Just saw the latest episode and it looks like her world is about to cave in. After Eddie left the hospital, she had to start using much riskier methods to support her habit. Confrontations are a’coming and (having been there myself) it is almost unbearable to watch. In my hospital one out of every 20 nurses was confronted about a drug problem last year! And those were just the ones who got caught. Only a handful survived with their job/license intact. (I was one of the lucky ones.)
-Was the seizure guy she took drugs off of a dealer? Who will kill to get his drugs back?
-Will O’Hara help her or dump her for the multiple betrayals?
-Will she tell Kevin about everything except Eddie? Will he find out anyway from someone else - and will that be the last straw?
-Will the increasingly wonderful Gloria send her to rehab and then take her back?
-Or will she fire her and report her? (and replace her with Zoey?)
-Will Coop ever be cured of assholism?
-Will Eddie (please) get hit by a bus?
-Am I the only one who cares?
She’s definitely up shit-creek. Kevin is going to take her lying pretty hard, and he’s already suspicious of more than just taking O’Hara’s money. There was a moment in the car where she was just barely dialing in to the family interaction. Add to that the lies and her credit card bills and he’s got to figure out that she’s a major druggie. Even the goofy B&B lady picked up right away that there was something up with her.
I loved Zoey in this episode to Coop; “You missed a pulmonary embolism” while he was railing at them about not giving the junkie methadone. And Coop even had an endearing moment with the Quizno’s guy but he couldn’t maintain being decent for long enough.
O’Hara probably will help Jackie but I have a feeling she’ll set conditions that will be intolerable to her and she’ll reject the help. Which will put her right where Eddie will want her to be.
Well this definitely isn’t going to happen as it would mean the end of the show. (I mean in real life, she’d probably get fired, but not on television.) In a previous thread, someone likened this show to Weeds, and I think that’s right. Each season of Weeds ended with the main character in an impossible situation, but the next season, she was mysteriously free. And the first season of Nurse Jackie ended with her lying in the Pyxis room strung out on a triple dose of heroin. You’d think she’d have overdosed and died, or at least been discovered, but this season began without any repercussions being apparent.
I couldn’t figure out why she didn’t just move the front seat forward. IMO it’s impossible to lose something underneath a front car seat, and that’s not hypebole; I mean actually, no-fooling impossible.
Other than that minor complaint about the contrived writing, I liked it and look forward to the finale.
Lemme tell you: I had a box of Altoids slip off the console of my Saturn Vue. They went between the seat and the console and I could NOT get the damn things out of there. I poked, prodded, fished, braked, accelerated: nothing worked. It took about three months for them to work their way out far enough to where I could grab them with needle nosed pliers. But I don’t think she knew for sure they were under there, and was interrupted by the kids before she could bend down to actually look.
From the previews, it looked like the guy she saved is a pusher.
I had a feeling we weren’t going to see real fallout yet.
Loved Zoe, Alalitus and O’Hara were great. Yeah, I know Coop is a ween-head, but I still like him too.
The pills Jackie dropped under the seat can’t be a red herring, can they? I was so sure when they started played “I spy” inside the car the next letter was going to be “F” for floss. C’mon, it was so easy! Is anyone going to find the pills now, or is Jackie going to get away with that one?
Jackie will probably tell Kevin she’s bad for taking the money but it wasn’t for the kids’ school. She’ll come up with some other story about the money and Kevin will buy it. He seems pretty gullible. She might be able to use the money to pay off pusher guy.
Akalitus probably won’t find out. Eddie’s probably going to help her get out of things somehow.
I can’t guess right now how she’s going to deal with O’Hara. She’s actually pretty trusting and gullible when it comes to Jackie though. There will be hurt feelings.
BTW, what was the vacation about? Jackie said they’d been wanting to do it for awhile, but what exactly?