BBC ONE 0800-0900pm
Linden explains to the priest that he has sinned and let someone down, as he begins to narrate this episode and explain exactly what he means…
Patient John Priestley is taken into theatre for an aorta valve replacement. Joseph is late and distracted, waiting for a call. Connie is furious as the patient has woken during the operation, and when the diathermy makes contact with the glue in Priestley’s chest, there is a small explosion and his chest catches fire. They manage to put out the fire and send Priestley back to sleep, but a bleed occurs. By magic, Connie uses hemostate powder to stop the bleed – Joseph is impressed so she gives it to him as a souvenir.
Connie tells Joseph to take some time off to sort his domestic problems. He agrees as can use this time to find Faye. Meanwhile Michael and Linden speak to Jac, who says she thinks Faye is in serious trouble. They warn Joseph who questions Jac further. He begins to panic realising he actually knows nothing about Faye. Who is Lucas Jac claims to be her husband, and where is she? Linden calms him, saying that Faye would never hurt him intentionally and Joseph realises he is right. He then receives a withheld call and it’s Faye. She is upset and asking for his help, but his phone battery dies.
We see Faye sitting crying on a bed, and as she gets up, we realise she is not in Holby City, but in an apartment by the sea. Linden narrates that this is when he got dragged in further. Joseph’s inability with technology meant he had to get involved.
Linden takes Joseph’s phone and uses his battery for it instead. By this stage Joseph has given up on Faye - why should he care anymore when all she does is lie? He doesn’t want to play games anymore. Linden continues to worry as before Joseph’s battery had died, Faye had said she was in trouble and that they could kill him - Lucas presumably. Linden then gets another withheld call and it’s Faye. Joseph is distracted telling Mr Priestley that he must have imagined his chest setting on fire during the operation, but when he’s sees Linden rush off after taking the call, he follows. Faye had told Linden she is in Cape Town and needs help. Maddy hands Linden some flight tickets as he prepares to leave – he has to help Faye, he cannot let her down.
To Linden’s surprise Joseph follows him, although apparently not caring anymore. They take a taxi and head for the airport. They finally arrive in Cape Town and begin their journey to find Faye.
Joseph frustrates Linden; he was the one wanting to help Faye and doesn’t need Joseph there. Also Joseph’s driving is appalling. They arrive at the address Faye had given Linden. No one appears to be there so they break in. They find photos of Lucas and Faye and realise that although married, Lucas is gay. As they go upstairs they hear a noise. They open the door and find the cleaner who has been locked in a room. She panics before realising they are Faye’s friends and so reveals all.
Faye had been at the apartment all day just crying and crying about someone named Archie who is in hospital – another husband? She doesn’t know, but then these two boys – Gavin and Johnny boy - arrived and took Faye away, leaving her locked in the room. They used to work for a fashion designer who owned this apartment, but died 3-months previously of AIDS. Lucas had been at his side all the time. She tells Joseph and Linden that they need to go and find Johnny to find Faye, but he lives in the township so it could be dangerous.
Linden can’t quite believe what he is getting into but blocks out reality and decides to follow his instinct. He must help Faye.
With direction from the cleaner, they drive to the township – this time with Linden behind the wheel. As they arrive and look for him, there is a gun attack and they duck for cover. They see someone emerge from Johnny Boy’s shack and ask him if he is Johnny, but he runs off. A small girl has been shot and in urgent need of treatment. Thanks to Joseph’s trusty bum bag, the two surgeons manage to treat her until the ambulance arrives. In the panic, Linden reveals to Joseph that he has a daughter and so can understand the pain the little girls father is feeling.
Joseph sees the guy they saw emerge from the shack and chases him. The man then pulls out a gun and holds Joseph up at gunpoint. Meanwhile Linden searches for him in the car, but gets chased by a gang who also hold him to gunpoint. They take him to where Joseph is being held and leave him with the gunman. The gunman turns out to be Denion T, Johnny’s brother. Johnny Boy has told him to hold the two white men until he gives the all clear. He demands their belongings and hits Linden who refuses to hand over anything; Joseph thinks Linden is insane.
Fortunately Joseph and Linden are freed when the father of the child they saved tells Denion T to let them go. They race back to the car to make a quick escape, but find it has been trashed. Linden realises this is turning into a journey to hell, and Joseph is still frustrating him. One minute Joseph hates Faye, and the next, he’d die for her.
They go back to the apartment and decide to search for clues. Joseph finds a laptop with a calendar appointment for the following day – Archie, 11.30am, DKH. They realise DKH is the local hospital, as earlier the young girls father had said she was doing ok and being looked after there. They decide to hold fort for the rest of the day and head to DKH the next morning.
