The Department of Secrets

The Department of Secrets is the 31st epiosde of the 29th series of Casualty. It was preceded by The Rita Supremacy and followed by Exile.

Synopsis
Connie is suspended by the board over the severity of the allegations made against her. She is remanded in prison with no chance of bail, much to Charlie's despair. When Charlie arrives back at the hospital he battles it out with Rita, doing everything he can to make her hand over the medication in order to set Connie free. Later, a guilty Rita hands over the drugs to Charlie, where he then takes the evidence down to the police station, allowing Connie to be freed. As the pair arrive back outside the ED, Charlie receives a call from Sofia, his son Louis' girlfriend. He has been viciously attacked by druggies in Bucharest, Romania and needs urgent medical help. Connie agrees to travel with Charlie and they head off.

Elsewhere, a 15-year-old girl slashes her wrists. When she arrives in hospital Rita discovers she is in an underage sex scandal with one of her carers. Making the young fragile girl see the severity of the situation, she helps her to get justice. Lily treats an elder with dementia who catches hypothermia after running and swimming in the sea. Big Mac also helps repair the broken bond between the elder and her daughter, who is struggling to cope with looking after her mother.

Cast

 * Amanda Mealing as Connie Beauchamp
 * Derek Thompson as Charlie Fairhead
 * Chloe Howman as Rita Freeman
 * Suzanne Packer as Tess Bateman
 * Sunetra Sarker as Zoe Hanna
 * Richard Winsor as Caleb Knight
 * Crystal Yu as Lily Chao
 * Jane Hazlegrove as Kathleen 'Dixie' Dixon
 * Charles Dale as Big Mac
 * Lee Mead as Ben 'Lofty' Chiltern
 * Amanda Henderson as Robyn Miller
 * Jamie Davis as Max Walker
 * William Beck as Dylan Keogh
 * Tony Marshall as Noel Garcia
 * Azuka Oforka as Louise Tyler
 * Aleksy Komorowski as Zach Manley
 * Adie Allen as Gill Mangrove
 * Patricia Brake as Lola Brightwell
 * Ifan Huw Dafydd as Bill McCleod
 * Alexandra Gilbreath as Eileen Brightwell
 * Eleni Foskett as Simone Waycott
 * Charlie Heaton as Jason Waycott
 * David Partridge as Drew Harman
 * Sam Newman as Ben Barrington
 * Jane Whittenshaw as Magistrate
 * Crina Semciuc as Sofia Constantin
 * Gregory Foreman as Louis Fairhead