"Just a Touch"



Cast: Noah Wyle, Laura Innes, Alex Kingston, Goran Visnjic, Maura Tierney, Ming-Na , Sherry Stringfield, Sharif Atkins, Mekhi Phifer, Linda Cardellini, Ashley Laurence, Cole Hauser.
Producer(s): John Wells, Michael Crichton, Neal Baer, Jack Orman.

Original Airdate: April 22, 2004.

Pratt demonstrating the breast exam on Jerry

Abby seems to excel at whatever rotation she's on while Neela seems to screw up. Abby's scene with the psych patients was good.

Hopefully Sam's ex will take custody of their son and move far far away

Carter rules.

Pratt had a couple of wake up calls in regards to how he treats women and how they perceive him.

Abby was great w/ her psych patients.

I still don't care for the Weaver storyline - I can't believe I dislike her so much. What's happening to her is wrong, but I could not give a shit...

Pratt TUBEs an attractive patient (is accused of giving her a Totally Unnecessary Breast Exam) and gets a talking to by Weaver, and then one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen on ER occurs. OMG, I don't think I've laughed so hard in my life as Pratt has to demonstrate his breast exam technique to Weaver and as the camera pulls back, the breast being examined was Jerry! LOL!

A Pratt one-night stand from last year shows up from a MVA, and he tries to extricate himself from any further expectations from the girl. Compound this with his TUBE episode, he had his hands full.

Sam's ex-husband (or just father to Alex) shows up and is trying to ingratiate himself into Alex's good graces. Sam's just waiting for the other shoe to drop if/when Alex's father leaves again. Luka just plays it cool, keep his distance during this period.

2 alumni from Presidio Med show up in this episode, one is the Dr. Jeremy who Corday has been dating on the side while also dating the single father, and he shows up and surprises Corday in the presence of Dr. Jeremy, who knows exactly what's up. (Dr. Jeremy is also busy playing Steven Saunders on "24" as the bad guy). Julia Nicholson shows up as a new mother who goes into seizures and blacks out, but her EEG doesn't show them as true seizures, so it's a mystery as to what she's afflicted with because she leaves the ER, much to the protest of Pratt.

Neela starts a research rotation and quickly klutzes up an experiment and doesn't make friends in her new environment on the onset. While she isn't crazy about ER and handling real live patients, I doubt her stint in research is going to be any more palatable to her.

Abby is working in Psyche and is given a suicide group to handle while being evaluated by a Psyche staffer. She has to deal with a group of people who don't quite get along, and it isn't until Abby lights up a cigarette that the group turned their disdain for cigarettes towards her, and this brings the group together to discuss their issues and goals. Abby is yet again a natural in this medical field as well. Abby just doesn't have the test scores yet, but her instincts are spot on.

Carter is sidetracked from getting some documents signed as Deb was supposed to take him to the place to sign because Deb's father suffers some injuries and is going through home nurses like a hot knife through butter, and had to be brought into the ER. Later, Carter arranges for a notary to bring the documents to the hospital to be signed, and he asked Deb her opinion on which room theme should be used for his future newborn. This reminds Deb of the son she gave up 3 years ago, and causes her to re-think her decision to give him up.

Weaver is still lawyering up to get custody of her child Henry. She is allowed 2 days of custoday towards the end of the episode. Sandy's brother is sympathetic to Weaver. Abby goes to Weaver to try to pick up more nursing shift, otherwise she won't be able to pay for med school. Weaver tells her that her med school tuition was paid in full for the year. Abby figures out that it was Carter who footed her med school bill. She doesn't want to take the money, but Carter considers it an investment in medicine, and brings home the point that in the time they are having their conversation, the interest his trust/inheritance earns already outpaced her lifetime salary. Abby still vowed to pay him back.

Who the hell was the guy Abby left with on the cycle?

dude, that lab tech has one hell of a commute. Las Vegas to Chicago
(he's also on CSI as a lab guy)

Great to see Ashley Laurence again. She's always been a big fave.

I wish Morris would meet Kim Bauer and they would elope, taking Son of Sam with them.

Line I thought I've never hear on ER:

"The patient grabbed my junk"

Lab guy is Archie on CSI.

Ashley Laurence = TUBEee?

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Originally posted by Patman
Ashley Laurence = TUBEee?

Mmmm Hmmm

Was there a line where Coop said "I'm leaving and i'm never coming back" and I just missed it...?

Yep. She was in the first two Hellraiser films. Check her out in a movie called Triplecross. You'll be glad that you did.

I've been wondering that for months, too - they never gave an explanation (that I can remember).

Great ep

Maybe Coop's asthma got too bad for him to return.

I assumed that, but they never really addressed that during an ep. But of course they keep the asshat Morris around.

This was a good episode, though I still don't care much for Kerry Weaver's storyline. I thought it was a pretty funny episode also, especially Abby with her Psych patients. It was nice to see Carter pay Abby's tuition. I thought they got rid of Morris, but I guess not. At least he was too annoying in this episode. I just realized that the British doctor that Corday's been seeing is Saunders from 24.

Even though I hate assmunch Morris, I winced when his junk got grabbed...

So what was the deal with Corday at the end? Was she shagging those 2 guys? Is that what that was?

I'm missing Gallant already.

Yes, she was seeing both of them - and her ass was caught.

Yes, Corday is shagging 2 guys.

I am glad Weaver made a comment I mentioned as soon as her wife dies, that she has money and will use it all to keep Henry. I could just see the writers skipping over the fact that Kerry is the head of a hospital, and that she also has a close friend, semi in her pocket, of an city councilman.

Who was it who left after a big "this isn't the right place for me" scene out in the Ambulance bay... with Pratt and one of the other medical students, and Pratt said something like OK, go, see if we care. I don't remember who it was who left then, was it Coop?

that was assmunch Morris..

That doesn't make sense: you're saying Morris did the big dramatic "I'm leaving", but he's still here, and Coop isn't? What changed?

doesn't make sense, but that's what happened.

in fact, Pratt was talking to Coop when Morris stormed off. the next time Pratt saw Morris, he sais something like "thought you quit". Morris gave him some stupid reason for staying [his parents, maybe?].

It could be that Morris is on another rotation.