Season 5

episodes

1. 1. Day for Knight 1998-09-24 45 min 8.1 Third-year med student Lucy Knight reports to the ER for the first day of her rotation. Greene takes a teacherly interest in her, helping her get acquainted, but she gets off to a bad start with the i...
2. 2. Split Second 1998-10-01 45 min 8.3 Dr. Corday's father visits from overseas in an attempt to convince her to join his medical practice. Weaver suggests that Elizabeth look into alternative methods to stay in America, like starting ove...
3. 3. They Treat Horses, Don't They? 1998-10-08 45 min 8.3 Mark goes to a trauma scene with the EMTs, where he treats a gunshot victim who has a bomb strapped to himself. Later, Mark’s daughter persuades him to treat a horse with colic, and Jerry gets the bad...
4. 4. Vanishing Act 1998-10-15 45 min 8.3 Dr. Corday begins her first day as an intern, first by being assigned to Dale Edson, then being treated as Romano's lapdog. Kerry is interviewed for ER chief. Doug and Carol ponder parenthood when C...
5. 5. Masquerade 1998-10-29 45 min 8.3 Halloween night finds the ER awash with allergic or otherwise incapacitated children. Kerry tolerates a visiting candidate for chief while she waits for the official vote. Romano operates on an 11-y...
6. 6. Stuck on You 1998-11-05 45 min 8.3 After Mark saves a 16-year-old assault victim in a daring rescue, he tries to convince the boy to leave the streets for a shelter. Carter loses his beard when two carpet installers come in covered wi...
7. 7. Hazed and Confused 1998-11-12 45 min 8.4 Dr. Corday commits a deadly error after being on-call for nearly 36 hours straight. Peter visits Dr. Kotlowitz and receives encouragement regarding a cochlear implant for Reese. Dr. Amanda Lee, a pr...
8. 8. The Good Fight 1998-11-19 45 min 8.6 Carter and Lucy scramble across Chicago to find a dying girl's father who's a perfect match for her very rare blood type. Benton operates without transfusions to save the little girl's life.
9. 9. Good Luck, Ruth Johnson 1998-12-10 45 min 8.3 Carter plays tour guide for Ruth Johnson, who was born in the hospital 100 years ago to the day, and her large family. Carol treats a boy who was hit by a car and tells a story of being chased, his f...
10. 10. The Miracle Worker 1998-12-17 45 min 8.4 Benton's attempts to get away to Carla and Reese on Christmas Eve are continually thwarted by Romano, culminating in Benton forcing the drunken Romano away from a patient. Carter believes he's found...
11. 11. Nobody Doesn't Like Amanda Lee 1999-01-07 45 min 8.2 Amanda Lee's obsession with Dr. Greene comes to a head when Mark inadvertantly digs up old med school records damaging to her career. Carter tries to save Lucy from Edson's advances. Peter treats Dr...
12. 12. Double Blind 1999-01-21 45 min 8.4 Doug jeopardizes future federal grants for the entire ER when he breaks a double blind study by giving a sample drug to an ailing patient. Doyle lodges a sexual harassment complaint against Romano, h...
13. 13. Choosing Joi 1999-02-04 45 min 8.1 Ricky Abbott returns to the ER. Doug forges papers to allow Joi to treat Ricky at home. Corday decides to back out of the Romano sexual harassment investigation after he threatens to expose her rela...
14. 14. The Storm (1) 1999-02-11 45 min 8.1 Doug faces possible criminal charges after Ricky Abbott dies when Ross bypasses system lockouts to enable Joi to give Ricky a lethal dosage of dilaudin. Doug is delegated to desk duty, Carol's clinic...
15. 15. The Storm (2) 1999-02-18 45 min 8.7 Greene assists paramedics in treating injured children at a school bus accident. En route, Doug and Jeanie survive their own accident. Kerry stops Doug from treating Jeanie...or any other patient....
16. 16. Middle of Nowhere 1999-02-25 45 min 8.6 Peter accepts Romano's suggestion and takes a two-week job in Minnesota to earn some extra money. Unfortunately, before he gets a chance to leave, he's transferred to backwoods Mississippi, where the...
17. 17. Sticks and Stones 1999-03-25 45 min 8.4 During a paramedic ride-along, Carter is forced to drive the ambulance while fleeing a riot scene and inadvertently runs over a teenage boy. Later, a paramedic is shot by an angry mob looking for the...
18. 18. Point of Origin 1999-04-08 45 min 8.4 Greene tries to help Mobalage when he's about to be deported. Kerry tries to save a woman she believes is her birth mother. Hathaway decides to have Doug's child. Benton and Corday clash over an ER...
19. 19. Rites of Spring 1999-04-29 45 min 8.1 Romano forces Benton to choose between the trauma and cardiothoracic fellowships. Carol worries that she may have lost her child. Corday and Greene bond on the way to a medical conference. Carter m...
20. 20. Power 1999-05-06 45 min 8.4 The hospital suffers through a series of power outages. Carol's decision to send Doug a fax about her pregnancy is thwarted by the power outages. The staff is on alert after a raped and beaten patie...
21. 21. Responsible Parties 1999-05-13 45 min 8.6 The ER docs tend to three teenagers who were in an accident on the way to their senior prom. Greene and Carter treat the most severely injured, a boy suffering from third degree burns over 80% of his...
22. 22. Getting to Know You 1999-05-20 45 min 8.8 Carol's pregnancy becomes public knowledge as she learns that she's having twins. Lucy has problems trying to go off Ritalin. Peter learns Carla plans to move to Germany. Kerry finds an abandoned y...