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[[folder:Season 1]]
* [[https://youtu.be/2Xe1z0EmNN4 When Benton's mother dies]]. Throughout the entire season, we've come to know him as a very stern, stiff, gruff character whose only weak spot is his love for his mother and his complete denial about how ill and frail she's becoming. Towards the start of the episode, we've heard him give a patient's relative a very standard, "I'm sorry" speech. Then he's paged about his mother, rushes to her nursing home, only to get nearly the exact same speech from ''her'' doctor. When her physical therapist comes to comfort him, he finally breaks down and cries in her arms.
** A subplot of "Love's Labor Lost" has Benton bringing her into the hospital after she falls down the stairs. As the nurses try to undress her, she frantically tells them, "No! Not in front of Petey!". Frail, elderly, and possibly developing dementia, and she still has enough dignity to not want her son to see her naked.
* "[[https://youtu.be/qiwvKqxWecw Love's Labors Lost]]". That is all.
* A little girl who had recently been adopted from an Eastern European orphanage is abandoned in the ER by her mother because she's HIV positive. Carol wants to adopt her, and meets all the criteria, but is turned down because she tried to commit suicide last year. She's devastated and, to make matters worse, the adoption was so close to being approved that she'd asked Tatiana, the little girl, if she'd like to come and stay with her.
** What's more, after the adoption denial, she goes running not to her fiancé but to her ex-lover Doug, essentially revealing that she's still in love with him despite how he broke her heart, and he has to struggle not to take advantage of the situation as he's clearly still in love with her.
* Carter's transgender patient jumping off the roof in "[[https://youtu.be/5nRUWA9LTcc ER Confidential]]".
* Doug's girlfriend catches him with another woman and angrily breaks up with him, dismissing all of his apologies and pleas for a second chance. It culminates in him desperately declaring, "It won't happen again" and her sadly responding, "Yes, it will."
* "The Gift". Doug has a LoveEpiphany about Carol and [[RaceForYourLove races]] to her engagement party to tell her. We've all seen this a million times--she returns the sentiment and falls into his arms, right? No. Instead, SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome follows--[[https://youtu.be/3LgfjZQoSoA she screams at him to leave her alone and her fiancé punches him]]. The final shot of him in the episode is of him wandering the streets, looking even ''more'' dejected than before.
* [[https://youtu.be/Ciq0WB3E8r4 Carol's fiance's speech]] to her on their wedding day when he describes how much he loves her--"Every day, I thank God for bringing you into my life"--then asks if she feels the same way, thus forcing her to admit that she doesn't. It really says something for the show's quality that it could make you feel sorry for a Bland Perfection DisposableFiance that the viewer isn't supposed to care about.
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[[folder:Season 2]]
* The death of paramedic/firefighter Raul in "The Healers".
* In “Hell and High Water” the little girl who dies after being hit by a car, after seemingly being stable for most of the episode. The last we see of her bickering divorced parents, they're walking down the hall, utterly devastated, trying to hold each other up. There’s also the implications that the girl deliberately ran into oncoming traffic on order to try and bring her parents back together.
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[[folder:Season 3]]
* [[https://youtu.be/C9szWKSmWzs Mark runs to Union Station to catch Susan and tell her that he loves her]]. Once again, we've all seen this before--she returns the sentiment and falls into his arms, right? [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome No.]] She rejects him, but as her train is departing with her ready to start her new life elsewhere, she calls back to him as she leaves his life, admitting that she does love him too. Mark stares after her departing train, and then [[DidNotGetTheGirl turns and walks away dejectedly]].
* Reese Benton being born, so weak and frail and near the edge of death.
* In "Fear Of Flying", Benton botches a surgery on a neonate, leaving her critically ill. He hovers over her bed and tries to receive the 23rd Psalm, but symbolic of his error, he can't remember the words.
* Carter's simultaneous HeroicBSOD [=/=]SurvivorGuilt [=/=] ILetGwenStacyDie following Dennis Gant's death, blaming himself for failing to realize how much his friend was struggling and failing to help him.
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[[folder:Season 4]]
* Mark struggling with PTSD throughout the first half of the season. He’s having trouble sleeping, added several deadbolts to his door, and he’s snapping at his co-workers and patients over little things. It gets so bad that Jen refuses to bring Rachel over.
