- Jackie forgets to remove her wedding ring before coming to work, and now she can't seem to get it off her finger. A young man is brought to the ER with cardiac arrest, and Jackie uses his cell phone to contact his girlfriend. Zoey walks in on Jackie and Eddie, and Dr. Cooper puts pressure on Jackie over paperwork for the organ donor she secured in the last episode.—Peter Brandt Nielsen
- Jackie and Grace practice in their tap class, totally lost. Jackie introduces her daughter to her old high school friend Mrs. Flynn. Her daughter whispers something to Grace. Mom invites them to donuts, but Jackie has to go to work.
Walking home, Grace asks her daughter if she feels like telling her what the kid whispered. She said her mom was her dad's girlfriend before Jackie. Jackie laughs it off.
At work, Mo-Mo and Jackie try to figure out what day it is. She says mother-daughter tap is Saturday. He thinks she means she takes tap with her mom.
O'Hara walks by and ignores them both.
Jackie quietly rags on her, but follows when O'Hara asks for a minute.
O'Hara apologizes to Jackie with chocolate and magazines, telling her she's there when Jackie's done freezing her out. Jackie melts, and O'Hara reminds her to take off her wedding ring. Jackie tucks her arms in her pits just in time for Eddie to walk by. Zoey tells her a cardiac arrest is on the way.
In the bathroom, Jackie fights with her ring but can't get it off.
Paramedics bring in the heart attack. He's been down for 30 minutes. They perform CPR as his cell phone rings. Jackie quietly asks Mo-Mo if he saw a ring on her finger earlier. He says no and asks if she lost one.
The patient's cell phone keeps ringing. They can't revive him. Jackie goes through his bag. He rented "Marley & Me" and bought razors. He has a to do list and things to be mailed. Jackie checks his texts. Someone getting increasingly worried, then ending with a "you suck." She dials the number and leaves a message, telling whoever it is to come to the ER, where Chris is in a critical situation.
Jackie snorts two lines of pill powder in the bathroom and tries again, unsuccessfully, to get her ring off her finger.
Jackie sees Melissa, Cooper's girlfriend in the hall. She has flowers not for her sick mom, but for Cooper. Cooper strolls in and asks to talk to Jackie. Medical records is hassling him about a donor he didn't certify (the one she lied about him certifying last week).
She tells him not to worry about it. Cooper's worried that if the family makes a fuss he could be in serious trouble. He tells Jackie he'll turn on her so fast it'll make her head spin.
She calmly tells him to cool down, he doesn't want to scare his girlfriend.
She walks away and picks up a hammer that's lying around. She takes it into a bathroom stall where she uses it to crush a pill. She walks down the hall, super bright-eyed. She's wearing latex gloves when she walks by Eddie.
She goes to O'Hara for a favor. Cut to O'Hara holding a surgical saw and questioning Jackie's judgment as she prepares to cut off her wedding ring. She'll figure out what to tell her husband later.
But O'Hara can't cut because hopped up Jackie is shaking too much.
Jackie tells her about angry Cooper and that she cut some corners on a transplant. O'Hara asks if she did anything illegal and Jackie freely confesses. She's not worried that she could be fired. What she can't live with is Cooper holding it over her head.
O'Hara is sure Jackie knows how to mess with him.
O'Hara goes through with the ring procedure.
Cooper brings his flowers from Melissa to Eddie, citing allergies. Jackie comes in, asking for a moment with Cooper. As Eddie leaves them alone, Cooper tells Eddie she'll keep him away from the good stuff.
Jackie tells him he wasn't there for the donor. He says he's qualified, she's not, New York law says that. Either way, that's insulting, she says. And for him to threaten her was unconscionable. She gets most of the way through chewing him out when he grabs her boob. She very calmly tells him not to panic, that she needs to be able to trust him and vice versa. It's been a crappy day and he handled the cardiac arrest that morning very well. With her hand over his on her boob Jackie leans in and kisses him reassuringly.
Cut to Jackie furiously brushing her teeth. Zoey tells her no one has come yet for the cardiac arrest. She hopes he didn't have kids. It's always worse when kids are involved, she tells Jackie.
Jackie visits the pharmacy, to find it under construction. Eddie's in the back, stoned on Valium. She climbs on top of him. Zoey goes looking for Jackie. Apparently she left the door unlocked. She walks in on Jackie on top of Eddie. She screams and runs out. Then Jackie calls her back in and she shields her eyes. Finally Jackie runs her off.
After she leaves, Jackie asks Eddie whether she should laugh or cry. Laugh, he decides.
At the bedside of a Hispanic priest, Zoey tells Jackie she thinks she and Eddie are a cute couple. Jackie tells Zoey that she will have no problem killing her in front of the priest.
Later, Jackie tells her not to share what she saw with anyone. Zoey says she has no judgment, she went to second base with her manager at Burger King.
Jackie tells O'Hara what Zoey saw and that she kissed Cooper. O'Hara responds by horse laughing.
Mo-Mo and Jackie lay in the chapel. He asks if she ever found her ring. He wants to find it, so he will have done one good thing today. She says no as she holds it in her hands.
Jackie takes the hammer into the bathroom. She sits on the floor and puts her hand down. Then she whacks her ring finger with the hammer.
O'Hara is gone, so Cooper splints it for her. She apologizes for being mean that morning. She says he's not a bad guy. That's what he's been trying to tell her.
Jackie goes through the cardiac arrest guy's things. She takes out the letters and bills, then goes into her own purse for stamps and mails them. Outside the hospital, she leans against the building and practices her tap moves.
A cell phone rings. It's Chris' phone, and she breaks the bad news to the caller who was angry at being stood up by Chris' death.
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