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- David Butcher
I’m sure we’ll get used to seeing Smithy from The Bill (Alex Walkinshaw) as new staff member Fletch – a cheeky nurse keeping up the jack-the-lad quota now Lennie has left – but I kept expecting to learn he was on vital undercover work from Sun Hill. Instead Fletch does something far more shocking: he winks at Tess. Normally the mini-matron would respond with a basilisk stare and stern lecture, but instead, amazingly, she smiles and moves on.
Fletch clearly has a certain something. These are side issues, though. The main story involves Sam (that’s Major Nicholls to you) wrestling with her conscience over an army colleague and his medical secret.
About this programme
39/41. Sam questions whether she is ready for active service when she falters during a training exercise, and her return to Afghanistan is jeopardised further when an army colleague asks her to lie for him. Meanwhile, new nurse Fletch (Waterloo Road's Alex Walkinshaw) makes a favourable impression on everyone except Lloyd, but the pair are forced to work together to help a woman whose initial joy at being told she is pregnant turns to horror when the true diagnosis is made. Guest starring Nikki Sanderson and Bill Ward (Coronation Street's Candice Stowe and Charlie Stubbs).
Cast and crew
Cast
- Sam Nicholls
- Charlotte Salt
- Adrian `Fletch' Fletcher
- Alex Walkinshaw
- Lloyd Asike
- Michael Obiora
- Tom Kent
- Oliver Coleman
- Zoe Hanna
- Sunetra Sarker
- Dylan Keogh
- William Beck
- Nick Jordan
- Michael French
- Big Mac
- Charles Dale
- Tess Bateman
- Suzanne Packer
- Kathleen `Dixie' Dixon
- Jane Hazlegrove
- Noel Garcia
- Tony Marshall
- Amy Harris
- Nikki Sanderson
- Vaughan Morrison
- Bill Ward
- Michael Harris
- Andrew Thomas Jones
- Lindsay Bryant
- Lynda Rooke
Crew
- Director
- Graeme Harper
- Producer
- Erika Hossington
- Writer
- Kelly Jones
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