ER (season 11)
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| ER: The Complete Eleventh Season | |
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| Series | ER |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Network | NBC |
| Original run | September 23, 2004 – May 19, 2005 |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Previous season | ER: Season 10 |
| Next season | ER: Season 12 |
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For more details on this topic, see List of ER episodes.
The eleventh season of the American fictional drama television series ER first aired on September 23, 2004 and concluded on May 19, 2005. The eleventh season consists of 22 episodes.
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[edit] Plot
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[edit] Production
[edit] Cast
[edit] Starring cast
Noah Wyle - Dr. John Carter/ER Attending Physician
Maura Tierney - Dr. Abby Lockhart/ER Intern
Mekhi Phifer - Dr. Greg Pratt/ER Third Year Resident
Alex Kingston - Dr. Elizabeth Corday/Attending Trauma Surgeon
Goran Visnjic - Dr. Luka Kovac/ER Attending Physician
Sherry Stringfeild - Dr. Susan Lewis/Chief of Emergency Medicine
Ming-Na - Dr. Jing-Mei Chen/ER Attending Physician
Parminder Nagra - Dr. Neela Rasgotra/ER Intern
Linda Cardellini - Samantha Taggart/ER Nurse
Shane West - Dr. Ray Barentt/ER Intern
And Laura Innes - Dr. Kerry Weaver/Hospital Chief of Staff
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[edit] Crew
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[edit] Episodes
- See also: List of ER episodes
"Series #" refers to the episode's number in the overall series, whereas "Season #" refers to the episode's number in this particular season.
| Season # | Series # | Title | Writer(s) | Director | Original airdate |
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| 1 | 224 | "One for the Road" | Joe Sachs | Christopher Chulack | September 23, 2004 |
| Pratt, Chen and Elgin are being rescued after eluding gunfire and crashing into the Chicago River. Sam seeks to escape her returning boyfriend and hits the road. Two new interns, including Ray Barnett, arrive at County. Nielsen Ratings: 19.7 million viewers | |||||
| 2 | 225 | "Damaged" | David Zabel | Paul McCrane | October 7, 2004 |
| Carter suffers with depression, Abby deals with resentful nurses and tends to a young woman kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery. Elsewhere, Kovac makes an honest confession to a fleeing Sam, and Neela gets a visit from her domineering, old-school parents. | |||||
| 3 | 226 | "Try Carter" | R. Scott Gemmil | Jonathan Kaplan | October 14, 2004 |
| Carter convinces Corday to perform an illegal transplant operation, Abby and Ray argue on the course of treatment of an injured bicycle messenger, Neela looks for employment, and Corday confronts Weaver on her latest surgeon choice. | |||||
| 4 | 227 | "Fear" | Dee Johnson | Lesli Linka Glatter | October 21, 2004 |
| Two small children are rushed to the ER after falling from a third story window, but all is not what it seems. Corday is disciplined, and instead of taking a non-tenure track position, she decides to call it quits. Lewis, the new Chief of Emergency Medicine, offers Neela a job at the hospital. | |||||
| 5 | 228 | "An Intern's Guide to the Galaxy" | Lisa Zwerling | Arthur Albert | November 4, 2004 |
| It’s Neela’s first day back at the ER and Pratt expects the interns to take a large patient load during their shifts. In competition, Ray makes a big mistake donating a patient’s organs against the family’s wishes. Carter asks new social worker, Wendell Meade, to walk out with him in a coy pursuit. | |||||
| 6 | 229 | "Time of Death" | David Zabel | Christopher Chulack | November 11, 2004 |
| Kovac, Abby, Pratt and Sam try to save the life of an alcoholic man (Ray Liotta), who might be living his final minutes. As his life hangs in the line, he tries to make ends meet with his son. The entire episode consists of this one plot line with no side stories and takes place in real time. | |||||
| 7 | 230 | "White Guy, Dark Hair" | Lydia Woodward | Nelson McCormick | November 18, 2004 |
| Kovac and Sam treat a woman who was brutally beaten and raped. Wanting to help police, Sam tries a risky procedure. Lewis schedules a JCAHO emergency drill without telling the staff. Carter tends to a teenage girl denying her newly born baby. | |||||
| 8 | 231 | "A Shot in the Dark" | Joe Sachs | Jonathan Kaplan | December 2, 2004 |
| Lewis, Neela and Ray treat a police officer shot during a robbery. His 15-year-old son must make a difficult decision on his fathers course of treatment and he turns to Ray for advice. | |||||
| 9 | 232 | "Twas the Night" | Julie Hebert | Julie Hebert | December 9, 2004 |
| It's Christmas Eve in the ER. Abby receives a dialysis patient who is in critical condition, but she can't reach his physician because he doesn't want to be disturbed during the holidays. When Chen can't find someone to cover her shift so she can attend to her ailing father, she quits. | |||||
