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Dr. Cleo Finch was a fictional medical doctor in the television series ER, during Seasons 6 to 8 (1999-2002). She was portrayed by actress Michael Michele.
First appearance September 30, 1999
(Season 6, "Leave It to Weaver")
Last appearance As regular:
December 13, 2001
(Season 8, "I'll Be Home for Christmas")
As special guest:
May 9, 2002
(Season 8, "On the Beach")
Cause/reason Transferred to another pediatric office
We meet her at the start of season 6 as a tough new pediatric resident at County. She always jogged to work and exercised daily. Cleo started a relationship with doctor Peter Benton and eventually met his family. She met Reese and surprised Peter by communicating some sign language she already knew to his deaf son. She was happy being with Peter and his son, but Peter's old girlfriend, Carla, would often clash with her over Cleo's perceived interference in family matters.
A patient case shook both Cleo and Peter into issues concerning race and health care, in which Cleo told Peter how her biracial background had nothing to do with her understanding of the problems in the African-American community. Nonetheless, Cleo stayed steady with Peter through a rough child custody battle he was going through, where he eventually won. In late 2001, Cleo found a smoother job at a private pediatric clinic, which made Peter uncomfortable because of the long distance between them. Both doctors left the ER together in the Season 8 episode "I'll Be Home For Christmas" (2001). She was later seen attending Mark Greene's funeral alongside Peter in season 8's penultimate episode "On the Beach" (2002).
In the season 15 episode "Shifting Equilibrium" her old nametag was seen on the wall where the old employees of the hospital had their names. It is revealed that she is still living with Benton and is helping raising his son Reece.
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Dr. Dave Malucci was a fictional character on the NBC prime time drama ER. He was portrayed by Erik Palladino.
First appearance October 7, 1999
(Season 6, "Last Rites")
Last appearance October 18, 2001
(Season 8, "Never Say Never")
Cause/reason Fired by Kerry Weaver
Nickname(s) "Dr. Dave"
Gender male
Occupation ER Resident
Title ER Resident (1999-2001)
Children One child
Season 6
Dave Malucci first appears as second-year resident. He often breaks protocol to get things done; he appears uncaring but is occasionally shown to be both sensitive and insightful. In "Last Rites," Malucci and John Carter steal medical gear from an ambulance to help some construction workers injured at a site; later, he and Carter are reprimanded by Kerry Weaver for violating emergency protocols. Malucci attended medical school in Grenada, and in "Great Expectations," he uses his knowledge of the Caribbean to diagnose a patient with a rare disease called Jamaican Vomiting Sickness. In "Such Sweet Sorrow," Malucci mistakenly allows Abby Lockhart to discharge a female patient without examining her personally. The patient later suffers an internal injury and nearly dies. After performing surgery to correct Malucci's mistake, Elizabeth Corday bluntly tells him that "[none of us] think you're much of a doctor."
Season 7
Malucci continues to come into conflict with other doctors in Season 7, especially Kerry Weaver. In "The Visit," Peter Benton's nephew Jesse dies from gunshot wounds in the ER. Benton attacks Malucci for making callous, gang-related remarks after Jesse's death.
Season 8
In "The Longer You Stay," Jing-Mei Chen and Malucci accidentally kill a patient with Marfan Syndrome after failing to get a complete medical history. Malucci mistakenly assumes that the patient is a drug user, and the treatment that he and Chen administer proves to be fatal. Kerry Weaver, the on-duty attending supervisor during this incident, could not be reached because she had left the hospital without her pager. When she returned and learned of Chen and Malucci's actions, she became enraged and told Malucci that "even saying that in a perfect world [she] would never subject any patients to his care."
In "Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic", Malucci is caught having sex with a paramedic in an ambulance, and this gives a still-angry Weaver an excuse to fire him. Mark Greene attempts to convince Weaver that she cannot fire Malucci simply because she doesn't get along with him. Weaver cites several letters of reprimand and two failed rotations, and says that even if the hospital chooses not to terminate him, she will ensure that Malucci never works in the ER again. In a last-ditch effort to save his job, Malucci reveals to Weaver that he "has a kid to support." Weaver dismisses him, and as Malucci leaves, he yells at her at the admittance desk. He bitterly tells Weaver that the only reason she wants to be in charge of the ER is because she has nothing and no one else in her life.
Malucci appears for the final time in "Never Say Never." Kerry Weaver is alone in the doctor's lounge when he enters, and they share a tense, silent moment as Malucci cleans out his locker.
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In the NBC television series ER, the fictional character Lucy Knight was a medical student portrayed by actress Kellie Martin. The character was part of the show for the 5th and 6th seasons. When she was first introduced on ER, Dr. Doug Ross called her a "by the book" medical student.
First appearance September 24, 1998
(Season 5, "Day for Knight")
Last appearance February 17, 2000
(Season 6, "All in the Family")
Cause/reason Killed by schizophrenic patient
Created by Michael Crichton
Portrayed by Kellie Martin
Gender Female
Age 26
Date of birth 1974
Date of death February 15, 2000
Occupation Medical student
Title Medical Student
Family Barbara Knight (mother)
Spouse(s) None
Children none
Conception and creation
Prior to this role in ER, Martin called herself "One Take Kellie". She was not used to the medical jargon her character had to say, and claimed that it once took 12 takes to correctly pronounce "renal vein thrombosis."[1]
Season 5
During season 5 she was a third year medical student. Dr. John Carter was quickly assigned as her resident while she completed her emergency room rotation. Knight and Carter became close friends after a rocky start.
At the beginning of her residency at County General, she was popular with the attendings and nurses, who often treated her as another colleague. Lucy does run into trouble with Nurse Carol Hathaway after she asks for help with an IV. Lucy, unable to start an IV asks Carol for help and doesn't own up to Carter that she can't start one until they end up in a trauma. Again Lucy winds up in trouble with Carter after a Halloween party at her med school gets out of control and two students nearly die. Angry about work that has been thrown at him at the last minute, Carter leaves Lucy in charge of the party even though, as RA, that is his responsibility. Carter and Lucy eventually come to an agreement after the episode "The Good Fight" when the pair spend a day and evening searching for a little girl's father who has the same extremely rare blood type as she does.
Although the pair find the father, it is ultimately too late for the girl. At the end of this episode, Carter and Lucy reconcile in their sadness at their failure. During this episode, Lucy reveals to Carter that she was brought up by her mother, and that she did not know her father.[2]
During the episode The Storm: Part 1, Lucy accidentally karate kicks Carter while performing a work-out video with Chuny (one of the nurses) in an exam room. Carter is knocked over and has to be put on a Gurney and treated for a cut head. The pair did make out in the x-ray room, but nothing came from it. Carter ended their brief relationship since it is unethical for medical students and their residents to be romantically involved.[3]
Near the end of Season 5, it is revealed that Lucy is on Ritalin and has been since high school. Carter urges her to quit and she eventually does. When her performance at County begins to suffer, Lucy goes back on the Ritalin without telling Carter.
Season 6
Lucy's role in the early episodes of season 6 are rather small, having only minor sub plots such as helping a young artist who was taking cocaine or by urging Dr. Dave Malucci to come forward and admit his possible mistake when using a Bunsen Burner that was thought to have caused an explosion in the ER. The explosion was later proven to have nothing to do with the Bunsen Burner which Dave, thanks to Lucy's urging, admitted to using.
