Will Yvonne survive?

The concluding episode of this weekend's double-bill series finale sees Superintendent Yvonne Rippon seriously injured and fighting for her life, after being stabbed by panicked shopkeeper Mehmet, who mistook her for a rioter. As the violence and looting continues, Holby's ambulance crews are struggling to reach those injured. Back at the ED, Nick Jordan hears that Yvonne has been stabbed, so he climbs on the back of a paramedic's motorbike and races to the scene. When he finds Yvonne, she's still conscious but can't feel her legs. Apologising for their earlier row, Nick assures Yvonne that he'll get her to the ED safely. However, as the ambulance tries to pass through the angry mob, Yvonne stops breathing and Nick is forced to perform a life-saving operation. When the crew finally gets Yvonne to the ED, Zoe takes charge of her care as Nick is too personally involved. Meanwhile, Lloyd is shocked to discover that it was Scarlett who threw the brick that hit PC Scriven. As Yvonne's life hangs in the balance, she needs to be transferred to a spinal unit. Nick decides to go with her, knowing it may be some time before he can return to Holby. Meanwhile, Scarlet faces up to her responsibilities and hands herself into the police, knowing it's the end of her relationship and possibly her career. Elsewhere, the results of Wesley's post-mortem are in and the police arrest his fiancee.

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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.