Chicago Hope
The lives and trials of the staff of a major hospital in Chicago.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cast:Mandy Patinkin , Adam Arkin , Hector Elizondo , Peter Berg , Vondie Curtis-Hall , Jayne Brook , Christine Lahti , Rocky Carroll , Mark Harmon , Thomas Gibson , Roxanne Hart , Stacy Edwards , Peter MacNicol , Bob Bancroft , Eric Stoltz , Carla Gugino , Lauren Holly , Barbara Hershey
S1.E0 ∙ Pilot
Dr. Shutt has some difficulty concentrating on his patients after his wife files for divorce. Dr. Geiger agrees to separate conjoined twins, and Dr. Watters ponders suspending the eminent Dr. Thurmond's surgical privileges.
S1.E1 ∙ Over the Rainbow
Dr. Geiger clashes with the hospital's executive committee after he performs an experimental procedure on a deceased patient. Dr. Shutt takes on a hapless HMO representative who insists that a less experienced, (and less expensive) surgeon perform a complex operation.
S1.E2 ∙ Food Chains
The hospital's administrator dies while "with" Angela. Phillip is made acting administrator. Geiger tries to give a patient, who is waiting for a heart transplant, some more time by giving him the heart of a baboon. Thurmond upon learning that Nyland refuses to treat a woman with AIDS, considers firing him, unless Nyland can convince him not to. Thurmond also decides to use Geiger's baboon to treat the woman with AIDS by transplanting it's bone marrow to her.
S1.E3 ∙ With the Greatest of Ease
An accident brings tragedy to a family trapeze act while Dr.Geiger walks the fine edge of sanity. Dr.Shutt has a run-in with a bigoted patient and Camille returns to life without Aaron.
S1.E4 ∙ You Gotta Have Heart
When an infant suffering from a rare birth defect is pronounced legally dead, the child's mother refuses to grant an organ donation that could save another baby's life.
S1.E5 ∙ Shutt Down
Dr Shutt struggles with his ambivalence over the death of a gang member who opens fire in the ER. A boy is mysteriously paralyzed after a successful operation to correct a circulatory defect.
S1.E6 ∙ Genevieve and Fat Boy
Dr. Geiger performs a risky heart operation on an overweight mob killer who's a key witness for the FBI. Two weary residents plot a practical joke to get even with the dour Dr. Geiger. The budding relationship between Dr. Shutt and Dr. Antonovich takes an unexpected turn.
S1.E7 ∙ Death Be Proud
A 12-year-old girl arrives for surgery to correct a severely cleft palate and suffers serious complications from another birth defect. A young nurse interferes in Dr. Shutt's care for the comatose Dr. Antonovich.
S1.E8 ∙ Heartbreak
A 12-year-old girl arrives for surgery to correct a severely cleft palate and suffers serious complications from another birth defect. A young nurse interferes in Dr. Shutt's care for the comatose Dr. Antonovich.
S1.E9 ∙ The Quarantine
Nyland informs Geiger that they may have been exposed to contagious disease. So they go into quarantine. And they have to inform everyone they may have come in contact with. And it begins with Camille whom Nyland had sex with. Then comes Aaron who was with Camille. Then Thurmond whom Camille performed CPR on. Then Nurse Atkisson whom Nyland was with. And finally Watters who came in contact with Atkisson. So while they wait, Geiger decides to open a discussion that becomes heated.
S1.E10 ∙ Love and Hope
Dr. Geiger takes part in a concert with his wife and her fellow patients. Aaron and Camille face new anxieties, and a patient admitted for one small problem ends up facing numerous ailments he never had before.
S1.E11 ∙ Great White Hope
A teenage boxer whom Dr. Watters helped train suffers a seizure. Birch lends support to a pregnant girl. Dr. Shutt is audited by the IRS and gets an unpleasant surprise.
S1.E12 ∙ Small Sacrifices
Dr. Infante reattaches a digit severed from the hand of a flutist. A former patient brings suit against the hospital and its doctors, and recruits some out of town help. A mysterious young man helps out in the ER.
S1.E13 ∙ Cutting Edges
Laurie has a big surprise for Jeffrey. An inner-city doctor suspects his teenage patient may have breast cancer.
