By Jacob
When Eleanor starts asking questions about the MRI switcheroo, Jackie decides it's a perfect time to take the kids upstate. She and Kevin leave work early and take the girls to a B&B run by the greatest actor of our time, Becky Ann Baker, but of course she loses her stolen Oxy in the car on the way, so she spends the whole time just kind of vibrating and eventually just begs to go home again. But when Fiona calls Eleanor, Kevin figures out from their convo that Jackie took the money she offered them, gets out of the car, and just starts walking off down the road.
Eddie learns that Coop slept with Sam's girlfriend after all, and sticks his big old hypocritical nose into it, while Coop tries to bond with a cute sandwich guy over their shared Tourette's. Eleanor spends half the episode searching for Jackie and the second half strengthening her relationships with Zoey -- who spots an embolism Coop missed -- and Gloria, who takes her out for a drink. Oh, and the posh epileptic Jackie mugged last week shows up with some jacked teeth in his face, a bouquet for Jackie, and a donation for Gloria. The threat to Jackie is barely implied, but is there any possible way this guy is not a drug dealer who has come to murder her in her scrubs?
While everybody wonders where Jackie went, the hospital is haunted by a detoxing heroin addict who missed the clinic, which means everybody gets to talk about how much they hate drug addicts -- except Coop, who shows a degree of compassion that is both retarded and beautiful. Between the nasty truth(s) about Jackie wandering the halls and the shivering mess she's becoming on the seashore, That Feeling You Get when you watch this show amps up about a million times worse than usual.
One wonders what will happen in the finale, as everybody sort of draws ranks around the negative space where Jackie's always put herself. Between Eleanor and Zoey falling in love, and Gloria reaching out to everybody, wouldn't it be a fucker of a thing if Jackie ended up having only Coop and Eddie to fall back on? And don't you know she'll probably still find some awesome way around it, which will be great even if her neglectful abuse of Eleanor this week was the grossest thing she's done since... Well, last week.
Get ready for the finale by looking back at Season 1's craziest moments.