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Medical student Lucy Knight has a difficult first day and clashes with Dr. Carter, but Dr. Ross discovers her abilities.

Carol covers for Lucy when she panics; karate student suffers fatal kick; injured gang members' girlfriends battle in the ER; air conditioning breaks down.

Weaver vies for top job; Ross gets new pediatric job; Lucy hides her incompetence from Carter; Benton keeps Reese's deafness a secret; human bomb needs treatment.

Weaver kisses up to Greene; Ross hinders an amputation; Lucy loses a dead body; Carter finally learns the truth about Lucy; Corday gets a new supervisor.

Ross juggles duties and patients on Halloween; the new ER chief (Philip Casnoff) offends staffers; a schizophrenic (Sheila Kelley) says she is pregnant.

An elderly man (Harvey Korman) hesitates to leave Hathaway's care; Weaver rents Carter a room; Greene treats prostitute at a crime scene; a deaf doctor helps Benton.

A promising candidate (Mare Winningham) interviews for the ER chief job; Corday becomes Benton's intern; paramedics pull an initiation prank on Greene.

A young accident victim (Nicolette Little) requires a blood transfusion that can come only from her father (John Thaddeus) who is missing from the hospital.

The staff honors a woman (Anne Pitoniak) born at the hospital 100 years ago; Hathaway uncovers the truth about a young boy's shooting death.

Carter urges a woman to donate her brain-dead son's liver to another teen; cranky old elf irritates Greene; Romano spoils Benton's Christmas Eve plans.

Greene finds Lee's actions suspicious; labor pains cause a car crash; Benton tries to communicate with his son; Carter fears he has tuberculosis.

Carter allows Lucy to advance; critically ill patient claims to be a survivor of slavery; Corday learns Romano is sexually harassing Doyle.

Ross helps the mother of a dying boy; Benton attends a parent/child signing class; a hospital janitor (Djimon Hounsou) complains of back pain.

Joi's son dies; Hathaway's clinic may have to close; staff responds to a school bus accident; Benton learns to sign; guest Marlee Matlin.

Dr. Ross struggles at professional and personal crossroads; Mobalage's wife (Akosua Busia) shares a horrifying secret with Hathaway.

Dr. Benton encounters life-threatening situations in Mississippi when he uses vacation time to accept a temporary position at a small-town clinic.

Carter accidentally harms a patient; a family's matriarch doesn't know she has cancer; Hathaway struggles with insomnia and headaches.

Weaver thinks she has found her birth mother; Greene tries to get Mobalage to recall his torture; Lucy starts psych-ward rotation; child ingests cocaine.

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

A power outage forces staff members to use their wits to save vulnerable patients; a comatose patient is assaulted in the hospital.

Two FBI agents linger in the ER after Greene treats a stripper; prom goers are hurt in an alcohol-related car crash; fishing pole spears HIV-infected woman.

Weaver finds a toddler wandering in the street; newly married Carla plans to move away; a patient (Teri Garr) feels what's going on with people.