Casualty Season 26 Episodes

Episode 1

Partners

A pair of new paramedics, Omar and Tamzin, start work alongside Dixie and Jeff. A pair of drug addicts hijack a car and create Casualty Car Crash 268 by turning it on its roof at the climax of a chase by cops. Both occupants sustain injuries. The passenger is pursuing girl cop Simone's kid brother Paul who dies in Emergency Department. Cop William Paynter gains entry to the home of drug dealer Colin Danvers and inflicts injuries on him and a punter, JC, at the property. Both gents are taken to Emergency Department. Nick Jordan has a nose bleed which makes him think his brain's gone wrong again so he goes for a scan. Dixie and Jeff are called out to the farmhouse of local drug lord Norman Danvers (father of Colin) who's had his leg mauled by a newly acquired German Shepherd dog. Jeff also takes a mauling from a second dog who's just eaten his sandwich. Cop William also comes to the farmhouse. Omar, Tamzin and Simone come to the rescue and manage to trap both dogs in an ambulance. Nick gets the all clear and becomes even more unbearable. Dylan teases Jeff about rabies.

Episode 2

Starting Out

Another male and female duo of new starters, Lloyd Asike and Scarlett Conway, are introduced to Emergency Department. Harry Timms starts work teaching at a school for special needs students where asthmatic teacher Emma Davies lashes out at student Lee Stark who goes berserk and crashes through a glass door sustaining serious injuries while smashing up a classroom. At Holby, Lloyd steps up to do chest compressions on a critical patient of Nick's - the patient lives. Stunning Scarlett Conway immediately receives relationship interest from gentlemen and compliments from a drunken female patient, Grace Fitch, who has various cuts. Scarlett deduces she has self harmed in order to gain the attention of her father, professor Fitch, in the hope he will stitch up her wounds in person. He declines. Ruth and Scarlett do the sutures. In Emergency Department, Dylan treats Lee and talks to Lloyd with the utmost, and most amusing, disrespect. Emma uses emotional blackmail to get Harry to say she didn't hit Lee. Harry tells Lee this and Lee goes berserk and smashes up hospital things. Lloyd counsels Lee - unfortunately he can only interpret the advice as to do more harm. Back he goes into the operating theatre when injured by the glass shard he hid in his pocket. Harry retracts the false statement and makes amends with Lee. Charlie tells Jay he is to mentor the newbies. Jay is frightened.

Episode 3

Common Vector

A boy at a skatepark who falls on a junkie's needle; the junkie himself; Fiona, a teenage junkie who takes a fall down stone steps while out with mum played by soap babe Gaynor Faye; a nursing mum junkie recovering but back on the smack and on vodka as well and another junkie with food poisoning are admitted with the same symptoms. Tess, Linda and Lenny work with Ruth and Dylan to find what they have in common. Complications arise for the parents of the skateboarding boy who has hereditary condition malignant hyperpyrexia, inherited from his birth father. Unfortunately, the attentive, concerned man who believes he has a son is not the birth father. Newbie Lloyd tells Fiona's mum her daughter died in resus - and receives a rollicking off Jay for doing so.

Episode 4

Memory Games

Lovely old soap queen Emma Samms plays Rachel Greer, who's spooked on a nighttime fund raising walk by the sight of a mystery man stalking her and takes a lengthy tumble down a hill. Zoe and Dylan are on duty at the scene. Jay gets Lloyd to treat ancient derelict alcoholic Ivan - he throws up at the smell of the man's septic leg. Jay gets a rollicking off Tess but he continues to pick on Lloyd. Ruth treats Luke who's been attacked with a nail gun. A cop questions him - it's not just his arm that's full of holes: he's a compensation scammer. Other patients include Scots terminal cancer woman Shirley who's made a living will requesting no treatment. Dylan theorises that Rachel has an ailment called Lewy Body Dementia. Zoe is unimpressed but has to concur. They have to tell Rachel the cure may be worse than the disease. Scarlett helps her face her hallucination man and send him packing. Linda gets a patient to sing "Danny Boy" to Shirley on her bed of death. In a "Watch This Space" moment, Zoe asks Dylan out for a drink and assumes from his response that he's a recovering alcoholic, which he denies.

Episode 5

To Have and Have Not

Acting legend Julian Glover plays belligerent old duffer Sebastian Farrow who's responsible for Casualty Car Crash 269 when he goes off road on his mobility scooter and hits a tree. At Holby, Jay continues his hectoring of newbie Lloyd, who takes an interest above and beyond in Sebastian even though he's horrible to him. A small boy, Jesse, has a petit mal seizure and falls from a rope ladder while playing. Dad, stepdad and mum are on hand and argue about custody and dad eventually thumps stepdad. Jesse gets knocked down by a car. A CT scan reveals a large blood clot on his brain. Sebastian escapes from the hospital. Lloyd follows him to his house where he is talking to his wife who died in the night. Jesse is critical so Nick performs a craniotomy. Sebastian attempts a reunion with his wife but Lloyd keeps him alive until Dixie and Jeff arrive. Jesse's three adults settle their differences as do Jay and Lloyd. Dylan again says no to the pub. Jay and Ruth have a massive, long overdue snog.

