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Hathaway takes new medical student Lucy Knight under her wing.

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.

A wounded gang member tries to leave the ER to exact revenge. Benton keeps Reese's hearing disability a secret from his co-workers.

Ross juggles duties and patients on Halloween; the new ER chief offends staffers; a schizophrenic 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 interviews for the ER chief job; Corday becomes Benton's intern; paramedics pull an initiation prank on Greene.

Even though Carter and Lucy constantly bicker with each other, they join forces to save the life of a young girl who desparately needs a blood transfusion.

Since today is the hospital's 100th anniversary, the new chief, Amanda Lee, arranges for Carter to escort a woman, Ruth Johnson who was born 100 years ago today, around the hospital.

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.

Corday refuses to testify against Romano after he threatens Benton's career. A harried Anspaugh accepts Romano's offer to serve as acting chief.

Benton takes a costly sign-language class. Romano suggests Benton enroll in a program whereby Benton would substitute for vacationing doctors at rural hospitals for high pay.

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

Benton travels to Mississippi to earn extra money working as a "locum tenens" doctor--a visiting temp--at a rural hospital in a small town.

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

Weaver visits a woman she thinks might be her biological mother. Later, Weaver realizes the woman cannot possibly be her mother.

Romano forces Benton to choose between two different fellowships. Greene and Corday become better friends on the way to a medical conference. Carter mentors a student.

A terrible storm causes a power outage, and the backup generators fail. The staff frantically works to keep patients alive.

Hathaway finally informs Ross about her pregnancy. She is disappointed when he tells her he won't be returning to Chicago.

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