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» Sarah B. Hood - Cliffhanger ending for ER

Well, the last shot of this season is Abby lying unconscious in a pool of blood - presumably having a miscarriage - with the rest of the ER staff, distracted by the aftermath of a gunfight, attending to Jerry (the guy at the desk), who's spouting blood from his chest cavity. Meanwhile, Luka's struggling, restrained and intubated (don't ask!) in a closed suture room, trying to draw attention to his plight and Abby's.

Linda (Sam) Cardinelli, meanwhile, is being abducted along with her son Alex by her no-goodnik ex, who has just escaped from prison and brought down the firefight in the hospital in the process.

It seems that Luka's growing wish for commitment and children didn't mesh with Sam's claustrophobic mistrust of relationships in general. He wanted to move closer but she wanted more space. So Luka hooked up with Abby on the rebound after she'd had a hard day at work; she got pregnant right away and they decided to go with it. I knew it was unlucky that he'd proposed though...

I suppose this means that you don't know that Pratt did a stint in Darfur or that Neela married Michael, who promptly got blown up in a transport truck near Mosul*. Or that Weaver's had surgery and no longer needs her trademark cane. She's still just as mopey though.

(*By the way, the dialogue said they were "just outside Mosul", but a dinky wooden plank sign on two sticks by the roadside clearly read "Baghdad" in Arabic writing. Now since Baghdad is 390 km south of Mosul, I'm going to assume the set dressers couldn't read what they were writing when they painted it.)