9.2/106 votes#1 - On the Beach
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/2002
Dr. Greene's final days are spent in Hawaii with Rachel, teaching her to drive and surf. When he suffers a seizure, Elizabeth is called. Mark refuses to go home. He manages to make amends with his daughter before his eventual death.
Director: John Wells
Writer: John Wells
9.1/109 votes#2 - The Healers
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/1996
Shep and Raul respond to a massive fire without proper equipment, risking their lives to save addicts and their children. Shep will be okay, but Raul has third-degree burns covering his body; it's only a matter of time. The ER is flooded with burn victims. Chloe returns to Chicago. Doug is stood up by his father for a basketball game.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: John Wells
9.0/102 votes#3 - Welcome to Camelot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1999
Two new recruits join the emergency services and work with older, wiser partners. Davis becomes a policeman, like his father, and Carlos a paramedic. Two other Paramedics, Bobby and Kim, find themselves rushing from emergency to emergency. Bosco and Yokas, the other police officers, and Jimmy and his fellow Fireman have their own crisis' to deal with.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: John Wells
9.0/101 votes#4 - Sunny, Like Sunshine
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1999
Sully and Maggie reconnect; Bobby visits his brother Matty and tries to prepare him for his release from prison; Sunny asks Kim for a place to stay and runs away when Kim refers her to a shelter; Carlos hits a pedestrian with the bus; Faith and Bosco investigate a grave robbery and ponder immortality; Jimmy rescues a new recruit who is trapped under a collapsed ceiling in an apartment fire; Bobby takes Doc's advice and tells Kim how he feels, only to learn that Kim feels she isn't good enough for him; Sunny ODs and Bobby helps a saddened Kim find out her real name and hometown so that her parents can be notified; Sully's approach to ""problem solving"" goes horribly awry in a domestic dispute; Carlos and Doc come to blows over Doc's training methods, forcing Morales to break them up; Sully learns that Ty has good instincts, enabling them to save a teenage girl from a sexual predator.
Director: R. W. Goodwin
Writer: John Wells
9.0/101 votes#5 - This Band of Brothers
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/7/2000
Faith, Bosco, Sully, Ty and Candyman race through the neighborhood on foot in pursuit of a trio of Uzi-armed thieves; Candyman risks his life to save Ty; Bosco's cold refusal to get medical assistance for one of the perps leads to the robber's death; Ty searches for the truth about his father; Bobby's mother tells the police where to find Matty, who desperately pleads with Bobby to give him some getaway money; Bobby agrees, but begs Matty to turn himself in; Matty gets high and takes off, leaving Bobby crushed and seeking consolation from Kim; and Carlos finds out about Doc and Morales.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Wells
9.0/101 votes#6 - ...And Zeus Wept
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/21/2001
Ty, Sully, Bosco, and Faith rush to the scene of a school shooting; Sully and Tatiana ponder their future together; Kim continues to struggle with her depression.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Wells
9.0/101 votes#7 - September Tenth
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/22/2001
On September 10, 2001, Ty and Sully are in Atlantic City on the eve of Sully's wedding to Tatiana. Kim sinks deeper into depression. Bosco searches for anything to do after someone lets out the result of the Giants game he had taped to watch after shift. Jimmy keeps trying to catch up on some sleep after nursing a sick Joey.
Director: Guy Norman Bee
Writer: John Wells
9.0/101 votes#8 - The Relay
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/12/2001
After a despondent woman steps off an eight-story apartment building, the squad finds themselves in a race to transport both the woman's heart and a dying girl to a local hospital in time to save the youngster's life. The suicide hits home for Faith as she comes to grips with her own ongoing medical problems, while Doc expresses concern over the emotional effects this case will have on Kim, despite her constant reassurance that her accident was not an attempt to kill herself.
Director: John Wells
Writer: John Wells
9.0/105 votes#9 - Secrets and Lies
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 3/7/2002
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: N/A
Writer: John Wells
8.8/106 votes#10 - Fathers and Sons
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1997
Ross and Greene travel to a near-deserted stretch of California to investigate circumstances surrounding a death in Doug's family.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: John Wells
8.6/107 votes#11 - Day One
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1994
Dr. Lewis tries to get a mentally disturbed individual admitted to the psych ward. Carter has a difficult day, treating many members of wedding party, suffering from food poisoning. Dr. Ross finally visits Carol, eight weeks after her suicide attempt. Dr. Greene deals with an elderly gentleman having a difficult time letting go of his dying wife. He also discovers that Jenn passed the bar exam.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: John Wells
8.6/107 votes#12 - John Carter, M.D.