S1.E14 ∙ Life Support
Dr. Geiger faces a volatile situation when a donor heart he tabbed for one of his patients is redirected to one of Hancock's. Dr. Shutt and Camille work to remove high-tech bullets from a cop that might explode at any minute.
S1.E15 ∙ Freeze Outs
The doctors race to save a boy who was submerged in icy waters for over three hours. An AIDS patient fights for his life and Dr. Infante has a startling request for Dr. Geiger.
S1.E16 ∙ Growth Pains
An explosion sends a dry cleaner to the ER. Dr. Kadalski is pressured to change his unorthodox methods when he treats a man who compulsively pulls out his hair. A fearful Birch lets off steam at Jeffrey as baby Alicia's condition worsens.
S1.E17 ∙ Informed Consent
Birch goes to court when Dr. Hancock is dropped from an HMO's list of providers. Shutt and Geiger offer to perform two experimental procedures simultaneously to save an elderly patient. Dr. Kronk finds out that his new girlfriend has been keeping an important fact about herself a secret.
S1.E18 ∙ Internal Affairs
Dr. Kronk uses extreme measures to save a life at an auto accident. Dr. Shutt finds himself on a collision course with Watters when the chief of staff learns of Shutt's plans for treating a man with Parkinson's disease. Dr. Nyland's a mess after presiding over an operation on an old flame that results in the removal of a healthy adrenal gland.
S1.E19 ∙ The Virus
A public-health official threatens to close the hospital as staff members race to isolate the source of a deadly bacteria that's invaded the O.R.. A distraught Dr. Infante turns to Dr. Geiger for support.
S1.E20 ∙ Full Moon
A troubled Dr. Geiger seeks a blessing from his institutionalized ex-wife so he can continue his relationship with Dr. Infante. A dying AIDS patient hopes Hancock can arrange a surgical procedure that would allow him to see one more sunrise.
S1.E21 ∙ Songs from the Cuckoo Birds
After the state suspends his license to practice medicine, Dr. Geiger faces an administrative hearing in which his personal life is scrutinized as never before. And Alan feels slighted when Jeffrey chooses another lawyer to lead his defense.
S2.E1 ∙ Hello Goodbye
Jeffrey is distinctly unpopular with his fellow surgeons in the wake of his psychological problems. Jeffrey operates on one of Hancock's patients. Nyland performs the wrong operation on a patient. Birch offends everyone in his parenting class by offering unsolicited advice. Shutt's father brings a patient to Chicago Hope in the hopes Aaron will operate on her. Dr. Kronk participates in a charity bachelor auction, where he's 'purchased' by Dr. Kate Austin, new CT surgeon at the hospital.
S2.E2 ∙ Rise from the Dead
The wife of a comatose patient seeks to impregnate herself to preserve her husband's legacy. Nyland squares off against a patient when he refuses to fill her Demerol prescription. An inquisitive Kronk discovers that Nyland is the one who got the patient hooked on the drug in the first place. It's a battle of egos when Geiger meets with Austin. Aaron and Camille mutually agree on divorce. Alicia, Alan's child, has her baptism.
S2.E3 ∙ A Coupla Stiffs
Watters causes permanent damage when he participates in a charity boxing match. Diane intervenes when Billy wants to amputate a patient's leg. Dr. Grad suggests sewing maggots into the leg. Aaron and Camille make their divorce final.
S2.E4 ∙ Every Day a Little Death
Kronk and his dog move into Nyland's posh apartment after Billy's place burns down. Yvette White initially agrees to donate her late son's organs to others, but withdraws her consent when she discovers his heart will go to a Nazi-in-training. Birch finally gets up the nerve to invite Diane to lunch.
S2.E5 ∙ Wild Cards
Jeffrey becomes even more antagonistic towards Austin, believing she's out to get him. Camille considers heading up a new outpatient program. Birch gets up the nerve to express his feelings to Diane when her old boyfriend shows up. Aaron grapples with his feelings for both Camille and Kate.
S2.E6 ∙ Who Turned out the Lights?
A violent storm on Halloween night knocks out the hospital's power immediately following the arrival of several auto-accident victims.
