WOW, looks like a GOOD ER night. Don't read thread if you are in another time zone. SPOILERS

[Rufio]

can someone post a summary of this episode?

thanks!

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: guyver01
The ending was so unlike ER... they didn't make any mention of Chuney or Romano's fate... but rather spent time on an unknown nurse being saved by Pratt??? WTF.

good episode nonetheless.... i just wish chuck was in the chopper... i dont like his character.

I don't think that it was Chunie that got hit with the blade...I thought it was at first, but I could have sworn that I saw her helping a patient later on

As for Chuck, what's the point of his character? Is he just a bootie call for Susan (who has BALLOONED over the years, MY GOODNESS PUT DOWN THE HAGEN DAAS!!)?? He seems like a loser

 

[Yossarian]

I thought Chuni was ok??? Damn you all now I have to watch it again.

Yes Susan is now a melon-head. Fortunately she found another fat person to be happy with, that's how life goes

 

[TreyRandom]

Originally posted by: Rufio
can someone post a summary of this episode?

thanks!

Luckily, I had already written this for a friend on another forum who didn't know WTF we were all talking about. Here goes:

Romano gets upset at Pratt and tells him that he's fired and that Pratt, Romano, Anspaugh and Weaver are going to meet that night to discuss his performance issues (it's Thanksgiving).

Morris (doofus med student) treats a guy with eye pains who is "treating" his eye pain problem with some weed he got from his nephew. Somehow, Morris ends up with the stash. More on this later.

Some rich guy is treated and heads up to the copter for a hospital transfer. Lewis' ex-husband, Chuck, is supposed to be flying the copter. The rich guy accidentally left his Rolex, and Dr. Romano asks if someone will take the watch up to the helipad. The docs remind him that Romano's got to go up and face it sometime, so he goes up with the new Indian doc, Neela. (btw - Petty's "Freefalling" is playing in the elevator - classic. Alanis' "Ironic" might have also been a good choice. )

When Romano gets to the helipad, the helicopter has spun up, but hasn't taken off yet. He sees the helicopter through a haze and has flashbacks of the night his arm was severed. He tells Neela to take the watch to him and he heads back downstairs.

Romano gets downstairs and needs a breath of fresh air after all that. He goes outside and sees Morris huddled in a corner, smoking a freshly rolled joint. Romano goes ballistic and tells Morris to wait for him at the admin desk and not to leave until Romano says he can leave. Morris dashes inside and Romano wanders around outside (probably thinking about how the world is filled with frigging idiots).

Meanwhile, the helicopter is taking off, and is having problems with some bad crosswinds. It attempts to re-land, but the landing is too hard and the helicopter starts spinning out of control. The shrapnel flies everywhere and impales a nurse and almost hits Neela, who are both hiding in the elevator. The helicopter hits the roof rail and flips over the edge.

And who should be standing directly under the helicopter but...

Dr. Romano.

:Q

The helicopter skims the side of the hospital and bursts into flames. Dr. Romano looks up and screams "NOOOOOO!" as he looks skyward.

Needless to say, the helicopter seems to have finished the job it started when it lopped off his arm. We don't see Dr. Romano get hit... but neither do we see Dr. Romano attempt to run.

Casualties are EVERYWHERE. Lewis thinks Chuck was in the copter and has died, but he shows up in the ER, saying that the helicopter already had a pilot who wouldn't let him take over (although, for some reason, we don't see him on the helipad when it's breaking into bits around Neela). Chuck bleeds from his spleen for the next hour and almost dies (but doesn't).

Everyone's wondering where the hell Romano is. Morris is STILL at the admin desk, even through a mass-caz. Anspaugh gets tired of waiting for Romano and tells Pratt that all Romano's complaints are BS because, as far as Anspaugh is concerned, Pratt is a fine doctor who performed admirably under the day's stress.

The final scene shows the helicopter being lifted off of a burned area (which could be anything... Romano, pavement, junk... who knows?) He's probably dead... but... you never know. This is TV, after all.

 

[Pudgygiant]

I'm fairly sure it wasn't Chuny. But DAMN was it a good episode. Possibly the only ER episode I'll download (assuming I can find it).

I didn't catch "freefalling" in the elevator. I wish I had, that's a cool easter egg. But it'd really piss me off if romano didn't actually die. He was a good character, but pratt is better. I think it was the best time for romano to go though, otherwise he'd have just been going through some weird no-power-yet-still-an-administrator phase, with that other guy (the one that talked to pratt and said he was excellent) undercutting all his decisions (actually I guess it's a little hasty to say that, as I've only seen him do that to the firing pratt decision).

 

[TreyRandom]

I didn't catch it either - I actually found that in someone else's episode description... can anyone confirm?

 

[CChaos]

Good riddance to Romano getting squished. He had no business running the ER. He was a surgeon who couldn't operate. He should have hung up his hook ages ago. So, now we get Carter back or new blood. I like Pratt fine but I don't think he's enough to carry the show. Maybe Dr. Ross will come back from the West Coast and teach the noobs a few things.