Tonights episode of Casualty opened with a scene of David Hide (Jason Durr) getting dressed. You really wouldnt expect such a quiet and mild-mannered man to have so many tattoos, but he has quite a few – including the word Oliver above his heart. Oliver, or Ollie, is his beloved son with whom he doesnt always have the smoothest of relationships and when he got a call to say Ollie had gone missing he was naturally frantic.
Worse was to come as he found Ollie (Harry Collett) on a bridge over a river. He wasnt planning to jump, but as David persuaded him to get off the bridge so they could talk he somehow slipped and fell in. The fast-moving water swept him away. Luckily Dylan (William Beck) had been on the phone to David at the time, so David paused only to tell Dylan where he was and get him to call an ambulance, and he jumped into the water after his son.
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What followed was very dramatic as the two were swept along, Ollie barely keeping afloat and both of them disappearing under the water at times. For a few moments it seemed that both of them had drowned, and then we saw David dragging Ollie to the river bank. Jason Durr was brilliant as David desperately fought to revive his unconscious son – his cry of Dont leave me! was heart-rending. By the time Iain (Michael Stevenson) and Ruby (Maddy Hill) got there David was doing CPR and fearing the worst. They managed to get Ollies heart beating again and took him off to hospital.
That wasnt the end of it, as Ollie ended up needing emergency surgery because David had fractured his sons sternum doing CPR. As the glorious Jac Naylor (Rosie Marcel) did some of her finest work in the trauma theatre, David blamed himself for Ollies injuries. It took his ex-wifes new partner to point out that without the CPR Ollie would have been dead anyway. It took Rosa (Jacey Salles) to convince David that Ollie needed him, and it took Ollie to convince everyone that he should live with David from now on.
Duffy (Cathy Shipton) definitely doesnt like an easy life. She decided to take her mind off having dementia by working in a care home with people with dementia, where she quickly forged a bond with difficult resident Maisie (Margaret Jackman). When Maisie fell from her chair Duffy called an ambulance and was soon back in the ED. There she found that Maisie had been neglected by a care home that was well-meaning but under-resourced. Using her legendary Duffy empathy skills she calmed and reassured a frightened Maisie by giving her a baby doll to hold, after reading in her notes that shed once briefly been a mother. You just have to find the person behind the illness, she said, and this made her get Charlie (Derek Thompson) to promise that hell fight for her when shes unable to fight for herself.
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