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ER Season 15 Episodes
Season 15 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 1
Life After Death
Thu, Sep 25, 200844 mins
The explosion seems to cause limited damage, Pratt even wants to help with patients, but soon collapses and is found badly injured internally, requiring four hours of surgery, even Archie barely dares work on him, but after Chad arrives, his brother faints again and proves beyond help. He gets a well-attended funeral and pub wake.
Episode 2
Another Thursday at County
Thu, Oct 9, 200844 mins
County resumes works post Luka and Pratt, with a promising batch of new interns, including New Yorker Ryan Sanchez and promising surgeon Andrew Wade, who proves perfect bedside manner, especially with kids, impressing even cynical Dr. Crenshaw. Gates' team -with Ryan- soon regrets having ignored a patient's objections to cutting up his clothes, as that releases his highly toxic ricine powder meant for revenge on officials, so they go in quarantine. Archie speaks up for everyone against rude new chief Cate Banfield's incessant micro-management. Neela loves Brenner mounting a public campaign to demand Dubenko's return, but he hesitates and womanizer Aaron dismisses her suggestion it was also a move on her. An adult student with bad burn outsmarts Sam as addict.
Episode 3
The Book of Abby
Thu, Oct 16, 200844 mins
Abby gets a job in Boston and tries to leave County General quietly, but the staff makes it known how much they will miss her. She fights the new chief Banfield over a gunshot victim's treatment and defends Sam at a disciplinary nursing board. Abby says goodbye and leaves for Boston with Luka and their son Joe.
Episode 4
Parental Guidance
Thu, Oct 23, 200844 mins
Dissatisfied with the interns' performance, Banfield imposes a mentoring system, with each intern and mentor giving daily feedback on the other. Brenner is paired with Tracy who stubbornly insists on doing things her way, Ryan with Morris, whom he tells to resume dating so as to coach romantically too, and Gates with Daria. Banfiled is mugged but battered less then the man, who becomes a patient after her taekwondo. A girl comes in with a broken leg and multiple old 'gym' injuries, suggesting abuse by the single mother, who denies, while her jealous sister proves the culprit. Brenner gets Lucien to cue him on Neela's taste, but accepts she refuses to date properly.
Episode 5
Haunted
Thu, Oct 30, 200844 mins
On Halloween, on dumb intern shuffles in as mermaid. Model teen Scott Raskin brings in his kid brother Danny with mild injuries after an atypical school fight over bullies insulting their single mother Annie, whom Brenner tries in vain to see reason after Scott explains she misbehaves getting drunk with his friends and even taking a teen lover- Michael Leary, who is brought in stabbed at school. Frank and Morris present a costumed surprise for Neela: Ray visits, impressing with his prosthetic legs. Sam's time is taken up by her studies for a pharmacology exam, impressing colleagues and interns but leaving Gates feeling neglected. Gates looks after kid patient Owen, who hardly talks since loosing his father, except to his parrot, which get scared; they get locked in a stairwell.
Episode 6
Oh, Brother
Thu, Nov 6, 200844 mins
Brenner gets two Aussie mates visiting for a rugby match, wisely declines Archie hoping to learn on the match, and happily finds Neela dropping by at the cafe after treating his injured mate. Tony tires of Sam's eternal nitpicking, yet insists for her to move in, at least while her apartment is being renovated, with Alex, who seals the deal. Tony patiently gets an injured, grumpy homeless man to come in for a checkup, and finds him an amnesiac fellow war veteran. A former boxer asks Archie to help him talk his once more injured son out of boxing, for which he has no talent, basically paid to loose, to help he father pay for household needs and his own surgery. Morris systematically favors Chaz, as paramedic and Greg's brother, to other interns' due envy, ignoring warnings various experience is reserved for doctors, till they endanger a patient and Banfield must step, who is already doubly grumpy expecting a visit from her in-laws, yet s saved by Frank insisting to help with a dinner recipe and more.
Episode 7
Heal Thyself
Thu, Nov 13, 200845 mins
Neela's brilliant intern Dr. Andrew Wade loses his first patient, and struggles to cope. When a three-year-old girl is brought in, rescued from drowning in a nearby lake, Banfield can't concentrate as it reminds her of the ultimate trauma, when she lost her only son, having assumed and assured her husband his symptoms were as minor as the previous times, losing so much time even Mark Greene's brilliant leukemia diagnose came too late.
Episode 8
Age of Innocence
Thu, Nov 20, 200844 mins
A woman who broke her leg while trying to escape a house fire is brought in with her husband. The husband, Mr. Lotery did not let the paramedics to check him over. Then his brother-in-law arrives, saying that he predicted that something like the house fire would happen - it was actually an arson. Mr. Lotery's brother-in-law becomes aggressive and accuses him of being a pervert, specifically a pedophile. Mr. Lotery denies the accusations. He was sued but found not guilty. When Mr. Lotery is waiting for his wife who's in line for X-ray, he has the chance to calm down a young girl who is afraid of needles. When his brother-in-law sees this, he brutally assaults him, while Dr. Brenner calmly watches nearby... Meanwhile, Neela gets sued for malpractice.
Episode 9
Let It Snow
Thu, Dec 4, 200844 mins
As a snowstorm hits Chicago, Sam's son Alex crashes a car and ends up in critical condition in the ER. Neela gives a deposition in the malpractice suit against her. Dr. Morris and Dr. Banfield are both at a medical conference in Omaha, and when the snow cancels all flights out they share a memorable and surprising evening.
