- Jackie embarrasses her daughter by telling off another girl at mother-daughter tap class. An automatic pill dispenser replaces Eddie at the emergency room and leaves him hoping for a different kind of relationship with Jackie. Dr. Cooper, too, has fallen for Jackie after she kissed him. A well-known film critic is admitted with a broken arm, and Mo-Mo helps a young man with a spider trapped in his ear.—Peter Brandt Nielsen
- Grace helps her mom replace her splint on the ring finger Jackie broke herself. Kevin tells Jackie he and Fiona are making a secret trip. Fiona starts to spill that they're going to replace but he shushes her. Fiona really wants to tell. Jackie understands, she agrees it's hard to keep a secret.
Jackie goes to tap class with Grace. Another mom mentions how much she loves babies, but Jackie doesn't at all. Jackie gets protective of Grace as other mom's daughter keeps bumping into her doing the steps. Her mom defends her, saying that if Grace isn't doing the steps right, she's going to get run into.
At the jewelers, a guy examines Jackie's sawed ring. Kevin's thinking of adding a diamond. Fiona likes the two-carat one, but Kevin's looking for less than one-carat. He says Jackie's not that fancy. Fiona picks out a sparkly one.
Back in tap class, Jackie and the mom continue to get into it, especially after the daughter says it looks like Grace didn't practice. A mortified Grace tries to shush her mother as Jackie gets more upset, but it doesn't work. Jackie ends up shouting f--- you to the other mom as she takes Grace and storms out of the class.
At the hospital, the staff gets a tutorial on the Pill-o-Matix which is half the price of the previously announced Pyxis.
Zoey asks Jackie what she did to her finger. Jackie says she smashed it with a hammer. Zoey says that's okay, she doesn't have to tell her.
Zoey says she thinks it's inappropriate to have the tutorial in front of Eddie, who's being replaced by the machine.
Mo Mo asks Mrs. Akalitis how she sleeps at night putting him out of a job. She replies that she employed Eddie 10 years earlier.
Later, Jackie talks to Eddie in the hall. He kisses her broken finger and says he's going to miss seeing her every day. He has a going away present for her, 80 milligram tabs of oxy. He says he loves her. "Love you more," she replies, perfunctorily.
As he stitches a patient's finger, Cooper asks Zoey about Jackie. He wants to know what she likes. Zoey says gum and coffee. Eddie drops by to return Cooper's pager, which he left on his desk.
After Eddie leaves, Cooper asks if Jackie has a boyfriend. Zoey says she thinks so.
Cooper's girl Melissa drops by.
Jackie tells O'Hara about leaving tap class. She says O'Hara doesn't want to know what happened to her finger.
Outside, Cooper breaks up with Melissa, saying it's not her, she's even his type. "I've dated like 100 of you," he says. He tells her he kissed someone else and felt something he never felt.
Melissa says he can see other people. He says it's a focus thing.
She says if she walks away she's not coming back. He lets her walk away.
Smoking nearby, Jackie and O'Hara have a good view of the break up. Cooper turns and sees Jackie. He grins like an idiot and waves at her. O'Hara busts up laughing.
Later, Cooper brings Jackie flowers.
"No," she says.
"Yes," he says.
A patient is brought in with a broken arm. It's a local TV film critic (Victor Garber). O'Hara looks him over. Jackie asks how he got hurt. He was working on his laptop and tried to cross 2nd Avenue at the same time.
She asks him how he could call Hotel for Dogs the worst movie of the year, and why he insinuates that people are stupid for liking what they like.
He reminds her she just insinuated he was stupid for walking and typing at the same time. Jackie offers him to Zoey. She'll take him.
Jackie returns Cooper's flowers and his gum, with another "no." He mentions the kiss. She tells him not to ever buy her anything again.
Mrs. Akalitis tells Eddie she's trying to find him another pharmacy and to hang in there.
