Season 1, Episode 10: "Lazy Sunday afternoon" (original air date: October 3, 2001)

A quiet Sunday. Nicky is washing her hair; William and Alistair are playing golf; Louise and Ross are off to an anniversary lunch. When Ken gives chase to a speeding sedan and everything changes.

The sedan seems out of control, so Ken decides to back off. Then he finds another car, badly smashed and the sedan no longer in view. Ken tries to rescue the occupants of the second car. The driver is killed, her husband, Colin, is badly burned. In the panic, Ken sees a young man fleeing the scene.

William, Alistair and Nicky are drawn into the action. Nicky is back in her element, trauma, and is surprised when William accepts her assessment of how best to deal with the injured in the crash. William accompanies Ricky, an asthmatic and Sue, the passenger from the burning vehicle. Sue is irritating, annoys the hell out of Dana.

Meanwhile, Nicky deals with David, trapped in the wreck of the sedan. Nicky knows the guy, who is a promising rugby player. Alistair is left, feeling out of his depth, to tend to Colin, who has very severe burns. When the rescue helicopter is sent to the wrong location, Nicky fears for David. Alistair is again left with Colin.

Nicky travels with David to Base in the helicopter. She also finds there is another passenger in the sedan, Jane, who is unaccounted for. When she meets a version of her former self, an overworked registrar, Nicky pleads for her patient and his sporting interests, and is made to feel like a GP from the sticks.

Ken accompanies the driver of the sedan, Josh, as they search for the missing Jane. Ken is chagrined to find that his suspected car thieves are ordinary teenagers, who haven't been drinking. But when they find Jane's body, Josh is forced to face his actions.

Colin's condition deteriorates. As he talks about his life, Alistair has cause for reflection.

Louise and Ross aren't getting on well as they wait at the restaurant for the wedding anniversary couple. Amanda uses the opportunity to confide her problems with Kieran to Louise. Then Ross and Louise find that their friends are the couple in the crash. This devastation causes them to reassess their mundane marriage problems. As they do so, we also find that their son Liam was the kid who ran away from the scene.

Alistair realises that if his life was to end, he couldn't say that he lived it to the fullest. Nicky has the bittersweet realisation that she now has her wish: she now knows her patients and cares about them. It's fulfilling, but it's painful.

And Ken is left with burned hands and the realisation that he feels to blame for this tragedy.