Holby City: Oh, Dr Valentine!

“Just relax,” Elliott advised Joseph. Has Elliott never met the world’s most beautiful heart surgeon before? Relaxing is not in Joseph’s nature at the best of times, and when your wife has just been charged with the murder of her son is not the best of times. Joseph wears anguish quite magnificently though, and I was rather loving his stubbly-faced, dark-overcoatedness.

I’ve also started to rather love Thandie, who carries on in the long line of strong, feisty Holby women. Thandie had spotted that Nurse Lauren Minster was getting antsy whenever Joseph or Faye were mentioned, and she decided to do a little digging. When Lauren let drop some remark along the lines of “I made a mistake,” Thandie knew she was onto something, and went at her like a terrier with a rag, until Lauren finally confessed that she’d made a mistake with the drip bags and that was why Faye’s son Archie had wrongly been given potassium. So, finally, Faye is in the clear, and just perhaps Joseph might be able to relax a teeny tiny bit. And have a shave.

Meanwhile, Young Dr Oliver Valentine was making eyes at Jac Naylor (or “Termi-Naylor” as Dr Penny Valentine aptly calls her) over an aortic aneurism. He had to admire Jac’s icy-cool-in-a-crisis demeanour. “He’s in VF!” shouts Young Dr Oliver. “How dull,” sighs Jac, charging up the defibrillator. Young Dr Oliver tried to work out what motivated Jac to go into medicine. Was it being in control? That was it, wasn’t it? She loved to be in control? The lad was fair dripping sexual tension by this point.

Operation successfully over, Jac let herself be vulnerable for a moment, showed him how her hand was shaking, and said she became a doctor because she can fix other people (but, by implication, not herself). Dr Oliver could contain himself no longer and pounced. His sister Dr Penny turned up to find out why he hadn’t turned up at the New Year party, in time to catch a glimpse of her brother and Miss Naylor well and truly at it in the locker room. Luckily she had Donna’s camera with her, so expect some fun and games when that photo gets shared around.