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"The Match Game"
Original Air Date: March
28, 1996
Episode
Number: #43
Director: Thomas
Schlamme
Writer: Neal Baer
Description: Lewis saves the life of Freddie Robinson
(RODNEY EASTMAN), a drugged and drunk driver. She must inform Robinson's
unbelieving mother that he killed a young girl and hospitalized three
others. Benton and Ross perform tests on one of Robinson's victims,
Brett Bowman (RASHAAN NALL), who was treated three months earlier. They
discover that he has a cancerous tumor, which Ross did not notice
before. The hospital lawyers tell Ross to withhold this information from
Brett and remove himself from the case. But Benton defies Greene's
orders and notifies Brett's grandfather. Greene angrily tells Benton
that he is overcompensating for his guilt about not exposing Vucelich's
clamp-and-run deception. Meanwhile, Chloe thinks that since she has not
been drunk in five months and has a new fianci, she should be allowed to
care for her child, Susie, again. Lewis refuses and warns the hospital
child-care staff not to let Chloe have the baby. When Carter finds out
that he is accepted into the residency program at County General, he
celebrates by taking Harper to a deluxe hotel for lunch and champagne.
He fails to finish treating an asthmatic patient, who is later diagnosed
with leukemia. Hicks berates Carter for drinking alcohol during his work
shift. With two nurses out sick, a temporary nursing agency sends a
replacement--Hathaway. A disgusting but friendly homeless man (MICHAEL
McSHANE - "Brotherly Love") is endangered by Hathaway and
Jeanie because of a continuing conflict between the nurses and the
physician assistants. After Greene buys colored contact lenses and grows
a small beard, he gets cast in a program-length commercial by Iris
(recurring guest star JOANNA GLEASON), one of his patients.
Unfortunately, he learns that the commercial is for a baldness product.
Feeling responsible for Raul's death, Shep thinks he is being punished
when a clumsy rookie is assigned to him as his new partner.
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