Nurse

From doktorsleepless

Doktor Sleepless' terrifying assistant. She can do artful things to your junk with a scalpel.

The Nurse doesn't particularly care about the future, and is annoyed by the Doktor's demands (hanging signs, throwing switches, generally doing anything) and crying jags, but he pays her handsomely for her time. No one really knows much else about her.

From issue #2, it could be inferred that Nurse is learning under the Doktor. The Doktor refuses to call her anything but Nurse, and when she asks to be called by a name, he dubs her "Nurse Igor". Perhaps he heard her grumbling to herself ("do this Nurse Igor, do that Nurse Igor", etc.) while throwing the switch for the DS signal (#001 p21) and appreciated the irony.

She reminds Doktor Sleepless that she was hired "for a reason," several times before he finally says "you're being paid to keep me alive and watch my back". Later in the same issue, she appears to take charge of the Doktor's health, hurrying him out of a club after he suffers a mental collapse and smashes in a mirror. (#002 p21)

Past

Nurse appears to be looking for justice, or revenge. Alone in her room, she has a flash-back of confronting her mother as a young child, shortly after her father's funeral. She has "figured out" that her mother, a real nurse, had murdered her father by injecting him with calcium gluconate. This drug causes a heart attack and then breaks down, becoming untraceable. Her mother could have used a small-gage insulin syringe to inject the drug in a larger puncture wound from an "injected vaccine." Thus, an undetectable murder. Nurse-as-a-child supposedly found the evidence in the trash after cats had ripped the bag open, then looked up in the family library what the bag on the label meant.

But there are a couple of problems in this story that cast doubt whether this is really Nurse's true memory.

• First, vaccines are generally IM or subcutaneous, not "intravenous"; they need to stay in one place for a while for them to take. (Immunoglobulins, which give "passive" immunity, however, can be given IV.)
• Furthermore, in the pre-internet era of 15-20 years ago, it would have been hard for Nurse-as-a-child to find the book that could explain the uses and side-effects of calcium gluconate (unless her mother kept a Merck manual on the desk). It would have been even harder for her to grasp the full implications of it all. This indicates that either Nurse-as-a-child either had a genius IQ (possible), or this is the Nurse-as-an-adult interpreting her past in the light of all her life-experiences, and having a fantasy of confronting her mother in the way she wished she might have done as a child. (#003 pp13-16)

Then & Now

The nurse appears to have been recruited by Max Cale for the intelligence community. Max Cale told her he probably kept her out of the prison, because she was "born to that kind of work". According to him, she's been all over the world and done incredible things. She assassinates him before she leaves the library,and her motivations are as of yet undisclosed. Cale and the Nurse also appear to have been lovers, though it is strongly implied that Cale took advantage of the Nurse. His assassination showed strong sexual references, and could possibly have been a revenge killing. However, Cale's relationship with Professor Zero (a pseudonym of John Reinhardt) also suggests that he could have been killed on Doktor Sleepless' orders. Later, it's revealed she acted on her own (#005 pp2-3), but seems to have thought it's what the Doktor wanted.

According to Doktor Sleepless, she has six names and forty confirmed kills. She wants to kill everyone involved in her creation. She has never been in love.