* From the season premiere "Ambush":
** Two patients are brought in. One is a young man who was beaten up by a gang he was trying to leave, the other is the GoodSamaritan who was trying to help. The young man recovers, while his would be savior is left paralyzed from the neck down. NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished indeed. The scene of him and his wife talking, trying to say as much as possible before he has to be intubated is especially wrenching.
** Jeanie calming down an emotional patient with HIV.
** Mark’s final monologue to the camera, about his attack.
--->"They haven't been able to catch the guy who did it. At least, they haven't been able to charge anyone. The worst thing about it isn't what it did to me. The worst thing is, it meant that some of the world's violence...has leaked into our own ER. This is meant to be a safe place for fixing people. Now it's vulnerable. And as an ER doctor, that's hard to accept."
* In "Friendly Fire", Al’s HIV status is outed to his friends and co-workers in after a workplace accident. He's soon fired and blacklisted from his job and his best friend turns against him. The two eventually come to blows a few episodes later.
* Benton failing to resuscitate a premature baby in "When the Bough Breaks". It's never explicitly said but he's clearly thinking about his own son.
** From the same episode, a police officer accidentally crashes into the schoolbus. The poor man is in tears, watching all the injured kids be treated.
* Weaver betraying her friendship with Jeanie by firing her due to budget cuts. She clearly doesn’t want to but the new policy demands it.
* The death of Doug’s father. Doug already has complicated feelings towards his dad so he’s forced to confront them once again as he heads to California to collect his belongings.
-->"I hated the son of a bitch. And I loved him. It's never simple, is it?"
** Among his dad’s possessions, Doug finds a film reel of himself as a baby.
* After reconciling the previous season, Jeanie and Al tearfully decide to go their separate ways, as Al wants to start over in Atlanta while Jeanie isn’t ready to leave Chicago.
* Chris Law not accepting Mark’s apology. His brother is dead and whether it was intentional or not, Mark still played a role in it.
-->''Can't front, though. When I heard you got beat down, I was'' glad. ''But whether you get hurt, or my family gets a million dollars...my brother's still dead.''
* In "Think Warm Thoughts", Carol’s patient, Mrs. Reilly, slowly remembering and understanding that she was sexually assaulted.
* Carol telling Doug she kissed another man. Doug is so upset, he abruptly leaves the room without another word.
* In "Family Practice", Mark and his father, a Navy veteran, are at a VA hospital's ER after the latter had suffered a COPD episode, when a mass-casualty trauma arrives, the result of a helicopter crash. The pilot, who is stable when they arrive, is visibly distraught over the accident. Capt. Greene does all he can to re-assure him while three of his crewmates are coding all around them. Then suddenly, the pilot stops breathing as a pneumothorax (pressure from a collapsed lung) suppresses his heart.
** This episode has a few other minor Tear Jerkers as Mark and his father deal with his mother's dementia, and work through their own strained relationship. Fortunately, when Mark is asked to assist with the helicopter crash patients (beginning with giving the pilot CPR and assisting in relieving his pneumothorax, reviving him), this allows him to see the pride with which his father watches him work. It leads to a heartwarming moment toward the end when they finally have a talk, and come to understand one another.
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[[folder:Season 5]]
* In one episode, Carter accidentally resuscitates an old woman who had a do-not-resuscitate order. At the end of the episode, he observes the woman as she dies. Lucy comes in and notes what treatment they normally would give at each stage as the patient's ECG degrades to asystole. While he handles it professionally, it's clear he's near tears.
* The ending of "[[https://youtu.be/vGt5VZmtnE8 The Storm, Part 2]]". Carol tearfully begs Doug not to leave, telling him "I don't want to wake up alone tomorrow." Nearly in tears himself, Doug plants TheBigDamnKiss on her, makes an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, and walks away, leaving her sobbing in the hallway.
-->'''Carol''': ''(tearfully, to Mark, regarding Doug)'' [[OneTrueLove I can't remember a time when I didn't love him]].
** Mark himself has a moment when he declares, his voice wavering, "I love him like a brother, but I can't do this anymore." This is foreshadowed by Doug himself sadly telling Carol, "I've probably lost my best friend."
* In "Responsible Parties", a kid in a car accident on the way to prom ends up with 80% third-degree burns. Lucy is clearly distressed as she holds a phone up to him so he can speak to his parents (who are en route to the hospital) on their car phone.
-->"Dad? I don't think I'm gonna make it out to the lake this summer."
