History
Alan is the consultant radiologist at East Hampton Hospital.
While unpopular with his coworkers, he is one of the most important people in the hospital, being the head of the Radiology department, attending official meetings with the hospital's top brass. One of the other members of staff that attends these meetings is human resources director Joanna Clore, with whom he is having an affair.
Junior doctor Boyce serves as Alan's chief nemesis, constantly playing practical jokes on him. The pair have a complex relationship, apparently hating each other but displaying signs of obvious affections for each other nonetheless.
In the second series, Alan wins a caption competition on the Consultant Radiologists International website, an organisation which Alan claims to be an "Esteemed member". Joanna becomes sick of his cheerfulness, so she tries to scare him using her dwarf cousin, but Alan is so shocked that he beats him to death with a stuffed heron. Alan and Joanna flee the hospital, assisted by Boyce, and they steal a camper van which, unknown to them, contains Joanna's son, Dr. Martin Dear. Alan ends up driving the camper van (almost) over the edge of the same cliff where Martin was in a similar accident before. However, Martin calls the AA on his mobile and is rescued.
Alan and Joanna go on the run to hide from the police and have to resort to stealing food, but accidentally kill three more people during their escape: Joanna reverses the camper van into a mechanic, Alan sits on a shopkeepers face and suffocates her, and Joanna rubs peanut butter into the face of a policeman with a nut allergy who is questioning them. Alan tries to fix the van so it runs on alcohol, as a result of which it explodes. Alan and Joanna consider handing themselves in, moving to Spain, or committing suicide. Alan vetoes moving to Spain as he dislikes the Spanish. The pair are last seen walking naked into the sea. An alternate ending on the DVD release of the Special shows Alan and Joanna clinging to a buoy.
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