S2.E7 ∙ From Soup to Nuts
Laurie invites Jeffrey, Aaron, and Camille to her wedding, which needs to be held soon due to the minister's impending transfer out of the asylum. Dr. Sutton operates on a fetus. Birch and Watters testify at a hearing on medicare, but are surprised when they're ambushed by a politically minded senator. Camille displays signs of depression.
S2.E8 ∙ Leave of Absence
Geiger desperately attempts to save Birch's life after he is senselessly gunned down by street thugs.
S2.E9 ∙ Stand
Dr. Watters remains 'sick' three days after Birch's death. Alan's sister Marguerite surprises Phillip, striking up an immediate friendship with him. Dr. Austin, the interim 'interim chief of staff', abuses her power to first stop a procedure, then give it the go-ahead. The unconventional procedure, performed on Multiple Sclerosis patient Joe Springer, goes forward. Diane, still suffering from the effects of the shooting, is sent home by Kate. Austin later reveals that she was raped many years ago, trying to let Diane know that she knows what it feels like to be powerless. The new obstetrician throws a 'healing' party to try to help the staff attain closure with Jeffrey.
S2.E10 ∙ The Ethics of Hope
Dr. Austin is to blame when she inadvertently leaves a clamp inside a patient that later dies. Kate struggles over the dilemma of whether to stay silent and protect both herself and the hospital, or tell the patient's parents. Billy and Danny search for a street 'doctor', after one of his patients is brought in with severe internal damage. Dr. Grad successfully inoculates an ape with the AIDS virus using a vaccine she created. Harold Aldrich is temporarily hired as Birch's replacement. Camille asks Nyland to write her a prescription for sleeping pills.
S2.E11 ∙ Christmas Truce
Nyland and Hancock deliver a Christmas present to Ricky Jackson for Kronk. Gunfire erupts while they're in the apartment, forcing the doctors to stay until the gunfire abates. While there, Nyland does his best to save a man impaled on a pipe, while Dennis braves bullets to bring in medical assistance. Diane worries that she might have contracted HIV from Bam-Bam, a laboratory animal. Camille is brought in after suffering a seizure while dancing. Billy treats a high-school baseball phenom with possible colon cancer.
S2.E12 ∙ Transplanted Affection
Kate's ex-husband, Tommy Wilmette, sues for custody of Sara. A possible heart transplant comes to the hospital. With Austin tied up in court, Nyland 0-1 in transplants (ep #9), and Kronk inexperienced, Phillip calls Jeffrey in to perform the transplant. Jeffrey's titanic ego meets its match in Wilmette's. The new OB brings in a 'hidden patient', a woman six months brain dead, kept alive to deliver her unborn child.
S2.E13 ∙ Three Men and a Lady
Aldrich begins acting bizarrely, leading the staff to conduct a series of tests to figure out what's wrong. Nyland's 'love of his life', Nurse Amy Peletier, comes back into his life and disrupts Camille with her radically different ideas.
S2.E14 ∙ Right to Life
Dennis is vilified by the media when he performs an abortion to save a mother's life. The mother sues, despite the fact that she gave consent, plus the fact that the child was already dead. Dr. Kronk treats a female impersonator suffering from AIDS. Nyland has his hands full with an abandoned six-year-old.
S2.E15 ∙ Hearts and Minds
Aaron and psychiatrist Bix Konstadt plan to operate on a young boy with obsessive compulsive disorder in an attempt to cure him. Aaron worries when Bix admits she's a manic depressive off her medication. Watters, Nyland and Kronk have their hands full with a woman who may have been abducted by aliens. Heart transplant recipient Henry Alden (#34) is brought in complaining of pain. Alden insists on speaking to Robert Malzone, the husband of the woman who donated the heart.
S2.E16 ∙ Women on the Verge
Annie Rueman comes back into Billy's life. Annie is worried that her estrogen pills aren't working. Kate treats a young man with a crush on her. Aaron and Bix present their proposed operation for Eric to the board, sending a very agitated Bix into a depressed state.
S2.E17 ∙ Life Lines
Bix is reduced to a mere shell of herself without her lithium. Aaron goes ahead with the procedure on Eric Dipretto. Kronk files a sexual harassment suit against Austin after she bullies him yet again. Nyland and Billy try to perform an intestinal transplant against Austin's and Watter's wishes. Dr. Austin campaigns for head of surgery.