Episode 6

Fixed

Linda is taking a turn at the drugs rehabilitation unit with Charlie. Ruth has spent the night with Jay. Recovering junkies Annie and Chloe from "Common Vector" reappear. Annie has deep vein thrombosis and Chloe asks Linda if she can have her diamorphine early. Linda says no. Two brothers end up in Emergency Department when they clash at the funeral of the wife of one. The older brother, Danny tells his niece Vicki he's actually her father. Also injured is passer by Felix - a theoretical comedian instantly hated by Dylan and known and hated by Big Mac. He turns out to be a dealer and offers to supply Annie and Chloe. He goes to Charlie and Linda's office in the drug unit and steals a stash of diamorphine using menaces. It transpires that Vicki's father is who she thought it was all along when Lenny's new scanning machine shows Vicki and George have the same inherited genetic condition. Chloe visits Felix with the hope of scoring some of the gear he's just stolen. Plod and Big Mac go to Felix's address and take him down. He's given Chloe a beating.

Episode 7

Wild Horses

Recovering smack heads Chloe and Annie appear for the third time - Chloe laid up after her beating by drug dealer Felix. Jeff hates new colleague Omar, so Dixie teams them up. Know it all Louise Tyler starts on ambulance control. Nick has closed the addiction clinic on safety grounds. Ciaran, son of drinking woman Shelagh McNieve, is shot with an air pistol by horrid school colleague Tyler Berens while playing truant and riding a horse of unknown ownership. Jeff and Omar look for the horse but instead find Shelagh at home on the floor with a head injury. Chloe dies of her wounds. Ciaran escapes from ED when Scarlett leaves him unattended. Linda asks Lenny and Nick to give Annie morphine. They say no so she locks Chloe in a Big Mac's office in an attempt to make her go cold turkey. She makes her escape and collapses on the toilet floor. Dylan and Zoe diagnose Shelagh with serious conditions brought on by alcoholism. Jeff and Omar, Ciaran, Tyler and his air pistol brother all congregate at the horse's location. Omar talks the spooked horse down in Arabic. Tamzin announces that she and Omar are being sent back to St.James's, much to Jeff's delight. Dixie implies to Jeff it was she who instigated it. Stupid Linda gives Annie a hit of dope.

Episode 8

Charlie's Angels

Nick catches Scarlett giving herself a motivational speech. He tells her we don't do long hair in the NHS so tie it back. A young woman having hallucinations, Maya Kemp, falls from a bridge onto the bonnet of a car - fortunately the car is Charlie's - and even more fortunately it's not his Jaguar Mk2 - otherwise her injuries would be much more severe having impaled herself on the leaper. Mrs Tunnell, a farmer on her own, tackles young burglars Sean and Rocco with her shotgun. Rocco is injured; Sean provides Casualty Car Crash 270 by colliding with a combine harvester in his getaway car. Dixie and Jeff bring Rocco in; an unidentified crew bring Sean in. At ED, Zoe's suspicions are raised when Maya's dad tells her he's a doctor - and her GP. Her suspicions are confirmed when he owns up he's got his daughter on antipsychotic drug respiridone - without her knowledge in an attempt to alleviate her grief over the death of her mother. Cop woman DS Bain questions Dixie, Jeff and Mrs Tunnell about the incident at the farm. Burglar Rocco faces possible leg amputation; Sean, his partner in crime sadly only suffers superficial injuries. DS Bain questions him about the stolen goods found in his crashed car. He stabs Mrs Tunnell but Scarlett's quick reaction saves her life.

Episode 9

Mea Culpa

Cycling Doctor Sam Nicholls makes her start at ED by having a race with an aggressive boy racer. Paul Caffrey visits and knifes preacher man Father Vincent McConnell believing he had unlawful intimate relations with his brother who committed suicide. Noel gives comforting words to Seonaidh Lucas who is seated in the waiting area on the first anniversary of the death of her son. A home visit from him makes her decide against taking her own life. Casualty Car Crash Street is the location for Casualty Car Crash 271 when Jeff and Dixie's ambulance with Sam on board treating Father Vincent are forced off the road by Paul Caffrey. All occupants survive the crash. Sam and sharp instrument wielding Caffrey have a showdown in a staff room. Father Vincent makes his peace with The Lord on his death bed.

Episode 10

Sanctuary

Smack head Annie makes another appearance requesting Linda supply her with more drugs. Annie has a baby. Dylan is surprised to see Sam Nicholls in ED - and shocked to hear she's a new colleague. Seems they have history. Paul Sharma plays to type appearing as Damon Lynch - Annie's pimp - who attacks Linda after she's delivered drugs to Annie. Linda knees him in the groin and makes her escape but he's taken to ED after being attacked by Annie. He gets Linda to examine his private parts. Other patients include sports girl Clara Groves, autistic Angela Simons and her mum Janice who suffers cardiac arrest when almost run down by a lorry. Dylan finds that Clara has been taking her mum's heart condition meds and that she's hyper sensitive - a condition exacerbated by her mother's fondness for bright colours. Annie is brought in to ED after Damon gives her heroin. He claims to be the father of Annie's baby - but blood grouping rules this out. Dixie and new call centre operator Louise aren't getting along. Zoe notes the age gap and asks Dylan if Sam is his daughter. Annie abandons her baby to Linda's care.

Episode 11

A Pound of Flesh

The department receives news from Mads in Pakistan saying she's got married - Lenny is sad and grumpy. William Gaunt plays frequent flyer Malc Stroud, using ambulances as taxis. Two badly behaved schoolgirls, Afro Caribbean Ketzia and Caucasian Laney, brick a window and deface the front door then Tyreece Lewis, who has facial injuries, answers it. Ketzia bites Dixie's hand when she requests information about the incident. It's the home of gangster Jamal Lewis, released from jail that day. Deniece, the boys' mum tells Jamal to join his gang mates and exact revenge for the attack on his younger brother. The gang knife Rosa, Ketzia's mother, and voluntary cleansing operative at Holby ED. Lloyd believes Malc is actually ill, examines him and finds he has an enormous hernia. Zoe saves Rosa's life. Dixie and Jeff give Malc a ride home. Lenny signs Mads' card.

