First, to answer your question, yes that was Fred Koehler, Chip from Kate & Allie, as the legal aide trying to make sure the woman who wants to be on a hunger strike is not helped by the emergency room team. A very good actor (he has also guest starred on Taken, Cold Case, Boston Legal and had a shocking role on Oz several years back). Second, when did Morris become such a major character? I used to think of him as the annoying extra character who was there for either comic relief but would be gone once he killed a patient or stole drugs or something. Now he's up for chief resident? Huh. It's hard to review a show like ER. I mean, what can you say if there aren't major plot developments concerning the lives of the regular characters? Pratt fixes someone's hip? Abby thinks an elderly woman is being abused? Jake's pants fall down? That all happened, but it loses something in the telling. The end shot of the woman eating Jello was rather poignant (I know that's a weird sentence, but it makes sense if you saw it).