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The ER is under the bright lights when a television documentary is filmed depicting a typical day in the ER. British trauma specialist Elizabeth Corday joins the staff. Carter restarts his residency, this time in the ER. A man is paralyzed while breaking up a gang fight. Morganstern suffers a heart attack. Greene's stress level continues to build.
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Director:
Thomas Schlamme
Writer:
Carol Flint
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Broadcast: 1997-09-25
Production No.: 466356
Episode Overall No.: 71
Episode Type: Regular Episode
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According to the Season 4 DVD extras, the idea of doing a live ER episode came from Anthony Edwards and George Clooney.
Maria Bello and Alex Kingston join the cast with this episode.
This episode received an Emmy Award for Technical Direction/Camera/Video, and was nominated for Lighting Direction (Electronic), Sound Mixing, and Directing (Thomas Schlamme).
When aired in syndication, the first half of the episode is the East Coast version, and the second half of the episode is the West Coast version.
The baseball game that George Clooney's character is watching in the break room was the Cubs-Astros game, also being broadcast live that night on WGN.
This episode was broadcast live. The cast performed it twice, once for the East Coast airing and three hours later for the West Coast airing.
Quotes:
Greene: Probably the best part of my job is that sometimes, working here, you can repair some of the violence. Some of the bad things that happen to people. Not always. We couldn't do much for that guy who was paralyzed. Probably on a vent for the rest of his life. I guess we did save the kid that he was trying to help. So his sacrifice wasn't for nothing. And yes, I was attacked myself right here in this very hospital. They haven't been able to catch the guy who did it, or at least, they haven't been able to charge anyone. The worst thing about it isn't what it did to me. The worst thing is that it meant that some of the world's violence has leaked into our own ER. This is meant to be a safe place for fixing people. Now it's vulnerable. And as an ER doctor, that's hard to accept.
Aggie: It sounds frightening. Are you scared?
Greene: Sure. Of, uh, losing control.
Aggie: Control of what's outside?
Greene: And what's in me. (long pause) Is that enough?
Aggie: Yeah.
Greene: Then turn it off!
Corday: They said there was an adolescent who decompensated.
Hathaway: Oh, Dr. Benton took him up.
Corday: Ah, Dr. Benton. You call your surgeons "doctor." Well, I suppose "Miss Corday" won't get me very far around here.
Hathaway: Well, just to the waiting room.
Ross: What is all this about cops and firemen?
Hathaway: (gasps) Jealous?
Ross: Jealous. I just wanna know what you're doin for them that you're not doin for me.
Hathaway: Uh, I'll tell you later if you bring the cuffs.
Ross: Yeah, I thought I was gonna get some sleep tonight.
Hathaway: Oh, don't count on that.
Ross: Buddy, you look like a star out there.
Greene: Well, I'm enjoying the attention.
Ross: Well, don't get too used to everybody taking orders from you.
Greene: Yeah, I was hoping for a sequel.
Chuny: I don't know. But, the best one was the guy with the transistor radio. Remember?
Conni: Right. He said he was getting out of the shower and he slipped and he sat down on it.
Chuny: Ouch!
Carol: While it was still playing?
Malik: Whoop. There it is.
Chuny: So I asked Mark - Dr. Greene if he was going to extract the foreign body and he said, "No. But I think I'll tune it to the ball game."
Stuart: Dr. Carter, our mic will pick you up at normal volume. You can relax and speak naturally.
Carter: Okay.
Greene: Carter wasn't acting. He's really like that.
Carter: (to Justin Chang) If you vomit in the OR, you could aspirate your stomach contents into your lungs, develop pneumonia.
Greene: That's probably more than Mr. Chang needed to hear.
Carter: Good evening.
Greene: Dr. Carter, you're early.
Carter: Open fracture?
Ross: Yep.
Carter: You need me?
Ross: Uh, yes, actually. I'm sick of assisting Dr. Welby here.
Carter: Who?
(Greene and Ross are treating Justin Chang's broken leg)
Justin: So, I really broke it, huh?
Ross: Well, you're not going to be playing varsity this fall.
Justin: Varsity? I'm 24 years old.
Ross: You're 24?
Greene: Guess I don't need a pediatrician.
Ross:(to Justin) You are gonna be carded until you're 40.
Trivia:
In the East Coast version, the HIV positive patient keeps people away from him by holding up a syringe, but in the West Coast version, he did not have the syringe until Jeanie got close and handed it to him.
Towards the end of the East Coast version of this episode, you can see Kerry Weaver (Laura Innes) walking without her crutch.
When the title is shown at the beginning of the episode, it reads "ambush," without the first letter being capitalized.
The West Coast version of the live episode appears on the Season 4 DVD.
Allusions:
Doug: (to Carol) Lucy, you got some 'splaining to do...
Doug is making reference to one of the signature lines used by Desi Arnaz's character, Ricky Ricardo, in the 1950s comedy series I Love Lucy. |
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ER (1994) - 4x01 - Ambush