(Series 25, Ep.33) You know it’s a gruelling episode when there’s a list of helpline information as long as your arm on iPlayer. Sadly I scanned through this and there’s no number to ring if you’ve been affected by boredom/irritation at having to devote 50 minutes of your life to a whole episode of Kirsty/Warren/Nita flashbacks.
Little Miss Glum had taken herself to the top of the fire station tower and was determined to stay up there till Kirsty had filled her in on the real story of her life with Warren. This involved an episode full of flashbacks, in which characters appear as their younger selves by adopting different partings and stronger regional accents. And guess what? Warren was always a nasty piece of work (I know – shocker!), creepy even when he was meant to be being charming, winning the hand of the lovely Kirsty by beating her current boyfriend to a pulp (something she only worked out in this episode).
It must have been a gruelling day’s filming for Lucy Gaskell and Holly Earl, as it looked freezing on that tower – there was snow on the ground in the surrounding streets – and the subject matter was pretty gruelling (not least for those of us who had to watch). The majority of the flashback action centred on Nita’s premature birth and the days afterwards when she was very ill. Weirdly, Dr 
Miriam Turner was at the delivery and was also responsible for all the post-natal care. Had we had any clue that Miriam and Kirsty had met before? Or were Casualty just saving money by using someone on the regular payroll rather than paying for a guest artiste? Miriam had seen Warren hit Kirsty and advised her, “Get away from that man – he’ll do it again.” But Kirsty felt she couldn’t leave him because he signed the consent form for Nita to have life-saving surgery after Kirsty wavered about it, so in her mind he’d saved Nita’s life.
It turned out that before Nita pushed Warren down the stairs he’d punched her and then said, “Push meh.” So she’d pushed him. And about flippin’ time, too.
Meanwhile, Polly had her interview for her counselling course, but she got a bit giddy on her own counselling cleverness and decided she needed 
Hannah Fleet and Dr Dylan Keogh to have a cosy chat to resolve Hannah’s issues. Sadly Hannah is more in need of Charlie and his lovely Psych ward, and when Dylan showed more interest in his dog (you can see his reasoning), she chased after him with a handy blade, which, as usual in Holby City Hospital, was left lying around just in case anyone needed to go crazy and attack someone. When the lift door closed and prevented her from stabbing the dog-loving doc, and Polly rushed over with a restraining/sympathetic hug, Polly got stabbed instead. We left her bleeding in an empty corridor, trying to reach the whistle Jeff had given her in case of emergencies. Will she reach the whistle? Will she have enough puff to blow it? Will someone happen by in the nick of time and raise the cry of “I need some help in here!”? Tune in next Saturday for a real-time episode and find out.
Posted by PLA (more Casualty here)
Have never seen a special babycare unit where one baby gets two full time staff on hand. All very strange.
And sorry poor Polly got stabbed, but frankly from a professional standpoint, she’d make a bloody lousy counsellor. No clue about appropriate boundaries. Best not to get within knifing distance, in my experience.
To be fair to Polly she hasn’t started her counselling training yet so probably hasn’t had the lesson on boundaries, but she does tend to leap in. Also a while ago she had a stalker who ended up dying in nasty circumstances and I can’t help thinking this is behind her need to rescue people. She’s very cute though.
I was not looking forward to this episode since the Warren/Kirsty storyline has bored me rigid the last few months. Do wonder why the Warren character let Kirsty do her RMN/RN training as he was such a controlling/violent man? The clue that Kirsty and Miriam knew each other before was planted when they cast odd looks at each other when they met in the corridor on Miriam’s first shift.
Well spotted Tabithaana, I didn’t notice that look – though I do zone out a bit whenever Kirsty is on the screen.
Inkface, much as it pains me, Poll would be a RUBBISH counseller. She gets to close to her patients and always gets hurt herself. Having just said that I would LOVE for her to my counseller.