Ratched S01E01. In 1947, Edmund Tolleson murders four priests, one of which he claims to be his father. Six months later, he is arrested and sentenced to 120 days in Lucia State Hospital, a mental institution in Northern California. Mildred Ratched steals the position of a nurse in the same hospital through blackmail.
A young motocross rider is diagnosed with leukemia, forcing Dr. Alex Reid to navigate family secrets in order to put her young patient on the road to recovery.