The everyday lives, professional and personal, of the doctors, nurses and patients who find themselves, for various reasons, in the wards of the frenetic cardiac unit of Holby City General Hospital.
Genre: Drama
Cast:Hugh Quarshie , Rosie Marcel , Jaye Jacobs , Bob Barrett , Tina Hobley , Paul Bradley , Guy Henry , David Ames , Alex Walkinshaw , Amanda Mealing , James Anderson , Catherine Russell , Hari Dhillon , Robert Powell , Kaye Wragg , Luke Roberts , Chizzy Akudolu , Camilla Arfwedson
Surgeons Meyer and Jordan race against time to carry out a transplant operation, while nurses Jasmine and Julie are interviewed for promotion.
House officer Victoria Merrick attempts to conquer her nerves on her first day at Holby, and Julie has difficulty reconciling her personal life with her night shifts, while Jasmine Hopkins is called on to use all her diplomatic skills.
The staff of Darwin ward struggle to prevent a deadly infection spreading beyond the confines of Casualty's famous hospital, while Dr Kirstie Collins inadvertently discovers Nick Jordan has a dark secret.
Coma girl Nicola contracts pneumonia - leaving doctors McKendrick and Collins to help her parents make an agonizing decision. Anton Meyer faces an unusual problem with a transplant patient, and on the ward, the staff are delighted to hear that at least one person loves them.
An emergency forces Victoria to think on her feet to bring a patient back from the brink of death and Nick is the victim of consultant surgeon Mr Meyer's razor-sharp tongue as they fight to save a baby born with a heart defect.
Nick's delay in attending a call results in the patient's death. To add to his problems, he then has to ask the victim's parents about the possibility of organ donation : but all they want to know is how such a minor injury could have led to their son's demise.
Meyer and McKendrick clash over the treatment of a female patient, and Dr Collins deals with an emergency situation in the cardiac ambulance.
Sunny offers Victoria moral guidance, and comes up trumps in a radio quiz. Jordan and Meyer find themselves under increasing pressure, while Muriel McKendrick encounters a former colleague who proves a bit of a handful as a patient.
After learning that Darwin Ward is going to be split in half to accommodate a new general surgery ward, cardiothoracic consultant Anton Meyer and registrar Nick Jordan return early from a medical conference in Florida. On the flight back to Holby, Eleri (Annette Badland), the woman Nick is sitting next to, experiences a severe bleed. Nick and Meyer discover that she is seven months pregnant, and have to perform a Caesarean in order to stop the bleed. At the hospital, SHO Victoria Merrick flirts with new healthcare assistant Danny Shaughnessy, and registrar Kirstie Collins has a HIV scare when senior staff nurse Ray Sykes accidentally sticks her with a needle which has been used on a HIV positive patient. Kirstie takes a HIV test, which comes back negative. Ward sister Jasmine Hopkins returns to work following her stabbing. She tells her friend, staff nurse Julie Fitzjohn, that she wants an abortion. Julie attempts to deter her, and tells Jasmine's ex-fiance Carl (Alex Avery) about Jasmine's pregnancy. He angrily confronts Jasmine, who in turn is furious with Julie for telling him. Jasmine accuses Julie of wanting to take her job, before collapsing in pain. Nick and Meyer arrive back at the hospital with Elerie. Despite their ordeal, Meyer insists that Nick takes part in a hospital blood drive, determined that Darwin staff will donate more than the general surgery staff.
Jasmine experiences a bleed and is admitted as a patient. She and Julie make up, and Julie stays with her as Jasmine miscarries her baby. Ward Sister Karen Newburn visits Jasmine, who asks her if she and Nick, her estranged husband, ever considered having children. Karen admits that the reason she and Nick split up was not his infidelity, as suspected amongst the staff, but because they could not conceive a child. When Ray remarks on the division of Darwin Ward, Karen proposes him as a union representative, seconded by Julie. Following his treatment of a patient on board a plane in "Search for the Hero", Nick is given two complimentary tickets to Paris and a hotel for the weekend by the airline. He asks both Kirstie and Victoria to accompany him, and is turned down each time. Karen is aware that she is his third choice, so strings him along when he asks her, pretending to agree before revealing she will actually be spending the weekend in Rome with her boyfriend Dave.
The team races against time to find a donor for a girl in need of a lung transplant and, in the meantime, the patient's wilful sister takes a poorly man waiting for a new heart off on a joyride. At the end of the day the staff unwind at the Christmas party - except for Karen and Nick, whose relationship takes an unexpected turn.
Victoria is forced to go against an elderly woman's wishes in order to save her life and Nick discovers he is about to perform surgery on the wrong patient - a man attempting to jump the queue by masquerading as his father and taking his place on the operating table.
The victim of a racially motivated stabbing is brought in at the same time as his badly wounded attackers and, as police and vengeful relatives create a clamour in the new ward, Nick Jordan pursues Karen, determined to keep his marriage alive. Meanwhile, Kirstie asks Danny for a date, only to find he's waiting for the right moment to approach Victoria.
Staff are sceptical about a mysterious man who arrives at the hospital carrying a sick woman, and claiming to know the whereabouts of her desperately ill baby. Meanwhile, a drug addict causes problems on the ward, Meyer's future at the hospital seems uncertain, and Nick Jordan decides to spread a little festive cheer.
A woman in emergency with a heart problem discloses that she is Meyer's sister. Her husband does not like him and does not want Meyer's anywhere near his wife. Nick and Karen are driving when they see a crashed car. In an attempt to rescue the driver, Nick injures his hand.
The woman that Nick saved from the crash is found to have drugs in her system, memory loss and bruising all over. The staff think it is date rape. Nick has surgery on his hand and is told he may never operate again.
An autistic patient challenges Meyer to a chess game. If Meyer cannot beat him, the man won't have the life saving heart surgery.
Julie and Jasmin are at odds over a prisoner. He claims he is innocent to Julie, but Jasmin knows he is guilty and tries to stop Julie from helping him escape.
Nick Jordan returns to work and spends too much time trying to convince Karen to move back in with him. Just down the hall, a patient is going into cardiac arrest and Jordan is ignoring his pager. When the alarm goes off, he rushes to the patient and starts CPR just before Meyer gets there. The woman dies and her sister threatens to sue the hospital for negligence, and Meyer finds out that Nick did not come when paged.
The hospital chaplain collapses and needs heart surgery. He loses his faith and his wife refuses to call his estranged daughter for him. Meyer suspends Nick until the negligence hearing. The nurses pull a prank on the hospital maintenance worker.
A case of mistaken identity causes a death. A love affair between a teacher and her student ends up in the emergency department.
A patient dies of Diptheria and the hospital is on shut down. A 14 year old girl is gravely ill and only Danny and Jasmine figure out what is wrong with her. Nick's hearing day. Karen makes a final decision on her marriage. Nick resigns.
Merrick and Barratt tell a young boxer with a faulty heart valve he can't box anymore. A woman with breast cancer suspects her husband is having an affair. Tash discovers a lump in her armpit and is hesitant about seeing a specialist.
The staff go on a character building weekend when Dr. Barratt falls down a steep hill and breaks his leg. A large man loses his spleen because his tiny wife bashed him with an iron. Danny is exposed as a two timer. Tash gets her cancer results.
A traffic accident swamps the ER with patients. A man with an aneurysm tells his wife he was with his gay lover when it happened. He is dying and together they work out their differences to decide whether to pull the plug on him or not. A new nurse Sandy starts today.
A young girl comes in with liver failure. Her father is a donor, but his liver is damaged due to alcohol abuse. He puts pressure on his son to donate to save her life. Victoria Merrick has been transferred to pediatrics.
Barratt has to make a critical decision when the largest donor to the hospital insists on surgery. To operate may kill him and not to operate may leave him with a poor quality of life. Danny is sent to pediatrics and gets attached to a bratty little girl and turns her into a nice girl.
It's Julie's last day on trial as ward sister. A man dies as his wife is giving birth. Temp nurse Brenda is not what she seems. When Sandy applies for nurse's residence, she accidentally mentions that Julie has a daughter, and gets her evicted.
Kirsty goes behind Meyer's back and treats a dying patient with experimental drugs. Danny gets mugged in the parking lot. Barratt sings Karaoke at the staff party.
Kirsty saves a man having a heart attack on a scaffold. A runaway with possible tuberculosis goes missing from the hospital. Danny gets frustrated with an overbearing mother in pediatrics.
Jasmine spends far too much time with a dying patient and his wife and staff notice it. When a patient tells Mike a secret, Mike has to make a difficult decision, A heart patient who is going to miss her wedding is surprised by her fiance.
Meyer has to operate on his mentor, but finds out that he himself has a debilitating illness. Julie's daughter becomes seriously ill and is admitted. One misbehaving boy in the children's ward is stealing Santa's chocolates.
Julie begs Meyer to operate on her daughter Rosie, but he refuses as he needs time off due to his illness. A fireman comes in with smoke inhalation, only to find out he has lung cancer. Danny and Stan bring Santa to the hospital.
A young boy dies in a traffic accident, while another child needs a heart transplant, but the father of the deceased boy does not want to donate his son's heart.
A teenage girl refuses treatment, and Janice gets in serious trouble over it.
Ranjet's gerbil escapes during his birthday party. Jamie sets fire to his house to get the insurance money for his father. Unfortunately. his father is in the house and gets injured. Jamie runs away and Steve and Jasmine look for him.
A 37 year old man dies of a heart attack while he is having a gall bladder operation. His wife demands an inquest and Doctor Barratt is held responsible for his actions.
Stan stands vigil over a dying Battle of Britain veteran. A girl Sophie gets a nurses costume and goes around the Otter ward in the night dispensing drugs and adjusting their monitors, almost killing two of the children.
Owen's mum dies of a heart attack. His real father shows up and does not want him. Dr. Taylor wants to foster him. A 14 year old girl comes in with Amnesia and Dr. Merrick tells her parents she may have been assaulted. The girl is afraid to tell her parents the truth about what happened to her, and Dr. Merrick should not have expressed her opinion. It was wrong.
Liam is leaving to get married. Linda has liver problems caused by a transfusion. A recovering alcoholic is accused of drinking when a nurse finds his brother's bottle of whiskey under his bed.
Liam is back at work after being jilted at the altar. Tash tells her father she is a lesbian. A figure skater's career is over after bowel surgery.
Jerome has cancer and his parents don't want him to know. He pressures Danny into telling him his test results. A girl has HIV and Kerry advises her to tell her boyfriend the truth. Danny decides to train to be a pediatric nurse.
Alex goes into surgery to assist, only to be met by the woman he slept with last night. A young man who finds out he is dying of organ rejection, takes an overdose.
An acquaintance from Nicky's past puts her in a difficult position, but will she do the right thing? A struggling Sacha finally opens up to a loved one.
Danny has his interview for the pediatric nurse job. A patient with cancer is told she is pregnant which will halt her cancer treatment. She has to make a tough decision. Jasmine and Steve have a disagreement at Danny's birthday party.
A mother sees Steve hugging her daughter, but when she asks her about it, she claims that Steve kissed her. Steve is charged with misconduct and suspended until an inquiry is held. Danny's first day as student nurse.
Steve is back, the little girl confessed that she lied about him kissing her. A meth addicted patient refuses to take a HIV test. New locum Professor Fletcher starts today and the staff find that he is very laid back. Julie's husband is making an effort to be in Rosie's life. Victoria finds Guy taking painkillers.
Victoria sees Guy taking pills just before surgery. His patient dies on the table, and Victoria has to decide whether to report him or not. She breaks up with him. Jasmine and Steve have a date. Danny plans to move out of Kath's and Liam offers him a room in his flat.
A patient, Miranda becomes obsessed with Victoria. She is being discharged and does not want to go home. Miranda steals Victoria's scarf and wallet. Victoria and Alex go for a drink and go back to her place. Guy drives over to Victoria's place, but can't get her on the phone. He drives away and we see Miranda standing across the street from the flat.
There are two children with meningitis in the ward and Victoria did not show up for work. Guy had been around to her flat that morning and had a fight with her on the doorstep. When no one can locate her, Alex goes around after work. Her door is open, the water running, and Victoria is lying in a pool of blood.
The staff are trying to handle the grief of the murder of Victoria. The police are all over the hospital questioning everyone. Alex points the finger at Guy, and he points it back at Alex.
Miranda is admitted with self harming wounds. The police take an interest in her. Alex and Guy are forced to work together. Jasmine has words with Julie. Sandy discovers what is wrong with a patient with severe symptoms.
Julie and Martin are getting married today. Steve's wife Emma is in a road accident and is admitted. Steve is torn between her and Jasmine. After questioning, Miranda Locke seems to know more about Victoria's death than she is letting on.
Dr. Mike Barratt is offered a job in New Zealand. New ward sister Chrissie starts today. Stan accidentally creates a power failure and Meyer and James Campbell get stuck in the lift. The murderer of Dr. Victoria Merrick is revealed.
Rick Griffin arrives to replace Dr. Barratt. Mr. Meyer is involved in a road accident with serious injuries. The wife of the other accident victim is seen by Alex driving around in Meyer's car. He investigates.
After Ric Griffin removes the bullet from Dr Meyer's spine, Meyers proves to be a troublesome patient. During Sandy's 20th birthday party, Keri and Liam get into a regretful situation. Danny tries to help an illegal immigrant.
Keri thinks she was raped by Liam and Janice catches her taking the morning after pill. Liam returns Keri's necklace and acts like nothing is wrong. A 14 year old boy Ben makes sexual innuendo's towards Keri, and slaps her. The illegal immigrant Maria, leaves the hospital with her child.
A woman who has waited for a year to have surgery jumps the queue by going to the newspapers. Janice announces at a dinner party that she is pregnant. Liam questions Keri why she is being so cold towards him after they slept together. She tells him that he raped her. Steve pulls him aside and Janice takes Keri to her office for questioning.
Tribunal day. Danny has an emergency and does not show up as a witness against Liam. Liam thinks Danny is siding with him. Maria has run away from the hospital again, but this time she leaves her son and Danny goes to look for her. Sandy is no help in her testimony. During a break, Liam follows Keri into the washroom and pleads with her not to go through with it, still not admitting any guilt.
A bus driver is devastated that he hit a pedestrian. Meanwhile the pedestrian is also in the hospital across from his room and tells the staff that it was a suicide attempt. The drivers friend overhears this and confronts him.
After Julie loses the baby, Alistair asks her wait before trying again. Chrissy offers him her shoulder to cry on. Danny approaches Social Services to see if Maria can stay in the country. Liam and Sandy are annoyed at Danny for letting Maria move in with them.
Danny and Maria's wedding day. Kath has one last go to try to stop the sham wedding. A young girl has a inoperable tumor and Keri tells her she is dying before her parents do.
A convict with a brain tumor offers her liver to a dying girl. She murdered her own daughter, and wants to make amends before she dies. Danny is starting to regret getting married to Maria.
Steve leaves Robbie to look after his wife Emma and she has an accident with tragic results. Alex and Sam sort out their differences. A blind man gets his sight back after surgery on his stomach. Meyer investigates this "miracle".
Maria finally kisses Danny. A heart patient has two wives who don't know about each other until today. Steve's son Robbie is rushed to hospital with alcohol poisoning. Steve and Robbie come to terms with Emma's death. Alistair professes love for Chrissy and she breaks it off. We see Chrissy's name badge under the bed where Janice is lying.
A rugby player gets a broken leg in a match. He dies from a brain bleed. After investigating, it is revealed that his best friend punched him in the head and caused it. Janice finds Chrissy's name badge and confronts Alistaire and he weasels his way out of it. He gives her the necklace that he bought for Chrissy. Janice is pregnant.
New year's eve party. Alex leaves early, but promises to get back to Sam. While he is gone, he saves a man in a road traffic accident, and runs over a little boy. The police give him a breathalyzer and he fails. Sam is annoyed that he did not come back. A former girlfriend brings her little girl to the hospital and Alex thinks it may be his daughter.Alistaire starts annoying Chrissy, and she rejects him again.
Alex can't figure out why he was positive when he only had 1 drink 2 hours before the test. Sam seems to know something about it. The little boy Alex ran down dies, and his parents find out he was considered drunk. They threaten to sue. Alistaire is ready to leave Janice, and in the parking lot, he physically tries to throw Chrissy into her car. A fight breaks out with Owen over Chrissy and Janice witnesses it, then sees his packed bag in their car. She leaves without him.
The affair becomes public because of Alastair and Owen's fight. A little boy needs a bone marrow transplant, but both his parents don't match. His mother calls her ex boyfriend who happens to be her husband's best friend. Luka's birthday party and Kath is worried about Simon's drinking. Maria's ex show up and Danny gets the sofa. In a drunken rage, Simon hits Kath.
Danny sees Kath's black eye and beats up his father Simon. Marija has to choose between Danny and her ex husband Goran. Sam admits to Chrissy that she spiked Alex's drink at the New Year's party.
Sandy meets a new guy Ben at a club, only to find out that he is starting work at Holby City tomorrow, as a midwife. A cancer patient finds out that he is going to die before the birth of his baby. His wife decides to induce her labour so he can see his child before he dies. Danny makes up with Kath for hitting Simon.
Chrissy tells Sam that she will tell Alex that Sam spiked his drinks. Sam goes to Alex, and as she is about to tell him, he tells her he loves her. A man who was a bully at school, gets a bed next to a man who was his victim, with unfortunate results.
Court for Alex today. Fran lies about her son's accident. Alex breaks down on the stand, and during the recess, Sam tells him what she did. Then she begs Fran to tell the truth, and tells her she spiked the drinks.
Stan's wife collapses in the car park and is admitted. Sam swears off men. Chloe, a young girl with learning disabilities is about to have a hysterectomy and it is her mother's decision.
Alex tries to get Sam fired by telling Meyer about the spiked drink. Meyer won't do it because she was off duty. Ben decides to invite his parents for dinner to tell them he's gay. He asks Sandy to come for moral support. Problem is, Sandy recognizes them from the cancer ward.
Kath is embarrassed by her black eye. She meets a patient who she thinks is being abused by her husband, and tries to convince her to go to the police. The woman won't admit he hits her. Ric Griffin finds out that the college money he gave his daughter Jess, has been used for breast enhancement and she wants more money for a modeling career. He cuts her off and tells her to get a real job and earn it.
Kath is helping Father Chambers with Communion and is late home. Simon gets really angry about it. Tash gets pricked by a heroin needle in her new girlfriend's purse. She breaks off with her and the girl begs her to help her kick the habit. Kath is lying on the floor with a bloody face and calls an ambulance and passes out. Danny is called when Kath is admitted and swears he will kill his father. He is about to do just that when there is someone at the door.
Kath leaves Simon and gets Danny to pick up her belongings. Father Chambers and Danny paint and decorate her new place while she is at work. A woman wants to leave the man that cared for her and raised her two sons, for another man, who happens to be her husband's much younger employee.
A woman wants to abandon her little boy because the doctors gave him a transfusion. She considers her son impure now and doesn't want him. Tash gets her HIV test results from the needle prick.
Samantha invites Alex to her birthday party, but he declines. He meet Jess in a bar, and she takes him to the party. He finds out Jess is Ric's daughter and she is flatmates with Samantha. A fight breaks out with Steve and his old friend. Police come, Ric calls them racist, he gets arrested for not cooperating.
Meyer tells Ric off for getting arrested for marijuana. Steve finds a lump on a little boy's neck. Janice has a positive scan. Ric goes for an administrative job at a private clinic, then changes his mind. Alistair wants to settle the divorce.
Liam goes next door because of a loud stereo disturbing his sleep and gets drawn in to a family abuse situation. The father has beaten the mother, and is trying to suffocate his son. Liam and the man get in a scuffle and they both go over the balcony.
Liam wakes up from his coma. Simon disputes Kath's divorce papers. A woman who can't have children kidnaps a baby from it's sleeping mother. Keri forgives Liam for raping her.
Samantha catches Alex leaving the flat after he slept with Jess. Liam is paralyzed. Owen's daughter is discharged. Alex tells Jess that he does not want a relationship and breaks her heart.
Meyer and Alex take sides about whether to give a Down Syndrome man a heart transplant. Kath feels her relationship with Father Chambers is moving too fast. Ric's son Leo joins the team.
Liam is discharged and can't cope with people feeling sorry for him. Jess is pregnant with Alex's baby and Samantha tries to influence her to abort the baby.
Kath wants to break off with Michael, but he has sent a letter of resignation. Liam is acting fine and happy, but when no one is home he is suicidal. Michael tries to kill himself. Kath tells him that she never wants to see him again.
While Ric is planning his birthday, his daughter Jess is still undecided about an abortion that has been scheduled for today.
After taking Owen back after his affair with Chrissy, Laura struggles to make her family whole again. Liam is considering if he could go back to Holby and do his job properly in a wheelchair.
There is a charity auction with the men of Holby. A few of them are nervous about who will bid on them. Pam McGrath starts today as the new Risk manager, and has turned a few heads on day one.
Tash's old girlfriend Mel comes back, only to give her disturbing news. Mubbs makes a grave error and a baby may not survive because of it.
Keri gets her date with Mubbs that she won in the auction. Keri's mother Pam interrupts it and Mubbs feels awkward because earlier that day he was intimate with Pam.
Owen is getting involved with Chrissy again. The new registrar Diane Lloyd in one of Ric's old girlfriends. Sam gives Ric a cheque to clear his debts, and on his stag night, he goes to the casino to wager the whole thing.
Samantha and Ric's wedding day arrives. Alex wants to go to Sam and tell her of his true feelings, and what Ric did with her money. Sam is having big doubts about the wedding because she still has feelings for Alex.
Alistair is back at Holby to ask a very pregnant Janice for a divorce. Keri walks in on Mubbs and her mother Pam while they are supposed to be having a meeting and is shocked by what she sees.
Now that Owens daughter Katie knows about Chrissy, he is on edge. Danny invites Lisa to live with him and Sandy. Sandy is angered that he did not consult her.
There is something wrong with Janice and Alistair's baby. Katie runs away from home and Chrissie is pushed into taking care of her. Sam goes behind Meyers back to the parents of his patient.
Sam's actions may have caused a child's death and Meyer suspends her, so she resigns. Janice and her baby are in critical condition after the birth. Katie is admitted to hospital with severe burns.
Sam has launched a complaint against Meyer and he is under investigation. Some of the other doctors believe the allegations by Sam to be true. Is Chrissie responsible for Owen's daughters burns?
Meyer breaks his operating ban to save a child. He is exonerated, but resigns. He is leaving for the USA and Alex is going with him. Chrissie has a house warming party without Owen's knowledge. Mubbs and Lisa get back together.
The new consultant is Tom Campbell-Gore, the very Doctor who investigated Meyer. Ric and him have words over a patient.
Chrissie and Owen's relationship becomes strained and Owen looks to his work as a distraction. Ric performs radical surgery on a teenage boy, with bad results.
Ed Keatings; ex wife shows up to a football match with her new boyfriend and they have words. Ed punches him and he has a heart attack. Lisa's dad Terry has a tumour and he keeps it from her.
Robbie Waring's friends steal drugs from the ward. Steve chases them and one of them get hurt. Terry Fox's surgery is successful.
Danny is pushed to the brink of despair when Kobie threatens to leave Holby for good. His troubles come to a tragic end when Kobie falls from the roof of the hospital during a bitter row between the two.
Diane and Danny each take a side on an abuse situation. Ed bullies a woman into donating her daughter's heart, and Ed almost gets fired over it. A homeless girl gives birth to twins and then leaves them.
Jess tackles a carjacker who turns out to be Robbie Waring. Tom is angry that Ric did an unnecessary surgery. Mubbs is disturbed that a woman had a baby for a gay couple.
Diane catches Danny and Lisa in bed. Tom's drug addicted brother comes in with an overdose and Tom is terrified that he will tell the staff who he is. When Owen finds out Chrissey does not want a baby, the relationship changes for the worse.
The nurses bonfire night party turns into a house fire. Ed's father has an angina attack in prison and he confides in Chrissey as to why his dad is there.
Keri finds herself in deep trouble after over -medicating a patient. Danny finds comfort in the arms of Jazmin after Kobie's tragic death.
When the patient Tom operated on is dumped outside the hospital by the drug dealers, Tom is panicked that he will wake up and recognize him. Lisa has a hard time coping with the fact her father is involved with Kath.
Chrissey and Ed are at it again while Owen waits to propose to her at home. A woman Mubbs slept with is in the hospital and she tells her boyfriend that she slept with Mubbs last night.
Chrissie is torn over the proposal and a chance to be with Ed. Terry's cancer has spread and he is in grave condition.
Tom turns his brother Martin in to the police. Kath agrees to marry Terry, then, that afternoon, finds out his cancer is terminal and he will only live for a few months.
Tom's old friend comes in for surgery, with fatal results and Tom is tempted to start drinking again. Kath questions her faith when the chaplain won't bless her marriage to Terry. Sandy sees Sean for what he is.
Kath and Terry's wedding day. Ric gives them dismal news after the ceremony. Tom's father comes to visit and observes an operation while interfering and angering Tom. He can't reconcile with his father before he leaves and he takes a drink.
New Years eve party. Tom is drinking again and Ed catches him. Terry and Kath go to the beach house where Terry asks her to overdose him. Sean drugs Sandy and she wakes up naked in bed.
Sandy is still reeling from the drugs. Tom has a robotic arm surgery demonstration and shows up drunk. He threatens Ed to keep quiet about it. Lisa and Kath can't cope with Terry's death. Kath prays for forgiveness. Chrissey is having second thoughts about her baby.
Terry's funeral today. Tom collapses during surgery. Kath confesses to Danny. Owen asks Ed to be his best man. A young girl gives birth, and didn't know she was pregnant.
Terry left everything to Kath, and Lisa is suspicious. Owen's stag night. Mubbs finds out that Ed is the father of Chrissie's baby. Lisa calls the police on Kath after having a fight with Danny.
The police question the staff and plan to exhume Terry's body. Kath is told there was an eye witness. Chrissie and Owen's wedding day.
Ric attends the autopsy, and he hides the prescription he gave Kath. They find a needle mark in Terry and Kath is arrested on suspicion of murder.
A crisis occurs when a power outage happens while Mubbs is operating. Kath pleads not guilty. Lisa takes it out on Danny. Ben goes off with another man at the Valentine's Day party.
Alex Adams returns to Holby to do a transplant operation and is offered Tom's job. Sean pesters Sandy for money and steals the ward fund. Ben cannot decide on moving in with Tony.
Ed is frustrated that Alex accepted Tom's job. An old boyfriend of Ben's shows up and wants to reignite the relationship. Jess and Mubbs go for a drink, and a kiss. Chrissie's scan shows markers for Down Syndrome in the baby.
Tom Campbell-Gore is back. Sean pushes Sandy to steal money from sleeping patients. Cameras are installed on the ward, due to thefts. Tom confides in Alex about his alcoholism.
Ric sees the video of Jess and Mubbs. Tony needs a kidney and Ben offers to donate his. Mubbs tells Owen that Chrissie has been sleeping with Ed, and everyone at Holby knows. A dying old man gives Sandy all of his money.
Danny confronts Sandy about the thefts. Sandy gives Sean the money the old man gave her. He still threatens her for more. Owen sees Ed and Chrissie at his house, and loses his cool. Ric accepts a job in the private sector.
Danny confronts Sean and he runs away. Chrissie's office is full of her belongings, courtesy of Owen. Owen catches Ed and Chrissie together in an embrace and goes wild. Ben breaks off with Tony.
A wife comes to see her husband only to find out he has a secret boyfriend visiting him. Diane agrees to go on a date with Steve. When a patient does not want to press charges of rape, Danny storms off because of the injustice of it.
At Kath's trial, the prosecution petitions the court to change the charge to murder, and she spends the night in the cells. Tom has feelings for his therapist Anita, and makes a pass at her. Steve and Diane have their official first date.
Kath is found not guilty. Steve won't let Robbie borrow his car. Robbie and his friend hot wire a car in the car park. Ben and Steve arrive to realize it's Ben's car, so they chase then in Steve's car and crash. Alex can't control the shaking in his hands with drugs anymore.
Ben is seriously injured, but Steve's leg is trapped. Diane and Ric have to decide whether to amputate Steve's leg to get to Ben, or leave it as it is.
Alex receives a bad prognosis when he has tests for his shaking. Diane Lloyd has to tell Steve that Ben has died. Steve is reeling from the news and Ric convinces Robbie that he can save him from his grief.
Chrissie can't live with her mother anymore and decides to move out. Lisa has her first day in AAU and it is a lot tougher than she thought. Just as Steve Waring is about to leave Holby, he suffers a heart attack and dies.
Rosie Sattar starts today in maternity because Ben left a void. Big surprise, Danny is back from Australia. Owen and Chrissie face complications with the baby.
Mubbs is surprised that Diane wants to terminate Steve Waring's baby.
Chrissie's baby dies after an emergency Cesarean. Alex is inspired by a musician with Parkinson's. Diane's colostomy patient gets good news after surgery.
Chrissie returns to work on the day of her baby's funeral. She forbids Owen to attend, but he hides in the background at the service.
Adam's Parkinson's is bad and he can't operate. Tom is called in, but too late, the patient is dead. Nic Yorke, the new health care asst. starts today. All the girls are throwing themselves at him, but he seems to be keen on Sandy. Jess and Lisa have a party and agree to let Sandy move in.
Zubin Khan's daughter shows up at the private clinic with a bleeding woman, and convinces her father to help her. He gets Ric and Tom to operate on her without telling them that she has been smuggled into the country. Tom is furious.
A patient has to decide whether to have her 6th baby or a heart operation, either one or the other. Alex Adam's tribunal today. Tom saves him by recommending that he not be fired, but put in the out patients clinic. Alex is angry with the result.
Nic Yorke's sister Kelly starts her first day as a nurse. Elizabeth Woods has an affair with Zubin. Her abusive husband beats and rapes her and makes her say it was Zubin who did it. The police take Zubin in for questioning.
Zubin convinces Elizabeth Woods to tell the truth, and her husband is arrested. Ric is gambling again, this time with good results. Dr Merrick wants to do brain surgery on Alex Adams to stop his tremors.
As Alex prepares for surgery on his brain, he and Diane get close. Chrissie's mother Tricia makes a pass at Owen. Ric gets betting advice from Nic and wins.
Tricia is assigned to be Owen's PA, and he is not pleased after she made a pass at him. Ric's son Leo returns to Holby and is still struggling to keep up. Tom can't commit to Anita and she may take the job she has been offered in the USA. Owen changes his mind and kisses Tricia.
Leo is admitted with heroin in his system and is in withdrawal. Alex is happy to be back to work. Anita is tired of waiting for Tom to make a decision and she leaves. Tom races out of surgery and goes to the airport and leaves with Anita.
Alex discovers that he has Parkinson's on his left side now. Kath gives him a message that his father has died. Alex goes home to the farm where he grew up to see his estranged family. He sends Jess a letter saying goodbye and Diane thinks he is going to kill himself. They rush to the farm to find Alex in the barn with a gun.
Alex assists on Ed's patient in surgery and Ric is furious. Rosie's blood tests prove she is menopausal at 35 years old. Ric gets the job as Clinical Director. Chrissie confronts Owen on why he hasn't signed the divorce papers yet.
Mubbs and Rosie have a patient with a difficult birth. Mubbs parents try to arrange a marriage for him. Chrissie comes home early and almost catches Tricia and Owen, but he escapes to the balcony dressed in a towel
When a road traffic accident comes in, Zubin has flashbacks of his wife's death. Tricia transfers to be Ric Griffin's PA to get away from Owen.
Rosie tries to set Mubb's up on a date with disasterous results. Kelly, who wants Kath's job, sets her up to fail in an interview for a better job.
Sandy wins 150,000 pounds in the lottery and leaves the money to Jess, Ric and Kelly and pays off Lisa's mortgage, and then goes to Australia to hook up with Danny. Owen asks Tricia to go on a vacation.
Ric realizes there is a bad side to being clinical director when a train crash has them flooded with patients. Zubin questions the methods of an "old school" surgeon who he thinks is incompetent.
Ed finds about Chrissie and Owen and is concerned. Ric has luck on the horses. DI Jane Archer returns to investigate more deaths on Keller ward.
The police investigations continue. Stan Ashleigh returns as a patient and has a DNR order in place. Ric and Diane ignore his request with consequences
Chrissie finds about the relationship with Owen and her mother Tricia. A forensic psychologist is called in to question the staff about the deaths in Kellar ward.
Nic is held on suspicion of murder. Ric is served with another repossession order as his gambling is truly out of control. Mubbs and Rosie start to have feelings for each other.
Jess and Kelly got to visit Nic in jail. Ric's home has be repossessed and he tries to cover it up. Mubbs and Rosie are at a standstill as she declines a date with him. Ric and Zubin are at odds as he tries to give Ric advice on managing his gambling.
Ric has lost his home and is sleeping in his office. The Keller ward killer has claimed another victim. Rosie and Mubbs see another love triangle.
Kelly Yorke is determined to frame Kath for the murders as she wants her job. Nic is released from jail with no evidence in his involvement. Rosie's daughter is admitted to AAU.
Kath is arrested and Ric defends her. Nic is shocked that Kelly framed her. Jess finds out that Ric is sleeping in his office and offers him a place at her flat.
Tom Campbell-Gore is back and clashes with Zubin and Ric while they treat an emergency car crash involving a religious family. Meanwhile Nic finds out what pushed Kelly to the killings and must decide whether to turn her into the police.
Nic and Kellly's mother comes in with stab wounds and Nic realizes that it is Kelly who did it. Kelly agrees to turn herself in but tries to kill her mother again. Kath stops her and she stabs Kath.
Zubin finds Kath bleeding and unconscious and rushes her to theatre. Nic speaks to his mother, and rushes to her flat to find Kelly. Kelly has turned on the gas and the flat explodes, almost killing them both. The mother tells Chrissie that it was Kelly that tried to kill her.
Nic and Kelly are admitted because they are injured in a gas explosion. Ric has a choice to let Kelly live or die knowing that she has killed the patients in Kellar ward. Tom Campbell-Gore hosts the Christmas party and Mubbs opts to babysit for Rosie instead. Tricia makes a fool of herself at the party.
Nic's condition worsens and he wants to see Kelly before he dies. She is being taken to the jail infirmary and thinks he is just saying goodbye for now. She asks him to visit her in jail and he agrees. When she goes back to her room he is rushed back to surgery and dies.
New Year's day. Chrissie wakes up in Mubb's bed and tries to sneak out. The organ ambulance is stuck in traffic and the recipient dies waiting for it. There is a second patient waiting as well, so they give it to him, but he dies too. Tom blames the system and Zubin calms him down.
Ric agrees to take cash for doing a private surgery, but the patient's father threatens him, that if his son dies, he won't pay up. He also threatens to have him beaten up. Rosie insists to Mubbs that he should get a woman's medical records and he doesn't. The woman lies to him and endangers the baby.
Zubin gets Ric into counseling for his gambling addiction. A woman changes her mind about donating her daughter's heart, but Tom ignores her and takes it anyway.
Jess goes to Nic Yorke's funeral and Kelly is there in handcuffs. Later, Jess visits Kelly to tell her that her mother is ill. An hour later the institution calls Jess to say that Kelly committed suicide.
Sammy has taken his daughters on a trip without Rosie's permission. She is frantic that she cannot get in touch with him.
Ed's father is out of jail. Sammy brings the girls back to Rosie. Kath goes on her first date since Terry died.
Ric tells Jess that he is moving out. Mubbs is having a hard time adjusting to Rosie's kids. Ed's father has a dizzy spell and tells Chrissie to keep it from Ed.
Ed's father George is rushed in with heart problems and Tom operates on him. Ric comforts Diane when her patient dies.
Diane is suspicious of the relationship between a young girl and her father. George collapses again and needs a heart transplant. Sunny is suing for custody of the girls.
Ed lies about Georges test results to put him at the top of the list, but it backfires. Mubbs starts having second thoughts about Rosie when she asks him for a large loan. Diane goes for a drink with Peter from x ray dept.
