A fight between best friends leaves one of them in serious condition, and Dr. Rose (
Denis Lill) has to perform an operation usually reserved for a neurosurgeon. Meryl (
Zoie Kennedy) fears she's pregnant but doesn't want Dr. Cheriton (
Julian Ovenden) to marry her only out of duty. Dr. Ormerod (
Robert Daws) blames Lizzie (
Michelle Hardwick) for misdirecting him to an accident scene where the victim died. Sister Brigid (
Linda Armstrong) comes to the rescue of a 37-year-old woman having her first baby.