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Subj : Re: premiere summary?
To   : alt.tv.er
From : Sharon
Date : Mon Sep 26 2005 17:12:11

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

To save you time, spoiler space is not required once the show has aired on 
the east coast. Thanks for the quick summary.

> Plot thread1: The Soap opera stuff
> -Continued from last season, Alex (Sam's kid) ran away to find his
> father.
> -Luka and Sam end up at the police station to report him missing
> -The police find some kid matching Alex's description in diabetic
> shock.  Turns out it's not him, but Sam freaks anyways.
> -(Meanwhile...) We see Alex hop onto new pickup truck locked into a
> transport that's hauling new cars to dealerships (presumably still on
> his way to Colorado to find his Dad).  Unknown to him, his Dad lives in
> Colorado, but he's a guest of the state.
> -After Sam finishes freaking (this time), she convinces Luka to go on a
> road trip to Colorado, figuring Alex will likely find his way there
> somehow.
> -Along the way, Sam freaks out some more, and after driving long hours
> without sleep, she starts falling asleep and WHAM!  She kills
> Bullwinkle (and Luka's SUV).
> -A passing motorist stops to help, and after checking on her and Luka,
> he says he's got a rifle in the truck to put down the Moose.  Before
> the animal rights nuts get all huffy, bear in mind that if you ever hit
> a large animal like that at highway speeds, the animal is going to die.
> It's just a matter of how  much will be involved.
> -Side note:  The SUV is in excellent shape for a Moose strike.  Was she
> moving at 40Kph (school zone speed) when they hit?
> -Sam freaks out some more, and gets back in the truck to try and keep
> going.  However, with the windshield smashed, the radiator smashed, and
> likely the engine suffered some damage, and had bits of moose meat,
> entrails and antlers embedded in there, it's not going anywhere.  The
> sound of a gunshot brings her out of her stupor.
> -They and the SUV end up in a small town nearby, where it's being
> repaired.  Sam freaks again (I really should cut and paste that), and
> they end up hitchhiking to Colorado.
> -FINALLY.  The cops find Alex.  He's on a park bench somewhere in
> Colorado (hey! the kid made it to Colorado!).  Somewhere along the way,
> Luka and Sam rent a car and go to find Alex.
> -Sam tells Alex about his Dad being in prison and they take him to
> visit him.  At this point (and a few earlier than this that I failed to
> mention), Sam and Luka get into discussions/arguments about becoming a
> family together.  Sam says something about not wanting anymore kids,
> and how she just wants her life back.
>
> --------------------------
> Thread2: Back at the ER.  The old gang returns, and this time, Abby,
> Neela and Ray are R2's, supervising interns.
>
> First Up: Ray.
> -Worst teacher ever!
> -Ray's pissed off that his students are asking too many questions --
> and more specifically, that they're asking questions about stuff that
> he didn't study for.
> -Not much happens but this about sums up his turn at bat:
>       -student asks about his choice of prescribed drug over another
>       -Answer:  <condescending as possible> we use it
> because...erm...it's
>                             a good drug.
> - Sad, but post secondary, teachers like him are the most common.
> -Gets pissed that Hela was asked to evaluate him.
> -Strike 3, he's out of there.
>
> Second up: Neela (nightshift)
> -She's got only one student, but he's a weird one, and he's a moron
> (remember that joke about "what do you call the guy that graduates last
> from med school" ?)
> - The ER is loaded, and Morris (the other moron) pulls rank and puts
> her in charge as he goes to get some sleep.  Neela isn't impressed.
> - All night, the student keeps screwing up and when Neela corrects the
> error and brings it up, he apologizes and compliments her.  Weird...
> It's like this guy's doing it on purpose to get attention or something.
> - She gets fed up with his screw ups after he nearly kills a patient.
> She confronts him about how he should pay more attention to what he's
> doing, and to knock off the Norman Bates act because it's creepy.  He
> freaks and runs away crying.
> - Transition to day shift, and the hand off to abby.  Morris crawls out
> the back somewhere, stretches and squawks at Neela for not clearing the
> board.  Bet she's wishing for that moose rifle right about now.
>
> Batter Up!  Abby:
> -OK, she's off to a good start with her students, her students like her
> and she's got that class participation thing going.
> -Alright, she lets her students loose on their own, checking in on them
> as needed and her students seem competant, if a little inexperienced.
> -She's also answering their questions.  Wish I had profs like her.
> -It's going way too smoothly, we need to trip her up.
> -All right, Pratt orders her to step it up, as the board's still full
> and needs clearing.
> - She jumps into Superdoc mode shoving her students aside and doing the
> whole treat and street thing.  Whoo-hoo!  Done! The board is clean!
> - Pratt takes her down a notch by mentioning that this isn't her job
> anymore.  Her job is now to teach, and she may have cleared the board,
> but the students didn't learn anything.
>
> -As long as this summary seems, nothing much really happens in this ep.
> I can really see why Sam dozed off.
>

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