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Episode 110 "Rites Of Spring"
Original Air Date: April 29, 1999
Written by: David Mills
Directed by: Jonathan Kaplan
Guest Cast:
  • Roscoe Lee Brown (Rev. Matthew Lynn)

  • Sheila Kelley (Coco Robbins)

  • Corey Parker Robinson (Antoine Bell)

  • Vincent Berry (Seth Williams)

  • Michael Buchman Silver (Dr. Myers)

  • Emily Wagner (Pickman)

  • Monte Russell (Paramedic Zadro)

  • Chad McKnight (Officer Wilson)

  • Ralph Ahn (Shop Keeper)

  • Christine Romeo (Mother)

  • John David Conti (Tony Pipitone)

  • Shelley Robertson (Tanya Phillips)

  • Frankie Francis (Kalil)

  • Dro'Shawn Goodin (Jerome)

  • Heather Herion (Young Nurse)

  • La'Myia Good (Sharice)

  • Alejandro Patino (Best Man)

  • Brandon McKennah (Bellhop)

  • Margot Demeter (Buxom Blonde)

  • Johnny Ray McGhee (Custodian)


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Carol has a cleaning urge and Mark bumps into Elizabeth.  He tells her that he will be attending a conference that she will be presenting at later during the day.  Mark shows Carter and Jerry how to throw a Frisbee the proper way.  Mobalage comes up and tells Mark that it is his last day.  Mark tells him that he thought everything went fine with the immigration officials.  Mobablage tells him that he received amnesty and will stay in the states.  He will be going to engineering school.  Mark congratulates him.  Lynette speaks to Carol about her scheduling Coco to come to the clinic for monitoring.  Carol never asked Lynette and she wants to be asked and not told next time.  Lucy is still on her psych. rotation.  She is taking care of a man named Michael McKenna who beat up his car.  Lucy speaks with his wife, Sally McKenna about how he has been acting lately.  She tells Lucy that he is in law school and has been stressed lately.  Peter sees Jeanie and asks her how she is doing.  She is still doing triage and not actually working on patients.  She tells him that she is doing okay.  Peter then runs into Elizabeth and they discuss the trauma fellowship.  She apologizes for lashing out at him before and tells him that he might as well put his name in for it.  Peter tells her that there will be at least fifteen applicants to apply.  Jeanie takes care of Reverend Matthew Lynn.  He has hurt his finger while hammering a gutter at his church.  She tells him that his thumb is bleeding under the nail and will need to be drained.  She says that it is a simple procedure and that someone will be with him shortly.  He asks her about church and she tells him that she went as a child, but does not go now.  Romano stops Carter in the hall and tells him that he will be mentoring a student from the math/science magnet school.  His name is Antoine Bell.  Carter takes him around the ER with him and lets him watch him in action.  Lucy goes to check on Michael and to speak to him about what has been going on.  She tells him that his wife had mentioned that he has been drinking a lot lately.  She asks him why he is drinking so much.  He tells her that it helps to quiet the voices that he hears in his head.  They are demons and they want him to hurt his wife, but he hit the car instead.  Lynette tells Carol that Coco is late for her appointment.  Coco arrives early though.  Lynette had the wrong time written down on her schedule.  Carol tells Coco that she is doing just fine with her baby.  Coco is keeping a record journal of everything she is doing for her baby.  Mark takes care of Mr. Pipitone.  He has hurt his foot and Mark tells him that he will have to stay off of it for two weeks.  He tells Mark that it will interfere with his ballroom dancing.  Mark tells him that he knows how to do the tango.  Carol has a young boy that she is tending to.  He is a foster child and his foster mother has brought him in after he put his hand through a window.  His name is Seth Williams and he is very angry.  He kicks Carol and she tells the foster mother that she will get a psych. consult.  A man is brought in after being stabbed in a robbery.  His name is Mr. Cho and his wife died at the scene.  Elizabeth and Carter work on his throat, where he was stabbed.  Peter is covering traumas and he takes over, so Elizabeth walks out.  She gets on the elevator with Romano and mentions that Peter is applying for the trauma fellowship.  He tells her that he has been kept out of the loop and had no idea.  Jeanie sees that Reverend Lynn is still waiting to be taken care of.  She apologizes and he asks why she can not do it.  She tells him about her having Hepatitis C, but that does not bother him.  Lucy talks to Seth and his foster mom again.  She tells Lucy that he has been in several homes over the past three years.  She tells Lucy all of the medication that he is on and she thinks that he is being over medicated.  Mark takes care of a Mr. Putnam who has fallen on a sprinkler while jogging.  He has a bad puncture wound.  Carol helps him lift him on to a bed.  Carol is hurt and she walks out.  She later comes back and asks Mark to help her.  She tells him that she is cramping and spotting.  He asks about her period and she tells him that she is pregnant.  Mark does an ultrasound, but can not find a heartbeat.  He tells her to make an appointment with OB for another one.  She tells him that she has not told Doug yet.  Carter looks at a little boy who he thinks may have lead poisoning.  Carter shows Antoine how to look at the results under a microscope.  He tells him that children who have inadequate diets and live in older buildings are high risk for lead poisoning.  Antoine seems concerned.  Peter and Romano use the A.E.S.O.P. to perform a cardiac procedure.  Romano is impressed about how well he uses the equipment and how he knows the procedure.  Romano later tells him that he knows that he has applied for the trauma fellowship.  He thought that he was interested in the cardio/thoracic fellowship.  Peter tells him that cardio/thoracic would be his first choice.  Lucy checks on Seth again.  He tells her that his mother died in a car crash  and that it was his dad's fault.  He tells her that his dad is an alcoholic.  Lucy tells him that she grew up in a single parent home also.  He tells her that he wished his dad would come and see him sometime.  Mark asks Carol if she would like to go to a movie with him.  She tells him that she is okay and that he does not have to look after her.  Coco finds Carol and asks her a question.  She wants to know how to wash her baby and Carol shows her how.  Elizabeth tries to catch a taxi, but someone else grabs it.  She throws her overhead papers down in the street and Mark runs over to help her.  He tells her that they can take the train to the hotel.  Carter sees Antoine outside talking to his friends.  He gives him a little advise about socializing on the job.  Antoine was just asking his friends to go and get a baby that he suspects of having lead poisoning.  Carter is impressed with him.  Jeanie has just drained Reverend Lynn's thumb when Peter arrives to do it.  Peter knows who he is and he tells Jeanie that he was his mom's minister.    He remembers Peter's mom mentioning Jeanie and tells her that she was her angel.   The three of them join hands and he prays for Jeanie.  Mark helps Elizabeth organize her papers.  He asks her about Peter and she tells him that they broke up.  The train did not stop where they thought it was and they have t get off at the next stop and run to the hotel.  They go to the wrong room and end up interrupting a wedding.  They run for the elevator, but it is too slow, so they take the stairs.  They end up getting locked in to an empty area of the hotel.  Dr. Myers and Dr. Deraad tell Lucy that she has done a great job with Seth.  She wants to continue counseling him.  Mark and Elizabeth speak to each other about being lonely, when a maintenance man comes and unlocks the door.  They have missed the conference so they go have a drink instead.  Jeanie goes to see Reverend Lynn at church and sees that he is working already.  She will probably tell him about her good test results.  Carol has her ultrasound and she gets to see the baby's heartbeat.  Mark hears tango music, so he and Elizabeth crash the wedding and dance.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 11-20-2000

