Holby City-Episode 51

1 month ago 30th Sep 11:48

It’s the day of the twins’ separation and interest is buzzing around Holby City . Jayne holds what she hopes will be a low key press briefing but a journalist knows that the operation has been funded by the controversial right win fundamentalist Rev Steve Randall and she is questioned about the morality of this. Jane is confused about how they know he is involved.

Connie leaves her mystery man in bed after a romantic evening with him. She has a big day ahead of her as she is the first to operate on the conjoined twins.

Kyla is tending to Dorian Roberts, who’s still recovering from his appendicitis. Roberts is still pursuing Kyla and Maddy teases her. Roberts makes a romantic gesture of champagne and a card asking her for a drink - not knowing that she is an alcoholic and Lyla takes this that she should leave him well alone. Maddy reckons Kyla should go for it and let her hair down. Kyla’s reluctant – she’s not really in the mood to see men as her luck with them hasn’t been good so far. Maddy tells her that she needs to make a change and move onwards. Kyla knows Maddy is right.

The operation begins but doesn’t start well as they are trying to anaesthetise the twins. The full team of surgeons sitting in the staff room are watching the operation start on screen and they take a collective deep breath as the first incision is made.

The board have heard about the calamitous press briefing and they want answers.from Jayne about the details of the past few months. Why did she take money from a known child abuser and why she hide it from the board in a secret account. Jayne does a good job of explaining herself but the board aren’t cutting her any slack. Randall putting money into a dodgy ‘Holby Night care’ account looks highly suspect. The board tell her that she can’t use the money from Randall so that she must find the money from elsewhere or stop the procedure. Jayne protests, stating that the operation has already started but they say that this is her problem and she needs to fix it. No more talking to the press – they need to limit the damage and if the operation goes wrong they’ll expect her immediate resignation.

Kyla thanks Roberts for the champagne and agrees to go for a coffee with him. Meanwhile, Maddy intercepts another letter which is clearly from Abra. She puts it in a draw as the amount of letters from him piles up.

The operation enters its fourth hour and Connie and Elliot are mid-flow. They run into more problems as one of the twins’ hearts is still a lot weaker than the other and the weaker twin seems to be fading. Connie doesn’t want to give up on the weak twin and is disgusted that Elliot thinks they should let one die to save the other. Connie fights on and the other twin regains strength.

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