Watching ER

Everyone is wondering what happened on the last episode of ER. This is what happened:

The show opens with Tony in the ambulance bay on a rainy night. He takes in a teenager who passed out during a drinking game at a party named Stacy. Lydia wakes up Dr. Morris for another patient – this one an old woman who slipped and fell near the first truck (which is who brought her in). They’ve got no ID on her.

Next door Tony’s working on Stacy and it doesn’t look good.

Three hours later (7 AM), Dr. Australian comes in and gets the rundown. Dr. Morris checks in on his elderly patient (Beverly), who is now awake but who can’t remember her last name.

Tony’s patient is alive, but barely. She’s on a tube and he’s waiting to see if she wakes up. He allows Stacy’s friends to come into the room, but while he’s waiting he calls Samantha and wishes her a happy birthday. The teen girls file in and say that they were drinking vodka and Kool Aid and were playing “I never” – and that Stacy won. The parents of one of the girls – the girls house the party was at – supplied the alcohol because they rather they be drinking at home. (nice moves dumbasses) Tony has the nurse call the police.

Dr. Morris runs down the board for everyone and heads out. Dr. Brenner tells Chaz that he is to squire around a number of potential med students today.

Before Morris leaves, however, Beverly’s daughter comes in and he goes into her room. He finally manages to give the daughter a rundown and walks into the ambulance bay and screams “freedom!”

The rest of the recap is below!

The police show up in the waiting room and Tony has a showdown with the father. The father gets arrested.
Dr. Brenner and a slew of doctors and nurses meet an ambulance carrying a construction worker who is badly injured. Meanwhile Tony gets to talk to Stacy’s parents.

Dr. Carter is showing the Carter Center to…to…DR. SUSAN LEWIS AND DR. KERRY WEAVER! They look great! He admits that he has spent a good deal of the Carter fortune to get the center up, and he’s happy about it.

Dr. Wise (a newer doc who looks very familiar…) is taking care of a sick older man who is having trouble breathing. Dr. Brenner finds bilateral effusions in the patient and they work to remove the fluids in his lung.

Tony finally decides to go home but asks Frank to call him if something happens to Stacy. Another of her friends is in the waiting room and asks to see Stacy. Tony tells her about how serious the situation is and says she wasn’t at the party. Apparently Stacy was texting her the entire night and told her she was sick and vomiting. She feels guilty because she didn’t call anybody – she was upset that her parents hadn’t let her go to the party and thought Stacy being sick was funny. She cries on Tony’s shoulder.

Chaz starts walking around the potential med students at 1 PM. A familiar face is in the group of students…Rachel Greene!

Dr. Wise gets bad news back on her patient and tells him, a man who has been treating his AIDS since 1987, that he has cancer.

Dr. Carter shows up at the ER. Brenner tells Carter that they have a pregnant woman coming in and he heads out to help. She is a 36 year old woman pregnant with twins and her water broke at home. The woman starts pushing and the little baby girl starts crying. Dr. Carter shows the baby off to the new mom and heads back for the second baby. The husband finally shows up and is led back as Rachel Greene starts looking around by herself.

Frank doesn’t remember her at all until she says who she is. He then gets very teary eyed.

The father is holding the new baby, Camille, and the second baby is ready to make its way out. There is merconium that comes out and they pull the baby out quickly. It is another girl. Brenner and Carter immediately start working on the baby and the mother starts hemorrhaging. The uterus has turned itself inside out and came out through the cervix and all docs start working on her furiously.

In his apartment, Tony is trying to sleep but can’t due to all the noise.

Back to the mother – Dr. Wise finally gets the uterus back in and OB finally shows up and immediately takes the mother upstairs.

Tony goes to pick Sarah up at school and gives her a ride, asking her about the drinking game that Stacy played. She knows about it. He sets up her phone to call him if there is ever an emergency with drinking and she needs him – he says he’ll come, no questions asked.

Chaz tells Halle and Carter about Rachel and Carter immediately heads to see her. She gives him a huge hug. He invites her and Elizabeth Corday, who came with her but who isn’t on scene, to the opening of the Carter Center.

Tony and Alex are working on the car – for Sam.

Dr. Wise tells her patient that he can have chemo, but he decides to avoid chemotherapy. He says that he’s had enough time, and has watched his friends die. “I’ve had my time. No regrets.”He says that he hopes death is like how he felt when he went skydiving – floating free. He simply asks that the process doesn’t hurt.

Dr. Brenner gives the rundown for the evening guys and Tony’s patient is still there because she’s being transferred to Mercy.

Dr. Carter tries to butter up Dr. Banfield about Rachel Green’s applicant. She tells him that she made the first cut.

