This could had been a great episode but I think the script was hacked probably because it went too dark.
The characters have settled down. Dr Cameron is moving out into a small cottage.
There is a vaccination drive for schoolchildren against smallpox. Nurse Maitland is having second thoughts about moving to the USA as a GI bride.
The main story is about Mary Thompson who had a miscarriage some years ago and has been ill for years with anaemia but has never got better. It is because she never seems to take her pills.
Her husband Alan has been very patient with her. They all live with her father who has no time for her husband and detests him.
It is clear that Mary suffers from some kind of mental illness which might had been related to her miscarriage. Her father does not seem to know that she and Alan married because she was pregnant and now has no desire to ever have children.
I just could not help wondering if there was more in the script, like was she abused by her father?
When something is triggered in Mary after a trip to the village. She falsely tells her father that Alan had touched her. He goes to attack Alan at work and tells him to keeps his hands off Mary.
Hang on, did the father just tell his son in law who lives in the same household not touch his own wife?
It ends with Alan hanging himself, even though he has been dead for some time, a distraught Dr Neil desperately tries to revive him.
This could really had been a much better episode if the writing flowed more coherently and the way I think the author intended.
The characters have settled down. Dr Cameron is moving out into a small cottage.
There is a vaccination drive for schoolchildren against smallpox. Nurse Maitland is having second thoughts about moving to the USA as a GI bride.
The main story is about Mary Thompson who had a miscarriage some years ago and has been ill for years with anaemia but has never got better. It is because she never seems to take her pills.
Her husband Alan has been very patient with her. They all live with her father who has no time for her husband and detests him.
It is clear that Mary suffers from some kind of mental illness which might had been related to her miscarriage. Her father does not seem to know that she and Alan married because she was pregnant and now has no desire to ever have children.
I just could not help wondering if there was more in the script, like was she abused by her father?
When something is triggered in Mary after a trip to the village. She falsely tells her father that Alan had touched her. He goes to attack Alan at work and tells him to keeps his hands off Mary.
Hang on, did the father just tell his son in law who lives in the same household not touch his own wife?
It ends with Alan hanging himself, even though he has been dead for some time, a distraught Dr Neil desperately tries to revive him.
This could really had been a much better episode if the writing flowed more coherently and the way I think the author intended.