S2.E18 ∙ Sexual Perversity in Chicago Hope
Camille comforts a rape victim while Austin, who is a colleague of the accused rapist, refuses to believe the alleged victim. Billy and Diane counsel a newlywed couple on the best ways to engage themselves in bed. Sutton is in disbelief when he discovers Dennis has been tolerating a 30-year-old dating and living with a 14-year-old. Finally, Shutt is the victim of mistaken identity when a 3rd year resident mistakenly assumes Shutt is gay.
S2.E19 ∙ Sweet Surrender
Kronk and Grad wake up in bed together. Diane finds out about Kronk's night with Kate. Dr. Watters treats a young girl suffering from kidney damage. Watters tries to bring her feuding parents together to help her psyche. Kate discovers her ex-husband plans to move to Boston with Sara. Camille invites Dennis on a date.
S2.E20 ∙ The Parent Rap
Dr. Austin struggles to make her father, a Christian Scientist, listen to reason when he refuses to let her operate on his heart. Aaron grapples with his feelings toward his father in the wake of his death. Meanwhile, Dr. Sutton delivers a child of indeterminate gender, forcing the infant's parents to make a difficult decision. Jeffrey Geiger provides comic relief, returning as a member of a performing clown troupe.
S2.E21 ∙ Quiet Riot
Dr. Geiger and his clown troupe entertain injured children. Ricky Jackson, Billy's ghetto protege, visits the ER for a look at real medicine. A psychotic, abusive, insane family of four pays a visit to the ER when a session with their therapist really goes bad.
S2.E22 ∙ Ex Marks the Spot
Dr. Sutton is shocked when his three ex-wives arrive at the same time, two of him tell him they're lovers, the other is admitted to the ER. Austin pursues the chief of surgery office with zeal. Hancock's sister comes in after being beaten by her husband. Danny Nyland hits on the fiancée of a wealthy patient.
S2.E23 ∙ Last One Out, Get the Lights
Kate is incensed when her ex-husband, Tommy Wilmette, announces plans to buy the hospital. Danny treads thin ice when he continues his relationship with Valerie. Kate tries to convince wealthy patient Jack Calverton to buy Chicago Hope before Wilmette does. Hancock's brother-in-law visits his battered wife, taunting Dennis.
S3.E1 ∙ Out of Africa
Nyland returns from his vacation with Valerie to find he's been suspended and replaced as chief of trauma by Dr. Keith Wilkes. Kate comes back from New Zealand facing both kidnapping charges and a suspension. A new group of interns comes into the hospital, eager to change things. Uncertainty hangs in the air over the future of the hospital when Tommy Wilmette considers drastic cuts. Billy and Diane work in a Maasai village in Africa. Aaron and Phillip clash when Aaron becomes 'buddy buddy' with Wilmette.
S3.E2 ∙ Back to the Future
Phillip travels to Wyoming to recruit Jack McNeil, an orthopedic surgeon. McNeil refuses, for reasons unknown. McNeil is haunted from memories of the Oklahoma City bombing. New Trauma chief Keith Wilkes is in hot water after he removes narcotics from a patient's intestine and flushes them. Grad returns from Africa and is offered a general practitioner position. Dr. Austin cares for her dying father. Ron Silver continues to appear.
S3.E3 ∙ Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Aaron and Dr. McNeil clash when the two have conflicting ideas for a patient's treatment. Diane struggles with the transition from animal research to treating patients when she has a needy patient. Kate is car-jacked, loses her father's ashes, and gets on Tommy's bad side again.
S3.E4 ∙ Liver Let Die
Dr. Watters treats a mother with a mystifying liver ailment. Nyland and Austin return to the hospital for suspension hearings. Dr. Shutt begins to fear he's attracted to his male research assistant. Dennis and McNeil treat an aspiring Olympic cyclist with pain in her knees.
S3.E5 ∙ Liar, Liar
Life is tough for the senior doctors, with Shutt being treated like a second class citizen in the hospital and Austin learning she's been reinstated but with a substantial pay cut, a different title, and a much smaller office. Aaron tries to develop his shunt, with input from new resident Dr. Carr. Jack treats an elderly man who tries to set McNeil's priorities straight. The hospital hires a publicist to create a promotional video, which in the end, seems vaguely familiar.
