Can Elliot help Ben?

Can Elliot help Ben?
Can Elliot help Ben? (Image credit: BBC)

A specialist tells Ben he will lose his sight within six months. Ben is devastated – he earns a living from his unique vision. Elliot gets him a second opinion but the result is the same. Ben decides he doesn't want Martha to spend the rest of her life looking after him and tries to tell Elliot that he doesn't have any feelings for Martha. Elliot knows he is lying, but can he prevent Ben from leaving Martha and heading off to deal with his future blindness alone? Newlyweds Faye and Joseph proudly show off their new photos with the Holby team. But Faye is still feeling shaky from her kiss with Linden, and tries to avoid speaking to him. Eventually she is forced to tell Linden that the kiss means nothing – but will he leave her alone? Jayne returns after caring for her dying mother to find the board concerned about the hospital's image. She tells Ric his zero tolerance is to blame. But Ric believes he is right and carries on with the policy. When Ric has a harsh word with new doctor Penny, Jayne tells him she is re-advertising his position.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.