Season 2
🎬 22 Episodes 📅 1995 ⏱ 45 min
Behind the doors of ER, a dedicated team navigates the impossible, where every decision carries weight and compassion is tested against exhaustion. The emergency room becomes a crucible of human struggle—patients arrive with shattered lives while doctors fight against time itself. In these fleeting moments of crisis and connection, the series captures what it truly means to save lives while grappling with the cost of caring.
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📊 Season Stats
22
Episodes
1995
Year
45
min / ep
16.5
Watch Hours
2/15
Season No.
⭐ 9.2
Best Episode
Ep. 7 · Hell and High Water
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🎬 Episodes 22 episodes
1
⭐ 8.4
Welcome Back Carter!
The ER treats victims of a gang shootout. Carter arrives late and unprepared for his new position. Mark learns all about being an attending, including senior staff's habit of bad-mouthing the residents, particularly Doug Ross. Mark hires a new chief resident, Kerry Weaver. New third year med stu…
🎬 Mimi Leder ✍️ John Wells
2
⭐ 8.5
Summer Run
Kerry Weaver manages to offend just about everyone in her first day as chief resident. Carol goes on a ride-along with paramedics Shep and Raul, sharing a ferris wheel ride with Shep. Peter and Jeanie's secret relationship comes to a head. Susan is stuck caring for Little Susie while Chloe attend…
🎬 Eric Laneuville ✍️ Lydia Woodward
3
⭐ 8.5
Do One, Teach One, Kill One
Carter gets his first patient...and loses him. Susan's feud with Kerry Weaver intensifies when Weaver demands all of Susan's procedures be cleared with her. Chloe abandons Little Susie again for a lucrative career in the flea market business. Carol finishes her paramedic recertification by pickin…
🎬 Félix Alcalá ✍️ Paul Manning
4
⭐ 8.5
What Life?
Weaver and Susan's feud escalates to the point where Mark needs to step in and fix it. Benton is involved in a parking lot altercation, resulting in a broken hand and Carter replacing him in surgery. Mark cares for an abandoned elderly woman. Susan tries to juggle her work and care for Little Sus…
🎬 Dean Parisot ✍️ Carol Flint
5
⭐ 8.3
And Baby Makes Two
Dr. Ross treats the dying Chia-Chia. Susan tries to find a way to keep Little Susie, asking her parents for help. Benton treats an injured woman who refuses to press charges against her abusive policeman husband. Carol and Harper are tricked by a patient from the "turkey file." Lydia helps Loret…
🎬 Lesli Linka Glatter ✍️ Anne Kenney
6
⭐ 8.5
Days Like This
Speculation runs through the ER, on a very hectic day, about Randi's possible criminal history. Mark faces an ethical dilemma when he has to decide whether to report yet another of Doug Ross's indiscretions--Doug slept with med student Harper Tracy. Carter becomes upset when Harper confesses this …
🎬 Mimi Leder ✍️ Lydia Woodward
7
⭐ 9.2
Hell and High Water
In the middle of a torrential rainstorm, Dr. Ross stumbles across a child trapped in a drainage pipe rapidly filling with water. Doug does everything possible to save the boy, Ben Larkin. Harper develops a bond with a young girl with separated parents.
