Episodes
"Episode #" refers to the episode's number in the overall series, whereas "Series #" refers to the episode's number in this particular series.
| Episode # | Series # | Title | Director | Writer | Original airdate | Viewers (in millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Whose Heart Is It Anyway?" | Hutchings, MartinMartin Hutchings | McHale, TonyTony McHale | 01999-01-1212 January 1999 | 10.72 |
| Best friends Julie Fitzjohn and Jasmine Hopkins apply for a ward sister position on the hospital's cardiothoracic surgery ward. Although Julie assumes she is the favourite for the job, Jasmine is the successful candidate. When a heart becomes available for transplant, there are two potential recipients. Consultant Anton Meyer initially chooses a young boy as the best match, but ends up operating on the alternative candidate when it transpires the boy has a chest infection. Jasmine, registrar Nick Jordan and nurse Chloe Hill (Jan Anderson) fly to Cornwall to retrieve the donor heart. Registrar Kirstie Collins asks Nick for permission to attend the transplant, but he refuses. Kirstie attends anyway, and is ordered out of theatre by Meyer, who is aware that Nick and Kirstie are in a relationship. As the donor heart is put in place, the father of the boy refused the operation breaks into the theatre and threatens Meyer with a scalpel. Nick defends Meyer, and the father is removed from the theatre. The heart begins to beat, and Meyer leaves Nick to close. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Happy Families" | Douglas, NigelNigel Douglas | Turner, JoeJoe Turner | 01999-01-1919 January 1999 | 10.40 |
| Kirstie falls out with Nick after he sleeps with theatre sister Ellie Sharpe. Julie and Jasmine also fall out, as Julie is jealous of her friend's promotion to ward sister and believes herself to have been the more deserving applicant. Consultant Muriel McKendrick makes plans for a new drugs trial, and accepts Kirstie as her assistant. New SHO Victoria Merrick struggles with her patients, one of whom chastises her for her lack of people skills. Ward clerk Paul Ripley is caught kissing a comatose patient, and hands in his resignation after being attacked by her father. Nick's wife Karen Newburn begins working at the hospital as a ward sister, and the two clash professionally. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Kill or Cure" | Douglas, NigelNigel Douglas | Stevenson, JamesJames Stevenson | 01999-01-2626 January 1999 | 9.42 |
| Meyer receives a poor report of Nick from surgeon James Roberts, whose firm Nick used to work on. Nick explains that he clashed with Roberts over his habit of withholding beds from the emergency department for elective surgery patients. Meyer tells Nick that he ought to have come to him, rather than arguing with Roberts directly. Kirstie is concerned when a patient on the drug trial arrests. Muriel and nurse Ray Sykes discourage her from informing the drugs company, but Kirstie faxes them a letter regardless. Tests reveal that Paul did not rape coma patient Nicola Fallon (Joanna Kirkland) as her father had suspected. Nicola's mother asks for Paul to return and see her daughter, but Karen discovers he has moved to Leeds. Kirstie learns that Karen is Nick's wife, and although he explains that they are separated, she is furious with him for hiding his marriage from her. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Love and Death" | Hutchings, MartinMartin Hutchings | Turner, JoeJoe Turner | 01999-02-022 February 1999 | 8.80 |
| When Kirstie catches Nick and Ellie leaving a linen closet together after a tryst, she confronts Nick. He claims that he was breaking things off with Ellie, and Kirstie tells him that she wants to be more than a just fling to him. Julie falls asleep at work, and Jasmine tells her she must give up her second job working in a supermarket. Muriel is angry with Kirstie for writing to the drugs company, and reveals that the patient was unsuitable for the trial, and Kirstie made a selection error. The donor heart recipient from "Whose Heart is it Anyway?" requests to know the identity of his organ donor. He believes that the donor was blind, as he is having nightmares about going blind himself. Nick believes the patient is rejecting the organ, however Meyer deduces he has a chest infection and prescribes him antibiotics. A male patient tells Ray he is in love with him, and Ray tells him that he has a girlfriend. Ray later admits to Victoria that he detracts male admirers by claiming to have a girlfriend, and female ones by claiming to have a boyfriend. The patient also declares his love for Nick. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Never Judge a Book..." | Hawes, JamesJames Hawes | McHale, TonyTony McHale | 01999-02-099 February 1999 | 8.75 |
