Louisa is having problems sleeping. She
is worried about Mrs Tishell coming back to the village and presumes
this is why Martin is up too. Martin tells Louisa she shouldn’t be
worried about Mrs Tishell’s return, but this doesn’t put Louisa’s mind
at rest. The next day she goes to see Ruth, who eventually agrees to pop
in on Mrs Tishell.
Penhale embarks on a survival course in
the middle of the Moors in his bid to be selected for an elite police
squad. With just his initiative and Buddy the dog, he has to find his
way back to Portwenn. But Buddy deserts him and in trying to shoot a
rabbit for dinner he accidentally shoots himself in the foot. Using a
tip from an out of date survival book he dresses the wound with moss,
but that makes it worse. After a night on the moors and in increasing
pain Penhale makes his way back to Portwenn by hitch hiking. He gets
dropped off at the Doc’s, who is aghast to find the spaghum moss packed
tightly into Penhale’s wound. The spores could have caused blood
poisoning.
Lorna Gillott has trodden on a shard of
glass whilst beach combing. The doc notices that Lorna’s ankles are a
little puffy and tells her to lay off the salt. He also chastises her
brown skin and tells her to wear some sun screen.
Mrs Tishell returns to the village and
frostily meets Jennifer, the locum pharmacist. Mrs Tishell goes
upstairs to her room and is confronted by her homage to the Doc, she
pings an elastic band on her wrist and slowly takes down the pictures.
Later that day Ruth comes to see Mrs Tishell, who notices the elastic
band, part of Mrs Tishell’s Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Louisa goes
to check Mrs Tishell out for herself. It is awkward, Mrs Tishell is
still weird, but no weirder than before. It puts Louisa’s mind at ease.
Mrs Tishell can’t stand to be supervised by a locum pharmacist and asks
the Doc to contact the Pharmaceutical Board to say she is safe to return
to work, without supervision. The Doc refuses, he is not her
psychiatric doctor. Something snaps in Mrs Tishell and her burning flame
for Martin is snuffed out and turns into hatred.
Al and Morwenna are getting along well
living together. Things are looking up for Al on the love front, he has
an internet date that evening. Bert, inspired by Al’s internet date,
asks Jennifer out on a date too. Al goes to meet his blind date and
randomly bumps into Morwenna at the pub, they have a lovely chat but it
slowly dawns on them that they are there to meet each other! Things get
very awkward, very quickly and they make a hasty exit. Things are just
as bad the next morning and Al decides to move out. He plans to go back
to his dad’s, but when he sees Bert having a cosy date with Jennifer he
realises that he can’t go back home. Penhale offers Al his spare room,
which Al reluctantly takes.
Lorna goes to the chemist to get
something for her energy levels, she is feeling tired all the time. Mrs
Tishell notices that her ankles are swollen and tells her to see the
Doc, her cut could be infected and swelling up. Martin examines the cut,
it isn’t infected, but her ankles are definitely swollen. He tells
Lorna that she could have something wrong with her heart or liver. Lorna
has been bottling up her health worries and cracks when the Doc tells
her this. Her joints are really painful, she has been feeling so tired
and she is worried she has arthritis, which crippled her mother. She
needs to use her hands to make jewellery.
Ruth visits Martin. She thinks his
blood phobia and insomnia could be related and recommends a doctor he
could speak to. Louisa overhears and is hurt that Martin confided in his
aunt and not her.
Lorna collapses on the beach. Her blood
results show she has a high level of ferritin in her blood. The excess
iron has burnished her skin, put a strain on her liver or heart which
resulted in her swollen ankles and collected around her joints. Her
condition can be cured by draining the blood - something which Martin
struggles to do.
