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22 Episodes 2001 - 2002
Episode 1
Thu, Sep 27, 200146 mins
Weaver returns to the emergency room after a self-imposed sabbatical of three weeks, wondering how her newfound lesbian identity will affect her workplace relationships. Having purposely allowed a mass murderer to die, Greene must keep the secret amidst the scrutiny of his superiors.
Episode 2
Thu, Oct 4, 200146 mins
Carter is overwhelmed by patients from a rock concert riot. Benton's former girlfriend and Reece's mother is killed in a car accident. Newly promoted to chief resident, Chen panics and misdiagnoses a patient. Kovac angers Abby by flirting with a waitress.
Episode 3
Thu, Oct 11, 200160 mins
* Catching Malucci, after more pranks, pants down in an ambulance with a paramedic, Weaver maintains he's fired stat, but Greene has her swallow that. Mark's teen daughter Rachel surprise-visits him at County claiming her mother threw her out, refusing to return with the overworked lawyer Jennifer Simon, asking to move in with him. Carter treats an abandoned baby in Chen's care, which superstitious rumor ascribes healing powers to, and lets Abby rope him in sneak in and replace Luka's aquarium, which she accidentally smashed while clearing her stuff out of his place, but they are reported and arrested till Kovac refuses to file a complaint. Weaver fires Malucci after she finds him in a compromising position and he calls her out before leaving the ER in anger.
Episode 4
Thu, Oct 18, 200146 mins
Dr. Susan Lewis arrives, looking for work in the Chicago area again. Greene hires her, over Weaver's objection. Chen nervously attends a risk management review, accompanied by the unforgiving Weaver, to discuss a patient who recently died under Chen's supervision.
Episode 5
Thu, Oct 25, 200146 mins
Carter painfully learns the risks of mentoring med students who need precise instructions and struggles with his widowed grandmother, brought in by her chauffeur in need of medical care that she refuses to face up to. On her first day back, Lewis risks her new job by clashing with Weaver over pregnant teen Amal, who fears deportation if her strict parents learn of her condition. One patient refuses to undress for examination, another is beaten by a debt enforcer. A Latino's wife dies because they followed medicine instructions in English mistaken with the Spanish sense of 'once'. Corday lost a patient to an odd infection she may be spreading, so is suspended and subjected to a testing battery of tests. Abby bristles at a newly emerging relationship in the ER.
Episode 6
Thu, Nov 1, 200146 mins
Corday's ordeal, caused by the recent infection-related deaths of several of her patients, worsens when she is closely observed by a stern taskmaster. Corday is outraged when a county investigator accuses her of deliberately euthanizing the patients, who all happened to be elderly.
Episode 7
Thu, Nov 8, 200146 mins
A new medical student, Michael Gallant, arrives in the ER. He's supposed to be working under Dr. Carter's supervision but John's grandmother is unwell. Elizabeth Corday is convinced that other doctors are refusing to work with her as a result of the mysterious deaths. Mark Green thinks she's overreacting but she's determined to find out what happened to her patients. Abby and Luka argue over the attention he is paying to a trainee nurse's aide. Dr. Benton finds himself in court to retain custody of his son, Reese. Carter and Susan Lewis treat a young woman who is both a law and a medical student. Green has to collect his daughter at school when she is suspended.
Episode 8
Thu, Nov 15, 200146 mins
When a torrential rainstorm pounds Chicago, patients deluge the emergency room while Weaver speeds to an accident site. There, she finds a pregnant woman, Vicki, lying injured inside a wrecked ambulance while live power lines spark. Fourth-year student Michael Gallant makes a dangerous decision in order to help.
Episode 9
Thu, Nov 22, 200145 mins
Peter Benton continues his court fight against Reese's stepfather, Roger, who seems to have the upper hand. When a woman is accidentally shot during a gas station robbery, Dr. Corday tries to convince the husband to let them harvest her organs. A 15 year old boxer is brought in with a head trauma after sparring with his older brother. Newlyweds are having trouble when she constantly breaks out in a rash; Carter thinks he knows the cause. Luka tells Abby that he may marry Nicole, who has told him she is pregnant. Dr. Green lays down the law when the police bring in a high school student and he learns that his daughter is outside sitting in the police car.