Lucy clashed with nurse Carol Hathaway when they both made a plea for the last bed in a rehab clinic, the bed ultimately went to Carol's patient which led to outright friction between the pair. Lucy also clashed with Dr Finch when Cleo undermined Lucy's judgment in regard to a young boy and his Mother who both had alcohol abuse problems.
Lucy was finally able to come into her own and show her potential in the Christmas episode How the Finch Stole Christmas when patient Valerie Paige comes to the ER in desperate need of a heart transplant. Lucy goes above and beyond to ensure Valerie gets the life saving procedure she needs - even going so far as to bang on Dr. Robert Romano's door in the middle of the night on Christmas eve. Though, initially angry with her, Romano agrees to do the operation after Lucy berates him for his seemingly flippant attitude towards the dying patient. Though she faces a reprimand from Romano, he seems to have more respect for her from then on.
Later in the episode The Domino Heart Valerie dies from complications after another surgery, devastating Lucy. This makes her ponder her time at County General and prompts her to give a moving speech to Dr. Luka Kovac about it, "It's never been very easy for me to be here, sometimes I felt like I would never fit in. But at the beginning of every day I have been grateful that I'm walking in here of my own choosing and not being carried in here on some gurney and at the end of every day if I have helped just one person, it's been worth it. And that didn't happen today and it makes me sad...".[4] Luka reminds her that her day is not yet over and that she may still help that one person. At that moment another patient arrives near the ambulance bay, and Luka asks her to assist. The episode ends with them rushing the patient into the ER and Luka teaching her procedures and asking her questions.
Death
On February 14, 2000, over the course of two episodes, "Be Still My Heart" and "All In The Family", Paul Sobriki (played by David Krumholtz), a man with schizophrenia, checks into the emergency room. While in a delusional state, he acquires a knife that was to be used to cut a Valentine's Day cake and stabs Knight multiple times, twice in the abdomen, once in the chest and once in the neck. Dr. Carter enters the room, seeing a Valentine for Lucy on the floor, he picks it up and looks over it smiling, then from the shadows Paul comes up behind Dr. Carter and then stabs him twice in his lower back. Dr. Carter falls into shock and hits the floor, gazing in awe at Lucy laying in blood on the other side of the gurney. Her face is pale, and her hair is wet with blood, she is in shock and soon passes out. Lucy had received 4 serious stab wounds to her internal organs, lung and neck. Although Dr. Weaver and Dr. Corday were able to stabilize Lucy in the ER, and Corday and Dr. Romano were then able to repair her tissue damage, she soon developed complications, including a pulmonary embolism. Despite the efforts of Drs. Corday and Romano, Knight died while in the catheter lab awaiting a Greenfield filter; her time of death, as pronounced by Dr. Corday, was 02:56 A.M.
Lucy's memorial service took place in the episode "Be Patient," although it is not seen on-screen. In the episode, Carter asks Jing-Mei "Deb" Chen how the funeral was; Deb replies that it was quite pleasant, but that it was strange to be attending a funeral for Lucy. That same day, Lucy's mother, Barbara Knight, arrives to clear out her locker. She eventually seeks Carter out and, after an afternoon of talking, asks Carter if being stabbed hurts.[5] Carter lies and says that it didn't hurt at all.
In the episode "A Match Made In Heaven," a letter for Lucy arrives from a med school. She had matched to County, and had she lived, she would have been given a position as a psych resident.
Eight years later, during the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags. Amongst them, the tag "Knight" can be seen. The same happens when Dr. Neela Rasgotra on episode 20 Shifting Equilibrium put her tag name on that wall
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Jeanie Boulet is a fictional Physician Assistant from the television series ER. She was portrayed by Gloria Reuben as a recurring character midway in the first season, then as a regular from season 2 onwards. Reuben left the serial in the 6th season, but in 2008 (season 14) she reprised the role for one episode.
Jeanie is HIV-positive. Along with General Hospital's Robin Scorpio, she is one of the only regular characters in American television history to contract HIV without eventually being killed off by the writers.
First appearance January 19, 1995
(Season 1, "Long Day's Journey")
Last appearance As regular:
November 11, 1999
(Season 6, "The Peace of Wild Things")
As special guest:
January 3, 2008
(Season 14, "Status Quo")
Cause/reason Left to spend more time with Reggie and Carlos and to establish a Counseling service for HIV infected persons.
Gender female
Occupation ED Physician assistant
Spouse(s) Al Boulet (ex-husband, deceased)
Reggie Moore (separated)
Children Carlos Moore (adopted)
Creation and development
Introduced in season 1, episode 14 "Long Day's Journey", Jeanie Boulet was initially a recurring character involved in the story arc of the regular character, Dr Peter Benton (played by Eriq La Salle). During the first season, Jeanie's storyline centred on her adulterous affair with Benton, which developed after he employed her to care for his senile mother — Jeanie was unhappy in marriage to a philandering husband named Al (played by Wolfgang Bodison and Michael Beach). Benton was depicted as a talented, "self-assured" but "brooding", defensive and serious doctor.[1] Contrastingly, Jeanie was portrayed as emotional, caring and sensitive. Reuben has described Jeanie as "strong-willed, sharp and intelligent, but, [she] has a dry sense of humor. She knows exactly what she's doing professionally, but she has a nurturing side, too."[1] The personality differences between the characters lead to several clashes on-screen initially, as both have different ideas about what's best for Benton's ailing and progressively senile mother. In episode 20 "Full Moon, Saturday Night", Jeanie orders for Benton's mother to be held in restraints to prevent injury; Furious, Benton removes the restraints, leading her to fall from her bed, and Benton and Jeanie grow closer as he subsequently accepts her guidance on how to care for his mother. In his book, Bedside Manners: George Clooney and ER, author Sam Keenleyside comments on the scenes, saying that the storyline was poignant, but that "it gets lost in all the mechinations of the rest of the show."[2] The beginning of a blossoming romance saw a change in Benton's disposition over the following episodes, Keenleyside notes that he "seems to be thawing [...] It's well-worth asking what's brought all this on, and the answer seems to be — if his dinner with Jeanie is any indication — that he's a young doctor in love. Whether he continues his nice-guy routine while he plays second fiddle to Jeanie's husband remains to be seen, but giving Benton a love-interest, no matter how ill-fated, will offer his character some much needed life outside the hospital."[2] As the first season drew to a close in episode 25 "Everything Old is New Again", Benton is shown to be keen for their relationship to progress, asking Jeanie to leave her husband; by contrast Jeanie is reticent and pulls away, leaving the future of their relationship unclear. According to Keenleyside, this was a deliberate "loose thread [...] left dangling to pull [viewers] back on to [their] sofas next season." He predicts, "expect to see them together next September; that way the writers can gloss over all the messy in-between stuff and get right to the romance for the new season."[2]
Jeanie progressed to regular character status by season 2. As the season came under way, it was revealed that her affair with Benton still continued, unbeknown to her husband, leaving Benton's authoritarian personality "uncomfortably weakened" as the third member of a love triangle.[2] When Jeanie refused to leave her husband, the relationship ended on bad terms, setting up the next chapter in Jeanie's story as she finds employment as a Physician's Assistant (PA) at the serial's focal setting of County Hospital's ER. This leads to hostilities from a dishevelled Benton, who proceeds to make her working life a "living hell", until she confronts him.[2] In summary of the plot, Keenleyside noted that "it's nice to see Jeanie being allowed to move beyond the quiet forcefulness that has thus far marked her relationshsip with Peter, and it's even better to see Benton with his tail between his legs for a change."[2] As season 2 progressed, Jeanie was given storylines independent of Benton, allowing further character development as she interacts between other characters, staff and patients. This move was praised by Keenleyside, who commented, "this brief look at Jeanie, free from Benton's brooding presence, indicates that ER is definitely the place for her character. If she's allowed to continue to develop her own character, instead of being forced into Benton's background, she could become a complement to [Dr] Carter. Like Carter, she cares about her work, but she's not afraid to stand up for herself — especially when Benton is in her way."[2] However, he does note the Jeanie is perhaps "thrust to the forefront too mechanically. She is forced to carry a heavier story load than her character is capable at this point."[2] Episode 21 of season 2, "Take These Broken Wings", marked the beginning of one of Jeanie's notable storylines when her husband Al was admitted to the ER and subsequently diagnosed as HIV positive. As the second season drew to a close, Jeanie's HIV status was left in question, as was Dr Benton's.
