"The Visit"
Original Air Date: November 16,
2000
Episode
Number: #142
Director: Jonathan
Kaplan
Writer: John Wells
Description: OSCAR WINNER SALLY FIELD ('NORMA RAE')
GUEST-STARS AS ABBY'S MOTHER -- An anguished Abby (Maura Tierney)
flinches when she is unexpectedly visited by her unpredictable mother
(Oscar-winning guest star Sally Field, "Norma Rae") while Dr.
Benton (Eriq La Salle) is shocked to discover details about a severely
wounded gunshot victim. Meanwhile, Drs. Greene (Anthony Edwards) and
Corday (Alex Kingston) pledge to each other that they will escape the ER
for a weekend getaway but complications ensue when she must perform
surgery on a middle-aged surfer (guest star Alan Dale) with a bad back.
Dr. Kovac (Goran Visnjic) suspects that a young teenaged patient (guest
star Susan Enriquez) -- who proves to be pregnant -- might have been
assaulted by her father (guest star Timothy Paul Perez). Dr. Chen
(Ming-Na) finally confronts the unsuspecting father of her baby. Noah
Wyle, Laura Innes, Paul McCrane, Michael Michele and Erik Palladino also
star.
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Notes:
>> "The Visit" is the first episode to
be shown in wide screen format.
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