Nurse Jackie

In the series premiere, veteran ER nurse Jackie Peyton bends the rules to create something good from a patient's senseless death, while concealing her addiction to a pain killer she gets from her secret boyfriend, hospital pharmacist Eddie.

A veteran nurse bends the rules.

Jackie and her husband are concerned.

Jackie and her husband are concerned about their daughter; the hospital administrator drinks Jackie's spiked coffee.

Jackie discusses her daughter's anxiety.

An elderly patient treats heart disease with chicken soup; Jackie discusses her daughter's anxiety with Dr. O'Hara; Eddie learns he is being replaced.

Jackie and Kevin consider enrolling Grace in private school; Dr. O'Hara must endure a boy's emotional thanks; Zoey loses a patient.

Boy's emotional thanks.

Jackie breaks rules to help a girl, caring for her mother; Mrs. Akalitus tasers herself; O'Hara treats Zoey to a meal.

Jackie breaks rules.

An old friend of Jackie's checks into the hospital with terminal lung cancer; Dr. Cooper's mother has a gall bladder attack and reveals a family secret.

Dr. Cooper's mother.

A man is attacked by his date's ex-husband; Mrs. Akalitus takes charge of a foundling; O'Hara has a personal crisis.

Date's ex-husband.

Jackie discovers a new temp nurse is abusing drugs; Mrs. Akalitus continues to care for the foundling; Coop tells Eddie that Jackie has a child.

Abusing drugs.

Jackie admits a dying patient she previously treated; O'Hara tells a sister Jackie's secrets; an organ donation form is forged.

Jackie admits a dying patient.

Jackie uses an unusual ploy to get Coop off her back; O'Hara helps Jackie remove her wedding ring; Jackie begins mother-daughter dance lessons with Grace.

Jackie uses an unusual ploy.

Eddie is replaced by a machine; Zoey administers the wrong dose of a painkiller; parents come forward to claim the baby that Akalitus is caring for.

Eddie is replaced by a machine.

A midnight rendezvous.

Kevin invites Jackie to a midnight rendezvous; the movie critic wakes; Eddie learns the truth about Jackie's family; O'Hara's mother is admitted.