"Just Because You're Paranoid" is the 30th episode of series 25 of Casualty, and the 764th episode of the show overall. It was directed by Matthew Evans and written by Rachel Flowerday.
Synopsis[]
Ruth is reluctant to accept her bipolar diagnosis, particularly as she feels she can't continue to be a doctor if she is constantly dosed up on lithium. But when her old mentor, Sarah Evans, arrives on the Pysch ward, Ruth is aghast, and then astonished, to learn that Sarah is actually a patient too. Sneaking out, the two go for a coffee and Sarah confides that she has OCD and is still a functioning doctor – maybe there is hope for Ruth after all. The meeting turns sour when Ruth realises Sarah didn't sneak her out at all – Charlie engineered the whole thing...
Zoe and the gang gossip about Holby's latest doctor, Dylan Keogh, and Zoe is horrified to learn that Dylan was standing behind her all along. Throughout the day, Dylan rubs most of them up the wrong way with his brazen disregard for the rules, coupled with his know-it-all attitude. Zoe softens a little, though, when Dylan persists with a treatment, which he feels is the best thing for his patient, despite being threatened with a lawsuit.
Meanwhile, after hearing about the deterioration of a former patient, the badly disfigured Hannah Fleet, Dylan reaches for, and then rejects, a glass of wine. Is he more caring than he lets on after all?
Sally Bridges thinks the world is out to get her and she is admitted to the Pysch ward after attacking fellow researchers at her university. Her mum, Donna, arrives and tells Charlie that she is working on climate change and a lot of blue chip companies stand to lose out. But when Donna goes to collect some of Sally's research, she sees her daughter's paranoid ramblings and realises that she may have mental health issues after all.
Still fuming from Charlie's betrayal, Ruth finds Sally collapsed in the toilet and, all alone, is forced to examine her. In a moment of diagnostic brilliance, she works out that Sally's symptoms could be attributed to Lymes disease. In that moment, Ruth realises that she can be a doctor again...
Cast[]
- Georgia Taylor as Ruth Winters
- Derek Thompson as Charlie Fairhead
- William Beck as Dylan Keogh
- Sunetra Sarker as Zoe Hanna
- Sophia Di Martino as Polly Emmerson
- Hasina Haque as Mads Durrani
- Suzanne Packer as Tess Bateman
- Jane Hazlegrove as Kathleen Dixon
- Charles Dale as Big Mac
- Tony Marshall as Noel Garcia
- Matt Bardock as Jeff Collier
- Julia St John as Sarah Evans
- Beth Goddard as Hannah Fleet
- Michelle Holmes as Donna Bridges
- Catherine Kinsella as Sally Bridges
- John Hopkins as Tom Russell
- Sam Newman as Ant Terry
- Siu Hun Li as Lei Kwok
- Ling Cheung as Zhen Kwok
