Plot

A man is admitted to the ER with a steak knife in his chest.

Eddie surprises Jackie with a present for their first anniversary. A woman brings her date to the emergency room after he has been stabbed by her ex-husband. Mrs. Akalitus discovers an abandoned baby. Dr. O'Hara is feeling miserable, and Jackie is her only refuge.—Peter Brandt Nielsen

Jackie tells O'Hara they're putting Grace in private school. It's $4,000 if they join the parish and $7,000 if they don't. O'Hara offers to pay. Jackie says thanks, but she can't. As they sit outside, a mentally ill man they call God shouts down curses from an apartment across the street. He's off his meds. Jackie notices O'Hara has on two different shoes and wonders if everything's OK. Eddie pages Jackie.

In the ER, they work on a guy with multiple stab wounds and a knife sticking out of him.

Mo Mo works on Mrs. Akalitus to buy something to help them lift heavy patients. She says no, then wonders who the baby on the counter belongs to.

Cooper comes in to check out the stab wound guy. O'Hara lets him stay. Jackie has Zoey hold gauze over a wound. When Zoey says she's capable of doing more important things Jackie tells her to move her hand. Blood spurts. "See? That's important," Jackie says.

With Cooper in place, O'Hara abruptly announces she has to leave.

Zoey really wants to take the knife out of the guy's chest. Jackie explains you never remove a foreign object, the surgeons do that. "But it's so tempting," Zoey says.

Jackie finally goes to see Eddie. He texted her six times last night. He has something for her. "I got you a little something extra today, above the standard fare," he says. He hands her a jewelry box.

He wishes her a happy anniversary. She's confused, it's not March.

Now he's confused (she's clearly citing the wrong anniversary). She covers by saying she's just tired. It's been a year.

She won't try on the bracelet. He says he gets it. "It's a stupid f---- bracelet from the guy you're banging. Too bad it's not Vicodin."

He mocks her repeated requests for pills and says everything's always on her terms. She gives back the bracelet, saying she doesn't need any of it. Neither does he.

Jackie walks down the hall to find Zoey with a police officer, outside the room of a sex offender who was messing with 3rd graders. His testicles were swollen so a doctor ordered a catheter. Zoey tried to get it out, but couldn't. Jackie checks with Zoey to ask if she deflated the balloon at the end. She didn't.

Jackie calmly walks over to the man, telling him he'll feel a little pressure. Then she promptly yanks the thing out sharply as the man howls in pain.

Mo Mo hauls her outside, saying he doesn't want her to get in trouble. She rationalizes that the man is a pedophile, then explains that she had a fight her man, uh, male, gentleman, uh, boyfriend. He didn't even know she had a boyfriend.

Outside, "God" yells down at everyone.

Cooper eats in Eddie's pharmacy, suggesting they go to Atlantic City. He opens the jewelry box. Cooper says it's unisex and tries it on. He says he bought a Cartier watch two days after graduating from med school but he was robbed at gunpoint. Eddie says he doesn't really feel like talking, and if Cooper likes the bracelet so much, he can have it.

O'Hara walks by Jackie in the hall. She's out of sorts and asks Jackie to check on steak knife's people. Jackie tells the woman he was on a date with whose ex-husband stabbed him that he's in the ICU with stitches. The woman says he was a great guy after a string of jerks and it was their first date. "He's not going to call me, is he?" she asks Jackie.

Mrs. Akalitis walks around with the baby in her arms, asking whose baby it is.

Jackie sees Mo Mo talking to an upset Zoey. "God" told her her hair is thinning. Jackie tells Zoey to stop going outside.

In her office, O'Hara tells someone on her cell phone to please never call her. Jackie knocks on the door and comes in. Jackie tells O'Hara about Eddie and the bracelet and Cooper now wearing it. Jackie asks if she wants to tell her what's up. O'Hara pops a Xanax and says it'd take a bucket of Scotch to get it out of her. She offers Jackie a pill. Jackie says she would like one, yea. "Is that bad?" But she's a lightweight, she says as she palms six or seven pills. O'Hara splits one for her as she shoves the rest in her pocket.

Out in the hallway, Jackie takes another. She walks by Eddie's window and says she's sorry. She goes inside. They make up. He asks if she still wants the bracelet. She says sure.

In the hallway, Eddie mock robs Cooper, telling him to put his hands up and give him all his jewelry. Cooper hands it over.

Mrs. Akalitis continues to walk around with the baby in her arms, asking who he belongs to. Finally, she decides to call social services.

Jackie checks on Zach the stabbing victim. She tells him his date is waiting for him. But he wants someone with a clean slate and no problems. Jackie ups his morphine then starts talking about his date again, saying maybe everything after this will be a piece of cake. She pulls out Eddie's Cartier love bracelet, saying she found it on the subway and she thinks his date will love it.

Jackie goes to get the date, giving her a wipe to get the junk food off her face.

O'Hara walks in and closes the door behind her. She's envious that Jackie's going home to a family and she'll be going home to nothing. Jackie invites her over, saying she could stay in Fiona's room. "Actually," O'Hara says, "I prefer Grace's."

God shouts down at them as they head for O'Hara's town car. Jackie shouts up at him, telling him to leave her nurses alone, to pick on criminals and white guys. He asks who her friend in the heels is, now that's a woman. Jackie shouts at him to get back on his meds. He apologizes and shouts down the time.

At her kitchen table, Jackie and Kevin listen as O'Hara wraps up her tale of woe, which apparently involves her step-father, a criminal.

The next morning a very hungover O'Hara waits for her coffee as served by Fiona. She notices an electric bill on the counter and stuffs it in her purse.

Grace comes in showing off her new uniform. O'Hara says it lacks a French braid and sets about remedying the problem. Kevin doesn't seem to be a fan of fancy O'Hara. He notices the bill is missing. Grace worries because her dad bought the wrong color bike shorts and God (the Deity, not the mental patient) might see them.

"He'll know that you meant well," Jackie says.