There was a lot of pressure on Robyn Miller (Amanda Henderson) in tonight’s Casualty as she juggled her usual heavy workload as an ED nurse with being a single parent for her daughter Charlotte, along with the demands of being a surrogate for Marty (Shaheen Jafargholi) and Adi (Raj Bajaj).
This has meant that she’s been taking hormones to improve her fertility, and she was suffering the side effects as she had to rush off to be sick during her shift.
Paul (Paul Popplewell), who really does seem to care about her, noticed she wasn’t well and asked her about it on a couple of occasions, but Robyn knows Paul’s feelings about surrogacy so she insisted she was fine.
Adi and Marty were putting pressure on her, too, by worrying that she would turn up in time for scans and other appointments. Adi in particular was quite stressed about it, and later he shocked Marty when he said he wanted to be the father of the baby. Their previous agreement was that they would combine their sperm so they wouldn’t know which of them was the father.
Marty reluctantly agreed to this, but Robyn had overheard the whole conversation and she asked Marty, ‘Is the baby the most important thing in Adi’s life?’ The answer to this would seem to be yes, as later on Adi was cross that Robyn and Marty had had this conversation and warned his partner, ‘Marty, if you’ve done something to jeopardise my baby…’
This all might be giving Marty second thoughts, but the immediate worry is Robyn. On her way to Charlotte’s school play, Robyn felt sick and got out of the car. In the car park she started to cough up blood and collapsed to the ground in pain.
Will anyone find her in time?
Elsewhere, Iain (Michael Stevenson) was angry when he was called to a stabbing and it seemed that former patient Liv Hutton (Kerry Fitzgerald) – the one who bit him previously – had stabbed her father, Keith (Sam Cox).
Once again Iain clashed with Faith (Kirsty Mitchell) over the family, and this time it was Faith and her more gentle approach that proved to be correct when it turned out that Liv’s son DJ (Lawton Dickens) had stabbed his grandfather after Keith repeatedly physically abused Liv.
He asked her out for lunch by way of apology, but Faith had other plans – a sandwich and a game of chess with irritable, angry and hilarious patient Elsie, who was played by the glorious Amanda Barrie. Her initial greeting of Faith as she arrived in the department was wonderful: ‘Oy! Fringe!’
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