Season 5
🎬 22 Episodes 📅 1998 ⏱ 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
1998
Year
45
min / ep
16.5
Watch Hours
5/15
Season No.
⭐ 8.8
Best Episode
Ep. 22 · Getting to Know You
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1
⭐ 8.1
Day for Knight
Third-year med student Lucy Knight reports to the ER for the first day of her rotation. Greene takes a teacherly interest in her, helping her get acquainted, but she gets off to a bad start with the irritable Carter when she speaks insensitively, and without Carter present, with a patient's wife abo…
🎬 Christopher Chulack ✍️ Lydia Woodward
2
⭐ 8.3
Split Second
Dr. Corday's father visits from overseas in an attempt to convince her to join his medical practice. Weaver suggests that Elizabeth look into alternative methods to stay in America, like starting over as an intern. Weaver also doesn't let an opportunity pass to remind Doug of the way he bypassed h…
🎬 Christopher Misiano ✍️ Carol Flint
3
⭐ 8.3
They Treat Horses, Don't They?
Mark goes to a trauma scene with the EMTs, where he treats a gunshot victim who has a bomb strapped to himself. Later, Mark’s daughter persuades him to treat a horse with colic, and Jerry gets the bad end of the enema. Carter intubates an elderly woman who is DNR. When her HMO declines to admit her,…
🎬 Babu Subramaniam ✍️ Walon Green
4
⭐ 8.3
Vanishing Act
Dr. Corday begins her first day as an intern, first by being assigned to Dale Edson, then being treated as Romano's lapdog. Kerry is interviewed for ER chief. Doug and Carol ponder parenthood when Carol realizes she may be pregnant. Carol and Lynette try to keep a wounded gang-banger from leaving…
🎬 Lesli Linka Glatter ✍️ Jack Orman
5
⭐ 8.3
Masquerade
Halloween night finds the ER awash with allergic or otherwise incapacitated children. Kerry tolerates a visiting candidate for chief while she waits for the official vote. Romano operates on an 11-year-old girl and finds she's genetically male. Carter leaves Lucy in charge of a dorm party he's su…
🎬 Steve De Jarnatt ✍️ Joe Sachs
6
⭐ 8.3
Stuck on You
After Mark saves a 16-year-old assault victim in a daring rescue, he tries to convince the boy to leave the streets for a shelter. Carter loses his beard when two carpet installers come in covered with glue. Peter consults a deaf physician regarding Reese's hearing condition. Corday is reassigned…
🎬 David Nutter ✍️ Neal Baer
7
⭐ 8.4
Hazed and Confused
Dr. Corday commits a deadly error after being on-call for nearly 36 hours straight. Peter visits Dr. Kotlowitz and receives encouragement regarding a cochlear implant for Reese. Dr. Amanda Lee, a prospective new ER chief, visits. In the wake of a failed pregnancy attempt, Carol lashes out at a mo…
🎬 Jonathan Kaplan ✍️ Carol Flint
8
⭐ 8.6
The Good Fight
Carter and Lucy scramble across Chicago to find a dying girl's father who's a perfect match for her very rare blood type. Benton operates without transfusions to save the little girl's life.
