Casualty (series 12)

The staff receive news Matt and Jude have married. Jack is now engaged to Jayne but overreacts when new nurse Tina Seabrook makes an unfortunate comment about a man who deliberately fell off a ladder to get into hospital, having been told he would have to wait years for an appointment for his arthritis. Josh and Liz try to get Ian and Esme, a couple who are having a baby to the hospital, but end up having to deliver the baby in the back of an ambulance. Ian goes to see his parents but is offended by his mother, who feels the fact he and Esme are unmarried reflects badly on his father, a vicar. Young black couple Jason and Lou are arguing about her desire to join the police, who Jason sees as institutionally racist. After they part ways, Jason sees someone park a van in the car park at a shopping centre. A bomb in the van goes off, causing many casualties. Charlie worries about Baz, who was shopping on her day off, and is relieved when Penny tells him she was at the scene helping with the wounded. An elderly man removes glass imbedded in his wife's stomach and she dies of internal bleeding. Lou seems to have minor injuries but in hospital a scan shows she has a bleed on the brain which leaves her in a coma; Jason tells the police what he saw. Ian has been left trapped in rubble and when a second bomb is discovered Baz and Josh amputate his foot to get him out.

Guest starring Shane Hickmott, Hannah Lawrence, James Greene and Christopher Colquhoun

An underage prostitute, Lucy, is lured to a garage by a client where she is beaten up by a group of men and dumped outside the hospital. Jack warns George about getting two involved in the case. Lucy's friend Julie turns up and it transpires she set up the beating because Lucy was planning on quitting the game. Lucy initially leaves with Julie but later returns to see George. Liz argues with her husband John, who thinks she is not spending enough time at home. A young woman brings in her older neighbour; they are involved in a dispute over a fence and the older woman tripped over. Sam manages to get them talking. A young man with a history of mental health issues pushes his mother down the stairs. Richard and Kate convince her to have him sent to a psychiatric hospital.

A man is attempting to leave his wife but she throws herself through a glass door to stop him. He takes her to hospital but is shot in reception by a man wearing a motorcycle helmet and dies in Crash. Tina, who was standing next to him at the time, hides in the toilets but manages to rally herself and finish her shift, while Elliot faces calls for more security. The wife's brother tells her they were dealing drugs in order to finance her lifestyle and were threatened by rivals, which is why they were trying to leave; she decides to tell the police everything. A first aider who has had an accident himself criticises the staff's techniques but becomes humbler on learning he has been voted out of his position. A teenage boy is brought in after drinking heavily with his friends. His mother is dismissive, saying he is an alcoholic like his father, who died recently. Kate manages to get the pair talking, but arrives home too late to see Nick and his friends.

A man returns home and tells his wife that he is going away on business and wants her and their baby son to go and stay with his mother. When she tries to run off with the baby, he slams her arm in a car door and she assaults him with a crook lock. The husband is initially ostracised by the hospital staff until they discover his wife, who has post-natal depression, has been attacking him for months. Baz tries to get them talking but instead he disappears with their son. Richard treats a boy involved in gang violence with a slashed cheek, who refuses to see a plastic surgeon. Richard is happy to stitch it himself until George shows the boy the extent of his injury. Lorrie, a single mother, asks her friend Michelle to look after her son Ben: They are both recovering drug addicts. Ben is knocked over by a bike while Michelle is buying drugs. Poor communication between Richard and George means there is a delay in finding out he has kidney damage but he is eventually saved. Jack leaves abruptly after getting a phone call. Sam's boyfriend Paul turns up wanting to borrow money. Liz tells John one of them has to move out. Kate worries when Nick needs money for a school trip. George agrees to go back to Mark's place for a meal.

