ER 10x21 "Midnight" Carter talks to dad

After his baby died.

[@StephanieNau910]

out of all of the things carter went through, the stillborn story line was the hardest to watch.

[@Morgan4746]

amen to that

[@anyaconley1082]

Stephanie Nau AMEN to that!

[@amyzankowitz9921]

Yep

[@crisvanfan]

That’s when I stopped watching because I just couldn’t take it anymore after everything he’s been through they couldn’t just let him be a father

[@jennyoneill8879]

Yes it was

[@gfgd123]

As I'm rewatching ER again, I can't help but think that let's face it, Carter went through hell and back several times during the series. Espically during this episode with their son being stillborn. But one of the things I always admired about him, and one of the many reasons he was and still is my favorite, is that he always came out the other side that much stronger than he was before.

[@lunabelletheinsane]

I LOVE that they had Carter's dad come back to be there for him, having lost a son himself, and knowing how much HARDER it was for Carter because he never got to meet his son, but that he loved him as much as he loves John and Bobby.

[@ladytenor9876]

The casting is magnificent. The actors look as if they are related to one another.

[@joemckim1183]

Michael Gross is a great actor, he was great on Family Ties.

[@presentfuture7563]

They did excel at that sometimes. I thought so too with father and son Carter (nose, eyes, eyebrows especially). Paul Freeman really looks like he could be Alex Kingston's dad as well.

[@mikekling5880]

Carter really went through the ringer.

[@sweetlife031]

Oh he sure did! 🥹 But he became a stronger person because of it 🩵

[@JMarieCAlove]

Watching this right now, I cried when his father was there for him and he fell into his dad's arms 😢

[@TheDragonstar2]

sorry but they were just talking he never fell into his dad's arms

[@anishgb]

@@TheDragonstar2 this is after, that scene isn't in this video, he comes out of the room shattered his dad's there he just falls into his father's arms,

[@mocowan6642]

John sobbing in his dad’s arms was just heartbreaking.

[@tristenmoore1275]

@@mocowan6642 hearing Carter crying really tore me apart when first watched this episode. I felt so horrible for him and for Kem too.💔

[@sweetlife031]

Everyone keeps mentioning the part when Carter breaks down and cries ….but it isn’t up here 😞 Could somebody please do something about that? Pretty please with sugar on top? 😁

[@skyehamm9629]

Michael Gross is one AMAZING actor! Have LOVED watching him for years!

[@sweetlife031]

That’s who Carter’s dad is?! Aka Steven from Family Ties?! 😊

[@joemckim1183]

@@sweetlife031 Does that make John Carter half brothers with Alex Keaton?

[@crisvanfan]

It’s not right that Carter didn’t get to be a dad

[@TheDragonstar2]

no it's not he lost a med student, and got stabbed went through drugs He deserved to be happy this is so not right

[@sweetlife031]

It isn’t right that he was having a baby with the wrong person, either 🥹 He deserved better and when we really think about it … things seemed to imply that the loss of the child was entirely Kem’s fault, not John’s… she wasn’t taking good care of herself; she was all too reluctant to drink that orange juice when John wanted her to, she was rather rude to John when he asked her about keeping track of her kick counts - pretty much as soon as Kem said no the way she did … it happened … the baby stopped kicking 😔 It was like God was saying: “Well, if you’re going to behave like that … you’re not getting a baby…” That’s exactly what happened … and John Carter suffered more and was left in anguish when Kem just runs away! Ugh… I hate her; she’s like the Yoko Ono of the ER 😢💔

[@drawntomountains]

I just watched the whole "Midnight" episode. I never saw it when it first aired, or in any reruns. I just kept missing it. I can see now how Carter and Kem were never completely healed from the loss of their son. This episode brings out what so many parents feel when they lose their baby before full term. Just devastating.

[@jaywilson4520]

Michael Gross is a vastly underrated actor, who I never see enough of.

[@keithburley340]

Tough World for Carter

[@shaylahjohnson1307]

I ban seeing this epsiode. It's to sad for me, to see carter in this much pain and how Kim just left him their, to suffer like that.

[@mkrny111]

Kem.. she kinda got typecast as the pissed off wife.. mad in er, mad in movie crash, mad in pursuit of happyness.

[@MrSharper802]

Michael Gross is a very good actor. Surprised he did not get more roles especially since this father role in ER was so different than his Steven Keaton - Family Ties role

[@joemckim1183]

He looks a lot different with a shaved face too, enough different that I don't automatically assume its Steven Keaton appearing on ER.

[@_Lane_]

A psychiatrist on _The Affair_ was also played by Michael Gross - actually he played Maura Tierney's character's (Helen Solloway) psychiatrist - so those scenes were actually an _E. R._ reunion. 😀

[@jonstefanik9400]

There was a Kangaroo in my living room.

[@LMays-cu2hp]

This was so nice back then on this show..

[@brandnew2767]

The scene where Carter falls into his fathers arms crying, no matter how many times I see that, I cry like It’s the 1st time. He was strong for her, but who was strong for him? Then his dad came😪 hard to watch!

[@tristenmoore1275]

Seeing Carter walk into his fathers arms in tears still tears me apart. My heart pretty much hurt for Carter when I heard him crying, being in so much emotional pain after losing his son. Just so heartbreaking when I first saw it.

[@mikekling7144]

It's too bad they couldn't get Benton back.

[@jonstefanik9400]

I wonder if Carter's dad came home and found a kidnapped Kangaroo 🦘 in his living room?

[@kaylakennedy212]

Does anybody know what happened to Carter’s brother?

[@lauradonaldson3269]

What episode is this? l want to see the whole thing AGAIN.

[@ijustdontcare]

Season 10, episode 21- "Midnight"

[@lauradonaldson3269]

Who is the Actress that plays his mother, l can't remember her name?

[@MrSharper802]

Mary McDonell - Also was in Dances with Wolves

[@joemckim1183]

@@MrSharper802 She also played the First Lady in Independence Day.

[@kathyastrom1315]

@@MrSharper802 And perhaps most memorably, she was President Laura Roslin in the Battlestar Galactica reboot.

[@kidpagronprimsank05]

Capt Rayder in the Closer and Major Crime

[@jennyoneill8879]

She was in scream 4

[@jonstefanik9400]

Steven Keaton.