Episode 12

Natural Selection

Dylan has a young girl patient, Esther, accompanied by a woman claiming to be her mother - but he knows she isn't because she and he are known to each other from Dylan's drinking days. Esther's real mother died some months ago and the girl thinks she has inherited her mum's condition called lymphangioleiomyomatosis. She lives with her reclusive father whom she calls to come and get her, but he doesn't. Kyle, the leader of a gang of fools, plans to avenge the death of his junkie sister by killing the local drug lord who supplied her with bad gear. Dixie and Louise's war hots up over call outs during meal breaks; therefore when Kyle and gang have a gunfight at drug lord HQ, Louise sends a distant crew to the scene instead of interrupting Dixie's lunch. Cally goes into premature labour, takes the wheel of the gang's car and provides Casualty Car Crashes 272, 273 and 274. Luckily for her Crash 274 occurs in ED car park where Jeff, Ruth and Tess are on hand to assist Dixie deliver her baby boy. Dylan goes to Esther's dad's house and tries to get him to take responsibility for his daughter but he has a panic attack. In ED, Sam is about to carry out a risky procedure on a gunshot wounded gang fool but Nick tells her to stop and leave it to the surgeons because she's "not in the army now". Nick is unable to save Kyle's life.

Episode 13

No Goodbyes

A social worker, Tom James, is hit by a car while trying to catch up with teenage runaway mum Debbie Alder and her baby. Debbie is bleeding for reason or reasons unknown. Michael Jayston plays David Northwick, terminally ill passenger in a Jaguar driven by wife Caitlin (Susan Hampshire). David is keen to die - and Jay takes his part; but wife Caitlin wants him to live, and Ruth is on her side. He reluctantly agrees to allow life extending surgery to please his wife. Tom James finds Dylan's unengaged bedside manner difficult. Ruth's lithium has stopped working so she runs it by Nick who immediately works out she's pregnant. She does a pregnancy test but gets Jay to check the result telling him it's for a patient, not herself. He tells her it's positive. Sam begs Dylan for help diagnosing Debbie. They research and find she has a hereditary bleeding disorder called Von Willebrand Disease. With a nudge from Caitlin, Ruth admits that she and Jay are having a baby.

Episode 14

The Ties That Bind

Farmer Terry Carey and his grandson Chris are injured when a faulty barn strip light ignites petrol spilled by Chris. Dixie risks her life to get Terry to safety. Jeff calls her irresponsible but she says it has re-installed her mojo. Maria, Chris's wife, is pregnant. Sam thinks the farm explosion scenario is suspicious, because Chris claims it was caused by a faulty vehicle petrol tank which doesn't gel with her military mind. Roddy Scotton, an alcoholic gambler with pancreatic cancer is gifted £1000 from a whip round so he goes drinking and betting then collapses and hits his head on a dustbin. In ED, Nick finds he has pancreatitis which is treatable not pancreatic cancer which is usually terminal. The error is down to a mix up in medical notes. Chris confesses to his wife he's been buying and selling petrol of dubious provenance as traditional farming has not been profitable. Terry dies in resus. Roddy gives his winning betting slip to Maria. Ruth tells Jay she'll stop using lithium for the sake of their unborn child.

Episode 15

Next of Kin: Part 1

It's Christmastime at Holby again. Horrible Damon Lynch sabotages his baby's care woman's car so he can give them a lift into ED. He's of course recognised by Linda. The baby has inherited her dad's haemophilia. School children Lily Stone and Jake Coulson are pursued by bullies, but Lily engineers their escape by setting off a smoke bomb in the school gymnasium. London's Burning cast member Sean Blowers appears as jobsworth Health and Safety man Frank Molloy - Lily's grandfather. Lily takes a government report about a fire from Frank's office and tries to set fire to it. Damon's lung cancer ridden mum is brought into ED. She persuades Lily to give her her cigarettes and lighter. Big Mac overloads an electric socket in his room and Damon sets the rubbish bin in his mum's side ward on fire. She dies. Damon realises his daughter is better off without him and walks away. Frank finds and extinguishes the rubbish bin fire, so they think the crisis is over but the electric overload in Big Mac's office sets his Christmas tree on fire.

Episode 16

Next of Kin: Part 2

While Lenny and injured Frank Malloy make their way out of the fire filled basement, the rest of the staff think that the danger has been averted. The alarm is raised and evacuation called. Ruth and Jay are unaware of this when having a quiet chat where she tells him she wants to abort their baby. A horrid junkie known as Bin Head uses the panic scenario to rob the pharmacy. He's interrupted by Lily Stone who's in possession of her late mum's cigarette lighter. Scarlett goes back inside to bring out awkward patient Bernard and his wife Susan. Jay and Ruth find Lily locked in a cupboard by Bin Head. The fire sets off massive explosions as acetylene gas cylinders are detonated. Jay, Ruth and Lily use the air conditioning ducting to get out. Dylan and Zoe are trapped in resus treating Frank. While Jay and Ruth get to the roof, Lily is separated on a lower floor, but miraculously is able to phone her dad Richard who is one of the firemen at the scene. Noel contacts relatives of potential deceased - and Sam answers the phone when he calls Dylan's next of kin. She's his wife. All get out alive. Jay and Ruth say goodbye to Holby; their final appearances coinciding with that of the Clifton Suspension Bridge. A week later, Holby magically relocates to Cardiff.