The critic asks for more pain medication. Zoey offers him water instead. He hates water.
Mrs. Akalitis drops by his bed, thanking him for recommending Bicycle Thief. They relate, "bad guy" to bad guy. She gently tells him to give Babette's Feast another chance. He says he was in a bad place when he screened that, going through his divorce. Mrs. Akalitis takes note.
Mo Mo talks to a a patient who's pretty sure he has something alive in his ear. He asks if the guy has any cockroaches where he lives.
Mo Mo takes a look and lets out an "oh my God!" He says it's because he's relieved that there's no cockroach, and then he runs for help.
He goes in the hall, totally freaked out and whispers "spider."
Jackie watches O'Hara shop. Jackie brings up the tap class and O'Hara accuses her of dwelling. She says she should beware any class that touts the mother-daughter relationship as "carefree."
Jackie calls her bitter, saying it's not like her mother ran off with her boyfriend and married him on her 25th birthday. Ouch. Sore subject for O'Hara, who this apparently happened to.
O'Hara talks about her wicked step-mother as she finds a shirt on the rack that she likes. She takes her shirt off in the middle of the store to try it on as an embarrassed Jackie attempts to cover O'Hara's immodesty who is then distracted by nearby spring knits.
Mo Mo revists spider-ear guy with two nurses as back-up. They're planning to flush the sucker out. And know spider-ear guy knows he's got a spider in his ear. Mo Mo squirts liquid in and the patient tips his head. A very large spider falls into the bedpan Mo Mo's holding.
"Down came the rain and washed the spider out," Thor announces.
Mo Mo flings down the bedpan. The patient says "uh oh." He thinks he feels something in the other ear.
Jackie finds Cooper's flowers have returned. She puts them in the trash.
Zoey asks Jackie if she can give the critic something more for the pain. Jackie checks that he last had something five hours ago and tells Zoey to give him 50 micrograms of something.
At his bedside, Jackie argues Kevin Costner's value as Zoey injects his pain meds. Almost immediately, he's not able to talk and then he can't breathe.
O'Hara comes over and asks what they gave him. She checks that it wasn't codine, which he's allergic to. It wasn't. Then she checks the dosage. Zoey says 50, but Jackie checks the vial and it was 250. O'Hara's ready to yell at her, but Jackie tells Zoey to leave.
Jackie finds Zoey sobbing in the bathroom. She tells her she's off the floor. She can answer phones, but that's about it. Mrs. Akalitis storms in, angry, and orders Zoey to her office. Alone in the bathroom, Jackie takes some pills out of her pocket and chews them.
At a diner, Zoey laments putting the film critic in a coma. She says every morning when she wakes up, she hopes that she won't kill someone that day.
Thor agrees it's good to have goals.
"The only thing I want to do besides help people is not kill them," Zoey says.
Mo Mo says they all make mistakes.
Thor offers that he shaved a woman's pubic hair before she got her tonsils out.
Mo Mo missed an aneurysm on his 14th day.
They counsel Zoey that she gets through this, she'll be a better nurse.
She worries no one will trust her again. And then she suddenly realizes Thor (who she has had a mild crush on) is gay. "I just got that," she says, thanking Mo Mo for the heads up.
Jackie finds Eddie in the pharmacy. He found something on line he wants to show her. He unplugs the machine and shows her that it resets. And that includes the memory, so if you unplug it, you can get anything you want without whatever it dispenses being logged against the operator the new system can be beaten.
Jackie tells him it's killing her to see him go. He says it'll be fine. He can meet her kid, she can meet his mom they start making out.
Back at her desk, Jackie takes a few of Cooper's flowers out of the trash.
She finds Grace and Fiona at the bar and gives them each a rose. Grace isn't speaking to her. Her husband tells her Grace will come around. She hugs him and gives him a big kiss.
Outside, Eddie watches through the window. He walks away stunned at what his invasion of his lover's privacy has revealed.
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