Doctors spoilers: Can Karen Hollins save foster daughter Abz Baker?

Doctors, Rob Hollins, Karen Hollins
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Karen is desperate to discover the truth from foster child Abz on Doctors. But she fears the worst when she finds Abz standing alone on a railway bridge...

Everyone is still reeling from the way the rape case involving teenager Abz Baker (played by Amy Bowden) has fallen apart on Doctors (1:45pm on BBC One, see our TV Guide for full listings).

However, even though Abz went on record to admit she made-up the claim, foster mum Karen Hollins (Jan Pearson) remains convinced there's more to the story than meets the eye.

Doctors, Rob Hollins, Abz Baker

Abz claimed she was raped during a night out. But not everybody believed her on Doctors

Desperate to find out the truth from Abz, worried Karen calls the teenager. She is alarmed when she tracks Abz down and finds her standing alone, close to the edge of a railway bridge...

Abz is broken and tells Karen she really was raped during a night out.

Karen believes her. But can she convince Abz to come home with her?

Doctors, Karen Hollins, Lex Whitmore

Karen still has her suspicions about Lex's boyfriend Mal on Doctors

Meanwhile, there's still the matter of patient Erin Wyn-Davies (Awen Jones), who was just at the surgery for treatment with similar injuries to those of Abz.

Can Erin be persuaded to come forward and give a statement, even after everything that happened with Abz in public?

Elsewhere, student Lex Whitmore (Eleanor House) goes over to her boyfriend Jaime 'Mal' Malinson's (Joe Ashman) house and secretly uses the opportunity to search his bedroom!

Could it be that Lex is not as convinced about Mal's innocence in connection with Abz's case as she first made out?

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.