Episode 17

Duty of Care

80 mins

Part One: Relocated to Cardiff, a new piece of road is employed for Casualty Car Crashes 275 to 282 which are initiated by a driver in a hurry and a small girl, Izzy, chasing her runaway dog. Nick declares the new ED open even though none of the new equipment has been tested. New doctor paediatric trauma specialist Tom Kent is helicoptered to car crash site. Dylan is most upset that Sam and he are married is the gossip of the department. Tess is alerted to an old woman neighbour, Jean, overdosed, injured and collapsed at home. Her psychologically challenged toyboy, Peter, packs her into Tess's car and provides Casualty Car Crashes 283 and 284 making his getaway. Number 284 smashes a gas pipe - a smoker lights up causing a massive explosion uncovering a toxic chemical dump.

Episode 18

Death and Doughnuts

Tom Kent becomes a full time staff member. Sinister bloke Chris Johnson, having watched recent events unfold and persons of interest shown on television news, breaks into the house of Leanne Forrester, does the washing up and hoovering then sits in wait for her and son Will to get home. Dixie and Jeff go to the home of Ben Peters, Leanne's boyfriend, who has received a beating from a person unknown. (But we can guess who it was, can't we?). Chris brings presents of a violent video game for the boy and lingerie for Leanne, whom he insists on calling Lucy. She's his ex-wife and Will is his son. He gets violent and Leanne and Will fall from a window trying to escape. They're both injured, but he does the right thing, dials three nines and Dixie and Jeff attend. Sam persuades Heather, the ex-wife of badly chemical burned Jon Marston to visit him in Intensive Care, but he also wants to see Ellen, the mature dolly bird he left his wife for. Scarlett likes the look of Tom. Nick likes the look of cop woman Yvonne Rippon. Tom surreptitiously obtains Chris's fingerprints which Yvonne uses to identify him, but Chris grabs his unconscious son and climbs a staircase with him. With Tom on one side and a drop on the other, Chris has an epileptic fit and drops the child but Big Mac catches him. Jon Marston dies. Doughnuts are distributed.

Episode 19

Trust

Deep in the heart of Scouseland, a man from the social wakes Linda's sister, recovering junkie Denise from her slumber in her filthy bedroom and tells her he's taking her two children, Britney and Joe into care. The three of them make their escape, but Denise injures the social worker in the process. Lloyd's patient is an amnesiac woman, Maeve Farraday, but from a note in her possession he assumes her name's Helen. Jeff and Dixie are sent to the home of forty something Kevin who is unconscious. He's accompanied to ED by his young boyfriend Harvey - Harvey's other boyfriend Gus tags along. Denise and her kids rock up at Holby where Denise flirts with everything in trousers. Linda becomes aware of their presence when she catches her niece stealing from the hospital shop. Maeve's true identity is discovered when Zoe finds she's been treated for a rare condition called Wilson's Disease. Her husband Patrick is summoned and he claims her memory loss and other injuries are the result of a car crash. They're actually caused by his abuse. He attempts to remove her from ED; boozed up Gus tries to intervene but gets a beating for his trouble. The old bill nab Patrick when he brings Maeve in to collect personal belongings. Linda finds Denise is using Joe's teddy bear to conceal her stash of smack. Denise gets on a bus; Joe stays behind with Britney. Kevin tells Harvey he should be with Gus. Linda takes her niece and nephew home.

Episode 20

Hero Syndrome

Denise's cheeky offspring Britney and Joe start their residency with Auntie Linda by trying to steal her car. She takes them to work where their mischief includes "borrowing" a mobile phone and enacting a patient/doctor scenario involving a large amount of toilet paper. As Denise has been arrested having handed herself in for assaulting the social worker and likely to face imprisonment, she wants Linda to keep her kids. Alcoholic vagrant Duncan Jessup has his trolley of possessions set on fire by person or persons unknown. He tries to save it by pushing it onto a road into the path of a car resulting in Casualty Car Crash 285. Driver April Halliwell has her new born baby on board. These events are observed by schoolboy Rory Brothwick who gets April's baby out of the overturned car. In ED, Tom finds Rory has old wounds inconsistent with those sustained rescuing the baby. Records show that he has had several previous admissions for injuries sustained when carrying out various acts of bravado. Tom tells Rory's mum Sian he believes he's afflicted with Hero Syndrome, where he deliberately starts fires in order to carry out a rescue. Duncan's X-rays show major organ damage and reconstructive surgery. His wife Vonnie appears and tells Dylan her husband is a former army officer who sustained his serious injuries in Afghanistan courtesy of a Soviet land mine - hence no compensation. Linda falls from her bed and Britney takes her baby. She hides herself, Joe and the baby in Dixie and Jeff's ambulance where they are discovered and talked down by Linda. She agrees to officially look after Britney and Joe.

Episode 21

The One You Love

Thane Thompson, on community service takes advantage of Doris Quinn, an old dear with Alzheimer's while her carer, daughter Sandra, is out of the way. He impales his hand on a wooden spike making his escape. In ED, Thane is worried to see Doris in the adjacent bed, admitted with a broken hip. Sandra comes to ED to get her mum - she has a cut face from one of her mum's temper tantrums. Keith Parr makes his second appearance and provides us with Casualty Car Crash 286 when paying attention to girlfriend Tania's secret mobile phone instead of the road. In ED, Zoe instructs Scarlett to make sure he doesn't clap eyes on Sam. Keith finds Tania's secret phone with messages exchanged with someone named Ben and blows his top. Tania opens up to Tom - she's a recovering heroin addict and may now have hepatitis C and Ben is her son. Zoe finds and tells Keith he has a fractured neck. He naturally assumes it's from Sam's military precision headlock. He's told he may have contracted Hepatitis C from Tania. Linda drops her niece and nephew at their new school then receives frequent messages about their issues and behavior. Lenny helps her out.

