Anthony Edwards might return to ER (?!)

I've loved the show for years, hated whenever anyone left. Even now, I'm upset about rumours concerning next season's final episodes. Greatly looking forward to Carter coming back- maybe Greene in a final flashback. I'd always thought that Carter was destined to hook up with Abby again, so we'll see what happens. Being a last, short season, I don't understand the need for new characters, including Angela Bassett. Well, I grieved the loss of the X-Files- wonder if there'd ever be an ER movie? Depends on how the series ends if I'd want one..

I think it is a great idea to have Mark Green back!

I'm really goin' to miss this TV Medical Drama. I'm only 14 years old but I have watched almost of the episodes of this great show. I have seasons 1-8 so far and cant wait to see the 9th season! I remember bits and pieces from watching this great show with my mom & brother. After missing a few seasons I felt like nothing made sense in this show at all but since then I have seen most of the episodes and understand how everything has come together!

It would be great if Greene came back because he would put an interesting twist in the show! I wish to see Greene, Carter, Lewis, Benton, and possibly Weaver all come together out of the blue!! At the end of the finale episode of ER, they should put together a slideshow kind of clip of the past episodes, people, how the hospital has chnaged, and how people on the show came together to make families!

It's gonna' be hard to see this show go but nothings the same from lets just say "The Very First Episode, Pilot."
ER hold strong!

Mark steps out of the shower one morning and his wife (the original one even) tells him about this strange dream she had.

They could always do a "Bobby Ewing" type of comeback for Dr. Greene. Show opens to Dr. Corday waking up in warm sunlight and hearing the shower and......you know the rest of that story. Seriously, it would attract all kinds of viewers and it is the last season of ER, so what could they lose?

I miss Dr. Romano, also. His brand of mean-funny charm was very entertaining.

Some kind of video would be interesting.. it could be training vids.. just "old ones" that maybe aren't in use but just found..
I haven't been watching ER for quite some time.. but would gladly watch this reunion episode.

When I have watched the Death of Mark Greene in repeats, I still cry. (damn it)

The flashback episode could work... I would actually watch ER again.

I *too* think that Clooney would come back for one episode. He seems like that kinda guy.

I liked Dr. Greene because he cared about people and he was a great teacher. I also like "helpful strangers" and Dilbert's garbageman, so here's my idea:

You get one of the young doctors who never worked with Dr. Greene and he's all off his game so after work one night he goes down the street to eat and the short order cook is a guy who looks like Dr. Greene but isn't. Over the course of the episode, the young doctor keeps coming back to the cook about different cases and the cook keeps having a good answer. Whenever the doctors asks him how he knows about this stuff, the cook just says he's hears from other doctor's all the time.
At some point, the doctor can bring the cook into the hospital to introduce him to people, but the cook keeps managing to miss anyone who would notice the resemblance to Dr. Greene. At the end of the show, the cook says to the young doctor "you set the tone"

Or we could do a Fight Club and have Sherry Stringfield going all Alan Alda and hallucinating Dr. Greene for an episode, even doing surgery.

You do realize that Edwards wanted to leave the show and wanted to be killed off?

So you are way too bitter for no reason at all.

Combining my idea and the flashback idea, here's how i would do it:

1. Greene starts to appear throughout the season on peoples' notebooks, as they watch him as the host of a series of training videos. (NBC could put these training videos online to promote the show and Anthony Edwards' appearance.)

2. In one episode, the last scene is a close-up shot of Mark in one of these videos. Perhaps Carter recently disovers that Mark hosted these videos, so he watches (on a student's computer) Mark with fond remembrance.

3. Then next week, the following episode is the flashback episode. What's the very first shot? Mark on set as the camera crew is shooting the lesson that closed out last week's episode. A title card fades in the month, day, and year along the bottom of the screen, so the viewer knows we are in the past now.

4. The very last scene of this flashback episode would be Mark and the camera crew shooting another lesson. And in next week's episode...

5. The very first shot is video of Mark playing on a notebook, as an intern watches him teach the lesson.

My idea that the producers can use for free:

Remember the episode several years ago that aired live in which a supposed documentary crew followed Mark around? They could say that Mark was cast as a host for a series of medical training videos that were produced by that camera crew. These videos were not released at the time for some reason (the training video company that produced them went bankrupt perhaps).

Now they've been released as a series of online training videos. So throughout the final season of E.R., the show can have interns and other students watching Mark on their notebooks.

I'm not saying that these could make for a storyline featuring Mark Greene, but it would be a way to have Greene appear throughout a season in a series of cameos.

This idea could also be used to set up a "flashback" episode as mentioned in this blog post. The flashback episode could delve into what was going on in Mark's life as he was hosting these videos.