Casualty
Series 12
TV-PG
A long-running UK medical drama series depicting the working, and also the private, lives of the hospital staff, paramedics and patients attending the small but frantically busy Accident and Emergency department of the large Holby City Hospital.
Where to Watch Series 12
26 Episodes
- Give My Love to Esme
E1Give My Love to EsmeJack 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. 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. 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. 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. Ian has been left trapped in rubble and when a second bomb is discovered Baz and Josh amputate his foot to get him out. - Private Lives
E2Private LivesAn 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 too 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 (Brigit Forsyth) down the stairs. Richard and Kate convince her to have him sent to a psychiatric hospital. - Bad Company
E11Bad CompanyA clown is admitted, sad because he wishes to leave his partner in clowning. A young man hijacks his big sister's BMW and causes Casualty Car Crash#55. A beggar's woman is injured when the couple request cash from a belligerent man of the cloth. The woman transpires to be the vicar's daughter. Discontented Liz reveals her plan to Josh to resign and go travelling. Jack, having confided in Charlie that his pregnant painter woman fiancé has left him, vents his frustration on Sam. He is later called in for a ticking off by Elliot for various errors and general attitude, and after finding out that it was Baz who dropped him in it over the patient who died, hands in his resignation in a fit of pique and walks out. - The Golden Hour
E17The Golden HourIn a 76 minute episode omitted from Drama rerun March 2024, a woman, distressed at her daughter's walking out of casualty after an attempted overdose and on illegally acquired amphetamines for weight loss, initiates Casualty Car Crashes#56-64 involving many vehicles including a propane tanker. Among the casualties are a young woman who turns out to be a lover of Sam's horrid bi sexual, two timing American boyfriend; a lorry driver seeking a short cut and a young man involved in a sexual relationship with a girl of 15. The crash experience will have repercussions for admin man Elliot, on duty with Josh and Penny. An understandably emotional Sam breaks down in tears on Eve's shoulder. Having played them off against each other for many episodes, Georgina settles on Mark in favour of Richard for sex. Charlie and Baz decide on a trial reparation - Love Me Tender
E22Love Me TenderOne of the most powerful Casualty episodes ever. The truth about Tina's rape comes out and in some very emotional scenes she tells Eve in the staff room. At the end of the episode Josh and Penny are giving Tina and Eve a lift home in the ambulance. Tina asks Eve what she's going to do and Eve replies, ""You're going to get through this""
