Sean and Rhino have an important soccer match to play when their team makes the finals. Rhino talks Sean into sneaking away from the hospital to participate. Sean, in turn, supplies Rhino with a medical certificate for a day off work. Rhino collapses during the match with no feeling in his legs. His condition deteriorates rapidly, the paralysis reaches his lungs and a young man, who that morning seemed fit and healthy, lapses into a coma. The cause is found to be Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Sean has to cope with the prognosis - while his friend may come out of the coma. He may have some form of mental impairment. Julia passes over Gosia as the department's new Nurse Manager and instead appoints the unpopular Eric Frost to the position. Another intern, Stella O'Shaunessy, has her first taste of Emergency when she is knocked down by a man in the waiting room. She is saved by the experience of a new nurse, Evie Morrison (Sean's former girlfriend).