Episode 10
Thu, Dec 13, 200160 mins
Peter Benton's court battle enters its final stage and his lawyer advises him that if he wants to retain custody of Reese, he needs to re-evaluate his priorities. As a result, he puts his career on the line and presents Dr. Romano with an ultimatum. Kerry Weaver goes out on a date with a paramedic. With his grandmother still recovering, Carter is pleased that his father will be spending Christmas with them. He's not too pleased when he learns why his mother won't be joining them. Abby learns that Nicole may not have been lying to Luka after all. Green treats a young boy who was accidentally shot by his mother.
Episode 11
Thu, Jan 10, 200246 mins
It's a busy shift for nurse Abby Lockhart. She is upset when Paul Sobriki is brought in for treatment after falling on the ice. Sobriki is the schizophrenic who stabbed Carter and killed medical student Lucy Knight two years ago. Abby also has to deal with a little boy who spent the night in the waiting room when his mother came into the ER for treatment. Her ex also lets her know that he is going to remarry. Carter's mother reappears but it's not a happy reunion. He also meets Jing-Mei who thinks she knows why Kerry Weaver didn't answer her page. Mark Green thinks his daughter may be smoking. Kerry Weaver and Sandy Lopez go out on a second date but argue when Kerry is uncomfortable at the prospect of being outed.
Episode 12
Thu, Jan 17, 200246 mins
Abby becomes concerned when her neighbor beats his wife and calls the police, but they say it was all a misunderstanding. Dr. Lewis treats a death row inmate who is brought in with stab wounds but would rather die than undergo treatment. Jing-Mei asks to be re-instated as an attending physician and threatens a law suit if her request is not met. Carter plays intermediary between his divorcing parents but his father insists the marriage is over. He also treats a rising rapper who won't accept that he is HIV positive. Kerry Weaver and Sandy have an argument about Kerry's refusal to come out.
Episode 13
Thu, Jan 31, 200246 mins
Carter is not amused as his mother Eleanor (Mary McDonnell), having joined social services, seems to reach out to him as obnoxious 'guardian angel' to a probably leukemia-terminal young boy in hopes of righting a past wrong. Mark faces the awful truth about his vixen daughter after Ella is rushed to County for what he fears may be a drug overdose, having swallowed a pill or two from Rachel's backpack, while Corday appreciates what Kerry does to help Ella but has no love for Dr. Babcock. Abby puts herself in the line of fire by taking in her battered neighbor. Weaver takes the low road to punish Lewis for accepting a promotion, as Romano decided to let her take over some of the paperwork. Chen decides it is time to lose the gloves in her fight against duplicitous Kerry, but Carter refuses to side against his boss. Student Michael Gallant keeps doing menial non-medical favors for patients, at his peril.
Episode 14
Thu, Feb 7, 200246 mins
Corday takes drastic action against Rachel for Ella's near-fatal drug overdose all while Mark's health takes a tragic turn that nobody else realizes at first. Abby pays a steep price for helping Joyce, her battered neighbor, escape from Brian, her abuser. While trying to heal old wounds Carter's mother just reopens them and is forced to relive a tragic personal loss while tending to a young cancer patient but it also helps Carter and his mom understand each other better. Also a string of food poisonings cause Susan to flex her muscles as the newest member of management.
Episode 15
Thu, Feb 28, 200246 mins
Dr Greene returns to New York to find out his brain tumor has returned, is inoperable and his life expectancy is 5 months. With this and Elizabeth moving out heavy on his mind, he turns his focus to work. Dr. Chen is takes a tumble when Frank and the newly returned Jerry have a fight. In order to keep his tumor at bay, Greene undergoes a procedure with a gamma knife, continuing to hide the return of his tumor from Elizabeth. Abby discovers the man who attacked her was released, partially due to Luca intervening. A little girl confesses to Weaver that she shot her dad because he wouldn't let her watch TV. Susan takes care of Mark in Elizabeth's absence as he recovers from the procedure.
