Watters' old romantic rival checks into the hospital in need of a heart transplant. When a heart finally arrives, Austin performs the transplant against her will, believing that the wealthy patient bribed the donor family. Aaron and McNeil work together to help a man with a rare disease that is causing his muscles to contract. Wilkes is affected when a gang member violently shoots up the ER. Billy officially asks Diane to marry him. It's mentioned that Nyland is gone, it doesn't say how or why.
b: 1 Oct 97 pc: 5M01 w: John Tinker d: Bill D'Elia NOTE: Tom Skerritt starred in a previous David E. Kelley series Picket Fences.Billy removes the kidney of a 9-year-old girl with an extensive medical history, and discovers signs that she's being abused. He suspects the girl's mother may be intentionally harming her daughter to grab attention. Aaron grapples with himself when he loses a patient while performing a simple procedure. Kate cant break away from the hospital to attend her daughter's school carnival. Jack gets caught in a sting at Bart's bar, prompting Phillip to insist that Jack enroll in Gamblers Anonymous.
b: 8 Oct 97 pc: 5M02 w: Tim Kring d: Stephen Craggrc: Jeffrey Geiger, Maricela, Dr. Joseph Cacaci
Aaron announces he's leaving Chicago Hope for a teaching position at Harvard. Shortly thereafter he begins to suffer from a brain aneurysm. The aneurysm sends him into a trance state where he hallucinates several strange fantastical experiences, including Chicago Hope doctors in song and dance sketches and Jeffrey Geiger's advice on life.
b: 15 Oct 97 pc: 5M03 w: Dawn Prestwich & Nicole Yorkin d: Bill D'Eliarc: Wilder, Cacaci
The staff worries about Aaron when he has a series of seizures, threatening his chances to survive another operation. Jack refuses to allow a drug addict to go through a super fast detox program, using the knowledge he's gleaned from his attempts to beat gambling. A child molester asks Billy to castrate him.
b: 22 Oct 97 pc: 5M04 w: Jennifer Levin d: Lou Antoniorc: Danny Blaines, Cacaci
Austin is trapped in an elevator with electrician Danny Blaines. Aaron reluctantly shows newcomer, neurosurgeon Lisa Catera, around the hospital. Wilkes is unable to diagnose a patient who suffers from muscle spasms and cirrhosis.
b: 29 Oct 97 pc: 5M05 w: Barbara Hall s: Tim Kring, Dawn Prestwich & Nicole Yorkin d: James C. Hart NOTE: Jason Beghe would go on to have his own series, To Have and To Hold, airing immediately before Chicago Hope in Fall 1998.rc: Cacaci
Austin struggles when a girl with Down's Syndrome offers to donate a lung to her needy brother. Dennis surprises a benefactor with the news that one of his relatives was black. Dr. Grad discovers that she's pregnant, just as Billy announces plans to take a four-month sabbatical.
b: 5 Nov 97 pc: 5M06 w: Ian Biederman and Barbara Hall d: David Semel NOTE: Billy Kronk's sabbatical to South America was neatly timed so that actor Peter Berg could film his movie (panned by Siskel and Ebert as one of 1998's worst films) Very Bad Things.rc: Danny
Billy and Diane are married as Billy rushes off to South America. Diane is horrified by a teenage girl who dumped her newborn child into the trash. Dr. Austin treats a high school basketball player with a bad heart who's reluctant to quit the game. While trying to counsel a male rape victim, Aaron becomes intrigued with the mechanics of the brain. Kate connects with electrician Danny Blaines, but remains reluctant to be seen with him in public.
b: 12 Nov 97 pc: 5M07 w: Josh Reims d: Jesus TrevinoJack and Kate operate at 20,000 feet on a pregnant woman while the two are flying to a medical conference in London. Aaron begins his psychiatric residency, getting off to a bad start with his teacher and falling prey to his patients' manipulative disorders.
b: 19 Nov 97 pc: 5M08 w: Nicole Yorkin & Dawn Prestwich d: Oz ScottA 'girls only' weekend getaway at McNeil's cabin goes horribly wrong for Kate, Lisa and Diane, when Grad is assaulted by a native backwoodsman. The three doctors deal with the attack differently. Austin, still affected by an attack in her college days, responds with anger. Lisa remains cool and rational while Diane is paralyzed with fear.