Episode 10
The High Holiday
Thu, Dec 11, 200860 mins
The Last One Before Christmas Break. The one in which Frank and Drs. Sanchez and Wade accidentally get brownies with cannabis in it. The one with the Christmas party. Archie's cousin brings Archie's deceased father's storage container to the ER bay. An injured pregnant Latino woman is brought in. There is something wrong with her baby?. Plus, the Immigration Office wants to deport her.
Episode 11
Separation Anxiety
Thu, Jan 8, 200944 mins
The police wheel in a casualty of a drug deal-turned-shoot-out. They also bring in an injured woman who was the shooter, plus a pair of wounded brothers who were shot by the man who was shot dead. A 13-year old girl with sickle cell disease is brought in because of abdominal pains; Neela takes her case while Tracy learns from her. Banfield's pregnancy test is negative, which leads to a discussion with her husband and a visit to a specialist.
Episode 12
Dream Runner
Thu, Jan 15, 200944 mins
Neela's day is filled with three significant events: the arrival in the ER of a man who acts out his dreams, and this time jumped through a window thinking he was escaping a plane; the deterioration of a young girl who has been her patient for a while and with whom she has a special bond, and job interviews, set up by Lucien, who also tells her he wants her to stay at county. But which version of the day is the true one? The one in which both the dream runner and the girl die because decisions turn out to be wrong, the one in which both of them die even though the decisions were right (and in which Neela blows off an interview conducted by ex-ER doc Corday)? Or the one where both patients live and she is offered the job by Corday?
Episode 13
Love Is a Battlefield
Thu, Jan 22, 200960 mins
A girl who was hit by a car while riding a bicycle is treated in the ER. When her boyfriend turns up, it seems it may not have been an accident. While a lottery has made millionaires of several nearby convenience store workers, Dr. Banfield and her husband are at the fertilization clinic hoping for their one in a million chance. And as an older woman is brought in assisted by her on-again, off-again husband, three love stories continue in the ER: Dr. Morris meets policewoman Diaz again, Sam discovers that Tony has been seeing Daria, and Neela plays it cool with the returning Dr. Brenner.
Episode 14
A Long, Strange Trip
Thu, Feb 5, 200960 mins
A usually eventful day or two at the ER includes admittance of an old man who has flashbacks of the hospital ER as it was 40 years before. His caretaker arrives and turns out to be a former ER staff member. Meanwhile a mother dying of cancer is given some tests after the old man indicates he thinks she has been mis-diagnosed. Sam's sister Kelly visits and tries to get Sam to agree to take on the care of their sick mother. A man who has lived most of his life in an iron lung needs an operation and a poor epileptic woman is brought in after shoplifting.
Episode 15
The Family Man
Thu, Feb 12, 200944 mins
A single mother is hurt in a car accident, and must find someone to take care of her daughter. Gates treats a 78-year-old man who refuses surgery that would save his life. Meanwhile Morris's afternoon date with Claudia is not what he expected.
Episode 16
The Beginning of the End
Thu, Feb 19, 200944 mins
Dr. Carter returns to Chicago and talks Dr. Banfield into allowing him to pick up a number of shifts (without pay). Other happenings include Banfield's dogged pursuit of motherhood, Neela's intensifying personal relationship, and Archie's involvement with a patient who was probably beaten while in police custody - with his new girlfriend the detective standing by.
Episode 17
T-Minus-6
Thu, Feb 26, 200960 mins
Carter struggles with the new procedural and technological advances made to emergency medicine since he has been gone. Brenner confronts Lucy's foster family about his concerns of neglect or even abuse, barely able to control his own trauma. Morris treats Stan and Elaine Griswold, but she takes his advice to 'live a little' by taking risks way too far. Sam is shocked when her worthless mother is brought into the ER, amnesiac, and takes her home. Neela makes a decision about her future at County. The Banfields freak exploring their options with an adoption agency, Cate discovers Carter's medical condition as his stint leaks.
Episode 18
What We Do
Thu, Mar 5, 200944 mins
As Archie repaints his apartment to please Claudia, she and her partner go on a murder investigation that ends in a double shooting. Carter's renal failure incapacitates him while working on one of the victims of the shooting. Neela breaks off her relationship with Brenner. Sam's mother recognizes her and they resume their old battles.
Episode 19
Old Times
Thu, Mar 12, 200944 mins
A girl drops off a sick baby at the ER and then leaves; Carter may get a kidney transplant; Gates and Daria care for an elderly woman with multiple sclerosis; Neela and Sam are in Seattle to transport a heart for Joanie Moore, while Doug and Carol are concerned that the donor's grandmother might not consent.
Episode 20
Shifting Equilibrium
Thu, Mar 19, 200944 mins
On her last day, as she stands before the wall with ex-ER staff's name tags on it, Neela thinks back to when she first began at County and how she progressed. The gang throws her a party, and Frank tries to make up for years of racial stereotypical jokes at her expense. As she waits at the airport, Simon shows up to clear the air between them and thank her for helping him make the first step toward facing his past. Meanwhile Archie realizes Claudia's job is no more dangerous than his.
Episode 21
I Feel Good
Thu, Mar 26, 200944 mins
A woman returns to County to claim the baby she had abandoned there. The ER doctors and nurses assist at Camp Del Corazon, for children recovering from open heart surgeries. There Morris proposes to his police detective lover Claudia and Brenner befriends a pre-teen boy who does not want to join in with the activities, having been 'volunteered' by his parents.
Episode 22
And in the End...
Thu, Apr 2, 200984 mins
As Carter prepares to open a new facility for the underprivileged, some old friends/colleagues gather. Rachel Greene, Mark Greene's daughter, applies for an internship at County.