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[[folder:Season 6]]
* The Season 6 arc involving Kerry's beloved mentor Dr. Lawrence, who's developed Alzheimer's--specifically, his discussion with Kerry during his final appearance:
-->'''Lawrence''': I saw a woman this morning - dementia. She had no idea where she was, who she was. In ten years that'll be me. Bedridden...in diapers. Locked away in some home, nobody coming to see me.\\
'''Kerry''': I'll come and see you.\\
'''Lawrence''': But I won't know who you are.
** Kerry crying in that scene, particularly as she said earlier in the episode that she thinks of him as not only her mentor, but her father.
* After everything that Lucy did to make sure that Valerie lived long enough to receive a heart transplant, she has a stroke and ends up in a persistent vegetative state during the surgery. Lucy is devastated and blames herself, while even Romano tells her not to blame herself.
** One of Lucy's early conversations with Valerie has them talking about how Valerie would be graduating soon if she had stayed at university and how Lucy is. Neither of them survive until then, with Valerie dying in her next episode, and Lucy being stabbed to death a few weeks later in February.
*** The FridgeHorror of the Christmas episode where Valerie first appears which concludes with her and Lucy happily chatting, with neither of them realizing that this is the last Christmas for both of them.
* In "Be Still My Heart", Creator/AntonYelchin made his acting debut as Robbie, a young boy whose parents get into a car accident, and though Luka and Carol do their best, neither parent survives. Luka has to break the news to Robbie, and he and his sister ask to see their parents. Robbie's sister can't bring herself to look and runs away (Haleh comforts her), but Robbie looks at them and manages to keep it together, but you can see how devastated he is.
* When [[https://youtu.be/eGq0GAP9wXI Lucy died in "All in the Family]]", because even that bastard of a doctor Romano refused to give up on her when she was clearly beyond help. The worst part is that at one point it looked hopeful, before things took a turn for the worse.
** The desperate way that he reacts when she's gone, trying to go for another cycle, anything to have a chance. Elizabeth's quiet acceptance of Lucy's death is heartbreaking, but who thought they'd see Romano trashing the room because he couldn't save a colleague? He genuinely liked her, because she was smart, gutsy, and stood up to him.
** The silent reaction of the hospital staff waiting at Doc Magoo's for word of Lucy and Carter's conditions, when Chuny arrives to tell them Lucy died.
** Corday's HeroicBSOD after returning home to her mother in the wake of failing to save Lucy, complete with a ThousandYardStare.
** In that same episode, Paul (Creator/DavidKrumholtz), the schizophrenic patient who stabbed Lucy and Carter, is brought back to the ER, and while he's questioned by police and Dr. Deraad, the psychiatrist, Samantha (Creator/LizaWeil), Paul's pregnant wife, is also there, and you can see how heartbroken she is at the realization of how sick Paul is and what he's done.
** After Lucy's death, a letter arrives which reveals that she was matched to the hospital and would have become a psych resident.
* Mark's father dying at the end of Season 6. At this point he has end stage Lung Cancer and is finding it very difficult to breathe. Mark gives him a sponge bath and his father tells him that he used to bathe Mark as a baby. He then says "I love you, Mark" in the saddest way possible, to which Mark responds "I love you too, Dad." Mark then takes a nap and when he wakes up his father is dead.
* [[https://youtu.be/CfP36fTPgUA Benton flat-out begging his ex Carla not to take Reese away from him]], telling her that he means more to him than anything--"I'd lay down in front of a train for him. ''THAT'S'' how much I love him."
* Malucci and Cleo taking care of a little girl after a routine car accident, and finding out from her that she was raped by her father. Though [[PapaWolf Malucci]] assaults the abuser, makes sure he is arrested and tries to comfort the girl as she is being examined, it's clear the damage has been done.
* Happy tears at the end of "[[https://youtu.be/NbGT_DDP86Q Such Sweet Sorrow]]" when Carol and Doug reunited, and sad ones for [[DidNotGetTheGirl poor Luka]].
* The finale of the season, ''May Day'' sees a DownerEnding with Carter revealed to be drug addicted and forced into rehab or he'll be fired, with him punching Benton after walking out of an intervention and finally breaking down over his grief and guilt over the drugs and what happened to him and Lucy, having a part in her death. At the same time Luka suffers a horrendous day including being shot at, fighting with Benton over prioritizing patients, and being forced by red tape to allow a woman to kill her unborn child and combined with it is still reeling from Carol leading him on and abandoning him. To rub salt in the wound by the end of the episode Weaver finds out that Luka's attempt to get a court order declaring the woman incompetent, and thus the baby could be delivered and saved, was approved of by the judge, but [[AllForNothing it arrived too late to save the baby]]. The only mercy of the episode is that nobody appears to tell Luka this. The season ends on a [[HeroicBSOD silent Luka looking thoroughly miserable]] sitting alone at the L Station in the wake of his day, and with a no less grim Carter and Benton sitting on the plane flying to the rehab Carter will be attending.
