Now that Jack and Beth have left for Africa, Will sets about finding new partners to help run The Beeches, a task made doubly difficult by new locum Erica Matthews...

Will bids a tearful farewell to the boys as they leave for Florida, while Erica is confronted by a patient suffering from delusions.

Erica throws a house-warming party, intending to use it as an excuse to chat up Will - but he spoils her plans by turning up with a doctor from the nearby health centre,,,