🎬 Christopher Chulack ✍️ Jack Orman
9
⭐ 8.3
Good Luck, Ruth Johnson
Carter plays tour guide for Ruth Johnson, who was born in the hospital 100 years ago to the day, and her large family. Carol treats a boy who was hit by a car and tells a story of being chased, his friend being shot in the process. Peter observes Kotlowitz install a cochlear implant and decides to…
🎬 Rod Holcomb ✍️ Lydia Woodward
10
⭐ 8.4
The Miracle Worker
Benton's attempts to get away to Carla and Reese on Christmas Eve are continually thwarted by Romano, culminating in Benton forcing the drunken Romano away from a patient. Carter believes he's found a Christmas miracle when a teenage girl with a rare blood type needs an organ donation at the same t…
🎬 Lesli Linka Glatter ✍️ Paul Manning
11
⭐ 8.2
Nobody Doesn't Like Amanda Lee
Amanda Lee's obsession with Dr. Greene comes to a head when Mark inadvertantly digs up old med school records damaging to her career. Carter tries to save Lucy from Edson's advances. Peter treats Dr. Parks' grandchild, who interprets for her deaf mother and grandmother. Police officer Reggie Moor…
🎬 Richard Thorpe ✍️ Linda Gase
12
⭐ 8.4
Double Blind
Doug jeopardizes future federal grants for the entire ER when he breaks a double blind study by giving a sample drug to an ailing patient. Doyle lodges a sexual harassment complaint against Romano, hoping Dr. Corday will lend support. Lucy begins her surgery rotation under Benton's tutelage. The …
🎬 David Chameides ✍️ Carol Flint
13
⭐ 8.1
Choosing Joi
Ricky Abbott returns to the ER. Doug forges papers to allow Joi to treat Ricky at home. Corday decides to back out of the Romano sexual harassment investigation after he threatens to expose her relationship with Benton. Romano is later named Acting Chief of the ER. Dr. Greene treats a Nigerian j…
🎬 Christopher Chulack ✍️ Lydia Woodward
14
⭐ 8.1
The Storm (1)
Doug faces possible criminal charges after Ricky Abbott dies when Ross bypasses system lockouts to enable Joi to give Ricky a lethal dosage of dilaudin. Doug is delegated to desk duty, Carol's clinic is shut down for acquiring the P.C.A. machine for Ricky, and Greene and Weaver face future discipli…
🎬 John Wells ✍️ John Wells
15
⭐ 8.7
The Storm (2)
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 dec…
🎬 Christopher Chulack ✍️ John Wells
16
⭐ 8.6
Middle of Nowhere
Peter accepts Romano's suggestion and takes a two-week job in Minnesota to earn some extra money. Unfortunately, before he gets a chance to leave, he's transferred to backwoods Mississippi, where the hospital is only a two-room building. Peter battles local racism, delivers a difficult infant whil…
🎬 Jonathan Kaplan ✍️ Carol Flint
17
⭐ 8.4
Sticks and Stones
During a paramedic ride-along, Carter is forced to drive the ambulance while fleeing a riot scene and inadvertently runs over a teenage boy. Later, a paramedic is shot by an angry mob looking for the driver of the ambulance. Carol is despondent following Doug's departure. She later discloses that…
🎬 Félix Alcalá ✍️ Joe Sachs
18
⭐ 8.4
Point of Origin
Greene tries to help Mobalage when he's about to be deported. Kerry tries to save a woman she believes is her birth mother. Hathaway decides to have Doug's child. Benton and Corday clash over an ER fellowship. Carter is in charge for the day, part of a requirement for applying for chief resident…
🎬 Christopher Misiano ✍️ Christopher Mack
19
⭐ 8.1
Rites of Spring
Romano forces Benton to choose between the trauma and cardiothoracic fellowships. Carol worries that she may have lost her child. Corday and Greene bond on the way to a medical conference. Carter mentors an aspiring teenager. Lucy, on a psychiatry rotation, treats an overmedicated foster child. …
🎬 Jonathan Kaplan ✍️ David Mills
20
⭐ 8.4
Power
The hospital suffers through a series of power outages. Carol's decision to send Doug a fax about her pregnancy is thwarted by the power outages. The staff is on alert after a raped and beaten patient is found in a hallway. Romano begs Corday to stay in trauma. Carter and Roxanne break up. Cart…
🎬 Laura Innes ✍️ Carol Flint
21
⭐ 8.6
Responsible Parties
The ER docs tend to three teenagers who were in an accident on the way to their senior prom. Greene and Carter treat the most severely injured, a boy suffering from third degree burns over 80% of his body. Benton receives the ER trauma fellowship. Carol finally tells Doug about her pregnancy; Ker…
🎬 Christopher Misiano ✍️ Jack Orman
22
⭐ 8.8
Getting to Know You
Carol's pregnancy becomes public knowledge as she learns that she's having twins. Lucy has problems trying to go off Ritalin. Peter learns Carla plans to move to Germany. Kerry finds an abandoned youngster and brings him to the ER. Mark and Elizabeth discuss their relationship. Jeanie and Reggi…
🎬 Jonathan Kaplan ✍️ Lydia Woodward