Episode 22

Confidences

Hotel guest James Downing offers hard up maid Tracey Monroe cash for sex. He takes it rough. Shaken Tracey is taken to ED where Sam finds evidence of assault. When a fire breaks out at the hotel James is found unconscious in his room. His wife comes to visit and reveals he has history of sexual assault. Lorry driver Vince Cartwright knocks down Kerry Fitzgerald. She's deliberately chosen the spot where her daughter died in a road traffic accident hoping to be reunited in death. Acting Clinical Lead Zoe is worried Keith Parr will try to sue Sam for breaking his neck. She aims to set up a meeting between herself, Dylan, Sam and Keith. Sam's reluctant but does go to Parr to apologise but it doesn't go well.

Episode 23

Love Is

Dixie is overwhelmed by the zealousness of the new paramedic Rossy. He is too good to be true.

Episode 24

Grand Canyon

A formal complaint is made to the GMC about Sam.

Episode 25

Ricochet 'How to Save a Life'

In part 1 of a trilogy, future Dr Ethan Hardy actor George Rainsford appears as upper class twit Alexander who's dosed himself and friend John with LSD. Alexander's used to the effects - but John's bad trip makes him believe he's indestructible: he visits ambulance HQ, douses himself with petrol and gets his lighter ready. Dixie tries to talk him down, but Jeff blasts him with a fire extinguisher. Churchgoer and apprentice gangsta Stevie Kingsley is provided with a gun by chief gangsta Anton Tait and sidekick Kris (Stevie's older half-brother) and tasked with icing a local drug dealer who can often be found hanging out at a children's play area. Unfortunately, he shoots five year old Jacob Broker by mistake. Stevie then receives knife wounds for his failure and is admitted to ED. His intended target was actually Jacob's dad Mark, back at dealing to make easy money to support his son and pregnant wife. Alexander expresses his disappointment to Mark for supplying him and John with bad acid. Top cop woman Yvonne Rippon and Nick Jordan interact for the second time. Scarlett gives Lloyd a cuddle - which he hopes may be leading somewhere. Dixie cooks Jeff steak and chips. The old bill request 'a word' with Mark.

Episode 26

Ricochet 'Damage Control'

In part 2 of the trilogy, schoolgirl Jade Messenger finds the gun her boyfriend Stevie Kingsley used in the shooting hidden in her wardrobe. Schoolgirl Alicia Dans provokes Jade's unpleasant friend and gangsta Anton's moll Tia Benjamin into assaulting her. This gets her brought to ED with a mouth injury which she's pleased to hear means she can't perform in a flute audition. She appears to also have amnesia, but is able to say David Cameron when asked who's Prime Minister. In the school hall and supervised by cop Yvonne, Nick gives a lecture on the dangers of carrying a bladed weapon and shows a photo of gunshot wounded Jacob. Stevie's rapid exit rouses Yvonne's suspicions. Tia escorts Jade to a lock up garage where she receives a beating from Anton's posse for boyfriend Stevie's perceived informing. At ED, Nick finds evidence she's been raped. Her wacky mum Lisa won't stay with her.

Episode 27

Ricochet 'What Goes Around Comes Around'

In part three of the trilogy, rape victim Jade has discharged herself but returns to ED when spotted by Scarlett and Lloyd. Horrid gangsta Anton Tait attempts to visit Jade in ED but Noel denies him access and cop Yvonne questions him regarding Jade's attack. Casualty Car Crash 287 is supplied by Anna Forth, distracted by her dog on board. Luckily for her Dixie and Jeff just happen to pass that way. At ED, Dylan takes charge of the dog who's ill from over indulging in chocolate, while Sam and Zoe treat Anna who's had a stroke resulting in partial memory loss. Stevie's brother Kris shows him a mobile phone video of Jade being raped and tells him it was Anton who performed the sexual act. They attack Anton's gangsta HQ with petrol bombs. Armed plod raid Stevie's gran's house looking for the gun used to shoot Jacob but Stevie's secreted it among Jade's possessions. Anton is admitted with burns and his acolytes storm ED seeking revenge on Kris. Kris is revealed as the one who raped Jade. Stevie has got the gun back and shoots Kris. Kris dies. Stevie is arrested. Jade's scatty mum comes good. Lloyd misinterprets Scarlett's words of sweetness, moves in for a snog and she rejects him.

Episode 28

Lest Ye Be Judged

Patients include small child Lucy Wheldon who has nephrotic syndrome. She's brought in by her mum and mum's boyfriend, Robert Carson, who also happens to be Lucy's GP. Robert's dad, retired soldier George has an attack of pain but gets in his car, drives off, stops in the road and is hit by plumber Mick Statham in his van supplying us with Casualty Car Crash 288. Sam finds that Robert has been giving his father tramadol to which the old man has become dependent. He's actually got shrapnel imbedded in his neck from an old war wound. Sam's GMC case gets under way with Jacob Morton in charge. He chats with Scarlett then Zoe. Dylan attempts to avoid his turn in the hot seat by requesting apparently superfluous tests on Mick Statham. Mick's wife, keen to be with child, visits and asks him to impregnate her using the disabled toilets as a love making facility. Dylan's tests show Mick has rare condition called Chung-Strauss Syndrome which would be life threatening if it had gone undiagnosed. Linda's earning a bit on the side at the Pennicott Clinic as as what Lenny later describes as "a thermometer waitress" where things like gastric bypasses are performed. She discharges large fellow Patrick Leyland who later vomits, collapses and tumbles down steps cutting his head. At ED, he's found to have peritonitis. With very little persuasion from Zoe, Linda jacks in the job at the clinic. Zoe's told she'll be called as a witness at the inquiry - a witness against Sam. Sam advises Robert Carson against dating his patient's mum.