In the opening episode of season 3, "Dr. Carter, I Presume?", ER writers dropped the "requisite bombshell" that Jeanie had tested positive for HIV, while Benton had tested negative.[2] Jeanie decides to manage her illness in secrecy, refusing to divulge her status to her employees, a decision Benton disapproves of and he attempts to have her banned from treating patients with open wounds, although he falls short of revealing her secret. Jeanie's decision not to reveal her serostatus to her employees was the result of an encounter with a seropositive patient in the AIDS outpatient ward at County Hospital. The man, realising Jeanie worked at the hospital, urged her to seek treatment for her HIV elsewhere, due to negative repercussions that may occur in the workplace. As a result of this, Jeanie is forced to pay for her HIV cocktail medication herself.
In addition to the professional and medical implications of Jeanie's health status, the romantic implications were also explored later on in season 3. Keenleyside comments, "[Jeanie's] quietly reluctant decision not to go out with the friend of a patient hits just the right tone, registering not only her disappointment at having to pass up this opportunity, but also her realization that she may never be able to accept another. The counterpart to thise scene, provided by Benton's tanalizing encounter with his former girlfriend, Carla, drives home the pain of [Jeani's] situation very powerfully, although a deeper look at the romantic challenges facing people with HIV would still be very much welcome."[2]
Storylines
Jeanie Boulet was first introduced in season 1 as a recurring character. She was the physical therapist hired by Dr. Peter Benton to care for his aging mother. Jeanie, who was married at the time, soon began a romantic relationship with Benton but things fizzled when she could not make a decision about her marriage. She reappeared as a series regular a few episodes later in season 2, as a new physician's assistant at the County General ER. Toward the end of the season, her husband Al was admitted to the hospital and it was discovered that he had contracted HIV. Jeanie and Al had been separated since the beginning of the season, but he may have contracted the virus years earlier as he had slept with other women during the time they were married.
Jeanie got tested for HIV and urged Benton, her recent lover, to undergo testing as well. In the season 3 premiere it was revealed that Benton did not have the virus; Jeanie, however, was HIV-positive. Benton questioned whether Jeanie should still be working in the ER, but he later accepted that she would be able to take appropriate precautions and supported her decision to remain at County. Later in the series, Jeanie and Peter actually became somewhat close, with Jeanie helping Peter cope with the realization that his son Reese was deaf.
During season three, Jeanie embarked on her first romantic relationship since her HIV diagnosis, with a doctor from Infectious Diseases named Greg Fischer. However, during this time she also rekindles her closeness with Al and eventually Dr. Fischer breaks up with her upon finding out about the reunion. Jeanie and Al move back in together and renew their relationship. In season four, Al loses his job when an accident at the job site forces him to admit to his coworkers (and friends) that he is HIV positive. Al gets another job in Atlanta and plans to move; Jeanie declines to join him, and they part ways once more.
It is also at this time that Jeanie develops a strong friendship with Kerry Weaver. Jeanie had initially been afraid that Weaver might terminate her position at County if she found out about Jeanie's HIV status. This turned out not to be the case, and Weaver laid out restrictions under which Jeanie would be allowed to continue treating patients while HIV positive. Kerry and Jeanie's friendship was tested when Kerry was forced to fire Jeanie for budgetary reasons. Jeanie accused Kerry of trying to fire her over her HIV status, as Jeanie had been forced to break one of her workplace restrictions in order to treat a trauma patient earlier, and threatened to sue the hospital for discrimination. Dr. Anspaugh gave Jeanie her job back to avoid the lawsuit, and Jeanie and Kerry eventually settled their difference.
In season four Jeanie becomes the part time private care giver of Scott Anspaugh (portrayed by Trevor Morgan), the son of Dr Donald Anspaugh. Scott is battling B-cell lymphoma and is battling depression. Only Jeanie seems to be able to raise his spirits and inspire hope in him. The two develop a strong friendship over a five episode arc whch sadly ends in Scott's death.
Early in season six, Jeanie adopts a HIV positive baby boy called Carlos after his mother dies in the hospital, and marries a police officer named Reggie Moore. She tries to stay on at County and parent her child, but eventually decides to leave County in order to spend more time with her family. The final episode Jeanie appeared in was the sixth episode of season six, which was entitled "The Peace of Wild Things" in November 1999. She left with a standing offer from Kerry Weaver to return to County and her old job (which to date she has not accepted).
Gloria Reuben as Jeanie Boulet in 2008In the Season 14 episode "Status Quo", Jeanie Boulet briefly returned to the ER after 8 years in January 2008 when her son Carlos suffers a head injury during Physical Education class. Initially it is believed that he is fine; however, a CT Scan revealed that he had a growth on his brain. This is customarily a sign that HIV infection has progressed into an AIDS condition. Boulet didn't find any of her old colleagues she knew (like her friend Dr. Kerry Weaver) working there anymore and was only identified by Nurses Haleh Adams and Chuny Marquez. After initially having difficulty adjusting to the changes in her former workplace she permitted full treatment and came to support the decisions of the new staff of the ER--including new Attending Dr. Gregory Pratt with whom she initially had difficulty agreeing. It was partly because of her return and inspiration that Dr. Pratt was convinced to continue his job at County.
In the time between her last appearance and return Jeanie and her husband Reggie have undergone a separation and have joint custody of their son. Jeanie also remains a counselor for young people with HIV Status. Her clinics - one on the North side of Chicago and another on the South--have become her personal mission and her time-consuming commitment to them contributed to the end of her marriage. She reveals to Pratt that her son helps to drive her and her cause to help others with HIV infection and that she doesn't know how she will cope if he were to die. She also reveals that her ex-husband Al died two years earlier from his HIV/AIDS condition, severely emaciated to a weight of only 78 pounds and apparently demented as he was unable to even recognize her.
