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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 8 Episode 16 - Secrets and Lies
    8.5/10(8 votes)

    S8:E16

    After some staff members are caught going through a dominatrix's bag, Weaver makes them attend a sexual harassment seminar, where they learn about each other.

    Director:Richard Thorpe
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  2. undefined Season 4 Episode 17 - A Bloody Mess
    8.1/10(9 votes)

    S4:E17

    Jeanie fears Scott Anspaugh's cancer may have returned. Hathaway learns a disturbing secret about a 16-year-old girl. A pregnant patient fears she'll miscarry; Morgenstern returns to work, but perhaps too soon after his heart attack.

    Director:Richard Thorpe
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  3. undefined Season 5 Episode 11 - Nobody Doesn't Like Amanda Lee
    8.1/10(9 votes)

    S5:E11

    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 Moore asks Jeanie out. Kerry receives a call from someone claiming to be her mother. Doug receives a job offer from Portland.

    Director:Richard Thorpe
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  4. undefined Season 6 Episode 6 - The Peace of Wild Things
    8.1/10(9 votes)

    S6:E6

    Benton struggles with the idea of taking a DNA test to determine whether or not Reese is actually his son. As the signs continue to pile up, Kerry and Mark use a fake patient to convince Dr. Lawrence of his Alzheimer's. Carter has trouble persuading a woman from a nursing home fire to sign a DNR for her husband and later is asked to forge charts for a family with no insurance. Carol continues to meddle in Meg's life, having her arrested so that she can be detoxed. Cleo is blamed for an explosion in the suture room but it may actually be Dr. Dave's fault.

    Director:Richard Thorpe
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  5. undefined Season 7 Episode 4 - Benton Backwards
    8.1/10(9 votes)

    S7:E4

    Benton is unable to find a job after Romano negatively influences local hospitals. He reluctantly agrees to accept Romano's demeaning offer of a per diem job at County with no benefits. Kovac and Abby are attacked by a mugger with a steel pipe. Injured, Kovac protects Abby and smashes the robber's head on the ground repeatedly.

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  6. undefined Season 3 Episode 5 - Ghosts
    8.0/10(11 votes)

    S3:E5

    While Mark is anxious about Susan's return from her holiday, Doug and Carol ride along with the health mobile.

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  7. undefined Season 3 Episode 21 - Make a Wish
    8.0/10(10 votes)

    S3:E21

    It's Carol's birthday, Mark is returning to work after being assaulted and Carla goes into premature labor.

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  8. undefined Season 4 Episode 9 - Obstruction of Justice
    8.0/10(10 votes)

    S4:E9

    Jeanie believes she's been fired because she has HIV and fights her dismissal.

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  9. undefined Season 7 Episode 13 - Thy Will Be Done
    8.0/10(9 votes)

    S7:E13

    Weaver becomes concerned about Greene's cognitive skills and surreptitiously calls for an official evaluation of his competency. Corday plans her wedding to Greene. Bishop Stewart returns, and Kovacs realizes the man has a terrible disease. Dateless for a charity function, Carter invites Abby to attend with him.

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  10. undefined Season 9 Episode 19 - Things Change
    8.0/10(8 votes)

    S9:E19

    A psychotic patient threatens Abby. Dr. Weaver suspects a woman poisoned her own baby. Dr. Romano continues to make rash judgments.

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  11. undefined Season 2 Episode 14 - The Right Thing
    7.9/10(11 votes)

    S2:E14

    Benton decides to blow the whistle on Vucelich's unethical study methods, causing Vucelich to drop him from the study. Susan treats a street couple, one of whom has passed HIV to the other. Doug receives a visit from his estranged father. Carter spreads rumors about an affair between Mark and Susan. Mark buys a motorcycle. Prostitute Loretta has cervical cancer.

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  12. undefined Season 4 Episode 4 - When the Bough Breaks
    7.9/10(11 votes)

    S4:E4

    His ex-wife Jennifer tells Mark he can't see Rachel until he's got his act together. Reece gets to go home. Al has lost his job.

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  13. undefined Season 6 Episode 12 - Abby Road
    7.9/10(10 votes)

    S6:E12

    Two boys brought in after a fight at school leads Cleo to discover that one of them has been injecting himself with hormones. Hathaway's obstetrics nurse, Abby Lockhart, joins the ER as a third year medical student on an ER rotation.

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  14. undefined Season 6 Episode 19 - The Fastest Year
    7.9/10(9 votes)

    S6:E19

    Carter seeks psychiatric help because he can't sleep. He then visits the wife of his attacker. Weaver returns to work after her suspension. Hathaway and Kovac share a kiss.

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  15. undefined Season 8 Episode 3 - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
    7.9/10(8 votes)

    S8:E3

    Greene's daughter comes to live with him and Corday. Carter and Abby become more intimate. Chen must prove her skills while saving a baby. Weaver terminates Malucci after witnessing him having sex in an ambulance.