Two new nurses start today (Micki and Donna) they both leave bad impressions with the staff. Jess agrees to date a patient. Diane finds out that Donna slept with Peter, and decides to end it with him.
Kath and Chrissie compete for the same position. Tom gets his consultancy post back. George is still waiting for a heart. Lisa has a blow up with Jess and Donna.
Kath leaves Holby and tells Lisa how her dad died. Mubbs hits Rosie's daughter and she breaks up with him. Jess breaks up with the patient Robert she is dating. Ed fiddles the results and George get his new heart.
Robert is back at Holby claiming he fell of a bike, but he has a self inflicted knife wound. Ed is being blackmailed by the technician who falsified the records to get George the transplant. Jess dumps Robert.
Ric asks Zubin to lend him money to invest in shares. When Zubin finds out it's a winner, he tells Ric he will give him a finders fee. Rosie tells Mubbs she loves him and wants him back.
Diane is sent to train a team of army doctor to deal with trauma victims, where she meets Will Curtis.
Robert attacks Jess in her flat, Donna comes in and they both attack him and put him through a window. He is rushed to Holby where Ric operates on him, not knowing what he did to Jess.
New registrar Will Curtis (from Diane's army group) starts today. He discovers that Ed and Tom gave George an infected heart and helps them cover it up.
Sammy is in a minor car accident so why does he have major injuries? Mubbs proposes to Rosie, but she wants to think about it as Sammy is pushing her to get back together.
Tom separates conjoined twins without both parent's permission and it goes badly for him. He is forced to resign by Zubin. Lisa passes the interview for Kath's old job.
The anniversary of Chrissie's baby's death. Mubbs decides to tell her the results of the year-old DNA test. Lisa starts her first day as Ward Nurse.
Tom Campbell-Gore's replacement Connie Beauchamp starts today. Her and Will disagree on how to treat a heart patient and she orders him out of surgery.
Diane's sister is involved in a traffic accident. She is dying and they have to make a decision on her unborn baby.
They've decided on a cesarean, but Joanna dies shortly afterwards. Diane is devastated and must make a decision. Rosie gets good news.
Will and Connie continue to have a difference of opinion, and he is still abrupt and rude to patients. She decides to look into his background. Diane's first day back after her sister's death.
Lisa continues to have conflict with her tenants Mickie and Donna. They don't listen to her at work and are irresponsible in life. Ric spots Connie flirting with Zubin and Mubbs, after she had sex with him on her first day.
Connie wants to operate on a board member's wife. When Zubin finds out, he and her have a confrontation.
Diane takes the baby to work and Connie tells her she has to choose between her job, and the baby. Rosie and Mubbs make up yet again.
Lisa is tired of Donna's irresponsibility, and now, she is late on her rent, so she evicts her. Connie organizes a team building event, but no one shows up. They go to the pub instead.
The baby's father wants Donna to give the child to him.Chrissie is still upset by the man her mother matched her up with.
Ric's son Leo now has a pregnant girlfriend who is a drug addict. Ric is not amused. She goes into labour and the baby must be delivered by cesarean.
Connie has been keeping an eye on Will Curtis since she did the background check. He continues to be rude and abrupt to patients. This time, one of the patients has made a complaint to the board.
Because of all the complaints about Will, he faces a disciplinary board. Holby hosts a charity trolley dash, and Tricia and Carlos get to know each other better.
Since the charity event, Jess has a crush on Zubin and sets her sights on him, even though she knows Ric will protest. Micky tears up her application to go to medical school to be a doctor because of something Mubbs said. Owen asks Diane to move in with him.
It's Ric's 50th birthday party and Jess tries to make Zubin jealous. Connie is still threatening to call in a favour to Will after she supported him at the hearing.
Tricia tells Carlos that she loves him and he is shocked. Zubin decides that he will go out with Jess, but she knocks him back and says he is too late. She is going with Raza, the guy she used to make him jealous.
A jousting match goes horribly wrong when two rival accountants end up in Holby. Connie sends Wil back to cadaver training. Tricia thinks Carlos will end it, but he has a surprise for her. Jess ends it with Raza, then kisses Zubin.
Baby Jack's custody trial today. Tricia goes for tests for her lump. Mickie gets mugged in an alley.
Zubin is going to Paris for an interview and Jess tells him she loves him. Mickie and Lisa blame Donna for the mugging. Tricia finds out the tumor is malignant.
Two of Will's patients die, and his family keep calling him. Jess follows Zubin to Paris. Ric and Donna are tasked with taking a patient to a Paris hospital for surgery. Donna has to keep Ric from finding out that Jess is there too.
Tricia goes for her surgery, only to find out later that it is far more serious than she thought. Zubin takes the job in Paris, leaving Jess stunned. Ric gambles away the 5,000 he was paid for escorting the patient to Paris.
Ric operates on Tricia and removes the entire breast. She is sent to Holby and everyone knows about it. Carlos can't cope with it and he dumps her. Another patient of Will's dies, he resigns, but Connie rips it up..
Sean Thompson, Zubin's replacement starts today. Diane asks Owen to marry him. Connie and Will are getting on a lot better. Chrissie worries about a lump in her breast.
Donna's birthday. Carlos tries to apologize to Tricia. Owen accepts Diane's proposal. During surgery for a chest problem, Mubbs discovers that Rosie is pregnant.
Mubbs tells Rosie that he does not want the baby. During the argument, Connie comes along and tells her that she and Mubbs slept together. Lisa blurts it to Chrissie that Owen and Diane are engaged.
Jess gets tested for a STD that she blames Sean for. Tricia tells her friend Maggie her Cancer results and Connie is angry that Tricia has no authority to do so. Connie berates Lisa about having no control over her staff.
Mubbs finds out his dad has cancer. Chrissie tells Mubbs mother that Rosie is pregnant. Rosie gives Mubbs one more chance to tell the truth and he fails again. Sean guesses that Jess is pregnant. The Christmas party.
Holby and Casualty casts unite for this special in which a tanker crashes into the hospital and explodes causing havoc.
Jess tries to tell Ric about the baby. Rosie wakes up with no recollection of the fire and Mubbs pretends they are still a couple. Jess has a scan and realizes the baby is Zubin's.
The canteen is not at full capacity and Will complains to the kitchen staff. The staff go on strike. Will refuses to apologize and Connie suspends him. Rosie has an emergency Cesarean but the baby does not make it and she dumps Mubbs.
Maggie passes away with Tricia by her side. Zubin is revealed as the new head of anesthetics and Connie makes will apologies to the striking canteen staff.
Jess tries to tell Zubin about the baby, but he praises her relationship with Sean. Micky and Mubbs have a date, but Donna butts in and takes them to a gay bar. Mubbs is furious and leaves.
Mubbs finds out that Mickie is gay and is angry. Jess breaks up with Sean and he kicks her out of the flat. She tells her dad about it and the pregnancy.
Zubin is back to run the new ITU. Owen sets the date for the wedding. Connie gives Mickie a chance to diagnose a patient. Zubin accidentally finds out that Jess is pregnant.
Chrissie seeks out her estranged father, who doesn't want to know her. Zubin almost tells Rick about his affair with Jess.
Chrissie's father shows up at Holby. Lisa finds out that the Bailiffs took her possessions to pay Donna's debts. Grant Saunders, a convicted killer comes in for a heart transplant, then refuses it.
Connie hires Mark to help when they are short of nurses, and Tricia is fuming mad. Jess finally tells Sean he is not the father of the baby. Lisa puts Donna in charge to show her how hard it is.
Tricia wants Mark to go Chrissie wants him to stay. Shaun wants to know who the father of her baby is, but she won't tell him, and he offers to stand by her anyway. Connie makes Will mentor Mickie.
Owen's stag night does not go well. He kisses Chrissie, and Ric kisses Diane. Mark and Tricia won't work together. Jodie, from the bar ends up at Mickie's flat and they kiss. Diane invites Chrissie to the wedding.
Chrissie tries to prevent the wedding. Jodie collapses and is rushed to Holby. There is still tension between Mark and Tricia.
When Jess has a bleed and is taken to theatre, Zubin finds out that it is his baby. Will's past comes back to haunt him in the form of Jodie who was in his platoon. He is the one who botched her shrapnel surgery.
After Jodie crashed the car into a scaffold, she ran away. Will and another man were impaled by the poles, and had to be rushed to surgery. Mickie finds out about this and reports Jodie for a hit and run. Connie operates on Will.
Susan Curtis blames Connie for Will's post op death and demands an inquiry.
Zubin tries to put Sean off marrying Jess, but Sean realizes that Zubin must be the father of the baby. Sean then orders Zubin to stay away from Jess.
Ric finds out that Zubin is the father of Jess's baby, he is furious. Mark is late and Chrissie covers for him. Tricia tries to tell her that he is a big let down as a father and husband. A new consultant Dominic Fryer starts today.
Under Diane's knife, the new consultant Dominic dies. Two new student doctors (Parker and West) start in maternity today. They have history from when West left with Parkers love interest after a party.
Chrissie comes on to Owen at a charity event. Dominic's son confronts Zubin about his father's death and wants to know who is responsible for it.
Diane's pregnancy test is positive, but she can't tell Owen, she tells Ric. Mubbs is furious with Matt and Dean for womanizing on the job, and giving the patients too much information. Chrissie invites Owen for a drink.
Zubin discovers there is nitrogen in the oxygen supply. He resents having Dr. Greene supervise him. Connie offers Diane a desk job because of her pregnancy. Diane thinks she may not want a baby just yet and Owen is shocked.
Diane is overworked, and has a miscarriage. The board meets and decide that Zubin should be the fall guy for the death of Dominic . Jess decides to go back to Zubin and Ric cannot accept it.
Ric's ex wife Lola joins the Holby team as registrar and puts Connie in her place. Zubin has to face the board, but surprisingly, Ric defends him. Carlos Fashola the plastic surgeon is back. A car smashes into Zubin's car in the car park.
Carlos arrives at the hospital with a patient and tries to make peace with Tricia. Mubbs' lifestyle catches up with him, and Connie announces her latest grand scheme. (UKTV Play description.)
Tricia prepares for her operation, only to discover it has been canceled. However, Carlos is on hand to make alternative arrangements - and a surprise declaration. (UKTV play description)
Diane starts her new research job, but is frustrated to learn she can only treat patients in cases of emergency. Zubin asks Jess to move in with him. (UKTV PLAY description.)
In an episode filmed in Ghana, Diane goes in search of Ric to persuade him to return home - and discovers unresolved conflicts within his family. Adrian Edmondson guests. (UKTV PLAY description.)
Diane returns to Holby and asks Connie for her job back. Tricia develops an infection following her surgery, and Carlos asks her to come to America with him. (UKTV PLAY description.,)
Ric and Zubin fight to save Jess in the operating theatre, and Dean tries to deter Donna from going on another date with Sean. (UKTV PLAY description)
Connie's plans to start a cardiology centre meet with disaster when a patient of Ric's nearly dies, while Owen finds it difficult to communicate with his daughter. UKTV PLAY description.
Mickie makes an incorrect diagnosis that almost costs a patient her life. Owen fears he will never see Katy again, and Tricia discovers Mark has nowhere to stay. UKTV PLAY description.
Owen attends the hearing concerning access to his daughter, Mark celebrates his birthday while Chrissie prepares a surprise for him, and Jess struggles to cope with motherhood. UKTV PLAY description.
Frank is rushed to hospital with an aneurysm, and Kirsty tries to kiss Owen while he is treating her, only to run off when they are interrupted. UKTV PLAY description.
Tricia takes desperate measures to prevent her secret getting out, and Kirsty stands by her allegations against Owen. UKTV PLAY description.
Conflict erupts on the day of Frank's funeral as Mark loses his temper with Tricia, while Connie's efforts to hush up the cause of death are exposed. UKTV Play description.
Tricia receives the results of the paternity test, Michael asks Lisa to resign, and Mubbs tries to charm Andy into giving him the consultant's job.
Adrian Edmondson returns as Ric's colleague from Ghana, who performs a heart transplant on a patient Michael deemed ineligible. Mubbs asks Lisa to move in with him. UKTV PLAY description.
Mubbs allows Dean to treat a patient unsupervised, with disastrous consequences. Jess gets her exam results and tension brews between Ric and Lola. UKTV PLAY description.
Jess finds herself at the centre of a baby-shaking scare after she rushes Paris to hospital and bruises are found on his body, while Michael is blackmailed. UKTV PLAY description.
Chrissie is convinced she is pregnant. Ric confronts his own prejudices and Matt finally proves he has a bedside manner. UKTV PLAY description.
Lola's daughter Cleo is involved in a car crash. Diane urges Dean to be realistic about his limitations, leaving him more determined than ever to prove his worth. UKTV PLAY description.
Diane urges Dean to be realistic about his limitations, leaving him more determined than ever to prove his worth.
A new surgeon arrives at the hospital, and Connie is outraged to learn he has been given Loftwood's position. Lola's daughter moves in with her boyfriend. UKTV PLAY description.
Donna's past comes back to haunt her when she meets the teenager who asked her for an abortion pill weeks earlier - and the girl's mother shows up at the hospital. UKTV PLAY description.
Ric pushes to perform extreme surgery on one of his patients, with disastrous consequences for himself. Meanwhile, Owen finally decides between Chrissie and Diane. UKTV PLAY description.
Diane takes her consultants exam and passes, but is she ready for promotion? An encounter in a lift jeopardizes Dean's chances in the practical exam. UKTV PLAY description.
Amy returns to the hospital, but her reckless behaviour prompts Donna to call social services. Chrissie tells Owen she's leaving Holby, forcing him to make a decision. UKTV PLAY description.
Abra returns to Holby and asks Ric to perform a transplant operation. However, the injury to the surgeon's hand means he can't operate. Laura finds out Owen's secrets. UKTV PLAY description.
Owen brings his daughter to work, and realizes he has to think very clearly about his priorities. Amy's stepfather takes legal action, while her mother realizes the truth UKTV PLAY description.
Bernie Doyle and Mitch Campbell are unhappy Bernie's daughter, Tara, and Mitch's son, Lee, are dating. A car chase involving Lee and Bernie's son, Sean causes an accident. UKTV PLAY description.
Two medics apply for the registrar's position, Connie sees an opportunity to advance her own career, and a patient brings back painful memories for Tricia. UKTV PLAY description.
Ric has plenty of problems on his hands as the new ward opens, and Donna applies for a new job - only to find Mickie has already been appointed. UKTV PLAY description.
Mark learns the truth about Chrissie's parentage when Frank's life insurance company gets in touch. Jac returns and Ric advises Diane to take some time off. UKTV PLAY description.
Jess returns to work after the death of her son but finds her newfound determination put to the test when young patient Archie presents with a lacerated spleen and she suspects possible child abuse. Meanwhile, Mark tries to deal with the news that Chrissie is not his daughter.
Connie's old school boyfriend Peter Holland arrives in the emergency department with a case of rheumatic fever and reveals childhood secrets about Connie. Mark and Lola become very involved in the treatment of two young brothers who have been beaten up. Elsewhere, Mickie loses her drunk patient Liz.
New nurse Kyla abandons a patient during a critical period and the rest of the team want answers. Meanwhile, in a bid to get Ric's support Jac and Diane go head to head in their procedures.
Sam performs a risky operation that he has never done before. Elliot gets a new PA, and Chrissie acquires a secret admirer. (UKTV PLAY description.
Lola's daughter reveals her plans to go travelling with her boyfriend. Sam's good intentions backfire, while Jac and Diane treat a man who has fallen down a lift shaft. (UKTV PLAY description.)
Jac is not pleased to see new consultant Nick Jordan and it's obvious the pair have a history. Later, Nick treats one of Ric's cancer patients while Ric is out lecturing at the university. But there's trouble on the horizon when he goes against Ric's chosen course of action and performs a risky operation. Elsewhere, Matt is dealing with a difficult patient. The young girl tests his patience to the limits but he finally manages to win her round, which impresses Lola.
Mark gets over involved in a case which causes disastrous consequences. Meanwhile, Nick Jordan rocks Diane's world which may affect her relationship with Ric.
When Nick learns that Ric is away from Holby for the day he is determined to get one over on him. Meanwhile, Kyla learns that the best way to be a leader is to be herself.
Elliot battles with his personal fears as he tries to get Sandra Wilson well enough to accept a new heart whilst doing everything he can to get concert recital tickets for his ill wife Gina. Matt finally admits to Mark what he really thinks of him. Meanwhile, Donna is bowled over by new physiotherapist, Justin, but will she heed Kyla's warnings about him?
Nick continues to cause trouble by working on a patient with a cardio thoracic (CT) condition. When the patient's condition deteriorates, Jac decides not to involve Nick again and doesn't page him. Nick is furious when he finds out. Elsewhere, Chrissie is concerned by Mark's erratic behaviour and tells him to take some time off. Matt and Dean both apply for the student scholarship but their lax attitude doesn't impress Joseph.
Nick and Ric both use underhand tactics to get Diane on side. Nick wins Diane round by letting her perform a difficult procedure for the first time and therefore saving the patient. After the operation Nick asks Diane out for a drink but she refuses, for now! Meanwhile, Connie is devastated when the new device she is championing cannot save her patient Sandra. Elsewhere, Kyla brings her son Max into work as he is diabetic and his blood sugar reading is high. The stressful day gets to her and Justin sees a chance to escape.
Elliot fears for his wife's failing health - a secret he is keeping from their daughter. Sam uncovers a family secret when he treats a boy who needs a heart transplant.
Ric risks his friendship with Diane in an attempt to save her from Nick Jordan's clutches. Meanwhile, Joseph finds himself in trouble at work and Matt makes a career changing decision.
Diane is determined to prove Ric wrong about Nick Jordan and a desperate Tricia tries to keep the truth from a suspicious Chrissie.
Joseph struggles to stay in control as tension builds between Nick and Ric. Donna is thrilled to have a new man in her life but can Justin really give her what she truly needs?
Sam draws Chrissie and Matt into a risky game in order to secure a heard for recovering alcoholic Dillon Ellis. When Helena Bosman is readmitted to hospital Nick assigns the follow up surgery to Diane who covers up a potential problem in order for Ric to see Nick in a better light. It all goes pear-shaped when Helena has a massive brain hemorrhage and is declared brain-dead. Meanwhile, Donna refuses to work with Justin as Kyla tries to keep a lid on her returning feelings for Justin.
An inquest into the death of Helena Bosman throws the spotlight on Nick and Diane. Meanwhile, Sam plays a practical joke on Joseph.
Diane feels the full force of Nick Jordan's betrayal when her career hangs in the balance. Matt tries to get out of debt but only gets into trouble with Connie and Reg attempts to get Donna to go out with him fall flat and she ends up going off with Justin again.
Abra returns from Africa ready to turn over a new leaf. Tricia vows to make a go of it with Mark but gets bad news from Diane - her cancer has returned. Mickie learns she could clear Diane's name but it is to no avail and puts her chances of getting a reference for her medical school application in jeopardy.
Don Bosman returns to the hospital to retrieve Helena's body and is furious to find out her heart was donated without his consent. Sam and Elliot operate on Dillon. UKTV PLAY description.,
Elliot lets his personal feelings get the better of him when Gina is re-admitted. Sam is put on report but continues to do things on his own terms - will he learn his lesson?
Nic Jordan steps up his campaign to get back into CT. Mark tries to save Chrissie from a painful truth, but unearths shocking news about Tricia.
Jordan helps Connie save the day when a black tie charity dinner turns into a disaster zone. In an attempt to ingratiate himself with Kyla, Justin offers to look after Max.
Matt is thrown out of his rented accommodation with his landlord retaining his medical books until he pays his back rent. He signs up for clinical trials to make a fast buck but the consequences are dangerous. Lola wants to save young mother Kerry Peters to keep her baby from going into care.
Bradley outlines his cost-cutting plans for the hospital, dividing opinions among his staff. Joseph returns to the wards, but his OCD is not under control.
Lola makes a drastic decision regarding baby Leeanne's care. Reg wonders if Bradley's intentions towards Donna are honourable. Jac works closely with Joseph.
It's the day of Michael Beauchamp's appeal. Connie, Michael's wife is keen to press on with daily work on Darwin, however her mind is obviously elsewhere. She leaves the hospital to attend Michael's appeal, which he wins. Connie returns to work after the appeal, to operate on a dancer who has a heart infection due to an abortion which she had earlier in the year. Michael turns up at the hospital and gets into a scrape with a journalist, landing himself in AAU with a head injury. Connie visits him and tells Michael they will talk later. Connie is on Darwin when Michael later turns up with a Thai take-away. Connie tells Michael he may return home with her, where they can eat and talk. Elsewhere, Lola is reluctant to let Leanne's dad take her home. After she suspects him of being a drug user, she runs tests which prove inconclusive, and Lola realises he is diabetic. She reluctantly lets him take the baby home, but it's clear Lola is upset.
Connie's heart battles her mind as she wonders if she should stay at Holby. Mark learns to respect the way Tricia wants to handle her cancer.
A late-stage Motor Neurone Disease sufferer arrives on Darwin. It turns out that she has undergone brain stem treatment abroad to try and correct her MND. Surgeon Elliot Hope, whose wife is also a MND sufferer is impressed by the patient's story and informs Gina. Connie and Joseph are very skeptical on the brain stem treatment, however Elliot tries to persuade his wife to take the chance. In the end she agrees to go abroad to try brain stem treatment in a bid to control her MND. Elsewhere, it's Matt's first day as a qualified doctor on Keller. His first patient, Bridie, and elderly woman is brought in with a burnt leg and bruises are discovered on her body. After speculation from the staff that her grandson is hitting her, it is revealed that she infact falls regularly and is picked up by her grandson. She had fallen recently against a heater and this is the reason for her burnt leg. Unfortunalty on her way to theatre she collapses and Matt is called, but they are unable to save her and she dies by the lifts.
Ric warns Lola of the danger of becoming involved with her patient's father Trevor Heron. Connie begins to feel broody and sets her sights on Sam Strachan much to the annoyance of Chrissie. Meanwhile, Matt desperately tries to clear his name and nearly starts an all out war with the nursing staff.
Kyla loses her cool under pressure with Chrissie as she is monitored by her son's social case worker. Mark's engagement proposal doesn't go as well as he had planned and Sam finds himself as the "meat in the sandwich" between Chrissie and Connie.
Mickie's love life takes a turn for the better when she falls for patient Kim Felix. Steve Spence is re-admitted to Holby and Lola becomes concerned for his baby daughter Leanne and proposes herself as temporary foster mum to Leanne until Steve gets clean. Elsewhere, a determined Chrissie pursues Sam unknowing of his secret involvement with Connie. Meanwhile, Abra returns to Holby and clashes with Ric over the treatment of Kim's long-lost brother Pete Golding who is awaiting a viable kidney transplant. When the transplant fails Abra offers Pete an illegal transplant.
Abra's patient Pete Golding agrees to Abra's illegal kidney transplant. Mickie makes the biggest decision of her life by helping Abra and putting her fledgling romance with Kim in jeopardy. After surgery Ric gives her a glowing reference for her to leave and study at Newcastle University Medical School. Kim decides to relocate to Newcastle with her. Recovering MND patient Margaret Wrightman dies as a result of her aortic valve treatment. Elliott worries how this news will affect Gina as she prepares to fly to Singapore for the same stem cell treatment that Margaret underwent. Elliot and Gina talk and they both decide to spend what time they have together and not undergo the procedure.
Lola is determined to gain custody of Leanne and goes to extreme lengths to impress social worker Frankie Weston including asking Ric to pretend that they live together. Meanwhile, Tricia asks Mark if his offer of marriage still stands and accepts.
Roger is back on AAU but his immune system is dangerously low due to his HIV. His son, Zak, also returns and after a few home truths from his dad, he makes peace with him but Roger dies leaving Zak devastated. Elsewhere, Tricia finds out that Mark plans for them to get married today, and she's not pleased when she learns he organised the wedding because she is about to "kick the bucket". After talking to Roger's son Zak, Tricia realises she's not ready to give up and she and Mark finally tie the knot. Meanwhile, patients on AAU are having adverse reactions to drugs, resulting in Matt questioning Donna's competance again. After Reg carries out tests in his lab, it is discovered that the hospital drug supply, organised by Bradley, is full of faulty pills.
Gina Hope tells Connie that she wishes to go to an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland and enlists her help in filing the application. Connie at first refuses but after hearing a taped message than Gina made for Elliott she agrees. Matt continues to question the validity of the drugs available in Holby and enlists Reg's help. They run tests on samples from the Holby pharmacy and find that the drugs are below par in nearly all cases and nearly results in Ric losing an obese man on the operating table.
The hospital holds an emergency drill to see how the staff would cope with a terrorist attack, but tensions within the team prove a barrier to them working well together.
Mark resorts to devious measures to ensure Tricia's postponed operation proceeds. Elliot's son forces him to confront his grief and Lola's distracted by childcare issues.
Elliot works a night shift to take his mind off Gina, Ric discovers Abra searching for something in the basement, and Matt tries to scare Donna.
Abra and Ric are determined to keep the truth hidden when their kidney transplant patient returns to Holby. Jac impresses Lord Byrne, but alienates Joseph.
Mark and Tricia"s anticipation for their honeymoon is ruined when Chrissie learns that her mother's cancer has returned.Sam gets involved in a teenage girl's case.
Tricia is rushed to the hospital after the crash and Mark finds himself accused of drunk driving. Sam wants to discover the the truth about Jade's medical background.
Enigmatic new surgeon Dan Clifford rocks up to Holby, but whose side is he on? Elliot is forced to confront his demons over Gina's death. Connie shatters Sam's world.
Dan Clifford continues to be suspicious of Abra who enlists Kyla's help to throw Dan off the illegal pig kidney transplant. Elliott, prompted by his daughter Martha, finally goes home and breaks down when he sees Gina's belongings. Connie tells Sam that she is pregnant but was only a sperm donor to her. Chrissie finds out that Sam has been having an affair with Connie and is non too pleased. Mark & Chrissie hold a service at Holby for Tricia.
Clifford continues to needle Abra through Kyla. Joseph asks Jac to go to the movies but she declines but later reconsiders her hasty decision when Clifford tells her how well connected Joseph is. Developing a jealous streak she gets Elliot's daughter Martha a job in St. James' when she sees her developing a crush on Joseph. Mark over-reacts on the ward which could jeopardize his chances at a job promotion interview. Jac finally gets Joseph to give her another chance with him.
Elliott and his son James clash at the Holby Christmas Drinks but after talking with Mark he finally comes to term with his grief and says goodbye to Gina and scatters her ashes in the Peace Garden at Holby along with Martha and James. Lola plays dirty in her attempt to hold onto Leanne when Leanne's dad comes back into the picture. Nikki comes on strong to Matt making him question their relationship.
Kyla tells Abra she found his anti-viral drugs and he tells her to keep it quiet until he can sort something out. Elliott questions Joseph about a kiss that happened between his daughter Martha and him but Joseph tells him it was of no consequence. Lola is concerned about Leanne's safety when Steve's bi-polar girlfriend Shania is re-admitted and there is no sight of Steve or Leanne. Lola and Dan go to his apartment and find him passed out and in a lot of pain. Dan & Lola do an emergency operation on Steve but he dies on the way to the hospital. Jac warns Martha off Joseph.
Connie begins to suffer from morning sickness at the same time that she and Sam clash on the future of their unborn baby with Connie telling him she doesn't want to work with him anymore. Matt asks Dan to accept him on to his mentoring programme but Dan makes Matt jump through hoops before accepting him. Donna is on a health kick and Matt bets her ten pounds that she cannot walk 3 miles in her job but fed up of her pedometer not showing the results she wants she gets Maria to take pedometer with her on false pretenses - but Matt finds out. Connie comes around after her 12 weeks scan and gives a despondent Sam a copy of her ultrasound scan.
Connie gives Sam the cold shoulder after she witnesses a tiff outside the hospital and Mark's first day as nurse consultant gets off to a shaky start.
Dan needles Joseph about the upcoming surgical associate job. Dan also pursues Abra and his accomplice Natalie over the drugs scam and this time he is determined to catch them. He invites Abra to a cigar bar and tells him what he knows and gives him a chance to leave before Sutherland exposes him. Dan tells him to leave without telling anyone which he does but Kyla sees him and chases after him but she's too late.
Seeing a golden opportunity which will only enhance her career Jac works both Dan and Joseph to get a piece of the action. Meanwhile, Diane becomes paranoid in the presence of Dan's friend and fellow doctor Maddy Young, not helped by Dan.
Diane starts her new job as locum consultant under the watchful eye of Dan Clifford. The patients revolt against hospital food and get pizza delivered which results in everyone who ate the pizza getting food poisoning. Kyla and Lola have a heated argument over Kyla's treatment of her son Harvey. Sam and Chrissie's relationship is tested when complications arise with Connie and Sam's baby.
Jac and Joseph ask Chrissie to take on nurse Faye Morton and show her the ropes but are reticent in releasing information on her prior nursing jobs. Connie and Dan argue when Dan invades her theatre space. A patient takes offense to Dan's flirtatious manner and reports him but he gets her to drop it after he does a successful operation on her. Chrissie gets a shock when she discovers Jade in Sam's bed after they go back to his place and later tells Mark that she needs time away from Holby and Sam and leaves. Donna wins 20,000 after scratching a lottery scratch-card but will she share it with Maddy and Dean?
Donna continues to avoid a persistent Dean over his share of the 20,000 jackpot windfall. Donna also gets a shadow for the day in the guise of Paloma, a daughter of Dan's golfing buddy. Nikki comes back into Matt's life again when her dad is admitted to hospital after a fall. Sam feels the heat following Chrissie's shock departure and rumors over his alleged affair with 14-year-old Jade. Meanwhile, Faye appears to be settling well into Holby but is she too good to be true?
Mark mocks Sam's recent behaviour when he tries to brief him about a patient, while Kyla hides Max in an office after struggling to find a babysitter at short notice. UKTV Play)
The anesthetists take on the surgeons in the annual football rival match. Martha tells Elliott that she's not going back to university. Harvey and Kyla continue their spat and it reaches boiling point over the care of a battered patient and his wayward son leading to Harvey hitting her hard in the bathroom. Donna's plan to escape to Australia with her winnings falls flat when her winnings are robbed from the ward safe by a con artist and distributed to the football crowd from a height.
Agitated by the re-appearance of Jade in outpatients Sam takes his aggression on Faye but apologies later and they bond over a patient with retrograde amnesia but Faye turns him down when he tries to take things further. Sam then turns his attention to Maddy. Kyla and Harvey try to mend their tempestuous relationship. Bruno March, a cancer-ridden patient, insists on being taken to Holby instead of his hospice and develops a fixation on Jac - but Jac appears to know him. Lord Byrne does his career assessment review on Jac and is not impressed when she doesn't turn up as she's with Bruno. But he later decides to give her another chance. Jac decides to break up with Joseph as she believes he doesn't understand her and won't help get her where she wants to go career wise.
Lola's on the warpath particularly with Maddy and Matt but eventually realises that Maddy knows what she is doing and they call it quits. Matt secretly sees Nikki and gets Dean to cover for him raising Lola's wrath. Maddy becomes tired of everyone thinking that she is Dan's pet. Holby HR department try in vain to get in touch with Faye using her married name of Wilson. She gets Mark to tell them that Faye Morton and Faye Wilson are two different people after she tells him that her husband is violent. She then enlists Jac & Joseph's help on the matter. Jac goes behind Joseph's back to his father Lord Byrne to get him to consider a radical new heart replacement surgery. Joseph makes it known he is not pleased. Diane enlists Dan's help with a patient but her plan backfires when she encounters a familiar face - Ric. Faye is approached by detectives after finishing her shift and told that her husband's body has been found in suspicious circumstances in Dubai.
Faye is questioned by Holby detectives investigating her husband James death and through a series of flashbacks Faye recalls how she met Joseph and Jac in Dubai and how she left her husband James for England. Meanwhile, Maddy and Dan have a bet that she cannot get someone to seduce Matt and prove that he's not gay. Also, Maddy's dad Simon absconds from prison and arrives in Holby with a stab wound to his neck.
The Holby staff treat the casualties resulting from a rival football match. Faye pleads with Joseph and Jac to give her more time before going to the police. Meanwhile, Matt's erratic girlfriend Nikki shows her true colors to Dean and Matt and which gets Matt suspended. Dean takes a job in Psych with Dr. Palma. Elsewhere, Ric's fiancée Thandie joins AEU and manages to get under Lola's skin to which Sutherland asks her to take some time away from Holby.
Jac and Joseph's relationship starts to sour when she goes drinking with Sam and doesn't return his calls. But when he tells her it is to have lunch with his parents her attitude to him changes. Diane and Ric's professional relationship is still at odds. Meanwhile, Faye gets drawn into Kyla and Harvey's destructive relationship.
Lord Byrne leads pioneering gall bladder surgery using robotics in conjunction with an American surgeon and Clifford. Jac, desperate to get into the surgery, goes to great lengths to get there and manages to upset Elliott in the process and opens Joseph's eyes to her manipulative ways. Later, at a cocktail party, she tells Lord Byrne that she and Joseph have broken up and he propositions her and she sleeps with him. Meanwhile, Harvey hits Kyla whilst drunk and she decides she wants him out of her life. Elsewhere, Lola and Sutherland come to blows because he won't provide necessary equipment for the AEU.
Two medical students walk the line between life and death in order to experience the ultimate form of human power. Holby City does "Flatliners".
Maddie and Sam find Jade McGuire unconscious in Sam's apartment and rush her to Holby and put her in the care of Elliott Hope. Whilst treating her Elliott has a visit from DI Johnson of Holby Police Station inquiring the whereabouts of Jade and advising him of an incident involving Jade. Faye and Thandie clash over the treatment of a patient who has gangrene and Ric takes Thandie's side even though she is at fault and asks that Faye be removed from Keller. But Dan steps in and promotes her to sister. Meanwhile, Lola treats two female cousins who have been horrifically injured and when one of them dies she tells the wrong mother her daughter is dead because of an ID problem. She gets increasingly stressed and ends up hitting a hospital visitor. Sutherland is called and he suspends Lola immediately. Lola collapses in the lift from a suspected heart-attack.
Kyla and Harvey continue to argue which escalates, and ends in tragedy, when Harvey finds saucy underwear hidden under their sink and goes in search of Kyla. Jess and Mark find Lola collapsed in the basement lift and Connie, although on maternity leave, manages to resuscitate her but tells her she has triple valve disease and needs to be operated on. Thandie continues to be antagonistic towards all staff and continues to misdiagnose patients. Connie's water breaks 7-weeks prematurely whilst operating on Lola and she delivers a baby girl. Chrissie arrives back at Holby and Ric proposes to Thandie.
Harvey dies from his injuries sustained in the fall despite Dan doing his best efforts to save him. The police clear Kyla of any involvement but take Max into care because they saw her slap Max after she tells him about Harvey's death. Jac continues to play Joseph and Lord Byrne off against each other until Lord Byrne offers her an ultimatum - that she become his mistress.
Connie and Sam continue to remain at stalemate over baby Grace leading Connie to challenge him to prove that he is Grace's dad. Mark refuses to celebrate Tricia's birthday with Chrissie. Faye forces Kyla to go back to work and then finds her case for Max's hearing has been brought forward. Kyla gets Max back after an emotional hearing but Max tells her he doesn't want to be with her and goes back to his foster parents. Thandie continues to make mistakes which are only compounded by a racist patient and his family and ends up blaming Maria but Dan and Elliott become aware of her. Connie is told that Grace has limited brain stem activity and she finally allows Sam in as they go to turn off her ventilator but a miracle happens.
Abra returns as the new AEU consultant much to the displeasure of Ric and Dan. Sam shows proof to Connie that he's Grace's dad. Jac's plan to manipulate Lord Byrne backfires on her when a consultant position, she felt certain she was going to get, is denied her on the word of Lord Byrne. Joseph asks Jac to buy a house together. Lord Byrne tells Joseph about his affair with Jac.
An increasingly bitter Joseph arranges for Lady Byrne to come into Holby as he has big news to tell her but ends up challenging his father to do so instead. When Lord Byrne refuses Joseph tries to get Jac to end the affair but she ignores him. Donna and Maddy attempt to throw Sam and Faye together but they turn the tables on Donna.
