In the final scene of episode four, Nurse Jackie's reasoning begins to make sense. She adds a yellow sun and stares at the picture. "There," she says, "Isn't that better?" Jackie spent most of the episode trying to balance her mom and wife responsibilities with her girlfriend responsibilities. She even bought a new cell phone just for her boyfriend Eddie's calls in a weak effort to keep both lives separate.

In a teacher conference, Jackie and her husband were shown their daughter Grace's colorless drawings. The drawings combined with Grace's terrorist attack worries made the school nurse want to put her on anxiety medication. Jackie still didn't want to see Grace's problems as more than a phase so she ignored the nurse's suggestions and talked to her husband about switching schools.

Back at the hospital, Zoey lost her first patient and struggled to handle letting go. Jackie had an entertaining moment when both husband and boyfriend called on their separate lines. Mo-Mo started becoming more than a sarcastic side note when he talked to Zoey about losing his own twin, then went on to sing at a young patient's bedside. Dr. Cooper even had a positive moment when he was able to talk kindly to a sick old woman. In this episode, having patients that were less important than the hospital staff's storylines really paid off. It's going to be interesting to see what happens when Jackie mixes up her identical cell phones. For now, she's still trying to fix her daughter and her relationship issues with color added to a picture.




Story by Lauren Attaway

Starpulse contributing writer