All Saints - Season 2 Episode 36 The Ties that Bind
Connor enters the ward to confront a tense exchange between a mild-mannered young man, Scott, and a middle-aged woman, Margaret, demanding to be allowed to see her dying son — alone. Connor's sympathy for Margaret is secured when he witnesses a tearful bedside reunion with her emaciated son. But there is more to this than meets the eye: Scott is the dying man's lover of ten years, during which time Margaret has utterly rejected her son. She would not even know Mike was dying if Scott had not phoned her.
The scales fall from Connor's eyes once Margaret reveals her true colours — she is a bitter woman desperate to regain some control over her son's life, even if that means hijacking his final hours. Connor does what he can to help Scott spend time with Mike, which only serves to enrage Margaret further. When Scott magnanimously invites her back into the room for Mike's dying moments, she rewards the gesture with the crushing announcement that she — as Mike's mother and next of kin — is claiming her right to dispose of her son's body and possessions, denying Scott any participation in the funeral arrangements. Helpless in the face of the law, all that Connor can do is invite Scott to help lay out his dead boyfriend's body.
Steph is nursing a teenage girl suffering from cystic fibrosis. Deb has recently been removed from the lung transplant list for non-compliance with the strict medical regime required. This non-compliance has also led to the staphylococcus infection for which, in part, Deb has been hospitalised. The misery of this, combined with the news that a close friend has just died from the disease, initiates a dark spiral of depression from which not even Deb's devoted boyfriend Tim can lift her. When Steph finds the two entwined asleep on Deb's bed she does not at first suspect the awful truth: that they have entered a suicide pact and injected themselves with insulin. Once the pact has been discovered, only a cool, efficient response from our team ensures that the two silly kids survive. It's then compassionate counselling from Terri and intervention from Mitch that secures Deb's place back on the transplant list and gives her renewed hope for the future.
A lively 60-year-old jazz drummer succumbs to heart block as she tangos around the ward with the young man everyone has assumed to be her grandson. There is universal surprise and a small measure of comic revulsion at the revelation the young man is, in fact, her husband.
Bron plans a lavish homecoming for Luke, meeting him off his plane from Alaska with a limo and champagne. The sexual heat generated transfers to their afternoon shift — backfiring badly when, finding nowhere to satisfy their ardour they take refuge in Terri's office and Von walks in on them.
Year: 2009
Genre: Drama
Country:
Studio: Seven Network
Director: Bevan Lee
Cast: Judith McGrath, Alexandra Davies, Mirrah Foulkes, Jack Campbell, Andrew Supanz, Jolene Anderson
Crew:
First Air Date: Feb 24, 1998
Last Air date: Oct 27, 2009
Season: 12 Season
Episode: 493 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 6.20/10 by 9.00 users
Popularity: 35.975
Language: English
Keyword : hospital, medical drama
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Episode
Truth and Consequences (Part 1)
Truth and Consequences (Part 2)
Aftershocks
The Longest Day
If These Walls Could Talk
Getting to Know You
Dependence Day
Bloodlines
More Things in Heaven and Earth
Pushed to the Limit
Friends and Lovers
Judgement Day
Roll the Dice
My Mother, Myself
Get A Life
An Irish Lullaby
Head to Head
Desperate Remedies
The Human Touch
Disaster Plan
Forget-Me-Knots
Shoot the Messenger
In With the New
Second Chance
End Game
Behind Closed Curtains
Lesser of Two Evils
A Whole Lot to Lose
Just Like A Woman
Three's A Crowd
Time Bombs
Memories by Moonlight
True Love and the Blues
Knowing Me, Knowing You
When Duty Calls
The Ties that Bind
Lost and Found
The Stuff of Dreams
Outside the Square
Everyone Loves a Winner
Blood and Water
Life Class
Ghosts of Christmas Past