As Jordan is returning to SAMH with promising new intern Dr. Shannon Rivera, TC and Topher are pulling Lucia Martinez and Kelly Ramirez from a car wreck when they find another victim, Joan Watkins, hanging from a freeway sign. Braving high winds, they remove some glass from her neck and return to the hospital where Jordan and Scott are struggling with Lucia's high blood pressure. Although...

Having located four-year-old Frankie Watkins at the crash site where they found his mom, TC and Jordan work to stop his internal bleeding and raise his body temperature. However, while questioning his parents, Scott suspects they're hiding something. Once he determines that Frankie needs a bone marrow transplant and asks them to be tested as possible donors, Scott finds that he isn't their...

As Drew tries to downplay his sudden return from Afghanistan, the ER shifts into high gear following a wedding day accident. Though she blames her father for what happened, the injured bride faints, prompting Jordan to order more tests. But after a video shows Kryztal's collapse causing the incident during the wedding pictures, her dad Jorge balks at being treated and attacks the staff with a...

The hospital is on high alert as they anticipate a verdict in the trial of Steven Benedict, a white man who's been charged with shooting a black man that he claims was in self defense. Just like the rest of the city, the case has divided the ER, especially Kenny and Paul. But when Benedict faints just before the verdict is announced, he's rushed to SAMH. Inflaming an already volatile...

Though Scott is determined to get San Antonio Memorial chosen to test a new heart valve, he must first convince his colleagues to agree to Pressler Pharmaceuticals' condition that they start using the company's drugs, too. While the promise of a conference trip to Hawaii gets Topher on board, TC jeopardizes the deal when he claims that a side effect of a Pressler acne medication led a college...

At a local wrestling match, Shannon and Jordan are summoned to help when the action spills out of the ring and into the crowd, sparking a riot that injures Victor – the cousin of one of the wrestlers – and leaves ring girl Emilia with a broken neck. As they rush her to the hospital where TC is treating Georgia, a marathoner suffering from heat stroke, Topher worries when Drew promises Emilia...

While Drew and Syd enjoy a concert in the park, a fireworks accident sends them frantically looking for Syd's daughter, Riley. Though Syd is relieved to find her, there's not time to relax as she and Drew must turn around and get the severely injured Linda and her teenaged daughter Darika to the ER. After he and TC arrive at the scene, Topher is sent reeling by a second explosion as he's...

Because a patient named Dylan has a rare disorder that makes surgery risky, Jordan argues for using ultrasound to break up a kidney stone. When the machine breaks down, however, she must find someone to fix it before he gets worse. But when she can't reach a technician to repair it, Jordan turns to Jessica for help. Meanwhile, when his mother Sumei arrives exhibiting symptoms of a stroke,...

Bringing a 17-year-old soccer star named Lauren to the hospital to find a nurses' strike in full swing, Kenny has to convince Jocelyn to let him cross the picket line to treat her. However, when a woman complaining of a severe headache bolts after dropping a backpack containing a bomb, the doctors are left to treat the casualties with a compromised staff. Despite being wounded by the blast,...

Though he can't save Jalen Dawson after he’s crushed by a quarry's falling crane, Paul wants to see if the fatally injured teenager is an donor match for Brianna. While she's upset by the request to harvest her son's organs before he's even dead, Grace Dawson agrees after Paul finds a donor card in Jalen's wallet. But when he's unable to move the crane, Paul must amputate his leg before...

With the sale of the hospital raising tensions in the ER, Drew is out with TC when a drunk's intemperate remarks spark a bar fight that lands them in jail. So when Brianna refuses to go through with the lung transplant without Drew by her side, her failing health forces Scott to act once the organ arrives. As news of Annie’s return to nursing school is overshadowed by Scott's reluctance to...

Part 1 of 2. Scott and Jordan face danger while on a rescue mission at a spreading wildfire. Also: Tensions peak between Syd and TC as they deal with a humanitarian crisis on the Syria-Turkey border; Paul and Shannon clash over treatment; Drew meets obstacles with adoption plans for Brianna; and Topher tries to find a buyer for the hospital.

An intensifying wildfire surrounds Scott and Jordan as they try to perform surgery in the field in the conclusion of the two-part Season 3 finale. Also: TC rushes to get medication for patients stricken with Typhus on the Syria-Turkey border; and the hospital finds an unlikely buyer.