Ruth attacks the man trying to save her

Ruth attacks the man trying to save her
Ruth attacks the man trying to save her (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Matthew Kelly stars in a special stand-alone episode of Casualty that begins immediately after Ruth had a complete mental breakdown and was sectioned. Matthew plays consultant psychiatrist Andrew Brookfield, who attempts to help the troubled doctor Recently sectioned, troubled medic Ruth is forced to face her inner demons this week. We catch up with Ruth after she was dragged from Holby's emergency department kicking and screaming. Consultant psychiatrist Andrew Brookfield (Matthew Kelly) attempts to help her, but Ruth turns on him and demands a tribunal to appeal against her sectioning. She also attacks Charlie, who now works in the psychiatric ward, and accuses him of plotting against her! Meanwhile a woman called Mary haunts Ruth. As the episode progresses we learn in flashback sequences Mary is patient Ruth was unable to help. Dr Brookfield deduces Ruth has conjured up Mary in order to cope with what's happening to her. Ruth bursts into tears and begs Dr Brookfield and Charlie to her help her.

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.