The episode starts with Patrick lying alone in the river, half dead, after being attacked by Greg James (Rachel's husband) and left for dead.
Lara and the police are walking through the woods looking for Patrick. Eventually they find him, the police are prepared to accept he is dead but Lara will not, she gives him mouth to mouth and eventually he comes back into the world of the living. Niki and Comfort turn up in an ambulance and take Patrick back to the A&E department.
Lara's boyfriend Craig turns up and is angry when Lara tells him what has happened to Patrick because he thinks she has been cheating on him. However he forgives her and suggests they book a hotel room for the night, Lara refuses though and says that she can't be with him any more.
Lara goes to the hospital to see Patrick who has hypothermia and the rist of brain damage. However while she is there Philippa (Max's locum) ropes Lara into helping treat a patient who has been bitten by a snake, Philippa says that Lara sho