| While Jasmine's fiance Carl (Alex Avery) is fixing a computer on the ward, Julie and Karen ask him when the wedding will be. Carl tells them June, which angers Jasmine, who had not agreed to the date beforehand. Meyer and Muriel clash over distribution of beds. Meyer and Nick operate on a baby born by Caesarean. Julie notices that the mother is uninterested in the baby, and learns that she is a surrogate and needed the money for university. She changes her mind, however, and decides to keep the baby. When a patient chokes on a sweet, Victoria performs an emergency tracheotomy. She damages his vocal cords, and is reprimanded by Meyer. A dismayed Victoria begins taking amphetamines to cope with the pressures of work. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Brave Heart" | Wroblewski, PaulPaul Wroblewski | McHale, TonyTony McHale | 01999-02-1616 February 1999 | 9.77 |
| Nick is beaten up by Ellie's boyfriend when he discovers their affair. He is late to an operation, angering Karen, who reveals that seven years previously he was late attending to a patient as he was sleeping with a nurse. The patient subsequently died, and Karen covered up for him. Julie is fired from her second job for stealing out–of–date food and shouting at her manager. Victoria is again reprimanded by Meyer when the tracheotomy patient files a lawsuit against the hospital, and Meyer continues to clash with Muriel over bed distribution between their wards. Kirstie receives flowers from an admirer throughout the day, and learns from the florist they were ordered by Nick. As Nick is claiming to Karen that he has changed, Kirstie dumps the flowers on him, and Karen remains disbelieving. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Take Me with You" | Wroblewski, PaulPaul Wroblewski | Rattenbury, AndrewAndrew Rattenbury | 01999-02-2323 February 1999 | 8.86 |
| Nick tells Julie that he ordered the flowers for Kirstie on behalf of a patient. Victoria postpones a patient's surgery due to a problem with his heart. The patient's wife is angry, but relents when she learns from Muriel that if her husband had had the operation as planned, he could have died. Kirstie misses an exam to assist in operating on a cardiothoracic patient. Muriel arranges for her to take the exam the next day, instead of waiting three months for the next round of examinations. Kirstie turns down dinner with Nick in favour of staying with her patient. Julie's childminder quits as she has not been paid, and leaves Julie's daughter Rosie at the hospital. Julie spends her shift hiding Rose from Karen, who is angry when she finds out various staff members have been taking care of her throughout the day. Jasmine and Carl have an argument, during which Carl hits her. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Staying Alive: Part 1" | Hawes, JamesJames Hawes | Povey, JeffJeff Povey | 01999-03-022 March 1999 | 8.65 |
| Carl arrives on the ward looking for Jasmine, who has been ignoring his calls. She returns his ring and calls off their engagement. Porter Derek "Sunny" Sunderland (Vincenzo Pellegrino) wins £10,000 in a radio competition, which he donates to the cardiology unit. Kirstie decides not to go into surgery, but to remain on Muriel's team. A former nurse and colleague of Muriel's is admitted as a patient. Muriel wishes to fit her with an internal defibrillator, which will cost the hospital £25,000. The patient refuses and discharges herself, claiming she would rather die than require nursing. Victoria confesses to Karen that she has been taking drugs. Karen refers her to Nick, who tells her to get counselling. Ray gives her the same advice, however Victoria decides to resign. When the teenage friends of a patient cause him to arrest, Victoria saves his life and decides not to quit after all. Jasmine finds the teenagers stealing from the drugs cupboard and chases them. She is stabbed in the stomach and collapses. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Staying Alive: Part 2" | Douglas, NigelNigel Douglas | Povey, JeffJeff Povey | 01999-03-099 March 1999 | 8.51 |
| Nick and Meyer operate on Jasmine, seemingly successfully. Whilst recovering on the ward, her condition deteriorates. During a second operation, it is discovered she is pregnant. A patient is admitted having suffered a heart attack in a lap–dancing club. He recognises Julie as one of the dancers. Karen reprimands her, but Julie admits her desperation for money to pay her bills and take care of her daughter. Karen offers her a temporary job as ward sister while Jasmine recovers. Karen tells Meyer about Victoria's drug addiction and he suspends her from work. When Jasmine suffers cardiac arrest, Meyer saves her life, but there is a high chance she will miscarry. |
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