In tonight’s cameo-heavy episode of ER, does anyone know what job Carol had at the hospital in Seattle?
No idea, didn’t watch. I was kind of curious what contrivance they used to get all the old characters back at County General at the same time.
Doug and Carol weren’t at County, they’re still in Seattle, and had some hand in retrieving organs for transplant, a heart for a patient of Neela’s and a kidney for John Carter.
Benton is apparently back on the general surgical service at County. We’ve just not seen him for a decade. His purpose in the episode was mainly to reconnect with Carter and, as we saw, protect him, once again. It was a nice full-circle for those two characters, really.
That said, I can’t answer the OP’s question because I didn’t see the whole episode, just the last 1/3. The whole thing is waiting on my DVR for after I watch the last six episodes. I have a bit of catching up to do.
No, Benton is at Northwestern, where Carter had been taken for his transplant.
I liked how, at the end Carol and Doug got the phone call that the organ transplant surgeries went well, and that the kidney went to 'some doctor." They never knew it was Carter.
I think I wouldn’t have liked the ending if they knew for sure.
She seemed to be some sort of transplant coordinator, possibly working for UNOS. Interesting that she had a conversation with Doug that suggested that they might have been divorced, but at the end were shown in bed together. And there are only three episodes left.
*TV Guide *spoiled the very end – the final denouement. Don’t look if you don’t want to know.
Dr. Mark Greene’s daughter Rachel has become a medical student and arrives at the ER exactly as Carter did in the first episode. So though the show ends, the ER will live on in the next generation.
That’s what I thought, given the NW patches on everyone’s sleeves, but Neela seemed to have privileges there, which I didn’t understand. I guess I’ll get it when I see the whole episode. (And probably last week’s as well.)
There were three hospitals involved in this episode:
The one in Seattle, where Carol Hathaway and Doug Ross were; this is where Neela and Sam went to harvest the organs and bring them back to Chicago;
Northwestern, where Benton works, and where Carter had his transplant;
and County, obviously.
So Neela only had privileges as one of the transplant-involved surgeons in the Seattle hospital; she was never at Northwestern. She went straight to County with the heart. Sam took the kidney to Northwestern and asked the desk clerk, “Do you like reggae?” in a brief scene before Carter’s surgery.
Am I the only person who didn’t know ER was still on?
I was half expecting a moment of “Holy crap! This is a kidney!” and some cross-town scrambling to swap identical red Igloo coolers.
Benton’s beat-down of the arrogant surgeon at Nortwestern and the anonymous “Where can I get a copy of that checklist?” was priceless.
The coolest part (somewhat related to Sean Factotum’s comment) was when Doug and Carol were chatting with Neela and Sam about who was still at County. Kinda amazing that they had so few co-workers in common. And it felt real – people leave, they don’t keep in touch, they just go on with their lives. And no comments about helicopters!
None of the promos I saw showed Clooney. He’s been the most successful of the ER alumni and I was sorta surprised to see him. He could have declined and viewers probably wouldn’t have thought much about it.
Thanks, Emeria, for the clarification. I presume it’ll all make sense, as I said, when I see the whole episode.
Carter has always, to me anyways, been the heart and soul of the hospital. I may be the only viewer who thought the Darfur episodes were just awesome. (Thandie Newton better show her face before this thing is done - she’s ALWAYS ‘visiting her mother in Paris’. She couldn’t be there for his kidney transplant? WTH?)
I think, coming full circle, it would be perfect if the ending of the last episode featured Carter addressing the new interns…camera pulling back, showing the ER people going about their business…(Salinqmind crying into a hanky…)
Just wanted you to know you’re not the only one who loved the Darfur episodes. I would have watched any spin-off made from those shows, especially if Carter starred. I was captivated and so disappointed to read most people didn’t like them at all. Made me question my taste for about two seconds! 
I’ve been a faithful ER viewer since the beginning and I will really miss it, even if it’s cheezy most of the time these days.
The weird thing was the promo for the episode said “all the doctors come back” while they showed us Noah Wyle, Eric La Salle and Julianna Margulies (who was not a doctor). So I took that as a hint that George Clooney would also be back.
I haven’t watched this from the beginning, but I’ve caught most episodes in rerun, and have watched faithfully for about 4 years now.
I will miss it. 
TNT just re-started its weekday morning syndicated episodes of ER. It’s three episodes in from the beginning right now, for those who are nostalgic or didn’t watch it from the beginning.
I love Carter. And Benton, wow that was the best part of the show for me. The Seattle stuff was a little too coincidental. But it was nice to see Dr. Ross again.