It’s clear that the writers intended this death to be deeply ironic, especially as Romano had gone outside to recover from traumatic flashbacks to his earlier accident, sparked off by going up to the helipad while this very helicopter was sitting there. In the execution, though, he seemed to just kind of stand up into a helicopter blade, even though he must have worked on the roof around helicopters many times before, and while patient’s charts are of course very important, forgetting to keep an eye on the rotating helicopter blade above you just seems odd for someone usually so in control of himself.Īnd then came his death the following year – crushed to death by a falling (and exploding) helicopter. All the characters were under a lot of strain while evacuating the hospital due to an outbreak of monkeypox, and Romano was trying to retrieve a patient’s chart, which had blown away, so you can see how it was written to be an unfortunate accident. The year before Romano (Paul McCrane) died in Season 10, Episode 8, ‘Freefall’, County General’s top surgeon lost his arm, and his career with it, in a helicopter accident. There’s one main character death on ER, though, that is notoriously strange – ridiculous, ironic, feeling long overdue to many, probably aiming for dramatic irony but instead landing in the territory of just plain daft: the death of Robert “Rocket” Romano. ‘All in the Family’ (Lucy Knight’s death) and ‘On the Beach’ (Mark Greene’s death) regularly appear on ER ‘Best Episodes’ lists. Most of these deaths were dramatic, emotional gut-punches that tugged on the audience’s heartstrings and resulted in some truly acclaimed television, all heightened by the fact every character’s job was to save lives and they were frequently trying desperately to save each other in the ER itself. And that’s without even mentioning all the friends and family members who die from various causes over the course of the show (Carter’s grandmother, Carter’s son, Weaver’s wife, Greene’s father, both Jing-Mei’s parents, Benton’s nephew, Benton’s ex-girlfriend, Benton’s mother… the list goes on). As we’ve seen, County General in Chicago was a dangerous place to work Lucy Knight was stabbed to death while on shift and Greg Pratt was killed by an exploding ambulance. Mark Greene died of a brain tumour, Dennis Gant was killed by a train (possibly by suicide), and Michael Gallant was killed while on active duty in Iraq. That last one wasn’t quite so dramatic.Īlthough they usually pulled through, ER was not afraid to kill off regular or recurring characters. The regular cast were also subjected to a series of traumatic incidents from which their fellow medical staff were required to save them, including but not limited to car accidents, heart attacks, suicide attempts, stabbings, sexual assault, getting kidnapped, being held hostage, getting beaten up, getting shot, and accidentally stepping on broken glass. Like many a genre show, episodes where everybody lives were fairly rare. ĮR ran for 15 years and focused on the staff at an Emergency Room in Chicago – so unsurprisingly, there were a lot of deaths over the course of the series. Warning: spoilers for ER, Buffy, The 100, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Downton Abbey, The West Wing, Vikings & How I Met Your Mother.
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