"The Long Way Around" is the fifteenth episode of the third season of ER.
Carol Hathaway, who is on suspension, is caught in the middle of the robbery and hostage situation at a neighborhood store, and tends to the care of the hostages.
Plot Summary[]
Still on suspension, Carol goes the neighborhood store when two robbers entered the store and took Carol and others in the store hostage when things went haywire. While a hostage, Carol uses her medical skills and crude implements from the store to help the injured victims.
NBC Description[]
EWAN McGREGOR (STAR WARS PREQUEL TRILOGY') GUEST-STARS AS A DESPERATE GUNMAN: Nurse Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) is among those shopping at a family-owned convenience store when a robbery attempt goes awry.
The store owner injures one of the robbers, James (guest star Currie Graham) and is badly wounded himself when the second robber, Duncan (Ewan McGregor), panics and takes everyone hostage.
While police cars gather outside the store, Hathaway must use her medical skills and the crude implements available in the store to keep the wounded alive and to maintain calm among the hostages and the gunmen. She finds unlikely support from her 10-year-old neighbor, Robert (guest star Mason Gamble, 'Dennis the Menace').
Meanwhile, Dr. Ross (George Clooney) and the hospital staff anxiously await word as the crisis unfolds.
Short summary[]
Carol Hathaway is still under suspension but faces a life-threatening situation when she is held hostage in her local corner store by two would be robbers. The two young men are in over their head and panic, shooting the store owner. Carol manages to take charge of the situation, calming them and trying to save the owner as well as one of the robbers, who has also been shot. In the end, she empathizes with one of them, Duncan, a young man visiting from Scotland. In his attempt to make his escape, he takes Carol with him and flees, but with tragic results.
Cast[]
Main[]
- Anthony Edwards as Dr. Mark Greene (credits only)
- George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross
- Noah Wyle as Dr. John Carter (credits only)
- Julianna Margulies as Nurse Carol Hathaway
- Gloria Reuben as Jeanie Boulet (credits only)
- Laura Innes as Dr. Kerry Weaver
- Eriq La Salle as Dr. Peter Benton (credits only)
Guest starring[]
Special guest starring[]
Co-starring[]
Trivia[]
- Anthony Edwards, Noah Wyle, Gloria Reuben and Eriq La Salle don't appear in this episode, despite their names credited in the opening credits.
Quotes[]
- Duncan: (yelling to Robert, who's in the bathroom) Come on out now, you can't throw up forever! We're all eating free hot dogs out here! Don't you want one?
- Duncan: (to Carol) That's a stupid thing to say if he's chucking up. You try.
- [Robert runs by]
- Robert Potter: Morning, Leon! Morning, Miss Hathaway!
- Leon: Slow down there, Robert!
- Carol: I hate that he calls me "Miss Hathaway".
- Leon: Yeah, it's a real crime when kids show that kind of respect.
- Duncan: I love America! Everyone has a job here!
References[]
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#1 "Dr. Carter, I Presume" • #2 "Let The Games Begin" • #3 "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" • #4 "Last Call" • #5 "Ghosts" • #6 "Fear of Flying" | |||||||||