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The Storm (Part Two)

Season 5, Episode 15, Aired Feb 18, 1999

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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. Doug decides to resign and leave Chicago for the Northwest and asks Carol to come with him. She decides against it, but he leaves anyway. Carol steps down from running the clinic so that Anspaugh will keep it open. Jeanie discovers she may have contracted hepatitis. Hospital janitor Mobalage's wife is stabbed.moreless

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GUEST STAR
Conor O'Farrell

Richard Abbott
GUEST STAR
Patricia Forte

Mrs. Martino
GUEST STAR
Sarah Godshaw

JJ Mitchell

Kellie Martin

Lucy Knight
Julianna Margulies

Nurse Carol Hathaway
Gloria Reuben

P.A. Jeanie Boulet
George Clooney

Dr. Doug Ross
Noah Wyle

Dr. John Carter
Eriq La Salle

Dr. Peter Benton

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Good Bye, Doug Ross

9.7

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By Parricida, Nov 28, 2007

This episode marks somehow a end to one area of this great serie - Doug has been part of the team from the start and he really has given so much for the variety but now it is his time to leave.

The episode is build up well - we have striking and urgent cases, taking majority of the episode, we have one of them injured - it always make audience to sympathize. We have some really great moments and character developments, superb presentations. The way Carol's char is played out - it really leaves me speechless. And the way the whole thing is solved, the meaning in words - I cried, I cannot lie. It was beautiful episode.moreless
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Not quite as good as Part I, but Part II of the Storm is a nice compliment to George Clooney and his character of Doug Ross which he portrayed for 5 years. But seriously Mobalage?moreless

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By DaVulture, Jun 10, 2007

The Storm Part I focused almost entirely on Doug Ross in the somber set-up of his ongoing life and how his actions caused the Hospital and particularly Mark Green and Kerry Weaver great grief. Part II on the other hand is alot different. The first half of the episode is Greene saving the kids involved in a bus-crash which is pretty interesting but for the millions of fans watching the episode the question is where is Ross? Doug finally makes his debut as he stands near an unconscious Jeannie who got a concussion in the accident and soon calls 911 to arrive immediately but tries not to touch her because of her HIV. So Greene gets out of the car scene and brings an overbooking of ER patients, and after Doug brings Jeannie into the ER, Kerry tells him to not treat her. She goes as far as to tell Doug, "You won't treat any patients tonight!" Which practically ended all hopes of ER fans seeing Ross treat a patient but the episode sticks with the realistic view point of the ER. As the patients are treated and as Carter and Lucy talk about their relationship, Doug is treated by Carol and tells her he is planning to move to Seattle because everyone hates him. Which is pretty much true. She tells him she'll think about it. The episode then totally goes of course and focuses on Mobalage. Great focus on Mobalage but it's Clooney's last episode. Who do you think people want to see? Anyway after Mobalage is crying to himself in front of Carol and Weaver, Greene comes along to try and confront him since his wife came to the ER with a wound. The episode finally ends up with Doug walking in the ER halls, nobody saying goodbye or anything as he tells Carol to come with him. She refuses and in a tearjerker starts to cry that she won't have somebody to wake up next to, and Ross being the suave one kisses her and walks away. The last scene of the episode (If you count Ross only had 5 scenes in the entire episode) but despite this his last scene is his best as he and Greene drink bottles of beer staring at the Chicago Landmarks in the coldness of Chicago. After a brief conversation on Seattle vs. Chicago the two smile and Ross offers to shoot some hoops as they talk the scene fades out. Sadly this is the last full episode featuring Doug Ross and he leaves in Doug Ross fashion he wasn't the featured player in the episode but he was the soul that made the episode run. Still though great episode, but less Mobalage and more Ross!moreless
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I cried during this episode.

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By juliaXbaby01, Aug 23, 2006

I cried when Doug left! It was very sad and Julianna played the role so well. She really got into it! This was one of my favorite episodes! Along with the first part of it. The bus crash was really sad too! even though no one died. This was a memorable episode!
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A pretty great episode.

9.6

"Superb"

By JP5000, Aug 22, 2006

This episode is very busy. First a snow plow runs into a bus and there are 15 kids injured. Then Doug and Carol get in trouble because Doug helps a mother end the missery of a terminally ill child. Carol has to hand over her position as manager of the clinic so it stays open. Doug and Jennie get into a car accidnt and Jennie gets hurt badly. Carder and Lucy have sex and it speards around the ER. In the end Doug quits to move to seattle and asks Carol to come with him. She dosen't go with him in the end. This was a very dramadic episode and sad to see Doug go.moreless
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A conclusion to Doug's actions has him leaving.

9.8

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By Pinkmyst, Jul 10, 2006

As school bus accident as a mass of injured children and Doug cannot help.
Doug decides to ignore orders again and he and Jeanie have a accident on the way to the crash.
I admire Doug's passion but sometimes he just doesn't think and this time it gets Jeanie hurt. (Even though it was only a accident)

Doug decides to resign and leave Chicago and asks Carol to come with him. It would have been so hard for her to not follow her heart and go with him.

From the accident Jeanie discovers she may have contracted hepatitis. I really feel sorry for her. She has had such a rough time and she seems such a lovely person.moreless
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QUOTES (3)
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- Carter: Oh, Chuny. Hi. Chuny: Hi. Carter: You got a minute? Chuny: Sure. What's up? Carter: Umm. Earlier, with Lucy and I. I'm sure that you have your suspicions about what we were doing in there. But, actually, we were just.. Chuny: Knocking boots? Carter: What? Chuny: Doing the old nasty? Hey, the more the merrier, I say. Carter: Actually we weren't doing anything. Chuny: Mm-hmm. Carter: I mean, she's a med student, you know? I'm a..resident. Chuny: That stuff happens all the time. Carter: Lucy's like- Lucy's like a little..sister, or something, to me. Chuny: Ah. You do that with your little sister? Carter: Nothing happened! We didn't do anything! Do you - Do you hear what I'm tell - and besides, I already have a girlfriend. Chuny: Ahh. That insurance lady? Carter: She's a financial advisor. Chuny: Hm. Carter: Roxanne and I have a lot in common. Conni: Units are pulling up! Chuny: She's too pushy, you know. Always trying to sell you something. I'd stick with Lucy. You two make a cute couple. Carter: We are not a couple!
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- Kerry: Are there seatbelts on the bus? Mark: No. Kerry: We've got airbags in every new car in America, but we're sending our kids off like lambs to the slaughter.
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- Benton: …Minnesota, North Dakota… Corday: In the middle of winter? Benton: Well, you know, it pays 4000 a week. Corday: Sounds miserable. Benton: Sounds like tuition and a tutor for Reese to me.
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- This episode marks George Clooney's final appearance as a series regular. He would later make an uncredited cameo in the Season 6 episode "Such Sweet Sorrow" and a credited appearance in the Season 15 episode "Old Times."
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- This episode received Emmy Awards for Sound Mixing and Sound Editing.
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- At the end of the episode, Doug and Mark make references to three sports teams from the Pacific Northwest: two NBA teams, the Portland Trailblazers and the Seattle Sonics; and one NFL team, the Seattle Seahawks.
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