Extended emission-line regions (EELRs) in radio ellipticals are generally thought to trace gas acquired externally, eg. through interaction with a gas-rich disk galaxy (Athanassoula and Bosma 1985, Barnes and Hernquist 1992, Hernquist and Mihos 1995). We examine here the dynamical evolution of gas in mergers, focussing on the conditions required for collisions between streams of gas. We find that such collisions can occur over a relatively wide range of encounter geometries, producing large-velocity-amplitude kinematic signatures characteristic of those observed in EELRs. This is relevant to the formation of shocks, which can account for the ionization properties of EELRs (Koekemoer and Bicknell, this conference).