ER: Season 9, Episode 1

Chaos Theory (26 Sep. 2002)

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Dr. Carter, Abby and other staff of the ER are quarantined as the CDC investigate a mysterious, deadly outbreak.

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After a young girl is brought into the ER with a potentially serious and highly communicable disease, the Centre for Disease Control orders the entire hospital to be evacuated. Everyone that is except the staff who came into contact with her including John Carter, Abby Lockhart, Pratt and Jing-Mei Chen who will have to spend two weeks quarantined in the ER. Abby and Carter start a relationship. While evacuating patients by helicopter, Dr. Romano has a serious accident. Elizabeth Corday has returned to London to work in her father's hospital but is finding it difficult to adjust to her new environment. Written by garykmcd

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The book that Chen is reading is called Bereft: A Sister's Story by Jane Bernstein. See more »

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When we first see Romano fall to the ground after his arm is chopped off, Goran Visnjic is already looking up at him in the background. But when we see Goran in close up, he is only just looking up from his patient. See more »

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Dr. John Carter: You could get a tattoo.
Nurse Abby Lockhart: I could get "Carter..."
Dr. John Carter: Yeah.
Nurse Abby Lockhart: ...Sucks."
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