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[[folder:Season 7]]
* In "[[https://youtu.be/ksqTyen8sQE The Visit]]", Benton's nephew Jesse gets shot. Benton does absolutely everything he can to save him. Finally, when Mark states that Jesse's chest cavity is filling with blood and Elizabeth sadly points out that he's oozing everywhere, Benton starts to fall apart and desperately says, "Come on, Jesse. Come on, man, don't give up on me. Jesse. Come on, man. Don't give up, please. Come on, Jesse." Jesse finally dies from his injuries. Jackie's BigNo over [[OutlivingOnesOffspring the loss of her son]] and the way she and Benton cling to each other as they cry make it all the more painful.
* The flashbacks to the death of Luka's family. His son is already dead when he gets there, and his daughter stops breathing. Luka spends hours performing CPR on his daughter, hoping that help will come, and only stops because he's exhausted. Then he checks his wife's pulse and discovers that she's died while he's been trying to save his daughter.
* In "Piece of Mind", while Mark is recovering from his brain surgery, he's keeping an eye on a child he befriended that has in for the removal of a tumor on his heart. He can only watch helplessly when the boy suddenly begins to bleed out, then the doctors rush in to crack his chest back open and try to fix the complication. At the end, all they can say about the boy is that it's "touch-and-go". We never find out if he survived.
* Maggie (Abby's mum) getting put in restraints. It's quite heartwrenching, especially if you know someone who's suffered from bipolar themselves.
** Abby's entire childhood, which is revealed during Maggie's first arc. Abby had to find ways to trick the neighbours into giving her food so that her and her brother wouldn't go hungry when their mother was in a depressive episode. Abby also reminds her of a time that, after discovering that Abby had been to see her dad when she was 10 years old, Maggie chased her around with a knife. Considering that she screams at Abby and calls her a 'little bitch' while being put in restraints, it's pretty heartbreaking to imagine what it must have been like for Abby to be on the receiving end when she was a child.
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[[folder:Season 8]]
* Benton struggling to explain to Reese, through sign language, that his mother has died.
* "I'll Be Home For Christmas". Having just lost custody of Reese, his stepfather Roger struggles to hold back his tears, obviously not wanting to upset the boy. It's easy to feel sorry for someone who really hasn't done anything wrong and now has to contend with losing both his wife and his stepson within a few months. [[BittersweetEnding Luckily]], he'll still get to see Reese occasionally, but it's still painful.
* "[[https://youtu.be/Z5_WXOsezPY Damage is Done]]" is full of them. As the episode starts Rachel is happy to take care of her baby sister Ella, [[https://youtu.be/z_RUmVnlqcY and offers to make Elizabeth something to eat or drink while she's sick]]. Then Ella gets a hold of ecstasy pills that were in Rachel's backpack. Mark gets told of his daughter coming in with an overdose and hurries down to the ER, panicked over Rachel whom he naturally assumes is the one who took the pills, and is completely stunned and shocked when he walks into the trauma room and sees Elizabeth and Ella. But most of all it's Rachel who gets your tears flowing. Clearly she loves her baby sister and she is both frightened, sad and shocked over what is happening. When Mark lays into her for keeping drugs in the house where the baby can find it, and explains to her exactly what damage Ella might suffer, she breaks down, needing her father in that moment just as much as Ella does.
* At the end of "[[https://youtu.be/ohZ0hBO7H3w Orion in the Sky]]", Mark [[FaceDeathWithDignity accepts his fate]] and stops taking chemotherapy, despite Elizabeth's imploring, and leaves the ER for the last time after his final shift, shares a LongLastLook with Susan, and [[PassingTheTorch passes the torch]] to Carter by telling him, "[[ArcWords You set the tone]]."
* ''Everything'' regarding [[TheHeroDies Mark's death]]:
** Mark dies knowing full well that he can never be there for his daughters during their formative years. To add insult to injury, Ella's first word is "Dada."
** Dr. Burke, who successfully removed his first tumour, gives Mark the death sentence and says "You should have been dead a year ago, Mark. You got married, you saw your daughter be born. I'd say that was time well spent."
