Netflix The Nurse recap guide: All 4 episodes explained

The Nurse episode 3 recap: So Take My Heart

The Nurse episode 3 opens with Christina bringing her daughter to her ex. He insinuates that Christina has a habit of taking their daughter to the doctor too often, even if there is nothing wrong with her, possibly indicating that Christina has Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

At the hospital, Pernille does her best to find an ally against Christina, but Katja doesn’t want to get involved, and Niels immediately dismisses Pernille’s claims, going so far as to accuse her of envy. Niels has been working consistently with Christina for years now, surely he would have noticed if she was secretly a psycho? But despite his anger, Niels investigates Pernille’s claims and finds some disturbing trends.

John’s (the patient from the previous episode who died from cardiac arrest despite being brought in for a urinary tract problem) chart doesn’t indicate that he ever had any heart problems. It would be unusual for him to have suddenly died overnight from cardiac arrest given his history. Niels looks through some of the other patients Pernille mentioned and notes a few other inconsistencies and oddities. Now convinced that Pernille is right, he returns to her house.

While Niels was digging into charts at the hospital, Pernille was doing some digging of her own. She visits one of Christina’s old colleagues who mentions the case from 2012 regarding Arne Herskov. Arne’s brother, Kenny, continued pressing the hospital about Arne’s death until they conducted a root cause analysis and found diazepam and morphine in his bloodstream, indicating suicide. But Kenny has always been adamant that his brother hated drugs and would never do that.

When Pernille and Niels begin working together, they realize that when Christina left her old hospital, their rate of deaths dropped from 90 to 50, which is pretty substantial, though it doesn’t prove anything. That’s the main problem they face now, finding evidence of Christina’s crimes. All of her patients have been cremated or buried by now, syringes are disposed of, and gloves are always disinfected.

If Pernille tries to go forward with this, then it’ll just come down to her word versus Christina’s, and considering Christina is a beloved veteran, it’s unlucky Pernille would come out on top. Not to mention a scandal like that would make her unhireable.

The only option they have now is for Pernille to catch Christina in the act of harming a patient and to do that, Pernille will have to start working night shifts with her again.

Written by Maddy Lennon