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  16. undefined Season 2 Episode 20 - Fevers of Unknown Origin
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    S2:E20

    Susan throws herself into her work to escape her stressful personal life, earning recognition from Kerry and Mark, who begins preliminary discussions on next year's chief resident. Carter needs a pedes rotation, and fast, with Doug to graduate med school. Doug takes up with his father's girlfriend. Shep overreacts and attacks an Asian boy interfering at a scene. Mark and Jenn try to discuss their divorce amicably, with unforeseen results. Benton is named Resident of the Year. Harper leaves for an OB rotation at Parkland in Dallas.

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  17. undefined Season 3 Episode 17 - Tribes
    7.8/10(10 votes)

    S3:E17

    Benton goes into Carla's private hospital files when he fears that something may be wrong with their baby; Jeanie treats a suicidal woman who reveals a surprising secret; and Greene learns that Rachel has been lying about her health.

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  18. undefined Season 7 Episode 21 - Where the Heart Is
    7.8/10(9 votes)

    S7:E21

    Cleo and Carla clash after Reese gets hurt while in Cleo's care. Weaver and Kovac cannot save the life of a developmentally challenged woman's only caregiver. Abby goes to a therapy session with Maggie. Later, Abby confesses to Maggie that she is afraid to bear children because they might be bipolar like her mother.

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  19. undefined Season 12 Episode 15 - Darfur
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    S12:E15

    In the Sudan, Carter and a colleague struggle to save a woman who was raped by a band of militants. Back in the ER, Clemente asks to return to work after the shooting incident, but Kovac refuses. Meanwhile, Neela and Pratt have a work dispute, and, in a related incident, K.J.'s father shows up again in the ER.

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  20. undefined Season 14 Episode 2 - In a Different Light
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    S14:E2

    Moretti begins to make his presence felt, as he implements changes in the way patients are seen. The ER staff differ on how procedure when a patient comes in with a bullet in him needed as evidence. Neela finds herself the object of more attention that she wants, or needs. Abby had passport woes, and struggles with the changes being made. Pratt and Morris find themselves forced to defend their actions, Hope prepares for a new mission, and Gates finds himself labeled the reject in his new assignment.

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  21. undefined Season 13 Episode 5 - Ames v. Kovac
    7.6/10(7 votes)

    S13:E5

    Curtis Ames, a carpenter who suffered a stroke under Kovac's care, sues him for malpractice. Kovac and Ames square off in court as each man's recollections of Ames' treatment are recounted via testimony and flashbacks. Meanwhile, Abby returns to work and must adjust to the dramatic changes in her life, and Pratt's early morning trip to the barbershop results in a new awareness of community need. Also, Abby and Pratt try an unconventional method for treating a heart patient and Neela tries a risky procedure which doesn't sit well with her chief.

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  22. undefined Season 13 Episode 19 - Family Business
    7.6/10(7 votes)

    S13:E19

    Kovac and Gates deal with a hopeless father whose son succumbs to heart failure; Pratt tries to resolve the tension between him and his brother; an Armenian man tries to be a good samaritan but ends up crashing near the ER; Abby sneaks in baby Joe when she worries his sickness may be worse than it seems; Also, Sam injures the instructor of a self-defense seminar.

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  23. undefined Season 9 Episode 7 - Tell Me Where It Hurts
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    S9:E7

    Abby fears the worst when her brother Eric suddenly disappears. Carter and Chen treat a frightened Chinese immigrant nanny, Tong-Yi, whom they suspect was impregnated by her employer. Meanwhile, new surgical resident Paul Nathan, who is struggling to overcome a physical disability, tries to help in the emergency room—but his fellow doctors do not appreciate his advice to patients. Unable to quench his sexual appetites, Kovac also gets into trouble in his professional life, despite his admirable resolve to find an eye specialist to treat a young gunshot victim. Gallant and fellow medical student Erin Harkins engage in an escalating competition of medical knowledge. And Weaver gets some much-needed good news.

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  24. undefined Season 10 Episode 19 - Just a Touch
    7.6/10(7 votes)

    S10:E19

    Pratt struggles to diagnose a woman who suffers mysterious chronic seizures. An attractive woman, Campbell, informally accuses flirtatious Pratt of sexual harassment. Abby ponders how to get her contentious patients' attention during her psychiatric department rotation.

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  25. undefined Season 10 Episode 6 - The Greater Good
    7.5/10(8 votes)

    S10:E6

    Pratt and Kovac clash over a miscarriage-prone young woman, Denny, who arrives to deliver a premature baby. Pratt wants to make heroic efforts to save the unborn child, while Kovac is adamantly against spending vast amounts of money to keep the forever sickly baby alive.

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Richard Thorpe Ratings Summary

"Secrets and Lies" is the best rated episode directed by Richard Thorpe. It scored 8.5/10 based on 8 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 3/7/2002 and is rated 0.4 points higher than their second-best episode, "A Bloody Mess".