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ER Confidential

Season 1, Episode 8, Aired Nov 17, 1994

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Carter and Benton treat a suicidal transvestite. Doug feels like a kept man in his relationship with Linda Farrell. Carol faces an ethical dilemma when a patient entrusts her with the particulars of an accident. Div continues to battle his demons, and ends up wandering in the rain down the middle of a busy street. Carol's revelations to Tag puts their relationship to the test.moreless

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Vondie Curtis-Hall

Henry Colton/Rena
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Garrett Morris

Edgar Luck
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Jared Rushton

Andy Bohlmeyer

Sherry Stringfield

Dr. Susan Lewis
Noah Wyle

John Carter
George Clooney

Dr. Doug Ross
Julianna Margulies

Nurse Carol Hathaway
Eriq La Salle

Dr. Peter Benton
Anthony Edwards

Dr. Mark Greene

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Too much pain.. and sorrow

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By Parricida, Jan 09, 2008

It was beautiful episode and moving. Very moving. Carol is treating one of three young teenagers who are critical. He tells Carol what happened as he is sure he will die but he survives, only one of them. And he cannot tell the truth later even if Carol tries to make him do that. So, she takes up her courage and tells truth for the doctor he is living together only to make him so mad and angry and she looks like - it was very beautiful scene.

Carter is treating patient who has changed her sex. She is sad and down and talks about maybe she has done wrong. In the end, she ends in roof, trying to jump. Carter tries to help her but when psychologists comes, she jumps, leaving Carter... he cannot bare it but Benton shows some humanity and takes him to Thankgiving dinner with him.

And Susan.. dealing with her doctor as he is having all the symptoms of deep desperation. And the end scene proves it..moreless
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- Benton: Hey, Haleh, pass the yams, please. Haleh: It's a buffet. Get your own yams!
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- Ross: I'm not a grown-up doctor. Lydia: We all know that, but there's no one else available.
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- Although credited in this episode, Christine Harnos (Jenn Greene) does not actually appear.
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- Vondie Curtis-Hall (Henry Colton/Rena) was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Guest Actor category for his work in this episode. He would return to ER in Season 8 as Roger Simmons, the husband of a woman with whom Benton has a child. Curtis-Hall would also go on to direct two Season 8 episodes: "Start All Over Again," in which he also guest starred; and "It's All in Your Head."
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- Title: "ER Confidential" This episode's title is a reference to James Ellroy's 1990 crime fiction novel of the same title, which tells the story of three very different cops and how they uncover the corruption and scandal that intertwined Hollywood and the LAPD. In 1997 the novel was adapted into a film, directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, and Kim Basinger.
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- The use of a sunflower to "take someone's temperature" is similar to a scene from Carry On Nurse, a 1958 British comedy film in which a very demanding patient has a daffodil used on him in the same way.
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