Dr. Carter is allowed a cautious restart with small steps. An extremely blond Dr. Malucci is very curious who’s made Dr. Chen pregnant. Dr. Benton has been written out of…

Luka Kovac arrives safely at County General and is hospitalized for treatment. His friend Gillian delivers John Carter’s letter to Abby. Pretty well everyone gets to read it when Frank…

Carol is pushed to the breaking point after another day when politics triumph over health care, and she quits. Dr. Greene “trades his soul” when he agrees to back Weaver…

Susan visits a psychiatrist to cope with the loss of Little Susie. Jeanie’s estranged husband Al checks in the ER complaining of flu-like symptoms, which turn out to be caused…

Susan throws herself into her work to escape her stressful personal life, earning recognition from Kerry and Mark, who begins preliminary discussions on next year’s chief resident. Carter needs a…

Mark finds himself manning a very crowded ER on his scheduled night off, filling in while Doug is out with whiplash and Susan meets with her lawyer. He tries to…

Susan institutes extra precautions in case Chloe tries to reclaim Little Susie. Mark changes his look, growing a goatee and wearing contact lenses. Carol and Jeanie square off over the…

Shep and Raul respond to a massive fire without proper equipment, risking their lives to save addicts and their children. Shep will be okay, but Raul has third-degree burns covering…

The ER hosts roughly a dozen pregnant women when a sprinkler bursts in the maternity ward. Carter plays tour guide for the visiting surgical intern hopefuls before going through the…

Benton decides to blow the whistle on Vucelich’s unethical study methods, causing Vucelich to drop him from the study. Susan treats a street couple, one of whom has passed HIV…

Mark is riddled with self doubt as the hospital prepares to settle the O’Brien suit. Kerry appoints herself as Susan’s personal mentor. Carol mind a bucketful of expensive worms. Doug…

Shep and Raul bring a dozen malnourished and abandoned children into the ER, keeping everyone very busy. Shep has a run-in with Malik and Benton when he makes an off-handed…

The ER staffers are in decidedly unfestive moods as Christmas arrives. Carol’s spirits are lifted by a Santa-like patient. Mark is outraged when Jenn decides to stay in Milwaukee over…

Carol and Jeanie try to find a home for a schizophrenic architect. Carter signs Benton up for an interview with Vucelich for a prestigious study. Carter and Harper try to…

Doug’s heroics earn him a second chance as Bernstein and Morganstern ask him to stay on. Doug and Mark clash when each treats a seriously injured patient and want to…

Speculation runs through the ER, on a very hectic day, about Randi’s possible criminal history. Mark faces an ethical dilemma when he has to decide whether to report yet another…

Dr. Ross treats the dying Chia-Chia. Susan tries to find a way to keep Little Susie, asking her parents for help. Benton treats an injured woman who refuses to press…

Weaver and Susan’s feud escalates to the point where Mark needs to step in and fix it. Benton is involved in a parking lot altercation, resulting in a broken hand…

Kerry Weaver manages to offend just about everyone in her first day as chief resident. Carol goes on a ride-along with paramedics Shep and Raul, sharing a ferris wheel ride…

The ER treats victims of a gang shootout. Carter arrives late and unprepared for his new position. Mark learns all about being an attending, including senior staff’s habit of bad-mouthing…

Carter’s day shift and Pratt’s night shift (his final shift at County) are intercut. Both men have extremely busy days. Doc Magoo’s burns down. Luka calls Carter from the Congo…

It’s Carol’s birthday, Mark is returning to work after being assaulted and Carla goes into premature labor.

Jeanie asks Greg to help Al get into a special AIDS-program at the hospital. Olbes brings in her grandfather, who had a stroke.

Benton tries to find out if everything’s OK with Carla’s baby. Carter tries to get a man operated, despite the fact Anspaugh thinks he will die no matter what.

Benton goes into Carla’s private hospital files when he fears that something may be wrong with their baby; Jeanie treats a suicidal woman who reveals a surprising secret; and Greene…

Carol will hear whether her suspension is permanent or not. Mark and Doyle do what they can to get a patient with Down syndrome on a heart transplant list.

Nurse Carol Hathaway is held hostage during a convenience store robbery, then befriends one of the gunmen.

Doug treats a dying 17-year old cystic fibrosis patient who doesn’t want to be resuscitated. Carter gets to operate Benton.

Benton can’t keep his mind on the job, Mark and Chuny break up and Carol does what she needs to do regarding the fatal error she has made.

Carol has to fire two of the nurses. Meanwhile, Gant feels Benton is too hard on him.

Carol worries about her physics exam while Mark is heart-broken about Susan’s departure and focuses solely on his job.

It’s Susan’s last day. Carol stands up for her nurses when one of them is being rotated to another department.

Encouraged by Carol, Mark finally asks Susan out. Benton tries to save a boy, despite the fact Doug thinks he’s brain dead.

While on their helicopter flight rotation, Mark and Susan find an injured family of four who they bring to the ER.

While Mark is anxious about Susan’s return from her holiday, Doug and Carol ride along with the health mobile.

Doug’s one-night-stand has a seizure and he brings her to the ER.

Donald Anspaugh has a new method to increase the staff’s efficiency, new intern Maggie Doyle joins the ER and Susan asks Mark to come along to Hawaii.

While the whole staff is worried the ER might close, Jeanie has her own problems in dealing with being HIV-positive.

It’s the first day of Carter’s internship. He has a 36 hour shift and overnight he has to cover the ER, the ICU as well as the surgical patients.

Dr. Carter reads a letter from terminally ill Dr. Green to the ER staff. Dr. Weaver lashes out at a mentally challenged patient. A terminal, homeless man continues asking for…