The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder

Tim and Danny drive to Amy’s house, discussing her and her reaction to the data. When they arrive, they tell her everything that they know and suspect and then ask her to look over the Pyxis printouts. Amy comments on how odd it is that Charlie has so many drug orders and provides context for his inappropriate use of digoxin. When the detectives share some of the hospital’s efforts to hide the truth, Amy tells them about Cerner, the patient data portal that also has vital information. Ultimately, the detectives ask her to go undercover, continuing a relationship with Charlie and keeping it a secret from the hospital. Their talk is interrupted by a call from Mary, during which she asks Amy to tell her if the detectives contact her. Amy lies to Mary and then helps the detectives with medical terminology.

Amy tries to get a more explicit understanding of what she would do as an “undercover agent” but puts off deciding in the moment. Later, she talks to her daughter about the situation and what the detectives want. Her daughter gives her consent for Amy to help the investigation.

Danny and Tim try to make sense of the case. Tim requests that the FBI be brought in to help, but his superior denies the request. Meanwhile, Amy calls Charlie on a recorded line. She’s sympathetic and warns him that people are asking questions about him at the hospital.

Detectives continue interviews at the hospital, intentionally asking incriminating questions about Amy to hide her cooperation from hospital administration. She continues to call Charlie while sorting through the medical documentation, focusing on Reverend Gall in hopes of building the strongest case. She discovers that Charlies often orders rare drugs in large quantities and cancels orders at a rate beyond traditional mistakes. One night, she mistakenly enters a drug code into the Pyxis at work and cancels it. However, as Charlie discovered, the drug is still dispensed. Amy shares this with the detectives. While it’s an important facet of the case, unfortunately, it’s circumstantial evidence that isn’t enough to convict Charlie.

Amy and Charlie talk one evening. He expresses his distress over his pregnant girlfriend, Cathy, and her supposed affair with a coworker. When Charlie expresses his feelings of sadness and thoughts of death by suicide, Amy tries to cheer him up. That night, Amy dreams first that she’s a murderer and then that Charlies is murdering her. Although the dream distresses her, she realizes that Charlie always helped the pharmacy drug runner so that he could access drugs before they were put away, giving him an unlimited supply of whatever he wanted.