Maria is frantic when she walks into the toilets and finds that Maddy has been stabbed. Three weeks on, Maddy is recovering in HolbyCare and is desperate to get back to work and secure an interview for the ST3 job. Maddy is totally focused on getting the job but her attentions turn to other things when Dan Clifford returns to Holby. After hearing about Maddy's attack, Dan has returned to offer her a research position with him at his new hospital. But Maddy still wants to try out for the job at Holby. Back on the ward, a father and his two daughters have been brought in, one has been stabbed, the other badly burnt. Maddy feels a connection with the father but can't work out what it is. Later, Maddy's devastated when Ric reveals he's withdrawing her interview offer, fearing she's not ready. But after advice from Linden, Maddy vows to stay at Holby and tries to prove herself to Ric by leading the operation on the stab victim. Maddy blames herself when the patient dies, but an impressed Ric tells her she can have an interview after all. At the interview, Maddy impresses the board, who give her the job. Maddy goes to find the father of the stab victim, who speaks to Maddy as if she is his dead daughter. Is Maddy's recovery all it seems?
