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The Show Must Go On

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Episode 245 "The Show Must Go On"
Original Air Date: May 19, 2005
Written by: David Zabel
Directed by: John Wells

Guest Stars:

  • Oliver Davis - Alex

  • Danny Glover - Charlie Pratt

  • Samuel L. Jones, III - Chaz Pratt

  • Lisa Dalton - Myrna
  • David Douglas - Miller
  • Darius L. Dudley - Clyde
  • Finneus Egan - Sol
  • Edward James Gage - Orderly
  • Stacey Hinnen - Bolog
  • Stephen Lelliott - Z
  • Vertina Love - Woman
  • Vanessa Vander Pluym - Vanessa
  • Randi Rader - Amy
  • Juan Ramirez - Enriquez
  • Mona Wyatt - Eva
  • Marcus Chait - Kyle
  • Spence Decker - Nick
  • Sandra Denise - Molly
  • Eamon Hunt - Mike
  • Hassan Johnson - Darnell Thibeaux
  • Michael Kostroff - Malcolm
  • Billy Lush - Riles
  • Michael Rivkin - Stan
  • Joseph Sikora - Benny
  • Adrienne Wilkinson - Jessica
  • KeKe Palmer - Janell Parkerson

Staff:

  • Scott Grimes - Dr. Archie Morris
  • Leland Orser - Dr. Dubenko
  • Anthony Giangrande - Dr. Jeremy Munson
  • Sara Gilbert - Jane Figler
  • Abraham Benrubi - Jerry Markovic
  • Yvette Freeman -Haleh Adams
  • Laura Ceron - Chuny  Marquez
  • Deezer D. - Malik
  • Lily Mariye - Lily
  • Kyle Richards - Nurse Dori
  • Monte Russell - Paramedic Zadro
  • Lynn A. Henderson - Paramedic Olbes
  • Emily Wagner - Paramedic Pickman
  • Brian Lester - Paramedic Dumar
  • Britain Spellings - Dr. Sackowitz
  • Michael Spellman - Dr. Jim Babinski
  • Jordan Calloway - K.J. (Volunteer)


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Sam and Luka are walking out as Sam is getting off work.  They are talking about Alex and what to do because he wants to go see his dad.  Luka thinks that Alex should know about his father in prison in Colorado, but Sam says because his dad wants to be the one to tell him.  Carter, who is on his last shift, walks up to them and is carrying pizzas and sodas.  Luka grabs some to help Carter.  Sam tells Carter that she will miss his farewell party and to take care of himself.  Carter gets excited and wants to know more about the party.  Luka tells him to shut up about it because it’s a surprise. They put the pizza on the admit desk and everyone complains that it’s cold.  Then he takes a girl, Janell Parkerson, who fell and broke her hand playing volleyball.  Ray walks up to Carter and tries to sign off his cases to Carter, but he tells him to give them to Abby or Neela.  Ray, Neela, and Abby talk about their cases as Pratt shows the new interns around.  Ray tries to give Neela a parnoychia that is in Exam 2.  Then Morris tells them they need to have each others back and gives Neela the parnoychia.  Morris then tells Ray that he is ready to go to the Cubs game, but Ray says that he is going to a party instead.  Morris invites himself to the party anyway.  Pratt introduces the new interns to the gang and tells them that they will follow the interns around for the rest of the day after he gives them lockers.  Neela can’t believe that they are about to be R2’s and there is no turning back because they signed a contract.  Ray hasn’t signed his contract and is wondering if he should.  Pratt is having a hard time as a patient knocks him to the ground.

 

