Nurse Jackie Recap: Shorthanded

When Jackie heads out to the waiting room to apologize for the astronomical wait time, patients start demanding to speak to her boss…and she sends them right on back to Cruz’s wheezing ass. Mean! But funny!

The patients descend on him like vultures, wanting to know why they have to wait for treatment while he’s chilling with his nebulizer, and his vitals get weaker as he tries to reason with them. Coop intervenes and insists on sending Cruz up to pulmonary. He agrees to go, but doesn’t want to be wheeled out past all the patients and employees, so Coop gets Thor to escort him–with orders to carry him if he faints. I hope he does, not because I wish him ill, but because I want to see Thor carry him.

As if things aren’t crazy enough, they’re running out of beds and bedding, the computer is crashing, people are puking on the hallway, and everyone is getting irate at being neglected. Jackie sees Akalitus pass by, and makes an executive decision: the corporate chain of command has failed, the head honcho is out of commission, and she and Akalitus are going to get things done, old school style.

She tells Zoey to put out a call for some temp nurses, Cruz’s authority be damned. A super irate patient storms up, demanding to know who’s in charge. “I am,” Jackie says.

And honey, she means it.

Next week is the finale, and we’ll hopefully get to see the fallout from this usurpation, see O’Hara’s baby, find out if Coop is the daddy, and find out who wins the Grace/Jackie power struggle. Will she go a whole season not high? Only a half hour left to find out!

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