Sutherland's financial cuts affect Darwin and Keller with an embargo on nursing staffing levels. On top of this Diane is shadowed by health care commissioner Professor Oliver Currie and it ends up going pear-shaped when she loses Isaac Skillen, her patient traveler, on the operating table. She quickly realizes that she has no-one to rely on at Holby. Sam uses his relationship with Faye to get a patient admitted for surgery.
Diane tenders her resignation and tells Elliott she no longer wants to be a doctor. Elliott tries to talk her out of her decision but she is adamant she wants to leave. Diane then proceeds to operate without supervision much to the ire of Ric and Jac. Sam tells Chrissie that he's seeing Faye and hasn't felt that good about anyone for a long time, which upsets Chrissie. Faye, in turn, lets Sam know that she doesn't appreciate her private life being discussed. Meanwhile, Lady Byrne becomes suspicious of her husband and confronts him.
News spreads around the hospital about Diane's car being hit by a freight train and her being killed instantly. Ric takes it the hardest leading to Thandie breaking off their engagement and to top it all the freight train driver is also brought to Holby with injuries which Ric has to treat. Chrissie is none too happy with Sutherland and his staffing shortages and on talking to Mark she decides that she is working to rule. Meanwhile, Lola returns to Holby and clashes with Abra initially but they put their differences aside over the treatment of an elderly actress. Elsewhere, Jac is getting the cold shoulder from just about everyone following the revelations about her affair with Lord Byrne.
The nursing staff of Holby (excluding Faye) and led by Chrissie and Mark stage a work to rule in protest of Sutherland's staffing cuts which causes more problems than it solves. Jac, still out to climb higher, tries to blame Diane for the misdiagnosis of a patient but Dan catches her out. Elliott tells Thandie that she is not doing her job properly and she accuses him of being racist towards her. Sutherland calls a board meeting but it doesn't go his way when Elliott calls for a vote of no confidence in him backed by Connie who lost a patient due to the shortages. Sutherland backs down and allows agency staff to be hired. Meanwhile, Sam tries to get Connie to let him have some time with his daughter Grace.
Diane's funeral takes place and the Holby staff attend except for Connie who gets a call from a hospital as she is leaving to say her father William Chase is in hospital. She hasn't seen him for 12 years since her mother died. She hires Maria to go with her and look after Grace. Their meeting is fractious but Connie sees that he is seriously ill and on oxygen for a lung disease condition and manages to persuade him to go to Holby for surgery after she tells him about his granddaughter. Meanwhile, Ric believes that Diane committed suicide and during a speech at her funeral he says as much and causes Diane's dad to punch him and asks him to leave.
Dan's sister-in-law Louise starts a new job at Holby but discovers she is pregnant. However she is unwilling to tell Dan's brother Alex. Thandie brings a complaint against Elliott, who at the same time is dealing with the disappearance of his son James. Abra tries to treat a Chinese man but is blocked by Lola initially. Abra is also dealt a blow by Sutherland's replacement Jayne Grayson, the new CEO.
Dan acts as intermediary between his brother Alex and Alex's wife Louise on the state of their marriage. Chrissie's boyfriend Anton pushes Chrissie to try and get Holby to dispense drugs that will help his father. Elliott attends the tribunal but is distracted as he awaits news on his son. Ric is not amused that Thandie wants to hold engagement drinks on the night of the tribunal.
Diane's former job of locum consultant is up for grabs but Jac asks if Lord Byrne not interfere but he has other plans. When Dan challenges him on giving the post to Jac when it comes up instead of it being a fair job selection Lord Byrne brings up about his sister-in-law's ties with hospital which shuts Dan up. Lady Byrne signs the papers to start the wheel rolling on her divorce from Lord Byrne. Elliott gets distressing news from the Coroner's office and has to miss his mandatory session on racism so he sends Maddie to explain but she ends up being part of the session and causes mayhem - so much so that she and Elliott are reported to the Board by Jayne Grayson. Meanwhile, Lord Byrne is taken ill and asks that Joseph operate on him. The surgery causes Lord Byrne to have a stroke but which finally shows Joseph that Jac has feelings for his father. Elsewhere, not content with pushing Elliott's buttons she is now on Abra's hit-list.
Elliott and Maddie are suspended for two weeks by the Board but before Elliott leaves he tells Joseph that a deal was done to secure the position of lo-cum consultant for Jac by Lord Byrne in exchange for Lord Byron writing a letter to the board supporting Thandie's accusation. Joseph sets out to prove this and in so doing Jac's ruthless ambition shows itself in Lord Byrne's company. Ric tells Jac that he won't support her application for lo-cum consultant. Jac goes to Lord Byrne and asks him to recommend her for a position at Bath NHS but he tells her he will only recommend her to a hospital which is a huge distance from him. Lord Byrne's heart deteriorates and an embolism is discovered. Connie operates but cannot save Lord Byrne and he dies. Elsewhere, Donna is intrigued by Category A prisoner John Kitto and Abra tells Ric that if he supports his plans for his night surgeries he will take Thandie on as a surgeon on the team.
Ric and Thandie's wedding day does not run smoothly, as the medical drama continues. Connie reveals Thandie's fraud to Ric, who confronts his new wife about her lies and demands that she writes a letter to exonerate Elliot. Joseph, meanwhile, lashes out at Jac when she turns up at Lord Byrne's funeral.
Chrissie helps Sam pick out a necklace for Faye and afterwards Chrissie tells him she can no longer be friends with him as she still as feelings for him. Louise interviews for a consultant for her stent trial with Jac and Joseph in competition to get it. Dan is in favour of Joseph and when Jac senses that she is going to lose she tells and shows Louise the bruising Joseph dealt her previously and she is hired. Elsewhere, Abra ropes in Ric to do unauthorised surgery after the CEO turns it down but it doesn't go well but the process of securing these surgeries intrigue Ric who is trying to get over Thandie's deception. Meanwhile, Elliott is asked out on a date by one of his patients.
When a young man with Down's Syndrome is offered life changing surgery, it falls to Dan to talk him into it. Meanwhile, Connie struggles with some Chinese students, and an orphaned baby is left in Kyla's hands.
Lola reprimands Donna for her serious lack of dedication to her work and her gossiping. Joseph finds out that Sam and Chrissie are having an affair and tells him he has to choose one or he will tell Faye. Maddy's drug-addicted sister Hannah Mason is admitted to Holby and Jac covers for her when Maddy takes her off morphine and she suffers complications.
Maddie's sister Hannah turns up outside Holby with her comatose daughter Sunny and admits she gave her methadone to keep her quiet. Maddie admits her to E.D. and covers up the ordered tests from Ric but Sunny has a heart-attack and dies. Hannah admits to Maddie that Sunny had a heart condition since she was born. Maddie is disgusted with Hannah. An old school colleague of Jac's turns up on the ward for a routine op and leads Jac on only for him to tell her that he's happily married and paying her back for the torture she doled out in school to him. Outside she is nearly raped by a patient but is saved by the early intervention of Lola. Elsewhere, Sam is beginning to tire of Chrissie and her domineering ways and realizes he'd rather spend time with Faye instead.
Lola and Joseph try desperately to get Jac to make a sexual assault claim to the police about Alan Clooney but she refuses. Chrissie tells Sam their relationship is over because he would not end his relationship with Faye and it turns out to be a double blow for Sam when Faye tells him she knew about his affair with Chrissie. Louise and Dan's stent trial is in jeopardy and at the end of the day they kiss after she confessed earlier of having a big fight with her husband but Maddie sees them.
Dan and Louise try to fight their growing attraction for each other as they work together on the case for the stent legal suit. Sam bets Maddie that he can have Chrissie back again but Chrissie finds out what he is up to and plays her own trick on him with the help of Maria. Mark acts as intermediary between Elliott and his son James who turns up in Holby worse for wear. The situation is not helped when Mark finds out that James is injecting heroin and has serious money troubles.
Louise and Dan resolve to tell Alex the truth about their affair but Dan cannot go through with it at the end as he doesn't want to lose his brother. Mark and James both battle with their own drug addictions but each refuse to believe that they have a problem. Elsewhere, Lord Byrne's will is made public and he leaves 500,000 to Joseph but he remains bitter with Jac over the whole affair and the fact that she was also left a bequest in the will. Faye becomes close to Joseph but is she genuine or just after Joseph's money?
James is kidnapped by the people he owes money to. Mark and Donna follow them and in the ensuing mêlée James tries to escape and is shot in the shoulder. Donna drives him to Holby and he is admitted to AEU where Elliott eventually has to operate on him and he learns the full story of James's addiction. Meanwhile, Louise returns to Holby and Dan is torn between her and Maddie - who will he choose?
Dan is head-hunted by Mike Fuller for a prestigious job in Strasbourg. At the same time his old mentor Professor Paul Burnett, suffering from pancreatic cancer, asks him to operate on him. Louise leaves Alex, and Dan admits to Maddie that he's in love with Louise. Elliott practices tough love on James as he recovers from his shoulder wound and his withdrawal from drugs but to no avail. Jac hears about the consultant position in AEU. Although the CEO, Jayne Grayson, had withdrawn it when Lola told her she wanted the job, now Jac wants it. He later finds out that it was one of Joseph's jokes to wind her up. Dan asks Jayne to let him out of his contract early so that he and Louise can go away together. He tells Alex who tells Dan that he is dead to him and they fight. In the end he goes to Strasbourg on his own when Louise tells him she doesn't know what she wants. Maddie is devastated when he leaves.
Jac goes out of her way to get Dan's vacated consultant job even when faced with Lady Byrne on the interview panel and ends up blaming Lola for a procedure she botched earlier. Lola diagnoses Jac later with post-concussion and tells Joseph that she will tell everyone he hit her if he doesn't arrange for her to get the consultant post. Elliott is in despair over his son James's desperate actions for drugs and eventually agrees to Mark's suggestion that the police deal with him from now on.
Connie announces that she is going on a sabbatical to Hamburg. She has appointed a locum consultant, Stuart McElroy, to replace her with both Joseph and Sam vying for an acting up position, which Joseph gets. Connie is non too happy. Also when she leaves baby Grace with Sam, he pawns her off on a nurse. Kyla's drinking gets out of hand when she loses two patients, and Faye loses patience with her. When Ric finds out, he tells her he will report her. However, she tells him if he does then she will tell the hospital authorities about Abra's and his hush hospital operations. Meanwhile, Elliott remains disgusted with Mark over his drug problems and threatens to go to Chrissie about him if he doesn't tell her first.
Sam gets a call for an appointment at the STD clinic after Maddie and Zoe are diagnosed with chlamydia. Although clear, the tests show up a more serious problem. Chrissie and Stuart butt heads in Darwin but he finds a way to charm her. Kyla's denial of her drinking problem causes problems with everyone, this results in an altercation with Faye. However it takes a patient to convince her to seek counseling and to encounter another Holby staff member - Stuart McElroy.
New consultant general surgeon Michael Spence arrives at Holby and is attacked by an unidentified assailant. This assailant later turns out to be the partner of a staff member Michael had an affair with at his previous job. Maria also starts her first day at Holby as staff nurse and it turns out to be an eventful day. Maddie and Elliott both prompt Sam to pick up his test results but he avoids it until in the end he gets Elliott to check. The results are not good - Sam has Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Stage 3. Elliott gets a visitors pass to visit his son at Wormwood Scrubs.
Sam gets a formal diagnosis of his Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and hits rock bottom but it takes a near death incident in his car to get him back on form and shave his head in readiness for treatment. The A.E.D. is flooded with casualties from a train crash near Holby caused by a detonated explosion. Jac and Donna trade barbs in their quest for Michael Spence's approval. Michael tells Jac he knows of her father. Mark's cocaine addiction gets serious and admits it to Elliott.
Not content with trying to prove herself against Joseph, Jac now sets her sights on usurping Michael and making him look bad in front of the CEO. But Jac hadn't figured on the intervention of Donna and has to publicly apologize to Michael and Jayne after she is caught out. Joseph, of course, takes great joy in this. Meanwhile, Elliott tells Chrissie about Mark's cocaine problem and at first she does not believe it until she finds cocaine stashed in Mark's desk and has an altercation with Doug, Mark's dealer. With the help of Stuart she manages to get Mark to acknowledge his problem and seek support under the guise of further training.
Stuart tries hard to win over Chrissie but nearly crashes and burns. Sam refuses to tell the staff about his chemotherapy treatment but it leaves Chrissie suspicious. This leaves Stuart with no option but to tell her and ask her to let Sam tell her in his own time. Meanwhile, hearing that there will be a karaoke at the staff Christmas party, Joseph practices on his own but is caught out by several staff. Elsewhere, Elliott and Martha go to see James and talk about his rehabilitation in prison, only for Elliott to find out that James tried to commit suicide. James' refusal to see things Elliott's way sees Elliott walking away from him despite Martha's pleas. And then there's sexual health nurse Tim from the S.T.I. Clinic. He's furious that he's being ignored by all the Holby staff and so he takes matters in his own hands. In the Holby reception area he launches a frenzied attack with a crossbow and hits Martha, Faye and Zoe with his crossbows injuring them seriously.
After the aftermath of Tim's crossbow attack Sam finds the injured Zoe and Faye and tries to assist them whilst Chrissie rushes Martha to AEU. The police close down access to the hospital and ground all lifts trapping Chrissie & Martha inside. Elliott's world falls apart when he discovers Martha has been injured. When Sam decides to do emergency surgery on both Faye and Zoe, Elliott leaves at a crucial time as he cannot concentrate and so leaving Sam to choose who to save. Zoe dies on the table and Faye develops complications but Joseph, Maddie & Sam manage to save her. Tim steals drugs from Darwin and gives himself a lethal injection and dies in the stairwell. Delighted to find that Chrissie is OK Stuart invites her and Mark to spend Christmas with him. Elliott leaves the hospital in a desolate state after he finds out from Mark that James has got a suspended sentence.
Wandering desolately from Holby after abandoning young Izzy Woodman's operation Elliott decides to take his own life but ends up experiencing his own personal version of "It's a Wonderful Life" where George Woodman takes him through the stages and Elliott finally sees the error of his ways and decides he wants to go back and have a second chance. He operates on Izzy and saves her life. Afterwards he goes to see Martha in recovery and James comes to see him. They both decide to do things a lot differently and help each other.
Connie returns to Holby from Germany, minus her sensitivity, and manages to upset just about everyone. Donna is told by Jayne that she is nominated for Nurse of the Year much to her and the rest of the staff's amazement. Connie tells Jayne she wants Stuart dismissed now that she is back. Sam tells Connie that he has cancer which shocks Connie. Chrissie refuses Stuart's suggestion of going to counseling but after an incident with a patient and a talk with Sam she re-thinks his suggestion and decides to pursue a relationship with him and tells Connie she has asked for a transfer away from her to AEU. At the Awards ceremony Donna finds out that she didn't win the award as it was an administrative error.
Faye returns to Holby after her injury and finds herself treating crossbow Tim's father. Connie finds that all her staff are deserting her for AEU and ends up having a stand up argument with Stuart. Stuart gets jealous over Sam & Chrissie's closeness. Later, Chrissie tells them him she is in love with him. Jayne demands that Connie apologizes to Stuart. Connie does, and agrees to hand over staff responsibility to him reducing his time in surgery. Stuart is delighted and doesn't see that Connie has well and truly stitched him up.
New surgical consultant in the AAU Linden Cullen arrives at the hospital and performs operations in the treatment room, which incenses Lola. This prompts Jayne to push the go-ahead for a theater on AAU. Sam struggles with his medication and collapses during a procedure. This incurs Connie's wrath and he's put on sick leave for a week. Ric finds out that Michael has been given a new private wing in Holby called HolbyCare.
Joseph's comatose brother, Harry, is admitted to Holby after deteriorating at his care facility. When Michael and Ric refuse to let Joseph operate on Harry he injects himself with Fentanyl. Faye sees him, and he tells her that he needs the Fentanyl to calm his OCD. She confesses to him that the police have found out that she was in the apartment at the time her husband was killed. Later they kiss at his brother's bedside. Jac continues to ruffle feathers, this time Lola's, so Michael refuses to let her operate. Maddie gets a letter from her sister, Hannah, in prison and later asks Linden to join her for a drink but he refuses.
Sam's poor attendance is reported to Connie by Greene who calls a meeting of the senior staff. Connie proposes moving him to Keller from Darwin until he recovers. Jac seizes on the opportunity to take his place in Darwin. Sam is gutted but realizes it is for the best. Unknown to Chrissie, Stuart backed Sam going to Darwin so that he and Chrissie could be together. When Chrissie finds evidence about this she breaks up with Stuart, and he in turn breaks his AA pledge, returning to alcohol. Elsewhere, Donna tries in vain to get Linden to notice her but she fails miserably. Meanwhile, Faye asks Michael to speak to Joseph about a procedure called Deep Brain Simulation (DBS) which could help his brother come out of his coma. Joseph is against it and later tells Faye that he has decided to let him go after she tells him that she was married before to a man who died of cancer. But as he is saying his goodbyes Joseph's brother suddenly opens his eyes.
Joseph tries to get Ric and Michael to try DBS on Harry believing he is getting better, but the tests show that this is not the case. After Harry's heart stops beating Lady Byrne persuades Joseph to let Harry go. Elsewhere, Donna has a tantrum because of her fib about meeting Linden. Mark tells Linden about Donna's crush and he takes her for a coffee. However, he bores Donna so much she can't get away fast enough. Meanwhile, a drunk Stuart turns up at his AA meeting and Kyla has to drag him out. He tries to see Chrissie but Kyla stops him. He eventually gets to see her and, recognizing the signs of alcoholism, Chrissie ends their relationship for good. Later, after downing a bottle of vodka and abusing staff, they argue. Afterwards Chrissie refuses to reconsider their relationship so he grabs a scalpel and slashes her across the face. Then he gags her and tries to repair the damage but Connie hears her screams and tries to get into the room but the room is locked.
Connie gets a security guard to let her into the locked theater. However Chrissie manages to get away from Stuart before Connie can discover what damage Stuart has done to Chrissie's face. Stuart persuades Connie that Chrissie is self-harming and he has ordered a psych consult for her. He even persuades Jac that Chrissie needs sectioning. But when she goes to Connie about it, Connie doesn't believe that Chrissie is to blame and sets about finding Chrissie. A devious Stuart gets security to find the stashed knife that cut Chrissie. Chrissie agrees to set up Stuart and get him filmed on a web camera where he confesses. When Stuart realizes he runs but Sam chases him and knocks him out and hands him over to police. Elsewhere, after reluctantly fighting against doing private surgeries with Michael in HolbyCare, Ric signs up after seeing the plight of a young woman who needed a lumpectomy.
When a visiting delegation show an interest in hiring a registrar, Connie hopes that she will be selected and leave Holby. But Connie hasn't told Joseph of her plan and he sees an opportunity to ridicule Jac. It is Joseph that is offered a job as consultant - a post he turns down. This leads Connie to reluctantly appoint Jac as an acting CTU registrar. Meanwhile, Chrissie finds out that Kyla was Stuart's friend and tells her what she thinks of her. This forces Kyla back into her drinking habits. Recognizing her weakness for drink, Kyla tells Mark that she has a drink problem and is quitting Holby. Mark forces her to reconsider her position and if necessary take a demotion rather than leave. Chrissie goes to see Michael to see if he can repair the damage done by Stuart. However, he tells her it will need to heal first before he can attempt laser surgery.
Kyla restarts work as a nurse after her demotion. Trying to prove herself Jac proposes a risky operation on a terminally ill patient. This is turned down by Elliott, and draws the attention of Philip Lawler who offers her a job if she can pull it off. Unfortunately Jac cannot go through with the operation and turns to lay preacher Kev for inspiration. Faye's first husband Donald Hewson's grave is exhumed for a postmortem. Elsewhere, Linden refuses to treat a female gynae patient and it is up to Maddie to get to the bottom of it.
Connie and Elliott fail to see eye-to-eye over a controversial (and first) double-operation on a seriously ill 18-year-old. Her dedication to the case causes her to ignore frantic calls from her temporary nanny Anna over her daughter Gracie until she is forced to when Anna brings Gracie to Holby after a fall. Meanwhile, Linden continues to be controversial incurring the wrath of Mark and Sam and Maria go for a drink after a particularly trying case. Elsewhere, Chrissie's first day back after her attack doesn't go as smoothly as she had planned.
Connie & Sam's daughter is admitted to pediatric intensive care and after some tests the prognosis is serious but Gracie is expected to recover. But after a confrontation with Gracie's temporary nanny Anna and a heart-to-heart with a grieving mother Connie is made to see the error of her ways in not being in Gracie's life more. Meanwhile, Donna invents excuses to be with Michael and finally gets her way and seduces him only to be interrupted by a call from his wife Annaliese. Elsewhere, Chloe Baxter is re-admitted and Linden informs her, after tests, that she has a tumor affecting her bowel which may be the cause of her having so many miscarriages. When the tumor perforates Linden insists on doing the surgery himself on the ward much to Mark & Maddie's annoyance. During the surgery he calls Chloe by the name 'Olivia'. When Maddie questions him about it he insisted she was mistaken.
As their daughter Grace's health continues to deteriorate after suffering a cerebral edema Connie and Sam continue to argue over who's fault it is. When Sam questions Anna he finds out that Connie knew there was a problem with the stair gate and ignored the problem. After the locum paedaetrician operates successfully on Grace, albeit with continued interference from Connie, Sam tells Connie what he thinks of her as a mother. Connie retaliates that he is a bad father both to Grace and to his son who he abandoned when he was 17 years old. The confrontation causes Sam to collapse and he is rushed to intensive care. Meanwhile, Faye's former stepson Carl Hewson turns up at Holby looking for stolen cash that he believes Faye has. Faye spins a story that makes Joseph believe her but Jac is very suspicious. Elsewhere, Donna gets the brush off from Michael.
Jac's attacker Alan Clooney arrives back in Holby with his injured wife Julie and using a different name. Alan wound Jac up and she attacked him only to be pulled off him by Joseph and Lola. Later Alan is found on the stairwell stabbed through the heart with a pair of scissors. Jac is arrested for attempted murder. Michael operates on Sam much to Connie's horror. But the operation is a success and Sam wakes from his coma. New nurse Daisha started on Darwin.
Dan calls Maddie out of the blue and tells her he's back for a short while and wants to meet up but events conspire to keep them apart and Maddie misses her chance to see him which breaks her heart. Donna's relationship with Michael deteriorates. Faye becomes mad with Joseph for defending Jac's innocence when he wouldn't support her when allegations about her late husband surfaced but with Elliott acting as a mediator they manage to resolve their issues. Lady Byrne and Elliott become close when he helps her with a speech.
Michael told Chrissie that her face bandage had caused an infection and would have to be uncovered or laser surgery wouldn't work. Chrissie gets asked out on a date by a hospital executive but she later found out that he only did it to pity her. Chrissie tells Mark that she's leaving Holby and Mark persuaded her to take a cheque for £25,000 which she'd received from Stuart which she agreed to do. Michael tried to convince Connie that there was nothing between him and Donna. Elsewhere, Maria gave Sam the good news that his sepsis had cleared. Sam tells Maria he just wanted them to be friends. Later Maria accepted his invitation to watch a DVD that evening with Donna.
The police take Faye in for questioning and desperate to find out the truth, Joseph first goes to the Coroner to find out information on Donald Hewson's death and then goes to visit Donald's son, Carl. Joseph left after Carl made threats against Faye but cut his head in a scuffle with Carl. Distraught over Dan's departure Maddy's work is sub-par and Linden encouraged her to take some leave. Back at the hospital Faye assured Joseph that she only attended a routine interview but Carl turned up and accused her of poisoning his father. A deeply suspicious Joseph told Carl she was innocent. Elsewhere, in a bid to impress Connie, Michael suggested a new technique which he'd pioneered in the States and which went well. Connie invited Michael for a drink to celebrate their success but he failed in getting her to come back to his place. Seizing an opportunity, Donna followed Michael into the toilets determined to get her man.
Michael becomes annoyed at what he believes is Donna's gossiping about their night together. When he tells her to stop she tells him it's because she has nominated him for the 'Sexy Consultant Award'. Realising his mistake he gives Donna a chain he had bought for his wife. Jac does an emergency procedure and sick of having her work referred to as "being Naylored" she sets out to prove to her colleagues that she can be of great assistance to them. Maddie continues to make mistakes and threatens to leave but Jac talks her out of it. Elsewhere, Lady Byrne is shocked to discover that the Byrne Foundation charity is in dire financial trouble. After some persuasion from Jayne, Lady Byrne agreed to step in as Executive Chairman of the charity.
Lady Byrne begins her first day as Executive Chairman of the Byrne Foundation and finds herself out of her depth and pressured by Jayne to fund a unique robotic procedure pioneered by Connie and make Connie medical advisor. But during the day Lady Byrne's begins to realise the important work Holby does and agrees to fund Connie's procedure but makes Elliott the medical advisor. Mark and Linden clash as Mark feels he is being taken for granted by Linden. Michael's wife finds his credit card bill and wants him to explain the jewelry item on the bill or not come home. Michael persuades Ric to cover his HolbyCare private patient whilst he tries to do some damage control but Ric refuses to do the operation when it comes down to it. Michael buys an identical necklace for his wife but Donna finds out and berates him leading Michael to present her with a pair of earrings. Elsewhere, two young patients of Connie's with serious heart conditions die despite her best efforts to save them
Abra Durant arrives injured in an ambulance outside Holby and Ric attends to him and sends him on his way. But Abra hasn't gone away and arrived back again in Holby with a dislocated shoulder which Ric resets in HolbyCare and manages to keep him away from Kyla. He agrees to put Abra up for one week when he realises that Abra is down in his luck. Daisha's boyfriend Paul becomes insanely jealous of her attention to all men she comes in contact with and throws her clothes at her in Holby and tells her to find another place to live. Donna auditioned to be the new face of the Byrne charity, hoping to kick-start a career in modelling. But Lady Byrne is not impressed and persuaded by Mark she agrees to let Dashia be the model instead. Donna is gutted. Elsewhere, Connie teased Michael about Donna's diamond necklace so Michael persuaded Donna to talk to Connie and set her straight, but as usual Donna made a hash of it, fuelling Connie with just the ammunition she needed.
Jayne commendates Linden for his work in AEU at the Holby's Heads of Department meeting and he is later horrified to discover that Jayne had installed cameras in his theatre so that the Heads of Department would be able to observe him that day. But Connie is not impressed and refuses to attend the viewing. She sends Jac who warns Linden not to upset Connie. Elliott persuades Lady Byrne to fund the expensive operation of a prospective Olympic athlete but she dies before she can have the operation. Distraught, Elliott tenders his resignation as medical advisor of Lady's Byrne's charity because he is not focusing on his patients but she refuses. Abra hurts himself at Ric's flat and turns up in Holby where Ric fixes him up and hides him in the basement. But Abra is discovered and reported to a furious Jayne who orders him to stay as far away from Holby as he can. Later, at another Head of Department meeting Linden turns the spotlight away from him and congratulates Connie - Connie is immediately won over.
Faye told Joseph that she might be pregnant but Joseph didn't take the news too well. Daisha refused to treat her new landlord (and Mark's friend) who'd been admitted to AAU. It later transpired that Daisha caused the injury by burning him with a red hot iron after he'd let himself into her room and tried to grope her. Mark was horrified and confronted him who admitted that Daisha was asking for it. Mark then offered Daisha a room at his place. Ric told Abra that a position had come up on Keller and convinced an unimpressed Jayne to put him on the shortlist. Kyla found Abra in Ric's office but after questioning him he ignores her. After talking with his mother Joseph turned to Sam for advice who congratulated him. Joseph then went and bought an engagement ring but when he went to look for Faye she had left early to meet a mystery man named Christopher.
Maria nursed a patient named Alex who she believed to be her birth mother. Before Maria could talk to her Alex took a turn for the worst. Joseph presented Faye with an engagement ring and she eventually said yes. However, her happiness quickly vanished when she found her first husband's medical file in Joseph's briefcase. When questioned Joseph insisted he'd just wanted to clear her name but Faye didn't believe him and gave him back the ring. Meanwhile, Kyla found Abra drowning his sorrows in the bar after botching up his interview for the job on Keller. Wrestling with her demons she refused to join him and walked away.
Maria's birth mother Alex's condition stabilised but was told she had to have a hysterectomy which distresses Alex who didn't want to lose her chance of having children with her husband. Alex told Maria that she had given birth when she was 15 but had to give her up. Maria encourages Alex to tell her husband. Abra tried to leave Holby but just before he did Ric got into difficulties and Abra was forced to help save the patient. Jayne agreed to find a job for Abra. Lady Byrne and Elliot spent the day organising a charity fund-raiser. Elsewhere, Kyla was shocked to discover her son Max visiting a little boy. But Max did a runner when Kyla tried to talk to him and he suddenly collapsed and started fitting on the floor.
Michael managed to revive Max and Connie tells Kyla that he needs surgery. But a decision about surgery can only be agreed when Max's foster parents Lindsey and Andrew arrive. Kyla found out that Lindsey had been out drinking and told Max's social worker that Lindsey was an alcoholic and tried to persuade him to let her have Max back. But Roger wouldn't believe her and insisted Max was better off in his new home. Meanwhile, Michael suspected Abra was a liability after he struggled during an operation. After another operation when pear-shaped and with some persuasion from Ric, Michael agreed to cover for Abra. Meanwhile, Elliot bottled out of a coffee date with Lady Byrne but later apologised and agreed to take her out for a coffee.
Kyla challenges Max's foster mother Lindsey but she reports Kyla. Max defends his foster mother but Kyla refuses to give in and forces a confrontation between Lindsey, herself and Roger, the social worker, which shows Lindsey's true character. Seeing this, Max tells Kyla he wants to live with her again. Elliott and Lady Byrne's relationship develops. Faye's ex-stepson Carl demands £20,000 cash from Faye to pay off people who are after him. If she doesn't, he threatens to tell his accosters who she is. Faye borrows £5,000 from Joseph but at the last minute refuses to give it to Carl. Later, Carl is found badly beaten and brought to Holby. Joseph and Elliott try to save him but he dies on the operating table. Smelling a rat, Jac follows Faye to a facility named Greenlands where she is told Faye is meeting her husband Lucas Michaels there. Jac leaves to go and tell Joseph but whilst overtaking a tractor she crashes into an oncoming van and is left unconscious.
Jac is left unconscious after her motorcycle crash and later in hospital Linden is confused by her ramblings about Faye and Lucas. Joseph rushed to Jac's bedside as Faye did her best to stall him fearing Jac would reveal her secret. Linden asked Joseph about Lucas but Faye denied any knowledge. Jac went into arrest having suffered an overdose of medication but luckily came round. Jac later woke up with Joseph at her side and she told him about Faye's marriage to Lucas. Elsewhere, Elliot and Lady Byrne were involved in a fund-raising event for the Byrne Foundation and later at the event Elliot told Lady Byrne their romance could not continue as he was still in love with Gina. Donna arranged a Butler Sale to raise money and asked Michael to take part. To Michael's delight, Connie bid £500 for Michael. Michael was under the impression that Connie wanted him, but later found out her bid was actually a favour to a smitten Donna.
Linden and Joseph go to South Africa to track down Faye. Once there they located Faye's address and broke in, finding photos of Lucas and Faye. A cleaner in the house revealed that Faye had been crying about 'Archie' and had been taken away by Lucas' henchmen. At the township, Linden and Joseph were held at gunpoint, but were eventually freed. The next day, Linden and Joseph found a DVD showing Faye with her sick son, Archie. They met with Faye and discovered her unharmed. She explained that she came to Cape Town looking for Lucas, who had taken her son for a risky operation. Joseph stepped in to assist the surgeons and saved Archie's life. Linden later revealed to Faye that he has a daughter he can't bear to see.
Linden's day starts bad when he discovers his late wife's grave vandalised and later at Holby gets worse when he doesn't get the essential equipment he ordered and then takes on a risky procedure which Maddie disagrees with causing her to be thrown out of the operation by Linden. The patient dies on the table causing Linden to wonder how it happened. Lady Byrne leaves abruptly for a world cruise causing Jayne to appoint Michael as her replacement. Michael sees this as a chance to get Connie to be the new medical advisor to the trust and suggests to Elliott he might want to take a holiday. Elliott sees this as an opportunity to wind up Jayne. Jac experiences breathing difficulties and is rushed to surgery where Joseph operates and stabilises her. Joseph sees a new side to Jac but because of their history is not sure what to make of her and her new self.
Martin Kelly, a Clinical Risk Manager for Holby, is assigned to investigate Liam Harris's death. He advises Jayne to send Linden home because the case is gaining momentum in the press. Jayne asks Ric to intercede with Kelly and give Linden a positive outlook as it was her that appointed . An anxious Sam has his final scan and later reveals to Maria that is all clear and gets Maria's hopes up that Sam has feelings for her but is later disappointed when she finds out that Sam doesn't return her feelings. Jayne tells Connie and Ric that the Director of Surgery is on offer and it is a two-horse race. Ric decides not to apply but unknown to him Abra applies online for him. Jayne finds out that Linden didn't go home as she told him to do and instead operated so she suspends him immediately and has him escorted out of the building. Daisha and Mark win a horse bet. Linden returns to AAU when he gets a page and gets involved in the treatment of a Chinese couple's impending baby. Ric worries that Abra is starting to unravel.
Even though he was suspended, Linden stayed at Holby trying to help a North Korean asylum seeker, Mrs Tan, who was pregnant with conjoined twins. Faye returned to Holby from South Africa but her secret engagement was revealed by Jac to the staff which doesn't please Faye. Joseph's sister Sophie visited and revealed a family party planned for that evening. Maddy grew suspicious about the circumstances surrounding Liam Harris' death and after attending theatre with Michael she noticed that the anesthetist wasn't paying attention and knew he also assisted at Liam's op. Maddy wondered if he inadvertently caused Liam's death and set out to prove it. Maddy confronted Jamie about his carelessness but he shrugged it off, claiming not to make mistakes. Later, Maddy secretly entered the morgue and took a blood sample from Liam Harris' body. Elsewhere, Joseph made it up to Faye by canceling the party so they could spend the evening alone.
Jayne told Ric and Connie that the Board had forced her to open up the job of Director of Surgery, both later found out that Elliott and Michael were also in the running. Maddy got the lab results back on Liam Harris via Sam but nothing showed up so she enlists Sam to get better samples. Abra started to crack up after abandoning an operation on a road traffic accident victim. The Home Office visit with Ric over Mrs Tan with Michael helping Ric with a forged test in order to keep Mrs Tan in Keller. Connie performed a landmark operation live over the Internet, but was disappointed that Jayne forgot to attend. At the bar, Connie was deflated when Jayne confirmed there was tough competition for the job. A handsome stranger offered to buy Connie a drink and they started flirting.
Ric warned Abra that his behaviour was getting worse and then Michael tells him to not ruin Ric's chances of Director of Surgery. Connie woke alone in a hotel suite but with a smile on her face. Lola criticized Faye over her treatment of an elderly patient who refused to leave Holby. Maddy's secret tests revealed the real reason Liam Harris died which she took to Jayne, but Jayne is less than impressed. Abra's mind began to play tricks on him while dealing with a patient and later in theater he experienced flashbacks from the Congo whilst the patient's condition deteriorated. Ric ordered Abra to step back but, in his confused state, Abra lashed out and cut Ric's arm with a scalpel.
Daisha discovers she is pregnant and has cystitis as well. Abra continues his decline and eventually signs himself into a psychiatric ward. Mrs Tan gives birth to her conjoined twins after an enforced battle by Linden to get Holby Board to keep them in Holby and not transfer them to another hospital.
Linden's suspension is revoked by the board and he is ordered by Jayne to concentrate on AAU rather than the Tans, whose twins are about to be transferred to a special unit in London. Daisha told Mark she was pregnant but was stunned to discover that she was nearly 6 months gone, making it too late for a legal termination. Linden set about getting the twin separation done at Holby. An emotional Faye accused Joseph of not thinking their marriage through. Mark reluctantly booked Daisha an appointment at a special clinic when she was adamant she couldn't have the baby.
