9.2/106 votes#1 - Freefall
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/2003
On Thanksgiving Day, a helicopter crash outside the ER leaves several injured, and kills Dr. Romano. Alex tries to bring Sam and Luka together.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Joe Sachs
9.0/106 votes#2 - Two Ships
Season 12 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2005
The ER prepares to take in victims from a plane collision, while Neela and Pratt head out to the crash site where Neela makes heroic efforts. At the end of the day, Neela gets a surprising visit.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Joe Sachs
9.0/105 votes#3 - Body and Soul
Season 12 Episode 13 - Aired 2/2/2006
Dr. Nate Lennox, a former professor with ALS, is brought in as the progression of his disease is chronicled through his own flashbacks as he is treated by each of the doctors at one point. As Lennox wants to give up, Abby fights to convince him to keep on fighting.
Director: Paul McCrane
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.9/106 votes#4 - A Shift in the Night
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/4/1996
Mark finds himself manning a very crowded ER on his scheduled night off, filling in while Doug is out with whiplash and Susan meets with her lawyer. He tries to juggle hunger pangs, 40+ patients in the waiting room and a never-ending stream of traumas.
Director: Lance Gentile
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.8/105 votes#5 - Exodus
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/26/1998
Because of benzene that's been spread, the ER has to close. Weaver gets felled and Carter has to take the lead.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.5/104 votes#6 - The Advocate
Season 9 Episode 17 - Aired 3/13/2003
Dr. Weaver bends the rules and treats the Alderman's lover for syphilis. Dr. Kovac's patient claims she was sexually abused at a boot camp for troubled youth. Dr. Carter treats a women with a nasty personality.
Director: Julie Hébert
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.5/102 votes#7 - Under Pressure
Season 9 Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/2018
After napalm is detected at a crime scene, the NCIS team investigates the sole casualty for possible links to terrorism.
Director: Diana Valentine
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.4/105 votes#8 - The War Comes Home
Season 14 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/2007
Season Premiere. Moretti's first day is challenging as the ER is inundated with casualties from the peace rally - including Neela. Dubenko faces a crisis in surgery. Abby, Pratt and Morris conspire about how to deal with a shared problem. A new intern arrives unexpectedly, and Gates is reassigned.
Director: Stephen Cragg
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.3/107 votes#9 - Bloodline
Season 13 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2006
Weaver, Kovac, and the other doctors work frantically to try to save Jerry and a pregnant Abby, who were both critically injured during the shootout that left the ER in shambles. Meanwhile, Sam tries to escape from her ex-boyfriend and his criminal accomplices as they head north, but things quickly turn violent.
Director: Stephen Cragg
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.2/105 votes#10 - Sticks and Stones
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/25/1999
During a paramedic ride-along, Carter is forced to drive the ambulance while fleeing a riot scene and inadvertently runs over a teenage boy. Later, a paramedic is shot by an angry mob looking for the driver of the ambulance. Carol is despondent following Doug's departure. She later discloses that she's pregnant. Kerry is intrigued by an injured pro wrestler and his relationship with his father. Lucy tangles with an Asian family that requests their matriarch not be told of a cancerous tumor. Jeanie turns down dates with both Dr. Baker and Reggie, telling each she's seeing someone else.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.2/104 votes#11 - Survival of the Fittest
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 3/29/2001
A demented patient causes a shootout in the emergency room. After terrorizing people in the ER with a gun, she gets shot by a policeman. She soon dies. Benton later discover her dementia was caused by an aftereffect of his surgery that he and Cleo should have detected. Carter pursues a cute intern.
Director: Marita Grabiak
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.2/104 votes#12 - Lockdown
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/2002
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.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.2/104 votes#13 - A Hopeless Wound
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/2002
On a busy Halloween night, Carter and Abby are the only staffers in costume when victims of an apartment building fire pack the ER. Corday takes on a new med student for a surgical rotation - Paul Nathan, who suffers from Parkinson's disease and decided to pursue medicine after being diagnosed. Despite a difficult first day, both professionally and medically, Nathan makes a difficult diagnosis. Romano's rehab lags behind his expectations, and he begins to doubt his role in surgery is no longer an option.
