The Best Episodes Directed By Jonathan Kaplan

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(5 votes)

   #1 - Orion in the Sky

   S8:E184/4/2002

   As Dr. Greene's brain tumor begins affecting his coordination, he becomes concerned that his fate will be similar to the terminally ill patients he treats.

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   8.8/10(9 votes)

   #2 - Night Shift

   S3:E111/16/1997

   Carol has to fire two of the nurses. Meanwhile, Gant feels Benton is too hard on him.

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   8.8/10(5 votes)

   #3 - The Crossing

   S7:E152/22/2001

   In the series' 150th episode, a massive train wreck mobilizes the emergency room doctors. Corday, Carter and Kovac rush to the scene. Corday falls and injures her back, bringing on contractions in only her 25th week of pregnancy. While amputating the legs of a fallen firefighter, Corday stops because of her pain.

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   8.8/10(5 votes)

   #4 - Alone in a Crowd

   S11:E152/17/2005

   A soccer mom finds herself completely aware of everything going on around her, but is unable to move or speak after suffering a stroke.

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   8.7/10(6 votes)

   #5 - Good Touch, Bad Touch

   S4:E510/30/1997

   Carol would like to have a women's and children's health care clinic within the ER. Benton has trouble combining work and fatherhood.

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   8.6/10(7 votes)

   #6 - Getting to Know You

   S5:E225/20/1999

   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 Reggie draw closer again.

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   8.6/10(7 votes)

   #7 - Random Acts

   S3:E205/1/1997

   Jeanie asks Greg to help Al get into a special AIDS-program at the hospital. Olbes brings in her grandfather, who had a stroke.

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   8.6/10(5 votes)

   #8 - Rampage

   S7:E225/17/2001

   The ER is flooded with foster care home residents, attacked by a shooter bent on tracking down his son, who , with the help of Dr. Green, was put into the foster care system amid allegations he was being abused by his father.

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   #9 - I'll Be Home for Christmas

   S8:E1012/13/2001

   Benton commits perjury on the witness stand in order to gain custody of Reese. When Romano refuses to give him a more even schedule, Peter resigns and seeks a job at the clinic where Cleo is newly employed. Benton is granted custody of Reese and he and Cleo decide to move to the suburbs together. Meanwhile, Carter's father visits for Christmas with the news that he's getting divorced, Weaver and Sandy Lopez finally go on a date, and Abby catches Nicole in the maternity ward, recovering from an abortion.

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    8.5/10(8 votes)

    #10 - Leave It to Weaver

    S6:E19/30/1999

    When Anspaugh decides to retire as chief of staff and return to surgery, he appoints Romano as his replacement. Greene expresses reservations about the decision, but Weaver does not support Greene. Romano makes Weaver the new chief of emergency medicine.

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    8.5/10(12 votes)

    #11 - All in the Family

    S6:E142/17/2000

    Carter and Lucy are discovered and the staff struggles to save them and go on with normal patient care.

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12. 

    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #12 - The Longer You Stay

    S8:E210/4/2001

    Carter is overwhelmed by patients from a rock concert riot. Benton's former girlfriend is killed in a car accident. Newly promoted to chief resident, Chen panics and misdiagnoses a patient. Kovac angers Abby by flirting with a waitress.

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    8.4/10(7 votes)

    #13 - Hazed and Confused

    S5:E711/12/1998

    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 mother using abortion as a means of selective birth control. Carter and Lucy feud when Carter accidentally uses her palm computer and finds out what she thinks of him. Mark panics during a paramedic initation.

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    8.4/10(7 votes)

    #14 - Middle of Nowhere

    S5:E162/25/1999

    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 while battling the grandfather's concerns that the child might be black, and uses unorthodox methods to save two shrimp boat workers. Meanwhile, back in Chicago, Jeanie's condition worsens.

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    8.4/10(8 votes)

    #15 - May Day

    S6:E225/18/2000

    As the result of a school shooting, Kovac and Benton care for the gunman and his victims. Abby discovers that Carter has been illegally injecting pain relievers. Greene and Weaver confront Carter about his problem, and Weaver orders him to enter a drug rehabilitation center or leave the hospital permanently.

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    8.4/10(7 votes)

    #16 - The Visit

    S7:E611/16/2000

    Corday rushes through a surgical procedure in order to take off on a romantic weekend with Greene. She is later called back to the hospital after her patient suffers complications. Abby's mother, Maggie, who suffers from bipolar disorder (manic-depressive) and refuses to take her medication, unexpectedly visits Abby at the hospital and wreaks havoc on Abby's life.

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    8.3/10(6 votes)

    #17 - A Thousand Cranes

    S9:E162/20/2003

    The police question Drs. Pratt and Gallant about a rampage at the diner across from the ER. Dr. Lewis befriends her teen admirer, a cancer patient.

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    8.3/10(7 votes)

    #18 - Chaos Theory

    S9:E19/26/2002

    Dr. Carter, Abby and other staff of the ER are quarantined as the CDC investigate a mysterious, deadly outbreak.

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    8.3/10(6 votes)

    #19 - Out of Africa

    S10:E510/30/2003

    Ben Hollander is a distraught architect whose degenerating eyesight causes him despondent while a spirited new nurse, Samantha Taggart joins the staff. Elsewhere, disaster strikes when the doctors suspect a mother is abusing her child while Dr. Corday learns something shocking about the charismatic Dr. Dorset, and Dr. Archie Morris is overwhelmed by the chaos and grisly conditions of life in the E.R.

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    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #20 - Fade-Away

    S5:E1112/10/2006

    When 17-year-old Ted Soros goes missing after a basketball game, the team begins an investigation, soon learning that Ted was an emancipated minor who was living on his own to attend a school with an exemplary basketball program. Learning he had recently contacted his mother with a request for legal advice from an uncle, the team begins to suspect that Ted may have done something that he could face criminal charges for, and realise that Ted's secret is connected to a university recruiting party. While the team works Ted's disappearance, Jack learns from Ann that she lost the baby, and waits for her at the clinic while she seeks medical attention.

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    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #21 - Voir Dire

    S7:E173/17/2009

    While working on a high profile civil case, a trial consultant vanishes. Jack and Sam learn how to make adjustments as Brian and Finn spend more time together.

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    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #22 - Raw

    S7:E611/1/2005

    After a six-year-old boy dies in a school shooting, detectives trace the gun used back to a white supremacist's gun shop. Munch and Tutuola both face hatred and prejudice from the major suspects in the case, but their investigation soon takes them from the man who pulled the trigger back to the gun shop owner, who makes no bones about his hatred of anyone who isn't white.

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    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #23 - Humpty Dumpty

    S6:E711/18/1999

    Weaver tries to save the life of a rape victim while Corday struggles with feelings of disdain as she is forced to save the rapist. Cleo treats a teenage alcoholic boy whose alcoholic mother refuses to recognize her problem or his.

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    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #24 - Lockdown

    S8:E225/16/2002

    Just when the ER is understaffed and swamped, two children who were brought in turn out to have full blown smallpox. The entire ER must be locked down. The staff needs to improvise while they battle not only the disease but also frayed tempers.

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    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #25 - Foreign Affairs

    S9:E205/1/2003

    Dr. Carter tries to prevent a grieving gang member from going after vengeance. Dr. Kovac races against time to save a Croatian boy's life. A baseball player gets treatment for a heart problem.

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