Michael's friend, Minister Randall, donated money towards the Tans but in return he wanted them for publicity for this church in the US. Daisha went to the Clinic after Mark borrowed money from Elliott, but she couldn't go through with the operation. Connie did a deal with Ric and withdrew from the Director of Surgery job as did Elliott. Michael interviewed for the job but Jayne told him that he wouldn't get it because of an altercation he had in the Holby car park when he first started. As Ric waited for his interview Michael took him to the morgue and informed him that his son Leo is dead.
Ric attends his son's Leo funeral late and his ex-wife Amber (and Leo's mother) makes her feelings very clear to him. Ric told Amber that Leo's death was not his fault as it was heroin that killed him. Ric is offered the job of Director of Surgery but turns it down after coming back from the funeral and also handed in his resignation. Jac meddles in Joseph & Faye's wedding plans. At first Joseph doesn't understand why she wants a small, quiet wedding until she explains that she has to think of Archie too. After talking with Mr. Tan Ric withdrew his resignation with the aim of revamping Keller. He told Jayne to accept Randal's donation for the twins, but filter it through the Holby Nightcare Charity.
The Board called an urgent crisis meeting on the Tans. As the meeting progressed it got worse for Jayne and LInden leading Jayne to enlist Connie to come to her aid. Meanwhile, Joseph told Jac to leave Faye alone and sensing a mystery Jac left Holby to go to Greenfields where she conned her way into meeting Faye's son Archie. On her arrival back in Holby she taunted both Joseph & Faye with her discovery - a fact which Faye didn't take kindly to. Elsewhere, Donna's attempt to become a scrub nurse hit the skids when she mistakenly told a patient he might have cancer. However, she later impressed Elliot when diagnosing the patient's condition correctly. Maria, meanwhile, continued to email her mystery admirer Aaron.
Ric was forced to make a consultant redundant and Lola was his only option. Although initially vexed, Lola turned the situation to her advantage. She set up a lucrative new job in a private clinic whilst also getting a really good redundancy package. Kyla and Daisha vied for the vacant Sister position. But after finding out that Daisha was pregnant she let Daisha have the post. Maria continued to receive emails from Aaron despite getting cynical comments from Maddy and Donna. Aaron redeems himself later when he sent a bunch of flowers to Maria. Elsewhere, Linden finds out from a news report that the Tans have lost their case against deportation. Later Connie tells him that one of the twins had aortic stenosis and needed to be separated. Now Linden must decide if he should go against his own religious convictions and advise the Tans to move forward with the separation or let fate decide.
In the wake of Lola's departure Sam is assigned to cover post-op care. Initially over-confident, he soon found that things weren't as easy as he'd thought and he upset Michael, Connie and Ric along the way. He managed to salvage his credibility by arranging a successful meeting about the Tans twins' separation but it meant telling Linden that he couldn't be part of the separation because he was too close to the Tans. Encouraged by Mark and Donna, Daisha contacted her ex-boyfriend Paul to tell him about the baby. After initial reluctance, Paul attended a scan with Daisha and won over, he then told a thrilled Daisha he'd recognise his responsibilities and wanted to be involved. But then Mark told Paul about what bringing up a baby would be like so Paul changed his mind and told Daisha that he would support the baby but wouldn't be with her. Elsewhere, Kyla, was chatted up by a patient on AAU as Maddy secretly hid a letter that arrived for Kyla from Abra. Meanwhile, Connie's relationship with her mystery man got steamy as they had a secret rendezvous in a hotel room.
Connie is shocked to find out that her lover John is married to Jayne after their son Christian is badly injured in a car accident and brought to Holby. Elsewhere, Chrissie returns to Holby but can she put the past incidents behind her and move on.
Joseph realises he has upset Faye and resolves how to fix it. Chrissie has to come to terms with her decision to leave nursing. Elsewhere, Connie struggles to end her relationship with John because of her friendship and working relationship with his wife Jayne.
Joseph had a disastrous morning with Archie, Faye's son, as he fails to connect with him so goes into work on his day off. But it goes from bad to worse when Jac manoeuvres him out of assisting in a major operation performed by Michael and Elliott. Leaving to go home he becomes trapped in a lift with Daisha who's waters break. Meanwhile, Donna does her best to get herself on the surgical rotation as a scrub nurse but is turned down at all attempts until Sam takes pity on her but it ends up delaying her which in turn delays Maria's first meeting with Aaron's parents. Elsewhere, Michael's wife Annalese begins as an anesthetist at Holby.
Daisha's baby decides to be born in the stalled lift and it is a struggle for Joseph to stay calm as he takes on the role of midwife and tries to deliver the baby with help from Elliott by phone. Afterwards, Daisha cannot bear to be near her newborn son. Meanwhile, Michael finds himself slotted to be in the operating theatre with his anesthetist wife Annalese and he's far from happy and goes about changing the rotation data but he ends up with a maverick anesthetist which puts a patient in danger and he has no option but to have Annalese take over. Linden's ground-breaking research is given short shift by the board and Maddie fails to get her Keller rotation.
The new and revamped Keller Ward opens amid a champagne reception but it doesn't go smoothly for Ric after that as his main benefactor collapses at the function and then he has to operate in the dark. Faye grows concerned over Joseph's attachment to Daisha's son Joe and confronts him about his desire to have children. Elsewhere, whilst playing around with old equipment in theatre, anesthetist Jamie Norton manages to shock himself and ends up killing himself after the stunt goes wrong.
Faye tells Joseph she is leaving him which shocks him so much he finds solace in the bar and finally in Jac's waiting arms. Meanwhile, Linden is reminded of his daughter Holly when he treats a young patient.
Maria and Donna continue to be at loggerheads and it is not helped when Donna tells Maria she saw Sam pensive in the car-park and overheard that perhaps his cancer had returned - which angers Sam when he hears it. Meanwhile, Annalese applies for the anesthetists job but Michael appeared not to be too keen to recommend her. When she misses her interview because of an emergency procedure Ric is impressed and gives her the job on the spot. Elsewhere, Joseph tries to forget his night with Jac; Kyla tenders her resignation so that she can accompany her son to Rotterdam; Linden tries to give a comatose Callie Taylor everything she needs to speed up her recovery and Maria meets a young American in the bar unknown to her that he is Sam's son.
Ric's world is rocked when a junkie patient reveals that she was his dead son Leo's girlfriend Michelle and that he is a grandfather. Abra turned up at Holby on Kyla's last day and asked her to come to Ghana with him instead of going to Rotterdam with her son. Maddy tries to encourage Linden as he loses faith when Callie Taylor's prognosis worsens. Daisha struggles to cope with her baby despite Mark's help and decides to put Joe up for adoption. Sam offers to let Kieron come and stay with him after he tells him he doesn't want to to back to New York and his musical career.
Ric receives a photo of his grandson in the post and ends up juggling his job with sleuthing to track Michelle down. Sam decided he wanted to make up for lost time with Maria and apologised for not realising how much he liked her before. He later tells her about his son Keiron but Maria panics as Keiron has been pursuing her. Daisha finds a prospective couple to adopt Joe but will Mark puts a spanner in the works?
Maria visits a psychic and then experiences the Ghosts of her Christmas Past, Present & Future which shows her why her mother gave her up for adoption and how she regretted it and also helped decide her future with Sam. Sam made the decision to leave Holby and left to go to New York with Kieron but promised to come back for Maria.
Callie Taylor stirs from her coma shortly after Linden asks her husband to decide on whether a DNR should be decided on if her condition gets worse. Michelle contacts Ric and asks for his support in getting her son, and his grandson, Billy back from social services. Daisha decides against adoption of Joe and Joseph is missing Faye and the situation is not helped with Jac and her behaviour around him.
Daisha goes missing with her son Joe and Mark comes under investigation in the police's search for her. Faye tries to avoid Joseph at work but Elliott has a plan to get them together again. Meanwhile, Annalese brings a proposal to cut waiting times to Michael who shows it to Ric thinking he'll reject it but Ric thinks it a brilliant idea.
Ric is surprised by the identity of a new medical student. Joseph has to make it up to Faye after missing Archie's christening, and Rachel is left to look after baby Joe. UKTV.
Linden's longing for Faye continues and he attempts to tell her how he feels until a comment from Callie Taylor stops him doing so. Meanwhile, Ric, Connie and Michael operate on a female Holby security guard who was stabbed by a drug dealer. She later died but controversy ensued when her attacker was brought in and Ric had to operate. Ric also begins a Zero Tolerance Policy towards his patients who won't help themselves which makes him decide not to operate on an obese man. Elsewhere, Jac continued to get at Joseph and gets him to suspect that she may be pregnant? But is she and what is her ultimate plan?
Connie announces a ground-breaking heart surgery operation on a prominent politician without Ric's knowledge. Ric goes to the board about Connie but gets vetoed on his complaint and she gets the go ahead with the operation. But Ric gets the upper hand later at the press conference when he congratulates his team rather than Connie directly - and she isn't pleased. Tom O'Dowd gets very drunk and ends up in the crèche with Saskia, a crèche worker, and is spotted leaving the following morning by Maddy. When it transpires that the encounter was caught on camera Maddy helps Tom out with getting rid of the incriminating evidence so that he or Saskia won't be caught.
Ric announces his new Zero Tolerance Policy at Lindsey Jones's memorial service without advising Jayne or any of the Board. He further angered her when he took issue with one of Michael's overweight patients due to have a hernia operation. Elsewhere, Jac continues to wind Joseph up with tidbits on whether she is pregnant or not. Maria becomes evasive with Donna over calls she keeps receiving.
Annalese opens one of Michael's credit card statements and finds a travel entry for over £3,000 and then catches him flirting with Donna. She checks his email and finds that he is travelling to Rome which she was unaware of but later Michael manages to explain it by saying he's going to a conference. But she gets suspicious again when she finds a travel book on Rome in Donna's locker. Connie wasted no time in reminding Ric that it was his last day as Director of Surgery under their six-month agreement and hassled him to resign. He tells her he has to give three months notice but Connie later found out he hadn't done so. When a case comes in under Connie that she is sure to rise his Zero Tolerance hackles she doesn't hesitate to contact him. Daisha celebrates her 30th birthday and Mark realises he feels more for her than friendship.
Connie and Ric continue to be at odds all day - this time over the treatment of Frankie Moore, the overweight son of a man he'd refused to treat under his Zero Tolerance Policy. Connie turned it into a political battle by encouraging Frankie to have a gastric band, which Ric thought was unsuitable and the easy way out. Elsewhere, everyone believed that Jac was pregnant and she wasn't making Joseph's life any easier. He arranged for her to get an exclusive job in India to get her out of the way but he sussed her plan. Meanwhile, Daisha struggled whilst dealing with an eccentric patient and worried that she was being a bad mother to Joe.
Michael operates on Frankie Moore but his father is none too pleased with the huge bill from Holby Care telling Connie that Ric never told him he would have to pay. Joseph starts to have nightmares and panic attacks over Jac's potential announcement in the bar. Convinced that Jac is pregnant he was determined to tell Faye but is unable to speak to her before they all gathered in the bar. He then burst into the bar just as Jac was about to reveal her big secret and dragged Faye out and told her about Jac. But Jac's announcement is that she has got a paper published and got herself a scholarship to study for a research PhD. Faye is enraged with Joseph after he tells her about Jac. Elsewhere, Rachel believes Daisha is suffering from post-natal depression and tells Mark. Chrissie arrived back to work with Michael in Holby Care.
Faye finds out from Linden that he knew that Joseph slept with Jac. Michael tells Donna that a patient is blackmailing him to do her hiatus hernia surgery by keyhole and if he doesn't she is going to tell Annalese of his affair with his former nurse. Chrissie starts back in Holby in the Holby Care Suite. Elliott's daughter Martha arrives back with a husband in tow who is rushed to the E.D. Annalese sees Donna wearing the chain Michael gave her previously and realizes that he had an affair with her.
Maddy, Maria, Donna and Tom all have massive hangovers after a night out. A suspicious Annalese confronted Michael about Donna's necklace. Michael managed to talk his way out of it but Annalese kept investigating and found him in another lie with a telephone call whom he said was Ric but in fact was Donna. Ric ruffled Connie's feathers with his Zero-Tolerance policy. Ric made a presentation to a prominent politician with statistics on Zero Tolerance compiled by Tom. But are Tom's figures the correct ones. Elsewhere, Elliot and Martha clash over her new husband. A hungover Maddy angered Linden with her attitude but she still got her surgical rotation on Keller.
Jac is knocked over by Elliott's dog and is treated by Linden who sees a baby scan picture in her Filofax. He correctly guessed that she planned to lure Joseph with it and he later tells this to Faye. A jealous Annalese asked Donna if she slept with Michael. Donna denies it but Annalese doesn't believe her. Later, Michael denies sleeping with Donna but eventually Annalese wears him down and he confesses to the one night he spent with Donna. Just then they are called into an emergency surgery and during it Annalese tells Michael she is leaving him. Annalese was distracted and unknowingly made a mistake with the anesthetic and the patient died. Too late Annalese realized it was her fault and told Michael after wards. Chrissie got annoyed with Daisha and told her it was time she stood on her own two feet. Daisha told Mark she was moving out, so Mark told Chrissie about Daisha's difficult situation. Chrissie encouraged Daisha to go back to counseling.
Annalese got upset when she saw the dead patient's widow and was about to confess her mistake to Jayne when Michael talked her out of it. He told her there was no evidence. Ric extended Zero Tolerance to his staff with voluntary breathalyser tests which Annalese failed. Michael spun a tale and Ric agreed to not to fire her if she agreed to be monitored. Later, Mrs Hewitt's lawyer claimed the statistics that Ric had presented in his meeting with a politician were fictitious and threatened Ric with a formal enquiry. Ric told Tom if he didn't prove the data was genuine there would be hell to pay. Elliot's acceptance of Ben hit a new low when he discovered photos of "strippers" on Ben's laptop but Martha pointed out they were arty photos from Vegas but Elliot was sceptical. Faye decided she wanted to get back with Joseph but a stunned Joseph asked for time to think about it and then left Faye a letter saying he'd love to get back with her before he went into theatre. Whilst operating Dr. Greene and another member of staff passed out and crashed to the floor.
Darwin is struck with an unknown chemical contamination which claims the life of anaesthetist Marianne Teague and seriously endangers the lives of Jac and Joseph who stay behind mid-operation. Jac confesses to Joseph her feelings for him thinking that this could have been their last moments together but in the end he chooses Faye after they find the source of the contamination. Elsewhere, Daisha was having more problems with Mark as she was trying to make holiday plans for her and Joe. And then to her delight her sister turned up out of the blue. Meanwhile, Connie became suspicious of Annalese as she started to panic over the mistake with her dead patient.
Faye and Joseph make plans for their wedding which upsets Jac but who refuses to wear her heart on her sleeve. Connie becomes suspicious of Annaliese during surgery and finally gets to the bottom of it. Seeing that Annaliese was responsible for Mr. Hewitt's death she goes to Jayne who decides to bring charges against Annaliese and come clean to the Hewitt's. Meanwhile, Martha tries in vain to get her dad Elliott to like Ben which leads to Elliott's beloved dog getting run over by an ambulance. An upset Elliott refuses to take him to the vets and instead takes him home.
Annaliese is suspended whilst the investigation into her part in the Hewitt death is investigated with both Michael and Ric struggling to get her to fight for her career. Elliott puts his job on the line so that he can operate on his beloved dog Samson. Joseph refuses to help him but Jac sees no problem and assists him but what will she want in return? Elsewhere, Tom goes out of his way to impress Ric but succeeds in doing the opposite.
Ric tells Maddy and Tom that he is doing random breath tests on them and Maddy tries in vain to get Tom sorted before the test. In the meantime Tom's father Ken goes to see Ric about his son and asking him to give him a second chance but Ric inadvertently tells Ken about Tom's past drug problems believing that he already knew. Ken tells Tom that he is cutting him off and leaves. Then to add salt to his wounds Ric tells him that he is terminating his rotation at the hospital. He later has a heart-attack at the wheel and Ric operates but tells Tom that there is little hope that Ken will recover. Tom leaves Holby when Ken dies and tells Ric that it was his drugs that killed his son Leo. Joseph's sister Sophia tries to cajole Faye and Joseph into having a big wedding. Joseph queries why she really is at the hospital and she admits that she has been having an affair with the caterer from her wedding who is a patient at Holby. Lalaine continues to overstay her welcome at Mark's.
Because of Maddy's close association with Tom it now appears that it may jeopardize her career and an over-eager fifth year medical student doesn't make it any easier. Elsewhere, Daisha has to make a very tough decision about Joe when her sister Lalaine has to return home. Meanwhile, Connie tells Michael that the Trust will settle the Hewitt civil suit which will undoubtedly cost Annaliese her career and if he fights the Trust they will bring him down too.
Annalese collapses at the gym and is brought in to AAU where she pleads with them not to tell Michael. But Michael finds out but before he can get to Annalese Connie tells Annalese the truth about the Hewitt case which further damages her relationship with Michael. Donna is distracted after hearing Annalese in on the ward and finds Michael and tells him she knows about Annalese's pregnancy - a fact Michael didn't know but which he manages to conceal from Donna. He berates her for getting involved in his business. Then Annalese tells Michael that she is leaving him and that she is expecting a boy. Meanwhile, Maddy wanted to apply for a Keller fellowship promotion but needed Ric's support which she initially fails to get. Ric later approved her application but lets her know that it is either her job or her social life. Elsewhere, Rachel gets transferred to Geratrics and Chrissie exposes Mark's feelings for Daisha when he forgets Trisha's anniversary.
Maddy's estranged sister Hannah arrives back in Holby with trouble in tow in the form of her old cell-mate who has been stabbed. She secretly treated her but found herself in hot water with Ric when he found out. She later learnt that she would no longer be interviewed for the new fellowship on Keller because of her actions. Michael's family problems with Annalese were affecting his work. He left theater early to tend to his sick daughter. On his way out Connie cornered him and questioned his career commitment, which lead to a heated argument and then another one with Donna. But Donna persisted and finally wore him down and brought him out for drinks. He later decided to take a vacation. Meanwhile, Elliot put Ben through a battery of tests but which came up clear but he suspected that Ben wasn't telling him the truth. Later Ben admitted he was having problems with his vision but he didn't want Elliot to tell Martha. Elliot booked him an appointment with an optomologist.
Fed up with seeing her Dad's obvious affection for Daisha Chrissie makes Daisha see what everyone else sees. Daisha tells Mark she is moving in with Maria. Joseph and Faye ask Elliott to give her away at their wedding and for Linden to be Joseph's best man. Annoyed that she was cut from the Fellowship interviews Maddie considers leaving but her help with a transplant patient makes Ric see her in a new light and he invites her for a late interview. On her way to the interview she encounters Chantelle Tanner in the bathroom who stabs her and leaves her on the bathroom floor.
After her stabbing Maddy was determined to recover and secure an interview with Ric for the Keller Fellowship. However, when Maddy discovered Ric wasn't keen in interviewing her she didn't see any future at Holby. Luckily she met Dan Clifford, who offered her a research position. Maddy was torn between Holby and this new opportunity - but it was all too late. Maddy had died from her stab wound and everything had just been a dream.
Linden asks Maria to speak at Maddy's memorial service in the bar but she finds the task a difficult one. Elsewhere, Jac gets out of her depth when she takes over an operation from Joseph to distract herself from his upcoming nuptials. Meanwhile, Martha struggles to copy with some alarming news about Ben when he is send for neurological tests.
It's Faye and Joseph's wedding day and a surprise for Joseph when he learns he is getting married in his family home. But the wedding throws up a few surprises with Joseph's former girlfriend Elizabeth Farrington showing up and getting drunk and very jealous that he is now with Faye. Faye finally reconciles with her parents David and Lindsey after a ten-year silence and learns from her mother that Faye's grandmother had a Low-syndrome son who died, the same disease that her son Archie suffers from. Later, a drunk Linden tells Faye that he is in love with her and they kiss and are discovered by Sophia who leaves before she is seen. Joseph becomes enraged that his ex-girlfriend Elizabeth had an affair with his dead brother which Sophia knew about. Meanwhile, back at Holby Jac takes out her misery, of not being able to get Joseph to change his mind about marrying Faye, on a group of new house officers including brother and sister Oliver and Penny Valentine.
Ben and Martha receive the shocking news that there is no hope of saving his sight and are now forced to confront the grim realisation of Ben's condition and where their relationship goes from here. Ben confesses to Elliott that he doesn't want his illness to ruin Martha's life but Martha is determined to stand by Ben despite his objections. Meanwhile, Faye lies to Joseph about Linden and Penny incurs the wrath of Ric. Jane, infuriated by the low morale of the hospital, tells Ric she is re-advertising his job of Director of Surgery and now targets Connie for the post.
Linden is finding it extremely hard to move on from his deep love for Faye. Hurt and confused, he decided to throw himself into his work with the new F1's, which include Oliver, but finds himself taking out his frustration especially on Oliver. Elsewhere, Penny tries to assert herself after being spurred on by a sense of competition and refuses to heed Daisha. Meanwhile, Elliott celebrates his 50th birthday with a surprise party in the Bar as Martha decides to go traveling when Ben decides to stay with his mother. Elliott also reacquaints himself with old friend Tara Sodi.
Annaliese tells Michael she wants a break from him and is moving to France for the summer holidays. Tara tries to talk to Elliott about their past but Elliott asks her to leave the past in the past. Anxious that the Director of Surgery job hadn't been advertised, Connie confronted Jayne in her office and discovers that Jayne believes her husband John, and Connie's secret ex-lover, is having an affair. A guilty Connie probed if Jayne had any proof and when Connie challenged John later she discovered he had been having an affair, but with someone else. Later, at Michael's house his daughter Millie is taken to hospital after falling and Michael is stunned to see Ric at the house also.
Elliott and Jac disagree on the treatment for their patient Honeysuckle McKenzie at the same time that Tara Sodi asks him to assist her on the same surgery they first did years earlier. Jac plays Elliott off against Connie on the treatment for Honeysuckle and when Connie finds out she tells Jac that if she ever does that again it will be the end of her career. Michael faced the most important operation of his life on his daughter Milly. When Milly's treatment goes wrong, Michael buckles and Ric steps in to save her life. Things got worse when he caught Ric with Annalese and discovered that she had abdominal pains. But after a scan confirmed everything was alright Michael started to try and patch things up with Annalese. Elsewhere, Jayne's husband John confronts Connie about Jane's suspicions of an affair which causes Connie to tell John what she really thinks unaware that Jayne has seen the confrontation. Connie confesses all to Jayne and tells her that he is involved with another woman. Jayne tells Connie that their professional relationship will not be affected by Connie's affair.
Donna comes face-to-face with a surprising patient on Keller - her father Derek Newman. Derek is assessed by Ric and told that he has cancer but Ric believes it is treatable by operation based on scans he has. Elsewhere, sparks fly between Daisha and Oliver as he lands her in trouble with an anxiety patient who threatens to put in a complaint about her. This lands Oliver in trouble with both Mark and Linden.
Ric tells Donna that he has got the results of the PET scan which shows that the cancer in Derek's body has spread further than earlier tests had indicated and it is inoperable at this stage. Unwilling to believe this she knowingly loses the scans and blames Penny for them and so gets another set done and gets Michael to look at them but Michael confirms that there is no change to the earlier scans so she and Michael tell Derek the diagnosis and Donna vows to be there for her Dad throughout his illness. Chrissie struggles to hide her feelings for Oliver and Penny is thwarted at her every move by Jac but Elliott seeing Jac take credit for Penny's diagnosis invites her to be part of the lab team on the valve replacement he is doing with Tara.
Jayne asked a reluctant Elliot and Tara to conduct a press conference to raise the profile of their valve operation on Lucy. Elliot's reluctance stems from his former patient, Katie Landis, who died from this procedure 25 years previously and which now made Elliott the surgeon he was - cautious. Just before the press conference Katie's distraught parents demanded that Elliott cancel the publicity or they'd tell the world about their daughter's death. At the press conference Elliot finally managed to win them round and save his and Tara's forthcoming operation. Meanwhile, Ric has an attack of conscience over his decision about Donna's father's treatment and decided to go with an operation. Elsewhere, Joseph and Faye had their first spat when he discovered transactions on their credit card which he considered exorbitant and which he assumed Faye spent. When Faye queried it she found that the card had been cloned but the rift had already started to widen between them.
The new chairman of Holby Trust, Terence Cunningham, arrived for an impromptu visit of Holby where an excited Oliver managed to do some minor damage to his hand. Connie was told by Jayne to put Joseph on her operating schedule instead of Jac as Terence was a friend of the Byrne family, much to Jac's displeasure. But Jac got one up on Connie when she managed to get back an important piece of equipment needed for the operation which Joseph failed to do. Donna's dad Derek disappeared on the day of his operation and Donna eventually found him under the stairs, drunk with a bottle of whiskey. Taking matters into her own hands Donna attempted to flush out his system but Ric found out. Derek's operation and Donna's job were now both at risk. Then Derek's condition deteriorated badly and had to be rushed to theatre. Michael and Ric operated and he survived but his life was hanging in the balance. Oliver became interested in Daisha and less interested in Chrissie.
On the day of Elliot and Tara's big valve operation on Lucy Miller Elliot lost his confidence in the operation and ordered more tests and asked to delay the procedure. But a displeased Tara wouldn't agree to deferring the surgery and replaced him with Joseph as Lucy's condition started deteriorating. Joseph tried his best, but he was not up to the task and thus forced Elliot to face up to his fears and he finally stepped in to save the day and Lucy. Meanwhile, Donna had to make the decision to turn off her father's life support when tests showed that his condition had not improved and was unlikely to. Elsewhere, following an erroneous email from Oliver to Chrissie and which was meant for Penny, Chrissie put Oliver through hoops in his evaluations. But Chrissie finally succumbed to his charms in the Bar.
Brian Coley, a terminally ill patient informed Elliot before surgery that he had a living will which stated DNR - Do Not Resuscitate. When the operation went badly Elliot stood back, but Tara stepped in and resuscitated him. Brian threatened to sue, but Tara managed to talk him round. Elliot finally told Tara about his wife Gina's assisted suicide, and a shocked Tara reconsidered her future in Holby. Meanwhile, Connie has to tell an elderly private patient that his much desired surgery may kill him. Connie decides to go ahead despite Ric's objections and unfortunately the patient doesn't survive. Linden steps down from the interview stage of Director of Surgery and tells Connie he thinks Ric is the best man for the job. Elsewhere, a drunk patient on AAU lashes out at Oliver and which Chrissie insists in patching up. Oliver and Chrissie discuss their relationship.
Ric's day goes from bad to worse when a newspaper article exposes Ric's operation on Donna's father which went against his own strict procedures. Jayne demanded that he write a press release. Joseph continued to be suspicious of Faye and is only further intensified when a patient displays intense suspicious tendencies about her boyfriend. Daisha recommends a hearing impaired patient for Penny for her portfolio assessment but when Ric couldn't supervise her because of his worsening day she nearly ends up messing up the procedure. A thalidomide patient is diagnosed with inoperable cancer but refuses to believe it is the end and pressures Ric for other ways of extending his life but the only procedure that may work is giving the patient doses of thalidomide - the drug that caused him to be born with deformed limbs. After nearly losing a patient Ric decides that he'd prefer to help patients by being a doctor and withdraws from the Director of Surgery job much to Jayne's horror.
Joseph finds out that Faye is lying to him about her ex-husband and her contact with him on the night of their wedding and so hacks into her mobile phone account and finds out that it was Linden she was talking to and not Lucas. Joseph confronts her at the Bar and when she doesn't deny it he walks away. Donna is finding it hard to come to terms with her dad's death as Maria tries to contact Sam to no avail. Connie and Michael both interview for the Director of Surgery job but were both disappointed with their interviews. Still it comes as a huge shock to Connie when Jayne gave Michael the job. She forces Jayne to admit that it was her involvement with John that caused her to back Michael. Connie tells Michael she is resigning which causes Michael to go to Jayne and force her hand - her resignation. Michael persuades Connie to change her mind about resigning as Jayne departs for good. As Donna is leaving the hospital she meets an ambulance ferrying an injured and bloodied Maria but cannot find out what happened to her.
Ric operates on Maria in theatre after her hit and run accident but refuses to obey Michael's instruction that he take her back into theatre when Michael discovers a possible problem on her scan preferring to wait and see another scan result. But when Ric is proven wrong he admits his mistake and they bring Maria back into theatre managing to save her life. Meanwhile, Faye and Linden discuss her wedding day phone-call and events and Linden tells her he will talk to Joseph and clear the air. But Joseph is having none of it and tells Linden to leave well enough alone. Oliver brushes Chrissie off and is extra sensitive to Daisha and ends up asking her out for a drink.
Maria awakens from her coma but has no sensation in her lower limbs. Penny, having begged Ric for a chance to work in ICU, tells Maria it could be spinal shock but Ric later disputes this to Maria and tells her, although very early, she could be paralysed and berates Penny for giving her false hope. Elsewhere, Oliver tries to find a way to tell Chrissie that he wants to finish the relationship because of his interest in Daisha but becomes intrigued when she suggests it. Unknown to him Chrissie is pregnant and secretly delighted. Meanwhile, Joseph becomes distracted in theatre and nearly puts his patients's life at risk. Faye eventually admitted that although she had shared a kiss with Linden, there was no affair, putting Joseph's mind at ease.
Michael tries to assert himself in his new role of Director of Surgery and in light of a visit from the Department of Health tries to steal Connie's thunder on her pioneering robotic surgery but fails and Connie gets a promotion to Director of Robotics. Maria struggles with getting used to being paralysed and Penny finally manages to get a day on AAU. Michael also tests Ric's patience with the moving of surgeries from Michael to him without notice.
Maria's scan comes back and Ric informs her that the news isn't good due to the un-stability of her vertebrae. Ric tells her that there is an operation that could give her a good chance of walking again but it could also kill her on the operating table. Maria seizes the opportunity despite pleas from her family and Donna. Faye's son Archie is rushed to AAU and after an emergency operation by Elliott and Joseph he was transferred to ICU where he remained critical. Joseph also sought out Linden to find out his side of the story and his attraction to Faye. Meanwhile, in trying to impress Jac over a patient Penny makes a bad mistake but ends up finding out from a journalist who leaked the story on Ric which she duly takes to Ric.
Vanessa initiates an investigation into Faye's son Archie emergency hospitalization. Vanessa also introduces Judith Marchand the new surgical wards matron who manages to rub Mark up the wrong way and who recommends to Vanessa that he should be one of the AAU cuts. Elsewhere, Maddy's killer Chantelle Tanner is admitted into AAU where none of the staff want to treat her forcing Judith to deal with her where she finds that she is 16 weeks pregnant and has been kicked around by her vicious boyfriend. Archie's nurse Judith dropped his medicine labels and mixed them up with medicine meant for Chantelle and these were fed into Archie's saline drip.
Vanessa continues her investigation into Faye's son Archie emergency surgery and subsequent sudden death and discovers that Faye changed Archie's bag of saline because Lauren had forgotten to do so, a fact that Lauren was only too pleased to pass on when she found out that Ric and Connie were trying to cover it up. This ended in Vanessa suspending Ric, Connie and Faye whilst the investigation continued. Meanwhile, Maria tried to get Chantelle Tanner to confess to the murder of Maddy which she denied but it was Mark that managed to get a confession after blackmailing her with threats to care worker Adam Bowden who was also the father of her baby.
Donna received her Dad's possession which led Donna and Maria to a garage and a red Mustang. A letter also in his possessions led them to taking the car to see Patti, a friend of Derek's. But when they got there Patti had collapsed from a suspected stroke and her grand-daughter risked being taken into care. Later Patti shockingly revealed that the child, Mia, was Derek's grand-daughter and that Donna should look after her. Meanwhile, Linden compromised his professionalism by talking to Lauren about the incident that got Faye suspended. Elsewhere, witnesses were interviewed about the circumstances leading to Archie's death.
Faye buries her son and her mother persuades Joseph to let her come and stay with her to help her thought the grieving process. With Connie and Ric on extended annual leave the wards struggle to cope but in particular Elliott who is pushes to his limit by the demanding wife of a serious ill patient and the combined efforts of Vanessa and Judith who assume he cannot do the job without extra help. It leads to him collapsing in theatre with an angina attack and Joseph, who's in the hospital to find out more information on the enquiry, is asked to step in and complete the surgery. It's also Maria's first day back since her accident and in trying to do too much she nearly compromises herself. Mark finds out that Judith is going through a nasty divorce. Meanwhile, Vanessa sends out an email telling the staff that Ric's ex-wife will be the new replacement Registrar - everyone assumes it is Lola until they are introduced at a reception and the find out shockingly that it is in fact Thande Abebe-Griffin and not Lola.
Linden goes to visit his wife Olivia's grave on the anniversary of her death but sees his daughter Holly there and leaves before she can see him. But when his mother-in-law Julia turns up at Holby to tell him that Holly has ran off with her boyfriend he can no longer avoid their tragic past and confronts Holly and finally realises he is ready to be a father to her again. Meanwhile, Oliver and Jac disagree over a diagnosis on his friend Gavin's daughter and Thandie tries to smooth over things with Elliott. Elsewhere, Penny is caught between Thandie and Elliott's war.
Joseph tries to get an early copy of Archie's autopsy report from the mortuary and neglects his job but which Elliott took notice of. But his distraction causes Joseph to tell a workaholic patient she could delay her surgery but then she took a turn for the worse and had to be rushed into theatre. This was the last straw for Elliot and he gave Joseph a dressing down. Penny gets close to her heart patient Scott, Jac continues to push Oliver hard and Linden gets Holly a temporary job on AAU.
Penny got her assessment back and was devastated when she was marked down on her relationship skills. Determined to improve she threw herself into Scott's case but lost control when his girlfriend Becca wouldn't stand by him realising too late that Elliot had seen her unprofessional outburst. Meanwhile, Joseph brought the report he got to Vanessa but she refused to act on it as it was obtained illegally. Elsewhere, Holly began working with Donna in Holby Care and finally admitted, after much probing from Donna, that her mother was killed in a car crash and that neither Linden or Holly have ever gotten over it leaving Donna shell-shocked.
Joseph continued to neglect his ward duties but continued to gather evidence to support his theory that potassium killed Archie and he linked it back to Lauren and concluded that her other patient Chantelle Tanner's medicine was mixed with Archie's. He went to the police, but they were more interested in how he obtained the files illegally. Vanessa finally agreed to look into his findings if another consultant agreed to them, but Elliot wouldn't back him up as the evidence was not conclusive. Meanwhile, Oliver needs one more procedure for his assessment but because he is late to an operation, due to his helping Daisha out, she won't let him attend. But she later relents when he was able to assure the patient afterwards. Elsewhere, Thande and Elliott operate together because of Joseph's neglect and the procedure manages to soothe the battleground around them.
Michael was under pressure to prove that they could use the robotics equipment without Connie before the Department of Health took back their equipment and so agreed with Vanessa's suggestion to hire a robotics consultant. Penny continued to become closer to an increasingly ill Scott but incurred the wrath of Judith in the process. At the end of his tether Joseph accused Lauren of causing Archie's death by giving him potassium in mis-labeled saline bags. Thandie overheard him and told him to be careful but couldn't help but be impressed with him later when he operated on a patient without anesthesia. However, Vanessa summoned Joseph to her office and told him he would be suspended if he continued to accost Lauren which forced him to drop his accusations. But Elliott was beginning to get on his side after discussing Joseph's theories with Dr. Greene.
Penny's growing attraction to Scott begins to put his health in jeopardy and she finally realises she can only see him in a professional manner. Judith's son Connor was rushed into AAU suffering from alcohol poisoning. Holly answered Connor's phone and told Judith's estranged husband Paul and when he turned up at Holby, they made a scene with their constant arguing. After Mark tried to step in but Paul assumed he was having an affair with Judith. But they eventually put aside their differences for their son, but Judith realised she thinks of Mark as more than just a friend. Elsewhere, Donna lets Maria down.
