BBC Casualty: keep calm and cartilage on; it's going tibia ok

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The virus is spreading will Holby be ok?!

Assumed the injury (?) on Charlie's lip was genuine and they had to shove a throwaway line in to explain it. It did look more like a cold sore to me.

Think Rash's acting has been stellar recently. He is very gifted at communicating non-verbally. Are we meant to assume that Will has picked up the role of supervising him now? And has Ethan left? - is that it? - "Sorry the guy I was mentoring died; it's my fault he was so poorly supervised, but hey, I'm off to Costa Rica anyway, hurrah"?

Will and Archie are really growing on me: I like Will's calm competence at the moment.

I agree that I thought there was a spark between Dylan and Faith - didn't see her being married to Lev coming at all!

What happened about Lev's football hooligan past - do we assume that Ruby just got over that? I thought that she'd told him they'd never be friends or something.

I don't think she's got over it cos she said to him just doing your job doesn't make you my friend. I don't think she'll let herself forgive him not at the minute anyway. Might change soon

Pretty sure that Leve did something to redeem himself in Ruby's eyes, very soon after she discovered about his football hooligan past. But can't think what off the top of my head.

Maybe Dylan was drawn to Faith's very efficient and matter-of-fact approach?

I love Rash. And yes, Will and Archie are proving a quietly formidable duo. I wonder who they will bring in as Mason's replacement?

I am surprised Connie is back, given that she was forging prescriptions to feed her habit. I know that doctors can be treated with leniency for addictions, BUT not when they do something which is entirely against their professional code of conduct.

Given that Duffy's dementia seems to be accelerated, do we think she will die soon?

Yes he did and after that she said she'd work with him again but she doesn't consider him a friend or whatever

I am surprised Connie is back, given that she was forging prescriptions to feed her habit

I don't think she got caught for that, though - I think she fiddled the records so that it looked as if that bloke brought in to oversee the dept had been signing off on all the diazepam prescriptions.

Oh yes, that rings a bell!

Oh I thought she got caught for it all in the end but just that they were going to ignore that and cos it's a tele programme bring her back anyway!

It was nice to see Connie back and she definitely looks healthier than she did when she left.

I liked Dylan’s speech in the staff room about the pressures of the NHS, especially their department, and how it may have impacted on Mason’s death even if it was due to an undiagnosed heart condition.

I thought the story about the naughty school boy was pretty pointless but I did like it when he was telling Dylan that doctors were superheroes and he wanted to be one.

Charlie’s lip thing was a bit grim!

Definitely didn’t see the Faith/Levy marriage coming. I do think Dylan was a bit disappointed when he realised she was married.

Will is also growing on me, and Archie!

I liked the storyline of Ruby and Violet. I do really like Ruby, she’s such an endearing character.

I thought we saw the scene where Duffy hit Charlie?

I thought Connie didn't look well at all, but maybe she was meant to look overwhelmed.

Can someone summarise what Connie did and why everyone hates her please.

She was addicted to diazepam and sneaking prescriptions of it (prescribing more than was needed for patients and taking them herself). So she had side affects was making fatal mistakes with patients and blaming it on her colleagues eg Duffy. I'm sure someone might be able to explain it a bit better and in more detail than me. But she wasn't fit to practice and was putting patients' lives in danger and wouldn't admit it

Thank you!

She was attacked by a patient/relative of a patient and quite badly beaten and began to suffer some form of ptsd, I think. She self-medicated with diazepam which she got by over-prescribing. Charlie hates her because she made an error when treating a patient which she blamed on Duffy, knowing that Duffy has dementia and wouldn't be able to challenge Connie's version of events because she got too confused and frightened at the thought that she had made an error that could be fatal.

She also blamed Archie for a different error. Archie became very mistrustful and suspicious, and ended up following Connie to a pharmacy where she had gone to try to obtain drugs when she was prevented from getting them from the hospital pharmacy any more. The pharmacy was robbed while they were both there and Archie was stabbed and nearly died.

When Connie was about to get found out, she fiddled the hospital records to make it look as if the suit brought in to sort out the ED (and the man who had been working with Archie to try to expose Connie's drugtaking) had been the one signing off on all the diazepam prescriptions and he left under a bit of a cloud.

Thus: everyone hates her.

Thank you, all makes sense now.

Well, by Casualty standards, anyway. If a bunch of real medical professionals behaved like that, "sense" wouldn't be the first thing that came to mind.

Has Ethan gone now, then?

A week behind as always

Charlie’s lip did look bad and hinted new year was eventful and pointed to lip

Amazed Connie is back but yes she managed to make the suit man get the blame

And Archie and Duffy got the Blame for stuff Connie did why high on meds

And agree that Charlie should retire. He did ages ago but came back - and look after Duffy

Did think Connie looked better. Cheeks not so hollow

Connie's new wig is awful......so was the last one come to think of it.

Are we supposed to know who this eye surgeon is? I don't remember her at all.

I was wondering that. Is she from Holby City? I do find the assumption that Casualty viewers will be familiar with Holby quite annoying, as I've never watched it and don't really intend to.

I watch Holby as well and I don't recall her from that, although my Google history tells me that I have looked up 'tooth-in-eye surgery' at some point in the past and I can't think of another context in which I'd have come across this phrase, so maybe she has cropped up before.

What's daft about it is the eye-surgeon was being made out to have worked in Holby (and know Connie well enough) but to have been working abroad for a while. Yet Archie and her apparently have a decent working relationship, despite Archie being relatively new to Holby.

I too watch Holby and couldn't remember that character. According to IMDb the actress has appeared in an earlier Casualty episode, but that was playing a police officer. I couldn't find mention of Dr Megan Harrison being played in an earlier episode by another actor, either.