Ray and Morris are walking to the party as Ray tells him that he probably won’t have any fun because he doesn’t know anybody.  Morris shrugs it off and continues anyway.  Ray asks if his friend, Rick is around and is told to try the penthouse on the third floor.  Morris is glad to be away from the ER and enjoy the time to mingle with others.  Ray tells him to stop talking like that because he doesn’t want to see him thrown down a flight of stairs.  Ray says hi to a couple of friends and then asks where Jessica is then goes over there.  One guy asks Morris if he is a doctor too.  Morris is quick to point out that he is Chief Resident and then is told that is means nothing to him, then leaves.  Back in the ER, Carter is working on a man’s knee and Janell is asking all kinds of questions that are starting to bug Carter.  Carter gets up as Janell is still asking questions, then is told by the school nurse, who brought her in, to leave him alone.  Jerry then tells him that building services is on the phone telling them that only one OR is working because the sewer pipes are broken.  Then he tells Jerry to break out the buckets.  Neela comes in with a man in a cow costume, who was hit in the head by falling scenery and is bleeding from the head.  Neela tells Carter he has it and she goes on her way.  Right behind him another man comes in with burns.  Abby tells Carter that is was theater gone badly.  Abby takes care of him as Carter walks away.  Chuny gives him a chart of an asthmatic waking up and Pratt asks where is K.J. and finds out that he is in the nurses’ lounge.  Pratt catches up to Carter and tells him that it won’t be the same without him.  Carter laughs and tells him that he will see him at the party.  Pratt walks up to K.J. and asks what he is still doing here because it’s after 8:00.  He tells him that he is waiting on his dad.  Pratt asks if he needs a ride home.  K.J. refuses, but Pratt insists anyway.  At the party, a guy, Benny, shows Ray his tattoo, and then Ray is laughed at by telling him to watch for infection. A girl, Molly, asks if he is a doctor because she thinks that is cool.  He says yes and they go to get something to drink.  People down on the ground start to ask for beer, and Ray goes over to the cooler and throws down two beers.  Morris then comes over to them drunk and introduces himself.  Ray tells him that he just did that ten minutes ago and Morris walks off.  Abby and Neela are tending to the two actors as they are arguing with each other.  Luka tells Abby that he is walking Carter over to Ike’s for his farewell party and that she and Neela are in charge.  Abby asks if they are closed to trauma.  Luka tells her that since the pipes won’t be fixed for 3 or 4 hours there should be no problems.  He also tells her that he will be back in 30 minutes.  Sam comes home and asks Alex if he checked his sugar and is told he did.  She checks the mail and tells Alex that he got a letter from his dad.  She won’t let him read it until he finishes his homework.  Alex then asks where Luka is and if they are still fighting.  She tells him no, but Alex believes that they will move soon.  Luka walks Carter into Ike’s and everyone yells surprise.  Ray is kissing Molly and is told that Morris is throwing up.  Ray goes over to check him, and Morris tells him that he wanted Chief because no one cares about him.  By getting this job he wants to show them that he is one a screw up then throws up. All of a sudden, the floor caves in, and the next and the next as people fall to the ground.  Ray shouts out Molly’s name and sees Jessica on the railing scared.  Then the railing gives out and she falls to the ground

 

Every one is on the ground crying in pain and looking for each other.  Ray finds Jessica who has a piece of rebar sticking through her stomach.  Ambulances are on their way as Ray tries to help.  Morris is drunk and looks spaced out not knowing what is going on.  Ray tells everyone to remain calm and tries to move all of the debris but not to touch anyone until he has looked over them. Abby and Neela fix the two fighting actors and the stage manger wants them to return for the second act.  “The show must go on.” He says.  Abby ask why and that sometimes it can’t go on.  Ray and now Morris are diagnosing the people.  He finds Molly with a cut ear and in pain and maybe her baby too.  Ray looks around and can’t believe it.  Alex finishes his homework and Sam gives him his letter.  He asks her if they will ever live with his dad again.  She says no, he gets upset and goes in his room to read his letter.  Paramedics arrive and start to assist.  Ray tells them that six are dead and there are about fifteen non-critical that he knows.  They ask if Morris is with Ray.  Ray tells them to send him to St Rafe for a banana bag.  The paramedic tells him that is where all of the critical are being sent.  Ray says it’s a level one trauma and that county is the closes.  Ray is told that county is close to trauma.  The paramedic says that if you can get county to open the more the merrier and gives Ray a radio.  Chuny answers the radio, and tells him that Luka and Carter are not there, but that Abby is there.  Abby gets on the radio and Ray tells her what happened.  He wants them to open to trauma.  Abby says no because they only have one working OR.  Ray begs and gets her to take one, but he wants them to take five.  Abby says that there are no attendings present, but Ray says that she is a doctor and can do it.  One critical flat lines and Ray tells her now four critical.  Everyone gathers around and she tells them to send them.  Abby gives out orders and tells Chuny to page Luka.  Luka is giving a toast telling Carter that “we only part to meet again.”  As his is happening we see his beeper go off in his jacket pocket.

