Casualty Spoilers 5th March 2011

Saturday 5 March
9.20-10.10pm BBC ONE
www.bbc.co.uk/casualty

Kirsty (Lucy Gaskell) is worried about Nita
Nita has run away, as the medical drama continues. Kirsty is out of her mind with worry and she's not the only one, as Jay also has to face up to his problems.

Nita hitches a ride with a truck driver who is anxious to take her home. However, she has other ideas and, when they pull over at a burger van, she jumps out and into a parked car, claiming that she has been abducted.

The car driver, Allie, is also on the run. She and her brother Vincent, who has learning difficulties, are off to collect their mum before fleeing to Scarborough. The man Allie slept with last night and robbed this morning is on their tail.

But there is a shock in store when they arrive at Allie and Vincent's mum's house and, when Allie's "boyfriend" comes knocking, they are trapped. Nita tries to escape from an upstairs window but plunges to the ground. Injured and in pain, she makes a call to her mum.

Meanwhile, Jay is feeling the stress of the cancer scare and receives an unwelcome visit from Maryam. He finally realises that, with everything he has going on in his life, she'll need a carer from now on.

Elsewhere, Lenny and Mads deal with an unlikely bomber and Adam makes a shocking discovery when Nita eventually arrives at the hospital.

Goodness, our Kirsty has a very toubled life doesn't she ?

Now we are off on a child kidnapping jaunt with the scriptwriters.

As we at the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign have been following that "Warren has Muscular Dystrophy" storyline with interest we hope
this theme will not be dropped. The MD diagnosis episode was superb.

We understand the Police will come and question people about Warren falling down the stairs. In a prime time show like
this the writers will certainly go for thw who pushed him angle. It is their show thet can off course do whast they like. In
real life another scenario would have to be looked at and probably would be the most likely. This is accidental fall due
to Myontonia, a sypmptom of Muscular Dystrophy. Myotonia is an allmost complete absence of grip in the muscles
of the hands and the scriptwriters went to great pains to show before asnd in the diagnosis episode that Warren had this
to a marked degree. When he fell into the basement we were shown very clearly that there were srurdy bannisters
each side of the staircase. An able-bodied person would simply arrest their fall with these but Warren with MD
would be unable to arrest his fall. If is got to court for murder or wounding Kirsty's defence would be that Warren's
myotonia due to MD caused the death / incident. She would walk free.
Sadly they have obviously moved on from MD to their morbid interest in wife beating and now we hear child kipnapping.
As one who has through Myotonia had three very serious falls I empathise with Warren and wish he could be portrayed
more sympathetically.
The diagnosis episode was superb though and we thank the BBC for highlighting a misunderstood disease.