<p>Did anyone just catch that Sam and Neela are going to Seattle to retrieve a heart… an opening for Doug and Carol to return to ER.</p>
<p><em>tingly with excitement</em></p>
<p>YES!</p>
<p>Preview shows Carol, Carter and Peter, but no Doug. :(</p>
<p>OK, help please. </p>
<p>I was watching as Carter and others were being filmed for the documentary, then I got a work phone call (I work on China time half the time); came back to the show to see Carter in hospital bed.</p>
<p>What happened?</p>
<p>I only caught the last 10 minutes or so, so I have no idea.</p>
<p>But Clooney said in an interview that he was coming back. Larry King, I think.</p>
<p>edit: the post to which I am replying disappeared!</p>
<p>George Clooney and Julianna Margulies will be on the March 12 episode.</p>
<p>By the way, Julianna didn’t ‘flame out’. 
She returned to live in NYC and has steadily worked in theatre and NY-based tv shows since leaving ER.</p>
<p>mafool - he had some sort of complication due to his kidney failure (fluid build up?), even crashed and they had to shock his heart back. Evidently he already has a nephrologist at Northwestern, and requested he be transferred over there.</p>
<p>Good to know Clooney is coming back - I trust he and Carol will still be together. </p>
<p>Alwaysamom - glad to hear Juliana Margulies has done well too. I assumed she tried to make a go of a movie career - she probably should have just said no to “Ghost Ship” and “Snakes on a Plane.”</p>
<p>She had a major role in a number of episodes in season 6 (I think) of The Sopranos, playing a recovering-drug addict real estate broker who almost becomes involved with Tony, and does become involved with Christopher. They fall off the wagon together.</p>
<p>Will he be in more than one episode? I care much more about him than Julianna Margulies. Can you tell?</p>
<p>Does anyone remember which hospital Peter Benton went to…was it Northwestern? Could that be how he reenters the show? I recall that he left for a better paying job, but don’t remember where in the Chicago area.</p>
<p>shellfell, I think that Peter left Chicago to work in the clinic that Cleo was working in, if I’m remembering correctly, due to some conflict with Romano.</p>
<p>Wow, all these names are a blast from the past. I stopped watching a few years ago, but I saw a bit of last night’s episode and will definitely tune in next week in order to see Doug and Carol!</p>
<p>Actually, i think Benton left because he was in a custody battle with Reese’s stepfather- in order to gain full custody, Benton had to give up working nights and weekends, which was impossible at County, so he had to go to the other clinic with Cleo</p>
<p>Where is everyone? Peach poisoning? Does that exist?</p>
<p>I was wondering about the peach juice, too. I couldn’t believe Neela and Sam couldn’t have mentioned Carter to Doug and Carole. I was anticipating (and hoping for) a reunion of sorts and was a little aggravated when it became apparent that they weren’t going to find out the kidney was going to John. I did love the interaction between Benton and Carter, though!!</p>
<p>There were two things that I found a bit hard to believe. One, I, like AZK, was surprised that no one mentioned Carter when Sam, Neela, and Doug were going over old times. I think they would have, since Ross and Carter were such good friends. Two, an organ transplant is incredibly expensive. Sure, JC could afford it (although the Carter jet was gone because of the recession), but Lucy’s mom, Joanie, seems to not have such resources. How did the payment for the heart get made? Aside from those details, I really liked the episode, and am sad the show is coming to an end. I, too, really loved the Carter/Benton stuff.</p>
<p>I was also hoping for a corny moment when Doug & Carol found out that the kidney had gone to Carter. All they had to do with that last phone call was say, “…and the kidney went to some doctor named Carter in Chicago.”</p>
<p>Wait! I missed the peach juice! I saw Ernest Borgnine (he’s 92!!) give it to his wife to sip, but where did the poisoning issue come in? I must have missed a minute or two.</p>
<p>Yeah, it drove me crazy that Dr. Ross didn’t ask about Carter, or that the current hospital folks didn’t think “There’s this Carter guy that he might know.”</p>
<p>But I did love seeing Peter Benton. I had forgotten how I loved his smile. So cute when he said, “So you married a Sister.”</p>
<p>I liked Peter way more last night than I ever did when he was on the show. I just wish I could remember the whole storyline with his son. Carter has just shown up at County and I can understand why Neela and Sam didn’t mention him – and Doug might have figured he was still across the world, etc. I was glad they showed Doug and Carol being happy although their happiness seemed almost too perfect. I thought Susan Sarandon was great and really made the episode even better. I saw an item about the last episode and I think they are going to end it on a very nice note. I love that they seem to be going for the happy endings. Looks like Banning will get her baby, Neela will get her man and I’m glad that Archie is headed for a happy ending.</p>