On June 16, TNT viewers will meet Christina Hawthorne.

She's the show's title character, a headstrong nurse played by Jada Pinkett Smith, in Hawthorne, television's latest medical drama.

In the series premiere clip below, Christina races to save her late husband's best friend from committing suicide on the one-year anniversay of his pal's death. The network told you so: it knows drama.

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