ER: Ambush

Air Date

Thursday September 25, 1997

Production Code

466356

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  7.7 Good

  Outstanding and very different camera work but it seems to be it. hide show

  I cannot say that I expected something else - it was good episode, it has very unique camera work, story and everything was unique. The way it started, so many other things. But that constant moving, jumping, no deep peak into the story - it seems like clip here, clip there. I did not felt the depth of the cases, depth in actors. I cannot deny that there was moving case - the main case. A man tried so save another's life and he ended up paralyzed, the boy lived and the people who did it - they did not even know the boy they beated very well. The way Greene acted on that case, to call the husband - moving. The old good cases. (I think somehow that the end of last season was somehow week on the cases matter). But they just couldn't seem to get the balance - case good, no good plot between chars. It was quite disturbing to look how everyone was pushed aside by this or that. And boor Carter - his decision seems to be not so pleasant.
  
  Anyway, hopes are high and next episode ready to watch.

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  Parricida Added Sep 20, 2007 All my reviews
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  6.8 Fair

  Not one of my favorite episodes hide show

  I love the fast pace in which ER is shot but this was not one of my favorite episodes.
  I didn't like the way the camera moved around so much and I found it very hard to watch.
  I sort of liked the storyline of the characters but the camera movement was just too distracting for me.

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  Pinkmyst Added Mar 27, 2006 All my reviews
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  8.7 Great

  ER Live. Watch through the eyes of a documentary crew that films the hectic lives of doctors and nurses. hide show

  This was the only episode of ER to be aired live. Throughout the episode, Dr. Greene and other staff members are followed around by a documentary crew. We see events unfold through the camera. Dr. Greene is still coping with the trauma of his attack months ago. When the camera crew find out about it, they ask about it, but Greene refuses. Carter is now an Emergency Medicine intern and a little sore about having to be an intern again. Ross and Hathaway are dating again, but keep it a secret from the rest of the staff. David Morgenstern, Chief of Emergency Medicine, suffers a heart attack. The way the staff responds to this shows how much he is cared for and respected. Also, British surgeon Dr. Elizabeth Corday makes her debut. For a change, we get to see how the characters in the ER would respond if they were really behind the camera.

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  walrus_8463 Added Mar 20, 2006 All my reviews

• Guest Cast

  • Jesse Borrego HIV-Positive Patient
  • Summer Phoenix Petra
  • Brent Jennings Nat
  • Lisa Edelstein Aggie Orton
  • Tracy Vilar Doris
  • Gerald S. O'Loughlin George
  • Carlos Alvarado Gang Member
  • David Stifel Boz
  • John Hawkes P.A.
  • Googy Gress Head Lac
  • Audrey Gelfand Weeping Woman
  • Matthew Fishman Todd Lebeck
  • Francois Chau Neurosurgeon
  • Darion Basco Justin Chang
  • Silas Weir Mitchell Luis
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• Goof: Towards the end of the East Coast version of this episode, you can see Kerry Weaver walking without her crutch. [edit]
• When the title is shown at the beginning of the episode, it reads "ambush," without the first letter being capitalized. [edit]

• This episode did not have any opening credits. [edit]
• The West Coast version of the live episode appears on the Season 4 DVD. [edit]
• According to the Season 4 DVD extras, the idea of doing a live ER episode came from Anthony Edwards and George Clooney. [edit]

• Corday: Dr. Benton?
  Benton: Yeah?
  Corday: Elizabeth Corday. Visiting surgical lecturer and your saviour.
  Benton: Ah, excuse me?
  Corday: Well, I hear you've been on call forever. You're free to go. I'm on now. [edit]
• Greene: Probably the best part of my job is that sometimes, working here, you can repair some of the violence. Some of the bad things that happen to people. Not always. We couldn't do much for that guy who was paralyzed. Probably on a vent for the rest of his life. I guess we did save the kid that he was trying to help. So his sacrifice wasn't for nothing. And yes, I was attacked myself right here in this very hospital. They haven't been able to catch the guy who did it, or at least, they haven't been able to charge anyone. The worst thing about it isn't what it did to me. The worst thing is that it meant that some of the world's violence has leaked into our own ER. This is meant to be a safe place for fixing people. Now it's vulnerable. And as an ER doctor, that's hard to accept.
  Aggie: It sounds frightening. Are you scared?
  Greene: Sure. Of, uh, losing control.
  Aggie: Control of what's outside?
  Greene: And what's in me. (long pause) Is that enough?
  Aggie: Yeah.
  Greene: Then turn it off! [edit]
• Corday: They said there was an adolescent who decompensated.
  Hathaway: Oh, Dr. Benton took him up.
  Corday: Ah, Dr. Benton. You call your surgeons "doctor." Well, I suppose "Miss Corday" won't get me very far around here.
  Hathaway: Well, just to the waiting room. [edit]

• Doug: (to Carol) Lucy, you got some 'splaining to do...
  Doug is making a reference to one of the signature lines used by Desi Arnaz's character, Ricky Ricardo, in the 1950s comedy series I Love Lucy. [edit]