Julia's big dilemma

Julia's big dilemma
Julia's big dilemma (Image credit: BBC)

Julia's eye is caught by a handsome man called Graham (played by George Irving, best known as surgeon Anton Meyer in Holby City) who is fixing the computers at the campus. He asks her out for dinner but before she can answer, a drunken tramp Buster Bevan falls through the doors claiming to be unwell. Julia is faced with the dilemma of whether to accept Graham’s dinner invite or take Buster to the hospital. Graham suggests they let a toss of a coin decide. He throws a coin in the air and we then see how each outcome would play out... In the first scenario she accepts Graham’s invite and they go to a posh restaurant but Graham fails to impress Julia when he has too much to drink. But after a huge apology, Julia goes back to the restaurant with him. They share a long meaningful kiss and Julia gives Graham hope for a second date. In the scenario where she helps Buster, the tramp is sick on her and falls to the ground. In the hospital Buster tells Julia his heart-breaking story and how he's lost contact with his daughter. She offers to help him find her. Back in reality, Julia is shocked when Graham suggests letting the toss of a coin decide whether a patient gets treatment or not. She tells Buster he has to stop wasting people’s time if he isn’t really ill. She turns down Graham’s invitation. Graham offers to give Buster a lift to the hospital. Julia heads home alone. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk’s new weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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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.