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Multiple traumas come to the ER after a truck crashes into a coffee bar, narrowly missing a very pregnant Carol. Rumors fly around the ER about Anspaugh retiring as chief of staff and Romano taking his place; the rumors are later found true. Mark speaks out against Romano in a staff meeting. Weaver double-crosses him to move ahead with her career and is later named permanent chief of the ER. Carter meets his cousin's ex-wife, whom he is attracted to. Reggie proposes to Jeanie, and she decides to adopt an HIV-positive baby. Benton and Carla meet with a mediator. Lucy asks Weaver to mentor her; Weaver turns her down because she is the new chief and it would be inappropriate. Two new doctors are introduced: Dr. Luka Kovac, a Croatian doctor moonlighting in the ER, and Dr. Cleo Finch, a pediatric resident in the ER.
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Director:
Jonathan Robert Kaplan
Writer:
Lydia Woodward
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Broadcast: 1999-09-30
Production No.: 225451
Episode Overall No.: 115
Episode Type: Regular Episode
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With this episode, Goran Visnjic and Michael Michele join the cast, and Paul McCrane becomes a series regular.
Quotes:
Vanilla Latte Boy: I don't get this. You're a regular doctor...
Luka: Yes.
Vanilla Latte Boy: ...But you don't work here.
Luka: No, I do work here, but only when they need me. I'm what they call a 'Moonlighter'.
Vanilla Latte Boy: Because you're from another country?
Luka: No, because I only work here from time to time, when they need me.
Vanilla Latte Boy: And they needed you today because of the truck crash!
Luka: (sighs) No. I'm here because one of the regular doctors...
Vanilla Latte Boy: I thought you said you were one of the regular doctors.
Luka: I just fill in when someone else is absent.
Vanilla Latte Boy: Oh, I get it! You're like a sub!
Luka: A sub...? Yeah, yeah. I'm a sub.
Vanilla Latte Boy: What kind of accent is that?
Luka: (sighs again) Thick!
(Makng his entrance, to a little girl sitting in an ambulance.)
Luka: Hi! What's your name? My name is Luka. It's a funny name, isn't it? Luka.
Lucy: Dr. Finch, do you always jog to work?
Finch: It's only four miles.
Weaver: Kind of makes you want to dislike her, huh?
Carrying a 5-year-old girl in his arms while surveying the chaos around him.
Luka: Have you ever been to the circus?
Little Girl: No.
Luka: You have now.
Elizabeth: (on finding Mark at the batting cage) So this is what American males do to vent their anger and frustrations.
Mark: Figured a Romano/Weaver double homicide was overkill.
Trivia:
Goran Visnjic is the first Croatian actor to star in an American television program. He was selected for the role of ER's new doctor by executive producer Jack Orman, who saw him in the film Welcome to Sarajevo. Orman noticed his wife, who was folding laundry, stopped to watch every time Visnjic was on camera. Visnjic was offered the role without ever having met the producers.
Allusions:
The title is a play on words, alluding to the television series Leave it to Beaver, and an oblique reference to Kerry Weaver's promotion. |
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