Getting On

- Season 2

(2010)

An horrendously smelly,unidentified old woman is brought in and goes the rounds of all the other wards because nobody else will take her in,eventually returning to B4 and leading to friction between Den and Hilary. Meanwhile a Mrs. Fyvie is admitted and her daughter Beedy,who has read all about medication on the Internet, challenges Pippa's treatment of her mother's care.

New admission Peggy Lowe causes problems with her claim that she was ill-treated in her care home so the last thing over-worked Kim and Den want is an enquiry after Peggy gets dropped whilst being bathed. Den hopes that her influence on Hilary - their secret affair gradually coming into the open - will get them off the hook when Peggy's son comes to complain. And in a way it does.

Kim is on her own on the night shift when an elderly Italian woman with little English is admitted.Pippa is called away from a party to see her and is excited when she believes the woman is pregnant and could make medical history,bringing the ward fame. She is not happy when a whole posse of Italian medics take the woman away and Den is not happy,when,arriving from the agency where she moon-lights,she confides in Kim about her relationship with Hilary.Hilary shows up to have things out with her so,all in all,it is not the uneventful night Kim wanted.

Hilary announces his new initiative of Icing the Cake,which,to Kim's annoyance,is purely symbolic,the 'icing' representing excellent service. Hoping to apply a little icing Pippa apologizes to Den for giving a reference some years earlier which stopped her getting a flat. Den lets fly at her so,to atone,she offers to help her move house before enjoying a lunch date with Peter,unaware that she may have to reapply for her job. Den and Hilary,following the revelation of his outburst,agree to be friends and she offers to go to a gay bar with him.

Kim is doubly irritated by know-all student nurse Damaris Clarke and by a talking life size cut-out giving instructions on hand washing. Den,having scratched Pippa's car during the move,is surprised when Hilary fails to remember that they has anal sex after visiting the gay bar. Due to Pippa's varying diagnoses on ailing Mrs. Fyvie,her Edinburgh-based daughter Beedy is repeatedly called into the ward on false alarms and Den and Kim take sadistic pleasure in knowing that Pippa has had to reapply for her job. They even lock her in their office after she has been ...

There is an even bigger air of gloom on the ward than usual. Pippa has failed to get the job she was after and Kim is angry that she will not be promoted and that Pippa has yet to pay her husband for work done. Beedy is understandably upset when her mother,only just dead,is moved out of the ward so another patient can have her bed. At least Den and Hilary have something to celebrate,as they decide to get engaged. But then Den's ex-husband reappears,to win her back.