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Edie Falco is back in another exciting episode of Showtime’s original series, Nurse Jackie. In Episode 4, or “School Nurse”,  a 7-year-old boy is rushed to All Saints Hospital after falling from playground equipment. Zoey tries to comfort the boy’s mother and twin brother, which stirs up memories for “Mo Mo” whose twin brother died when he was 1-year-old.

Grace’s school calls and wants to have a conference with Jackie and Kevin to discuss Grace’s unusual behavior in class and when they get to the school, Jackie receives a text message from Eddie that he says he is horny.  Jackie passes it off to Kevin as a patient dying.  Grace’s teacher, school nurse and school psychologist are fearful that grace may be suffering from Chronic anxiety disorder because the picture she drew of the family had dark colors and no sun up in the sky. Also that Grace has to walk around her desk in class three times before sitting down or “planes will fall out of the sky”.

It is suggested that Grace be evaluated and possibly put on medication which sends Jackie up the wall that just because a kid acts a little differently, right away it automatically means they need to be on medication.  Afterwords, Kevin and Jackie discuss tightening their belts and putting Grace in a private school.  One more text from Eddie later and Jackie tells Kevin she needs to get back to the hospital, where en route she buys a second cell phone just for Eddies calls.

Edie Falco is Nurse Jackie

Back at All Saints, Dr. O’hara has some good news for the mother and twin brother of the boy who suffered his playground injury, thereby incurring the uncomfortable (for her) gratitude from his twin brother.

Nearby, Zoey is complaining that she never gets to treat any patients of her own, so when the next patient, an elderly woman from a skilled nursing facility comes in, she finally gets her chance.  The woman has a DNR and depite all her best efforts, Zoey gets and loses her first patient.  Jackie notices this and offers, “It’s never easy. And if it becomes easy it’s time to quit.”

That’s life in Jackie’s world!

Until Next time!

Michael Queenstown

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Nurse Jackie is back with episode 3 “Chicken Soup”. Kevin is worried that their oldest daughter Grace may have a problem when all she wants to do is watch documentaries about world war and disease. An elderly man with congestive heart disease and a triple bypass in 1994 refuses treatment and instead his wife comes in to sit with homemade chicken soup from home and feeds him, saying it’s the only medicine he needs.

Jackie sees Eddie for more meds for her troubling back and he informs her that he is going to be replaced with a pill dispensing machine, which ticks Jackie off to no end prompting her to turn to the least likely of people for help:  Doctor “Coop” Cooper. She asks him if he will vote against the hospital replacing Eddie with a robot, which of course makes “Coop” assume she has a little crush on Eddie.  Boy, if he only knew!

A young couple visiting New York from Ohio make an emergency visit when the girlfriend starts suffering from abdominal pains, which leads Jackie to order a pregnancy test only to have the results come back negative for pregancy but positive for opiates.  The girl had gotten hooked ever since she had wisdom teeth pulled and her doctor put her on vicadin for the pain.

Dr. O’Hara borrows Zoeys brand new thethoscope that her mother bought for her to check a paitents heart and never returns it, prompting Jackie to remind her that it is part of her uniform and she better have it on her at all times. Little does she know Dr. O’Hara is pulling a prank on her.  After several unsuccessful  attempts to try and ask for it back, Zoey runs into O’Hara sitting in the hall apparently taking a catnap, sunglasses on and all.  Zoey manages to get the thethoscope back and as she turns to walk away we see a sly grin come over O’hara’s face proving that she was aware of it the whole time.

Chicken soup man ultimately passes away, his wife telling Jackie that she knew all along of the pain he was in even though he didn’t thinks she knew, but as she said, “We were married for 100 years. How could I not know.”

Back at home after a long day at work, Jackie trys to console Grace as she asks if there could ever be another disease or flu that could wipe out the population. She confidently tells her no. Not with todays medicine. Then trys to get Grace to try some soup. It is good for her. It will help what troubles her.

Need I have to tell you what kind of soup that was? Hmmmmmmmmm?

I didn’t think so.  Once again, a wonderful episode.

Until Next time!

Michael Queenstown

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In Episode 3 “Su-Su-Sucio” Nancy gets a new body guard when Cesar can’t take anymore of her and brings in Sucio, who hasn’t showered in probably a month but is, as Cesar puts it, “comfortable with his man smell.” Andy returns to Ren Mar and Nancy knowing that Shane is safely tucked away with sister Jill. Nancy starts to bleed in the bathroom and they rush to the hospital where Esteban’s doctor advises Nancy to avoid all stress of any kind. Easier said than done.

In Mexico, meanwhile, Celia is still playing house with her Rebel host helping to organize his operation and even going so far as to try critiquing his ransom notes and trying to rewrite them and making a general nusiance of herself that she is drugged–AGAIN, and wakes up on a bus that drops her butt off in Texas!

Meanwhile, Doug and Silas return and Silas has a proposition for Nancy: he wants to start a legitimate retail business selling medicinal marijuana which is perfectly legal in Ren Mar.  Nancy reluctantly agrees to fund his venture as long as he promises to keep Doug away from the inventory.  And if this wasn’t stressful enough, sister Jill pays a surprise visit with Shane in tow. Turns out Shane threatened to show the pictures of her and Andy having sex to her husband and she had no choice but to bring the little pervert back home, refusing to let him move back in with her. Nancy pleads with her sister to reconsider since it is too dangerous for Shane to be there. Jill’s visit is as much a surprise to Andy and the two end up in Andy’s room to continue where they left off.

With Nancy’s blessing, Silas and Doug apply for a business license for their medical marijuana store, but hit a snag when they are informed that their application cannot be accepted without signed consent from a law enforcement official.  Of course they end up meeting a crooked cop who demands monthly payments in exchange for his signature!

Nancy, meanwhile has become fed up with Sucio’s filth and drags his butt to the yard where there is a shower and forces him to clean up his act, so to speak. But when she goes to retrieve the hopefully clean bodyguard, she finds he has disappeared with only his discarded clothes and a puddle of blood in his place. Totally freaked, Nancy grabs everyone and flees the house.  Nancy tries to convince Jill that they are in mortal danger and begs her to catch the next flight home. That is until Nancy receives a call from Esteban on her cell making sure she is following doctors orders and taking it easy.  She tells him what happened to Sucio and fears that it is a sign from Guillermo and that he knows she ratted him and his tunnel out to the DEA and it’s payback time. Esteban tells her if it was Guillermo, he would have killed her and not Sucio and to go someplace safe and wait for his next call.

And all of this is happening under the watchful eye of Agent Roy Till from a nearby car.

Did Agent Till have something to do with the disappearance of Sucio?  Did Sucio at least get a shower?  What has become of Celia?  Will Doug and Silas’ medicinal marijuana store be a success or will Doug smoke all the profits away?

Keep it right here for my blog of Episode 4: “Super Lucky Happy”

Until next time

Happy Viewing!

Michael Queenstown

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