Plot

Jackie worries that her daughter may have an anxiety disorder.

With a nursing student in tow, Jackie deals with the usual variety of emergency cases including a child who has an accident on his bike but wasn't wearing a helmet at the time and a woman whose oxygen tank exploded when she lit a cigarette. Dr. Cooper actually makes a correct diagnosis. Gloria Akalitus has an interesting day at work when she takes Jackie's coffee sweetener, which has no sweetener in it, but rather crushed up pain killers. Student nurse Zoey Barkow is worried when she finds the diplomat's ear in the toilet and it's suggested she may have put it there.—garykmcd

Jackie cuts her husband's hair at home. Yes, husband. Not the guy she was doing in the on-call room last episode (that's Eddie the pharmacist, if you're keeping score). Hubby owns a bar. A haircut in the kitchen turns into some floor sex. Later, she makes her kids lunches and then grinds up some Percocet against doctors orders. She puts it in some sweetener packets for later use.

Mom and Dad serve cereal to the two girls. When one knocks the box over he has occasion to note that Daddy likes Fruity Pebbles on the floor.

Jackie takes the train to work then watches her rich doctor friend Elenor O'Hara slink out of her cab and into her spendy heels. She hands over some clothes. She's giving them away rather than having them cleaned. As they walk in the hospital, Elenor signals Jackie to take off her wedding ring.

Inside, Zoey presents Mo Mo with some "please like me" muffins. An agitated man comes in wanting attention. Jackie asks him to calm down and when he doesn't, she calls over burly nurse Thor, who looks every bit a Thor, and is gay. When he compliments Zoey's skin she asks Jackie if he's married. Not one to save Zoey from herself, Jackie says no and go get 'em.

And then the agitated patient comes back and slaps Jackie hard across the face. And then security comes. Jackie says she's fine then adds some Percocet sweetener to her coffee. There, all better.

A kid comes in after a skate board accident. Dr. O'Hara tends to him with Cooper. He shushes her to listen to the kid's chest, then claims he can hear an aneurysm. Claiming that's not possible to hear, she sends him away.

Eddie explains a super-collider to Jackie, she listens as raptly as she can manage.

Zoey steps into the bathroom to call her mom, freaked out after seeing Jackie hit. She tells her mom she doesn't think she can do the job. Then, the toilet gurgles. The ear that Jackie flushed in the last episode bobs up. Zoey ralphs at the sight all over again. Zoey gives it to Mrs. Akalitus, the administrator, who shows it to Jackie, who points out, sorry, but Zoey was the last one who had it. Zoey tries to figure out what's happening as Jackie attempts to diffuse. But Mrs. A says she has to open an investigation. In response, Jackie takes a packet of her Percocet sweetener out of her pocket. And oh, what luck, Mrs. A has been looking for Sweet-N-All for three days. She takes the drugged sweetener and dumps it in her coffee then walks away as Jackie watches, frozen.

Cooper and Jackie inspect a patient who was on oxygen and lit up. It took Cooper 20 minutes after his page to get there.

In the hall, Jackie sees Thor hauling the man who slapped her down the hall. She checks in with the skateboarder's mom. She's worried that they had to cut his hair to relieve the pressure in his skull. He loves his hair.

Elenor tells Jackie that, irritatingly, Cooper was right. The boy had an aneurysm. Jackie says Cooper might just have good instincts. Elenor demands she take that back. Jackie asks her friend what she thinks, hypothetically, would happen to a nursing student who flushed a body part. After checking that it wasn't a penis, Elenor says she won't get fired.

The arrive at their swanky lunch destination to find it's closed for a private party. Jackie offers to buy her a hot dog instead. Elenor freezes in her tracks and starts only slightly mock-wailing. Jackie apologizes profusely for the street meat joke. She'd never make her eat one.

Back at work, Jackie tells Cooper that he was right. Choking out each word, she tells him that she thinks he thinks he's a bad doctor and that's why he acts like an over-confident jerk. Then she tells him that she'll deny it later, but she thinks he is a good doctor. He wraps her in a big hug. Mo Mo walks around the corner to see Jackie trapped in a twerp hug. Then a bleised-out Mrs. A comes by, enjoying life and her spiked sweetener.

A code is called. It's the man who slapped Jackie. He resists as Cooper tries to treat his hand. He grabbed a radiator. He's upset about them amputating his mom's legs and that no one will listen to him. Jackie tells security to uncuff him as he screams and writhes. The police try to talk her out of it, but give in. He calms down, having finally been listened to. He apologizes for hitting Jackie. He tells her about his obese, diabetic mom whom he can't take care of. She asks someone to call social services.

Zoey hovers over Jackie as she does paperwork. She tells Jackie she's not sure she can do it. Jackie asks if this is because no one ate her muffins. Then she gives her a pep talk that sounds more like a reaming. Mrs. A walks into a door behind her.

Jackie watches over the young skateboarder. She tells his mom he's critical, but stable. She gently reminds mom to make him wear a helmet. Then mom tells Jackie she asked the photographer to take his helmet off for a few shots for his portfolio, to show off his long hair. Jackie is stunned. It may have taken them a year to grow his hair out, but it's going to take him a year to learn how to walk again, she tells the mom. She tells her it was her job to protect him.

She goes outside to get some air. She finds the oxygen tank woman waiting for a cab. Jackie tracks one down for her and finds, naturally, that the driver is having chest pains. She hauls him out and starts chest compressions. She also gives him her last sweetener to ease the pain. An addict, but a giver.

Jackie meets her hubby at his bar where he's feeding their kids dessert. She puts her ring on before she goes in. A news report on the super-collider is on the TV. She repeats back some of what Eddie told her about it. Her husband asks how she knows about it. "I get around," she says meaningfully, reaching for real sweetener for her coffee.