Episode
Casualty: What Little Girls Are Made Of
Overview
A father threatens legal action against the hospital when his son is the victim of a misdiagnosis. Duffy resolves to move on after her mother's death.
Details
- Series
- Casualty
- Season
- Season 17
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2002-10-12
Episode context
What Little Girls Are Made Of is Episode 5 in Series 17 of Casualty. It aired on 2002-10-12.
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Episode 4: Thicker Than Water
Simon gets into hot water when he becomes too involved with a patient and her sister. Josh is not himself and his relationship with Colette is feeling the strain.
Episode 6: What's Love Got to Do With It?
Roxanne finds it increasingly difficult to juggle work and motherhood. Both Duffy and Comfort are surprised to learn that they each have an admirer.
More episodes from this season
Episode 3: Judgement Day
It's the day of Lara's trial, but she's not feeling positive since Melanie Collier denied her husband raped her. Lara tries to convince the jury her act was self-defence. Lara is shocked, when they return their verdict. While Duffy is in court, her mother, Kate, is brought in after her condition worsens. Kate tells Charlie she wishes not to be resuscitated. Duffy is angered by Charlie's attempts at sympathy and finds a shoulder to cry on in new security guard Ryan. Dillon and Harry clash with Charlie over how to treat two sisters, who are found to be drug mules.
Episode 7: The Ties That Bind
Punch-ups, riot acts and romance from Holby. Love blossoms for Duffy. Harry reads Simon and Dillon the riot act over their punch-up, but Heather has the final say.
Episode 2: Protection
Lara begins her court trial and suffers flashbacks and the bad memories associated with her assault. New SHO locum Heather Lincoln arrives and doesn't go unnoticed by Simon, who gives her a guided tour – Colette teases ‘Does the tour include the cold showers?'. Later Dillon unwittingly starts to undress in the staff room, unaware Heather is enjoying the view. Heather, is quick to forget about a drink with Simon after shift, and is about to proposition Dillon, when Simon walks in. Heather gets Duffy's back up by bluffing her way through a patient's case and getting Harry on her side – and Duffy becomes more unhappy when her mother is brought in to the department, seriously ill with breast cancer. Finn is unhappy when he finds he is named in Comfort's divorce papers.
Episode 8: It's a Boy Thing
Josh finds himself in the middle of a conflict between a father and his son; Anna tries to uncover the cause of a patient's illness; and Jack lies to Tony about their father.
Episode 1: Déjà Vu
Three months on, Nikki returns to work and finds the experience still haunts her and has to deal with a stabbing victim on her first shift. Jack is embarrased when she finds out about his spontaneous marriage proposal by her bedside. While taking his children out to the fair, Harry finds himself on-duty after a helicopter crash and is forced to deal with the injured as well as deal with his rebellious daughter. He feels guilty when he finds his heroic actions have infact cost lives. After being arrested, Lara is terrified for her future and looks to David's wife to verify her story in court.
Episode 9: Innocence
Lara faces judgement day in the appeal court; a suspected overdose patient forces Roxy to confront ghosts from her past.
Episode 10: Return of the Native
It's Lara s first day back and when Heather's incompetence lands her in deep trouble, Simon and Dillon unite to seek revenge.
Episode 11: Up to Your Neck in It
Josh rescues a boy from drowning after his father's car rolls into a river. Nikki is refusing to talk to Jack after his behaviour.
Episode 12: Gimme Shelter
Lara realises how vulnerable the events of the past few months have left her. Meanwhile, Nikki is reprimanded for endangering a patient's life, but later redeems herself when called upon to deal with a little girl whose mother has been violently murdered
Episode 13: Blame
Lara faces new problems when the police officer who helped put her in jail is brought into the department. An horrific RTA dredges up painful memories for Josh.