** The look on Carter's face after he finishes reading Mark's [[https://youtu.be/kJq-939g0Rc letter]] to the staff can still give one chills, as well as his near-breakdown as he reads Elizabeth's.
** Romano throwing himself into performing surgery on a little girl with a tumor in one of her lungs, talking about how cancer eats you alive, and listing off types and how it even kills "little girls, fathers with little girls," with the implication that he's working so hard because Mark couldn't be saved.
** Kerry tearing up as she reads the eponymous letter and later having to leave a patient to break down crying.
** Abby and Carter talking about how many lives Mark saved, coming out with an estimate of two or three thousand people, basing it off him saving one or two people per shift, five days a week, for ten years.
** Elizabeth's reaction during Mark's funeral in "[[https://youtu.be/HOdND3vMHsw On the Beach]]". No screaming or wailing--just quiet, wordless, complete devastation. Bravo, Creator/AlexKingston...bravo.
** Carter finds Susan crying in the breakroom and comforts her over the loss of their longtime friend.
** Kerry arrives at the breakroom to clear out Mark's locker on Elizabeth's behalf and communicates to Carter that [[PassingTheTorch it's his turn]] [[TheHero to take up the leadership mantle.]] She realizes that she's unable to clear out Mark's locker without crying and Carter does it for her, eventually seeing [[TragicKeepsake Mark's stethoscope]] and adopting it for himself.
* The scene where Corday is breaking down crying, unsure of what to do now that Mark's cancer is back, and Romano comforts her and helps her realize what she needs to do.
-->'''Romano''': Is he your husband?\\
'''Corday''': Yes.\\
'''Romano''': Do you love him?\\
'''Corday''': Yes.
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[[folder:Season 9]]
* Kerry telling a deaf patient about her miscarriage through sign language.
* Several scenes of Romano dealing with the loss of his left arm in a helicopter accident. He has always been a jerk, but it's clear that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he's a caring person underneath it all]], and prior to his accident he was perhaps the most talented surgeon of the show's entire run. Now that he is no longer able to perform surgery he doesn't know what to do with his life, and to top it all off he is in love with Elizabeth Corday and has to watch her go on dates with other men. Two scenes stand out in particular. One is the scene where Corday finds him standing by the water, and he tells her he as decided to amputate his left arm since it is not recovering. The other is earlier in the season, after he has tried to save a young man from an amputation, and he has a heart-to-heart with Corday about his situation.
-->'''Romano''': I save people who no one else can save. If I can't do that...
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[[folder:Season 10]]
* Romano's death might be over the top, but it is a sad end to a great character who deserved better, especially after the TraumaCongaLine he suffered ever since losing his arm, and when nobody but Corday mourns him and only Neela expresses any sympathy for his awful fate.
* Sandy's death in Season 10. Kerry's quiet desperation as she pleads with the surgical team to let her into the OR ("You have to let me see her...that's my wife in there") is devastating, especially for a character who's spent her career being as abrasive and unlikable as possible. Especially at the very end of the OR scene, where blood begins running up Sandy's endotracheal tube (that's it in a surgical situation), Kerry's face freezes in position and she quietly tells Elizabeth and Anspaugh: "You can stop. She's gone."
** And her awful day gets capped off by Sandy's suddenly homophobic family essentially kidnapping their son and refusing to hand him over to her, with her brother all but throwing her out of his house.
* The stillbirth of Carter's son. He staggers out of the delivery room, only to hear his father call his name. He turns, sees him holding his arms out to him, and staggers over to him, collapsing in tears.
** Later in the episode, Carter and Kem grieving together.
* Ben Hollander, an old depressed man going blind, and his short-term relationship with Susan Lewis, before being DrivenToSuicide, [[HeroicBSOD leaving Susan devastated]].
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[[folder:Season 11]]
* "Time of Death", with guest star Creator/RayLiotta as a dying, remorseful, alcoholic ex-con. The whole episode is in real-time, and goes back and forth between his subconscious as he is dying and scenes in the hospital. He ends up refusing surgery that might save his life, and Pratt (who never knew his father) takes his final request to get in touch with his estranged son.
** The episode ramps it up to eleven when [[HeelFaceDoorSlam the son coldly rebukes the father over speakerphone]]; the staff in the room are shocked to silence as the father quietly weeps.
