The Best Episodes Written By Jack Orman
Every TV Episode Written by Jack Orman Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Jack Orman Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Jack Orman is "The Crossing", rated 8.8/10 from 4 user votes. It was "directed by Jonathan Kaplan". "The Crossing" aired on 2/22/2001 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "The Longer You Stay".
8.8/10 4 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
8.7/10 3 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
8.6/10 5 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
8.6/10 5 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
8.6/10 5 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
8.5/10 6 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
8.5/10 4 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
8.5/10 4 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
8.4/10 5 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
8.4/10 5 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
8.4/10 5 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
8.3/10 7 votes#12 - 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
8.3/10 10 votes#13 - 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
8.3/10 7 votes#14 - 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
8.3/10 6 votes#15 - 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
8.3/10 6 votes#16 - 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
8.2/10 5 votes#17 - 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
8.2/10 4 votes#18 - 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
8.2/10 4 votes#19 - 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
8.2/10 5 votes#20 - 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
8.2/10 6 votes#21 - 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
8.0/10 6 votes#22 - 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
8.0/10 4 votes#23 - Vanishing Act
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1998
Dr. Corday begins her first day as an intern, first by being assigned to Dale Edson, then being treated as Romano's lapdog. Kerry is interviewed for ER chief. Doug and Carol ponder parenthood when Carol realizes she may be pregnant. Carol and Lynette try to keep a wounded gang-banger from leaving and seeking retaliation. Lucy faces the wrath of Carter when he discovers that she doesn't know how to start an IV. Jeanie asks Doug if she can be a full-time PA for the pediatric ER.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: Jack Orman
8.0/10 5 votes#24 - Surrender
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 2/1/2001
Greene returns to work but confuses words and displays uncharacteristic anger. Eager to get out of his per diem situation, Benton agrees to a full time position. Carter visits his cousin, who became paralyzed after a drug overdose. A workplace disaster results in numerous injuries and fatalities among illegal immigrants.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Jack Orman
8.0/10 5 votes#25 - Sailing Away
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 4/26/2001
Abby and Carter travel to Oklahoma to rescue Abby's mentally ill mother and bring her back to Chicago. In Chicago, Maggie suffers from a sleeping pills overdose. At County General, Kovac frantically revives her. Benton treats a college student injured in a fraternity prank.
Director: Laura Innes
Writer: Jack Orman