Setting the Tone: An ER Retrospective – Details, episodes & analysis

This week: Gallant makes his grand (but short) return to County General, Neela is super confused by her feelings, Pratt continues to smooth talk every pretty woman he sees, Carter is planning a major addition to the hospital, Steve 2.0 debuts and Sam gives him money, Alex gets pissed at Luka, and Ray helps a young kid who accidentally shot himself. 

This week: we get a parallel day in the life of Neela and Gallant as they connect with each other through letters. Neela helps a woman who had both arms amputated and Gallant treats his fellow soldiers and a young girl caught in an explosion near his base.

Content warning: discussion of sexual assault

This week: Abby helps a teenage girl who denies she just gave birth, Sam and Luka disagree on how best to care for a woman who was beaten and raped, Carter and Wendell get a little closer, and the ER descends into more chaos than normal as the staff is surprised with a mass casualty response drill.

This week: Malucci cares for a young man who may have HIV, Luka keeps doing what he can for the ailing Bishop, Carter and Abby go to a fundraiser, Corday helps a teenager who needs his third heart transplant, and Mark makes some executive decisions regarding patient care. 

This week: Benton gets a surprise promotion, Mark’s return to work is not without its speed bumps, Corday has a meltdown in surgery, Kerry and Kim take their relationship to the next level, Abby treats a pair of frisky old men, Carter goes to visit Chase, and the ER is slammed after a fire occurs at an illegal sweatshop.

This week: Carter doesn’t believe a patient, Benton is once again pressed into helping Kynesha, news of a lawsuit settlement leaves Corday rattled, Kerry comes face to face with her feelings, and Luka treats an ailing holy man.

On this month's edition of STT Interviews, we're chatting with casting director John Levey. John shared with us the chaos that is trying to cast 25 or more new parts each week as well as what it was like to put the original cast together.

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This week: Mark goes under the knife for an awake brain surgery where things don’t quite go according to plan. In the ER, a father and son are brought in after a nasty car crash, but the father takes a turn for the worse after an underlying heart condition is revealed.

This week: Mark and Elizabeth head to New York for a 2nd opinion, Chen goes into labor (and scares the adoptive parents), Benton helps a little girl in a unique situation, Carter can’t get any sleep, and Kerry can’t seem to get rid of her hiccups.

This week: Maggie has a “job interview,” Corday goes through a very intense deposition, Benton and Cleo try to help Jesse’s girlfriend, and Mark has a seizure in front of Carter.