ER - The Complete
Twelfth Season (2005 – 2006/Warner DVD)
Picture: C+ Sound: C+ Extras: C Episodes: B-
Welcome
to the trauma room of drama, ER. With Season
Twelve, a new doctor and nurse manager joins the team, Dr. Clemente and Eva
Spellman. Dr. Clemente is a talented doctor but when his past catches up with
him, the ER team questions his stability. The new nurse literally takes over the floor,
favoring efficiency over relations and cooperation. It's a season of changes, as new R2s Ray, Neela
and Abby must deal with all the new interns, old friends and family come back,
changing everything...
Anything can step through the doors of ER, crazy people, sick people,
criminals, police, you name it and it's probably been there. With new people,
new responsibilities head will butt and head will roll, heart are breaking
(literally) and can the doctors save a life while juggling their personal
lives? In all the chaos and confusion
nothing seems to ever go right or expected, but when the going gets rough, they
remember who they are and why they are there, they are the doctors of ER.
One of the longest running hospital dramas, ER is not only filled with
emergencies, but drama, action and even bit of romance. What makes hospital dramas so great? It is watching how characters act under
pressure, as doctors, doctors are professionals and in an emergency room they
must handle whatever comes in. That even
after being a doctor at the end of the day they still human underneath. But not everyone is a patient....families,
friends, enemies come walking through those doors and what effects one doctor
or patient just somehow seems to effect the rest. Each relationship, each life saved, each one
that is lost, somehow becomes part of the binding glue the characters share,
that pull them together or rips them apart. With 6 DVDs it is a great series to watch back
to back. Extras include various outtakes
and unaired scenes.
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Episode 1: Canon City
Sam's diabetic son runs away, as Kovac and Sam searches frantically for him,
Sam regrets not telling her son the truth about his father, he's in jail. Meanwhile Ray, Neela and Abby functions as
first time R2 and must teach/train the various new interns in the ER.
Episode 2: Nobody's Baby
Sam realizes taking care of her son, she can't afford to have a relationship
breaks up with Kovac, causing awkwardness in the ER. Rey tries to convince a
surrogate mother for a caesarean, but she refuses even at the risk of permanent
damage to the baby.
Episode 3: Man with No Name
The new nurse has a few new rules around and with money grants around the
corner people are brownnosing for attention. But with a boy with severe head
injury and a man burned beyond recognition leaves little time for kissing up,
especially with an angry father showing up.
Episode 4: Blame it on the Rain
With the rain the accidents bring rush hour to ER. Dubenko confides in Abby in
a problem he been having. Meanwhile a coma patient wakes up after 6 years to
Kovac's surprise.
Episode 5: Wake Up
Here come the Dr. Clemente a brilliant doctor that is only matched with his
ego, he sneaks in and poses as a patient not only to test them as doctors but
their patience as well. Pratt confronts
his father and meets the family he never knew. As Kovac treats his patient waking up after 6
years, but what is harder is should he tell her about what happened in her
past?
Episode 6: Dream House
Clemente brings in an unusual patient and gives the VIP treatment, a chimp. Sam is going to get promoted, if she fires
Alle. Ray finds out his new girlfriend
underage and only 14. Pratt has some light shed on his mother's past, not what
he expected...
Episode 7: The Human Shield
A pedophile, a 10 year old girl and a cop are brought in after a shootout,
tension get tight for the doctors, why should they save someone who doesn't
deserve it? Neela receives some news
about Michael. Kovac and Clemente square
off for the position of Chief of ER.
Episode 8: Two Ships
When two airplanes crash in mid-air into the middle of the city ER gets ready
for the worst, some at the hospital, some at the site. In short, not a good day, from finding people,
saving lives, or just helping people in their final moments... during this time
of crisis everyone is called to action.
Episode 9: I Do
Michael returns from Iraq
and pops the question to Neela. Weaver
shows his backbone when challenging Morris in a medical emergency.
Episode 10: All About Christmas Eve
Ho ho ho, Christmas Eve, brings out the best and worst in people, especially
with the Santa’s making fun of blind carols, which ticks of Eva more than just
a bit. Clemente past affair shows up,
who's married to a cop. Pratt tries to save a little girl caught in a
crossfire.
Episode 11: If Not Now
Abby is pregnant with Kovac's child, now everything in ER reminds her of
approaching motherhood. Ray gets news
that his band might get a big break. Abby
deals with a pregnant young girl who was raped but has religious issues the
family. Morris's begins to consider hip replacement. Clemente is shadowed by rogue cops for his
affair.
Episode 12: Split Decisions
As Abby and Kovac prepare and go shopping for the baby. Neela and Michael visit the veteran's
hospital. Michael realizes he want to go back to Iraq, which Neela is complete
shocked and against.
Episode 13: Body & Soul
Abby's former mentor is admitted for ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). After years of battling the disease, rather
than losing bits and pieces of his life slowly over time he wishes it to end,
to me the end of his life with a bit of dignity.
Episode 14: Quintessence of Dust
Jodie's jealous husband shoots Clemente and Jodie for their affair. Being a cop
he hides the evidences and frames Clemente. All the meanwhile he psychologically tortures
Clemente making him paranoid. Pratt goes
to a bachelor auction and he is won... by a guy.
Episode 15: Darfur
In Darfur in Africa, Carter treats wound and
victims of terrorists, but when he tells a man his wife was raped, he runs off
in vengeance and to sure death. Carter
can only follow and watch.
Episode 16: Out on a Limb
Weaver hip has started hindering her ability to function as a doctor and keeps
postponing her hip-replacement surgery. A
disease breaks out in ER and a quarantine takes place until it is over. Sam impresses a rich patient who offers to
hire her 'services' at his home.
Episode 17: Lost in America
Clemente returns to ER with a clean bill of health, but his credentials are now
shot. He lost respect with his colleagues. Neela give a presentation in a medical
conference which goes wrong is every possible way, the irony of a
perfectionist.
Episode 18: Strange Bedfellows
Neela spends some time with Micheal's parents and learns from a soldier's wife
the very thing she fears about being married to a soldier. Meanwhile cops bring
an oddly carjacker and person; the wounds don't match the cop's stories. Sam
gets a new 'Sugardaddy'.
Episode 19: No Place to Hide
Sam's ex husband is admitted into the hospital. Sam thinks he is faking it, but
then turns out to be a serious condition. A young girl is brought in with her
grandmother which the young girl is more her grandmother's guardian than the
other way around, can Abby split them up?
Episode 20: There Are No Angel's Here
Pratt is sent to Darfur for covering his
alcoholic friend, and learns what it really means to be desperate. His trial by
fire, to save a human life, he must be willing to take it from those take from
the lives of others.
Episode 21: The Gallant Hero & Tragic
Victor
As Clemente's behavior gets more bizarre, Pratt deals with a boy who show signs
of physical abuse, and who may have killed his own father. Two soldiers have asked to talk to Neela, one
of them is a chaplain.
Episode 22: 21 Guns
Steve, Sam's ex is back in ER, but this time with a plan. But things get messy,
and a shootout occurs, Sam and Alex become hostages. With Neela and Pratt gone ER is in desperate
need of doctors, unfortunately it's the doctors that need the doctors.
Picture
and sound are roughly the same as previous season volumes we have reviewed, as
follows:
Eight
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/6609/ER+%E2%80%93+The+Complete+Eig
Nine
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/7131/ER+%E2%80%93+The+Complete+Nint
Ten
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/8369/ER+%E2%80%93+The+Complete+Ten
Eleven
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/8805/ER+%E2%80%93+The+Complete+Elev
- Ricky Chiang