S3.E6 ∙ Higher Powers
Billy returns from Africa, leaving the peaceful Maasai for America's turbulence. Billy is threatened by a 12-year-old after his drug-dealing brother, under Billy's care, dies. Austin faces the impact of her actions when she and her co-workers are sued in the Harrod death (ep #32). Aaron finds himself ill at ease about an upcoming date with physical therapist Karen Wilder.
S3.E7 ∙ A Time to Kill
Nyland treats an amnesiac who wanders away and is mistaken by Phillip for an old medical student. Aaron operates on a death row inmate who begs Aaron to kill him on the table, dying before the state has a chance to execute him. McNeil suspects an old girlfriend of abusing her mother.
S3.E8 ∙ A Day in the Life
A potentially brain-dead donor comes into the ER. With doctors from all over Chicago waiting, the body is first declared brain-dead, then after a re-examination they find he's only in a coma. The doctors bicker over what to do.
S3.E9 ∙ Divided Loyalty
Dr. Wilkes takes flak from Dennis for not giving back to his community. Billy has a tough decision to make when a childhood friend show up at his apartment in the early morning hours with a bullet in him. Diane believes Billy's friend may have been involved in a savage beating.
S3.E10 ∙ V-Fibbing
Kate is faced with a dilemma when an Asian patient is diagnosed with cancer, yet her family requests the patient not be informed to save face. First year resident Underhill has his own decision when he discovers distressing news about a patient's husband. Dr. McNeil treats a jockey suffering from back pain, which leads to a personal crisis when he's tempted to re-enter the world of gambling.
S3.E11 ∙ Mummy Dearest
Jack, re-energized by his descent into gambling, performs a daring procedure, attaching a man's left hand onto his right arm. Aaron treats a man who, after surgery, completely forgets the last ten years of his life and speaks in loving terms about his now ex-wife. Aaron loses his cool when his car is stalked by an irate man who feels Aaron personally wronged him by inadvertently parking too close to his van. Diane examines a mummy.
S3.E12 ∙ Split Decisions
Dr. Wilkes copes with personal and professional problems as he tries to reach a compromise with his wife regarding an unexpected pregnancy while trying to convince a suicidal patient he pulled out of the river that a crippling operation is his only chance for life. Aaron takes revenge against a deadbeat debtor by taking his money's worth from the patient's clothing store. Dr. Austin falls for a visiting dignitary.
S3.E13 ∙ Verdicts
The trial of Hancock's brother-in-law gets underway, with Dennis still unsure of how his sister will testify. Rumors about Phillip's personal life fly through the hospital after Maggie overhears an intimate conversation. Dr. Austin tries to save one of two children, both victims of a hit and run. Dr. McNeil decides to quit gambling. Aaron screws up his courage and decides to ask Maricela on a date.
S3.E14 ∙ The Day of the Rope
Billy and Diane are caught in the middle of a hostage situation after two revolutionaries shoot up a political convention. Dr. Kronk risks his life to treat a wounded rebel, while the other criminals grow increasingly tense.
S3.E15 ∙ Take My Wife, Please
Aaron reunites with an old friend, David, who has only a few months left to live. His friend suggests Aaron marry his wife, who married David over Aaron, after David dies. Aaron gets drunk and runs into (imagines?) Jeffrey. Wilkes doubts his wife when she claims to have had a miscarriage. Wilkes and Nyland's feud escalates after a patient dies. Jack refuses to listen to Phillip when he offers to help Jack overcome his gambling problem, but later asks Karen Wilder to help him. Aaron tries to figure out what to do about Maricela.
S3.E16 ∙ Missed Conception
Kate's friend, feminist professor Marina, tries desperately to 'get pregnant' but has to work against, rather than with, her husband. Aaron works against Tommy Wilmette in an attempt to get his friend, David, approved for a controversial gene therapy treatment. Diane tries to get marijuana for an ill patient.
S3.E17 ∙ Mother, May I?
