ER {E.R.}: A THOUSAND CRANES (TV)
Summary
One in this series of dramas about the emergency room team of an inner-city Chicago hospital.
In this episode, Carter tells Lewis that he intends to formally propose to Lockhart, and when Chen and Kovac venture over to Magoo's diner for a meal, they find the aftermath of a deadly shoot-out. Maggie, still in town in search of Eric, is amazed to learn of Carter's rooftop proposal, though Lockhart demurs that he "didn't mean it." Trina, the sole survivor of the dining shooting, is rushed in for treatment, and teen cancer patient Sean Simmons, who is departing the hospital for at-home hospice care, visits Lewis. Elsewhere, Gallant stops Pratt from brawling with their opponents during a pick-up basketball game, and as the doctors frantically work on Trina, Chen tells the police that she may have spotted the diner shooters escaping, describing them as two black men in a gold 4x4. As a result, Pratt and Gallant are pulled over and, when the cops find Pratt's shirt bloodied from the fight, they are roughly arrested and questioned.
Weaver instructs Kovic to visit the hospital shrink. Once they are released, a furious Gallant plans to report the police officers for their aggressive behavior, though Pratt reminds him that they will always be seen as "suspects." Though warned to stay away from him, Lewis decides to leave the hospital with Sean in tow to give him a final day of fun, and Lockhart, swamped with work, bids Maggie a hasty goodbye as she prepares to depart for Minnesota. Carter offers to drive her to the bus stop, and Kovic brusquely tells Meyers about the many tragedies he has suffered, aware that the psychologist cannot repair what is "gone or broken" from his life. Corday suggests that the cops' racial profiling of Gallant and Pratt was warranted under the dire circumstances, and Pratt is upset to learn that it was Chen's uncertain comment about the perpetrators that led to his and Gallant's detainment.
Maggie and Carter, stuck in traffic, discuss his plans to propose to Lockhart, and Maggie urges him not to attempt to "fix" her or expect her to change. At an amusement park, Sean tells Lewis about Sadako Sasaki, the Japanese girl who famously attempted to fold a thousand paper cranes in order to receive her wish of being cured of cancer; when Officer Mitch Palnick, the same man who hauled Pratt and Gallant in, is brought to the hospital with serious injuries resulting from a high-speed chase with the real killers, Pratt sternly reminds Gallant that they must treat all patients regardless of their actions. Gallant makes an observant call that saves Palnick from an unnecessary invasive surgery, though Palnick still refuses to apologize for his actions, feeling that he was justified in questioning them. Lewis brings Sean home and, despite his mother's frustration, shares a tender goodbye with him; though Carter surprises Lockhart with an intimate dinner, he cannot bring himself to propose. Palnick's young partner semi-apologizes to the two doctors, and Chen and Pratt make up, relieved that the challenging day is over. Lewis spreads Sean's not-quite-one-thousand paper cranes in the river, and Lockhart, upon finding Carter's diamond ring, is troubled to realize that he chose not to formalize his rash declaration of wishing to marry her. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: February 20, 2003 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:46:37
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:87765
- GENRE: Drama, medical
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, medical; Chicago; Romance; Asian American Pacific Islanders Collection
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1994-2009
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- John Wells … Executive Producer
- Jack Orman … Executive Producer
- Michael Crichton … Executive Producer, Created by
- R. Scott Gemmill … Co-Executive Producer
- Dee Johnson … Co-Executive Producer
- Joe Sachs … Supervising Producer
- Wendy Spence Rosato … Producer
- Julie Hébert … Producer
- Bruce Miller … Producer
- Richard Thorpe … Producer
- Jonathan Kaplan … Producer, Director
- David Zabel … Producer, Writer
- Tommy Burns … Co-Producer
- Teresa Salamunovich … Associate Producer
- Erin Mitchell … Associate Producer
- Christopher Chulack … Consulting Producer
- Jacy Young … Writer
- Marty Davich … Music by
- James Newton Howard … Theme Music by
- Noah Wyle … Cast, Dr. John Carter
- Laura Innes … Cast, Dr. Kerry Weaver
- Mekhi Phifer … Cast, Dr. Gregory Pratt
- Alex Kingston … Cast, Dr. Elizabeth Corday
- Goran Visnjic … Cast, Dr. Luka Kovac
- Maura Tierney … Cast, Dr. Abby Lockhart
- Sherry Stringfield … Cast, Dr. Susan Lewis
- Ming-Na (see also: Ming-Na Wen) … Cast, Jing-Mei Chen
- Sharif Atkins … Cast, Dr. Michael Gallant
- Paul McCrane … Cast, Dr. Robert Romano
- Sally Field … Cast, Maggie Wyczenski
- Jeff Perry … Cast, Officer Mitch Palnick
- Abraham Benrubi … Cast, Jerry Markovic
- Laura Cerón … Cast, Nurse Chuny Marquez
- Gedde Watanabe … Cast, Nurse Yosh Takata
- Michael B. Silver … Cast, Dr. Paul Myers
- Lynn Griffith … Cast, Trina
- Patrick Fugit … Cast, Sean Simmons
- Elizabeth Morehead … Cast, Mrs. Simmons
- Katie Morrow … Cast, Julie
- David Backus … Cast, Fred
- Richard Balin … Cast, Dr. Berman
- Michelle C. Bonilla … Cast, Harms
- Lynn A. Henderson … Cast, Pamela Olbes
- Julie Ann Emery … Cast, Niki
- Godofredo Henriquez … Cast, Chavez
- Damien Luvara … Cast, Enriquez
- Chad McKnight … Cast, Officer Wilson
- Royce Lee Minor … Cast, Irby
- Jackie O'Brien … Cast, Nadine
- Chris Pine … Cast, Levine
- Lonnie Colón … Cast, Driver
- Brad Blaisdell … Cast, Detective
- Michael Peña … Cast, Police Officer
- Carlease Burke … Cast, Policewoman
- Matthew Jones … Cast, Cop
- Warner Saunders … Cast, TV News Anchor
- Siblia Vargas … Cast, Reporter