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Series 17 Episode 2 - by Steven McAteer - 21//9/02
Lara begins her court trial and is accused of unlawfully killing David Collier. She has to endure hearing the details from the night of her attack, suffering flashbacks and the bad memories associated with the assault she uncharacteristically shouts out in her defence. Melanie Collier denies her husband has raped her and things don�t look good for Lara�s future.
New Locum SHO, Heather Lincoln, arrives and doesn�t go unnoticed by certain male staff. She is treated to an unofficial tour of the department by Simon, who asks her for a drink after shift. She is quick to forget, when she witnesses Dillon undressing in the staffroom and is about to proposition him, when Simon walks in.
Roxy continues to have babysitting problems, and Jack ends up doing a stint, but calls Anna at work when Nicole needs her nappy changed.Nikki is still guilty about losing a patient last shift. She tells boss, Jeff, that she needs a stab vest to feel protected. Finn is unhappy with seeing his name mentioned in Comfort�s divorce papers.
Teenager, Anu, gives birth at home, Not wanting to keep the baby, she gets her brother and boyfriend to dump the baby at A&E. Later, Anu is brought in with severe bleeding and Simon realises she is the mother. She doesn�t want to stay in and Mubbs is forced to operate on her in A&E.
A man, Joe, comesin with a fishbone stuck in his throat. Duffy quickly queries Heather�s judgment, but Harry is impressed with her call, not realising she hijacked Duffy�s diagnosis.
Despite Charlie�s attempts at keeping the bad news from Duffy, she soon finds out her Mum, Kate, is in the department suffering the later stages of breast cancer. She does not like Heather treating her and is unhappy her Mum didn�t get treated earlier.
Nikki is nominated for a bravery award. Simon sees Dillon and Heather leave together.
Series 17 Episode 1 - by David Joss Buckley - 14/9/02
Arrested at the end of last series, Lara is terrified for her future. Facing a manslaughter charge she realises she is in danger of being found guilty for her act of self defence. Beth Harper, Harry�s wife and a solicitor, who helped arrange another solicitor for her, offers her words of advice, and when Beth goes to A&E after being called by her children � Lara comes with her and attempts to help out in CRASH � the team are all in support, until Harry catches her and warns her to stop.
Harry takes his five children for a day out at the Holby City County Fair. Family tensions are high as his 16 year old daughter Tally is threatening to leave home, and go backpacking with her boyfriend, Hugh. However, his help is needed elsewhere when there is a collision between a bungee jumper and a sky diver, John. Harry decides with all the traffic, an air ambulance needs to be called. It quickly becomes a full scale emergency when the helicopter, with paramedic Terry, registrar Eddie and John onboard, crashes on take off, after becoming entangled with the parachute. Finn and Comfort arrive to help Harry save lives, but quick decisions have to be made and Harry is forced to amputate the leg of Eddie, while Terry�s life is slipping away. Finn, who is a friend of new father, Terry, stays with him as he dies. When Harry arrives in A&E he is dismayed to find lives have been lost despite his heroic actions at the crash site. His son, Jordan, who suffered a minor injury, is angry that he didn�t get his dad�s full attention. His daughter, Tally, however decides not to leave home and tells him how proud she is of him.
Three months after her stabbing, Nikki returns to work. She finds out from Josh about Jack�s spontaneous marriage proposal � and plays a trick on him, annoyed that she was the last to know. Her stabbing ordeal, however, is still haunting her when she, and Josh are called to the derelict estate where she was previously stabbed, and she refuses to go inside the flat until police back up arrives. 20 minutes later, with the police in tow, they enter the flat and find a man, Fergus, has been stabbed. With the major incident taking place, they are told to take him to St James hospital, but Nikki, anxious to save his life, goes ahead to Holby A&E. In Resus, the team battle to save him and Simon puts his foot in it, by telling Nikki they should have treated him straight away � unaware Nikki was at the place she was stabbed. Fergus dies, and Nikki blames herself � Harry takes it upon himself to give her words of comfort and remind how good she is at her job.
Duffy is unhappy � Charlie takes her aside and finds out she has received a �30,000 life policy cheque from Andrew�s death. But she doesn�t want to take it � Charlie tries to tell her, it�s what Andrew would have wanted to have been able to provide for his children�s future.
Roxy is being kept awake by baby Nicole � as are her flat mates, Anna and Nikki, who are unhappy with the situation. Charlie is annoyed when she leaves after her shift, refusing to help with the emergency.