Kate and Tommy travel to Washington D.C. to speak out on Health Care Reform. Marina arranges to adopt the child of a pregnant teenager. Jack treats the incredibly annoying woman.
S3.E18 ∙ Growing Pains
Phillip and Aaron present their plan to buy Chicago Hope to the staff, where it's met with resounding complaints. Aaron tries to define his relationship with Maricela. The ER treats a patient with numerous psychosomatic ailments. Kronk gets in trouble when he performs a lung reduction operation, a procedure vetoed by the patient's HMO. Billy visits the patient's HMO representative, the 'freaky' Jonathan Saunders, to straighten things out.
S3.E19 ∙ The Son Also Rises
Aaron meets man who claims to be his real father. After learning the truth from his mother and talking to Phillip he tries to get to know the man. And at the same Phillip tries to establish contact with his son.
S3.E20 ∙ Second Chances
The whole staff comes together when Danny Nyland is horribly injured in a car accident. Austin tries to get a heart transplant for a Pulitzer Prize winning author who's already received, and abused, a heart transplant. Jack falls deeper into gambling.
S3.E21 ∙ Positive I.D.s
Nyland, fresh off his injury leave, puts all his energy into identifying an assault victim. Billy has qualms when a patient who tested positive for the breast cancer gene asks him to perform a preventive double mastectomy. Kate tries to get Sara into an exclusive school. Diane proposes to Billy.
S3.E22 ∙ Leggo My Ego
The hospital endures Kate's massive ego when she's followed by a newspaper reporter. Jack tries to save a dying child against the parent's explicit wishes and later falls deeply into debt. Both Billy and Diane have second thoughts about their engagement.
S3.E23 ∙ Colonel of Truth
Watters is reunited with his Vietnam C.O. when the colonel is admitted suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Phillip is baffled by the colonel's refusal to accept treatment. Kate has her hands full when Sara is traumatized by the accidental death of a Little League teammate. Wilkes and Nyland have a role reversal, with Danny staying calm and serene and Wilkes acting the hothead, over Ricky Jackson's use of ER supplies.
S3.E24 ∙ Lamb to the Slaughter
Assistant State's Attorney Charles Lamb interviews Chicago Hope staffers Wilkes, Nyland, McNeil, and Watters to determine responsibility in the death of a patient.
S3.E25 ∙ Love on the Rocks
Jack has his hands full with two of Karen's patients, Harriet Owens, who hasn't moved out of his house yet, and the delusional Luke Sarison, who believes McNeil is his father. Aaron and Kate vie for chief of surgery. Phillip is invited to join his latest girlfriend, Emma, when she moves to Paris. Danny Nyland is arrested for the Jessup death, and subsequently transferred from the ER to the blood bank.
S3.E26 ∙ Hope Against Hope
Jeffrey Geiger returns, bearing the news that he's a partner in the newly formed Hope Health Care. Kate bears with Jeffrey's advice in a critical heart transplant operation. Wilkes takes a wild helicopter ride to fetch the donor heart. Dr. Kronk tries to find a solution for his Alzheimer's afflicted father. McNeil and Shutt pontificate about life and religion following a patient's claim that she was healed by a vision of the virgin mother.
S4.E1 ∙ Guns 'n' Roses
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.
S4.E2 ∙ The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen... by Proxy
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 can't 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.
S4.E3 ∙ Brain Salad Surgery
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.
S4.E4 ∙ Sympathy for the Devil
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.
S4.E5 ∙ ...And the Hand Played On
Dr. Shutt may have brain damage after his aneurysm, so a new neurosurgeon, Dr. Lisa Catera, is brought into the hospital. Dr. Austin gets trapped on an elevator with a sexy electrician.
S4.E6 ∙ The Lung and the Restless
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.
S4.E7 ∙ White Trash
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.
S4.E8 ∙ Winging It
Jack 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.
S4.E9 ∙ Cabin Fever
A '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.
S4.E10 ∙ All in the Family
Dr. 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.
S4.E11 ∙ On Golden Pons
Phillip 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 is sentenced to community service work at Hancock's clinic. Diane's loneliness sinks her Holiday spirits. Jack plays Santa for sick children.
S4.E12 ∙ Broken Hearts
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.
S4.E13 ∙ Memento Mori
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.
