Dylan’s bad dad drives him mad

Doctor Dylan Keogh’s personal life has always been strictly private, but that’s all set to change when his estranged father turns up in the ED.

Currently Dylan is struggling to keep his OCD compulsions under wraps and carry on with work, but his mind goes into overdrive this week when his truck driver father Brian and young girlfriend Hazel, wind up in A&E after Brian crashes his truck.

Dylan’s tested to the max when Brian goads his son at given opportunity… when no one else is around! Then, when it emerges Hazel is pregnant Dylan’s forced to relive his horrible childhood, when she begs him to tell her what his philandering father was really like as a dad. Reluctantly Dylan reveals that after his two-timing alcoholic father left his mother, Dylan was put into care…

And, if this wasn’t enough stress, Dylan’s forced to face his phobia when Hazel’s condition takes a turn for the worse and he must treat her in Resus Bay 4, even though he’s convinced the cubicle is deadly for his patients!

Can Dylan temporarily conquer his fears to save Hazel and his unborn half-sibling? Or will his irrational behaviour lead to a deadly ending?

Elsewhere, Tess and Ethan become victims of Charlie’s son Louis’s drug habit. When Louis falls off the wagon he steals Tess’s mother’s crucifix to buy heroin. Later, when Charlie brings his son into the ED suffering from DVT, Ethan is jabbed by a needle containing Louis' blood and urgent tests for HIV need to be run immediately…