Dr. Brenner is talking to Neela via video chat and everyone gets in on the discussion when he is called away for the newborn babies. Dr. Carter goes with Brenner and they extibate the newborn who had merconium. She has good air movement and is going to be okay. The mother is still in surgery, or so Dr. Wise is told. The three brothers are invited in to meet their sisters, but the oldest wants to know where his mom is.

Dr. Morris takes in an elderly woman who was in a short time before who had been taken care of by Tony (I can’t remember her name now…) and her husband is with him. It is Mr. Manning and his wife.

Dr. Carter is giving a speech at the opening of his new facility He starts talking about why they named it the Joshua Carter Center and his wife sneaks in the back. Dr. Carter sees her during his speech. Dr. Lewis is there, as is Dr. Weaver and Dr. Benton.

Carter makes his way back to his wife but is pulled away before anything can be said between them.

Tony tells Mr. Manning that there is not really much they can do to help his wife as she has a DNR. He finally agrees to help make her as comfortable as possible.

Dr. Wise goes up to the OR to check on the mother. She discovers that the mother passed away in the OR.

Sam is surprised by her co-workers with a birthday cake and a lot of lovely singing. Alex shows up at the ER and pulls her outside to show her her present. Tony follows. He shows her a bright red beautiful mustang convertible. It’s hers. She’s speechless.

Dr. Brenner goes into the lounge to find Dr. Wise unsure if she can continue to do her job. The speech sounds very much like the one that Dr. Greene gave a very young Dr. Carter. In fact, I’d bet that it is the exact same speech…

Dr. Morris finds two women who were fighting at a wedding – the bride and her mother-in-law!

Carter is being picked on for all of his mistakes and he finally gets a moment to talk to his wife. Kem, by the way, looks exactly the same. She tells Carter that it’s hard for her to be in Chicago. He tries to talk her into lunch, and she says “maybe” and walks off.

Tony is called in to help with an older male patient whose penis hurts and who is a bit “grabby” with the female docs and nurses”. Tony checks him out and discovers that he fractured his penis. He needs surgery to fix his broken penis…(interesting!)

Sam calls Tony out for another patient and tells him that she loves the car but she can’t accept it because she knows that Tony paid for the car, but he says that Alex did all of the work on the car.

Sam goes in to talk with Mr. Manning, whose wife is dying. He says that he’s known his wife for 72 years.

Elizabeth shows up at the bar where all the other docs are chilling out and brings Rachel with her. They all start catching up but Carter definitely seems to be thinking about something else.

The bride and her mother-in-law are fighting each other from two different rooms and they’re trying to pull the groom in pieces, yelling “Donny – Donny – Donny”. Poor Donny!

Manning’s daughter shows up and says that she has no idea how her father put up with her mother for so long because she was so hard and tough as nails. She says that she can’t remember the last thing she and her mother fought about, but knew it was something stupid and she regretted it. Sam watches them all together through the door. After standing at the desk for a few minutes she calls her mother to talk to her.

The Doctors of old file out at 1 am and Susan and Rachel go with Carter to head to the ER. Benton walks Corday to her car (a Hummer – ha) They hug and go their separate ways (what a good conclusion to that relationship.)

Carter takes Rachel around to check out some patients and she looks a little interested/shocked/surprised. He shows her how to put an IV in.

Sam calls Tony away. Mrs. Manning has died. He shuts off her monitor while Mr. Manning cries. He kisses her hand (as this writer starts bawling).

Dr. Banfield finds Susan chatting behind the desk and definitely wonders who she is. She introduces herself.

Dr. Morris gets pulled away because his elderly woman, Beverly, who has wandered again and who is clearly altered. She thinks her daughter is a child first, and then that she is her sister.

Sam and Gates watch as Mr. Manning lays next to his wife. Sam reaches out and takes Tony’s hand.
Dr. Carter shoots a few hoops in the ambulance bay and Tony gets in on the game. Carter is trying to stay awake because he has an important phone call to make in a few hours and he doesn’t want to risk sleeping through it.

Tony is called back into the hospital because Stacy has started moving and thrashing around – the Mercy guys came to move her and that was when she started moving. He starts checking her out and says that she is responding but not in a purposeful way, so he’s getting another CT done. On the way out her stuffed animal, which her friend gave her earlier on, falls out and Tony picks it up.

The nurses/docs are telling stories to Rachel when an explosion occurs in a factory and all of the docs file out into the ambulance bay in order to start taking care of the multiple patients (at least 8). Rachel even stands out to watch. They stand, ready, gowns and protective glasses on as the ambulances come screaming into the bay.

Once they arrive the team scatters and starts caring for their trauma patients. Rachel watches. Carter rushes a patient into the building and looks at Rachel.

“Dr. Greene – you coming?”

Rachel runs into the hospital.

As the theme song plays, the camera pans out to show the entire ambulance bay for the first time ever, complete with the words “County General Hospital” on top of the building.

What did you think of the last episode of ER?