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Date Posted: 21:33:00 04/27/03 Sun The below are spoilers from the last three episodes of this season, and a spoiler from the first show of next season. Any thoughts? Episode 20: "Foreign Affairs" Luka gets some surgeons to volunteer their skills. Romano tries a new therapy procedure and talks to the other patients during a break. Gamma's funeral takes place. Episode 21: "When Day Meets Night" This episode cuts back and forth between day and night, with a solar eclipse in the middle that is the topic of conversation throughout. The triage area is under construction as Carter begins his day but Kerry is upset that there is a dump truck blocking the ambulance entrance. Chen is also working the day shift and Carter tells her his vacation starts the next day, a trip to Rio De Janeiro with his father. Their first patient (among several) are part of a mass suicide who felt the eclipse was the end of the world. Carter has a rough day with many patients, including victims of a gang shooting (including a recurring character from another episode who stabs another, Carter receives a mild cut on his chest while stopping it), a Buddist nun who is dying, a man with a heart attack, a drowning victim, and a man seeking drugs. Kerry tells Carter to "take point" in the ER because Romano is on medical leave. Gallant's on duty as well. Sometime during the shift, Carter gets a call from his father. A construction worker is impaled on some rebar sticking from a concrete slab outside the ER and Kerry works on him. At night, Pratt, Susan and Abby are working and they see many of the same patients, including the drowing victim and the drug-seeking man. Abby is not having a good night. Another patient is a woman who had her baby cut from her; Pratt, Abby and Susan go looking for the baby and find it in an alley. It is Pratt's last day before he goes to Northwestern, and when he leaves the next morning, he is in a good mood after having a good night. He tells Chen see ya, and she congratulates him on surviving County. Because of the unusual format of the show, we've already seen Carter wish him good luck. Sometime during the night, Magoos burns down and the staff treats one of the firemen. Elizabeth counsels Romano, tells him he's doing the right thing. Later, Elizabeth and Dorest are in surgery and Romano is the patient; they are taking his arm. Again, the episode cuts back and forth between these various stories so that the day shift and night shift unfold simultaneously. The spoilers end as Carter is leaving and Abby is coming to work the night shift. She inquires about his day but he's making an international call. Episode 22: "Kisangani" (last eppy of the season) Carter joins Luka on his trip to volunteer in Africa. They are working in a very shabby hospital in the middle of a war zone with irate rebels harassing them. A French Canadian nurse is also there who seems to know Luka, and Luka also speaks French now. The rebels confront the medical team and Luka talks to them that they are neutral. Also Luka and Carter seem interested in this nurse, but Luka goes for it and pisses her off. Note: the spoilers on this episode are very iffy. It has not been filmed and notes are from first scripts. Season 10, Episode 1: "The Lost" Carter heads back to Africa upon receiving word that Luka has been "murdered" there. With Gillian (the Canadian nurse from the season finale), he desperately seeks to find Luka's body to bring back home. Meanwhile, Luka is alive (barely), watching those with him get shot one by one. They have spared him because they believed he was a priest as he was chanting and feverishly praying, delusional from the malaria. A crucifix that was given to him earlier, hung from his neck. A boy who witnessed Luka's delirious praying, later leads Carter to him. Longer spoiler... The teaser finds Carter on a plane back to the Congo, looking tired and wishing to be left alone. His seat mate however, a drunk and very persistently curious American embassy staffer, has other ideas. After the writers get in a few digs at multinational corporations operating in Third World countries ("spreading democracy one Big Mac at a time" -- a new spin on the concept of product placement), Carter finally shuts the man up by telling him he's going to the Congo on personal business - to claim the body of a friend who was murdered. A distraught Gillian meets him at the airport and tells him that they hadn't heard from the clinic in Matenda for three days. They talk to a Red Cross official whom Gillian knows and who shows Carter Luka's bloody ID, obtained from the Mai Mai (along with personal effects belonging to others on a list of known dead provided by the rebels when the Red Cross negociating team were able to retrieve wounded prisoners). Carter asks questions, trying to get definitive confirmation of Luka's death, but the information available is minimal. Carter wants to know if there is a way to retrieve the body, but is