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"How
the Finch Stole Christmas"
Original Air Date: December 16, 1999
Episode
Number: #123
Director: Fred Einesman
Writer: Linda Gase
Description: On
Christmas Eve, an exhausted Hathaway attends to her 6-week-old
daughters, Tess and fussy Kate. Hathaway brings them to the ER where
Kovac examines Kate. Kate has a fever but will be okay. Haleh and Kovac
care for the twins while Hathaway gets some rest. Meanwhile, rapist and
murderer Dean Rollins taunts Corday as she administers to him. The
police have found evidence linking him to another murder. Corday
discovers that Rollins has a blood clot, but he refuses necessary
surgery. Even though she doesn't want to help him, Corday convinces him
to have the surgery. Valerie Page (MINDY CRIST), a 24-year-old heart
transplant candidate, gets treated by Lucy who updates Valerie's status
because she is critical and needs immediate help. Even though no heart
is available, Lucy learns that a special procedure can be performed that
may save  Valerie's
life. Unfortunately, Romano is the only doctor at the hospital who can
perform it, and he refuses her request because he is off duty. Lucy
barges into his home and convinces him to help. Carter collects gifts
from staff members to secretly give to one another. He tends to a
wounded gang member, Taylor Sparks (KENTE SCOTT), and confiscates a gun
from the youth. Later, Carter gives Taylor one of the gifts in exchange
for the gun he took. Other gang members visit the hospital to trade
their guns for gifts. Carter's proud of his accomplishment until a child
is killed by one of the gang members who got another gun. Cleo treats a
drunken Chad Kattmeier for a fractured ankle suffered during a party his
mother hosted. His mother gave him beer, so Cleo contacts the
authorities and forces Chad to enter the hospital's alcohol treatment
program immediately, missing Christmas day with his mother.
Pictures: (from ERcaps.com)
>> The
ER Team Works on Patient
>> Lucy
and Patient
>> Lucy
and Dr. Romano
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