Season Thirteen
After saving Luka and Abby in the rattling season premiere, Kerry owns up to her responsibility for the Clemente incident in order to save Luka from being fired. She is demoted from Chief of Staff as a result and is now back to being an attending. Though she clearly struggled to adjust to her new position, especially with the current ER chief Luka Kovač now being her boss, Kerry seems pleased to practice medicine full time again. Working back in the ER, Weaver catches the eye of a TV producer filming a news segment with Dr. Morris and literally steals the show. She's offered a job by the executives for news reporting. Shortly afterwards, Kerry and her producer Courtney (Michelle Hurd) begin to develop a close relationship, one Kerry hasn't felt since her deceased partner Sandy Lopez. Courtney tells her how her great news broadcasting could open a successful career for her. However, Kerry wasn't too convinced about leaving County General for her news track. This was until ER chief Luka Kovač had to enact budget cuts and had to consider firing her. Kerry fought her position explaining how it was her sacrifice that saved Luka's job (leaving out the facts that her bad decisions and treachery had put his job in jeopardy before she did the right thing in the end). Yet after some thought during the care of an amputee patient and Katrina survivor, she felt it was time to move on. She later reconsidered accepting a television show offer at WTVJ in Miami, despite Kovač's last minute efforts to convince her to stay.
Kerry Weaver's last regular appearance on ER was in the Season 13 episode called "A House Divided" Episode number 280 in which Abby Lockhart expressed to Dr. Weaver that if it had not been for her, she'd never have become a doctor or a mother. As Kerry packed up and walked out of County General's doors for the last time, she only asked Luka to take care of the place for her and advised him not to make her mistake-getting involved in hospital politics.
Laura Innes' last appearance as a series regular on the show was on January 11, 2007. Following her departure from the program, NBC received some pressure from GLAAD to introduce more LGBT characters.
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