Netflix The Nurse recap guide: All 4 episodes explained

The Nurse episode 2 recap: Dream Team

The second episode of The Nurse starts in 2012 again, this time during Arne’s funeral. Kenny tells Arne’s friends and family that he didn’t commit suicide, and seems determined to prove the doctors wrong in his cause of death.

It’s now 2015 for Pernille, who we see giving Christina a ride to work. The two ladies are growing even closer despite Pernille’s suspicions of something going on at the hospital. During a shift, she looks through the medicine cabinets and notices pills missing. And when she walks by the staff room, she hears Christina lying to their co-workers. One of the other nurses tells Pernille to be careful with Christina, explaining that she can’t be trusted and loves being the center of attention.

Ahead of another shift, Pernille goes to pick up Christina and comes inside her home. She notices that Christina’s taken home patient records, but Christina says they’re simply for her to study. She seems like a perfectionist, but is there something more sinister going on here? Pernille must be wondering.

At work, a nurse gossips to Pernille and says she heard that Christina once had sex with Niels in the medicine room, which shocks Pernille. Meanwhile, another nurse then reports missing diazepam.

Later that night at the hospital, the alarm starts going off again and Pernille finds a patient flatlining. She starts doing chest compressions but is interrupted by Christina, who rushes in and pushes Pernille away. She gets on top of the patient and performs the compressions, but it’s in a very strange manner. She seems to be finding pleasure in the motions as if she’s having sex. Christina is able to save the patient’s life just as other staff members walk in. The doctor praises Christina and she seems very happy, while Pernille is confused and weirded out.

Pernille goes on another date with Niels and starts asking questions about Christina. He says they’ve worked together for a while and he seems to respect her. Pernille then asks point-blank if they’ve ever had sex in the medicine room, to which Niels denies it. He says he’s never had sex with her anywhere. Pernille expresses her concerns about Christina, but he comes to her defense, saying everyone in the ER enjoys the drama a little bit. Before Pernille can ask more questions, they start kissing and drop the conversation.

At the hospital, Pernille overhears another nurse saying she’s noticed a third instance of a patient taking too much diazepam. Christina then hurriedly enters, telling everyone she was just in a car accident with her daughter and that her car is totaled. Feeling suspicious, Pernille goes outside to the parking lot and finds Christina’s car, which looks totally fine. The fake car accident story comes at a very convenient time when others are noticing issues with the medicine.

Pernille decides to confide in one of the nurses, Katja, and goes over to her house to talk about Christina. Katja says she doesn’t want to get involved in gossip, but once Pernille brings up the missing medication, Katja agrees that she’s noticed that as well. She explains that because the hospital is so unorganized, she hadn’t thought twice about it until now. Katja says she’ll be keeping an eye out for anything abnormal.

Pernille asks the hospital administrator if she can change her shifts because of Christina, but she’s sort of dismissed when the woman tells her not to spread gossip. In the end, however, she’s told she’ll be getting a new partner. She then works a day shift with Katja while Niels is working, and they meet a patient named John. He must stay overnight but is excited to meet his new great-grandson the next morning. Pernille grows close to John that night as they talk and joke around.

As Pernille is leaving, Christina comes in to work the night shift, which by now we know won’t end well. The next morning, Pernille shows up at the hospital and is told there were three deaths the night prior, one of them being John. Pernille says that can’t be right, but Christina tells her he went into cardiac arrest and there was nothing else they could do.

John’s family comes in with the baby eager to see him, and Pernille has to break the tragic news. His wife is shocked and tells her that the doctor said he would be fine. She says John never even had any heart problems. It’s a heartbreaking scene and so unfair that Pernille has to be the one to tell John’s family.

This is the final straw for Pernille, who then goes to read the death logbook and counts all of Christina’s patients’ deaths. There’s a whopping 22 accounted for. She goes to talk to Katja and tells her she thinks Christina is killing people.

Written by Natalie Zamora