- In the Season One finale, the movie critic awakens with new tastes; Eddie learns the truth.
- The film critic remains in a coma, and Zoey is in a somber mood. Mrs. Akalitus launches an investigation, but only after she gets stuck in an elevator. Dr. O'Hara flies her sick mother in from London. After following Jackie after work, Eddie goes to her husbands bar to get a drink.—Peter Brandt Nielsen
- Jackie and Kevin hang out in the bar. Jackie vents about the mean mom from tap class, Jenny Flynn, who they both went to school with. Jackie alludes to the fact that Jenny went out with Kevin. He laughs, pointing out that was for two weeks when they were 16, and then he met Jackie.
She hugs him with her broken hand.
He reassures her that she hasn't damaged their daughter by getting her kicked out of tap class, then announces that he's got a surprise for her when she gets off work. His sister is taking the girls and she has to meet him at the bar.
Jackie says, Who is luckier than me? She leaves.
Eddie waits outside. He walks in when she leaves. Kevin's not open yet, but he invites the stranger to sit down.
Mrs. Akalitus talks to the movie critic Nutterman (Victor Garber) in a coma, saying she hates movies where idiots talk to people in comas. She says they'll talk more when he wakes up.
Zoey, who put him in the coma with the wrong dose of pain meds, watches.
Jackie gets some Tylenol from the faux Pill-o-Matix, and lets it know how she feels about it.
Mrs. Akalitus tells Jackie she's initiating an investigation into the Nutterman coma, and needs an official statement. She wants Jackie and Zoey in her office in five minutes.
Mrs. Akalitus steps into the elevator, which promptly goes on the fritz, trapping her in it.
"Thank you, Jesus!" Jackie murmurs.
Zoey stands at the comatose critic's bedside and apologizes to him. Jackie answers phones, and calls her over.
From inside the elevator, Mrs. Akalitus tries to get some attention. She calls the nurses station where Zoey promptly puts her on hold.
Zoey is wearing drab scrubs instead of her usual bunnies. Jackie asks about it. She says she's wearing them as a sign of remorse.
Mrs. Akalitus calls again. Zoey listens for several seconds, then hangs up on the increasingly frustrated administrator.
Jackie asks who it was. Mrs. Akalitus or not.
Jackie tells her not to bother with the elevator repair.
Zoey hangs up on Mrs. Akalitus a few more times. She yells from inside the elevator.
Dr. Eleanor reports from Nutterman's neuro consult that it went well.
Dr. Cooper stops by, telling Jackie they need to talk. She disagrees.
He leans in and says she broke her own finger. She leaves to talk to him privately.
He thinks she did it so he'd feel sorry for her and let her off the hook about the brain damage test. But, he says as he steps in closer, she didn't count on them having amazing chemistry.
She recaps his version to make sure she understood correctly. Then she calls him a moron, and just to really confuse him, kisses him.
Thor and Mo Mo tell Zoey her new blah scrubs are unflattering. She thinks if Nutterman wakes up and sees her in kiddie scrubs he won't take her seriously. A skinny model-type walks in and they vie to help her. The model-type opens by ranting about an off-the-boat Dominican hairdresser. Then she pulls back her sweatshirt hood to reveal orange hair with a streak of badly singed scalp.
Zoey figures that she had her hair straightened. But she can't tend to her since she's been stripped of her patient-treating powers.
At Kevin's bar, Eddie knocks 'em back. He sees the photo of Jackie and Kevin behind the bar and asks about her.
Eddie says he's seeing someone, but she's married with two kids.
That's a rough road, Kevin says.
Brother, you don't know the half of it, Eddie says to the man whose wife he's sleeping with.
As she performs a reflex test on Nutterman, Eleanor tells Jackie that she's doing something illegal that night around 10 p.m. She's having her comatose mother shipped in from England and she'll need Jackie's help. Legally Eleanor can't admit her, so she needs Jackie to enter her as a "Jane Doe" found in a park.
I'm already on the hook for one coma, what's one more? Jackie says.
Nutterman, though, seems to be doing better.
Mo Mo tells Jackie that Mrs. Akalitus called from the elevator again. He asks if he should tell her the repairs guys are there. "Yep," says Jackie.
"Are they?" He asks.
"Nope," says Jackie.
Jackie tells Mo Mo to get the breathing tube out of Nutterman since he seems to be waking up. They hope they'll dodge a lawsuit.
In the elevator, a resigned Mrs. Akalitus passes the time by narrating her own appearance on Letterman, and tales of Nutterman.