When Holly gets Linden's jukebox repaired for his Christmas present it reminds Linden of his wife Olivia and her subsequent death and old wounds were ripped open leading Linden to seeing visions of Olivia, signs saying 'Tell her the truth!' and a meeting with his old priest at Holby. Christmas went from bad to worse when Holly was hit by a car. Linden was forced to perform the same emergency procedure that failed to save Olivia. However, history did not repeat itself and Holly survived, freeing Linden from the guilt of the past. Meanwhile, Chrissie announces that she is pregnant and her baby is due in June and Donna and Maria forget their differences and become friends again.
On Lauren's first day back after her altercation with Joseph news comes through that Faye had been arrested for her son Archie's murder. Vanessa made the decision to send Joseph home. Lauren, having realised that she was responsible for Archie's death, found it hard to concentrate and kept making mistakes which made Thandie grow suspicious. Lauren finally broke down and admitted that she made a mistake. She was suspended from duty and taken in for questioning by the police. Meanwhile, Oliver elected to observe one of Jac's surgeries instead of going out with Penny for New Years Eve. But after the successful surgery their emotions got the better of them in the staff changing room and they were caught on camera by an aggrieved Penny. Elsewhere, Nicky was upset at being ignored by Maria and Donna at the hospital New Years Eve Party.
Lauren is charged with causing the death of Archie Morton and is bailed on the day that Faye returned to work. Vanessa informed the staff that Lauren was forbidden to come to Holby but that didn't stop Lauren where she talked to Judith and Mark. They tried to smuggle her out of Holby but were seen by Joseph and Maria. Maria told Faye and Faye contacted Lauren and met her near a lake. Faye lost her temper and attacked Lauren when Lauren wouldn't take responsibility. Shortly after, Lauren was admitted to Holby after being pulled from the river - how far had Faye gone? Meanwhile, Ric's first day back brought him in contact with new temporary consultant Jac Naylor. When her risky surgery failed and she questioned why he didn't let her proceed further he told her he knew how she went to the press and that the surgery was her way of sealing her role as permanent consultant. Ric also refused to talk with Thandie who was desperate to clear the air between them and Judith told Mark that her ex-husband had sold their house. Chrissie came face to face with the father of her baby Sacha Levy which came as a huge shock to him.
Lauren remained in a critical condition and her spleen had to be removed by Elliott and Thandie. Faye was questioned by D.S. Tate about her whereabouts at the time of the attack. She asked Joseph to lie for her but realising that she was doing the same as Lauren did about Archie she prepared to tell the truth. But before she could do so Lauren awoke and Lauren covered for her and the two reconciled. Meanwhile, Vanessa told Ric and Michael that Connie had accepted a post as CT Consultant at another hospital effective immediately. Looking for a scapegoat for the Lauren incident Vanessa and Terence terminated Judith's contract. Elsewhere, the picture of Oliver and Jac's night of passion was leaked via email and Oliver was deeply concerned that Daisha would see it when she came back from her holidays.
Desperate to work with Ric in theatre Thandie exaggerated a patient's hernia condition but in theatre her deceit became evident and angered Ric who demanded a full report and a divorce. Meanwhile, anting to rebuild their friendship again Linden had Faye reassigned to AAU. Trying to keep Holly and Faye apart he asked Mark to assign Holly to Darwin but Maria couldn't assist so Linden asked her to look after Charlie - a boy with stomach pains caused by a football game - and the son of Holby midwife Joanne Caffrey. But Charlie took a turn and he was rushed to theatre where he died on the table, despite Linden's desperate efforts, from a lacerated liver. Faye and Holly were both devastated but Linden managed to comfort them both. He assured Holly that it wasn't her fault and Faye took his advice and entered the chapel to grieve for Archie.
New locum George Kerwin begins in Holby and he doesn't hit it off straight away with Chrissie until he is able to solve the reason why a young teen has been vomiting for weeks. Meanwhile, Donna has to make some very tough decisions about the welfare of her five-year-old half niece Mia after Mia's grandmother Patti dies in Holby following a stroke. Elsewhere, Jac is annoyed that she appears to be getting passed over for promotion and Thandie gets a divorce petition in the post from Ric.
Upon hearing from Michael that Thandie is angling for a registrar's position in Holby Ric is determined in his efforts to push her out and even goes to Terence to get his help indirectly. But his efforts nearly cause him a patient after he ignores Thandie's diagnosis. Meanwhile, Faye and Holly come to blows when Holly assists her on wards and Penny is torn whilst caring for her now brain-dead patient Chloe Campbell.
Penny's secret relationship with heart op candidate Scott James causes problems for her when he is admitted for a donor heart op from her brain-dead patient Chloe. Oliver vows to take Daisha out for dinner for her birthday after he forgets but he is soon in the doghouse when Daisha finds out about his romp with Jac. Meanwhile, Maria gets conned by a patient into believing that George is dating someone else and Michael reviews Jac's application for a consultant's post.
Nick Jordan accompanies Charlie Fairhead to Holby where he asks Elliott to operate. But Elliott struggled to do the operation due to tiredness and his angina reoccurring so he took advice from Nick to use a new treatment which saved Charlie. Nicky gave Maria two tickets for a Take That concert but she thought he meant for her and George to go together. Ric and Thandie are visited by representatives from the Home Office about their marriage status. Elsewhere, both Joseph and Jac prepared for the consultant's interview and Penny thought about resigning after she was told she had to repeat her rotation on Darwin and end her relationship with Scott.
New Darwin CT consultant Toby Geddes begins in Holby but his chirpy demeanour doesn't go down well with Joseph. Michael goes to see Connie at her new high-tech workplace - Trafalgar Hospital - in the hope of enticing her back to Holby but fails and a later attempt by Elliott also falls flat. Elliott tells Penny she is to have no contact with Scott. But Penny meets with him and he asks her to move to Spain with him. She tells Ollie who goes to Scott and tells him Penny has worked too hard to give it all up and he has to tell her so.
Just as Thandie and Ric are getting their marriage back on track Thandie's estranged brother Moses Abebe turns up from Uganda and tells her he has advanced stage AIDS contracted from his wife. After exploratory surgery it is found that nothing else can be done for him. Thandie tells him and he asks her to help him die which greatly upsets her. Under pressure she gives Moses a lethal dose of morphine and tells Ric who is understandably annoyed. She then tells Michael and offers her resignation and tells him she is returning to Uganda with Moses's body. Meanwhile, Joseph tells Faye they need to get away and make time for themselves and Nicky outs Maria's bisexual boyfriend George.
The Holby E.D. have to deal with the aftermath of both a bus traffic accident and a shooting at a restaurant. Faye and Joseph have an argument about attending an official outing with his mother and he storms out and ends up giving Daisha a lift reluctantly. When it turns out that Joseph was involved in the shooting Faye fears the worst. Joseph later appeared unhurt but Daisha had been shot. Elsewhere, Elliott threw Toby Geddes out of his theatre after he annoyed him with his cavalier way of operating and Michael isn't happy about it.
The events of the shooting in the Indian restaurant are retold from Joseph and Daisha's angle and also how Vanessa messed up in her handling of the casualties. Michael fired Toby Geddes in order to get Elliott and Jac to stay on in Holby and to entice Connie back from Trafalgar.
Faith tells Linden that she can no longer be with Joseph and that she loves Linden. She tells Joseph their marriage is over and later when she tells Linden and then kisses him Joseph sees them. Incandescent with rage he has Linden paged to ITU and savagely beats him up. Meanwhile, Daisha was determined to leave Holby and go back to Manila devastating Mark who didn't give Judith his full attention when she came to see Vanessa. Elsewhere, Michael advised Vanessa to mend her fences with Ric and Connie; Vanessa refused to give Judith a good reference and Chrissie worked alongside with her unborn baby's father Sacha Levy.
Daisha says goodbye to Holby and leaves for Manila. Penny tries to impress Connie in surgery but fails drastically and nearly causes the death of a patient. Desperate to prove that she is a good doctor she comes through with a correct diagnosis on another patient. Vanessa orders Maria to take time off because of her back injury greatly upsetting her. Mark realises he had let down his staff and so he decided to pursue a compensation claim against the Trust on Maria's behalf. Joseph plants seeds of doubt in Linden's mind over Faye.
Elliott and Connie have a wager over Penny's ability as a doctor and to prove that she has to lean on Oliver to get places. Vanessa tells Mark that the Trust won't honour Maria's claim for compensation. Vanessa bullied Maria into dropping her claim and when Mark finds out he decides to resign. Sacha and Jac clash as they work together. Jac also recognises a patient, Paula Burrows, as her mother who abandoned her when she was a teenager. Jac tells her she had kidney damage and would have to wait for a transplant. Elsewhere, Oliver is taught a valuable lesson by an agency nurse.
Joseph's sister Sophia informs him she has taken over the chair of the Byrne Foundation from Michael Spence and that if he wants support for his Royal College research grant and lecturing post she will help by way of a Byrne Foundation patient Frank McPherson who has re-occurring cancer and is agoraphobic. The only problem for Joseph is that he is Linden's patient and Linden is also looking to get the research grant. To make it work he decided to apologise to Linden and let Faye move back to their flat. However, he became angry when he later found out that Linden was helping Faye move into the flat so he took solace with his patient's sister Jamie. Meanwhile, Michael called an urgent board meeting to get rid of Vanessa after Mark resigned. But Vanessa got the upper hand when she told the board she would leave but only with an excellent reference which she required for another job. Meanwhile, Ollie was assigned to work with Sacha in Holby Care who delighted in winding up a hungover Ollie and Jac tried to bond with her mother.
Chrissie complains of headaches so Sacha pulls out all the stops including bringing in eccentric gynaecologist Paradis Bloom to check her out. Paradis rushes Chrissie to theatre and she gives birth to a baby boy after having a C-section. When pushed by Michael on who the baby's father is she finally admits that it is Sacha. Mark is overjoyed - both by his new grandson and for all Sacha did for Chrissie. Elsewhere, Jac told Michael that Paula was her mother and after some sage words from Joseph she told Paula that she was a match and would save her life. Meanwhile, Joseph refused to help Faye with the inscription for Archie's headstone but after working a shift in Holby Care looking after a patient with MS she finally finds what she needs.
Chrissie has a visit from Sacha's mother Esther and his two daughters Rachel and Beka which freaks out Chrissie who is only getting to know her son. She eventually tells Sacha that he can be part of her and her son's life but they won't be a couple. She decides to call the baby Daniel Levy Williams. Elsewhere, Jac and her mother Paula got through the kidney surgery; Mark promoted Donna to acting Ward sister on Keller and Cunningham decided to split the Director of Surgery job in two.
Jac's mother Paula disappears from Jac's home after leaving a note saying that she was sorry. Jac found out that she had gone to an address in Bath, which used to belong to her grandfather Henry Burrows, and followed her. But on the way she noticed her wound site was infected and tried to clean the area and get rid of the pus infection but to no avail. She ended up calling Michael who treated it temporarily but she refused to come back with him so he brought her to the address. Confronting her mother she discovers a number of things - her grandfather never died and was still alive, Paula was on her way back to India and Jac had a young sister Jasmine she never knew of. Totally devastated she collapsed and was rushed to hospital where Michael met his match in a young consultant who operated on Jac. Elsewhere, Faye discovers that she is pregnant but she is unable to tell either Linden or Joseph. Meanwhile, Holly got accepted to Art College in London.
The Porters go on a wildcat strike due to management not meeting their concerns which causes havoc on the wards. Meanwhile, Connie returns from the US expecting to get the Director of Surgery job but finding out that Terence has divided it jointly between Michael and Ric, and she is not happy about it. She joins up with Joseph on his research project and they find a candidate for the trial Elaine Dalton - an acquaintance of Connie's from her earlier days in Peckham. Elsewhere, Mark brokers a deal between the porters and Terence and they come back to work. Terence is impressed with Mark's skills and tells him to apply for the vacant CEO post at Holby.
Elliott told Connie that Oliver was promoted to an F2 and he was told he could spend his next two rotations on Darwin. But things started to go wrong after his messed up with Connie's patient Elaine Dalton which led to a confrontation with Connie and Elliott. He let slip that Penny had slept her patient Scott and Connie told Elliott to get rid of Penny from Darwin. So as Oliver's career moved forward, Penny was moved back to AAU. Distraught at the news she was further devastated to find out that it was Ollie who told. Night shift ward sister Frieda Petrenko joined the day shift covering for Chrissie's maternity leave. Meanwhile Mark was persuaded to apply for the CEO position by Terence where he pitched for funding. On the ward, Maria and Donna both decided to apply for the Ward Sister job, and tensions between them rose.
Elliot pulled Mark aside and told him that none of the consultants were not supporting his CEO application. Donna and Maria were interviewed for the Ward Sister position and Maria got the job despite the fact that she has already been offered a job with the VSO in Tanzania. Tensions between Maria and Donna soared and they ended up stuck in a lift together as rain belted down over Holby and flooded the hospital. Meanwhile, Penny's stint in AAU is not helped by Linden's attitude to her and a child sex offender goes missing near where the crèche kids were moved to.
Connie begins to panic as the power stays off and the implications for Elaine Dawson. Just as they are about to get Elaine to a secure area with power a problem arises with her oxygen intake. Meanwhile, Maria makes the decision to leave and take the job in Tanzania and let Donna have the sisters job. Elsewhere, everyone turns to Mark for his advice in tackling the flood and power loss to Holby and Mia is found with another girl locked in the pediatric ward.
Porter Frank Chapman and new lottery winner causes chaos across the hospital with his comments and actions. Mark, on his last day as Nurse Consultant before he takes over as CEO, is forced to step in and try to control him. But Mark hadn't figured getting locked in with Frank after he collapses with a bleed on his brain. Elsewhere, Connie was less economical with the truth on Elaine's condition to her husband Kevin but a careless comment by Jac to Joseph alerted Kevin to the real prognosis for Elaine - that of possibly brain damage. Kevin took all Connie's notes and copied them and then proceeded to smash her car windows. Meanwhile, new staff nurse Elizabeth Tait started in Holby and managed to sort out Donna's chaotic desk and office.
New Registrar Greg Douglas starts at Holby and ruffles Elliott's feathers over the treatment of young footballer Ben Eddon. Elliott is also in the papers for getting an OBE which he tries to play down. Linden discovers that Faye is pregnant by accident after she comes in contact with a patient with mumps. Jac and Sacha work together on Ric's cases and she finds that working as a team is a much better option than working on her own as she usually did.
Faye tells a sceptical Joseph that she is pregnant with his child. Joseph goes to London to retrieve a heart for Sean Tighe and Connie orders him to bring new registrar Greg along with him where he causes all manner of chaos. Elaine Dalton dies despite Connie's best efforts to resusitate her and her husband Kenny becomes hostile towards Connie and makes unhelpful comments to her other patients about her work. Later, Connie is attacked by an aggrieved son who blames her for his mother's death but Kenny manages to subdue the attacker but it shakes her to the core.
Faye gets Dr. Posner to do a gender test to see if she is expecting a boy or girl but decides against getting a test for Lowe's Syndrome at the same time preferring to wait until she gets the results. After getting the results that she is expecting a boy she decides not to test for Lowe's and asks that Linden and Joseph support her. Ollie tries to talk to Penny but she is unforgiving and tells him they will work together as colleagues only. But their rivalry with a patient brings them to the attention of Connie who is not best pleased with either of them. Linden struggles to get a patient with OCD to have a scan on a cyst which shows signs of a rapidly spreading infection so Faye enlists fellow OCD sufferer Joseph to persuade her. Michael and Annalese try to resolve their differences with little success.
Elliott, desperate to raise the remaining funds to buy the laser for Ben and future patients surgery, rings suppliers and gets a company on board but has to cut through a lot of red tape to get there. Meanwhile, Michael's not handling his divorce from Annalese well and takes it out on Donna and Elizabeth. Elsewhere, determined to impress Linden Penny worked hard in AAU but was thwarted by an ever vigilant Frieda.
Dora Collins, a patient, makes a complaint about Sacha, via Elizabeth to Mark, about him making inappropriate comments around her and other patients. Misusing his powers as CEO Mark checked up on Sasha's past, and found he had a similar complaint against his name. After being confronted Sacha became distracted and told Ric who wasted no time in telling Mark what he thought. Meanwhile, Penny was shown up by Frieda once again and she decided it was time to play her at her own game. But will it blow up in her face? Elsewhere, Elliott's much-hoped for laser didn't arrive and upon checking found he had been scammed by the sales rep.
Elliot's laser finally arrived but it was soon discovered that it was a different one that what was first ordered. When questioned by Mark he revealed he had paid for it himself out of the proceeds of his house sale. Mark was forced to call the police despite Elliott's please not to do so. Meanwhile, Linden's personal issues with Joseph over the baby started affecting his work which he took out on Frieda and Penny. Meanwhile Sacha and Jac tried to get Elizabeth to laugh but to no avail until Jac took the joke one step too far and then Sacha wasn't amused. Dr. Greene left Holby after getting a new job.
Kate Moyles, from the Board, visited Ric and Michael about a benefactors sizeable donation to Holby but tensions between Michael and Ric nearly blew the proposals put to Kate. Things weren't helped by Annalese's visit to him telling him they were divorcing and their only contact would now be through their solicitors. Meanwhile, teenager Georgina Hunt was admitted with her manipulative friend Miri but neither would admit what Georgina had taken. When Miri overheard Donna gossiping about Sacha's manner they made a complaint stating Sacha had said inappropriate things whilst examining her leaving Mark with no choice but to suspend him. So it was left to Jac to get to the bottom of it. Elsewhere, Elliot couldn't handle the attention he was getting for his OBE and so deliberately hid his medal.
Joseph turned up at Faye's 20-week scan before Linden got a chance to get there before him. He later continued to needle Linden forcing Linden to tell him that he and Faye were moving to Scotland. But the constant jibes and comments from Frieda made Linden question his motives and he told Faye that he saw no future for them. But Faye told him they should get married but Linden wasn't so sure. Meanwhile, Kate Moyles told Michael she wanted to cool things between them and so Michael asked Connie to be his date at a function. Connie initially refused but later accepted. Elsewhere, Connie tells Greg to represent her at Terence Cunningham's Clinical Governance Meeting but he instead sent an ill-prepared Oliver. Terence was not best pleased and sought out Greg and told him to have his report to him by end of day.
Ric undergoes an MRI scan to see if he has cancer and as he anxiously awaits his results himself and Michael argue over the Moyles Fund of £250,000 and how it should be divided - public or private. Faye asks Joseph for a divorce hoping it will convince Linden that she is serious about him. Greg is conflicted over a daughter's motives in keeping her mother alive so that she doesn't pay inheritance tax.
Connie appoints Greg to be Oliver's education mentor but Greg, suffering from a hangover, is not happy. Frieda treats a patient herself instead of asking Penny but Penny lies to save both their careers. After getting his cancer diagnosis Ric finds it hard to concentrate on his Renal Unit presentation for the Board. He asks Jac to do a domino transplant for him but she fails her task. Can Ric pull it together in order to win the Board over?
With the arrival of renowned surgeon Donald Bass at Holby Michael tries in vain to get him to look at his project over Ric's plans for a renal unit. Annaliese asks Michael to sign their divorce petition and he finds out that she is seeing someone else but not that it is Ric. He leaves Holby and goes on a drink and drug spree in his hotel room with Caitlin Sykes. Linden tries to diffuse his relationship at work with Faye as she attends divorce proceedings with Joseph.
Ric realises starting a relationship with Annalese will only intensify Michael's erratic behaviour. Frieda clashes with a racist patient.UKTV.
Annaliese curtails Michael's visitation rights with the kids and inadvertently tells Michael that she is having an affair with Ric. Meanwhile, Ric's symptoms get worse and he ends up telling Michael of his condition and that he has little chance of making it through. Elsewhere, Penny begins her first day as an F2 and tries to save the life of a pregnant woman and her unborn daughter and Faye finally allows Joseph to share her pregnancy.
Annalese seeks out Ric and tries to find out why he ended their affair but he refuses to tell her about his cancer diagnosis. Later, Ric operates in theatre against Michael's wishes and collapses. Greg wants in on a big operation Connie's involved in but she re-assigns him to monitoring Oliver much to his distaste. Elsewhere, Sasha and Jac engage in a game of one up-man-ship to see who can clear the ward fastest.
Ric steadfastly refuses chemotherapy despite urging from both Michael and Annaliese. But an encounter with Tim O'Neill, a patient who refuses to see anything bad, brings him around to the idea of treatment after Tim dies on the operating table. Meanwhile, Frieda and Penny clash on the ward when Frieda makes a good call which saves a patient but which leads Penny to finding out that Frieda is a trained doctor. Elsewhere, Faye and Joseph receive the news that their expected baby does not have Lowe's Disease but their tentative relationship is scuppered by the careless actions of Lady Byrne.
Connie finds out from Terence and Mark that they have replaced Michael with Henrik Hanssen as the new Joint Director of Surgery. Connie clashes with him almost immediately. Elsewhere, Joseph begins to have the same doubts about Faye that Linden did. Meanwhile, Penny begins to stress out after being on call constantly. Hanssen meets with the staff and tells them there will be job cuts and appoints Michael as new consultant of AAU to replace Linden.
Henrik Hanssen has until the end of the day to make cuts as requested by the Department of Health and he decides that a consultant post will make the necessary cut he needs and decides on Ric. But Connie is far from happy with this scenario and asks that she tell Ric instead of Henrik. But then she decides to cut 8 nurses instead to make the savings and keep Ric on but this decision goes down badly with Elliott. Meanwhile, Michael neglects his post on AAU and focuses his time in Holby Care much to the annoyance of Hanssen.
Chrissie returns to Holby much to Sacha's delight but it doesn't turn out quite what he expected when Chrissie responds to Greg's charm. Ric's daughter Jess also makes a return and is newly engaged but is unaware of how serious Ric's condition is and they come to blows before he finally realises that he needs to take some time off to deal with his treatment. Meanwhile, Faye becomes increasingly unstable and puts herself and the baby at risk during a measles outbreak.
New locum consultant Keira Balfour manages to ruffle Jac's feathers on Keller and she takes her eye off the ball and messes up in surgery. She later falsifies the patients record to take the blame off her and put it on Chrissie. Mark later tells her she can interview for the permanent locum consultant and after a balsy interview with Mark and Hansen she is offered the job but Michael warns her of her rash decision in applying for the job. Meanwhile, Faye's stability on the ward is questioned and later at her baby shower she throws a wobbly and then becomes violent towards a patient forcing Joseph to have her committed to a baby and mother psych facility. Elsewhere, Donna's colleagues give her a taste of her own medicine.
Eager to please Michael in his bid for Director of Surgery at St. Stephen's Sheena Clore sneaks her way into Hanssen's office to get information off his laptop but Hanssen catches her via his web-cam and suspends her. She is further devastated when Michael fails to take some of the blame. Meanwhile, Sami, a young foreign national is brought in by border patrol but Elliott refuses to do the surgery he needs done as he is not covered in the UK. His mother decides to leave him thinking he will get the treatment he needs with her gone but when Oliver and Elliott re-read the scans they find that Sami has very little time and dies shattering Oliver and which underlines his own unprofessionalism. Elsewhere, Donna and the rest of the nurses take a hard line with the agency nurses, including new male nurse, Kieran Callaghan, and brings her concerns to Hanssen and the Board. Penny had a hard time trying to cover for Michael and getting him to write her AEU rotation report.
On Connie's first day back, after looking after her father, Hanssen tells her that not all on Darwin are pulling their weight indicating Elliott. Connie decides not to tell Elliott and he continues to make slip ups in front of Hanssen unknown that he is being watched until it all comes to a head when a patient learns her daughter died in an accident and Elliott had concealed the truth from her in order to get the mother into surgery. Elsewhere, Jac trying to show that she is a worthy consultant in front of Hanssen messes up big time when she goes ahead with colon surgery to remove a blockage after Hanssen tells her to stop. Meanwhile, Frieda impresses Michael when she is asked to work day shift by Penny.
Faye goes into labour at the Mother & Baby Psych unit but refuses to leave the unit to have her baby at Holby - it takes a visit and a talk from Jac to convince her to do the right thing. Meanwhile, Chrissie gets prepared for her date with Greg but realises as the time gets nearer that Greg only wants to have fun whereas she wants a more settled relationship and she calls off the date. Elsewhere, Donna continues to give agency nurse Kieran a hard time but by the end of the day she warms to him after she discovers he has a young son and agrees to go on a date with him.
Faye gives birth to a boy but she distances herself from the baby almost immediately. Joseph steps in and eventually coaxes her to accept the baby and she agrees to name the baby Harry in memory of Joseph's late brother. Joseph makes the decision to halt the divorce proceedings and give their marriage another chance which crushes Jac who had thought that she now had a chance with Joseph. Meanwhile, Elliott attempts to go with Connie's new regime but finds he is abandoning patient care and considers leaving. Elsewhere, former patient Patrick Wright indicates that he is suing Holby over their treatment of him. Mark informs Chrissie that it was her that was responsible for his care but Sasha believes that Chrissie is innocent and sets out to prove it which worries Jac as it was her that altered his medical record.
Elliott gets an appointment letter for a check-up with Occupational Health Specialist and immediately suspects that Hanssen is behind it. Greg later finds a letter indicating it was Connie that recommended Elliott for check-up. Meanwhile, Oliver starts his new rotation on AEU but it starts off bad with a flood of accident victims and a mistake that could cause him his job. Elsewhere, Connie's dad William Chase prepares for hernia surgery but complications lead him to having a permanent colostomy bag and afterwards he tells Connie he no longer wants to see her; Joseph gets a key to Jac's apartment and Donna gives into her attraction for Kieran.
Chrissie's negligence case is up for review and she is finding it very hard to cope. Also seeing Sacha with a new woman gets her thinking that perhaps they could be more than friends. But at the tribunal Jac manipulates events her way to make it look that Chrissie is at fault and Chrissie only has one person to blame after that - Sacha - who gave her the information. Meanwhile, Penny continues to shine under Michael so much so that when he asks her to debrief in the bar the rest of the staff tell her it's a date. Elsewhere, Joseph suggests to Faye that she spends Christmas with him and his mother in London which upsets Jac; Kieran and Donna agree to spend Christmas together and Connie's dad protests about going into a nursing home.
Joseph persuades Faye to let him bring baby Harry up after they agree to take a break from each other following Faye's erratic behaviour. Faye goes to work in Paris but plans to come back for Harry. Connie's father is re-admitted and the prognosis is not good. Elliott operates on him assisted by Faye so Connie, fed up with all the cuts at Holby, makes the decision to leave Holby to care for him but tells Jac that she has secured a position with the European Transplant Board in Brussels for two days per week to keep her hand in.
Hanssen gives registrar Antoine Malick another chance to prove himself by making him work alongside Michael. But Michael finds Malick a little too hard to handle after he constantly challenges his surgical methods and has him thrown out of surgery and AED but Hanssen manages to convince him to give Malick another chance. Chrissie is summonsed to a hearing but doesn't get demoted as she feared but is unaware that it was Mark's abuse of power that saved her job. Elsewhere, Donna begins to enjoy her relationship with Kieran until he gets called up to go to serve in Afghanistan which devastates Donna.
Joseph asks Hanssen if he can make his hours more flexible to accommodate his son but Hanssen tells him he was proposing him for Connie's vacant consultant post which floors Joseph. Mark begins his slashing of nurses and Frieda is first in the firing line. But after a trying day including dealing with the hot-headed Malick she decides to apply to be an F1. Joseph decides not to take Connie's job and asks Jac to move with him but she refuses. Elsewhere, Sacha practically begs Chrissie for forgiveness but she's not letting him off the hook lightly.
Greg is tested in more ways than one and is not helped with Elliott's condemnation of his dalliance with Mary-Claire. Greg's patient - a blogger who goes to the nth degree to keep his blogging fresh - infuriates him. Meanwhile, Sasha asks Chrissie out on a date but she finally puts him out of his misery and tells him it will never happen. Elsewhere, a miserable Donna comes back to Holby and quickly becomes aggrieved with new agency nurse Jerry Campbell and in the end fires him. But her actions don't go down well with the rest of the nursing staff.
Elliott's stress test approaches and he worries that if he fails it his only option will be to do consultancy and research work. But his passes the test much to Hanssen's amazement but Hanssen has to stand back and admire Elliott later when he sees him at work during an operation. But cutbacks have to be made and Hanssen realises it will have to be Ric that goes instead. But Mark does some research, with the help of Chrissie, and finds that Holby is not in danger of closing and then promptly resigns as Chief Executive. Meanwhile, Donna finally agrees to meet Kieran before he goes off to Afghanistan. Elsewhere, Hanssen tells Jac he's demoting her to save costs and she is furious.
Hanssen tells Elliott he must do a documentary to promote Holby just as he takes in one of Connie's old patients and tries to find the underlying cause of the woman's illness. Frieda's last day as a nurse is not her finest especially as she clashes with Malick before she finds out she's made it to the F1 programme. Chrissie clashes with a patient with odd beliefs and finally tenders her notice to Hanssen who refuses it. And Malick and Penny cross swords frequently making her reconsider her days in Holby.
Malick is forced to attend anger management classes as part of his transfer to AEU as Registrar and it is severely tested by a racist patient. Frieda begins her first day as an F1 on AEU with Malick questioning her every procedure. Chrissie is recommended for the Nurse Consultant course but is unsure if she will be able to do it. Seeing Sasha trying to do anything for Chrissie so she can do the course Greg recommends that Sasha look to finding someone new and getting back in the game. He urges Mary-Claire to help him but both she and Sasha turn the tables on Greg when he becomes jealous of Mary-Claire with Sasha. Elsewhere, Ric interferes with Michael's operation on one of his former patients and Elizabeth finally finds her voice.
Jac returns to Holby and begins her day as the new CT registrar on Darwin but gets a shock when she finds out that Hanssen has appointed a second registrar, Sahira Shah, and she wasts no time in telling him what she thinks. But Hanssen equally is ready for Jac and tells her that she can have the job she currently has or go elsewhere. Ric goes back to get his results and to find out if he was able to get the cancer drug Rafmonolox. He is delighted to report to both Elizabeth and Donna that he got the drug but then he begins to treat cancer patient Ruby Fisher who has been refused the drug. He makes the decision to give her his supply of the drug but Ruby deteriorates and is no longer suitable. Elsewhere, new orthopaedic consultant Dan Hamilton gets on Chrissie's wrong side and he lives to regret his words.
After Elliott gets stung near his eye Hanssen has his main surgery transferred to Greg and Sahira. Sasha, Donna and Elizabeth have to treat a former junkie with liver disease who refuses any pain relief in case he relapses. Meanwhile, Chrissie begins her new job as nurse consultant under the supervision of Dan Hamilton. Elsewhere, Donna hears that Kieran has been injured in Afghanistan and after much persuasion from Elizabeth leaves to be with Kieran and Chrissie isn't happy about it.
Donna arrives at the military hospital where Kieran is being treated to find out from his mother that his leg is badly damaged. Kieran tells her to go and on the verge of going changes her mind and stays. Kieran is rushed into surgery but despite all efforts they cannot save his leg and it is amputated below the knee. Meanwhile, a former patient is brought into AEU and a subsequent investigation by Ollie finds that he left a swab in the patient's wound previously. He begs Penny to cover for him as if he is found out he will have to repeat his rotation. To double protect him he removes his name from the surgical database but Malick is suspicious and confronts Ollie in front of Penny. Penny is disgusted with Ollie and walks out as Malick tells Ollie he has failed his rotation. Elsewhere, Elliott gives Jac a lecture for undermining his authority which causes Hanssen to reduce Elliott's teaching hours.
Jac takes advantage of Sahira as she uses all the skills to get the consultancy post offered by Hanssen and is not beyond using Sahira's childcare problems to get there. Elsewhere, Donna finds out that Kieran's rehabilitation will be better served up north and when Kieran asks her to go with him she barely hesitates and makes her departure from Holby. Meanwhile, Frieda continues to show her superiority over the nursing staff and Chrissie in particular until Malick makes her see the error of her ways.
Ollie begs Penny to give him another chance to prove himself so that he can pass his F2 rotation. Michael and Malick put her in charge of the AEU for the day and she agrees to monitor Ollie strictly. But Ollie seems to have a self-destruct button that gets him into more trouble and then Penny finds out that he cheated and used Penny's work to do it. Meanwhile, Sahira is finding it hard to cope and Hanssen questions her commitment should she get the vacant consultancy post. Elsewhere, Chrissie is far from amused to find that Dan has been discussing her with Sacha.
Ric is furious when he finds that Hanssen has outsourced procedures to other hospitals to cut costs. Ric mounts a revolution against him and preforms an operation against Hanssen's wishes. Later, Hanssen finds out that Ric's drug regime has not reduced the size of his tumour and he offers to operate on him. Elsewhere, Elliott blames Jac when notes on a case go missing and a complaint is made after the patient in question cuts off his hand in an unlocked theatre.
Hanssen advises the Holby consultants and registrars that he believes doing an extended right hemihepatectomy on Ric will save his life. But Elliott is furious and sets about getting all surgical staff to not comply with Hanssen's request. But Ric believes he must do it as he has little chance of surviving otherwise. Jess goes into labour and Jac is forced to deliver her baby son Jake. Elsewhere, Frieda takes a despondent Ollie under her wing and makes him see that repeating his F2 rotation is not the end of the world. Meanwhile, Jac pronounces her surgical pericarditis patient dead only for Ollie and Frieda to find her alive in the morgue later.
It's the day of the CT Consultant's job and Sahira and Jac are geared up for it. But then Sahira's patient Gary Mills presents and she has unpleasant news to tell him following scans and biopsy results. The case overtakes her preparation for the job and she fails to turn up for the interview giving Jac the job practically on a plate. Meanwhile, Malick and Oliver deal with what appears to be a husband beater after a couple are brought in with serious injuries. Malick is inclined to believe the man as he infers his wife has psych problems until he sees the man threatening his wife after surgery. Malick advises the man that his wife is making a statement and she will get away from him even if it means going to prison. Elsewhere, Dan tries really hard to win over Chrissie but keeps putting his foot it in.
Penny tells Oliver that he must come clean about his falsified results and if he doesn't she will. But before he does a train crash necessitates Holby going into crisis mode and Michael elects Penny and Frieda to go with him to the crash site. Meanwhile, Jac starts out her day as CT consultant and manages to aggravate everyone around her including a patient's husband. Elsewhere, Sasha is none to happy with Dan and his ongoing relationship with Chrissie and his young son Daniel. Later, Oliver receives devastating news from Michael - Penny has died as a result of injuries she received whilst treating a patient at the train site. He confesses to Malick what he did but Malick tells him he is going to overlook it as he did fine work during the day.
Michael meets up with his old colleague Sunil Bhatti at Holby and gets involved in his plastic surgery case of a protected witness. But the non-disclosure of information rattles Frieda and she unwittingly puts the patient in danger. Elsewhere, Hanssen dresses down Jac for not passing on the offer of counselling to staff after Penny's death. Meanwhile, Dan and Malick are at odds over an obese patient and Sahira gets involved in the case of an elderly Polish war veteran.
Michael goes all gung-ho to get the plastic surgery bid with Sunil Bhatti up and running and he doesn't mind who he has to trample to get there and that includes his ex-wife Annaliese. Elsewhere, Oliver came back to Holby after Penny's death but Frieda believes it was too soon and which showed when he misdiagnosed an ectopic pregnancy. Meanwhile, Greg and Sahira vie for the surgery case of a young teen.
Greg wrestles with a decision to operate on his patient Ellie when her chances of survival in theatre are drastically low. Ric returns to Holby and sets himself up with a bet against Dan as to who can do the most surgeries. Meanwhile, Frieda is found to be allergic to a patient because of her make-up and has to go without it for the day - a fact she hates.
Greg cannot see right for doing wrong these days and finds himself with two strikes to his name and on the verge of being suspended by Hanssen until Sahira steps into the breach and saves his bacon. Meanwhile, Dan tries to make it up to Chrissie after he drunkenly rang her the previous night and insulted her. Elsewhere, Malick delivers the baby of a heroin addict and he struggles to manage her which does not impress Ric.