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/1996
Carol is pushed to the breaking point after another day when politics triumph over health care, and she quits. Dr. Greene "trades his soul" when he agrees to back Weaver for ER attending, in exchange for her support of Susan for chief resident. Jeanie takes an HIV test and informs Peter he should get himself tested as well. Carter invites Benton to his med school graduation, which he himself misses. Shep's refusal to see a psychiatrist risks his relationship with Carol.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: John Wells
8.5/106 votes#13 - Sleepless in Chicago
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/23/1995
Peter refuses to sleep, despite Hicks' order, in the middle of a 48-hour shift. His lack of sleep catches up with him when he is supposed to be watching his mother. A doctor, who turns out to be a con artist, visits the ER to use it as a model for a new hospital, in the process offering Susan a job. Jenn tells Mark she wants to separate from him. Dr. Ross treats an abused young girl. Carol receives bad news about her attempt to adopt Tatiana. Morganstern informs Mark he's leaving for Boston and will be strongly recommending Mark to his replacement, leaving a surprised Mark uncertain as to his job prospects.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: John Wells
8.5/106 votes#14 - The Visit
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 11/16/2000
Corday rushes through a surgical procedure in order to take off on a romantic weekend with Greene. She is later called back to the hospital after her patient suffers complications. Abby's mother, Maggie, who suffers from bipolar disorder (manic-depressive) and refuses to take her medication, unexpectedly visits Abby at the hospital and wreaks havoc on Abby's life.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: John Wells
8.5/104 votes#15 - Midnight
Season 10 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/2004
Carter takes Kem to the hospital to check on their baby since it's not kicking anymore.
Director: Julie Hébert
Writer: John Wells
8.4/108 votes#16 - Welcome Back Carter!
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1995
The ER treats victims of a gang shootout. Carter arrives late and unprepared for his new position. Mark learns all about being an attending, including senior staff's habit of bad-mouthing the residents, particularly Doug Ross. Mark hires a new chief resident, Kerry Weaver. New third year med students arrive to complete their ER rotation.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: John Wells
8.4/105 votes#17 - Carter's Choice
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/29/1998
Another elderly rape victim is brought in. So is the rapist.
Director: John Wells
Writer: John Wells
8.4/105 votes#18 - The Storm (1)
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/1999
Doug faces possible criminal charges after Ricky Abbott dies when Ross bypasses system lockouts to enable Joi to give Ricky a lethal dosage of dilaudin. Doug is delegated to desk duty, Carol's clinic is shut down for acquiring the P.C.A. machine for Ricky, and Greene and Weaver face future disciplinary action for not reporting Doug's tampering with the double blind study. Carter and Lucy discover a mutual attraction. Benton studies with a sign language instructor.
Director: John Wells
Writer: John Wells
8.4/105 votes#19 - The Storm (2)
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1999
Greene assists paramedics in treating injured children at a school bus accident. En route, Doug and Jeanie survive their own accident. Kerry stops Doug from treating Jeanie...or any other patient. Doug decides to resign and leave Chicago for the Northwest and asks Carol to come with him. She decides against it, but he leaves anyway. Carol steps down from running the clinic so that Anspaugh will keep it open. Jeanie discovers she may have contracted hepatitis. Hospital janitor Mobalage's wife is stabbed.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: John Wells
8.4/106 votes#20 - The Lost
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2003
John Carter returns to the Congo to retrieve Luka Kovac's body. He finds however that the area where was killed is still too dangerous to enter. He and Gillian finally manage to hitch a ride with a Red Cross worker, Debbie, who is going to the area. In flashbacks, we learn how Kovac and his fellow aid workers were taken prisoner by rebel troops. They are shot, one at a time, until only Luka is left. Amid the destruction of the eastern Congo, we learn his fate. Carter also makes a fateful decision.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: John Wells
8.3/107 votes#21 - Everything Old Is New Again
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 5/18/1995
Carter faces his last day in the hospital with aplomb, harshly grading Benton on an evaluation report. He later rescinds the report after finding out that the surgical sub-I is his. Carol faces wedding day jitters, culminating in Tag's deciding to call off the wedding. Chloe disappears again, abandoning little Susie with Susan. Dr. Swift changes his mind and decides to support Mark. Jake visits Doug.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: John Wells
8.3/106 votes#22 - Dr. Carter, I Presume
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1996
It's the first day of Carter's internship. He has a 36 hour shift and overnight he has to cover the ER, the ICU as well as the surgical patients.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: John Wells
8.3/106 votes#23 - One More for the Road
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/1997
Anspaugh is furious when Carter tells him he wants to quit surgery. Charlie is brought in with an overdose. Mark keeps struggling with his beating.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: John Wells
8.3/103 votes#24 - Old Times
Season 15 Episode 19 - Aired 3/12/2009
Neela and Sam are shocked when they arrive back to the airport with transplant organs only to find that their plane has left them. Dr. Carter gets a surprise visit from an old friend while waiting for his kidney transplant. Dr. Banfield bonds with an abandoned baby boy that is left at the ER.
Director: John Wells
Writer: John Wells
8.3/1016 votes#25 - Father Frank, Full of Grace
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/27/2011
Steve tries to convince Fiona to skip town with him now that his true livelihood as been discovered; Frank and Karen's secret is revealed, forcing Frank to go into hiding; Fiona tries to figure out how to get Lip and Ian out of jail after their arrest for car theft.
Director: Mark Mylod
Writer: John Wells
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"On the Beach" is the best rated episode written by John Wells. It scored 9.2/10 based on 6 votes. It was directed by John Wells. It aired on 5/9/2002 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Healers".