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Dead of Winter

Season 2, Episode 11, Aired Jan 04, 1996

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Shep and Raul bring a dozen malnourished and abandoned children into the ER, keeping everyone very busy. Shep has a run-in with Malik and Benton when he makes an off-handed racially insensitive remark. Carter's high from the admission of Mrs. Rubadoux to the study ends when she shows no signs of recovery. Jeanie and Carol clash when Jeanie receives a poor evaluation. Al asks Jeanie to give him another chance. Mark is served with divorce papers.moreless

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Edye Byrde

Proulx
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Michael Harris (I)

Pete Tuteur
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Lillian Lehman

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Eriq La Salle

Dr. Peter Benton
Anthony Edwards

Dr. Mark Greene
Sherry Stringfield

Dr. Susan Lewis
Noah Wyle

John Carter
Julianna Margulies

Nurse Carol Hathaway
Gloria Reuben

P.A. Jeanie Boulet

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I expected better from John Wells.

7.5

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By martymcflyjb, Oct 22, 2008

This episode felt pretty average for ER. I expected better for an episode written by John Wells himself.

The best storyline was definitely Carter and Ruby. Having seen the final chapters of that recurring storyline, it's very interesting to see how it all began, as well as Carter forming himself as the "compassionate" one of the bunch.

And Benton is truly his polar opposite. We see here he tries real hard to have a little bedside manner, but only after a major confrontation with Boulet. Up to this point in the series, the writers and LaSalle have done nothing to make him a likable character. The only less likable character ever was Paul McCrane's Dr. Romano.

The kids picked up from the apartment in the slums was a decent story and provided a good impetus for conflict between Hathaway's fireman boyfriend and some of the black ER staff.

Overall, this episode seemed to drag and it doesn't have the punch that John Wells episodes usually have.moreless
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well done episode

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By DanLC03, Oct 28, 2005

This episode is a bit shocking to see the 22 kids living in a small appartment in horrible conditions. I don't think I'd say that Shep was racist, but he should not have said what he did or he should have chosen his words more carefully. The scenes with the kids in the ER was painful to watch because of the horrible conditions they were in. In other storylines, I don't like the way Carol handled the situation with Jeanie. She wasn't at all understanding of her situation and didn't even really know what it took to be a physician's assistant.moreless
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- Mark cannot sleep, so he turns on the TV. He flips through the channels, and winds up watching an episode of Marcus Welby, M.D., another medical show that ran on ABC from 1969 to 1976.
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