 

Neela, Chuny, and Jane are looking on Molly, who is going into labor.  Abby is tubing a patient with the new interns watching her every move and asking questions.  Ray then works in his friend, Nick that cut an artery in his foot and may lose it if he doesn’t get to surgery soon.  With OB backed upped, Neela tries to deliver Molly’s baby, but she runs into trouble with the baby getting stuck on her pelvis.  With the contraction over, Neela goes to get Abby because she has OB experience and she takes over Abby’s job.  Abby goes in and tries to do a wood screw maneuver, but with Molly trying down she stops.  She asks where the hell OB is then tells an intern to go to Ike’s and get Luka.  Then she starts to do a c-section.  Luka beats Carter in a game of pool and then finds out that, according to all of the others, that he sometimes cheats.  Pratt gets up to take K.J. home and hugs Carter telling him to take care of himself, then leaves.  Carter gets up to go to the bathroom and prepare his speech. When he enters the bathroom, the intern comes in, tells Luka what happened, and everyone rushes off to the hospital.  Luka arrives to see Neela doing a cut down and he couches her through it.  Haleh tells Luka that Abby is doing a symphysiotomy and Luka helps her as the baby comes out.  Pratt walks K.J. up to his front door and finds Darnell drunk on the porch.  Ray goes to check on Nick who is getting worse.  Sam gets a call saying that her credit card was trying to be used and she goes downstairs to find that Alex took her money and a credit card and left.  Carter is practicing his speech in the bathroom, comes out and finds that no one is there.  A man is going through picture slides of Carter and the gang over the years.  He then comes to a picture and stops, telling him that he looked good with the beard.

 

Molly is holding her baby and Abby is standing out in the hall.  Ray is sending Nick up, then goes over to Abby and congratulates Abby on her procedure.  Morris then walks up to them, telling them that he was sent to Lakeview and asks if he can help.  When he finds out that everything is okay, he goes and lies down.  Susan and Carter walk in and Chuny tells Carter that Janell is still here, now with her parents, and goes o take care her.  Sam walks in wondering if Alex has been there.  Carter helps align the bones in Janell’s hand and finds out that ten years ago he helped deliver her.  Sam tells Luka that he is trying to get to Colorado to see his dad.  Most immortally he didn’t get his insulin.  Then they go out to look for him.  Pratt is standing outside a house and he goes up to knock on the door.  A kid answers and then a man comes up beside him, Pratt asks if he is Charlie Pratt and the man says yes.  Then Pratt walks away.  Abby and Neela are filling out there charts and Ray comes in tried telling them that he won’t leave until all his friends are ok.  Carter comes up to them with a letter telling them that Dr. Greene made every intern write a letter on themselves and they waited to their last day of their residency  to open it.  Carter gives Abby the letter and leaves.  As he is leaving we hear Drs. Greene Benton, Ross and also Carol talking to him as he looks through the hospital.  He walks out and sees Morris throwing up telling him “to set the tone”, just as Greene told him when he left.  Ray comes to Abby and Neela at the admit desk with his signed contract and they start to right their letters.  Sam and Luka are out looking for Alex, and we see Alex hitch hiking a ride to go see his dad in Colorado. 

Reviewed by Chad on October 16, 2005

NBC Review

IT'S DR. CARTER'S LAST SHIFT AT COUNTY GENERAL -- DANNY GLOVER GUEST STARS -- On Carter's (Noah Wyle) last shift, four new interns begin their tour of duty. After completing their rounds, Carter, Kovac (Goran Visnjic) and most of the ER staff head out to Carter's surprise going-away party down the street at Ike's. Ray (Shane West) leaves to go to another party where the revelry is interrupted by a disaster which truly tests his mettle. The casualties are taken immediately to County General where a skeleton staff headed by Abby (Maura Tierney) and Neela (Parminder Nagra) must step up to the plate all on their own. Elsewhere, Pratt (Mekhi Phifer) finally gets the courage to confront his father Charlie (Danny Glover). Sam (Linda Cardellini) and Kovac search for Sam's son after he runs away in search of his imprisoned father. Also starring Sherry Stringfield.