Season 8- Episode 14 - A simple twist of fate
RTE Voiceover gal "With a baby daughter in the hospital
and a distraught daughter to blame, Doctors Greene and Corday
just can't seem to pull together in ER"
Must have been a very slow night if Susan was allowed to sleep
from 1.30 to 7am.
Why didn't Kerry just refuse to allow all the bagels and freebies
to be set up in the first place? I hardly think a drugs rep would
be allowed to just set out the breakfast stuff without getting
permission from the boss. Also, if Kerry really felt so strongly
about people being beholden to the drugs company, all she had to
do was dump anything that had a logo on it so nobody would know
who they were meant to be grateful to.
Shouldn't there have been a nurse or something there to help with
extubating Ella and not a pair of distraught parents.
Yeah, I'd skip marketing on a cold morning as well.
Mark re the obligatory reporting of the overdose "I'll take
care of it."
Yeah right. Like he's 'taken care of Rachel' every other time
she's screwed up?
More fool Chen for believing him.
Elizabeth "You didn't tell [the police], did you."
Mark "Well I wasn't the attending physician."
That lying SOB.
Elizabeth "She was in possession of a controlled substance."
And that fact alone is why the police and/or social services need
to be involved. Ella getting sick on Rachel's watch was an
accident. We'd already been shown that even Mark had trouble
keeping track of her (the TP incident) And Rachel was obviously
too inexperienced to realize just how much watching a baby of
Ella's age requires. There are plenty of things that Rachel could
legitimately have had in her room that Ella could have poisoned
herself on. (hand cream, nail varnish remover, hair gel etc) But
Rachel has learned her lesson about minding children. If she ever
has to look after a kid again, she's going to *know* just how
careful she needs to be.
But she has learned absolutely no lesson about drugs. Okay, so
she now knows just how dangerous they can be to a *baby*...but
that's it...and the next time she has an opportunity to take
Ecstasy, I can see her rationalizing it by telling herself "oh,
Ella only got so sick because she's a baby and took too much...it's
not going to hurt *me*."
Anyway, moving on (but I'll be back to this later)
What's the point of having a Trauma resident being in on the
Leukemia kids treatment? Where the hell is the Oncologist?
Mark "I need the distraction."
Yeah, he needs any excuse he can get to avoid having to explain
to Elizabeth why he hasn't done a damn thing about Rachel.
I don't know whether it's that HH isn't very good at acting
apologetic or whether she's meant to be that way, but I just got
no ring of sincerity from her 'apology' to Elizabeth. Even her
quick glances at her seemed to me to be more like someone
checking to see if their fake 'sorry' has worked rather than
someone who really was repentant.
And again, Rachel seemed to be more trying to apologize for
letting Ella get sick and not for having drugs in the house when
she knew damned well that they were illegal.
If that was the best apology Rachel could come up with, then I'd
have ordered her out of the house as well.
Nice shot of Mark's scar when he was in the bathroom...just in
case anyone had forgotten that yes, he did have brain surgery.
No Mark...hitting your head on the towel holder like that *isn't*
going to fix your tumor.
Abby was being a little bit hypocritical towards that registry
nurse who insisted on having her break. I mean, she was the very
one who refused to do any work the very second her shift was over
(TLYS), and just last week she walked off after airily informing
Gallant that his patient was dead.
Elizabeth "What has to happen? Does she actually have to
succeed in killing her?"
Harsh words, but given the lack of effort that Mark seems to be
making, it does seem to be up to Elizabeth to make a stand. If
Elizabeth had seen that Mark was taking it seriously (calling the
police when he was required to do so), then maybe she wouldn't
have felt that kicking Rachel out was the only way to go.
And it's not as if Rachel was being turfed out onto the street.
She *does* have a mother to go to.
Mark "Do you think that she would ever hurt Ella again?"
No...because she didn't intend to hurt her a first time. And
because she now knows just how much watching a baby that age
requires.
But yes, she will still be fooling around with drugs, only now
she's going to know better than to leave them anywhere near her
baby sister. And *that* is why Mark should have let the police/social
services deal with her. Maybe if he'd let the cops run her down
to the station and throw a scare into her when she was picked up
with her boyfriend a few episodes earlier, then she might have
been a little less blasé about bringing an illegal substance
into her house.
Rachel is 'oh so sorry' that Ella is hurt...but to my mind, she
has not shown a single sign of remorse for bringing the drugs
home in the first place.
Elizabeth "Either she's out of the house by the time I take
that baby home or I'm not taking that baby home."
Forgotten Ella's name already, have we?
Ugh, I'm sorry, but I cannot stand Joyce. I know that I'm
supposed to be all sympathetic for her being beaten by her
husband and that, but she just seems very irritating to me. And
yes, I felt like that even before the husband was heard hitting
her.
Could the camera have focused any *more* on Abby's glass of wine?
WTF did Abby think she was doing opening the door to Brian the
second time? She knew it was probably him; otherwise she wouldn't
have dialed 911. Did she think that she could get him to threaten
her so the operator would overhear? Why the hell didn't she just
yell at him through the door? Was the emphasis on her drinking
supposed to prove to us that her judgment had been impaired? Or
is she normally that dumb?
People commented before that Susan's line to Abby about "You
should careful about getting in the middle of these things"
was a bit harsh and seemed to be telling Abby that it was her own
fault. Well not to stir up a can of worms, but she was right. If
Abby hadn't interfered, then yes, she would have been sitting at
home getting happily drunk by that stage...and maybe with enough
wine in her, it would have drowned out the sound of Joyce's
screams. I'm not saying that Abby shouldn't have tried to help
Joyce...I'm just saying that she was very naïve if she believed
that there wouldn't be any consequences for *her*.
Regarding Luka beating up Brian, well I made my comments before
about how I didn't think much of him for doing that, and I stand
by them.
Personally, if I was Abby then I'd be just a little wary of any
man that could be that cold-bloodedly violent. But hey, it's
Luka, so lets all cheer him on as he commits another act of
violence.
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