The MDA team have the strange experience of barracking for Richard Savage as he defends Dr Wendy Rossi against a charge of manslaughter. Just as Ella and Paul Bennett are drawing apart, she is drawn into a problem with Paul's father, Bernard Bennett, an elderly GP who is treating Paul's mother, Sylvia, and making dangerous mistakes. Ella's GP client discovers that what he thought could be child sexual abuse is in fact chicken pox, but now the child's father is suing.