This episode is a milestone for both Carter and for the direction of the show, which will expand to include more surgery stories as he chooses his specialty. She would leave County General Hospital shortly after this episode, but the seeds of her departure start here.
Bonus: It features a very young Kirsten Dunst in one of her recurring appearances as a young homeless girl who becomes friends with Doug Ross. Well, this is that episode for Carter. Doug Ross. It would make my list of best TV cliff-hangers ever. Trust me when I say you cannot imagine the agony of waiting a week between these episodes when they originally aired almost 20 years ago. I understand that criticism, but I cried like a child when I watched these episodes many years ago, and I cried again when I watched them recently.
Are they schmaltzy? Do they work? Season 5 takes us to Mississippi and let us spend some time with the softer side of Dr. Benton Eriq La Salle. This is a solid episode whose slow buildup of tension isn't even seen by viewers until the wallop-packing, heart-wrenching cliffhanger ending, which leaves two characters' lives in the balance as they helplessly watch each other suffer. Sally Field shines as Abby's Maura Tierney unstable mother in this episode, but Benton's attempt and failure to save his nephew also hits hard in the best way possible - ER was at its strongest when it intertwined character-building, emotional impact, and clinical knowledge.
A true heartbreaker for fans, who watch Dr. Greene come to grips with his looming death and try to smooth his troubled relationship with his daughter a setup that would land with full emotion in the show's final episode. Death, never mind a beloved character's death, has rarely been handled so eloquently.
The split-screen works to parallel the stories instead of feeling gimmicky, doubling the tension that must happen in every real ER with multiple patients' lives on the line — it's a treat to get the full sense of it on primetime television. While we have to acknowledge "Freefall" for its completely bananas dispatching of Dr. Romano Paul McCrane , this episode seems to be asking the question of where the show was headed — answered with the arrival of future fan favorite and show staple Neela Parminder Nagra.
It's a fascinating measure of just how far the show's come. Though there were plenty of subplots that happened outside the hospital, they were more distracting than compelling. This is a solid night-in-the-ER episode with some character twists and a solid running gag resulting in Jerry Abraham Benrubi getting a jolt. In the show's weakest season, this episode rises to the top by not being the worst.
During that episode, the show completely stepped out of Chicago—as it only sometimes did and focused on Carter struggling to treat patients in a country with very few resources. After Carter reunites with Kovac in Congo, the two of them find themselves in the middle of a conflict between opposing Congolese tribes.
To make matters worse, then-pregnant Corday starts feeling contractions. Doug Ross last year on ER. It was very hard saying goodbye to Dr. For instance, Greene is faced with a legal matter. Moreover, Carter must come to grips with the ongoing tension between Benton and Grant. Robert Romano Paul McCrane dies, which comes as the result of a helicopter crash. ER - Season 8. Susan Lewis returns. Weaver comes out of the closet. Greene spends his last days in Hawaii. ER - Season 3.
Gant commits suicide. Doug and Caro kiss. ER - Season 5. Hathaway finds out she is pregnant. Greene and Corday kiss. ER - Season 7. Greene is diagnosed with cancer. ER - Season 9. Romano's arm gets mangled. Kovac and Carter join a relief mission in Africa. ER - Season Carter gets a kidney transplant. A new medical facility for the underprivileged opens. Romano is involved in a serious accident.
Pratt, Chen and Elgin become the victims of road rage. Gallant is killed in a roadside bombing in Iraq.
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