Elizabeth's past catches up with her with the arrival of her estranged and very ill grandmother on the ward. Meanwhile, Hanssen tells Sasha that he is moving him from his current post to head of AEU but after a trying day Sasha feels he is not going to be able to cope but Hanssen tells him he chose him for the role as he is more than capable. Elsewhere, Jac and Sunil clash over patients with Sunil winning the battle - this time.
Sasha is finding that running the AEU is harder than it seems and all would be well if it was just the patients but he is finding the staff hard going as well - so much so that he finally takes the bull by the horns and tells Chrissie that he is moving her from AEU to Keller after herself and Frieda have a blow up. Meanwhile, Michael and Sunil team together to do a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction in order to impress the head of the Health Authority. But all goes pear shaped when Jac has to take over the theatre for an urgent cardiac patient. Michael then discovers that Sunil is getting his supplies from a company owned by his wife and accused Sunil of corruption. Michael agrees to work with him reluctantly but becomes wary of him. Elsewhere, Dan and Malick have a set-too and it is up to Ric to sort out the problems they cause.
Dan's best friend Sean arrives at Holby with serious knee pain but afterwards when Sean's knee remains inflamed Malick tells Dan he must do an MRI and general surgery must be the next course of action. After the surgery Dan has to tell Sean he won't have full use of his leg again. In a fit of rage in the shower rooms he kisses Malick but pulls away and goes to Chrissie and tells her he loves her. Elsewhere, Jac asks Hanssen to operate with her on an aortic transection but Hanssen has other plans and asks Sahira to operate with him instead of Jac and also tells her he has removed the warning from her file. But Jac is not impressed and Hanssen doesn't get the thanks from Sahira that he expected and is piqued when he sees her leaving with Greg. Elsewhere, Frieda learns that her father has died suddenly in the Ukraine but doesn't tell anyone after initially been denied time off.
It's Elizabeth's birthday and with it springs an impromptu visit from her long estranged and mentally disturbed mother Simone. Ric becomes concerned about Elizabeth after Simone has an incident and after Elizabeth takes her home it still has grave concerns. Meanwhile, Sunil and Michael's domination of the theatre rooms enrages Jac when she cannot operate where and when she wants to. So she goes digging and finds the link between Sunil and the company supplying the plastic surgery parts. Threatening to tell all who will listen she forces Michael into a corner and he comes out fighting with a document that silences her - management are planning to move cardiothoracics to St James's. Elsewhere, Sasha works with two very temporary nurses - Eddi and Chantelle - on the same day that he gets an inspection from Hanssen. After they pass inspection he offers Eddi a more senior role in AEU.
Jac pressurises Michael for a contract which he reluctantly gives after she hears from Hanssen that cardiothoracics is going to St. James's. But then she hears about Sahira's plan for mobile CT units and knows that Hanssen will back her so Jac puts herself forward as consultant for the project and thus having two jobs to pick from. Elsewhere, Malick taunts Dan continuously as they do a double surgery procedure as Chrissie continues to be blissfully in love with Dan unknowing of Dan and Malick's interaction. Elsewhere, Eddi's former nursing tutor, Barbara Bried, is brought into AEU and her unpleasantness does not go down well with anyone - including Eddi.
Ollie returns to Holby after Penny's death but he struggles with work and home. He decides to tender his notice as he realises he will never be the doctor Penny was meant to be but Hanssen asks him to reconsider. Meanwhile, Elizabeth is reunited again with her mentally ill mother at her grandmother's funeral.
Hanssen comes under pressure from Sir Fraser Anderson to choose whether to save Darwin and Sahira's new job or lose foundation status for Holby. Meanwhile, a jealous Dan tries all manner of tricks to keep Chrissie from Malick as he fears Malick will tell Chrissie about their kiss. Chrissie tells Eddi that Chantelle will have to be let go so Sacha takes on the task of telling her and finds it very hard to do.
Sahira's project for her Cardiac Trauma Unit is on thin water with Hanssen and so she defies him but how much trouble will it land her in. Meanwhile, Dan thinks about introducing Chrissie to his mother but Chrissie has plans to spend weekend studying with Malick which only causes an oneupmanship game between both which could end nasty.
After Malick leaves a noticeable cut on Dan's cheek after their fight Chrissie takes matters into her own hands and tells Hanssen. Knowing that Malick could face suspension because of his prior history Dan tells Hanssen that he tripped and it had nothing to do with Malick. Meanwhile, Sacha resolves to get over his unrequited love for Chrissie and falls for the daughter of his dementia patient but all does not end well and Michael learns that all is not sweetness and light in the plastics game when a young girl suffers heart problems after she has a breast augmentation.
Sacha is landed with two new F1's but there is only one job so he sets out a test for both but favours the chief's daughter but is he making the right decision? Meanwhile, Sahira is faced with a critical case on her trial and goes ahead with emergency surgery despite's Jac's warning that the patient is likely to die. Elsewhere, Malick is determined to prove himself to Hanssen but takes on a challenging patient which endeavours to put him back a few steps.
Elizabeth's mum is transferred to Holby and Ric takes over her care on his day off and tries to persuade Elizabeth that she is not to blame for her mothers illness. Sahira misses her 2-year old son's birthday party to operate on a four year old trauma case and comes under severe pressure in doing so. Meanwhile, Lulu tests Eddi's patience on AEU.
Greg is faced with a blast from the past when his old friend Andy turns up at Holby with a serious heart problems and he wants Greg to operate on him. But Greg is reluctant to do so because of their checkered past. Meanwhile, Chrissie doesn't take well to Dan's plans for them going away together and Michael takes a shine to new F1 Lulu unaware that she is Sir Fraser's daughter.
Greg does his best to put distance between himself and his old school friend Andy but Andy won't let him. Finally refusing to have anything more to do with him leads Andy to consider suicide from the top of one of the hospital buildings - will Greg be able to get to him on time? Meanwhile, a newly returned Frieda baits F1 Lulu after she susses what her game is. Elsewhere, Elizabeth tries to nurse her mentally unstable mother and finally has to admit defeat and seek help.
Both Sacha and Malick have a difficult day with their respective patients; a young snowboarder who may not walk again and a nervous 40-year old who is afraid of hospitals. Meanwhile, Henrik has to perform a laproscopic procedure on Sir Terence's 'wife' and later finds out that all cardiothoracic surgeries are being transferred to St. James within 6 weeks which will have a devastating effect on current staff in that area.
Frieda struggles to get through the day following the death of her father and it's not helped by Lulu trying to usurp her with Michael and a patient who claims he can hear dead people including her father. Meanwhile, the board of St. James's descends on Holby in the wake of the reshuffle and causes upheaval in both Elliott and Sahira's lives leading Sahira to resign. Elsewhere, Ric's daughter Jess decides to go live in Jamaica with her mum but due to the board at Holby Ric doesn't get to the airport to say goodbye in person.
Lulu refuses to be discreet in her relationship with Michael but in craving Michael's attention for surgery experience will she go too far? Meanwhile, Chantelle tries to repair Simone and Elizabeth's relationship before she is moved from Holby by organising a picnic but Simone gives Elizabeth some of her medicine in her drink poisoning Elizabeth. Elsewhere, Greg continues to push his self-destruct button and his cavalier attitude leads to one of his patient's dying.
Chantelle's attempts to cheer Elizabeth up backfire when she plays a joke on Elizabeth's patient who doesn't see the funny side. Meanwhile, Michael finally sees the error of his ways in getting in a relationship with Lulu but not before she hits his daughter Jasmine. Sensing a time bomb Hanssen has Lulu 'promoted' to a job in London so that she cannot wreck Sunil & Michael's plan for Trust status.
A stressed out and tired Sahira lets Greg cover for her on night shift but when a procedure goes wrong Jac is called in and discovers what Greg did and reports him to Hanssen - who is not best pleased. Meanwhile, Dan and new agency nurse Stephen become close leading Stephen to proposition him. An angry Dan disposes of Stephen's number and asks Chrissie to marry him instead. But will he stay true to her?
Michael finally realises that Sunil may not be what he seems to be - and that there maybe a serious problem with the breast implants as a series of women present themselves with follow-up problems. Eddi becomes personally involved with Josh's physio but it could endanger her career. Elsewhere, Chantelle tries to get Elizabeth out of her very reluctant shell. But Chantelle doesn't tell Elizabeth that her mother was asking for her and is distraught when she finds out.
Sunil and Michael re-operate on one of their patients who has a faulty silicone implant but Sunil's poor decisions and his ability to take no blame will affect Michael's career. Meanwhile, Elizabeth's mother Simone's condition worsens but Elizabeth still cannot get answers as to why Simone treated her so bad during the childhood. Elsewhere, Josh pushes himself to hard in order to get Eddi's attention.
Hanssen is met by Sir Fraser and is told that Holby reaching foundation Trust Status will be put on hold. Aware that the hospitals fate relies on today's performance, can Hanssen prove that he has full support of his staff? Elizabeth returns to Keller from compassionate leave, only to receive some unexpected news. Chrissie is determined to prove herself to Eddi, realising her nurse practitioner module relies on Eddi's sign off. Now engage to Dan, Chrissie's personal life has begun to interfere with her professional life.
Sahira is tired of Hanssen's new management regime, but when Kris Swann arrives as Sir Fraser's management consultant, Hanssen is less than pleased and rallies support from the team. But Sahira is determined to treat her patients as best she knows how, until she realises how much pressure Hanssen really is under. Sacha blocks out the AAU team and remains secretive about a patients CT scan, a suspicious Chrissie suspects something so goes behind Sacha's back. Chantelle's day doesn't get off to a good start when she accidentally crashes into Ric's car!
Michael returns to Holby for his disciplinary hearing. Michael and Ric lock horns once more over a patient in desperate need of Michael's expertise. Jac spots an opportunity to capitalise on Michael's mistakes, and tries everything she can to distance herself from the plastics fiasco. When Jac misses out on a career-enhancing procedure, she tries to convince Ollie to join forces on a new research project. Ollie finds out some information about Jac concerning the plastics scandal. Dan pressurises Chrissie about wedding plans and she loses her temper.
When baby Freya's test results reveal a very rare heart condition, Jac goes against Elliot's instructions and decides to perform a potentially life-threatening procedure. As the operation draws closer Jac begins to question the validity of her decision. The operation is successful, until baby Freya develops a bleed and Jac has to step up and save her life. A new senior registrar joins AAU. Baby Freya is in danger when an AAU patient who has been jailed for kidnapping learns of Freya's presence, whilst in jail the patient contracted a form of TB, causing Eddi to put AAU on lock down. For the research project Ollie must gather information from Orthopaedics, being an F2 down, Ollie offers to help Dan, Ollie likes Dan's method and begins to question his future on Darwin.
Michael returns to Holby but Hanssen removes him from private practice at Holby Care and so he has to go on public wards where he foolishly convinces a patient to go private after his planned operation has been cancelled. Dan is conflicted over his feelings for ex-nurse Stephen and gives into his urges outside Holby only to be caught by Greg. Sahira clashes with Gillian, the new theatre liaison manager that Hanssen appointed, but it's not long before Gillian feels she's in the wrong place and resigns.
When Malick hears about Michael's resignation, he opts to spend the day on AAU trying to impress him. Malick and Luc argue over the treatment of a trauma patient with glass stuck in his leg. Malick lets his ego trump his judgement. Sahira's had enough of Greg's special treatment and tells him to keep his distance. With Dan on a conference in Miami, Oliver is left in charge of all things orthopaedic.
Sahira confronts Hanssen about the administration and communication chaos that exists in their department, but Hanssen refuses to engage and keeps his distance. When a complex emergency trauma case comes in, Hanssen is forced to get involved - but his cautious approach clashes with the risks that Sahira needs him to take. Michael is doing his best to stay detached and serve his notice. But when Rose, a former breast implant patient, is admitted, Michael is forced to re-visit the repercussions of the plastics scandal. Dan is pleased to see Chrissie after his conference trip, but soon has to face awkward questions about why Greg is not his best man. Will Dan have the guts to be honest with Chrissie?
Sahira is delighted when Hanssen invites her to a conference in Stockholm, but soon realises she has to pull out when it clashes with her wedding anniversary. Hanssen seems to be okay with the change of plan, but when a young patient is admitted with an intriguing case, Hanssen uses it as an opportunity to draw Sahira back in. Chrissie pretends all is fine with Dan, but finds herself distracted in her practical exam. Chrissie admires the courage of Becky Unwin, a surviving rape victim who appears to have been able to move on. Chantelle's happy-go-lucky attitude reassures Andy Taylor, a nervous patient prior to his surgery. But when her driving test results force her to rethink her approach, her change of attitude puts Andy at risk.
When Malick's ex-boyfriend Paul and his family are involved in an accident that brings them to Holby, Malick is surprised by the strength of his feelings for Paul. Malik suggests a risky plan to save him and his brother, but when the reality of that plan hits Malick, he is left wondering if he has gone too far. Jac is still secretly besotted with baby Freya, who has unbelievably broken through her defences. When Nicole, Freya's mother, returns, Jac lies to social services. Chrissie tries to convince herself that she and Dan are on the right track after a rocky patch.
Malick's nightmare continues as he struggles to keep control of events. As Paul's kidney failure worsens, Malick takes more and more risks in an effort to save him. When Paul's brother, Adam, dies, Malick blames himself. Chrissie is struggling with the plans for her wedding. Desperate for it to be perfect, she refuses any offer of help. However, when she sees a genuinely happily married couple she realises that she has never had that - at least not with Dan. Jac, still bruised from saying goodbye to baby Freya, takes out her frustrations on new F1 Kip Maxwell. Prejudging him on his age (he's older than most F1s) and questioning his commitment when he constantly takes calls on his phone, she is left embarrassed when he reveals why he has been so distracted.
Elliot arrives in Kiev under the impression he is to give a lecture to a group of students, but he discovers the real reason he has been invited is to perform a risky heart operation. Sacha is determined to cheer up Chrissie after her recent split from Dan, but when he wrongly assumes her feelings for him aren't real, he risks losing everything.
Eddi is suffering with the effects of the previous night's New Year's celebration. She doesn't get much time to feel sorry for herself, though, when she finds Rachel, a hung-over and freezing woman who has passed out. Luc disagrees on her course of treatment, creating a huge rift between them. Ollie is enjoying his new found respect and a good working relationship with Dan. He knows it is a far cry from being Jac Naylor's punch bag. Despite this, Ollie realises that the work is not exactly the adrenaline-high octane level he's used to on Darwin. When a simple ankle procedure becomes complicated, he is happy to be involved again in the world of high-stakes surgery. Realising where his heart truly lies, he confesses to a disappointed Dan that he wants to return to Darwin. Sahira is tasked with finding a secret shopper who has been admitted on Darwin. When two unruly and warring patients disrupt things on the ward, Sahira and Greg try to keep things calm whilst flirting with each other. She and Greg strike up New Year's resolutions- her to give up crisps and Greg cigarettes.
Greg is stunned when Sahira announces she is leaving. Hanssen starts a new project.
Sahira is torn between the two men in her life. She desperately tries to fight her feelings for Greg, but feels vulnerable when she needs his support in an extremely complex heart operation. Greg volunteers to go with Sahira to a work conference when Hanssen has to step down. Together they are a brilliant team and secure funding for the Cardiac Trauma Unit. After such a successful evening, will Sahira be able to resist a goodnight kiss? Ric is annoyed by the press interest, but Hanssen is pleased to have potentially good PR for the hospital. It is a stressful time, and Chantelle gets caught in the crossfire. Time is running out for Frieda to complete her F1 portfolio on AAU. With no other consultant available, she asks Michael Spence to assess her.
Greg struggles to keep his distance from Sahira, but is gutted when she reveals she is leaving Holby to move with her husband and his new job. Working on an RTA victim together, Hanssen learns of her desire to leave and does all he can to change her mind. When high-achieving F1 student Jez Atkins is admitted after an RTA accident, Frieda's insecurity about her own ability to pass her F1 grows. When Frieda learns she has been summoned to Hanssen's office for her results, she can only assume the worst for her future in medicine. A happy Chrissie and Sacha return from their holiday in Australia. Dan is forced to work with them and pretends he is fine with their burgeoning romance. But it's not long before his anger takes over and Dan has to face some painful truths.
A new consultant starts today and Michael feels that his position is in jeopardy.
Sacha runs into monetary problems whilst trying to finish the sale of his new home with Chrissie. Meanwhile, as Ollie tries to psych himself up to present his research at the Awards dinner Jac assigns him to a case which leads him to diagnose a rare condition. Elsewhere, Chantelle misinterprets Lleucu's good intentions over Ollie.
Eddi's younger brother Liam continues to mess us but in doing so begins to take an interest in surgery which is nurtured by Luc. Elsewhere, Elliott's hope of relocating Holby's discarded equipment to the Ukraine hits a snag with an over eager disposals man and Holby bureaucracy. But help writing the proposal from a long-term seriously patient might just swing it with Hanssen. Meanwhile, although the butt of surgery jokes Tara diagnoses that a patient with Parkinsons is self-medicating with Ecstasy which was missed by Frieda and Malick.
Alex takes over from Michael when a British national is air-lifted home from The Gambia after contacting a suspected tropical disease - which doesn't please Michael any little bit. Chantelle struggles to tell Lleucu that she's off to Ibiza on holiday on the same day that they're due to move into the same house. Hanssen asks Sahira takes over the case of a young woman who's contacted a rare form of cancer but her continued interaction with Hanssen doesn't please her husband Rafi.
The clinical skills lead becomes a battleground between Malick and Dan - with only one winner. Rafi confronts Greg over his attraction for his wife Sahira after a particular trying day and Alex and Michael reach a truce - but will it stay in place once he finds out about the report she has written for Hanssen?
Luc, preoccupied with a patient with an assumed identity and not getting to the bottom of the patient's diagnosis misses an appointment with Liam. Elsewhere, Tara finds a way to deal with death in a most unexpected way. Meanwhile, after Rafi resigns from his post to take up a new job in Nottingham, Greg confesses that he's in love with her and Henrik sidelines Sahira in favour of Jac over her patient's operation Sahira makes a decision to save her marriage and leave with Rafi.
Sahira's last day is eventful to say the least and Hanssen is not for helping in the slightest. Malick gets in over his head when he attempts to repair a child's hand cut through by a chainsaw. Eddi and Luc work together with a temperamental pregnant woman which brings them romantically closer.
Greg becomes involved in a young female teenager's case - who he suspects is also being molested by her father. Annalese tells Michael that she and Ric have split up and she's about to take up a post in the US and wants to take their kids with her. Malick's teaching makes him face up to his responsibilities. Meanwhile, Ric gets the all clear cancer wise.
Greg's former teenage patient Lucy Haines's father is admitted with stab wounds and he later has a discussion with Lucy which alludes to her having stabbed him. But she refuses to talk to the authorities and in the meantime her father accuses Greg about his intimate relationship with his daughter leading Hanssen to think about sacking him. Breaking down Greg tells Elliott about his past. Greg finally decides to resign and heads back home to Ireland. Elsewhere, Michael struggles to relate to his daughter and Malick has to eat humble pie and apologise to the widow of his bowel patient.
Ric clashes with Keller's new consultant Serena Campbell. Tara infuriates Jac by interfering in her work, and Eddi tries to appear nonchalant about her kiss with Luc. BBC.
Sacha tries to encourage Ella, a medical student on the verge of quitting - but discovers he may have overestimated her capabilities. UKTV.
Two new members of staff arrive on Darwin as Holby tries to establish itself as a transplant centre. An old friend of Dan's starts work on Keller. UKTV.
Malick clashes with Serena over a patient's care, but is unnerved when she responds by giving him full responsibility for the case. UKTV.
Serena's daughter and her friend Gabby are brought into Holby after the drunken & drug effects from a house party. Oliver and Tara chase after a young girl who's seriously ill but is intent in finding her father before she has surgery.
Jonny & Mo place bets on Tara & Ollie's relationship & how it develops. Jonny wins the bet when Ollie tries to protect Tara after she makes a mistake with a patient. Meanwhile, Luc and Eddi's burgeoning relationship hits a snag just as an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease is discovered in Holby. Elsewhere, Dan asks Simon out.
Luc is determined to redeem himself for missing the diagnosis that led to the legionnaires' disease outbreak, and frantically searches for its source. BBC.
Dan's father Jeremy is not dealing well with his MND diagnosis and takes it out on his son and on both his direct nursing carers Chantelle and Simon. Tara catches Hanssen's notice with her diagnosis on a shrapnel brain injury but in doing so only draws notice to her own brain tumour which she has not made public pushing Hanssen to suspend her. Elsewhere, Eddi and Luc's fledgling relationship is tested.
Ric puts his faith in Chantelle after Serena keeps putting her down but when she oversteps the mark in relaying information to a patients husband she puts her professionalism in jeopardy. Luc disappears upsetting Eddi which isn't helped by constant needling by Chrissie. Michael puts his much planned visit to the US on hold to cover for Luc missing his son's birthday in the process.
Simon gets a permanent job offer in Leeds which upsets Dan and takes its toil during surgery on a broken neck. But some wise words from Malick makes Dan see the light and he quits his job to move with Simon. Meanwhile, Tara returns to Holby and reaches an understanding with Hanssen that if her condition worsens she steps away from Holby. Elsewhere, Ella reappears in AED after being injured in a fire much to Chrissie's horror. Later, Chrissie proposes to Sasha and he accepts.
Ric and Serena clash over her general surgery electives which nearly causes disaster with a newly informed pregnant and her bowel surgery. Tension mounts between Tara and Ollie and Eddi gets off on the wrong foot with an elderly patient.
Mo goes into early labour but defies going to maternity until Jonnie can get hold of the real mother of the baby - Sorcia. But hold-ups means that a reluctant Jac has to assist Mo in the delivery of the baby boy. Elsewhere, Serena has to manage surgeries without the assistance of Ric and Eddi takes her frustration with Luc on the rest of the staff.
Tara tries to win Jac's support for a research project, but she refers her to Ollie - forcing the young doctor to consider how she feels about him. BBC.
Malick puts his career on the line to override the wishes of a convicted killer in his care, while Eddi's attempt to be more efficient backfires. BBC.
Chrissie and Serena clash over Keller's non-referral system as time starts to run out on a patient who may lose her leg. Meanwhile, Mo insists in returning to work but she gets a surprise when Sorcia turns up at Holby after their son is admitted.
After AAU reaches crisis point because of the non-referral system Michael takes matters in his own hands. An overtired Tara refuses to ask for help and nearly endangers a patient in the process and elsewhere Chantelle comes face to face with a colleague from school who takes her wrath out on Chantelle.
Michael incurs George Binns's wrath when he goes against protocol with a patient forcing the patient to be transferred. When the patient dies Michael takes his fury out on George and Hanssen. Meanwhile, Serena and Ric clash over a liver transplant case when it is discovered that the patient had taken a drink. Elsewhere, Mo asks Jonnie to be her plus one on the same day that he's going away secretly with Jac. So Jonnie goes about setting her up with smitten obstetrician Jake Thompson much to Mo's fury.
As a result of Michael's patient dying Hanssen revokes George's ward referral policy - much to George's annoyance. Elsewhere, Mo faces an ethical dilemma when a young Jehovah Witness patient refuses to undergo her operation unless Mo promises that she won't get a blood transfusion. At the same time she rumbles Jonnie & Jac's secret affair which puts a strain on their friendship. Meanwhile, an old friend of Michael's turns up in AAU and discovers she is pregnant after years of trying to have a baby.
Max begins behaving erratically after seeing a sickle-cell patient and then removes drugs from the drug cabinet. He is later asked to leave theatre by Eddi when it becomes obvious he is under the influence of drugs. Elsewhere, Tara tries to deal with an OCD patient not helped by Jac's overbearing attitude. Meanwhile, Malick has to deal with a manipulative student and needs Ric's guiding hand to sort her out.
Luc arrives back but tells Sasha he isn't staying particularly after he finds Eddi and Max in a compromising position in his lab. But Sasha's persuasiveness wins over. Meanwhile, Jac and Mo operate on a radioactive patient against Hanssen's advice. Elsewhere, Chrissie's 40th birthday is made known to all by Sasha but Chrissie's non too pleased with the news getting out.
Max begins to show signs of his continued opiate abuse which starts to effect his work. Luc forces his hand into giving a blood test but instead Max states he is leaving Holby not to return. Jonny and Mo play a practical joke on Tara with Ollie's phone but it backfires on them when Tara cottons on to what they are up to. The report into Ritchie Mooney's death is inconclusive and Hanssen is bombarded with hate mail.
A press officer from the Department of Health pay a visit to Hanssen following his previous unscheduled television interview. But Hanssen isn't finished yet and ends up embarrassing the Minister of Health publicly again on television. Luc keeps Eddi away from Holby to cure her addition to opiates. Tara tries in vain to get a young woman to take the heart she is being offered and in doing so incurs Elliott's wrath.
Eddi returns with Luc to Holby after she succeeds in battling her addiction but the pressures of her return to ED result in her slipping back into her old ways. Luc reports her to Michael who gets her brother Liam to take her away to recover. Elsewhere, Elliott's artificial heart trial looks like grounding to a halt until a chance at getting Hanssen to fund it looks like re-engaging it. Meanwhile, Chantelle and Mary-Claire go head-to-head for the permanent nursing position.
AAU gets a new doctor in Lilah Birdwood, newly returned from Australia, but can she hack working in her new environment? Serena relocates to AAU reluctantly but friction between her and Michael leads her to complain to Hanssen. Hanssen joins Elliott's team in developing the Herzig artificial heart and Terence Cunningham's brings his daughter Poppy in with a goitre problem but is not best pleased when the operation is cancelled. Elsewhere, Chantelle and Mary-Claire clash on her first day as a permanent nurse.
Henrik comes under pressure from Sir Terence and the Board and is called to a meeting to decide his future. But will Henrik make a decision none of them expect? Elsewhere, plagued by insecurities that he doesn't make enough money for Chrissie Sasha asks Michael if he would be cut out to be a consultant. Michael agrees to give him a trial. Elsewhere, Jonnie & Jac's 'secret' relationship comes to an abrupt end.
Jonnie tries to fix his fractured friendship with Mo after the fallout from the Jac break-up. Elsewhere, Ric returns to find Serena running Holby in the absence of Henrik. Elliot tries to get Ric to apply for the vacant position but Ric refuses.
Jac, seeing the error in her ways after breaking up with Jonnie, tries to re-connect with him but an Aspergers patient gets in the way. New acting CEO Imelda Cousins arrives at Holby and sets about cutting funding where no results are showing which effects Luc's fellowship work. Lilah gets to work on Keller with Ric much to Imelda's annoyance so she assigns her to work under Malick instead.
Jac starts out to impress new acting-CEO Imelda Cousins but finds herself going against Imelda's wishes that she not take in any new patients. Elsewhere, Lilah knocks heads with Malick but which brings her closer to Ric. Meanwhile, Serena runs afoul of Imelda after it emerges that when they first worked together previously Serena made Imelda's working life hell and Michael and Ramona go on a date.
Elliott's former patient Aisha Bose is re-admitted with a cardiac infection which puts her Herzig valve replacement in jeopardy. Tara's own condition weighs heavily with her and the fact that she's not told Oliver. Elsewhere, Lilah plays a dangerous game after Ric fails her in her assessment. Meanwhile, Ramona invites Michael to spend Christmas with her after Annaliese makes different holiday plans that don't involve Michael.
Lilah makes her accusations formal and Imelda tells her the Trust will be going forward with formal charges. Meanwhile, with Lilah's threat hanging over him, Ric assisted by Malick operates on cancer patient Mary Thorne to give her a new lease of life, which she at first resists. Elsewhere, Mo faces a dilemma when Albie, her married boyfriend, brings his dying wife Jan to hospital for treatment. Should Mo step aside?
A patient with a mysterious tattoo turns up in Holby and triggers Luc's memories of being in Sierra Leone. Lilah has to work hard to get back Ric's respect and Chantelle searches for a venue for her New Year Eve party only to discover that Mary-Claire has designs on Rhys.
Luc struggles with coping and is ordered by Michael to see a psychiatrist or he will be reported. But Luc fails to hold up his side of the bargain after he gets involved in a patient's care and Serena fires him. Acting on a postcard from Eddi he decides to take some time off and leaves Holby. Elsewhere, Jac travels to Stockholm to track down Henrik and find out why he has turned down a lucrative deal that would benefit Holby - only to find out that the company is owned by his estranged and seriously ill father, Anders Lövborg. Will Henrik find peace with his father before he dies?
Jonny and Jac's secret romance is going strong until she receives an invitation to Joseph Byrne's upcoming nuptials and the romance starts to unravel sharply and she turns to Sean Dolan. Henrik returns to Holby which threatens Serena's position of authority until Terence appoints her to a senior role. Elsewhere, Chrissie finds a lump on her breast.
Jac is guilt-ridden over her one-night stand with Sean especially when she finds out he's married to a fellow paeds resident. Their patient Caitlin wastes no time telling Sean's wife Vanessa about their indiscretion just after Vanessa had informed Sean that he was to be a first-time dad. Meanwhile, Malick gets a shock when he's confronted by the new porter, Jake Patterson, telling him that Malick is his dad. Elsewhere, new F1's Gemma Wilde and Arthur Digby begin their rotation at Holby.
Malick tells his new-found son Jake he doesn't want anything to do with him as he prepares to take his exams that will lead him to be a consultant. Elsewhere, Ollie posts a party at Tara's home online and he gets more than he bargained for when the party is overtaken by unknown people.
A RTA involving a toddler, his mother and her boyfriend divides Michael's team as a suspected case of child abuse rears its ugly head. Elsewhere, Oliver asks Tara to move in with him.
Serena's mother, Adrienne McKinnie, is admitted to Holby - Serena oversteps the mark by getting involved in the treatment much to Ric's annoyance. Elsewhere, the suspected child abuse case takes a different turn when the mother is diagnosed with suspected brittle bone disease which her son could also have inherited.
Luc Hemingway's former patient, Dean Delaney, returns to Holby looking for Luc and his ex-wife but when he finds that Luc has left and access is denied to his wife he takes Gemma hostage. Malick passes his consultancy exams but finds it difficult to acknowledge his relationship with Nathan Hargreave. Ollie asks Tara to go for an exploratory scan but Tara rebels and tells him she wants to do things her own way.
Serena's mum, Adrienne McKinnie, is back in Holby for her operation. After her operation and due to staff shortages she remains unchecked and suffers a stroke - which puts Chantelle in Serena's firing line. Gemma attends the Holby psychiatrist in order to continue her rotation. Although she feels fine she goes back to work even though not signed back and she has a a meltdown when treating a patient and later suffers an asthma attack.
Jac returns from Japan after six weeks but the relationship between her and Jonny deteriorates almost immediately but a later incident brings them closer and Jac confesses her love for him. Malick's former college girlfriend, Anna Patterson, turns up in Holby complaining of stomach pains and also looking for their missing son Jake. A subsequent operation reveals cancer cells and a review that she has advanced bile duct cancer and secondary tumours on her liver. Ric advises her that she has weeks to live and tells Malick to make amends with his estranged son. Serena makes her feelings on her mothers care at Holby clear to Henrik.
Jac undergoes gynae surgery and discovers she has endometriosis and deals with it in her own usual gnarly way. But she finally gets a chance to do her pioneering surgery work and impresses Henrik who grants her funding. Malick and Jake attend Anna's funeral but afterwards Jake gets into a fight with a friend who is hospitalised. Sacha calls the police and Jake is charged with GBH. Malick tells him he has to move in with him. Elsewhere, Chrissie's scan results come back clear but relations between Chrissie and Sacha start to unravel.
Tara collapses again from a seizure and afterwards begins to doubt herself and her health and if she can successfully complete a Hertzig operation for Elliott. Elsewhere, Sacha and Chrissie's relationship is uneasy but she gains an ally in her step-daughter Rachel who gives her a better insight into their fractured relationship. Meanwhile, Chantelle believes everyone has forgotten her birthday.
An anxious Chantelle awaits the hearing on the treatment of Serena's mother. Down in A&E Serena comes face to face with a journalist who's intent in ferreting out information on her action against the Holby Trust. The F1 prize deadline puts Gemma and Arthur on a high. Tara returns to Holby, even though she's on extended sick leave, but Elliott allows her to continue her research but not take on any doctoral rounds or procedures. Tara is forced to go to see a consultant neurologist but refuses to consider brain surgery to reduce the mass. But after a meltdown in the car-park she reconsiders and advises the staff by email of her condition.
Alan McLaren, a hot-shot consultant surgeon from Newcastle, descends on Holby to carry out a risky trial procedure on a very ill patient and threads on Ric's toes but in the process impresses Malick. Malick considers applying for a consultant general post in Newcastle but issues with Jake might throw process in jeopardy. Elsewhere, the son of a patient, arrives in Holby but he turns out to be a stalker of Gemma's who was warned to stay away from her. Elsewhere, Ollie and Tara decide to get married on the eve of her operation.
Tara and Oliver get married and Tara opts for surgery performed by top neuro-surgeon Roxanna MacMillan. However, during surgery Tara develops a series of bleeds and dies on the table. Elsewhere, Gemma is drawn into the aftermath of a school shooting just as she prepares to leave Holby. Meanwhile, Malick comes clean to Jake about his relationship status.
Amanda Layton, the jailed girlfriend of a convicted murderer, is admitted to Holby with stab wounds unaware that her boyfriend has taken his own life. Elsewhere, Sacha's daughter Rachel is admitted after returning from holiday and after a number of tests Ric suspects that she may have leukemia. Meanwhile, Jac is having a day of hell with a frequent flyer patient but it leads to some surprising news for Jac - she's pregnant.
Gemma gets bitten by a goth patient and in the process of chasing up a psych consult on the patient meets new CT consultant Harry Tresler. Meanwhile, Malick meets with the mother of one of Amanda Layton's possible victims. Elsewhere, Mo pushes Jac to tell Jonnie about the baby.
Sacha's daughter Rachel gets bad news and now must look towards a bone marrow donor; Jac struggles with whether she should tell Jonny that she is pregnant; Arthur tries to woo Chantelle with an old-style mixed cassette tape but he just cannot pull it off and Harry continues to needle Gemma.
Jonny and Jac continue to bicker over the welfare of their unborn baby. Sacha and Rachel await the bone marrow results but when the results disappoint Sacha turns to Daniel - his young son - much to Chrissie's consternation. Malick tries to cover his tracks over his non-psych referral of Amanda Layton but when Hanssen uncovers the truth Malick's career hangs in the balance.
Malick attends the inquest into Amanda Layton's death at Coroners Court. But a jealous Dominic does a great deal of damage to him as the coroner hears his testimony. Despite this Malick continues in his pursuit of finding the body of Susannah Harris's daughter. Following his lead DCI Malcolm Green locates the body at Amanda's childhood home. Elsewhere, Gemma is having a nightmare day and her son Finn is the cause of many of her problems. But Harry comes to the rescue and Gemma has to reassess her assessment of him.
It's Sacha's birthday but Sacha is not in the mood to celebrate as he and Chrissie await to hear how suitable a match Daniel might be. When Sacha finds out information that could hinder the donation he withholds the news from Chrissie. Elliott discovers Oliver sleeping in the on-call room and attempts to send him home. But Oliver pleads for leniency and Elliott puts him on a minor case with Harry. Meanwhile, Michael's daughter Jasmine arrives from the US but he has to postpone plans to be with her when a young terminal patient presents in Holby and he is asked to operate to prolong his life.
Alexandra Morrell, a Herzig recipient patient, re-presents in Darwin after collapsing at home. Daniel is admitted for his bone marrow procedure and Sacha attempts to hide Daniel's condition from Chrissie - who is already highly agitated. When she does find out it spells disaster for Sacha and Chrissie. Meanwhile, Ollie goes over the edge after being forced to confront his emotions over Tara and takes his ire out on Elliott.
