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Series 16 Episode 10 - by Chris Webb - 17/10/01
Duffy is welcomed back with flowers by the team. She is late, stressed and not happy with Colette, who has made changes in her absence. Josh is also glad to have returned to work and thanks Colette for her help in persuading him. Jack is trying to sell tickets for a club night. Lara has a date and Chloe is annoyed with Anna's concern over her other job and boyfriend, Jason.
It's Amanda's birthday and she proposes to Max. Her son, Ben, pleads with him again to give him morphine and tries to blackmail him. Max at first refuses, but then gives him methadone, which he orders from Pharmacy, instead but Ben angrily walks off.
Charlie's friend Leona comes in with her baby daughter, Charlie, worried about spots that she has. Patrick says it is due to Leona overdressing her. Leona leaves with nappies and wipes freebies, but Duffy is more concerned about the welfare of baby Charlie.
An old woman, Edith, is brought in with a bleeding nose. She tells Chloe she was head butted by Billy and as punishment tied him up in a barn. Comfort and the police are sent round to investigate - and find 'Billy' is a billy goat.
Molly is celebrating her eight birthday, when her father, Richard, has to return to his week job away in Manchester. Richard and his wife, Sarah, argue, and as he leaves he accidentally backs the car into Molly. She suffers a broken arm. Spencer, who sees the possible family break up and reminding him of his own broken family, brings the couple back together.
A young boy, Sam, finds his father, Noel's gun cupboard unlocked and shoots his mother, Julie, in the stomach. She dies in CRASH, Noel is furious with his son. Duffy tells him he must look to the future now with Sam, without blame.
And a man, Joe, who complains at the waiting time, finally gets treated by Colette for a cut finger - and faints at the sight of the needle.
The woman from Pharmacy queries the methadone order with Patrick, who then confronts Max - who abruptly tells him he is the Consultant and makes the decisions. Charlie complains to Jan about security - Jan reminds him they are on the same side. Duffy breaks down infront of Charlie, as she misses Andrew - Charlie comforts her and says he will be there for her. Patrick asks Lara out for a drink, she reminds him she has a date and drives off in a sports car with him, Dillon tells Patrick he has lost his chance.
Chloe is entertaining one of Jason's clients, Steve, at his club, who doubts her opinions of Jason. Max accepts Amanda's marriage proposal and as they head off for dinner - Ben has stolen her birthday present ear-rings to pay for drugs.
Series 16 Episode 9 - by Leslie Stewart - 10/11/01
Josh is still working out his notice, and is doing some DIY. Outside a hardware store he helps fix a young woman, Joanna's, car. He then goes to hand in his uniform at the paramedic station.
21 year old, Alex, is brought in with a knife wound after being in a fight. His teenage girlfriend, Jackie, is with him. Nikki is not impressed with her attitude. Comfort talks to Jackie in the toilets, where she reveals to be having problems with her parents. Comfort then notices, blood on her trousers - she has a stab wound to her thigh. Patrick gives her a blood test and warns she may have hepatitis as she failed to be immunised, after being too busy, and is off the road until her tests come back.
Nikki is then partnered with her boss, Jeff Maguire, who decides to return to the front line. But he makes a fool of himself in two shouts; first to that of a black cyclist with minor head injuries when he is unable to open the trolley, and then misdiagnoses the collapse of an old lady, Rebecca, as having a heart attack when she infact has severe indigestion.
Before the next call, Jeff persuades a reluctant Josh to return to work as they are short staffed, by saying 'someone may die'. Nikki is glad when he agrees, and they go to their next shout - a car which has crashed in a wood. Josh is shocked to find it is the woman, Joanna, that he helped earlier. Patrick and Colette arrive in a fast response car and Patrick says she is severely injured and that she will not survive much longer. Josh says he will stay and talk to her until the end, she thanks him for making her safe and passes away. Colette asks him if he will come back to work, Josh says he is a paramedic and that's all he wants to be. Nikki tells Patrick how much he admires Josh, and jokes that atleast Jeff wasn't the last person Joanna was with.
Comfort's test results come back negative. She shouts at Jeff, who threatens her with disciplinary action for not getting immunised. Her husband, Rob, comes to collect her. She breaks down in the car, and he cuddles her.