Jerry's Lengthy Absences on 'ER' Explained: Here's What Happened to the Character

What happened to Jerry on 'ER'? The liked table clerk disappeared for a number of seasons of the display — here's why.

Over the span of 15 years, Abraham Benrubi seemed on 137 episodes of ER as hilarious and cute desk clerk Jerry Markovic. Though he was by no means billed as a main cast member, lovers have been dissatisfied every time the actor disappeared from the show for long classes of time.

His preliminary absence from the sequence throughout Seasons 6 and 7 didn’t receive a lot of a proof, however (SPOILER ALERT) Jerry’s near-fatal injury in Season 12 allowed Abraham to discover different roles.

What happened to Jerry on 'ER'? He's the Comeback Kid

When the character returned from his first hiatus in 2002, he claimed to were in retirement but used to be known as again into carrier after several staffers at County General fell unwell. Abraham later advised TVGuide that the medical drama was an excellent gig for him. 

"They've been so good to me at ER over the years that I've been able to come and go pretty much as I please," he explained. 

During the Season 12 finale, Jerry used to be severely wounded in a shooting rampage carried out through Sam Taggart’s ex-boyfriend, and regardless that he survived the assault, he didn’t resume his paintings as supervising emergency services and products coordinator. It’s sooner or later revealed that he hand over and moved to Alaska.

In fact, Abraham left the display to megastar on the ABC dramedy Men in Trees. "I've been on ER, off and on, for 13 years, basically," the Parker Lewis Can’t Lose alum shared in 2006. "When I read the script for Men in Trees, it was so charming and interesting that it made me want to try for it."

The program, which lasted simply two seasons, ended up being a thrilling departure for Abraham. "It was a good group of people to be involved with, it is still in the Warner Bros family, and there was no reason not to [do it]," he stated of his decision to go out ER for a 2d time. "Men in Trees has been a big challenge for me as an actor and as a human, and it has been a lot of fun."

"You've got to keep moving forward as an actor," the Indiana native added. "What I love about acting is that you get to be a bunch of different people. I don't want to be Jerry for 30 years, and the way ER is going, it could be 30 years."

But following Men in Trees’ cancellation in 2008, Abraham did return to the character for 6 more episodes, together with the collection’ finale. 

"It was amazing to watch that first original cast go from being struggling actors to being absolutely on top of everything in Hollywood," he told the Chicago Tribune, referring to the likes of George Clooney and Julianna Margulies, who worked with Abraham in the early days of the show. 

"It was really cool to watch that happen. All of them, to the last of them, are super humble and cool," he concluded. "It's a good lesson in how to conduct yourself as an actor."

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