The doctor will see you now
TRUST ME BBC One, Tuesday, 9pm
THIS new four-part psychological thriller, penned by Dan Sefton (Good Karma Hospital, Delicious), stars Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch).
Cath Hardacre is a good nurse. Caring and hardworking and honest, she does her best for everyone in the cardiology ward she works in. However, when she raises her concerns about the standards slipping in the hospital, Cath’s world takes a turn for the worse.
In a meeting with the hospital board, Cath loses her job for whistleblowing – and with that the means to provide for her young daughter Molly.
Cath turns to her best friend Dr Ally Sutton, who is leaving her life as an A&E doctor and emigrating to New Zealand with her new husband.
At a drunken party, Cath finds Ally’s discarded paperwork and, in a moment of desperation, makes the decision to take a second chance at life – by stealing her best friend’s identity.
Cath, now adopting the persona “Dr Ally Sutton”, applies for and accepts a job at a failing emergency depart- ment in Edinburgh and embarks upon a new life with Molly.
As “Ally”, she becomes a trusted member of the emergency department and against her better judgement falls for her charming colleague Dr Andy Brenner.
Andy is a consultant in the emergency department who is recovering from an acrimonious separation from his wife.
However, with her good-for-nothing alcoholic ex-partner Karl trying to spend time with Cathy and Molly, and a journalist chasing her about the issues at her former hospital, how will “Ally” cope with leading a double life?
Cath Hardacre/Dr Ally Sutton is played by Jodie Whittaker, Dr Andy Bennett by Emun Elliott, Dr Brigitte McAdams by Sharon Small and Karl is played by Blake Harrison.