All links in this section bring up images of the scene concerned in the panel to the left. Almost all of these images have supplied by the Emergency Room's extensive archives of screen captures from the series. [Pilot Episode: 24 hours] A nervous and clumsy looking surgical student in his third year arrives in the ER to be supervised by Benton. Wearing a tailored white coat, he has almost no practical hands-on experience. He is unable to suture, put in IVs or even put on surgical gloves. A far cry from the doctor that he will eventually become! His naivety is illustrated by his inability to cope with emergency surgery performed on the victim of a knife attack. He has to rush outside for fresh air, where he is reassured by Dr. Greene (Anthony Edwards). [1.01 "Day One"] From making rectal examinations on German tourists to flirting with college students (Liz) - the life of a medical student is never boring. And - how convenient - Carter's recent dermatology rotation makes him the ideal choice to examine the rash on her buttocks! However, all is not good, as Carter's relationship with Benton starts badly. While examining Ivan Gregor, Benton is shown up in front of his student when he seems to make the wrong diagnosis. Carter tries to appease him, but Benton is not interested. Later his arrogance is confirmed when it appears that his diagnosis was right all the time. As Carter leaves, he meets Liz again, who invites him back to her place...... [1.02 "Going Home"] Carter is left to talk to a woman who has been found on the streets of Chicago and who does not seem to want to stop singing. She is later discovered to be a famous singer, Mary Kavanagh, in the later stages of Alzheimer's. Although she believes it's 1948, she still manages to make a new friend in Carter. Oh, and Liz returns! [1.03 "Hit and Run"] Confronted with a gun shot wound victim, Carter's attempts at identifying him fail and he contacts the wrong family. Discovering his mistake, he is horrified - particularly when he then has to contact the right family and go through the whole process again. Shortly afterwards he learns that Benton had told his supervisor that Carter was doing "a generally adequate job". All of this brings him down, and he is telling Jerry this when a pregnant woman arrives in a car, and he gets to deliver it (with a little help from Susan Lewis). This redeems an otherwise awful day, and he goes home with a renewed excitement about his work. [1.04 "Into That Good Night"] Carter is worried about STDs - is Liz the reason behind it? Certainly she is in the ER again, complaining of new complaints, and being eagerly helped by Dr Kayson. [1.05 "Chicago Heat"] [1.06 "Another Perfect Day"] Flathunting is never fun, but for Carter it all seems so easy. He's moving out of his father's house and is looking for a one-bedroom apartment and Lydia suggests her apartment block. In the meantime he performs his first lumbar puncture, and is rewarded for this by Dr Greene with a bottle of champagne. He later shares this bottle with Susan Lewis on the hospital roof - she's had a huge row with her sister, Chloe. [1.07 "9 1/2 hours"] Susan Lewis is having trouble with her boyfriend, and then her car breaks down. Carter eagerly swoops in to help, offering to sort out the car in exchange for Susan's help to get him into the operating room. When the bill arrives, he pays it even though it's big - and in the process raises the suspicions of the mechanic: is time in the OR all he really wants from Susan? Benton's mother also invites him over for Thanksgiving dinner which drives Benton mad. [1.08 "ER Confidential"] Carter is still planning to come to Thanksgiving at Benton's house, much to his teacher's astonishment. Benton find's this out while they are treating a Miss Carlton, who turns out to be a male transvestite, and obviously extremely depressed. Carter has problems with Carlton's transvesticism, and so does not realise how depressed the man is until he disappears and is discovered on the hospital roof about to jump. Although Div Cvetic arrives, he is too late, as Carlton jumps and dies. Benton realises that Carlton's earlier accident was really a suicide attempt, and attempts to console Carter. [1.09 "Blizzard"] While Carter grabs some sleep, Greene and Lewis (giggling) put a plaster cast on his leg. Suddenly, the whole ER hears that there has been a 50-100 car pile up on the expressway. When the patients arrive, the place goes mad, with the doctors completely overstretched. In the middle of it all, a patient terrifies Carter by offering to