EXPLOSIVE CONFRONTATIONS -- Dr. Weaver (Laura Innes) is a candidate for the chief of the ER and Dr. Greene (Anthony Edwards) is on the selection committee. Much to Weaver's objections, Dr. Ross (George Clooney) gets the job as the new pediatric ER attending physician. Although she is booksmart, Lucy (Kellie Martin) continues to hide her incompetence with basic procedures, such as putting an IV into a patient, from Dr. Carter (Noah Wyle). Having discovered that his son, Reese, is deaf, Dr. Benton (Eriq La Salle) continues to keep it a secret. But when Corday (Alex Kingston) suspects that Benton is rekindling his relationship with Carla (guest-star Lisa Nicole Carson), he tells her the truth about his son. Greene and Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) risk their lives to treat a man who wired himself as a human bomb. Gloria Reuben also stars.