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[[folder:Season 12]]
* "Two Ships", when two planes crash in mid-flight above Chicago:
** A kindly old man Neela was talking to before she ran into a burning building was wanting to find his dog. When Neela gets back, she sees the dog beside him and happily tries to talk to him about him having found it--only to be told that the man died. Shocked, Neela can only say that she was talking to him a minute ago.
** Adrian's death. He doesn't have a pulse, but CPR is keeping oxygen flowing to his brain, so [[AndIMustScream he's still conscious]]. Pratt, Ray and Sam manage to keep him alive long enough for his family to get there, before he asks them to stop. It's the SingleTear that does it.
* Neela watching the video Gallant left her and finally breaking down.
** Earlier on, Frank's reaction when the military cops show up looking for Neela. With just one look (no doubt gleaned from his own experiences in the military), he knows why they're there and what they're going to tell her.
* The [[DownerEnding ending]] of "21 Guns". A shootout happens in the lobby as Steve, Sam's ex husband, escapes custody with her in tow then reveals he's also abducted Alex as well. In the aftermath, Jerry is shot and Abby, who's about six months pregnant, collapses after an earlier fall and is bleeding vaginally. In the next room over, Luka witnesses all this but is completely immobilized and unable to help.
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[[folder:Season 13]]
* The entire season premiere is one for Luka, as he comes close to losing his family '''again'''. Abby is forced to deliver their baby, Joe, two-and-a-half months early due to the injuries she sustained during the shootout. Joe's lungs are under-developed, so he has to stay in the NICU for a few weeks. When Luka visits Abby later, she meekly asks him, "Is one going to be enough?" There's a beat, before Abby explains that she needed a hysterectomy because she wouldn't stop bleeding, and she will no longer be able to bear children. Luka goes to the bathroom afterwards and immediately breaks down crying.
* It's a small moment but while talking to Abby about an Alzheimer's patient who doesn't remember that his son died, Luka mentions the man is lucky because he doesn't have to remember losing his son every day. It's a stark reminder that although Luka's moved on and started a new family with Abby, he's still mourning the one he lost years ago.

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[[folder:Season 14]]
* Abby relapsing into drinking after Luka has been gone for over a month and Joe gets hurt at the playground. It soon spirals out of control to the point that she gets blackout drunk at a party and wakes up in Moretti's bed, clearly having no memory of what happened.
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[[folder:Season 15]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUFVSpUGbms The death of Pratt]] in the final season premiere. He and Abby had been injured in an ambulance explosion. They try their hardest to save him, but his carotid artery bursts, killing him. The most heartbreaking part is his little brother, a paramedic who only first met him when he was 18 (4 years before), begging them to keep him on a bypass machine a little while longer when the doctors know he's already far beyond hope. What follows is a practical honor guard as Pratt is wheeled to the elevator to be taken to surgery for his organs to be harvested for donation--Frank rushes ahead and presses the elevator button. A menial task he would otherwise have complained about, but clearly felt obligated to do for Pratt's sake.
** At Pratt's memorial service, it is announced that his organs ultimately saved several other people's lives.
* "[[https://youtu.be/LyQ0xSrrloU The Book of Abby]]". Specifically, Haleh's [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/fdecd6ca0d374687762709eb71f70902/tumblr_inline_p8r15tILQO1vololo_1280.png hidden wall]] marked with the locker nametags from past staff members. Even Romano, who was a {{Jerkass}} from head to toe, has his name up here.
* "Heal Thyself", where Dr. Banfield desperately tries to save a girl who had drowned. It's revealed that her son had died ''in that very trauma room'' several years before while they were on vacation in Chicago. Scenes from the present day, and from her son's death--where Dr. Greene tried to save him--are shuffled between. While her son, who had a history of seizures, had suffered a massive stroke that was actually caused by undiagnosed leukemia (whose signs she had previously ignored because of the aforementioned history of seizures), Dr. Banfield theorized that the girl wasn't responding because she got into her uncle's medications. She is able to reverse the overdose, and save the girl. At the end of her episode, she finally opens up to her husband about her feelings after their son's death, and allows herself to grieve.
** A mild additional TearJerker places when in Dr. Greene's history this takes place: he has to postpone a chemo treatment for his recurrence of brain cancer during the code for Dr. Banfield's son. He's frequently shown favoring his left temple during the episode. Dr. Romano makes an appearance, telling him he "used all his influence" to keep a chemo suite open for him. Then he makes a crack about his cancer:
--->'''Romano:''' Nobody told you to get cancer. ''(walks away, but briefly looks back [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone as if he immediately regretted that last bit]])''
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