get rid of the plaster cast with an electric saw. At another point, a cleaner named Bob (who, it is revealed, used to practice medicine in Poland before emigrating) feels herself forced to perform an emergency operation before the patient dies. Running out of the ER, Carter consoles her and tells her he will help her with her English for the board exams. [1.10 "The Gift"] Carter wakes a man dressed as Santa Claus who has dozed off in the waiting room - despite Carter's concern and wish to give him a check up, the man leaves. Shortly afterwards, Benton asks him to come with him to receive a 25 year old man from the helipad. The man is diagnosed brain dead after Carter notices cerebral spinal fluid coming from his ear. Benton tries to sort out organ donation. Carter's Santa Claus reappears, but this time on a stretcher, as he has suffered respiratory failure. He dies shortly afterwards. Carter helps Lewis get home after her boyfriend Div disappears and gives her a beautiful music box as a present. He is concerned about her, and wants to kiss her, but she doesn't think it's a good idea. He feels awkward and leaves. [1.11 "Happy New Year"] Carter arrives at work to find a body on the road outside. The man is a victim of a gang shooting, and because he found him, Greene allows him to take part in the surgery - at least until Benton arrives, when he takes over. Carter is furious at only doing scout work, and complains to Greene who tells him to get used to it. However, when a car crash victim comes into the ER, Benton is nowhere to be found, and so Greene lets Carter take the surgery. When Benton arrives he tries to take over, but with a little persuasion lets Carter do it. Morganstern is impressed by Carter's work and Benton tells him he can help out in a gall-bladder operation. Carter is delighted, but almost immediately contaminates himself and is forced to stand in the corner for the rest of the operation. [1.12 "Luck of the Draw"] Carter is in for a treat - Benton's new student Debra Chen is put in his care for the day! Deciding to give her the same treatment that he received from Benton, he gets her to do a rectal examination - which she does without lubricant. Then she proceeds to hit Carter with the defibrilation paddles, he falls over, hits his head and is knocked out. By way of revenge for the way he has treated her, Debra and Haleh pretend to have "examined" him while he was unconscious. [1.13 "Long Day's Journey"] Carter has been up all night preparing a presentation, and (unlike Deb who is cheerful and efficient) is extremely tired. They are both called to examine an "Uncle Ed" who has been sitting in the car with his eyes closed for ages. It turns out that he has been dead for hours. Later Carter and Deb examine a patient with a painful stomach - Deb has a photographic memory and, to Carter's astonishment, immediately diagnoses him with an allergy. His astonishment is only compounded when Benton hands the patient over to her. [1.14 "Feb 5, '95"] Carter and Deb are doing a presentation, and Deb completely blows Carter away with her's - complete with slides and computer graphics. She then proceeds to tell Carter that surgery doesn't seem like the kind of career he should have - and she should know - her mother is chief of surgery at St Bart's. Later, while Benton and Carter are treating a 12 year old boy who has been shot, another boy wanders through the corridors with a gun. When he finds the first boy he wants to shoot him, but the by is already dead. He threatens the rest of the ER staff and then turns and runs from the hospital. [1.15 "Make of Two Hearts"] Valentine's Day in the ER, and guess whose got all the cards? But the day isn't all good news as Carter has to give a dog mouth to mouth resuscitation! [1.16 "The Birthday Party"] Carter hasn't applied for his sub-internship yet, and twelve other people have! In the meantime he and Lydia organise a birthday party for the embarrassed Dr Benton. [1.17 "Sleepless in Chicago"] Carter, Lewis and Benton find themselves treating Joseph, an old man with heart troubles. Unfortunately he cannot speak, so they don't find out until later that he is dying of cancer and doesn't want any heroic measures undertaken to prolong his life. Carter tries to trace a relative but without any luck, and so when he hears that Joseph will not last the night, and that he used to teach English, Carter decides to read to him. Benton thinks he is wasting his time. When Carter is then left writing up his notes when his shift should be over, Joseph having just died, Benton