| 10 | 233 | "Skin" | Dee Johnson | Stephen Cragg | January 13, 2005 |
| Abby is kidnapped by gang members in the hope that she can save one of their wounded. Ray begins treatment on a woman who soon requests a new doctor. Weaver helps Lewis cope with her new administrative position. | |||||
| 11 | 234 | "Only Connect" | Yahlin Chang | Jonathan Kaplan | January 20, 2005 |
| Lewis assigns Kovac to teach the residents how to communicate more effectively with their patients. They are put to the test when two teenagers are brought to the ER with gun shot wounds. Also, Abby returns to work still dealing with the trauma of her abduction. | |||||
| 12 | 235 | "The Providers" | David Zabel | Christopher Chulack | January 27, 2005 |
| Carter treats a 16-year-old girl who is suffering after taking a new drug to control her seizures. Carter's old medical student, George Henry, is the girls doctor. When things get worse, the father makes a desperate acts to save his daughter. | |||||
| 13 | 236 | "Middleman" | Lisa Zwerling | Ernest R. Dickerson | February 3, 2005 |
| Kovac and Pratt examine a man who got shot when he confronted his boss with a gun and Kovac and Dubenko get into a disagreement, Jake tries to convince Abby that being a student shouldn't keep him from dating her. Also, Pratt treats a boy with a suspicious gash. | |||||
| 14 | 237 | "Just As I Am" | Lydia Woodward | Richard Thorpe | February 10, 2005 |
| Weaver treats an evasive patient who reveals to her that she's her birth mother. As they spend time together, Weaver reveals to her mother - an evangelical Christian - that she is gay. | |||||
| 15 | 238 | "Alone in a Crowd" | Dee Johnson | Jonathan Kaplan | February 17, 2005 |
| If a lone tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound? When a young mother of three suffers a stroke, Kovac and Sam race against the odds to save her life. Knowing that a controversial surgical procedure is his wife's only shot at a full recovery, a husband must make the unenviable decision to risk her life in order to save it. | |||||
| 16 | 239 | "Here and There" | David Zabel | Christopher Chulack | February 24, 2005 |
| A young girl in Iraq is wounded in a car bombing and local hospitals are unequipped to help. Gallant enlists the support of Neela to secure the needed treatment at County, but getting the girl to the United States proves to be more difficult than initially thought. | |||||
| 17 | 240 | "Back in the World" | Jonathan Kaplan | David Zabel and Lisa Zwerling | March 24, 2005 |
| Neela is surprised when she hears that Gallant came to the ER with the young Iraqi burn victim. Sam is troubled by a visit from her ex-husband. Pratt treats a child whose gun went off in his pocket and learns that he received the gun from an unusual source. | |||||
| 18 | 241 | "Refusal of Care" | Joe Sachs | Gloria Muzio | April 21, 2005 |
| Lewis, Neela and Sam are unable to treat a woman suffering from the effects of a hunger strike. Meanwhile, Abby is unable to prove that a 72-year-old woman is the victim of elder abuse. | |||||
| 19 | 242 | "Ruby Redux" | Lisa Zwerling and Lydia Woodward | April 28, 2005 | |
| Healing old wounds is not easy. 85-year-old Jules Rubadoux is brought in and erroneously accuses Carter of killing his wife ten years ago. Although Abby believes Rubadoux is too old to undertake surgery to correct a heart murmur, the attending doctors opt to go ahead with the operation. Also, Morris may end up with the chief resident job. And could Sam be pregnant? | |||||
| 20 | 243 | "You Are Here" | Karen Maser and Dee Johnson | Ernest R. Dickerson [1] | May 5, 2005 |
| Morris has been appointed the new chief resident and immediately locks horns with Pratt as they deal with the casualties from a fire at an apartment building. Lewis is taking out her frustration from not being tenured on Carter. Kovac finds Sam's pregnancy test, but quickly discovers that she's not pregnant. | |||||
| 21 | 244 | "Carter est Amoureux" | John Wells | Christopher Chulack | May 12, 2005 |
| After hearing that her mother is sick, Carter flies to Paris to see Kem. While there, Carter offers to move back to Africa to start all over. Abby, Ray and Neela all make medical mistakes. While in counseling, Sam reveals that she thinks that she and Kovac shouldn't be together. | |||||
| 22 | 245 | "The Show Must Go On" | John Wells | David Zabel | May 19, 2005 |
| It's Carter's last shift in the ER. Kovac and most of the ER staff take Carter on a surprise good-bye party. Meanwhile, Ray and Morris attend their own party that soon is interrupted by disaster that quickly is taken to County where Abby, Neela and Ray must step up to the challenge all on their own. Also, Sam learns that her son Alex has run away. Nielsen Ratings: 18.8 million viewers | |||||
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