S4.E14 ∙ Psychodrama
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.
S4.E15 ∙ The Ties That Bind
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.
S4.E16 ∙ The Things We Do for Love
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.
S4.E17 ∙ Liver, Hold the Mushrooms
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.
S4.E18 ∙ Waging Bull
Phillip, 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.
S4.E19 ∙ Objects Are Closer Than They Appear
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.
S4.E20 ∙ Deliverance
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.
S4.E21 ∙ Bridge over Troubled Watters
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.
S4.E22 ∙ Risky Business
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.
S4.E23 ∙ Absent Without Leave
Aaron 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.
S4.E24 ∙ Physician, Heal Thyself
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.
S5.E1 ∙ Sarindipity
Dr. Shutt begins to do surgery again although his future in psychiatry is uncertain. A "suicide doctor" tries to get the hospital transplant committee to use organs that were not harvested properly, and promises one to Austin's patient without her consent. Sarin gas is released in a bank threatening many lives including Hancock's, who risks his own to save others. Wilkes loses it after the incident on the heels of the previous shooting at his son's school, leading him to take a drastic step. Diane returns to work after her maternity leave.
S5.E2 ∙ Austin Space
Austin has to give a physical exam to a former astronaut scheduled to fly the space shuttle. An old friend of McNeil's arrives at Hope dying of pancreatic cancer. Shutt treats a young rabbinical student who attempted suicide.
S5.E5 ∙ One Hundred and One Damnations
Dr. Waters has a fever and gets a visit from Alan, the Chicago Hope lawyer who was shot and killed. Camille returns and her and Aaron rekindle their romance, Dr. Geiger and Dr. Nyland also pay a visit. A man has multiple surgeries while his disabled wife waits and Dr. McNeil gets an unexpected reward.
S5.E9 ∙ Tantric Turkey
Thanksgiving at Chicago Hope. Billy's mom shows up for Thanksgiving and goes into labour. A 13 year old Buddhist Llama is admitted under Dr. Yates with cardiac concerns and anxiety. Aaron has Thanksgiving with an actor who thinks he is Jesus.
S5.E16 ∙ Home Is Where the Heartache Is
Jack gets bad news and has to return home. Billy's friend needs a new heart. Dr. Cacaci is peddling a line of home and beauty products. Jack and Lisa's relationship hits a crossroad.
S5.E17 ∙ A Goy and His Dog
Catera tries to get a terminally ill patient into a cancer test study. One of Shutt's patients confesses to murder. Cronk struggles with the decision to put his seriously ill dog to sleep.
S5.E18 ∙ Teacher's Pet
An overweight patient makes Keith re-evaluate his own life choices. A visit from a former supervisor has Kate reliving their past relationship and re-evaluating her own relationships with others. Diane gets test results.
S5.E19 ∙ Vanishing Acts
Parents facing a horrible situation want to gamble on future technology. Aaron's psych experiment goes horribly wrong. An Alzheimer's patient confuses Jack with someone from her past.
S5.E21 ∙ And Baby Makes 10
A multiple birth has Chicago Hope hopping. Bobby and Diane help a very unusual patient. Aaron's dog needs therapy.
S5.E22 ∙ Kiss of Death
A man from Kate's past makes a brief but dramatic reappearance. A pregnant cancer patient faces an impossible choice. Dr. Cacaci makes a retaliatory allegation against Philip.
S5.E23 ∙ The Heavens Can Wait
Mass casualties arrive from a rave. Among them are drug overdoses, a young woman who was raped, and a young man who changes the course of Kate's life. Philip continues to refuse to participate in his own defense.
S5.E24 ∙ Curing Cancer
Jeffrey Geiger returns having bought controlling interest in the hospital and he fires Austin, Kronk, Yeats, Catera, and Hancock. They decide to pursue their options. Aaron consults with the new pediatric surgeon, Gina Simon about a new born baby. And a young surgeon who was hired by Austin before her dismissal arrives and Geiger puts her to work.
S6.E1 ∙ Team Play
The new team deal with incidents including a patient who dies following a routine liposuction procedure and a priest with a genital mutation.
S6.E2 ∙ Y' Gotta Have Heart
Geiger and Waters argue over which patient is more deserving of a donor heart.