NBC Review

SHEILA KELLEY AND ROSCOE LEE BROWNE GUEST-STAR -- Spring ushers in new beginnings at County General when Mobalage (guest star Djimon Hounsou) happily springs some good news on Dr. Greene (Anthony Edwards). Dr. Carter (Noah Wyle) mentors a young high school student, Antoine (guest star Corey Parker Robinson), whose interest in medicine pleases the initially wary Carter. Lucy (Kellie Martin) confidently plows through her psychiatric rounds which include a young law student (guest star Mike Doyle) who is horrified to learn that he may be losing his mind and a foster kid (guest star Vincent Barry) whose anger runs deep towards his alcoholic father. Jeanie (Gloria Reuben) discovers religion after she experiences a miraculous healing while treating a minister (guest star and 1986 Emmy winner Roscoe Lee Brown, 'Cosby'). Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) helps former patient Coco (guest star Sheila Kelley, 'L.A. Law') with her newborn and asks Dr. Greene for a little moral support of her own. Corday (Alex Kingston) discovers a chivalrous escort in Dr. Greene, when she finds herself in a traffic predicament in downtown Chicago.

TV Guide Review

April 29, 1999: Rites of Spring: Carter plays mentor to a high-school student (Corey Parker Robinson) on a study program; Hathaway encourages a schizophrenic (Sheila Kelley) who's been allowed to care for her baby; Jeanie administers to a minister (Roscoe Lee Browne); Corday prepares for a conference.

TNT Review

Mobalage gives Greene good news; Carter mentors a teen; Lucy encounters an angry foster kid; Jeanie discovers religion; Hathaway helps Coco with her newborn.