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.

Ratched S01E02, Ratched visits Father Andrews, a survivor and a witness of Edmund’s murders, and convinces him to interview with Dr. Hanover.