🎬 Christopher Chulack ✍️ Neal Baer
8
⭐ 8.4
The Secret Sharer
Doug's heroics earn him a second chance as Bernstein and Morganstern ask him to stay on. Doug and Mark clash when each treats a seriously injured patient and want to use the same equipment. Benton learns that Jeanie has separated from Al. After missing an earlier diagnosis, Carter overcompensates…
🎬 Thomas Schlamme ✍️ Paul Manning
9
⭐ 8.5
Home
Carol and Jeanie try to find a home for a schizophrenic architect. Carter signs Benton up for an interview with Vucelich for a prestigious study. Carter and Harper try to find a place to make out. Jenn and Rachel are involved in a car accident; Mark is thrown for a loop when he learns that Jenn h…
🎬 Donna Deitch ✍️ Tracey Stern
10
⭐ 8.5
A Miracle Happens Here
The ER staffers are in decidedly unfestive moods as Christmas arrives. Carol's spirits are lifted by a Santa-like patient. Mark is outraged when Jenn decides to stay in Milwaukee over Christmas. Benton and Carter score points with Vucelich when Carter convinces an older gentleman, Ruby, to includ…
🎬 Mimi Leder ✍️ Carol Flint
11
⭐ 7.9
Dead of Winter
Shep and Raul bring a dozen malnourished and abandoned children into the ER, keeping everyone very busy. Shep has a run-in with Malik and Benton when he makes an off-handed racially insensitive remark. Carter's high from the admission of Mrs. Rubadoux to the study ends when she shows no signs of r…
🎬 Whitney Ransick ✍️ John Wells
12
⭐ 8.2
True Lies
Mark tries to find a way to tell Rachel about his impending divorce. Benton attends a banquet at Vucelich's home, with Jeanie as his date. Carter finally tells Mr. Rubadoux about his wife's terminal condition, making the man furious. Morganstern is admitted to the hospital after breaking a leg at…
🎬 Lesli Linka Glatter ✍️ Lance Gentile
13
⭐ 8.1
It's Not Easy Being Greene
Mark is riddled with self doubt as the hospital prepares to settle the O'Brien suit. Kerry appoints herself as Susan's personal mentor. Carol mind a bucketful of expensive worms. Doug balks at counseling a teenage boy who thinks he might be gay. Benton uncovers some disturbing information concer…
🎬 Christopher Chulack ✍️ Paul Manning
14
⭐ 8.1
The Right Thing
Benton decides to blow the whistle on Vucelich's unethical study methods, causing Vucelich to drop him from the study. Susan treats a street couple, one of whom has passed HIV to the other. Doug receives a visit from his estranged father. Carter spreads rumors about an affair between Mark and Sus…
🎬 Richard Thorpe ✍️ Lydia Woodward
15
⭐ 8.8
Baby Shower
The ER hosts roughly a dozen pregnant women when a sprinkler bursts in the maternity ward. Carter plays tour guide for the visiting surgical intern hopefuls before going through the interview himself. Benton tries to bring a hopeless patient back from the brink of death in a marathon surgery. Jer…
🎬 Barnet Kellman ✍️ Belinda Casas-Wells
16
⭐ 9.0
The Healers
Shep and Raul respond to a massive fire without proper equipment, risking their lives to save addicts and their children. Shep will be okay, but Raul has third-degree burns covering his body; it's only a matter of time. The ER is flooded with burn victims. Chloe returns to Chicago. Doug is stood…
🎬 Mimi Leder ✍️ John Wells
17
⭐ 8.4
The Match Game
Susan institutes extra precautions in case Chloe tries to reclaim Little Susie. Mark changes his look, growing a goatee and wearing contact lenses. Carol and Jeanie square off over the care of a transient. Carter celebrates when he receives his residency match, putting his patient and his job at …
🎬 Thomas Schlamme ✍️ Neal Baer
18
⭐ 8.9
A Shift in the Night
Mark finds himself manning a very crowded ER on his scheduled night off, filling in while Doug is out with whiplash and Susan meets with her lawyer. He tries to juggle hunger pangs, 40+ patients in the waiting room and a never-ending stream of traumas.
🎬 Lance Gentile ✍️ Joe Sachs
19
⭐ 8.4
Fire in the Belly
Carter engages in competition with new surgical resident-in-training Dale Edson upon learning that residents will be evaluated and graded; only the top ones advancing to second year. It doesn't help that Dale once had a relationship with Harper. Mark flirts with infomercial director Iris. Peter f…
🎬 Félix Alcalá ✍️ Paul Manning
20
⭐ 8.1
Fevers of Unknown Origin
Susan throws herself into her work to escape her stressful personal life, earning recognition from Kerry and Mark, who begins preliminary discussions on next year's chief resident. Carter needs a pedes rotation, and fast, with Doug to graduate med school. Doug takes up with his father's girlfriend…
🎬 Richard Thorpe ✍️ Carol Flint
21
⭐ 8.1
Take These Broken Wings
Susan visits a psychiatrist to cope with the loss of Little Susie. Jeanie's estranged husband Al checks in the ER complaining of flu-like symptoms, which turn out to be caused by HIV. Shep expects Carol to back his version of events during an official investigation of his behavior. Loretta takes …
🎬 Anthony Edwards ✍️ Lydia Woodward
22
⭐ 8.5
John Carter, M.D.
Carol is pushed to the breaking point after another day when politics triumph over health care, and she quits. Dr. Greene "trades his soul" when he agrees to back Weaver for ER attending, in exchange for her support of Susan for chief resident. Jeanie takes an HIV test and informs Peter he should …
🎬 Christopher Chulack ✍️ John Wells