Critical reception
Jeanie Boulet's return to the series as a guest character in 2008 was well-received by television critics. A reviewer from New York Entertainment commented that her return was like a "welcome throwback to the days when it seemed like every episode forced Jeanie to process some piece of world-shattering news." The return storyline was described as a "classic Jeanie Boulet moment, as filtered through the show's new blunt-instrument writers [...] it was like it was 1995 all over again." Discussing Reuben's portrayal of the character, the reviewer said, "There's always been great pleasure in Reuben's beautiful, open face in moments like that; she played those scenes to the hilt, creating in us a great sympathy for her character [...] We couldn't stand to watch her suffer so, but we couldn't stop watching her suffer, and we died a little with every hurt the producers hit her with."[3]
It has been suggested that the programme-makers' decision to give Jeanie HIV was an attempt to draw attention to the illness to the black community, particularly black women.[4] Jeanie — like the majority of female AIDS cases in America at the time in 1997 — was black, heterosexual, and acquired HIV from a long-term partner.[5] However, it has been noted that some viewers may have been offended that out of all the sexually active characters in their serial, Jeanie — whose private life had not been extensively portrayed at that point — contracted the virus.[4]
Aspects of the HIV storyline have been criticized, specifically that little airtime was dedicated to dramatizing clinical procedures determining whether Jeanie had been exposed to the HIV virus. When Jeanie discovered that her husband had AIDS in the second season finale, Jeanie has a blood test and sends it off for analysis to see if she also had the virus; however, viewers were not shown the multiple clinical procedures involved in the testing, and the following episodes concentrated on post-test rituals.[6]
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Dr. Anna Del Amico was a fictional medical doctor from the television series ER. She was portrayed by Maria Bello.
First appearance May 1, 1997
(Season 3, "Random Acts")
Last appearance May 14, 1998
(Season 4, "A Hole in the Heart")
Cause/reason Left for Philadelphia
Gender female
Occupation Pediatrics Intern (1997)
Pediatrics Resident (1997-1998)
Family 7 brothers
7 sisters-in-law
13 nieces/nephews
Mother and Father
Spouse(s) Max Rocher
Personal life
A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Anna came to the emergency room of County General Hospital in 1997 guest starring in the last 3 episodes of the third season. She was a Pediatrics Intern specializing in Emergency Medicine. As a series regular in the fourth season, her position as a Pediatrician initially causes friction with Doug, although this seems to resolve. She becomes a doctor consult in Carol's clinic. She helps Carter detox his cousin Chase. She has had to do this with her ex-boyfriend Max and knows what he is going through. During her brief stint at County General, Anna also became good friends with Carol Hathaway and Elizabeth Corday.
Anna starts to become close to Carter through the season and admits there has been some chemistry between the two of them, but she never exactly exchanges the same strong feelings Carter has for her. Anna was very insulted when she discovers Carter's family fortune that he kept secret. Del Amico felt betrayed and fooled after giving him a glimpse of her poor struggling lifestyle. She never felt secure in such a wealthy setting and was always happy with her 'getting by day to day' persona. The two hold the same passion for medicine and eventually share a kiss. Carter and Anna's relationship is strained when Anna's ex Dr. Max Rocher comes to Chicago to see her. Anna isn't too confident in trusting Max after his rough drug addiction and is frustrated whenever she has to deal with Carter and Max in the same room. At the end of season 4, Anna leaves Chicago with Max to work in a Pediatric ER in Philadelphia.
During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags. Amongst them, the tag "Del Amico" can be seen
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Dr. Neela Rasgotra is a fictional medical doctor portrayed by Parminder Nagra on the television show ER
First appearance September 25, 2003
(Season 10, "Now What?")
Last appearance April 2, 2009
(Season 15, "And In the End...")
Cause/reason left to be with Ray in Baton Rouge
Nickname(s) Roomie (called by Ray during season 12), Mayday (called by Gates)
Gender Female
Date of birth April 17, 1977
Occupation General Surgeon
Title Medical Student (2003-2004)
ER Intern (2004-2005)
ER Resident (2005-2006)
Surgical Intern (2006-2007)
Surgical Resident (2007-2009)
Spouse(s) Michael Gallant (husband; deceased)
Ray Barnett (boyfriend)
Relatives Parents, several brothers and sisters. Jaspreet (cousin)
Beginnings
Neela Kaur Rasgotra first appeared in fall 2003 at the start of the 10th season as a talented but very reticent medical student from London, England. She arrived on her first day as the ER was undergoing major renovations and was for the most part unnoticed, except by Dr. Gallant who guided her through the rough start in the hospital and Dr. Pratt who flirted a little bit with her. Neela was very intelligent but sometimes stumbled in her doctor-patient communications skills. This proved disastrous when she informed the wrong woman of her grandson's death. A very reserved individual, she first faced her first big crisis at County when a helicopter crash occurred on Thanksgiving Day that pushed her and everyone else there to their limits, but Neela did her job superbly. It was also revealed that Neela had a terrible case of nerve wrecking claustrophobia, which she later conquered by gutting out a hyperbaric chamber session that helped save a baby's life (due to the baby having severe carbon monoxide poisoning). At the end of Season 10, Neela and Abby Lockhart both graduated from medical school. However, upon graduating, she had an identity crisis and turned down an internship at the University of Michigan, opting to work as a store clerk when no other position turns up. After a few episodes, she asks the ER chief Dr. Kerry Weaver for a job back at County. Later, she finds herself back in the hospital after an obsessive-compulsive intern (Howard, portrayed by Andy Powers) quit and Susan Lewis made a job offer which she accepted. Neela's birthday is April 17, 1977.
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She becomes close to Dr. Michael Gallant prior to his deployment to Iraq, especially after he took the blame of a patient's accidental death, sparing Neela's probable dismissal. During one return visit, they begin a romantic relationship, after which they maintain a regular correspondence. On completion of his tour of duty, they impulsively marry, but he soon feels compelled to return to Iraq and re-enlists. At this point, Neela was also struggling with her feelings for roommate Ray Barnett, who began to fall in love with her. Neela kept her distance from Ray when she decided to move in with Abby Lockhart instead.
In "The Gallant Hero & The Tragic Victor", Neela becomes a widow when Gallant is killed by a roadside bomb near Mosul, Iraq. She pushes Ray and everyone else away when they tried to offer her some comfort. In "Twenty-One Guns" (the 12th season finale), Michael's funeral takes place, where she is accompanied by Gregory Pratt. She gets angry at Michael's father, accusing him of telling Michael to go off to war when he could have stopped him, but Pratt offers her some comfort when he says that Gallant felt he had to be in Iraq, and that Pratt now understands this due to his own experiences in Darfur. Pratt later receives a phone call from the ER; both are unaware of the shootings which have taken place there.
In "Bloodline", Neela and Pratt rush to the hospital when they find out about the shooting and help the distraught ER. Neela, then taking a surgical elective, scrubs in and operates on Jerry, who eventually recovers from his injuries. Neela reunites with paramedic Tony Gates (from "Two Ships", season 12). Still mourning her husband, she gets drunk and kisses him but she apologizes to him later on. Many feelings and tension arise between her, Gates and Barnett in an uncomfortable love triangle. Chief of Surgery Dr. Dubenko has always been fond of Neela and her talents, looking out for her and helping her get the spot in a surgical elective. She later decides to leave the ER and start over as a surgical intern. As she begins her new surgical rotation, she falls under the strict supervision of new surgical Chief Resident Dr. Dustin Crenshaw, who seems to hold her back from demonstrating her skills. Later in her elective, Neela feels pushed away and neglected from her mentor when a new med student steals all the spotlight in front of Dr. Dubenko. She later discovers that Dr. Dubenko holds feelings for her as does the (female) new med student.
