Anthony Edwards to interact with Angela Bassett on ER (and he's not a ghost!)

When the news came that ex-ER star Anthony Edwards was going to return to the show for an episode this last season, fans wondered how that could happen, since he died (and we mean really died, not soap opera died) of a brain tumor around 6 years ago. Would he be a ghost? A hallucination only a patient can see? Would he be Mark's long-lost twin brother (Matt, or maybe Monty) who comes to work at County because his brother worked there? The news that Dr. Mark Greene is going to interact somehow with new doctor Cate Banfield (Angela Bassett) just makes the scenario more confusing.

But now we have our answer. Edwards tells the AP that Mark will be shown via flashback in an ER story we haven't seen before.

How will Cate be in those flashbacks? Seems she came to County with her sick daughter while Mark was there. The flashback will be triggered when another young girl comes to the er after falling in a lake and Cate takes care of her.

This sounds like an OK way to do it, actually. And even better news? Laura Innes and Paul McCrane will appear in the flashbacks as Weaver and Romano, pre-resignation for Weaver and pre-helicopter-crushing for Romano.