They wander to the beach and Linden questions Joseph’s issue with trust. Joseph explains he feels Faye has played him since he met her in Dubai. He doesn’t even now know if she did actually push James down the stairs any more. Additionally, how can he ever trust anyone after what Jac did to him? Linden sees his point, but also sees the pain in Jac’s eyes. She’s missing something, like he himself is. Linden goes onto tell Joseph that he lost his wife Olivia, and his daughter ten years ago in a road traffic accident. He has never let anyone drive him since, as he feels guilty every day for not driving the car that crashed. If he hadn’t had a drink he would have been driving and they would still be alive. Today was the first time he’d ever trusted anyone else with his life in a car.
Joseph thinks Linden is wrong to feel guilty and blame himself - it was an accident and accidents happen. That’s why people pray for a doctor, not God. But Linden doesn’t agree. He sees his life as a stepping-stone to a better place and God has given him this extended time to make a difference. He made the wrong choice by drinking that day.
It is then that Linden realises he has another big choice to make – and it can only go in one direction – betrayal.
They awake the following morning and find a home video of Faye in the DVD player. As they watch, they discover Archie is actually Faye’s son, not another husband. He is in a care home, Greenlands, as is obviously very sick. As this revelation occurs, they get a call from Faye. She is being held by Gavin and Johnny Boy at Table Mountain, so they head straight there. Linden starts to doubt his actions and wants Joseph to go alone, he can’t believe betrayal – it seems – is what fate had in mind for him.
They receive a second call from Faye who tells them to meet her at Signal Hill instead. As they arrive they find her unharmed with the two boys. Linden can’t believe they have finally found her, after being shot at, beaten up, robbed and chased. He also can’t believe Joseph greats Faye like it was his Grandmother.
As Linden stands back to watch, Faye explains to Joseph that she had come to Cape Town looking for Lucas, her ex-husband she had divorced ten years ago. He had taken their son Archie away and promised she could see him if she came to South Africa. But on arrival Faye was kidnapped, as Johnny Boy and Gavin were on strict instruction to just keep her out of the way until told otherwise. Joseph explains that they had been to the apartment and thought they would find her at RKH for Archie’s scheduled appointment that morning. It is then that Faye realises why she had been kidnapped: Lucas had taken Archie away from Greenlands and to Cape Town for an operation; an operation she didn’t want him to have.
Archie has Lowe Syndrome which is why he is cared for at Greenlands. Faye had used the money she was given from Donald Hewson to pay for his care and treatment. Donald had loved Archie like a son and always wanted to help. Archie had however developed a coronary ventricular fistula, but the UK doctors believed it too risky to operate on him due to his Lowe Syndrome. Lucas had never taken an interest in Archie since his birth, so Faye had never told him about his illness. When Lucas found out, he decided he wanted to give Archie a better life and risk him having the operation. She explains she had never wanted to lie or hurt Joseph, but didn’t want him to be involved. She had lied to protect what they had.
Johnny Boy and Gavin let Faye go, tired of being Lucas’s run around. Linden drives Faye and Joseph to the hospital in hope of finding Archie before it is to late, but he is already in theatre when they arrive. The three confront Lucas who says he just wants the best for his boy. Faye finds this hard to believe since he hadn’t seen him in ten years. Lucas realises his decision has been rash and apologises. Linden however confronts him with the truth, telling him he’d taken Archie to take his mind off the real problem: that his partner, the fashion designer, had died of AIDS. Linden knows a lot about mental displacement and realises Lucas felt betrayed on two fronts: he’d had another relationship, and also that he’d left him alone. Linden explains to Lucas that taking away someone else’s child will not change anything. Even if the operation is a success, Archie will always have severe problems.
Faye runs off upset, and Joseph follows. Linden is left feeling agitated. Faye’s boy is dying, his parents are fighting and more importantly, Archie’s doctors were seriously struggling in theatre. Linden knows he is no cardiothoracic surgeon, but Joseph is. He needed to make things right. Rushing out to find Joseph, Linden tells him there is a big problem.
They go back to the viewing gallery and discover Archie has a bleed. He is in serious trouble and needs a miracle. With some encouragement, Joseph jumps in to try and save Archie. In a moment of panic, he remembers the hemostate powder Connie had used to stop the bleed in Mr Priestley. Taking it out and using it made Joseph the hero of the day.
Lucas apologises to Faye saying he was wrong for taking Archie and was sorry. She accepts his apology and says she never wanted any wrong. She’d never told him about Archie’s Lowe Syndrome as she thought he was happy with his life in South Africa, so didn’t need to know the full truth. Even if he did break her heart, she never wanted to hurt him.
Linden was relieved Archie was ok, but still couldn’t take his eye’s off Faye – in her relief she looked more beautiful than ever. Faye thanked Linden for everything. She knew Joseph would never have come if it hadn’t been for him. They share a moment and Linden tells Faye about his daughter Holly. She isn’t dead, he had just told Joseph that to stop him asking questions. Holly is alive and living with her grandparents, but he never sees her. He can’t bear to look at her, as all he sees is Olivia. He can’t get over it and so it’s easier not to see her, as he believes he’d ruin the life she has by being too controlling – it wouldn’t be fair.
