Doctors spoilers: WHY is Jimmi Clay back in prison again?

Doctors, Jimmi Clay
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For a moment there, it looked like Jimmi's prison ordeal was over on Doctors. But now the troubled medic is back behind bars... for his own protection!

After everything that has happened over the past few months, Jimmi Clay (played by Adrian Lewis Morgan) can't believe he is back behind bars on Doctors (1:45pm on BBC One, see our TV Guide for full listings).

But this time it is for how own protection, following the SHOCK attack at the hospital when SOMEONE tried to murder Jimmi by deadly injection!

Still suffering with a lot of pain from his previous shoulder injury, after prison inmate Leon Sharma (Jonas Khan) stabbed him, Jimmi pleads for help from prison guard Vincent Manning (Laurence Saunders) to help him get his hands on some painkillers.

Will Vincent, who has previously been a menace, agree to help troubled Jimmi?

Doctors, DS Chloe Margrave, DI Craig Farrier

Police detectives Margrave and Farrier question Jimmi's attacker on Doctors...

Meanwhile, after all the dramatic goings-on, DS Chloe Margrave (Tanya-Loretta Dee) and DI Craig Farrier (Robert Harrison) try to build a case against Jimmi's hospital attacker.

The police detectives have the CCTV footage of the crime. But will it be enough to convince the attacker to spill the beans and reveal the truth?

Elsewhere in Letherbridge, surgery receptionist Karen Hollins (Jan Pearson) meets Monica Levenson (Judy Flynn), who suffers from arthritis.

Despite her own struggles, Monica has her hands full looking after her boyfriend Archie Matthews (Shaun Prendergast, who might seem familiar from roles on EastEnders, Emmerdale and Waterloo Road), who has MS.

However, when Karen visits them both, she is annoyed by the way Archie treats Monica as his personal home-help, especially when it comes to financial handouts.

Doctors, Karen Hollins, Monica Levenson, Archie Matthews

Karen tries to help patient Monica see her no-good boyfriend Archie's true colours on Doctors

But when Karen tracks down a mystery woman called Jo Phelps (Candida Gubbins), she turns out to be Archie's ex-girlfriend who knows a whole lot about his shady secrets!

What will she reveal to Karen?

Doctors continues weekdays at 1:45pm on BBC One

Simon Timblick
Writer

Simon has long been a fan of soap operas, and especially loves OVER-THE-TOP plots involving evil twins, hair-pulling catfights and natural disasters. Anyone remember the Sunset Beach earthquake/tidal wave? Or when Krystle Carrington got locked in the attic and replaced by look-a-like Rita in Dynasty?!

Simon has written for a variety of TV and childrens’ magazines/websites including Inside Soap, Nickelodeon, What’s On TV, Radio Times, Metro, Girl Talk, Disney Girl, Toxic! and Digital Spy. He has reported LIVE from the red carpet at The British Soap Awards interviewing glammed-up stars from soapland, and hosted a Facebook LIVE session for Metro with Home and Away legend Ray Meagher (Alf "Stone the flamin' crows!" Stewart) to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Aussie soap.

Simon is also co-author of The Treasures Of Coronation Street (Carlton Books)

And the writer and director of (very!) low budget fright flick, Midsummer Night's EVIL and the sequel webisodes series, The Hatchet Woods HORROR.