Neela in 2007During the wedding of Abby and Luka, Neela decides to end her romantic relationships with Tony and Ray for good, after built-up emotions escalate and lead to a bar fight between the guys that exposed their personal issues in front of the entire ER staff. The fight got Ray tossed out of the reception party, however Neela appeared to be in the process of settling with Ray. She called him on his cell after looking affectionately at the CD of love songs he burned for her. Initially Ray, while leaving drunk from a bar, did not answer his cell despite its vibrating. She was still upset at Ray, as well as Tony, but grew concerned when Ray wouldn't answer his calls and did not show up at work. Neela went by his apartment with no luck and later discovered he was hit by a truck and was hospitalized. With both legs amputated, a bitter Ray could not forgive Neela for hurting him and left Chicago to be cared for by his mother back home, and Ray's love interest Katey blamed Neela for Ray's injuries. This further upsets Neela who has been torn apart by the two men. In the 13th season finale, Neela attends an anti-war rally and soon finds herself in danger as a mass panic ensues in the crowd. Tony who was looking for her tries to come to her aid as the crowd tramples her.
In the early part of season 14, she recovers from her accident and stays with Abby while Luka is away in Croatia. She also babysits Joe while Abby is at work. When Neela returns to work, Gates inquires about Ray and we learn that Ray has been writing to Neela. Katey and Neela have another altercation when Katey argues with Neela's directions during a trauma, but Katey ends up looking stupid as Neela's decisions save the patient's life. Neela then tells Katey she's finished taking Katey's anger about Ray's accident and Neela tells her that she will not take the blame for what happened to Ray because "I didn't make him get piss-drunk and wander in front of a truck". She also reveals that Ray himself doesn't blame her for the accident. Some months later, Neela and Abby engage in an argument after Neela finds out that Abby is an alcoholic. During the heated exchange, Abby says that Neela should not be lecturing her on love because Ray is probably wishing he never met Neela. While Neela does not directly address her feelings about Ray, from the hurt on her face it is evident that she is still not completely over what happened to him. Neela gets very upset after Abby's comments and kicks her out of the apartment. Abby and Neela make up some time later after Abby returns from rehab.
After doing an orthopedic surgery rotation where it became obvious all the surgical departments wanted her on their teams for the long haul, she returns to working for Dr. Dubenko. However, Neela has faced some professional and personal setbacks since that return: a wiz-kid surgical resident decided surgery wasn't for him and left for Pediatrics despite her efforts to convince him he could be a successful surgeon; she noted her sparse personal life on her birthday (which nobody but Tony Gates remembered); and she became close to a patient played by Aida Turturro who developed an infection that led to her death, sending Neela into the doldrums once again.
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With Abby´s departure Neela is the Lead Character of the Final Season.
In the Season 15 episode, "The Book of Abby", Neela's long-time friend and colleague, Abby Lockhart, resigned and left the ER for a new job in Boston. Neela, while happy for her friend's new start, told Abby that she wished she had known about this sooner and that she couldn't imagine working in the hospital without Abby. Separated by a glass window while operating in the OR, Neela told a departing Abby to "be good", after which Abby smiled and walked away.
Abby's departure leaves Neela Rasgotra as the most senior regular character on ER, followed by Archie Morris and Sam Taggart, respectively.
Into Season 15, Ray Barnett re-entered Neela's life just at the right time. After the tragic death of her friend Greg Pratt and the departure of her best friend Abby a few weeks later, Ray returns right "when she needs that friend and possibly that romance back" .[1] Ray surprises Neela by showing up to County in a Frankenstein outfit during Halloween and revealed on his one-day return to Chicago that he has endured months of rehab, during which he was fitted with new cutting edge prosthetics and is walking on his own. His presence clearly has huge impact on Neela, and she invites him to spend the night with her, but he declines by saying he has finally reached a good place in his life and doesn't want to mess that up. It is later revealed that Neela had planned to visit Ray for Thanksgiving in Louisiana but cancelled the trip after learning Ray had begun dating a woman from Georgia.
Neela has had a difficult time dealing with Andrew Wade, a young surgical intern who she feels is too passive to be a successful surgeon. When a surgical patient implies she is having rectal bleeding, Andrew is too intimidated to get the information to Neela, and the patient later bleeds to death. Andrew blames himself and Neela is critical of him for not telling her the earlier information. She later tells Dr. Dubenko she doesn't want to work with Andrew anymore, and Andrew gets transferred to a less-important surgical rotation. Neela then gets mad at Andrew because she's getting sued by the dead patient's family after Andrew confessed his mistake to them. But Neela later works with Andrew on a complicated procedure that saves a patient's eye, and when she is grudging about having to teach Andrew, Dr. Dubenko angrily tells her that if that's her attitude then she needs to pack her stuff up and leave County. Chastened, Neela later tells Andrew he did a great job and that she understands his motives in talking to the patient's family. The lawsuit is later dropped and Neela reconciles herself to having a work-only relationship with the close-knit group of interns.
Later in Season 15 in "Dream Runner" she has a chance to catch with her old colleague Dr. Elizabeth Corday during an attending interview and became involved romantically with Simon Brenner after he returned from Australia. However, in the episode 'Love is a Battlefield', Brenner is again shown coming home from Australia, signaling to the audience that Neela's involvement with Brenner in the previous episode was just part of the re-occurring dream she was having throughout the show.
In “Love is a Battlefield” Neela is seen skillfully avoiding Simon Brenner, brushing him off in obvious awkwardness, due to her dreams of him in the prior episode, as he tells her that he called her the second he got back in from Australia to go out to dinner and catch up, even telling her that he had a gift for her. At the end of the episode, she runs away from him, only to have him catch up to her on the busy sidewalk. She admits to him that she likes him and she wants to be with him, and then telling him that he can "gloat now" – throwing back to his speech in episode "Parental Guidance" where he says that "he predicted it." He smiles and kisses her, saying that he'd 'rather do something else', obviously showing the beginning of their relationship.
In "The Family Man", Neela is in a pre-coital position with Simon in her apartment while her phone rings. He urges her not to take it, but she does. We find out that Duke is calling for her to meet with the Head of Surgery. She says that she only met with Duke to ‘Get Dubenko off her case.’ But is now trying to imagine herself there. Simon is obviously disappointed, but acts happy for her.
During the Valentine’s episode of the Season, "The Beginning of the End", Simon and Neela are revealing their most romantic Valentine’s celebrations: Her most romantic one was at fifteen and her boyfriend bought her a plastic tiara, and took her out, telling her that she deserved to be treated like a queen. Simon agrees fully. He suggests that they take a trip together. While at the hospital, she receives a CD in the mail from her old flame, Ray Barnett; it holds a poignant love song by Pete Yorn. She sees her old attending, John Carter who impressively notes that the "Grasshopper is now the teacher." Later in the episode she is left a map with a heart-stickered destination on it from Simon Brenner. She shows up at a balcony overlooking the Chicago River. She sees him down below and he runs up to her, calling out in Italian. He reaches her and hands her Italy pamphlets, telling her that they are at the closest thing to thing to a canal right now, but it will change. Simon tells her that he wants them to take a week off in April and take her to Venice. She smiles and says that it definitely constitutes as a romantic gesture. He responds saying that that was nothing and it was just the beginning, surely foreshadowing things to come. They enjoy the moment with each other, leading to her new favorite Valentine’s celebration.
