BILL SPOILERS 19th Feb

Thursday 19th February 2009

Episode 663: Broken Hearts


With an extra spring in his step, PC Nate Roberts (Ben Richards) is delighted when nurse Maria Joseph (Rachel McDowell) visits him at work…to return the handcuffs he left at her’s the night before. PC Ben Gayle (Micah Balfour) is forced to drag the smitten Nate away to a call-out in a park where Belinda Rodgers (Dolman) has been found unconscious.

What appears to be a mugging gone wrong turns into something more sinister when Belinda eventually comes to and tells Nate that she was walking through the park when a young girl, later identified as Aisha Khatri (Jasmin Walia) was covered in blood and barged into her whilst running away.

After further investigation, Nate and Ben realise that Aisha has been badly wounded by a knife, and head to the hospital in the hope of finding her. At St Hugh’s, Nate is furious to learn that Maria tended to Aisha’s wounds but let her leave without reporting the incident. During a huge argument, Maria tells Nate that Aisha begged her not to tell the police for reasons that she won’t reveal.

After a wild goose chase, Aisha is finally found but when Trainee DC Will Fletcher (Gary Lucy) and DC Jo Masters (Sally Rogers) question her at home, she attempts to get rid of them as quickly as possible. As the case continues, the team establish that Aisha may be the victim of a stalker and when Nate and Ben arrest possible suspect, Gopal Gujarat (Danny Ashok), they find a threatening note to Aisha in his pocket. After Gopal is brought in for questioning, Aisha turns up at the station and Nate is stunned to see that Maria is her appropriate adult.

Aisha tells Nate that Gopal was simply helping her out. She admits that she’s been stalked by someone for several weeks, but is desperate that the case doesn’t go any further. Frustrated, Nate talks to Maria who finally admits that Aisha and her family are illegal immigrants: if the case goes any further, they will be found out.

Further evidence later reveals that Colin Brent (Maxi Moffat) is Aisha’s stalker and he has kidnapped her. After a frantic search, a terrified Aisha is found in an abandoned house with Colin desperately clinging to her. Can Nate save Aisha, as well as his relationship with Maria?