ER: Season 2
Er season two continues the overarching saga across twenty two episodes. The television series focuses on the fast paced and high pressure environment of a busy hospital emergency room, following the dedicated medical professionals as they navigate complex clinical cases, personal challenges, and professional demands. The narrative arc captures the intense daily experiences of the staff, exploring the intricate dynam
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- The series is set in a busy hospital emergency room.
- Medical professionals handle complex clinical cases and emergencies.
- The staff faces high pressure personal and professional challenges.
- The narrative follows the day to day experiences of doctors and nurses.
Season overview
Er season two continues the overarching saga across twenty two episodes. The television series focuses on the fast paced and high pressure environment of a busy hospital emergency room, following the dedicated medical professionals as they navigate complex clinical cases, personal challenges, and professional demands. The narrative arc captures the intense daily experiences of the staff, exploring the intricate dynamics between doctors, nurses, and patients within the demanding medical setting. Throughout the twenty two episodes of this season, the medical team faces numerous critical situations that test their resilience, ethical boundaries, and emotional stamina. The overarching saga further develops the personal and professional lives of the core ensemble, highlighting the constant pressure of emergency medicine and the human stories behind the medical emergencies handled within the department day after day.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Welcome Back Carter!
Sep 21, 1995 · 44 min
The ER treats victims of a gang shootout. Carter arrives late and unprepared for his new position. Mark learns all about being an attending, including senior staff's habit of bad
Summer Run
Sep 28, 1995 · 45 min
Kerry Weaver manages to offend just about everyone in her first day as chief resident. Carol goes on a ride-along with paramedics Shep and Raul, sharing a ferris wheel ride with S
Do One, Teach One, Kill One
Oct 5, 1995 · 44 min
Carter gets his first patient...and loses him. Susan's feud with Kerry Weaver intensifies when Weaver demands all of Susan's procedures be cleared with her. Chloe abandons Little
What Life?
Oct 12, 1995 · 45 min
Weaver and Susan's feud escalates to the point where Mark needs to step in and fix it. Benton is involved in a parking lot altercation, resulting in a broken hand and Carter repla
And Baby Makes Two
Oct 19, 1995 · 45 min
Dr. Ross treats the dying Chia-Chia. Susan tries to find a way to keep Little Susie, asking her parents for help. Benton treats an injured woman who refuses to press charges agai
Days Like This
Nov 2, 1995 · 45 min
Speculation runs through the ER, on a very hectic day, about Randi's possible criminal history. Mark faces an ethical dilemma when he has to decide whether to report yet another o
Hell and High Water
Nov 9, 1995 · 45 min
In the middle of a torrential rainstorm, Dr. Ross stumbles across a child trapped in a drainage pipe rapidly filling with water. Doug does everything possible to save the boy, Ben
The Secret Sharer
Nov 16, 1995 · 46 min
Doug's heroics earn him a second chance as Bernstein and Morganstern ask him to stay on. Doug and Mark clash when each treats a seriously injured patient and want to use the same
Home
Dec 7, 1995 · 45 min
Carol and Jeanie try to find a home for a schizophrenic architect. Carter signs Benton up for an interview with Vucelich for a prestigious study. Carter and Harper try to find a
A Miracle Happens Here
Dec 14, 1995 · 46 min
The ER staffers are in decidedly unfestive moods as Christmas arrives. Carol's spirits are lifted by a Santa-like patient. Mark is outraged when Jenn decides to stay in Milwaukee
Dead of Winter
Jan 4, 1996 · 45 min
Shep and Raul bring a dozen malnourished and abandoned children into the ER, keeping everyone very busy. Shep has a run-in with Malik and Benton when he makes an off-handed racial
True Lies
Jan 25, 1996 · 45 min
Mark tries to find a way to tell Rachel about his impending divorce. Benton attends a banquet at Vucelich's home, with Jeanie as his date. Carter finally tells Mr. Rubadoux about
It's Not Easy Being Greene
Feb 1, 1996 · 44 min
Mark is riddled with self doubt as the hospital prepares to settle the O'Brien suit. Kerry appoints herself as Susan's personal mentor. Carol mind a bucketful of expensive worms.
The Right Thing
Feb 8, 1996 · 45 min
Benton decides to blow the whistle on Vucelich's unethical study methods, causing Vucelich to drop him from the study. Susan treats a street couple, one of whom has passed HIV to
Baby Shower
Feb 15, 1996 · 46 min
The ER hosts roughly a dozen pregnant women when a sprinkler bursts in the maternity ward. Carter plays tour guide for the visiting surgical intern hopefuls before going through t
The Healers
Feb 22, 1996 · 44 min
Shep and Raul respond to a massive fire without proper equipment, risking their lives to save addicts and their children. Shep will be okay, but Raul has third-degree burns coveri
The Match Game
Mar 28, 1996 · 45 min
Susan institutes extra precautions in case Chloe tries to reclaim Little Susie. Mark changes his look, growing a goatee and wearing contact lenses. Carol and Jeanie square off ov
A Shift in the Night
Apr 4, 1996 · 44 min
Mark finds himself manning a very crowded ER on his scheduled night off, filling in while Doug is out with whiplash and Susan meets with her lawyer. He tries to juggle hunger pang
Fire in the Belly
Apr 25, 1996 · 46 min
Carter engages in competition with new surgical resident-in-training Dale Edson upon learning that residents will be evaluated and graded; only the top ones advancing to second yea
Fevers of Unknown Origin
May 2, 1996 · 46 min
Susan throws herself into her work to escape her stressful personal life, earning recognition from Kerry and Mark, who begins preliminary discussions on next year's chief resident.
Take These Broken Wings
May 9, 1996 · 46 min
Susan visits a psychiatrist to cope with the loss of Little Susie. Jeanie's estranged husband Al checks in the ER complaining of flu-like symptoms, which turn out to be caused by
John Carter, M.D.
May 16, 1996 · 46 min
Carol is pushed to the breaking point after another day when politics triumph over health care, and she quits. Dr. Greene "trades his soul" when he agrees to back Weaver for ER at