Gemma volunteers for the night shift on Darwin as it's on her next rotation. But it doesn't go as smoothly as planned. Chrissie and Sacha reach breaking point and Oliver makes a decision after his erratic behaviour endangers a patient. Elsewhere, several patients gang up on Arthur to get him to ask Chantelle out.
Sacha is all over the place since Chrissie left for a visit to her dad in Australia. Gemma and Harry have to work together and sparks fly between them but on the advice of a patient Harry goes easy on her. Sharon asks Elliott out to the opera but after a needling from his colleagues he cancels and then un-cancels after she helps his patient out. Michael's daughter Jasmine prepares to fly back to the US and Michael's terminal patient Seb takes a turn for the worse.
Oliver seems to be resolute in the destruction of his career and also risks betraying his late wife Tara. Harry gives Gemma credit for his diagnosis of a patient to get her back in Serena's good books. Oliver and Harry go head to head for the Darwin C2 position. Antoine returns and works with Digby to save a blind woman's bowel and stop her becoming an invalid.
Arthur lands top of the F2 class exams so Antoine and Michael put him in charge of Keller for the day. But in doing so his friendship with Chantelle deteriorates. At the end of shift Arthur attempts to apologies to Chantelle but they are both mugged. Sacha finds out the results of Rachel's bone marrow tests. Jac's scheduled scan outside of Holby is cancelled so Jonny arranges for her to have it in Holby.
In the midst of planning a trip away with his friends Harry forgets that it is Mary-Claire's 30th birthday. But when Mary-Claire overhears Gemma and Harry talking she exacts her revenge - a pricey night out courtesy of Harry's credit card. Arthur struggles after the mugging as Chantelle returns to work. But Chantelle's determination to move on is threatened by a difficult patient and which makes her turn to Arthur. Meanwhile, Mo tries to get through William's first birthday but it is not made easy by the arrival of the daughter of an ex-patient's mother - who's determined her daughter is not going to suffer the same fate as her son.
Mo's patient Hattie deteriorates and Mo goes to desperate lengths to secure a heart for her. Jonny is far from happy with her decision especially after the donor's mother withdraws consent. Arthur diagnoses Wilson's disease in a patient under the watch gaze of Henrik and his former love, Maja Johansson. Henrik tells Arthur he is considering entering him for the National Junior Doctor's Award. Maja tells Henrik that his son Fredric is about to become a dad and she wants him to finally meet his son. Harry takes the lead in a case of a young man with a screwdriver in his chest and Mary-Claire is floating after her magic date with Harry - but her bubble is about to be burst.
Arthur gets jealous of Chantelle's attention to his Wilson's disease patient Charlie. Serena's ex-husband Edward Campbell begins a stint in Holby and battle lines are immediately drawn. Meanwhile, Elliott's dog Samson is knocked down by Sharon. After Samson is operated on Elliott discovers he has bone cancer and has no option but to have him put down.
Chrissie attends her latest scan but can she now lean on Sacha after all they've been through with Daniel and Rachel? Mo's decision to proceed with Hattie's heart transplant comes to the fore and she is made to face the consequences of her actions. Elsewhere, Serena is desperate to find a plus one for a high-ranking dinner after she finds out that Edward is also going to it.
Chrissie and Sacha's relationship becomes very strained and it comes to a head at his daughter Rachel's fund-raiser when he thumps an over-attentive Michael. Chrissie finally tells him she has cancer. Elsewhere, Serena's mum is re-admitted to hospital and has to face the facts that she may have to move in with Serena. Meanwhile, Elliott and Sharon look to going away until she tells him she is pursuing a PhD back in the US.
Sharon's last day in Holby is bittersweet for Elliott. Chrissie asks Sasha to go with her when she gets her scan results from Nathan. Nathan tells her that she has Stage 1 cancer and that her lymph nodes are clear. Serena finds out that Edward is going through a nasty divorce and eventually agrees him to join Ric's new surgical team.
Chantelle's mediation with her mugger clashes with Arthur's stint as clinical lead of an appendectomy patient and he must choose which is more important. Ric calls out Harry and challenges him to prove himself but in doing so Harry endangers his colleagues' lives with his maverick approach to a patient with a rocket flare in his chest. An unexpected visitor to Darwin brightens up Elliott's day.
Jake Thompson gives Jac her 20-week scan but she gets bad news when he tells her that her baby has a diaphragmatic hernia. Edward encourages Mary-Claire to try and get into Ric's good books but when a mistake is made in theatre it rocks her confidence. Elsewhere, Arthur learns that being nominated for Doctor of the Year brings is not plain sailing. Meanwhile, new F1 Zosia March doesn't make a good impression with either her colleagues or her patients.
Still in shock after finding out about their unborn baby's diagnosis Jac and Jonny deal with the fallout in different ways. Malick asks Hanssen about becoming a consultant but Hanssen feels Malick hasn't proved himself yet and working with new F1 Zosia probably won't help his case. Chrissie starts her first radiotherapy session and finds a friend in fellow cancer patient Tim.
Chrissie's cancer treatment is affecting her and Sacha and Tim's conflicting advice doesn't help the situation. Hanssen asks Malick to work on a case with him despite his previous bad behaviour but with his estranged son Fredrik on his mind will Hanssen be able to lead by example? Jac is keen for everything to continue as normal until the birth of her baby and asks that Elliot and Mo respect her decision but a suggestion from Jonny could throw more problems in her way before she is ready to deal with them.
Malick struggles to come to terms with the fact he is now a patient and that his career may now be over. Elliot struggles to manage new mentee Zosia when she starts carrying out psyche assessments on his patients and Sacha struggles to come clean to Chrissie about his kiss with Mo.
Harry has a difficult day when a childhood friend is admitted with a serious condition. Gemma brings her son to work once again but when he and medical drugs go missing she has to face the consequences with Ric. Meanwhile after clearing the air with Sacha, Mo tries to hide the fact she is online dating.
Chantelle faces her first day back at work after the crash. Despite looking forward to the comfort of her job she discovers her expectations were not all they were cracked up to be. Elliot has more trouble with Zosia when she interferes in one of his cases.
Malick feels as redundant as ever when his former mentor is booked into the hospital as a patient. Despite his injury it does not take long for him to start interfering on the case. Despite having booked the chapel for the vow renewal Sacha and Chrissie question if they have the commitment to make another go of things.
Chantelle faces her biggest fear when Cameron is again admitted onto the ward. When Digby confronts her with his true feelings she realises things have gone too far between them and she must leave to put it right. Mo is shocked to see her online date turn up at the hospital with chest pains. When Sacha serves Chrissie with divorce papers she turns to Michael for comfort.
When Chrissie is offered the job of Director of Nursing it forces her to take stock of her life at Holby and comes to the decision to leave her past behind and make a clean break elsewhere. Meanwhile Digby struggles to manage an increasingly erratic Malick but will he be able to stand up to his mentor?
Serena has her hands full when a major incident takes place but is later shocked to discover the new CEO, Guy Self, has arrived without her knowledge. Will they get off on the right foot? Malick is furious when he discovers Jake is working at Holby again but when a particular case takes them both to the edge he realises he must make a clean break away from Holby.
Guy attempts to put his own stamp on Holby by hiring former colleague Colette Sheward as Director of Nursing. His clean break does not last long however when he is confronted by a case from his past. Jonny tries to lighten Jac's work load but can he keep across the extra cases? Serena faces a tough task impressing Guy when a particularly difficult patient arrives on AAU.
Edward turns nasty with Mary-Claire when she threatens to reveal their affair to Serena. Guy press-gangs Elliot into performing the Herzig operation on a patient but when it doesn't go well he is left questioning his ethics. Zosia uses Arthur's obsession with Chantelle to earn herself the spare room in his flat.
Fed up following his recent heartbreak Michael breaks all the rules to perform a transplant operation for a desperate father and his son. When Guy confronts him about it he walks away from Holby after being suspended. Under pressure from her sons father Gemma makes a crucial mistake with a patient and decides to quit to focus on her son. Edward continues to sideline Mary-Claire and blames her when a machine malfunctions.
When Mary-Claire stands up to Edward and exposes him for the alcoholic bully he is can she persuade Serena to believe her. With Elliot still reeling from Zosia's revelation that Guy is her father she is determined she won't allow him back into her life following the death of her mother. But will a present from beyond the grave make her change her mind?
When Guy continues to clash with Zosia he accepts their relationship is purely professional but is that what she really wants? Meanwhile on AAU both Serena and Mary-Claire face the difficult task of picking themselves up after being fooled by Edward.
When Jac goes into labour early everyone hopes that the baby will be alright. Meanwhile Ric goes to a school reunion and meets an old flame. Has he left it too late?
There is shock on Keller when doctor Dominic Copeland returns to Holby to retake his first year. Will Arthur forgive him for what he did to Malick? Mo's sister Adele joins AAU as the new healthcare assisstant but will there be trouble between them? Meanwhile Colette discovers Guy cut corners to give her the nursing job and now she must prove herself to somebody from HR.
Jonny is shocked when Jac prioritises her patients over her daughter on the day of her big operation. Arthur attempts to sabotage Dominic in a bid to get him thrown out of Holby. Meanwhile Mo and Adele clash when Mo pulls rank when they deal with a difficult patient.
New registrar Raf Di Lucca arrives on AAU and makes an impression when he takes on a revolutionary procedure. Sacha comes under pressure from Guy to help Zosia make it as a surgeon and Jac struggles to bond with Emma.
Arthur is undermined by Dominic when they treat a patient with a mystery illness leading to a near fatal situation. Harry's father is admitted to Holby leading Serena to create an opportunity to impress Guy. When Jonny is cut out of the loop by Jac he teams up with Bonnie to make his voice heard.
Under pressure from Raf, Harry desperately tries to find his speciality when he stumbles across a bariatric patient. On the day of Emma's christening Jac is left with a difficult choice when a patient with a rare heart condition arrives at Holby.
Zosia is excited when she gets the chance to treat a psychiatrically vulnerable patient but will her own vulnerabilities be exposed? Harry tries to shake off his bariatric patient who is developing an obsession with him. And when Jac tells Jonny her salary gives her rights over Emma he vows to gain a promotion by exposing her as a bully to Colette.
Jonny faces a tough first day as clinical nurse manager when he has juggle a number of difficult patients and a grumpy Jac breathing down his neck. Guy and Zosia hit another snag in their relationship when she discovers his ulterior motive in allowing her to assist in a transplant operation. Raf continues to clash with Harry over his attitude to medicine.
In an attempt to impress Guy, Dominic takes on a case involving a patient from his past, but what will be revealed? Its Bonnie's 30th birthday but she is forced to re-evaluate her relationship with Jonny when he prioritises his work and Emma before her. Ric reaches out to Jess in an attempt to make up for lost time.
Ric struggles to take a back seat on the day of Jess' operation but when he finds out her husband David is abusing her how will he react? Guy and Zosia clash when she questions his ethics when he operates on a patient in an attempt to keep the Tressler foundation funding. With their relationship under strain Jonny must make a big decision if he is to keep Bonnie in his life.
Ric is in deep trouble after covering for his daughter over the hit and run. When her husband takes a turn for the worse will he stand back or will the surgeon in him take over? Meanwhile Guy and Zosia's relationship hits an all time low when she backs a patients complaint about him. As news of Jonny and Bonnie's engagement breaks the real question is how will Jac react?
New pharmacist Amy Teo arrives at Holby and attracts Harry's attentions unaware that she is already married. To Raf. It is the day of Bonnie's hen night but things turn sour when Jac turns up and questions why she is so desperate to get Jonny down the aisle. Arthur and Dominic continue to clash on Keller but how will they react when the patients are put at risk?
Its the day of Jonny and Bonnie's wedding but will Jac let him go? When they get stuck operating on a patient when he should be at the ceremony and with Bonnie increasingly anxious will the day end in tragedy? Zosia is struggling with anniversary of her mothers death but will she be able to cope?
It's Bonnie's memorial service today and Johnny is not coping at work. Jac upsets him and he threatens to take Emma away from her.
Raf and Amy find out today if their IVF treatment is successful. He wants to try cutting edge surgery and resurrect a dead man, but will he be able to support Amy when she needs him?
Jonny presents Jac with a visitation schedule for Emma and they end up at each other's throats. Digby has to diagnose a patient to get Guy's signature to move up a level. He bonds with Guy and Jesse in theatre.
Jac's mother comes to Holby and asks to see Emma, Jac refuses and pays her money to leave. Jonny approaches her and she gives the money to him to help him fight Jac for custody. Raf and Amy have a fight and she ends up with Harry.
Zosia is given a patient to assess. In his delirium, he gives a German name. Her and Digby discover he is an ex SS soldier. He signs a DNR but when he arrests, she does not mention it to Sasha, and he resuscitates him. She gets sent home.
Sasha comes to the conclusion that Joe is a Nazi. He shows Essie the evidence and she questions him. Joe tells her it's true, and then he dies. Adele takes Mo's identity on a radio show and Mo finds out that she is impersonating her.
Elliot is showing signs of forgetfulness, but he is too young for dementia. Serena is looking after her mother when Guy makes her write a massive report, and she can't cope with both.
Zosia is out of control so Dominic and Digby search her lab and find cocaine. Amy finds herself pregnant, but is it Harry's or her husband Raf's?
After confronting Adele about impersonating her, Mo gets the radio help line job, but it seems to go to her head. Zosia scores 22/100 on bedside manner from a patient survey and Guy orders her to improve.
In an attempt to help Harry pass his assessment Amy covers for him when he makes a mistake diagnosing a diabetic patient. Jac is furious when she leaves Elliot in charge of Emma only for her to go missing. Meanwhile Arthur discovers Jesse and Zosia's relationship.
Jac hears some home truths from her mother on the day of her and Johnny's hearing over Emma. What will she do? Meanwhile Sacha and Estelle grow close after they go to the seaside in an attempt to hide from the press after the story about Joe hits the papers.
Raf discovers the truth about Amy and Harry when he uncovers their lie about the diabetic patient. Elliot is forced to face up to his own medical problems when he treats an eccentric fisherman-cum-singer, whilst Colette warns Jesse off Zosia.
Its the day of Harry's assessment but after the fallout from his affair with Amy will Raf allow him to pass? Jesse cools his relationship with Zosia following a stark warning from Colette and Elliot buries himself away with his Herzig project worried he will run out of time before its completion.
When Jonny announces he intends to move back to Scotland with Emma, Mo makes it her mission to persuade him to stay. Guy offers Jesse a permanent contract but when the truth about his relationship with Zosia comes out will the offer still be on the table? Meanwhile Raf makes a momentous decision about the baby.
Elliot collapses from a tumor on the brain, and cannot demonstrate the Herzig heart at the launch. Jac is back. Serena's mother is discharged and in a fit of temper, punches Serena in the mouth.
Raf has to decide if he can give Harry the reference he needs to get a UCLA Fellowship. If he does, Harry will be out of their lives. Elliot goes into surgery today.
After Zosia gets emotionally involved with s patient, she drowns her sorrows with almost disastrous consequences.
Serena's mother has taken another turn for the worse and she finds herself being confronted about it from all sides. A psychologist patient challenges her methods of dealing with Adrienne as her condition worsens, while Guy questions her ability to be a carer and a consultant at the same time, and seems determined to force her to make a choice. Arthur's concern for Zosia's wellbeing spirals with her incessant partying. When his girlfriend Maria is brought in with an infection, he finds that he doesn't even trust Zosia as a doctor when she's in such a fragile state. Arthur tries to look after Maria while sweeping up the trail of destruction that Zosia leaves behind her. Mo is breathing fire all over Darwin as the pressure of running the ward gets to her, so Adele, Jonny and Mr T conspire with a patient to burst her bubble and get her smiling again.
New nurse Fletch starts on the ward, and Elliot is back to work. Guy Self has to tell Elliot that Jac is the new thoracic surgeon.
A patient recognizes Essie from the newspapers. Nurse Kirsty starts today. Sasha asks Essie to meet his daughters, and she thinks he is moving too fast.
A big charity event is coming up for Holby and Guy asks Arthur Digby to look after an old patient of his. Unfortunately, Zosia tries to show the patient a different time than Guy asked for, and Digby is responsible for him.
Raf is upset that the baby will be a boy. He fears Harry will be involved in their lives now. A patient thinks she is Alice from Alice in wonderland. She wants the doctors to stop her from shrinking and growing every time she eats.
Fletch is jumping through hoops for Ric, but it isn't enough. Arthur is having a hard time leading his team, with them taking advantage of him. He has to report Zosia to her father Guy, but at what cost?
Raf confesses to a priest that he wants to kill Harry. He mixes up Harry's notes and his patient almost dies, then when Ric asks to see the notes, Raf has put them back. Harry is suspended for not reading the notes.
Serena has brought her mother back and Raf and Fletch notice bruising on her back and arms. They try to talk to Serena about it, but she won't talk. Dom runs into a nurse in a tiger suit that comes on to him. Should he date him?
Raf returns to Holby but struggles to find his feet in theatre.
Fletch hopes that Raf will put his feud with Harry behind him.
Sacha and Fleur battle for supremacy whilst Serena's personal and professional lives collide with the arrival of her mother.
Collette's relationship with Guy reaches breaking point whilst Jesse starts to get under Adele's skin.
Fleur and Michael race to diagnose a patient who keeps arresting. However it becomes evident at the end of the day the surgeons are competing more than professionally. A soldier helps cool the strained relationship between Adrienne and Serena.
Serena faces her biggest fears when Adrienne tells her she wants to die. Later, Adrienne dies of a stroke. Adele struggles to balance work life with coursework. Michael departs for the US.
Zosia returns to the wards of Holby City, but her intensive behaviour forces Guy to ask for another psyche assessment on his daughter. Serena opens up to Raf about her feelings regarding her mother's death. Jac agrees to fund Elliot's protoype for the Herzig.
Zosia's friend, Lisa, encourages Zosia to stop taking her lithium tablets. Afterwards, Zosia treats a male patient, but ends up misdiagnosing him. Then, Lisa pretends to fake her illness to be discharged from hospital, but Jesse is unaware of her unstable condition. Serena argues with the chairman of Holby City.
Raf and Harry's working relationships improves, so Raf asks Amy for a divorce. However, when Amy later goes into labour she gives birth via cesarean. A confident Dominic asks Fleur to go on the Los Angeles list. Jac kisses Guy, while Mo struggles to hide her feelings from Jesse.
Zosia's creepy behaviour endangers her when she is insistent that a dying elderly female patient is her mother. Adele kisses Jesse, causing an awkward tension for Mo when she rejects Mr. T. Amy announces her plans to move back to Singapore.
Oliver Valentine is attacked by thugs outside the ED as he mysteriously returns. When he is rushed up to Darwin Jac discovers he has Chagas disease. Further problems occur as Oliver is also suffering from cirrhosis of the liver, making Elliot's hopeful heart operation tricky. He continues however, using his heart device he's been working on. Ellipt calls the device 'Kibo'.
Dom returns from LA, but when Fleur informs Serena and Ric of his childish behaviour the young doctor begins to question his role on the wards. However, whilst taking a Malick's fiancé back up to the wards from X-ray Dom finds himself trapped in the lift. He manages to perform life-saving surgery in the lift, saving the day. Mary-Claire and Harry spend New Year's Eve together.
Mo prepares for Celia's wedding day, but nothing can prepare her for the secrets that are about to be revealed. Guy is horrified when Lisa returns to Holby after falling from a bridge, and finally accepts his daughter's medical condition.
Jac considers the possibility of starting a new life with Emma in the USA. Sacha is knocked for six when his daughter, Rachel, is admitted with amphetamines in her blood. Mo completes her first solo Herzig operation successfully.
Fletch's ex-wife, Natalie and her friend are admitted after a drunken night out ends in disaster. However the day ends in tragedy as Natalie dies from a bleed to the brain. Rachel sits her physics A-level mock, but when she throws up Arthur conducts more tests - only to reveal she's pregnant.
Sacha has the rug pulled from under him when he discovers Mr Kerrigan is the father of Rachel's baby. As he makes a professional attempt to call the police, his plans are severed by Rachel's threat to cut him out of her life forever. Mary-Claire realises she's developed feelings for Harry. Adele learns her and Mo are not sisters.
Mary-Claire is promoted by Fletch for one day. She treats homeless man Pat, who later dies. When Harry states no one will miss Pat she questions their relationship status. A 19 year-old boy dies from a crash, so when a male is admitted requiring a heart and liver transplant the father agrees to use his stepson's organs, much to the disapproval of the mother.
Sacha suffers yet another crisis as daughter Rachel leaves the wards to meet up with Mr Kerrigan in the woods, however she collapses whilst riding her bike. She miscarries during surgery. Harry is upset after realising how strong his feelings are for Mary-Claire, but learns she's dating another man.
Sacha is understandably emotionally drained from the previous weeks of hassle, and when Mr Kerrigan arrives he punches him. Jonny starts a petition against Guy after schedule changes are made to the operating theatre, but he gets more than bargained for when a patient makes his campaign go viral. Mr Kerrigan hands himself in to the police.
Elliot is excited as the day arrives to officially test his Kibo device on a patient. However Julie Kale dies after the Kibo operation, causing Elliot to question himself. Jonny told Guy just hours before she died that a patient needed to die to make Guy realise the damage he's caused.
Harry finally tells Marie-Claire that he loves her and the disaster strikes as he goes to save a patient and in doing this he takes a tragic fall. The fall leaves him fighting for his life Meanwhile Johnny tries to come to terms with the loss of a patient. Guy tries to find a reason for this death. Zosia fears she is being sidelined so she takes matters into her own hands.
Darwin are stunned when they discover Jonny has been arrested. Harry survives his surgery, but is left with facial disfigurement, so his long lost mother demands more, much to Raf's disapproval.
Jonny awakes from a nightmare in a prison cell, and befriends his terrified prison cell mate. However as Mo and Adele visit Jonny is involved in a fight and he and his cell mate are stabbed. Guy is furious that Jonny is back and demands to get him back in prison as soon as possible. Fletch's daughter Evie helps Harry stop pushing everyone he needs away.
Raf is horrified to learn his mother has died as the day of Harry's facial reconstruction arrives. Despite all the news Raf continues and his operation is a success. Arthur treats a mountain climber but is adamant he cut the rope of his friend trying to kill him. Serena is furious over his actions, reminding him he's a doctor, not a detective.
Adele is stunned to see Steve outside Holby, and invites him up to Darwin. Guy arrives on Darwin as well as a VIP arrives on the wards. When Steve forces his way into the VIP's room Guy is horrified and demands him to be removed. However, before Steve can be removed he reveals he changed the battery which landed Jonny in prison. He agrees to share his news with the Police. Harry has facial surgery, but demands more pushing away the people he loves most.
Jonny is released from prison but struggles with the betrayal of Guy. When former cell mate Archie is admitted because of an overdose it pushes Jonny over the edge, so he blames the people he loves. After an incredibly stressful day for both Jac and Jonny - they leave hand in hand for a new life. Sacha is stunned by Essie's return, especially when she's harbouring a secret.
Guy prepares himself for the launch of the Supercentre - but with Jac missing and his day crumbling the CEO makes a life-changing decision. Mary-Claire celebrates her last day, but Harry ruins it for her. They end up in the back of an ambulance and he proposes, but will Mary-Claire say yes?
Fletch is optimistic about Evie's first day at her new school, but his happiness is soon dashed when her school bus and a van crash. Evie claims she hit her head on the window, so Fletch calls on a CT, worried she may suffer what her mother did. Annabelle Cooper, a new neurosurgeon arrives on the wards and causes a stir.
Guy, Zosia and Annabelle treat a 21-year-old, but when they discover he has a brain tumour which will kill him in a year memories come flooding back for Guy and Zosia. Serena treats Anges when he dislocates his shoulder, and when he asks her on a date she accepts. A new CEO arrives - but it's a blast from the past when the face is revealed to be none other than Henrik Hanssen.
Henrik returns as CEO of Holby City, and without any hesitation assigns all doctors their roles for an influx of casualties after a May Day march turns into a riot. Furthermore, Henrik cuts Guy's funding for neurosurgery. Oliver Valentine returns, but Jesse isn't impressed by his attitude to patients. Zosia discovers Annabelle has a fatal brain tumour.
Zosia learns Annabelle's tumour has grown, exerting more pressure on Annabelle to find a life-saving cure. Raf shares his enthusiasm and inspiration of Hanssen to Serena, so she gives him a chance to impress him, however his plans are scuppered. Adele attempts to build bridges between Mo and her father.
Zosia steps up to the plate to prove her worth as a surgeon to Guy and Hanssen. After a successful day she must choose which field to progress in - neurology or cardiology.
Oliver makes a fatal mistake in theatre, forcing him to impress Jesse, Henrik and Elliot if he's to keep his place in Holby. Sacha asks Essie to meet his children, making Essie question the speed of their relationship, while Raf discovers Lucy is being abused.
Adele receives life-changing news after she learns she has a false pregnancy, but then the news that follows on shatters her world apart.
Essie clashes with both Hanssen and Sacha, but fails to prepare herself for the consequences. Jesse proposes to Adele, who originally refuses.
Raf's patient, Lucy, returns for surgery, but Cara has her doubts about the procedure. Zosia irritates Ollie when she arrives late for her first shift on Darwin. Adele tells Jesse she has failed her nursing degree course.
Zosia and Ollie fear for a patient who has a heart condition but believes she has a fictional disease. They call upon psychiatrist Seb, who later asks Zosia out on a date. Guy works on a risky procedure, but defies Hanssen's orders and removes more of a tumour than he should.
A new F1 arrives on AAU, Morven, and she is instantly paired with Arthur on her first day, but when a patient dies during surgery, Arthur has a panic attack. Mr T and Clifford clash over Mo. Dom is left stunned when his mother arrives unexpectedly.
Arthur steals drugs from the hospital trolley when he suffers another panic attack. Fletch agrees to help Clifford with his plan to steal pharmaceutical drugs.
Fletch realises he's in too deep with the pharmaceutical robbery, and he cannot pull, what will he do? Essie messes up her interview for Transplant Coordinator, but an inspirational speech soon gets her the job.
Adele is violently attacked outside the hospital and left for dead by the drug dealers when Clifford fails to repay them.
The park is officially a crime scene. Mo keeps busy while she waits for Adele to wake up. She may have a brain injury. Clifford is worried about what the drug dealers will do next.
Mo starts asking questions when Clifford disappears. Fletch confesses the whole story to her and how they mistook Adele for her. She threatens to go to the police.
Having told Sasha she wants a baby, Essie has no idea that he does not want one. Dr Nye uses her friendship with Elliot to manipulate getting surgery for two TB patients from India, and thus ending the friendship.
Dom takes a group of girls on a tour of the ward. They bully one girl constantly. He turns his anger towards one girl who used to be the victim's friend, and makes her see how wrong it is. Elliot is offered the head of research position.
Guy attempts to rectify the past through an old friend of his deceased wife.
Guy and Jesse's relationship hits an impasse. Clifford is admitted with injuries inflicted by the drug gangs. Mo is called in and she is furious with him.
Guy is held hostage by a vengeful man whose wife died on his watch. (The man from 17.46). Fletch meets him outside the hospital, and tells him how sorry he is and tries to calm him down.
After the bomb explosion, the injured start flooding in. A nurse from Essie's past comes to work.
Dr Brigette Nye is back with a patient from Pakistan, a former doctor at Holby working abroad. Hanson has given Digby two weeks to get over his drug addiction, so Dom takes him to his parents place by the sea.
Mo's surrogate son, William, and Sorcia arrive at Holby after an accident, testing Mo's emotional and professional abilities. Jesse shadows Sacha in a surgical role for the day.
Cara's husband's lover, Nicole, is admitted in labour, but Cara is forced to act drastically when Nicole's husband, Sean, learns he is not the father of the child.
Cara's lies put Raf's life in danger as gangster Sean returns to Holby in search of Nicole.
Arthur returns to work, but his relationship with Morven is in jeopardy. Guy must overcome his lack of confidence when a young boy is admitted with a serious neurological condition.
The day arrives for Mo to return William, but she isn't prepared to let him go. Arthur is admitted with a toy soldier stuck in his arm. Sacha applies for the role of consultant, but his assessor intervenes with his treatment options.
Dom deals with a challenging patient who tests his emotional abilities. Nicole asks Cara for help whilst on the run from Sean.
Jac Naylor returns to Darwin, but Ollie is determined to not be intimidated by her. Dom begins to develop feelings for his patient.
Zosia is determined to impress Jac, but her confidence is thrown into doubt when she sees a question mark next to her name in Jac's office. Dom becomes increasingly obsessed in his patient, and struggles to focus on another patient of his.
Jac and Fran clash over a patient when Fran doubts Jac's decision to discharge a patient. Jesse treats a dying sister of a former patient of his. Rad and Fletch try to cheer Cara up.
Jac and Fran bitterly clash in front of the Darwin ward, resulting in Fran physically assaulting Jac and being removed from the hospital.
Jac's daughter, Emma, is abducted by Fran as she attempts to get Jac's attention, however the consequences of Fran's actions are near fatal.
Ric returns to Holby City, but he struggles to find his feet. Mr T makes an unexpected offer to Mo. Serena finds herself completing another Christmas shift on AAU.
Morven, Arthur and Dom battle it out for a research grant, but Morven receives a shock. Jac plays games with Ollie and Zosia's relationship.
Guy's career continues to strengthen and a documentary crew prepare to film him in the neurological world, but he puts a friend's life at risk in the process.
Hanssen is left with a difficult decision as Guy promises to regain control of the hospital. Jac is pitted against Guy in a fight for funding. Sacha tries to protect Essie, but things don't go to plan.
Arthur's first day back on Keller doesn't go smoothly when Morven's dad, Austin, is admitted. Mo waits to find out if she is pregnant. A shock family secret is revealed to Serena.
Bernie Wolfe, an army medic, is admitted to Holby, forcing Guy and Ollie to work together to treat her. Serena has to make a big decision over her family secret revelation.
Dominic finds himself in danger when his ex turns up, and there's traumatic consequences. Zosia becomes over-involved with Bernie's army life. Serena gets a surprise.
Dom is cleared by the police following his incident, however he is still under investigation by the hospital. Morven makes a decision about her own health when Austin's liver disease progresses.
Arthur receives life-changing news as he takes compatibility tests to give Austin a new liver. Bernie is back on her feet and works on Darwin for the day, but she ends up breaking the rules.
Arthur struggles to come to terms with his recent diagnosis and tries to forget it by fighting for the life of a patient hit by a train.
Ric fights for an old friend's life. Serena is in love with Robbie, and prepares to introduce him to her family. Mo learns she didn't get the consultant position.
Bernie has to re-evaluate doctoring when a patient makes a formal complaint against her. Ollie fights to save his relationship with Zosia.
Ric throws a tantrum in front of a patient. Morven gets bad news from her father on her birthday, Mo suspects Sir Dennis is a racist. Ric's daughter Jess has blocked his calls, and he is infuriated.
Arthur and Morven's engagement party day and Arthur coughs up blood. Dom quickly takes charge and gets him a scan and a result. Linda is back for a brain scan and it is not good news. Adele decides to go into palliative care.
Jason's care giver has a heart attack and Serena has to make care arrangements until Alan has recovered. Cara starts on Darwin today, and Adele has gone to St. James. Jesse tells Mo that his mother died today.
Jesse's father gets drunk and takes a fall. Mo's mother has heart problems and they all end up in Holby. Sir Dennis misdiagnoses Mo's mum, and her and Jesse operate on her, off duty. Jesse quits, and Sir Dennis is fired.
Mo and Mr. T are fighting over the treatment of a pregnant girl with a disease. Hanssen intervenes. Bernie is shocked to see Alex Dawson on staff, a nurse she had an affair with in the army.
Arthur gets his liver transplant. Zosia get attached to a patient that dies. Arthur's cancer worsens and he won't go home to rest. Tony, a bailiff that serves divorce papers to Bernie, gets bitten by a dog, and she has to treat him.
Fletch is attracted to the new psychiatrist Naomi Palmer. Bernie's husband Marcus is operating on a patient at Holby. She is terrified that someone will gossip about her. She texts Dom, but the text goes to a different staff member.
Arthur's cancer has spread and Sacha tells him he only has a few months left. So he and Morven decide to get married today. Serena's car is stolen with her patient files in it. Hanssen suspends her. Mr. T leaves Holby because Mo rejects him.
Dominic and Zosia both have a difficult day trying to deal with Arthur's cancer. Zosia accuses a patient of leaking a story to the paper about her. Zosia is pushed to the limit and loses her temper. She breaks up with Oliver.
Oliver tries to get back with Zosia, but she catches him kissing Cara. Hanssen shadows Arthur to test his mettle, but Arthur fails in surgery and resigns. Bernie and Serena share the AAU.
Arthur is rushed to Holby with breathing problems. Zosia fights with Jac to give Arthur the new stent she invented. The old man who is supposed to get the stent meets Arthur and decides to let him have it.
Arthur and Morven decide to travel and the staff put on a dance for them. Arthur goes to everyone to say goodbye, and collapses in Hanssen's office. They can't save him this time.
Arthur's funeral and everyone's pager goes off and most of them rush back to Holby. A major train derailment has sent dozens to the hospital. Hanssen is impressed by Bernie's skill, he offers her a job in a new trauma dept.
Jac launches the new "Digby Stent" and the reporters tell her that Berlin launched it a few weeks ago. She now has to find out who is the spy in her team. Dom is shocked that the new registrar is a man he had a date with last night.
Dom is trying to build Arthur's Spanish Galleon model ship. Hanssen sees the ship and finishes it. A psychic patient on the ward tells Dom to "Sail the ship" and he and Hanssen do just that. Dom finally starts to grieve.
Jac got pepper sprayed at a protest outside the hospital, and she can't see what she is operating on. She calls Ollie in to help. He takes a different procedure, and she punches him in the face.
Mo makes a decision about her pregnancy. Mikey skips school and wreaks havoc with Fletch's patient.
Fletch's patient Ivar the drug addict, holds Mel and Essie hostage in the Pharmacy. New F1 doctor Jasmine Burrows starts today.
Oliver questions his value at Holby, and thinks about the offer from Elliot to come to Pakistan. Morven is back, and is still grieving for Arthur. Jac is on leave, and Mo takes her place.
Ric freezes while operating on a young boxer and Hanssen has to be called in. He is afraid of losing him like he did with Arthur Digby.
Bernie's son Cameron comes in from an RTA. She discovers that her old registrar was a passenger in the car and is pregnant. Cameron says he was driving, but the marks on the woman indicate she was the driver.
Fletch's daughter comes in with a broken neck. His son Mikey confesses to pushing her down the stairs. Zosia treats a patient who says she is her grand mother. Guy does his best to keep them apart.
Jac is back and still holds animosity towards Guy for stealing her stent and selling it to Germany. Hanssen tells her to look after Guy's mother, and she agrees. Fletch's daughter Evie is still in danger.
Dealing with the helicopter crash @casualty, We follow Fletch around for a day in the life of a nurse. The urgent care, the help, and the personal side to nursing.
Mr. T comes back from Sweden with a fiance. Mo can't tell him about the baby. Sacha's birthday and he and Essie decide to break up over the baby issue of their own. Fletch is out of intensive care after being stabbed.
Fletch quickly becomes paralyzed and is having difficulty breathing. Having every test possible, its a race against the clock to diagnose him, until little Mikey tells them about an infection his dad had.
Ric's patient is the woman of his dreams. Isaac's ex comes in for a ruptured spleen, and he isn't quite truthful about their relationship. Jasmine informs Jac that they are half sisters.
Jasmine battles her hangover in order to impress Ric. Zosia struggles to engage with a patient who reminds her of Arthur. Raf's hopes to progress his career are clouded.
Zosia strives to impress Tristan, but with her bipolar disorder affecting her health, she places herself and her patient in danger. Essie gets into trouble when she voices her concerns over a patient's teenage son.
Ric is suspended as a result of Jasmine's lies. Tristan is on the prowl. Hanssen pays the price when he takes over Jasmine's training. Serena struggles to hide her feelings from Bernie.
Raf is not convinced that Morven's motives are professional. Zosia warns Guy he is sealing a deal with the devil. Dominic tries to impress Isaac, but suffers the consequences.