In a strange way Linden realises both him and Faye share the same type of pain, maybe that’s why he’s just told her all? But he also knows that telling Faye about Holly has crossed the line – he thought he could include Faye in his life, but he can’t. He knew what he wanted, after all, why was he there? It was purely selfish. Linden wanted to be with Faye; he wanted to save her; he wanted to be the hero.
The priest asks Linden if he has spoken to Joseph since betraying him, but Linden asks why? He hasn’t betrayed Joseph. His sin is that he has betrayed Olivia – his wife.
BBC ONE 0800-0900pm
Linden explains to the priest that he has sinned and let someone down, as he begins to narrate this episode and explain exactly what he means…
Patient John Priestley is taken into theatre for an aorta valve replacement. Joseph is late and distracted, waiting for a call. Connie is furious as the patient has woken during the operation, and when the diathermy makes contact with the glue in Priestley’s chest, there is a small explosion and his chest catches fire. They manage to put out the fire and send Priestley back to sleep, but a bleed occurs. By magic, Connie uses hemostate powder to stop the bleed – Joseph is impressed so she gives it to him as a souvenir.
Connie tells Joseph to take some time off to sort his domestic problems. He agrees as can use this time to find Faye. Meanwhile Michael and Linden speak to Jac, who says she thinks Faye is in serious trouble. They warn Joseph who questions Jac further. He begins to panic realising he actually knows nothing about Faye. Who is Lucas Jac claims to be her husband, and where is she? Linden calms him, saying that Faye would never hurt him intentionally and Joseph realises he is right. He then receives a withheld call and it’s Faye. She is upset and asking for his help, but his phone battery dies.
We see Faye sitting crying on a bed, and as she gets up, we realise she is not in Holby City, but in an apartment by the sea. Linden narrates that this is when he got dragged in further. Joseph’s inability with technology meant he had to get involved.
Linden takes Joseph’s phone and uses his battery for it instead. By this stage Joseph has given up on Faye - why should he care anymore when all she does is lie? He doesn’t want to play games anymore. Linden continues to worry as before Joseph’s battery had died, Faye had said she was in trouble and that they could kill him - Lucas presumably. Linden then gets another withheld call and it’s Faye. Joseph is distracted telling Mr Priestley that he must have imagined his chest setting on fire during the operation, but when he’s sees Linden rush off after taking the call, he follows. Faye had told Linden she is in Cape Town and needs help. Maddy hands Linden some flight tickets as he prepares to leave – he has to help Faye, he cannot let her down.
To Linden’s surprise Joseph follows him, although apparently not caring anymore. They take a taxi and head for the airport. They finally arrive in Cape Town and begin their journey to find Faye.
Joseph frustrates Linden; he was the one wanting to help Faye and doesn’t need Joseph there. Also Joseph’s driving is appalling. They arrive at the address Faye had given Linden. No one appears to be there so they break in. They find photos of Lucas and Faye and realise that although married, Lucas is gay. As they go upstairs they hear a noise. They open the door and find the cleaner who has been locked in a room. She panics before realising they are Faye’s friends and so reveals all.
Faye had been at the apartment all day just crying and crying about someone named Archie who is in hospital – another husband? She doesn’t know, but then these two boys – Gavin and Johnny boy - arrived and took Faye away, leaving her locked in the room. They used to work for a fashion designer who owned this apartment, but died 3-months previously of AIDS. Lucas had been at his side all the time. She tells Joseph and Linden that they need to go and find Johnny to find Faye, but he lives in the township so it could be dangerous.
Linden can’t quite believe what he is getting into but blocks out reality and decides to follow his instinct. He must help Faye.
With direction from the cleaner, they drive to the township – this time with Linden behind the wheel. As they arrive and look for him, there is a gun attack and they duck for cover. They see someone emerge from Johnny Boy’s shack and ask him if he is Johnny, but he runs off. A small girl has been shot and in urgent need of treatment. Thanks to Joseph’s trusty bum bag, the two surgeons manage to treat her until the ambulance arrives. In the panic, Linden reveals to Joseph that he has a daughter and so can understand the pain the little girls father is feeling.
Joseph sees the guy they saw emerge from the shack and chases him. The man then pulls out a gun and holds Joseph up at gunpoint. Meanwhile Linden searches for him in the car, but gets chased by a gang who also hold him to gunpoint. They take him to where Joseph is being held and leave him with the gunman. The gunman turns out to be Denion T, Johnny’s brother. Johnny Boy has told him to hold the two white men until he gives the all clear. He demands their belongings and hits Linden who refuses to hand over anything; Joseph thinks Linden is insane.