In the pharmacy, Jackie tries the unplug-the-machine trick Eddie showed her. She waits for it to reboot. It goes nowhere. She calls Eddie and leaves a message asking him to call. She closes with, "Love you."
The paramedics wheel in a guy whose intestines are literally coming out his stomach. One of the paramedics asks Zoey about her coma. He tells her not to worry and not to mea culpa too much with the nuns. He asks her out to get some pizza, but she emphatically says no, like that wouldn't be proper given the coma situation.
Jackie tells her Nutterman will be fine and to go put her happy scrubs on. Zoey tells Jackie she wants to tell Nutterman what she did. Telling him might make her feel better, but it won't make him feel better. It's selfish, she says.
Meanwhile, back in the elevator, Mrs. Akalitus passes more time by slowly unraveling her suit skirt.
Eddie continues to chat up Kevin about Jackie. Eddie says that Jackie working nights must suck. Kevin innocently tells him that no matter how tired Jackie is, when she comes home she rubs his back and makes him eggs for breakfast. Eddie looks like he wants to cry and maybe punch someone.
Cooper treats intestines guy, telling Mo Mo how much he likes someone and is messed up about the situation. Mo Mo laments his own love troubles. Despite the fact several coils of his digestive tract are resting on his belly like links of sausage, intestines guy says he's not in pain.
"You know, my ex-wife used to bitch that I never talked," the patient says. "Look at me now, I'm spilling my guts."
Cooper and the patient urge Mo Mo to call his guy and make him jealous. Cooper takes Mo Mo's phone.
In the bar, Eddie ignores Jackie calling on his cell. He orders a shot of Jack. Kevin joins in. They toast.
Kevin asks if he can show Eddie something. He takes out Jackie's new diamond ring, telling Eddie he's going to surprise her with it tonight. Kevin lines them up another round.
Eddie again ignores Jackie's call.
At the hospital, Jackie wonders what's up.
Mrs. Akalitus finally gets out of the elevator.
Jackie again tries the fauxPill-o-Matix. She unplugs it as Eddie showed her, but when she plugs it back in an alarm goes off. Jackie flees in panic.
Jackie finds O'Hara waiting for her mother downstairs. She asks if O'Hara has Xanax. Or anything else.
Zoey sulks by and Jackie hounds her again to change her scrubs.
Cooper holds up Mo Mo's phone and kisses him on the lips to snap a picture. Jackie walks by.
Nice rebound, Coop, she says as she keeps walking. Cooper protests, flustered.
Mo Mo guesses she's who Cooper was talking about.
Nutterman wakes up. He sees Zoey standing there in her bright pink and blue scrubs.
"Are those rabbits?"
She tells him she's sorry.
He says he heard her the first time. He repeats back to her the apology she offered while he was in the coma.
Then she says she's not so crazy about Kevin Costner either.
"Do I know him?" Nutterman says.
She immediately devines that he might be suffering memory loss, asks what won the Oscar for Best Picture last year.
"When was Showgirls? That was a good (!) movie," he says.
Zoey rushes out, saying "Oh my god! I broke him."
Jackie hears a shouting coming from outside. It's a super drunk Eddie. As everyone's watching, he makes a ruckus until Mrs. Akalitus threatens to call security. He says he's leaving, but first he leans in close to Jackie and hisses that he's met Kevin. "That's a very nice boy you got."
He leaves as a frozen Jackie looks stricken.
Mo Mo watches her as she tries to keep it together.
She heads for the bathroom, where she paces in a panic. She checks her pockets for pills and finds none, then leaves.
O'Hara picks up her mother, with no Jackie there. Looking her over, O'Hara starts sobbing silently.
Jackie goes into the pharmacy. She kicks the machine. Then she punches in her code and orders three vials of injectable morphine sulfate. She takes them and goes looking for a private place.
She finds an empty room and shuts the door, taking a deep breath. She sits on the floor, pops the cap off a vial and drinks it down. Then another. Then the third.
She starts to cry a little as the powerful analgesic washes over her.
She relaxes. She lies back on the floor. The voices of Kevin, Eddie, daughter Grace, Gloria Akalitus and everyone run through her head.
She thinks back to the opening scenes, which also found her on the floor. She sings, "Have you Ever Seen the Rain?" in her head and sees her picture perfect Grace tapping and Kevin waving like a cardboard husband. She imagines her husband and eldest daughter in front of an obvious '50s house-in-the-suburbs theatrical set.
She sees the shape of a rodent run across the top of the light panel in the ceiling.
"Did anyone else see that?" she says with lucidity, and the season ends to the powerful voice of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival surging over the end credits.
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