"ER" The Letter (2002)

Director:

Jack Orman

Writers:

Michael Crichton (creator)
Jack Orman (writer)

TV Series:

"ER" (1994)

Original Air Date:

2 May 2002 (Season 8, Episode 20)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Dr. Carter reads a letter from terminally ill Dr. Green to the ER staff. Dr. Weaver lashes out at a mentally challenged patient. A terminal, homeless man continues asking for Dr. Green. |

Plot Keywords:

Medical | Emergency Room | Doctor | Hospital | Medical Drama

Cast

Anthony Edwards	...	Dr. Mark Greene (credit only)
Noah Wyle	...	Dr. John Carter
Laura Innes	...	Dr. Kerry Weaver
Alex Kingston	...	Dr. Elizabeth Corday (credit only)
Paul McCrane	...	Dr. Robert Romano
Goran Visnjic	...	Dr. Luka Kovac
Maura Tierney	...	Nurse Abby Lockhart
Sherry Stringfield	...	Dr. Susan Lewis
Ming-Na	...	Dr. Jing-Mei Chen
Sharif Atkins	...	Michael Gallant
Paul Benjamin	...	Al Ervin
Chris Burke	...	George
Ellen Crawford	...	Nurse Lydia Wright
Deezer D	...	Nurse Malik McGrath
Yvette Freeman	...	Nurse Haleh Adams

Language:

English | Italian | Serbian | Croatian

Trivia:

The speech that Carter gives to Gallant in this episode is the same as the one that Dr. Greene gave to him in the Pilot.

Goofs:

Continuity: After the letter that Dr.Greene has written is pinned to the board in the ER, Dr.Lewis pins the bottom half of the letter to the Board. In the ending scene, you see the letter floating in the wind from the open doors. The bottom half is not pinned down and the first page of the letter floats away into the hall because it is not pinned down.

Quotes:

Dr. Robert Romano: Amazing how the human body can turn on itself. The very process we need to grow in the womb, to regenerate ourselves, systematically eating us alive. But no-one's sacred. Little girls. Fathers with little girls. Cancer. Brain cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer. It's the same traitor. The merciless unrelenting predator. Like time itself.