Guy learns that Tristan and Jemima's relationship is far from perfect. Serena battles her feelings for Bernie by sleeping with an old friend. Ric is dealt an ultimatum which could destroy his reputation.
Guy is placed in an impossible situation. Raf continues to grow closer with Kim, but learns of her devastating diagnosis. Sacha is encouraged to sign-up to internet dating.
Isaac receives a research grant. Dom goes to extreme lengths to ensure his future with Isaac is secure. Inga is envious of Mo and Mr T. Bernie returns to Holby, leaving Serena torn.
Jac is unimpressed by the arrival of the new doctor Matteo Rossini. Cracks begin to show in Dom and Isaac's relationship. Bernie tries to keep her and Serena's relationship a secret.
Jac's test results leave Mr T concerned for her health. Raf treats Kim's son and is concerned by his welfare. Fletch bonds with a gambling addict, but not all is as it seems.
Essie takes action against a patient, forcing Sacha to step in and help her see sense. Ollie fights for Zosia when Matteo begins showing an interest in her. Morven finds herself getting close with Bernie's son.
Dom's plans for a perfect Christmas with Isaac are shattered. Jac pushes those who care about her away as she awaits news. Fletch is disheartened when he hears from his estranged father.
Jasmine is given one last chance at the hospital under Serena's leadership. Mo does whatever she can to suppress her feelings for Mr T as his wedding approaches. Essie and Raf argue over a patient.
Mo puts on a brave face as Mr T's wedding day arrives. Serena and Elinor argue, with heartbreaking consequences.
Ollie must fight for Jac's support when Matteo pitches against him. Dom tries to keep his relationship with Isaac a secret from his parents. Cameron fights his feelings for Morven on his last shift.
Fletch's own fortunes take an unimaginable turn. Sacha suspects Essie and Raf are hiding their relationship from him. Matteo tries to win Jac over romantically.
Mo is forced to choose between Sweden and her profession. Dom is delighted when he learns he is going to Hawaii with Isaac, but he crushed when he discovers there's a catch. Fletch struggles to come to terms with his fate.
A grief-stricken Serena returns looking for answers. Isaac delivers another cruel blow to Dom. Ollie finds an engagement ring.
A familiar face returns to Holby as a patient. Jasmine feels the wrath of Serena's grief. Jac is determined to keep her and Matteo's relationship on the low.
Jac acknowledges her true feelings for Matteo. Bernie provides a shoulder for Serena to lean on. Raf is determined to keep his distance from Kim when she is readmitted to the hospital.
Isaac's paranoia over Dom leads him into danger. Mo and Mr T evaluate their childcare arrangements. Morven grows worried by Serena's abrasiveness towards Jasmine.
Raf is delighted by Kim's revelation, but his happiness is quickly dashed. Serena continues to intimidate Jasmine. Matteo hopes that he can learn more of Jac's personal life.
Jasmine's determination to prove herself to Jac and Serena comes at a cost. Essie worries for Kim's son. Ollie tries to convince himself he is no longer angry at Jac.
Dom attempts to cover for Isaac after accusations are made against him. Fletch makes a discovery about the man Morven has been messaging. Zosia's personal and professional lives collide.
Essie is put in an uncomfortable position. Zosia is determined to keep her secret from Ollie, unaware that Isaac knows. Serena helps Fletch cope with his adolescent daughter.
Dom is the victim of Isaac's violent outburst. Serena struggles with her grief when treating a patient who reminds her of her dead daughter. Ollie makes a decision about his and Zosia's future.
Serena is forced to face up to the pain she has caused Jasmine. Dom seeks support in Zosia. Mo is given a different outlook on motherhood.
Dom is supported by the staff at Holby when Isaac's abusive streak is exposed. Fletch's positive attitude is dampened by an agency nurse. Matteo takes it upon himself to unite Jac and Jasmine.
Jac makes a startling discovery about Matteo. Dom gives evidence to the police. Fletch faces the threat of legal action being taken against him.
Jac and Matteo's relationship remains fragile. Essie supports a depressed Sacha. Ric is given a surprising distraction.
Mo struggles to find her feet upon returning to work. Ollie causes a rift between the consultants. Sacha treats a face from the distant past.
Matteo is forced to face up to his past. Dom struggles to remain professional on his first day back at work. Bernie's son returns, providing Morven with a distraction.
Jac juggles the big reveal of her new project with the return of a familiar face as a patient. Ollie plans a big surprise for Zosia. A familiar agency nurse arrives at the hospital.
Lofty must confront his past. Mo unsuccessfully attempts to take on Jac's role. Jasmine worries after failing to recall the phone calls she made whilst she was drunk.
Mo and Mr T are left fearing for baby Hector's health. Nina is determined to keep a professional relationship with Matteo on her first day. Raf makes a startling discovery as Essie helps Dom form a team for the Holby half marathon.
Sacha is forced to take action against Dom's erratic behaviour. Fran is encouraged by Jasmine to seek support from Jac on her first day back. A new face sets foot on Darwin ward.
Mo questions how long she can continue working at Holby City. A family member of Ric's is admitted. Fran steps in as Jasmine and Jac's relationship continues to thaw.
Jasmine delves into Jac's past, unaware of the demons she is freeing for both Jac and Fran. Damon's first day is one he won't forget for a long time. Dom is left at odds with Lofty.
The staff at Holby City support each other in the aftermath of Jasmine's death. Jac is determined to not allow her feelings to weaken her superiority. Donna clashes with Fletch on her first day back.
Morven begins investigating Jasmine's death herself. Sacha treats a patient close to home. Damon suggests to Matteo that there is still hope for him and Nina.
Fran makes a horrifying confession to Jac. Fletch encourages Raf to give his relationship with Essie another go. Donna must face her fears.
Essie's private responsibilities clash with her professional ones. Bernie tasks Donna with keeping an eye on Morven. Jac is determined to get her job back on track.
Donna receives an unwelcome shock. Dom makes it his mission to uncover Lofty's secret. Nina pressures Matteo into signing the divorce papers.
Nina is determined to impress following her promotion. Cracks begin to show in Morven's stability. Sacha boasts about his new lady friend.
Bernie is thrown by an unexpected announcement. Ollie and Zosia are both thrown by a suggestion Guy makes. Lofty attempts to win Dom round.
Ollie grows weary of Guy's intentions. Sasha is given a prompt over his belief in God. Nina questions Matteo's feelings towards her following their return from an unromantic weekend away.
Zosia is given a rare opportunity to further her career, but it comes at a dear cost. Ollie struggles with the prospect of his ex-wife's death potentially being preventable. Lofty fears that Dom's not getting the message.
Events take a tragic turn at the Holby half-marathon. Lofty is forced to confront his true feelings towards Dom. Fletch enlists Jac's help when there is a shortage of theatre beds. Guy puts Zosia to the test.
Hanssen must confront a face from the past. Fredrik is determined to impress Sacha, Dom and Lofty. Guy's behaviour is a cause for concern for Zosia. Donna makes it her mission to teach Fletch a lesson.
Guy's worrying behaviour puts Zosia in an impossible situation. Donna makes a tough decision. Dom does his best to balance his responsibilities.
Ollie and Zosia's wedding day arrives. Guy hits self-destruct. Jac and Nina clash over the running of Darwin ward.
Ric arrives at prison to begin his remand sentence. A familiar face returns to visit Ollie as he regains consciousness.
Sacha struggles to judge whether his patient can be trusted. Jac is keen to prove she is back on form. Essie impresses Gaskell with an unexpected choice.
Essie struggles to use her head over her heart as she gets involved with Gaskell's trial. Oliver is transferred to AAU for a change of scene.
Hanssen struggles to contain his emotions at Raf's memorial reveal. Jac is keen to fast-track her recovery. An unexpected patient arrival leaves Lofty stunned.
John's clinical trial patient arrives, as the staff and press anxiously await to see him perform his miracle operation. Nicky attempts to impress Sacha to further her career. Frieda and Jac form an unlikely friendship.
Hanssen steps down from his role of CEO, with Serena taking over. Ric injures himself in prison. Ollie questions whether he can ever retrain to be a doctor. Jac must locate the rare vinyl she took from Raf's collection.
Roxanna tries to convince Ollie to have another operation to remove the bullet in his brain. Jac finds a replacement for the missing vinyl. Jason's girlfriend, Greta, is admitted to the AAU.
A hungover Nicky must cope with an overbearing new registrar. Fletch and Jac are thrust together on an overnight transplant case.
Frieda tries to help Jac when her mentor's pain reaches breaking point. Roxanna pitches an experimental treatment that could help Oliver recover.
John's trial patient returns to the hospital, leaving him fearful. Serena learns that Ric is losing hope in prison, and desperately seeks to help him. Jac's cheery attitude causes concern among the staff.
Roxanna begins her groundbreaking new treatment on Ollie. Dom's loyalty to Lofty is tested. Donna and Fletch grow determined to find a missing link in Ric's case.
Ric's nervously stand trial as Donna and Amira give evidence. Jac continues to fight her feelings for Fletch. Ollie believes he is ready to go home, but Roxanna is not convinced.
Essie's determination to know how John's trial patient died comes at a cost. Fletch struggles without Jac. Hanssen helps Ollie come to terms with the fact he will never be a doctor again.
Fletch questions new CEO Abigail Tate's motives. Roxanna grows concerned over a paranoid John. Ric is unhappy to learn that the Trust board only wish for him to treat minor injuries.
A revelation about Gaskell forces Roxanna to choose where her loyalties lie. Still on probation, Ric risks his job to save a familiar face.
Frieda forces new mentee Nicky to question what kind of doctor she ultimately wants to be. Meena puts her friendship with Nicky on the line.
Dominic's romantic bliss is shattered when he is confronted by a ghost from the past. A dangerous old flame crashes back into Frieda's life.
An exhausted Fletch clashes with Abigail when an unexpected visitor turns up on the ward. Nicky tries to keep her head in the game as her personal issues distract her.
As the pressure builds from all sides, Gaskell takes a huge risk to save his trial. An unwelcome discovery threatens Dom's career and his relationship with Lofty.
Fletch is sent spinning with the arrival of several unexpected visitors on AAU. Roxanna's fears grow for Hanssen as he buries himself in his work.
Healthy competition turns sour when Meena and Nicky treat the same patient. Serena takes an undesired approach to Jason's impending fatherhood.
Frieda has to decide what to do when Roman crashes back into her life. A withdrawn Dom just wants to have a quiet night, but things don't go to plan.
Jac Naylor arrives back at Holby City, but her return isn't quite what it seems. Tensions mount for Lofty when Dominic makes an announcement.
Meena uncovers disturbing news that could spell trouble for Gaskell.
Confronted by the possibility of another failure, will Gaskell put a stop to Jac's surgery before it's too late? Bernie must fight for Serena.
A split-second mistake brings Nicky closer to Zav than she bargained for. A troubling discovery causes Roxanna to question her loyalties. Dom is forced to make a choice.
Serena and Ric battle to save a familiar patient, against the odds. Jac makes an explosive return to work, destabilising Abigail and Fletch's relationship.
Roxanna and Gaskell return to Holby triumphant, but is everything as it seems? Hanssen is pushed to the edge when an unexpected visitor arrives at Holby.
Sacha's daughter cancels their weekend, then Patricia turns down his invitation, everything is going wrong today. Meena muscles in on Nicky on Darwin. Donna and Zav go into business together.
Dom and Lofty find themselves at cross purposes, which puts their future in the balance.
Fletch is shocked when someone from his past walks back into his life. Hanssen attempts to express his feelings to Roxanna.
Fletch clashes with estranged father Steven when Evie demands they let him back into their lives. Dominic struggles to rely on Lofty.
Tensions between Roxanna and Gaskell come to a head as they clash over the treatment of a patient close to their hearts. Serena crosses paths with a new porter.
A conflicted Essie faces a dilemma when trial patient Josh's condition deteriorates.
A devastating surgical outcome for a favourite patient forces a shattered Sacha to reflect on a testing year.
In Roxanna's absence, Hanssen must make a stand. Meena gets a birthday surprise.
An unexpected new friendship helps Frieda find her way. Tensions between Roxanna and Gaskell finally come to a head. Meena hits a new low.
In 1987, three young Holby familiars make a pact to push the boundaries of medicine.
A distraught Hanssen holds vigil at the hospital. Sacha makes a tentative return to Holby.
As Holby reels from tragic news, Sacha takes on a marathon operation.
Xavier's secrets are laid bare when his grandfather arrives wounded on AAU. Gaskell's increasingly erratic behaviour puts a patient at risk.
Gaskell fears exposure when Hanssen confesses to having doubts about recent events.
Fletch finally confronts Jac over their feelings for each other. Jason makes a life-changing decision. Lofty hides his true feelings about his future with Dom.
A tricky case causes Xavier to lose his cool with Jason. Jac and Fletch do their best to avoid each other. Lofty, Meena and Leah confront their problems.
Jac knows that the implant may be diseased and is killing all his patients. She threatens to expose Gaskell if he doesn't take it out. Hanssen stops him from taking it out, it will paralyze her if he does. He flees with Henrik in pursuit.
Knowing that Gaskell killed Roxanna when she found out his scheme, they flush Jac's blood. She is in a coma. Henrik finds Gaskell in the lake and begs him to return to Holby. He confesses everything.
Fletch and Sacha race against the clock, even calling on some familiar faces for help.
Serena fights chaos on the ward during a hospital inspection.
A much-loved face from the past forces Serena to think about her future.
Love is in the air at Holby, but can Serena and Bernie overcome their issues?
On a new year road trip to compete for funding, Jac, Ric and Sacha confront some old enemies. Serena's worst fears are realised.
Nicky and Cameron compete when Jac offers one of them an opportunity for a promotion.
Cameron bites off more than he can chew when he clashes with Jac.
Frieda's hard-won contentment is abruptly shattered when Roman reappears. Xavier strains his relationship with Donna.
When Holby is stretched to breaking point, an angry Ric can't take the status quo any longer. Can Frieda suppress her pain by throwing herself into her work schedule?
Can Ange convince her patient to proceed with a life-saving operation? A resolute Ric campaigns for change. Does Nicky have the strength to fight for what she wants?
As Holly's condition weighs on Ange, a heartbreaking decision divides Holly's family. A smitten Cameron sets out to impress new locum Chloe.
Zosia returns to Holby, while a frustrated Jac tries to track down Frieda. Ange admits there is no hope for her patient Holly, but will her parents agree?
Zosia's big news gets a mixed response, and her situation is further complicated when a colleague from the US turns up. Sasha is rattled when an old flame appears on the ward.
A computer virus shuts down Holby's power. Jac and Connie fight to save the lives of close friends. As the hospital is evacuated, Ric mounts a desperate rescue for a trapped Essie.
Ric battles to control Kofi's anger when he arrives at Holby with Darla. Frieda returns to Darwin ready to lose herself in work, only to be paired with a Zosia for the day.
Fletch worries there may be more to Theo's disappearance than meets the eye. Donna meets Xavier's mother for the first time, but things don't go as smoothly as expected.
Ange uncovers a long-buried secret that threatens to completely shatter her world. Can Frieda manage to work within the rules when a friend of Roman's appears in Holby?
Chloe is wrongfooted when ex-boyfriend Evan unexpectedly turns up on Darwin Ward, and Dom is confronted with life-changing revelations.
Dom throws himself into work as he struggles to process a shocking family secret. Zosia undermines Jac's authority and puts a strain on their already fraught relationship.
A startling incident forces Zosia to reconsider her future at Holby, Cameron has to treat a close relative of Xavier's, and Dom tries to keep Carole at arm's length.
Jac's top-dog status is challenged when a talented new surgeon causes a stir. Donna is flattered to be offered a new career opportunity.
Kian's big personality begin to grate on Jac. Ange opens up to Dom, revealing a big secret about Chloe. When Sue makes a big mistake, Donna tries to limit the damage.
Ange plans to tell Chloe her biggest secret, and Ric's granddaughter arrives at Holby, forcing Ric to deal with her pregnancy head on.
Struggling with the news that Dominic is her half-brother, Chloe is forced to operate with him. Lofty returns to Holby with a secret.
Dominic faces his difficult past when he goes head to head with his abusive ex, Isaac, while Ange and Carole band together to try to help him.
Will Lofty and Dom's marriage survive under the pressure of Isaac's presence at Holby? Is Sacha's relationship with Patricia over before it has even begun? Let us see what happens.
Isaac continues to manipulate Dominic and Lofty as his father's condition worsens. Henrik is shocked when his daughter-in-law and grandson arrive and Chloe attempt to impress Jac but learns her family's business is all around the hospital.
When Lofty is put in harm's way. is Isaac's fate sealed? In the hope of protecting Chloe, Cameron makes a selfless gesture.
Donna tries to shelter Xavier from his mother's erratic behaviour. Sacha makes a romantic gesture but finds something unexpected in Patricia's cleaning cupboard.
Xavier tries to build bridges with Donna, Cameron can't quite shift his feelings of unease around Evan, and Fletch is anxious about his first official date with Ange.
Cameron tries to prove himself to Kian, but they clash over Kian's teaching methods. Xavier gets relationship advice from the most unlikely source.
Evan is stabbed by a patient but uses the opportunity to get closer to Chloe. A mysterious woman turns up looking for Lofty and Serena is uncomfortable working on a case with Fleur after a night out drinking with her.
As her loved ones continue to worry about her, Chloe learns more about Evan. Cameron wants to get out from under Bernie's shadow, but he receives some devastating news.
As the Holby team say goodbye to a beloved colleague, a surprising revelation sends Cameron into a spin.
As the Holby team give a warm send off to a much beloved colleague, a surprising revelation sends Cameron into a spin.
When Jac is forced to make a career changing decision will life on Darwin ever be the same? And as Serena's tough facade slowly unravels, is grief catching up with her?
Is Chloe brave enough to tell Evan she wants a divorce? And faced with choosing between work and his personal life, will Hanssen learn from past mistakes?
A distressed stranger turns up looking for Raf di Lucca. Will her secret change Essie's life forever?
Chloe's day is thrown into chaos when Evan's sister, Phoebe, returns to Holby. Meanwhile, a high profile patient is admitted to AAU.
A friendly face from the past gives Ric someone to confide in. Fletch goes on a mission that could cost him his relationship with Ange.
Ric worries that something may be wrong with him. Will Essie's lie that she's Isla's adopted mother be exposed?
Evan refuses to give up on Chloe, and Cameron receives heartbreaking news.
Will it be Chloe or Evan's versions of events that will be believed, and what will an MRI scan reveal about Ric's future?
Ric is torn between Serena and Max as they argue about treatment options. Frankie returns.
Max performs dangerous brain surgery on Ric, who must confront his own mortality. Dom is shocked when Helen returns to Holby and Lofty finds out she's pregnant.
It's Halloween and Cameron is haunted by his own ghosts. Jac receives a bombshell from Stacey, and will Dominic overstep the mark when it comes to Lofty's baby?
In Holby's 1, 000th episode, a familiar face returns for the hospital's 150th anniversary.
As Elliot's concern for Jac grows, will he ever be able to tell her his secret?
A heartbroken Lofty and Helen are rocked by tragic news which tears their world apart.
How much will Kian sacrifice to give Bea what she wants? Will Dom and Lofty's grief bring them closer together or rip their marriage apart?
Elliot needs life-saving surgery. Jac is the only one qualified to do it, but will her struggles with anxiety result in her killing her mentor?
Jac has to face some home truths when she's visited by the three wise men, and Chloe gets some life-changing news.
When a defeated Kian finds himself in a dark place, will Jac be able to pull him back from the edge? Meanwhile, a past acquaintance puts Max in a compromising position. (BBC)
Jac and Kian return to work, but can they support each other? Demoted and back in the trenches, Serena must find a role for herself. And will Sacha's efforts to help with Essie's home life only push her into Ben's arms for good? (BBC)
With Jason's job in jeopardy, can Serena afford to put her neck on the line? Tracey McKendrick brings trouble to Holby. How far will Nicky go to protect her mum? And can Essie trust Ben enough to share the secret of baby Isla? (BBC)
On Holocaust Memorial Day, Sacha's beloved great-aunt - a Holocaust survivor - is admitted in very poor health. Meanwhile, Cameron sees red while dealing with a stabbing victim. (BBC)
It's the day of Sacha's transplant operation. Max wonders whether Sacha is fit to carry out the procedure. Meanwhile, Max finds out that Nicky has been moonlighting, and Donna meets a patient who is a casting director.
It's Valentine's Day, but will Cupid's arrow hit the target for Chloe and Cameron? Will Nicky risk a life to pay off a debt? A troubled Sacha is guided by the faith of an old friend. (BBC)
It's the morning after the night before, but will Cameron and Chloe reconcile? A familiar face waltzes back into Holby and ruffles a few feathers, and when Jac's plans with Emma fall through, a colourful character comes to the rescue.
Ric clashes with Max, and Essie has to choose between Ben and Sacha.
Max receives distressing news, but following her fallout with Ric has she lost her closest confidante? Jac and Kian must decide who will be Darwin's next clinical lead. Essie learns that nothing stays secret for long.
Xavier unearths a shocking secret, and Fletch struggles to handle the nursing shortage. Reeling from recent revelations, Sacha, Essie, Dom and Ben perform life-saving surgery on a vulnerable child. (BBC)
With Xavier hot on his trail, how far will Cameron go to keep Evan dead and buried? Jac's team is keen to impress the board with a rare surgery that will put the team ahead of the competition. But is everyone ready for a tough day?
Max is nervous at the thought of seeing her daughter again after years of estrangement.
Max struggles to come to terms with an explosive revelation. Jac and Kian bond over pizza and wine, and Dom tries to reason with a distraught Essie.
As his disciplinary hearing begins, Xav is determined to prove that Cameron killed Evan. Essie faces the fight of her life as she undergoes her first round of chemotherapy.
Guy Self returns to Holby with a former patient, Essie's friends are determined to be as normal as possible as she endures her second round of chemotherapy, and Max makes an announcement regarding the future of Darwin.
Essie puts on a brave face as the effects of chemo start to take a toll. Guy has lots to prove as he faces a challenging case on his first day on AAU. Jac tries to keep things professional with Kian on the ward, but he has other ideas.
As things with Jac heat up, Kian is thrown off balance when a patient causes painful memories to resurface. Tensions run high as Louis adjusts to life in his mum's hospital, and Guy tries to make amends for last week.
Fletch's prostrate surgery is derailed when Evie arrives with a secret that makes him question himself. Nicky is shocked to find herself treating a familiar face.
Cameron is gutted when his performance review doesn't go to plan, and Nicky's attempt to find a life-saving treatment for Brenda puts her at odds with Jac. Essie may know something that will change her life on Keller forever.
Nicky struggles to cope at work as her world collapses around her. Cameron takes his pent-up anger out on an innocent Louis, and Sacha battles against the odds to help Essie.
Nicky must confront her fears, Fletch and Essie try to remain upbeat, and Guy is determined to prove he's still a top surgeon.
Kian returns to Holby, determined to make amends with Jac. Essie searches for answers, and Ric sets out on a personal vendetta.
Cameron fears new locum Drew is out to expose him. Kian spends the day babysitting Emma in order to win back Jac's heart, and how low will Sacha stoop to convince Essie?
Ric clashes with Max when his determination to destroy Guy puts his health at risk. Distressed by Frankie's disappearance, Essie's suspicions are raised when Sacha avoids the subject.
Finding Ric unconscious in theatre, Guy capitalises on the unexpected opportunity. Sacha tries to make things right with Essie, and Nicky receives a surprising offer.
Ric recovers from a two week coma to find the hospital gripped with a pandemic, Sacha's grief over Essie causes him to be abrupt with patient Jodie and Cameron finds his confidence crumbling.
A mystery patient could be the undoing of Jac and Kian's secret relationship.
Max is bothered by the return of an old colleague as a teenage girl estranged from her parents brings back memories, Kian and Henrik ask the F1s to look into Clayton's case and Donna is uncomfortable when Alex returns to the hospital.
Sacha's behaviour regarding a cancer patient causes concern among his colleagues, Cameron's attempt to impress Chloe goes horribly wrong and Clayton challenges Kian about his drug taking.
Henrik gives the F1s three days to find out what's wrong with a critically ill patient, Chloe and Cameron both go for the same job at the same time Chloe is working a tricky case, and Sacha and Jodie face criticism over their relationship.
Kian neglects another patient when Sara Jane turns up with an overdosed client who turns out to be an MP, Sacha's work is disrupted when Beka turns up and learns of his engagement, and Chloe tries to convince Nicky of Cameron's duplicity.
Beka ends up in hospital in New Year's Eve forcing Sacha to face up to some truths, Kian runs out of drugs while dealing with a patient in more pain than she should be, and the F1s are given a mystery case on their first shift on AAU.
Kian uses a desperate gymnast in an attempt to avoid drug tests, Skylar tries to get to the bottom of a couple with unexplained injuries and Sacha struggles with Jodie's attentions while caring for Beka.
Cameron and Skylar face the enquiry into their patient's death, Jac loses her temper with a lifelong smoker who has lung problems and Lucky begins to realise the real cause of Beka's illness.
Jac and Kian have a difficult time when Sarah-Jane is admitted from the prison as a patient, Jeong-Soo has a one-night stand turn up on AAU and Sacha is reluctant to let Beka leave the hospital.
Jac, Kian and Chloe are held hostage with two casualties, Nicky has to talk Cameron through a complex procedure over the phone, and Donna takes a dislike to a patient on Keller.
Sacha is distracted when Jodie turns up and announces she's pregnant, Sahira Shah returns and meets an elderly woman with a cancerous growth on her heart, and new nurse Kylie Madden deals with an infamous patient with abdominal pains.
Both Dominic and Jodie are rushed to surgery after the accident, while Cameron takes an opportunity to get a transfer to Darwin and Donna tries to stop Alex blaming himself.
Dominic gets Sacha to discharge him from hospital so he can go on a date, Alex learns Bobby was the cyclist who hit Zav and Sahira takes time off work to meet with her older son.
Cameron tries to stop Bobby telling anyone what he saw, Henrik is on edge when he has to treat Sahira's father Reyhan for a liver haemorrhage and Ange tries to work out how to support Dom.
Cameron is backed into a corner with both Chloe and Skylar making accusations, Sahira distracts herself from her father by trying to reunite a mother and baby, and Max is reluctant to ask for Lucky's help with a patient's phobia.
Cameron is holding Ange captive while trying to cover her absence from a multi-disciplinary procedure, Henrik is faced with difficult questions as he prepares to operate on Reyhan and Louis has an awkward reunion with an old acquaintance.
Chloe tries to get someone to help her expose Cameron and find Ange. A returned Dominic is left looking after a patient while Sacha operates on Louis, and Kian is the only person available to help a patient on Darwin.
Henrik struggles to deal with what he knows about Reyhan, Nicky's already stressed behaviour is made worse when she learns her patient is Louis' attacker, and Josh tries to cover for Ange on AAU by dealing with a patient's heart problems.
Sahira refuses to believe Henrik's accusation against Reyhan, Louis' attempt to help Vicky is interrupted when his grandmother is brought in, and Kian has to prove he is clean before he can operate.
Dominic confronts Max with his legal team before treating another stoma patient, Louis breaks the rules to help Vicky again and Kian ends up in a compromising position covering for Andrei.
Josh and Jeong-Soo find out that Louis is the hospital thief, Dominic tries to get Ange to join Sacha in operating on him, and Lucky realises Kian has been fooling her.
Henrik encounters Reyhan again when he is brought onto Darwin with a reopened wound, Sacha smuggles Dominic onto Keller as an excuse to do the stoma reversal and Fletch meets the new director of finance.
Henrik accepts the CEO position as the police launch an investigation into Reyhan's death, Dominic's conscience is pricked by two nurses' IVF troubles and Kian smuggles Andrei home.
Donna organises a nurses' protest as Dominic takes a turn for the worse, Andrei asks Lucky for help with Kian and Jeong-Soo realises a patient is in an abusive relationship.
With the hospital swamped with casualties from a school bus crash, Henrik is haunted while dealing with a pupil from his old school, Kian is too busy in theatre to help Andrei and Dominic advises Jeong-Soo on treating the bus driver.
Max meets an old flame who's now an oncologist while treating a patient with breast implants, Kian looks for Andrei and helps a man with chronic pain, and Dominic uses a colostomy patient and Sacha in a scheme to become consultant.
Kian and Evie try to help Andrei when he turns up injured, Max struggles with her surgery and a patient on AAU seems to have a connection to Jeni.
Kian finally operates on Andrei, Dominic deals with an old patient of Sacha's, and Ange and Josh are questioned about their relationship.
Kian and Fletch clash when Andrei and Evie are stabbed, Josh investigates unusual symptoms while trying to save his relationship with Ange, and Jeong-Soo is left with a patient while Sacha and Dominic interview for clinical lead.
Kian is rushed into theatre after his overdose, leaving Jeong-Soo guilty about his role in things, while Ange and Josh discover a further problem with Troy and Zoe.
Lucky and Chloe clash over a cancer patient's right to confidentiality while dealing with Kian's death, Dominic and a locum treat a patient with an eating disorder and Josh, Kylie and Louis adjust to their living arrangements.
As the hospital deal with the CQC inspection Henrik requested, a patient with a bite mark on Keller turns out to be a client of Jeni's, and Ange and Josh's relationship comes into focus when they treat his mother for MS symptoms.
Max tries to help Abs when he turns up looking for Henrik, who is in the basement. Ange and Josh deal with her pregnancy and a long-term cancer patient, while Dominic juggles a visit by Carole and a patient showing signs of domestic abuse.
Dominic learns of Carole's dementia after inviting her to the fundraiser, Josh's behaviour with Delroy assures Ange he will make a good father and Max convinces Henrik to talk to Abs.
The new director of improvement bring in new staff: Darwin clinical leader Eli Ebrahimi hits trouble with a stent research patient while nurse Madge Britton advises Kylie over being groped by a patient. Jeong-Soo helps Dominic with Carole.
Eli hits a snag with Mohammed's operation as Jac tries to get Max to use Carole as a trial patient; Delroy matchmakes between Kylie and Louis as his condition worsens; and Mia attracts the attention of Jeni while on work experience.
Eli and Chloe identify a new trial patient but hit a problem, Jac and Henrik clash when she closes AAU down just as Carole needs an urgent splenectomy, and Jeni manipulates Evie into continuing to take Mia to parties.
Dominic refuses to let Carole be used in Jac's trial when another patient dies, Evie's attempts to break free of Jeni falter when Fletch puts Rich in hospital, and Kylie tries to help a Crohn's patient make his school prom.
Chloe and the AAU staff are uncomfortable with treating Cameron, Evie tries to cover things up when Mia arrives drunk, and Dominic and Jeong-Soo take Carole on a pretend trip.
Henrik and Chloe worry that Cameron is still in the hospital, Jac debates the ethics of operating on Carole, and Evie and Jeni worry when a girl they know is brought in after a police raid.
Cameron deals with Bernie's return aware that the bomb he planted will soon go off, Ange is taken into theatre for a blood transfusion and Lucky continues her investigation as the Keller staff prepare to revive Rich.
Henrik is trapped under rubble in a corridor, Lucky lies unconscious in Jeni's office, Chloe and Josh have to deliver Ange's babies, and Bernie tries to get Cameron out of the collapsing AAU.
Fletch and Donna get closer to the truth about Jeni when Mia comes in with stomach pains, Jac treats a victim of the bomb blast and has to address her own medical problems, and Ange and Josh deal with being new parents.
Fletch and Donna wait for the police to take action against Jeni, Eli is bothered by a visit from his wife wanting to discuss IVF treatment and Elaine raises the tension for Ange and Josh.
Jac tries to charm a visiting doctor into authorising proton beam therapy, Donna struggles with the best way to handle Mia, and Lucky comes round but has spinal damage.
Josh is stressed juggling the twins, an important meeting and a compulsive eater, Lucky's recovery is hampered by a mysterious nurse and Henrik is accosted by Russell Faber, an old acquaintance who wants him to mentor someone.
Josh struggles to cope with both the twins and a patient whose operation has been delayed, Oliver's attempt to convince Henrik he can be retrained is hampered by a graffiti artist and Max enlists Kylie's help with Lucky's depression.
Josh's bulimia resurfaces as he tries to help a woman he thinks is being abused by her daughter, Lucky tricks Kylie into giving her an overdose and Henrik and Russell get locked in a store room.
Josh is stressed further looking after a terminally ill climate activist boy, having to operate on Russell's daughter causes problems for both Oliver and Ange, and Jeong-Soo looks after an elderly woman who insists she's fine.
Eli and Josh prepare to operate on Sammy as Amelia seeks help from Jac, Oliver's treatment of an appendicitis patient sees him clash with an old flame and Doreen tries to help Jeong-Soo celebrate his F2 promotion.
Lucky is brought back in with an infection, Oliver and Josh deal with an influx of patients from a fire at a care home, and Jac begins her proton beam therapy.
Oliver has a breakdown in theatre and injures Henrik, Josh tries to get consent from a patient with a fear of doctors and Max feels Dominic has jumped to conclusion with a diagnosis.
Josh attending a therapy session and Eli learning Amelia is pregnant affect their treatment of a man cared for by his teenage daughter, Henrik and Russell make up while treating a drunken patient, and Dominic has to accept Carole is dying.
Dominic and Sacha take Carole out for a last trip, Russell and Oliver realise there may be a treatment for Sammy and Eli discovers Amelia intends to continue with the pregnancy.
Henrik and the team prepare to operate on Sammy, Eli and Amelia learn they've lost their baby as a pregnant woman is treated for fluid round the heart, and Ange tries to support grieving Dominic.
Jac is determined to make a complex operation a success on the day of a review meeting, Russ tries to find a new recipient after a liver transplant patients dies and Kylie bonds with a young woman who was mugged for her bike.
Jac is rushed into surgery after collapsing again during her failed presentation, Dominic takes his issues out on Alan and Fletch is torn between his loyalty to the staff and the management.
Nicky is distracted from treating a social media star by the news Jac is terminal, an operation on Flo gives Dominic and Sacha an idea to stop infections on stoma patients, and Fletch debates the job offer while helping a father and son.
Fletch is determined to get Harry his operation but attempts to transfer him end in disaster, Henrik is in a quandary after finding out Billie is pregnant and Sacha and Dominic struggle to work together on their research project.
Nicky gets pushed out of her comfort zone treating the daughter of one of Cameron's victims, Donna feels taken for granted after Jason is brought in as a patient, and Max schemes to get Josh involved in his and Ange's wedding plans.
Serena and Bernie return to look after Jason, Jac's expanded HDU scheme sees her determined to get an old acquaintance an operation, and an injury to Kylie while chasing a patient is the final straw for Donna.
Max deals with both a dismissive haematoma patient and Forbes' dismissive attitude to Billie being in pain, Josh's demons resurface when Claudia is brought in with a ruptured oesophagus and Eli is worried by Amelia's plans to adopt Juliet.
An anthrax threat leaves Jac and Nicky trapped in theatre and Henrik having to deliver Billie's baby in the conference room, while Ange begins to realise who the mole is.
Madge is suspended for whistleblowing but then collapses with internal bleeding, an encounter with a constipated patient on the waiting list leads to Dominic job seeking elsewhere and Russ feels guilty for not noticing Billie was pregnant.
With the hospital out of special measures, Jac admits she's dying. Regina tries to get dirt from Madge, Josh and Jeong-Soo debate the junior doctor award as they treat Lexi, and Billie wants to move to Leeds and Russ stay with Henrik.
Fletch summons Elliot back in a last ditch attempt to save Jac, while Jac accompanies Kylie to investigate Madge's home life. Donna asks for her job back after helping Jeong-Soo save Lexy from a tension pneumothorax.
Jac prepares for her surgery. Josh has an awkward encounter with Claudia's mother before he, Ange and Dominic treat a homeless Ken Davies. Lexy has a kidney match but Jeong-Soo finds a complication.
Time is running out for Jac and she makes a fateful choice. Dominic is determined to help Ken as he remains left out with Ange and Josh. Lexy gives Henrik food for thought.
