8.8/104 votes#1 - The Crossing
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 2/22/2001
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.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Jack Orman
8.7/103 votes#2 - The Longer You Stay
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2001
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.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Jack Orman
8.6/105 votes#3 - Do You See What I See?
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/1997
Mark treats an old lady who has been brutally raped. Carter's grandmother visits Carol's clinic. After he's touched by Benton, a blind man can see again!
Director: Sarah Pia Anderson
Writer: Jack Orman
8.6/105 votes#4 - The Good Fight
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1998
Carter and Lucy scramble across Chicago to find a dying girl's father who's a perfect match for her very rare blood type. Benton operates without transfusions to save the little girl's life.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Jack Orman
8.6/105 votes#5 - The Letter
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/2002
Dr. Carter reads a letter from terminally ill Dr. Green to the ER staff. Dr. Weaver lashes out at a mentally challenged patient. A terminal, homeless man continues asking for Dr. Green.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jack Orman
8.5/106 votes#6 - The Dance We Do
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 12/7/2000
Maggie's emotional instability worsens. She refuses her medication, becomes combative and flees the hospital. Abby finds solace with Kovac. The gang member girlfriend of Benton's deceased nephew knows who killed him and that he was hated for his antigang stance.
Director: Christopher Misiano
Writer: Jack Orman
8.5/104 votes#7 - Rampage
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/2001
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.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Jack Orman
8.5/104 votes#8 - A Simple Twist of Fate
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/2002
Greene confronts Corday when she orders Rachel out of their home; Abby tries to protect a battered neighbor who refuses to press charges against her husband.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Jack Orman
8.4/105 votes#9 - My Brother's Keeper
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 3/25/1998
Mark finds out Cynthia has moved. Carter's cousin Chase is brought in because of a heroin overdose. Doug and Kerry clash after she found a flaw in his study.
Director: Jacque Toberen
Writer: Jack Orman
8.4/105 votes#10 - Responsible Parties
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/1999
The ER docs tend to three teenagers who were in an accident on the way to their senior prom. Greene and Carter treat the most severely injured, a boy suffering from third degree burns over 80% of his body. Benton receives the ER trauma fellowship. Carol finally tells Doug about her pregnancy; Kerry also figures it out. Mark and Elizabeth draw closer. Lucy tells Carter about her Ritalin addiction. "FBI agents" bring in a shot stripper.
Director: Christopher Misiano
Writer: Jack Orman
8.4/105 votes#11 - Great Expectations
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/1999
On Thanksgiving Day Carol goes into labor. She's able to get to the ER only thanks to Luka's help. She delivers the first baby in the ER, but the second causes some trouble. Greene leaves Elizabeth to deal with his father and daughter, as he rushes to assist Carol.
Director: Christopher Misiano
Writer: Jack Orman
8.3/103 votes#12 - We'll Always Have Paris
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2011
On a trip to Paris, Kate and Laura have a surprise passenger—their mom—who has come to settle some unfinished business with Laura; Maggie faces the unwanted attentions of an aggressive passenger, and Dean and Colette share a momentary flirtation as he tries to track down some leads on Bridget.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Jack Orman
8.3/103 votes#13 - Eastern Exposure
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/2011
After a last minute change sends the crew on a flight to Rangoon, a routine courier mission for Kate turns harrowing as she struggles to make a drop by the deadline. Meanwhile, Maggie takes naive Laura under her wing and shows her the wilder side of the city; and news of a space mission leads Ted to reflect on his own past and what his powerful family connections have cost him.
Director: Christopher Misiano
Writer: Jack Orman
8.3/103 votes#14 - Truth or Dare
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/2011
Sparks fly between Laura and a sailor on a special – and unusually wild -- Pan Am flight bringing servicemen home, leading Laura to realize what she’s really looking for in a man, as well as opening her eyes to the malicious racial climate in the country. Meanwhile Kate’s complicated mission to turn Niko to work for the U.S. government culminates in dramatic fashion, threatening their personal relationship.
Director: Julie Anne Robinson
Writer: Jack Orman
8.3/107 votes#15 - Last Rites
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1999
After his mother's funeral, Dr. Greene comforts his father in San Diego. In Chicago, Romano surprises Corday by appointing her associate chief of surgery. Corday treats Elaine, Carter's lover, for breast cancer.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Jack Orman
8.3/1010 votes#16 - All in the Family
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 2/17/2000
Carter and Lucy are discovered and the staff struggles to save them and go on with normal patient care.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Jack Orman
8.3/107 votes#17 - May Day
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 5/18/2000
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.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Jack Orman
8.3/106 votes#18 - Partly Cloudy, Chance of Rain
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/2001
When a torrential rainstorm pounds Chicago, patients deluge the emergency room while Weaver speeds to an accident site. There, she finds a pregnant woman, Vicki lying injured inside a wrecked ambulance while live power lines spark. Fourth-year student Michael Gallant makes a dangerous decision in order to help.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Jack Orman
8.3/106 votes#19 - Chaos Theory
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/2002
Dr. Carter, Abby and other staff of the ER are quarantined as the CDC investigate a mysterious, deadly outbreak.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Jack Orman
8.2/105 votes#20 - Of Past Regret and Future Fear
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/30/1998
A 31-year-old security guard is brought in suffering from severe chemical burns, and a 21-year-old man is wheeled in after falling 75 feet into a river. Meanwhile, Benton is upset that Carla's boyfriend is part of Reese's baptism.
Director: Anthony Edwards
Writer: Jack Orman
8.2/104 votes#21 - Four Corners
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/2001
Weaver returns to the emergency room after a self-imposed sabbatical of three weeks, wondering how her newfound lesbian identity will affect her workplace relationships. Having purposely allowed a mass murderer to die, Greene must keep the secret amidst the scrutiny of his superiors.
Director: Christopher Misiano
Writer: Jack Orman
8.2/104 votes#22 - Beyond Repair
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 1/10/2002
Abby helps a distraught boy whose mother died of a stroke; a man with schizophrenia, who once stabbed Carter and killed a doctor checks into the ER.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: Jack Orman
8.2/105 votes#23 - Insurrection
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/2002
Dr. Carter leads a walk-out of staff protesting lack of security in the ER.
Director: Charles Haid
Writer: Jack Orman
8.2/106 votes#24 - First Snowfall
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/2002
Abby's family nightmare continues as she and her mother Maggie search for Abby's missing brother Eric, who Abby suspects is suffering from serious mental problems. Meanwhile, Corday treats a family of patients who, while building a snowman, were severely injured after being struck by a truck driver.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jack Orman
8.0/106 votes#25 - When the Bough Breaks
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1997
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.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Writer: Jack Orman
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Jack Orman Ratings Summary
"The Crossing" is the best rated episode written by Jack Orman. It scored 8.8/10 based on 4 votes. It was directed by Jonathan Kaplan. It aired on 2/22/2001 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Longer You Stay".