Holby Blue
Episode synopses
Episode one
Holby South Station is buzzing with talk of new arrivals. Not only is Inspector Jenny Black expecting, but DS Luke French is soon to be a dad. They are also expecting the arrival of their new DCI.
DI John Keenan and DS Luke French take on an unusual case involving Jacqueline Naylor, a registrar at Holby City Hospital. She's been accused of stabbing a patient, Alan Clooney, and while her colleague Lola Griffin says this is impossible, her other colleague and former lover, Joseph Byrne, is not so sure.
Luke feels it's an open and shut case – there's a motive, her prints are on the weapon and she has no one to corroborate her alibi – but John's gut instinct tells him to keep an open mind. When Luke pressures Jac to confess, she's unyielding and adamant of her innocence.
Meanwhile, a father, Kevin, finds his daughter Emma badly bruised and bleeding. He immediately takes her to the police station and reports that she's been assaulted. Taking a gentle approach, PC Lucy Slater interviews her but suspects that Emma is not telling her everything.
Keen to solve the case, Lucy and her partner, PC Robert Clifton, check local CCTV footage and discover a new lead – footage of Emma being beaten up by a gang of girls outside a local restaurant,and a witness to these events.
Things take a turn for the worse for Jac, however, as news comes in that Alan Clooney has died.
With evidence mounting, Jac is looking at a murder charge and it's clear she's starting to become worried as the detectives don't believe her alibi – she was trying to find someone to help her tend to a young woman who was injured on the stairwell at the time of Clooney's attack.
Unable to find anyone to assist her, she returned alone only to discover the girl had disappeared and Clooney's bloodied body was in her place.
Just as John and Luke feel they have reached a dead end the case suddenly takes a dramatic turn – Jac's and Emma's paths cross at the station and Jac immediately recognises Emma as her mystery witness.
Emma soon explains the events of the previous night to John and Luke – how she too was attacked by the opportunist Clooney and that she acted in self defence when she stabbed him with Jac's scissors. John and Luke can finally let the beleaguered registrar go.
John and Kate leave the station after a gruelling day when Jenny stops them and introduces Holby South's new DCI, Scott Vaughan.
John is pleased to meet the new DCI, who will be taking over a mountain of paperwork from him, but Scott is a familiar face to Kate and she has to hide the shock as she realises he is the same handsome stranger with whom she was flirting at the Assistant Commissioner's party the previous evening.
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