Episodes
Episode 1: Welcome to Memorial (Part 1)
Published: December 22, 2001
It’s the first day of the fall semester, and that means one thing – new med students. The seasoned staff members of Atlantic City Memorial Hospital go to work anticipating the arrival of their inexperienced new students, while the students arrive nervous but ready to work. The events of the morning are new and exciting to the fresh-faced students, but to the others, it’s just another drama-filled day at Memorial.
Episode 2: Welcome to Memorial (Part 2)
Published: December 29, 2001
The first day continues as more drama unfolds. Justin gets his first lecture, Nick is forced to help with a painful procedure on a child, and Isabel goes the extra mile to take care of her very first patient.
Episode 3: Too Much Pressure
Published: January 5, 2002
A relaxing evening abruptly ends for several members of the Memorial staff, when a horrible car accident occurs on the interstate. The doctors and nurses of the ER must come together to prepare for the traumas to arrive, while the paramedics of the EMT squad are sent out on a mission to rescue victims and save lives. Their work is not easy, but when they must face losing loved ones of their own, it gets even tougher.
Episode 4: Even Heroes Fall
Published: January 12, 2002
The action moves from the EMT squad to the staff of the ER as the trauma patients from the accident are flown in. A member of the staff fears for her best friend’s life, while a young mother worries about her premature baby. The drama intensifies when one of the doctors themselves becomes critically ill.
Episode 5: Fatal Error
Published: February 2, 2002
While Josh deals with the death of his sister-in-law, Jack and AJ worry about Bianca. Everyone is relieved the see the night come to an end. But more drama is waiting the next day.
Episode 6: Feelings of Depression
Published: February 24, 2002
The atmosphere around Memorial is one of anguish, sorrow, and depression. Howie waits anxiously while his daughter undergoes emergency surgery. Josh has trouble concentrating on his work because of his grief and suffers for it. Med students Nick and Justin must both deal with death. Jack must face the woman he nearly killed, and Lance confronts a ghost from his past.
Episode 7: Forgot About J
Published: March 3, 2002
Jack and Justin have a rough day at work when they lose a patient. They look forward to taking their mind of their problems at a party at AJ’s house that night, but by the end of the night, they have even greater problems to face.
Episode 8: Revelations
Published: March 10, 2002
The paramedics and ER staff at Memorial react in shock when they find that once again, once of their own has fallen. Jack takes the blame upon himself for Justin’s decisions, and Mariah takes it upon herself to give Justin a little “cheering up.” Jaela discovers the horrible truth about her marriage, while Kylie gets some unexpected news herself. A former ER patient bounces back and cannot be saved. Will his death mean the death of a staff member?
Episode 9: In My Prayers
Published: March 24, 2002
When Chris finds Lance’s suicide note, it’s a race for time to try to save his best friend’s life. A mother brings her sick stepson into the ER, and it is Brian’s job to find out what’s making him sick, before it’s too late.
Episode 10: White and Black
Published: May 5, 2002
While Lance’s life hangs in balance, Jack and Justin have a hard time trying to communicate with a foreign patient and his wife, and Brian and Siara take care of a couple’s newborn triplets.
Episode 11: Homecoming
Published: May 19, 2002
It is Bianca’s first day back on the job after over a month’s absence. Justin has to care for a rather “unhygienic” patient. Several neurologists and surgeons come together for a consultation on Lance’s case. That night, several staff members go to one of the local high schools’ Homecoming football game, where emergency strikes. That’s not enough to ruin Jack and Addie’s memorable night though.
Episode 12: Hurricane (Part 1)
Published: May 25, 2002
Atlantic City wakes up to a crisis, when they find that a hurricane has shifted courses and is headed right for their town. The Memorial staff pulls together to prepare, but an elevator malfunction causes eight people to be trapped together. Risha loses a valued possession and gets a shock to her system while looking for it. Harry, Kylie, and Amelia are forced to go out in the storm to transport a patient to the ER. But after all, even in times of crisis, their work must go on.
