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Series 16 Episode 8 - by Vicki Cleaver - 3/11/01
Patrick has a go at Lara for standing him up. She tells him she knows he has a girlfriend.
Charlie prepares his speech for a charity event, which himself and Jan are attending. While in A&E, the staff aren't looking forward to a film crew coming in, especially on one of their busiest nights. Louise Shaw, who is fronting the video however, faints and is taken to a cubicle. She is hypoglycemic, and Dillon discovers she has been taking slimming pills. Louise is attracted to Patrick, but Lara tells him he's married for a joke.
A taxi driver, Chris and his soldier passenger, Andrew, are involved in an RTA with a lorry. Andrew has severe spinal injuries, and Max tells him and his worried mother, Sharon, that he may never walk again. Driver, Chris has a dislocated shoulder, but reveals to be having headaches prior to the crash, which may have caused the accident.
Two men, Dave and Jez have a fireworks contest, but Jez tampers with one of the fireworks which explodes injuring his partner, Fi and his friend Dave. Fi has minor burns, but Dave has more severe facial burns.
A magician comes in with burns to his hand. Spencer and him get on, due to their similar backgrounds. Charlie, dressed in a suit, is ready to leave when Spencer accidentally spills liquid on his coat. Jack gives him the magician's coat. During his speech, Jan is annoyed when he abuses his position by talking about underfunding of the NHS - and the crowd are amused when he takes out of his pocket a long coloured handkerchief. Jan tells him off, before they make up and go back to hers.
Max discovers drugs in Amanda's son Ben's coat pocket. At first he denies it, but later comes in to A&E asking for his help, and hopes he will provide him with morphine. Max refuses.
Anna is chuffed when Dillon agrees to go for a drink with her, although when they get to the pub, other staff members are there. Chloe's boyfriend, Jason, asks her a job in his new club. She agrees.
Series 16 Episode 7 - by Jo O'Keefe - 27/10/01
It's Halloween in Holby, and the staff prepare for a party after shift.
Colette tries to persuade Josh not to quit, but he says he can't face the guilt and wants to be left alone. Colette posts his resignation note later in the shift. It's Danny Oldfield's funeral, and Josh decides to make an appearance - Finn finds him there, and tells him he shouldn't throw away his career. Danny's sister, Lynn, sees Josh and tells him that they can't forgive him but he should get on with his life.
Chloe, tired from working two jobs, gets on the wrong side of Colette when she forgets to put some drugs back in the cabinet and Charlie finds them dropped in the staff room. Anna as a friend tries to cover for her, but later tells her to get her act together.
Charlie wants the staff to make a good impression, as Chief Executive Jan is taking a tour of A&E, but it's a busy shift and she feels she's getting in the way. Jan tells Charlie he has got the Clinical Nurse Specialist job, and asks him out to dinner.
Amanda's son, Ben, is brought in with a burnt hand, while doing DIY at home. Max first comes to the wrong conclusion, before stitching him up.
Cosmetic surgeon, Nick Hamilton is brought in with a head injury. He is an old colleague of Dillon's, and reveals that they went to medical school together, before Dillon dropped out in the third year. He later vomits blood, and is found to be an alcoholic with hemotemesis.
Colette believes Carmel Ramsey, with facial injuries has been beaten by her boyfriend. She denies it and discharges herself. Later a man is brought in with a stabbing to his abdomen, the team fail to save him in CRASH. Carmel is hovering by the CRASH doors, and confesses to Colette, that the man is her partner, and she beats him, although this time she went too far. Colette tells her she has to report it.
A young teenager Josie, on her roller blades, falls on some steps and impales her neck on a railing spear. Comfort and Nikki go to her aid, and Nikki talks to her while fireman cut the railing away. Nikki goes to see her later in the ward, where Josie thanks her.
And Patrick puts back in place a footballer's ankle, which has been dislocated.
Lara tries to persuade Patrick to come to the party. He agrees, and Dillon later overhears him turning down Rachel over the phone. Dillon tells Lara, and she goes up to Patrick's room, dressed in her red cat suit. She gets Dillon to call her pager before things get steamy, and leaves Patrick waiting there, while she goes off partying.