Director: Laura Innes
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.2/105 votes#14 - Under the Influence
Season 14 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2007
Moretti reassigns Gates back to the ER and treats a couple involved in a car accident. Morris prepares to take his written board exams. Neela is assigned a young genius intern. Kovac plans to extend his stay in Croatia while Abby struggles with single parenthood.
Director: Anthony Hemingway
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.2/104 votes#15 - Owner of a Broken Heart
Season 14 Episode 14 - Aired 4/10/2008
Pratt and a new doctor on the scene disagree on how to teach the interns. Gates treats a young woman with serious heart problems. Abby heads to Croatia, and ponders whether and how to tell Luka about her unfortunate choices. Sam discovers that Julia has moved on in more ways than one.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.0/105 votes#16 - The Domino Heart
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 1/13/2000
Lucy's patient finally gets a heart transplant but does not survive. The transplanted heart will now go to another recipient. Greene interferes in a gay domestic situation. Corday tricked her patient who murdered several women and now he's being transferred to a county jail.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.0/104 votes#17 - 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
8.0/104 votes#18 - 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
8.0/103 votes#19 - Life After Death
Season 15 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2008
The 15th and final season of ER begins with the devastating repercussions of the ambulance explosion. As Morris and Neela do everything they can to save a wounded colleague, Abby treats a young girl injured during the blast.
Director: Christopher Misiano
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.0/103 votes#20 - A Long, Strange Trip
Season 15 Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/2009
Gates and Morris tend to an elderly man who was assaulted on the street. Sam 's sister shows up unexpectedly. Brenner and Dubenko clash while treating a mother thought to have late-stage cancer. Dr. Morgenstern returns to the ER to assist a former mentor who is seriously ill.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.0/103 votes#21 - Higher Power
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/2011
The NCIS team must locate a classified device with the power to destroy Los Angeles that was stolen from a college research facility. Meanwhile, Sam tries to track down a highly sought-after Christmas present for his daughter, and Eric meets Nell’s parents.
Director: N/A
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.0/102 votes#22 - The Sound of Silence
Season 10 Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/2019
After the chief of logistics for a naval weapons station collapses on the job, the NCIS team must determine if this is a terror threat or a stress-induced breakdown. Also, Kensi and Deeks research different honeymoon locations.
Director: Terence Nightingall
Writer: Joe Sachs
7.8/106 votes#23 - Flight of Fancy
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/2000
Greene flies in a helicopter to a remote area of Indiana to rescue a heart transplant patient. The helicopter develops problems, and Greene arranges for paramedics to transport the patient to County. Because Weaver is gone for the day, Romano appoints Benton in charge of the ER. Kovac is plagued by the death of the mugger.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: Joe Sachs
7.8/104 votes#24 - Start All Over Again
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2001
Lewis faces a hectic first day back at County General. Benton and Roger become frantic when they can't locate Reese. Carter's grandmother is brought to the emergency room. Carter and Abby deal with inept medical students.
Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall
Writer: Joe Sachs
7.8/104 votes#25 - Quo Vadis?
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/2001
Peter Benton continues his court fight against Reese's stepfather, Roger, who seems to have the upper hand. When a woman is accidentally shot during a gas station robbery, Dr. Corday tries to convince the husband to let them harvest her organs. A 15 year old boxer is brought in with a head trauma after sparring with his older brother. Newlyweds are having trouble when she constantly breaks out in a rash; Carter thinks he knows the cause.
Director: N/A
Writer: Joe Sachs
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"Freefall" is the best rated episode written by Joe Sachs. It scored 9.2/10 based on 6 votes. It was directed by Christopher Chulack. It aired on 11/20/2003 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Two Ships".