Episode 16
Thu, Mar 7, 200246 mins
Chief Weaver can't handle staff looking through a dominatrix's bag and a dildo put in her own locker, so sends Carter, Luka, Lewis -who tries to take the blame- Gallant and Abby to a sexual harassment seminar. It's a snowy morning, so the therapist arrives very belated, leaving the 'trainees' bickering and exchanging memories and 'secrets', like when their cherries were picked, Luka even waited till his wedding night. Carter denies being silver spoon-spoiled, Gallant objects to disdain about his family being near-all in the military, Abby claims doctors are a haughty class but don't give patients proper personal care. Carter finds a fencing sword, Luka also had experience, so they 'duel', which turns nasty, apparently still over Abby, the major case of incomplete love affairs among staff.
Episode 17
Thu, Mar 28, 200245 mins
Romano forces just-returned Corday to work full ER shifts, where she nags Lewis, guessing she holds the key to estranged Mark's disturbing behavior. Lewis refuses to divulge Greene's secret, clueing Corday to figure out his tumor is back, but he tells her not to return pretending they still have a marriage. After a brutal case involving sisters who don't like each other, Corday gets some straight talk from Romano that sends her back to home with Mark. Greene reveals his condition to the hospital at large, Rachel figures it out herself. Weaver tries to keep it together after Lopez is reported lost in a school fire, but turns out to be alright, Kerrie visits her at a bar and they kiss. Two college girls are rushed into surgery, following a knife attack on campus that hits close to home for Weaver. After one of the victims whispers to her that she loved the other one, Weaver suspects a deeper relationship and that the surviving victim was actually the attacker. Abby moves in at Luka's while she searches for a new home.
Episode 18
Thu, Apr 4, 200260 mins
Training ignorant intern Gregory Pratt, who bumbles, even checking an unsettled ear pain patient's genitals in the wrong examination room, and back talks until he's told about Mark's tumor contributes Greene to a life-altering realization about the future of his own medical care and his ability to provide it to others: he refuses to sacrifice life quality to some prolongation, despite Corday's pleas. An obnoxious, liar junkie gets a lesson in life's hardships gone into premature labor, a museum worker displays signs of a legendary ailment usually attributed to the undead, and Corday must give in to a terminal patient's demands to die with dignity, enforced by er lawyer daughter after her shy son had her hospitalized. Mark Greene then refuses absurd treatment and finishes his last shift to spend his last days with his fractured family.
Episode 19
Thu, Apr 25, 200246 mins
A frantic phone call sends Lewis racing to New York, where she enlists police officers Faith Yokas and Maurice Boscorelli to locate her missing sister and niece. Back at County, Carter confronts Abby about her drinking, but fails to sell her on a sober life. Corday gets bad news from Rachel concerning cancer-terminal Mark in Hawaii. Cocky Pratt annoys Chen and his showboating puts Gallant and a patient in peril, Carter must take control as head now Greene is gone.
Episode 20
Thu, May 2, 200246 mins
Most staff listens mesmerized as Carter reads a letter from cancer-terminal Mark on Hawaiian last-ever family holiday, stressing how he misses them and his true, never-regretted vocation to medicine. Alas, it was sent posthumously by his fresh widow Corday. Many struggle to deal with such loss, which affects patient care, as even Kerry can't handle clearing his locker for Pratt, while Carter remains remarkably composed, growing into his new role as post-Mark mentor of residents.
Episode 21
Thu, May 9, 200260 mins
Having resigned, Mark started his last day making a retroactive bucket list of things he didn't get round wishing for. On last holiday in Hawaii, he takes his first and only parachute jump and takes Rachel on 'my history lesson' as USNavy base brat, then teaches her surfing and driving. He firmly resists Corday's insistence to get a check-up after a seizure, helps Rachel flirt with junior surf board shop clerk Kai and desperately tries to give her advice for life when her dad will be even more absent for ever. Many ER staff attends his funeral.
Episode 22
Thu, May 16, 200245 mins
Just when the ER is understaffed and swamped, two children who were brought in turn out to have full blown smallpox. The entire ER must be locked down. The staff needs to improvise while they battle not only the disease but also frayed tempers.