Emergency-Ward 10 12 - Checkmate #1

In "Checkmate," a story set in an emergency ward, Mike gently picks up Margaret's hand and asks her to wait three months before asking him to mention her again, while Margaret insists on breaking down completely. At a social gathering, Paddy attempts to ease the tension by suggesting he and Mary leave to let Billy settle his own affairs, but Alan Dawson hesitantly accepts an invitation to dance with Carole, who watches him longingly. When Tim Hughes joins Mike Burton's anxious group, he expresses feeling internally helpless about Simon's condition, and the young doctors find an unconscious patient in low tones before Mike's expression suddenly shifts to a smile as he looks at Margaret Davies with reassurance that she will be all right.