tells Carter that he is wasting his time in surgery - Carter responds angrily - "Why - because I don't think like you?" [1.18 "Love's Labour Lost"] Carter and Deb help Greene with the pregnant Jodi O'Brien, who eventually dies - perhaps as a result of Greene's malpractice. Carter tries to support him, but without much success. [1.19 "Full Moon, Saturday Night"] Carter and Deb race each other in suturing, much to the horror of the patient concerned. Susan is having a good day, which becomes perfect when "Twist and Shout" comes on the radio, thanks to a request from Carter. [1.20 "House of Cards"] More tension for Carter and Deb, as Benton requests their procedure books. Carter's OK, because he's been in the ER longer, but Deb panics and decides she must do as many procedures as possible. In the middle of doing a central line she loses the guide wire and runs out in panic. Later, when Carter calls round to see how she is, she tells him that she is quitting - she cared more about the procedures than the patients. [1.21 "Men Plan, God Laughs"] Susan suggests to Carter that he go for the ER sub-internship as well as the surgical one. She suggests that he gets Greene's recommendation. Carter thinks this is a good idea, but Greene doesn't think that his recommendation would count for much at that time. Later, Benton borrows Carter's car to rush a patient across town - which Carter thinks is his way of compensating for not being able to help his mother. [1.22 "Love Among The Ruins"] Carter hasn't got a recommendation from Benton for his ER sub-internship - and when he asks, Benton just tells him to write one himself and he'll sign it. Carter writes one, but soon realises that Benton is not going to support him, and tears up the signed letter. Later, Carter is busy helping out a man with a cut hand. Noone understands why he is spending so much time over him, until he reveals that the man contributes large amounts of money to the hospital. Dr Swift spends his time fawning over the man. Later, the ER staff find out exactly how well off Carter is, when they read in Chicago Magazine that Roland Carter, his father, is worth $178 million. Benton is not thrilled. [1.23 "Motherhood"] Carter has the ER sub-internship if he wants it, but he hasn't heard about the surgical one. He decides that he wants to hold out for the surgical one, but when he finds out that that has been awarded to someone else, he now has no sub-internship at all! [1.24 "Everything Old Is New Again"] Carter's last day. A child has shot himself in the head, and Carter decides that he'll have to cut a hole in his airway to allow him to breathe. He's never done it before, so he's extremely worried. When Benton arrives, Carter asks if he did the right thing, to be told by Benton that he did, but not to forget to hand in his lab-coat and ID when he leaves. Carter's mood lightens considerably when he discovers that he gets to evaluate his teacher - and sees the possibility of revenge. He only gives Benton 16 points out of 40 - only to discover that the sub-internship in the ER has come up again, and rushes to accept the position. Realising that now he is going to have to work with Benton again, he rushes to change his evaluation - only to discover that Dr Hicks already has it. Running to her he tries to ask for the opportunity to change it, but before he gets the chance, she reads him Benton's evaluation of his work: "An exceptional student; well-trained; superior diagnostic skills; fast learner; dedicated; selfless; excellent bedside manner with patients - far more successful at dealing with the patient's emotional needs than this instructor, highly intelligent. One of the finest students I've ever had the opportunity to work with. Recommend high honours." Hicks allows Carter to fill in the form again - asking him not to overdo it. Meanwhile he attends a child with leukaemia, with Dr Doug Ross. Caleb is thought to have meningitis, and everyone is concerned. Caleb, however, is bitter and confused and takes it out on his sister Sarah. Carter tells him that he had an older brother, Bobby, who had leukaemia and used to take it out on him - and that it made him feel really bad. Bobby didn't survive, he continues, but medicine wasn't as good then, nor was his cancer the same as Caleb's. Caleb tries to look brave, but his sister, who has been watching comes up to Carter later and tells him that she hopes at one point in her life she can do something like that for someone. Carter leaves the ER moved and happy, and looking forward to returning for a new year.