"A Shift In The Night" is the eighteenth episode of the second season of ER.
Plot[]
Mark has to work for the fourth night in a row while a lot of the staff are absent and the number of patients is towering.
NBC Description[]
IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE?: An especially busy night goes from bad to worse when Weaver, Lewis and Ross are all unavailable.
Greene, who has been working overtime for four days in a row, works on pure adrenaline to keep up and Morgenstern (William H. Macy) refuses to cut him any slack.
Short summary[]
Weaver asks Mark to do a night shift. It's his fourth in a row and he's very unhappy about it. To make things worse, Doug has a whiplash and can't work, Susan has an appointment with her lawyer and Weaver has other business to attend to. Meanwhile, traumas keep coming in and the waiting room is getting more and more crammed with people.
Cast[]
Main[]
- Anthony Edwards as Dr. Mark Greene
- George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross
- Sherry Stringfield as Dr. Susan Lewis
- Noah Wyle as John Carter
- Julianna Margulies as Nurse Carol Hathaway
- Gloria Reuben as Jeanie Boulet (credits only)
- Eriq La Salle as Dr. Peter Benton
Guest starring[]
Special guest starring[]
Co-starring[]
Trivia[]
- "This mission, should you choose to accept it.."(spoken by Dr. Greene) is a line from Mission Impossible, a popular television series of the 60s and 70s. A film version came out the same year as this episode.
- From this episode onward, Mark would start wearing oval-shaped glasses.
Quotes[]
- Mark: (about an unruly small dog that keep barking and snapping at him) This isn't a dog. It's a small furry object suitable for punting.
References[]
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#1 "Welcome Back Carter!" • #2 "Summer Run" • #3 "Do One, Teach One, Kill One" • #4 "What Life?" • #5 "And Baby Makes Two" | |||||||||