Episode 13: Hurricane (Part 2)
Published: June 16, 2002
As the hurricane ravages the city, seven staff members remain trapped in an elevator, while the others try their best to do their jobs. When an emergency strikes within the elevator, it’s a race for time, while several paramedics risk their lives to save others during the eye of the storm. Two paramedics become trapped in the hurricane in the line of duty. Will nature show mercy on them? Or will it destroy them both?
Episode 14: Something to be Thankful For
Published: July 16, 2002
It’s nearly Thanksgiving in Atlantic City and ER nurse Susan Walker’s first day. While she tries to fit in in the ER, Justin is abused by a patient and her boyfriend. On Thanksgiving, the staff members must delay their dinners to work shifts at the hospital. A family is brought into the ER after a bad car accident, and there is change in a comatose patient’s condition.
Episode 15: Good News and Bad News
Published: July 22, 2002
Siara plans to enjoy her day off, but when someone close to her is brought into the ER, she is called in and forced to work on the daughter of a friend. Ivory has to give a boy and his mother grave news and finds out something horrible about another of her patients. When emotions run high, Ivory does something that may affect her career.
Episode 16: Night Shift
Published: February 13, 2005
It’s a long night for the Memorial staff members who get stuck working the night shift. Brian and Addie must treat and comfort a teenager whose choices they morally oppose, while Bianca is called upon to deal with a young rape victim. Kevin and Elizabeth discover it isn’t easy to work together as colleagues when they may be drifting apart as a couple, while the women of the ER find it’s only too easy to treat an attractive lacrosse player. For Justin, the night is a normal one… that is, until he comes to believe the ER might be haunted…
Episode 17: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Published: May 1, 2006
“…For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own…”
The Memorial staff get a break from the daily stress of the ER as they sleep… and dream. Find out more about the characters – their hopes, their fears, their pasts, presents, and futures – through the visions they have in slumber. For some, sweet dreams await. For others, there are only nightmares…
Episode 18: Time of Death
Published: May 26, 2006
The Memorial staff is shocked to learn of the death of one of their own. The tragedy hits Risha particularly hard, reminding her of the death of a loved one from her past. Meanwhile, death seems to surround Ivory as she’s given a pair of patients which will test her skills and her ethics. Yet even with loss all around them, life goes on for the staff of Atlantic City Memorial. During a trauma, Nick receives an unexpected phone call, while Howie and Joey both face major decisions in their love lives.
Episode 19: ‘Tis the Season
Published: July 6, 2006
‘Tis the season to by jolly… Well, for Brian Littrell, it is, anyway! Christmas has come to Memorial, and Brian is determined to spread some cheer, despite the Grinch-like dispositions of some of his colleagues. Howie’s happy; he’s about to pop the question to Rita. So are Kylie and Josh, who find out exciting news about their pregnancy. Yet, between investigations, relationship drama, and mama drama, not everyone is jolly. JC and Kevin get a grim reminder that tragedy strikes even on the holidays when they treat a patient who’s about to have the most un-merry Christmas of them all.
Episode 20: Lost and Found
Published: August 2, 2006
It’s a new year, and for the med students at Memorial, that means new rotations. Isabel starts her cardiology rotation, while Nick and Justin battle it out in surgery. Meanwhile, an ice storm threatens the city, causing serious accidents. Amid the drama, a little boy goes missing in the storm, and Howie cannot stand to sit back and wait while a child is out in the cold. Will he and AJ be able to find the little boy before it’s too late?
Episode 21: Burning Love
Published: May 26, 2007
It’s Valentine’s Day, which means a lot of love, a fair share of heartbreak, and the usual crop of interesting ER cases. While an apartment fire threatens the lives of a pregnant woman and her family, Justin treats a man with an unusually “hard” problem to solve, and Ivory comes to a decision about her future at Memorial.