NURSE JACKIE
SEASON 1 EPISODE 10
“RING FINGER”
When we last saw Jackie Peyton, she was suggesting to her daughter Grace that they do more things together as mother and daughter. Episode 10 of this fantastic series opens with the pair taking mother/daughter dance class together, where they end up running into an old high school classmate and her daughter. The daughter whispers in Grace’s ear that her mom was Grace’s dad’s girlfriend before her mom. Jackie and Grace get a big laugh over that one.
Back at work, Dr. O’Hara tries to smooth things over with Jackie, and notices that Jackie still has her wedding ring on. Whoops! Jackie seems to be having a problem getting her ring finger off. Meanwhile a cardiac arrest patient is admitted to the ER, and try as they may, Dr. Cooper and the nurses are unable to revive the young man. Jackie decides to tie up any loose ends and finds the man’s cell phone ringing, takes it out of his pocket and finds out that according to his text messages, he was on his way to someone’s house, most likely on a date. Since the man never showed up on time, the person on the other end of the conversation becomes mad. Jackie uses the phone to call whomever this person was and leaves a message to come to the hospital right away. In the man’s possession was a rented movie, and some letters and bills to be mailed, minus the postage.
Dr. Cooper finds out Jackie went behind his back and signed off on the brain-dead patient from last week and goes off on her. She reminds him that he is never around and refuses to answer his pages when called, so she saw no other choice. He threatens to blow the whistle on her. When she confronts him later about his threats, he gets nervous again and grabs her breast. Rather than admonish him, she calms him down, shows him there are no hard feelings and then gives him a kiss.
At this point no one has replied to the message Jackie left concerning the cardiac arrest man.
The Pharmacy is getting prepared to receive the pill dispensing machine so Jackie finds Eddie in the back room, where they start to get busy, only to have Zoey accidentally walk in on them. Later Jackie Zoey agree that what she saw stayed between them.
Jackie decides she has no choice but to have Dr. O’Hara cut her wedding ring off her finger, and she’ll think of something to tell Kevin. Jackie decides to take a hammer and smash her ring finger, making it look like an accident, forcing her ring to be cut off.
On her way home, Jackie takes one last look in the cardiac arrest man’s bag of goodies, takes out the man’s mail, puts her own postage on it and drops it in the mailbox on her way. As she is walking to the subway, the man’s phone finally rings, she answers it and we finally have some closure.
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Michael Queenstown
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