No Angels

Episode 2 (2x2)

: 22, 2005

It's Easter and for Lia the pressures of work are mounting up. When the nurses are encouraged to pen a story for the ward's creative writing initiative, Lia lets rip. She writes a moving yet harrowing description of her depression after giving birth to daughter Emma, which impresses the course leader so much she enters it into a competition. Lia decides to resign from the job she hates so much to pursue her writing but Emma is furious at the news; she knows Lia's going to go off and leave her again and ends up reading her mother's story. She is devastated. Meanwhile, Beth has a patient who has crucified himself and constantly refers to her as Mary. She soon realises that he's in ecstasy each time she tends to his nail wounds and is horrified to learn he is not thinking of the Virgin mother but fantasising about her as Mary Magdalene.