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"Next
of Kin"
Original Air
Date: December 5,
2002
Episode Number:
#189
Director: Paul
McCrane
Writer: Dee
Johnson
Description: WILL ABBY GET DRAGGED THROUGH THE MUD IN
FAMILY TUG-OF-WAR? OSCAR WINNER SALLY FIELD RETURNS TO GUEST-STAR --
Abby (Maura Tierney) is heartbroken when her troubled mother
(Oscar-winning guest star Sally Field, "Norma Rae") interferes
with the treatment of her bi-polar brother (guest star Thomas Everett
Scott, "Philly") at a psychiatric hospital while Dr. Pratt
(Mekhi Phifer) treats a frightened young girl (as Morgan, guest star TBA)
who is injured in an auto accident and tries to hides a terrible secret.
Elsewhere: a dissolute Dr. Kovac (Goran Visnjic) forms an unlikely bond
with a lonely elderly woman (as Matilda, guest star TBA) who offers him
a tidy "tip"; Dr. Chen (Ming-Na) is flooded with teary
memories when a baby is abandoned inside the E.R.; and Pratt takes
matters into his own hands when his luckless brother Leon (guest star
Marcello Thedford) is fired from his menial job. Noah Wyle, Alex
Kingston, Sherry Stringfield and Sharif Atkins also star.
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