The Archive of Our Own ThandieNewton - Makemba Likasu - ERS10E21 Midnight was published in 2004.
Noah Wyle plays Dr. John Truman Carter III in the American television series ER.The character known as "Carter" is introduced in the pilot episode and has appeared for over a decade.Despite offers to stay, Wyle decided to leave the show as a regular character.He cited two reasons: a budding family and an already lengthy tenure on the show.Carter was written out of the show by moving to Africa and marrying his love interest in the episode "The Show Must Go On".
There will be four episodes of Noah Wyle in season 12.Wyle appeared in five episodes as part of the show's plan to bring back former regulars after ER was renewed for a 15th season.
Carter was a third-year medical student.On his first day at County, he nearly vomited in the emergency room after seeing a critically wounded patient and had to be consoled by the chief resident.
Carter had a compassionate approach to his patients.He switched to Emergency Medicine because he was interested in surgery.Carter regretted the lack of thorough follow-up and care during his surgical residency.
Carter agreed to work without pay in order to change from his surgical residency to an emergency medicine residency.He was part of an influential and wealthy family and did not need to work, allowing County General to take him on despite the lack of funding for an additional position.He went out of his way to help patients when he was a resident.
Carter and Lucy Knight were stabbed by a patient named Paul Sobricki.Both Knight and Carter died from their injuries.Carter developed an addiction to narcotics as a result of his battle with pain, survivor guilt, and resistance to getting help.He was making mistakes at work.Carter's colleagues held an intervention after he injected left-over Fentanyl from a trauma into his wrist, or he would be fired.Carter was persuaded to go by Dr. Benton, who boarded the plane with him.
Carter made peace with his cousin, Chase, and apologized for his long absence, saying, "I didn't want to admit to the fact that I was just like you."Kerry Weaver returned Carter's application for Chief Resident because of his history of addiction.
After being in the ER for two weeks due to the outbreak of monkeypox, Carter and Abby began sleeping together.Eleanor had difficulty accepting her divorce from Carter's father, Jack, because of the health of his grandmother, who continued to decline.Carter and Abby disagreed over whether or not the recovering alcoholic should be drinking at all.When Eric reappeared, the personal issues came to a head.The beginning of the end of Carter and Abby's relationship was marked by her giving precedence to her duty as a sister.
Carter was unable to shake his grief and decided to join Dr. Kova.They began to understand one another better after he mended his previous rift with Kova.Carter is in danger when the clinic is overrun.Carter was the doctor that tried to save his brother's life.Out of respect for Carter's actions, the guerrillas spare everyone at the clinic except for the soldier they had been treating.
He came back two weeks later.Carter went back to retrieve his body after he was found ill with Malaria.He arranged for the two of them to end their relationship.Dr. Carter was in Africa for several months and worked in the AIDS clinic.Carter asks Kem to accompany him to Chicago when she becomes pregnant because he wants to introduce her to his colleagues.
In the episode "Midnight", she was forced to give birth to a stillborn son at the end of her pregnancy, much to her and Carter's grief.He is supported by his family and friends.The relationship of Kem and Carter is still going strong.
Carter started building an HIV/AIDS clinic with funding from his family's charity foundation.The center is named after his stillborn son.He went to Paris to visit her mother.He offered to go to Africa with her to start afresh.She hesitated before accepting the offer.Dr. Carter bid farewell to his friends and colleagues when he returned to Chicago.Carter's last patient is a young girl who he had delivered 11 years before when he first started at County.
Carter appeared in four episodes in season 12 as he worked with a fellow doctor in Sudan.Luka and his wife are expecting a baby.
In the 15th episode of the season, Haleh Adams, a long-serving nurse, shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags.Haleh said that he did not want to do it because it was defacing government property.
Carter returned to the ER in the season 15 episode, "The Beginning of the End".He told Banfield that he was moving to Chicago to find work.She agreed after learning that Mark was one of his teachers.The Joshua Makalo Carter Center was visited by him.At the end of the show, it was shown that Carter's remaining kidneys had been damaged by amyloidosis and that he was on dialysis.He was going to be placed on the US transplant list.He was shown to be a good doctor with good judgement, but he was still catching up with the latest medicines and techniques being used in the US.He collapsed while attending to a patient.He went into V-tach but was brought back thanks to Morris's quick thinking.He was taken to the medical center.
He revealed that his marriage was going through a rough patch while he was a patient in the episode "Old Times".In the same episode, Dr. Benton acted as a back-seat driver and supervised the operation to make sure Carter was well taken care of.The operation was a success because of Benton's thoroughness which initially annoyed the surgeon performing the operation.Carol and Doug were unaware that they were helping Carter and only found out that he had a new organ.
In the series finale, Carter used his family fortune to open the Joshua Carter Center, a medical clinic for the underprivileged that fit into the plans he announced when his grandmother's will was read.She was not comfortable around Carter at the opening ceremony.She told him that she felt sad in Chicago because it reminded her of their son's death.She allowed Carter to call her to set up breakfast before she left the clinic.Carter said he might come back to County for good, but this could be a reversal of his earlier idea that he would leave Chicago to save his marriage.
In the final scene, victims of an explosion come to County and while tending to a patient he invites Rachel Greene, Dr. Mark Greene's daughter who is considering to go into medical school, to come help him.He said, "Greene."
Carter's plots were usually in the ER.He was told to "set the tone" on Dr. Mark Greene's last day in the ER.In the pilot episode of the show, Dr. Greene was told the same thing.Carter said the same thing to Morris as he left the ER.