotion to local civilians, despite his superior's skepticism about spreading limited military means. Turned down via regular channels, he gets adoring Neela to prepare surgery for an Iraqi girl.
Episode 17
Back in the World
Thu, Mar 24, 200545 mins
Steve, father of Sam's son Alex, makes another unwelcome appearance and after hitting Sam up for several hundred dollars when she tells him he can't take Alex out of school for a day, more trouble happens. Luka comes home to find & confront Steve who has loaded the back of a vehicle with things he is appropriating or stealing from Sam. Steve attempts to make it physical, Luka warns him not to go there, but Steve tries to punch Luka and comes out on the short end of a one-blow fight.
Episode 18
Refusal of Care
Thu, Apr 21, 200545 mins
Carter finally commits a big chunk of his charity inheritance to a free clinic. Lewis, Neela and Sam are legally blocked from treating Elena Tabajas dying from the effects of a hunger strike, desperately to prevent her Santiago from being deported to El Salvador, but when Santiago is brought in by INS to talk to her, he shows no sympathy as he hated being illegally dragged to the US as a teen. Abby fails to prove that an injured, penniless 72-year-old woman is the survivor of elder abuse, so she and her sister are released to resume panhandling. Ray and Pratt seek a way to convince a penniless woman with breast cancer to seek treatment to avoid certain death.
Episode 19
Ruby Redux
Thu, Apr 28, 200545 mins
85-year-old Jules Rubadoux is brought in but refused to be helped at County, accusing Carter of letting his wife dire horribly ten years ago when medical student John had her moved to a different facility at the end of a research study. Although Abby believes Rubadoux is too old and frail to undertake surgery to correct a heart murmur, the attending doctors (including Anspaugh) opt to go ahead with the operation, and Carter has to decide whether to try to convince Rubadoux otherwise despite their history. Ray angers Carter by ignoring procedures when the elderly panhandlers show up in the ER again Morris may end up with the chief resident job despite a disastrous presentation, Lewis does her presentation for tenure. Sam takes a home pregnancy test.
Episode 20
You Are Here
Thu, May 5, 200545 mins
Carter is pleasantly surprised to get the tenure he was suggested to apply for 'eraly', Lewis feels discriminated to be passed over, as she fails to publish and get grants. Luka and Sam's home bickering, like who keeps secrets, disrupts their hospital collaboration Lewis has to step in and suggest counseling. Morris is elated and annoyingly proud to get the chief resident job Pratt refused to apply for. Jake presents his clan to his just not too unconventional bride Abby. Ray regrets dismissing a regular tranquilizer beggar as presume a junkie, finding out he's abused by his ma's boyfriend. Pratt nearly gets arrested when a drunk youth mate celebrating ab birthday pulls a gun to shoot at public lighting again.
Episode 21
Carter est Amoureux
Thu, May 12, 200545 mins
Carter hears that Kem's French mother is sick, surprise-flies to Paris to see them, grows jealous of her trendy youth friend Michel Timbaud, finally offers to move back to Africa to start all over. Ray, Abby and Neela all make medical mistakes. While in couples counseling, Sam reveals that she thinks that she and Luka, who can't see a problem and refuses to talk about his slaughtered Croatian family, should not be together. Abby makes it clear that she and Jake do not have a future together. Pratt helps his dubious buddy Darnell Thibeaux's wayward junkie son K.J. do his social service sentence in County, though no party is enthusiastic.
Episode 22
The Show Must Go On
Thu, May 19, 200545 mins
Casualties of a disaster flood the ER, which is short-handed because everyone is at Dr. Carter's going-away party because he's leaving the ER after 11 years. Dr. Pratt looks for the courage to confront his father, Charlie.
