Iain desperately tries to save a wounded Pc

Iain and Norman pick up a man, Freddie, acting erratically, but as he refuses treatment Iain threatens to report him to the police. Back in the ED a seriously injured police officer is brought in requiring serious treatment. As her attacker is described, Iain soon finds the link between Freddie and the gravely ill Pc and he jumps in to try and save her when she crashes!

The Pc dies and Freddie's brother Jack, another Pc who also tried to apprehend him, is faced with having to come clean and admit he let his brother flee the scene of the crime, leading to his colleague's death

Elsewhere, a young father (played by George Sampson) tries to help his ill child, but without money for any medicine he is left in trouble and it’s a race against time to get the ill infant to hospital. Matters aren't helped when he hurts himself badly trying to steal infant painkillers.

Meanwhile, Robyn sends her stepbrother Max to a job interview, but when he spends his bus fare on a bet - she suggests he takes Big Mac’s vacant post as porter...

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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.