b: 26 Nov 97 pc: 5M09 w: Barbara Hall d: Kristoffer TaboriDr. Shutt counsels the family of a teenage suicide. McNeil and Hancock try to determine whether a young patient is the victim of parental abuse. Wilkes refuses to treat his absentee father after he's admitted to the hospital. Phillip, stinging from repeated rejections from his son, urges father and son to reconcile.
b: 10 Dec 97 pc: 5M10 w: David Amann d: Lou AntonioPhillip is disturbed to learn that his accountant has stolen every cent he owns. Watters' pride doesn't let him accept offers to help from both Jack and Aaron. Shutt and Dr. Catera clash over a patient's suggested treatment. Keith is arrested for drunk driving and and is sentenced to community service work at Hancock's clinic. Diane's loneliness sinks her Holiday spirits. Jack plays Santa for sick children.
b: 17 Dec 97 pc: 5M12 w: Ian Biederman d: James Bagdonas NOTE: Exec. Producer John Tinker is again credited as John Tinkler.rc: Wilder
Phillip reconnects with an old flame when her son is hospitalized. Jack decides to pursue a relationship with Lisa, dumping Karen Wilder. Grad is busy with a patient who insists she's pregnant despite evidence to the contrary.
b: 7 Jan 98 pc: 5M11 w: Joshua Stern d: Sandy Smolanrc: Sara, Cacaci
Chicago Hope's doctors struggle with adversity when the power goes out on a blustery, winter night. Keith endures a drunken Irish engineer to try to get a backup generator on-line. Dr. McNeil tries to explain life and death to Sara Wilmette and Cacaci's son when they're trapped in an elevator together. Aaron strives to help a teenage girl found bleeding from her hands in a church. Billy contends with a pregnant (and hormonal) Diane. Kate doubts herself when a very expensive computer program disagrees with her diagnosis.
b: 14 Jan 98 pc: 5M13 w: Tim Kring d: Michael Schultzrc: Danny Blaines
Phillip, temporarily hobbled with a leg injury, spies a murder through his telescope and tries vainly to convince police he really witnessed a killing. Danny Blaines gives Kate a bird which gets loose and flies throughout the hospital. Diane locates her birth mother and visits her and her extremely strange house.
b: 21 Jan 98 pc: 5M14 w: Jennifer Levin d: Patrick Norris NOTE: This episode is dedicated as an homage to Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense. References to Hitchcock films are peppered throughout the program, broadcast in black and white. The writer referred most notably to Psycho, Rear Window, and The Birds. I suspect director Patrick Norris is the man late for the elevator about 42 minutes into the program, copying Hitchcock's tradition of making a cameo in his films. Actor Kelly Connell, portraying coroner Roger Thorn, also played a coroner in another David E. Kelley series Picket Fences.rc: Cacaci
Diane faces her impending motherhood full of doubts, inspired by an HIV-positive patient who wants to have a child, and the discovery of a mass in her breast. Wilkes and Hancock are swamped with a pregnant teenager who's handcuffed to her abrasive mother. Dr. Catera attempts to remove half of a five-year-old's brain to stop her seizures.
b: 4 Feb 98 pc: 5M15 w: Dawn Prestwich & Nicole Yorkin s: Beth Glazer McLaughlin d: John Heathrc: Danny Blaines, Sara, Cacaci
Phillip decides to take a stab at open-mike comedy, to his colleagues horror. Lisa finds herself attracted to Jack's incarcerated brother. Austin and Sara dine with Danny Blaines, leading to a violent confrontation. Billy, worried that his impending fatherhood has made him weak, gets into a midnight bar fight.
