Chris is also trying to get a promotion and has a very important Policeman’s exam coming up the next day but, Lynn his wife goes into labor two weeks early and there is no time to get to the hospital. Chris earlier booked Alex, a doctor and knows she is close. He and his wife arrive on her doorstep in the middle of the night. Alex delivers the baby but as it emerges she sees the cord has been caught around it’s neck. Chris isn’t confident that Alex knows what she is doing and he pushes her out of the way. The force of his push makes her fall onto the table where she hits her head. Alex soon makes Chris realize that if he doesn’t let her do her job the baby will die.

After the baby is safely delivered Alex calls for an ambulance to take them to hospital.Chris arrives at The Beeches and apologizes to Alex. She tells him if she reports him he could lose his job, she also explains that in preventing her from doing her job his baby could have died.

Chris tells Alex he has been taking speed to stay on top of things at work and at home. Alex says she won’t report him on condition that he comes off the speed. But, things are starting to go wrong for Chris as he falls asleep out of the blue and is having horrible nightmares.

Things really start to go bad when Chris is arrested for shoplifting, which he doesn’t even remember as he did it while in a state like sleep walking.Alex tells Andrew she wants to put Chris into a sleep clinic. Andrew isn’t sure about Alex’s diagnoses but gives her his backing.

The sleep clinic proves that Chris has narcolepsy, the condition can be controlled so long as Chris stays off the speed. They prescribe a non-addictive drug to hopefully get Chris back to normal.

• Lynsey Baxter … Kate Turner
• Ian Black … Steve
• John Bowler … Mike Pullen
• Katy Cavanagh … Lynne Rhodes
• Karl Davies … Nick Pullen
• Regina Freedman … Liz Pullen
• Tom Gregory … Dr. Wood
• Julia Haworth … Julie Pullen
• Robert Hudson … Sergeant Bob Carrigan
• Peter Martin … Ernie Page
• Norman Mills … Shopkeeper
• Stephen Moyer … Chris Rhodes
• Maggie O’Neill … Dr. Alex Redman
• Patsy Rowlands … Grace Page