01.19 Full Moon, Saturday Night

....going back to season 1 on DVD....

Mark is still very cut up by the deaths in Love's Labor Lost. Susan forces him to take the night off but he only gets as far as Doc MaGoo's.

It's the night of the full moon, when they get the really wierd stuff. A PCP gangbanger comes into trauma 1, smashing the big window between the two trauma rooms. A Auto-Versus-Pedestrian comes in. The kid is OK but the driver has a heart attack (trauma 2). A moonlighting doctor, Swift, arrives, who will be taking over from Morgenstern.

Benton's mother is still in hospital. Going to visit her, he finds her Jean already there and his mother in restraints. Jean ordered it, because Mrs Benton keeps trying to get out of bed.

Carter gets a girl obsessed with astrology. He was born on 4th June 1970.

Ross and Diane are dating, and having sex.

The Diaster Plan is activated when there is a fire in a nightclub. Ross, Benton and Mark are all paged to get in as quickly as possible. Ross and Benton make it. Mark is in a bar, playing a beat'emup game and doesn't hear his pager. Susan does her best to cover for him when it turns out that Swift triggered a practise drill to see how well his new ER does. (This reminds me of Clemente's arrival in season 12, where he pretends to be a patient in order to test his new colleagues.)

Benton has unstrapped his mother, but she falls from the bed and he has to accept that she is seriously ill.

Chen misapplies a treatment and nearly sets a guy on fire. There's another patient who claims to be a werewolf.

Mark and Doug ride home on the El. After Doug leaves him, Green gets off but just sits on the station bench. Jen arrives and forces Mark to eat some breakfast.

Carol asks Susan to bridesmaid.