Shirley tries to duck a challenge, so does her blind patient, but she offers to accept hers if he will accept his. With Sandra, Maureen and Jo she is in the Christmas show and expects to be a disaster.

While Anna tries to sort out her marital problems over lunch with her disapproving father, Sarah and Katy are assigned to St Angela's in the Intensive Care Unit - they are soon to admit a new patient.

Jean and Anna arrive for their first day at St Angela's hospital. Jean, the new young casualty sister, soon discovers that life there is more explosive than she had imagined, whilst for Anna there is an unexpected arrival.