Episode 29

Saturday Night Fever

Leila Leyton arrives home to find her 14 year old sister Kira in a confused state, covered in blood and holding a large kitchen knife. Kira's delivered her own baby. Dixie and Jeff arrive then leave believing they've had a hoax call, but Leila has left bubba alive in their ambulance. In ED, drunkard with learning difficulties Frankie Joyce has a cut to his head and believes Scarlett is the main girl from a James Bond film. Lloyd immediately deduces it's Halle Berry from Die Another Day. He's less than grateful and assaults Lloyd and Scarlett. Plod take him away. Zoe and Linda have a girls' night out clubbing and drinking heavily. Linda is surprised to hear Zoe had a relationship with Nick Jordan. Meanwhile, Nick and top cop Yvonne have a dinner date. They both order steak - with no onions. Yvonne gets called in to work and Nick tags along. At the police station, Nick and Yvonne find Frankie Joyce has internal injuries and is taken back to ED where Nick finds he has diverticular disease. His awkward git brother Jamie and caring pregnant sister-in-law Nina attend. Dixie finds the baby, revives it and takes it to ED where Tom does his stuff. Leila and Kira go to the nightclub. Zoe and Linda find Kira has vomited and is unconscious in a toilet and, although both drunk, carry out medical procedures. Dixie and Jeff attend and take over. Zoe and Linda receive a rollicking from Nick. Scarlett and Lloyd snog. Zoe gives Linda £2000. Nick's back in a Jaguar XK8.

Episode 30

When the Gloves Come Off

Random countryside dog walkers Amanda Franks and David Hopper fall into a deep pothole which only appears when Amanda walks over it. David tries to rescue her but also falls in. Dixie, Jeff and a rescue crew arrive - how they were alerted to this emergency scenario is not detailed. Sam attends and goes down the pothole. Jeff is upset he's not allowed to join her. When a rock falls on David, Sam asks for Dylan to assist them. Rescue worker Tommy Downs is taken to ED when injured investigating an alternative access point to the pothole. While David and Amanda bond during their predicament, Sam realises she and Dylan should divorce. Unfortunately, David does not survive the disastrous situation but helps Amanda live. Teenager Kevin Granger brings his toddler brother George to ED where they are joined by the boys' mum Janine. An oral examination of the boys reveals gingivitis. George also has scurvy owing to food choices. Linda's cheeky scamp niece Britney returns and robs naive Kevin of £50 in the waiting room. Zoe gives the girl a talking to.

Episode 31

Fools for Love

Teenager Alicia Dans returns to the ED after collapsing at school, but Linda suspects her problems are psychological and that she has developed an unhealthy fixation with Tom. Meanwhile, a woman takes extreme action against her nuisance neighbors, and Lloyd is upset by a racial taunt.

Episode 32

Desperate Remedies

In ED waiting area, junkie Miranda Flynn tells her sister Lauren she's off the smack and finished with junkie boyfriend Carl MacIntyre, but still requests cash from her sister. Jessica Murray goes into a coffee shop, vomits blood on the counter then collapses on her way to the lavatory. Jeff and Dixie take her to ED. Lauren Flynn steals Jessica's handbag left in Jeff and Dixie's open ambulance; gives cash to Miranda and is then knocked down by Carl and Miranda escaping in his car to purchase smack. In ED, those treating Lauren believe they are treating Jessica based on ID found on her. Scarlett suspects patients may not be who they think they are - and fortunately Charlie recognises Lauren from her earlier visit. Lauren's mum Jane visits her. Zoe eventually manages to tell Sam she's been called as a witness against her; Sam is angry. Miranda and Carl collapse with overdoses; Carl goes to a playground and collapses again. He's taken to ED where he dies. Miranda is found and survives. Jessica's husband Lawrence and Ben Shears visit her. Lawrence is struggling to make Jessica pregnant and assumes Ben's her lover. He is a semen donor - and gay. Dylan diagnoses Jessica with endometriosis which explains the difficulty getting pregnant. Lloyd and Scarlett have another date. Linda gives Lenny a cuddle which initiates in him sweet sweet lust.

Episode 33

Appropriate Force

Sam's fit to practise case reaches court. Among the witnesses called is Sam's old army colleague Ian Dean (later renamed Iain). Also present is Jean Parr - Keith's mum - whom Keith obviously wishes wasn't there. Keith gives his evidence then is found collapsed in the lavatory by Dylan, also there as a witness. Keith is taken to ED with possible renal failure. Jean follows on. Following an argument with a woman passenger, injured and furious Mark Burnton in his red BMW knocks down schoolboy Jake Fisher. Both parties are admitted to ED. The woman passenger, Mark's fiancée Keeley, visits him and is dismissive about his injury. Jake's dad Terry recognises Mark as the driver who knocked down his son but is reluctant to speak up in case of retribution. Nick does tests and tells Keith he has cancer and only a fifty percent chance of survival. The tests also reveal new information about Keith's neck. Mark has admitted the hit and run to the police. Terry confronts him and he says sorry and asks to say sorry to Jake when he's recovered. His apologies are accepted. Mark's injury is, as we've deduced, caused by abusive fiancée Keeley who bottled him in the neck prior to the hit and run. He dumps Keeley. She then blames and assaults Zoe but is pulled off by Dixie, Jeff and security gents. Zoe presents the court with the new medical evidence about Keith's cancer diagnosis also revealing a weakness in his neck which would have necessitated less force than normal to break it. Ian goes back to duty. Sam's kiss reveals they were more than buddies. Keith is reconciled with his mother. Sam is cleared.

