Did anyone else think that the big brother did it when he wet himself upon seeing the police?
And poor Carter, having to work on a dying child.What a horrible way for Alex Kingston to go. No big flash, no huge bang, just a bit of a whimper.
I felt sorry for OCD doctor though…I hope he comes back.
I was also very happy to see Neela back- ans i thik it’s funny that the straw that broke her back was the guy bitching about the jalepenos.
Who else thinks the hot social worker was introduced as somebody’s (Carter’s?) new love interest? Her shirt was too form-fitting for just a one-episode role.
:smack: I forgot to watch the show! What happened to Corday? I really liked her at first.
Last week she did a technically (because the bill had been passed but not yet signed by the governor) illegal procedure to transplant the liver of an HIV-positive patient into the body of another HIV-positive patient.
This week, the ethics board rapped her knuckles, and Weaver, being smugly magnanimous as always, told her she convinced them not to report her to the state licensing board and that she would be kept on as an instructor.
Corday said, “Screw that,” there was a tiny farewell scene with Carter alone since she doesn’t do good-byes well, and she leaves, taking Ella back to England for now.
Also the “meet cute” line when she walked into the trauma room.
Yep.
Also, the position Corday was being offered was a non-tenure track one, so she was being demoted.
Another thing. Early in the show, she was driving the car with Ella in the back seat. Ella showed her a photo of Mark Greene (Corday’s late husband) and asked if that was her father. She then showed another picture to Corday, who identified the people as Ella’s grandparents. Ella asked if they were also dead. I think these were Corday’s parents, so perhaps she realized that Ella had no idea if her grandparents were even alive. So another, unstated reason for going was to establish contact with family.
Also, her first words to him were “Why are you such an ass?” (or somesuch) again step number one in the Hollywood Romance scenario.
I wonder if Carrie is going to have a problem with Neela coming back. She aready refused to help her get a position at the hospital, when Neela probably would’ve settled for being a lab tech.
I didn’t like seeing Sherry Stringfield’s character get head of ER - I think it should’ve been offered to Carter, who’s been there longer. I guess the substance abuse thing is haunting him. I do hope they aren’t going to resurrect that.
Alex Kingston was pretty snarky when her character was cut, saying in the news that it was because the show had a thing against aging female actresses. I never liked Corday and I’d like to think her character was cut because she never really did much besides sleeping with the male doctor of the season. She never seemed more than a marginal doctor, having made serious errors in the past.
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Corday was responsible for paralyzing a patient, as I recall, right around the time that Greene found out he had a brain tumor.
I thought Carter would be leaving because of everything he and Kem had gone through lately.
It seems strange that a doctor with OCD would have made it to the operating room…Not to pick on people who have it, but it could really compromise things.
I thought Carrie basically said as much.
Pratt getting back together with Jing-Mae(sp?)?
Ack, this episode sucked!
I cried over the little girl dying and I cried again when the poor mother realized she’d done it, I hate being that easily manipulated grr.
Carter’s totally going to leave and join Kem, remember him getting drunk and forcing his cell phone on the messed up soldier patient? John was all jacked up about the soldier not ‘trying’ hard enough, or whatever, but they’re totally setting John up to go after Kem.
I wondered about Elizabeth’s decision to go back to England, did she forget how difficult it was for her when she went back after Mark died?
No, I didn’t think the little boy did it. I called that one from the begining. I knew it was the mother.
I think I missed something though. Was Carter reading the instructions on the traction splint? Or something else? What was up with that part??
Also, what was the whole point of having Neela leave if they’re just going to bring her right back? That made little sense, really. I could understand if they kept her away for like half a season and made a big thing about it and stuff. But it’s been like three episodes.
I also didn’t like that feeling when finding out the whole thing opening break in had been delusion. But I suspected that’s where they were headed about half way into the show.
That was the feeling I had about the entire episode: too much foreshadowing. I thought the intern was going to leave and then have Neela replace him.
The only thing really cool was the way they made Sherry Stringfield’s character run away from stay-at-home motherhood.
DH and I are also glad Alex Kingston’s gone. We’ve always called her character The Brit Twit.
The traction splint doobobby was something new to the ER that the shaggy surgeon Elizabeth dislikes suggested Carter use. Newer and better than what they were doing, but shagboy was busy in surgery so couldn’t demonstrate it, he just sent it down and they had to figure it out themselves.
I thought so too, but it threw me that they showed someone trying to break in. It didn’t seem right (filmatically, if that’s a word) that they’d show us what she saw as if it were really happening.
I figured she tossed the kids out the window to save them from the dad. Seemed like a cheat to find out he was never there.
On the other hand, it was a powerful scene, when it was revealed to her.
A friend of mine was at the real ER thursday night so I missed the show, anyone want give a run down of everything that happened?
Corday got in trouble for doing a transplant without permission, and she left rather than take a different position.
A woman with three kids urged two of them to jump out the window, claiming that their dad was going to break in and kill them all. We finally found out a lot later that she had been having delusions due to sudden withdrawal from medications. One of the kids died.
The doctor with OCD quit, and then Neela got her job back.
Those were the major stories.