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ER Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1998 - 1999
ER returns for a fifth gripping season, bringing new faces in and saying goodbye to old favorites. Opening with the arrival of third year medical student Lucy Knight, season 5 brings upheaval for Kerry Weaver, new hope for Mark Greene, an altered perspective for Benton, reflections for John Carter and a life changing decision for Doug Ross. Welcome back to the County General.
Episode 1
Day for Knight
Thu, Sep 24, 1998 60 mins
In the fifth season premiere, Lucy Knight, a 23-year-old medical student, gets off to an inauspicious start as she endures the first day of her ER rotation. Before the day is over, she offends Carter, stumbles on a private romance and is speechless in front of a widow-to-be.
Episode 2
Split Second
Thu, Oct 1, 1998 60 mins
Greene considers taking a part-time position as an EMS medical director; Corday is asked by her father to join his practice in England; Benton grows concerned that Reese may have a hearing problem; Carter finds his resident advisor's position is taking up too much time.
Episode 3
They Treat Horses, Don't They?
Thu, Oct 8, 1998 60 mins
Greene must tend to a wounded gunman who was shot by police after wiring dynamite to his body and taking hostages; Weaver is upset by Ross's surprising news; Carter becomes involved with a patient.
Episode 4
Vanishing Act
Thu, Oct 15, 1998 60 mins
Hathaway tries to prevent a wounded gang member bent on retaliation from leaving the hospital; Weaver interviews for the chief of emergency-medicine job; Corday becomes painfully aware that her position as an intern isn't just a formality; Lucy misplaces a corpse she was transporting to the morgue.
Episode 5
Masquerade
Thu, Oct 29, 1998 60 mins
Greene aids a schizophrenic woman who claims she is pregnant, and he receives some surprising news from his daughter, Rachel; Lucy attends a Halloween dorm party that gets out of control and gets Carter in trouble.
Episode 6
Stuck on You
Thu, Nov 5, 1998 60 mins
A gay teen is severely beaten and left for dead in the street, and Greene risks his life to reach the boy amid gunfire; Carter finds a new place to live; Corday suggests that she become Benton's intern; brothers become stuck together with carpet cement.
Episode 7
Hazed and Confused
Thu, Nov 12, 1998 60 mins
Greene reacts strangely when the paramedics he supervises try to initiate him into their group by hazing him; Anspaugh interviews a sharp candidate for ER chief; Hathaway's upset to discover she isn't pregnant.
Episode 8
The Good Fight
Thu, Nov 19, 1998 60 mins
A 7-year-old girl with a rare blood type is in desperate need of a transfusion, but her father---the only perfect match---has mysteriously disappeared.
Episode 9
Good Luck, Ruth Johnson
Thu, Dec 10, 1998 60 mins
Carter serves as a reluctant tour guide to Ruth Johnson, who was born in the hospital 100 years ago; Hathaway cares for an 8-year-old boy who may have been stalked in a park by an unidentified man suspected of murdering the boy's best friend.
Episode 10
The Miracle Worker
Thu, Dec 17, 1998 60 mins
Carter valiantly tries to revive a young man whose heart has stopped due to a brain hemorrhage; a pregnant 13-year-old must decide whether to keep her baby or terminate her pregnancy; Romano intentionally interrupts Benton's holiday plans.
Episode 11
Nobody Doesn't Like Amanda Lee
Thu, Jan 7, 1999 60 mins
Amanda Lee's obsession with Greene leads to a surprising revelation. Meanwhile, Carter discovers he may have contracted tuberculosis from a former patient.
Episode 12
Double Blind
Thu, Jan 21, 1999 60 mins
Ross breaks protocol---and the law---when he gives pain medication to a kid who was targeted for a federally funded research project; Greene considers taking a position with NASA.Meanwhile, Benton treats an elderly man who claims he's 140 years old and cannot die; Romano claims he's trying to get Corday's fellowship reinstated; and Hathaway confronts Evans about obtaining a grant from the clinic without her consent.
Episode 13
Choosing Joi
Thu, Feb 4, 1999 60 mins
Greene approaches Ross with a proposal that will keep the latter's illegal drug prescribing quiet; Joi brings Ricky to the hospital in critical condition; Romano threatens to get Corday in trouble if she continues to assist in the sexual-harassment case against him.
Episode 14
The Storm: Part 1
Thu, Feb 11, 1999 60 mins
Doug's maverick ways catch up with him when the case involving ALD patient Ricky takes an unexpected and devastating twist. It creates a crisis that threatens to engulf not only Ross, but Greene, Weaver and Hathaway as well. Meanwhile, Carter and Lucy begin flirting with each other; Benton meets with a tutor to learn sign language; and Mobalage allows Greene to tell his wife what is really wrong with him.
Episode 15
The Storm
Thu, Feb 18, 1999 60 mins
Conclusion. The fallout from Ross' controversial treatment of a dying ALD patient leaves virtually no one unscathed, including Hathaway, who helped Doug treat the boy. Ross: George Clooney. Hathaway: Julianna Margulies. Jeanie: Gloria Reuben. Greene: Anthony Edwards.
Episode 16
Middle of Nowhere
Thu, Feb 25, 1999 60 mins
Benton takes a temporary assignment at a rural Mississippi clinic to earn extra money for his son's health care and is confronted with inadequate facilities, hostility and racism. Back in Chicago, Jeanie struggles with being HIV positive.
Episode 17
Sticks and Stones
Thu, Mar 25, 1999 60 mins
A professional wrestler, who twisted his knee during a match, comes in for treatment; Carter takes matters into his own hands when a riot occurs outside of a run-down apartment building where disgruntled tenants attacked their landlord.
Episode 18
Point of Origin
Thu, Apr 8, 1999 60 mins
Weaver encounters an elderly, dying woman she believes to be her mother; Hathaway decides whether to keep her baby; Carter takes over for Greene for a day; Greene tries to help Mobalage remember the painful details of what happened to him in Nigeria.
Episode 19
Rites of Spring
Thu, Apr 29, 1999 60 mins
Carter plays mentor to a high-school student on a study program; Hathaway encourages a schizophrenic who's been allowed to care for her baby; Jeanie administers to a minister; Corday prepares for a conference.
Episode 20
Power
Thu, May 6, 1999 60 mins
Periodic power failures wreak havoc in the hospital, where a rapist is on the loose. A neighbour brings in the couple next door after the wife has suffered an accident.
Episode 21
Responsible Parties
Thu, May 13, 1999 60 mins
Teens on their way to a prom are victims of a fiery crash; an AIDS patient and her young son are brought in by helicopter after a fishing-boat accident; a stripper arrives under a cloak of secrecy; a decision is made on the recipient of the trauma fellowship.
Episode 22
Getting to Know You
Thu, May 20, 1999 60 mins
In the fifth season finale, a patient claims to be able to see what's happening inside others; Corday tries to talk to Greene about their relationship; Weaver finds a little boy on the street; word spreads about Hathaway's pregnancy; Benton receives disturbing personal news.
