Any, because I’m self-indulgent, and to illustrate how mad this chopper-related twist was back then, here’s the TV review I wrote from that week:

Having previously lost his arm to a helicopter, Dr Romano lost the rest of his body to one in last Sunday’s ER. The irony is that they may only be able to identify him from his prosthetic limb; suggesting that his surgeons’ initial error was to not give him a prosthetic body.

Who, though, could have foretold that he would become the victim of a second helicopter accident in the same building in as many years? Of course, Dr Romano (Paul McCrane) had such a mean personality, was so thoroughly rotten to everyone who had ever tried to be nice to him, that he may have upset the karmic balance enough that it finally decided to find for him a particularly sarcastic death.

Watching the helicopter pick up a patient from the hospital roof triggered a flashback to the night whirring blades severed his arm, so Romano had dashed downstairs to take a breath of air at the front entrance. He suddenly found himself caught in an unexpected drizzle of flaming debris and when he looked up it was to find the helicopter plummeting towards him. His scream as he realised his fate was one of horror, but it also carried the unmistakable lilt of ennui. His last thought, perhaps, was to wonder if he had been a surface-to-air missile in a previous life that he had so committed all helicopters to a vendetta against him in this.

As is common to ER, the episode - in fact, the series so far - had been moseying along without too much to raise the blood pressure when it was suddenly startled by catastrophe. The staff of Chicago’s County General must really be beginning to wonder about a few things. Their hospital has been blown up, burned down, shot up, crashed into, demolished and blown up again, and was recently infected with a disease eradicated worldwide more than 20 years ago. That screaming you hear is patients begging to be brought somewhere else.

That storyline in ER always really confused me. Why did they make it a chopper that killed him after already being maimed by one? It just doesn’t make any sense. It’s not as if there’s any irony or message in it. I just never got it. Why couldn’t they have him screw up his arm in a chopper blade and then a while later fall down an elevator shaft, or get attacked by a lion, or murdered or something. WHY WITH THE HELICOPTERS? ALWAYS WITH THE HELICOPTERS.

je don’t understand pas.

Green Ink - I remember when he sat on Scary Spice’s knee, and then said something along the lines of: “So, you do some work for a domestic violence charity.”

Helen - Or you can watch them on Jonathon Ross instead.

MikeB - It was ridiulous, although that is a trait of medical dramas. A helicopter fell on Dr Romano in ER a few years ago.