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No Strings Attached is the 14th episode of the 9th season of "E.R."

Plot

NBC Description

ABBY AND DR. ROMANO GET TROUBLING NEWS WHILE TEEN GIRLS ARE STRUCK BY ERRANT AUTO: Abby (Maura Tierney) is distraught when she learns that her mentally troubled brother is missing while flying over the Great Lakes, a desperate Dr. Romano (Paul McCrane) gets some depressing news and the hospital staff is confronted with numerous teenaged girls who are run down by a fellow female student suffering from a rare disease that might have caused the tragedy.

Elsewhere, Dr. Chen's (Ming-Na) relationship with Dr. Pratt (Mekhi Phifer) takes a new turn. A daughter wants to take extreme measures to keep her extremely elderly mother alive.

Dr. Weaver (Laura Innes) gets a promotion from a grateful alderman (guest star Bruce Weitz, "Hill Street Blues") and Dr. Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) ponders her pending blind date with a hunk. Noah Wyle and Sharif Atkins also star.

Synopsis

Dr. Weaver is appointed to a prestigious post by John Bright, the alderman she recently treated. She's uncomfortable as to his real motivation. A young woman is brought into the ER after accidentally driving her car into a group of girls. Dr. Lewis begins to doubt that it was an accident. She also treats a teen-aged boy who is dying from leukemia and who obviously takes an interest in her. Dr. Anspaugh restricts Dr. Romano's access to the operating theater. Lewis is supposed to go on a blind date. A woman brings in her elderly mother but she seems more worried about her mother's monthly pension than the woman's health. Dr. Chen and Dr. Pratt treat a woman who works as a prostitute but Chen is equally worried about the fate of her children. With Carter away on a scuba-diving trip, Abby learns that her brother Eric's airplane may have crashed.

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Trivia

Quotes

Dr. Kerry Weaver: Teenagers torture each other in high school. Believe me, I remember.