Neela learns from Morris about Simon's childhood and is upset he never mentioned it to her. In recent weeks Simon hasn't been around as much and always evades questions about his childhood. Eventually they get into a fight and she tells him that there are better people for both of them out there. This signifies that Neela has broken up with Simon.
Neela last appeared as a regular in the Season 15 episode 20 of ER entitled "Shifting Equilibrium", Neela leaves County General for good. She is shown arriving at Le Chatelier Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she goes to a physical rehab center where Ray Barnett is shown helping patients. There, she and Ray reunite with Neela looking like she finally felt she made the right decision after struggling with her life long difficulty with the fear of making the wrong choices in life.
In the following episode "I Feel Good" she makes a cameo, appearing on webcam at County at Frank's admitting desk from her new work place with Ray and Ray mentions how he brought some of Neela's things from home into her office signifying that they are living together.
In the series finale "And In the End...", Neela makes a cameo, again appearing on webcam at County at Frank's admitting desk talking to Brenner, Morris, and Carter talking about her new life in Baton Rouge. This time Brenner seems more comfortable with Neela's physical absence.
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Lucien Dubenko is the current Chief of Surgery.
First appearance
Season 10 - October 14, 2004 (Episode: Try Carter)
Last appearance
Season 15 - March 19, 2009 (Episode: Shifting Equilibrium)
Nickname(s) "teeny"
Gender Male
Occupation Attending Trauma Surgeon
Title Chief of Surgery (2004-Present)
He was first introduced shortly before Elizabeth Corday departed, as an arrogant but obviously talented surgeon, bragging about, and then showing his ability to run the bowel with a laparoscope . Dr Corday bitterly protests his hiring to Kerry Weaver. Corday's anger causes her to conduct an illegal organ transplant between two HIV+ men, which leads to her being reprimanded and being forced to take a demotion. Corday eventually quits the hospital altogether, though Dubenko praises her actions in doing the transplant. Dubenko is portrayed as a very dedicated and talented surgeon, with a keen interest in medical science, lecturing the interns on physiology. Dubenko becomes friends with residents Abby Lockhart and Neela Rasgotra, and later seems to fall for both of them, most notably Neela after she becomes a surgical intern. He has a baby sister who lives in an assisted-care facility because she was in a car crash caused by her drunken teenage boyfriend that left her with brain damage. After he discovers he has testicular cancer, he asks Abby to have sex with him to make sure he is fully functioning after surgery, but reacts with equanimity when she declines the offer. During Luka and Abby's wedding, he asks Luka to take care of Abby. He was involved in a "friends with benefits" relationship with new ER Chief Dr Skye Wexler, which later ended after he lashed out at her for excluding him from her life and accused of her of being a slut. He later resigned in protest over the death of patient Sheryl Hawkins, when he had to leave the OR and leave Dr Rasgotra (Junior Resident) to finish the operation, because he was the only attending available in the hospital, this ouburst enraged Dr Anspaugh during the M&M. Efforts by Neela and Simon Brenner led to his return in Season 15, and he later justly criticized Neela for her dismissive attitude towards teaching surgical residents.
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Donald Anspaugh was first introduced on the show in 1996, during season three. The character was appointed County General's new Chief of Staff after South Side closed and merged with County.
First appearance
Season 1- October 3, 1996 (Episode: Let the Games Begin)
Last appearance
Season 15- October 9, 2008 (Episode: Another Thursday at County
Nickname(s) Uncle Donny
Gender Male
Occupation Chief of Staff (1996-1999),
General surgeon and member of the board (1999-2006),
Chief of Staff (2006-Present)
Title CHIEF OF STAFF
Family Sister, Simon Brenner, Nephew
Spouse(s) A wife (deceased)
Children Scott (deceased) and Evette
In season four it is revealed that his son Scott (portrayed by Trevor Morgan) has B-cell lymphoma. The cancer had previously gone into remission but has come back. Scott wants to give up and it is only through a personal connection with Jeanie Boulet in the ER that his spirits are raised. Noticing how well Boulet and his son relate, Anspaugh asks Jeanie to be his son's part time private care giver. She agrees and a deep friendship develops between Scott and Jeanie. Scott eventually dies.
In 1999 Anspaugh resigned as Chief of Staff because of his son's death and was replaced by Robert Romano. He remains both a surgeon and a leading board member but his exact position wasn't specified for several seasons. He, along with Peter Benton, succeed in saving John Carter's life after he and medical student Lucy Knight were stabbed by a patient. At the end of season 8, he was among those that paid their respect at Mark Greene's funeral and assisted in the small pox evacuation, trying to save Dr Romano from losing his arm. Toward the end of Season 9, Anspaugh fired Romano over his insubordinate attitude and gave Kerry the job. Anspaugh later resurfaced in Season 12 to deal with the lawsuit issue caused by Clemente. In the second episode of season 13, Kerry herself told him that it was her fault that Clemente kept working at County as long as he did, despite concerns from the staff and mishaps before. Dr Anspaugh was originally going to fire Luka Kovac until Weaver spoke up. Afterwards, he immediately decides to relieve Dr Weaver of her position of Chief of Staff, which he takes over himself for until a search for a full-time successor was found. In Season 14, Greg Pratt appealed to Dr Anspaugh to have him replace Kevin Moretti as Chief of Emergency Medicine, a proposal that the doctor still didn't accept despite Pratt's persistent efforts, citing Pratt's lack of leadership initiatives and youth. Donald Anspaugh is still a recurring character, a surgeon working at County General as well as the Chief of Staff and member of the hospital board. Dr Anspaugh is seen through out season 14, interviewing Dr Pratt for the Chief's job, promoting Dr Wexler and informing the ER of Dr Moretti's departure and later meeting with Abby Lockhart and the rest of the board after her rehab stint. He then met with her again when she interviewed for an Attending position. Despite stepping down as chief of staff Dr Anspaugh has become a prominent figure within the hospital and now hires and fires the hospital chief of staff, as he demoted Robert Romano and replaced him with Kerry Weaver, and later demoted Kerry following the Clemente incident. He also serves on the hospital's ethics committe. He is the presently acting Chief of Staff.
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Catherine "Cate" Banfield is a fictional character in ER. She is an attending physician with a mysterious past history with County General.
First appearance October 9, 2008
(Season 15, "Another Thursday at County")
Last appearance April 2, 2009
(Season 15, "And In the End...")
Nickname(s) Cate
Gender female
Age 40's
Occupation ER Attending physician
Title Chief of Emergency Medicine (2008-)
Spouse(s) Russell Banfield (husband)
Children Daryl Banfield (son; deceased)
Un-named child (miscarried)
Adoptive son
Banfield was hired in 2008 to become the permanent Chief of the Emergency Department, replacing Dr. Skye Wexler who was serving as acting chief. The board had decided to offer the permanent position to Dr. Gregory Pratt, but with Pratt's untimely death, Banfield was brought in as his replacement. She first appeared in the second episode of Season 15 and immediately puts the whole ER on edge with her tough attitude. It was mentioned that she flew to Indonesia to help that country deal with the 2004 tsunami disaster. On her first day, Nurse Haleh mentioned Banfield looked familiar as if she's been at County before, which Banfield immediately denies. Her first day as Chief tested her skills as an able and efficient leader when a bio-terrorist released a bag of weaponized Ricin in the ER, necessitating an evacuation and quarantine. She briefly met and clashed over a gun shot case with Abby Lockhart, who was finishing her last shift on her last day at County General. Nonetheless, Banfield made amends with her new acquaintance before Abby departed for Boston.
