Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestThis episode opens on Thursday the 12th. One of the patients is distraught about something terrible which is going to happen on Friday 13th. Is it the chaos caused by another patients dog Scamp, that Danny suggested should be allowed on the ward? Will it be caused by Mark Collins, who doesn't want Nash to help him with his mental illness? Kate celebrates passing the first part of her psychiatry exam, but Shug doesn't want to celebrate passing his. Perhaps it's because he is only pretending, in reality he has failed for the fourth time and that means no more chances. Shug goes onto the hospital ward. Danny tries to convince him he needs help, but Shug stabs Danny. Kate realising, as Danny says, that she knows what she wants, and it's not Iain, rushes to Danny in hospital. She kisses him, Danny may be in a coma, but he smirks. The series ends there. Was Friday 13th unlucky for Danny or not?
Focuses on manic-depressive psychiatrist Daniel Nash, and the Glasgow mental hospital where he works.
Acting
Henshall's barely-controlled unraveling is magnetic
Writing
Wolstencroft's caustic dialogue before Spooks fame
Production
Glasgow locations so grim they deserve billing
Creator
David Wolstencroft
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wolstencroft wrote this fresh from Cambridge, deliberately sabotaging his BBC career with uncommercial material.
Shot in actual Glasgow psychiatric facilities closed shortly after; the series documents a vanished NHS era.
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