The Best Episodes of ER Season 11
Every episode of ER Season 11 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of ER Season 11!
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
Season 11 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "ER" season 11 is "One for the Road", rated 7.8/10 from 353 user votes. It was directed by Christopher Chulack and written by Joe Sachs. "One for the Road" aired on 9/23/2004 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Damaged".
7.8/10 353 votes#1 - One for the Road
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2004
After being shot at, Pratt, Jing-Mei and Elgin are trying to get of their sinking car. Sam took Alex with her while fleeing for Steve, Kovac is considering to go after them. Abby wants to go to bed since tomorrow is her first day as a doctor, but is thwarted by Weaver, whose custody battle might take a dramatic turn. A young drug-dealer is brought in with "a foreign object" in her tunnel of life.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Joe Sachs
7.6/10 663 votes#2 - Damaged
Season 11 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/2004
Neela is still struggling with her decision not to continue becoming a doctor. We discover that Ray is in a band. Kovac and Sam are amoureux, but where does that leave them?
Director: Paul McCrane
Writer: David Zabel
7.7/10 666 votes#3 - Try Carter
Season 11 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/2004
It's a busy Fourth of July and Carter is the only attending working.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: R. Scott Gemmill
8.0/10 375 votes#4 - Fear
Season 11 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/2004
Carter, Pratt, Kovac and Abby are dealing with a woman and her three children who've jumped from a three floor apartment trying to escape from the father. Meanwhile Dr. Lewis becomes Chief of Emergency Medicine, Howard quits his internship and Dr. Corday is facing dismissal.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: Dee Johnson
7.4/10 340 votes#5 - An Intern's Guide to the Galaxy
Season 11 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/2004
Neela starts a new job in the emergency room after working at the convenience store near the hospital. On Neela's first day, Pratt expects the interns, Abby, Ray and Neela, to take on a large patient load during their shifts. Pratt turns processing the patients into a competition, in which Ray is clearly going to be the winner.
Director: Arthur Albert
Writer: Lisa Zwerling
8.9/10 1,116 votes#6 - Time of Death
Season 11 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/2004
The last 44 minutes of ex-con & alcoholic Charlie Metcalf's life are in the ER, as he slowly succumbs to end-stage liver failure.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: David Zabel
7.7/10 322 votes#7 - White Guy, Dark Hair
Season 11 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/2004
A rape victim, barely able to speak, does all she can to help police find her attacker.
Director: Nelson McCormick
Writer: Lydia Woodward
7.6/10 320 votes#8 - A Shot in the Dark
Season 11 Episode 8 - Aired 12/2/2004
A wounded police officer's teenage son must make a life or death decision. Abby tries to convince a girl needing appendicitis surgery to stay at County, but her fathers wants her transferred to another hospital.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Joe Sachs
7.6/10 347 votes#9 - Twas the Night
Season 11 Episode 9 - Aired 12/9/2004
Abby has a dialysis patient in critical condition, but she cannot find his physician, who does not want to be bothered during the holidays.
Director: Julie Hébert
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 350 votes#10 - Skin
Season 11 Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/2005
Gang members kidnap Abby hoping she can save one of their members with a gunshot wound. Ray starts treating a patient, but when she requests a new doctor, he gets offended.
Director: Stephen Cragg
Writer: Dee Johnson
7.5/10 647 votes#11 - Only Connect
Season 11 Episode 11 - Aired 1/20/2005
Two teens enter the ER with gunshot wounds. When one dies, Neela botches telling the next of kin, making the woman hysterical.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Yahlin Chang
8.1/10 343 votes#12 - The Providers
Season 11 Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/2005
When a 16-year-old girl who had received a kidney transplant from her father arrives at the emergency room feeling dizzy, Carter traces the problem to a new drug that the girl was taking to control seizures related to her kidney dysfunction.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: David Zabel
7.7/10 319 votes#13 - Middleman
Season 11 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/2005
While examining a young boy, Pratt finds a suspicious gash across his chest and calls Wendall for a consult. Kovac and Pratt examine a man who was shot when he confronted his boss with a gun. Jake tries to convince Abby to date him despite his being a student.
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Writer: Lisa Zwerling
7.6/10 363 votes#14 - Just As I Am
Season 11 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/2005
Dr. Weaver meets her birth mother, but their relationship changes when Kerry reveals she is gay. Dr. Carter causes a commotion when he confronts a couple hoping to scam some painkillers.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.4/10 556 votes#15 - Alone in a Crowd
Season 11 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/2005
A soccer mom finds herself completely aware of everything going on around her, but is unable to move or speak after suffering a stroke.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Dee Johnson
7.8/10 372 votes#16 - Here and There
Season 11 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/2005
Neela (who's in Chicago) and Gallant (who's in Iraq) miss each other and write letters. Gallant also tries to save the life of a little girl.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: David Zabel
7.7/10 345 votes#17 - Back in the World
Season 11 Episode 17 - Aired 3/24/2005
Sam's ex-husband shows up and wants to take Alex on a trip. Gallant is back and Neela hopes to see him before he goes back to Iraq.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Lisa Zwerling, David Zabel
7.5/10 325 votes#18 - Refusal of Care
Season 11 Episode 18 - Aired 4/21/2005
A woman on a hunger strike refuses treatment until the INS give her son another deportation hearing. Abby searches for proof when she suspects a patient is the victim of elder abuse.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Joe Sachs
- 8.0/10 346 votes
#19 - Ruby Redux
Season 11 Episode 19 - Aired 4/28/2005
Jules 'Ruby' Rubadoux is back in the ER. He's still angry with Carter about the death of his wife.
Director: Paul McCrane
Writer: Lydia Woodward, Lisa Zwerling
- 7.5/10 321 votes
#20 - You Are Here
Season 11 Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/2005
Morris is named the new chief resident, which makes nobody really happy, except Morris. Meanwhile Luka and Sam are having communication problems, Carter gets a promotion Susan really wanted and Ray finds out a 14-year old who always comes in for free drugs has been raped.
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Writer: Karen Maser, Dee Johnson
- 7.6/10 339 votes
#21 - Carter est Amoureux
Season 11 Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/2005
After Carter finds out Kem's mother is hospitalized in Paris he decides to go there to tell Kem how he feels about her. Meanwhile, Ray makes a fatal error.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: John Wells
- 8.6/10 530 votes
#22 - The Show Must Go On
Season 11 Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/2005
Casualties of a disaster flood the ER, which is short-handed because everyone is at Dr. Carter's going-away party because he's leaving the ER after 11 years. Dr. Pratt looks for the courage to confront his father, Charlie.
Director: John Wells
Writer: David Zabel