In the Season 15 episode "Heal Thyself", the audience begins to learn about Cate Banfield's haunting past and how her experiences have damaged her emotionally. Set in 2002, 6 years earlier, the flashback episode revealed a happier Cate Banfield with her husband Russell and their 5 year old son Darryl. Banfield had a more youthful look with longer black hair. She is smiling, which was never seen by the show's audiences until this point. During a day out in the city park, Darryl was struck with a mysterious seizure. Cate at first didn't see it as anything serious and postponed against calling 9-1-1, even though her husband Russell insisted. After Darryl began vomiting blood, Cate brought her son to County General and was diagnosed by Dr. Mark Greene in Trauma 1. Her son Darryl, who had leukemia, died from advanced complications that arose with his illness. Because of Cate's initial denial and delay, it contributed to one of the factors that led to Dr. Greene not being able to save him. This explains how Nurse Haleh had recognized her before and the chilling moment Banfield had on her first day stepping into Trauma 1. In the last scene of the episode, Banfield and Greene talk about what happened near the Chicago River, the ordeal proved to be completely damaging in Cate's mind and to her relationship with her husband. In the present day, Cate lay in Darryl's empty room, where her husband Russell tells her how he never blamed her for what happened, and Cate cries for the first time over her son's death. Cross cutting in the same episode, the treatment of a little girl who almost drowned in the Chicago River triggered those painful memories, yet in the end it helped Banfield figure out how to save the girl from a certain death, thereby in her mind redeeming herself from the mistakes she made with her son.
Later in Season 15, Cate and Archie Morris get snowed in at a conference in Omaha. Banfield ends up getting drunk and makes a wild scene of entertainment in the hotel lobby. She smiles and actually laughs for the first time (probably the first time since before the accident). The two end up having to share a room together before flying back to Chicago. Cate begins to open up more to Morris how they tried to have another baby a few years back but miscarried. Later in the season, Cate has an appointment with Janet Coburn from O.B. since she and Russell decide they want to try for a baby one last time, even though Coburn tells them the chances are slim. Cate begins to take special injections of hormones to help with her chances in the process and tries to remain hopeful over all the odds, but she and Russell are devastated when the egg implantation process has zero successes.
Preceded by
Skye Wexler
Chief of Emergency Medicine
2008-2009
Succeeded by
Incumbent
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Samantha "Sam" Taggart is a fictional character on the NBC prime time drama ER. She is played by actress Linda Cardellini.
First appearance October 30, 2003
(Season 10, "Out of Africa")
Last appearance April 2, 2009
(Season 15, "And In the End...")
Cause/reason End of Series
Nickname(s) Sam
Gender Female
Age 32
Occupation ED Nurse
Title RN, Charge Nurse (2005-present)
Family Mary Taggart (mother)
Kelly Taggart (sister)
Gracie (grandmother)
Spouse(s) Steve Curtis (ex-boyfriend; deceased)
Children Alex Taggart
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Sam is a nurse and single mother; she has a son, Alex (played first by Oliver Davis, later by Dominic Janes). Alex was born when she was fifteen; she has had to raise him mostly on her own. She comes from a family of losers and alcoholics; her anger towards Abby Lockhart in Season 14 when Abby tells the staff she had a relapse while working is explained when she tells Abby that she came from a long line of drunks who never tried to stop drinking.
Viewers first meet Sam in the Season 10 episode "Out of Africa," where she distinguishes herself by quickly and effectively giving an intravenous sedative to an unruly patient, even impressing the usually stubborn Dr. Romano. Sam shows herself to be an assertive, experienced, and talented nurse throughout the episode, though she loses her professionalism a bit when she discovers Dr. Luka Kovac's unknowing part in her son Alex's diabetic fit while he befriends the boy. She replaces Abby Lockhart who was head nurse, but decided to become a doctor instead. Her no nonsense attitude had gotten her in trouble early on. In the episode 'Death and Taxes', she hid Dr. Robert Romano's mechanical hand after accusing the ER Chief of touching her inappropriately with the device. In addition, in the episode "Impulse Control", she punches an assault victim's abusive boyfriend in the face when he threatens her as she tries to call the police, but overcomes Kerry Weaver's knee-jerk lack of support and helps the abuse victim follow through on pressing charges.
Sam soon notices a bond between Alex and Luka. Though initially uncomfortable with Luka's involvement with Alex, Sam eventually accepts it and becomes good friends with Luka. Later, a romantic relationship develops. Unexpectedly, Alex's father, Steve, returns and attempts to push Luka out of their life. When she discovers Steve might stay permanently, Sam panics, packs up, and runs away. Before doing so, however, Luka runs to her, trying to get information from her as to why was she is doing this. Ignoring him and his slams on the car, fighting tears, she drives away. Sam has had a history of picking up and moving around the country to escape Steve. She worries that he will ruin her and Alex's life and that they cannot coexist with Steve.
She does come back thanks to Luka who finds her at a motel and brings her back. They move in together. Throughout season 11, Sam and Luka lived together, and Luka was a surrogate father for Alex, even going and meeting with a school official after Alex got caught with an issue of MAXIM magazine. At the end of season 11, Alex runs away to find Steve, by hitchhiking after a confrontation with Sam. He is out to find Steve in Colorado, even though Sam has hidden the fact Steve is there because he's in jail on robbery charges. Luka and Sam are frantically searching for him in the opener of season 12. Sam is desperately worried about Alex because of his diabetes, and his lack of insulin could have resulted in a coma or even death. Sam immediately gets in the car and drives non-stop to Colorado. Luka worries about Sam because they have been driving non-stop, and even hit a deer which completely destroys the windshield. Sam and Luka finally find an exhausted but stable Alex at a Canon City hospital, where he claims he's okay and that he knows how to take care of himself. After a tense conversation about Sam and Luka's relationship and their future together, they get to agree to disagree that Luka wants more kids and that Sam doesn't, saying that "I'm done having kids." She breaks up with Luka soon afterward and moves into her own place with Alex. Alex's father is then transferred to a jail in Illinois. In the Christmas episode, she lets Alex visit his father in jail after finding out he's been telling a friend that Steve is dead.
Later in season 12, a very wealthy patient named Richard Elliot, played by Armand Assante, enters the ER. He suffers from a debilitating disease in where he needs an in-home nurse. He takes a liking to Sam and offers her the position of head nurse. He reassures her that she would still be able to keep her job in the ER while being his in-home nurse. Since the offer was being an in-home nurse, he invited her to live in a section of his mansion for convenience. She denied at first, but later on, she finds out that Alex cannot be in the tutoring program because of the lack of funds. She arrives at the man's house, and asks if the offer still stands.
She has now moved into the mansion with Alex and is living a good life. Sam even took a chauffeured ride to work, causing her co-workers to speculate. Luka even inquires about how she is, probably curious to learn more.