told there's nothing to be done but wait until the fighting stops, when the Red Cross will go in and make every effort to identify remains. Carter persists in wanting to know whether Luka's body was buried, and is told the negotiating team might know more, but they're in Kisangani. Gillian indicates she knows the members of the negotiating team. Carter talks to a representative from the US Embassy who ascertains that Luka was not an Amercian citizen and advises Carter to try Luka's embassy. Carter asks if there is a Croatian embassy in the Congo. The official says no and asks whether Luka was a close friend. Carter replies that he and Luka worked together for years. Carter keeps asking if there is actual proof that Luka is dead. The official can't say for sure but is extremely pessimistic. Carter wants to know whether an exchange of some sort couldn't be set up to retrieve the body. The embassy official tells him that's not likely and echoes the Red Cross official's advice to wait for the fighting to end and for the UN to claim the bodies. Carter joins Gillian in the lobby of the building and suddenly remembering the embassy staffer he met on the plane, decides to pay him a visit. Carter asks him if there is anyway to negotiate for the body. The man is evasive and advises him to wait until the fighting stops but Carter pointedly asks him if he would accept that if the body were that of a friend or family member. The man relents, hinting that in the Congo, there isn't much that can't be bought. Carter asks how much money he'll need. The man answers "a lot". Carter is next seen getting 20,000 dollars cash from a French-speaking bank teller in Kinshasa. When Gillian translates the teller's concern at the amount of cash Carter will be carrying on his person, Carter replies that he doubts the Mai-Mai will accept travellers cheques. Carter and Gillian travel to Kisagani, where they find the French surgeon from the previous episode (S9 finale). She tells Carter how sorry everyone is about Luka. Carter delivers a huge duffle bag stuffed with supplies "donated" by County before he left and then helps her with a GSW to a young child. In Act III, Carter, Gillian and one of the UN workers arrive at a school house, lead by a young Mai Mai whose cooperation was obtained in exchange for Carter's I-Pod. Inside Carter and Gillian are horrified to find many dead and decaying bodies. Carter shows the young boy Luka's ID and the boy recognizes him, calling him "the priest" (in French, Gillian translates). Luka is not among the bodies. Meanwhile, interspersed throughout Carter and Gillian's search for Luka's body, are scenes chronicling what happened to Luka. At the Matenda clinic earlier, Luka has only three patients left, including a young girl who lost her foot in an explosion (see S9-22) and the girl's mother. He seems in good spirits, joking with the mother that she is lucky to have a pretty daughter. In Act III, Luka, another worker, an eastern European man and another man are being held in the Matenda clinic by Mai Mai. The little girl is sitting in the dirt outside the clinic and her mother is with the Mai Mai in the staff quarters. The eastern European man is a geologist and very frightened. Another member of the medical team from the previous episode is alluded to. More Mai Mai arrive, including older individuals who seem to be in charge. They take the male prisoners into the yard and begin shooting them one at a time. Later, Luka is on the ground in the yard, along with the young girl and her mother, as another execution takes place inside the clinic. He is sick with malaria, perhaps delirious, and begins to hear voices, then music (Barber's Angus Dei). He gets to his knees and in a kind of transe, begins to pray in Croatian, tears running down his face. The Mai Mai boy who we later see guiding Carter and Gillian watches Luka pray and begins to think he is a priest because he is wearing a cross that the girl's mother gave him. He kneels and asks Luka to bless him but Luka is delirious and keeps on praying. The girl's mother confirms that Luka is a priest and as the older leader of the Mai Mai appears, tells the Mai Mai they cannot kill a priest. The other Mai Mai boys begin to kneel and ask to be blessed. The older Mai Mai leaders join them. In the last script excerpt we have, Carter, Gillian and the UN worker, led by the Mai Mai boy who knows Luka as "the priest", arrive at a refugee camp. Inside a hut, they find the young girl, her mother, and in the corner, a lump of cloth that the Mai Mai points to, saying "the priest." [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
| Subject | Author | Date |
| Re: Spoiler discussion | Dee | 21:56:01 04/27/03 Sun |
| Re: Spoiler discussion | Juli | 13:48:20 04/29/03 Tue |
| Re: Spoiler discussion | Kate Richards | 12:38:48 05/01/03 Thu |
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 Re: Spoiler discussion | Paula | 18:03:23 05/19/03 Mon |
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