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ER Season 7 Episode 1

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AIRED: 10/12/00

Season Premiere: Benton drops Carter off at rehab in Atlanta. Three months later, a custodial strike is making life difficult in the ER. Chen discovers she is pregnant. Carter prepares to leave rehab. Benton interviews with Romano for a surgical attending position; he later gets it. Carter makes a slow journey back to Chicago, and gets busted for smoking in the aircraft lavoratory. Due to her ex-husband failing to pay her tuition, Abby cannot continue med school until the beginning of the next quarter and confronts her ex-husband at the driving range making a big scene. The ER is swamped with participants from a riot at a high school football game. Carter arrives at the ER and promptly leaves.moreless

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A fight in ER

8.2

By Parricida, Nov 06, 2011

Carter is getting out of rehab and going back to Chicago. He already manages to get into the trouble in plain as he do not follow the rules.

On Er, a boy from football match is brought in. First it looks not too bad, but when they are doing simple procedure, Mark hits artery and he is bleeding out. On the same time some other players are also brought in and when Mark tells to the mother that his son may not survive, there starts a fight. Weaver shows some brave moves.

Carter comes to hospital, saws the sirens and leave.. Lot of action but not too exciting or too much story.moreless
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The start of many new things to come...

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By rainleafflower, Nov 06, 2011

I thought that this episode was absolutley fantastic and is one of my new favorites. In this episode, so much happens. You find out that Jing-Mei is pregnant, Carter is going to have a rough road to recovery, and that Abby needs to go back to being a nurse. Many other things happen while you have this constant storyline playing underneath all of the main character drama. The main problem is that one Chicago area school was having their homecoming and throughout the episode different people are being brought in because of this fight there was because someone attacked the main football player, finally by the end there was a huge fight in the middle of the ER. Its episodes like these that make you want to watch the series!moreless
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This is an excellent way to start a new season. Dr. Robert Romano proves himself again. Dr. John Carter is dealing with addiction. Dr. Elizabeth Corday and Dr. Mark Greene add the humor to the episode.moreless

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By CottonButtons, Nov 06, 2011

Who gets poison ivy on his twins from Australia!? Elizabeth and Mark...they make a loving and exciting couple. It is not Doug and Carol, but that it good too. Why do the same material?

It is interesting that Dr. Benton is the person who takes John to the detox center and is responsible to pick him up. Shows a unique relationship.

The background story with the garbage and dirty linens makes the episode even more complex. This is a will written episode.

Luka deals with the death of the elderly woman well. He is stretching the rules, but that is the compassion element, right?moreless
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Alex Kingston	Dr. Elizabeth Corday
Anthony Edwards	Dr. Mark Greene
Erik Palladino	Dr. Dave Malucci
Eriq La Salle	Dr. Peter Benton
Goran Visnjic	Dr. Luka Kovac
Laura Innes	Dr. Kerry Weaver

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Brent Jennings	Nat	Guest Star
Gerry Black	Mr. Fletcher	Guest Star
John Doe	Carter's Doctor	Guest Star
Amy Aquino	Dr. Janet Coburn	Recurring Role
Troy Evans	Frank	Recurring Role
Yvette Freeman	Haleh	Recurring Role

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- Goof: Abby tells Luka her divorce became final the previous month (suggesting August) but in the Season 6 episode "Such Sweet Sorrow" (set in May), she told Malucci that her divorce became final that day.
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QUOTES (5)
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- Frank: Custodial staff is on strike.
  Greene: Yeah, so they had to destroy the admit desk?
  Frank: This is a remodel. Open floor plan. It's supposed to be safer. I've already scratched myself on a nail twice.
  Weaver: Make sure you update your tetanus.
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- Romano: Tell me you know what poison ivy looks like.
  Corday: Poison Ivy... is that in Wisconsin?
  Romano: Oh, boy...
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- Romano: Don't take this the wrong way Peter, but you have a real propensity to be a pain in the ass. (entering Men's Room) ...I'm not going to jump you, you homophobe!
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- (after noticing that Greene scratched his groin while meeting new med students)
  Malucci: Dr. Greene, I have a question: Something wrong with the Australian boys?
  Greene: Who?
  Malucci: You're scratching "down under." Doesn't make a good first impression.
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- Malucci: She have a pulse? Whoa, she's dead.
  Luka: I know.
  Malucci: Like, blue dead.
  Malik: Pulse ox 65.
  Malucci: That's because she's dead.
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NOTES (1)
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- Previous title: "Indian Summer"
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ALLUSIONS (1)
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- During the billiard scene at the detox facility, Carter says, "Be afraid, be very afraid." This is a quote from the 1986 horror film The Fly, starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis.
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