Lucy Knight

Infobox character
name = Lucy Knight


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first = "Day for Knight"
last = "All in the Family"
cause = Killed by Schizophrenic patient
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species = Human
gender = Female
age = 26
born = 1974
death = February 15, 2000
occupation = Medical student
title = Medical Student
family = Barbara Knight (mother)
spouse = None
children = none
episode = 36
portrayer = Kellie Martin
creator = Michael Crichton
imdb_id = 0018641In the NBC television series "ER", the fictional character Lucy Knight was a medical student portrayed by actress Kellie Martin. The character was part of the show for the 5th and 6th seasons. When she was first introduced on "ER", Dr. Doug Ross called her a "by the book" medical student. Martin decided that a combination of burn-out and the recent death of her sister motivated her to take a break from acting, especially from a hospital setting.Fact|date=September 2008

Medical career

Season 5

During season 5 she was a third year medical student. Dr. John Carter was quickly assigned as her resident while she completed her emergency room rotation. Knight and Carter became close friends after a rocky start.

At the beginning of her residency at County General, she was popular with the attendings and nurses, who often treated her as another colleague. Lucy does run into trouble with Nurse Carol Hathaway after she asks for help with an IV. Lucy, unable to start an IV asks Carol for help and doesn't own up to Carter that she can't start one until they end up in a trauma. Again Lucy winds up in trouble with Carter after a Halloween party at her med school gets out of control and two students nearly die. Angry about work that has been thrown at him at the last minute, Carter leaves Lucy in charge of the party even though, as RA, that is his responsibility. Carter and Lucy eventually come to an agreement after the episode "The Good Fight" when the pair spend a day and evening searching for a little girl's father who has the same extremely rare blood type as she does.

The pair did make out in the x-ray room, but nothing came from it. Carter ended their brief relationship since it is unethical for medical students and their residents to be romantically involved.

Near the end of Season 5, it is revealed that Lucy is on Ritalin and has been since high school. Carter urges her to quit and she eventually does. When her performance at County begins to suffer, Lucy goes back on the Ritalin without telling Carter.

Season 6

Lucy's role in the early episodes of season 6 are rather small, having only minor sub plots such as helping a young artist who was taking cocaine or by urging Dr. Dave Malucci to come forward and admit his possible mistake when using a buncen burner that ended up exploding in the ER. Dr. Cleo Finch blamed herself and was ready to take the fall. Though the explosion was later proved to have nothing to do with the buncen burner Dave, thanks to Lucy's urging did admit to using it as well.Lucy also clashed with nurse Carol Hathaway when they both made a plea for the last bed in a rehab clinic, the bed ultimatley went to Carols patient. Lucy also clashed with Dr Finch when Cleo undermined Lucys judgement in rehards to a young boy and his Mother who had alcholic problems.Lucy was finally able to come into her own and show her brillant potential in the Christmas episode "How the Finch Stole Christmas" when patient Valerie Paige comes to the ER in desperate need of a heart transplant! Lucy goes above and beyond to ensure Valerie gets the life saving procedure she needs, even banging on Dr. Robert Romanos door in the middle of the night on Christams eve. Initially angry with her Romano agrees to do the operation after Lucy berates his seemingly flip attitude towards the dying patient.Later in the episode "The Domino Heart" Valerie has complications after another sugery and unfortunatley dies devastating Lucy.Lucy then ponders on her time at county general and in a moving speech to Dr. Luka Kovac she states

"It's never been very easy for me to be here, sometimes I felt like I would never fit in, But at the begging of every day I have been grateful that I'm walking in here of my own choosing and not carried in here on some gurney and at the end of every day if I have helped just one person It's been worth it! And that didn't happen today and it makes me sad"

To which Luka reminds her that her day is not over yet and that she may still help that one person. The speech Lucy gives at the end of the episode is also a somewhat eerie forshadowing of her eventual fate just three episodes later in "All in the Family"

Death

On February 14th, 2000 over the course of two episodes, "Be Still My Heart" and "All In The Family", Paul Sobriki (played by David Krumholtz), a man with schizophrenia checks into the emergency room. While in a delusional state, he acquires a knife that was to be used to cut a Valentine's Day cake, and stabs Knight multiple times, and then stabs Dr. Carter. Knight's extensive injuries included a slashed throat. While Dr. Weaver and Dr. Corday were able to stabilize Lucy in the ER, Corday and Dr. Romano were then able to repair her tissue damage, but she soon developed complications, including a pulmonary embolism. Despite the efforts of Drs. Corday and Romano, Knight dies while in the catheter lab, awaiting a Greenfield filter. Time of death, as pronounced by Dr. Corday: 02:56 A.M.

Lucy's memorial service took place in the episode "Be Patient." Carter asked Jing-Mei "Deb" Chen how her funeral was, and Deb said it was quite pleasant, but that it was strange to be attending a funeral for Lucy. That same day Lucy's mother, Barbara Knight, arrives to clear out her locker. She eventually seeks Carter out and after an afternoon of talking, asks Carter if being stabbed hurts. [http://www.erheadquarters.com/episodes/06/6128.htm] Carter lies and replied that it didn't hurt at all.

In the episode "A Match Made In Heaven" Carter's guilt and personal agony over the situation is made worse when a letter for Lucy arrives, no one had pulled her application from med school. Lucy matched to County and had she lived would have been given a position as a psych resident.

References

External links

*imdb character|0018641
* [http://www.erheadquarters.com/char/deceased/lknight.htm Lucy Knight] at ER Headquarters