b: 4 Mar 98 pc: 4ABM16 w: Lyla M. Oliver d: Christine Lahtirc: Cacaci
Billy treats a family with damaged livers via poisonous mushrooms. The father, the only unaffected family member, must choose which of his two sons will receive part of his liver. Aaron sees a troubled patient who, through hypnotherapy, claims she was sexually abused by her father. Phillip forces Kate to attend a touchy-feely medical conference with Cacaci. Billy gets he and Diane thrown out of Lamaze class. Diane debates whether to tell Billy what really happened at Jack's cabin.
b: 11 Mar 98 pc: 4ABM18 w: Remi Aubuchon & Josh Reims d: Kenny OrtegaPhillip, Jack, Aaron, and Keith travel to Las Vegas for a medical conference. Jack, confident he's beaten his gambling addiction, runs into an old friend, the father of a boxer. The boxer dies, sending Jack spiraling downward, culminating in another descent into gambling.
b: 18 Mar 98 pc: 4ABM17 w: Kerry Lenhart & John J. Sakmar d: Bill D'Eliarc: Sara
Dr. Wilkes treats identical teenagers with the same rare heart ailment, losing one in the process. Kate treats a 10-year-old who nearly died after sniffing glue, and learns her daughter does the same. Aaron interviews a man for inclusion in a study by Dr. Frank. Diane debates taking maternity leave. McNeil isn't sure whether a man has sentiment or politics at heart when he insists life-saving surgery be taken on his sister, over her same-gender partner's wishes.
b: 25 Mar 98 pc: 4ABM19 w: David Amann d: Frank DePalma NOTE: At the conclusion of this episode, Rocky Carroll appeared in a PSA for CARE, the Cardiac Arrythmiac Research and Education Foundation, an organization that deals with Long QT Syndrome, a heart ailment featured in this episode. 1-888-752-2273.rc: Cacaci
Diane, several weeks overdue, finally goes into labor. Wilkes tries to keep an abusive man away from his family by admitting him for back pain and doping him up. Jack and Lisa take a ballroom dance class.
b: 1 Apr 98 pc: 4ABM20 w: Nicole Yorkin & Dawn Prestwich d: Rob Cornrc: Sara
Phillip searches for answers after his son is shot in the head and dies. Jack continues his pursuit of Lisa. Sara Wilmette meets a young cancer patient.
b: 8 Apr 98 pc: 4ABM21 w: Remi Aubuchon d: Patrick Norris NOTE: Hector Elizondo, Jayne Brook, and Rocky Carroll crossed over in their roles to fellow CBS drama Early Edition on 4 Apr 98. The three doctors try to stop a rare virus from spreading throughout Chicago.rc: Wilder
Aaron supervises a famous painter when she's admitted with a brain tumor. Dennis treats a young boy who believes himself to be a girl. Dr. Wilder clashes with Kate over the proper treatment for an unborn child.
b: 29 Apr 98 pc: 4ABM22 w: Lori Mozilo & Christine Ecklund d: Martha MitchellAaron and Samara vacation in LA, where Aaron learns a valuable lesson about savoring life. Keith clashes with Dennis when a wealthy woman tries to improve urban life by paying for the sterilization of drug addicts. Billy endures a visit from his flighty mother. Phillip tries to produce an audio tape on surgery.
b: 6 May 98 pc: 4ABM23 w: David Yorkin d: James C. Hartrc: Gina Wilkes, Cacaci
Raymond Wilkes is traumatized when he's caught in the middle of gunfire at his school's playground. Keith questions his parental instincts when his first thought is to treat the wounded rather than protect his son. With no one else around, Aaron is forced to cut into a patient to save his life, and does it successfully. Kate and Lisa seek counseling for the cabin incident. Jack makes a commitment to Lisa. Phillip reconnects with Stephanie.
b: 13 May 98 pc: 4ABM24 w: Ian Biederman s: Barbara Hall & Ian Biederman d: Lou AntonioChicago Hope executives submitted the episodes Waging Bull and Brain Salad Surgery for Emmy consideration.
Category Winner Nominee Lead Actress Y Christine Lahti Supporting Actor N Hector Elizondo Cinematography N "Brain Salad Surgery" Direction N Bill D'Elia: "Brain Salad Surgery" Single-Camera Editing N "Brain Salad Surgery" Sound Mixing Y "Brain Salad Surgery"
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