Danny O'Hagan, the emergency psychiatrist at St. Mary's Hospital has to choose between giving the one vacant bed to one of the 2 patients, a decision that has unfortunate results for him.
Danny treats a patient in the throes of a cocaine related psychosis. Meanwhile the hospital authorities learn about the fatal stabbing by the discharged psychiatric patient Sean Meaney of his sister.
Danny and Jimmy treat a girl who is self harming. A journalist, Jenny McArdle, is contacted regarding the hospital discharge of Sean Meaney prior to his sister's slaying.
