When vet Angela Sim brings her precocious little nephew Toby, staying with her whilst his parents are in Dubai, to the surgery and Martin diagnoses scarlet fever, he finds the boy's constant questions irritating but Toby proves to be a great help when his aunt collapses with pneumonia and baby James gets a bead stuck up his nose. Meanwhile villagers are perturbed to hear the increasingly reclusive Mrs Tishell talking to herself which Ruth believes is a delayed reaction to Clive's death, requiring a charm offensive by Martin to get through to her whilst Joe gets an offer to sell Large whiskey, though it does mean bringing Al back on board.
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