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At Chicago's County General Hospital, the new term begins and second-year residents Dr. Abby Lockhart, Dr. Neela Rasgotra and Dr. Ray Barnett must teach the unskilled first-year interns.

Ray attends to a surrogate mother who goes into premature labor after being involved in a car accident.

The emergency room is jolted when a new nurse manager, Eve Spellman, enforces her strict and efficient new procedures. Kovac and Sam are uncomfortable working together on the same shift.

A patient who has been in a coma for nine years suddenly awakens in the emergency room, and Kovac struggles with whether he should reveal to her the truth about her past.

Pratt gets a surprise when the new attending doctor, Victor Clemente, poses as a patient to test the knowledge of doctors in the emergency room.

Clemente, Abby and Neela secretly care for a very important patient while Dubenko tortures the emergency room staff via a robotic television camera from his home.

Neela prepares for Gallant's homecoming from the war, but her plans change when she receives a call from Iraq.

Neela rides along with ambulance driver Gates. They respond to a huge emergency after two commuter planes crash in midair and land on a densely populated area of Chicago.

After returning from Iraq, Gallant surprises Neela by telling her he wants to take their relationship to the next level.

After a little girl is mistakenly shot, Pratt and Weaver desperately try to revive her.

Abby struggles with the decision of whether or not she is ready to become a mother. Meanwhile, Neela and Kovac help a religious teenager weigh all of her pregnancy options.

Clemente is missing, and Dr. Dubenko volunteers to take the dayshift but ends up feeling overwhelmed.

When an abandoned patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis arrives at the emergency room, many of the doctors are shocked to recognize former medical school professor Dr. Nate Lennox.

Clemente and his girlfriend, Jodie have a great time together until they are suddenly interrupted by Jodie's husband, Bobby (SHEA WHIGHAM).

Dr. John Carter is joined by Dr. Dakarai in the Sudanese desert as they treat hundreds of disease-infested and famine-stricken people.

Weaver contemplates hip replacement surgery after she finds it hard to do her labor-intensive job. Meanwhile, Kovac tries to ease Abby's fears about raising a child together.

When a 21-year-old woman is brought into the emergency room with stab wounds to the neck, Abby and Kovac desperately try to keep her alive while they wait for a surgeon to operate.

When police bring in two teenagers involved in a car accident, Abby and Morris struggle to figure out what is wrong with the unconscious girl, while police try to interrogate the other teen.

When Sam's imprisoned ex-husband is brought into the emergency room, the doctors assume he is faking his condition, but further tests prove otherwise.

When a sheik and his pregnant wife come into the camp, Carter and Dakarai operate on the man's gunshot wound--but are interrupted by government officials trying to arrest the patient.

Neela becomes nervous when she is urgently called up to Dr. Dubenko's office, but she is quickly relieved to hear what he has to say.

Chaos strikes when two injured convicts come into the emergency room and try to escape the authorities.