S6.E3 ∙ Oh What a Piece of Work Is Man
A newborn's life is in the hands of a heart surgeon who has Tourette's Syndrome.
S6.E4 ∙ Vigilance and Care
Dr. McNeil puts the life of a young ballplayer in jeopardy while trying to save the boy's arm.
S6.E5 ∙ Humpty Dumpty
The surgeons of Chicago Hope work together in an attempt to save the life of Dr. Cacaci.
S6.E6 ∙ Upstairs, Downstairs
The widow of a heart attack victim wants to be impregnated with sperm from her husband's body but his parents object to the procedure. A young boy requires brain surgery to remove a tumour. Down in the basement, two medical transcribers plot to sell copies of a doctor's notes to a tabloid newspaper.
S6.E7 ∙ White Rabbit
A killer virus sweeps through the hospital, killing everyone who catches it.
S6.E8 ∙ The Heart to Heart
Dr. Alberghetti performs experimental lung surgery with help, via satellite and the internet, from a doctor in Sri Lanka. Dr. Geiger helps his daughter Alicia prepare for her Thanksgiving play.
S6.E9 ∙ The Golden Hour
Jack & Aaron deal with shooting victims at a bookie joint in an old warehouse while the shooter keeps the police at bay. Drs. Alberghetti and Hanlon fight to save a woman who was brutally stabbed.
S6.E11 ∙ Faith, Hope & Surgery
Dr. Simon performs brain surgery on a friend suffering from Parkinson's and then has to deal with the man's mother when things go wrong. Dr. Geiger deals with a doctor who is doing research into human cloning and with an elderly patient who is ready to die.
S6.E12 ∙ Letting Go
Keith's estranged aunt, Dr. Odelia Wilkes, is brought in to perform surgery on a tuberculosis patient. Dr. Simon struggles to diagnose a patient whose twin sister died from leukaemia.
S6.E13 ∙ Boys Will Be Girls
Jack and Jeremy help a teenage girl who was born a boy. Gina and Francesca treat an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer's.
S6.E14 ∙ Gray Matters
A father must choose which of his two dying children will get his liver donation. Dr. Rose Weber suffers a seizure at work. Aaron and Gina deal with their budding relationship.
S6.E15 ∙ Painful Cuts
At the same time his daughter Alicia needs heart surgery, Geiger is pressured by the board to make massive cuts to the hospital's budget. Conjoined twins arrive in the emergency room, one suffering a cut on his leg, the other needing an appendectomy.
S6.E16 ∙ Simon Sez
Gina helps a mentally challenged couple after discovering a surgeon at the hospital had sterilized the woman years earlier.
S6.E17 ∙ Cold Hearts
A steroid using wrestler with a knee injury learns she may have cancer. Aaron and Gina come up with a plan to use hypothermia on a young girl to better her chances of surviving brain surgery. Keith's son Ray asks his dad for help with a sick tarantula.
S6.E18 ∙ Devoted Attachment
An old friend of Jack's shows up in the ER with a minor gunshot wound and a major heart defect. The conjoined twins return to the hospital and when Jeremy discovers one of them has developed pancreatic cancer, she tries to convince them to have separation surgery.
S6.E19 ∙ Miller Time
Chicago Hope is bought by an HMO and new CEO Hugh Miller starts making cuts. A young couple learns their pregnancy is not progressing normally.
S6.E20 ∙ Thoughts of You
Gina and Aaron are given permission to perform experimental brain surgery on a paralyzed patient but Jack has to jump through hoops to be allowed to do a hip replacement on an ex-football player. Jeremy and Francesca discuss their feelings about new CEO Hugh Miller.
S6.E21 ∙ Everybody's Special at Chicago Hope
After suffering a medical emergency, Hugh experiences care at Chicago Hope firsthand. A woman who went into a coma giving birth reawakens after 15 years and is reunited with her husband and daughter. A man is being denied coverage for life saving heart surgery by his HMO who consider the procedure to be experimental.
S6.E22 ∙ Have I Got a Deal for You
Hoyt Hospital Services wants to buy the hospital as an empty facility; Dr. Simon has an ectopic pregnancy; Dr. McNeill performs a miraculous surgery
