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"Fire in the Belly"
Original Air Date: April
25, 1996
Episode
Number: #45
Director: Felix
Enriquez Alcala
Writer: Paul Manning
Description: Rumors spread about Benton's bad working
relationship with Ross. After carelessly misdiagnosing a patient, Benton
admits his responsibility, which inspires him to officially report
Vucelich's fraudulent clamp-and-run findings. Iris, a commercial
director and former patient of Greene's, returns. Morgenstern asks her
to record the emergency room activity for efficiency evaluations. Later,
Greene, whose ex-wife is the only woman he has ever made love to, has
sex with Iris. Carter competes with new surgical intern Dale Edson
(MATTHEW GLAVE), from Harvard University. Not only has Dale performed
many small surgical operations that Carter has not, Dale is also
Harper's former lover. Carter manipulates Benton and Hicks to let him
perform surgeries, but one patient is already dead, and the other only
needs a toothpick removed. Finally, Carter aggressively replaces Dale
and solves a mysterious problem with a young beating victim. Disgusted
with Carter's behavior, Harper ends their relationship. When Ross'
father learns about Ross' offer of financial assistance to a boy whose
cancer he did not notice, he sends Ross a large amount of cash. At
first, Ross wants to send it back, but he has trouble getting his own
money out of the bank and reconsiders. Then he goes to visit his father
at the hotel. Instead, he finds his father's attractive business
associate, Karen, and has a few drinks with her. Lewis goes to court to
gain custody of Susie, and the judge informs her that there is no chance
of her succeeding now that Chloe is behaving responsibly again. Lewis
must allow Chloe to visit the baby three nights a week. Reluctantly, she
brings Susie to Chloe, who is living with their parents. Hathaway
worries when Shep's anger over Raul's death manifests itself in
disturbing ways. Shep wants to avoid coming to work at all. He also
remarks that he doesn't want his own children to live in the city and
responds to two situations with excessive violence.
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