Episode 34

Happily Ever After

Holby ED is hit with a norovirus outbreak. Zoe has a new pair of high heeled shoes which she doesn't want vomit on. Nick and cop Yvonne are now an item. Dixie and Jeff are sent to the home of small boy Luke Doran who is unconscious and has serious injuries. His dad Thomas is an old friend of Jeff's. Luke dies in ED. Parents Thomas and Michelle are shocked to hear there will be an autopsy. Sam gives her solicitor a rollicking for sending her divorce petition to Dylan before she's had the chance to warn him. She suggests to Dylan that they have a chat. Unfortunately, he misinterprets this as a request for the resumption of love action and books a restaurant. Dixie and Jeff are called to a hotel where cystic fibrosis sufferer Louise Hunter has collapsed while dancing energetically with lover Jamie Thearle. Cops Yvonne and Gavin question Luke's parents. Thomas has a previous conviction for punching a boy of thirteen in the face - this comes as news to his wife. Louise is very reluctant to discuss her medical condition with Sam. Jamie confesses to Sam he also has CF. Louise's angry dad Bill visits. Aware his condition could make Louise worse, Jamie leaves her. The postmortem on Luke reveals he had a stroke which would almost certainly have made him fall down the stairs and lose consciousness. Dylan prepares for their date but Sam presents him with the divorce papers. He's further shocked to find Zoe knew what Sam had in store.

Episode 35

Home Truths

Lloyd is unhappy that Scarlett is experiencing their relationship in a casual way. Casualty Car Crash 289 is provided by sciatica sufferer Martin Danton who sustains a seizure while searching for a space in a multi-storey car park on his way to see Zhana Zherdev. Jeff and Dixie are joined at the crash site by Zhana, who describes herself as Martin's 'Carer'. His real carer is actually his daughter Jenny. Martin's medical condition means he shouldn't have been driving, but threw caution to the wind when solicited to a nookie rendezvous by Zhana who's actually a hooker. Sam questions Zhana who admits Martin pays her for intimate relations - and that he's stopped taking some of his medications in order to increase his libido. Knowledgeable Dylan is unhappy that Noel and Big Mac have not asked him to join their quiz team. He's also being horrible to Sam since learning she wants a divorce. They're told by Nick to patch up their differences if only for the sake of appearances. Sam asks for Dylan's help in finding out what Martin's ailment is. They deduce it's Cauda Equina Syndrome. Daughter Jenny has been taking her dad's unused drug pregabalin and is hooked on it. Fitness enthusiast and brain tumour sufferer Sandra Wetherill collapses during a workout; neighbour Andy Haymer observes and breaks into her home and phones for help injuring his arm in the process. Andy himself is suffering from depression because his wife has left him and taken their son with her. His knowledgeability gets him asked to join the quiz team; and Sandra invites him to accompany her and young son Ben home. Lenny gets a letter with pleasing news about forensic pathology and hands in his notice. Scarlett sees another side of Lloyd and they go official. Sam phones her army boss and asks to be recalled for duty as soon as possible.

Episode 36

Teenage Dreams

When a high school roof collapses, Tom is reunited with a troubled teenage girl whom he has previously recommended for counselling. But the girl's jealous boyfriend claims she doesn't want Tom treating her, so Jordan pulls him off the case for his own safety. Meanwhile, Linda thinks that she's making progress with Joe and Britney and they're starting to behave like a real family, until a furious Britney delivers a mighty blow.

Episode 37

All in a Day's Nightmare

Linda brings Britney in again for babysitting which is mostly carried out by Lenny. Her first request is the hospital's internet password. Temporarily granted the use of her laptop, mischievous Britney chats online with a dubious person. Linda finds her and confiscates it. Badly beaten family man Clive Chilcot is dumped on the road in front of his house from the back of a Range Rover. Cop Chris Bidner, SWPC Preeya Prentice and paramedics Jeff and Dixie convene at the scene. At ED, Clive's son George and Teri Layeni, the woman moneylender responsible for his beating visit him. The latter gains access by claiming to be his wife and issues a warning to him. She leaves and his real wife, Marsha, arrives. Chris and Preeya investigate a large disused factory where they find bloodstains and a mobile phone. Vicious Teri and her henchman drop a large industrial fan on them from height. Preeya is pinned to the floor beneath it, but Chris is able to radio for assistance. Lloyd takes Scarlett to meet his family. Lloyd's mum questions Scarlett about her family background and is obviously disappointed to hear Scarlett's ancestry is West Indian not African. Top cop Yvonne comes to ED to get Chris, Jeff and Dixie's accounts of events. They don't tally. Britney regains use of her laptop and recommences online chat with an unsuitable suitor. Vicious but dim moneylender Teri is identified by her Range Rover which was parked at the disused factory. Yvonne and Chris arrest Teri. Britney gets in the car of her suitor

Episode 38

All in a Day's Nightmare - Part Two

Linda's thirteen year old niece Britney has stupidly or naively got into the car of online predator Jason Knight because he's promised to give her a mobile telephone. Upset about his girlfriend Talisa being called a woman of easy virtue, George Chilcot challenges yob Lewis Sampson and a fight ensues at a pool hall. George's brother Matthew intervenes and is injured. Dixie and Jeff are summoned and take him to ED. CCTV of Jason Knight's car is viewed, and Noel recognises a parking permit from a local estate. Linda and Lenny search for Britney there. Lloyd tells Scarlett she was rude to engineer the early departure from his sister's party; Scarlett tells Lloyd his family made it plain she's not black enough for him. Dixie tells Tom she thinks there's more wrong with Matthew than the apparent injury. Typically, it's Dylan who puts the clues together and works out Matthew has sickle cell anaemia.