Kate runs up a large bill at a department store. A teenage girl with cerebral palsy suffers a seizure while using the computer and is found by her friends. Her boyfriend gives Jack some pills she dropped earlier: She has epilepsy and stopped taking her medication. Jack yells at her for wasting their time and it is left to Kate to help her see she can still lead a normal life. A middle-aged girl goes to see her husband in a care home with her son but blasts her daughter, who she blames for his business failing after she set up in competition. The son rams his sister's car, causing a motorway pile-up. He later realises the business was failing anyway and she was helping out, but the mother dies before she can accept this. Liz is staying with Josh after walking out on John and tells him John had an affair. Elliot chooses to spend extra money on redecorating instead of security. Richards asks George out but she turns him down. She tells Mark to forget their night together, then confuses things further by kissing him.

A 13-year-old boy from a large family is working illegally at a factory. He falls onto a spike and later collapses in the street. Mark and Tina realise his mother knew what was going on. Tina calls Social Services but later regrets it when she learns the mother has struggled to find work and the family have been split up in the past. An elderly woman brings in her wheelchair bound husband; George and Sam realise he has been dead for hours. The woman has trouble accepting it when Kate tells her, and Sam has to help her come to terms with the news. An ice hockey captain gets into a fight with one of his team during a match, and the fight spills over at the hospital. He announces he is retiring to become a coach and refuses to consider his rival as captain. Baz and George are annoyed when Jack covers for Richard, who is seeing his MS counsellor. Jack contacts another doctor to try and get confidential information.

Jack shows little interest in a homeless boy and wants to discharge him, even though Tina is worried about his cough. He is later found hiding in a cupboard and Charlie gets Richard to examine him; he is sent to a ward. A middle-aged man is at a rave with a teenage girl. He takes a tablet she gave him but later collapses. At the hospital, it is revealed they are father and daughter: He walked out on her when she was young and has been trying to get to know her. She gave him ketamine to pay him back; Tina gets them talking. Elderly sisters Phylidda and Hannah are ballroom dancing when Hannah has a heart attack. Jack refuses to resuscitate her, insisting she has no chance of survival, and Charlie tells Phylidda she is dead. However, when Kate and Mark check on her some time later, they find she still has a pulse, and Phylidda walks in on an unsuccessful resuscitation attempt. Jack sidesteps the blame, telling Phylidda it was a mistake by the nursing staff.

A tutor is in a relationship with an ex-student. When they catch a young man breaking into their home, he chases after him and accidentally runs him over. The young man turns out to be an other ex-student that he had a relationship with. The tutor's girlfriend walks out on him and Sam convinces the young man to let go of his obsession. A pregnant Asian woman is horrified when her husband moves his mother back into the house to look after her while he is away, since she bullied her when she lived with them before. When she sees the couple having a bonfire, the mother-in-law believes they are burning her things and pushes the daughter-in-law onto the fire, badly burning her. The husband witnesses the bullying first hand at the hospital but Baz convinces the woman to apologise to the couple. Elliot asks Charlie for a statement on Hannah's death, since Phylidda has made a complaint, and Charlie begins to realise Jack lied about what happened. Kate is arrested for shoplifting.

Kate has been charged but has kept it from her family and co-workers. A teenage girl is out with her son when he is snatched by an older woman, after which she falls down an embankment. The other woman is forced to accompany them to the hospital where she tells Jack the girl had the boy as a surrogate for her and her husband then refused to hand him over. Jack blasts her and tells Charlie, who has just found out from Elliot that their statements conflict, that Jayne has walked out on him despite being pregnant. The girl reveals she was already pregnant when the couple approached her and the would-be mother is forced to accept she has no claim on the boy. A man turns up with a cut head after his wife hit him with an iron; he tried to take a coupon worth £500 off her, afraid she would waste it. He eventually suggests they spend the night in a posh hotel. Engaged couple Tom and Helen have gone to the funfair with Tom's mentally disabled brother Peter. Peter suffers a minor injury falling off a roundabout and they try to take him to hospital. Tom is distracted and crashes into a parked car. Josh and Liz are driving past on another shout and Liz insists on being dropped off and staying with the casualties until Penny arrives with back-up. Tom dies of his injuries and Peter is left blinded by glass in his eyes. Helen is left with the prospect of caring for him alone indefinitely and tells Liz she should have left them.