In the 12th season finale, "21 Guns", Steve, a medical assistant named Mary and another prisoner named Rafe hatch an escape plot: Steve and Rafe injuring themselves and then escaping from the hospital. They stab Luka with a syringe as Sam looks on in horror. Because the syringe contained a paralyzing drug that would have led to his death, Sam steps in and treats him in spite of the prisoners' threats, saying she is going to make sure he doesn't die regardless of what they say; Steve makes his partners back off long enough for Sam to intubate Luka. They proceed to start shooting throughout the hospital once police catch on, using Sam as a hostage. Abby Lockhart and Jerry Markovic are hurt in the shooting. Steve drags Sam outside, towards the getaway van. She begs him, "Think about Alex!" but as it turns out, he already had, and Alex is tied up inside the van. Sam immediately gets in the van after seeing Alex, and later, Steve tells her that God spoke to him, and told him he had to get his family back together. With Sam and Alex as hostages, the three attempt to make an escape to Canada.
However, in the 13th season premiere, "Bloodline," the escape hits a few obstacles; Sam attempts to get help, and a police officer chases after the group, ending with the officer's (presumed) death. As the three argue about the escape plan, Steve shoots and kills Rafe and Mary, leaving only Steve, Sam and Alex. Steve tells Sam that he would rather have himself, Sam and Alex dead than apart, and then proceeds to rape Sam. Some time after, Sam, lying next to a sleeping Steve, proceeds to make her getaway with Alex. As she is about to escape, however, she returns to the still sleeping Steve, grabs his gun and kills him.
The next morning, she and Alex drive back to Chicago. Tired and panicked from her ordeal, she contacts Richard Elliot, who gets her an attorney, and instructs Sam to tell everyone she was raped by Steve and later killed him in self-defense. Despite an assistant District Attorney's suspicions that Sam is lying, Elliot, through his close friendship with highly-placed city officials, manages to get Steve's death listed as a justifiable homicide, thus ending Sam's legal troubles. In "Somebody To Love", Alex tells Sam he saw her shoot Steve to death.
In the remaining episodes of Season 13, Alex results in telling his friend that his dad will die, relating to the trauma of his own dad's death. He also steals a credit card from Archie Morris, and (accidentally) sets their house on fire by playing with alcohol, which also leads Sam to terminate a budding relationship with a kind-hearted male nurse. Sam reluctantly sends Alex to a school for at-risk youth, and reports to her ER colleagues that he is doing better every day. She also bonds with a dying photojournalist and meets a handsome Chicago cop named Lichtman. In "In A Different Light", she meets the cop again at a speed-dating event and they leave together, starting to officially see each other, while she has also shown romantic interest in a hospital coordinator named Ethan and enjoyed some flirtations with Dr. Gates. She has since began a sexual relationship with the latter, which hit speed bumps when Sam was hostile to his friendly behavior on the job, but recovered when she decided to be more warm towards him than she'd been to previous love interests. Professionally, Sam has started training as a nurse anesthetist.
At the end of "The Chicago Way," either Samantha or Dr. Greg Pratt entered a booby-trapped ambulance. The subsequent explosion resulted in a season-ending cliffhanger.The Season 15 opener, Life after Death, revealed that Dr. Greg Pratt was in the ambulance and later died from injuries sustained in the blast.
After Alex was involved in a car accident, Tony and Sam's relationship soured until Sam made the decision to move out despite Tony continuously apologizing for letting Alex go out on the night of the accident. Sam refused to forgive Tony and was disgusted when he told her he'd slept with Daria Wade after they broke up, but she later admitted to Chuny that she still loved Tony. However, she only resolved to be judgmental and bitter towards Dr. Gates for as long as she felt like it, and not to let Tony how she really felt.
In 'A Long, Strange Trip', Sam was reunited with younger sister Kelly, now a successful fashion designer, for the first time since their mother kicked Sam out when she was a pregnant 15 year old. Kelly tells Sam how their mother is dying of emphysema, and after reminiscing about their childhood, Sam relents and agrees to allow Kelly to move their mother to a Chicago nursing home. Sam sees her mother for the first time in 15 years in the episode 'T Minus 6', but Mary Taggart does not recognise her daughter. In the next episode, Sam is shown visiting her mother in the nursing home, where they argue about why Sam lost contact with her family, before Mary asks Sam about her son.
In the Season 15 episode "Old Times", Sam accompanies Neela to Seattle to pick up a heart for a transplant in Chicago. She briefly met Carol Hathaway and Dr. Doug Ross who revealed how they use to work at County.
In the series finale "And in the End," the staff celebrates her birthday and Alex delivers her present: a bright red vintage Ford Mustang convertible, which Gates bought and fixed up with Alex's help.
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Victor Clemente first appears in the 250th episode of ER, "Wake Up", as a new attending physician from Newark who is seeking to be Chief of Emergency Medicine and attempting to introduce modern equipment and diagnostics to the ER. He enters the series in an unusual way, by posing as a patient. This causes him to take an instant dislike to doctors Archie Morris, Gregory Pratt and especially Luka Kovac. Clemente and Luka clash over just about every case that comes through the ER, and Luka is so annoyed by Clemente that he decides to seek the ER Chief job for himself. In the end, Kovac does become Chief, after which Clemente claims to have earlier decided not to seek the position, citing time constraints. The audience soon learns that Victor is not the consummate professional he was originally portrayed as. Clemente's former girlfriend Jodie (portrayed by Callie Thorne), whose relationship with Victor in Newark caused unspecified problems that Kerry Weaver said were not his fault, tracks him down to Chicago and initiates a new relationship between them. This causes Clemente to become careless and even miss work to stay with her. Eventually, Jodie's controlling husband (a violent police officer who apparently beats her) appears in his apartment. He shoots both Clemente and Jodie after Jodie asks for a divorce. Clemente has relatively minor injuries while Jodie ends up in a coma, but he becomes the prime suspect of shooting her himself due to the cocaine found in his apartment and the fact that Jodie's husband has vanished. Clemente is subjected to drug tests and is kept under close watch by Luka Kovac and other staff; Luka wants him gone but neither he nor Kerry take any steps to fire Victor from his job.
Jodie does survive and helps him get out of trouble by telling the cops what really occurred, but more problems occur when Jodie's husband continues to harass Clemente by phone, leaving threats and other comments to him. In the episode "The Gallant Hero and the Tragic Victor", Clemente finally succumbs to the troubles plaguing him. Dr Clemente's behavior included relieving himself in public, property damage, and threats of violence. He is hospitalized and medically classified as being in an altered psychiatric state. He is treated at County. A psychiatric consultant rules his peculiar behavior is caused by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or sleep deprivation, assumedly from his vigilance in avoiding his stalker. In the Season 12 finale "Twenty-One Guns" Luka Kovač states that Clemente has finally been fired from his position at County, and Kerry faces stern questions from Dr Anspaugh when a former patient files a lawsuit against Clemente and he is listed on a medical watchdog website as a bad doctor. When the board plans to fire Luka over his Kerry-insinuated negligence in Clemente's hiring and terrible history at County, Kerry admits she was responsible for those problems, and is demoted from her Chief of Staff position as a result of that, which also led into her departure from the ER altogether in Season 13.
First appearance October 20, 2005 (Episode: Wake Up)
Last appearance May 11, 2006 (Episode: The Gallant Hero & the Tragic Victor)
Cause/reason Fired
Gender Male
Occupation ER Physician
Title ER Attending (2005-2006)
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