Episode 39

Zero Sum Game

Dylan is rather upset when Zoe informs him Sam will be coming back to work at Holby - theoretically only temporarily. He and Tom have a chess match. On her way back to Holby, Sam happens upon army buddy Vaughan Morrison who has provided Casualty Car Crash 290 by driving his Vauxhall into a tree. Dixie attends. As a forecast of things to come, Tess is rather too taken with Gor Blimey Guv new nurse Fletch who mends her car when he should be nursing. His mentor, Lloyd, is not impressed. Fletch also gives Zoe and anything else in a skirt a bit of the old chat. In ED, Vaughan's account of the accident gives Sam cause for concern. She believes he blacked out due to a seizure immediately before crashing the car. He expects her to cover up for him to save his career. Other patients include Amy Harris whose pregnancy has a serious issue: what at first appears to be a baby is actually a cancer. Fletch redeems himself by giving her the confidence to tell her husband. Amy goes missing and is found collapsed in the lavatory with a PV bleed. She survives. Sam helps hopeless chess player Tom draw with Dylan. Vaughan attempts to discharge himself but Sam notices he can't write properly. He has a fit and bites his tongue. He has epilepsy. Sam's army boss Linda tells her she's standing her down due to her divided loyalties. She asks Nick for her job back and he grudgingly agrees. Dylan is unhappy.

Episode 40

Do the Right Thing

Horrid schoolboy and Somerview Estate resident Leon Fields gets his brother Danny to post a lighted firework through the letterbox of their uncle, local hoarder and cider enthusiast Stephan Peake. He's taken to ED where he claims to have had a kitchen mishap and is treated by Sam. He's being terrorised by his nephews as a security measure because he knows their mother has left home and they will be taken into care if the authorities find out. Reformed crack addict Wesley Royce is released from prison and goes to the house of girlfriend and Somerview Estate resident Faith Portman. Dylan finds that Stephan is a diabetic which gives him the chance to score a point against Sam who failed to diagnose it. Wesley is disappointed to learn Faith is not only still on drugs but dealing them too. In anger, she puts her fist through a window. The old bill are alerted and steam in mob handed with paramedics including 'Gor Blimey Guv' Fletch on training duty. They smash her front door down just in time to find Wesley injured from an attack by Faith. Keen cop Gary Poulter tasers him when he sees he's holding a large kitchen knife. Poulter then lies to boss cop woman Yvonne about giving him sufficient warnings before tasering. Leon and Danny steal some items from Stephan and run away from ED but Leon is knocked down by a car. Dylan treats him. Wesley goes into cardiac arrest and dies in resus. Sam gets her own back on Dylan when she finds a shard of glass from the photo frame Leon stole from his uncle imbedded in his wound. Tess tells Danny he and his brother will be taken into foster care. Yvonne and Faith make statements to the press.

Episode 41

#HolbyRiot: Part One

Various parties use the unexplained death of Wesley Royce to riot in the streets of the Somerview Estate. Dixie and Jeff have to run the gauntlet of rioters who have set cars on fire and threaten them with violence. Interested parties include Lloyd's mum and sister and previous episode's agent provocateur Faith Portman. Meanwhile, pregnant Yasmin Aslan comes to ED to suffer Fletch's charm offensive. Her husband Mehmet's shop is raided by looters. Lloyd's mum knows all the looters and is attacked when she threatens to tell their parents. Enlivened by the excitement of the scenario, Scarlett joins the looters and rioters and wounds a cop. Faith summons cop Yvonne to a liaison but she is sidetracked, mistaken for a looter and stabbed by shop keeper Mehmet Aslan.

Episode 42

#HolbyRiot: Part Two

The policewoman Scarlett hit with a petrol bomb is badly burned and taken to ED. Shopkeeper Mehmet plants the murder weapon he used on Yvonne Rippon on Faith Portman's son Nylon, the unconscious mugger he hit with his baseball bat. He then calls for help. Dixie, Jeff and Nick attend. Their ambulance is besieged by rioters on their way to Holby ED. Police on horseback clear their way. Mehmet's reckoned without CCTV, so sends his wife into the crime scene shop to retrieve the recording and begs her to destroy it. Scarlett is called upon to use her nursing skills on an injured rioter but his wounds are severe so she calls Lloyd for assistance. He comes to her aid, but her secret is out because he's seen mobile phone filming of her throwing the petrol bomb. Nylon phones his mum from his bed in ED and begs her to come to him but she uses this as another opportunity to get on television. The post mortem on Wesley reveals it was Faith's attack which caused his death. Lloyd shows Scarlett the woman she's injured. Faith is arrested for murder. Britney and Joe are reunited with their mum Denise who's been let out of jail early. Sad Scarlett does the right thing.