I presumed Lily may have had something to do with Connie finding out. After all she knew it was Ethan's idea and she must bear some resentment to her treatment by Cal The Cad ???

Shirtless Jeff - rather nice

well that escalated quickly

....and involved some of the worst acting I have seen on casualty in a long time. The fight was particularly laughable.

Is Michelle Collins playing Cindy Beale again?

of course jeffs fingerprints are now on the knife

We'll that was a twist i didn't expect.

I wonder what role there could be for Charlie if he did step down . He is a character I can't see leaving Casualty.

Tea trolley?

Wouldn't surprise me if that happens in a few years time.

I can't see Charlie leaving Casualty either and i wouldn't want him to either as he has been there since day one when Casualty started way back in 1986, Casualty wouldn't be the same without him like Ash said tonight he has seen and dealt with every crisis known to man. However actor Derek Thompson is 66 years of age in real life, i don't know how old Charlie is meant to be but you don't see many Doctors or Nurses on the ED wards who are approaching 70 years of age in real life. The Casualty producers will have to think of a realistic way to keep Charlie in the show without him dealing with the pressures and strains of working on the ward on a day to day basis within the next few years as it will look stupid if Charlie is still on the ED Ward in 5 or 10 years time when he is approaching 80.

What or where was that room that Elliot was talking to Charlie in? It wasn't Darwin.

I assumed Connie wants rid of Charlie to save money. She is becoming a cartoon baddie now.

The Irish gypsy girl spoke with northern irish accent whereas her 'uncle' spoke with a southern accent. A small thing but it annoyed me.

Still not warming to Lofty or Rita. Both annoyed me with what little they had.

I thought the whole reaction to Charlie's mistakes was odd - instead of getting him into the office for a chat to find out what was wrong, assumptions were made and it was decided that Charlie should go!

I liked the scene with Charlie and Lofty doing the ECG.

Was it my TV or was Connie looking a bit 'tangoed'?

The two different Irish accents annoyed me as well.

Good to have Dixie back, and I'm liking the chemistry between Jeff and Tamzin.

IMHO..... The fight scene was really badly acted... Especially by Michelle Collins..I also think Matt B seems to have lost loads of weight but again, only my opinion, looks better with a bit of meat on his bones!!!

Loved all the 'brooding Jeff' scenes, and the classy reveal of his phone - which we really ought to have remembered, it was in the scene!

Connie is very definitely more orange than she was. It's clashing badly with her scrubs.

Elliott's room looked odd because they had blocked the window, to hide it not actually being Darwin and not several floors up. Not untidy enough either.

I assume this is the lead-in to Charlie's big story, which is part of the 30th anniversary celebrations. Perhaps he is going to get an admin role, though the more realistic route would be to make him a mental health nurse on a full-time basis, liasing with the department. He's been shown to have the experience, and won't have to do too much actual nursing.

Also....did I hear right? Did Jeff say he loved Tamzin?

Yeah he did right at the end of the episode.

That was what the spoilers seemed to suggest but it never actually happened in the episode, or was even really hinted at. Connie just plucked the information out of the air.

But...new week. Well, I thought a couple of weeks back when we first saw someone following her that Samantha would turn out to be hiding something. But I never anticipated that she would end up being that evil. I'm glad it was sorted out in one episode but the ending was rather rushed, with Jeff casually producing his incriminating recording, even if it was set up earlier in the episode when he talked about recording proof. I have to say I wasn't overly impressed with Tamzin, whose solution was to encourage Jeff to lie as well. It does seem increasingly likely those two will end up going off together. That said, Jeff didn't directly or even particularly indirectly say he loved Tamzin, he just pointed out that she was saying he loved her. Never mind Jeff, I actually thought Dixie had lost weight here.

My main stumbling block with the young couple was that the girl looked about 10 years older than the boy. Despite that, it was a decent storyline with some nice twists and Max getting to be properly heroic. Lofty actually seemed pretty competent for once in coming up with the diagnosis but, after following Charlie's example, he went down in my estimation by agreeing with Ash's derogatory comments on Charlie. Charlie never even saw the patient, let alone found out he'd been looking after pigeons, so what is he meant to have "missed"? Coupled with Lofty making dismissive comments about Max in front of a patient, it wasn't really as good an episode for him as it was probably meant to be.

Connie seemed to compete with Samantha for most evil woman in the episode, as she schemes to get rid of Charlie. I was surprised it was Tess, who's been firmly Team Connie recently, who raised an objection rather than Ash, who just made stuff up, or at least took it out of complex, to make it sound like a good idea. To be honest, the whole thing doesn't make much sense: The recap reminds us they're already one senior nurse down (thanks to Tess still hoping to give it to her friend) so are they seriously going to get rid of another one and leave Tess running the department with a bunch of Grade Es?

I think they're doing it to make sure we hate Connie. Then she'll probably become ill, or something, so they can show another side to her; then we'll all be rooting for her when Zoe gets back.

Was anyone else kind of hoping that Jeff would get the blame for stabbing Simon? Not that I dislike Jeff that much or anything (he's not my favourite, but I don't hate him) but in this programme, apart from when people are killed off, no one ever leaves in a thoroughly unfair way. They always either ride off into the sunset or have a vague 'moving on' idea. I would have liked a character to leave by going to jail for something that we as viewers know that they didn't do, because things like that happen in real life sometimes and it would be nice to reflect that. Just occasionally, it would be nice for a character to have a really unsatisfactory ending, just to remind us that Holby isn't a fairytale.

Most people do leave quietly and under the radar though.

Charlie is going to be heavily used in the build up to its 30th Anniversary next year, so he isn't going nowhere

I take your point but at the risk of stating the obvious, the problem with an unsatisfactory ending is that it's unsatisfactory. The storyline would feel half-finished and viewers would be left expecting an episode where the truth comes out. You can have characters leave in a downbeat manner without being killed off, being sacked unfairly or injured so they have to give up work for instance, and the show has had those sorts of exit in the past, but I don't think that would really work because it would be difficult to make it seem irreversibly final.

Scarlett? She went into prison about 2 years ago.